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Safety Hazard -Ep 252 The Fumblerooski Podcast
Free agency just under a week away and the bills are already right in the middle of the NFL world with some safeties expected to join the party. Some starting level safeties that is. This is the Fumble Ruski podcast. It may not have always showed it in the stats sheet but you can see him making throws when he needs to make the throws. Back to back games where he has three touchdowns. Someone's got to get that six or seven spot. He's an elite wide receiver as a rookie. It's probably a loose, loose scenario for both sides. Welcome to the Fumble Ruski podcast by Power88 and Seeker Weapon Consulting. I'm Adam Wright with CJ Madiros. We have a great episode planned for you guys tonight. As I mentioned, free agency is just around the corner. In fact, even closer, like less than a week, that's like right there and lots of news coming out and the bills. As I mentioned when teasing this episode, they released some several key players, including their starting corner. In fact, they're all pro-caliber corner, Tridavius White and Jordan Poyer, one of their starting safeties, they won't be bringing back Micah Hyde. They had to redo von Miller's contract and cut half of his money for this season. On top of that, they're losing their starting center, Mitch Morse. Lots of stuff coming out for this team. This was a team that looked like they were kind of thin on the defensive side already. They had some cap trouble and it looks like they have some cap casualties now, but CJ, what are your thoughts? Well, Adam, I'd like to take you back to over a year ago, two years ago we'll call it. And we had a co-host, who's no longer here on the show with us, who told us that the salary cap did not exist? Now, I'd be given you to take that statement and say that to a bills fan and see if you leave that room alive. Sally cap is real kids, don't get it twisted. But moving this off for Buffalo, now look, every year your team's going to have a few cap casualties here and there, they might be starters, they might not be, but like you said, Tridavius White, Mitch Morse, Jordan Poyer, that's bad. And not to mention, if I recall correctly, Micah Hyde, their other safety is a free agent. And they're obviously not going to be able to sign them back because they couldn't even keep the guys who they have under contract. Yeah, that's right. And also, your wide receiver too, Gabe Davis is also a free agent. So it's just not looking good and I know you're trying to get under the cap, but now consider the guys you just released, the talent level that was just cut. Do you really think while still operating under this battery cap, you can rebuild that? The answer is no, no, you can't. And we have said before that maybe their Super Bowl window might be closing. I'm not saying it's totally shut, but it just dropped. You know, like probably like it's opened a crack, but because I mean, if you have Josh Allen, you're probably going to be competitive. But with his ball obstacles and the fact that your team has gotten that much worse and the fact that you are to put it nicely, extremely unlikely to find that level of talent with the franchise, there are enough with the salary cap space you do have, I don't know. That's a nice thing. I can say about Buffalo, I was just, I don't know. Yeah, the way I see it with the bills, I mean, they could easily get back to contention because as long as in the same way that we say this for every single elite quarterback that has ever existed, as long as they have Josh Allen, they have a chance. And I still believe that, especially since they still have his favorite toy and Stefan Diggs for now. That being said, those two players both combined take up nearly $75 million of cap space. And people could easily say, well, they could just take a pay cut, they could take a restructure. Well, they have to, they have to consent to that first. They can't just, the bills can't just cut a bunch of his salary. That has to be a mutual decision. So the fact that Josh Allen and Stefan Diggs have both said no, they might, they may not have asked, but if they did and they said no, do you really think they're going to approve, if they really want to win that badly or hate losing because everybody wants to win. Are they really, how on, how bothered would you, do you think they would be that Trudavius White and Jordan Poyer are now gone? I understand Trudavius White had some injury problems, but that doesn't mean get rid of him. He's, he was your best corner. One of the better ones in the league whenever he was playing in fully healthy. So that's something to consider. I mean, how do you think Patrick Mahomes or Tom Brady would respond to seeing the best players on the other side of the ball being cut? They would be pretty sour about this. And I don't know how Josh, Josh Allen feels right now, but if he was unwilling to take a pay cut, if both of those players, Stefan Diggs and Josh Allen were unwilling to take a pay cut in order to keep the best players