Russ to New York, Diggs to New England and NFL First Dates

NFL Daily with Gregg Rosenthal

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🗓️ 26 March 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Gregg Rosenthal is joined by Colleen Wolfe and Jourdan Rodrigue of The Athletic to take on the roles of NFL figures sitting down for a first meeting. Before the first dates, Gregg reacts to Russell Wilson signing with the Giants (00:40) and Stefon Diggs signing with the Patriots (03:45). Then, the crew plays the roles of Jameis Winston meeting with the Giants (18:00), Cam Ward meeting with the Titans (29:40), Aaron Rodgers meeting with the Steelers (30:25), Pete Carroll meeting with Geno Smith (34:30), Sam Darnold meeting with Cooper Kupp (37:25), and the new Bears offensive lineman getting together (40:40).

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0:00.0	Okay, so we taped a great show, myself, Jordan Rodriguez the Athletic, and Colleen Wolf today.
0:09.2	And you're going to hear that show in just a little bit, but I'm driving away from Englewood.
0:14.6	And I get a text that Russell Wilson has signed with the Giants.
0:19.4	By the time I get back to the studio, just about 10 minutes later, Stefan Diggs has signed with the Giants. By the time I get back to the studio, just about 10 minutes
0:22.4	later, Stefan Diggs has signed with the Patriots. And it really bothers me when we're not as up to
0:27.7	date as humanly possible on NFL Daily. So I wanted those to be part of this show. So I'm just going to
0:32.8	talk about those two moves quickly. And then we'll get to the rest of the show where we're really trying out
0:38.8	our acting chops doing some role playing. Okay, let's start with the Rust deal. One year, 10.5 million
0:44.8	to join the New York Giants in one of the wildest quarterback rooms in recent memory, Russell Wilson,
0:53.1	James Winston, and Tommy DeVito. I love it. And I don't think
0:56.9	they're done there. More in a second. $10.5 million for Russ. And James, two for $8 million,
1:05.2	means they are paying a combined roughly $14 million this year to James Winston and Russell Wilson.
1:13.3	That is the same amount of money that the Colts are paying Daniel Jones.
1:18.3	That is significantly less money than the Raiders paid Gardner Minchu last year.
1:23.0	That's actually good business.
1:24.3	I got no jokes for the Giants.
1:26.0	Everyone's making fun of what are the Giants doing?
1:27.8	What are they doing? They're paying two quarterbacks who can play well enough,
1:32.0	14 and a half million, which is combined to make an average backup quarterback contract.
1:37.5	I don't mind that at all. The more I thought about this, the more I think it doesn't change
1:41.6	anything for them on draft day.
1:48.1	They will likely draft Shadur Sanders if he's there, I believe.
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