00:00Matt Ryan was the quarterback throwing passes to Kyle Pitts when Kyle Pitts was a rookie.
00:04And now Matt Ryan is the head of football at the time when they put the franchise tag on Kyle
00:08Pitts.
00:09And I was like, hey, do you make that call to your former teammates?
00:11Say, hey, sorry, Kyle, you don't get to go to free agency.
00:14You're going to be franchise tagging.
00:15He said, no, Ian Cunningham did it.
00:16He's the GM.
00:17And I said, so, wait, look, people in Chicago are still curious, to say the least,
00:23about why the hiring of Ian Cunningham didn't result in the traditional,
00:26at least for as long as the rule's been in place, pair of compensatory third-round picks.
00:31For Ian Cunningham being a GM, is he the GM?
00:34And Matt Ryan was very clear.
00:36He is the GM in every sense of the word.
00:39He is a general manager in the National Football League.
00:42I don't know why the NFL did this.
00:44When you look at what the Florida attorney general has been doing over the course of the last week,
00:48and I think the NFL's constant concern that they're going to be on the wrong end of a late-night
00:53tweet storm
00:54from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
00:55Maybe they exercised their discretion, in this case, away from another little item of news
01:03that could have sparked the kind of blowback they're now getting from Florida.
01:07I don't know, but it just doesn't make sense to me.
01:10Who does it hurt?
01:11And that's why I've called this, like, a huge unforced error for the NFL from the get-go.
01:16Who would have complained if the NFL would have given the Bears the compensatory picks?
01:21Who would have had standing to say, he's really not the general manager?
01:25The Falcons are saying, he is the general manager.
01:28Ian Cunningham's saying, I am the general manager.
01:31It makes no sense that they wouldn't get the two third-round picks.
01:34And now, the NFL's in a box on this one, because if they change course,
01:39it's a bigger story than it would have been if they'd just given him the two third-round picks in
01:43the first place.
01:43It's a bigger story than it would have been if they'd just given him the best.
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