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Welcome in to the Herd. I'm Danny Parkins in for Colin Cowherd. Always a thrill to be sitting in the big chair for Colin, who will be back soon because it's football season. We made it, though there still is plenty of drama. Taron Armstead will join us in just over 20 minutes. In an hour, I'm going to try to call Colin on the air to remind him that Caleb Williams is good. My guess is he won't pick up. We got a lot of things to do and starting Monday, we'll hear more about it later. The new expanded First Things first on FS1. I'm thrilled to tell you about it. I'll be on from five to six Eastern every single day. And if you've ever watched me or listen to me, you know that I don't love talking contracts because generally speaking, they all get done. But the preseason ends on Saturday, which means it becomes game week for all these teams, which means it's about to get real for contract talk. And I got to admit, even as someone who doesn't like talking money, I don't like the pocket watch aspect of it. And the vast majority of these guys ends up signing their deals. I have to admit that the television producer that doubles as the general manager of the Dallas Cowboys and the owner and apparently a star of a documentary, the documentary, by the way, pretty good. Jerry Jones. He's given us some tremendous color here on the Micah Parsons stalemate, negotiations impasse, and it's getting wildly, unnecessarily ugly in Dallas. But depending on your point of view, maybe that's exactly what Jerry Jones wants because he's just here for the soap opera the Clicks, and we're feeding into it because here we are on the biggest show talking about the biggest story and the biggest team and their best defensive player who remains unsigned. So let's catch you up on it. Jerry Jones goes on Michael Irvin's YouTube show just yesterday. And he gives us a very colorful update on how the negotiations are going. We wanted to send the details to the agent. The agent sold us to stick it up our ass. We had our agreements on term amount guarantees, everything. We were going to send it over to the agent, and the agent said, don't bother, because we've got all that to negotiate. Well, I'd already negotiated. I'd already moved off my mark on several areas. It's the mama daddy deal. You go into mama, and she won't do it, and she's the boss, so she won't do it. So you run into daddy. Daddy says do it. And then you go back in, say, mom and daddy said it was all right. I don't think that Jerry Jones traffics in the world of embarrassment very often, but Jerry should be embarrassed. The agent in question is David Mologheta. David Mologhetta, through multiple media sources, has put out, basically, I'm not going to do any interviews, but I did not, nor did anybody with athletes first his agency tell Jerry Jones or the Cowboys to stick it in their ass, whatever. That didn't come up. So David Moleguetta is disputing the use of that colorful language. But let's just forget about the language there that Jerry is addressing here. Jerry Jones is saying that there is not room in the negotiation between the Dallas Cowboys and Micah Parsons for Micah Parsons agent. Now, I have an agent. I know most of you don't. You're lucky. That's the only reason we have agents, is to do the negotiation. It's the only reason we pay the Commission. Maybe it's 3%, maybe it's 1%, maybe it's 5%, maybe it's 10%, depending on the industry. For Micah Parsons, it's probably in the neighborhood of 1 or 2%. But the point is, he pays arguably the top agents in football a percentage of what will be the largest defensive contract in the history of the NFL. The to do the negotiation. Jerry did not stop there because I will get into where I think this actually ends up here in a minute. But allegations about colorful language. No room in the negotiation for Micah Parsons, his agent. Jerry did not stop on his media tour with the posturing of how he looks at the timeline to get a deal done with Micah Parsons. We really got three years to work this thing out. I did that with Dak, and we couldn't agree. So Dak played his last year of his contract, and then we franchised him. Of course, ultimately, we got a contract, made Dak the Highest paid player in the NFL. So the president is handling it like Dak. But in this particular case, then Micah comes in and plays this year under his contract and then doesn't. It's very costly. Okay, so no one likes math on tv. But we'll just. Let's just go through some facts here for a second. Micah Parsons is set to make roughly 24 million bucks this year. So at the end of that, from the Michael Irvin show and Jerry Jones, look, if he doesn't, it's going to be very costly. Jerry Jones