Free Agency Day Four Recap: Calvin Ridley to the Titans, best approaches in FA, and more
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🗓️ 14 March 2024
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Four days into free agency and we're still going strong. The Titans stay aggressive by signing Calvin Ridley. The Lions keep shoring up last year's weaknesses. The Jaguars continue to disappoint us. And hey, we got a couple of trades today. Robert Mays and Nate Tice dig into all this, and highlight some approaches to free agency that they've liked, on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the athletic football show. |
| 0:15.4 | Welcome, the athletic football show. |
| 0:17.5 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:18.2 | Join me today. |
| 0:19.3 | That's my good friend Nate Tyson. |
| 0:20.4 | How you doing, buddy? Doing well. Hold up the fours. Day'm Robert Mays. Join me today. It's my good friend Nate Tyson. How you doing, |
| 0:20.9 | buddy? Doing well. Hold up the fours. Day four. Did you guys do that in high school? No, absolutely not. We weren't good enough to do that. Or cool enough. We did that. We did the fours in high school. It was a big thing. Big fours up. Big fours up. Start the four horsemen. I was very animated about it, if you could imagine what my general, just aura would have been when I was a senior in high school. I've seen the picture of the line. I know your role. Like, you don't have, I know this. I've seen every archetype of football player in my life. I know what Robert Mays was in high school in a good way. I was awful. Thinking back on what it must have been like to spend time with 18-year-old me now, as I think back on it as an adult, I truly can't even comprehend it. Honestly, what it was like to spend time with 28-year-old me, which is completely insufferable. But when you go back a little bit further, I'm, I'm pretty |
| 1:11.5 | embarrassed about it 20 years after the fact. I'll say that now. One was acquired a version. For me, it was a quiet version of the same, just annoying person. No, it was, yeah, for me, it was just, I ever since I saw that picture, and I've heard you talk about, and you long snapped, It's like, just like, I know you. |
| 1:08.8 | I know Robert Mays. |
| 1:09.9 | I went to camp with somebody Robert Mays. |
| 1:11.5 | I played ball with Robert Mays. His name was Cody over-cashier. Yeah, shout out Cody. That's what I've realized is I've gotten older, is that there's truly nothing special about me in any capacity, which, you know, it's a fine place to, when you land there in your 30s, |
| 1:44.3 | it's a good place to be. At least for me, it was like just my hopes. Like, going to training camp every day with Dante Colpepper and like Gush Farot and seeing them throw and going, yeah, I ain't got that. It's a good thing to learn early. I'm like 14, like 15, just having realistic expectations. So I don't know if that was good or bad, but ended up here on day four free agency in 2024. So I think that was very good. Not a bad place to be. We still got plenty to talk about. We had some big time moves happen over night that we're going to dig into. We've also had some stuff trickle out here over the last like 10 to 15 minutes. That is going to be worth talking about some very fun moves. Let's talk about the headline |
| 2:21.2 | grabbing move from yesterday, though. All week, it seemed like the Calvin Ridley sweepstakes was |
| 2:27.0 | going to boil down to the New England Patriots and the Jacksonville Jaguars. Makes sense. |
| 2:31.0 | The Jags moves previously with Gabe Davis and everything else they'd done, having |
| 2:36.4 | Calvin Ridley back in the fold made it all make sense. |
| 2:39.1 | The Patriots have no receivers and a ton of money, too much money, arguably. |
| 2:43.8 | So they also made sense. |
| 2:45.1 | But then at the 11th hour, as Free Agency technically gets going yesterday afternoon, the Tennessee Titans swoop in and |
| 2:53.3 | sign Calvin Ridley to a four-year, $92 million deal with $50 million guaranteed. And there is a |
| 3:00.9 | cascading effect from this. There's a lot to dig into on the Titan side. There's a lot to dig |
| 3:05.3 | into on the Jag side. And I think we have to |
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