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  Speaker 1: to you.
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  Speaker 2: All Right, So let's.
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  Speaker 1: Say Bryce Young, for the sake of the starry kinent
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  Speaker 1: goes one. So ian two and three are fascinating here
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  Speaker 1: because how two and three go? And I don't know
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  Speaker 1: that anyone knows how to and three go. Really that
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  Speaker 1: sets up the rest of Thursday nights.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I think we all can assume at this
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  Speaker 4: point that there's a pretty good chance Bryce Young goes
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  Speaker 4: number one. Which if that is the case, then the
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  Speaker 4: Texans could literally just announce their picket and here's who
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  Speaker 4: we're taking in number two. What's the difference. No one's
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  Speaker 4: going to jump them. They're obviously going to make it,
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  Speaker 4: and they've got the opposite route. No one has any
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  Speaker 4: idea what the Houston Texans are going to do, literally,
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  Speaker 4: no one except for Nick Cassiio and Damiko Riins, which
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  Speaker 4: has led to rumors all over the place from could
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  Speaker 4: the Texans not take a quarterback? Could they just take
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  Speaker 4: the top position player, whether Will Anderson or Hyri Wilson.
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  Speaker 4: If it's not CJ. Shott, is it another quarterback? Nobody knows?
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  Speaker 4: And this really to me is the biggest pivot point
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  Speaker 4: we've seen in years for the draft, because if the
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  Speaker 4: Texans do tom take a quarterback, then it's like, Okay,
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  Speaker 4: the Cardinals will have a chance to auction off their pick,
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  Speaker 4: but I would seem more likely make the selection. If
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  Speaker 4: the Texans pass on a quarterback, then there's a good
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  Speaker 4: chance the Cardinals are able to trade their pick, and
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  Speaker 4: then everything goes bonkers from there.
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  Speaker 5: Right, I mean, this is not like the Trevor Laura
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  Speaker 5: and since Zach Wilson draft, where we pretty much knew
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  Speaker 5: whate of the top two picks were going to be.
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  Speaker 6: Now.
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  Speaker 5: Certainly, over the past week, the belief in league circles
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  Speaker 5: has been that the Texans will not take a quarterback
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  Speaker 5: at two. However, they also own the number twelve pick,
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  Speaker 5: which gives them some flexibility with the additional draft capital
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  Speaker 5: they have from the Deshaun Watson trade, to even potentially
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  Speaker 5: trade up from twelve and still get their quarterback high.
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  Speaker 5: I believe, based upon all the conversations I've had, that
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  Speaker 5: there's a good chance all four of the top quarterbacks
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  Speaker 5: are off the board in the first dozen picks. If
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  Speaker 5: that happens, then the question becomes, when does a fifth
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  Speaker 5: quarterback come off the board. I would tell you in
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  Speaker 5: speaking to gms around the league over the past several
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  Speaker 5: days here there is certainly a feeling that somebody may
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  Speaker 5: be plotting to move up from the top of the
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  Speaker 5: second round to go get Hendon Hooker from Tennessee. He's
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  Speaker 5: coming off the torn acl He's probably gonna be a
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  Speaker 5: pup list guy. Eve though he should be cleared right
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  Speaker 5: around the start of the regular season. We're probably not
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  Speaker 5: ready to play in September. So to move into the
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  Speaker 5: first round, you would get the fifth year option, basically
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  Speaker 5: get that additional year.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 5: He'll be twenty six years old and the not too
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  Speaker 5: distant future here, so this is an older quarterback. But
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  Speaker 5: everybody likes the guy in Hendon Hooker. He throws a
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  Speaker 5: good ball. Yes, he's going to need a transition period
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  Speaker 5: coming from that wacky offense that they run at Tennessee
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  Speaker 5: with everything spread out and they're using hand signals to communicate.
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  Speaker 5: But he's actually going to get that time where there's
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  Speaker 5: these other quarterbacks. No matter what anybody says, history would
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  Speaker 5: tell you those top four guys are going to see
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  Speaker 5: the field sooner than later.
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  Speaker 1: It's our wacky insider's talking the wacky offense of Tennessee
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  Speaker 1: here the insiders inside the green room there backstage, Thank
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  Speaker 1: you gentlemen in Kansas r He's.
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  Speaker 7: Taking a shot and is able to get it away.
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  Speaker 2: H Chris Young thread a needle, what strike?
