00:00Then, I guess, the alternative.
00:01I'm not going to say better than the alternative.
00:03What would be the alternative?
00:04I've got the most opposite thing from one.
00:06Yeah, I think the alternative's great.
00:10You're doing great right now, the way you are.
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00:30All right, now that the Drake London contract is signed,
00:34next up is Bijan.
00:35Obviously, anytime Bijan steps in front of a microphone
00:38between now and when that contract is done,
00:40he'll be asked about it, which happened yesterday.
00:42We'll see, man.
00:42We'll see.
00:45I'm not that guy to talk about it.
00:48I let them handle all that stuff.
00:50We'll see.
00:51There you go.
00:52That's what you said.
00:53Yeah, I mean.
00:55It's going to happen.
00:56It's going to happen.
00:57It's probably happening now.
00:58They're probably, what is it, dotting I's and crossing T's
01:02or all that other stuff.
01:04It'll get done.
01:06The best thing about getting a contract,
01:08obviously, the big picture of getting a contract,
01:10is when both parties want to get a deal done.
01:13Oh, yeah.
01:13Yeah, when both parties want to get a deal done.
01:15And so that usually eases the negotiations and things like that.
01:19It makes it easier to come to an agreement.
01:20Doesn't this feel like an easy negotiation?
01:23It does.
01:23It does.
01:23And an organization is like easy.
01:26Yeah.
01:26And so you know you want this.
01:28It's the best player on your team.
01:29He checks every box off the field and on the field.
01:34Right.
01:35Yeah.
01:35You want this guy to be a part of your team.
01:36And he's not a receiver or a quarterback or a left tackle or an edge rusher.
01:41So you can pay him, you know, market-setting contract,
01:46but still doesn't break the bank.
01:48Like, B. John Robinson's going to get the most money ever for a running back
01:51when this contract is signed, whether he goes before Jameer Gibbs or after.
01:55He's going to get the most money, and then whoever goes second
01:57will probably get a little bit more.
01:58Yes.
02:00And it's still going to look like an excellent deal.
02:02Because it is.
02:02Because he's a running back.
02:04Yeah.
02:04He's the best player on your team.
02:06I mean, if you have a great quarterback, you have a great quarterback.
02:09As an NFL team, you want your best offensive player to be your quarterback.
02:12You do.
02:12Yeah.
02:13That would be really great.
02:14Yeah.
02:14It would really be excellent.
02:15Or maybe secondary.
02:17A couple of years.
02:17Yeah, right.
02:17If you had, like, the best receiver in the world.
02:20But as a man.
02:21And your quarterback was, like, the third best quarterback, that'd be fine.
02:24But it's different.
02:24Because in San Francisco, Brock Perdita.
02:26You go Trent.
02:27You go Christian McCaffrey.
02:28You go George Kittle.
02:29And then you could probably go him.
02:30Yeah, there might even be somebody else to leave it out.
02:33But quarterback gets the most.
02:34Yeah.
02:35Because that's the way that it is.
02:35Anyway, that all to say makes it even easier for the Falcons.
02:38Anyway, here's Alex Van Pelt, the quarterback's coach, talking about the defined timeline
02:43that they want for the quarterback competition.
02:45Well, I think it jumps out at you.
02:46At some point, you've been coaching long enough when you can see a guy take a lead in a competition.
02:51And you know that's a natural flow of things.
02:53But, yeah, it'll come down to who's playing the best ball and when it's time to go.
02:58Huh?
02:59Yeah.
02:59Yeah, yeah.
03:00But he also said that they want it done with a couple weeks remaining in the offseason.
03:05Well, he did, yeah, actually.
03:06Let's play it.
03:07Let's play if you could play 24.
03:09That would be, that's the one.
03:11Yeah.
03:12I mean, obviously getting as you're prepping for the last few weeks of the training camp
03:15and into the preseason, I think you want to have a good idea.
03:18Again, that'll come when it's time to come, really.
03:21It's tough to have a competition when both guys aren't competing at the same level right now.
03:25So it's hard.
03:26It'll come.
03:27It'll happen at some point.
03:29You know, Mike's done a great job of getting himself to where he is right now.
03:32Really impressive to take seven-on-seven reps and go out and compete.
03:35That's been great.
03:36But, really, there is no competition until we can actually evaluate him equally.
03:40Yeah, I mean.
03:40That's right.
03:41That's right.
03:41He's absolutely correct.
03:43I want to do a Kevin Spence.
03:44Hey, all right, dog.
03:45Hey, quit giving timelines.
03:45Quit giving those timelines.
03:47We don't know.
03:48We're going to start a quarterback three weeks before, like a few weeks before the season starts?
