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Buffalo Bills draft Maxwell Hairston, CB Kentucky | C1 BUF & DC · Disguised Coverage

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  Speaker 1: It's thirty eight.
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  Speaker 2: Good evening and welcome to the cover one Buffalo and
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  Speaker 2: Disguised Coverage Instant Reaction show. You are joining Anthony Porhaska
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  Speaker 2: night because the Buffalo Bills have selected Kentucky cornerback Maxwell Harrison. Anthony,
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  Speaker 2: what do you think?
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  Speaker 3: One?
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  Speaker 1: I was happy that they made a pick because they
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  Speaker 1: didn't when we did this last year, and you and
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  Speaker 1: I talked earlier tonight.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, if they don't make a pick, we're
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  Speaker 3: still doing it right, And.
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  Speaker 2: I promised I wouldn't. I wouldn't, you know, throw a
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  Speaker 2: hissy fit and get frustrated, and you.
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  Speaker 1: Were not pleased, So I We're gonna do the show.
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  Speaker 1: And it got closer, and we were just talking offline
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  Speaker 1: right now. They were winding the clock a little and
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  Speaker 1: it was like, are they going to trade out?
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  Speaker 3: And then they picked Maxwell Harriston. So I guess some
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  Speaker 3: of the off the field things cleared. But you know,
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  Speaker 3: I'm overall.
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  Speaker 1: Pretty happy, and I think a lot of fans are
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  Speaker 1: will be as well. People wanted juice in the secondary,
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  Speaker 1: they wanted athleticism, speed, explosure at that corner spot.
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  Speaker 3: You have it in Maxwell Hairston. So I'm feeling good
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  Speaker 3: right now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. As the great Eleanor Roosevelt said, America is all
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  Speaker 2: about speed, hot, nasty, badass speed.
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  Speaker 3: She was a big She was a big cornerback evaluator too.
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  Speaker 3: That was her like go to things. She coached it
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  Speaker 3: at Ohio State.
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  Speaker 2: I believe under, I believe so yeah, I believe so.
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  Speaker 2: Already getting a quote from Maxwell Harriston here. His quote
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  Speaker 2: to the Buffalo media was, they're getting someone who is
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  Speaker 2: going to give Josh Allen the ball back. Love that confidence.
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  Speaker 2: But as you said, this is a guy that is
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  Speaker 2: maybe a bit of a departure from stereotypical Bill's picks
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  Speaker 2: at corner instead of a guy that was kind of
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  Speaker 2: a mediocre athlete, but a great tackler and really you know,
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  Speaker 2: strong zone skills. You're getting a guy who is virtually
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  Speaker 2: played everything on the outside, maybe has some questions in
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  Speaker 2: his tackling of physicality, but you know, I'm only half
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  Speaker 2: joking about the Onono Roosevelt, which is of course not her,
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  Speaker 2: it's from Talladega Knights. But the you know athletic profile
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  Speaker 2: here is elite speed. This is a guy that when
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  Speaker 2: I was able to make it out to the combine,
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  Speaker 2: I watched almost one hundred guys run their forties and
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  Speaker 2: I got to see them all, like from twenty five
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  Speaker 2: feet away. And when I tell you, Maxwell Harrison had
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  Speaker 2: the easiest speed I've ever seen, Like he got up
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  Speaker 2: to top speed so fast. It was ridiculous how fast
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  Speaker 2: he got moving so fine size. He does have a
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  Speaker 2: bit of a slight frame, but you know, five to
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  Speaker 2: eleven and a quarter one hundred and eighty three pounds,
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  Speaker 2: perfectly reasonable, arm length, thirty nine and a half foot,
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  Speaker 2: you know, thirty nine and a half inch vertical ten
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  Speaker 2: foot nine inch broad jump. But the forty time is
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  Speaker 2: what shows. And I think you know from you know,
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  Speaker 2: guys like you who had a chance to watch much
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  Speaker 2: more than me, but a lot of guys I've seen
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  Speaker 2: and read preparing for things. I think it does show
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  Speaker 2: on film and you see the recovery speed. You see
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  Speaker 2: him being able to allow him to be patient, you know,
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  Speaker 2: in kind of some of the releases, and to wait
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  Speaker 2: to flip his hips because he knows he has that
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  Speaker 2: catch up speed. And I think that's really really nice.
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  Speaker 2: And I was talking pre show that, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: watched enough Crossers in the AFC Championship game and guys
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  Speaker 2: just you know, miserably failing to keep up as they
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  Speaker 2: ran mesh over and over and over again. I like
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  Speaker 2: it that we have a guy who can go stride
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  Speaker 2: for stride with any receiver in the NFL.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think, you know, I mentioned in the
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  Speaker 3: lead in you talked about it here.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's that's the selling point when you're talking
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  Speaker 1: Maxwell Harriston, right. You know, I just realized too, you know,
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  Speaker 1: would really help if I put my mic in front
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  Speaker 1: of my face.
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  Speaker 2: All the way.
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  Speaker 3: I'm all, it's so late, I'm all over the place
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  Speaker 3: on apartment.
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  Speaker 1: But you you look at the testing metrics right off
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  Speaker 1: the bed, eighty eight percent out on the broad eighty
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  Speaker 1: seven percent town the vert ninety nine percent out for
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  Speaker 1: the forty eighty six percent out for the ten yard.
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  Speaker 1: And then you watch him on the tape and you
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  Speaker 1: see it reflected, and you watch him drive, you watch
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  Speaker 1: him close. You'll watch him get fooled on a route.
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  Speaker 1: There's one I posted on Twitter earlier against I think
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  Speaker 1: it's actually against Isaiah Bond when they play Texas and
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  Speaker 1: he thinks Bond, you know, he's I believe he's cover
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  Speaker 1: three and he thinks Bond is gonna, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Run vertical up the sidelines.
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  Speaker 1: So he opens up towards the sideline, Bond puts his
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  Speaker 1: foot in the ground and runs the post and Harriston's
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  Speaker 1: completely fooled and he just seamlessly.
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  Speaker 3: Turns around.
