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Ohio State Pro Day, CJ Stroud to meet with the Panthers, & The latest on Odell Beckham Jr. · NFL Now

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Speaker 1: it is Pro day season. That is CJ. Stroud fourteen
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Speaker 1: buck guys working out today. You are looking at Columbus
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Speaker 1: where the NFL world has descended to see among others,
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Speaker 1: Jackson Smith in JIGBA and our own Steve Smith. Love
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Speaker 1: to be a fly on the wall in that conversation,
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Speaker 1: Not that you want to be a fly on the
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Speaker 1: GM in the background. Zach Taylor made the short drive
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Speaker 1: up from Cincinnati to Columbus. We have the likes of
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Speaker 1: Mike Vrabel and Mike Tomlin and Pete Carroll and GM's
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Speaker 1: like Ryan Poles and He Loomis and yes, basically Annie
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Speaker 1: and everyone employed by the Carolina Panthers who are picking
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Speaker 1: number one overall all there to see a quarterback who
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Speaker 1: could be number one overall in CJ. Stroud and all
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Speaker 1: kinds of NFL talent, because Ohio State is pretty good
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Speaker 1: at that. It's a big week here in NFL Network.
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Speaker 1: This is NFL Now. I'm Andrew Siciliano. This right here
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Speaker 1: from The Move, the sixth podcast, from all our great
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Speaker 1: draft coverage. Well just general men of many hats, not
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Speaker 1: wearing one today is Bucky Brooks, Good to see you.
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Speaker 1: What's up? What's up? Drew? Big day? Ohio State Pro Day.
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Speaker 1: We got quarterbacks, we got everything that everyone wants to see.
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Speaker 1: We have a quarterback man. It perks up the interest.
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Speaker 1: Everyone's excited to see. Strout to listen. We're not taking
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Speaker 1: away from any of the other pro days we've had
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Speaker 1: so far. Obviously, we had Sherry Burris at Georgia Pro Day.
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Speaker 1: That was big. We had Oregon Pro Day last week,
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Speaker 1: we had usc Pro Day yesterday. Cam Newton throwing at
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Speaker 1: Auburn Pro Day yesterday is well, that's a story just
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Speaker 1: in and of itself. But this is when it really
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Speaker 1: ratchets up a notch, not just because of all the
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Speaker 1: talent there, right and CJ. Stroud isn't the only first
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Speaker 1: round talent or draftable talent there, but this is where
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Speaker 1: we get into the conversation about the number one overall pick.
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Speaker 1: We saw CJ. Stroud throw seemingly effortlessly in Indianapolis at
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Speaker 1: the combine like a picture, a picture rather with perfect mechanics. Yes,
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Speaker 1: what do you want to see today from his what's
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Speaker 1: scheduled to be fifty five throw workout more the same
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Speaker 1: like this is a dress rehearsal. So this should be
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Speaker 1: easy for CJ. Stroud. This is something that he has
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Speaker 1: been doing all of his life in terms of just
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Speaker 1: throwing pitch and cash to his playmakers on the outside. Well,
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Speaker 1: this should be flawless today when you think about being
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Speaker 1: at Ohio State, going to his own receivers, being able
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Speaker 1: to really cut it loose in a script that he designed.
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Speaker 1: This should be just kind of like the finishing touches,
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Speaker 1: a reminder of how talented he is as a passer,
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Speaker 1: how easy it is for him him to make all
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Speaker 1: of the throws, and what he could be at the
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Speaker 1: next level when you have the right coach and the
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Speaker 1: right system really play into his strimps as a playmaker
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Speaker 1: from the pocket. Well, let's talk about what is designed
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Speaker 1: and Tom Pella Sera Bucky was talking about this a
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Speaker 1: little bit this morning on GMFB. CJ Stroud the best
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Speaker 1: we've seen of c J. Stroud. This is not to
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Speaker 1: takeaway from his entire Ohio State career. But the best
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Speaker 1: we've seen of him was in that National Championship semi
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Speaker 1: final game of New Year's Eve against Georgia, where he
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Speaker 1: got out of the pocket, he made throws on the run.
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Speaker 1: He hit that ball in the back of the end
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Speaker 1: zone where he went wow, moving to his right, and
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Speaker 1: he admitted at the combine that maybe not just against Georgia,
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Speaker 1: but maybe overall in Columbus he should have run more.
