TDT 03/23 Live

Touchdowns and Tangents

Kenny and Pete break down the latest free agency moves, NFL Network, the t-step and more.
Hm, Hey, you out there there, want some, want some? You can tell that they actually have some. Hey, cloud chasing, that's actually got something in mind for you, So keep rusting you'll find out. Now this is a Touchdowns and Tangents is your weekly spot. Or the NFL coaching week in sight and in context for the go to what's up, good people? Touchdowns and Tangents. You're Thursday night spot for NFL takes topical Tangents coming to you on a special Sunday night Monday. Uh from Hawthorne, California, I m P D Camrio and he is Kenneth Barry. Yeah. So a bit of a slow news week this week, especially compared to the last few weeks. But still a few updates that we're going to get through and break down for you over the. Course of the show. But otherwise, uh, I was weak any uh pretty solid. Actually, I made a made a last second decision. Actually that it wasn't really the last seconds. I know I was gonna do it for about two months, but I went down to Oakland and surprised my whole family for my grandma's eighty fifth birthday. Shout out to Grandma, shout out up Birthday Grandma. Hip shout out to my mama Mary and to her birthday was like two weeks ago. I took a greathound out there like Tuesday night, got there Wednesday morning, told my mom like, hey, I ordered something of my Famazon and the guys downstairs he needs you to let him in so Grandma can sign for the package. I get there, susan excuse me. She just starts crying beest. I'm like, oh shit, don't have a heart attack and die. Because last year I I surprised my grandma on her birthday or on the eighty fourth birthday, and me and my mom and my sister were in on it, and like she clutched her chest when she saw me and started crying. I was like, fuck, I can't. I can't surprise pop up on the family no more they can. I got like a WrestleMania level pop in the living room. That shit was kind of funny. My nephew, I say, it just runs up, jumps on me, Court Chelsea runs out the room with her with Nico, and like Nico, he's just turned four months so he can turn his neck now. He has actually surprisingly really good control of his neck and he can like turn over on the sides. So as Chelsea's running with the baby in her arms, he's looking at her like, slow down, bitch. It was the funniest thing. But yeah, it was good to good to see everybody. I only was. I was out there one day. I got there like seven after at eight in the morning, and I left at like eleven twenty that night and got back to Cali at like eight in the morning. Then I had to go run a bunch of errands and work, and yeah, mom, my boss of who's been at the NFL Network for like fifteen years, he's, uh, he's leaving. He got a job at the Atlanta Braves. He's moving back to Georgia. Family got a house out there. He's like, I never would have got a house out here, and we're like, yeah, you're right. So it was good to kind of just pull up on him yesterday before I went to work, say my goodbyes because I'm probably not gonna see him this week. He gave me my first shot. He's the one who hired me an NFL Network three years ago. He's like, man, salute to you. I love all the work you do. Shouted out the pod too. It was dope. It's been a very like emotionally fulfilling week for me. So yeah, that's what's up. That's dope for me. I just got back from a Vegas a few days ago, which was cool, just to get out the city for a little bit fuck around. I went to the Clipper game Hell Kitty Night with my girl, which was cool. She bought me there James Harden jersey, so that was dope. And uh yeah, man, I had my first five month five tournament today which was cool. My eight year olds went to and oh so that was that was cool. I didn't really have high expectations, but my guys are gamers. Apparently they hit the switch, so I was great. I mean even my little seven year olds, who I've only been working with for like a week or so, they really got out there and. Competed the end of the day, Like the end of the day. Things like this, they're just like tests that just kind of you know, mark where you're at at that moment in time, you know. So it's not. It's not the end all be all, obviously, you know, we're trying to get to fall, trying to win and tackle. But for now it's a nice little confidence booster to know we're on the right track. So I was happy about that. Otherwise, man, yeah, I guess do you want to talk about as far as college football. So salute. Salute to Fran Brown, Syracuse head coach. He talked about how program that's mandatory for all Syracuse players, that it's like the Syracuse sixty like sixty days after they graduate or whatever, these guys get jobs, they get placed somewhere, which is really dope as a coach, as a college coach, you know, cats go play football at Syracuse and they're guaranteed the job somewhere. Like that's a great recruiting sales pitch. And that's what I would want a coach to do for my