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Bucky on Draft Scenarios and Final Mock Selection | Huddle Up: Wednesday, April 25 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: The Fields Auto Group proudly presents Huddle.
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Speaker 2: Up with Bucky.
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Speaker 1: Brooks, JP Shadrick, John Oser, and NFL Network analyst and
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Speaker 1: former Jaguar Bucky Brooks bring you the latest on your
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Speaker 1: Jacksonville Jaguars.
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Speaker 3: We've got to look to the draft.
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Speaker 4: We've got to look to developing the guys that are
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Speaker 4: currently here and obviously retain as many of these guys
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Speaker 4: as we can.
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Speaker 1: Huddle Up With Bucky Brooks starts right now.
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Speaker 5: Welcome into the Huddle Up Podcast. Today is Tuesday, April
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Speaker 5: twenty fifth, JP Shadwick with NFL Network analyst Buckybrooks and
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Speaker 5: Jaguars dot Com senior writer John Oser. Give us a
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Speaker 5: that since you're listening to us, tell somebody else why not.
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Speaker 5: Draft week is here, at long last, Bucky, the Jaguars
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Speaker 5: will pick number twenty four coming up in a few days.
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Speaker 5: Excitement level, where are you? This is obviously a big
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Speaker 5: week for draft analysts and the type. So you got
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Speaker 5: mock drafts going out your final lists and mocks and
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Speaker 5: all these things.
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Speaker 2: Better get in before Thursday at eight o'clock Eastern.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, better get in. I'm excited about it.
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Speaker 6: The draft is a great time because it is the
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Speaker 6: official kickoff to next season, and so we have an opportunity.
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Speaker 3: Everyone resets their records at zero and zero.
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Speaker 6: You have an opportunity to ask some players that everyone
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Speaker 6: is going to walk away feeling like this is the
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Speaker 6: missing piece to help their team become a super Bowl contender.
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Speaker 6: And then shortly after the draft we got scheduled released,
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Speaker 6: and so it's a good time, JP, It's.
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Speaker 3: A really good time.
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Speaker 7: It's fine, No, it's I actually JP am looking as
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Speaker 7: forward to this draft. I would say more for Eazay
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Speaker 7: of the number one overall pick. There's excitement, there's buzz,
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Speaker 7: but I think this draft for the first time in
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Speaker 7: a couple of years for the people covering the Jars
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Speaker 7: in the draft, there's some intrigue to it. You get
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Speaker 7: that feeling during the first round of not knowing who
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Speaker 7: they're gonna pick. I mean, last year, everybody knew Trevor
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Speaker 7: in twenty one. Last year, there was a little bit
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Speaker 7: of intrigue not quite knowing if they'd really take Trayvon
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Speaker 7: or not. But you sort of knew the last three
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Speaker 7: or four days that that's where they were going with it.
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Speaker 7: This year is absolutely wide open. I have my thought,
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Speaker 7: and I think Bucky agrees on the guy that you
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Speaker 7: feel like they'll pick if they're there. But that feeling
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Speaker 7: and any feeling when you're picking at twenty four, that's
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Speaker 7: sort of a self generated feeling if you sort of
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Speaker 7: talked yourself into it. I think they're going to pick
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Speaker 7: this guy because of my theories about it. Well, that
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Speaker 7: may not be what they're thinking. So the last four
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Speaker 7: or five picks there is that drama that we've all
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Speaker 7: felt watching this draft unfolded.
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Speaker 5: Bucky, there's a lot that happens ahead of the Jags too.
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Speaker 5: Obviously they can fill on down or not, and you
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Speaker 5: just kind of have to wait to see a few
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Speaker 5: picks out what's available.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: No, I mean, I think this is what's hard about
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Speaker 6: being in the twenties. You know, the better the team,
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Speaker 6: the more uncertainty when it comes to who you're going
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Speaker 6: to pick, because you don't have any control over what
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Speaker 6: happens ahead of you. And so if you're the Jaguars man,
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Speaker 6: you have to go through all the scenarios Trimbukian staff
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Speaker 6: or doing that, going through all the different mock drafts
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Speaker 6: that they can conduct Internally, they have to begin to
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Speaker 6: talk about trade possibilities. If we want to get in
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Speaker 6: range to get this group of players, how high do
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Speaker 6: we think we need to get up or how far
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Speaker 6: can we go back and still get you know, one
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Speaker 6: of these two three players. And so it's a lot
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Speaker 6: of uncertainty. But you know, the guys who are great
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Speaker 6: at manipulating the draft board and working up and down. Man,
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Speaker 6: they're excited about this stuff because there's an opportunity really
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Speaker 6: to strategically put yourself in a position to really upgrade
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Speaker 6: and help your team.
