00:00Dexter Lawrence requests trade from the Giants yesterday.
00:05So, welcome to New York, John Harbaugh.
00:08Your best defensive player is looking to get the hell out of there.
00:11Yeah, it's funny, man, because I saw it, and I love Dexter Lawrence as a football player,
00:17and I had to fight every urge I had to just say,
00:22Give him whatever you want. We need Dexter Lawrence in here.
00:25And you know who helped me? Most Giants fans.
00:27Because immediately what you hear from Giants fans is,
00:30Oh, great, Dexter, yep, yep, he wants a new contract again.
00:33The guy's been agitating for a new contract every year since he got his last new contract,
00:38the contract that he's on right now.
00:42He's a very, very good football player.
00:44Yes, he would help make the Texans' stellar defense even that more stellar.
00:48But it's that classic situation of, man, Quinnen Williams last year got,
00:54he was traded for a second, future first, and defensive title.
01:00Oh, it was Mozzie Smith, right?
01:01Yes.
01:02Another defensive lineman.
01:04There's a chance that Dexter Lawrence is going to go for either a first-round pick
01:08or a couple of seconds or something like that.
01:10And I just, I can't justify this team right now allocating even more salary space
01:16and draft picks to the defensive side of the ball.
01:19I would feel like in House of the Dragon, Sean, there's a king who's not a good king
01:25at the beginning of it, Viserys.
01:28Wait, Viserys?
01:29Yeah, Viserys.
01:30And he's, like, obsessed with working on his model of the kingdom.
01:36It's almost like it's an ancient equivalent of somebody who's got a train set.
01:40Okay.
01:41And he spends all this time and care on this.
01:43Well, meanwhile, the kingdom is crumbling and there's questions about the legitimacy
01:48of his family and everything.
01:50That's what I would be doing.
01:51It'd be like I was working on my model while people are questioning the legitimacy of my offense
01:56just because I want this pristine defense to be that much better.
02:00Yeah.
02:00I can't do it.
02:01I can't be Viserys.
02:02No.
02:02I can't have body parts falling off from some weird form of leprosy.
02:06No, no.
02:06I don't need that.
02:07I don't need all the other things that go on with the Targaryen family happening with
02:11you, including blonde hair, long blonde hair on you.
02:14It'd be very disconcerting, especially with the beautiful beard that you're working right
02:17now.
02:17So, no, I don't need that at all.
02:19Do we need it?
02:19You think my beard is nice now?
02:21Wait until I start dyeing it.
02:22Are you going to grow it?
02:23Bad dye job.
02:24I'm going to do it at home.
02:25Are you trimming it or are you going to grow it down at all?
02:27I'm growing it.
02:28I was aggravating Brandy yesterday with two things.
02:32One, I was talking to her about trading Paredes for a pitcher.
02:35Okay.
02:35It's the first time we've had a knock-down, drag-out brawl in a long time.
02:39She's a big Paredes.
02:40It's the first time we've thrown fists over a fight in a long time.
02:44And then yesterday was, I'm considering not cutting my hair or beard until the Texans
02:50go to a Super Bowl.
02:51Okay.
02:52Okay.
02:52Did I say win a Super Bowl?
02:54Have you consulted?
02:55Well, I mean, that would be higher risk, obviously.
02:58My sister-in-law is a hairstylist, and she doesn't seem to be a fan of me already not
03:04having had a haircut in two months.
03:06She says I could use a little shaping.
03:08I'm like, here's, you're such a fancy lady.
03:11Beer, I haven't had my, no, my, everything, my hair and beard.
03:15The whole thing, yeah.
03:15My sister-in-law is a hairstylist as well.
03:18You know?
03:19Small world.
03:20Small world, man.
03:21Yeah.
03:22Maybe they know each other.
03:24Yeah, yeah.
03:24And you and I do a radio show together.
03:26That's one of the odds.
03:27You know Jody Unverdorman?
03:28Call up your sister-in-law.
03:29You know Jody Unverdorman?
03:30Yeah, yeah.
03:31She's a hairstylist.
03:32Ask her if she knows Amanda Zan.
03:34Yeah.
03:35In Houston, Texas.
03:39No, I think, so for Dexter Lawrence, the scheme fit wouldn't be an issue at all.
03:44Like, he plays in a different type of scheme.
03:46But he also, remember, he had nine sacks in 12 games two years ago.
03:49He can get upfield.
03:51He's just an absolute brawler and a bully.
03:54Statistically, he didn't have a great year last year, but he was getting double teamed all
03:57the time and doing what nose tackles need to do.
04:00Yes, he would be a good addition to the Texans.
04:02The Texans have already signed a free agent defensive tackle in Logan Hall.
04:06They also signed Sheldon Rankins to bring him back.
04:09I really love Tommy Togiai.
04:11If they're going to add to the defensive line at this point, I'm more focused in on edge
04:16rushers.
04:17Depth and edge.
04:18Yeah.
04:18Now, draft a defensive tackle, that's a whole different scenario because that's for the
04:21future.
04:22But both either through the draft or signing Joey Bosa or something like this, they need
04:27at least one more edge rusher right now.
04:29You mentioned the two things that you're having to give up to get Dexter Lawrence.
04:34Almost kind of three in a way.
04:37Like, the draft capital, yes, you'd have to trade draft picks to get him.