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  Speaker 6: Crowd fires deep down to the end zone and it
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  Speaker 6: is grabbing the ends up.
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  Speaker 3: CJ strout, Wow it throw Young in the middle, touchdown
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  Speaker 3: rights Young, CJ shreds Je running Strown on the move,
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  Speaker 3: flips of the bus right on the money, try oft
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  Speaker 3: prece shot on fill.
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  Speaker 2: This guy is good. Let's try you fast cut a
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  Speaker 2: nice arm 'n' strapt here. He loves to do and
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  Speaker 2: he'll load it up and cut it loose. Throws a dark.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we said it's probably Bryce Young, but a
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  Speaker 1: lot can change between now and Thursday. And let's face it,
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  Speaker 1: no one really knows what the Panthers are gonna do.
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  Speaker 3: We can only project.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll say that our mock drafts have Brice Young, CJ.
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  Speaker 1: Stroud and all the one outlier because Maurice shown Strew
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  Speaker 1: always tries to do interesting and different things with his
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  Speaker 1: mock is Anthony Richardson there pottention cam Wolfe is there
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  Speaker 1: we know not potentially he is actually live in Charlotte
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  Speaker 1: in the building right now. Happy draft, you can what's
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  Speaker 1: the word there?
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  Speaker 2: Andrew?
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  Speaker 8: Talking with people across the league, the vibe continues to
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  Speaker 8: be that all signs points to the Panthers taking Alabamia
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  Speaker 8: quarterback Bryce Young with the first overall pick and Scott
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  Speaker 8: Federer or the Panthers GM met with coaches on Thursday
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  Speaker 8: and Friday to finalize that decision. Now he has it,
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  Speaker 8: and don't expect them to make a public announcement that
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  Speaker 8: it will be Bryce Young. Part of the intrigue of
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  Speaker 8: the draft is the unknown, and so it leaves open
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  Speaker 8: the surprise that maybe it's a CJ. Stroud or Athony Richardson.
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  Speaker 8: But one thing to note is the Panthers brass has
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  Speaker 8: been adamant that they made this move up to number one,
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  Speaker 8: knowing that they control the draft, so they don't need
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  Speaker 8: to have smoke screens throwing teams off because they are
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  Speaker 8: the first team in the draft. So they get a
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  Speaker 8: chance to make this franchise changing decision Thursday at eight pm,
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  Speaker 8: and all signs point to it being Bryce Young.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, why Bryce Young? Cam?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they've gone through this whole process seeing everyone
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  Speaker 1: up close, had them all in the building as well.
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  Speaker 2: Why the guy from Alabama?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, many people across the league think that Bryce Young
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  Speaker 8: simply the best quarterback in this draft, and our Daniel
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  Speaker 8: Jeremiah has him as the number one player on his board.
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  Speaker 8: Is his ability to process. He goes through reads like
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  Speaker 8: no other quarterback in this draft. He showed up at
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  Speaker 8: Alabama in big games making huge throws. We saw him
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  Speaker 8: when the Heisman Trophy his sophomore year. And really the
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  Speaker 8: only knock you can find talking with people is his size,
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  Speaker 8: the fact that he's a five to ten two hundred
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  Speaker 8: and four pound quarterback, and the Panthers have been adamant
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  Speaker 8: that that will not be a significant factor and their decision.
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  Speaker 8: Jim Scott Bitterer kept bringing up the fact that he
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  Speaker 8: and Dan Morgan were in Seattle when they drafted Russell Wilson,
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  Speaker 8: who was also a five to ten two hundred ish quarterback,
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  Speaker 8: and they mentioned they can give him nutrition and tips
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  Speaker 8: so that he can get bigger, and they also noted
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  Speaker 8: that his size did not show up often on tape.
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  Speaker 8: He has a high release, and so he brought up
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  Speaker 8: the fact that Vice Young only had two bad at
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  Speaker 8: passes in his final year in college, whereas Russell Wilson
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  Speaker 8: had three. And so they feel comfortable making this push,
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  Speaker 8: making this aggressive move, getting the guy. They believe that
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  Speaker 8: it's their top quarterback on the board and not letting
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  Speaker 8: the size question marks dissuade them.
