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10 Bold Predictions heading into the NFL Draft · 3 and Out with John Middlekauff

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  Speaker 1: The volume. What is going on? My people? How are
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  Speaker 1: we doing? John Middlecoff Three and Out podcasts. I thought
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  Speaker 1: i'd do this as recorded this on Tuesday, a little
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  Speaker 1: inside Baseball. But I did my ten bold predictions for
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  Speaker 1: the night's first round, and some of them just involve
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  Speaker 1: random stuff. Some of them involved individual teams, some of
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  Speaker 1: them involved position groups. I just picked ten things. I've
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  Speaker 1: been thinking about this for a couple of days, and
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  Speaker 1: we will just do my ten bold predictions for the
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  Speaker 1: first round in the NFL. We'll have a reaction tomorrow
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  Speaker 1: to everything that happens to night. We'll have another reaction
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  Speaker 1: on Saturday to everything that happens in the second and
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  Speaker 1: the third round. So these are exciting times. Many of
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  Speaker 1: you really enjoy the draft. It's fun. All the talk
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  Speaker 1: for a couple of weeks ends and we just get
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  Speaker 1: to finally see who likes which players. No more bs,
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  Speaker 1: no more anonymous quotes. Just oh, he actually loved that
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  Speaker 1: guy because they picked him over the other three guys.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what's fun about the draft. And then if
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  Speaker 1: you're a fan, you're like, my team has a new
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  Speaker 1: wide receiver, a new bass rusher, a new linebacker. It's cool.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's the draft is the best. I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: fell in love with football and probably the draft not
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  Speaker 1: too far after. So this this is an incredible event,
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  Speaker 1: to football. Ten bold predictions for the first round of
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  Speaker 1: the twenty twenty six NFL Draft. Let's start with ten.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was reported at the end of the
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  Speaker 1: year in twenty twenty five that the NFL would go
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  Speaker 1: from ten minutes to eight minutes in the first round because,
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  Speaker 1: as we all know, when they get to the second round,
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  Speaker 1: it goes quicker, and by the time we're on the
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  Speaker 1: third day, it feels like there's a minute between picks.
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  Speaker 1: This rapid fire. I do think as the consumer habits
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  Speaker 1: have changed, our attention spans are shorter. It's harder to
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  Speaker 1: get us to just watch nothing. And this is a
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  Speaker 1: very very unique event. I got the opportunity to go
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  Speaker 1: in twenty eleven. It's really cool, but nothing's really happening
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  Speaker 1: beside guys being picked. There's a lot of downtime. It's
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  Speaker 1: not like you're going to a game. You know, it's
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  Speaker 1: not like you're going to a movie. There's not a
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  Speaker 1: lot of action, you know, They're just isn't So going
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  Speaker 1: from ten minutes to eight minutes makes sense. I would
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  Speaker 1: imagine over the course of the next couple of years,
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  Speaker 1: Goodell's gonna to push extremely hard to make this five
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  Speaker 1: minutes per pick in the first round because the quicker
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  Speaker 1: you can get this thing churning. Because even if you're
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  Speaker 1: going five minutes per pick, you know, thirty two teams,
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  Speaker 1: you can stretch this out a several hour events, sell advertising,
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  Speaker 1: you have a pregame show for thirty minutes, you have
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  Speaker 1: a postgame show. You can get three hours worth of
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  Speaker 1: content with ease. I do think the ten minutes thing
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  Speaker 1: was a good idea to scrap, and you know, I
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  Speaker 1: would imagine the teams push back against shortening it too
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  Speaker 1: much because you want to have time on the clock
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  Speaker 1: to make decisions about trades. But multiple of these gms
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  Speaker 1: have mentioned over the course of the last week in
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  Speaker 1: these press conferences that these conversations about trades in the
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  Speaker 1: first round used to happen on like Tuesday and Wednesday.
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  Speaker 1: John Lynch said the other day he's been talking to
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  Speaker 1: teams for a week and he's picking twenty seven. So
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  Speaker 1: I think the wiring of these gms people being able
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  Speaker 1: to pivot on the spot. This is only the beginning.