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Speaker 1: So considering that, considering what everyone loved about the Georgia game,
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Speaker 1: how do you design that workout to accentuate those skills
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Speaker 1: because you're throwing routes on air? Yeah, I mean I
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Speaker 1: think the big thing for c J. Strout is, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: he can put some of the movement based things in there.
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Speaker 1: They can put him on the move, They can do
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Speaker 1: some career created second reaction throws where he drops back
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Speaker 1: and he scrambles. He shows people that they can throw
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Speaker 1: running to his right into his left. But I think
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Speaker 1: the bigger thing has to be understanding. Okay, what was
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Speaker 1: different about the Georgia game. Why did you move and
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Speaker 1: show the athleticism a little more in that game as
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Speaker 1: opposed to previous games, asking Ryan Day, did you guys
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Speaker 1: do something differently? I think a lot of us have
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Speaker 1: to understand at the college game, it's about your starting quarterback,
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Speaker 1: and so maybe Ohio State didn't put him in harm's
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Speaker 1: way because they didn't like what they had as a
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Speaker 1: backup quarterback. This is a team that had national title aspirations,
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Speaker 1: and so some of the answers that will get from
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Speaker 1: c J. Strauss pro day will be behind the scenes
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Speaker 1: in interviews. But a lot of what we want to
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Speaker 1: see is let's see him throwing a move. Let's see
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Speaker 1: him continue to dazzle us with his arm talent. He
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Speaker 1: is one of the more natural thors that we've seen,
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Speaker 1: and he has a plus arm talent. Let's see him
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Speaker 1: short off. And again, he's not the only would be
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Speaker 1: first round pick who's working out there or would be first,
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Speaker 1: or second or third. Again, there's a long list of
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Speaker 1: talent throwing the screen. If we can the Buckeyes schedule
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Speaker 1: to work out today. Obviously c J. Stroud there would
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Speaker 1: be number one overall pick. We have Jackson Smith and
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Speaker 1: Jigba as well. We have Paris Johnson, we have to
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Speaker 1: wand Jones to a great right side of that offensive
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Speaker 1: line while the two tackles there, one guy could play
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Speaker 1: inside as well depending on the next level. Roddy Hickman,
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Speaker 1: the defensive back, is working out. All in all, their
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Speaker 1: fourteen Buckeyes are going to be at the facility today.
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Speaker 1: A couple of other guys working out as well, like
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Speaker 1: Alan Smith, that running back on the bottom played at Brown,
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Speaker 1: but he's local. Kelly Garanson is actually the quarterback on
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Speaker 1: the Olhio State club team. He is working out today
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Speaker 1: as a defensive back. I mean, that would be an
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Speaker 1: amazing pro Day story if the club team quarterback somehow
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Speaker 1: caught the eye of an NFL scout or caught the
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Speaker 1: eye of James Palmer, who let's see, I believe Ohio
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Speaker 1: State class of two thousand and five? Am I right?
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Speaker 1: James in attend that's correct? And six Andrew, I try
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Speaker 1: to stay as long as I could. Yeah wait, wait,
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Speaker 1: you graduated twice, certainly did b a nabs Andrew As
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Speaker 1: we want to talk about my academic achievements at the
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Speaker 1: Ohio State University. But I'll transition this listen. Let me
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Speaker 1: let me Yeah, we got a transition away from this
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Speaker 1: in terms of what I did here academically a long
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Speaker 1: time ago, and what these guys are doing physically on
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Speaker 1: the field. Behind me, let me run through what we've
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Speaker 1: seen already. With one hundred and eighteen NFL personnel here
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Speaker 1: in attendance, you have ten general managers, seven head coaches, Saul,
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Speaker 1: Frank Wrych and CJ. Stroud. I believe one has the
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Speaker 1: number one pick. One could be the number one pick
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Speaker 1: chopping it up over there while Paris Johnson was going
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Speaker 1: through his drills on the offensive line. Now, you mentioned
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Speaker 1: a couple of other players that we've seen throughout this,
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Speaker 1: but Jackson, Smith and Jigba. In terms of what we've
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Speaker 1: accomplished already, it was one of the biggest things we saw,
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Speaker 1: and that was him running the forty. Remember at the
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Speaker 1: combine he did not run the forty, but he was
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Speaker 1: the fastest guy there in terms of the three cone
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Speaker 1: and the twenty yard shuttle. He ran the forty here
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Speaker 1: he looked good in terms of talking to scouts that
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Speaker 1: I had a chance to interact with Andrew, and when
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Speaker 1: you get a chance to see it, they all were
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Speaker 1: impressed with the way he moved. Now, I've seen times
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Speaker 1: from anywhere at the high four fours to the low
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Speaker 1: four fives, and that was where everybody thought he was
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Speaker 1: going to run. Some people within the program here at
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Speaker 1: Ohio State hoped that he was going to run in
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Speaker 1: the four fours, and they've seen him run the fourth
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Speaker 1: furs recently. But there was also talking to coaches throughout
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Speaker 1: the last hour Andrew not a lot of concern over
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Speaker 1: the forty time. It's how he plays the game, how
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Speaker 1: savvy he is, how cerebral he is. His football intelligence
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Speaker 1: is through the roof, his ability to work the middle
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Speaker 1: of the field out of the slot. As one offensive
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Speaker 1: coordinator told me, he just gets open and he's open
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Speaker 1: all the time. So there isn't a lot of concern
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Speaker 1: about that forty. They just want to see him run
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Speaker 1: in all right, what else are we gonna see? We
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Speaker 1: mentioned CJ. Strout throwing a fifty five throw at least
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Speaker 1: for now scripted workout that's due to start at roughly
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Speaker 1: to eastern right, it is, and that's gonna be the
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Speaker 1: first time we get a chance to see c. J.
