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Eric Weddle on tonight's first round of the NFL Draft, The anticipation of the draft as a player, 2 first rounders for the Utes (?) + mor... · The Sean O'Connell Show

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  Speaker 1: one af AM.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome now number three of the Shot O'Connell Show. It
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  Speaker 2: is NFL Draft Day.
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  Speaker 3: You can listen to the first round right here on
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  Speaker 3: ESPN seven hundred and ninety two to one FM. And uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know what, We talk a lot of sports with
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  Speaker 3: a lot of people. Most of those people have not
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  Speaker 3: heard their name called in an NFL drafts. But our
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  Speaker 3: next guest, all the way back in two thousand and
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  Speaker 3: seven was the number thirty seven overall pick and the
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  Speaker 3: San Diego Chargers first pick of that draft. His name,
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  Speaker 3: of course, is Eric Weddle, the Utah football legend a
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  Speaker 3: dub Welcome back to the show.
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  Speaker 2: How are you?
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  Speaker 4: What's up? My brother up?
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  Speaker 5: Doing great? A lot a lot of exciting days and
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  Speaker 5: ahead for this weekend for all the fans out there
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  Speaker 5: that want to see who their team picks and how
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  Speaker 5: they upgrade, and obviously the players seeing where their new
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  Speaker 5: home is for the next four to five years. Is
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  Speaker 5: always the uncertainty and the excitement all rolled in one.
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  Speaker 3: Do you remember how you were feeling heading into draft
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  Speaker 3: day or in draft days back in two thousand and seven.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I remember pretty vividly. I don't remember
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  Speaker 5: a lot of things. Maybe that's more my doing than
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  Speaker 5: anything else, but yeah, I remember all my family and
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  Speaker 5: friends were at the house. I remember going golfing in
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  Speaker 5: the morning with my dad, early morning round, knowing that
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  Speaker 5: the first round was going to be super long, and
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  Speaker 5: getting back around the fourth pick of the draft, third
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  Speaker 5: or fourth pick, and waiting around six and a half hours.
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  Speaker 5: I think the first round was the longest first round
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  Speaker 5: in the history of the Combine. And I think they
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  Speaker 5: changed the timing of it after that draft, which would
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  Speaker 5: have been nice year before. But yeah, and then just
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  Speaker 5: waiting the waiting game, and towards the end of the
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  Speaker 5: first round, I remember there are a couple of teams
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  Speaker 5: that potentially could have taken me, where the Patriots picked
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  Speaker 5: Brandon Wirieweather and then obviously the Chargers picking Buster Davis
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  Speaker 5: at thirty, and when those two picked past, I'm like,
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  Speaker 5: all right.
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  Speaker 4: Re re.
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  Speaker 5: Centering and then looking at the board, and I think
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  Speaker 5: from pick forty to fifty, I think there were five
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  Speaker 5: teams in that range where they had said we would
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  Speaker 5: take you if I was there. So we had a
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  Speaker 5: pretty good idea in the second round that I was
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  Speaker 5: going to be going off shortly, and then everything crazy
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  Speaker 5: happened to pick thirty seven.
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  Speaker 3: The Chicago Bears were the beneficiaries. The Chargers traded up
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  Speaker 3: to get Eric Weddle and ended up having a nice,
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  Speaker 3: nice little career there in the NFL for those of
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  Speaker 3: you who didn't get.
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  Speaker 2: To watch it.
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  Speaker 3: So this year, we've got a really interesting draft where
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  Speaker 3: it seems like a foregone conclusion that quarterback number one,
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  Speaker 3: and then there's a lot of questions about, you know,
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  Speaker 3: what position is valued most in this first round, what
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  Speaker 3: teams are going to try to move up, especially teams
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  Speaker 3: with multiple first round draft picks, if they're going to
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  Speaker 3: stay where they're at, if they're going to package those
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  Speaker 3: and try to climb. I have always said I think
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  Speaker 3: that there's eventually a future for Eric Weddle as an
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  Speaker 3: NFL GM or somehow in an NFL personnel department. From
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  Speaker 3: a philosophical standpoint, right, if you're in a draft like
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  Speaker 3: this one, how are you approaching I mean, obviously team
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  Speaker 3: need would factor in here, how are you approaching a
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  Speaker 3: draft like this where there's not a lot of consensus
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  Speaker 3: on who the best players are.
