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The Cardinals and Titans are reportedly heavily interested in Jeremiyah Love, making it unlikely the star running back falls to Washington at pick No. 7 in the NFL Draft.
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00:00Now reports are, Brian, that Adam Schefter and Peter Schrager
00:04are also saying that Jeremiah Love could be in play at three
00:08for the Arizona Cardinals.
00:09Yeah.
00:10I never thought he'd be there for the Commanders at seven.
00:12I never thought he would be either, and I just say it all the time,
00:16and fans get mad, and they make their comments,
00:19and I don't give a damn.
00:20But my ultimate thing is stop making your whole draft go
00:25based off of one person and realize you have to look at the multitude of people
00:29and understand if you like somebody that much,
00:32somebody in front of you probably like them that much too,
00:35and the chance they could be gone.
00:38The thing about what everyone talks about is the value of the running back position,
00:42and people still look at it like that, but Love makes people think differently
00:48because he could do other things.
00:50But I still say one guy is not going to completely change your team.
00:55Right.
00:56You know, like, and everybody's like, well, look at Saquon.
01:00Saquon joined a team that was already ready to go to a Super Bowl.
01:04Well, they had already gone, I think, the year before
01:06or something like that, two years prior or whatever.
01:08Yeah.
01:08So when he came there, that defense was ready-made,
01:11and that offense was damn potent.
01:13Once he comes into it, it's even better.
01:16You know, he was there last year too, right?
01:18Yeah.
01:19Things didn't look the same.
01:21So it's funny you say that because this is something I've –
01:24you're the right person to talk to about this.
01:25I feel – I've talked about this for a little while now.
01:28It's the rebirth of the running back in the NFL,
01:30like the rebirth of the big in the NBA.
01:32Yeah.
01:32Like we watch, you know, Nicole Jokic and what he's doing,
01:34Victor Weminyama.
01:35There was a while in the NBA, remember, where it went from
01:38bigs played in the post, Patrick Ewing, David Robinson,
01:41you know, I mean, two point, whatever.
01:43But, like, you had those bigs of the 90s.
01:45Yeah.
01:45And then the NBA changed.
01:46You had a lot of seven-footers coming straight out of high school
01:48they didn't develop.
01:49So then it was just, like, it was gone.
01:50Remember, they got rid of it in the all-star voting, all that.
01:52Now the big is back in the NBA, but it's evolved.
01:55Yeah.
01:55I'm seeing that with the running –
01:56They're shooting threes.
01:57They're shooting threes.
01:58They're stretching the floor.
01:58Nicole Jokic is running the floor like a point guard with a dad bottom.
02:01We're like, what the hell is this?
02:02That was – like – but it's just – it works now.
02:04But it's changed so much.
02:06The position has evolved.
02:07We're seeing that now with the running back where, for one,
02:11obviously the league has become such a pass-happy league,
02:14but now you see defenses, two-eye safeties,
02:16they're taking away the deep balls, things like that.
02:17I saw it with Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs for a while.
02:20They kind of changed their approach.
02:21But a lot of teams now are looking around going, you know,
02:23if we have a – again, these guys aren't easy to find.
02:26But if you have somebody that also is more than just a running back,
02:29but a weapon out of the backfield, a Christian McCaffrey,
02:32a Saquon Barkley, Bijon, Jameer Gibbs.
02:34Look at Jameer Gibbs.
02:34Jameer Gibbs is going to get a record deal
02:36because he's not just a running back.
02:38He's a weapon out of the backfield.
02:40And that's what makes Jeremiah Love more valuable.
02:43It's not that he plays the position of running back.
02:45I think you have to look at him as this weapon
02:48that can be used out of the slot,
02:50catching balls out of the backfield.
02:51He's two-dimensional.
02:53And listen, I think the value of the running back
02:56was decreased in a boardroom, not just on the football field.
03:00Because if you look at these guys that were playing back in the day,
03:03early in the 90s and all that,
03:06a lot of them, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17 years.
03:10And they were still toting that low late.
03:12It's just crazy.