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Speaker 1: Strout anything really at this prote He's been in his
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Speaker 1: sweats the entire time, outside of getting weighed in and
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Speaker 1: getting his height measured. He hasn't participated in anything else,
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Speaker 1: but I will tell you this, he is the guy
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Speaker 1: front and center during every single bench press, every single
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Speaker 1: forty as Paris Johnson was going through his drills, he
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Speaker 1: was the guy right up in front, cheering on all
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Speaker 1: of his teammates, being a very active participant, even though
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Speaker 1: he hasn't done anything yet. You mentioned that fifty five
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Speaker 1: throwing session that he's gonna have. Now keep an eye
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Speaker 1: on how much he moves during that throwing session. I
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Speaker 1: heard Bucky breaking it down that obviously everybody knows about
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Speaker 1: the Georgia game the way he moved so well then,
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Speaker 1: but he didn't do it really when he was at
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Speaker 1: Ohio State. He said at the combine that he kind
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Speaker 1: of regretted that he didn't move more when he played
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Speaker 1: the quarterback position at Ohio State. So look for him
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Speaker 1: to try to go out here and show some of
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Speaker 1: that athleticism to some of these evaluators. There's no questions
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Speaker 1: in terms of how he is as a passer. But lastly,
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Speaker 1: I will give you this, he spent a lot of
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Speaker 1: time obviously with the Panthers. He's going to spend time
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Speaker 1: with other guys. As Bucky mentioned, getting to know him personally,
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Speaker 1: spending time with him as a big part of this.
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Speaker 1: I'll tell you there are a few teams Andrew that
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Speaker 1: sat down with him at the Combine that we're very
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Speaker 1: impressed with his makeup. Bucky knows this. You're challenged a
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Speaker 1: lot of times in those meetings. He barked back at
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Speaker 1: some teams. He challenged them back. A lot of teams
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Speaker 1: liked his makeup in terms of his aggressiveness in those meetings.
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Speaker 1: Teams will have some chances to do that. After he
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Speaker 1: throws in a little bit and no Ohio state quarterback
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Speaker 1: has gone number one overall, it has never happened. CJ.
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Speaker 1: Strout could be the first. He would be the fifth
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Speaker 1: Buckeye to go number one overall, regardless of position, in
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Speaker 1: the first since Hall of Famer or Orlando Pace. Pretty good,
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Speaker 1: James Palmer, there are boots of Sandusky. Yes, prior to Sandusky,
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Speaker 1: US Live now as well. Baldy, great to have you.
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Speaker 1: What do you want to see today from Stroud? Well,
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Speaker 1: I want to know just how big the gent was
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Speaker 1: that the Carolina Panthers chartered to bring all their staff,
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Speaker 1: their secretaries, like the entire front office to go watch CJ.
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Speaker 1: Stroud today. That's one. Now I want to watch CJ.
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Speaker 1: Stroud throw too, Jackson Smith and Jigbu. I mean, this guy,
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Speaker 1: is you go back to twenty twenty one before the
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Speaker 1: hamstring injury. This year just go plug in the Rose
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Speaker 1: Bowl against you tall and it's just an amazing It's
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Speaker 1: just it looks like it's just a warm up for
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Speaker 1: the scouch to what they did in the Rose Bowl
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Speaker 1: that day, and so just see the connection that they have.
