Solomon, how are you? I'm doing great and great to be on with you. We're busy on Radio Row, which is now called Media Row since there's so different forms of discipline in terms of media here, but we're having fun getting ready for Super Bowl 59.
Hey, we know that the world has certainly changed and the media is a whole hell of a lot more than radio. Solomon, let's get to Brass Tax. Man, you played defense.
That's what you did. We can certainly look at what the Philadelphia Eagles have done, the improvement that they've made from last year to this year. How do you think that's going to settle in against someone like Patrick Mahomes? Yeah, you got a lot you got to handle because Mahomes will remind us that he can still run the ball. He's still that dual threat quarterback. He'll carve you up with his arm, but as the Buffalo Bills found out in the AFC Championship game, he also rushed for two touchdowns in that game. So, he does a really good job of protecting the football while obviously creating big plays in the passing game, but when you look at this being the fact that you got to be disciplined when you rush them, got to have a spy on the quarterback because Pat Mahomes, he'll kill you with his legs, he'll kill you with his arm, and particularly late in games is where I think he's most deadly.
That's why they've won 17 straight games, but the game's been decided by one score. Yeah, you do not want to see this man marching down the field as time is a-ticking. Solomon, you've had the face off against plenty of quarterbacks and Stair. What makes Mahomes different? I think what makes him different is he has that clutch gene. The game isn't too big for him.
The moment isn't too big for him. He understands obviously the purpose of every single play. He and Andy Reid creatively are tied at the hip. Andy will allow him to do things that most quarterbacks in this league aren't allowed to do. You can't throw late back over the middle of the O'Darell when you roll it out to your right.
Don't throw it back over the middle. All those things that other quarterbacks are unable to do, Andy Reid gives Patrick Mahomes free reign to do it because he has the arm talent to pull it off. He seems to have the unique ability to stay alive in unplays and stick the ball into tight spaces and turn what looked like a dead play into a touchdown or into an explosive play for the offense. There's a high trust level between the coach and the quarterback.
But more importantly, I go back to the fact that he's got this clutch gene to win close games. That if you leave him time on the clock and he only has to go down and score a touchdown and get a field goal, he's going to get it. Solomon, you talk about Andy Reid. We learned today he shared that he plans on being back to coach next year.
And why not? If you're healthy enough to do so, why are you going to just stop going out there and coaching Patrick Mahomes? We know about his tenure with the Eagles up to the Chiefs now, the success that he has climbing the coaching ranks.
We talked about how mild-mannered he is, but he's certainly a hard-ass. What is your interpretation of why he has so much success with the Eagles and now he's really hit the jackpot with Mahomes and company? Because he does a really good job of understanding the kind of people you want on your team. High character people who really take football serious, who really got to put the time and energy and the work into it. And those kind of priorities are what Andy Reid is looking for in a player.
And then what he does is he's so creative. If you love the game at the same level that he does, it's just going to be a natural fit. Guys like Justin Reid and other players that they brought in for other teams immediately are going to fit. Now they try to build through the draft, but when he goes looking for players, he goes looking for special people who absolutely love the game, who are willing to put the work in.
And then when tough and difficult times come up that you're not going to fracture. You're not going to be one of these me guys worrying about yourself more than you're worrying about the team. He's a really great team builder in that way. And then when a game breaks out, the guy can dial him up, man. He could create and design crafty plays, but he also has a sense of timing of when to run them and the execution that's needed to pull it off.
Solomon Wilcox is here with us on the JR Sport Reshow Coast to Coast on the Infinity Sports Network. It was only a year ago that the Philadelphia Eagles basically crashed and they played every game pretty, pretty close. One score games and losses.
Nick Sirianni had to fire his coordinators. We know that they picked up Saquon. Do you think they've done enough to beat the Kansas City Chiefs?
Wow, man, that's a huge question because you really won't know it's okay to display because, but I do think they've done enough to give a lot of people reason to believe they can beat the Chiefs. You know, you had two players on the defense in the secondary that are rookies and Quinon Mitchell and Cooper Dejean both are finalists for defense or rookie of the year. You add Zach Bond, who's also a finalist for defensive player of the year in the middle of the defense. And that really was an area of weakness for the Philadelphia Eagles defense. Their linebackers did not rate very high.
And then Jalen Carter, highly drafted player a couple of years ago, or just last year, I should say, now in his second season, he's elevated his game and become a dominant player. So at every level of the defense, you see the growth and the development, I think, to make them a more formidable defense than the defense the Chiefs played two years ago. Well, Solomon, we got to wait an entire week to see what happens on less than a week now, which is actually nice.
We whittle it down from two weeks. We still got a lot of news in the NFL. We have Miles Garrett, who was asking out of Cleveland. We have Cooper Cupp, who's been told we don't want you here in Los Angeles. What do you think is going to be the outcome for both of these individuals? Well, give me the individuals again. You're talking about Miles Garrett and Cooper Cupp, correct?
Yes, sir. Yeah, look, I think Miles Garrett has kind of pushed his chips to the center of the table. I have been having this conversation with several people on air on my Sirius XM NFL radio show on the opening drive, because I thought Miles Garrett could really help the Cleveland Browns by trading him. You could recoup a lot of work that's been lost in the gamble that took place trying to acquire Sean Watson.
A lot of money spent, a lot of draft picks used, very little production. And now you've got this great player franchise, sort of future Hall of Famer, Miles Garrett, who had 14 sacks last year, but yet you only won three ballgames. So what good is it doing to Cleveland Browns? And what good is it doing Miles Garrett, who probably deserves the chance to play for a winner?
