Tuesday edition of PFT Live here in Indianapolis. The room's starting to, starting to, we were here first. We were here early. There's no murmur. It's starting to fill up a little bit. I noticed when we got started, our guy Bob V's here helping us out today. I noticed on the other side of the curtain, and I've been meaning to ask him during a break, like one of those radio people over there who prides himself on being really loud was making a lot of noise. And I saw Bob walk away. And then when Bob came back, it wasn't as loud. I have a feeling Bob went over and said, hey, man, can you shut up? Can you shut up a little bit? Can you just tone it down? Other people are in here trying to hear themselves. But it was one of those guys over there that was just. And there's always one when you have a radio row set up like that. Oh, yeah. There's always one that is just like shouting at the top of his lungs. So everybody pays attention to him. And hopefully somebody tells him to please shut the hell up. All right. You may want to tell me to shut the hell up. But sorry, I can't hear you. One of these two can do it on your behalf. Franchise tag for Kyle Pitts, senior, Falcons tight end. This is a great story. Now, it's not great that the Falcons are going to tag Kyle Pitts. It keeps him from going to the open market. But his quarterback in his rookie year, his only 1,000-yard season, Matt Ryan, is now back as the president of football operations. And for his first order of business, he applies the franchise tag to the guy he threw enough passes to that he had 1,000 yards as a rookie. But Pitts has never really lived up to that fourth overall pick potential. He's been good, not great. Had that huge game on the Thursday night against the Buccaneers. We had 166 receiving yards, three touchdowns, 11 catches. But when you take that night away from the rest of his numbers for 2025, it's okay. I mean, you know, it would have been like 700-plus receiving yards. Like, not what we thought they were going to get with Kyle Pitts. when they picked him one spot before Jamar Chase. Well, and I still had him sixth on my top 100, and the reason is he's 25 years old, Mike. He still has time to become the tight end we all thought he was going to be, the scouts thought he was going to be, the Falcons thought he was going to be when they drafted him fourth overall. He was supposed to be that generational talent that's going to change the position, and he hasn't been that, as you said. But I think he still has a chance to be that. I think he's shown enough that he can be that. He needs an offensive coordinator that's going to design plays for him to get the ball to him, and maybe he has that now. I mean, Kevin Stefanski did really good work with David Njoku in Cleveland at tight end. And so, look, if that's the approach that they're going to take with Kyle Pitts and, you know, maybe make him a bit more of a centerpiece of the offense, then that's probably a good thing. But also, I mean, you still have questions at quarterback, right? what is Michael Penix going to be after this latest injury, you still have a lot of other talented pieces along that Falcons offense, whether it's a Drake London, right? Whether obviously Bajon Robinson is terrific. So the Falcons feel to me, kind of like we used to talk about the Chargers, where it's like, man, they've got all this talent. They got all this talent. They got all this talent. Well, if they don't go out there and actually perform, do they have all this talent? I don't know. I mean, with Kyle Pitts, I mean, he got to 900 yards receiving for just the second time in his career this last year. And that was after the rookie season where we were talking about with Matt Ryan throwing the ball. So there obviously is a there there. But how much of it can really come to fruition in this new offense with the Kevin Stefanski and Tommy Reese? I don't know. We'll see. The quarterback situation is so critical in Atlanta. and the mishandling of it two years ago by GM Terry Fontenot and former head coach Raheem Morris. That's why they're not there. They give Kirk Cousins the big contract. Six weeks later, they make Michael Penix Jr. the eighth overall pick in the draft. They do the transition. Penix gets injured. It's been a failure. They haven't made it to the playoffs since 2017. We were talking about Daniel Jones earlier. I'm just I'm trying to figure where is their next quarterback going to come from are they going to be in the Malik Willis sweepstakes like there's going to be someone out there that is going to be very attracted to coming to Atlanta with Bajon Robinson with Kyle Pitts with Drake London that that that is an arrangement where a quarterback can come in and do pretty well for himself you would think yeah aaron rogers yeah i don't think i don't think with somebody he's unfamiliar with and it's stefanski going down to the excuse me nfc south yeah there's no there's not been a whisper of that i don't know what matt ryan thinks of aaron rogers at this point matt ryan probably vividly remembers the night that aaron rogers came to the old georgia dome and kicked the crap out of the falcons when they were the one seed in 2010 yeah i mean that's it's 2026 i know but yeah i still. Aaron Rodgers remembers it. What if you got Joe Flacco? You know