ever since I was a kid my dad man was big into having a nice lawn nice flower beds and stuff like that my mom was the grumpy ass you know get off my lawn lady who used to just yell at everybody if you stepped off the walkway

lewis riddick is an NFL analyst for ESPN and Monday Night Football.

He played in the league for six years and worked as an NFL scout and personnel executive.

He's also very proud of his home landscaping.

And so I kind of picked that up.

So when I first, when we got our first house, I just naturally liked cutting the grass myself.

I like landscaping at all.

And I don't do that now.

I mean, my back will just blow up.

But I'll tell you what, I spend so much money, man, on landscapers.

And I just ride them all the time.

I'm like, that's not it.

Cut these bushes different. I mean, I have more mulch and stuff

put down. I mean, my wife will tell you, I'm a pain in the ass when it comes to landscape.

It sounds, Lewis, like you're the Bill Belichick of landscaping.

NFL Free Agency is officially upon us, which means that teams are pruning rosters, pulling

up roots, and in Bill Belichick's case, making it rain.

Today, Lewis Riddick takes us inside football's secret garden, and he tells us which

franchises are about to blow.

I'm Pablo Torre. It's Thursday, turns out, for a long, long time.

But we are talking at 4.17 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday. And today is kind of this holiday in the business that you work in. So am I supposed to say,

happy new league year to you? What is protocol here? Catch me up on where exactly we are and what's

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