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  Speaker 1: He speed turns, he runs him down tracks, the ball
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  Speaker 1: jumps up one hand smacks and you're like, oh, well,
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  Speaker 1: that's nice like that.
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  Speaker 2: And then against Isaiah Bond, so against also one of
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  Speaker 2: the fastest receivers in the in the draft guests and.
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  Speaker 1: He's got some reps in that game where you know,
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  Speaker 1: he goes against Matthew Golden, gets beat, some wins some
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  Speaker 1: but you again, you're you have that athletic profile that
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  Speaker 1: shows up on the testing, but it plays on the tape.
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  Speaker 1: You see the twitch, you see the burst, both in
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  Speaker 1: terms of long speed and in the short area. He
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  Speaker 1: can close down on a route very quickly. He will jump,
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  Speaker 1: he will attack. So it's it's a nice bit of
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  Speaker 1: juice to a grouping that you know, Christian Benford is
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  Speaker 1: the one and is a very strong corner, but isn't
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  Speaker 1: the twitchiest or the most athletic. And then you look
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  Speaker 1: at the rest of the secondary and cool Bishop has
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  Speaker 1: some athleticism. We see if he can play faster to
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  Speaker 1: kind of match with that athleticism. But Taylor Rapp isn't
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  Speaker 1: the most athletic guy. Tarren Johnson all pro Nickel not
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  Speaker 1: the twitchiest or the you know, guy with the most juice.
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  Speaker 1: Hairston is a nice fit to that grouping. And then
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  Speaker 1: you add in some of what he can do in
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  Speaker 1: man coverage and is in addition to his ability to
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  Speaker 1: collect in space and zone properly.
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  Speaker 3: It's a nice fit. And I didn't think the I
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  Speaker 3: really thought it was like we were talking offline. I
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  Speaker 3: thought it was gonna be Will Johnson.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm just man, it just seems like such a
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  Speaker 1: Bill's pick. But yeah, this isn't this is a nice
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  Speaker 1: little drop in the bucket for this cornerback grouping in
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  Speaker 1: this defense.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, very clearly the medicals were too much of a
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  Speaker 2: red flag, says have Will Johnson, passed on by so
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  Speaker 2: many cornerback needy teams. But you know, with Harston, I
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  Speaker 2: think you're seeing a guy that across the board was
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  Speaker 2: ranked in this area. On the high end. You had
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  Speaker 2: guys like Matt Miller and ESPN having him eighteenth overall,
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  Speaker 2: Dan Bugler had him thirty fifth. I think everybody had
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  Speaker 2: him in this range as a late first early second
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  Speaker 2: round pick. So certainly reasonable value from that standpoint, And
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  Speaker 2: I like the idea that there's you know a lot
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  Speaker 2: of the different checkboxes that we've seen historically from Bill's
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  Speaker 2: early run picks. You're seeing a guy who's a true junior.
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  Speaker 2: He's twenty one years old, but played you know, all
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  Speaker 2: three years in college, specifically mostly a sophomore and junior year.
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  Speaker 2: His first full time year starting his sophomore year, led
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  Speaker 2: the SEC in interceptions five interceptions. So it has production
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  Speaker 2: at the highest level of college football, you know, playing
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  Speaker 2: against very very high end receivers from that space, So
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  Speaker 2: you know, overall, you know, out there producing at a
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  Speaker 2: high level and seeing that kind of speed show up
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  Speaker 2: really really, you know, helps I don't. I think it's
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  Speaker 2: maybe overstated that there's some huge shift coming for the
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  Speaker 2: Bill's secondary in ski men defense, but I think it
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  Speaker 2: is key to know that having that tool in your
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  Speaker 2: tool belt is still nice. So even though every defense
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  Speaker 2: in the NFL runs more zone than man, like, there's
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  Speaker 2: no defense in the NFL that runs more man than
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  Speaker 2: his own, but you also don't want to literally not
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  Speaker 2: be able to run man defense, or to be able
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  Speaker 2: to press or be able to to you know, be
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  Speaker 2: really aggressive with a cover zero blitz and have a
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  Speaker 2: guy that you're worried can't catch up if they go
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  Speaker 2: over the top. And now you have a guy that
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  Speaker 2: can do that. Brandon Bean did say in his pressure
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  Speaker 2: that they did have a first round grade on Harrison.
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  Speaker 2: Then that's obviously not not a lone. ESPN again has
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  Speaker 2: him as their eighteenth overall player and had him as
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  Speaker 2: a ninety grade, so I know that's not universal. There
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  Speaker 2: are plenty of guys who had him as the early
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  Speaker 2: second I think I've seen him anywhere down as low
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  Speaker 2: as forty, But I think the overall on the consensus
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  Speaker 2: big board. I think, let me see where they had
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  Speaker 2: him over First of all, I like, well, I like
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  Speaker 2: that one because it takes one hundred and ninety one
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  Speaker 2: big boards, fourteen hundred first round picks, fifteen hundred team
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  Speaker 2: based mox. It just it aggregates a lot of that information,
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  Speaker 2: so you get a lot of the noise out of
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  Speaker 2: the way. They had him as thirty fourth, so I
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  Speaker 2: think that's a really good way. They had him projected
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  Speaker 2: going twenty third to the packers, but they had him
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  Speaker 2: as the fourth corner. I saw a lot of places
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  Speaker 2: he was pretty consistently the fourth corner behind the first
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  Speaker 2: one in that next tier after Hunter, Johnson and Baron.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously we saw Johnson didn't go and that was purely
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  Speaker 2: because of the medicals. But Maxwell Harriston again, I think
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  Speaker 2: this is a really nice value spot to be able
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  Speaker 2: to get a guy like that and to you know,
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  Speaker 2: fill a need where now I was, I was literally
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  Speaker 2: like depressed with the fifth defensive tackle went off the
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  Speaker 2: board before the bills and just a large human that
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  Speaker 2: I wanted.
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  Speaker 3: Baron or Harmon's gonna fall. I was sitting there just
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  Speaker 3: thinking it, and then they both went so close to
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  Speaker 3: one another, and I was like, the dream is dead.