Joe Flacco. He knows your offense. He's the bridge quarterback because we don't know when he's coming back. Right. So you've got to have somebody who's going to be ready to start day one. The guy already knows your offense. He has a ton of weapons. I always love the connective tissues and all the different relationships. That's good. Let me see your Joe Flacco, and let me raise you a Tyson Bajant. Hear me out. Hear me out. You don't know who he is. They love Tyson Bajant in Chicago. Ian Cunningham, Bears assistant GM. Now, I think they extended Tyson Bajant last year when they didn't need to as a hedge against the possibility that it just— you don't know what's going to happen with Caleb Williams. You don't know. New regime, you don't know. Well, worked out well. They don't necessarily need to have Baygent there. That could be a trade possibility. And I just think that Baygent has shown, and he played. And I'm not just saying it because he's a West Virginia guy, but it helps. He's played. He's played well when they've needed him. It may just be one of these things where let's not just assume it's going to be a usual suspect. You've got a young ascending talent who maybe could be the answer. I don't know. Don't know what Kevin Stefanski thinks of him. But, you know, you've got one extreme at Joe Flacco who's pushing 40, if not 40. Is he 40? I think he is. He's getting close if he's not already there. And then you've got another guy who's just getting started and may be at a point where if he's not there now, he may be there next year, an opportunity to go compete to be a starter somewhere else. So you're giving up on Pennix. I'm not giving up on Pennix. I'm just. But aren't you if you make that trade? If you make the trade for Tyson Bajan, no. Because depending upon what you give up for him and depending upon the financial commitment, it doesn't scream starter. Like if you sign Malik Willis and you pay him $35 million a year, you're done with Michael Penix Jr. Right. If you bring in Daniel Jones, you're done with Michael Penix Jr. Joe Flacco may even send that message. but if you would trade for Tyson Baygent, it's, okay, we have a placeholder, and Penix can still kind of be here, and let's see what Baygent does, and we're not slamming the door yet on Penix, but if Baygent ends up blowing us away, then the decision makes itself. I don't know that a 41-year-old, and he's 41, by the way, Joe Flacco closes the door on a Michael Penix. It depends on the contract. It does, but what are you going to pay Joe Flacco? You're not going to pay him $35 million. Right. No, you're right. So that, to me, would most likely be a one-year deal. So I don't know that. I think it would be like, okay, Joe Flacco, we want you here as insurance, especially if Penix is not ready for the start of the regular season, which is certainly a possibility given the nature of the injury he suffered. I'll agree with you. I stand corrected even though I'm sitting. Tyson Bajant is making $4 million this year with a $250,000 workout bonus. That is a reasonable contract in the event that the Falcons would try to trade for him. And it wouldn't scream out, we're done with Penix. But the reality is there's no one there in the organization in a position of power that would care if they say and admit we're giving up on Michael Penix. Yes, absolutely. No face to save. I think that, say, okay, if you put Baygent in that conversation, right, if it's a Mac Jones and they were to go after a Mac Jones and they traded two or whatever it would take, that to me screams more we're done with Michael Penix than a Baygent would or a Joe Flacco would. Right. And the key is just they've got to make the right decision. There's an urgency there. They want to win. They want to have a good quarterback. Kevin Stefanski's on the rebound after getting fired by the Browns. Matt Ryan's going to want to show that he's got the chops to run a team. This quarterback decision is going to be a critical one for the Falcons But whoever is there will most likely have access to Kyle Pitts Sr Because as I saw the reporting yesterday they intend to tag him with the goal of getting him signed to a long deal before the July 15 deadline. Not to tag him and trade him, not to tag him and keep him for a year, but they want to keep him around. And I just think that Matt Ryan, who got a lot out of him as a rookie, Matt Ryan knows what he can do with the right quarterback. Yeah, agreed. And that offense could be the high-powered, best offense in the NFL with the right quarterback. But they haven't found that right quarterback yet. And that's the key to any offense, as we know. So, Shireen every year puts together the list of top free agents, 100. And I very, you know, I very carefully comb over every single one of them. And I should pay closer attention to it because if anything's wrong, it's always me. I get the blame, which is fine but nothing's ever wrong no, but I always get the blame for everything, it's like everything I do every story that's on the site it's your damn website, man heavy is the head that wears the crown there's the curse damn doesn't count when we were kids, damn counted when we were kids, you couldn't say hell, damn, or fart so anyway now you can say pretty much anything you want so So, but great job. I've