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Speaker 7: I want to get into the mind of the scout
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Speaker 7: a little bit. I can't wait for this, in the
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Speaker 7: mind of the future GM, because I think Bucky will
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Speaker 7: be a GM at some point.
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Speaker 6: Oh no, no, why not Bucky? Come on, no no, no, no, no, no, no,
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Speaker 6: don't come on, man, that's not my lane.
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Speaker 7: So, but you've been in draft rooms, take me through.
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Speaker 7: I think fans watch the draft one way and observers,
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Speaker 7: but as a GM, when you map out a draft
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Speaker 7: and I think what I'm getting at is this when
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Speaker 7: you go in and say your first round, second round,
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Speaker 7: third round, and I think those are the picks maybe
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Speaker 7: into the fourth round where you think you have a
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Speaker 7: realistic chance at getting guys who are going to fit
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Speaker 7: your team the next year. Obviously, teams very rarely out
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Speaker 7: of those four picks. They don't pick four centers, they
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Speaker 7: don't pick four dbs. They have sort of a mosaic
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Speaker 7: a plan for that, if you will and do they
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Speaker 7: have different scenarios. Okay, if we get say a Brian
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Speaker 7: Branch or a cornerback round one, then our package of
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Speaker 7: players at two, at three, at four changes based on that.
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Speaker 7: You know what I'm getting at. There's a draft plan
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Speaker 7: that covers the first four rounds. And it's not just
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Speaker 7: pick to pick.
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Speaker 6: You know, it's almost like let's go prices right, showcase
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Speaker 6: showdown where you can have a collection of things that, hey,
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Speaker 6: if we walk away with this group, where we get
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Speaker 6: you know, a dB in the first round, an offensive
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Speaker 6: tackle in the second round, and an offensive playmaker in
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Speaker 6: the third round, or what we wanted, where we get
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Speaker 6: the defensive playmaker in the first like in the first round,
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Speaker 6: the offensive got in the second round or whatever. A
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Speaker 6: lot of times, what you're doing is you're trying to
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Speaker 6: look at supply and demand, where the strengths of the draft. Okay, well,
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Speaker 6: if we're saying that the strengths of the draft are
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Speaker 6: in dB, well let's go and get maybe the offensive
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Speaker 6: tackle early and circle back.
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Speaker 3: And get the dB late.
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Speaker 6: There's a lot of those conversations trying to figure out
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Speaker 6: where are the clusters of players going to be based
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Speaker 6: on grades. Do you have a cluster of guys like
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Speaker 6: we have a bunch of guys in the first round
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Speaker 6: that play a certain position but not as many in
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Speaker 6: lower rounds, or do you have it in reverse? And
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Speaker 6: so a lot of the conversation is about that, how
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Speaker 6: do we strategically attack the draft to put ourselves in
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Speaker 6: the best position to address the needs that we need
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Speaker 6: to get done while taking the best players that are
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Speaker 6: there at each round. Because what you don't want to
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Speaker 6: do is you don't want to reach for a player.
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Speaker 6: You want to make sure that you take a player
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Speaker 6: in the round in which you have them graded in,
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Speaker 6: and you don't want to have to do like funny
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Speaker 6: math to make it happen.
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Speaker 2: Do gms and scouting staffs do actual mocks? Leading into it.
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Speaker 2: Do they do their own or is that a different philosophy.
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Speaker 2: Do they go that deep into a draft like that,
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Speaker 2: or is it just kind of a first round idea.
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Speaker 3: No. Actually, you know, it's funny because I've done it in
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Speaker 3: a few different ways.
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Speaker 6: I've been with teams that have conducted mocks where every
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Speaker 6: scout you take a team and we'll just kind of
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Speaker 6: go through it just to see what it could be like,
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Speaker 6: you know. And then there are other teams that I've
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Speaker 6: been with where they basically mock the mocks, meaning that
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Speaker 6: in the back of the room they had, say, your
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Speaker 6: eight most prominent mock drafts, and they would list those
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Speaker 6: guys up. And what they're trying to do is you're
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Speaker 6: trying to see which names repeatedly come up as first rounders,
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Speaker 6: which teams are multiply like, are connected to the same
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Speaker 6: name multiple times, and so from that it's not exact,
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Speaker 6: but you do have an opportunity to kind of begin
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Speaker 6: to like follow the breadcrumbs with some of the team's picks,
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Speaker 6: because based on who's doing the mock, you have a
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Speaker 6: natural assumption that they've talked to some people. And if
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Speaker 6: you have enough of the people saying the same thing.