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  Speaker 1: And as you mentioned, he is number one on Daniel
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah's Big Board, the final Top one fifty currently on
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  Speaker 1: NFL dot com. Camwolfe, currently at Bank of America Stadium,
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Cam. Let's look at the quarterbacks, Bryce Young
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  Speaker 1: CJ Stroud on NFL. Now, they're both really good, I
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  Speaker 1: mean really really good.
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  Speaker 2: One what a husband.
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  Speaker 1: The other barely threw a pick eighty seven total touchdowns,
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  Speaker 1: eighty six total touchdowns. I mean, like, how do you
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  Speaker 1: figure out which one you want? Turn of the safe
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  Speaker 1: state him and then you pick one. Here, let's bringing
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  Speaker 1: Mark Ross and Lance their line and let's just assume
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  Speaker 1: it is Bryce Young. All right, let's just play along
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  Speaker 1: for the sake of this conversation. Here, Lance, you are
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  Speaker 1: in Houston. I mean, if Thick Sario doesn't go CJ.
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  Speaker 1: Stroud or doesn't take a quarterback at two, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: all heck breaks lose, doesn't it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know my mock three point zero.
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  Speaker 9: I think I was the first one to not have
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  Speaker 9: Stroud going either Stroud or Young, and I just put
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  Speaker 9: a few different elements together that led me to believe
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  Speaker 9: that it.
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  Speaker 2: Was a very real possibility.
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  Speaker 9: It wasn't any inside information, but when you start to
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  Speaker 9: piece things together from a football standpoint, you could.
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  Speaker 2: Start to see how maybe they would pass on CJ. Stroud.
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  Speaker 9: They have a ton of needs on the defensive side,
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  Speaker 9: so if they go, you know, a non quarterback at two,
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  Speaker 9: I really believe Will Anderson and Tyree Wilson are the
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  Speaker 9: two guys that they could look at. Now, will they
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  Speaker 9: find a trade up partner? I just don't see it happening.
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  Speaker 9: I don't think there's a big enough rush to jump
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  Speaker 9: up and get CJ.
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  Speaker 2: Stroud at this particular time.
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  Speaker 9: And I don't think anyone's going to trade up for
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  Speaker 9: Will Levis all the way to number two. I just
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  Speaker 9: don't see that. So what are the Texans going to
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  Speaker 9: do then a quarterback? Could they go with their number
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  Speaker 9: twelve pick and move up? I did that in my
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  Speaker 9: point three to Zho. I had them moving up for
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  Speaker 9: Will Levis all the way from pick number twelve to
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  Speaker 9: pick number seven, but I think Will Levis could be.
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  Speaker 2: Off the board there.
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  Speaker 9: So I think what the Houston Texans you may need
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  Speaker 9: to settle in for is that they could be taking
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  Speaker 9: a look at Trey Lance, at maybe mac Jones if
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  Speaker 9: he becomes available over there in New England. They may
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  Speaker 9: be punting this decision down the road, or they could
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  Speaker 9: look in the mid rounds the guys like you know,
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  Speaker 9: Jake Hayner or Aidan O'Connell or a player of that
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  Speaker 9: nature who might quote unquote fit the offense of Bobby Slowyck.
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  Speaker 9: But certainly if you don't take quarterback in the first round,
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  Speaker 9: and I haven't really heard them connected with Hinton Hooker,
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  Speaker 9: this really opens up a question about are you just
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  Speaker 9: punting until next year in the quarterback market?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, Lanson, we know the fans down there in Houston
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  Speaker 7: would not be happy about that. I with that. They
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  Speaker 7: have been starving and begging for a quarterback and here
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  Speaker 7: they are the second pick, with the second pick after
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  Speaker 7: winning that last game, losing out on the first pick
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  Speaker 7: in the draft. But you know, everyone's assuming that it
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  Speaker 7: is quarterback and the fans want that, but the organization
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  Speaker 7: may not be in love with any of these guys.