gotten some good feedback, which is good. I'll take the credit. I just don't want the blame. The part of developing thick skin after being yelled at by all the trolls and incels on social media is I just don't care. I really don't care. I'll take the blame. I'm used to it. Thank you. It rolls off my back. So I'm just glad that you do it so I don't have to. Thank you for that. It is a thankless job because, you know, it's kind of like a microcosm of the Hall of Fame challenge where you're trying to compare guys that do fundamentally different things. How do you compare quarterback to receiver to offensive line to defensive tackle to linebacker? And how do you draw those lines? Again, I'm glad I don't have to do it. Well, quarterbacks always are higher. You know, that's the position. You have Tyler Linderbaum at number three, which is something, because he's an interior offensive lineman, which we usually don't see that high. But he's that good to rank that high, frankly. And Devin Lloyd, I think linebacker, usually don't see that high, but I think he's that good. Overall, my observation was I started going down it, and then when you get in the 70s, 80s, 90s, I'm just like, there's not that many good free agents here. I don't think, and I've talked to some scouts, talked to some GMs, And, you know, they're pretty much in agreement that this is not a great free agent class. And I think you see that if you go down and look at the list. I'm old enough to remember when Tyler Linderbaum was drafted in 2022. You know, remember the knock on him? Short arms. Now, when you're interior offensive lineman, it doesn't matter as much. But he's been very good. He's finishing up his rookie deal. And, yeah, he's got five years in. and now, wait a minute, what do they have here? Do we, I'm looking at this. Did they not pick up his, they did not pick up his fifth year option, right? Did they not pick up his, they did not. He was a first round pick and they didn't pick up his fifth year option. So, and he's still number four on your list. Number three. Number three, wow. I know they've talked about trying to get him re-signed. Yeah. And, you know, they always have a plan for everything and they love to play the compensatory pick game. they don't mind losing a guy if it helps them get a third-round pick or whatever it may be. But the reality is, and we've seen teams not pick up a fifth-year option and then tag a guy. The late Doug Martin fell into that category. The Buccaneers got backed into the corner there. But the problem with center, the tag is across the entire offensive line. And that's always bothered me. there should be a tackle tag, guard tag, center tag. Because what it means is you're rarely going to see a guard or a center get tagged because you're getting basically left tackle or right tackle money. Some right tackles make a lot of money now too. And that makes it even less likely that they would tag him. But, you know, we see every year, not every year, but every few years, there's an interior offensive lineman that just breaks the bank. And I remember like $7 million a year back when that was a big deal. So, but it was like this random guard or center would get this huge contract. But you build from the inside out. And I can see why you've got Linderbaum up there high. I'm just surprised they didn't pick up the fifth-year option. And I'm surprised I don't remember that they didn't pick up the fifth-year option. And I'm doubting myself that they didn't pick the fifth-year option. But they didn't. They didn't. He wouldn't be a free agent for 2026 if they had. So they didn't. He's the guy on this list who does his job the best. who's at the age that has less warts, I guess, than anybody else to me on this list, but he's an interior offensive lineman, which is why he's not number one. Yeah, I think that makes plenty of sense. I think what's interesting to me about this list, I mean, you were just saying, I mean, it is a weaker class of free agents. I mean, and I'm somebody who's as big of a fan of Alec Pierce as anybody, but the fact that he's number seven on the list, I think, says a lot about the relative weakness of this free agency class as a whole. I mean, aside from George Pickens, who we don't necessarily expect to be on the open, open market, that's the best receiver out there. That tells you something about the quality of receivers that I guess teams are keeping, right, versus also what's available, and then you're going to have to look at the draft if you really want a receiver who's going to make an impact. That's where that's going to have to come from this year, or you make a trade. Because this free agency class is not necessarily going to be one where it's, oh, yeah, we're going to get this guy in here and he's going to really take our offense over the top. I'm refreshing my memory and or educating myself for the first time on what happened with Tyler Lindebaum and the Ravens. The fifth-year option, because of his multiple Pro Bowl berths, would have been $23.4 million. The highest paid center is Creed Humphrey at $18 million a year. So it was just too big of a number. Too big of a number. He was too good. He was too good. So now it's $27 million for the franchise tag, so it's the same argument. The top of the market is $18 million, and they've