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Speaker 6: Sometimes you have a feeling that they've gotten good intel
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Speaker 6: and we want to kind of go with those hunches.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I've been around teams JP that they'll do several
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Speaker 7: mocks in several different ways like that just to get
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Speaker 7: a feel, sort of a dry run through, just to
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Speaker 7: get a feel. Okay, in this scenario, when player A
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Speaker 7: was off the board at number three here, then that
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Speaker 7: caused the draft to sort of shift a certain way.
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Speaker 7: And then if this guy went off the board at
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Speaker 7: number three or four, then these teams sort of reacted differently. Now,
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Speaker 7: once it's on the clock, everything changes, but it's the
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Speaker 7: old thing. You'd rather have a plan and be able
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Speaker 7: to come off that plan than go in without a plan.
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Speaker 6: That's really important, Like what John is talking about, you
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Speaker 6: want to go through it. So now when the clock
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Speaker 6: is on and you have your fifteen minutes, you're not panic.
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Speaker 6: It's things that you've already talked about. You're operating under
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Speaker 6: the if then model. If these teams do this, then
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Speaker 6: we're going to attack it that way, and so it
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Speaker 6: shouldn't be chaotic in the draft room. It should be
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Speaker 6: following the plan that we've talked about. This is what
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Speaker 6: we discussed. Here's how we're going to attack it. Okay,
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Speaker 6: this happened, let's go make this move. And so that's
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Speaker 6: how it should be. And so as much as we
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Speaker 6: want to make it like it's the stock market where
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Speaker 6: everyone is yelling and screaming and going crazy, the.
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Speaker 3: Draft really shouldn't be that.
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Speaker 6: If it's like that, then you haven't done a really
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Speaker 6: good job preparing leading up to the draft.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: I remember asking Bill Polly in the same question Bucky
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Speaker 7: about you know, a draft day argument or pounding the
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Speaker 7: table or guys having words, and he just stared right
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Speaker 7: through me and said there should never be arguments on
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Speaker 7: draft day. At that moment. His point was that that
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Speaker 7: was not that there should never be arguments, they just
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Speaker 7: shouldn't happen on the clock. And if you do so,
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Speaker 7: my question to you is, Bucky, have you ever been
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Speaker 7: around a draft day argument where somebody is fighting for
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Speaker 7: a guy or or is that just sort of a myth?
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Speaker 7: Is that something you see in the movies?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's something you see in the movies.
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Speaker 6: Now, I will say, in the weeks leading up to
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Speaker 6: the draft, they're very heated discussion. You know, there should
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Speaker 6: be a couple of heated discussions because you got to
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Speaker 6: advocate for your guy. If I'm a guy representing the
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Speaker 6: West Coast and I fall in love with a player
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Speaker 6: from USC and I feel like he's not getting his
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Speaker 6: just due, well, my job is advocate for him. To
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Speaker 6: tell every one of the powers that be, no, this
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Speaker 6: is why this guy could come in and help us.
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Speaker 6: Here's how we could play, here's how we could use them,
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Speaker 6: here's the background, this is why I feel so strongly
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Speaker 6: about him.
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Speaker 3: And then other people may refute.
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Speaker 6: That, but my job is to have an opinion, to
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Speaker 6: support that opinion, and to really go toe to toe
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Speaker 6: with everyone in the room regarding that opinion.
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Speaker 3: But you also have to know when to back down
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Speaker 3: and when you make a decision.
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Speaker 6: The decision is a team decision, so if they don't
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Speaker 6: like your player, you kind of have to chalk it up.
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Speaker 6: But a lot of times, man, you leave the room
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Speaker 6: kind of grumbling and mumbling to yourself, and you kind
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Speaker 6: of heat it. And so you have some of those
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Speaker 6: things and that makes it good. Though that's what it's
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Speaker 6: supposed to be like it. It should be passionate discussions
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Speaker 6: in that room. But then you've got to be able
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Speaker 6: to get past it because ultimately you're trying to do
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Speaker 5: four six three three, two thousand and by today. Well,
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Speaker 5: let's hear from general manager Trent Balkey at the pre
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Speaker 5: draft luncheon last week. It's an annual tradition where the
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Speaker 5: coach and GM speak with the media their last real
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Speaker 5: public out our public conversation with the media before the
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Speaker 5: NFL Draft, and among many things, Trent Balke discussed the
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Speaker 5: amount of players they truly are considering it number twenty
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Speaker 5: four overall and beyond.