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  Speaker 7: We just keep thinking, yes, because they're there, you have
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  Speaker 7: to take a quarterback. But an organization has to be
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  Speaker 7: fully on page, on board with everyone gn head, coach,
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  Speaker 7: ownership to say this is our guy, and if it's not,
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  Speaker 7: you can't force that. Demiko Ryans just got there. Obviously
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  Speaker 7: he's going to have some stability for a while. Probably
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  Speaker 7: has the nod from ownership to say, yep, build this
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  Speaker 7: the way you want to. Don't be forced to take
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  Speaker 7: someone you do not want to take. If that's on
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  Speaker 7: the defensive side, so be it for Demiko. But the
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  Speaker 7: way you look at this rosters Lance mentioned it might
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  Speaker 7: be best to get out of there if they're not crazy
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  Speaker 7: about anybody at two and get more picks because they
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  Speaker 7: have so many needs there. But yes, they're definitely the
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  Speaker 7: intrigue of the draft there at number two. Baldy and
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  Speaker 7: the late rumors about lev Is going into I can't
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  Speaker 7: see that at all. That sounds a little bit like
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  Speaker 7: when Mac Jones was at three there a couple of
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  Speaker 7: years ago.
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  Speaker 3: To san frame, you know, Mark, I want to go
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  Speaker 3: back to what you just said about Demiko Ryans and
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  Speaker 3: his involvement. If you just think about he just left
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  Speaker 3: San Francisco. They drafted Trey Lance when he was there,
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  Speaker 3: they went through the Garoppolo deal, and then after the
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  Speaker 3: injuries to both those players, there's Rock Party, mister irrelevant
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  Speaker 3: taking that team on an eight to zero run into
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  Speaker 3: the playoffs. And I can't help but think, like, there
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  Speaker 3: is different ways to build your organization. Demiko's not in
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  Speaker 3: a rush.
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  Speaker 2: If they're not in love with CJ.
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  Speaker 3: Stroud for whatever reason, or one of the other quarterbacks
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  Speaker 3: at number two, do what San Francisco has been doing.
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  Speaker 3: Just build the best possible roster you can with the
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  Speaker 3: most talent, and then if you plug in Rock Purty
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  Speaker 3: like they did, he can have a chance to flourish
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  Speaker 3: like he did with good coaching and that kind of thing.
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  Speaker 3: So I can't help but think that that can't be
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  Speaker 3: in the back of their minds right now of what
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  Speaker 3: Dimiko just went through in San Francisco, and so I
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  Speaker 3: can see them, to Lance's point, maybe not taking a quarterback,
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  Speaker 3: as you said in You Know Lance three point zero,
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  Speaker 3: that you didn't have him taking a quarterback with the
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  Speaker 3: second selection, and that seems to be growing outside the
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  Speaker 3: walls of Houston right now.
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  Speaker 1: Lancer line started the punt on quarterback at two Craze
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  Speaker 1: just a few weeks ago.
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  Speaker 2: And you know I took all the the bows and
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  Speaker 2: the arrows came out in Houston. I was boy. They
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  Speaker 2: wanted me out of this city. Lance.
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  Speaker 1: We even put your son Squeet up on the screen.
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  Speaker 1: He was taking shots at you two. But we know
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  Speaker 1: your serious, Lance, because you've put the coat and tie
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  Speaker 1: on for draft. Yes you did, and for that we're thankful.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you Lance, thank you Mark. It is almost here.
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  Speaker 1: On displayed the different types of throws, whether it's short, long,
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  Speaker 1: on the run. Put some touch.
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  Speaker 6: Fact that I don't look like most quarterbacks, I think
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  Speaker 6: is a good deal.
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  Speaker 2: Let us laid it right on the money.
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  Speaker 10: Whenever there's a football in my hands, always funs me
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  Speaker 10: and I'm annatal throw being out there launching a ball,
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  Speaker 10: just talking around with my brother.
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  Speaker 2: You know, that's just what we do today. Touchdown greater.
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  Speaker 1: I prided myself and being able to change my room.
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  Speaker 2: Angling can throw with whatever it is is necessary, right,
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  Speaker 2: young thread should may I love the rhythm?
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  Speaker 3: Of course, that's what football was about, moment sad and
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  Speaker 3: things like that.
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  Speaker 2: It's not in Michael Charlocke's that guy who was daying
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  Speaker 2: andrew what I do on the field, Cee Jay's drought.
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  Speaker 8: Who would have run?
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  Speaker 1: So the top of the draft goes Carolina, Houston, Arizona
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  Speaker 1: and then Indie sitting there at number four. And our
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  Speaker 1: mock draft picks are kind of all over the board.
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  Speaker 1: There's quarterbacks, there's Tyree Wilson, Lance earlier and Lance with
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  Speaker 1: the Stacey tails with us as well, had their stations.
