Speaker 1: Dan Graziano does five teams about contract extensions and just
picked I'm always doing five at a time, where he
just happened to pick five. One of the five teams
he brought up was the Houston Texans. Okay, And the
two key extension candidates this year are, of course CJ.
Stroud and Will Anderson Junior. What do the little?
Speaker 2: What do the easy?
Speaker 1: One?
Speaker 2: First?
Speaker 1: Will Anderson twelve sacks season, one of the best defensive
players in the NFL, He was a third pick in
the twenty twenty three draft, Defensive Rookie of the Year,
all this kind of stuff, and he has been everything
as advertised. Now, Micah Parsons we talked about last week,
ROSSI is at forty six and a half million dollars
a year. And then you have what Hutchinson for the
Lions is what at forty five? What that's TJ not
JJ forty one million dollars a year. Then the Garrett
at forty million dollars. Okay, So it sounds like to
me that Will Anderson, according to Dan Graziano, believes that
Will's going to be in that forty million dollar club. Okay,
whether he gets to Micah Parsons level. They don't know, because,
as you talked about a few days ago, that contract
just completely will put the whole past gal out of whack. Yeah,
but the anticipation is, according to Dan Graziano, that uh,
the Anderson will sign a four year contract one hundred
and seventy six million dollars with one hundred and twenty
one of that guaranteed in signing.
Speaker 2: Aiden Hutchinson was around? Was a four point eighty or
one any five? I think?
Speaker 1: Does it say that? Yeah, it doesn't say in this story. Okay,
all right, so four years, one seventy six? What is
that set's? Forty four year basically? Am I right about that?
Speaker 2: For sure?
Speaker 1: Three somewhere in that range. Okay, Now let's get to CJ.
So yeah, that would be I think Hutchinson was forty five.
I don't think he's gonna want I don't think he's
gonna get worse than a Hutchinson deal. No, And look,
the Texans have always taken care of their first rounders. Yeah,
and good second rounders too. I mean Petrie and Stingley
have been well well taken care of, and Nico Collins
for that matter too. All Right, so we got now
the Texans won, and there's a big story about what
do you do about CJ? And how do you you know?
Do you how much money do you want to spend
on him? And how much do you want to spend
on a guy that had two horrific postseason games. So
reading this story, and I don't need to tell you
about what is in there because it's all the stuff
that you've seen over the course of the last month
or so. The prediction that Dan Graziano has four year
contract for CJ. Stroud two hundred and twenty four million
dollars one hundred and ten million dollars guaranteed at simon
this offseason, i'd presume, So I don't think you're talking
about next season. Yeah, So the next two years, the
last two years of the rookie contract would be years
four and five. The total amount of money the Texans
would be spending on c J. Strowd will be thirty
two million dollars. It's like just shi a six this
year and just over twenty six in year five.
Speaker 2: So fifty eight. That's fifty eight a million, you know,
I'm sorry, No, fifty.
Speaker 1: Six if you're taking four about him by two twenty four, Yeah,
one hundred and ten million guaranteed at signing fifty six
million a year, would be more than Trevor Lawrence Jordan.
It'd be more than everyone but Dak Prescott.
Speaker 2: Correct. Now, here's the.
Speaker 1: Question is is Dan Garziana doing this because he's a
legitimate NFL writer or is he trying to get into
the good graces of David Mulagatta.
Speaker 2: I don't know that. I mean Nick Cassario is not
reading this article, so I don't I don't think so,
I want to imagine.
Speaker 1: I guarantee you he's reading the article. There's no way.
Yeah you see this the PR departments, Oh there was
somebody send it to him. But it's not like, yeah
he's so it's not seeking.
Speaker 2: That doesn't necessarily mean he's like, you know what, Dan
Graziano's making some good points, right, but no he I
guarantee you Nick, you see this morning when he got
to his desk and they have the clips of everything,
that's the word textas evolved, has this story in front
of him. So just I want you again, we don't
think about this money situation because we're not salary cap people.
We're not the gentle manage to the team and Frankly,
when you win a Super Bowl, we don't care what
we pay our players because we won.
Speaker 1: A Super Bowl. But you're gonna put him in beyond
rarefied air for a guy who is looking to make
north of fifty five million dollars a year. Oh lord,
if he doesn't pan out ross, that doesn't annihilate your franchise,
but it hampers you badly.
Speaker 2: Would be in I mean that's what let's think of
the ones that pay you would be in Arizona Cardinals territory. Yes,
New York Giants territory. Because they were talking about Kyler
Murray Downey, Kyler Murray, Daniel Jones. I'm trying to think
of who else got paid and it really didn't work
out recently.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean you could say this. I mean, Jacksonville
was really good last year, but the early portions of
the Trevor Lawrence money hasn't paid out for them.
Speaker 2: That's true, but they got him a great play caller
and a better offensive line and run game and weapons,
and look what happened, and they still bounce in the
first round. Yeah, but they they're still a much better
football team. And there's no yeah, there's no doubts about
Trevor Lawrence being a potential you know, at least their
franchise quarterback. He's not all time a leader or anything,
but he's looking a lot better. Funny how that works.
So I'm just curious. When I gave you that number,
did you cough like I did? Fifty six millionaire seems insane.