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The GM Shuffle

Franchise Tag Window, Big Ben’s Future, Fix My Team: Jacksonville Jaguars, Carson Wentz Trade

The GM Shuffle

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Fantasy Sports, Football, Sports

4.42.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

The franchise tag window is officially open and because of the lowered salary cap for the 2021 season, teams are going to have to make tough decisions when negotiating new contracts with their players. Ben Roethlisberger wants to stay with Pittsburgh Steelers next season, but in order to do so he’ll have to come to terms with being a transition quarterback for the sake of the franchise’s future. In their new segment “Fix My Team in How Many Moves,” the guys break down the five moves the Jacksonville Jaguars have to make in order to compete next season. All that and more on this week’s The GM Shuffle! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Great to be with us as always here on the GM Shuffle.

0:06.0

Hope everyone is staying safe and there is no shortage of football news to discuss.

0:10.6

In fact, we're going to unveil a new idea that Mike came up with, fix my team and how

0:14.6

many moves, an old plan and a little game show.

0:17.5

And so we're going to focus on the Jacksonville Jaguars today specifically.

0:20.5

Well, I got the GM shuffle mail bag and Ben Rothisberger, all that stuff to get into.

0:25.0

But first and foremost, as Mike had predicted, when it come to the salary cap, it was going

0:29.0

to go down.

0:30.0

And now that we know it's going down, what does this mean for all these teams?

0:32.4

So here's the basic news out of the gate.

0:34.5

Lowered salary cap means more veteran cuts across NFL, yesterday marking the opening

0:39.4

of the franchise and transition tag windows, when the final stages as teams prepare for

0:44.0

the new league year and the start of pregnancy on March 17th.

0:48.0

So the tag window runs from February 23rd through March 9th, there's lots of different

0:52.8

aspects to this.

0:53.8

But the bottom line is this, the players likely to be tagged, Mike, let's go in this direction.

0:59.0

Justin Simmons first, safety with the Denver Broncos, tagged last year for 11.44 million.

1:04.5

He'd like to see his salary jump to 13.73.

1:07.3

He's played well under Vic Fangio, your thoughts on Simmons.

1:10.1

I really like Simmons.

1:11.1

You know, when Simmons came out, he was one of the few players that when I scouted him coming

1:15.3

out of Boston College, he actually tackled Lamar Jackson in the open field.

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