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  Speaker 2: I hate it. And then even beyond that, like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't want a safety, but I could have talked
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  Speaker 2: myself into Malachi Starks and Tyler Williams went I.
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  Speaker 1: Would have gladly taken Star Sort and Ti Leak was
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  Speaker 1: my defensive tackle three, so I would have taken a heartbeat.
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  Speaker 2: So as that stretch was going, it became very very
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  Speaker 2: clear They're like, all right, well this is trade down
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  Speaker 2: a corner. And then it simply became like, okay, So
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  Speaker 2: do they prefer the versatility and the physicality for an
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  Speaker 2: Amos or a Rebel? Do they prefer the speed for Harriston?
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  Speaker 2: Are they comfortable with the medicals for a Johnson? And
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  Speaker 2: just you know, not knowing where those things fell. I'm
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  Speaker 2: pretty happy honestly with Harrison. So I you know, I'm
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  Speaker 2: I'm not used to this. I've been kind of almost
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  Speaker 2: disappointed in so many of the picks early that you know,
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  Speaker 2: I've come around in the coming days after I read
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  Speaker 2: about a player or learn more about him, or like
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  Speaker 2: all right, I get why we were on this guy.
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  Speaker 2: This is probably the most like immediately positive I've been
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  Speaker 2: on a Bill's first round pick and a little bit,
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  Speaker 2: Yeah that's fair.
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  Speaker 3: I well, let's see. Well, so Keyana Coleman was technically
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  Speaker 3: like the first pick last year.
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  Speaker 1: I was Coleman was my wide receiver nine last year,
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  Speaker 1: and I liked him as a prospect, but I thought
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  Speaker 1: he had such a wide very like variance of outcomes
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  Speaker 1: as a pro player, Like the example I always give, like,
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  Speaker 1: if you told me at the end of key On
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  Speaker 1: Coleman's rookie contract he's a high end wide receiver two
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  Speaker 1: or a low tier one, I believe it. If you
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  Speaker 1: told me he was out of the league, I believe
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  Speaker 1: it if you told me he ends up being that
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  Speaker 1: guy where he's always signing one year deals because different
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  Speaker 1: teams keep thinking like, oh I can be the one
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  Speaker 1: to finally.
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  Speaker 3: Tap into him, I'd buy it. So I was like, okay,
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  Speaker 3: like I can get into this pick, but I did
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  Speaker 3: have trepidation with it.
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  Speaker 2: I do.
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  Speaker 1: I think Harriston is is I don't want to say
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  Speaker 1: a slam dunk, but for what I was looking for
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  Speaker 1: out of the corner grouping, and I think most folks
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  Speaker 1: know and I'm not alone in this now, as the
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  Speaker 1: draft process has gone on. I love Trey Amos. I
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  Speaker 1: would have taken Trems Trey Amos. Here Amos was my
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  Speaker 1: CB four, Revel was my CB five, Harriston was my CB.
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  Speaker 1: But they were in a very similar tier with one another.
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  Speaker 1: But I just wanted somebody who and this is part
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  Speaker 1: of why I was hesitant with Johnson aside from the injuries.
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  Speaker 1: I wanted someone who could get into receivers kitchen and
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  Speaker 1: play press. I wanted fluidity. I wanted good transitions. I
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  Speaker 1: wanted that ability to play press man. And like you said,
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  Speaker 1: like they're not going to become a huge man coverage
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  Speaker 1: team overnight or a huge huge press man team overnight,
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  Speaker 1: which is fine because Harriston still functions well in zone.
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  Speaker 1: Like I mentioned, that ability to collect routes in zone
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  Speaker 1: off of the route distribution, his good spatial awareness, he
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  Speaker 1: can fall off of coverage and bait quarterbacks, and then
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  Speaker 1: he's quick to recognize.
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  Speaker 3: Receivers on their breaks.
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  Speaker 1: And then because he has that explosion, he's got a
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  Speaker 1: really nice quick trigger and he can click and close
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  Speaker 1: and drive, whether he's, you know, kind of it sit
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  Speaker 1: still in off coverage or if he's in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of his pedal, he could put that foot in the
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  Speaker 1: ground and drive. So you've got that zone capability, but
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  Speaker 1: you've got the tools and the athleticism and the juice
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  Speaker 1: and the willingness to still be able to play man
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  Speaker 1: in general, but also be able to play pressman. And
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  Speaker 1: I think that is that's such an important thing, because
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  Speaker 1: what they did with Kyrie Elam was they just skewed
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  Speaker 1: it so far towards the traits and it was like, well,
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  Speaker 1: let's get the guy with the length and the size
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  Speaker 1: and the frame who can play man, and we'll coach
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  Speaker 1: him up with the zone. They just they just pushed
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  Speaker 1: the sliders too far towards the traits. And with Harston,
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  Speaker 1: you've got the traits again. Not the biggest guy in
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  Speaker 1: the world, thirty second percent out for arm length, eight
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  Speaker 1: percentile for weight, but that was when he was measured
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  Speaker 1: at a eighty three. I believe he's gonna end up
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  Speaker 1: playing somewhere around one ninety potentially. I've seen different weights
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  Speaker 1: for him. And then he's also five eleven in a quarter,
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  Speaker 1: so he's smaller than Elam was, but he's got better
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  Speaker 1: zone awareness, better zone functionality and capability right now as
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  Speaker 1: a player like today. But then again he's also got
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  Speaker 1: those physical tools and traits that allows him to play man,
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  Speaker 1: that allows you to do those different things like you said,
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  Speaker 1: like if you want to get into somebody on a
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  Speaker 1: third and whatever or a high level situation, or if
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  Speaker 1: you play the Eagles.
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  Speaker 2: Cool.
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  Speaker 1: Now you've got a dude who can go up against
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  Speaker 1: DeVonta Smith and you put Christian Benford on AJ Brown
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  Speaker 1: and you let the two bullies play bully ball, and
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  Speaker 1: you let the two speedy shifty guys be speedy shifty
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  Speaker 1: guys and you go from there.
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  Speaker 2: I like that.
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  Speaker 3: And what's interesting about this pick too, And you mentioned it.
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  Speaker 3: We've talked about it a little.