04:41He wants a new contract.
04:42You'd have to make some sort of accommodation.
04:44I think the third thing you're trading a little bit is I don't think the Texans normally
04:47bring in guys who are agitating for contracts like this every year.
04:51So you're trading a little part of your soul as well to bring in Dexter Lawrence.
04:56Here's the thing, Seth, of those things, I think D'Amico can make the whole behind-the-scenes
05:01thing work.
05:02I trust schematically if they're bringing him in.
05:04D'Amico, hell, knows what he's doing for sure.
05:07I have no problem giving up a draft pick for him, if I'm being honest.
05:10Like, it's the money is the issue for me because you're going to reach a breaking point
05:16here where acquiring somebody like this is going to cost you somebody like Kalen Bullock
05:22down the road or Kamari Lasseter.
05:24This is how it would have to work.
05:26Because he's a guy who's continually agitating for a new contract, you'd have to give him
05:30a Daniil Hunter type of deal where it's two years virtually all guaranteed and then maybe
05:36you keep adjusting it year to year as long as everything's working out.
05:40But they already have a guy like that in the aforementioned Daniil Hunter on the defensive
05:46line.
05:46And it's just a matter of allocation of resources to just keep...
05:52I feel like Daniil Hunter was the one guy where you break out of your mold a little bit
05:57and you bring him in and it's a perfect situation and it works out great.
06:00You don't really have room for two guys like that while the offense, especially, is ailing.
06:05But you're right, in the future they've got to pay Kamari Lasseter, Kalen Bullock, they're
06:08going to pay Will Anderson.
06:09If you do a short-term deal with Dexter Lawrence, you don't have to worry about all that much.
06:15None of those guys' big cap hits would be until later on.
06:18But it's still something that is...
06:21It bleeds over in lots of ways to what you can do on offense and what you can do in
06:27the
06:27future if you're spending that much money in the short term.
06:29He's under contract for two more years.
06:31I mean, that's part of it too.
06:32Like, dude, what's to say you're not going to be doing this when you've got two years
06:36left on this new deal that we gave you?
06:38He was agitating last year when he had three years left on this contract.
06:42He gets mad every time somebody passes him on the interior defensive line AAV list.
06:48Whenever you give a guy a big extension, what you really hope is that he's the kind of guy
06:54who understands, all right, if I keep up my end of the bargain and keep playing well, yeah,
06:59I'm going to be underpaid.
07:00Immediately, the next offseason you'll be underpaid.
07:04You've got to be cool with that.
07:06That's why you've got that big chunk of guaranteed money.
07:08It's a pain in the ass when you've got somebody who every single year is looking at the power
07:13rankings of defensive tackles and says, oh, wait a second.
07:16But these guys are below me on the power rankings and yet they're making more money.
07:21That's how it works, man.
07:21You've got to find some kind of a happy balance.
07:23That's how it works.
07:23This would be the equivalent of Nico Collins saying, hey, whoa, whoa, whoa, I'm 17th now
07:28on the wide receiver list and I was one vote away from being second team All-Pro this year.
07:33See, with Daniil, Daniil had had some standoffs with the Vikings before he got here.
07:39And I want to say it was the two, both of the offseasons before he got here.
07:45I can't remember.
07:46Definitely when he was in the last year of his contract, he either held out a training
07:51camp for a little while or it was a hold in, whatever it might have been.
07:54But that was more conventional.
07:56But you don't have to worry about it when you sign a guy to a two-year guaranteed deal.
08:01So that's where I think if the Texans were to trade for Dexter Lawrence, they would probably
08:05just do something like guarantee the last two years of his deal without giving him a new one.
08:10But that's just, man.
08:11Might not be good enough, man.
08:12You're taking something that's already really good and just doubling down on it at the expense
08:20of all the other areas of your roster that need to be addressed, including depth on the
08:25defensive line.
08:26Or excuse me, depth on the defense in general.
08:28If he was just a really good player that just wanted off of a bad team because he's 30
08:33and he wants to win, then I'd be inclined to do it.
08:37Even the money he's at right now is very doable for a couple of years.
08:42Top 10.
08:42That's the thing.
08:43He's agitating it about it.
08:44And I want to say he's still in the seventh highest paid defensive tackle.
08:47And when you trade for him, the Giants have already picked up the freight on signing bonuses
08:51and things like that.
08:52You're just responsible for the salary.
08:54And his salary is very reasonable for the next two years.
08:57It's $16 million and $15 million.
08:59You can make that work.
09:00You know, voidable years and restructuring and things like that.
09:03But I think the guy wants to make $30 million a year.
09:05You know, or whatever.
09:06It's, you know, whatever the market is for interior defensive linemen.
09:0920, 25, whatever it is.
09:12All right.
09:12Yeah, he's 9, 10.
09:14He's still the 11th highest paid defensive lineman.
09:16Good enough.
09:16In the third year of his contract.
09:18You know, it really hasn't.
09:20Yeah.
09:21And he was agitated.
09:22Last year, he was agitating for a new contract.
09:24They ended up giving him like $3 million in incentives.
09:26Yeah.
09:26And I don't think he made the incentives, so he's probably somehow angry about that.
09:30Yep.
09:30I like big, angry defensive linemen, but not when it boils over all the time into contract talk.
09:36Absolutely not.
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