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  Speaker 1: You know, in politics they often say that if you
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  Speaker 1: allow them to do this, they will take even more.
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  Speaker 1: And do that right. You give them an inch, they'll
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  Speaker 1: take a mile. You can't allow them to take that
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  Speaker 1: away because then they'll take this away. I think Roger
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  Speaker 1: Goodell is gonna want this thing to even be quicker
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  Speaker 1: because it's just the nature of the way we consume
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  Speaker 1: everything in life. We are easily distracted on our phones.
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  Speaker 1: If it's not your team drafting, it's like you may
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  Speaker 1: not be he wants you to watch. And if it's
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  Speaker 1: rapid fire like if you win at the speed in
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  Speaker 1: the first round of the third day, it would be fireworks. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I totally understand you can't go like two minutes per pick,
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  Speaker 1: but I do think we will inevitably get to five minutes. Now,
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  Speaker 1: they might take a couple of years, but eight minutes
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  Speaker 1: is gonna be a story tomorrow or tonight, and they're
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  Speaker 1: gonna talk about it. But get ready. This is only
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  Speaker 1: the beginning. Number nine. All I've heard for weeks the
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  Speaker 1: Rams are gonna take Mackay Lemon. The Rams could consider
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  Speaker 1: taking Ty Simpson, which I think is insane. You think
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  Speaker 1: Sean McVay is gonna waste a thirteenth pick on a
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  Speaker 1: quarterback he's not even gonna play. He's literally begging Jimmy
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  Speaker 1: Garoppolo to not retire. It's like, Jimmy, if we had
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  Speaker 1: more money on our caps space, we would give you
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  Speaker 1: a little extra bump to come back. Could you just
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  Speaker 1: please be our backup quarterback? He was begging Kirk Cousins
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  Speaker 1: to be his backup quarterback two weeks ago at the
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  Speaker 1: Arizona Owners meetings. I just have a hard time seeing
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  Speaker 1: them go wide receiver with this pick. I do believe
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  Speaker 1: your history as a general manager influences your future in
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  Speaker 1: these drafts, and they all talk about it. We study
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  Speaker 1: where we've had success and why we've had success. Two
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  Speaker 1: of their most successful draft picks in the history of
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  Speaker 1: the organization, definitely with Less and Sean are Cooper Cup
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  Speaker 1: and pookin Nakua. Neither of them was remotely close to
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  Speaker 1: the thirteenth overall pick. You have proven over and over
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  Speaker 1: and over that you can get good players at the
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  Speaker 1: wide receiver position later in the draft. In this draft,
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  Speaker 1: Well talked about like you could find starters in the
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  Speaker 1: second and third round. I do not believe that the
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  Speaker 1: Rams go wide receiver here, and I think they go
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  Speaker 1: offensive lineman. I think they go offensive line with the
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  Speaker 1: thirteenth pick. And it's like a bigger picture, like we're
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  Speaker 1: never gonna draft this high again. We'll probably just trade
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  Speaker 1: first rounders the next couple of years anyway, but we
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  Speaker 1: get the opportunity to to take a pretty good offensive
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  Speaker 1: lineman right there at thirteen. That's where I think they go. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get into Jeremiah Love here in a second, but
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  Speaker 1: this is a big picture running back thought. I think
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  Speaker 1: there's a decent chance that are running back beside Jeremiah Love.
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  Speaker 1: Who's you know. I could go as high as three,
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  Speaker 1: could go as low as like eight, Uh, who knows,
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  Speaker 1: maybe ten or eleven. I don't think we get a
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  Speaker 1: running back go in the top fifty. I've heard from
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  Speaker 1: my scouting buddies who have been doing this a long time,
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  Speaker 1: this is the worst running draft they've ever seen, which
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  Speaker 1: is crazy because usually you get a bunch of guys
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  Speaker 1: go in the late twenties in the second round is
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  Speaker 1: always a sweet spot for like the Nick Chubbs, the
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  Speaker 1: quinch On Jenkins, Like you just get really good starters
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  Speaker 1: in that like thirty three to forty five range historically,
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  Speaker 1: or running backs drafted. I do not believe this is
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  Speaker 1: going to be the case now. I think there have
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  Speaker 1: been a lot of people putting price the Notre Dame backup.