got no effective way to keep him from hitting the market. And he's going to get paid. He's going to get paid. Giants-Browns, obvious candidates right there for Linderbaum. Between Harbaugh going to New York and then Todd Munkin going to Cleveland, and the Browns certainly need offensive linemen. And the Browns have all five of their starting offensive linemen due to hit free agency. Oh, no. Oh my gosh, the Browns, the whole five offensive linemen. Like, okay. Okay. And? Yeah. You know what I really like in this free agent class, though, is the running backs. And NBS, you know, always argues for them to be lower. But there's some really good running backs in this class. There's going to be a running back or two when the music stops. He's going to be available for like $3 million, $4 million on a one-year deal. We're going to see another Rico Dowdle, another Devontae Williams. You've got to move quickly. You know, the negotiating period starts on March 9 at noon. Free agency. Yeah, it's already. It started last night. They started the – it even started before last night. It's been going on. Like, nobody ever gets whacked for tampering unless they are brazen and stupid about it. There's never – it's just open season. So once free agency begins on March 11 and the contracts start getting signed, it'll be by that weekend you'll start to see some of these players grabbing the one-year deal. And there's going to be running backs that fall into that bucket. There's just, you know, I didn't get the money that I wanted, and now I've got to take this one-year deal and try it again next year and see what happens next year. And I think that's one of the reasons why Javante Williams took the deal he did with Dallas because he missed the window last year. He wasn't, you know, maybe he wanted too much or the teams wanted to see him have an effective season. He had it. He took the money because I think he didn't want to run the risk of standing there when the music stops and he didn't have a chair and he's got to do another one year deal. All right. We're going to take a break. When we return, replay officials may be more involved in games in 2026. We'll explain next on this Tuesday edition of PFT Live. pft live from the scouting combine shereen williams and miles simmons with me here in indianapolis so the competition committee has been meeting this is the early stage of figuring out what rule changes if any will be made replay review continues to be a hot topic and the league is going to consider allowing replay officials throw penalties for non-football acts that haven been penalized on the field There is a huge reluctance to allowing replay to drop a flag There is one situation where replay can already drop a flag You know what it is Do you know what it is I don't. 12 men on the field. Oh, yeah. That was one of the original because it's undeniable. It's objective. The guy got off the field or he didn't. Boom. So I don't know why they're reluctant to allow it, but they are. And I did some reporting on this for the Super Bowl pregame show. They just have this reluctance to move too quickly. And I don't know why, because they're going to get there eventually. And the problem is, as more plays become subject to review, fewer aren't. And it creates this weird thing when you're watching the game like, hey, that's clearly wrong. Yep. Why isn't that subject to review? Well, it just isn't. Well, why isn't it? Everything else is. So at some point, they're just going to have to stop doing the inchworm thing, and they're just going to have to say everything's reviewable except for this, this, and this. And I wish they would just do that. It's the Bill Belichick challenge, everything. Everything's reviewable, and here are the small handful of exceptions of plays that aren't reviewable. I mean, the face mask penalty to me is the big one because they miss it so many times. And it's clear and it's obvious. And it's clear and it's obvious. And it's a big penalty, and it's a big play in the game, and yet they don't get the 15 yards, they don't get the first down, and we just move on like it didn't happen when it did happen, clearly. And everybody saw it except the officials. Right. It's the whole Mike Garamantra, right? No more half measures. But this continues to be a half measure, a half measure, a half measure, and you just want them to get to the full measure of, okay, let's just make these things revealable because, as you said, Mike, It's going in this direction anyway. This is an example of just how the institution works. They are reluctant to move quickly. They are reluctant to move radically, even if they know this is where it's going. And that's what drives me crazy. Because every year that the universe of reviewable plays expands and the universe of non-reviewable plays shrinks, it becomes more and more glaring when we get one of these donut holes where game was decided by horrible call and there wasn't a damn thing we could do about it because by rule it can't be reviewed. I hate that. Yeah. And I think they understand that that problem is there, but they can't push back against the culture and the owners. I mean, think about it. I mean, I don't want to get myself in trouble here. Where are you going? But I am technically a senior. So I can say, what a shock that a