00:00We got a blockbuster in the National Football League,
00:02and we have some early morning disagreement between Choppy and Bobby.
00:07The Denver Broncos deal for Jalen Waddell.
00:11They'll also get a fourth-round pick.
00:13So it's Jalen Waddell for the Miami Dolphins
00:15as they are completely blowing it up with all the dead money
00:18that they have on their books.
00:20What is Miami going to get back?
00:22A 2026 first.
00:24Too much.
00:25That's 30 this year from the Broncos.
00:29A 2026 third.
00:31Way too much.
00:32That's number 94 in this draft, and then a 2026 fourth as well.
00:38Negligent.
00:39Waddell and a fourth for a one, a three, and a four.
00:44It's so much to give up.
00:48So much.
00:50This would have broke the Sharif Cox scale.
00:56I'm the king of compensation, KOC.
00:59Oh, okay.
01:00Gotcha.
01:00Yeah.
01:02That makes sense.
01:03Yeah, I had to think about it a long time.
01:04Make sure I didn't get myself in trouble.
01:05Kevin O'Connell of, uh...
01:07Yeah.
01:07And I would have said, Waddell, second.
01:11Second.
01:12Max.
01:13Maximum you could go as a second.
01:14I would have been mad if the Cowboys traded a second for him.
01:17That would have upset me.
01:18Well, we have two receiver studs.
01:20If I didn't have pick-ins, I would have been mad if you traded a second for Waddell.
01:23What'd they get?
01:23They got a fourth back?
01:25Denver got a fourth back with them?
01:26Yeah, so basically a one and a three at a pick swap of four.
01:29At a pick swap of four.
01:30Right, because they're swapping fours, then really it's a one and a three for Waddell.
01:33Right.
01:34Which is still too much.
01:36Yeah.
01:36It's still too much.
01:37He's dangerous.
01:38He is.
01:39He is.
01:40He's a speedster.
01:41He's a burner.
01:42He's 27.
01:43I love the process that Denver's going through.
01:48I think they took the wrong player.
01:50To me, when you have a cheap quarterback, you've got to go all in.
01:56Like, you've got to go nuts.
01:59Because you have to take advantage of a window.
02:02They've got a window of this year coming up and next year.
02:05Right?
02:06Those are the two that would complete his first four years.
02:09In the fifth year, his salary bumps up into the $20 million range.
02:13And then you've got to sign him.
02:14But you've got such a small, finite window with this cheap, free quarterback.
02:19That's why I love this.
02:20I love the idea that Sean Payton was like, all right, I'm just going to go for it.
02:24Do I love Bo Nix?
02:26No.
02:26I don't think Sean Payton loves Bo Nix.
02:28But he's like, I've got to take advantage of this.
02:30And I can get an average quarterback and build a beast of a team around him.
02:34I'm taking advantage and I'm maximizing the rookie contract.
02:37And, Bobby, you're on the other side.
02:39Yeah.
02:40Sean Payton doesn't want to be there very long.
02:43That's what that tells me.
02:45He has a history of this stuff.
02:47He will throw away their assets like he did in New Orleans as well.
02:53Well, that's the thing.
02:53Yeah, okay, you're throwing away assets.
02:57It does not sound like you're super committed to the quarterback that you have.
03:00It doesn't sound like you love him.
03:02Right, absolutely.
03:02Which means when his contract comes up in a few years,
03:04you are either going to overpay for that quarterback
03:07or you're going to be looking for a new one
03:08and you're going to be doing it after you've dealt a bunch of capital.
03:12Like, I cannot fathom being like,
03:15my win now piece is making a Ricky Williams Saints trade for Jalen Waddell
03:21in the name of getting Bo Nix a weapon because I think this team is that good.
03:26I don't think that team's that good.
03:28They're fine.
03:29But last year we spent, I mean, Chad,
03:31you spent all last year like leaving them out of your power rankings
03:34because you hated them.
03:34Look, again, I just love the thought process that he's used.
03:39I think they did it on the wrong guy.
03:41I think he wants to win a Super Bowl in Denver
03:43and then I think he wants to leave.
03:44I agree.
03:44I think this is like, all right, look, I'm taking my chance.
03:46I'm going to make a run at it.
03:48I'm going to go and I don't care about what happens.
03:51I know Bo Nix.
03:52I'm not signing him.
03:53I'm going to draft somebody else.
03:54So let's give myself a chance.
03:56Look, I think they gave up way too much,
03:58but I'll make the argument for them, right?
04:00We know we have a championship defense.
04:02Sure.
04:02No one's going to dispute that.