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Speaker 1: I'd love to see that today. I want to just see.
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Speaker 1: I want to stand next to Dawan Jones and just see.
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Speaker 1: It's just this a flying Pacific manta. Is there any
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Speaker 1: way to get through him or around him? At right tackle?
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Speaker 1: He might be one of the largest human beings walking
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Speaker 1: the planet today and yet can still play and punch
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Speaker 1: and jam and almost unbeatable. And so I want to see,
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Speaker 1: you know, the safety Ronnie Hickman. I'd like to see
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Speaker 1: him run today because you look at that twenty twenty
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Speaker 1: one tape lad the Buckeyes and tackles, he looks like
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Speaker 1: what you want at safety in the NFL right now.
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Speaker 1: By the way, Dawan Jones did check in at six
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Speaker 1: eight four, so six eight and four eighth, so six
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Speaker 1: eight and a half today he's big. Yeah. And you
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Speaker 1: talk about those guys, everyone's gonna talk about the quarterback,
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Speaker 1: But when you really look at it, Hire your state
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Speaker 1: has a bunch of guys that you want to check out.
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Speaker 1: Paris Johnson Junior, d one Joe. You want to see
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Speaker 1: those guys and see what they look like, because we
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Speaker 1: know a Paris Shownson junior. You could be in the
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Speaker 1: first round, but what about the one? Where does he
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Speaker 1: go in that mix? And so this is a terrific
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Speaker 1: opportunity for JSN Enigma to continue to show people that
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Speaker 1: maybe he's the number one receiver in the class. So
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Speaker 1: there's a lot at stake today at the pro day.
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Speaker 1: That's why you want to check it out all right again,
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Speaker 1: c J. Stroud on the field coming up in roughly
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Speaker 1: forty five minutes at two pm Eastern time, NFL Plus.
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Speaker 1: You need it for the full coverage. Thank you, Bucky,
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Speaker 1: Thank you Baldy. Both back coming up at a second
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Speaker 1: of the meantime. I want to work in some normal
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Speaker 1: NFL nowl content if you will. Ian Rappaport is our
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Speaker 1: NFL Network insider high there. Ian Baldy made the joke
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Speaker 1: about how big of a plane they had to charter
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Speaker 1: to get everyone there. Carolina has eleven representatives there including
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Speaker 1: the owner. Oh yeah, I mean. And one way to
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Speaker 1: know that the Carolina Panthers are doing this thorough doing
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Speaker 1: this properly, is that basically the entire building is there.
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Speaker 1: To go out with c J. Strout to me with
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Speaker 1: him before the Pro day to watch him extremely closely
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Speaker 1: during the pro day to evaluate the throws and all
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Speaker 1: of that. But of course that is not all they
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Speaker 1: are going to do, is they try to figure out
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Speaker 1: who is going to be their number one pick. They're
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Speaker 1: also going to bring them to a top thirty visit
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Speaker 1: in to Carolina, and they're going to do this with
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Speaker 1: all of the top quarterbacks. My understanding of where the
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Speaker 1: Carolina Panthers are is they really like CJ. Strout, really
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Speaker 1: like Pryce Young. At least one other quarterback, presumably that
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Speaker 1: would be Anthony Richardson, but we don't know for sure
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Speaker 1: for sure, those would be the guys in consideration for
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Speaker 1: the number one overall pick. They like these quarterbacks. They
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Speaker 1: are convicted on these quarterbacks. They are going to visit
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Speaker 1: with them all before the Pro day. They're gonna visit
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Speaker 1: with them all at the facility and then get to
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Speaker 1: a point where at some point they stack them and
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Speaker 1: compare them and see who do they like the most.
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Speaker 1: If they like one head and shoulders above all else,
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Speaker 1: they would just pick that person. If they like two,
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Speaker 1: maybe three the same, then a trade down possible. He
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Speaker 1: comes back in the picture for the Carolina Panthers, all right,
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Speaker 1: and the thought is again that this big contingent moves
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Speaker 1: on to Tuscaloosa, Damar to see Bryce Petty. So everyone going,
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Speaker 1: oh my god, they have a loving people there immediate. CJ. Stroud. CJ.