possible on the other side of the ball on the, on the roster, then that's not a good look on their part. Now I'm not giving, trying to get them in trouble for something they haven't done. We don't know anything about Josh Allen or Stefan Diggs on this side. But if they were approached asking for a pay cut and they said no, that's not good. Yeah, and granted it were deadly and hypotheticals, but it would be irresponsible to rule out that they decline taking a pay cut. And let's just say they do. They were asked to take a pay cut and they declined. And the state of the roster is your fault because you can't just say, I want to keep breaking in money because, you know, football, as we all know, operates on a salary cap. Right? You know, there's only so much to go around. It's not like baseball or hockey or basketball, or you can just throw endless amounts of money at everything that moves. So if you're eating up so much of it, and then you refuse to take a pay cut, I mean, granted it's your choice, in my opinion, you would then wave the right to complain about the state of the roster. And I thought that again, we don't know this for sure. But for Buffalo, I just don't see them replacing these guys. And Buffalo, to me, seems like they're in the middle of an identity shift. We won't say an identity crisis, but an identity shift because Buffalo was known for defense, right? The other one, Josh Howell, was first starting out. And I mean, not even when he was first starting out, when he first started getting good like around his third year, they were considered a scary defensive team, right? But now their defense is average and come the next season, maybe below average. Well, I can also tell you this because I looked at these stats this morning. As far as points per game allowed go, the Buffalo Bills were top five in five out of the last six years. And the one that they were outside the top five was 2020, which is weird because this season, it seemed like the Bills defense was, it was pretty bad, right? Those stats can still be misleading. Maybe it was the opponents that they played before the seat. I mean, it's not all about points per game allowed. Sometimes it's about making the stops when you need to make the stops. There are going to be some, some games where it's just a defensive rock fight and that's just the nature of the game or the weather takes over. But still, five out of six years is no sample size. So you really can't blame it on the defense. But looking at it now, like, I mean, look at the, I just, it feels like a lot of these quarterbacks who have taken large money. How much have they really been able to fortify their raw, the GMs who gave these contracts been able to fortify their rosters around them? I mean, the chiefs have done a great job at drafting defense, but have you noticed they haven't been able to replace Tyree kill, like at all? I know they've still won championships during that span, but they have their, their alternatives have been Juju Smith, Schuster, who worked out for them and Rishi Rice and Kidarius Tony and Marcus Valdez, scantling again, it's worked out because they have one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time. But look at now look at the bills here, massive contract. How much have they been able to fortify it? Who have they been able to add alongside Stefan Diggs? Who have they been able to add on in their running game that they've so desperately needed to improve? James Cook has been okay, but he's not that good of a back. I mean, what do you, where are we going to, this is a bit of a problem here. Yeah. Look at all of them. It just, you can clearly see how there's a bit of a theme here where these pull, these quarterbacks are getting paid big money and once they're paid, they can't pay anybody else and the team slowly deteriorates around them. The chiefs have survived it so far, but how much longer? And they have an aging Travis Kelsey, their head, their head coach who is, who's God willing been holding things up around the entire team, but the bills haven't figured it out. The Packers, when they had Aaron Rodgers, they always had that one elite pass catcher and couldn't get anybody else. And for the longest time, they weren't able to find anyone on defense or pay them. They had to do it through the draft for the longest time. It's just something to consider, I mean, like we're looking at all of these pay cuts. So no, all these players are going. Now they're not going to make the playoffs, but have we ever thought of why that happened? Yeah. And just a quick note before you move on, what you said about coaching, I think it's time for us to opportunity that Sean McDermott is a top 10 head coach. I mean, the city of Buffalo will swear up and down he is, but literally everywhere all says, no. And I have said this many times when he goes up against a team that is evenly matched with Buffalo nine out of 10 times, he gets out coach. He got out coach in the playoffs. He got out coach in the first half of the regular season. They went on a fluke Cinderella run and