04:05How much better can I get my offense?
04:07Kansas City's vulnerable.
04:08Kansas City is vulnerable.
04:10Kansas City's not vulnerable.
04:11Kansas City's bad.
04:12How many points a game do you think Denver scored last year?
04:1622, 23.
04:18I'm going to say 24.
04:2023.6.
04:21So you're both basically right.
04:23I actually thought it may have been like a little bit less.
04:27Is Jalen Waddell going to get me to 25, 26?
04:3126, Sean had been complaining about their offense throughout the course of the year.
04:36They were 29th.
04:39Let's see.
04:41Three and out drives.
04:42They were 29th this past season.
04:4425% of their possessions on offense were three and outs.
04:48And they lacked names at receiver.
04:51Right?
04:52When Courtney Sutton is your one, you're not going to have an amazing passing game.
04:56I told you I know that Sean Payton was interested, really interested in tight ends.
05:01Maybe they add.
05:02Well, they're not going to add it at 30 because they gave that pick to the Dolphins.
05:07So instead they go out and they get Jalen Waddell, who's due 41 million over the next two seasons.
05:1364 catches, 910 yards, and six touchdowns this past year.
05:18Would have been in Denver, third, second, and second in those categories.
05:22Is he at that salary?
05:24Is he underpaid?
05:26No.
05:26No?
05:27No.
05:28Compared to where the market is?
05:29No.
05:30Hell no.
05:30He's not been.
05:31He's declining already, and he's small.
05:34And I think of him as banged up recently in my mind.
05:38He's missed a little bit of time.
05:40He hasn't had aggressive stretches, but he's missed a couple games every year.
05:44So if you take the last three seasons, his average numbers the last three seasons are about what he got
05:51last year.
05:5164 catches, 889 yards, four touchdowns, with Tyreek Hill declining.
05:57And so Waddell was supposed to be the focus.
05:59Yeah.
06:00You mentioned that would have been second, second, third.
06:02That's nice.
06:02I'm not trading a first, a third, and a fourth for you to be second and third on my team.
06:07He's 28.
06:07He's 28, and he's small.
06:10And he's a speedster who, that declines.
06:13I think this is an awful trade.
06:16What do y'all think?
06:17877-881-1053 on the Franklin and Franklin fan text.
06:20I will say you're right.
06:22Me?
06:23Yeah.
06:24Oh.
06:24At least in one instance.
06:26That tells me the Broncos would have given up six firsts for George Pickens.
06:30We're going to get into that discussion later on, on whether this makes you rethink dealing GP,
06:36if Jalen Waddell brings this type of value.
06:39Now, like, from Miami's perspective, you know, like, you're going to get offered a first, third, fourth.
06:45You're absolutely going to take it.
06:46You're in a rebuild mode anyway.
06:48They're at 11-30.
06:49They are now one of five teams that have two picks in the first round.
06:53They have seven picks in the top 100.
06:56Seven!
06:56That is an awful roster, though, man.
06:58Holy cow.
06:59Well, this is how you swallow the dead money.
07:00They have, like, $180 million of dead money.
07:04And they're like, okay, we'll do it this year.
07:06Now, how does this affect the Cowboys at 12?
07:11Right now, it's feeling and looking really good.
07:14It could be either great or it could be not great, depending on how you look at the way that
07:19they want to structure things.
07:20So most of the reports coming out yesterday make it sound like this would be great because there's a lot
07:26of chatter from a lot of different insiders and people reporting on things who, as the day went along, were
07:31like, number 11 penciled the Dolphins in for a receiver, which pretty consistently we had seen.
07:38That's where Caleb Downs would go at times, or Monsoor Delane, or, like, you kept seeing in mock drafts, the
07:43Dolphins were picking somebody right ahead of Dallas, who it was like, damn it, we had our eyes on him.
07:48Troy's not going to allow that.
07:50What?
07:51Troy's going to want to build your peace.
07:55Rugged.
07:55Yeah.
07:56That's it.
07:56Yeah, he's going to want, like, he's an offensive guy, so we're going to be screwed.
08:00We need Laufenberg to get in his ear over some eight beers to talk up the Indiana wideout.
08:07That's our play.
08:08Yes.
08:09We need Babe to hype up the Hoosier to Troy, and then Troy takes it.
08:15And Troy to be like a mole.
08:16Oh, what do the Cowboys eat?
08:16The Cowboys eat Downs, or I'm going to pass on him.
08:18I'll take somebody else.
08:20I don't know if Troy's trying to help out.
08:21I was going to say, that'd be a long play of trying to be a mole.
08:24That's a very long play publicly.