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  Speaker 1: Lance earlier had a trade for Lamark Jackson that it
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  Speaker 1: was a couple of weeks ago, but that's when Lance
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  Speaker 1: flowed to the whole.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe the Hexans don't take a quarterback here. We'll get
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  Speaker 2: to the Colts and whether they take.
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  Speaker 1: One in a second. But Stacy, let's start with you
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  Speaker 1: here because you're going to be in Indianapolis four draft
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  Speaker 1: night coming up on Thursday. It is Chris Ballard's seventh draft.
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  Speaker 1: Why is it so vital for them to get the
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  Speaker 1: quarterback thing right this year.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, hello, gentlemen, it is vital Andrew, because this will
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  Speaker 11: be the eighth straight year that the Indianapolis Cult start
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  Speaker 11: their season with a new quarterback. And so when you
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  Speaker 11: look at historically, let me provide some context for Chris Ballard,
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  Speaker 11: because he's had obviously you just mentioned it, six previous drafts.
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  Speaker 11: He's only used three first round picks. He's been very
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  Speaker 11: well known to trade and actually for the last five
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  Speaker 11: years they've made a first round trade or a trade
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  Speaker 11: with one of their first round picks, which is why
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  Speaker 11: they haven't necessarily picked in the first round. But when
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  Speaker 11: you consider this draft, he's only drafted two quarterbacks Chris
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  Speaker 11: Ballard in his now seventh season as he enters this
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  Speaker 11: one Sam Ellinger in the sixth round and twenty twenty one,
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  Speaker 11: and then Jacob Eeson in twenty twenty twenty twenty in
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  Speaker 11: the fourth round. My point being here is this is
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  Speaker 11: unchartered territory for Chris Ballard and company. And with the
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  Speaker 11: fourth pick, he is open to moving up or down.
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  Speaker 11: And I think they've obviously assessed all of those elements
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  Speaker 11: in knowing how far back they're willing to go based
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  Speaker 11: upon their board or how far up they're willing to go,
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  Speaker 11: which would be obviously most likely to three with the
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  Speaker 11: Arizona Cardinals. But all that will happen in the moment.
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  Speaker 11: So this is absolutely vital for the Indianapolis Colts. I
• 15:39
  Speaker 11: know Shane Steike and Lance has been very involved the
• 15:41
  Speaker 11: new head coach in this process because listen, he's coached
• 15:45
  Speaker 11: some really good quarterbacks, Philip Rivers, justin Herbert just came
• 15:48
  Speaker 11: from Jalen Hurts. He's so adaptable when it comes to
• 15:52
  Speaker 11: the position. And so when you ask Chris Ballard, you know,
• 15:57
  Speaker 11: are you relying just solely on what your coach wants
• 16:00
  Speaker 11: because you can go any direction. Do you want a
• 16:02
  Speaker 11: mobile quarterback or do you want a statue like Philip Rivers.
• 16:05
  Speaker 11: I think it's been a really unique blend as they've
• 16:08
  Speaker 11: gone about this process, Lance and I think they're going.
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: To strike on a quarterback early on Thursday.
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: Well, l let's consider this too. Is there a possibility
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: here that they don't just take a quarterback for the
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: sake of taking a quarterback like we said before with Houston.
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: If Bryce Young is gone and c J. Stroud is gone,
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: and obviously a lot of people say they might like
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: Will Levis. Ballard pushed back on Friday and his presser
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: against any idea that he's in love with any particular
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: quarterback here. Might they punt on a quarterback if they
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: don't like the quarterback option still there at four?
• 16:39
  Speaker 9: Listen, I still think it's a possibility. I'm not going
• 16:42
  Speaker 9: to say it's the favorite. I think what Stacy's laying
• 16:44
  Speaker 9: out is the favorite. But I think you have to
• 16:46
  Speaker 9: consider Chris Ballard and the Indianapolis Colts moving back if
• 16:50
  Speaker 9: they don't believe in a quarterback. Now, I know it
• 16:52
  Speaker 9: sounds difficult because time is running out, and if CJ.
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: Stroud is there, you know, you think, well, how could
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: you not draft CJ. Stroud?
• 16:59
  Speaker 9: But if the Colts don't believe in a quarterback, I
• 17:02
  Speaker 9: could see them in a scenario trading back and then,
• 17:06
  Speaker 9: you know, maybe working some magic with another quarterback. I'm
• 17:08
  Speaker 9: of the opinion that one of the quarterbacks is going.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: To slide out of the top ten. I believe a
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: quarterback will slide. Will it be Levis, Will it be Richardson?
