A Full NFL Offseason Preview and the Chiefs’ Future With Mike Sando. Plus Tim Legler on the Luka-LeBron Combo, Celtics Worries, and More.
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What are the key themes of the NFL offseason?
Loaded podcast for you today. What's going to happen to your favorite team? this NFL offseason. We're not going to get to every single team, but we'll go through some of the quarterback stuff with Sando. Also, some love for the Eagles and what they did is an alarming, trending Mahomes number that Kansas City has to worry about here a little bit more. And then a real deep dive on the Rodgers musical chairs here. Will there be a chair for him if he still wants to play quarterback in the NFL. We're going to talk with Tim Legler, just do a bunch of stuff with the contenders. Also, he was in the building for Luka's debut with the Lakers. He'll be in Dallas tonight as that story continues to be terrible for Mavs fans.
So some more on that stuff, how that dynamic will work in a basketball sense. We're going to talk, like I said, all the contenders and some shooting things that I think are important to think about when you're watching the second half of the season. And we've got life advice. Huge pod today. A lot of NBA with legs. And let's do some NFL offseason stuff with our guy Mike Sando. The Athletic is pick six column. I probably reference every single week during the pod. I don't know if that bothers him. He's like, hey, man, read other pieces. But there was always something in it every single Monday that I thought was really, really interesting. And you have more stuff in there as we gear up for an awesome offseason.
I can't wait for this one because I think there's going to be a lot of headline type movement. But let's start with Philadelphia. They win the Super Bowl. I've seen, look, what Howie Roseman has done in reinvesting into this defense in particular, hitting on the O-line, all the weapons. This seems like what you would want your architect to do. This is how you would want to do it and hopefully be that successful. I have, however, seen... that this is an example of spending and why other teams should not use spending and a lack of cash as an excuse because of some of the total value of some of the contracts. I think that's part of it, Mike, but I also think if you look at snap count and contributors on defense and how many of these rookie contracts are part of that side of the football, I think it's all of these things at once. So take it wherever you want to go.
So if we've got 10 salary cap managers together before the Super Bowl, At least half of them would talk about how leveraged the Eagles are. So when you talk about super highly leveraged teams, what we mean is it's kind of what people wish the Cowboys would do more like, hey, take those base salaries down. push things out and give yourself the ability to get more players. So like Cleveland is super highly leveraged and they're bad, right? Or Jacksonville has a lot of investments made that didn't work out. So if the Eagles at two and two this last year, when people are wondering about, you know, whether or not Nick Sirianni was going to make it through the year, if they had gone in the tank, this would be a cautionary tale, right?
Of just pushing it too far and it didn't work, but they didn't. They didn't. I think we forget how tenuous it has felt at times. But you have to give them credit because they are always pushing. And I think one of the things that a front office person pointed out to me a few years ago was, watch what teams do after they win the Super Bowl. Are they still pushing? Is the owner still hungry? And I think Jerry Jones has had his gold jacket for years now, made man. He doesn't even know what they're talking about when the media is talking about that they've had a long drought. Stephen Jones is using air quotes about the drought that we've been talking about for 10 years, right? So that's a nice contrast.
I think the Eagles are leveraged out probably more than some other teams, but they've done it with good players. The Browns did it with Deshaun Watson. So the Eagles get credit for getting good players. That's the whole key. Look at the Saints. They're leveraged. They did it with players whose windows were closing or wound up not being good. So it's all about good players, always.
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