Happy St. Patrick’s Day weekend everyone! This week, we gave a shout out to our new listeners from Farmington MI, Dunnellon FL, Crescent City CA, Austin TX, and Sweden.
We discussed some notable NFL news, talked about a wild week in tags, trades, signings, and free agency, including Odell Beckham Jr. to Browns, Le’Veon Bell to Jets (4 Year $52M), Frank Clark/Demarcus Lawrence holding out, Antonio Brown (3 Year $50M with $31M guaranteed); Nick Foles (4 Year deal in JAX $88M, $50M guaranteed), Terrell Suggs (signed by Cards to a 1 Year deal, $7M); Frank Gore (1 Year deal in Buffalo, $2M; Trey Flowers: (5 Year deal in Detroit) Devin Funchess (WR 1 Year deal with Colts $13M); LaMarcus Joyner (former Ram signs 4 Year deal $42M); Tyrann Mathieu (3 Year deal with Chiefs $42M); Dante Fowler (1 Year deal $1M with Rams); and Landon Collins (former NYG signs 6 Year deal and $84M in WAS). And much much more!
We talked about the Jets going all-in, signing WR Jamison Crowder, WR Josh Bellamy, LB Anthony Barr, and former Ravens LB C.J. Mosley (5 Year and $85M).
We held our beer taste from 8 one 8 Brewery, North Coast, and whiskey/bourbon taste from Woodford Reserve.
We talked about the Thirst and Goal (TAG) Teams: Steelers (Steven Nelson, Donte Moncrief, Eli Rogers, Marcus Gilbert OT traded to Cards for 6th; Ryan Shazier placed on PUP list for 2019 and contract tolled - Shazier's contract was set to expire at the end of 2018, but the Steelers' decision will allow him to stay on NFL health insurance, accrue years on his pension and make minimum salary in 2019; Seahawks (K.J. Wright (2 yrs, $15M), Mike Davis to Bears, 2 Years $6M; losing CB Justin Coleman); Eagles (L.J. Fort, Malik Jackson, Jason Peters 1 Year Deal $10M, DeSean Jackson traded from TB and given 3 Year deal at 33 years old).
We also opined on some recent NFL Rule Change proposals.
And . . . we answered a listener question.
We held our WORLD FAMOUS Quiz, and gave you our Top Five burger joints.
Frane concocted the #OBJ Trading Spaces shot and Ben's diddy bumped the lead in.
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