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  Speaker 1: Who think about this Jeremiah Love, who is better one
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  Speaker 1: of the better running back prospects of like the last
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  Speaker 1: twenty years, Like he'd be on a top ten list
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  Speaker 1: of running backs coming out of college, right going back
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  Speaker 1: to Adrian Peterson, Christian McCaffrey, Sakwan Barkley, Bjon Robinson. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I think genty was clearly pretty highly viewed, maybe a
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  Speaker 1: little overdrafted, but he was a really good prospect as well.
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  Speaker 1: And Todd Gurley, Like we have seen guys go Marshawn
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  Speaker 1: Lynch coming out of college. I think what was he
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  Speaker 1: picked twelve? You see guy get drafted really high. It's
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  Speaker 1: not often the second best running back in a draft
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  Speaker 1: is that guy's backup, And it's like, yeah, we don't
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  Speaker 1: even think anyone's even remotely as good as that guy.
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  Speaker 1: So I think there's a chance that of Seattle who
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  Speaker 1: have been rumored, you know, you let Kenneth Walker go,
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  Speaker 1: it'd be forcing a need a little bit. I'd be
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  Speaker 1: a little surprised. I think we have a chance to
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  Speaker 1: see a running back not beside Love go in the
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  Speaker 1: top fifty, which is pretty crazy. And I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if that's just like a cyclical thing, right, just kind
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  Speaker 1: of a year to year deal, just one of those times,
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  Speaker 1: or if it's like a big picture trending the the
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  Speaker 1: sport has gotten much more spread out. Most guys that
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  Speaker 1: used to be running backs now we're maybe playing receiver,
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  Speaker 1: playing defense, maybe playing different positions. Something. I'm just keeping
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  Speaker 1: an eye on. I don't want to call it a
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  Speaker 1: red flag. It could just be a weird year, right.
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  Speaker 1: I would say this wide receiver class in the first
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  Speaker 1: round is kind of average. Some years we see three
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  Speaker 1: wide receivers go in the top right, Malik, Marvin, Harrison, Rome.
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  Speaker 1: I mean those guys. If Rome was in this draft,
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  Speaker 1: he would I think be the first wide receiver off
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  Speaker 1: the board. So it's just it could just be twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty six draft problem. But It's definitely something to keep
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  Speaker 1: an eye on next year college football. Like how many
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  Speaker 1: high end running backs do we have coming out in
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  Speaker 1: the in the draft. So my prediction will be second
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  Speaker 1: running back won't go till after top fifty picks. You
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  Speaker 1: know this is this wide receiver class is pretty interesting
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  Speaker 1: because Carnel Tate in a lot of drafts over the
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  Speaker 1: course of the last decade. I think goes like the twenties,
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  Speaker 1: and there's nothing wrong with that. Jordan Addison, Zay Flowers,
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  Speaker 1: like historically you get a guy Justin Jefferson, Like, you
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  Speaker 1: can get sweet wide receivers in the twenties or the
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  Speaker 1: late teams. Right to me, if you draft a guy
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  Speaker 1: in the top ten, I'm looking Jamar Chase, Julio Jones,
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  Speaker 1: AJ Green like I'm looking to hit a home run,
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  Speaker 1: and I think this, you know, to me, Tate, I
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  Speaker 1: by no means think he's a He's a lock top
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  Speaker 1: ten pick. The Jordan Tyson thing. They're just gonna be
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  Speaker 1: teams that even if they think the guys are a
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  Speaker 1: really good player. And I've talked to some of my
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  Speaker 1: friends who I think he's a little overrated, and I
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  Speaker 1: talk to some people that love them but the injury
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  Speaker 1: thing is something that terrifies teams, and to me, I
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  Speaker 1: think guys like that. Historically, people with major injury questions,
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  Speaker 1: guys that can't work out till a week before the
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  Speaker 1: draft sometimes drop a little in the draft. I think
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  Speaker 1: there is a chance and mkayle Lemon, I remember Great
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  Speaker 1: Cosel told me at the combine. It's like I just
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  Speaker 1: don't really see it because it's like, well, it's physical play.
