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What about hot cakes though? I want some hot cakes.

Now here's your host ready to jump into the thick of things. Duane calendar.

Good evening and welcome to the show. Got quite a bit to talk about and you know

realistically this was gonna focus more on the fancy aspect for waiver wire

pickups but man the news has gotten so

juicy this evening that gotta talk about the world of sports because life just

got a whole lot more interesting so the the Lavian Bell saga in Pittsburgh has now come to a close.

Lavian Bell has completed his heel turn and is not going to report at all for the 2018

NFL season. Obviously no one saw this one coming, not even Laveon and his people, because no

one did their homework. Apparently, within the CBA, and this was only discovered about a week ago

Actually less than a week ago because the NFL only came down with the decision on Wednesday

the language in the collective bargaining agreement

between the NFL owners and players states that players can be tagged two times under the franchise tag and that the third time would automatically

grant them quarterback status.

Meaning if you tag a player for the third time they automatically would be making an average of the top five

quarterbacks in the league and given the fact that it's a quarterback driven league that price tag

runs north of $24 to $25 million, given the guaranteed

money being allocated to quarterbacks these days, especially with that Matthew Stafford joke of a contract.

So obviously the steals aren't going to do that, but what everyone had assumed was that because

Labion wasn't going to report that the franchise tender to

Steelers offered him would not actually count against him and that they could

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