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Speaker 1: Stroud is the first of the big four in this
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Speaker 1: group of quarterbacks to have their workout and Carolina today
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Speaker 1: is well represented. And you have some news of a
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Speaker 1: veteran quarterback, Russell Wilson surgery news this morning. Tell me
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Speaker 1: about that. Yeah, pretty quietly. Russell Wilson, dever Bronco starting
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Speaker 1: quarterback who hopes to rebound for the twenty twenty three season,
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Speaker 1: had surgery arthroscopic surgery following this past season. Pretty minded
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Speaker 1: procedure and really not something that was related to this
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Speaker 1: past season. It's something that's actually been nagging him for
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Speaker 1: a couple of seasons. Surgery went well, he has been throwing,
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Speaker 1: he has been working out. It actually sounds like he
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Speaker 1: is doing extremely well, in really good shape, and I
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Speaker 1: know that was a little bit of a sort of
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Speaker 1: an issue last year. He has slimmed down a little bit,
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Speaker 1: looking good. Russell Wilson hope to have a bounce back
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Speaker 1: year this coming year. Having no payment his the no
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Speaker 1: lingering issues is something they believe will help as he
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Speaker 1: tries to put his best foot forward under Sean paty
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Speaker 1: Ian Cam Newton try to put his best foot forward
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Speaker 1: wearing some Auburn colored zoobas yesterday as he worked out
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Speaker 1: at Auburn Pro Day. Anything going to come from that?
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Speaker 1: Hard to imagine something comes. I would never say never,
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Speaker 1: but I just I haven't sensed a lot of interest
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Speaker 1: in Cam Newton as an NFL quarterback really since the
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Speaker 1: last time he was on the field, looking, you know,
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Speaker 1: like someone maybe who's best years we're behind him. And
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Speaker 1: Cam Newton has been awesome. He is one of the
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Speaker 1: greatest quarterbacks of a generation. He is a transformative figure
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Speaker 1: and you see so many quarterbacks doing now what he
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Speaker 1: first did about ten years ago. But I just don't
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Speaker 1: get the sense that there's anything now or in the
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Speaker 1: future for him. Instead, really what he did was just
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Speaker 1: do a really cool thing for his brother, Kalen Newton,
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Speaker 1: former Howard quarterback then was receiver at Auburn. And I
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Speaker 1: believe will Mary as well. He was quoted His brother
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Speaker 1: was quoted by reporters saying that it was a selfless
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Speaker 1: act for Cam Newton to throw from maybe he shows
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Speaker 1: scouts he's got a little something, but really just a
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Speaker 1: pretty cool thing to do for his brother. Yeah, pretty cool.
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Speaker 1: I get it. I do. And I mentioned the zubos.
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Speaker 1: He was wearing the zoo bas before he went out
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Speaker 1: there for more basic sweats. But Cam Newton throwing yesterday
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Speaker 1: at Auburn Pro Day, thank you. I and Rappaport also
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Speaker 1: working out at Auburn Pro Day. Derek Hall and its
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Speaker 1: nineteen and a half quarter sacks there at Auburn, a
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Speaker 1: guy that we saw at the Senior Bowl, Bucky an
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Speaker 1: edge defender. What do we like about Derek Hall, Well,
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Speaker 1: we like his first quickness, we like his birth, we
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Speaker 1: like his ability to finish and knock the quarterback down.
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Speaker 1: And so when you think about pass risus in sack production,
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Speaker 1: it always matters. Guys that knocked down the quarterback in
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Speaker 1: college typically do it again and the pros and so
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Speaker 1: Derek Hall has an opportunity to continue to climb up
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Speaker 1: the charts. Then you see the stats seven sacks, twelve TFLs.
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Speaker 1: This is a guy who certainly is intriguing. I'm thinking
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Speaker 1: day two is when Derek Call could come off the board.
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Speaker 1: What do you think, Baldy well, I mean, look, he's
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Speaker 1: got a lot of good tape. You know, he's hit
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Speaker 1: the speed that he showed at the combine, and it
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Speaker 1: shows up on tape all the time. I if you
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Speaker 1: just look at him as a pass rusher, I mean
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Speaker 1: I'd say that his ability to bend is a little questionable.
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Speaker 1: I think his straight line speed is there. Obviously as
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Speaker 1: an outside linebacker, he drops, he shows some agility in space,
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Speaker 1: but to be able to turn the corner, Like, how
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Speaker 1: are you going to beat tackles in the NFL? I mean,
17:39
Speaker 1: you gotta win your one on ones. So you beat
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Speaker 1: him with power. He's got some of that, but typically
17:44
Speaker 1: you got to be able to turn the corner like
17:46
Speaker 1: I find European sports car. And that's where I think
17:48
Speaker 1: he struggles a little bit. And that's why Tebucky's point,
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Speaker 1: he looks like a Day two prospect for me right now?