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  Speaker 1: The tackling, it's not it's actually similar, not the saying,
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  Speaker 1: but kind of like two sides of or two sides
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  Speaker 1: at the same coin, do different whatever that everybody.
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  Speaker 2: You know what?
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  Speaker 3: You know what I'm trying to get at. Thank you,
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  Speaker 3: appreciate you, you got it? What are right here?
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  Speaker 1: He's it's similar to kind of what a Sante Samuel
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  Speaker 1: is as a tackler, where they're willing like it. They're
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  Speaker 1: not failing at the tackle point because they don't want
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  Speaker 1: to tackle or they don't want to be involved in
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  Speaker 1: that it's just like Hairston again, is I think.
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  Speaker 2: Dane praised that Dane Brugler for is it as he
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  Speaker 2: will throw his body at the ball carrier instead of wrapping,
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  Speaker 2: So like that's not like him shining away from context.
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  Speaker 2: It's just maybe not the best technique in what he does.
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  Speaker 2: So that's actually something where I would feel worse about
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  Speaker 2: it if it was he won't do it and he
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  Speaker 2: shies away from contact. Him throwing his body at ball
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  Speaker 2: carriers gives me more confidence that that's the thing that
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  Speaker 2: that you know McDermott and you know that staff has
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  Speaker 2: shown the ability to coach up and to be able
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  Speaker 2: to lean technique into I feel better about it that way.
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  Speaker 1: And that's and that was part of the reason why
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  Speaker 1: Sante Samuel was one of my corner targets and free
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  Speaker 1: agency because the want to, when the willingness was there,
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  Speaker 1: he just needed to be coached up with some angles
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  Speaker 1: and some form and with Harston, you know, to to
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  Speaker 1: Dane's analysis there at his point, I think part of
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  Speaker 1: the reason he throws his bodies because he is more
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  Speaker 1: of a slighter frame kind of guy, Like he's not
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  Speaker 1: a guy where okay, if he sticks or his arm
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  Speaker 1: or shoulder out. Guys are going to go down because
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: he's one hundred and eighty three pounds, like he's not
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: even if.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: He gets himself up to one ninety ninety five, he's
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: never going to be thick like. He's always going to
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: be a lean framed guy. So he's always going to
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: be smaller, and he's always going to depend on his
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: speed like that that's going to be his calling card,
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: is his you know obviously not just speed but like
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: special speed.
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: Yes, And you watch him, I believe it's a game
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: against Texas, you'll watch him come up as a force
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: player guy. Running backs will cut inside him, he kind
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: of reaches for an arm, they run through the arm
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: tackle or his angle isn't great or his decision isn't great.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: But then in that same game, he's also forcing a
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: fumble because he's throwing his body at the running back
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: and his helmet gets on the ball and the ball
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: comes loose. He's also got the ability too, like if
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: you're talking just like from a receiver standpoint, he'll come
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: up and he'll tackle a receiver right. The willingness and
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: the want to is there, but it's angles decision making
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: in terms of run support as far as both a
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: fit and a force player, and then also some from
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: a frame perspective. But because the willingness is there and
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: how the Bills coach that position, I do think he'll
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: improve as a tackler. The frame stuff is never going
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: to go away, to your point, even if he bulks
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: up to like one to ninety, he's still going to
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: be more of a slender type of guy, So that'll
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: be an issue from time to time. But I don't
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: think it's anything to kind of look at and be like, oh,
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: this is always going to be just a huge vulnerability.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: I don't think it's ever going to be a strength.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: But his willingness and what he offers in coverage, I
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: think mitigates.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: It to a degree. When your cornerback partners Christian Benford
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: and Taron Johnson, that's much more palatable to be able
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: to do. So a couple of things. Sharing some other
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: feedback here, Greg Cosell shared that he heard from an
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: NFL source this week who thought Maxwell Harrison's cornerback tape
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: at Kentucky was better than Colorado's Travis Hunter. It's a
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: little excessive, but I love to hear it very here
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: our guy, Demant Talbot over at Draft Diamonds saying, I
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: will say about the Bills first round pick, I trust
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: their area scout Pete Harris. He's the one who found
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: Christian Benford. Harris knows football and if the Bills had
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: a first round great on Harrison Couz, Harris loved him.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: I have to trust Pete. That guy's legit so like
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: that that perspective Chris Trapasso. The Bills get man coverage
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: cornerback they needed. He's very fast and feisty, plays bigger
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: than his size could add weight, solid length, electric twitchiness,
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: plus ball skills up and down as a tackler. But
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: the Buffalo finally gets a cornerback with major traits. And
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: then I saw another one where his favorite player is
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: Jalen Ramsey and that they also they both play with
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: that same kind of bravado and confidence, which I love
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: to see in a corner where so much of it
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: you need, that kind of goldfish mentality where you have
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: to forget when you get, you know, be and come
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: right back the next play. He also had a fantastic
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: suit like his jacket was gorgeous. He had like a
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: silver Paisley jacket. That was fantastic. So the confidence showed
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: in his fit tonight. He looked excellent. He did.