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  Speaker 1: Why I think it's I think the perception of this
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  Speaker 1: draft is maybe not as talented or as deep just
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  Speaker 1: because of the quarterback or lack thereof from a group.
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  Speaker 5: Right, you got you have Mendoza presum presumably the number
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  Speaker 5: one overall predates now in draft prior drafts, he probably
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  Speaker 5: wildn't even be a first round pick. So it's just
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  Speaker 5: interesting to see how it all worked out, how how
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  Speaker 5: the chips fall. And Kyle Sinson from Alabama is probably
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  Speaker 5: the only other guy that could go in the first round.
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  Speaker 5: So as a as a usually you base it off
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  Speaker 5: the talent of the quarterbacks and then everything mark works
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  Speaker 5: its way off of that. So it's a little down
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  Speaker 5: in that sense, but I think it is is a
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  Speaker 5: really deep draft with offensive linemen receivers. Now, do I
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  Speaker 5: think there's a like a a true number one Calvin
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  Speaker 5: Johnson Jamar Chase type receiver. No, But I still think
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  Speaker 5: there's about three to five that could go in the
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  Speaker 5: first round. And I think I think seven offensive line
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  Speaker 5: up are going to go in the first round tonight.
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  Speaker 5: So when I when I'm looking at my team and
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  Speaker 5: I and I'm debating on like a Love or an
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  Speaker 5: edge rusher or Love and a alignment that are very
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  Speaker 5: similar grades.
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  Speaker 6: I'm always gonna go with the old line D line
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  Speaker 6: with the impact because you can find certain positions through
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  Speaker 6: rest of the draft and have a huge impact, but
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  Speaker 6: those studs at those premier positions are hard to find.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm glad you mentioned Jeremiah Love because, like we've
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  Speaker 3: we've heard the conversation for two decades now about NFL
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  Speaker 3: running backs and whether it's a devalued position or whether
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  Speaker 3: Guys like Derrick Henry and Christian McCaffrey and some of
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  Speaker 3: these individuals have have highlighted the fact that when you
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  Speaker 3: have someone who's truly special, when you have an outlier,
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  Speaker 3: it's absolutely not a devalued position. These are MVP candidate
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  Speaker 3: type players in the NFL, and they play a running
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  Speaker 3: back position where a lot of people, yeah, third round guy,
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  Speaker 3: you can plug and play. But is Jeremiah Love an
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  Speaker 3: outlier from what you've seen from him? Is he a
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  Speaker 3: guy that we can put in that rarefied air with,
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  Speaker 3: like well, the two guys I just mentioned with the
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  Speaker 3: Derrick Henry, with the Christian McCaffrey, with the Saquon Barkley,
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  Speaker 3: et cetera.
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  Speaker 7: I don't not that maybe he can't. I just think
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  Speaker 7: that those are the those are the anomalies. Uh think
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  Speaker 7: of how dynamic and productive the kid last year was
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  Speaker 7: John to Blaine for the Raiders.
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  Speaker 4: But Jens and.
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  Speaker 7: Look how look at the adjustment he had last year,
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  Speaker 7: and it's a whole different ballgame.
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  Speaker 4: And if you're a.
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  Speaker 7: Running back, there's only so much you can do when
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  Speaker 7: the guys around you aren't up to the level that
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  Speaker 7: you need to create lanes and cutbacks and you know,
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  Speaker 7: have an adequate passing game so you can so the
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  Speaker 7: run can feed out the pass. So I don't think so.
