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Will Levis visits with the Patriots, Giants haven't Spoken to Saquon Barkley, & Felix Anudike-Uzomah joins the show · NFL Now

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  Speaker 1: We are one week away from the twenty twenty three
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  Speaker 1: here and Maurice Jones.
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  Speaker 1: Different mock draft, one that has a quarterback not named
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  Speaker 1: Bryce Young going number one and Bryce Young somehow ending
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  Speaker 1: up in Indianapolis. We'll explain that mock draft coming up shortly.
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  Speaker 1: We begin this hour with news of a quarterback visiting
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  Speaker 1: a team and these are always interesting because remember as
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  Speaker 1: we have the whole gang here, Ian Rapaport, Tom Pellis, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: Mike Arafolo. Yesterday was the last day for official visits
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  Speaker 1: to team facilities in the Patriots are picking fourteen who
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  Speaker 1: they have in.
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  Speaker 3: The Patriots. On the last day the teams could have
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  Speaker 3: top thirty visits. The last day they could get prospects
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  Speaker 3: into their facility hosted Kentucky quarterback Will Levis kind of
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  Speaker 3: an interesting one for the Patriots snuck it right in
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  Speaker 3: before the buzzer. Levis obviously has been well traveled to Curtinally,
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  Speaker 3: one of the top four quarterbacks in this draft, has
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  Speaker 3: visited several teams, including the Raiders, including the Panthers, including
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  Speaker 3: the Texans, but also some other ones, the Bucks, the
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  Speaker 3: Falcons among them.
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  Speaker 2: For Will Levis, the.
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  Speaker 3: Patriots, though I think probably threw most people for a loop.
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  Speaker 3: They picked fourteen. They have mac Jones in as their starto,
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  Speaker 3: though Bill Belichick, despite several opportunities, has not definitively said it.
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  Speaker 3: The Patriots always do due diligence, and certainly there have
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  Speaker 3: been times and Andrew you mentioned on Twitter when the
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  Speaker 3: Patriots have just wanted a top quarterback in there just
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  Speaker 3: to see Baker Mayfield the one that comes to mind.
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  Speaker 3: But at least visiting with Will Levis is interesting for
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  Speaker 3: New England to.
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  Speaker 4: Do, and in speaking with some teams that have met
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  Speaker 4: with Will Levis, he is, how do I put this,
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  Speaker 4: not lacking for confidence, and that tends to rub people
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  Speaker 4: the wrong way sometimes, but there are other folks who
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  Speaker 4: say that's how I want my quarterback to be. I
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  Speaker 4: want him to be sure of himself. I want him
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  Speaker 4: to be outspoken when he needs to be outspoken, and listen,
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  Speaker 4: we've seen that. I think before the combine he talked
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  Speaker 4: about his arm and how he wanted to show it
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  Speaker 4: off for everybody. I mean, you know what kind of
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  Speaker 4: personality you're getting with Will Levis. So I wish I
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  Speaker 4: could take an honest tally of all these visits and
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  Speaker 4: say how many of these were positive, how many responded
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  Speaker 4: well to that kind of energy, and how many did
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  Speaker 4: not respond as well. And I'd be curious to know
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  Speaker 4: how he responded or how the Patriots responded to it.
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  Speaker 4: But Will Levis not short on pre draft visits. He's
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  Speaker 4: going to be a fascinating to one one to watch
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  Speaker 4: on draft night.
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  Speaker 1: Andrew and again, the Patriots a couple of years ago
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  Speaker 1: took Mac Jones fifteen. Here they're picking fourteen.
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  Speaker 5: Ian.
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  Speaker 2: You mentioned Baker Mayfield.
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  Speaker 1: I pointed out this morning that yes, in twenty eighteen,
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  Speaker 1: right before the draft, they tried to get something I
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  Speaker 1: head to a face to face meeting with Baker Mayfield.
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  Speaker 1: They were picking twenty three and thirty one. Obviously Mayfield
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  Speaker 1: went one, but maybe they could have made a move
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  Speaker 1: up anyway, didn't happen. We are a week away as
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  Speaker 1: we try to make sense of these meetings and try
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  Speaker 1: to make sense tom of what we hear on the podium.
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  Speaker 1: The Seahawks did their thing yesterday, Schneider and Carol, they
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  Speaker 1: have two picks five and twenty. What about the possibility
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  Speaker 1: of a trade.
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  Speaker 6: There, Well, Seahawks General manager John Schneider said that, really
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  Speaker 6: you just have preliminary conversations at this point, and things
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  Speaker 6: tend to heat up come next Tuesday or Wednesday. Well,
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  Speaker 6: if you're an NFL general manager and you're just going
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  Speaker 6: off of history the short list of gms, you're probably
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  Speaker 6: calling because they might be willing to trade with you.
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  Speaker 6: It's basically Howie Roseman, It's Bill Belichick, and it is
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  Speaker 6: John Schneider, who has made a ton of draft trades,
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  Speaker 6: both up and in notable cases down through the course
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  Speaker 6: of his more than a day decade in charge in Seattle.
