Nate Tice

Titans, Raiders.

And I actually really like the Linderbaum and Raiders signing, even if it is a pretty penny, because it makes sense for what they are and what they're trying to do with Mendoza and everything.

clint kubiak and all that good stuff so that's one that i was my first kind of winner uh apparently because just off his bank accounts too there's some more sneakier signings as well they're kind of like quasi winners i would say but that's the one that kind of really grabbed my attention yeah more than anything else like a really good center like linderbaum going to vegas where they're going to have a rookie quarterback what does that mean for mendoza like for his progression and i know they're saying right now they don't plan on him starting

It does a lot.

It's one of my favorite kind of things is to get a vet center with a young quarterback because that's the biggest transition.

I think not only we talk about quarterbacks, but offensive line and running backs is pass protection getting into the next level.

And NFL defenses are super complicated right now, more than ever.

What we saw Mike McDonald do, that is kind of the epitome of what the Seahawks and what they were doing in the Super Bowl.

But that's what a lot of defenses are doing right now.

They're very smart defensively.

The blitz packages are very expansive.

So it's kind of that puts the onus on the center to kind of sort things out.

Quarterbacks get the trump card.

They get the leeway.

They earn that right to then do what we always think of the sheriff, the Tom Brady, the Peyton Manning pointing, the Drew Brees, all that.

That takes time.

And there's quarterbacks in the league that do do it.

Like Josh Allen is one of those guys now that does that.

But he took time to earn that right.

And so when you have a center that's seen those looks, that knows how to go into a game plan, knows how to communicate, not only just calms the quarterback down, it calms the entire offensive line and offense down, but it takes so much off the quarterback's plate because now he –