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Speaker 4: You know, we have a specific way we set up
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Speaker 4: the board, so well it sounds like one hundred and
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Speaker 4: twenty seven, there's there's more numbers baked in there. Those
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Speaker 4: are the one hundred and twenty seven that we really
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Speaker 4: feel fit the culture we want and fit the value
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Speaker 4: that we have placed on them. And really, you know,
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Speaker 4: all the stars aligned. There's other there's other fallbacks that
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Speaker 4: we would go to, but really we're picking from one
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Speaker 4: to twenty seven.
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Speaker 5: Well, one hundred and twenty seven players that fit every
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Speaker 5: that is the British would say, tick every box. You know,
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Speaker 5: those are the perfect guys for the organization, and I
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Speaker 5: don't know if they'd ever admit otherwise if they picked
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Speaker 5: a guy he wasn't on our one twenty seven list.
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Speaker 2: But you got to narrow it down somehow, right, Bucky, No,
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Speaker 2: Like that's great.
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Speaker 6: I'm actually surprised that he shared as much and for
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Speaker 6: as he shared about how many guys.
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Speaker 3: Are on the board.
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Speaker 6: But what is coming is about one hundred and twenty
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Speaker 6: five is about the number that most teams operate on.
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Speaker 6: Some guys that go up to one point fifty. I've
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Speaker 6: been on teams that had way too much, like a two.
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Speaker 3: Hundred and twenty something.
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Speaker 6: So if you can imagine going to your favorite restaurant
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Speaker 6: and seeing a menu that is just like packed with
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Speaker 6: all kinds of options.
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Speaker 2: It's like going to the Chiefecake factory. You can't order there.
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Speaker 3: It's unbelievable, right, It's unbelievable.
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Speaker 6: So what you would like to do is you would
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Speaker 6: like to have something that is smaller, condensed, tighter. So
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Speaker 6: maybe like waffle house, right, because I normally would tell
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Speaker 6: you in and out, but like waffle House, something very small,
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Speaker 6: you know exactly what you're getting, you know what you
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Speaker 6: want or whatever. And so when he talks about guys
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Speaker 6: that fit the culture, a lot of what gets lost
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Speaker 6: on my side when it comes to kind of presenting
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Speaker 6: opinions to the TV world and to the public, is like, oh,
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Speaker 6: like greating for the league is one thing, but Grade
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Speaker 6: and four team is different. And so what trend is
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Speaker 6: talking about is not only how a player fits like
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Speaker 6: in terms of his playing style, size dimensions, physicality, scheme usage,
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Speaker 6: how a team would kind of plug him in and
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Speaker 6: play him. Hey, what kind of character does he bring?
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Speaker 6: What is his football intelligence, whatever his instincts, like, what's
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Speaker 6: his background, Like, what is his work ethic?
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Speaker 3: Like does he love it or does he just like
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Speaker 3: playing it?
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Speaker 6: Because of all the things that the football that the
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Speaker 6: game can bring for him.
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Speaker 3: At the end of the day, you want guys.
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Speaker 6: That love ball because it's hard, hard to win games
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Speaker 6: in this league. There's a lot of commitment that's required,
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Speaker 6: a lot of work that's required, and if you don't
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Speaker 6: have the right guys, it doesn't work. And so last year,
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Speaker 6: particularly coming off of the way the team kind of
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Speaker 6: bonded last year, you want to be real hesitant about,
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Speaker 6: real selective about who you bring into that locker room
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Speaker 6: because you kind of have a special thing going.
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Speaker 3: You don't want to bring in guys that.
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Speaker 6: Don't fit the culture, because all it takes is one
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Speaker 6: or two guys to mess up the good chemistry that
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Speaker 6: you have flowing. And so that's why I think, if anything,
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Speaker 6: the Jaguars are going to be very very shrewd when
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Speaker 6: it comes to looking at the players that they want
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Speaker 6: to bring in, and everybody's not going to be a
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Speaker 6: great fit, and so they have to be confident enough
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Speaker 6: to move on and say that it is more important
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Speaker 6: to have the right people on the bus than having
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Speaker 6: a team of just very very talented individuals.