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  Speaker 6: Here they're at an interesting spot right now at number five,
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  Speaker 6: because you just don't know exactly how the board is
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  Speaker 6: going to break in terms of do four quarterbacks come
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  Speaker 6: off in the first four picks. That seems unlikely, but
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  Speaker 6: we've seen runs on quarterbacks high in the draft before
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  Speaker 6: do those defensive players start to go, and in those cases,
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  Speaker 6: maybe somebody wants to tramp to five to get one
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  Speaker 6: of the quarterbacks. It was notable they had Will Anderson
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  Speaker 6: Junior in yesterday on the last day for pre draft visits.
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  Speaker 6: That was one that was set up kind of late
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  Speaker 6: in the process and as an indication there's a lot
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  Speaker 6: of different scenarios here, so why not bring in one
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  Speaker 6: of the premier defensive players in the whole draft.
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  Speaker 4: This is uncharted territory for the Seahawks to be up
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  Speaker 4: this high, which is why they took the opportunity to
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  Speaker 4: meet with all those quarterbacks at their pro days. They
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  Speaker 4: certainly got out and did the travel thing to get
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  Speaker 4: there for those. But yeah, it does sound like trading
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  Speaker 4: back would be an option or top option for John
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  Speaker 4: Schneider if he can get this one done. Tom and
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  Speaker 4: I did look this up, Andrew, because I referenced it
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  Speaker 4: on air. I believe it was yesterday the Malik McDowell
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  Speaker 4: left John Schneider and the Seahawks traded back three times
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  Speaker 4: before they eventually took Malik McDowell.
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  Speaker 7: They love to pick up that.
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  Speaker 4: Extra draft capital as they move back, So John Schneider
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  Speaker 4: certainly hoping things fall a certain way. If it's maybe
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  Speaker 4: two quarterbacks by the time the first four go I know,
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  Speaker 4: time you mentioned four in a row. If it's two quarterbacks,
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  Speaker 4: then he's sitting pretty because then if somebody wants the third,
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  Speaker 4: that five spot is going to be an entry point potentially.
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  Speaker 4: So this is going to be an on the clock
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  Speaker 4: thing for John Schneider and the Seahawks if they slide back.
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  Speaker 2: As it is.
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  Speaker 1: I think every year, Hey, Lakwan, can we look it up?
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  Speaker 1: I think it's ten out of the last eleven years
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  Speaker 1: there's been like a first round trade for John Schneider
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  Speaker 1: or a first a Night one trade for John Schneider, which.
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  Speaker 2: Is just ridiculous.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's get to the Commanders as their sale
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  Speaker 1: is kind of hanging the balance here. Ian they are
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  Speaker 1: picking sixteen, and they do have Sam Howell. We still
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  Speaker 1: do go into this draft with the team Ron Rivera
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  Speaker 1: and Sam Howel, Jacoby Brissett there as well, believing that
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  Speaker 1: he has a chance here to win this job.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and Sam Howell talked to reporters recently and essentially
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  Speaker 3: said he loves the feel of the organization, loves the
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  Speaker 3: direction that they are going and that they are going
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  Speaker 3: to get absolutely everything he can. Now Sam Howe's we've
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  Speaker 3: seen very very limited fashion on the field of though,
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  Speaker 3: as Ron Rivera pointed out during the owners meetings, about
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  Speaker 3: a month ago or whatever that was, seems like a
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  Speaker 3: million years ago. If they had done the draft of
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  Speaker 3: year earlier, Sam Howe probably would have been a first
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  Speaker 3: round pick. Certainly that was where his pedigree was. They
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  Speaker 3: really liked the talent, They like what he has done
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  Speaker 3: on the field in a very short short time of
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  Speaker 3: limited snaps.
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  Speaker 2: So we will see if he's the starter.
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  Speaker 3: All of this under the backdrop of what if the
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  Speaker 3: Commanders kind of go off the board a little bit
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  Speaker 3: and take a quarterback they have visited with some I
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't rule.
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  Speaker 5: That out at all.
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  Speaker 3: So Sam Howell, yes, as the likely starter. But let's
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  Speaker 3: see what happens Thursday.
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  Speaker 6: And the question with Hendon Hooker, who visited the Commanders
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  Speaker 6: yesterday going to be does somebody want to take him
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  Speaker 6: in the first round to get that fifty year option,
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  Speaker 6: knowing that his rookie year potentially could be a washing
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  Speaker 6: in terms of him contributing, just because of all the
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  Speaker 6: lost reps that he's going to have because you pick
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  Speaker 6: up that fifty year option, then he really got four
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  Speaker 6: years to work with him. Or does he, based in
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  Speaker 6: large part on the injury, end up going in the
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  Speaker 6: second round or potentially even later. I would say this
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  Speaker 6: on Hendon Hooker having talked to a lot of GMS
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  Speaker 6: and scouts and coaches over the past week. Here, everybody
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  Speaker 6: likes the person in Hendon Hooker. He's obviously older, he
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  Speaker 6: is very mature. He's a very fun guy to talk to.