I think that could be a win-win. I know it's not common if you get emotional and you don't want to trade a future Hall of Famer, but I think if you just really think more tactically, and I think all the data suggests that for a player like him, if you can get players and picks in return, you could change the trajectory of your franchise. That's what, hey, let's face it, that's what Houston did when they sent Deshaun Watson to the Cleveland Browns for all of those picks. Houston, all they've done over the last two years, has gone to the playoffs, won the division title, and won when they got there. Detroit Lions, when they sent Matthew Stafford over to the Rams. Yeah, the Rams won the Super Bowl, but Detroit has turned their franchise hopes into promise, winning back-to-back division titles. And I still remember the Dallas Cowboys built a dynasty when they traded Ursa Walker to the Minnesota Vikings. So if you're Cleveland, you've got to be less emotional about this and just kind of really look at what your $68 million under the salary cap.
How do you make your team hold and move forward? You got to acquire draft picks and you have to unload salary. They can do both by trading Miles Garrett. And Solomon Wilcox is here with us on the JR Sport Reshow.
You mentioned the Rams. We know that they did win that championship and now they're trying to figure out what their financial future looks like, whether it's Stafford and how he gets paid. Cooper Cup is certainly, they said that they're going to go ahead and trade him, or at least he announced that. Where do you think would be a good landing spot for Cooper Cup, especially given his recent leg injuries? He's not what he used to be.
Yeah, he's still a good player though. I still think there's some usage if they move on from Cooper Cup and designate him as a June 1st sort of designee, they could save $20 million on their salary cap. So I think there's no doubt this is the move that they're going to make. Think about all these coaches who coached under Sean McVay in Los Angeles, coached under Kyle Shanahan in San Francisco. They run the same offense, you know.
They really do. And so I think he would fit in any of those offenses, any of those teams. Cooper Cup is still a really good player. Just that Pukka Nakua has exceeded him to become their best receiver and the production is not matching the $80 million contract that he signed a few years back. He's only one year into one year into that three-year deal, by the way. So it'll be interesting to see if the team takes on that salary and it'll also be interesting to see what the Rams can get in return. Solomon Wilcox is joining us, host of the opening drive on Sirius XM NFL radio.
You played as well and one of the teams that you played for, Major Bones, happens to be Cincinnati. They have some, I don't want to call them wide receiver issues, but we know Jamar Chase might be looking at a deal in excess of 40 mil. T Higgins is like to go elsewhere. Do you think the Bengals will ultimately have success given their reputation of being penny pension? Yeah, I think the narrative and the history of things doesn't look, doesn't point to this thing ending in a positive way, right?
And that's keeping the band together of Joe Burrow, Jamar Chase and T Higgins in 2025. But, you know, at some point you've got to, as an organization, you got to begin to do things differently. You got to begin to do things in a way that allows you to win championships. And if you say to yourself, well, this is kind of how we've done it.
Then someone's got to say, someone's got to say in the room, what has that gotten you in the past? Have you won any championships doing that? Well, maybe you ought to try it. You may have tried keeping your best players together who are all young. I mean, they're 26 and younger. Think about that.
And they make such a formidable force. The rest of the league want to see this thing broken up because they're afraid of it, right? So, so the Bengals should be smart enough to know that they have a good thing and that you can't just get, you know, see T Higgins walk out the door and think you're going to just replace him by going to get another player. They're not making T Higgins type players, you know, every single day.
So you might want to keep one if you got them. And Solomon Wilcox here with us on the JR sport re-show. We know the league continues to change and evolve, whether it's the salaries, some of the rules. We also know the NFL, at least publicly, they've talked about being advocates for health. You have definitely been an advocate for, for health and welfare of NFL players and technologies and usage.
What's, what's the latest that you're working on with, with Macy Arthur? Well, thanks for allowing me to share because, uh, roughly 900,000 people in America suffer from some kind of knee pain, uh, arthritic knee pain every single year. And usually if you have some kind of cartilage defect, there's now a new innovative treatment to help with that.
And it's called Macy Arthur. Macy orthoscopic procedure has been cleared by the FDA. And what it is, it's a procedure where you go in orthoscopically, uh, to help repair cartilage damage. You take the healthy tissue and you grow it in a lab, and then you can take it a few weeks later and take it and put it back in.
It adheres to the healthy tissue, uh, it adheres to the bone. You know, you can't grow new cartilage. Once it starts to deteriorate, you're going to deteriorate to the point where you're bone on bone. And then you're going to deteriorate to the point where you're going to have to have total knee joint replacement in the knee area. So this is a way to help regenerate the tissue that's needed to keep you from becoming bone on bone.
And you can go to the website at macy.com to read up more about the procedure and find a doctor in your area. Oh, Solomon, you know, my doctor told me 20 years ago, I'm, I'm, my cartilage is breaking down. Come on, Solomon. You talking to me?
Come on. Yeah, you better, you better go to the website. You better, you might want to check this out. I'm telling you, you might want to check it out. Yeah.
I mean, you look, man, you, you, you played in the league long enough. I may have to. Hey Solomon, thank you so much. Where can people follow and listen to you and everything that you do?
Uh, well, you can go to Twitter at Solomon's wisdom. You also can find me on Sirius XM NFL radio. I'm the host of the opening drive, uh, Monday through Friday, seven to 10 AM Eastern time NFL, um, radio channel 88 is where you can go. Also check out the believe in bingo podcast, wherever you get your podcasts and you can get all things Cincinnati bangle. Thank you for having me. I greatly appreciate it.
Oh, all the time. Solomon enjoy, uh, new Orleans. Enjoy media. What is it called now? Media row.
Media row, media row, baby. Okay. Have fun. Get some tic tocs in. Okay.
Solomon, get them in. Oh, I will do that. I appreciate it. Thank you.
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