17:53
Speaker 1: All right, Derek Hall, the guy who saw the combine,
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Speaker 1: rather a bigger pardon in mobile the Senior Bowl working
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Speaker 1: out yesterday at Auburn Pro Day near cam Newton. Thank you,
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18:37
Speaker 1: I love all you guys here. Let's go out there
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Speaker 1: and dominators. Guys fire back at the end on that
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Speaker 1: ball is gonna be caught for that touchdown? Peoplieve want
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Speaker 1: a throw by Trevor Lawrence. We ain't going no well,
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Speaker 1: we ain't going no well, are you kidding me? Bit deep?
18:54
Speaker 1: That bit a gigantic play? Oh you're long day've done this.
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Speaker 1: So a little perspective here on what the Jaguars did.
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Speaker 1: They're the first team to ever have the number one overall.
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Speaker 1: Pick them back to back years and make the playoffs. Okay,
19:10
Speaker 1: pretty cool. Here's who has spent the most money so far.
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Speaker 1: This includes bringing back your own restricted guys as well.
19:18
Speaker 1: If you're kind of wondering, like what's going on here? Yeah,
19:20
Speaker 1: the Broncos have made a couple of big Mike McGlinchey
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Speaker 1: Ben Powers old line moves that really drives that number up.
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Speaker 1: But can we look at this and try to project
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Speaker 1: teams based on money spent? Gdpatista I did on one
19:35
Speaker 1: more thing and not one more thing thinking out loud
19:37
Speaker 1: a couple of days ago. It's not necessarily money spent
19:39
Speaker 1: is how wisely you spend that money. But can we
19:41
Speaker 1: look at those numbers and project success this year? A
19:44
Speaker 1: lot of people are bullish on the Bears, are you?
19:49
Speaker 1: I am? I think they are one of the big
19:51
Speaker 1: candidates for a turnaround. Let's face it, they only won
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Speaker 1: three games last year, so there is a whole lot
19:56
Speaker 1: of room for improvement. But I feel like justin Field
19:59
Speaker 1: came on last season in the passing game under less
20:02
Speaker 1: than ideal circumstances. They have committed to him, and then,
20:05
Speaker 1: more importantly, as part of the trade that sent the
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Speaker 1: first round draft pick out of the Bears. Out of
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Speaker 1: the first round draft pick, they picked up receiver DJ Moore,
20:15
Speaker 1: who managed to be productive in Carolina with a revolving
20:18
Speaker 1: door of quarterbacks, so certainly you would expect that he
20:21
Speaker 1: will be productive in Chicago. They also got a tight end.
20:25
Speaker 1: They got Dante Foreman, a running back who was really
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Speaker 1: productive after Christian McCaffrey left. The Panthers, so I feel
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Speaker 1: like they have shored up the offense and they will
20:33
Speaker 1: be more productive on the offense. They also signed two
20:36
Speaker 1: big linebackers for the defense, so the defense should be improved.
20:40
Speaker 1: And they still have a lot of draft capital again
20:43
Speaker 1: from that trade for this year and next year's draft,
20:46
Speaker 1: so they've got a lot of building blocks that they
20:49
Speaker 1: can put in place around justin fields to take advantage
20:52
Speaker 1: of his skill set. I think they will be improved
20:55
Speaker 1: and then maybe a little under the Raider, and they
20:58
Speaker 1: don't want to admit that this is a factor, but
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Speaker 1: the big Bear slayer, Aaron Rodgers, is probably going to
21:03
Speaker 1: be out of that division once the trade with the
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Speaker 1: Jets as complete, and that can only help. Can they
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Speaker 1: go from number one overall pick to the playoffs like
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars did? Technically they have nine now, so we'll
21:15
Speaker 1: have to put an asterisk next to the Bears if
21:19
Speaker 1: they get there. The Saints spent one hundred and ninety
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Speaker 1: one million, a lot of that inflated by the Derek
21:24
Speaker 1: Carr salary figure and how much funny money may be
21:27
Speaker 1: on the back end of that deal. But what about
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Speaker 1: the Saints, because Judy, there's a lot of talent there
21:33
Speaker 1: once you plug in Derek Carr. Yeah, Derek Carr is
21:37
Speaker 1: the reason why I think this has big turnaround potential.