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  Speaker 1: Is physical play? Is physical play. How many guys in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL play like Pool Nakua? That's not necessarily Enlessen.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not anti mckaye Lemon. He's a good player, like
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  Speaker 1: he's an NFL starter, But when you're talking about drafting
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  Speaker 1: a guy in like top fifteen, top twenty, like I'm
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  Speaker 1: looking for Ceed Lamb, is that what m kayle Lemon's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be, I don't know. I get. I'm not anti
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  Speaker 1: mkayle Lemon. I'm just saying that I do think he's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be a little bit. I have the beholder there're
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  Speaker 1: gonna be some teams like, yeah, it's not really our
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  Speaker 1: style player. That's why everyone thinks that the Rams are
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  Speaker 1: gonna like him because he reminds them a lot of Pooka. Well,
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  Speaker 1: Pooka goes to rehab, he cleans up his life. You
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  Speaker 1: already got puokah, so you're gonna get too Pookahs a
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  Speaker 1: little weird. I think there's a chance to know Omar Cooper.
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  Speaker 1: Which the funny part about Indiana is you get Mendoza,
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  Speaker 1: you get all these transfers, you build this championship team.
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  Speaker 1: Omar Cooper was there before Signetti got there. You know,
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  Speaker 1: typically you get a new coach and all these guys disperse,
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  Speaker 1: especially on a bad team like Indiana. When Signetti got there,
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  Speaker 1: he's day a couple of years later. I think there's
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  Speaker 1: a chance he's the second second wide receiver off the board.
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  Speaker 1: I've talked to some people in the league. His stock
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  Speaker 1: is rising now. Obviously, if Jordan Tyson someone feels comfortable
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  Speaker 1: to medical, he could go high. I mean, I saw
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  Speaker 1: the clip of his pro day jumping. I mean, there's
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  Speaker 1: no disputing his athleticism. I think there are some question
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  Speaker 1: marks with physicality run after catch, in terms of breaking tackles.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he's not exactly Debo with the ball in
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  Speaker 1: his hands, but I think he's gonna be really fascinating.
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  Speaker 1: I do think some people in a draft that is
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  Speaker 1: not viewed as great like kind of just want to
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  Speaker 1: hit a double. Some people are just looking to like,
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  Speaker 1: I'll hit the fairway if it's two hundred and fifty yards.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not looking to hit a three hundred and twenty
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  Speaker 1: yard drive out of bounds. And I think sometimes in
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  Speaker 1: these type moments, people think a little bit more conservatively.
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  Speaker 1: So Omar Cooper, second wide receiver off the board. We
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  Speaker 1: on Tuesday, so by the time you listen to this
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  Speaker 1: there could be news officially out. But earlier this week,
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  Speaker 1: the Steelers, they keep saying, we've talked to Rogers. We
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  Speaker 1: know his timeline. Aaron claims he loves going on McAfee
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• 15:01
  Speaker 1: League like lost his shit because he was like taken
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  Speaker 1: away from the World Series. I predicted Aaron Rodgers. We
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  Speaker 1: get some news during the draft that Aaron Rodgers officially
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  Speaker 1: coming back. Could be if I wanted to hedge my
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  Speaker 1: bed a little bit, It'll definitely happen by Friday. But
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  Speaker 1: I would not be shocked to see a report sometime
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  Speaker 1: Thursday that Aaron Rodgers has told McCarthy, has told the Rooneys,
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  Speaker 1: it has told the Steelers, I'm in the boat, baby,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be ready. You guys have no quarterbacks besides
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: Will Howard that for some reason, people in my DMS
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: and Steeler fans think that they got like Kurt Warner
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  Speaker 1: right there, and maybe you do. You never know until
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  Speaker 1: he gets to play, and right now I saw him
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  Speaker 1: taking first team reps because I don't expect Rodgers to
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  Speaker 1: be at OTA's, but I would not be surprised at
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  Speaker 1: all if over the next twenty four hours, but specifically
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  Speaker 1: maybe a little bit before the first round, we get
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  Speaker 1: some definitive news out of the camp. I've seen a
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  Speaker 1: couple GMS say this, Brett Veach said this the other day.