is 100% correct. Every game missed by Micah Parsons is roughly $1.3 million that Micah Parsons will not get paid. That's just money you can't earn back. So I think Micah Parsons is going to play Week 1 because I think he would rather play for $1.3 million than not play and get zero. It's a revolutionary thought. That's where I'm at. Then Jerry's saying really takes three years. And he's right because there's this year. And then they could franchise tag Micah Parsons and then they could franchise tag Micah Parsons again for 120% of what he'd be due to make next year. Now the player would be unhappy and he's already demanded a trade and scrubs the Cowboys from all the social media. And frankly, that's not good for the team to have a premium player locked into the salary cap because there's no flexibility. 100% of the dollars are guaranteed. You can't move it around for salary cap purposes, that sort of thing. But I absolutely believe Jerry Jones, that he talks to Micah Parsons about money, that he feels like he even moved off of his place. And I believe Jerry Jones that he is willing to make Micah Parsons the highest paid defensive player in football. But here's what I also believe, that that's not good enough. That if I was representing Micah Parsons, I wouldn't be saying, well, yeah, I just have to get a dollar more on the average annual value than T.J. watt, just over 41 million a year. Or I just got to get a dollar more than the largest guarantee ever for a defensive player in myles Garrett at 122 million a year because those guys are three plus years older than Micah Parsons. Micah Parsons is going to be the highest paid defensive player ever. The question is going to be by how much is he going to shatter the record for a non quarterback? Is he going to shatter the record for a defensive player? And there's no reason for you to get too Deep in the weeds on who these agents are. But David Mowlagueda is something of a cult like figure in NFL circles because he's the guy who got Deshaun Watson the fully guaranteed contract, the 100% of your money contract as being guaranteed. He's the new thing. He's the power broker in the NFL. He represents Jordan Love, C.J. stroud and a bunch of guys. But here's another way that I know that Jerry is not being totally truthful in this entire thing. There are other players on the Cowboys who are represented by David Mologhetta, who is Micah Parsons agent. So he's been able to get business done. So when he's talking about this agent wants to make a name for himself. This agent is trying to be the big third party in this deal. There's only room for two parties, me and Micah Parsons. He's done deals with Mulligetta's agency before. Malik Hooker is on his team this year. Signed. And Jerry Jones, I know he likes to say that he's the general manager and I know he carries the title of general manager, but no one believes that he's scouting the Senior bowl and grinding tape on fifth round prospects. He likes it for vanity. He likes it for ego. Do we really think that when Jake Ferguson signed his $52 million deal with Dallas, it was like Jerry Jones and Jake Ferguson drinking some Johnnie Walker Black and just haggling back and forth? I think it should be $12 million a year. No, I think it should be $14 million a year. No. The Cowboys negotiator dealt with the player's agent because that's how it works. So this is very old school. This is very. If you've watched any of the documentary, you know, good old boy from Arkansas comes into Texas, strikes it rich with an oil well, buys the Dallas Cowboys. He bought the Dallas Cowboys for $140 million. He's probably gonna have to give Micah Parsons more than $140 million. So he got the team for 140 million. He's about to give a player more than 140 million. Jerry Jones is living in the Stone Ages. He's living back in the 80s. It's just not how it's done anymore. And so ultimately, this is all posturing. And I believe that Micah Parsons will be unhappy. I thought the Post with the Allen Iverson quotes and the waving goodbye and the scrubbing of the social media, frankly, I thought he was a little late. That's like a millennial playbook 101. You scrub the social media. You make it like, yeah, I'm real serious. I'm real serious about this trade. I'm real serious about sending out games. Chris Jones set out a game 1 guys don't sit out games anymore. There's too much money at stake. This isn't even the Emmett Smith thing from back in the early 90s where he misses a couple of games, signs the deal and then the Cowboys go on to win the Super Bowl. There's just too much money. These deals get done. So I will stay where I've been for months on this, that this is publicity for a new season. This is publicity for a documentary