Cap hit relief, dead money hit relief.

All that sort of stuff is going to have to be there.

But sometimes you have to pick one to get the other.

I'm going to throw this out to you Key.

I know you, said the Chicago Bears as a potential landing spot for Alex Smith.

But let me throw this one out there for you.

What about considering?

I know you don't think he started material anymore, and I think most teams agree that you gotta hold your breath every time there's a drop back, and that's part of the reason you can't do that.

What about a return to the San Francisco 49 ers, where he started his career as a backup to Jimmy G?

You're not sure about Jimmy G.

You want to give him the benefit of the doubt Alex Smith goes back there?

You know he's going to be a good soldier the way he was with Patrick Mahomes.

I think that's all great.

San Francisco 49 ers Kansas City Chiefs uh, teams like that that have a starter that if something goes wrong.

You have a major insurance policy that can hold things together for a couple of games.

Jacksonville, Trevor Lawrence.

Good soldiers die young guys veteran.

Work with the young guy here and there.

You can't get popped off relationship.

Urban Meyer.

Guess going back to Utah and you think about it.

Not everything has to be Rogers.

Far right.

You can step in there and do the right thing.

You're not going to Jacksonville.

You're not doing it.

I'm 40 years old.

I'm trying to win you.

Yeah, whatever he is, he's older.

He's trying to win.

Speaking of winning, um, you know who shares the NFC East?

Of course, with the Washington football team.

But that, of course, is Joe Judge.

I'll see myself.

We wish we could get a Joe judge conversation here for Judge Zubin.

But was that a joke?

When it doesn't work, you just go through it real quick.

I'm just trying to think of Mother.

I love you just went through.

I was like, Wait, it didn't hit.

So I just said I just had to keep going.

Have you seen the gong show lately?

The god that was brilliant coming up bunco is great and I love you.

I don't have a gavel.

I do one of the classic movie you right along There it is.

Courting session.

Let's go.

It should be out of session, apparently, uh, because I'm out of touch with the jokes.

Okay, so here's the deal.

Washington football team is a great relationship with Cam Newton because of the great relationship that Ron Rivera and Cam Newton had together.

Then again, as key told us yesterday, Um, Bill Belichick, despite what people are telling you, also has a great relationship with Cam Newton, and Cam was effusive in his praise for Bill on a podcast last week.

So if Cam is available and the Washington football team could grab him for a reunion or the Pats could grab him for a year to reunion, guys make the arguments.

Key will start with you.

What franchise best fits Cam?

I think both do, but I I feel more A toward Washington for camp uh, reunion with Ron Rivera, eternity.

Offensive coordinator.

Um, they got some young, talented defense.

They got a young wide receiver, um, they can show up the offensive line a little bit better get a better running game going.

I think Cam fits.

It's not a big learning curve for him, um, and and it's a weaker, much weaker division.

There's no one really strong in that division.

Buffalo, strong in the NFC East, understand Buffalo strong in the NFC East, but Patriots could have beat Buffalo of Cam kept the ball tough, right?

So Patriot, 17 9.

And I would ask you this key.

Currently, who is the greatest coach in the NFL?

Bill Belichick?

Not even a question.

We heard Cam on the podcast.

I'm an athlete.

Talk about the brilliant mind of Bill Belichick.

It took a year to learn the system.

Obviously, he had covid.

He was out.

Other players have opted out.

You try to get better wide receivers.

You add that to the core with Bill Belichick and Josh McDaniels with the way they run that system, another year underneath camps.

But I just feel like that.

That's that's the best opportunity to him.

Instead of Uprooting and then changing again, going to a new franchise learning new players well, he would be going to a new franchise certainly would be learning new players.

The system for the most part is the same.

Both of these teams work as far as I'm concerned.

They both work I just because of the relationship.

Longtime head coach.

But then again, the head coach didn't jump on the table for him last season.

And so, you know, they went another direction at the quarterback spot.

But Belichick gave him an opportunity, a chance?

So maybe maybe he stays in New England.

I mean, this is one where I'm kind of torn between in between.

Both now, keep in mind, plead the fifth, not the 1234 You already said too much.

When you say nothing, you've given your entire argument, then you can't believe it after that.

One interesting thing is that you know the NFC East is the one division that always has rotating division winner.

So history would tell you that somebody other than Washington is going to win the division next year.

They want it on the final day of the regular season last year to get into the playoffs.

That's not to say that's the way it goes, but you're right, you know.

I mean, you don't know what the Eagles are going to do the Giants.

And let's just pick the Cowboys now like we do every year, that seems to work out.

But that could be their main competition because the other teams are a quarterback by Daniel Jones or Jalen Hurts.

And who knows who.

It sort of seems like a two division race at the moment.

You know it.

It does seem like that because you don't know what Philadelphia is going to ultimately turn out to be.

The Giants could be very, very interesting.

They got a young core on defense that played solid at times.

Daniel Jones.

The book is still out on him, but he didn't play awful.

He didn't play great.

He just was a guy underneath the center at times.

I think if the Giants didn't rush him back in instead, uh, and allow Colt McCoy to kind of play that game, that they wind up losing.

They win that game with Colt McCoy.

They they're in the playoffs and they're in the playoff hunt Instead, they have to depend on Philadelphia to help them get in.

And it didn't work out the way that they thought.

What do you think?

Cam signs for what From just defending money wise for a team.

Is that 12, 12, 13 a year?

I think.

I think you sound like a two year, maybe a third year team option.

Yeah, I think I think he will get.

Not necessarily starter money, But the bottom tier started type money.

The bottom of the started money for God with a lot of incentives.

Yeah.

Stay if you stay healthy.

If you likely to be earned.

Incentives.

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