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  Speaker 1: There could be a ton of trades in this draft now,
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  Speaker 1: not big ones, like I don't expect people giving up
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  Speaker 1: future picks to trade. But I also think when I
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  Speaker 1: hear draft analysts say the twenty seven draft, the twenty
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  Speaker 1: seven draft, the twenty seven draft, I think we got
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  Speaker 1: to be very careful about doing that. This is not basketball,
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  Speaker 1: where we knew three years ago that this NBA draft
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  Speaker 1: was gonna be unreal because you could just watch these
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  Speaker 1: guys at sixteen in AAU games. That's not the way
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  Speaker 1: football works. Things trained dramatically, year to year, Guys get injured,
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  Speaker 1: Guys underperform. Now with the n IL guy's return, there
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  Speaker 1: is so much unknown I also think there are so
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  Speaker 1: many teams that just view themselves as playoff teams or
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  Speaker 1: playoff contenders. Their coaching staff and their ownership is living
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  Speaker 1: in them now that they plan on winning in twenty six.
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  Speaker 1: So any team like the Browns or the Jets that
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  Speaker 1: I hear, hey, they're thinking about twenty seven, thinking they
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  Speaker 1: are in the minority. You know, if you told me
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  Speaker 1: the Chiefs trade up, it's like, and they traded from
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  Speaker 1: nine to three and they gave up the twenty seven
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  Speaker 1: first round. Well, yeah, because they plan on having that
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  Speaker 1: first round pick be somewhere between twenty eight and thirty two.
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  Speaker 1: They ain't worried about that draft class. They're thinking about
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  Speaker 1: Week one playing the fucking Chargers, right. They plan on
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  Speaker 1: winning twelve to plus games. They plan on kicking ass
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  Speaker 1: this year, and they'll do whatever it takes. I would
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  Speaker 1: imagine the Bill. I would imagine all these good teams,
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  Speaker 1: the Eagles, that they are living in the now. That's
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  Speaker 1: where I think you get bad teams definitely willing to
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  Speaker 1: trade back, accumulate more picks. You get a lot of
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  Speaker 1: these good teams willing to maneuver, and then you get
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  Speaker 1: these teams in the middle. You know, the Cowboys, the Buccaneers,
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  Speaker 1: some of these teams that didn't make the playoffs but
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: vie themselves as a team that could make the playoffs
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: next year. The Saints. Just I think there's gonna be
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: a lot of wheeling and dealing, not crazy trades. It
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: might be just a couple spots here and there. But
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: my guess is we get over. If you gave me
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: the over under five and a half trades on Thursday night,
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: I'm taking the over. I'm taking the over. So I
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: would expect moving and shaking, and this leads me to four.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: I think one team that coming from the teams, because
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: I would say, if you're in the single digits, like
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: the Chiefs moving up a couple spots, Saints moving up
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: a couple spots, right, it's not that shot. We see
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: those type moves all the time. But typically we see
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: a team in the teens come up, and that could
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: be from like nineteen to eleven, that could be like
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: fifteen to eight, like it feels like that happens every year.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: And the Lions, who have had a lot of reshuffling, right,
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: they're moving Piney Seol to left tackle. They have some
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: turnover on their offensive line. Obviously they have an opening
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: at tackle with Piney moving. I think the Lions at
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: seventeen have moving up for a tackle written all over them.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: So I'm chase this other day that I do wonder
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: with the amount of US podcasters and talking heads if teams.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: You know, it's one thing if you threw it to
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: a bone ten twenty years ago to like a newspaper
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: reporter or a blog, but now you have so many
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: people that talk to so many people in the league
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: that it's like I'm hearing this, I'm hearing this. I've
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: been around the NFL for a long time and I've
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: been in one of those rooms around you know, arguably
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: the best of one of the best gms of the generation.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: Whenever I hear you know the Eagles, you do not
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: know what the Eagles are doing. You do not know
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: what John Schnyder's thinking. You do not know what bred
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: Beach is thinking. Now you could kind of gauge where
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: they should be at because of their roster, but any
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: general manager worth their salt telling you what they're gonna do.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: Who's not like spy Tech that has the number one
