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- 0:09Speaker 1: Inside the Birds is back. What's going on? Everybody? It
- 0:14Speaker 1: is Jeff Mosher and Adam Kapan. We're gonna finish off
- 0:17Speaker 1: our two part podcast series. We do it every year.
- 0:20Speaker 1: We draft the NFC both on no excuse me, we
- 0:24Speaker 1: draft the NFC both on offense and defense. So if
- 0:28Speaker 1: you missed it, make sure you catch our first episode,
- 0:31Speaker 1: which was the offense. That was real fun, and in
- 0:34Speaker 1: this one it will be also real fun. We're gonna
- 0:36Speaker 1: draft the defense. And the one thing that just doing
- 0:39Speaker 1: research a lot, there's a lot of good defensive player,
- 0:43Speaker 1: especially pass rushers in the NFC East, and that's gonna
- 0:46Speaker 1: make for a real interesting front, four front six. Now,
- 0:50Speaker 1: Adam and I say, this is just the best defense
- 0:53Speaker 1: you can put together. So we've given ourselves a liberty
- 0:56Speaker 1: to run a three to four front, a four to
- 0:58Speaker 1: three front, whatever you want to do, as long as
- 1:00Speaker 1: it's reasonable. As we always say, you get to pick.
- 1:04Speaker 1: So the first thing we're gonna do ad him is
- 1:06Speaker 1: take a quick look back at last year's determined again
- 1:09Speaker 1: the winner. Now, if anybody hasn't seen the offensive version yet,
- 1:13Speaker 1: we determined in a very highly you know, like a
- 1:16Speaker 1: real real thorough forensic science way that Adam won the
- 1:20Speaker 1: offense six to four. So let's take a quick look
- 1:23Speaker 1: at how he did defensively last year. All right, let's
- 1:28Speaker 1: you start off an edge Adam I gave. Now, you
- 1:31Speaker 1: drafted Micah Parsons because that happened before he got traded
- 1:34Speaker 1: to Green Bay. But I just treated it like a
- 1:36Speaker 1: Micah Parsons season. He got hurt, and he got hurt.
- 1:40Speaker 1: Brian Burns had sixteen and a half sacks last year,
- 1:42Speaker 1: but Parsons had twelve and a half in like thirteen games.
- 1:45Speaker 1: So I called it even. But I think they were
- 1:47Speaker 1: both awesome when they were playing. You know, it wasn't
- 1:49Speaker 1: like Parsons missed like the whole year or anything like that.
- 1:52Speaker 1: So that was a tie. Jelex Hunt had a better
- 1:55Speaker 1: year than Nolan Smith Junior. I think you would agree
- 1:58Speaker 1: with that, all right, So I won on that one. Now,
- 2:01Speaker 1: when we moved to the interior defensive line, you just
- 2:04Speaker 1: wiped the floor with me. Because Dexter Lawrence had a really,
- 2:08Speaker 1: really bad year. So Jill and Carter have had a
- 2:12Speaker 1: bad year by his standards, it was still better than
- 2:14Speaker 1: Dexter Lawrence.
- 2:17Speaker 2: I can't disagree with that.
- 2:18Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, And then o Diggi Zoo had an
- 2:20Speaker 1: okay year for the Cowboys. You know, he got traded
- 2:22Speaker 1: in to the forty nine ers, and but it was
- 2:25Speaker 1: still a better year than Darn Payne.
- 2:27Speaker 2: Yeah, Darn paying the questions where they going to bring
- 2:29Speaker 2: him back? That was that was real. Yeah, I just
- 2:31Speaker 2: started to bring him back a lot of money. Uh.
- 2:34Speaker 2: It's interesting at inside backer because with Kara k he's
- 2:39Speaker 2: clearly not the same player. Like they moved on from him,
- 2:41Speaker 2: which was kind of surprising. Yeah, but they clearly didn't
- 2:44Speaker 2: think it was good enough. And it's not like anyone
- 2:46Speaker 2: else has jumped to sign him. But Zach barn did
- 2:49Speaker 2: what not a lot of people thought they could do.
- 2:51Speaker 2: He could do come close to repeating his success from
- 2:54Speaker 2: twenty four. He was still really really good last season.
- 2:57Speaker 1: Yes, still good. Uh so he won over ok here
- 3:00Speaker 1: And you know it's I think Jahack Campbell would have
- 3:03Speaker 1: won this matchup versus Frankie Louvu if he had just started,
- 3:07Speaker 1: you know, after week eight, before Nikobe Dean came back. Interestingly,
- 3:11Speaker 1: none of us took na Kobe Dean. We knew he
- 3:13Speaker 1: was coming off that surgery. Either of us had, they
- 3:16Speaker 1: would have won this category. You know, going away, But
- 3:19Speaker 1: Louvu sort of got the He definitely got the nod
- 3:22Speaker 1: over Campbell because he played more and even though it
- 3:24Speaker 1: was a down year for him, it was still more productive.
- 3:28Speaker 2: From what I've heard, they're probably going to play more
- 3:30Speaker 2: at edge going forward because inside backer.
- 3:33Speaker 1: Yep. So interesting, Yeah, for sure, all right. At corner,
- 3:39Speaker 1: this one was really interesting. I clearly got the best
- 3:43Speaker 1: on on top corner Quina Mitchell over a debo. I
- 3:47Speaker 1: gave a draw to Lattimore and Bland. They both missed
- 3:50Speaker 1: games and both had like each had one interception, and
- 3:53Speaker 1: they just they both had bad years, to be honest
- 3:55Speaker 1: with you, so it wasn't there was nothing to tout
- 3:58Speaker 1: for either of them. It was kind of a bad high.
