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🗓️ 23 May 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Adam Schaefter podcast, the Memorial Day Week, Adam Schaefter podcast. |
0:15.0 | And on this episode, we will be joined by the former Florida State defensive back who left school after his junior year to become a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University before coming back to play for the Tennessee Titans and the Pittsburgh Steelers and now is in his fourth year as a senior neurosurgery resident at Harvard Medical School, |
0:42.7 | Myron Roll, who has a new book out called The 2% Way, how a philosophy of small improvements |
0:49.9 | took me to Oxford, the NFL, and neurosurgery. And I can promise you, there are not too many people |
0:56.9 | who are more impressive in life than the great Myron role who will be with us on today's podcast. |
1:03.4 | But it's Memorial Day Week, and that means the start of OTAs, organized team activities |
1:08.6 | across the National football league. |
1:11.7 | And there are a lot of players in attendance this week. |
1:14.2 | But there's one who stands out for not being in attendance. |
1:18.3 | And that is the Arizona Cardinals quarterback, Kyler Murray. |
1:21.8 | Now, it's not new that Murray is looking for a new contract and has been looking for a new contract all along, but it is new |
1:28.5 | that he is not at OTAs this week. Don't think he'll be showing up there anytime soon without a |
1:35.3 | new deal. And we are now into May approaching June. There's still not a new contract for Kyla Murray. |
1:43.1 | And the dynamics surrounding his deal |
1:46.5 | have changed since his unhappiness about the situation first surface. Think about this. |
1:55.0 | Kirk Cousins redid his deal in Minnesota, which now averages $35 million a year. |
2:02.2 | The Green Bay Packers gave Aaron Rogers a deal that averages $50.27 million a year. |
2:09.3 | The Cleveland Browns gave Deshawn Watson a deal that averages $46 million a year. |
2:16.2 | And the Las Vegas Raiders gave Derek Carr a deal that averages $40.5 million a year. |
2:23.3 | That doesn't include Patrick Mahomes at $45 million or Josh Allen at $43 million or Dack Prescott at $40 million. |
2:32.0 | The point is, is that the quarterback financial landscape has shifted |
2:38.4 | dramatically while Kyla Murray and other quarterbacks like Lamar Jackson await new deals. |
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