03:52Yeah, because you now know what we're going to be doing.
03:53Yep.
03:54We're going to be looking at our watches for the couple weeks before the season.
03:57Yeah, like, why haven't they named a starting guy here?
03:59Nobody's jumped out.
04:00Yeah.
04:01Nobody's played better.
04:01Now, I understand why they want that for a variety of different reasons.
04:05I mean, you want a couple weeks to have everybody getting ready with the number one guy.
04:09I also think, and they're probably not that concerned with this, but, like, just from an optics standpoint,
04:14you want it to look like you're sure.
04:16Yeah.
04:17You know?
04:17But I think, Andy.
04:18I don't want to find out Tuesday of week one who the guy is because that doesn't seem very sure.
04:22No, it does not.
04:23You don't want, like, after the final preseason game, the name is starting to work.
04:26But I think, you know, the one thing I think is what he was saying and where Mike is right
04:30now.
04:30And he's doing seven on seven because that's probably what they were all in his process of coming back from
04:35his injury.
04:36Because I saw the day, Daniel Jones, you know what he's going to do to a training camp?
04:39Seven on seven.
04:40Patrick Mahomes, seven on seven.
04:41They're not doing any team at all.
04:43And so that's why I'm not surprised at the fact that what Michael is doing and what Michael is not
04:47doing.
04:47And I wouldn't be surprised if he starts doing 11 on the next week.
04:50Yeah.
04:51I would be surprised.
04:51I also like that they're handling it that way because those two guys you just mentioned obviously aren't competing with
04:56anybody.
04:56They're just competing with time.
04:57They want Michael to be as close as he can possibly be for this competition.
05:04If that means he's going to get a scheduled day off, if that means he's not going to do 11
05:08on 11 during the odd mini camp,
05:10because they want him to be as 100%.
05:12They don't want to rush a process or a step just so you can get him out there in the
05:16damn spring.
05:16Here's Adam Schefter talking about Aaron Donald's potential return.
05:24To do what?
05:25When you talk to all the people involved, nobody is coming out right now and saying Aaron Donald is coming
05:32back.
05:32But everybody is acknowledging that it is a possibility.
05:37Why?
05:37And the fact that it is even a possibility in June tells me that I think there's every possibility.
05:44It will become more real in July.
05:47And I think if and when they present a plan to him as to how he would be used, I
05:54think it's more likely than not that he'll be back.
05:57Okay.
05:58That sounded like a guy who really wants this to go on for a while because it's good for business
06:03to talk about.
06:04You know what I mean?
06:05All the possibles and probables and whatnot.
06:08What does Aaron Donald need to come back for?
06:10He has nothing to prove.
06:11Aaron Donald is a whatever number you want to put him at defensive lineman of all time.
06:18This dude is going to be a first ballot hole.
06:20He has his Super Bowl ring.
06:22He has multiple individual awards.
06:24He's done everything he can do.
06:25And so you're telling me, Miles Garrett's going to bring him back?
06:29I don't know.
06:30I don't know.
06:30The first day that the Garrett thing happened, we had an AMA caller bring it up.
06:34And I was like, that seems crazy.
06:36Why would Aaron Donald do this?
06:38But, again, the only person who matters in this conversation is Aaron Donald.
06:44We can want him, but if he wants to come back, they're going to let him.
06:48Oh, no.
06:48They're not going to say no.
06:49You know what I mean?
06:50No, they're not going to say no.
06:51That's the thing.
06:52Until we kind of hear Aaron Donald say what he's going to say on this, then people can
06:58debate it, and they can do all the stuff they want with it.
07:00But, I mean, I would have thought it would have been squashed by now.
07:04Yes.
07:05But we're still doing this, and here we are a couple weeks later, and people love it.
07:08That man ain't going no damn well, man.
07:11You don't think he'll play?
07:13No, I don't.
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07:38I know I wouldn't play.
07:40What the hell do I play for?
07:41I'd be retired.
07:42I'd be on the beach.
07:43I got a ring.
07:44I got my ring.
07:45He's got a ring.
07:46I want two rings.
07:47Well, two rings would be good.
07:48Two rings would be awesome.
07:50He ain't played in three damn years.
07:51He's got $100 million in the bank.
07:52He ain't played in three years.
07:53But I still see those videos of him lifting heavy weights.
07:55Which is going to pay me.
07:56And I don't know why.
07:57Aaron Donald, if Aaron Donald comes back, he ain't coming back for $10 million.
08:00I know, that's the thing.
08:01No, I'm Aaron McDonald.
08:02He's still Aaron Donald.
08:02I want my $25 million.
08:04Well, they can figure it out.
08:05They seem to always figure it out.
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