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: He seemed and super pumped to be drafted. He was
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: one of those guys.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: He had been out all ready to see us a
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: couple of times and came to rudin ray Davis. There's
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: a couple of pictures of them together at the stadium
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: coming out in ray Davis right before the pick. If
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: you saw, like a minute or two before the pick,
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: he had an all eyes like the six sets of
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: eyes emoji which live on the show. We didn't connect
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: in the moment, but then immediately we're like, oh, that's
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: why ray Davis did that. So, you know, lots of guys.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: Eric Turner, you may know him, may be familiar with
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: his work.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: I'm not sure I've dabbled with his work before.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: So he had just put out his thin frame cornerback
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: was zoned for a skill set of flashes of the
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: footwork and trace to succeed in man coverage projects best
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: in a zone match or offman scheme with upside if
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: he develops physically and becomes consistent techler versus the run.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: You know, obviously seeing some of those capabilities and strengths there.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: I think you're going to see that consistently, that he's
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: a guy that you know we have to coach up
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: the physicality, but the speed and you know ail the
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: vertical speed quarterback manipulation where he can play around and
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: almost bait a quarterback because when you have that kind
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: of first step quickness to react, you can almost bait
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: quarterbacks on some of those moves. I saw a couple
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: of people talk about maybe a little grabby, maybe over
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: confident in that, so you could get a little bit
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: on the double moves where he thinks he's baiting the quarterback,
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: but they're actually baiting him on the double move. So
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: we could see some things there. But again, some of
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: the catchup speed allows you to be a little bit
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: more aggressive in that space. One of the negatives some
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: people had was that he had no versatility to play
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: on the slot, But we needed him for the outside,
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: so that's not really a big negative for us. We
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: needed an outside corner, so some of those things I
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: think are mitigated a little bit. And I think I
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: saw he missed a couple games due to a shoulder injury,
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: but I know Kyle Trimble had said he didn't see
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: any long term issues from that. He came back and
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: played really well in the snaps when he came back
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: later on. Some of his best games were in his
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: return from there. So a guy that easily could have
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: shut it down Kentucky didn't have a ton going on
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: late in the season to come back and play for it,
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: but he came back and played, including late game against
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: Texas in Louisville where he came back. And I think
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: that that snap you talked about against AAA Bond was
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: after his return from injury, so in a spot where
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: he easily could have shut it down and said he
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: was just focusing on the draft, and instead came back
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: and played. So I respect that.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's one of the things that was
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: nice to see, and also not the any fault of
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: his own, but it was kind of like annoying when
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: doing his evaluation because there wasn't a ton of twenty
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: twenty four tape because of the injury he played. To
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: pull up my notes here, I played the first four
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: games of the year, got hurt in that fourth game
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: in Week four, and then didn't play again until week twelve.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: But you know you have the tape there from Texas
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: from Louisville against Georgia, even against South Carolina, and then
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: then his evaluation went back. Watched a bunch of twenty
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: twenty three tape was playing again, the mesag a.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: Ton of the production with the fives and yeah, and he.
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: Was even he had a different number. I'm glad he
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: switched to one. Thirty one just was not.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: I don't know if it was his frame or the
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: font on the jerseys, but like the thirty one pissed
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: me off in twenty twenty three, such a stupid thing
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: to be annoyed at.
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: But it like annoyed me watching it.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: But what was nice to see was it wasn't like
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: a completely different player, like all of a sudden he
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: had this huge glow up or he was one of
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: those guys where it was like, man, forget the twenty
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: twenty four tape.
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: The twenty twenty three tape is so great.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: I hate that, Like that's what That's how everybody tried
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: to sell me on kyri Elam and I wasn't buying it.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: I don't want to play that game again. And so
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: you saw positive flashes that you saw in twenty twenty
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: three you saw again in twenty twenty four, and you
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: saw that capability in again both zone but also the
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: functionality in MAN, and that athletic profile physically but also
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: from a traits perspective but also from a skill set
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: perspective translates to Man. You also get that ability and zone.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: You haven't skewed your sliders one way or the other.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: It just it just fits with what they want without
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: having to.
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: You don't have to.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: It's a good way to put it, like, you don't
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: have to rob Peter to pay Paul like they did
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: with Tyer Reeland previously, or even Will Johnson to a
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: degree who I do like, I mean, injury concerns are
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: legitimate concerns at this point. He fell out of the
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: first round most likely because of them, and I do
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: think there are concerns from a athletic profile standpoint, which
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: is part of why he didn't test. But one of
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: my concerns with Johnson was, you know, not a ton
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: of foot speed, not a ton of long speed or
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: recovery speed. And he's a really good off coverage zone
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: corner who wins with like anticipation and IQ and the
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: ability to diagnose.
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: But that's a hard way to live. To always have
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: to be.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: On From a mental standpoint, I wanted somebody who could
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: do a little bit of the zone and a little
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: bit of the man, and Harriston is that guy for that.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: And it's just I just hope he can clean up,
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: clean up some of the over aggressiveness on some of
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: his jumps and brakes, and don't don't get fooled on routes,
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: don't get beat by you know, double moves, eliminate some
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: of the grabbiness, fix some of your angles and decisions
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: when it comes to tackling, and.
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: Maybe add on like five to seven pounds and we
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: should be in good shape.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: Brandon Bean had a really good comment in his reactions here, saying, yes,
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: he could be a bit bigger and more physical, but
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: if he had that going for him, he would have
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: been a top five pick. That's fair. Like the reason
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: he's available at thirty is that he didn't check every
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: single box. But if he had all those things, if
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: he was bigger and more physical, he would have been
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: a slam dunk. It's the first corner.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: That's similar kind of what I like Alfred Collins, the
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: defensive tackle from Texas, and I just keep saying, like
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: if he was just average as a pass rusher, he'd
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: be a first round block, like easy, because of how
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: good he is as a run defender. So if he
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: had this other thing in a little bit, he'd be complete.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: He wouldn't even be a shot for the Bills. Say
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: that's a fair point, and again that speaks to his
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: coverage capability and the coverage versatility and the tools and
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: the traits like it just that stuff plays like people
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: like eleanor Roosevelt, like dudes that are fast.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: A couple of people here saying Ken Coleman and Max
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: Harriston alone make the Bill's locker room one of the
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: funniest and most positive vibes in the whole NFL. Everybody
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: was talking about. His seat in the draft room was
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: the closest to the stage, and he was like super
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: pumped and excited and dapping up every single guy as
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: they got picked, Like who's this guy in the blue jacket?
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: Like it's just crazy positive energy and vibes. So I
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: like that as a overall, you know, kind of the
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: kind of guy that we're bringing in there seems to
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: have a lot of positive energy and play with a
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: lot of confidence.
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, which is nice.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: To see, you know, especially with the on field stuff
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: that like may have kind of lingered. I think that
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: that was part of for me, like why I had him.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: If we're just talking from a pure tape perspective, like
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: you could make the case that he could.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: Have been like corner four for me.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: I think he's corner four for some people, like like
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: you mentioned, like he's got good tape and good traits.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: For me, it was like all kind of the off
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: the field stuff, and so it's nice to kind of
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: see these again. And it's not necessarily ticket it one
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: way or the other, but kind of the initial return
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: on investment with the attitude and the positivity things and
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: that type of deal, and it kind of makes you
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: feel like, Okay, maybe maybe the smoke was just smoke,
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: or maybe accusations were just accusations, and maybe there wasn't
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: you know, too much to it, which again I know
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: a lot of people separate that.
