Welcome to the Ringer NFL show. My name is Robert Mays. I'm writer at the Ringer.

Joining me on the other line, it's Kevin Clark. Kevin, we're back. We're back!

We are. We are. How was your summer vacation, Robert?

It's been great. I mean, there are a few better places than in the summer than Chicago.

I've really enjoyed it. It's been a lot of outside drinking and outside grilling.

And lots of fun. How's yours, Ben?

It's been grinding tape.

Yeah, that's what I figured. I assume that's what you do all day every day.

Just locked in a dark room. Just grinding.

You know, I mean, the tape doesn't lie. And I don't deal in lies.

So I've just been watching, you know, cut-ups.

So we were going for a little while since the draft was kind of a reset time for the Ringer NFL show.

Figuring out how we kind of wanted to do things in year two.

And from now on, we're going to be back pretty regularly.

We're going to be doing some bigger scope podcasts here on out from now until

the train can get started as the off season keeps going.

So we're going to start with something that comes on the heels of pretty much the biggest

NFL news from last week, which was the record setting deal that Derek Cargott from Oakland.

Five years, 125 million, 25 million annually, the biggest deal in NFL history.

And kind of in that cloud and under that umbrella, we want to chat about just value in the NFL.

And in a vacuum, who the most valuable player in the NFL might be.

And the way we're going to do that is with a hypothetical universe where every player in the league

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