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🗓️ 7 June 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Jenny, Conor and Gary start things off with every conceivable take on the Julio Jones trade: The positives for the Titans, trying to figure out the Falcons' plan, one coach who is simultaneously thrilled and maybe a little terrified, and much, much more.

And before we get into more serious topics, a conversation about the week's two silliest headlines, starting with Tua and the playbook. What does it mean when a second-year quarterback says on a Zoom call that he has a better grasp of the playbook? And how would opening locker rooms to (vaccinated) journalists be a step toward avoiding such silly controversies in the future?

Then, the goings-on in Chicago, where apparently a promise made in March to Andy Dalton is being treated as an unbreakable contract in June. Why the Bears will absolutely not be starting Dalton when the season begins if he doesn't outplay Justin Fields this summer.

Plus, a deeper look into the mess the league has made for itself when it comes to Toradol usage and race-norming in the concussion settlement. And why it’s taking them far too long to do the right thing.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the MMQB Monday morning NFL
0:07.2	podcast I'm Gary Gremlin I'm Jenny Francis I'm Conroy and we have we have some big headlines to go through this week guys
0:15.0	We have a little bit of two of silliness down in Miami. We have some stuff going on with Andy Dalton and promisesises Made 2. And we also have some serious
0:24.9	stuff to do at the end of the show. Not that this first thing isn't serious but
0:28.8	maybe not beyond football serious. But we're starting off with Julio Jones.
0:33.4	Julio Jones has been moved. He is off to Tennessee. The compensation was the
0:38.4	Falcons receive a 20-22 second round pick and a 2023 fourth rounder
0:42.8	Julio Jones and a 2023 sixth round pick
0:48.0	go back to the Falcons.
0:50.4	So we finally reach the end of this storyline, which I don't know I thought it might carry us all the way through August. I guess I'm a little bit sad to see it go.
0:59.0	But the issue was finding a trade partner who was gonna be able to fit with what the
1:07.2	Falcons had to do here not only in terms of the conversation they got but but the salary
1:12.0	cap situation in Atlanta.
1:13.2	Yeah I think the price that the Falcons got back evidently that was the
1:18.9	best that the market would bear for a partner that was willing to take on the entire salary, which was the Falcon's top
1:25.9	concern, was clearing that off their books so they could sign their rookie class.
1:31.4	And I think it makes sense that it probably the market topped out with a second round pick.
1:37.0	Don't think anyone was going to give up a first round pick and then also take on that salary.
1:45.0	But one question that I have is
1:50.0	the Falcon's plan from this point forward
1:52.0	because they decided not to go the route despite being in prime position to take a quarterback in this year's draft if there was one that they liked still there at number four,
2:05.8	but they passed on the opportunity to take a quarterback this year and decided to go forward
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