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Speaker 3: But the chemistry isn't isn't right now, Bucky.
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Speaker 7: I had a reader this weekend misunderstand. I think what
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Speaker 7: Trent said one hundred and twenty seven players doesn't mean
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Speaker 7: that those are the only players that Trent Balkey thinks
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Speaker 7: can play in the NFL in this draft. Meaning it's
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Speaker 7: not like once the one hundred and twenty seven guys
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Speaker 7: at the top of the draft are gone, that there's
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Speaker 7: no player in the fifth or sixth round that the
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Speaker 7: Jaguars think can contribute. It's one hundred and twenty seven
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Speaker 7: sort of scattered throughout the draft in all rounds, in
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Speaker 7: the groupings that teams talk about like that correct.
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Speaker 3: It is correct.
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Speaker 6: And so if you can imagine, like you guys have
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Speaker 6: those TV screens right behind you, So if you can
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Speaker 6: imagine horizontally, what you do is you have.
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Speaker 3: Them all ranked by positions.
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Speaker 6: So if we break out the positions going from left
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Speaker 6: to right, you have quarterback, running back, wide receiver, tied end,
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Speaker 6: offensive tackle, guard, center. Then you have defensive end, defensive tackle.
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Speaker 6: You have linebacker, it can be inside and outside. Then
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Speaker 6: you have cornerback, nickel, and safety. So that's how it's
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Speaker 6: kind of like category from left to right.
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Speaker 3: Then in each of those respective.
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Speaker 6: Categories, you'll have your players ranked from whatever one to
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Speaker 6: twenty five or by round value. Then on a sideboard,
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Speaker 6: you may have all the players ranked from one to
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Speaker 6: one twenty seven regardless of position. Here's a vertical one
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Speaker 6: to twenty seven, and so that one twenty seven you
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Speaker 6: should just be picking guys from that that pool.
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Speaker 3: And so I know people will think, like, well, what
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Speaker 3: if all the guys are gone?
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Speaker 6: In history, it's never been a situation where all your
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Speaker 6: players are being gone because you got a member. There
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Speaker 6: are thirty one other teams that are ranking guys based
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Speaker 6: on their own set of criteria, and every draft board
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Speaker 6: is like a snowflake. The Jaguars board looks vastly different
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Speaker 6: than the Titans board would look vastly different than the
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Speaker 6: Indianapolis Colts. And so typically, man, you just you've done
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Speaker 6: all the work. So on draft day you just go
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Speaker 6: by order, and you should. When people talk about the
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Speaker 6: best player available, it should correlate whatever you have horizontally
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Speaker 6: to correlate with what goes vertically, and so the names
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Speaker 6: that appear, you just take the next name. It really
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Speaker 6: should be as simple as that. Regardless the need or whatever,
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Speaker 6: you just keep taking good players. Your team would be
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Speaker 6: a really good team and you'll figure out how to
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Speaker 6: fix the holes that you have.
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Speaker 5: After the draft Sidle Up podcast Jap Shaddick, John Oser
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Speaker 5: and Bucky Brooks and your final mock draft I believe
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Speaker 5: is out there now NFL dot Com. So, Bucky, who
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Speaker 5: do you have the Jaguars selecting at number twenty four overall?
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Speaker 6: Well, I mean, like you know, I think Doug Peterson
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Speaker 6: and Trim BARKI like very intelligent guys like high IQs,
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Speaker 6: very instinctive. So they decide to make a trip probably
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Speaker 6: down to the Harbord of the South Alabama to take
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Speaker 6: Brian Branch because he comes from such a high academic
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Speaker 6: college institution that's also.
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Speaker 3: Happens to be a football power. Yeah, they gonna get
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Speaker 3: Brian Branch to.
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Speaker 6: Put him in nickel so they can up to any
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Speaker 6: when it comes to the IQ on the defense. Put
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Speaker 6: him in a situation where you can play multiple spots
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Speaker 6: and solidify what was really a problem area for the
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Speaker 6: team last season. Brian Branch's versatility, his instincts, and awareness
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Speaker 6: will be a perfect fit down in Duwal.
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Speaker 3: I think he'd be a nice fit. Yeah.
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Speaker 5: I mean they produce a lot of scholars out of
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Speaker 5: that school, they really do. And certainly if you're a
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Speaker 5: defensive back for Nick Saban John, he's hands on with
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Speaker 5: the defensive backs every single day in practice.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, And I guess what I'm curious about with Branch.