and deadlines make deals. And we saw with Dak Prescott, as referenced by Jerry Jones, the deadline was the opener when he signed that deal. I expect Micah Parsons to be playing against Philadelphia and this is just a lot of noise, embarrassing noise, but noise all the same. Which brings us to the other unsigned contracts here because it's a I will admit this is a unique NFL off season and that we have three A list tier one players who are still unsigned. Terry McLaurin in Washington, Trey Hendrickson in Cincinnati, and of course as discussed, Micah Parsons in Dallas. Now, I don't think Dallas is a Super bowl contender, but they do. Washington obviously think it's a Super bowl contender. They were in the NFC Championship game last year. They had Laramie Tunsil. They add Deebo Samuel and Cincinnati knows that they've got a Super bowl caliber offense and they scored enough points last year to be a 12 or a 13 win team. But they only scored nine because their defense was historically bad. I mean the Bengals were had a losing record. They were 3 and 4 in games where they scored 30 or more points. So we'll just go through these. I think Terry McLaurin signs in the next 72 hours. Generally speaking, preseason will end on Saturday. They'll revisit the big picture stuff. It'll be game week and it'll really be like the game two weeks. Because with now three preseason games, there's more time between the end of preseason and the start of the opener. I just don't believe that a player who has been as consistently productive for Washington when they had no one at quarterback is going to let them have a superstar quarterback on a rookie deal and not get it done with his number one receiver. Do I think Terry McLaurin is as good as A.J. brown? No. But it doesn't matter. He's really, really good. The guy who signs the deal the most recently always gets a little bump because the salary cap goes up. So I will be shocked if Washington takes the field week one and Terry McLaurin isn't there. That one is in the as close to 100% as I can make it. Jaden Daniels just came out and said he thought it was going to get done. This one's going to get done. Next confident would be Trey Hendrickson in Cincinnati. I know it's Cincinnati. I know they're historically cheap, but they got Joe Burrow. They paid him. They have T. Higgins. They paid him. They have Jamar Chase. They paid him. They changed defensive coordinators. They used three of their first four picks on defensive players. Apparently they've agreed on how much money per year and how long the deal is going to be. They haven't agreed to the biggest part of the deal, which is the guaranteed money. Reports are that Trey Hendrickson wants three years guaranteed. Bengals only want to do one year guaranteed. My guess is they settle on about two years guaranteed. Trey Hendrickson has led. He's been what, 17 sacks? Led NFL in sacks last year? Been 17 sacks each of the last two years. Yes, he's 30, but two years of guaranteed money feels like a reasonable place. And I can't imagine looking Joe Burrow in the eye and being like, hey, remember last year when you would score 30 regularly and we would lose? We want you to do that again. My guess is Hendrickson gets done and then that leaves Micah again. I think it works out. I think they get it done. I don't think he's going to be in the business of giving back $1.3 million per year. But at some point, Jerry Jones is going to have to do what apparently Jerry Jones doesn't want to do, which is talk to Micah Parsons legal representation. This is all noise. It's all all unnecessary. It's all unbecoming. But given that we are still in the season where the games don't count, it is fodder. And at least we know for Jerry, not for the 31 other teams. Like I don't think anything about the Terry McLaurin contract is because Washington wants to be in the news cycle. I don't think anything about the Trey Hendrickson contract is because they want to be in the news cycle. But for Dallas, we have a ton of data, including Jerry Jones's own mouth in the Netflix documentary It's a soap opera 365 days a year. Jerry Jones sees value in the drama of dragging this out with Micah Parsons. Coming up next, before Taron Armstead Jackson Dart looks good again, three successful preseason games for Jackson Dart. I think the Giants plan for now is the right one. Can they continue it? It's coming up the Herd. Be sure to catch live editions of the Herd, weekdays at noon Eastern, 9am Pacific on Fox Sports Radio. FS1 the iHeartRadio app he's Mike Carmen I'm Dan Byer and we have a fantasy football podcast called I Want yout're Flexed. That's right, Dan. 