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Biggest Winners & Losers of the First Round _ 2025 NFL Draft · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: If you were to say winners and losers.
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  Speaker 2: Can we recap some of the draft picks in the
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  Speaker 2: first round, just kind of go through the thirty two
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  Speaker 2: picks and we'll take a look at the teams that
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  Speaker 2: we thought maybe did the best job. So we started
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  Speaker 2: off cam Ward. The big surprise early on was the
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  Speaker 2: Jaguars trading up with the Browns to take Travis Hunter.
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  Speaker 3: Abdul Carter goes three.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe he's gonna wear the fifty six good journalism from you.
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  Speaker 2: Will Campbell at four, Mason Graan at five, gent the
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  Speaker 2: first and one of two running backs taken Membo.
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  Speaker 1: That was a big surprise too.
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  Speaker 2: Ted to the Panthers definitely caught us off guard. Calvin Maxson,
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  Speaker 2: Colston Loveland the tight end going before Tyler Warren.
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  Speaker 1: To the Indianapolis Colts.
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  Speaker 2: Then we can look at eleven through twenty eleven. We
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  Speaker 2: started off, I know the Cowboys were at twelve. They
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  Speaker 2: took the offensive lineman Tyler Booker. That blew us away
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  Speaker 2: in the short stint that we talked to him, and
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  Speaker 2: that will come up eventually.
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  Speaker 1: There you go.
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  Speaker 2: Michael Williams, the edge setter for the San Francisco forty
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  Speaker 2: nine ers, Dolphins go d line, Tyler Warren, Jalen Walker
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  Speaker 2: fell to the Falcons at fifteen. Walter Nolan joins Jonathan Gannon,
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  Speaker 2: the defensive.
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  Speaker 3: Minded coach for the Arizona Cardinals.
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  Speaker 2: What a Bengals pick that was, and Shamar Stewart Gray's
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  Speaker 2: Abel can play all the line for the Seattle Seahawks
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  Speaker 2: and Meca Buka was a surprise there. Second half there,
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  Speaker 2: Derek Harmon goes to the Steelers, Omarion Hampton, Golden Jackson
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  Speaker 2: and Dart There the trade up the big surprise Pierce
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  Speaker 2: the Falcons get their second first round pick, second first
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  Speaker 2: round pick, then Malachi Starks, Tyler Williams, Josh Connery, Hairston,
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  Speaker 2: and then the Eagles took Jahad and then Josh Simmons
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  Speaker 2: slay what I'll give you first crack.
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  Speaker 1: Who was your big winner tonight?
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  Speaker 4: I think the big winner tonight was for me is
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  Speaker 4: the demo rocoscause I think they got a player that's
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  Speaker 4: was a great defense. Think that defense would it go
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  Speaker 4: be out off the charts just because the fact that
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  Speaker 4: this guy they got very versatile and I like it.
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  Speaker 1: I like, yeah, I love versatile corners and I.
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  Speaker 4: Think he will be a difference maker for that team.
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  Speaker 1: What do we think is your big winner?
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  Speaker 3: I'm split.
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  Speaker 5: I'm split between New York and uh I'm gonna say
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  Speaker 5: New York and Atlanta.
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  Speaker 2: So the two teams that traded back up to get
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  Speaker 2: a second first round.
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  Speaker 3: I always like aggressiveness.
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  Speaker 5: And if you're gonna win now, and you want to
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  Speaker 5: win now, and you say we have the team in it,
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  Speaker 5: win now, this is.
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  Speaker 3: How you do it.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I mean.
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  Speaker 5: You don't sit back and you wait. If you believe
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  Speaker 5: in a guy and you got a guy, you take
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  Speaker 5: the guy. I think obviously Abdual, you know, no favoritism,
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  Speaker 5: but you you just match that up. And then you
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  Speaker 5: don't know what type of draft capital they'll get if
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  Speaker 5: they do decide to move on from Thibodeaux. You don't know,
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  Speaker 5: so you know, it would make even more sense, you know,
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  Speaker 5: if they get capital back from Thibodeaux and.
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  Speaker 3: They just like I said, they're not they reset the
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  Speaker 3: market with him.
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  Speaker 5: They don't got to worry about paying them, they don't
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  Speaker 5: got to worry about anything like that. And you have
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  Speaker 5: a premier rusher that can be pretty much better than
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  Speaker 5: Thibodeaux at this point early on, and their d line
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  Speaker 5: just goes monstrous, you know what I mean? And then
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  Speaker 5: I would say Atlanta just because you know, this is
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  Speaker 5: a team who ranked thirty first and past rush didn't
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  Speaker 5: get to their quarterback a lot, and you get two
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  Speaker 5: premier guys that can get out to their quarterback on
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  Speaker 5: the ball, off the ball doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 3: You ask some versatility young.
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  Speaker 5: You know those two guys for me is those two
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  Speaker 5: teams for me did a great job.
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  Speaker 3: And then you know, did you guys we do losers?
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  Speaker 1: Well, let's just stay positive for a second runner. What's
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  Speaker 1: your winner?
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  Speaker 6: I like Atlanta. I like Mikea's point that the two
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  Speaker 6: most highest paid positions in the NFL, they don't have
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  Speaker 6: to pay for the next four quarterback, defense, edge rusher.
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  Speaker 6: They are clean there with rookie contracts. But I'll go
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  Speaker 6: a little bit off being pad. I love what the
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  Speaker 6: Browns did not drafting Travis Hunter at two. They got
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  Speaker 6: so much in return in terms of draft capital, and
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  Speaker 6: it's not as if they traded back and got like
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  Speaker 6: some guy where it's like, eh, he could be okay.
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  Speaker 6: I think Mason Graham has Pro Bowl, All Pro potential.