21:41
Speaker 1: And let's face it, they won seven games last year,
21:43
Speaker 1: so they don't have to do much to get to
21:45
Speaker 1: the top of that division. And with Tom Brady out
21:48
Speaker 1: of that division, it is wide open and Derek Carr
21:50
Speaker 1: is clearly right now at least the best quarterback in
21:53
Speaker 1: that division. Also, keeping receiver Michael Thomas that is big
21:56
Speaker 1: and certainly will help Derek Carr. And they also signed
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Speaker 1: the touchdown machine Jamal Williams from the Detroit Lions. So
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Speaker 1: the offense, which was the problem last year, that is
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Speaker 1: what was holding the Saints. Fact the offense should be
22:10
Speaker 1: much more productive this year. This was a top ten defense,
22:14
Speaker 1: maybe that was a little under the radar, a top
22:16
Speaker 1: ten defense for the Saints, So this should be a
22:19
Speaker 1: much more well rounded team with all of those offensive editions.
22:22
Speaker 1: And again that division is wide open there for the taking. Yeah.
22:26
Speaker 1: I really love the Colin Saunders went as well, kind
22:29
Speaker 1: of an under the radar thing, former Chiefs defensive tackle.
22:31
Speaker 1: Now we had the Broncos duty atop the list. Two
22:34
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty five million dollars. That does not include
22:38
Speaker 1: the money that they gave Sean Payton. If you include
22:42
Speaker 1: that money, I mean they're in a different category here,
22:45
Speaker 1: and they seem like the one team. And I know
22:47
Speaker 1: the AFC West is amazingly tough, and Mahomes is still there,
22:51
Speaker 1: but they seem like the one team that you would
22:54
Speaker 1: think has to bounce back, no question about it. And
22:58
Speaker 1: I think that was money well spent on Sean Payton.
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Speaker 1: Whatever they had to spend to get them was worth doing. Certainly,
23:05
Speaker 1: hope is that he can get Russell Wilson back on track.
23:08
Speaker 1: But when you see what they've done with their moves
23:10
Speaker 1: and Sean Payton's fingerprints are all over their off season
23:13
Speaker 1: so far, you know that they are going to take
23:15
Speaker 1: some of the offensive onus off Russell Wilson. They signed
23:19
Speaker 1: two really good run blocking offensive lineman, they signed a
23:24
Speaker 1: road greader of a tight end, they signed a running back,
23:26
Speaker 1: So clearly the plan at least to start is going
23:30
Speaker 1: to be to run the ball more. Maybe we're not
23:33
Speaker 1: going to see Russ cook the way Russell has always
23:35
Speaker 1: wanted to cook. They're going to take some of that
23:37
Speaker 1: offensive burden off Russell Wilson. But really The biggest acquisition
23:42
Speaker 1: for the Denver Broncos is Sean Payton. They won only
23:45
Speaker 1: five games last year in Denver, and certainly Sean Payton
23:49
Speaker 1: is good for a few more just on his own,
23:51
Speaker 1: you would have to think. So all of this contingent,
23:53
Speaker 1: by the way, on better play from Russell Wilson, as
23:55
Speaker 1: you said, which you hope Sean Payton gets this why
23:58
Speaker 1: you got Sean Payton, and if not, then this conversation
24:01
Speaker 1: next year will feel a lot different. Yeah, all right,
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Speaker 1: around the league today here in LA with the Chargers
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Speaker 1: director of football administration, that is Katie Silvan. She tells
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Speaker 1: you now how she is helping shape the future for
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Speaker 1: her favorite team from her child. My name is Katie Sylvan.
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Speaker 1: I'm the director of football administration at the Los Angeles
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Speaker 1: Chargers and I work on the salary account player contracts.
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Speaker 1: I grew up in San Diego and I grew up
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Speaker 1: a Chargers fan. I discovered this might be a potential
24:46
Speaker 1: career path when I stumbled upon the junior rotational program
24:49
Speaker 1: at the league. Office, which ultimately gave me my start
24:51
Speaker 1: in the NFL. Right now, we're going into free agency
24:54
Speaker 1: and we're looking at building out a roster in that way.
24:56
Speaker 1: As the draft comes along, I'm going to be crafting players,
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Speaker 1: signing players during the season, signing players on our practice squad,
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Speaker 1: and elevating those players on game day. I think that
25:07
Speaker 1: being part of a team is my favorite part. And
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Speaker 1: I grew up playing sports and there's really nothing that
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Speaker 1: compares to that team environment. So it's been awesome to
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Speaker 1: be part of the collective effort of trying to bring
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Speaker 1: a Super Bowl to the team that I grew up
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Speaker 1: pretty for. All Right, Katie Sylvan there with the Chargers.
