Nightcap Hour 3: HIGHEST Point DIFFERENTIAL vs SINGLE NFL Franchise + CMC Hits PAUSE on Practice AMID Contract NEGOTIATIONS

**Shannon Sharpe** (0:03)
Oh, Lord have mercy.

**Chad Johnson** (0:05)
What happened?

**Shannon Sharpe** (0:07)
Joe asked, this topic is for you. Look at the domination by America's team. The highest point differential versus a single franchise. Pittsburgh versus Cleveland is 579 Arizona, Washington, 565 Damn.
Whoo, what Dallas got some, the Jazz, Washington, Arizona, New England versus Indian, Pittsburgh. Ocho, I know you ought to be ashamed of yourself, Ocho.

**Chad Johnson** (0:39)
What happened?

**Shannon Sharpe** (0:40)
Look what Pittsburgh and Cincinnati, that's what happened.

**Chad Johnson** (0:45)
Well, you know, I only got one eye, can you see that?

**Shannon Sharpe** (0:48)
On three and four, them division rivals too, the Giants and Washington. Yeah, we gon get them folks on up out of there. Pittsburgh and Cincinnati division rival, Joe.

**Chad Johnson** (0:58)
Yeah.

**Shannon Sharpe** (0:58)
Pittsburgh and Cleveland, look at Pittsburgh, they just Bollywood pulled Cleveland.

**Chad Johnson** (1:03)
What we lookin like?

**Shannon Sharpe** (1:04)
Y'all lookin bad. Plus five oh three.
Hey.

**Chad Johnson** (1:11)
That's gon change this year though. Think so?

**Shannon Sharpe** (1:13)
And you gotta realize, Ocho, y'all didn't become a franchise until 1968, so it probably be worse than that.

**Chad Johnson** (1:18)
Yeah, see, yep.

**Shannon Sharpe** (1:22)
Cowboy been playin the Giants since 1960
Man, you know what I was thinkin about? You know, Mike McCarthy done had the best coach in career ever. He coached the Packers, the Cowboys, and the Steelers. What coach can say that, Ocho Joe? What coach can say, I got that on my resume? Yeah, there ain't many, if any. Nobody.

**Chad Johnson** (1:47)
Hey, and you goin to good teams, too. You ain't just goin to anybody.
Ready made.

**Shannon Sharpe** (1:54)
Dallas might have had the two best coaches, coordinators at a given time.
Vince Lombardi and Tom Landry. Oh, yeah. Vince Lombardi was the OC, rest his soul. Coach Landry was the DC.
San Francisco, poor Atlanta, the Rams, Atlanta, damn. OAT. Damn, Dirty Birds. They gotta shake something this year, boy. They gotta get it together. They sure need to. Bang. But without that AA, without a captain at the quarterbacks, I don't know, fella. Uh-oh. There's reportedly speculation in the league circles that Christian McCaffrey has tapped the brakes on his practice time and has ever to get an adjustment to his contract, which pays him about a non-guaranteed $12.5 million in 2026, days after B. John Robinson and Jameer Gills pushed new money, $22.5 million per year. McCaffrey stopped practicing due to tightness. Something that McCaffrey is holding out in hopes of getting a new deal. Ocho?

**Chad Johnson** (3:07)
A rightfully so, based on his production of what he's done in the past, isn't he worthy? He'll talk my back, Ocho.
Yeah, I was just going to say the same thing. Who would argue that? Who would argue that fact? The only thing, the only argument you could bring up is his injury history.
That's about it, Uncle Joe. There's really nothing bad you can say after Jameer Gibbs and Bijan have gotten their deals done. Gotten their deals done, it's only right that Christian McCaffrey is able to get a little pay raise. Not above them. Not that. Not above them. Allow them to reset the market, but put me somewhere right below them.

**Shannon Sharpe** (3:48)
Ocho, he's right below them, he's making 19 and a half.

**Chad Johnson** (3:52)
Yeah, yeah, so I'm not sure what he want.
Hey, listen, honestly, I'm not sure what he want. We not finna bump you above them. What he want? That don't know.

**Shannon Sharpe** (4:00)
What he want?

**Chad Johnson** (4:01)
What?

**Shannon Sharpe** (4:01)
He want some guaranteed money.

**Chad Johnson** (4:04)
Okay, he probably ain't got no guarantee left on him.

**Shannon Sharpe** (4:07)
He got 12, he making 12 and a half million this year. Which is in California, which is about six million.

**Chad Johnson** (4:14)
Hold on, hold on, hold on.

**Shannon Sharpe** (4:15)
When y'all say he ain't got no guaranteed money, so what, he got incentives that he has to reach to? No, all he got is that 12 and a half million dollars. So this year money, they ain't no more guaranteed. See, they got, see, they got what?
How much they signed for? So they probably got $60 million, $70 million guaranteed. Yeah. He got 12 and a half million dollars. We got, what he got this year?

**Chad Johnson** (4:38)
That's it.

**Shannon Sharpe** (4:39)
So he wants some more guaranteed money, Ocho and Joe, he want 40, 50 million. I say, man, you know what?

**Chad Johnson** (4:45)
And matter of fact, and you know why he trying to do, and you know what he trying to do too? You know how they play with you, Joe? Once they get you on that contract and they get that guaranteed out of the way, boy, that might be your last year too on that high salary.