then Kansas City brought them back down to reality. And it's just getting to the point where, yeah, Andy reading Patrick Mahomes, it's a great quarterback coach duo Bill Belichick, Tom Brady, once again, great quarterback coach duo, Bill Walsh, Joe Montana, you know, need I say more? But then, but then Josh Allen, great quarterback, but Sean McDermott, can Sean McDermott figure out a way to scheme their, you know, just to plan their way to a suitable to scheme their way to a Super Bowl, to try out new coverages, maximize everyone's talents, right? No, I don't think he can. And I would not be nearly as worried for Buffalo if they had just had a better coach. Yeah. Oh, and by the way, Adam, I, this is going to, this might be a little controversial, but I'll end the segment with this, regardless of if they're in cap hell or not, regardless of who they cut or not, if Buck, it's slim chance, but a Buffalo misses the playoffs next year, I do believe Sean McDermott should and will be fired. He's going to be fired. Yeah. Cause I don't care if they even want a playoff game. I think his seats getting warm. There's, well, there's that. I mean, people are already, they already want Sean McDermott fired and they're not ousting the quarterback in the quarterback still an elite quarterback and they just gave him a ton of money. He's one of the, he, as much as we like to get on Josh Allen, he's one of the bright spots of that team year in, year out. He may be a turnover machine, but every, no quarterbacks perfect. Everyone has their, has their problems, but him and Stefan Diggs have been their bright spots. All right, we're going to move on and discuss a lot of the safeties who have been released and where they may fit on new potential rosters. That's next. This is the Fumbleruski podcast. It may not have always showed it in the stat sheet, but you can see him making throws when he needs to make the throws back to back games where he has three touchdowns. Someone's got to get that six or seven spot. He's an elite wide receiver as a rookie. A loose, loose scenario for both sides. Welcome back to the Fumbleruski podcast by power 88 and secret weapon consulting. I'm Adam Wright with CJ Madeeros. Um, so here is in ongoing theme for the last couple of weeks. Justin Simmons, Jordan Poyer, Jamal Adams, Kwandre Diggs, Kevin Beard, where they have in common. They are all safeties who have been pretty much, for the most part, high-end safeties at one point of their career and another. I only say one point or another because Jamal Adams has not been always the best safety in the past few years. But the fact that he was released is still noteworthy. Um, they've all been released within the last couple of weeks. I mean, there was some of the best in the league. Um, CJ, just give me your general thoughts on this. I believe I've said this before, but I think safety is starting to become the running back of defensive positions because an elite edge rusher, oh, yeah, you know, you need those get off of the quarterback, an elite corner who can erase one half of the field. Oh, those are at a premium, an elite linebacker, maybe not as much. But hey, those, you know, like the Rokwan Smiths and Fred Warners of the world are game changers. But safety, look, I like the safety, I do it's, it's a really nice position. You know, I have some greats that have, you know, manned the helm, but such, but as the game evolves past the running back, maybe you don't need a truly elite safety to actually like go and win you the game. I'm just saying, like, I don't think that it's truly just imperative for the game. That's probably why we'll see it, you know, because, uh, some of these guys, like Poir Simmons and I believe Bayard are all on the wrong side of 30 and you have the NFL looks at players, you know, once they hit that magical number. So I just, that's basically what I think. A lot of these guys, like I said, are over the feet and also safety might just not be as important as it used to be. And that sucks, but look at the, ask the running backs on the other side of the ball. Yeah, I mean, safety, it seems like it is becoming that because the corner, the corner is definitely like, of course, safety is an important position just as just as the tackle position is important as just as important as a guard. But finding a premier safety may not be as hard as it is to find a premier corner, right? That's why, I mean, there's, there's a big difference in the, in the pay for some of these positions. It's harder to find them at corner. So therefore the money is going to be more important. Hey, Adam, I need to take care of something. I'll be right back. Sure thing. Um, so therefore the money is going to be more important. Um, so looking at the safety position, Justin Simmons, Jordan Poyer, uh, Jamal Adams, Quandray Diggs, Kevin, Kevin Baird, um, these are all guys who are still, of course, they're great at their positions, but, um, how big, how big of a difference do they make on this defense? Um, of course it's important. They play a big part, but do you need, um, do