- 4:00Speaker 1: And then you kicked my rear end and Nickel with
- 4:04Speaker 1: Cooper to Gene over Mikey Sandras.
- 4:05Speaker 2: Still yeah, or you could be like the Seahawks one
- 4:07Speaker 2: year they didn't play Nickel. I don't know if you
- 4:09Speaker 2: know that, which is the most ridiculous thing. I remember
- 4:12Speaker 2: pet Karl havn't to explain why, and they got it
- 4:14Speaker 2: wrong many years ago. It's ridiculous. But when you look
- 4:19Speaker 2: at this situation, Marshall Lattimore that that, oh what a disaster,
- 4:24Speaker 2: just that that trade never worked out. They got desperate
- 4:27Speaker 2: for cornerback help and you just never played well in Sandrastill.
- 4:30Speaker 2: Here's the thing. First year Nickel right, really really good.
- 4:33Speaker 2: Last year corner didn't play as well. What is he
- 4:36Speaker 2: going forward? That that makes it tough?
- 4:38Speaker 1: It does? It does? Now you know they're playing this
- 4:41Speaker 1: style of defense under Dante Jones. It's gonna mirror what
- 4:45Speaker 1: theoretically that his mentor, Brian Flores does. So it's hard
- 4:49Speaker 1: to even say what like, because you know Flora's moves.
- 4:52Speaker 1: Guys like Sandra Still could could wind up playing fifteen
- 4:55Speaker 1: percent of edge rushing snaps and be a blitzer for
- 4:57Speaker 1: all we know, because that's how crazy uh flora as gets.
- 5:00Speaker 1: But it'll be interesting to see where they use him.
- 5:02Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, looking forward to that. And then it's honestly safety.
- 5:08Speaker 2: I mean, you gave me the not a re blanket ship.
- 5:11Speaker 1: I had to. I rent back and looked. I mean,
- 5:14Speaker 1: Javon Holland had a very average year and so did
- 5:17Speaker 1: Read but it was just slightly better, So you know, yeah,
- 5:21Speaker 1: and then I meant to I probably should have bolded
- 5:24Speaker 1: Nuban over macoba here because mccomba missed so much time.
- 5:29Speaker 1: But I started that in the overall. Uh No, So
- 5:32Speaker 1: even if I gave myself four wins, because basically you
- 5:35Speaker 1: won with j Alex Hunt, Jillen Carter, Odigi Zoa, that's three,
- 5:40Speaker 1: Cooper de Gene four and Reblanket Ship five and I
- 5:44Speaker 1: want there were a couple of ties and I got
- 5:46Speaker 1: four out of this.
- 5:46Speaker 2: So you beat me again, man, Congratulations, I get the crown.
- 5:52Speaker 1: You get the crown, you get the Fantasy Crown. Good
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- 6:53Speaker 1: one and up. So with that being said, but we
- 6:57Speaker 1: will start off our defensive here. I think I had
- 7:01Speaker 1: the first pick in the offensive one, so you're automatically
- 7:04Speaker 1: going to give you for I'm not going to do
- 7:05Speaker 1: the virtual coin flip again. We'll just give you first
- 7:08Speaker 1: pick in defense.
- 7:10Speaker 2: All right, Well, there are a lot of ways I
- 7:16Speaker 2: could go here. Jalen Carter when healthy is dominant. We're
- 7:21Speaker 2: going to get the same Jalen Carter. Last year was
- 7:23Speaker 2: not good for him. Before that, he was great. That's
- 7:27Speaker 2: always a question. Is Quinn Williams is getting up there
- 7:29Speaker 2: in age, still very good player. It's his first full
- 7:31Speaker 2: season with Cowboys, so it's de tackle to me is
- 7:36Speaker 2: it's kind of top heavy, although it's pretty deep. It's
- 7:39Speaker 2: pretty deep, but andre's some good ones linebacker. Oh yeah,
- 7:44Speaker 2: and by the way, we could we could draft a
- 7:46Speaker 2: thirty four front, or we could draft a forty three front.
- 7:48Speaker 2: That's part of the YEP, that's part of it. It's
- 7:51Speaker 2: like doing eleven or twelve personnel team. But it's all
- 7:53Speaker 2: about drafting the best players correct and the best. The
- 7:56Speaker 2: best player here is at a position it's super hard.
- 8:00Speaker 2: You get corner, damn it all right? And with Adam
- 8:05Speaker 2: going through Ron Bland, you got me for a second,
- 8:09Speaker 2: I was like, what n John Bland? Who like it's
- 8:14Speaker 2: typical of the Cowboys corners, Like, you know, he was
- 8:16Speaker 2: a good nickel one year played outside, didn't didn't play
- 8:20Speaker 2: as well. No, it's Quinon que On Mitchell is the
- 8:24Speaker 2: is my first player here. He's got to be the
- 8:26Speaker 2: guy here. He's just I don't worry so much about interceptions.
- 8:31Speaker 2: I know it's better in the playoffs. It's about coverage ability,
- 8:35Speaker 2: blanket coverage, really good tackler, elite in coverage. He doesn't
- 8:41Speaker 2: worry about getting beat. The rare that he ever gets beat,
- 8:44Speaker 2: he's just he's shame and all those teams we're so
- 8:47Speaker 2: concerned that he didn't play man coverage at Toledo, Well,
- 8:52Speaker 2: it's just it teams tak themselves out of anything.
