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The Adam Schefter Podcast

MEGA DEALS: Rams get Myles Garrett?! Pats land A.J. Brown

The Adam Schefter Podcast

ESPN

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4.2802 Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2026

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Adam Schefter and Ty Schmit of The Pat McAfee Show discuss the monster NFL trades that went down on June 1st. How did the Rams land Myles Garrett? What do they make of Cleveland's return? How does A.J. Brown fit in New England? Where does Philly go from here? 0:00 Welcome 0:28 CRAZY Day in the NFL 1:22 Schefty explains how Myles Garrett deal came to be 6:14 Would Aaron Donald come out of retirement to rejoin Rams? 10:35 Cleveland's haul for Garrett 18:51 Patriots get their guy in A.J. Brown 24:20 Where does Philly go from here without Brown? 29:41 Giants sign slew of free agent WRs 33:40 Schefty's dad joins with his memories from Game 7 of the 1970 NBA Finals Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the Adam Schaefter podcast coming off what might be one of the single busiest days of the NFL year, maybe the single most busy day in June in recent NFL history.

0:18.9

And I might argue maybe NFL history.

0:21.9

I don't know if there's ever been a day in June where the NFL saw two blockbuster

0:28.0

trades that involve three players, 12 Pro Bowl selections, five draft picks, including two first round picks, all dealt on the first day of June.

0:43.0

It was June day unlike any other.

0:46.3

I think it goes down in NFL history, and there is a lot to cover with a lot of teams

0:52.3

and a lot of players, and that's why we're joined tonight

0:55.8

by my friend, the co-host of the Pat McAfee show, Ty Schmidt, for the weekly special

1:02.4

six-pack. Thank you very much, Shepdy. Yeah, listen, you mentioned that you were on Pat's show

1:08.3

today, kind of as the bullets were flying and I'll be honest I

1:13.0

I don't I don't know if I mean I let's get right to it because I want to hear how we got here

1:17.7

I was shocked all of us were shocked topic number one of this week six pack the br the rams

1:26.3

acquire Miles Garrett from the Browns and send Jared verse back to the,

1:31.4

I mean, just break down how this happened. I'm still trying to wrap my head around this. I can't

1:37.0

believe that barring a physical, it's actually done. Well, let's start with the Rams acquisition

1:42.8

of Miles Garrett tie.

1:45.1

And I will go back to a conversation that I had in late March when I got a call from an executive on another team.

1:52.7

And he said to me, are you aware of Miles Garrett restructuring his contract and pushing back the option bonuses from the 15th day of the league

2:02.8

year, which is in mid-March or late March, to the week before the regular season opener.

2:08.2

Now, what that means is the team does not have to pay the bonus until the week before the season

2:15.4

begins, which gives them more time during the off season

2:18.4

to potentially trade him before the acquiring team would have to pay the option bonus

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