you need the most elite of elite at that position? At the time, right, so, um, they'll definitely find some new, some new homes, but it may be a while before they find, before they find that spot, um, just because like, um, just because it's, I mean, it's not as big of a, of a positional need as it usually is. Um, so Justin Simmons, he's going to find a new home. I mean, he's been looked at as one of the better safeties in the league, but during that span that he has been in the league from when, uh, from 2016 when he was drafted to now, the Broncos haven't made the playoffs. They've had some decent defenses during that time, but is he, is Justin Simmons going to be the reason why you're winning Super Bowls? No, and I'll also, I'll, I'll, I'll go to, some more recency here. Justin Reed, is he one of the best corners, uh, best safeties in the game? Justin who? Justin Reed. Justin Reed. Oh, Justin Reed, like, yeah, yeah, this may actually, your puzzle, your puzzlement from Justin Reed may actually support my point, but, uh, Justin Reed, Kansas City Chiefs. Oh, I would have achieved. Sorry. Sorry. I just had a deal with something like going on back there. Uh, yeah. No, no, no, no, he's good, but I wouldn't call him the X factor of that defense. Also Eddie Jackson's a free agent too. I forgot about him. He'll be fine. Eddie Jackson was released as well. Um, yeah, Michael hides a free agent, Jordan Whiteheads, a free agent. This is bad man. Jalen, what Jalen Mills, Darnell Savage, this is a stacked safety class, um, but look at Justin Reed, he's still a really good safety. He was an important part of that chief's defense, but was that secondary elite because of Justin Reed or was it elite because of Trent McDuffie and luxurious need? Well, I feel like you know the answer to that. Exactly. I mean, those two corners were actually some of the best cover corners in all of, in all of football and the way Trent McDuffie turned everything around after year one is unbelievable. They have arguably the best secondary in all of football and it's not because of Justin Reed. He's still a really good corner. Uh, he's really still really good safety, but it's going to be because of luxurious need in Trent McDuffie. They have the elite player at the place where you need the elite player at and they had serviceable, very good to serviceable to very good play at the safety position. And that's, that, that's what made that defense elite. In fact, Justin Reed is an, is Justin Reed is an afterthought in that defense looking at the bills. They had just an okay defense this year, but they had one of the best safety duos in the league. They had one of the best player and Micah Hyde and they didn't have that good of a defense. The chiefs on the other hand had one of the best defenses in the league. They were just okay at safety, but they had one of the best corner duos in McDuffie and Sneed. So what does that tell you about the importance of the position? And it's kind of, it sucks because they're really good at what they do. And I believe that they, they want to be paid. I think they deserve to be paid the best in the, in that position, but it's not going to be the same as other positions, kind of like the running back position. They do great. They work their asses off, but the wide receiver is the bigger, is the bigger need. The quarterbacks, the bigger need between the guard position and the tackle position. They both, both sides play their asses off, but one's more important than the other. All positions aren't created equal, unfortunately, when it comes to football. So that is something to consider. All right. So we're going to move on and go on to our next segment, which is we're going to preview free agency here and talk about what we believe would be our best player to team free agency pairings. We're going to talk about what signings that we would like to see next week. That's next. This is the Fumble Ruski podcast. It may not have always showed it in the stat sheet, but you can see him making throws when he needs to make the throws back to back games where he has three touchdowns. Someone's got to get that six or seven spot. He's an elite wide receiver as a rookie. Truly a loose, loose scenario for both sides. Welcome back to the Fumble Ruski podcast. I'm Adam Wright with CJ Madeeros. So going over, I want to start with some offensive players first. And I think I know they want to use Kirk Cousins for Atlanta. And I think it makes a lot of sense. But throw your recency bias away for Russell Wilson just for a second. How long has it been since he had an elite running back to work with on RPOs? Yeah, I don't know, not for Wilson, not in many, many years, that's his beast mode. So the Falcons who have a pretty good offensive line, one of the better ones in the league. And one of the best running, best young running backs in the league. And Russell Wilson, who is shown to be exceptional in the RPO game. I think that's a really good fit. I think that's an underrated fit that no one is talking about. Yeah, I happen to think that Russell Wilson, the Falcons would be great for them, especially since they have a good young team. They would need a veteran, especially since I don't know how much money Wilson would want. You know, considering the fact that Denver is still paying him a boatload of cash. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, that's a, that's a minor sense, I think he hit the narrow head personally. Yeah, I mean, it's, it's just a possibility. I don't bite my head off if you don't like Russell Wilson, just throw away your recency bias just for a second. I get it. He didn't have a good 10 year in Denver. But can we just, do we have to forget what happened in Seattle? Do we have to? I mean, in the right system, maybe he has a career renaissance. Maybe he just needs a change in scenery and a better, a better offensive system that may fit his game. Good pass catches around him as well, Drake London, Kyle Pitts, those are two pretty good players for him to throw to. And I think their defense is okay. I know it didn't perform very well, but I think a lot of that is a coaching thing. So that's just something to consider, but do you have any? What do you have? For Wilson or just in general, just give me a free agency pairing. So as I think, you know, just across all the free agents that we all know and may or may not love, I think of a, say, Quan Barkley. Now he was looking at the Giants and saying, I'm free. He's a running back and he will do his fair share of running, getting away from that Giants organization. And I happen to believe that he stays in the NFC East and I'm seeing a lot of rumors about him going to Philly. And honestly, why not? One, it would be a perfect way to stick it to the Giants. And two, both of Philly's running backs in DeAndre Swift and Rashad Penny were both on one-year deals and they're both free agents. I know what you're thinking, oh, but Philly, weren't they looking really good and then completely fell apart, which I say, yes, do you know why? Because their strength was running the ball. And when you move away from your strength, chances are you will not win. And that's where I think they need in Saquon. It's a return to your roots. You know what I mean? You can return to what you're good at in running the football. You know, you have Jalen Hurts and Saquon. Saquon, that backfield alone is going to force the defense to be honest. You know, the defense just can't sit back and blanket the field. And when you have the defense that's worried about either Jalen Hurts on a keeper or Saquon gashing him for 20, you can let AJ Brown and Devontay Smith cook. And also Dallas got it. I think that's a good spot. Let me give you one for another free agent running back. He's about to turn 30. In fact, I believe he already did. Derek Henry is still playing at a high level. And if the Cowboys could find some help on their offensive line because they've lost a couple of pieces, let's say they bring in Derek Henry, they've been missing that short game back ever since they let they went away from Ezekiel Elliott, who is not the same player anymore. But Derek Henry, he may he may not be the same player either, but I think he is further along or less further along in his decline than Elliot is. Elliot looks like he barely has anything left. He might be a committee back and that'll be it because it looks like Elliott can play in short yard situations. Derek Henry may be the best running back you could have in short yardage place. And that's what they were lacking. They were looking for that back who can just plow through the middle and get those third and shorts and into the end zone and goal line situations. And if the reports are true that Tony Pollard wants to stay under a discount, they could bring him back and have Derek Henry. Now financially, we'll see how that goes. I don't have the numbers in front of me, but if they can make that work, I think that makes for the most balanced, unoffense, the most balanced Cowboys team that we have seen in recent memory. How they execute it in the postseason is a completely different thing. And that's just, we have to mention the postseason whenever we bring up the Cowboys in any sort of positivity because it's just part of it. It's about as predictable as it gets at this point. And with Mike McCarthy still on the team as their head coach, I don't think I don't have much faith that's going to change. But on the roster, they can make whatever changes that they can in order to make that less of a possibility. So I think Derek Henry to the Cowboys makes a lot of sense. Yeah. You know, I think hit the nail in the head. I do happen to believe that Derek Henry to Dallas is going to be definitely someone to watch out for, we'll call it. But then I look at some of the other preagents that are still around. And I think of an elite edge rusher, Daniel Hunter. Now, everybody in their mother knows it's more likely than not that he's not going to win anything if he stays in Minnesota. He has escaped the dreaded franchise tag. And now, well, he's got free reign to go wherever he pleases. And, you