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: For me, it's it's harder. So I think it's nice
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: to see some kind of off the field stuff being reflected.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: Harrison said tonight that he weighs one ninety two today.
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, but I wanted someone to follow and be like,
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: are you going to play at that.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not what you're playing at because I wanted
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: to want to be like, well, once July comes around,
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: I'll be back to one eighty three.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And he said he could still bust out the
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: four point two eight at one two.
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: Well, that's a good thing. Even even if it made
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: him slower, he'd still be like in the mid four threes, which.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: Is he's still be by far our fastest guy, by
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: far fastest.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: Like, yeah, it's not like, oh, well man, yeah, he
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: puts it on, He's gonna be in the four fives again.
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: That's that's fun.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: It's also I like this pick from a a conversation
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: standpoint in terms of the direction for their corner grouping,
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: Like we've had Trey, which was who was very technically sound,
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: and a lot of their corners have operated in that
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: realm right like the Levi Wallaces and the Dane Jackson's
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: where they were more heady than they were athletic, they
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: were more responsible than they were aggressive, or like Juice Filed,
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: and then recently it's been kind of bigger, longer physical
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: corners like Russell Douglas and Christian Benford and the only
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: time they went for more like Tracy or athletic in
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: the profile was Kyrie Elam and that's when the one
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: time they waded into those waters and it did not
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: work so good.
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: So I'm excited. I love it.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: Real analytics that does the like game speed scores in
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: those different pieces, they just reinforced that it was not
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: just track speed and this showed up on film. So
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: they had him their IgA score, which is their end
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: game athleticism score. They had him in the ninety seven percentile.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: They had his max speed in game at twenty one
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: and a half miles per hour, which is ninety fourth percentile.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: So this wasn't just track speed. This is a guy
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: who showed it consistently on film in the game. So
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: that's the group that takes for anybody who's in aware.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: They do the artificial intelligence tracking watching all the guys
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: on film and then apply that to their actual athleticism
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: and then rank that for all the other players. So
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: just scored very very well in all his athleticism scores
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: there against ninety seventh percentile on their overall in game
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: athleticism score. So again, I yeah, that makes me really
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: happy because sometimes you do see those rass scores that
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: are very much like track athlete driven and the fact
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: that that directly correlates to on field athleticism and in
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: game athleticism is a big, big, big boost.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: For me, especially now where so many guys like literally
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: train for the combine and the testing like they do
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: for like they train for the forty, they tra for
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: their ten yard splits, they trained for the shuttle on
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: the three cones.
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: So it's not like you're not like gaming the system,
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: but it's it's it's.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: Gotten a little bit, i think, further away from being
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: almost like a true measurement of someone's actual ability. And
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: to your point, yeah, you see it. Go look at
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: that clip where he runs down Isaiah Bah. He gets
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: turned inside out and runs him down. You see the
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: closing speed and then then you see the explosion at
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: the end because not only does he close, he locates
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: the football, goes up high points and just to Kimba
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: mctumbo one hand swats it out of the air like
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: that right there is just we we haven't seen that
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: in the Bills corner room really ever, because we haven't
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: because they haven't drafted that and the one guy they
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: did couldn't get on the field.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: So anybody who hasn't seen yet, go find the video
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: where Dean Dawkins was on Live with the DraftKings guys.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: As it was going he his he was calling for
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: Max Max Hurston during that pick and as he did it,
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: he screamed, celebrated and jumped in his pool live ony air. Okay,
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: fun video at the end.
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: I love what you can tell that.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: You could tell me that, and there's not one part
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: of me that was like that doesn't sound real, Like
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: all that was like that all tracks for Yes, I
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: buy that story.
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: I buy the whole.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: Interview here from Maxwell Harrison's beforehand saying I have great
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: in sixts play cornerback. I trust what I see that
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: comes from my preparation and homework. When I see something,
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: I'm not afraid to trigger and trust my instincts. Again,
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: I like that as well. I think that's a lot
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: of fun.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's why he's allowed he or not allowed,
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: but he is able to make those plays on the ball,
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: in zone and in man. But it's also part of
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: what gets Hm in trouble sometimes because he trust himself
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: and he's like, oh here I go, and it's like, oh, oh,
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: something else is coming.
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: Let me recover.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: But then he does have the feet and the athleticism
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: the jews to recover and then make a play from
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: that perspective, So how.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: About some final thoughts here on where this leaves us again.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: I wanted a large human, but I'll get over it.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: We got a fast human. We got the fastest human
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: in the entire draft, so I gotta be happy. We
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: got a super tradsy at a big needs spot. I
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: was adamant we needed this first pick to be detackle
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: or corner just because of the game theory of how
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: many other options are. I would have gotten over it
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: if we got to Matthew Golden or Malachi Starks or
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: even the g hot Campbell, if we got like an
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: amazing player, I would have gotten over it and I
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: would have dealt with it. But everything is easier now
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: because the rest of the picks we checked off one
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: of the major boxes. So now tomorrow all we need
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: is one of the two picks to be a d
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: tackle and then I don't care if the other one
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: is an edge or a safety or a wide receiver
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: or whatever it is. Where's your head on addressing one
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: of those spots? How much of a priority that was
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: for you, and where do you want them to prioritiest tomorrow.
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: I'm in a very similar headspace.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: The only way I would have been happy with Edge
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: in round one is if mikel Williams from Georgia fell,
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: and I would have completely had no problem taking him.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: Sure.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: Also if the off the field stuff checked out for
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: Mike Green, I would have been happy with Mike Green
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: as well.
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: Those were both. Both of these dudes were in my
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: second two for Edge behind Abdul.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: Carter and Green did not get taken today, right, he.
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: Did not, so I guess there's a little more fire
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: to that smoke.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: I mean, well, he also had multiple accusations for the
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: same thing, once in at the end of high school
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: and then once again in college, so that's not a
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: great look.