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  Speaker 7: I think those guys are, you know, generational. Every every
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  Speaker 7: decade you may see one. You could say, maybe.
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  Speaker 8: Jamar Gibbs in recent history would would fall.
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  Speaker 4: In line who's who's, But he eases.
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  Speaker 5: His way into it.
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  Speaker 4: His first couple of years in the league. He was
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  Speaker 4: never a bell cow at the gate.
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  Speaker 8: He was a third down running back, and then second
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  Speaker 8: year and then thirdy and then finally took over from Montgomery.
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  Speaker 8: So do I think he's in every down back?
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  Speaker 6: Yes?
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  Speaker 8: Do I think is extremely talented, Yes, But.
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  Speaker 7: I'm just philosophically, I'm not. I'm not dropping to run
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  Speaker 7: him back, never in the top five. You know, for
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  Speaker 7: every for every talented guy like Love, there's only one
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  Speaker 7: Adrian Peterson and or Derrick Henry. But Derrick Henry went
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  Speaker 7: in in the twenties, I believe.
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  Speaker 8: Right or where did I can't remember where Derrick Henry
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  Speaker 8: got dropped, but I don't know. I obviously think as
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  Speaker 8: a really good player, but I do think it's hard
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  Speaker 8: for running backs to be that MVP type planner right.
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  Speaker 5: Out the gate.
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  Speaker 8: And when they do become that, then you're then you're
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  Speaker 8: forced to pay him, which most teams aren't going to
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  Speaker 8: be paying their running backs.
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  Speaker 3: Derrick Henry was the second round or forty forty fifth
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  Speaker 3: though overall.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I knew. I didn't know the second round, but
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  Speaker 4: I knew it was late late first. Uh. And it
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  Speaker 4: just goes back to you can find running backs right
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  Speaker 4: like the day, the days of a running back that
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  Speaker 4: is the leading rusher in the league that leads you
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  Speaker 4: to a super Bowl. It's just it's not not the
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  Speaker 4: case anymore. Right. You build your team through the quarterbacks,
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  Speaker 4: through the weapons on the perimeter. Obviously skiing philosophy, culture
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  Speaker 4: all that, and then defensively, running back is not very
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  Speaker 4: high on the priority list of how you want to
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  Speaker 4: build your team.
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  Speaker 3: Getting back to the offensive line, obviously, Utah's got two
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  Speaker 3: guys that are potential first round picks headed into this
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  Speaker 3: draft who play that position, and they played the premium
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  Speaker 3: position of offensive tackle.
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  Speaker 2: And we've seen I've.
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  Speaker 3: Probably read every mock, every article about every projection, and
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  Speaker 3: we've seen Spencer Fonos start the process as the Outland
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  Speaker 3: Trophy winner as tackle number one, and then as the
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  Speaker 3: weeks progressed and the conversation progressed, you saw him as
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  Speaker 3: low as four on some people's boards, tackle number four,
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  Speaker 3: And then most of the consensus now seems to be
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  Speaker 3: back that, no, he'll be the first tackle taken, it'll
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  Speaker 3: be Cleveland pulling him off the board. And that highlights
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  Speaker 3: how absurd the publishing is with all this types of stuff.
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  Speaker 3: But when when you watch Spencer fono let's say that,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the Cleveland Browns are like, hey, well we
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  Speaker 3: need an emergency GM you get to make our pick.
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  Speaker 2: Is that where you're going?
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  Speaker 4: Holy smokes? Of course I would.
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  Speaker 2: I would.
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  Speaker 4: I would love to have Spencer on my team. I
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  Speaker 4: don't know the roster configuration. Where is our biggest need?
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  Speaker 4: Where do I have everyone else graded compared to Spencer?