- 8:55Speaker 1: Man Oh, yeah, for sure they do. Yeah, all right,
- 8:59Speaker 1: well that was the guy I was going to take,
- 9:02Speaker 1: hoping that you would go elsewhere. No, that was pretty
- 9:06Speaker 1: smart of you. So I'm gonna all right. I like
- 9:15Speaker 1: I said in the first episode offense, I just think
- 9:19Speaker 1: that overall, the division is deeper and better at so
- 9:23Speaker 1: many spots that I don't The cornerback was the one
- 9:25Speaker 1: where to me, there's like a one and then everybody
- 9:28Speaker 1: else doesn't compare, and you just took that. So I
- 9:32Speaker 1: don't feel like pressured now to have to get the
- 9:34Speaker 1: best guy at another position, although there are a couple
- 9:38Speaker 1: areas I might we'll see on my second pick, but
- 9:41Speaker 1: I do want best player, short thing, a guy I
- 9:44Speaker 1: think is great. So I'm gonna go the guy who
- 9:46Speaker 1: had sixteen and a half sacks last year, who has
- 9:48Speaker 1: a track record of putting together a bunch of sacks.
- 9:51Speaker 1: New defensive coordinator, new scheme. I don't think I'll I
- 9:55Speaker 1: think that'll only just make him just as good. And
- 9:57Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with Brian Burns of the Giants. You
- 10:00Speaker 1: can't come off.
- 10:01Speaker 2: You're gonna run the thirty four front under Jennard Wilson,
- 10:03Speaker 2: and they're going to keep it the integrity of the defense.
- 10:06Speaker 2: He'll do great in this defense. Yep.
- 10:08Speaker 1: Absolutely. And then I guess because there is one position
- 10:13Speaker 1: where I feel like this guy, although he's kind of
- 10:17Speaker 1: I have to decide where I'm going to play him.
- 10:19Speaker 1: But I'm just gonna for now consider him my nickel
- 10:24Speaker 1: and I'm gonna take Cooper to Gen because I don't
- 10:27Speaker 1: want to mess around with any other of these potential nickels.
- 10:30Speaker 2: EPA man, best player.
- 10:33Speaker 1: That's exactly question. So go ahead, you finish off round
- 10:38Speaker 1: two and then start round three.
- 10:41Speaker 2: Now the drop off and overall talent has happened. M
- 10:44Speaker 2: hm h, it's definitely happened. Boy, oh boy, oh boy.
- 10:50Speaker 2: Well he is rehabbed his shoulders tire offseason. Let's see
- 10:59Speaker 2: what happens. Train of camp. Open says, you're having a
- 11:01Speaker 2: hold in uh Jalen Carter's on her serious consideration at
- 11:07Speaker 2: this pick. There's no question about it.
- 11:09Speaker 1: I get it, but I'm going to stay on.
- 11:12Speaker 2: The same team but not take him. This is a
- 11:15Speaker 2: guy who's one of the best linebackers in football. That's
- 11:17Speaker 2: Zac Baond. I'm gonna probably play a thirty four fronts
- 11:19Speaker 2: as we do this draft. I'll make a decision as
- 11:21Speaker 2: we will see what the talent level is.
- 11:23Speaker 1: Yeah, like I already determined I'm playing the nickel front
- 11:25Speaker 1: because I drafted the gene as a nickel. But I
- 11:28Speaker 1: couldn't to your point, I could still do it.
- 11:31Speaker 2: Can you a chance to who's available? But I was
- 11:34Speaker 2: gonna go with Koop, but you took it from me.
- 11:36Speaker 2: Zach Bahn is a phenomenal football player. Should have been
- 11:39Speaker 2: an All Pro last year. He was two years ago.
- 11:43Speaker 2: Mm hmm, first team problem talking about he's an absolute
- 11:46Speaker 2: superstar player, it's hard to believe. It's another one of
- 11:49Speaker 2: those stories you just you can't see coming. And that's
- 11:51Speaker 2: my first one here.
- 11:54Speaker 1: That's three after that. In the first four players, by
- 11:56Speaker 1: the way, three Eagles.
- 11:58Speaker 2: You know what, we're just we're not homers. So that's
- 12:01Speaker 2: the people for being negative. But we have truth tellers.
- 12:05Speaker 2: That's there's a major difference. After that. Now it's a
- 12:08Speaker 2: chip boys, it's really dropping off.
- 12:10Speaker 1: Oh man, there are some good players there.
- 12:14Speaker 2: I know, I know, I know, you know what, boy,
- 12:23Speaker 2: this is tough. This is tough, and I don't really
- 12:28Speaker 2: want to go with another Eagle. But the problem is
- 12:33Speaker 2: de tackle after car see after Carter is it's just
- 12:37Speaker 2: that there's a drop off. Don't know about what's going
- 12:39Speaker 2: to happen with the rest of those guys. I'm looking
- 12:43Speaker 2: at Grenard here. I know he's coming up with shoulder surgery,
- 12:46Speaker 2: but he's suspected to be fine by training camp.
- 12:48Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
- 12:50Speaker 2: It's a big ask. It's a big ask. But again
- 12:54Speaker 2: the drop off is huge, huge. Yeah, I mean, like
- 13:00Speaker 2: Carter full season, we'll see. Remember Timoda is still there.
- 13:04Speaker 2: I'm looking at Corner. Yeah, it's not as good Nicols,
- 13:07Speaker 2: not as good safety. There are plenty of them. I'm
- 13:11Speaker 2: gonna take Jonathan Garnard and just believing that he's going
- 13:15Speaker 2: to be great. You know, he's you know, we'll look
- 13:17Speaker 2: at the we'll find out how the from Greg co
- 13:19Speaker 2: seals this season goes along. Haws. He playing the run,
- 13:22Speaker 2: but it's about first step quickness. He's unreal with his
- 13:25Speaker 2: first step quickness.