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  Speaker 6: He also comes from an offense in Tennessee that doesn't
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  Speaker 6: look anything like what you're going to be doing in
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  Speaker 6: the NFL. In terms of the receivers lining up outside
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  Speaker 6: the numbers, they've really only got one drop that they do.
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  Speaker 6: They use a lot of hand signals and things like that.
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  Speaker 6: There's a lot that he's going to have to learn
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  Speaker 6: in that regard. There's kind of an upside here for
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  Speaker 6: Hendon Hooker to not be ready immediately if he lands
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  Speaker 6: in a Washington that wants to give Sam Howell a shot,
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  Speaker 6: if you were to land in a Minnesota that's got
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  Speaker 6: Kirk Cousins name the spot an established starter, take a year, obviously,
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  Speaker 6: get healthy, but also learn all those other aspects of
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  Speaker 6: running an NFL offense. Those first round quarterbacks tend to
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  Speaker 6: get pushed. The guy coming off an injury. He really
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  Speaker 6: can't do that.
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  Speaker 1: His injury was week before Thanksgiving, so we're talking September,
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  Speaker 1: nine months out at that point from a torn acl
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  Speaker 1: We are one week out from night number one of
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  Speaker 1: the twenty twenty three draft.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, guys.
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  Speaker 5: Richardson fires one over to the next draft.
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  Speaker 6: Richardson, He'll load it up and cut it loose with
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  Speaker 6: that big arms.
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  Speaker 5: Richardson.
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  Speaker 1: Anthony Richardson is dangerous in the open field. And now
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  Speaker 1: for something completely different. Every year, Maurice Jones drew hands
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  Speaker 1: in a mock draft.
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  Speaker 2: That is well out there.
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  Speaker 1: MJD's mock draft, available now on NFL dot com, has
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  Speaker 1: Anthony Richardson going one okay, but CJ. Stroud going too,
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  Speaker 1: and then Rice Young falling to three, at which point
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  Speaker 1: the Colts jump up with the Cardinals and take them,
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  Speaker 1: and the Cardinals go Tyree Wilson. This mock draft is
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  Speaker 1: not a bonkers baldy MJD like.
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  Speaker 2: As a dentist thing or something.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: He'll be on ta later, So.
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  Speaker 1: Baldy, let's make sense, and let's make fun of his
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  Speaker 1: mock draft. I'm kidding, let's not make fun of it, but.
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  Speaker 5: Let's mock the mock. Let's mock the Okay, let's do.
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  Speaker 2: Anthony Richardson one go.
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  Speaker 5: So that's where the mock begins.
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  Speaker 8: Look, maybe it's the channeling Cam Newton who was the
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  Speaker 8: first pick in twenty eleven and five years later he
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  Speaker 8: was the MVP of the league and the team was
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  Speaker 8: in the Super Bowl, and they feel like they could
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  Speaker 8: do that again.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe maybe you.
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  Speaker 8: Know, MJ's like, look, I coach you know, high school football.
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  Speaker 8: I coach all these kids. Put the best athlete a quarterback,
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  Speaker 8: Let's coach him up. Let's build a system around Anthony Richardson.
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  Speaker 8: And if you take that approach, you can probably say,
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  Speaker 8: let's put the most talented guy at the most important position.
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  Speaker 5: Let's build an offense around him.
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  Speaker 7: You know.
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  Speaker 8: And I don't know how patient the people and Charlotte
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  Speaker 8: are going to be to wait for the development of
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  Speaker 8: Anthony Richardson, because you can only put Andy Dalton out
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  Speaker 8: there for so many games where you got to put
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  Speaker 8: Richardson on the field.
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  Speaker 5: I just think he's a little too raw right now
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  Speaker 5: to do.
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  Speaker 2: That it sounds like I'm ripping MJD. I love this
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  Speaker 2: mock draft.
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  Speaker 1: I got so excited yesterday in the newsroom when I
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  Speaker 1: heard it was gonna drop yesterday or this morning rather,
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  Speaker 1: because his mock draft is the most fun. It is
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  Speaker 1: just out there. He has, for example, CJ. Stroud still
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  Speaker 1: going ahead of Bryce Young. He didn't go on, but
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  Speaker 1: Stroud goes two ahead of Young at three. The Colts
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  Speaker 1: who trade up.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, and then he also reunites him with Jackson Smith
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  Speaker 8: and Jig later with the other Houston pick, and you
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  Speaker 8: put that buck eye connection back together that you know,
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  Speaker 8: we're Smith and Jig. You know caught over sixteen hundred
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  Speaker 8: yards of passes from one c J. Stroud two years
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  Speaker 8: ago and they were one of most dynamic offenses in
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  Speaker 8: all football. So I look, I mean, maybe you know
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  Speaker 8: MJ has a thing about five FO ten quarterbacks just
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  Speaker 8: very up in the NFL, and you'd rather go with
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  Speaker 8: the bigger, stronger player at number two.