bunch of old people are resistant to change. What a shock. Right. As evidenced by my my iPhone. Well, no, that's you embracing change, actually. But I think part of it, too, is a when you have these things, you don't want it to be too expansive. And that's, yeah, if people are, you know, entrenched in what they know, they don't want to go too far away from what it is that they know because of the fear of the unknown. And, like, what is it that you could be opening when you take a look at Pandora's box and you say, okay, well, now that we start reviewing this, is this too far? Are we on the slippery slope? You know what's in Pandora's box, according to Sims? You know what's in Pandora's box? I don't know. Pandora. Okay. That's what Sims thinks. Pandora is in Pandora's box. Or Pandora's. He thinks she lives in the box. Yes. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Sorry. You've been the proponent of this, because you don't want games to go any longer than what they're going. We don't want to slow it down with all these replays, but you've been the big proponent of the Sky Judge, and that's the way you get through this and get through it quickly, and you do drop flags, and you do correct things quickly, and we don't have a delay of getting a review, a full review. And it's not my suggestion that you just have the replay assistant actively involved. I have said for years, put someone in the black and white stripes. They're a member of the crew. And they're up there actively participating in the first look. And they're saying to the referee, hell, and you think of all of like an Ed Hockley. You get to a point where you just can't physically avoid getting trampled by the gladiators anymore. But you have years of experience. You have an intimate knowledge of the rule book. You get up in the booth, and you are basically a step above the referee. Yeah. And you're in charge. And, you know, there's an element of deference there that could get awkward. Yeah. But you have the benefit of seeing what everyone sees at home. And none of the officials on the field have that. And I've said for years they need to bridge the gap between what we see on the 75-inch ultra 10K 53, whatever the numbers are now that is the best, and what they're seeing while they're trying to not get run over. With the naked eye. 100%. 100%. And it's so simple. It is. But that's what they want to do. It's an easy fix. Well, they don't think they need to. They don't think they need to. Until there's some massive scandal, controversy that embarrasses them, and they'll act like they just thought that maybe this is something they should do, then that's when they'll do it. And we've seen so many plays decided by non-calls. Sam Darnold won from 2024 season in the end zone. Remember that? And the face mask was traveling. Oh, I remember that one. Basically, that could have given the Vikings a chance to win that game. And then you have the pass interference in the NFC Championship game, which they tried to fix and decided after one year that was a complete and total disaster. I don't think so. I think they did what I did the first and only time they made me cut the grass when I was growing up. If you screw it up so bad, they'll never ask you again in the regret that they asked you. I think that the league, they were under pressure. Weaponizing competence. They were under pressure, and they decided we're going to screw this up so bad, you're going to wish you'd never asked for replay for pass interference. But there was one in the Super Bowl missed, Josh Jobe. Not only was it out of bounds he put him on his ass, which should have been flagged, as Terry McCauley said during the broadcast, but then when Diggs approaches him, Job hits him twice. And Diggs is grabbing his face mask. I'm surprised Diggs didn't get fined. That's a closed fist. There is an element of, you know, we're going to forgive the guy that does something that violates the rules if he is sufficiently provoked. But you see him grabbing, but there's an open hand and a closed fist. and he got fined for the hit out of bounds and for one of the incidents of striking, but there was no flag. And that's a prime example of one where, boom, you hit the button and it's a flag. And they shouldn't have missed that. It's just amazing to me the instances where officials, while this chaos is unfolding among them, won't throw a flag. And that was an obvious one. Like, that's not one that you miss. I mean, the official is right there when he's taking a swing. Like, you just don't miss that one. Right, yeah. I mean, he had his eyes closed at a certain point because he was trying to avoid, you know, the players, like, almost hitting him in the face. The weird part about that sequence was that was also when the idiot came on the field, right? And so then that, I think, I don't know if that shouldn't have affected then the enforcement of what should have been that penalty, but that was a weird sequence in that game because you then had the two dumbasses, there you go, on the field. Yeah, that's still. Dumbass is not. No, okay. Dumbass is not. You're getting there, though. There's still time. There's still 20 minutes. All right, let's take a break. Playoff re-seeding was a proposal that was not approved last year, and it hasn't been mentioned this