- 13:27Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm I'm even surprised. I mean, to me, there
- 13:29Speaker 1: were only two guys here that were sort of like
- 13:32Speaker 1: the obvious but on the obvious but like strong, and
- 13:35Speaker 1: he was one of them. So I think you you
- 13:38Speaker 1: I was almost hoping you were going to talk your
- 13:40Speaker 1: way out of it. So I could get and burns
- 13:42Speaker 1: as my edges, and I think I don't think anybody
- 13:44Speaker 1: will be able to beat that. But you took Grenard
- 13:46Speaker 1: to start round three. So I'm gonna go with the
- 13:48Speaker 1: other guy that you considered and do the same thing
- 13:51Speaker 1: that you were saying, and you get the best talent
- 13:53Speaker 1: and you hope they stay healthy and motivated. And I'm
- 13:55Speaker 1: gonna take Jalen Carter. So, by the way, that would
- 13:59Speaker 1: be now one to.
- 14:00Speaker 2: Wait a minute. Did I take Carter as my first pick?
- 14:03Speaker 1: Didn't you take Quiney Mitchell as your first pick?
- 14:05Speaker 2: Oh? I took Quenya. I'm sorry you took it.
- 14:06Speaker 1: You debated it, but yeah, you went with Mitchell. I
- 14:09Speaker 1: got you.
- 14:09Speaker 2: Just Carter, I just don't know. I don't I don't know.
- 14:16Speaker 2: I just don't know if you could play a full season.
- 14:18Speaker 2: That we told folks when he was drafted that we
- 14:21Speaker 2: didn't know about both shoulders. We were told he was
- 14:23Speaker 2: going to have a problem with one of his shoulders.
- 14:25Speaker 2: It could be nagging. It wouldn't The thought was it
- 14:28Speaker 2: wouldn't hurt the endure, the like the the length of
- 14:32Speaker 2: his career. But it was going to be nagging. It's
- 14:34Speaker 2: going to be bothersome and here we are. It's exactly
- 14:37Speaker 2: what's happened. Yep, And now is he going to play?
- 14:40Speaker 2: It's not just so many games he plays, it's the effectiveness.
- 14:43Speaker 2: It wasn't that effective last year.
- 14:46Speaker 1: Listen, I'm with you. You remember what I did on offense.
- 14:48Speaker 1: I took guys who had high upside. But we're coming
- 14:50Speaker 1: off injuries and that's either gonna really help me or
- 14:53Speaker 1: it's gonna really hurt me. And that's how I feel
- 14:54Speaker 1: about this Carter pick. This could be an amazing pick
- 14:57Speaker 1: when I pair him with Burns and degen Right, this
- 15:00Speaker 1: could be amazing, but he could not have a very
- 15:03Speaker 1: healthy So I'm willing to take that risk. Uh. And
- 15:07Speaker 1: then with my pick to start the fourth round, you
- 15:09Speaker 1: forced my hand on this pick because you took the
- 15:12Speaker 1: best guy at a very thin position when you went
- 15:14Speaker 1: with Quinnon Mitchell, and I can't believe we. I know
- 15:17Speaker 1: people are think we're in homers, but I really think
- 15:19Speaker 1: the next best corner outside corner in the vision is
- 15:22Speaker 1: Reek Wolan. So I'm just gonna go with him. And again,
- 15:26Speaker 1: hope for like, what am I gonna do?
- 15:28Speaker 2: Go with?
- 15:30Speaker 1: Like Let's say you took wooland in your next two picks.
- 15:33Speaker 1: Then I'm down to like pauls in a debo Trey
- 15:35Speaker 1: a miss doron Black. I can't do that.
- 15:38Speaker 2: You can't. I know you're you're kind of boxed in. Yeah,
- 15:41Speaker 2: that's you're right, you're right.
- 15:43Speaker 1: All right, Well that's four oh seven. Now you're up
- 15:45Speaker 1: for four oh eight and then five o nine, top
- 15:48Speaker 1: of the fifth. All right, fourth and top of the fifth.
- 15:51Speaker 2: I got to take Quentin Williams here. He's the best
- 15:52Speaker 2: player on the board. Yep, let's see how he does
- 15:55Speaker 2: for first full season here. At least get you being
- 15:57Speaker 2: there from the beginning of training camp. That's the big thing. Yeah,
- 16:00Speaker 2: that to me, it is kind of a layup pick.
- 16:02Speaker 2: Now after that it's really hard. God like, in fact,
- 16:05Speaker 2: I trade this pick if we were allowed.
- 16:06Speaker 1: To nice inporate that next year.
- 16:15Speaker 2: Twin Davis is a possibility here because you know what,
- 16:18Speaker 2: you're getting an elite run stopper, this disruptive upfront. I
- 16:22Speaker 2: just he's getting a little better as a pass rusher.
- 16:24Speaker 2: He's a consideration. But I'm not doing it. I'm not
- 16:29Speaker 2: doing it. I'm not doing it. I'm taking Now this
- 16:33Speaker 2: is a little bit ford thinking. Okay, actually you know what. Nah, Yeah,
- 16:43Speaker 2: I'm going to believe that Caleb Downs. He was a
- 16:48Speaker 2: first round pick. You know, he's supposed to be one
- 16:49Speaker 2: of the best players for the draft, and he is.
- 16:52Speaker 2: He is nickel ability, He's got maneuver in terms of
- 16:55Speaker 2: where you can line him up. I'm gonna believe that
- 16:59Speaker 2: the Capital well finally finally play respectable defense, be actually competitive.
- 17:06Speaker 2: Uh under Christian Parker running fangio. Christian's super smart. I'm
- 17:11Speaker 2: gonna i gotta maybe he is Degene here. He's not
- 17:16Speaker 2: the athlete the Coop is, but he's got versatility. I'm
- 17:19Speaker 2: going I'm gonna go with Calen Downs.