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: overall pick, like we're taking Fernando Mendoza they are. That
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: is bad, that's stupid business. Historically, you know, Sean Payton
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: sometimes like to talk and it got word got out
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: the Saints really like Mahomes and what happened. The Chiefs
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: caught wind of it and they jumped them, and word
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: Mahomes end up not on the Saints. A couple of
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: years later, Sean Payton quits. So I think at this
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: point in time, even in a bad draft, telling media
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: people or people, you're comfortable with what you're gonna do.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: And most of these organizations, and I have a lot
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: of friends who are number two's or number threes in
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: these teams, there is a separate conversation that the GM
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: and the head coach and the owner have in a
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: room by themselves, and they typically are not telling that
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: entire room. Now they kind of find out maybe on
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: draft night and definitely once they start maneuvering or talking
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: about it in the draft room. But like you have
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: an idea, you don't know exactly what your owner or
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: what your head coach and GM are planning to do
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: when you're picking in the mid teens. Now it's obvious,
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: like the Lions need some offensive line help, right, specifically
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: a tackle. I see the Eagles need an offensive line help. Well, yeah,
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: they've had some injuries and Lane Johnson is getting a
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: long in the tooth and who knows how much longer
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: his body's gonna be put together. But if you tell
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: me that all of a sudden, the Eagles draft a
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: wide receiver or draft, you know, a different position, I
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: am not a tight end. I'm not gonna be stunned
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: at all anyone saying like I know what they're gonna do.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: I just I do not believe or that person's incompetent
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: and he should be relieved of his duties. But I
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: can see the Lions moving up seven or eight spots
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: and taking an offensive line, and they like and kind
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: of do the Hardball style of like we get a
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: left and right tackle that we can build around, and
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: we can get back to our roots of overpowering people.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: Number three, now we're gonna start getting some hot takes.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: I don't think you know I've seen sometimes, you know,
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: the Giants take a wide receiver at five. Have you
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: guys followed the Hardball family? Did you guys follow the
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: Ravens for a long period time when he was there
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: with Ozzy and Eric Tacosta. I think it would take
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: a Julio Jones, a Calvin Johnson, a historic impact player
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: for them to consider taking a wide receiver of five.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: I would be stunned if they took a wide receiver
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: at five. We know the Titans are not going to,
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: we know the Browns are not going to, and more
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: than likely, you know the the Commanders have a ton
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: of needs. The Saints definitely could consider it, but you
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: could also easily argue big Bain. I mean, the Chiefs
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: could take a handful of players, a corner Caleb Downs,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: I think, and to me, the Giants at ten. If
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: they did take let's say Sonny Styles at five, or
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: let's say they took I don't even know. I think
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: Sonny Styles is that people most guy, most people think
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: they're gonna take. But let's say he's off the board,
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: and I don't think they would take Jeremiah Love there either.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: I think they were taking an offensive lineman, and then
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: I think ideally they'd come back and get like Caleb
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: Downs or a corner. But I don't think a wide
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: receiver goes in the top ten, And obviously, with Tyson's
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: injury question marks, I think that's a very big stretch.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: And I just don't think Carnell Tait most years is
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: like going like somewhere between eighteen and twenty five. So
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: I would imagine, I mean, look at a Buka last
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: year like those guys, and it shows you. It kind
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: of speaks to the depth and the power of this draft.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: So my bold prediction number three, no wide receiver goes
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: in the top ten. Here's where I get really bold.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: At number one, you got Fernando Mendoza. Let's say the
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: pass rushers in some order go two and three. My
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: guests would be recent two, but it wouldn't be shocking
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: at this point if Bailey goes. But I think in
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: some order they go two and three. I think you