know, I think about all the available spots for him, right, like a place that he could wind up. And I got to tell you, Hunter is a player that I really, really wouldn't hate in San Francisco. No, what you're thinking, but they have Nick Bosa and Chase Young. Hunter Point, Chase Young, he's all right, but he's not great and he's also a free agent. And when I see Hunter and I see Bosa, I don't know how much cash base San Fran has to work with, but that will get you back to the Super Bowl because if you're San Fran, right now, the best thing you can do is try to fend off the dreaded Super Bowl hangover. It's very real, you need to take some major steps to prevent it and losing Chase Young is going to sting. But if you can upgrade into Neil Hunter to pair alongside Nick Bosa, that's going to be nasty because imagine that already scary pass rush taken to the next level because I don't think many people argue that Chase Young is better than Daniel Hunter. And if you do, then I don't know what to tell you. Yeah. That one's solid. I like it. Looking at it, I think when it comes to luxurious need, I know he's not a free agent, but because he was tagged. But let's say that he doesn't want to be a Kansas City chief anymore. And he says, trade me and I'll sign long term to whatever team that I get traded to because chances are whatever team trades for, luxurious need, they're going to need his services badly. I know the 49ers just faced the Chiefs, but if they were to trade for Sneed after they just had that defensive let down in the Super Bowl, granted against the best, one of the best quarterbacks of all time, I think that's a fit for them. I also think, here's another one, the Eagles. You brought them up for offense with sake one, Barkley. I think if they brought in, luxurious need, right? And like, Darius sleigh is still good. He's good. We'll see how long it lasts because he's getting older. I believe he's what 32. I believe he is, yeah. Somewhere around there, um, yeah. I want to go back to the offensive side one more time. I also have them when you're done. Okay. Tyrone Smith, I think you should be a patriot. Oh, that's not where I was going to go. I think Tyrone Smith should be a New England patriot. I know they just brought back, um, I know they just brought back, uh, they, they brought in, um, a core for, but they need more than just that. If that's all they do for their offensive line and they just bring in Mike on when you and then just have a core for and that those are their bookends. That's not good. Not good enough. They need Tyrone Smith. I think they should bring him in and then bring in Mike on when you have him be their other tackle and then have be, have a core for a be maybe a versatile piece or have him be a backup because let's face it, offensive line ish injuries happen. And I think it's a luxury to have an extra one sitting there, especially when that guy that you have who would be your extra guy, he's not an expensive option. He's being paid four mil for one season. Yeah, nothing. So that is, that is encouraging when I look at the Patriots, especially since they're probably going to take someone at number three overall on the draft as a quarterback, they're going to take a quarterback. You don't want to put him in the same spot that Matt Jones was in where he's getting killed. He starts seeing ghosts, ruins his confidence, and then next thing you know, three years later they have to hit the reset button yet again and draft another first round quarterback. We don't want that, we would like for this guy, whether it be Jaden Daniels, whether it be Drake May, to actually work out. So I think if you did something like that, bring in some offensive line help. I think this is, that would help them out a lot. Yeah. Did you have another one? So yeah, I had one, it's also for Tyron Smith. This one is, I wouldn't hate him in Baltimore. Now I know what you're thinking, oh, but left tackle Ronnie Stanley. That's true. Left tackle Ronnie Stanley. Have a good point. Counterpoint. When was the last time he was healthy? And if Tuck were here, he would say never and that would go on a rant. It's all right because we like Tuck. And for me, it's just, I don't know, I just, I don't know what Baltimore needs, but maybe if your own line was a little better, you wouldn't be going through running backs like Andy Reid goes through cheeseburgers. All right. That's just, that's just kind of how it is. And it will keep, and Tyron Smith on the left, and then maybe you kick Ronnie Stanley right, that will keep Lamar upright, it'll keep your running backs healthy, and maybe you can get back to the AFC Championship game and perhaps a Super Bowl. Yeah. Well, I think you said this before the season, both right after that AFC Championship, about the quarterback himself, narratives were, were not formed, they were confirmed. I don't know if the offensive line helps that. Well, maybe narratives can be formed or can be confirmed even more. I mean, I'm just saying, but so, so here's a question where narratives confirmed, perhaps