- 17:21Speaker 1: I love it. I love it. Now you're playing them
- 17:23Speaker 1: at safety, right, You're he's your Okay, yeah, good pick,
- 17:29Speaker 1: good pick. Well this has been do we have? We
- 17:32Speaker 1: have Eagles and Cowboys. I'm trying to think if we
- 17:34Speaker 1: picked any other teams player. Oh yeah, Brian Burns is
- 17:38Speaker 1: the Giants. That's the only guy in nine picks that
- 17:42Speaker 1: isn't an Eagle or a Cowboy. Very interesting. Guess what?
- 17:45Speaker 1: Going right back to the Eagles tank. Okay, I got
- 17:49Speaker 1: Burns on one edge, and I'm gonna end Round five
- 17:51Speaker 1: with Jylex Hunt.
- 17:53Speaker 2: I was thinking seriously going him over Downs. Yeah, I
- 17:56Speaker 2: know you are.
- 17:57Speaker 1: I was, and I was hoping you wouldn't. So that's good.
- 17:59Speaker 1: Uh again going high upside here, hoping it works out.
- 18:03Speaker 1: That'll end round six, So I'm sorry round five, I'll
- 18:06Speaker 1: start round six, eleventh overall pick. This one's tough, man.
- 18:12Speaker 1: I don't have an inside linebacker yet. Good luck you
- 18:16Speaker 1: already took on. I'm gonna go kind of like you
- 18:21Speaker 1: did with Caleb Downs and just go with sort of
- 18:24Speaker 1: like expectations and a friendly scheme for this position. Athleticism.
- 18:31Speaker 1: I'm gonna go sunny styles. Oh yeah, considered Campbell. I do.
- 18:36Speaker 1: Campbell was consideration, But I'm in this for some fun
- 18:40Speaker 1: and for high upside and styles as tremendous upside in.
- 18:43Speaker 2: This to me, if we're doing defensive dynasty draft, I
- 18:46Speaker 2: take them here, right. He's it's just so new to
- 18:52Speaker 2: the position. But his I was talking to one team
- 18:56Speaker 2: about him recently. His his his mental testing was off
- 19:00Speaker 2: the charts for a guy who's just new to this position.
- 19:02Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, it's.
- 19:03Speaker 2: Kind of hard. It's really It probably helps that his
- 19:05Speaker 2: dad play in the league. For those who might remember,
- 19:07Speaker 2: Lorenzo Styles, who played for the Falcons. I want to
- 19:09Speaker 2: see both the rams, but anyway, Sonny Styles is the pick. Now,
- 19:12Speaker 2: I'm up for two.
- 19:14Speaker 1: You're up for two. You n round six, you start
- 19:15Speaker 1: round seven. Let me just while you pick, I'm gonna
- 19:23Speaker 1: tell people what you got so far. You have one
- 19:25Speaker 1: edge with Jonathan Garnard. You have one inside linebacker with
- 19:28Speaker 1: Zach Bonn. You have one corner with Quinnon Mitchell. You
- 19:32Speaker 1: have a safety in Caleb Downs, and an interior defensive
- 19:36Speaker 1: lineman or a DT in Quinn and Williams.
- 19:39Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
- 19:41Speaker 1: All right, my two picks one of every position. That's
- 19:44Speaker 1: pretty well balanced. I like how you did that.
- 19:47Speaker 2: All right, My two picks are well, I'm looking for
- 19:50Speaker 2: another safety and this guy is so underrated. Okay, I
- 19:54Speaker 2: am looking forward to see what what Dan Quinn, m
- 20:00Speaker 2: and Dante Jones do with this guy? Is Nick Cross
- 20:02Speaker 2: the very underrated safety free agent? Yeah?
- 20:05Speaker 1: I like that. Look at you thinking outside the box
- 20:08Speaker 1: a little bit.
- 20:08Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, that's one of them.
- 20:11Speaker 1: Okay, start the seventh round seven. You finished with safety,
- 20:16Speaker 1: so that was good. I don't even have a safety.
- 20:19Speaker 2: And then I took one.
- 20:25Speaker 3: Mm hm.
- 20:29Speaker 2: You know, wait who who who are your D tackles?
- 20:32Speaker 1: My D tackles. All I have is Jill and Carter.
- 20:35Speaker 1: That's it.
- 20:35Speaker 2: Who do I have?
- 20:37Speaker 1: You have is Quentin Williams.
- 20:38Speaker 2: Okay, okay, uh I need I need pass Rusher. I've
- 20:47Speaker 2: I've Green Artist come off surgery. I have to believe
- 20:52Speaker 2: that Rashaun Gary coming off you had the trade at
- 20:57Speaker 2: first full season here, it's a big deal for him.
- 21:00Speaker 2: Uh he goes back to playing in the thirty fourth front.
- 21:02Speaker 2: I'll take Rashaun Gary here and need another pets rush.
- 21:05Speaker 1: That's risky. I don't like that pick personally, but hey,
- 21:07Speaker 1: that's your pick.
- 21:08Speaker 2: See he does.
- 21:09Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, we'll say you could tell my thing
- 21:13Speaker 1: is like the young high upside guy like I would
- 21:15Speaker 1: have gone like either Abdull Carter or maybe even away there.
- 21:19Speaker 1: But I get it. I get it.
- 21:21Speaker 2: Oh way, man, that's that wast contracts way too.