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  Speaker 4: And listen, his traits are just elite and it's gonna
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  Speaker 4: be able to easily You can easily envision him in
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  Speaker 4: the NFL being productive, high level pro bowler, all pro
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  Speaker 4: at either tackle or guard, and people are saying, well,
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  Speaker 4: if you move them to guard, like, yeah, I know
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  Speaker 4: some incredible guards. Nelson comes to mind, Marshall Yonda, who
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  Speaker 4: are Hall of Fame type guys? Like yeah, would I
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  Speaker 4: waste not a waste? Would I pick him anywhere in
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  Speaker 4: the first round If he's gonna end up being that,
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  Speaker 4: you bet your tail I will. So I really don't
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  Speaker 4: buy into guards, don't go that high. I think if
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  Speaker 4: he's elite that will be a starter out the gate
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  Speaker 4: and will play ten years, You're worth a first round
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  Speaker 4: pick to me, especially a premium position that protects the
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  Speaker 4: quarterback or gets after the quarterback. So I've seen the
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  Speaker 4: same things anywhere from six to the twenties. When the
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  Speaker 4: first one goes, I think the lineman. When the first
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  Speaker 4: one goes, you're gonna see a run on the lineman
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  Speaker 4: go right, Because those teams that are in need of it,
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  Speaker 4: don't want to be left out. So you can see
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  Speaker 4: trades happen, you can see movement, So if that happens
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  Speaker 4: with Cleveland, you could see hopefully it's Spencer, but if not,
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  Speaker 4: his name will get called quickly after that.
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  Speaker 3: Cleveland's in a situation. There's what there's I think there's
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  Speaker 3: four or five teams that have multiple first round draft picks.
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  Speaker 3: The Cowboys have a couple, the Giants have a couple.
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  Speaker 3: Cleveland's got a couple. Cleveland's at six and at twenty four,
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  Speaker 3: and they're offensive line need heavy. They also need receivers,
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  Speaker 3: and this draft is good for both, and there's some
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  Speaker 3: disagreement whether the offensive linemen are more elite in this
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  Speaker 3: first round or whether the receivers are more elite in
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  Speaker 3: this first round.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't know why I'm talking so much about
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  Speaker 2: the Browns.
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  Speaker 3: It's only because Fauna is projected by a lot of
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  Speaker 3: people to go there. But if you got six and
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  Speaker 3: you've got twenty four, I think I know your answer
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  Speaker 3: to this. You're using six for a lineman twenty four
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  Speaker 3: for a receiver or vice versa.
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  Speaker 4: No, no, no, I'm going lineman. I think the lineman
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  Speaker 4: much deeper and more talented over the course of your
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  Speaker 4: projecting for the future. I see, I see really good receivers.
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  Speaker 4: I don't see special receivers if I'm being honest and
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  Speaker 4: I'm not drafting a guy in the top fifteen at receiver.
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  Speaker 4: If I don't see all pro special type talent. You know,
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  Speaker 4: you have those outliers like the na Kua's and you
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  Speaker 4: know the mont Saint Brown was in the second round,
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, those happened, But that's those are the outliers, right,
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  Speaker 4: like top tier talent, and there's obviously bus that happen
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  Speaker 4: every year, but historically that the Jamar Chases, the Jeffersons,
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  Speaker 4: the Calvin Johnson's, like these guys are they get drafted
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  Speaker 4: high because they are elast special talents and it translates
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  Speaker 4: so some have injury, some are underside. So I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going lineman if I'm debating between the two, and
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  Speaker 4: I'm going those defensive players, the Reef, the Styles, the Bailey,
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  Speaker 4: the Caleb Downs, like those guys are cornerstone defenders that
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  Speaker 4: will be on your roster for the next ten years.