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  Speaker 1: You would think that he would like the short he
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  Speaker 1: does that, you would think he would like the short guy.
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  Speaker 8: Well yeah, but short with bowling ball sized legs is
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  Speaker 8: different than short. And you know on Bryce Bryce Young's
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  Speaker 8: Olympic sprinter type legs.
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  Speaker 5: There's a different base.
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  Speaker 1: Rude, I totally get it. He's got bejon At tend
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  Speaker 1: to the Eagles. He has Will Levis going eleven to
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  Speaker 1: the Titans. We're justing Will Levis here, visited the Patriots
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  Speaker 1: yesterday at fourteen. So if Levis is somehow to fall,
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  Speaker 1: I think Tennessee makes a lot of sense.
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  Speaker 2: I don't dislike this one.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, well, I mean sometimes you know, it's just a
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  Speaker 8: crossroad puzzle and you're just trying to put teams.
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  Speaker 5: And players together. We know how this is. This is
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  Speaker 5: actually it's an extra. But you know, you certainly could
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  Speaker 5: see many people.
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  Speaker 8: Have had Tennessee trading up in this trap to get
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  Speaker 8: a quarterback, knowing that.
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  Speaker 5: Ryan Tannehill might not be there that much long, coming.
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  Speaker 8: Out for serious ankle injury from a year ago, and
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  Speaker 8: with the new offensive coordinator.
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  Speaker 5: Calling plays, maybe they want a big, strong arm kid you.
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  Speaker 8: Know that you know, started a bunch of years at
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  Speaker 8: Kentucky there last two years after transferring, and so you know,
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  Speaker 8: maybe they start the rebuild in Tennessee in a different
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  Speaker 8: way with Will Levis right there.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So Hended Hooker goes twenty three to the Vikings.
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  Speaker 2: That makes sense.
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  Speaker 1: Like we were just talking about there with the guys
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  Speaker 1: with the insiders about if you have a veteran quarterback
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  Speaker 1: in place, you give in essence a redshirt year to
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  Speaker 1: handed hooker I mentioned he has Bejon Robinson, MJD does
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  Speaker 1: at ten. We've seen that a lot of places. It
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  Speaker 1: does make a lot of sense. It's Howie does want
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  Speaker 1: to go running back, which would be out of the.
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  Speaker 2: Norm for him.
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  Speaker 1: But what I like and what is different here, and
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  Speaker 1: obviously a running back made this mock.
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  Speaker 2: He has a.
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  Speaker 1: Second back going in the first round, which I don't
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  Speaker 1: think anyone has, and that's Jamiir Gibbs, a twenty six
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  Speaker 1: baldy to the Cowboys.
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  Speaker 5: Well, it's certainly. Look, it's certainly a position of need
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  Speaker 5: for the Cowboys.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, right now they don't have a healthy running
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  Speaker 8: back as Tony Power is coming back from that injury
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  Speaker 8: from a year ago.
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  Speaker 5: Still, but you know they're going to have a committee.
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  Speaker 8: Mike McCarthy has said that they want to run the
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  Speaker 8: ball more and more effectively than they did a year ago.
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  Speaker 8: He's the home run hitter between He's a bigger home
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  Speaker 8: run hitter than John Robinson, and you could see Dallas
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  Speaker 8: going with that star system that they've always had, you know,
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  Speaker 8: Mike and all the you know CD, and you add
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  Speaker 8: visit player to that offense. Behind that offensive line, you
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  Speaker 8: could see real production from Jamiir Gibbon. I also, I
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  Speaker 8: believe that he's got Jamiir rated higher than Vijn.
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  Speaker 5: Now that might be just MJ doing MJ.
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  Speaker 8: Kind of things, but I think for the speed component,
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  Speaker 8: the one cut and can go.
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  Speaker 5: Like, I think he favors gives over Bjon Robinson.
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  Speaker 1: Maurice Jones Drew, who does know more about running backs
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  Speaker 1: than I do. Mjd does have Jamier Gibbs rated higher
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  Speaker 1: than Bijon Robinson on his list of the best running
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  Speaker 1: backs in this draft. That list and his mock draft
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  Speaker 1: currently available. Baldy's read it already. Thank you Baldy on
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  Speaker 1: NFL dot com.
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  Speaker 8: And I mocked the mock, but we all absolutely adore
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  Speaker 8: Maurice Jones Drue.
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  Speaker 1: We mocked the mock, not the man. Remember that, Yes, right,
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  Speaker 1: keep it classy, come it up next. We'll keep it
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  Speaker 1: classy with a Super Bowl champions who are picking thirty first,
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  Speaker 1: who have the draft in their own backyard, who are
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  Speaker 1: working out this week in Texas. What we've learned about
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  Speaker 1: Mahomes and the offense straight ahead, and also we'll hear
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  Speaker 1: from Joe Shane Giants GM an update on Saquan and
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  Speaker 1: Dexter Lawrence straight ahead. It's pre draft press conference side
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  Speaker 1: for the GMS, which means you get to ask questions.
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  Speaker 2: About the guys that are already on the roster.