- 21:23Speaker 1: Which no, it's yeah, no, no doubt about it. But
- 21:27Speaker 1: all right, so all right, you want carry seven to
- 21:30Speaker 1: one three I end the seventh round. I have no safeties, man,
- 21:37Speaker 1: but you have two, so I don't really feel like
- 21:39Speaker 1: I have to go run and grab one now. So
- 21:41Speaker 1: I'm I'm going to continue to go with players who
- 21:44Speaker 1: I think are are high upside or you know, I'm
- 21:47Speaker 1: debating like Jordan Davis, but I'm I'm really running a
- 21:50Speaker 1: Nickel front. So I think I'm just actually gonna take
- 21:53Speaker 1: more of a Joemo here and put him next to
- 21:56Speaker 1: Carter and I basically have the Eagles, you know, Nickel
- 22:00Speaker 1: DT tandem. So I'll go Morojomo to round seven and
- 22:05Speaker 1: to start round eight at eight one five, I will
- 22:10Speaker 1: take Man. I feel like a Homer if I do this.
- 22:22Speaker 1: I'm caught between. I'm caught between Jeha Campbell and r
- 22:26Speaker 1: Vel Reese, and I have so many Eagles that if
- 22:30Speaker 1: anything goes wrong with the Eagles defense, it's.
- 22:32Speaker 2: Gonna well Campbell can he stay on the field with health, and.
- 22:35Speaker 1: That's yeah, yeah. If I take Reese though, Adam, I
- 22:38Speaker 1: have recent styles who are both top fifteen picks, but
- 22:42Speaker 1: rookies like there's so much there's not like a sure
- 22:45Speaker 1: thing there, but I'm not sure that we've got sure
- 22:48Speaker 1: things anywhere, so why not have fun with it? Rvel Reese,
- 22:51Speaker 1: that's my pick, all right, and you will finish round
- 22:56Speaker 1: eight and start round nine.
- 22:58Speaker 2: All right? I need another corner. The guy played extremely well.
- 23:01Speaker 2: I know the Commandos are very happy with Trey Amos
- 23:03Speaker 2: before he got hurt.
- 23:04Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll go.
- 23:05Speaker 2: We'll team up Amos another talented young corner next to Mitchell.
- 23:09Speaker 3: Okay, I've got I only have one d tackle.
- 23:22Speaker 1: You have one D tackle and his name is Quentin Williams.
- 23:26Speaker 2: And now I'm going to take Jordan Davis. Yeah, needed
- 23:30Speaker 2: one and made a big jump last year. Hungary got
- 23:34Speaker 2: the contract extension. Ye got himself an unbelievable football shape.
- 23:38Speaker 2: I mean he the light went on man. There were
- 23:40Speaker 2: obviously Eagles fans know how bad it was the first
- 23:43Speaker 2: two years. But light went on man when it went on.
- 23:46Speaker 2: And everything I've heard is that it's not going to
- 23:48Speaker 2: stop because he gets it. When players get it, when
- 23:51Speaker 2: they mature, they don't they don't revert back, you know.
- 23:56Speaker 1: So I for sure good pick uh man. I have
- 24:02Speaker 1: just my secondary to fill out here, and my options
- 24:05Speaker 1: aren't great. I'm going to keep the Geenet Nickel though,
- 24:08Speaker 1: and I am going to take Jalen Thompson, the Cowboys
- 24:13Speaker 1: safety player, and hopefully in this new defense that you
- 24:18Speaker 1: mentioned with Parker in charge of it, hopefully it looks
- 24:22Speaker 1: a little bit better. So I uh have hours yeah right,
- 24:27Speaker 1: it can't be worse. Well, we'll say I'll end the
- 24:31Speaker 1: ninth round with Thompson and then I'll start the tenth
- 24:34Speaker 1: round with I guess this is just a steady pick
- 24:38Speaker 1: at corneries. Even last year it wasn't bad, It just
- 24:41Speaker 1: wasn't great. But I'll take Paulson and Debo okay, opposite
- 24:45Speaker 1: riek walland there you go.
- 24:46Speaker 2: Decent player. All right, I'm up for two. I need
- 24:50Speaker 2: another linebacker, yep. And this guy is so versatile he
- 24:56Speaker 2: could play inside. You can line them up as an
- 24:58Speaker 2: edge rusher, because the Chiefs did. That's leo. They're free
- 25:02Speaker 2: agent signing. Okay, underrated player.
- 25:05Speaker 1: Right now before you finish, because you have one pick left. Okay,
- 25:10Speaker 1: you can either take a nickel or you might want
- 25:14Speaker 1: to give yourself another what defensive Actually, you have two picks.
- 25:18Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but you could take another defensive line if
- 25:21Speaker 1: you wanted to run the like a base kind of defense.
- 25:24Speaker 1: Three four. But up to you. I'm just letting you.
- 25:27Speaker 2: Know, with that five man front I could take. Yeah,
- 25:33Speaker 2: so you took a joemo in Carter correct, hmmm, he
- 25:41Speaker 2: I just this is I don't see him. He's more.
- 25:45Speaker 2: He's gonna be more of a situational pass rusher. Yeah.
- 25:50Speaker 1: Plus, you're really night now looking at a nickel and
- 25:52Speaker 1: an interior defensive lineman.
- 25:56Speaker 2: Well, I have I have two d tackles.
- 25:58Speaker 1: I'm sorry that you I forgot some mark that down.
- 26:00Speaker 2: So you do have to have Davis and Williams. Yeah,
- 26:03Speaker 2: I have my two linebackers. I got my two corners, yep,
- 26:06Speaker 2: my two safeties.
- 26:07Speaker 1: Yeah, so you just have Yeah, you have one pick. Right,
- 26:10Speaker 1: it's either a nickel or an off ball linebacker.
- 26:12Speaker 2: I guess am I gonna run a forty three front
- 26:18Speaker 2: all right.