so. But I have a question, do you just lay down and curl up into a ball and just say, well, the narratives won, why do I try, or do you actually want to go help? I mean, look, I get the whole narratives thing I do, but if you're just going to say, well, all right, fine, yeah, narratives are formed, see y'all later, I'm just going to go cry. I don't think that really helps anyone. So I mean, I'm just saying fighting narratives might be just might be a little more productive. Yeah, I, I agree. I'm just saying I don't know if that'll help enough, which I don't know, it kind of stinks because Lamar Jackson is an unbelievable regular season quarterback, but the fact that him just like so many other elite quarterbacks of today's day and age are shelves of them for the former regular season selves once the postseason rolls, rolls along makes the regular seat makes the postseason a lot less enjoyable, like Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, Justin Herbert doesn't even get there. I don't know. Well, let's stay on topic, but looking at other pairings. I think, I think Josh Jacobs to the Texans is one that makes a lot of sense. And I say Josh Jacobs because you already said Saequan. So I'm mixing it up a little bit. Josh Jacobs has become a much more versatile back since entering the league. When he first entered the league, he was not much of a pass catcher. Now he can do it. He's getting a lot better as the seat as his career goes on. And if the Texans are looking to get over the hump and go win a Super Bowl, which they are getting closer, I think to have a more multi-dimensional offense will help that. And this is one spot where I would mention a wide receiver that would work out there. Because right now their options are tanked down, Nico Collins, Noah Brown's a free agent, so they need someone else. Dalton Schultz is gone. They might need another pass catcher, but there's really not much available there. On the offensive side of the ball for the Texans, I would have, I guess you could bring up Marquis Brown. Yeah, you know, Hollywood Brown is, in my humble opinion, a good fit because obviously you don't want him to be your number one, where I think you already have a number one in Tank Dell. I think you keep developing him and he can be a top ten receiver. But Brown, I think, is like he's your home run hitter, you know what I mean? He's like the guy who's just speed, throw the ball out to him, he's going to run past everyone and go for six. That's basically what I think you can do. It depends on how much he wants, but Brown added with Collins and Dell will be scary. It will. And just for reference for the tight end market, now that Hunter Henry's off, Logan Thomas Will Disli, C.J. Uzama, Gerald Everett, Mike Asicki, Noah Fant, Austin Hooper, Robert Tunion, Jr., it's become bear over there. That free agent market. I mean, Harrison Bryant, maybe, Irv Smith, Adam Crouchman, perhaps. I don't know, that's pretty much it. Because Dalton Schultz and Hunter Henry, I think, were like the undisputed, like, top of the market tight ends, but both of them signed three-year extensions to stay with Houston and New England, respectively. So I don't know. Right. Yeah. So actually, wait a second, he was just extended. What am I thinking? Dalton Schultz was extended. Yes, he was. Yeah. So I'm an idiot. I don't know why I thought. I remember a three-year deal, but yeah, they still, I think they need a little bit more at the wide receiver position. I don't know what Tank Dell is, but I don't know. Yeah. But forget anything that I said about the tight end position because they just re-signed Dalton Schultz. All right. You have any others? No, no, that's pretty much it. Yeah. Well, the, the cornerback market is looking great. The safety market is awesome. The wide receiver market dried up. So there's a lot of, there, and the quarterback market for teams that are looking for bridge quarterbacks or just a quarterback to start for the next few years, it actually looks pretty good. Kurt Cousins, Baker Mayfield, you can even bring in, you can mention Gardner Menchoo, Ryan Tannehill, Russell Wilson, obviously. So that looks pretty good. The running back market is stacked. So this should be a fun free agency and I'm excited to see where these players land. A lot of teams with a lot of needs. I think this is, this is going to be interesting. We're going to see a lot of narratives form. We're going to see a lot of teams who are looking to get over the hump who get new players that might just do it for them, but we'll see how it goes. This will be a, this is going to be a fun off season. All right. Well, that'll do it for us tonight. Thank you for listening to us. We have new episodes out on Tuesdays and Fridays, Tuesdays being at 7.30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time and Fridays being at five. Also be sure to follow our Instagram @FumbleRuski_podcast to keep up with our podcast and latest coverage on the NFL, as well as our TikTok @FumbleRuskiPod. Otherwise, we'll see you next week over and out. [BLANK_AUDIO]