00:00Super Bowl champion Seahawks have signed Rockwall's Jackson Smith and Jigba to the biggest contract in wide receiver history.
00:07Reigning NFL Offensive Player of the Year has reached the deal on a four-year $168.6 million extension,
00:13makes him the highest paid wide receiver in history, averaging 42.15 mil, includes over 120 guaranteed.
00:22Both set records for a wideout.
00:24With the new agreement, Smith and Jigba is contractually tied to Seattle for the next six years through the 2031
00:31season.
00:32So, you know, the talk is, does this impact George Pickens' contract?
00:37Maybe it moves it up a little bit?
00:40Yeah, I mean, it certainly helps him in the agent's case.
00:44Raises the floor, that's for sure.
00:46I mean, my goodness.
00:46I'm going to say not at all.
00:48Not at all?
00:49Not at all.
00:50And why is that?
00:51I don't think he is in that kind of ballpark when it comes to getting a contract extension.
00:59At 340, I'm going to walk you through something.
01:02I reached out to my gang of seven.
01:04I wanted to power rank them.
01:06I kind of put him in pickings in a class of certain receivers,
01:11and I had a couple of teams get back with me and tell me where they kind of thought he
01:17might go or how it might work.
01:19I don't think the Cowboys are interested at all at paying that kind of money.
01:23Oh, hell no.
01:24They shouldn't be.
01:24And I think they're going to make him play on the tag.
01:28I think just we're in for another spring of the guy not being around.
01:33We'll see it at training camp.
01:35But I think this has absolutely – to the agent?
01:40Yeah, sure.
01:40Great.
01:41To the organization?
01:43No, I don't think so.
01:45Not at all.
01:46Did he play on the tag this year and then he's gone?
01:48Yeah, I believe so.
01:49That would be my guess right now.
01:53I was just looking at it like if the top of the market is 40 and you're going to get
01:58a certain percentage of it.
02:00Well, it's now 43, right?
02:01Yeah, 42.15.
02:03Yeah, yeah.
02:04So, I mean, it might go up a million or a million and a half dollars if you're going to
02:08get a percentage of what the top is.
02:10I think it helps.
02:11I think it helps the player.
02:13I just don't think it helps the Cowboys.
02:16I think the Cowboys are kind of like, nah, we know who we are.
02:21I don't think they'll ever go north of what they gave CeeDee Lamb.
02:24So, I just think this is – everybody's kind of looking at it like, oh, wow, this kind of makes
02:31the moves.
02:32So, look what's kind of happened right now with – there's some needy teams, wide receiver needy teams out there.
02:38And no one's even sniffed on this one, you know?
02:43Yeah, the rest of the league clearly feels differently about George Pickens.
02:46If Waddle's able to go for what was it, a one and three?
02:50Like, to me, I think George Pickens is a better player than Jalen Waddle.
02:53So, for us to hear, you know, originally the gang's like, yeah, maybe a second rounder.
02:57That's the value for George Pickens around the league.
02:59That's what Nick Harris reported.
03:00It's like, okay, Jalen Waddle goes for a one.
03:03That makes no sense to me.
03:05But clearly the rest of the league feels very differently about George Pickens.
03:08Yeah.
03:09Yeah, and that's fine with me.
03:10Like, if the league doesn't value him more than that, we'll just hang on to him.
03:14It should be, yeah.
03:15It should be.
03:16The most underpaid star-wide receiver in the game.
03:19Absolutely.
03:19I think that's what this is lining up to be.
03:21Pete Prisco did a mock draft.
03:24He kind of approaches this as an insider, right?
03:27He's not necessarily a media scout, Pete Prisco.
03:30No, he does evaluate.
03:31Oh, he does his evaluations.
03:32He has his own players that he looks at and stuff.
03:36But, yeah, he talks to a lot of people.
03:40He's really, he hates running backs.
03:42Where did he put Love from Notre Dame?
03:44I'll have an answer for that.
03:46I'm sorry.
03:46No, I got it up.
03:47I just need to find it.
03:50The really interesting thing about it that I wanted to ask you about initially was just
03:54that he's got the three edges, the safety, the linebacker, and the two corners gone.
04:00He did have Jeremiah Love going to Washington at seven.
04:03Well, that's a rarity for him.
04:06Maybe he's just capitulating to a league trend here.
04:09You know, and ending up putting Love there in the top seven picks.
04:14But, yeah, it kind of cleans you out when you get to 12, Brian.
04:16I think it's the interesting question.
04:17How realistic is this scenario now that the lane ran his 4-3-5 or 4-3-9 or whatever
04:23it is?
04:23Hey, there were people in Baton Rouge that were telling me that they were worried that
04:27that thing might be in the 4-5s.
04:30Yeah, I mean, that's what I've seen from a lot of the media scouts nationally.
04:33They wonder about the speed and the overall athleticism, even though the tape is outstanding.
04:38And now he just checked the box of, oh, wait, no, he's actually super fast and athletic.
04:43No, he is a – but there were questions that he was – a guy that might not run.
04:48But, man, I'll tell you what, he – if you have any questions about McCoy, you know,
04:54and if you're big on the running aspect of this thing, well, then that's, you know,
04:59that 4-3, that got your attention.
05:02So I think Wolchuk said earlier in this situation maybe he's taking Akeem Mezador.
05:08You know, if you're wiped out, Prisco ends up taking R. Mason Thomas from OU.
05:14What would you do in this situation that we're talking about?
05:17He takes him at 12?
05:18Delaney and McCoy are both off the board.
05:21Downs and Styles are off the board.
05:23Obviously, Bain and Bailey and Arville Reese are off the board.