03:13Today, these guys don't carry the ball 25, 30 times.
03:17The amount of carries Emick Smith had in his career, unbelievable.
03:20He played 18 years, right?
03:21Yeah.
03:21So they don't have 25, 30 carries a game,
03:25but they're going to get hurt.
03:27Everybody gets hurt.
03:29Quarterbacks get hurt hand in fist.
03:31Joe Burrow has been hurt more than any quarterback out there.
03:33He's still paying his money.
03:34You know, I just think when you start getting guys
03:37that can do multiple things, like or love,
03:40you take the chance on them.
03:41And I think there are guys that don't have as much on their team
03:46that'll take even a bigger chance.
03:49Cardinals, Titans.
03:50The Titans, for sure.
03:52I know people look at Salah saying he's a defensive coach,
03:54but you got a quarterback, a young quarterback who he can help.
03:58This team right here, you got a defensive-minded head coach, too.
04:02And you had a historically bad defense last year.
04:06You have to make that better?
04:08Or the thing to help Jaden is having some receivers open it up for people.
04:14Bill showed last year what he's capable of.
04:16So I think here, it's many guys that can sign.
04:21I'm going to be happy.
04:22I'm not sitting up here worried about one guy here or there.
04:25You know, you can put up a lot of guys,
04:27because I think still this team needs to keep adding talent,
04:31keep adding talent, moving forward.
04:33And I don't think that one dude is going to get it done.
04:35Jeremiah Love is a luxury pick for this team,
04:37and they don't have the luxury of going out and doing it.
04:39They don't need to get a Ferrari yet.
04:40They got so many other pieces that they still have to address.
04:43And I get it.
04:43Like, yes, Jeremiah Love has the potential to be a game-changing offensive weapon for this team.
04:48But for all the talk about you need to help Jaden Daniels,
04:51you need to give him weapons, you need to support him,
04:53that also means you need to have a defense that's not going to give up 14 points in the first
04:57quarter
04:57that's then going to have you playing from behind the entire rest of the game.
05:00I know Jaden didn't play much last year, but that's all we saw last year.
05:04Those first quarters during the meat of the season were embarrassing.
05:08I mean, it was like, they're missing tackles, there's no stops,
05:11they're not even holding teams to field goals half the time.
05:14And if you're, I don't care how great a quarterback is, how great an offense is,
05:17how many wide receivers you have,
05:19if you're still constantly playing catch-up in a game,
05:22week after week after week, you're altering your game plan,
05:25you're playing, like, you're chasing points the entire time.
05:28So if you've got a defense that can't stop anybody,
05:31it really doesn't matter how talented your quarterback is.
05:33Yeah, or you're running back.
05:35Yeah, right.
05:36So my thing is, I've always said this,
05:38when you have a guy like a Jaden, a Josh Allen, Pat Mahomes,
05:45those guys can be Superman.
05:48But you don't want them to always have to be Superman.
05:52You want them to be Superman in certain situations,
05:56or when it's like an end of a season and you're in a Super Bowl,
06:00you'll go try and do it now.
06:02If you have a defense that can stop people from scoring a lot of points,
06:05and you allow that person to just be who they are,
06:09they'll probably have a greater career than they would by forcing them to be Superman every game.
06:15First year, it worked out.
06:18He was Superman a lot.
06:19We won six games in a row with the last player of the game.
06:23That is not something you could do every year.
06:26Then last year, some of the stuff, we start off, like you just stated, 14, 15 down, 20 down.
06:34Now you can't do nothing but throw the ball.
06:36And you have to try and, like, force things.
06:38And when you force things, you risk.
06:42And what I'm looking for is the way to make him be able to be who he is
06:47and then step it up every once in a while.
06:49I don't want him to step it up 90% of the game.
06:52I don't want to see that.
06:53Because if you see that, that means he's taking risks, he's taking chances,
06:57and it ain't going to work out well.
06:58And eventually, yeah, the whole Superman thing, like with Josh Allen,
07:01that wears you down eventually just as a quarterback.
07:04I mean, having to do everything yourself.
