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Benjamin Solak

Benjamin Solak

Internet personality

Jun 25, 2026

3:24
Is that correct?
3:25
Yeah, I mean, you have the opinion that you hear from a lot of people.
3:32
legacy journalists and long-term people in the industry, which is like, man, it's hard to make it in this industry.
3:36
Man, it's not a lot of opportunity.
3:37
There's not going to be a lot of career stability.
3:40
This is not an industry where there's a ton of job future.
3:43
And I think that I now know, five, ten years later, how much that's untrue, how much that's changed because of things like social media.
5:41
I guess first we'll just ask, what were your thoughts on the Texans season last year and the way it ended? The
4:39
Right.
4:39
I don't think you can trade away a guy this good, who's been in your franchise for this long, who just had the sack record, and say, "We won the day." With that said, I think overall it's a pretty good return for Myles Garrett at this, you know, okay, at 30 years old, you know, this many years left, this is the dead cap hit.
4:51
To get a first, a second, a third, and then Jared Verse, who I think you, you, you without question value Verse at least as a first round pick.
4:58
And I think that if y- if the Rams were just trading Verse straight up with two years left on his deal with a fifth year option, I would imagine they would get a first and more for trading that, that caliber of a player.
5:07
And so to me, the collective capital they got back, pretty, pretty impressive.
5:11
Now, Myles Garrett's gonna be a Ram.
5:13
The Rams are the best team in football.

9 MINS LATER

13:47
Mm-hmm
65:55
Uh.
65:56
This is a non-combine invite.
65:59
They made him running back three.
66:00
He, they drafted him at 91 overall, which is the latest drafted running back three in modern draft era, since 1967.
66:06
So like at some point running back three was gonna go, and the 49ers said, "Man, given our history drafting middle round running backs, we just have to be the team [laughs] that, that, that starts this run.
66:16
We just have to get in front of everybody," with Mike Washington still on the board, with Emmett Johnson still on the board.
66:20
"We have to be the team that gets in front of anyb- everybody," for Ballage, who was not a combine invite, which means that the league generally doesn't like him very much.

8 MINS LATER

74:10
And third round is way richer than I would've taken him personally, that's all.

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