and Hey everybody welcome to an emergency podcast Matthew Collar here the

Minnesota Vikings have traded Zadaria Smith and now for a long time I have told you folks look the Minnesota Vikings never let you sleep and that is absolutely true because I was taking a nap that That's what I was doing.

I wanted to take a nap to make sure

that I had enough energy to stay up and watch

Lakers and Golden State tonight.

And yeah, I wake up, pull up the phone,

there's Tom Bellicero saying, hey, everybody,

we've got ourselves a trade as the Minnesota Vikings

have sent Zadarius Smith to the Cleveland Browns.

They send Zadarius a 2025 sixth and seventh

to get a 2024 fifth and also a 2025 fifth round pick as well.

And in the process, the Vikings free up about $12 million in salary cap space

and essentially get nothing back.

I mean, okay, a couple of pick swaps, a fifth rounder,

that's okay, I guess, but this is 100%

the Minnesota Vikings dumping Zadaria Smith for salary cap space and now they will at least be able to sign their rookie class and the Cleveland Browns have taken two of the Vikings best defensive linemen from last year in Delvent Tominson and now Zadarius Smith as well.

And Tom Pellicero also notes that he has reworked his contract to give him more guaranteed money of $11.75 million.

So Zadaria Smith gets, it seems somewhat of what he was looking for which is more guaranteed money

I don't know if he was looking for a completely new contract but that wouldn't have made a whole lot of sense for a lot of teams to do with him any sort of contract extension or huge pay raise, but guaranteed money is all what matters in the NFL.

So it seems that that's what Zadaria Smith gets out of the deal.

He's going to go to Cleveland. Now their defensive line is actually pretty incredible.

If Zadaria Smith stays healthy, Miles Garrett Delvin Tomlinson actually pretty

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