07:06And I'll tell you this, too, when Jaden got hurt the final time last year against Seattle,
07:11that game, remember, there were no receivers, nobody was open,
07:13he's running for his life the entire time.
07:15That was the first time I really saw him get frustrated on the field,
07:18where there's mistakes, and you could tell he's looking down the field,
07:20has nobody, slamming the ball down.
07:22There was always the smile after mistakes, right?
07:24He'd always forget.
07:25That was the first time I went, oh, he's pissed.
07:27And he started forcing things.
07:30Do I think that that led to the dislocated elbow?
07:33No, but do I think that him running when maybe he didn't need to
07:35in other situations maybe contributed a little bit to that decision-making?
07:40Yeah, I think so.
07:41And that's where you, like, again, this team, it's a rebuild.
07:45And my biggest thing is the 12-win season nobody would ever take back in 2024.
07:50It was great.
07:51But all it did was set the clock back on the rebuild.
07:53That team wasn't a 12-win team that would continue to win double-digit games
07:56year in and year out anymore.
07:58And what they had to do was finally figure out, oh, damn, we are rebuilding.
08:01It's time to fully commit to that actual rebuild.
08:03Now the clock has started on that.
08:05So when you talk about, hey, there's multiple guys here,
08:07I'd be happy if they drafted.
08:09Yeah.
08:09They're in a good spot at seven right now where they can get somebody
08:13offensively, like the Cardinal Tate, a Jeremiah Love.
08:15I don't think he's falling there.
08:15But you can get a Sonny Stiles.
08:17You can go and get, you know, I mean, you can address corner.
08:19You can address safety.
08:20It also shows they got needs in a lot of positions because this team's not ready
08:24to sit here and be talked about as a contender yet.
08:26I think, like, when they won the 12, if you can have revisionist history,
08:32you'd go, oh, no, let's keep building.
08:34But everybody wanted to try and go for it.
08:36Mm-hmm.
08:36And I raised my hand and said I was one of them, too.
08:40Yeah.
08:40Hell, let's see what you can do.
08:42But as soon as you started getting injuries to those key guys you brought in,
08:47then that's gone.
08:48Yeah.
08:48And I know people say, well, you're making excuses.
08:51No, no, no, no.
08:52Now, if you haven't played at this level, you don't understand.
08:57When you walk into a game, you got 22 people to go against 22 people.
09:01And 11 of your 22 best are gone.
09:04It's kind of hard to beat that.
09:05Mm-hmm.
09:06You know what I mean?
09:07And it's not an excuse.
09:08It's a fact.
09:09And see, that's what always drives me nuts is people say, oh, well, it's just next man up.
09:13It's just that what if next man up is not actually that, like, when there's a huge talent drop-off
09:18from the starter to the backup, next man up is a great phrase to put on a T-shirt,
09:22but it's not actually logical.
09:24It doesn't actually make sense.
09:25It's like if you watch some teams where they were able to have guys drafted and sit behind a guy,
09:35and all of a sudden now that next man up is in his third, fourth year.
09:39Yep.
09:39And that guy who's in his 12th, you'll get hurt.
09:43Next man up might work then because you know what?
09:45He's been sitting and learning and waiting.
09:47Mm-hmm.
09:47And he may be able to go.
09:48But if the guy you have behind the starter is a first-year guy or maybe a guy who's been
09:56around a long time
09:58and he's never started, but he's just there, and you have one who's a 9 or a 10
10:04and other guys a 4 or a 5, you're going to see a difference.
10:08And, yes, I absolutely agree with you.
10:11Next man up, that's a great slogan, but it's not every next man.
10:16Man, it's not good enough to hold.
10:20He may be good enough to do for a series, a play, or whatever,
10:24but he can't do it for the whole damn game.
10:26If he was, he wouldn't have been behind somebody on this team.
10:30He'd be somewhere else starting.
10:33Obviously, there are lots of markets that also, whether you gauge them a lot
10:37or gauge them a little on the NFL draft, a lot of rumors can move the markets quite a bit,
10:41whether it's betting or it's the prediction markets.
