Mike Florio talks latest NFL headlines
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What are the latest NFL headlines discussed by Mike Florio?
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Mike Florio.
He used to be a lawyer, then he decided to take his talents to the internet.
NBC Sports. I'm sorry I'm late. I was talking to Robert Kraft. That isn't the time for an airing of grievances. Pro Football Talk. I got a lot of problems with you people.
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I want to keep talking Legos.
Maybe, just maybe, after the draft, Mike Florio may have some time to talk some Legos. This is Rahimi Harrison-Grody, and our weekly appearance with Mike Florio is now. He is the creator, editor, and chief of Pro Football Talk. He is at Pro Football Talk on X. He joins us via Twitch as well, twitch.tv slash thescorechicago, and he is on our hotline. Mike, how are you?
Good. You know, they used to say there's always room for jello. There's always time to talk Legos.
Mm. Lego my ego. I mean, oh, that's a different thing. Never mind. Never mind.
I mean, if that's where your brain was going was to waffles, I don't hate it.
I'm just hungry. I'm like Mike this time of day. He's going to talk to us. We've delayed his lunch. And then after we get all the information we can out of him, we'll let him go eat his lunch. Yeah. Mike, we appreciate you doing this each and every week. I got to start with this Dexter Lawrence trade demand situation. Look, every team that needs help on defense, and that's most teams in the NFL, is interested in this. How real do you think this is, the possibility that he would be traded?
The news that came out on Monday, I believe, was calculated and timed to hit one day before the start of the Giants offseason program. Lawrence didn't show up. He's got a $500,000 workout bonus that he's willing to sacrifice in an effort to get this deal. They've been trying to get a deal done. And what this does, it creates a market potentially for For Dexter Lawrence, teams will start calling the Giants now and making them offers. And if somebody makes the Giants an offer they won't refuse, then we could see a trade. But the goal ultimately is to get Dexter Lawrence's contract adjusted to better reflect his place in the broader market. He's at $20 million now. For this year, his new money APY is 22 or so.
It's still far too low. He's not even in the top 10 interior defensive linemen. He wants to get bumped up higher. My understanding is the contract that Jordan Davis got from the Eagles just before the start of free agency at $26 million a year new money APY. That was really the catalyst for making this thing happen. urgent and for getting lawrence and his agent joel siegel to come up with this strategy but i firmly believed it was not accidental on monday it was specifically leaked to send the message not just to the giants but to the rest of the league give the giants a call and see if someone will offer the giants something that will cause them to decide to move on from lawrence in lieu of paying him the contract that he seeks
Well, Mike, I feel like we talk about this a lot. This type of movement happens when you have a new head coach come in or a new GM and a head coach. And in this case, you know, John Harbaugh, it would make sense to why maybe Dexter Lawrence's timeline is different from what they're trying to do now in New York.
And I think he's been trying for a while to get his contract readjusted. The market always changes. The cap always goes up. And at a certain point, it becomes glaring. And the problem with NFL contracts, they are not two-way agreements. It's a one-way arrangement where the team always has the ability to tear up the deal. Now, there will be guarantees. There will be cap consequences that will tie a team to a deal when it otherwise would maybe want to move on. But the player can never tear it up. The player can never say, I've outperformed the contract. I am electing to end this deal. And that's what creates these issues. The team can get the benefit in the back end of a contract of a below market payment, which is what's happening.
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