08:27That's what Field Yates said.
08:28The trade of Waddle puts wide receiver squarely in play at 11 for Miami.
08:32Their current wide receiver room is the thinnest in the NFL right now.
08:36Like, you've got Jordan Tyson, Makai Lemon, who very well may be there.
08:41There's some talk that it could be just Carnell Tate goes in the first 11 picks at receiver.
08:44So that'd be great if you could get another, like, offensive skill player off the board.
08:49That would thin things out, because, again, that is a secondary.
08:52Now, here's the only problem for me.
08:54They did just pick up a pick at the back end of the first round.
08:57This is a pretty deep receiver draft.
08:58You were reading from Dane's List the other day.
09:00It's like 17 receivers in the top 100.
09:02So they could go, well, no, let's get the corner now that we can't really get later, like, of the
09:09same quality.
09:09There's a bunch of receivers back here at 30.
09:12We'll add there.
09:13It's not like we're going to win, like, right now anyway.
09:16We don't need a win now.
09:17We can develop somebody here.
09:18And you've got to remember, the coach they just hired is Jeff Halfley, who came from Green Bay, is a
09:23defensive-minded coach.
09:24And the GM is John Eric Sullivan, who came from Green Bay, which, what was Green Bay notorious for in
09:30their personnel department for not doing for 20 years?
09:33Drafting receivers.
09:33Don't draft receivers in the first round.
09:34They did last year with Matthew Golden, and then they didn't put him on the field.
09:39So, it does give me a little bit of pause and go, okay, all right, are they going to do
09:42things a little bit differently?
09:44Daniel Jeremiah came out with a mock draft yesterday, which I'm sure we'll get into at some point.
09:48And he had still, even after the trade came out, still mocked a defensive back at 11 and said 30
09:54they would take a receiver.
09:55I don't even think he had them taking a receiver at 30.
09:57I think he said he thought they'd wait until the second round.
09:59So, Jalen Waddell to the Denver Broncos with Sean Payton going for it, and that Miami rebuild is here.
10:07And you're not liking, you didn't love the Malik Willis signing before, and you're definitely not liking it now.
10:14Well, I don't understand now.
10:15When you signed him a couple of weeks ago, you mean to tell me you had no inclination you were
10:21looking to deal Jalen Waddell?
10:22They did.
10:23Surely they did, right?
10:23I mean, that was two weeks ago.
10:25I would hope they communicated that to him.
10:27I would hope they did.
10:28Hey, dude, you're going to come here to build up your value as a starter, and you're not going to
10:32have any receivers.
10:33Well, then I'd be like, who else is offering you 20 out there?
10:36That's true.
10:37Right.
10:37I think Malik would be like, oh, 20?
10:39Okay.
10:40Because now you pay him $20 million a year, and then you gut his roster for him.
10:45You're not setting him up for any kind of success.
10:48Like, good luck, right?
10:49I mean, he's going to have no offensive lines, no defense.
10:51He's going to have no receivers, no weapons.
10:53Like, yeah, I get it.
10:54You needed a quarterback.
10:57But why would you spend money on a quarterback?
10:59It's like buying a closer and being the worst team in the league.
11:03If it's true that teams treat this year's third or next year's second as this year's third,
11:10then the Broncos just paid for Jalen Waddell, what, like, Dallas was maxing out on Max Crosby for.
11:17That's what a lot of the league was maxing out on Max Crosby for, like a one and next year's
11:22two.
11:22That's what you paid for Waddell, who has been under 1,000 yards back-to-back years.
11:26Do you agree with his take on what you're doing to Malik?
11:32I just sign a bum if you're going to get the roster.
11:35It sucks for Malik, but, I mean, I would assume that he was told, like, hey, this is kind of
11:38what we're going to be looking at here.
11:40I hope so.
11:40No, but if you sign him, is this also part of your plan to have Waddell gone?
11:46Oh, yeah.
11:47Like, I mean, yeah, I think that they're probably just trying to see, like, what can, as they're building up
11:50the roster around it,
11:51it's like, all right, Malik, here's your audition for when we're building this roster with draft picks,
11:55what it's going to be in a couple years.
11:56Because if he can win seven games with this.
12:00He's a miracle worker.
12:01A miracle worker, yeah.
12:02Oh, for sure.
12:03How many yards is he going to run for?
12:05He's going to run for his life.
12:06And it's just like, you know, $20 million, you're gutting the roster.
12:11To me, like, if you're going to pay him, you're paying him because you think you can sneak into a
12:15playoff spot.
12:16So there it is, the blockbuster in the National Football League.
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