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🗓️ 14 March 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Jason Fitz is joined by Senior NFL Reporters Jori Epstein and Charles Robinson to go behind the scenes on the biggest news around NFL free agency. The trio start off with the news that the Philadelphia Eagles and Atlanta Falcons are under investigation for their tampering in the signings of Saquon Barkley and Kirk Cousins, respectively. In other news, Desmond Ridder was traded to the Arizona Cardinals (and may be part of the team's long-term plans), and Calvin Ridley got a massive contract with the Tennessee Titans. The Eagles never pay big money for running backs, but they bucked that trend by signing former New York Giant Saquon Barkley. The trio do a deep dive on how this came about, and Jori outlines the Eagles' thought process as to why Barkley was the right guy to go after. Later, Charles takes us through the huge ripple effects left by Kirk Cousins' contract, as Justin Fields will now likely have to accept a backup role this season (and Charles has a new favorite landing spot), and quarterbacks who are negotiating extensions (Tua Tagovailoa and Jared Goff in particular) just saw their price tag go up.

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0:00.0	If you ain't cheating, you ain't trying.
0:02.3	Even with legal tampering, the ripple effect of Captain Kirk heading to Hotlana,
0:07.3	not just for the draft, but for other superstars, we've got all that and more.
0:11.1	I'm Jason Fitz and it is time for inside coverage.
0:15.0	Hey everyone, it's Matt Harmon from the Yahoo Fantasy Football show. Are you sad?
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0:42.0	or on the Yahoo Fantasy app. Welcome to Inside Coverage Part of the Zero Blitz family where we dive into the how and why on all things
1:02.9	NFL Charles Robinson, Jory Epstein, I'm Jason Fitz still hitting puberty.
1:06.5	I don't know why every voice.
1:08.4	Little voice pop.
1:09.6	We'll voice break there.
1:10.7	Every week, you know, every week I bring the energy like a 12 year old
1:13.6	because they sound like a 12 year old that's in middle school that's excited. I'm
1:17.4	excited guys because we got a ton to get into I've been particularly excited
1:21.4	about this conversation because we all went through free agency,
1:24.6	frenzy, legal tampering that led to signing.
1:27.1	Let me start with this a very basic question though.
1:30.0	All right, see Rob, you've been doing this a long time. Is the system now better than it was before when at midnight all of a sudden the clock turned midnight everybody just signed willy-nilly out of everywhere do you like this better now I guess I mean I don't understand
1:45.8	the tampering period thing to me it's just it's okay so are they tampering ahead of the tampering period.
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