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We're officially retired. Danny is over. It is over. I am happily, gracefully retired. I don't miss the, the physical toll of the game. Do miss some of the things, don't get me wrong, some of the camaraderie, the locker room. I know just thinking about some of the plane rides from away games, but I am done. This is the time of year where it gets tough, right? Training camp, man, training camp is serious. It's the, it's the hardest month of the year. You go through that grind, especially in the two, the two teams that I play for, New Orleans, Miami, hot humidity, swamp water, ocean water, like that, that moisture coming off is just, it's a real grind during those training camps. So 12 of those, I think that's enough for me. Okay, so it makes perfect sense. Let's, let's talk about the Dolphins who you played with. Obviously, most recently, I've heard from a Dolphins fan or two in my life that says that the issue with Mike McDaniel was that the offense became too predictable. And that narrative is out there. You were up close and personal with it. Is there any validity to it when you hear Criticisms of Mike McDaniel? Listen, Mike, I know Mike personally and I know his story. He's been criticized his whole life. He's had to battle narratives and people telling him what he can and can't do his entire life. And I think the guy's done a pretty good job at life where he is now. And he's still continuing to grow. The best thing about Mike is he's not afraid to combat the narratives or fight the noise. He works, man. He works. He put his best foot forward and try to give his guys the best chance to win. As far as becoming predictable, I think any team have tendencies. We know what a team likes to do. This is what a team wants to do. Now, to be able to impose that will on a weekly basis, that's a different story. But every team across the league have tendencies. When Tua plays, the offense tends to operate at a very high level. When Tua missed time, it really didn't. Is that because Tua is so good or there's a difficulty in running that offense if you're not, you know, entrenched in it. Tua's nice, bro. Tua is nice. Like I, I've been known to publicly speak on, on tour and how I feel about him. I think he's a special quarterback. I think there's very few people on earth that can do what he do on a consistent basis. Him under center gives the Dolphins a chance to win every game and when he's not there, it's. It's a different story. And not just to say that the offense is tailored specifically for him, but he's able to execute those things. Those ask at a very high level whether people want to agree with it, with it or not. Is it. It is a glaring difference. So what is it that people who question Tua, whether it's size, arm strength or frankly just you know, worried about trusting him because of the injury history. Although I know he does have a 17 game season now under his belt. What is it that the masses are missing about Tua that you see that makes you believe? I don't think they're necessarily missing his. His like biggest strengths and attributes. His anticipation, his accuracy. The. The way he's able to deliver the ball and throw the spots before the receiver even makes his break. That's different. It takes a lot of trust, it takes a lot of practice. But I don't think people understand his preparation and what makes him QB1 and like where is. It's a difference when someone else is running, running the offense is being able to see pressure and blitz's pre snap to be able to. To know what coverage we're getting before the, the. Before the first motion or as Tyreek is going from left to right across the formation. He's. He's getting information, he's gathering information for the play to be successful. It takes a really long time to be able to develop that. I was with the great Drew Brees and he was the best at that Him, Peyton Manning, Tom Brady was the best at reading a defense before the snap. So their pre snap work was hall of Fame and that's why those three guys are hall of Famers. Talking to Tyron Armstead, you were at the joint practice between the Bears and the Dolphins, which I know the reports were, how physical it was and I know you did not come away terribly Impressed with Caleb Williams? Did anything that he did in that preseason game against Buffalo change your concerns or you still have your doubts? I wouldn't say I was unimpressed with Caleb Williams. I definitely had some concerns and more so what I just spoke about, his pre snap process, being able to identify his threats, his weak points in protection where he's hot. I didn't see that in that one practice that I saw and a lot of times last year throughout the season, what I did see in Buffalo, I was thoroughly impressed from him and Ben Johnson as well. Ben Johnson created ways