- 26:19Speaker 1: Purposes, let's decide here you have to you're either choosing
- 26:22Speaker 1: between someone like Mike Sandristal or met robertson right, or
- 26:25Speaker 1: Drew Phillips is pretty good nickel for the Giants, or
- 26:28Speaker 1: you're putting a third linebacker who could be DeMar Von
- 26:32Speaker 1: Overshown or Tremaine Edmunds.
- 26:34Speaker 2: You know, Munds was bad last season. We still can't
- 26:37Speaker 2: forget why they paid him like they did. It's ridiculous.
- 26:41Speaker 2: All right, last pick, we're gonna turn the cart in.
- 26:48Speaker 2: We're gonna go nickel here, and we're gonna Mike Sandristill,
- 26:51Speaker 2: who's a better Nickel than he is as a corner. Yep.
- 26:54Speaker 2: And we're gonna be now. And we know that Mike
- 26:57Speaker 2: Robertson signed a free agent deal.
- 26:59Speaker 1: Yep.
- 27:00Speaker 2: Uh, he could play. Mick Robertson was the Raiders draft
- 27:03Speaker 2: didn't play Nickel. Remember talking to Paul Gunther, their former
- 27:07Speaker 2: UH decordinator, about that he was perfect for Nicol. Then
- 27:11Speaker 2: Detroit ran out of corners, he had to play outside
- 27:13Speaker 2: and he did. Okay, it'll be interesting because the problem
- 27:19Speaker 2: with with the Commandos is they really don't have a
- 27:23Speaker 2: second quality corner. So because they sign a killer Weatherspoon
- 27:28Speaker 2: who is a fourth corners tall guy. Antonio Halilton's a
- 27:30Speaker 2: dime corner. He's been a major journeyman, they really don't
- 27:34Speaker 2: have another starting corner. But Santrastol will say, hey, you
- 27:38Speaker 2: know what, we'll see where he lines up. I took
- 27:41Speaker 2: the best player of vaiable Sandra Stuel. He's gotta play
- 27:43Speaker 2: better than last years.
- 27:44Speaker 1: Yeah, I think he will. In that defense, they have
- 27:47Speaker 1: a lot more than they did last year.
- 27:49Speaker 2: And we'll see, you know, by the way you mentioned
- 27:50Speaker 2: earlier Toronte Jones a disciple Ryan Forrez outside the box guy,
- 27:55Speaker 2: lind them up. Move him around there you go.
- 27:58Speaker 1: All right, all I have left is a s and
- 28:01Speaker 1: call me a Homer if you want, but I just over.
- 28:04Speaker 1: My choices are mccuba versus Javon Holland and Tyler Nubin.
- 28:09Speaker 1: And I'm gonna go with mccuba. I think if he
- 28:11Speaker 1: stays healthy, he's in a defense that I know is
- 28:14Speaker 1: going to be very, very good, so that tends to
- 28:16Speaker 1: make players better, right, So I'm gonna go with mccuba
- 28:20Speaker 1: and hope he stays healthy there. All right, So to recap,
- 28:23Speaker 1: All right, here's my defense. Okay, it's basically a nickel front.
- 28:27Speaker 1: So you got four down linemen, Brian Burns and Jelex
- 28:30Speaker 1: Hunt or my edges. My interior guys are Carter and
- 28:33Speaker 1: a Jomo. My two off ball linebackers are Ovro Reese
- 28:37Speaker 1: and Sunny Styles. I went rookies there, wow. So yeah,
- 28:40Speaker 1: that's major boombust right there. My cornerbacks not so great,
- 28:45Speaker 1: but we'll say Riequellin and Pulse and the deebo my
- 28:47Speaker 1: Nicholas Cooper de Jean. My safeties are Jalen Thompson and
- 28:50Speaker 1: Drew mccuba. Well, go to your team now, Yeah, your
- 28:55Speaker 1: edges are Jonathan Grenard. And Rashawn Gary. Your interior alignment
- 29:01Speaker 1: or Quinn Williams and Jordan Davis. That's a pretty potent
- 29:04Speaker 1: right there. Yeah, moving to the middle, your off ball
- 29:08Speaker 1: linebackers or Zach baonn and Leo'schanel. Your corners are quinnyon
- 29:13Speaker 1: Mitchell and Trey Amos. That's that's pretty if Amos is
- 29:16Speaker 1: even what are you supposed to be? That's an excellent
- 29:18Speaker 1: cornerback tandem. Uh, And your nickel is Mike Sanderncetill with
- 29:23Speaker 1: your safeties Caleb Downs and Nick Cross.
- 29:27Speaker 2: What do you think all a team? Man, I'm very
- 29:30Speaker 2: worried about my edges. Yeah. In fact, Duill Carter didn't
- 29:34Speaker 2: get drafted. I should have drafted Abdul because boy, once,
- 29:37Speaker 2: once the light went on for him, you know, he
- 29:40Speaker 2: he was kind of lost for like half over half
- 29:42Speaker 2: the season and it's something I don't know what happened.
- 29:44Speaker 2: I don't know if they talked to during their buy whatever.
- 29:46Speaker 2: Right well, when the light went on, his explosion was ridiculous.
- 29:49Speaker 2: Cannot wait to see him in you two.
- 29:51Speaker 1: Yeah, that's where I questioned your guy. I would have
- 29:53Speaker 1: just because I like taking in these drafts. I like
- 29:56Speaker 1: having fun with it. So I would have either gone
- 29:58Speaker 1: yeah problem.
- 30:00Speaker 2: Well, honestly, I think it was that fifth ront. I
- 30:02Speaker 2: really want to take Jalx Hunt. Yeah, but I needed
- 30:05Speaker 2: is that when I took Downs.
- 30:07Speaker 1: It is and then I took Hunt right after that.
- 30:09Speaker 2: Yeah, right, because I've been on Hunt since he was drafted.