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: My guess would be Richardson.
• 17:18
  Speaker 9: But you know, if you look at Richardson, he has
• 17:20
  Speaker 9: the potential to be a cult where Shane Steiken had
• 17:22
  Speaker 9: Jalen Hurts or the Colts could say we're waiting until
• 17:25
  Speaker 9: next year and we're going to continue to do what
• 17:27
  Speaker 9: we do. Chris Ballard still has several years left on
• 17:31
  Speaker 9: his deal and he has famously said he's always going
• 17:34
  Speaker 9: to look out for what's best for the Indianapolis Colts.
• 17:36
  Speaker 9: And I've known him for a long time. He doesn't
• 17:39
  Speaker 9: reach on players. He refuses to reach. He wants to
• 17:42
  Speaker 9: take good football players he can win with. So he's
• 17:44
  Speaker 9: got to believe in that quarterback to take them.
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: Stacy, we kind of are hitting on Trace before.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: But go back to Shane Steike in now, first time
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: of the building here working with Chris Ballard. What are
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: they specifically we think looking for in AQB.
• 17:56
  Speaker 11: Well, Chris Ballard has said it, Shane Steiken has said it.
• 18:00
  Speaker 11: The new offensive coordinator, Jim Bob Couter has said it.
• 18:03
  Speaker 11: The number one word is accuracy, and it's decision making
• 18:06
  Speaker 11: and then it's a playmaker. And so when you consider
• 18:09
  Speaker 11: these really top five quarterbacks, because I still have Hendon
• 18:12
  Speaker 11: Hooker in the mix, given the numbers that he put
• 18:15
  Speaker 11: up in college, you can call it the air raid
• 18:16
  Speaker 11: offense as much as you want, but his numbers are
• 18:18
  Speaker 11: staggering when you consider accuracy decision making. This is the
• 18:22
  Speaker 11: twenty twenty two season for each of these young men
• 18:25
  Speaker 11: in alphabetical order, because I didn't want to pick favorites. Here,
• 18:29
  Speaker 11: Hooker seventy percent this past season. And look at the
• 18:32
  Speaker 11: touchdown to interception ratio will Levis right there around sixty five.
• 18:36
  Speaker 11: And then if you jump down, you've got And by
• 18:39
  Speaker 11: the way, this little number just kind of to the
• 18:41
  Speaker 11: bottom is how many starts they had this past season.
• 18:44
  Speaker 11: But three of those guys, Levis, Stroud, and Young right
• 18:47
  Speaker 11: in the mid sixties in terms of their completion percentage.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: But look at the.
• 18:52
  Speaker 11: Touchdown interception ratio for CJ. Stroud, for Bryce Young, for
• 18:56
  Speaker 11: Hendon Hooker. I mean, it's pretty staggering. Richardson's got the
• 18:59
  Speaker 11: least amount of experience, as we all know and understand.
• 19:02
  Speaker 11: But guys, he is dynamic in person. If you meet
• 19:06
  Speaker 11: Anthony Richardson, you will be blown away by his personality.
• 19:10
  Speaker 11: He's willing us to win. And then Levis is one
• 19:12
  Speaker 11: of the most unique guys because he's just such an
• 19:16
  Speaker 11: unrelenting worker and he's so intense so it's all going
• 19:21
  Speaker 11: to come down to for me. Obviously, those two quarterbacks,
• 19:24
  Speaker 11: Bryce Young and CJ. Stroud are thought to be flying
• 19:27
  Speaker 11: off the board. Now some people think maybe Will Levis
• 19:29
  Speaker 11: has jumped up and CJ. Stroud's dropping, which I agree
• 19:33
  Speaker 11: with Lance. I mean, if Stroud is there for the
• 19:35
  Speaker 11: Colts at for Boom, take them. But generally speaking, this
• 19:39
  Speaker 11: is going to come down to, as Lance said, Chris
• 19:42
  Speaker 11: Ballard sticks to his board, and if that guy is
• 19:45
  Speaker 11: there in the vicinity of that fourth pick, I see
• 19:48
  Speaker 11: him taking a quarterback based upon the one they like
• 19:52
  Speaker 11: best in their meetings, the time they've spent with them,
• 19:56
  Speaker 11: and the due diligence they've done. But it has been
• 19:58
  Speaker 11: a really intense process, I know, and talking to folks.