10:43Kalshi has the, or Kalshi, I always say it wrong, it's Kalshi,
10:46but the Titans, 43% chance to draft Jeremiah Love, Cardinals, 21% chance,
10:52Commanders, 12, and Giants, 11.
10:55It's starting to lean towards an earlier, I just never thought that Jeremiah Love
11:00would go past four to the Titans, because if you have a team that's as devoid of talent
11:05as they are as well, I mean, yeah, they're kind of in a similar position
11:07with the Commanders in some way, where, like, young quarterback,
11:10you want somebody in the backfield that can support your quarterback,
11:12but that's like, to me, because it's a similar situation in some ways,
11:16you could really justify the Titans making that pick.
11:19I just, if you go back to the beginning, Jeremiah Love was linked to the Titans very early on,
11:23and we get all of this noise right in the middle of all this leading up,
11:27where it's just month after month, and I'm like, again, thank God the draft is almost here,
11:31but if you go back and look at a lot of drafts, the rumors in between,
11:35going back to, like, old mock drafts, you're like, oh, the original stuff
11:37was actually what teams were thinking.
11:40I, I, if I'm the Cardinals, I make it seem like I want Jeremiah Love,
11:44even if you're not really thinking that, because even if you're the Titans,
11:48what if they call and just say, we'll offer you another pick in next year's draft
11:51or something else, just to go up one, just to go up one, like, there's, there's,
11:55the lying season and muddying the waters is really, really important right now,
11:59because then a team gets desperate enough and says, you know,
12:02we'll give up another asset just to move up one spot, just so you don't take them
12:05or just so somebody else doesn't draft them.
12:07The rumors don't just start from one team or just teams.
12:13Rumors start from agents.
12:14Yep.
12:15Rumors start from coaches.
12:16Rumors start from front offices, teams, other teams, some, some families.
12:23I don't want my guy to go to this team.
12:26They'll start all kinds of stuff.
12:27So you don't know, you got to, everyone that loves to just take the first thing
12:32they hit and run with it, sometimes you look like a fool.
12:35Because it was just something to get something started and you just helped it out.
12:40It's a lot of crap out there.
12:41Well, I don't think people, some people realize, but a lot don't.
12:44Like, teams will literally lie about a player hoping they'll drop in the draft to them.
12:48I mean, that stuff gets thrown out too.
12:49It's dirty pool, my friend.
12:51They do this.
12:52If a guy had been noticed to go to the team that's picking five,
12:55you got a team behind him at six, that team at six sometimes starts up some bad stuff
13:00about him.
13:00Let him slip one more slide.
13:01I've heard he's got a knee problem.
13:03And it's like last minute.
13:04You're like, where did this come from?
13:05And then the player's fine once they're drafted.
13:07What a guy got the back injury yesterday.
13:11Oh, yeah.
13:12That supposedly there are no symptoms for.
13:14Nussmeyer, yeah, yeah, yeah.
13:14Well, how the hell?
13:15He's got a cyst on his spine.
13:17No, this is the office of linemen.
13:19Oh, you're going to do it.
13:20Oh, yeah, yeah.
13:20He popped up with this back injury now.
13:22Oh, yeah.
13:22That they have no symptoms.
13:23Well, how the hell you knew he had a back injury?
13:26It just came out, though.
13:27You see what I'm saying?
13:28Yeah, and it's just, again, this is the thing.
13:30The commanders are in a spot where they can draft a lot of guys.
13:33But look, we know what Jeremiah Love could certainly bring to this offense if that's the
13:37case.
13:37But at this point now, it feels like the Jeremiah Love to the commander's dream is dead.
13:42And a lot of people in this town really want him.
13:44A lot of people in D.C. really want to see Jeremiah Love in burgundy and gold.
13:48800-636-1067.
13:49Does the Jeremiah Love dream feel dead to you now, given the fact that the Cardinals and
13:57Titans, and especially now the Cardinals, are getting linked a couple days out from the
14:01NFL draft?
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