for him to find the not necessarily easy throws, but easier reads and he was able to hit his, his, his number one target, his number one objective play in and play out. I did see a couple plays where the pressure affected him and I don't, I can't say that he saw it before, before the snap. And that's the area I would love to see as a fan. I would love to see Caleb Williams take that step in his process to be able to identify what the defense is trying to do, where he is in danger. Because as a thrower of the football, he can do it all. He can throw on the run, he can make the, the wild passes, he can make the easy ones. So as a thrower of the football, he can. There's no question. But it's process. I would love to see that continue to grow and develop. And he's young man, it's early, but going through that progression from receiver one all the way over to receiver three or checking down to the running back, I would love to see that speed up. When you hear Jerry Jones say that there's no room in the negotiation for a third party between him and Micah Parsons. Referring to Micah Parsons agent David Molaguetta. What is it? What's the player? And you say to that, you know, listen man, Jerry's different. I don't really understand it. You get a player like Michael Parsons, who's a generational player, generational talent and production, no off the field issues. You pay the man, you pay the man, whatever the market says he's next in line and let's just move on to, to bigger and better things. Interesting man that Zach Martin had to go through a contract dispute in Dallas and I believe that, I believe Zach Martin played 11 years in the league. He was an 11 time All Pro. You pay that man, whatever he's asking for, you just, you send it to him and let's, let's move on. So I really don't like the fact that the Cowboys are making this more difficult than it needs to be. Micah is a player, he's in a figure in Dallas that you don't question. You pay them the market and let's move on. Players, fans, media, like I imagine we all kind of come at preseason a little differently. Players, you're in it. And then fans and media were so starved for football that I think we have a tendency to overreact to like whatever we see, what this time of year actually matters. Like if a Bears fan is pumped about Caleb or a Giants fan is pumped about Jackson Dart or, or on the flip side, someone's concerned about a player based on camp reports like this time of year, what should we be paying attention to? It's very hard as a fan to get much information if you're not at practice, if you're not seeing it live. Only thing you have is a preseason game. And that's small, small sample size. So really what you want to see is the standouts, the young guys who have made a jump from year one to two, two to three. That's what you want to see in my opinion, the guys that are being paid the most and the guys that have been consistent throughout their career, you expect what you expect from them. That expectation is high. You expect them to be consistent. But you want to see the guys that have taken a step that the game has slowed down for them. You want to hear more about who's winning those one on one battles at practice on a consistent basis, who's really making an impact, who's getting their hands on the ball, making turnovers for the defense, who's scoring the touchdowns. Like that's what you want to hear about during this window is the young guys that's really going to bring your roster together and determine if you have a chance to play January, February football. The last guy I wanted to ask you about, you already mentioned Drew Brees. You played with Drew Brees. You played with Sean Payton. Do you buy the Bo Knicks, Drew Brees compared. It's different, different style quarterback. Bo is a, is a big guy, he's mobile, he's athletic. Drew's athlete too. Don't get me wrong. Drew was an athlete, but I think it's a different style quarterback. The similarities will more so lie within Sean Payton and his preparation. What he wants Bo to be able to, to see and diagnose pre snap, where he wants him to attack certain zones, whether it's man or zone. This is our man beaters, is our zone beaters. How quickly can you get to those after the snap, you know what I mean? With ball in hand and his ability to make and create plays that break down, that's something that wasn't Drew strength. Drew wasn't able to be mobile and run for 20, 30 yards and run over a corner and all that, all those good things. But so it's some differences there. But the similarities, I believe, rely. The similarities lie with the, with the head man, with Sean Payton. Taron Armstead. Thank you so much for joining us on the Herdman. It was fun. We'll do it again. Appreciate