05:28So you're ultra wiped out in this scenario.
05:31How do you make the most of it?
05:32Let me ask you this question, Dawson.
05:34Did he take any – and you probably said this and I was trying to pay attention.
05:39Did he take an offensive lineman?
05:41Yeah, Mo and Noah went to Kansas City at 9.
05:44Okay.
05:45So Spencer Fano would be the guy you'd look at at 12 if you wanted a lineman.
05:49Okay, so you said Mo and Noah's gone and then Love's gone.
05:55And no wide receiver gone?
05:57Tate went to Cleveland at 6.
06:01Okay.
06:01Because I'm trying to think if you're looking at –
06:05Like, but Kyle Lemon would probably be my highest player on the board.
06:08Yeah, I mean, I'm just trying to look at if there was an offensive player that's –
06:11I think that you would probably have an offensive player that's ranked or stacked higher than R. Mason Thomas.
06:19If you ask me.
06:20Yeah, I mean, I would have Akeem Mejador over R. Mason Thomas.
06:22By – yeah, a lot.
06:22He's the top edge after the initial rule.
06:25Yeah, he's the first – he's the – of the first three guys, he's No. 4.
06:30Well, I find it really interesting to start talking about offensive players when you get into that situation.
06:34But there still are guys that are exciting to watch on tape, and one of them is R. Mason Thomas.
06:39Very much so.
06:40No, he's a really good player.
06:41Absolutely.
06:41It's probably a little bit of an overdraft situation there.
06:46And then at 20, Jacob Rodriguez, speaking of the overdraft, you have to figure out a way to get this
06:51linebacker situation resolved one way or another.
06:54By the time you get past 20, I'd hate to be in the situation they are right now, and Rodriguez
06:58could be a big step in the right direction.
07:00Did we hear anything new over the weekend about the Jordan Brooks stuff?
07:04Seemed like there was a pretty robust conversation happening on Twitter.
07:07Nick Harris basically was saying that him and Todd did not say that they were trading for these guys.
07:15There's just been internal conversations about it.
07:18And I get it.
07:20Like with the reporting, it comes back to the same thing.
07:22Like no official offer is made.
07:25I understand that.
07:28It's like with the Crosby stuff.
07:30The Cowboys didn't have to say, here's our official offer.
07:32The teams are talking.
07:34You know what the offer would look like.
07:36You know the parameters of a deal.
07:38And the Cowboys obviously have had discussions about trading for those linebackers, and they're hunting linebackers on the trade market.
07:44I think they're also hunting edges.
07:46I think that the names that we had heard about, Renard's out there, the Eagles, according to Jordan Schultz, are
07:51being super aggressive right now, trying to go get Jonathan Renard.
07:54Maybe it's Highsmith in Pittsburgh.
07:55I think those are definitely two position groups that are monitoring of what's going on.
07:59Yeah, and it's exciting to know that they are having internal conversations about how do we fix this.
08:04And if they're trying to fix it with players in the $8 million to $11 million range, then that's something
08:11to be optimistic about as well.
08:12But we do need, to the point of what Brian said, we need a report that something has gone beyond
08:18internal explorations.
08:20We need a dance partner, Willen, on the other side.
08:24But you also get from them, you get that that's news to me comment, which we talked about last week.
08:32It's a big organization.
08:33Yeah, a lot of things going on over there, for sure.
08:36A lot of people that can be talking and considering things, and it's maybe newsworthy, but hasn't made it up
08:42the chain of command to a point that there's serious or imminent conversations going down.
08:48PFF posted worst-case scenario for each team in the draft, and it's a good segue from what we were
08:55just talking about with the scenario of taking an offensive player and how much appetite you would have for it.
09:03For the Cowboys, they say not coming out of the first round with two difference-making players on defense is
09:09worst-case scenario.
09:10I think worst-case scenario is saying we've got to take a defensive player and then getting to 12-20
09:17and taking who you think is the best defensive player on the board when an offensive guy that should be
09:22a blinking light is trying to bang down your door and become a Cowboy.
09:26And worst-case scenario is eight months from now, getting into the middle of the NFL season where that offensive
09:33player looks like he could be rookie of the year and you've got a guy who's not in your starting
09:36lineup.
09:37Yeah, I mean, just the ultimate drafting for need and punting on everything else about your board and moving off
09:45of guys that you have as better prospects, I mean, that's the nightmare.
09:51But it starts with being wiped out at 12, and now all of a sudden you're – I mean, if
09:56you're doing the Pete Prisco thing of taking R. Mason Thomas at 12, you have completely leapt over a bunch
10:04of talent to do that.
10:05Yeah, that's surprising, yeah.
10:07That's insane.
10:08The first one I've ever seen that in a mob.
10:10Yeah, I've never seen that.
10:11But I guess he's just throwing crap out there based on if you're missing out on all the top –
10:16It might be exactly who he thinks he would take, you know?
10:20Yeah, I mean, some might have him much higher.
10:24He looks good getting after the passer.
10:26He absolutely does.
10:26This guy has a good first step and good bend and good speed around the edge.
10:30But, yeah, you know, when you get to 12, if the good offensive player is there and you decide to
10:36take a defensive player,
10:37I just hope that when they get there, they've done something at linebacker that can put them in a legitimate
10:42best player available type of situation.
10:46Because worst case is looking back on this thing in a year and thinking, how could we have been so
10:51short-sighted?
10:52Like, every team knows this is how you get into trouble and, you know, it really comes down to the
10:59front office right now
11:00putting the team in a position where they don't have this gaping need by the time you get to the
11:06draft in Pittsburgh.
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