Brandin Cooks to Dallas, Laremy Tunsil's extension, C.J. Gardner-Johnson to Detroit, and more from the weekend with Jeff Howe
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🗓️ 20 March 2023
⏱️ 75 minutes
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While the sports world spent the weekend focused on brackets, the NFL kept on humming. Brandin Cooks is a Cowboy! C.J Gardner-Johnson is a Lion! Laremy Tunsil got a huge extension! Robert Mays and Jeff Howe dig into the moves that took place over the weekend, and a handful of other lingering free agency thoughts, on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
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1:53 Brandin Cooks to the Cowboys
11:17 The Stephon Gilmore trade from the Colts POV
17:04 Laremy Tunsil signs a massive extension
19:44 Adam Thielen to the Panthers
21:23 C.J. Gardner-Johnson to the Lions, and the safety market at large
28:27 Why did Darius Slay to back to the Eagles?
30:47 The Raiders' QB search and start to the offseason
52:44 The Patriots' need for playmakers
60:05 WR dominoes
64:52 Austin Ekeler's trade request
69:06 How does the Lamar Jackson situation play out?
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| 0:47.5 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:50.1 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:50.9 | Joining me today, it's the Athletics National NFL NFL insider, so I'm very excited to have on. |
| 0:56.3 | It's Jeff Howe. |
| 0:57.4 | Jeff, thank you very much for doing this, my friend. |
| 0:59.2 | Of course. |
| 0:59.8 | Thanks for having me. |
| 1:00.6 | Happy Monday. |
| 1:01.8 | Yes, it is Monday. |
| 1:03.3 | If my voice sounds a little worse for the wear, I apologize. |
| 1:06.5 | I spent the weekend in New Orleans yelling about various things. |
| 1:10.3 | But we're going to be fine. We're going to get through this. It's going to be all right. A lot of stuff to dig into a few things that happened yesterday that I kind of want to play cleanup about, you know, some fairly big moves. Let's start with the Cowboys trading for Brandon Cooks. Not a ton to give up for Brandon Cooks, a fifth round pick this year, a sixth round pick next year. |
| 1:30.4 | By all accounts, the Texans will pay $6 million of his salary this season. |
| 1:34.5 | The Cowboys will pick up $12 million. |
| 1:36.7 | He's also under contract for about $16 million in 2024. |
| 1:41.4 | Jeff, when you saw this, would you make you the move? |
| 1:43.9 | Well, it seemed like something that the Texans were going to do. I know that they had been |
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