• 20:01
  Speaker 10: With the Colts.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: I love the whiteboard.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: Hey, who's on social today, mccal andal. Can we get
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: Stacy Dale's whiteboard its own Twitter handle? Dale's whiteboard, somebody
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: goes go get that handle right now, let's do it.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: They don't verify him anymore. What does it matter. Someone
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: grab Dale's whiteboard, make it a new Twitter handle.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Stacy.
• 20:24
  Speaker 12: We're the fifty third pick in the twenty twenty NFL draft,
• 20:28
  Speaker 12: the Philadelphia Eagles select Jalen Hurts, quarterback Oklahoma.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: That was three years ago. Today, Jalen Hurts won fifty
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: third overall. From the basement Roger Goodell's basement to the
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: penthouse of the NFC. They are Super Bowl rather NFC champions,
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: to beg your pardon. And last week Jalen Hurts, entering
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: year number four, got himself a rather sizable contract five years,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: two fifty five.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: He was on the podium today.
• 21:06
  Speaker 10: But you look at all the great teams and great players.
• 21:10
  Speaker 10: It takes a village. It takes a village. And you know,
• 21:14
  Speaker 10: I know that last year, I mean in my first
• 21:18
  Speaker 10: three years, but just playing around at different guys that
• 21:21
  Speaker 10: I've been able to play around, we got something special
• 21:24
  Speaker 10: going on and you know, we all want to do
• 21:29
  Speaker 10: it for a long time. So that was important to
• 21:33
  Speaker 10: me to take that approach with it, to.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: Take an approach for the Eagles can still be active
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: in free agency, which they were back at March end.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: Where the Eagles can still go out and stock up
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: on talent. They have two first round picks, including tenth overall,
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: ten and thirty. What are they going to do? The
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: options are preferable James Palmer is going to be there
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: in Philadelphia on Thursday night. James, let's start with ten.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: What are we hearing?
• 22:05
  Speaker 6: Look down there at Peter Scheger and he has Bjeon Robinson,
• 22:07
  Speaker 6: the running back out of Texas, going to the Eagles
• 22:10
  Speaker 6: at number ten. Now, this would be outside of the
• 22:12
  Speaker 6: norm for Howi Roseman. We know the way Eagles, and
• 22:14
  Speaker 6: he builds this team from the inside out. They work
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: on the trenches. But if you look at what he
• 22:18
  Speaker 6: said in his press conference last week, they don't think
• 22:21
  Speaker 6: they're going to be picking this high in the draft
• 22:23
  Speaker 6: in the next several years. They feel like they need
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: to hit on a unique talent that can make an
• 22:27
  Speaker 6: impact right away, but also said they need to be
• 22:29
  Speaker 6: open minded when they're looking at number ten. This is
• 22:32
  Speaker 6: outside of the box for the Eagles. But when I
• 22:34
  Speaker 6: talked to several teams over the weekend in the NFC,
• 22:38
  Speaker 6: I'll tell you this, they do not want the Eagles
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: to draft b Jon Robinson. They believe that would make
• 22:43
  Speaker 6: this offense beyond scary. You saw the contract extension in
• 22:46
  Speaker 6: the press conference with Jalen Hurts today. Perhaps this takes
• 22:50
  Speaker 6: some of the carries off of his workload. With b
• 22:53
  Speaker 6: John Robinson stepping in and being Baldy, probably that number
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: one back right away. Running back is a need for
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: the Philadelphia Eagles.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: In this draft.
• 23:00
  Speaker 6: They did get Rashad Penny, who has had issues staying healthy.
• 23:03
  Speaker 6: They do really like Kenneth Gainwell, but there are a
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: lot of people around the league that believe that this
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: pick would change their offense. And you remember how he
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: would not with how he rosemen what owner Jeffrey Lourie
• 23:12
  Speaker 6: said at the owner's meetings just recently, you have to
• 23:15
  Speaker 6: have a dynamic offense. Every Super Bowl they have been
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: in Baldi, the offenses have been really unable to be stopped.
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: And you add another piece around Jalen Hurts. There's a
• 23:24
  Speaker 6: thought around the league that this will be a very
• 23:26
  Speaker 6: difficult offense to stop.