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  Speaker 3: I'm really fascinated by the Sunny Styles conversation because he
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  Speaker 3: is obviously a mega athlete, and he's a really good
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  Speaker 3: football player. I don't think he's like a future Hall
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  Speaker 3: of Fame football player despite his athleticism. It reminds me
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  Speaker 3: of was it what's his first name? Isaiah Simmons, the
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  Speaker 3: kid from Clemson a few years ago who was built
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  Speaker 3: exactly like this and had freak measurables exactly like this,
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  Speaker 3: and he has not popped in the NFL the way
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  Speaker 3: that obviously his draft position expected him to. So I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I hear Sonny Styles being given like, oh, he could
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  Speaker 3: be a Fred Warner type player. It's like Fred Warner's
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  Speaker 3: game is not predicated on him being the best athlete
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  Speaker 3: on the field. That's not why Fred Warner is such
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  Speaker 3: a great player. I worry more than Sonny Styles is
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  Speaker 3: Isaiah Simmons.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah you do. There's some points to that. When I
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  Speaker 4: took Gage and I went out to Ohio stayed a
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  Speaker 4: few weeks back, and Sonny was there and I actually
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  Speaker 4: got to spend about twenty minutes as talking one on
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  Speaker 4: one with him. His coaches brought him over to me
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  Speaker 4: and we're just chatting and talk about like a rock
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  Speaker 4: star of just a from a man's standpoint, like the
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  Speaker 4: character really like I think that has increased his value
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  Speaker 4: when you're dealing with guys as the unknown per se,
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  Speaker 4: and I do like.
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  Speaker 9: Man he is he is a big, big human being,
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  Speaker 9: not like yeah he's a muscle wise, but he's tall,
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  Speaker 9: Like I don't know what his exact measurements, but I
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  Speaker 9: think he's closer to six five than he is six
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  Speaker 9: six two.
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  Speaker 4: Or sixty three. I mean he's a giant. And I
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  Speaker 4: almost think like he's a he's an edge rusher if
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  Speaker 4: if I'm being honest, and I'm if I'm projecting that
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  Speaker 4: even though he played off ball and he was he
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  Speaker 4: was productive, I just think he could do. He could
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  Speaker 4: he could be a Swiss Army knife. Now do I
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  Speaker 4: none none of these guys, Like are they gonna be
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  Speaker 4: Hall of Fame? Like we can't really project that, but
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  Speaker 4: I look at us like this, if the guy is
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  Speaker 4: gonna come in be a productive NFL starter who has
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  Speaker 4: a ceiling that maybe is a Pro Bowl all the
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  Speaker 4: pro player, if he does everything correctly and works his
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  Speaker 4: butt off, he has character, he'll he h is an
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  Speaker 4: extension of your vision and culture. Like that's worth it
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  Speaker 4: for me, right, Like that's I'm happy with that. I
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  Speaker 4: think that's a home run. And if they end up
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  Speaker 4: being these all world generational type players, then then that's
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  Speaker 4: icing on the cake. But you can't, you can't. You
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  Speaker 4: gotta have a bunch of guys that that buying the culture,
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  Speaker 4: that are good people, good guys that are ballers, that
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  Speaker 4: are coachable. And I think he aligns with all those characteristics,
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  Speaker 4: and I think that's why he's gonna go high. Obviously
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  Speaker 4: he's really talented, but I think those other characteristics have
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  Speaker 4: helped him to the draft process.
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  Speaker 3: How many NFL gms do you think are as dialed
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  Speaker 3: on character as an important trait as you are? Like,
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  Speaker 3: I mean again, I believe your future at some point
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  Speaker 3: is doing personnel management, maybe on a college roster, maybe
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  Speaker 3: on an NFL roster. I'm making your plans for you.
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  Speaker 3: But h I love it, But like, that's who you are.
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  Speaker 3: You care about character, You judge people on character, and yes,
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  Speaker 3: talent is important, but you're you're a guy who you're
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  Speaker 3: not going to be as impressed by talent as you
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  Speaker 3: are by character.
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  Speaker 2: How many NFL gms are the same.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I think that the bad organizations probably don't think
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  Speaker 4: too much into that they're more into analytics, They're more
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  Speaker 4: into numbers and height, weight, strength, speed, explosive all this stuff.
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  Speaker 4: At the end of the day, that really doesn't equate
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  Speaker 4: to how they how do they assimilate into a team,
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  Speaker 4: how do they how do they buy into the culture?