you, Danny. Thank you. Absolutely. That's Taron Armstead played 12 years in the NFL. Pro Football Focus had him as a top 10 pass blocker and top 10 run blocker. I saw his retirement. I was like, you sure you don't want to play for the Bears? You sure about that? Speaking of preseason hype, I thought Jackson Dart looked good and has continued to look good in the preseason. And the Giants are just, they're in a very interesting spot to me because Jackson Dart looks ready. To my untrained eye, he looks ready. I don't think he looks like a superstar. I thought, you know, he, he had one touchdown drive out of the four that he played. He took a big shot, got tested for the concussion. A lot of the production was on yards after the catch. The touchdown throw was pretty nice, 370 yards in the preseason, three touchdowns. He's. He's taking shots down the field. Jackson Dart has looked unafraid. He's looked mobile. He's looked athletic, looked like the arm strength certainly translates all of those things. The Giants bring in Jameis and Russ. They've got a GM and a coach that seem to be on the hot seat. They have one of the best front sevens, you would say, in the entire NFL. Their defense, I think, has a legit shot at being top five. In order to be top five, they're probably going to need their offense to be okay so that they're not on the field the whole damn game. But the problem for the Giants is going to be, do they get that itch? Do they get impatient? Because I think Russ, with his experience, does give the Giants the best chance very early in the season. Problem is, very early in the season is very difficult. The Giants schedule is ridiculous. It is just a murderer's row. And I know on paper, and it's not who you play, but when you play them and who knows what the injuries are going to end up being, but I think there's going to be a huge push to play Jackson dart. Week 5 against New Orleans. When the Giants start 04, they start in Washington, in Dallas, home against the Chiefs, home against the Chargers. Could you win one of those games? Sure. If you've got a top five defense, you can win games. 19, 17, you can grind out some ugly wins. But then after that Saints game, Philly, Denver, Philly again, San Francisco, the Bears, the packers, the Lions. Like, through week 12, they easily could be 2 and 10. And then there's going to be that pressure to play Jackson Dart. And this isn't the best comparison, but it's pretty close. When the Bears drafted Mitch Trubisky, their plan was to sit him for a year, even though he was the. You know, they traded up three to two. They took Mitch Trubisky in that draft, famously ahead of Patrick Mahomes. But the plan was to sit him. They gave Mike Glennon 18 million bucks to be a starter for a year. Through four games, Mike Glennon led the NFL in turnovers. And because John Fox was on the hot seat, they panicked and they played Mitch Trubisky. And that came. It didn't matter. Fox ended up getting fired. And it didn't matter because they ended up stunting and confusing the development of Mitch Trubisky, who needed to then learn a new system and a whole new thing the next year when they brought in Matt Nagy. So if Jackson Dart is ready, you play Jackson Dart because he's ready, not because you need a spark, not because you have a bad win loss record. Jackson Dart should play when he's ready. Whether The Giants are 2 and 10 or 10 and 2, 4, 7, 7 and 4, winless or undefeated. Jackson Dart's development matters more than any win, loss, record or accomplishment that the New York Giants can have this year. So they need to resist the urge, and Brian Dable needs to resist the urge to say, oh, the schedule was brutal. Russell Wilson was throwing moon balls. Russell Wilson was taking sacks. Jameis Winston was eating W's, and we've got to lose the record. I need to show that I'm the right guy for Jackson Dart in order for me to keep it, keep my job. If Jackson Dart is genuinely ready to play, great. But I'd be concerned if I was a Giants fan, because right now you kind of backed into a good spot. You drafted the best player available in Abdul Carter. You traded back into the first round for Jackson Dart. He looks good, but you know your team's not going to be that good right now. And so you thought you were going to try to get Matt Stafford, even though that was always pie in the sky. And now here you are like, okay, we got a good young nucleus, we got a quarterback that we're excited about and we just don't really know about our coach and our general manager. Play the season out. Clean house. Go get your best bets. But if Dable, who helped Josh Allen, helps Jackson Dart, then you're good to go and you're off and running. The whole key is going to be an honest