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  Speaker 1: Saquon Barkley as a franchise tag, he does not have
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  Speaker 1: a long term deal. He is not there for the
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  Speaker 1: opening of the Giants offseason program. Joe Shane, your thoughts.
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  Speaker 8: You remain optimistic that Saquon will be on the field
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  Speaker 8: for you at the start of the season, and from.
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  Speaker 3: The outside looking in, it doesn't seem like there's an
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  Speaker 3: obvious resolution based on the two sides of Pennsyla.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, you have to ask him.
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  Speaker 9: I'm not sure.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know what his plan is.
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  Speaker 9: I haven't talked to him in probably three weeks.
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  Speaker 5: He still wants to be on this team.
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  Speaker 10: I haven't talked to him.
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  Speaker 2: I haven't talked to him. I haven't talked to him.
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  Speaker 2: Said that a couple of times.
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  Speaker 1: Judia Batista much different than what he said about Dexter Lawrence,
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: which is a conversations are pretty.
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: Good right now with Dexter Lawrence's reps. What do you
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: take from all that?
• 15:54
  Speaker 11: Well, you're right. The tone was entirely different. When he
• 15:56
  Speaker 11: was talking about Dexter Lawrence. He said, they talked this
• 15:58
  Speaker 11: week and the dialogue has been really good. But when
• 16:01
  Speaker 11: he was asked about Saquon, and he was asked about
• 16:03
  Speaker 11: Saquon repeatedly, you heard what he said, I haven't talked
• 16:06
  Speaker 11: to him. He said, I haven't talked to him in
• 16:07
  Speaker 11: three weeks. He said, nothing is new since we last
• 16:10
  Speaker 11: talked to Joe Shane at the annual meeting in Arizona,
• 16:13
  Speaker 11: so that was three weeks ago. And he said at
• 16:17
  Speaker 11: that time that there was no outstanding offer. He made
• 16:20
  Speaker 11: the point that they always knew that there would come
• 16:23
  Speaker 11: a point in negotiations with Saquon that if there wasn't
• 16:26
  Speaker 11: a deal, they would take a step back and regroup.
• 16:29
  Speaker 11: They have the franchise tag. He said, there's no rush, right,
• 16:34
  Speaker 11: They've got time. But clearly the dialogue is not in
• 16:37
  Speaker 11: a great place now. Just the tone of voice where
• 16:41
  Speaker 11: he said, you know, you'd have to ask him the
• 16:42
  Speaker 11: question was very confidence. He's going to be on the
• 16:45
  Speaker 11: field for you, and he said, well, you'd have to
• 16:46
  Speaker 11: ask him. I don't know his plans. I haven't talked
• 16:48
  Speaker 11: to him in three weeks. So clearly the conversation is
• 16:52
  Speaker 11: not in a good place in the sense that there
• 16:54
  Speaker 11: is no conversation right now. Everybody knows Saquon is not
• 16:56
  Speaker 11: happy with the franchise tag. Everybody also knows that people
• 17:00
  Speaker 11: in the organization, most importantly the owner, John Marra, really
• 17:04
  Speaker 11: would like Saquon Darkly to be a Giant for life.
• 17:07
  Speaker 11: They are going to have to figure this out. It
• 17:09
  Speaker 11: does not sound like they are anywhere near figuring this
• 17:11
  Speaker 11: out right now.
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: He did channel Brian Dayball from earlier this week. It's
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: April seventeenth. In other words, well, today's April twentieth. But
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: he was going back to Monday when Dayball kept saying, hey,
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: pump the brakes on making any grand assumptions about anything.
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: So there there's that.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: Also, obviously, asked about the draft, They're picking twenty fifth.
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: Anything to glean from those draft non comments?
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: Not a whole lot.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: I thought.
• 17:36
  Speaker 11: One interesting thing was the Giants lost both centers in
• 17:40
  Speaker 11: free agency this year, but Joe Shane said that doesn't
• 17:44
  Speaker 11: necessarily mean they have to come out of this draft
• 17:46
  Speaker 11: with the center. He feels that there are guys on
• 17:48
  Speaker 11: the roster. There are guys on the roster who have
• 17:50
  Speaker 11: played center in the past in games, and he feels
• 17:53
  Speaker 11: they may be able to do the job. He thinks
• 17:55
  Speaker 11: they'll be a good competition, So maybe he threw some
• 17:58
  Speaker 11: cold water on the idea that they absolutely have to
• 18:00
  Speaker 11: come out of this with somebody who can play center immediately.
• 18:04
  Speaker 11: He talked about wide receivers. A lot of attention has
• 18:07
  Speaker 11: been paid to wide receivers for the Giants, even though
• 18:09
  Speaker 11: they did some work there in free agency, and he
• 18:12
  Speaker 11: said it's a good group at the top of the draft.
• 18:14
  Speaker 11: It just sort of depends on how you value them.
