Baker & Lamar at contract crossroads, AFC's power vacuum & trade deadline buyers/sellers
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🗓️ 21 October 2021
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Baker Mayfield & Lamar Jackson, the first and last picks of the 2018 NFL draft, are at a crossroads. A handful of games into their fourth season, Mayfield has a torn labrum in his non-throwing shoulder and is expected to miss at least a week in what may be a lost season for both the young QB and his franchise. Jackson, on the other hand, has been electric and his Baltimore Ravens are 5-1, in pole position for AFC's top seed in the playoffs.
Charles Robinson is joined this week by Eric Edholm & they kick off the podcast discussing how Baker & Lamar are trending in opposite directions as both of their teams weigh whether or not to give them a contract extension this upcoming offseason.
Spinning off that, the guys chat about Monday night's surprising Titans win over the Buffalo Bills, the surprisingly 4-2 Cincinnati Bengals and a wide open AFC that, if the season ended today, would shockingly see the Kansas City Chiefs out of playoff contention.
In the second half of the podcast, Charles & Eric predict a few teams who may be buyers or sellers at November's trade deadline. Should the Packers and Cowboys try to bolster their defenses in anticipation of a Super Bowl run? When should the Seattle Seahawks call it quits on a season without Russell Wilson & trade away some players for future assets?
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| 0:00.0 | Ambrose Beers, who was a civil war air journalist, a union soldier and author of the Devil's |
| 0:07.7 | Dictionary, once called patience a minor form of despair disguised as virtue. |
| 0:14.0 | I've always liked that. |
| 0:15.5 | I've always felt like it was something that applied to every process requiring patience |
| 0:19.5 | in the NFL. |
| 0:21.5 | Except for that whole minor part, let's be honest though the last few decades patience |
| 0:26.0 | in this league is usually treated or absorbed as a major practice in anguish. |
| 0:31.6 | Players have to develop as quickly as possible, five-year franchise plans have shortened |
| 0:35.9 | into three-year plans and now seemingly every regime might as well consider itself on a |
| 0:40.3 | year-to-year lease. |
| 0:42.4 | In contracts, particularly young quarterback contracts, you better get ahead of the market |
| 0:46.9 | as quickly as possible or you're engaging in malpractice when it comes to your own salary |
| 0:51.0 | cap. |
| 0:52.6 | That is, unless you're willing to embrace a little despair, dress it up as something |
| 0:56.5 | virtuous and then hope that time delivers a worthwhile result. |
| 1:01.3 | That's where the Baltimore Ravens and Cleveland Browns have landed six games into this season. |
| 1:06.3 | Two franchises that embrace the path of patience with their franchise quarterback deals for |
| 1:11.2 | Lamar Jackson and Baker Mayfield, and two franchises that now have some very important and very |
| 1:16.8 | different results in their hands to shape the coming months and also the 2022 off season. |
| 1:22.5 | Because as much as the two teams entered into this season heading down the same avenue, |
| 1:27.4 | that journey is diverging. |
| 1:29.4 | Let's start with Jackson, who on Sunday became the youngest NFL quarterback to win 35 games. |
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