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  Speaker 4: How do will they engage and interact with the teammates?
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  Speaker 4: How do they are they coachable? Are they good teammates?
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  Speaker 4: Do they will they compete? Will they look out for
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  Speaker 4: each other? Like those things matter. I really believe that,
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  Speaker 4: And you look at the successful teams across the board,
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  Speaker 4: that's what they emphasize. Right, Like you get into the NFL,
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  Speaker 4: right like, the top one percent are like different difference
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  Speaker 4: makers in the sense that like they're just better than
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  Speaker 4: everyone else at their position. But the rest of the
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  Speaker 4: ninety percent, you you want guys you could trust. You
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  Speaker 4: want guys that are going to buy in and be
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  Speaker 4: about the team and not about like myself. Yeah, you
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  Speaker 4: gotta individually, you gotta think about being the best version
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  Speaker 4: of myself. So ultimately the team has success, but it
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  Speaker 4: can never be more about yourself than the team. So
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  Speaker 4: trying to figure that out through the process and having
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  Speaker 4: an importance, like if the guy is a complete dickhead,
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  Speaker 4: but he is the number one talented best player in
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  Speaker 4: the draft. I'm not taking him because eventually you're gonna
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  Speaker 4: he's gonna break the locker room. He's gonna have issues
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  Speaker 4: when it comes to contract time, like all this other
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: headaches that at the end of the day, like it's
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: just not worth it. Like you got to build a
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: team and no one person is gonna be the difference
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  Speaker 4: between winning championship or not, and you never want that
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  Speaker 4: one person to be bigger than the culture or the teammate.
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  Speaker 3: You You put out a tweet about your own future
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  Speaker 3: that you know you're gonna stay at Rancho Bernardo, You're
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: gonna you're not leaving when Gage leaves, and uh, you
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  Speaker 3: know people have asked about it. It's like, what was
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: the impetus for this? Is everyone harassing you and just
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: like assuming that that is your plan, why did you
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  Speaker 3: feel a need to address this publicly?
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  Speaker 4: Well, it's it's just like, you know, I'm very I'm
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: very happy and content in what I'm doing right now.
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  Speaker 4: And yeah, have I had opportunities. Every year I get
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: asked to coach or different type of roles, whether it's
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: college or NFL but what people don't understand, well, people
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  Speaker 4: that know me, you know me, like what comes first
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  Speaker 4: in my life. It's family, my family. So am I
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  Speaker 4: just gonna say, hey, Silver and Camery, you're you're gonna
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: be a junior in high school and Camera you're gonna
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: be an income and freshman, and hey, Dad's gonna leave
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  Speaker 4: you guys and go work somewhere else where. You guys
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  Speaker 4: a gonna stay here in high school like that. It's
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: just not even logical. It's not a reality. I don't
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  Speaker 4: even entertain it because it's just not It's just not
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  Speaker 4: something that will ever happen. So I'm hearing it a
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  Speaker 4: bunch of San Diego. I'm hearing it from families and
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: kids through other people that oh, Eric's Eric Shanna leave.
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: This is why we're not coming to his high school.
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: And it's like hold on, guys. Uh. So that really
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: was the basis of it, and to just remind people
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: that this is who I am. I'm happy. What is it?
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: Is it humbling? And uh you know, do it?
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Does it?
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  Speaker 4: Does it feel good? Like people want want me to
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: come help them. Yeah, But it's just not a reality
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: at this point. Until my kids are done with high school.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: Last thing before we let you go.
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: And I've avoided talking about this because I don't like
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: the soap opera stuff it's like, especially when it comes
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: to people's marriages and personal life. It feels icky and
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: because it's you know, families are broken up over these things.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: But uh, the the bike Rabel Diana Rassini stuff once
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: again is in the headlines on draft day. He's skipping
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: the draft. They announced it yesterday before more tabloid reports
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: came out. And the NFL has its air of scandals
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: in locker rooms and stuff all the time. It's actually
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: not all that common for the head coach of a franchise,
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: especially a respected franchise, to be the focus of something
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: like this, and Rabel, of course, as a former player,
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: has kind of that as well.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: His reputation is a former player.