kid, if I'm going to play football for you for four years or five years, or six years or seven years. Because LSU running back John Emery, who tours ACL against USC last year, he's trying to get a seventh year of eligibility. But Brian Kelly's like, we're good at running back, but we'll support now wherever it goes. So hopefully he can find somewhere we can play, you know, for seventh year. Kind of crazy, Like I remember when this dude came out of college and he was one of the top running backs in the country, five star prospects. He's just had so many injuries. It's kind of sad. Hopefully he gets to play somewhere. It's just not gonna be at LSU. Also, everybody's just Chris Winky these days. Shit, it's not even bro Chris Wink. At least went to play baseball. These cats are in college seven eight, nine years. I need to go back to college. Shit. I know I got my degree, but I'm pretty I got I played at a juwe I was at a Juco for three years, so I'm pretty sure I'm old smeligibility. Back in CEA Sports announced that the payments for players in the game is gonna go from six hundred fifteen hundred dollars. Not only that. Adds it's quite lovely. I'll take that. From teen hundred, that's a stadium check right there. Not only that, hopefully we get all the players in there next year. Yeah, I mean I'd opted for fifteen hundred kawhi. Yeah. So let's the other news. USC Michigan had their pro day. Johnson Ron I think allegedly he ran a slow time a lot of them guys didn't run forties. A lot of people say he's falling down boards. Yeah, I think he allegedly didn't run a fast forty allegedly, But I'm like, okay, he can play safety. He's a functionally great corner. Wouldn't be surprised if we ended up on the raiders. I'm just being honest. But uh, I mean you think he falls another first. No, he's not falling out the first. That's that's too crazy. I see a Michigan corner like, that's not. Nah. But uh, let's see Cooper Lovelace, no Colon Love, I forget his first name. But the tight end for Michigan, Mason Graham, Kenneth Grant, A lot of these, A lot of these guys from Michigan. They mostly just did position testing. Yeah, a lot of cats just who are already locked in the first round picks. It's like, why run a forty and remove all doubt? I guess that's one of those type things. Also, Alabama's Pro day, Jalen mill Road. They said initially he ran a four three seven. Officially he was clocked like a four to four with a one four ten yard one four four ten yard split, which is insanely fast. I didn't have to do the Braxton Milly. They're they're saying he's gotta They're saying he has the first round. Gread now what they're saying he's ability. It looked like he had never thrown the rock before. They say, well he got his hands were regard bigger at the combine. Not even I'm not even talking about that hands. I'm talking about just the way he was throwing the ball. He did not have a good week, bro Yeah. Well, they're saying that, uh, he's he could go as early as twenty one. They're saying he has with Anthony richards I'm saying he's having an Anthony Richardson. No fucking way, Broe run. Those are the same people that say said that Hayten Noogart was going to go in the first round a few years ago. Richardson went fifth overall, didn't he? Yeah, but I don't know, it's different. Richardson looks like he's a quarterback, even if he didn't do it at Florida. He looked like a quarterback in workouts. Melroe looks like an athlete who can throw. They loved his Pro day workout crazy. They left his workout. A couple other guys ran pretty much. All those SEC dudes you'd be chatting with the water cooler. That is the saying he's got a first round grade Renos SEC blogs. You know it's true, dude, that's why you laughing. There's a consensus. There's definitely a Bamba bias. So he's definitely already seen as like he could go to the Steelers because really he just needs a good quarterback coach. He can be good. He's a dynamic athlete. And I think if he commits, but he ain't starting his rookie year, tell you that. Much for sure. Not no way, there's no way he starts his rookie year. Yeah, I just don't see it. And then also Deonne Sanders and Fran Brown, we're talking about having the first ever joint spring spring game Syracuse, Colorado. They're working on they're working on that. That's taking the next steps. I think that's a good move. I think that's a good future way to do with these spring games. I mean, we've been talking about how they're kind of relevant or at least, you know, less important to these schools. So I think that's a good way to go about it. Well, the the petition to allow it, it's it hasn't been denied, so it would actually be on April nineteenth. That's the crazy part. Because Colorado spring game is scheduled for April nineteenth. They're gonna meet on April tenth to see if the waiver should be allowed. And it's like it'd be the first one. It would be the first thing of its kind, and the first two people to do it are two black coaches, So