- 30:12Speaker 2: You know, we we were on him pretty early. Yeah,
- 30:15Speaker 2: you know that you are going to draft him, but
- 30:17Speaker 2: we knew about the player. We were pretty high on him, yep.
- 30:19Speaker 2: And he's so far ahead of schedule. God, if you haven't,
- 30:22Speaker 2: there are people who played fantasy or in dynasty leagues
- 30:26Speaker 2: you want Jalx Hunt mm hmm. Because he's just unbelievably gifted.
- 30:31Speaker 2: This is another one where the you can't you can't
- 30:35Speaker 2: what he's done so far. He couldn't have seen this
- 30:37Speaker 2: like last year. He's just scratching the surface. You just
- 30:41Speaker 2: got to be a little bit patient. He should take
- 30:44Speaker 2: the next step. That training camp battle between him and
- 30:46Speaker 2: Smith should be great.
- 30:48Speaker 1: Absolutely, In general, I felt like doing offensive defense was
- 30:51Speaker 1: easier this year for drafting because in the last few
- 30:56Speaker 1: years we would get to like center or cornerback. Yeah,
- 31:00Speaker 1: like the one or two would be gone and we'd
- 31:02Speaker 1: be like, oh my God, or what do we do
- 31:04Speaker 1: at left guard? Now that Dickerson and and uh and
- 31:08Speaker 1: you know like Steiner taking or Dickerson and beckted like
- 31:11Speaker 1: it would just be so we would sit there and
- 31:13Speaker 1: deliberate for five minutes on a on a guard or
- 31:16Speaker 1: a center, or a corner or a safety and an
- 31:19Speaker 1: even linebacker wasn't.
- 31:20Speaker 2: Very crazy think about it. Yeah, Dickerson wasn't even drafted
- 31:24Speaker 2: because he was he just and Jurgon's because look at center,
- 31:28Speaker 2: it's some personal guys will tell you most of the
- 31:31Speaker 2: centers in the National Foota League are average right there.
- 31:35Speaker 2: It's very average to below average. Yeah, there are a
- 31:38Speaker 2: couple of studs, but that's it. It's just not a position.
- 31:40Speaker 2: That's that's why they don't go. That's a why they're
- 31:43Speaker 2: not drafted highs because that the tape shows are really
- 31:45Speaker 2: not that good. There's every once in a while there's
- 31:47Speaker 2: a guy like Kelsey who goes late and he had
- 31:49Speaker 2: the medical issue, the pindasitis, but for the draft, but
- 31:56Speaker 2: they're just not It's just not a position, man, that
- 31:59Speaker 2: you want to take very early. That's just the way
- 32:00Speaker 2: it is.
- 32:01Speaker 1: Yeah, and look, I'm looking back again at the defense
- 32:03Speaker 1: last year how many guys didn't get drafted this year?
- 32:06Speaker 1: We got Nolan Smith didn't get drafted. He was drafted
- 32:09Speaker 1: last year. Dron Payne did not get drafted this year.
- 32:12Speaker 1: Did well, he's not even in the division any but today.
- 32:16Speaker 1: But we didn't draft to Hot Campbell right, No one
- 32:18Speaker 1: took Campbell.
- 32:19Speaker 2: No, he didn't get drafted.
- 32:21Speaker 1: Yeah, injury right. Did I take a debot? Yeah, I
- 32:24Speaker 1: did take a debot. But Lattimore not drafted, Dron Bland
- 32:28Speaker 1: not drafted, so Latimore was cut.
- 32:30Speaker 2: He's yeah, right.
- 32:31Speaker 1: Of course Javon Holland and Tyler Newbin were either of
- 32:36Speaker 1: those guys drafted, They're both Nope. So that's like half
- 32:39Speaker 1: the draft last year was not drafted this year.
- 32:41Speaker 2: It's interesting. That's the way it goes sometimes.
- 32:44Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, it's been fun. This was a really cool.
- 32:46Speaker 1: This was like our best NFC each draft offensive defense
- 32:50Speaker 1: and in quite some time. And I look forward to
- 32:53Speaker 1: looking next year this time looking back and seeing who
- 32:56Speaker 1: won again.
- 32:56Speaker 2: That's by the way, real quick. I'd love to see
- 32:59Speaker 2: the comments. Okay, obviously folks who comment on our our dress,
- 33:02Speaker 2: but I love to see I love to see what
- 33:05Speaker 2: they would do and and drop the Homer, you drop
- 33:09Speaker 2: your Eagles hat. I love to see how folks really
- 33:13Speaker 2: really know, the NFL fans who really follow it, how
- 33:16Speaker 2: they would draft just forget about the round. Just give
- 33:19Speaker 2: me your bet, give me your top eleven for offensive defense.
- 33:22Speaker 2: I'd love to see that. Yeah, I'd love to see
- 33:25Speaker 2: it because I like to see are they willing to
- 33:27Speaker 2: put Sonny styles on their next to bond or you
- 33:29Speaker 2: know what, or put over over you know. That's I'm
- 33:31Speaker 2: interested to how people think it's funny.
- 33:34Speaker 1: You said drop the Homer and I I started wincing
- 33:36Speaker 1: because I took six eagles on my eleven man defense.
- 33:39Speaker 2: Can you argue against it? That's no.
- 33:40Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like maybe maybe Macouba was a
- 33:43Speaker 1: little bit of a reach there, but like again, I
- 33:45Speaker 1: don't when I'm comparing him to Nuban or Holland and
- 33:49Speaker 1: other yeah efeties, I felt like upside in a great defense,
- 33:53Speaker 1: he should be should be good. But yeah, good stuff.
- 33:55Speaker 2: Man.
- 33:56Speaker 1: All right, that's gonna do it for this episode of
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