year. But in an upcoming year, it's going to be back. We'll discuss that next on PFT Live. Tuesday edition of PFT Live. Last year, the league office cajoled the Lions to propose that the playoff seating be changed so the home team, well so the division champion isn't guaranteed the home game so you won't be the four seed at the lowest you could be all the way down to the seven seed depending upon how the rest of the conference shakes out that failed it was first tabled then it was withdrawn which meant there was nowhere close to 24 votes for it this year it hasn't even been mentioned and the reason for that is i'm told when they expand the regular season 18 games that's when the commissioner is going to make another push to reseed it because as you have more games they and I don't know that I agree with the reasoning they want the late season games to be more compelling and the commissioner believes that if you can still jockey to get higher on the tree and you're not you know as a second place team in a division you still could jump a division champion that that will make for more compelling late season games you got to have something like that I mean the last two weeks of the season are for the most part, not good. And that could go up to the last three weeks. You've got to have something like that to compel teams to play their starters to get better games. The longer the season gets the greater the chance of these deliberate strategic we not trying to win the game Whether it because we tanking to get a better draft pick or we locked in to the four seed and we fine with it We've clinched the division, we can't get any higher, we can't go any lower. And I think that's where it all comes from. They never want teams late in the season to take their foot off the gas for strategic reasons. Whether it's the legitimate, we're resting players, or the illegitimate, we're tanking. They don't want that. They want every team to be going all out to win every single game, and I think that's where this comes from. I feel like no matter what you do at the end of the season, if there's a team that's 15-1, then there's just stuff that is going to come from this no matter what, where teams are going to say, okay, how much do we value being the three seed versus the four seed? The Rams made that decision two years ago. Exactly. I was going to say, I've been around a lot of teams where it's, we don't necessarily value that. What was valuable was the buy, right? What is still valuable is the number one overall seed and the buy. And now that you don't have two buy teams anymore, I think that, you know, saying, okay, one to seven record. And like only if you are, you know, a guaranteed a playoff spot, if you win your division, I don't necessarily think that that's going to make things that much more competitive at the end of the regular season. The Seahawks earned the bye in 2025 over the Rams by virtue of, in part, the crazy two-point play. There was a report over the weekend that the Rams were going to propose something as a result of that lateral that got knocked beyond the line of scrimmage into the end zone. Zach Charbonnet picks it up, and it's a two-pointer. That didn't decide the game, and it wouldn't have clinched the game either way, but it just felt like a momentous occasion. So, I'm told what the Rams have proposed. Two things. One, and I don't think this is ever going to happen again, but one backward pass deflected by a defensive player. Once it goes past the line of scrimmage, it gets treated like a fumble because the fumble rules in the final two minutes of a half, on fourth down, and on a conversion attempt. If you are the one who fumbled it, only you can recover it and only you can advance it. So that play would have been in that situation under the proposal by the Rams. Only Sam Darnold could have recovered it for two points. Yes. And I don't know if they're going to get 24 votes for it, but that's the proposal. And the other proposal is a hard limit on the amount of time before you can initiate a replay review. I'm told it's either 40 seconds or a minute, but there's a hard limit on when they can press the button to start the process. Because they were out there with the kickoff teams. They're ready to go. And it was 100 seconds from the moment Zach Charbonnet picked up the ball to the moment Brad Allen told the world that a replay had started. I like both of those, and I think it should pass. I don't know that it will pass, but I think it should pass. I doubt that the first one is ever going to happen again, but I still think that I understand the reason. Now that I've thought it through and we've talked it through, I understand it, and I can get behind it. All right, we're going to do a draft of biggest combine moments, best combine memories whatever label we decide to apply to it next on pft live tuesday edition of pft live all right we're here for the scouting combine i've been coming to the scouting combine every year since 2013 with the exception of 2020 and 2021 during the pandemics you've been coming for how long 1995 although i missed three for winter Olympics. And I missed the COVID year. I was here in 2020. You know what? I was here for 20. I wasn't here in 2021, though. I wasn't here in 21. That's what it was. And I don't think I came in 22. And Sim shamed me. I did it from home. And Sim shamed me, so I decided I better come back. So I'm on a four-year streak of being at the Combine. Alright, so our draft is going to be the most memorable Combine moments. Shereen? Well, 95 was my first, and it still stands out I think is the most memorable. Mike Momola, he was projected as a second or third round draft pick, and he came here and was unbelievable. 