Football GM: NFL owners meetings, Lamar Jackson’s trade request & more
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🗓️ 30 March 2023
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Mike Sando is in Phoenix for the NFL owners meetings and he joins former GM Randy Mueller to break down the big news of the week involving Lamar Jackson and the Ravens. They also talk about OBJ’s appearance, the lack of rule changes and the Aaron Rodgers’ waiting game. Finally, they discuss additional free agency moves, the GM notebook and much more.
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3:08 Lamar Jackson trade request
30:05 Aaron Rodgers waiting game
33:04 OBJ shows up at owners meetings
37:52 Cowboys trade for Brandin Cooks
40:22 Austin Ekeler seeking new contract
43:43 Bobby Wagner returns to Seattle
49:13 NFL doesn’t make any big rule changes
55:25 GM Notebook
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| 0:48.1 | Welcome everybody to the Football GM podcast. |
| 0:51.7 | Mike Sando here from The Athletic along with the GM, Randy Mueller. |
| 0:57.1 | This is backwards this week, Randy. |
| 0:58.6 | I'm at the league meetings down in Arizona. |
| 1:01.5 | How many of those did you go to? |
| 1:03.2 | You should be here. |
| 1:04.4 | I've been to a few. |
| 1:05.7 | And I've got some stories about each of those places that are frequent in, too. |
| 1:29.7 | It's funny. And I know the meeting this year was at the Biltmore in Arizona. That was where we got the bomb dropped on us about moving the team to L.A. Mickey Loomis and myself. Yes. When you were with the Seahawks. Okay. Ken Bering called us up to his room the morning of at the Biltmore and said, hey, we're going to move the team to L.A. |
| 1:24.3 | And I, whoa, whoa, whoa. So every time someone talks about the Biltmore, that's what I think about. Wow. Sorry to get his sidetracked right off the bat. No, I can tell you one thing that they changed about this place out in this, they have this beautiful courtyard. I remember that courtyard up there. |
| 1:28.5 | They built a giant kind of monstrosity of a bar. |
| 1:29.8 | It's like an outdoor bar. |
| 1:46.5 | And now that... in this, they have this beautiful courtyard. Remember that courtyard out there? They built a giant kind of monstrosity of a bar. |
| 1:43.1 | It's like an outdoor bar. And now that it's kind of louder and all of that. So these are very much first world problems, Randy. Nobody cares about it. You're right about that. Because I'll tell you, I mean, this place, I don't know what it costs tonight. I'm not staying here, but I bet you it's four figures a night. |
| 2:00.9 | Those NFL owners can afford that, you know, with their billion-dollar TV contracts. |
| 2:06.5 | So anyway, we are, what, through three, four weeks of free agency, we got the draft coming in another month or so. |
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