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: But I again similar boat. That's you know, my my
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: dream pick in round one was Trey Amos.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: If not I wanted Derek Carmon, I didn't think Harmon
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: was going to be there, so I was like, Okay,
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: give me Tyleek Williams or give me Trey Amos, Like
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: one of those two guys addressed the major need, like
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: you said. So now as we go into day two,
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: had picked fifty six and pick sixty two, And for
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: those who don't know, Greg and I will be recapping
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: those picks again live tomorrow night like we are tonight.
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: I think you look at defensive tackle probably at.
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: Fifty six Sanders. Yeah, you're you're looking at more of
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: a Darius Alexander, more.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: Of a siloed type of guy. Alexander is probably going
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: to represent the best of both worlds in terms of
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: pass rush plus run defense ability.
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: Well, you get the more ones to guys like an
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: Alfred Collins or Josh Farmer or an Ormar Norman lot
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: where they're just going to do the one thing, but
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: they do the one thing pretty well, yes, which is Alexander.
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: Maybe Sanders. Sanders is probably more of.
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: Just the.
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: Fun He's got good tape. If the Bills needed a
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: three tech, I would go more for Sanders. What's nice
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: about Alexander is Alexander can play one in the Bills scheme.
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: Like he's not the biggest guy Sender can play like
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: all four spots.
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: You can also drop into coverage and intercept the quarterback
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: and take it for a pick six in a bowl game.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he like he's not prototypical for a one tech,
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: but Daikon Jones plays one between three hundred and seven
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: and three hundred and ten pounds, So Alexander being a
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: three zero five isn't crazy. And with his length and
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: size and ability to anchor and limit displacement against double
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: teams and also drop the knee and split them, he
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: can work there. Ogan Jobe can work there a little bit. Again,
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: I think both guys are more ideally suited for three techs,
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: but they can moonlight enough as a one that you're
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: okay there, And then with Alexander, with what he brings
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: as a pass rusher, then you're kind of sitting pretty there.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: If you lean more towards the run defense piece, that's
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: where I think you're looking towards Alfred Collins.
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: Who doesn't offer much as a pass rusher.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: He's more of a length and compression guy and could
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: to compromise it a little bit. But I mean as
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: a run defender, he's like a nine out of ten,
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: just a pure ask.
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: I'll even find give me a double dip, like give
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: me a Alexander or a Sanders or a Norman lot
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: tomorrow and then early on day three with that one
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: on nine or one thirty two, Give me a JJ pegis,
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: give me Jamari Caldwell, maybe Collins falls like, I'm fine
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: taking two of them. Give me two d tackles. Heck,
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: if we did it at fifty six and sixty two,
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: if we just took two right there, and you give
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: me Darius Alexander and Alfred Collins, okay man.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: And that's also not like out of the realm of
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: possibility with you got to win Joe be suspended for
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: these six games and then he's on a one year
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: so you're gonna need defensive tackle again next year.
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: And what is doing to Mark.
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: Ones, also on the last year of his deal and
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: is not even a roster Locke if we're being honest,
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: like he was the guy who checked the most boxes
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: of a possible post you in first move. So that
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: would be if we took two defensive tackles, that would
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: set off alarm bells for me of like, oh are
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: we where's that going?
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: With yeah, it would either be like, oh, is Daikwon
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: going somewhere?
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: Or is it like, man, are they completely out on
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: Dwayne Carter and thinking he's like not salvageable and so
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: they're replacing that. So yeah, I think defensive tackle biggest
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: priority right now in a perfect world, I'm looking at
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: defensive tackle on edge, Like if you could give me Alfred.
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: Collins and JT.
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: TwUI Moloau or Alfred Collins and Olafemi Ola day Hoo.
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: I think that's a little rich for Ola Dayhoe at
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: sixty two, but you don't have a third round pick,
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: and he's going to be.
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: There in the fourth.
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: I didn't want Landa Jackson at thirty, but I'd be
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: happy at fifty six.
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't love him, but I'm okay with him
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: in the second round.
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: Just start same idea, like he's got some of that
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: compression and some of the again not ideal there. And heck,
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: we still have guys like Mike Green and Ozuraku haven't
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: even picked yet. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, So there's there's
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: a lot of options out there. We had Branden Swinson
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: in for a visit. I've seen some connections with that
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: princey woman Malon, so I do think there's a lot
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: of even Scorton, there's a lot of guys I could
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: see at that sixty two pick. Also Xavier Watch and
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: that's the.
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: Other like fun thing.
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: Worry didn't go in my head?
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: Is there?
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: I think I'm and Worry is a lie. But that's
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: a conversation for another time.
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: How about so another guy who is maybe more of
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: the physical freak project part but with more production along
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: with it. Kevin Winston Junior.
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, from Penn State.
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: Didn't play a ton in twenty twenty four some but
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: just a heat seeking missile on his twenty twenty three
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: tape just.
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: Running through dudes.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: Safety is like the wild card fun pick, like we
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: mentioned it, like Malchi Starks would have been there at
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: thirty would that have influenced the Bills a little bit?
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: So it's really just those three. And I'll even throw
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: im and Worry out of there because I agree. I've
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: had enough people tell me they're not sure if he
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: actually plays football, but it's like, hey, if you could
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: get a Winston junior or a Watts, that's to me like, oh,
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: could they push for playing time or let you play
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: Taylor rapid dime linebacker or let you mess around. I
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: loved when we threw in that three two six stuff
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: last year with three three linemen, two linebackers, three corners,
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: three safeties. I like that. Once you get past there
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: and if it's just a dude Derek Forrest can be,
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: or just a dude like upside athlete, like I don't
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: need a fifth round safety or just somebody to throw
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: a dart at because I think dark forest is that
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: dark sir. But if you have a guy early on,
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: they could push. I'm fine with that. So that's one
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: where like either I wanted earlier, I don't care. Then
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: later on we'll see some linebackers, We'll see you know,
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: some guards. I think that's a sneaky one where yes,
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: maybe they invest in the future David Edwards replacement. I
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: know when I was at the combine, I talked to
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: Brandon Thorne and his like sneaky draft and developed guy
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: was doing Fairchild. He said that he said he saw
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: a lot of like He's like, I don't know how
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: what the likelihood is, but if he hits, that's why
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: tell her. So you know, when a guy like Brandon
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: Thorn says that, I was like okay and wrote that
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: down real quick.