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: get to four, Saula said weeks ago. I like my
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: running back. He did a little Horrball with the defensive line.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: I view defensive line min his playmakers. Remember Harrball when
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: he took Joe Alt. I view them as the tip
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: of the spear. That's the defensive line. Well, who was
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: solo around when he's been a star as a defensive coordinator,
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: one of the best middle linebackers of his generation. And
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: I'd argue the most important player in the Niners defense
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: over the course of the last seven eight years has
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: not been Nick Bosa. It's ben Fred Warner, and Saul
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: had a front row seat to that, and he saw
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: the impact he had when he went down. I do
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: imagine that they have had long conversations of like, if
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: we're gonna take a non premium position, should we go
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: with Sonny Styles and then circle back later in the
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: draft and get some sort of playmaker for offense. But
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: do we have enough in the running back room to
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: just last us this year? Obviously, Jeremiah loves an excellent player,
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: but I you do think you could talk yourself out
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: of it pretty easily when you look at the defensive roster.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: You have a defensive head coach, and you have a
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: guy who could just be what I've been told, and
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: you watch his highlights and you watch him play during
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: the season, I mean physically, he's got to be one
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: of the better linebacker prospects of the Internet era. And
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: there have been some great linebackers. I mean Luke Heagley
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: was the eighth overall pick, rokewand Smith was the eighth
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: overall pick. So we have seen some middle linebackers go
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: relatively high recently, and I was told flat out like,
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: this guy's a better prospect than them. Doesn't mean he's
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: gonna be a better player, but he's a better six',
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: five four to. Four he's LIKE ceo. CHARACTER i do
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: think The titans can Go Sony styles because everyone's telling
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: me they're gonna Ta jeremiah. Up when everyone's telling you,
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: something sometimes just go the other. Way and it's not
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: Like Tony styles is not viewed as one of the
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: best players in this. Draft, definitely his upside, is you,
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: know sky. High, now the argument you would make is, like,
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: well if we're not gonna go a premium, position let's
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: get the guy that can help our young quarterback that
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: we just took number. One, overall that's WHERE i think
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: the defensive head coach comes into play. Here and if
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: you told me That callahan was still the, coach like
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: The titans weren't, disaster he didn't get, fired and he
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: was rolling back, like, yeah they probably Goes Jeremiah love.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: HERE i do wonder If Robert salad because ALL i
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: hear of This Dan quinn Loves Sonny, styles who Was
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: Robert sala's. Mentor it's Like Dan quinn And Gus bradley
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: back In. Seattle like that's the defense he'd learned. From
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: who did they play with back in The seattle? Days
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Bobby Wagner, LIKE i do think they value the linebacker
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: position more than. Some SO i then you get to.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: Five look at their running back room In New. York
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: it's not. Terrible, obviously Can skataboo just be a healthy
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: player in THE? Nfl DO i view him getting some
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: big second? Contract but can he play a couple of? Years,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: Yes singletary had nine. Touchdowns tracy's like an explosive. PLAYER
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: i think that running back room is fine to, me
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: even If styles is off the. Board so you Go
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: mendoza the two pass Rushers. Styles could they just Take
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: Caleb downs right there at? Five like Would John harbad
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: take a running back Or Caleb downs and just Go
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: we'll get the offensive lineman at. TEN i think there's
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: a chance. That and Then Jeremiah, love he's not gonna
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: go six To. Cleveland they just draft a running back
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: high who's. Good then he'd probably goes seven To. Washington
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: BUT i don't think it's a. Lock If Jeremiah love
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: played a different, position he wouldn't follow this far BECAUSE
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: i think we all agree pound For, bounty he's one
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: of the best, players if not the best, player in this.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: DRAFT i do think you can talk yourself out of the, position,
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: though especially if you just look at your room and
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: like it's more than. Serviceable it's running, Back, like, yeah