38.5 inch vertical jump, 26 reps in the bench, 49 Wunderlich, a 4.58 in the 40. He went number seven overall because I covered the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at the time. The Eagles traded up and got the number seven overall pick. The Bucs wanted Derek Brooks. Didn't think they had a shot at Warren Sapp after the drug stuff. Even then, they didn't think they had a shot at SAP. They end up with SAP. Then they trade because of the trade with the Eagles from Momola. The Bucs ended up with extra picks so they could trade up with the Cowboys and draft Derrick Brooks. They ended up with Warren SAP. Derrick Brooks ended up getting a Super Bowl out of that. And the Eagles got Mike Momola, who we all know is a workout warrior who was not a football player. But he did play five years and he started 16 games twice and he had 64 total starts. I'm surprised. I'm surprised by this. He had in 64 starts and 77 games, he had 31 and a half sacks. So he wasn't as big of a bust as we think. He just never lived up to the hype. And you consider what the Bucs got out of that. And it was not a good trade. I'd go with also my first combine, which was 2015. And Byron Jones, set the unofficial world record in broad jump. I remember sitting up in the stands, you know, and watching what he was doing and thinking, like, that is something that is actually unbelievable, how far he was jumping. Because, I mean, even if you're up there and you can't exactly tell what the measurements are, you can just see how much farther he was going than everybody else. So that, for me, was particularly memorable. Well, maybe I have recency bias, but last year at this time, And we were dining at Mark Davis's favorite restaurant. And as we were leaving, I checked my phone. And I said, what? What is this? And I actually spent multiple hours doing real journalism work. And enjoyed every second of breaking the full details of the altercation between Ian Rappaport and Jordan Schultz at the Starbucks. And Rappaport recently talked about it on Andrew Marchand's podcast. And he said, yeah, I had a guy inches from my face screaming at me, and I was nervous. And he acknowledged that I had all of the details, that I had it nailed like that. And I wasn't there. And there were like 50 reporters there. But that's the thing. When you get a room full of reporters, it's not that hard to get the details. But I did all the stuff, like reached out to Schultz for comment, reached out to Rappaport for comment. I checked all the boxes. I did everything I was supposed to do. But even though that was last year, that was memorable. That was memorable. We're going to wrap up this Tuesday edition of PFT Live right after this. The Detroit Lions will play in Munich next season. That will be one of their home games. Usually the bulk of the international games, the home teams, are from the NFC in the even-numbered years, the AFC in the odd-numbered years, because under the current structure of the schedule with 17 games, there's an imbalance, and they go by conference. 9-8, 9-8. That's only going to last a few more years, maybe only two more years. It's going to be 18. And we're going to get back to the days when there was an imbalance, that some teams are going to have more home games than others, and that's just the way it's going to be. The NFL doesn't care. The NFL wants those 16 international games every year. And they're going to get them. They get what they want, and they will find a way to make it work with the NFLPA. Oh, and the way it will work is, Miles, this is our offer, and you'll either take it the easy way or we'll lock you out. Yeah, well, and that's what you said. I mean, when you talk about whoever comes in to help run the PA, it's going to be their first order of business, and that's going to be a tough task for any leader of the Players Association. And the fact that they're holding the door open for 18 games in 2027 by virtue of the fact that they haven't set a date for Super Bowl 62, That tells me the moment that they hire David White to be the next executive director, that's a prediction. It's not a report, but I think it's going to be him. The interim executive director, I think, will be the next executive director, barring an upset. They're going to have a meeting. They're going to buy him lunch. And they're going to tell him how it is. Here's how it is the rest of the day. You will see some of these interviews tomorrow. You may see them on PFT's main page. You may see them on YouTube. Just a sampling of some of the interviews we'll have later today. Ben Johnson coming up Brandon Bean and Joe Brady not at the same time, back to back and Nick Sirianni and Howie Roseman, back to back Good lineup Super Bowl champ, John Schneider I can't wait to talk to John Schneider can't wait to talk to all of them can't wait to talk to you again tomorrow morning see you then, 7am
