Pardon My Take
Michigan State HC Tom Izzo, NFL Free Agency, Myles Garrett Re-Signs And Geno Smith Traded, Who's Back And Monday Reading
Mon, 10 Mar 2025
NFL Free Agency has finally arrived and a ton of moves happened over the weekend (00:00:00-00:10:31). Myles Garrett decided to stick in Cleveland, possibly because they offered him an insane amount of money (00:00:00-00:10:31). Geno Smith traded to the Raiders, Josh Allen's new contract, Davante Adams to the Rams, and the Sam Darnold domino is ready to fall (00:10:31-00:30:26). We talk College Hoops and NBA plus Stephen A Smith vs Lebron (00:30:26-00:44:03). Who's back of the week including baseball injuries and Skip and Stephen A (00:44:03-00:53:58). Michigan State Head Coach Tom Izzo joins the show to talk about winning the Big Ten Title, the dust up with Michigan on Sunday, Positive Vibes, daring teams to zone him, and losing his voice (00:53:58-01:22:56). We finish with a Monday Reading (01:22:56-01:33:02).You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/pardon-my-take
Chapter 1: What major NFL free agency moves happened this weekend?
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It's all happening right now. It's all happening.
It's the start of the legal tampering window.
We got NFL news. We've got conference championship week. We've got NBA drama, both on and off the court. We have sports. A lot of sports. Let's start with NFL because it is the official league. The tampering window has opened even though there's been a ton of deals.
Well, it's interesting because there's a lot of guys that are deciding not to test the free agent market. Correct. And re-signing with their teams that they were going to be leaving. But they're doing that before they were legally allowed to be tampered with. Correct. Which is very interesting just to point out.
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Chapter 2: Why did Myles Garrett stay with the Browns?
That is. So, yeah, let's start with the NFL. The biggest story, I would say, is Miles Garrett is staying put. So Miles Garrett, who said, who mockingly said, because his GM, Andrew Barry, was quoted saying the goal was never to, or sorry, he said that we envisioned him going from Cleveland to Canton when his career is over, talking about Miles Garrett wanting to keep him as a Brown player.
And then Miles Garrett, a couple days after that, said the goal was never to go from Cleveland to Canton. It has always been to compete for and win a Super Bowl. He wanted to go to a championship contender. And then there was a material change to the tune of $123 million guaranteed. Four-year deal averaging $40 million a year. Everybody's got a price.
I think the Browns just show that they are committed to winning. The Browns football organization is one that is putting their best foot forward, trying to deliver a championship. And Miles Garrett said, you know what? Now I believe you. I think that we're actually going to do it. And step number one towards committing to a championship is to pay Miles Garrett a shitload of money.
$123 million guaranteed. That is a lot of money. It is the largest contract for a non-quarterback. Listen, we always knew it was always about the price. But this is a good reminder. It's always about the price. It doesn't matter. Anyone can say anything. The money talks. And I think Pete Prisco always says that money over everything does not matter. And the money talked here. I do.
So he signed this contract on Sunday. Max Crosby had the largest non-quarterback deal that he signed earlier last week, which was $91.5 million guaranteed, $306.5 million. I think there should be a new rule that if you sign the biggest contract, whether it be the biggest quarterback contract, the biggest non-quarterback contract, you should get seven days to wear the crown.
Miles Garrett should have had to wait seven days.
To take that crown away from Max Crosby.
Max Crosby should have had seven days where he was like, yeah, I had the largest contract, non-quarterback contract ever. And then Miles Garrett.
It was too quick. Was that the AFC championship or was that in a regular season game where the Bills kicker and the Chiefs kicker went back and forth breaking each other's records for the longest field goal? Give it some breathing room. In like 15 minutes, yeah. It would be nice. I mean, Max Crosby at one point was the highest non quarterback for about four days, about four days.
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Chapter 3: What are the implications of Geno Smith being traded to the Raiders?
Don't ever believe whatever the newsbreakers tweet in terms of years and money because they're just getting that directly from the agent. About 50 minutes later, you'll find out what the actual deal is. And Geno Smith, when he signed his new contract with the Seahawks, and we found out afterwards that it was essentially like a one-year deal, I think, that they could cut him.