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: if you Have, bjeon it's. Great but just because you
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: Have bejon doesn't guarantee. Anything we see some of these.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: TEAMS i, mean look at The patriots last year's room by.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: Committee so my bold prediction Is Jeremiah love does not
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: go in the top. Five AND i don't even think
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: number one is a bold. PREDICTION i just think this
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: is going to. HAPPEN i think we see one quarterback get,
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: drafted and That's Fernando mendez at number. ONE i do
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: not think That Ty simpson goes in the first, round
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: BECAUSE i, mean this is, classic the, hype the talk
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: starting With arlovsky And. Cia you can force, this they
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: send them to the. Draft there are gonna be enough
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: teams to go. One how many teams need a? Quarterback
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: and All i've been, told and rightfully, so is like
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: they're already thinking for next year when they have more more.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: Picks so The browns aren't gonna take them the Jet
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: i'm talking the first, round and, like none of these
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: teams are gonna take him in the first. Round and
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: then the good, teams it's, like, well The rams could
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: take them at thirteen and just get nothing out of
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: the thirteenth overall pick in a year that for them
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: is gonna be whin THE nfc or. Bust like that's
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: internally what The rams are thinking when the go to
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: The they're gonna take a player, that in a perfect
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: world doesn't play a snap for. Them lesnie talked About
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: Matt stafford. Day he's, like, yeah we're working through the.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: Contract there's no drama behind. This it's gonna be. Fine
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: he's our starting quarterback next. Year that's not. Happening if
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: you're The, cardinals if You're Matt, lafleura you want to
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: tie yourself to a guy that had nine good games
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: in college been a one year. STARTER i don't see.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: IT i don't So fernando goes. ONE i don't now
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: second round high, sure BUT i know everyone's been trying
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: to force feed this guy in the first. Round i'm
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: even trying to take my bias out of it BECAUSE
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: i know some people in the league that like. Him
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: they think he's a good, Player AND i get. It
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: he had some really good games earlier in the, season
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: then he got banged up and it just looked like
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: a disaster at the. End BUT i, think in no
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: world THAT i, remember a guy like him is worthy
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: of a first round pick based on his physical, characteristics
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: based on his. Resume we have some so similar case
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: studies over the course of the last five, years last six,
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: Years Kenny pickett, Types Mac jones. TYPES a couple of years,
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: later these guys are drafted fifteen twentieth and they're. Backups
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: so to, me If I'm Ty, simpson like you go
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: to the, draft why would he go to the draft
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: if he's not told he's a first round? Pick because
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: how often are you invited to the? Draft how many
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: guys on a yearly basis get the phone called do
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: you want to come to THE Nfl? Draft fifteen to
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: twenty kind of a big. Honor so what you go
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: pick thirty eight the next? Day it's an incredible. Experience
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: you get to walk out on stage in front of
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: hundreds of thousands of. PEOPLE i don't think it's that
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: weird or even that, like no one promised him. ANYTHING
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: i just think he got invited because people think he
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: might be a first round. Pick this isn't you, Know Jeremiah,
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: Love this Isn't Cornell tait some guy that. LISTEN i
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: don't know exactly what pick he's gonna, go but he's gonna.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: Go this Isn't Caleb, downs this guy we think of
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: go in the first. Round we need a quarterback here
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: Because fernando's gonna be with his family In, miami and
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: he had he wanted to, go WHICH i don't think
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: is wearing. All IF i was in his, shoes i'd
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: fucking go. Too get to go, there get to go
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: on on, stage Hug Roger. Goodell even If i'm the fortieth.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: PICK i don't even think it's embarrassing or. Anything he
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: was a one year starter on one of the Worst
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: alabama teams the last twenty, years and he got drafted
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: picked thirty. Eight seems pretty cool to. Me everyone's like
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: THAT'S i don't think it's embarrassing at. All SO i
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: do not think Ty simpson's off the. Board On thursday,
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: night the volume