• 18:18
  Speaker 11: But he also made the point that you know they're
• 18:20
  Speaker 11: in a much better spot now right like they're picking
• 18:22
  Speaker 11: way down in the draft if they're not picking way
• 18:25
  Speaker 11: high up. He said they've had to sort of learn
• 18:28
  Speaker 11: how to evaluate defensive players, especially for instance, the defensive
• 18:32
  Speaker 11: front seven based on walk when Martindale likes. So they're
• 18:36
  Speaker 11: actually much further along than they were at this point
• 18:39
  Speaker 11: last year when they were all still learning each other
• 18:41
  Speaker 11: and learning what the coach is like, so he feels
• 18:44
  Speaker 11: like they're in a pretty good spot considering they do
• 18:47
  Speaker 11: not have two of the top ten picks, and that's
• 18:49
  Speaker 11: obviously a good sign about the Giants progress.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, much different than a year ago. They won a
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: playoff game this year. Much different feeling there for Joe
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: Shane now picking twenty five, Thank you, Judy.
• 19:03
  Speaker 9: A home floats a pass Gussey over the tunda.
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: He's got the touchdown. Put the boys out.
• 19:09
  Speaker 12: The chief defense gets an incredible touchdown quick pastor Tony
• 19:13
  Speaker 12: po will walk into the house, the first lead of
• 19:16
  Speaker 12: the game. Wide open sky more touchdown chance of city.
• 19:21
  Speaker 12: Don't underestimate how top Patrick Mahomes is twenty six yard scrambled.
• 19:26
  Speaker 12: He let him seconds left, thirty five to thirty five tie.
• 19:28
  Speaker 12: The kick is good for the second time in four seasons.
• 19:33
  Speaker 12: The Lombardy Trophy has a big red reflection. The Chiefs
• 19:37
  Speaker 12: are champions a Super Bowl fifty seven.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: Ah Yes.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: The Kansas City Chiefs picking thirty first with the draft
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: in their own backyard are mock's latest mock. Sab McDonald
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: that had a bare and Tillman and then Yadi k Uzama, who,
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: by the way, is gonna join us a little bit
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: later on this sedition of NFL Now turn out Washington.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: Woof gonna be dangerous as well. Here Jeff gd O
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: Brian with us. We'll focus on the draft with the
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: Chiefs another day. Let's focus on what they're doing right
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: now with Jeff. The former tenth overall pick Patrick Mahomes
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: has his guys working out in Texas as he has
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: in years past. How important are these early off season
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: throwing sessions.
• 20:20
  Speaker 13: For the Chiefs, Well, Andrew, it's been really critical because
• 20:24
  Speaker 13: you look at what happened last season when the new
• 20:25
  Speaker 13: cropper receivers showed up and they had time to spend
• 20:28
  Speaker 13: with Mahomes and it paid off immensely in terms of
• 20:30
  Speaker 13: chemistry and relationships, and the.
• 20:33
  Speaker 7: Same thing is happening or they hope to have happened
• 20:35
  Speaker 7: this year.
• 20:35
  Speaker 14: They've got their renting houses down there, and you've got
• 20:38
  Speaker 14: all types of receivers showing up. I've heard you've got
• 20:41
  Speaker 14: even some guys who were in the draft like quitting
• 20:43
  Speaker 14: just Johnston and Zay Flowers showing up.
• 20:45
  Speaker 7: So maybe they end up being the Chiefs plans.
• 20:47
  Speaker 14: But Andy resaid this is really important because he's looking
• 20:50
  Speaker 14: for big years from guys like Sky Moore and Cadarius Tony,
• 20:53
  Speaker 14: and Mahomes himself said that you saw how War came
• 20:57
  Speaker 14: on in the last year.
• 20:58
  Speaker 7: You see the talent and a guy like Tony and Baldy.
• 21:00
  Speaker 14: You see a quarterback like Patrick Mahomes taking this kind
• 21:03
  Speaker 14: of time in the off season putting this in.
• 21:05
  Speaker 7: Know, good things are going to come from this.
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: Not just good things, Jeff, but like high level of competition.
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: And it might not just be throwing footballs. It could
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: be throwing horseshoes, you.
• 21:14
  Speaker 8: Know, it could be swinging a baseball bat and you know,
• 21:17
  Speaker 8: a driver, it could be hitting golf balls.
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: I mean, he's going to compete and he.
• 21:21
  Speaker 8: Wants he wants to engage Sky and Cardious Tony, who
• 21:25
  Speaker 8: by the way, both caught touchdown passes in this recent
• 21:28
  Speaker 8: Super Bowl that second half, you know, comeback. So I
• 21:31
  Speaker 8: think there's an awful lie you can glean from these
• 21:36
  Speaker 8: type of workouts, just getting in in the mind of
• 21:38
  Speaker 8: Patrick Mahomes, what he sees, what he expects when a
• 21:42
  Speaker 8: play breaks down, Physicians, where you line up, where you
• 21:46
  Speaker 8: can end up after emotion, a shift, all that kind
• 21:49
  Speaker 8: of stuff. Remember, Carderius was traded for in the middle
• 21:52
  Speaker 8: of the season last year, so he was still digested
• 21:55
  Speaker 8: in playbook by the time they got to the playoffs.