Yeah, every contract at the most is really two years.
Yeah. So, but so they were never all the way in on Gino. Gino's all the way in on Gino. Gino thinks he deserves a lot of money, which I mean, I think he's a pretty good quarterback. You can do a lot worse than Gino Smith, but now he's on the Raiders. Did you hear the rumor that the Raiders initially actually knows?
I think it was the Seahawks initially wanted to trade Gino Smith and DK for Max Crosby. which that would have been crazy.
That would be a wild trade.
Trades like that never happen in the NFL. Yeah, there was also a tweet that someone had from Combine Week that was on a plane, and he was like, I just watched Pete Carroll walk up to John Schneider. I bet you they're trying to talk about Geno Smith getting traded. And it was like two weeks ago.
Trying to spot, yeah, do the thing where they saw the Dallas Mavericks and the Lakers talking in a coffee shop. Yeah. Be like, this is the origin. This is the origin. When it all went down. I... Did Pete Carroll and Geno Smith, are we qualifying that as like a reunion that everybody's wanted to see?
I mean, it definitely was the Geno Smith's career was saved by Pete Carroll.
Yeah, well, Pete Carroll was the head coach. Yeah. But it's not like it's Pete Carroll's playbook.
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Chapter 4: How is the free agency market shaping up this year?
What I like about this, though, is just that the Raiders do have a plan. Yeah. Whereas last year, it felt like they got into midsummer. They're like, oh, fuck, we don't really have... We don't have a quarterback. We've got two backup quarterbacks. Yeah.
But now they have one. Now the Seahawks. Do the Seahawks have a plan? Seahawks then trade DK Metcalf to the Steelers. Granted to you, PFT, you were talking about it on Friday. I just wanted to see it bad. DK and George Pickens together is going to be fantastic. What does the Seahawks play? Is the Seahawks plan to get Sam Darnold?
Because is it crazy to say that I think I would maybe rather have Gino than Sam Darnold? Yeah, probably because Sam Darnold is probably going to cost more right now. I don't know. I don't know what Gino's new contract will be.
Yeah, I don't know either, but I don't think it's. Yeah, they're kind of the same. Like Sam right now, Sam Darnold, the way that he played last year makes me think I would rather have Sam Darnold for most of the year.
Yeah, I was going to say until the end.
yeah whereas gino i feel like gino from like two years ago that would line up with sam donald from last year yes yes but it's the musical chairs then and then there was a rumor that aaron rogers so aaron rogers looks like the giants but then there was a rumor that the vikings could be interested in aaron rogers which i think we all are rooting for well actually i'm not because i don't want to have to play aaron rogers but it would be funny just for the farve story arc yeah the
But, yeah, the musical chairs are very interesting right now with Geno going to the Raiders and now another Sam Darnold. Because we thought the Seahawks weren't going to be a Sam Darnold destination. Now it feels like Seahawks, Steelers possibly still.
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Chapter 5: Why did Tom Izzo join the podcast, and what did he discuss?
I don't know where else would Sam Darnold go. I don't know. But I don't know how the Steelers are going to manage the DK Metcalf. and the George Pickens situation. I'm excited to see how they do it. That's why I wanted this to happen. It's the funniest possible combination of receivers that you could get.
I would almost just say run it back with Justin Fields and Russ Wilson and just give one of those guys their own quarterback.
With DK and George Pickens, they're basically building the whole plane out of
out of just crazy routes yeah just have crazy just fucking run just two freaks on the outside just run as fast as you can down the field you can't double both the freaks no you can double one of them i want it so bad i want them to say i'm afraid they're going to try to trade trade george pickett's also they both were number 14 yeah so i'm excited to see how they resolve that one that should just be a battle royale also sam donald wears number 14
Oh, so we could just have maybe like college rules. Everyone wears 14. Also, DK Metcalf, another reminder of which you don't even remind people. The Miles Garrett, it's always about the money. DK did say he wanted to go somewhere warm. Pittsburgh not known for its tropical weather.