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Speaker 1: This is Odell Beckham Junior, who worked out this past
25:32
Speaker 1: weekend in Arizona. Was actually two weekends ago. Shirtless, one
25:37
Speaker 1: headed catches. The workout had everything. It also had thirteen
25:41
Speaker 1: teams there, including two of his former teams, the Browns
25:48
Speaker 1: and the Rams. Interesting. Interesting, Mike gard Tisa Jim Trotter
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Speaker 1: with me now. I mean I've heard that both would
25:58
Speaker 1: welcome him back. Jim for what it's worth. Yeah, Andrew,
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Speaker 1: there are a number of teams that are monitoring the situation,
26:05
Speaker 1: but Obviously, if Odell were to come in, it would
26:07
Speaker 1: be at their price and nine his look, they have
26:09
Speaker 1: some reasons for concerns over eight seasons, he's only had
26:12
Speaker 1: two full seasons. Two nineteen was the last time he
26:16
Speaker 1: had a thousand yards receiving in two sixteen was the
26:19
Speaker 1: last time he had more than six touchdown receptions in
26:22
Speaker 1: a season. So when you've factored those in with his
26:24
Speaker 1: injuries and what not, teams are a little hesitant right
26:27
Speaker 1: now to go out and put money on the table
26:29
Speaker 1: for Odell. It'll be interesting to see where he lands.
26:31
Speaker 1: Like I told you earlier in the week, the Rams
26:33
Speaker 1: are one of those teams that are monitoring him, staying
26:35
Speaker 1: in contact with him. They like the fact that he
26:38
Speaker 1: has stayed in contact with Matthew Stafford and Cooper cup
26:41
Speaker 1: Less need has been in regular contact with the agent.
26:43
Speaker 1: So we'll see what happens. I agree with Jim that
26:47
Speaker 1: I think the Rams are the most obvious and maybe
26:49
Speaker 1: the best possible landing spot because of the familiarity. The
26:52
Speaker 1: Chiefs have also been interested in him for a while
26:54
Speaker 1: and they've lost some and Juju Smith Schuster, so they
26:58
Speaker 1: could use him there. But certainly you see the wide
27:00
Speaker 1: receiver market has not been great. Macauel Hardman just signed
27:04
Speaker 1: for one year with the Yets, so this is you know,
27:08
Speaker 1: he might have to wait a while while things settled down.
27:11
Speaker 1: He looks better, certainly, but teams are going to want
27:16
Speaker 1: to see him up close and see him at length because,
27:18
Speaker 1: as Jim pointed out, he just has not had good
27:21
Speaker 1: luck with his health and the past two big knee
27:24
Speaker 1: injuries are going to give everybody pause. You know. I
27:28
Speaker 1: talked to one of the teams that was there and
27:29
Speaker 1: they just said, he look, he doesn't look as explosive
27:32
Speaker 1: as the guy that you remember. But again, we haven't
27:34
Speaker 1: seen very much about him physically in the last few
27:38
Speaker 1: years because of the injuries, and said, you know, but
27:41
Speaker 1: certainly strong, powerful guy, but maybe we're looking at a
27:43
Speaker 1: different Odell Beckham, not the one that people remember in
27:47
Speaker 1: twenty fourteen or twenty nineteen as the last time he
27:49
Speaker 1: had a thousand yards season. I'll say. The other thing
27:52
Speaker 1: here is it does come down to money, doesn't it.
27:54
Speaker 1: Like he put out the notion that well, there was
27:56
Speaker 1: a notion that he wanted like twenty million dollars a year,
27:58
Speaker 1: which he tweeted like, no, that's who gave you that,
28:01
Speaker 1: but I also did turn down four. So what number
28:04
Speaker 1: does he think he deserves at this point having not
28:07
Speaker 1: played a full season in eons, Like, it's almost like
28:11
Speaker 1: you got to prove to me that you're healthy before
28:13
Speaker 1: I give you money. So maybe it's a it's a
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Speaker 1: low based value deal with lots of incentives. If it
28:17
Speaker 1: were twenty eighteen Odell twenty nineteen Odell, then yes, we'd
28:20
Speaker 1: be talking about twenty perhaps because that's the market for
28:24
Speaker 1: somebody of his skill. No one doubts his skill, but
28:27
Speaker 1: he is coming off the injuries and he is going
28:29
Speaker 1: to turn thirty one in November. What helmety he's wearing
28:33
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