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: That Mark Cuban get from Shark Tank, where like, okay.
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Brandon Thorn says, doing first art, Okay, you know,
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: see I like that. I think d tackle on edge
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: is the by far the most likely combo tomorrow. In
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: with the guys that are there where you're talking, there's
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: five six guys at detackle, there's another six or seven
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: guys at edge. Just let me have two of those
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: guys make it to us, give me, you know, uh Derris,
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: Alexander and old Asia and and we'll roll with it
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: from there and see what we'll get.
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: That's exactly it.
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: I'm looking at DT and EDGE, and I wonder if
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: does somebody fun creep in at safety?
• 39:49
  Speaker 4: Is it?
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: Exavier Watts?
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: Is it?
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: And now I'm in a similar point to with safety,
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: like unless I'm getting Wats from Makuba, I'm kind of
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: just like I'm good on safety right now. Like I wanted,
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: I would have taken and starts at thirty gladly, like
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: I would have had no problems with it.
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: But yeah, defensive tackle Edge.
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: We'll see if they maybe trade down or do they
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: do they try to acquire a third. We'll see if
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: they trade.
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: I would prefer that they I won't hate it if
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: they move up for a Detack or a d end
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: they'd like and move up from fifty six and use
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: one of the picks. I love the idea of moving
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: up from one on nine and getting back into the
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: late third, use those fifth and sixth to get us
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: up to eighty eight ninety two something like that to
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: get up there. So I'd love to have three picks tomorrow.
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: But we'll see where that where that goes as it happens,
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: and you find the thoughts on Harriston before we close
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: out here.
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: No, just I like the athleticism. I like the juice.
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: You got somebody who's own capable but also a man
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: coverage capable, and that's a fun thing. Considering how they
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: built this corner room throughout the McDermott and Brandon Bean
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: tenure and what the room currently looks like now with
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: JaMarcus Ingram and Dane Jackson and Trey White and Christian Benford.
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: It's it's a nice drop in the bucket and into
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: that room. And he's got fun tape. Eric and I
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: will be doing a film room tomorrow, well technically today
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: because it's Friday, twelve thirty am right now, later today,
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: Maxwell Harrison, that'll be dropping And yeah, I think Bill's
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: fans have a lot to be excited about.
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: Love it. Yeah, I think obviously we know anytime you're
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: at the thirtieth pick, you're getting an imperfect prospect. You're
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: never going to get every box checked. So if we're
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: going to take a combination where we're already an imperfect prospect,
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: I love the idea that we're getting upside in the
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: areas we need and that the weaknesses are areas that
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: we have a track record of really developing and coaching.
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: So if you're going to take those risks, I like that.
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: We have youth athleticism, but with production. This is not
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: a projection. This is not some you know guy who's
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: never shown the capability of putting it on film. We
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: have genuine production at the highest level in the SEC
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: against stud you know NFL wide receivers with leading the
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: SEC and interceptions, showing the in game athleticism. He's not
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: a track star that's just you know, learning how to
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: run the forwardy with precision, but can't show it on
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: the field like a John Ross or someone like that.
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: This is someone who's shown it with production on the field,
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: and that combination gives me a lot of hope and excitement.
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: We also have a guy with now our cornerback room
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: now has an incredible amount of depth and floor where
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: you're talking about Christian Benford, Maxwell Harrison, Tredevius White, and
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: Dane Jackson. Now that I love Trey White as cornerback three,
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: I love Dane Jackson as cornerback four. Having that kind
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: of depth is now fantastic, and that you're not worried
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: about JaMarcus Ingram and kyer Elm playing snaps in the
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: playoffs and things like that, where you're now much more
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: confident in that, Hey, your break glass in case of
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: emergency is previous NFL starters and guys who can really
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: produce and show. So I like that combination. I'm excited
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: about it. We got the fastest guy in the draft,
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: so I'll take that hot, nasty speed. That's fun with
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: We've the Bills have always been like the gritty, good
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: football players who are athletes. I like it that we
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: got the fastest guy in the draft. That's fun. We
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: don't normally do that. That's fun.
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: No, that's been the thing for years.
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: Like it's always like, man, they play with such good
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: technique and man they're so smart, and it's like I
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: would like that, but also could I get some juice
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: to athleticism sometime, Like just want a little sexiness just
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: a little bit, and to your point, like the floor
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: and in that court, what happened.
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: I literally just remembered I have video of my phone
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: of me filming Max Harrison running his forty from like
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: twenty five feet away. I'm gonna go find that post it.
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that'll that'll be some good content. And yeah, it's
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: nice to have the depth in the room.
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: And you know, for if and I'm not saying this
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: isn't if I just don't know what he is or
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: who he is as a person, if he's willing to
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: put the work in. From a mental side, it's nice
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: having Trey White and Dan Jackson in that room, guys
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: who have been in.
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: The system and who know what to do and have
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: won in the system.
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: And especially for a guy like Dan Jackson who doesn't
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: have all the tools and the tool belt, but was
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: able to find some semblance of success because of what
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: he probably plays in between the ears from responsibility standpoints.
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: So if you can take some of the headiness of
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: Dane and Trey White and the responsibility and put it
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: into Hairston's fastest guy in the draft type of body,
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: that's a fun thing to consider.
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: Just retweeted the tweet to find yourself A hype man
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: like Max Harriston love to see the genuine joy for
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: all and it's just showing him dapping up every single
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: guys they're getting picked and being super excited for everybody.
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: So I just love that energy.
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a good time.
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: It's good time, all right, man, Thank you. As always
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: is a ton of fun. Come and check us out tomorrow.
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: Make sure you watch the film Room with Anthony and
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: Eric's gonna be fantastic. Jump on with us again tomorrow night.
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: We'll be jumping on after the bill's pick after day
• 44:42
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• 44:46
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• 44:48
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