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00:00Stephon Diggs. Stephon Diggs, who our forecast on him had been anywhere from, well, maybe he'll get

00:06a, you know, one or two year deal for some decent money to, he might wait until training camp to

00:11sign with a team. We were all over the board with Stephon Diggs. He is a new England Patriot.

00:16The visit went well last week. And especially when the final numbers, now we need to,

00:20I need to know more. The devil will be in the details with Stephon Diggs contract.

00:25The tweet report of it probably looks a lot more exorbitant than the actuality of it.

00:30There's no probably about it. Yeah. Three years, $69 million.

00:34Whoa, whoa, that pops mama. Now what, what do you think when I tell you that the other,

00:41the reports alongside that are that it's 26 million guaranteed, only about a third of it

00:47is guaranteed. It sounds like 26 million guaranteed. And we'll see how much of that

00:52guarantee is actually a guarantee. That's a good chunk for what I'm guessing is in reality,

00:58a short, sorry, I had an alarm going off here. I got confused. Um, uh, the I'm guessing is, uh,

01:05a short term kind of like the Texans. It might actually be a one year deal,

01:09but it's still a lot of guaranteed money. Yeah. And that's more guaranteed money than I thought.

01:14Yeah. And I, and I think that because if I were, if the Texans were to sign step on digs,

01:21my thought would have been that it would be after the draft. And it might be for something like

01:26what really was a one year, $15 million contract. Cause he's 32 years old coming off of the torn ACL.

01:33Now I'm getting really good at this though. Sean, this is the third time now where I've basically

01:38done a video on YouTube and within two hours of me putting the video out,

01:43it's completely worthless and irrelevant. Yeah. Yeah. In which I, in which I say seven

01:49things that have been proven wrong. I thought now the Patriots themselves said that this was

01:54just a get to know you meeting when they met with him earlier this week. Yeah. Apparently they got

01:59to know him pretty well. And Stefan digs felt pretty good about him. The video of Stefan digs

02:03working out that he's put out on his own Instagram. It's been pretty impressive so far for

02:07being less than six months removed from surgery. He looks like he's pretty far along. He's strong.

02:12He's a, he's moving quickly and moving well. Um, and the biggest thing, I mean, the part of my

02:18video that I did that I, and you and I talked about yesterday, that is a hundred percent true

02:23is I think a lot of the narrative or the justified concerns about how is he going to operate with a

02:30young quarterback or whatever, given his history, you, you still have to acknowledge that he's had

02:35some dustups in the past with Josh Allen, but from the Houston Texan side of things, we saw

02:41nothing but a model citizen out of Stefan digs. Yeah. And the way he conducted himself with a

02:48young quarterback on a struggling offense last year, I think the Patriots definitely looked into

02:53that. The Albert Breer article yesterday, which interviewed a couple of Texans coaches, Albert

02:59Breer has a lot of ties to guys who are in new England. A lot of guys, Texans coaches,

03:05just the article staffers. So that could have been anybody, I guess, but yeah,

03:09yeah. There were a lot of Texan staff that were very, very positive about him said they thought

03:13that new England would be a great fit for him. So the word of mouth that anybody that Mike Drable

03:18or any of those other guys in the organization got from Texans people was probably really good.

03:22Yeah. I think a couple of things relative to the Texans on this deal. And again, if you're

03:26just getting in your car, Stefan digs gets three years, $69 million, 26 million guaranteed. Those

03:32are the reports from the new England Patriots. Um, the percentage of guaranteed money versus

03:37the entire contract, probably lower than what's normal in the NFL right now, but just the total

03:41amount of guaranteed money, I think is more than a lot of people thought digs would get

03:46the two things I think of with the Texans, Seth, when it comes to this signing one is

03:50even with the low percentage of guaranteed money on this deal relative to the entire deal,

03:56I would not have wanted the Texans playing in this neighborhood with Stefan digs three years,

04:0069 minutes, 26 million guarantees. Just to me, it's too much guaranteed money for the Texans

04:06to be paying him. Now, Patriots are a team with a ton of cap space. So it's different for them

04:11than it is for the Texans to look at 26 million guaranteed three or 69 million and say, yeah,

04:17this looks good. And they have a bigger need than the Texans even do. Texans have a need at wide