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: He can really feel comfortable in it now. And just
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: the way that.
• 22:01
  Speaker 8: Andy Reid and you know, Eric, the enemy had moved
• 22:04
  Speaker 8: guys around into different positions for a variety of reasons,
• 22:08
  Speaker 8: and sometimes it could just be to put Travis Kelce
• 22:11
  Speaker 8: in a better position. But just to understand that just
• 22:15
  Speaker 8: because you're the number four target on this side, you
• 22:18
  Speaker 8: might still be very much like all those things can
• 22:21
  Speaker 8: be talked through. At this time of the year, I
• 22:24
  Speaker 8: think this is just widely valuable to Mahomes and all
• 22:28
  Speaker 8: the guys that work out with.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: Them, Absolutely, and you'll see that value come September, October
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: and the Chief so January and February as well. We
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: focus so much on those guys in the reworking of
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: the old line. Let's give some love to the defense here.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: Jeff Drew Tranquil, former Charger now a Chief going to
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: the dark side there in the AFC West House.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: Is he going to help well?
• 22:49
  Speaker 14: A low key signing really for the Chiefs, because this
• 22:51
  Speaker 14: is a player who really had a good year last
• 22:53
  Speaker 14: year for the Chargers, led them in tackles.
• 22:56
  Speaker 7: He had five sacks.
• 22:58
  Speaker 14: An interception, and Andy Reeve when he spoke about him,
• 23:01
  Speaker 14: talked about how defensive coordinator Stspagnolo loves to have players
• 23:04
  Speaker 14: like this. We're super versatile who can be in different
• 23:07
  Speaker 14: position groups and can really have a huge impact on
• 23:09
  Speaker 14: what they want to do defensively. You know, I look
• 23:12
  Speaker 14: at Willie Gay, a guy who's been with this with
• 23:14
  Speaker 14: the Chiefs for four years now, and he may not
• 23:17
  Speaker 14: be on this rosternation because of a guy trank will
• 23:19
  Speaker 14: showing up on a one year deal. This guy can blitz,
• 23:22
  Speaker 14: he can cover, he can tackle, he can do everything
• 23:24
  Speaker 14: that stinks pac Nola Wantston can be able to do,
• 23:26
  Speaker 14: and their defense should be better off because of him
• 23:29
  Speaker 14: being a part of it.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: With the Chiefs picking thirty first overall one week away
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: from the draft, their off season workouts have begun in Texas. Here,
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: thank you, Jeff, thank you Balding.
• 23:42
  Speaker 9: Here comes the big man. He's got him and down
• 23:53
  Speaker 9: he goes under pressure, sackets Felix and you dk.
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: U sama again going.
• 24:00
  Speaker 10: We on the run. Now, We're going dewn going death
• 24:03
  Speaker 10: los It can.
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: Show now now now now blone now Rone now.
• 24:08
  Speaker 9: And Joe's down and at Felix and you dk U
• 24:12
  Speaker 9: Sama came around the edge and the top sack man
• 24:17
  Speaker 9: in this conference.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: He knows how to celebrate. He's the Big twelve defensive
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: player of the year. And I'm told Felix that you
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: were smiling watching your highlights. Do you like watching your
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: own highlights?
• 24:30
  Speaker 10: I like watching some, especially when I do the sag dance.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: That that one at the end. What what was that?
• 24:35
  Speaker 13: Uh?
• 24:36
  Speaker 10: Yeah, you should try it.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: I just kind of did and embarrassed myself. So you
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: tell me more about what I just no.
• 24:44
  Speaker 10: Use your hips a little bit.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: I'm in a chair, so thankfully you don't have to
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: see me chair dance. Does that have a name or
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: is that just something you made up?
• 24:53
  Speaker 10: I guess I don't know. There's something. Uh, it's not
• 24:55
  Speaker 10: really made up.
• 24:56
  Speaker 15: It's something I did in high school, okay, with with
• 24:59
  Speaker 15: some of my teammates in the high school, and we
• 25:02
  Speaker 15: kind of it was like a Houston type thing.
• 25:04
  Speaker 10: We saw Deshaun Watson do it a long time ago.
• 25:07
  Speaker 15: We kept on doing it and then I added a
• 25:09
  Speaker 15: little crown on top.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: So I liked it. And you had a lot of
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: chance to do it.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: You had twenty and a half sacks in your college career,
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: including nineteen and a half of them in the last
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: two years, and you made a name for yourself. Actually,
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: let's get to your name here, because, honestly, Felix, I
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: feel people are afraid of saying your name out loud
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: because they don't want to get it wrong. You, as
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: a public service, have put it on your Twitter profile.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: Felix.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: Sure, and you, dk Ozama, Why do you mess it up?
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: Some Oozama? Thank you? Why do people mess it up
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: so much? Like I just did? I thought I had
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: it down.
• 25:45
  Speaker 10: I mean, I feel like how it's spelled is kind
• 25:47
  Speaker 10: of spelled different. How you pronounce this though, I mean
• 25:49
  Speaker 10: I don't.