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Speaker 7: I agree that I think there's a good chance he's
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Speaker 7: the pick because it just feels like it's going to
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Speaker 7: be available there and he does fill an immediate need.
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Speaker 7: Is he only a nickel?
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Speaker 6: I think nickel and deep safety are both positions that
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Speaker 6: he can play, meaning he can play in the slot
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Speaker 6: and do the things that you want to do. But
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Speaker 6: he also has the ability to go into deep haf
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Speaker 6: and split the safety. So if you wanted to see
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Speaker 6: him eventually evolve and play alongside Andre Cisco in a
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Speaker 6: deep HAF and a too deep coverage, he can do that.
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Speaker 6: But I think his value is being able to get
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Speaker 6: in the slot, being able to play man a zone,
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Speaker 6: being able to be a defendant that also helps out
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Speaker 6: and run support. He does all of those things, and
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Speaker 6: so if he's there, I mean, we're talking about a
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Speaker 6: guy who early on in the process people were raving
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Speaker 6: about didn't run as fast as some people wanted, which
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Speaker 6: kind of dinged his stock a little bit. But in
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Speaker 6: terms of the player that you see in between the lines,
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Speaker 6: playing the game out standing play, he'd be a upgrade.
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Speaker 2: Bucky, what's your week ahead? Looked like busy week.
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Speaker 3: That's always a busy week.
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Speaker 6: But draft time is fun because all the hazes in
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Speaker 6: the barn, we've done, all the tough work we talked about,
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Speaker 6: all the players we've ranked him, we've done all the
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Speaker 6: top five list, the mock drafts, all the silly stuff
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Speaker 6: that we have to do. So now we just sitn't wait,
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Speaker 6: we wait, we analyze, and then the best part of
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Speaker 6: it is we.
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Speaker 3: Get to give grades. I get it act as my
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Speaker 3: inner teacher.
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Speaker 6: I get to just go at people with the red
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Speaker 6: pen and give a's, BC's, d's, and f's based on
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Speaker 6: based on whether I like they're picking or not.
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Speaker 3: It doesn't get any better than that.
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Speaker 2: It's the best thing going you and Pete Prisco with
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Speaker 2: all the grades.
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Speaker 6: All the grades, I mean, that's that's, that's what it's
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Speaker 6: all about.
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Speaker 7: I love Bucky. I think draft grades are the silliest
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Speaker 7: thing of the year.
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Speaker 6: Oh no, no, no, National Honor Society. Everybody wants to
21:18
Speaker 6: be in the National Honor Society. So look, you got
21:20
Speaker 6: to pass the grade. And as the ultimate decider, you know,
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Speaker 6: I get to be professor.
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Speaker 3: I get to say yay and a thumbs up, thumbs down.
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Speaker 3: If I don't like it, I get to say it.
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Speaker 6: And the best thing about it is John in two
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Speaker 6: or three years, when the player either exceeds my expectation
21:36
Speaker 6: or disappoints.
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Speaker 3: No one knows. There's no accountability for me. I get
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Speaker 3: to say whatever.
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Speaker 5: At least Frisco goes back and regrades it like four
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Speaker 5: years later.
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Speaker 2: But Bucky doesn't to do that.
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Speaker 3: We don't do it.
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Speaker 6: There's too much like come on, man, there's too much,
21:52
Speaker 6: too much stuff to go back and regrade.
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Speaker 3: You can't. You can't take somebody's degree after they already
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Speaker 3: get it. Like, whatever grade you get at the point,
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Speaker 3: that's what you get.
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Speaker 2: I like that.
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Speaker 7: I like it to addit. I'm looking forward and we'll
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Speaker 7: see Bucky, not see him, but we'll be talking to
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Speaker 7: him Friday.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, a lot of Friday Bucky coverage on Day two
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Speaker 5: of the draft this year. You're busy on Thursday night,
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Speaker 5: and we'll look forward to discussing things with you then, Bucky.
22:17
Speaker 5: But have a great week, enjoy the draft and we'll
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Speaker 5: talk to you then.
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Speaker 3: We will. Man, it should be fun.
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Speaker 6: You guys have a great draft week because you know
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Speaker 6: what it brings us one step.
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Speaker 3: Closer to those mini camps.
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Speaker 2: I love it hot. Here we go this year.
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Speaker 5: Shout outs here Bucky Brooks are thanks to Brit Reever
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Speaker 5: and Joe Fortuneto. I'm JP Shadwick. We'll catch you next
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Speaker 5: time on the Huddle Up Podcast.