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  Speaker 6: He's a darn good football player. That if Travis Hunter
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  Speaker 6: didn't exist. They could have taken a number two overall, right,
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  Speaker 6: so they got that, they got next to youer's first round,
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  Speaker 6: or they got a top of the second rounder. They
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  Speaker 6: gave themselves a ton of flexibility. So I love what
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  Speaker 6: they did, taking that lottery ticket and basically turning it
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  Speaker 6: into a lot of different pieces.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna go Baltimore Malachi Starks, just one of those
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  Speaker 2: picks where all of a sudden, their defensive game playing
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  Speaker 2: comes very clear.
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  Speaker 1: And what that's gonna unlock.
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  Speaker 2: For Kyle Hamilton and what's not gonna lock for everybody
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  Speaker 2: else is pretty darn and special.
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  Speaker 7: Why don't you go Losers first? Mario has to be
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  Speaker 7: the Chicago Bears. So I just completely don't I don't
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  Speaker 7: understand it. Yeah, for a top ten pick, I'm thinking
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  Speaker 7: Brock Bowers. You can say Kyle Pitts, but just a
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  Speaker 7: guy that you don't truly know about that said, hey,
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  Speaker 7: we gave it the ball a little bit more because
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  Speaker 7: everybody else sucks.
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  Speaker 5: He's not considerly a run tight end, So you gotta
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  Speaker 5: package it. You gotta stay in a certain personnel. That's
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  Speaker 5: what makes Brock unique, you know what I mean, That's
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  Speaker 5: why you would spend a top ten pick on a
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  Speaker 5: you know, a guy like that. He's great at run bocking,
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  Speaker 5: he's great, he's great creating separation.
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  Speaker 3: I just don't see that a loved one.
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  Speaker 5: I don't see why, you know, I mean, there were
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  Speaker 5: so many other players where you could get great value,
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  Speaker 5: even if it's like we don't need them, but we're
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  Speaker 5: getting you know, we're adding that, you know what I mean, Like,
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  Speaker 5: I just don't see him being better than you know,
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  Speaker 5: a lot of these other guys. So I can see
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  Speaker 5: being future Pro bowlers or you know, all pro players
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  Speaker 5: down the line.
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  Speaker 1: SLAE a team that maybe you didn't have the best
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  Speaker 1: reaction to.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, he took the one I'm thinking too, just
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  Speaker 4: because I think, like not saying like the tight end
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  Speaker 4: is not a very very important just like position is
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  Speaker 4: just that I feel like you can find great, great
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  Speaker 4: tight ends. Second second day, day two guys. You know,
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  Speaker 4: if I feel like if I went top ten for
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  Speaker 4: a tight end, it gotta be like, yeah, it got it.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, he got to be able to do everything.
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  Speaker 4: I couldn't have no past game at all. He got
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  Speaker 4: to come change the whole passage like the Raiders took
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  Speaker 4: to buddy, they feel like they knew what they're gonna
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  Speaker 4: lose Davonte Adams, right, so they knew that. They I
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  Speaker 4: feel like they gotta I said over there, So I'll
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  Speaker 4: feel the same way about them.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think, runner, who's yours?
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  Speaker 6: I think it's a Minnesota Vikings. I mean they took
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  Speaker 6: a guard twenty four of raw. I thought it was
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  Speaker 6: a little bit of a reach. The offensive line run
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  Speaker 6: had kind of passed them by. I thought Connory is
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  Speaker 6: a much higher potential player than him. And they only
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  Speaker 6: have four draft picks this entire draft, they had the
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  Speaker 6: least draft capital of anyone in the NFL, and the
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  Speaker 6: two teams behind them traded for a lot more draft capital.
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  Speaker 6: You had the Texans moving back and get a couple
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  Speaker 6: of third rounders. You had the Rams move back and
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  Speaker 6: get a future first. You could have made that move
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  Speaker 6: or maybe still got a good guard at one of
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  Speaker 6: those picks, but you just stood pat and now you
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  Speaker 6: really can't add more to this roster in this draft.
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  Speaker 1: Don't I don't really have a loser. I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I'm trying, like, oh, look at like it's hard.
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  Speaker 4: It's like it wouldn't have bad of the draft, like
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  Speaker 4: it wouldn't that bad because they weren't there.
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  Speaker 1: Weren't.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I'll say one, and I think I don't know
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  Speaker 2: how you guys are going to react to it. I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna say the Tampa Bay Bucks. I I know y'all
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  Speaker 2: love a mecha buka and I understand what we're doing here,
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  Speaker 2: but like, I don't know. I just thought they had
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  Speaker 2: some huge holes on their O line and their D line,
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  Speaker 2: and I did not think wide receiver.
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  Speaker 1: Was that big of a need.
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  Speaker 2: That was just my thing where I kind of thought
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  Speaker 2: you could address other issues there. But he's a wide
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  Speaker 2: receiver could be good. But I'll just say this.
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  Speaker 1: And I mean it.
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  Speaker 2: I have fun every year doing this with y'all. Slay,
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  Speaker 2: thank you for joining us.
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  Speaker 1: Energy.
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  Speaker 2: I love the fact that when these young guys see
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  Speaker 2: you guys, they light up, and what you guys brought
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  Speaker 2: out of them was awesome. I suddenly now care about
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  Speaker 2: Tyler Booker. What you guys were able to get out
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  Speaker 2: of Abdul Carter was really special. So I appreciate you guys.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you everybody for watching at home. Renner way to
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  Speaker 2: kick ass again, man, awesome stuff, Mike, any final words
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  Speaker 2: for tonight.
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  Speaker 3: Cowboys got better. That's all I'm incited about. Go Cowboys,
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  Speaker 3: Boo boom, We'll be back.