Well, that's interesting you brought that up because I looked it up. It is warmer than Seattle. Okay. On the average. So in terms of weather in Seattle, we got in football months 67 degrees, 59 degrees, 51 degrees, 46 degrees. In Pittsburgh... It's 78 degrees, 65 degrees, 53 degrees, 43 degrees. Okay.
So every football month besides December in the regular season, it's actually warmer in Pittsburgh.
Okay.
So he's going to get warm.
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Chapter 6: What sparked the interaction between Stephen A. Smith and LeBron James?
Yeah, I don't think Stephen A even has kids. Does he have kids?
Oh, yeah. Dude, Stephen A fucks. Are you kidding me?
I think he might have a kid.
No, Stephen A has his boys swim. Yeah. He's a confirmed sex haver. But I think it's fine for Stephen A. It's a bit like, LeBron, you got your son drafted to be on your team. Probably shouldn't be in the league. He's not that great. He's not really playing.
He is playing in the G League.
Still a great dad move, but also part of what goes with that. Correct. You should have at some point thought Stephen A. Smith is going to have some thoughts.
Right. The scrutiny is fair until you say you're stop this as a father. That's where it's like, hey, dude, what are you talking about? He's a pretty fucking good dad. I'm defending LeBron again.
I think Stephen A. Smith was like, you're forcing me to talk about your son.
Yeah.
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Chapter 7: How did Jokic achieve the first-ever 30-20-20 game?
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Yeah, my first one was shorts. Another treacherous winter of Chicago survived. It was like two cold weeks. Now it's 60 degrees again. So all the people that said Chicago is going to be so tough, the winters are so bad.
There has been snow in April here. Yeah, we're going to probably get a couple more just like shitty days that are going to be tossed in there. Some false shit. We're just going to get like a 30 degree day out of nowhere. We got mid 60s this week.
Yeah, all you need is a couple nice, like, today was really nice. Tomorrow's going to be really nice. The clock's changing. The clock's changed. Like, the end is near. Summer is here.
It's going to be 63 on Saturday for the St. Patrick's Day celebration. That's pretty good.
That's dangerous.
My other who's back was the Celtics as a national, I mean, NBA championship favorite.
Is LeBron hurt or is he just, I need some. If they won that game, he'd not be hurt. I need two weeks before the playoff stretch.
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Chapter 8: What are the key takeaways from the recent college basketball games?
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Okay, we now welcome on a very, very, very special guest. He is March. He is coming off a record-tying 11th Big Ten title. Incredible run that his Michigan State Spartans are on right now. It is head coach Tom Izzo. Coach... First of all, congrats on the title.
I know you got more work to do, but I wanted to start with that because I know we got to talk about what happens when a team stands on a logo and what goes on with that. But I want to talk with your team and how they're playing right now. Uh, um, like three weeks ago, you guys were 19 and five. You were lost three of four. You had a gauntlet coming up at the end of the big 10 schedule.
You ripped off seven straight wins to finish 26 and five win the big 10 outright. How, what, what changed and how, how, how are we here right now where you guys are looking prime for a deep run in March?
Well, to be honest with you guys, my staff did an unbelievable job. I mean, we spent a lot of time. We felt like, you know, we've got a good team, but it's not a talent laden team. And so we started working together more. We became very good defensively. We just couldn't make a shot from three. We're shooting it good. We're getting to the line. We're making free throws.
We're scoring 80 points a game. And I said, if we ever make some threes, we could be really good. Well, we got a little better. Now we're making threes. And, you know, we're still maintaining our defensive stuff. I think the players and my staff did an unbelievable job. And I've gotten along for the ride.
Coach, that's too humble.
Yeah, this might be one of your best coaching jobs that you've ever done this year, considering where you came to the season, what the expectations were, and then how you guys are playing. I also just love the voice right now. Your voice sounds like March basketball. Are you going to take a couple days off? Are you putting yourself on a word count for the next couple days, trying to gain that back?
You know, guys, the only time I lose my voice is when I don't sleep, and I haven't had a lot of sleep lately, as you can tell by how I look. But, no, you know, we are taking a day off tomorrow. We've been on a grind, and now we don't play until Friday, so guys deserve a day off. But, you know, you'd really like my team. My players, they've worked their tail off. They've been selfless.
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