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: So this is I mean, just to put it in
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: perspective of what you're talking aboutside the box. The last
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: time the Eagles as an organization drafted running back the
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: first round was Keith Byers at Ohio State in nineteen
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: eighty six. I played with Keith. He was a great player,
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: good teammate, but that's how he was eleven. The last
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: time the Eagles drafted running back the first round, right,
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: But to your point here, but in philosophy is you
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: find your signal call or you find your quarterback, you
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: pay him your second contract, and then you never stop
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: building around him.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: And if you put Bijon in.
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: That backfield with Jalen Hurts, and then you added a
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: starting guard maybe with that thirtieth pick, maybe Osiris Torry,
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: and you put him between Kelsey and Lane Johnson, to me,
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: this is pretty simple.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: You keep this offense humming and Jalen Hurts.
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: You just keep giving them weapons and the maybe the
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: best offensive line of football. Let them go to work
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: and just put up points every week, and then you
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: do everything else you can to address the defense with
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: your remaining picks of the draft.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: All right, so let's pretend that Howie is not drafting
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: like an eleven year old, or drafting like Eagles drafted
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: when he was eleven and maybe better said, an eleven
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: year old would take a running back because they're funny, right, Yeah,
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: what do you think?
• 24:42
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: They would do they?
• 24:44
  Speaker 10: Well?
• 24:45
  Speaker 6: No, well, well we could look at and Baldy mentioned
• 24:47
  Speaker 6: that offensive line and he hit on something very specific.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: There there is a.
• 24:51
  Speaker 6: Hole at right guard right now. That's the only hole
• 24:53
  Speaker 6: on this offensive line. And to me, if you're looking
• 24:56
  Speaker 6: to build through the trenches and Paris Johnson Junior is
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: sitting there from Ohio State, they're left tackle, you could
• 25:02
  Speaker 6: jump on him.
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: And I know the Eagles like him.
• 25:04
  Speaker 6: He took a visit there and I've heard the visit
• 25:06
  Speaker 6: went very well, and I mentioned him playing guard. He
• 25:08
  Speaker 6: did that for a full season at Ohio State before
• 25:11
  Speaker 6: he moved out to tackle. So you could fix your
• 25:14
  Speaker 6: guard issue in the immediate future by putting Johnson there
• 25:17
  Speaker 6: and his Baldy said, in a young player that has
• 25:20
  Speaker 6: a high football character. After I spend some time with
• 25:22
  Speaker 6: him at Ohio States prode and talk to a lot
• 25:24
  Speaker 6: of people around the league about him, the growth that
• 25:26
  Speaker 6: he could have as a football player. Between Jason Kelsey
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: and Lane Johnson, and then eventually playing out at the
• 25:32
  Speaker 6: tackle spot. You know Lane's going to be there for
• 25:34
  Speaker 6: at least two more years, they're saying, and then you
• 25:37
  Speaker 6: have the ability to plug him outside. I know there's
• 25:40
  Speaker 6: a lot of thought that Cam Jurgens, who they took
• 25:41
  Speaker 6: him the second round a center, could play that guard spot.
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: My understanding against it's not a slam dunk, Baldy that
• 25:47
  Speaker 6: that's just a plug and play at right guard. And
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: remember that this could be the last year for Jason
• 25:51
  Speaker 6: Kelcey at the center position if he retires, so then
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: you have that offensive line in play. This is a
• 25:56
  Speaker 6: special talent in terms of traits. His bend is unbelievably
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: special when I talk to evaluators Andrew, and also just
• 26:03
  Speaker 6: the way he moves at his size needs to get
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: stronger when I talk to a lot of people. But
• 26:08
  Speaker 6: at the same time, this could be a guy that
• 26:09
  Speaker 6: fixes an immediate need and also a future need for
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: the potentially the next decade.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: But you want Bijon right just to be fun. Of course,
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: it's fun to make it fun.
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: I'm all for the fun.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: I'm here for the chaos.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: I'm here for the fun. Hey, last year they traded
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: for aj Brown went on the clock right, so that
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: was fun, and gave him a contractor as well, and
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: gave him a contract, got the contract down while there
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: I worked out, which is just bonkers. I think it
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: worked out. Okay, they're not trading for Derek Henry. By
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: the way, don't read everything you read on Twitter. Thank
• 26:33
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