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Nothing Personal with David Samson

Broncos take on $85 MILLION in dead cap after releasing Russell Wilson; Caleb or Fields: Who is making the decisions for the Bears? (Episode 1004)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Baseball, Sports, Business

4.53K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘dead cap’ as in ghost money as in Russell Wilson as in Denver Broncos as in $85 million. That’s it for Russ. 2 seasons and Sean Payton had enough. The fighting at the end of the season about the contract was always going to end this way. (17:45) So You Wanna Talk to Samson!? Someone asked me about the Chicago Bears and the decision to be made about Caleb Williams or Justin Fields. Who makes this decision? (30:00) Review: Zone of Interest. (34:12) We have an Acuńan update. He is expected to be ready for Opening Day. Phew. (36:20) Scott Boras is back. It’s been a spring training tour with him. Always with the quotes. Never ends. (41:40) The Zach Wheeler deal was a big one. Huge money. But another Boras guy had something to say. (43:30) NPPOD. Let’s talk about Bronny and LeBron James. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

listening to a podcast a

0:02.0

taking a break from the outside world and spending some time alone

0:06.0

well there's none of that in a celebrity big brother house no take a break from the outside world because there is no outside world and no spending time alone because the cameras are

0:16.1

always rolling. There's one place they can't hide. The celebs are in. Catch up with everything going on in the house.

0:25.8

Celebrity Big Brother on IT1 and ITX. Here you go.

0:33.0

go.

0:34.0

go. Dead Cat. That's the Nothing Personal Word of the Day. It is Tuesday, March 5th, 2024.

0:54.8

Everybody's talking about Dead Cat

0:57.2

because Russell Wilson, in the least surprising

1:00.4

move of the off season so far in the NFL, he's been released and all I could think of from the

1:07.6

minute I saw the notification push to me. I think first by Koca, maybe first by ESPN. I was saying to myself what it is to be the owner of the

1:17.7

Broncos having bought the team rich beyond belief. Remember they bought the team for 2.2 billion and

1:23.9

22 it's the Walton Walmart family. They come in having bought the team from

1:29.2

that family, the Boland family who they were fighting when the father died and all the kids and the

1:34.3

wife everybody's fighting they sell the team for 2.2 bill that was August of

1:40.8

22 in March of 22 there was this big trade.

1:44.5

Russell Wilson moving on from the Seahawks.

1:48.2

The end was not particularly clean from Seattle.

1:53.0

His skill level was eroding, but there was some sense of a rebirth

1:59.5

that somehow he would go full share, turn back time, and be the answer to the Broncos who were, in theory,

2:06.7

a quarterback short of the Promised Land. In comes Russell Wilson. He and his wife Sierra become pillars of the community,

2:15.0

buys a house, he's front row of the Denver Nuggets

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