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: How how is this being handled in the Patriots' locker room?
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: If your your head coach is now the distraction?
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I means there's there's there's so many ways to
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: talk about this, right like who am I? Who am
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: I here to sit here and judge what someone else
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: is doing in their personal life?
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: Right?
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: Like, I don't I know what I try to do?
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: Am I perfect?
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  Speaker 9: No?
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: Do I make mistakes? Of course, So at the end
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: of the day, people need to really like understand, like
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: he he didn't do anything wrong, per se in for
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: his job, and is it bad media of course, the
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: sharing a bad light to the new patier of course, Like,
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: and he's he's got to deal with that. Ultimately, you
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: got to answer to your family and your wife on
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: whatever had happened. Okay, But as a player, listen, a
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: lot of you know that's that's just not uncommon, okay,
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: and unfortunately you wish it was uncommon, but it's not.
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: So if I was on the Patriots and all this
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: stuff's going on, like, yeah, do I look at him differently? Yeah,
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: But at the end of the day, like, my job
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: is to be the best player to leave this team,
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: and Rabel's my head coach, So if he's still my
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: head coach, then I'm gonna listen to him and go
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: to work. So I don't know, it's obviously a distraction
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: and they got to figure that out, but you have
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: to have some type of maturity about it and understand,
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: like I don't need a head coach to get me
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: ready for a game. I don't need a head coach
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: to motivate me and and this, that and the other.
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: I need a guy that just corrals the team, keeps
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: us going in the right direction, leads us. Now, yeah,
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: is his leadership in question a little bit by his
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: out the field actions it a little bit, But hey,
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: you're a football coach, so go coach the team. What
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: you do on the outside is your own doing, and
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: you got to answer to that and then obviously the team. Now,
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: it will be interesting if there's any evidence that something
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: went on on the facility, like at facility grounds, whether
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: that place or other places, then you know that's obviously
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: that's a whole other issue. But I don't know. Obviously
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: I don't agree with it. People know me. But also
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: I understand that I got a job to do and
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: I don't like guys have a lot of stuff going
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: on outside the building. And at the end of the day,
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: I just try to be there for teammates to be
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: a helping hand for whatever they need. But I'm not
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: going to sit here and throw stones at them because
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: that's just not my place.
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  Speaker 8: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: The Chargers, the Rams, the Ravens all going to be
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: drafting over the next three days. Who's whose draft are
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: you most fascinated by the teams you played for?
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: Oh? Wow, Rams at thirteen is very interesting. They have
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: so many different choices that they could do. If they
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: highly covet someone, they could trade up, they can pick
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: whoever lands to them at thirteen, they can trade back
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: and get another maybe a second round pick, third round pick,
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: So that that's a prime spot. Chargers as well. I
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: think they're picking at or are they picking twenties? Are
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: around there?
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: Chargers have twenty two.
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah, So I think they've got to get a difference
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: maker on the perimeter, whether they trade up or trade.
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: They need some They need some talent on the perimeter.
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: They got their two tackles coming back, so I don't
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: feel like offensive lines of need in those emphasis. So
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: what difference maker is there obviously determines that. And the
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: Ravens I think are at fourteen or fifteen, and same thing.
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: I know they lost some linemen, so they're definitely in
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: the right prime spot of grabbing one of those linemen.
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: And they're always looking for corners and edge rushers, so
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: be on the lookout for those guys as well.
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: That is Eric Weddle, the Utah football legend, and in
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: my mind the future. NFL Hall of Famer, Love you dude,
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: thanks for your time as always, love you bro head
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: coach of the Rancho, Bernardo Broncos, by the way, for
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: the foreseeable future. Don't get it twisted if you're living
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: down there in Poway, California, or the greater San Diego
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: area