evaluation. Is he ready? Not does he give us the best chance to win? Not Is it pressure to save the job? Not Is the back page of the New York Post Is Jackson Dart actually ready to play? My eyes he looks ready. My guess is Russ for week one gives you a better shot. But Jackson Dart looks ready to me. But you can't make a decision to play Jackson Dart based on saving Brian Dable's job. That will stunt Jackson Dart's development and do way more harm than than good. Coming up next little bit of running back news in the NFL. Plus, Saquon Barkley has a shot at history this year. Call this a future headline for December. It's coming up the Herd. Be sure to catch live editions of the Herd, weekdays at noon Eastern, 9am Pacific running a business online look legit and own your own brand with professional tools from GoDaddy instantly build trust with your customers and boost your credibility with an email that matches your domain so people know you mean business. There's never been a better time. 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I've been telling Angela I don't even know how to fight back right now. So what I'm focused on is just looking out for ourselves. That's the truth. We're having the same debates that American households are having all over the country. Rest is certainly a form of self care, but if you are watching your full starve, not be able to pay bills, your rest is selfish. But the thing is, Angela, this is not the mess we created. So I do understand black folks feeling like, you know what, y' all got it. We're like family, but we disagree all the time. All the time. And we love when our listeners chime in. What would happen if we built our own little Wakandan communities in the rural South? Tiffany, do not run to no rural South. I don't know what you're on. What our audience is asking is. Okay, fine. You want me to stop resting? What specifically are you asking me to do? Stay informed and take action. 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The endorphins start to pump. Yeah. See it August 25th, everybody. Can't wait. Gonna be great. It is going to be great. And you saw my head just kind of pop up that little First Things first post show press conference. I'm very excited. It's kind of a pinch me thing. I think. First Things first is the best show in sports television, has the best chemistry. And I've had chemistry with Nick wright For about 20 years, my best friend's since college. And it's going to be really cool to bring the arguments that we have watching 10 hours of football together on Sundays to a national TV audience here at FS1. And Wilds and Brew are awesome and they've been so welcoming. So. Yeah, I just. On a personal note, I'm very, very excited and honored to be sitting in for Colin today. But also the idea that starting Monday, 5 to 6pm Eastern every day, I'll be there. They're going to be there for some of it. Greg. Coach. We're going to still put it all together and figure it all out. But the First Things first universe is expanding and it's an honor and a privilege and a responsibility, frankly to join the best show in sports television. So tune in Monday, three to six Eastern. I'll be there from five to six on FS1. The new first things first. We set a trade in the NFL, which not the biggest trade in the world, but there is something interesting here. The commanders have decided that they can part ways with Brian Robinson Jr. Running back and go to San Francisco. I think the team acquiring the player is more interesting than the team giving, giving the player away because a future 6th round pick is not much for Washington. They just don't want to be in the business of paying a running back going forward given what they did with Deebo and what they're going to have to do with Jaden, although that's still a couple of years away. Obviously they spent their money on Tunsil and and all that sort of stuff. The Niners, you know, they acquire Sky Moore, now they acquire Brian Robinson. Brian Robinson's coming off of a career year, not the greatest year ever. He had basically 800 rushing yards, eight rushing touchdowns. But they need elite running back production. Christian McCaffrey gives them that. Kyle Shanahan gives them a floor of good running back production. Kyle Shanahan's track record is insane. It's like Andy Reid with quarterbacks. There's seven different quarterbacks who have had their career year with Andy Reid, Jeff Garcia, Kevin Cobb, Alex Smith, Mike Vick, on and on down the line. Same thing with Kyle Shanahan and running backs like Alfred Morris and Devonte Freeman and Raheem Moster, like all those guys had their best years when they were with Kyle Shanahan, when he was calling plays, when it was his system. So obviously they're