04:21receiver. No question about that, but the, the, the Patriots don't eat now. So there's a bigger

04:27need. My second thought with the Texans is this, I think this is, I think this is good for the

04:33Texas. This is yet another guy who's come to the Texans and left for greener pastures than they

04:39were thought to have had available to them coming into the text. When Stefan digs got to the Texans,

04:44he was largely thought to be a problem child and he goes somewhere else and gets three years,

04:4869 million, his eight games plus a training camp. And I think a training camp plays a lot

04:54into this too, with the leadership and everything he's voted a captain by his teammates. So it was

04:58tonsil, but bear with me here. His one season in Texas did way more good than harm to his image.

05:07Like this was a very cleansing stop for him along the way in his NFL journey. I think it's,

05:14it's interesting because it's almost, there's almost a dynamic there where it feels a little

05:19bit like compensatory picks work with losing free agents in the draft, the, with the Texans,

05:25they've, they've now had several veterans come on one year deals on a prove it year deal.

05:32And then the prove it year works out and they get more elsewhere. And it's, it's good to be

05:37in that position where you can be the landing spot for guys that maybe had a down year for some

05:42reason. And then there you go. I mean, you know, it was like that a lot is Cam Robinson, the left

05:48tackle because Cam Robinson was a, was a dependable left tackle. Like I would say above average, not,

05:56not really, really good or anything, but he was a, he was a capable starting left tackle for the

06:01Jaguars for a long time. He got traded to, he got traded midway through the year to the Vikings

06:08and on a new team in a new scheme and everything else, he really struggled last year with the

06:13Vikings. So going into free agency where the last film on you is letting up 10 total pressures in a

06:20couple of sacks in your last couple of games, including a playoff game, that's not ideal.

06:24So he signs a one-year deal comes into a situation for the Texans where as long as he plays the way

06:30he by and large did with the Jaguars, he'll be just fine at left tackle for the Texans. And,

06:35and by that point, hopefully they feel really, the Texans feel good and solid about Blake Fisher.

06:42Titus Howard will likely still be here. And Cam Robbins can go get more money elsewhere. So

06:48that's the kind of environment you hope you have is that guys like Cam Robbins and think, okay,

06:52well, if I got to choose and if I'm not getting the deal I want out there, then all right,

06:58I'm going to spend a year with the Texans. I think Cam Robinson looks at a guy like George

07:02Phant. I think Trent Brown looks at a guy like George Phant. George Phant came in here as a

07:07camp body and left as a competent starting right tackle who went and granted he got cut after one

07:13year, but he got some nice guaranteed money from the Seahawks last year that he otherwise wouldn't

07:17have gotten had he not played right tackle for the Texans for a year. Well, and then where you get the

07:22real benefit from it, if it works out and you get that kind of reputation is then you get guys like

07:27Sheldon Rankins who come in, plays well, you like him. He goes off and gets more money for

07:33the Bengals. The Bengals will overpay because, because of his glow up here with the Texans.

07:39And then after the Bengals think, ah, man, we paid too much. They're like, come on back, Sheldon.

07:44Well, like the, since they're a gym and Sheldon Rankins came and got shredded one year at the gym

07:52and then he just stopped showing up. I'm like, oh man, I wonder whatever happened to that guy,

07:55and then a year later he shows up. He's all out of shape again. He came back here to get shredded

08:00again. You know what we are? We're prison muscles. We're a guy's get the guys that get all built up

08:05in prison, but then when they leave prison and they lose that discipline or they get a little

08:09distracted by other stuff, they, they don't look the same. That's right. That's a, that,

08:13that by and large, most guys don't maintain their prison muscle. So Sheldon Rankins went

08:18and intentionally got himself arrested. That's right. You get yourself. Yeah. Sometimes you

08:22miss the joint, man. Sometimes I'm just like, I just need, there's times Sean where I'm like,

08:27I just, I liked the structure, you know? And I liked, and I've got good enough leadership

08:32skills that I was kind of a, yeah, it was kind of a big shot in the joint, you know?

08:36Right. I just, I had my little, I had my little schemes going and everything. I had the,

08:40which guards I needed to get, get on my side and everything. Yeah. Sheldon Rankins. That's what he

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