NPDS - Broncos take on $85 MILLION in dead cap after releasing Russell Wilson; Caleb or Fields: Who is making the decisions for the Bears? (Episode 1004)

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Dan Le Batard

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🗓️ 5 March 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘dead cap’ as in ghost money as in Russell Wilson as in Denver Broncos as in $85 million. That’s it for Russ. 2 seasons and Sean Payton had enough. The fighting at the end of the season about the contract was always going to end this way. (17:45) So You Wanna Talk to Samson!? Someone asked me about the Chicago Bears and the decision to be made about Caleb Williams or Justin Fields. Who makes this decision? (30:00) Review: Zone of Interest. (34:12) We have an Acuńan update. He is expected to be ready for Opening Day. Phew. (36:20) Scott Boras is back. It’s been a spring training tour with him. Always with the quotes. Never ends. (41:40) The Zach Wheeler deal was a big one. Huge money. But another Boras guy had something to say. (43:30) NPPOD. Let’s talk about Bronny and LeBron James. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're right mate? Oh no, my boiler's nackered. Do you know any plumbers?
0:03.4	Yeah, I do, yeah. You know Danny? Well, he lives next-naught to this woman who's engaged to this lady who went to school with a
0:08.0	bloke called Gary. All right, is he a plumber? No, he's not, no. But he knows a bloke,
0:12.1	who walks a dog with this woman.
0:13.4	Debbie I think she's called, well she gets her air cooked with sand.
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0:25.2	Such British Gas Boiler repairs.
0:27.0	So, is he a plumber?
0:28.4	Technically not, but he's got a van. Here you go.
0:33.0	go.
0:34.0	go. Dead Cap. That's the nothing personal word of the day. It is Tuesday, March 5th, 2024.
0:54.8	Everybody's talking about Dead Cat
0:57.2	because Russell Wilson, in the least surprising move
1:00.8	of the off season so far in the NFL, he's been released and all I could think of
1:07.2	from the minute I saw the notification push to me. I think first by Koca, maybe first by ESPN. I was saying to myself what it is to be the owner of the
1:17.7	Broncos having bought the team rich beyond belief. Remember they bought the team for 2.2 billion and
1:23.8	22 it's the Walton Walmart family. They come in having bought the team from
1:29.2	that family, the Boland family who they were fighting when the father died and all the kids and the
1:34.3	wife everybody's fighting they sell the team for 2.2 bill that was August of
1:40.8	22 in March of 22 there was this big trade.
1:44.5	Russell Wilson moving on from the Seahawks.
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