banking on McCaffrey coming back healthy and McCaffrey being worth basically four points per game when he's with the Niners and he's playing to when he's with the Niners and he's not playing. So McCaffrey is the engine for them, but they want Christian McCaffrey insurance and that's what Brian Robinson Jr provides the Niners, if McCaffrey can't go or they can't use them as much, they want some talent there to try to get that high end running back production that frankly takes pressure off Brock Purdy. But really it's just the focal point of a Kyle Shanahan system. Speaking of elite running back production, though, you know Colin does, you know, tomorrow's headlines today and future headlines, it's called one of those two things. Call this like a December headline, Saquon Barkley Pacing for best two Year Stretch for a Running Back in NFL History. It's a wordy headline. I'll have to work on it all. But Saquon Barkley is an interesting case study because he has both said that he wants to be one of the best players to ever do it and that Barry Sanders is his favorite ever and that when he retires he might just walk away without much fanfare. And there's no guarantee how long he'll play. And I know he's walked back that a little bit. Like, I don't think Saquon Barkley is a year or even two years away from retirement, but there's no guarantee that he's going to play forever. And if Saquon Barkley retired tomorrow, he would not be in the hall of Fame. To be a player who does not play very long and makes it to the hall of Fame, you've got to stack a really incredible resume in a really short period of time. And Saquon Barkley is pretty close. Like, he would be a finalist. He would be considered. He would be debated. He had last season, you know, he's one of nine guys to ever have a 2,000 yard season. He had the most rushing yards ever. When you combine regular season and postseason, and he had over 2,800 yards from scrimmage. But I think Saquon Barkley is uniquely positioned to have the best two year stretch for a running back ever, which currently is Eric Dickerson. Saquon Barkley would need 1909 yards this year to break Eric Dickerson's two year record. And you look at the guys on that list, most rushing yards in a two year span. Barry Sanders, Earl Campbell, Terrell Davis, Eric Dickerson, all Hall of Famers. It's consistent excellence. Even though Terrell Davis was only seven years. He had multiple Super Bowls, he had a Super bowl mvp, he had an MVP award. Barry Sanders obviously one of the greatest to ever do it. Earl Campbell and Eric Dickerson the same. No players even had back to back 1800 yard seasons. Normally off a 2000 yard season you, you know Chris Johnson had a solid I think 1300 yard campaign. Derrick Henry was having the best post 2000 yard season but he got hurt after just eight games. A lot of guys get hurt. And Saquon Barkley has an injury history. He has. He's coming off of a career high in carries by far. He had nearly 350 carries last season. And he's got to deal with the Madden curse for whatever. You believe in that, which I don't, but you know, it's out there. But the other piece of it is why I'd be bullish on it is he is uniquely positioned to follow up a historically great campaign with another historically great campaign. Because in an era of passing football, the Eagles are a bit of a throwback, right? This is the passing era of the NFL. It's never been. Completion percentage has never been higher, passing yards never been higher, all that stuff. But the Eagles, like we don't want our quarterback to throw it 30 times. We have the best offensive line, our quarterback really helps the running game and we are going to pound the rock. And if you look at Saquon last year, I mean he had a game against Tampa where he had 10 carries. Remember the game against the Giants where he could have set his record for a game and he just sat out and didn't play anymore. And then he obviously sat out week 18. Like he barely creeped over 2000 yards in the regular season last year and he could have shattered it. So I actually felt like there was room. Obviously there was. He didn't play Week 18, but even in the course of the season there was room for him to have a better year because he is so uniquely gifted and they are so dominant as a running team. In an era where teams are putting an extra cornerback on the field. It's easier to run in the passing era because of how defenses are aligned to stop the pass. I think Saquon Barkley is going to break Eric Dickerson's two year record. I think he's got a shot at the first ever at back to back 2000 yard seasons and I think the greatest two year stretch in NFL history for a running back. 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