Fifth year option decisions are looming for the 2023 first round.

We'll tell you what these teams should do today on the Lockdown NFL Scouting podcast.

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episode, we appreciate y'all being here very, very much. Joe, good morning to you. Good morning.

It is Thursday, February 12th, and it is morning. You could tell how early it is by how red by

eyes are when I wake up and we record. And I don't know why, but. Take a little time to get them going. Yeah. I did the eye drops. I did everything. Sometimes it's just the early morning wakeups or my body's taking a beating, I guess. I don't know. So we're, I feel great. I do want the record to stay. I feel great, but I'm looking at myself. I'm like, my eyes are as red as Joe's background and his hat. How long do you need, man? How long do those eyes need to get warmed up? I don't know. I don't know. You normally not in front of a camera within minutes of waking up. Yeah, you know, I was up at, I was up at 445. So it wasn't like I was, no, I stayed in the dark.

I probably should have got up and got in front of like the light and stuff. But it's all right.

Time is money. And some teams have some decisions to make around some money. And they've been,

no, not short on time, but their careers are just getting started.

There's some limited sample sizes for these guys, but it's three years in a league already,

which is crazy to think about for the 2023 NFL draft.

And as the collective bargaining dictates, the first round players, and there were 31 this

year, the Dolphins gave theirs up for the idea of Tom Brady and Sean Payton when

they're tampering.

After your first five years, you have one more year left on your contract. The teams have an option, a team option for the final year

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