• 25:50
  Speaker 15: I don't harp on people that mispronounced it that much
• 25:52
  Speaker 15: honestly because it's I'm not gonna lie, It's pretty hard
• 25:54
  Speaker 15: name to pronounce.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: So do you like the nickname Fau? People call you Fau,
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: people call me.
• 26:00
  Speaker 15: People say it's like Florida a plantetic or something like that.
• 26:03
  Speaker 15: So I'll tell you, but I'm.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: Cool that though.
• 26:06
  Speaker 10: I'm cool with that.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, good, Well, people are going to have
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: to learn your name because, as I said, you had
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: a lot of sacks.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: The last couple of years, and.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: You're going to hear your name called, we think pretty
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: early next week in the NFL Draft. I want to
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: go down the list of teams here that you visited.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: We got Green Bay, Tampa Bay, what else.
• 26:24
  Speaker 10: Green Bay, Tampa Bay Saints.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: Okay, and also Texans.
• 26:29
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Well, a lot of people say, we had this conversation
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: with Collijah Kanty yesterday that the teams that you don't
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: visit maybe are the teams that might be keeping an
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: eye on you. You're a hometown Kansas City. You're in
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: Kansas City right now. The Chiefs are picking thirty one Felix.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: What would it mean to be a Kansas City Chief?
• 26:47
  Speaker 15: I mean, at the end of the day, I grew
• 26:50
  Speaker 15: up watching Kansas City Chiefs and it was the team
• 26:53
  Speaker 15: I respected a lot. And they're walk contenders, so it's
• 26:57
  Speaker 15: just it'll be an honor just to be a part
• 26:59
  Speaker 15: of them, honestly, But at the end of the day,
• 27:02
  Speaker 15: you never know.
• 27:03
  Speaker 10: And I've been talking to all the teams I've is
• 27:05
  Speaker 10: it on.
• 27:05
  Speaker 15: I liked literally all the teams I was on visits
• 27:08
  Speaker 15: with them, So I wouldn't mind playing with any team
• 27:10
  Speaker 15: that I've been talking to.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: Recently, Felix, you had a game a couple of years
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: ago in which you had six sacks, but they didn't
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: give you six sacks against TCU. It was ruled that
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: you had This is the dumbest thing ever. You had
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: two sacks that caused fumbles and the ball went across
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage, Therefore they weren't sacks. Felix, six
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: would have tied the Division one record.
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: Are you still bitter over this?
• 27:40
  Speaker 15: As I was for a second, But at the same time,
• 27:43
  Speaker 15: it was just opportunity. It was just a huge opportunity
• 27:45
  Speaker 15: to just to be a part of the game, just
• 27:46
  Speaker 15: to be able to make that much plays for that
• 27:49
  Speaker 15: game and have a win, because that was a critical
• 27:52
  Speaker 15: win that year, especially against TCCU.
• 27:54
  Speaker 10: But yeah, it was.
• 27:55
  Speaker 15: It was very heartbreaking because I remember everybody was saying,
• 27:59
  Speaker 15: oh my gosh, you tied the record. Then later that
• 28:01
  Speaker 15: night they text my coach text me and they're like,
• 28:04
  Speaker 15: I'm sorry, but if the ball goes over the line
• 28:06
  Speaker 15: of scrimmage is not considered as a sack, Its just
• 28:08
  Speaker 15: considered as a force. I honestly I don't get that.
• 28:13
  Speaker 15: Hopefully they change it in a couple of years, but yeah.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: I can't imagine. What's that like? Like I said, it
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: NCAA record. Like Derek Thomas did six ones, he also
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: did seven ones in the NFL.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: That's the NFL record.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: But now because I hit the guy so hard the
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: ball went over the line of scrimmage, it's not a sack.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: It's just kind of ridiculous anyway.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: Also on your Twitter profile, I Felix, you have the
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: Nigerian flag there. The NFL does something every off season
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: where they take players and bring them all around the
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: world to kind of spread our love of football. Recently
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: had an NFL Africa trip. Would that be something you'd
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: be interested in doing?
• 28:49
  Speaker 5: Oh oh one hundred.
• 28:51
  Speaker 15: I literally talked to a lot of people about doing that.
• 28:54
  Speaker 15: So hopefully when I go to the league. If I
• 28:56
  Speaker 15: go to the league, it'll be something I can just
• 28:58
  Speaker 15: go back and visit some of my family back in
• 29:00
  Speaker 15: Nigeria too, because I haven't been there since twenty seventeen.
• 29:04
  Speaker 15: I was trying to go there and COVID twenty twenty
• 29:06
  Speaker 15: because obviously COVID happened and nobody really who's flying. So
• 29:09
  Speaker 15: hopefully I can go back there, visit for my family
• 29:11
  Speaker 15: and then help other people just help with the camp
• 29:16
  Speaker 15: and everything like that.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: The draft is going to be in his backyard in
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: Kansas City.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: The Big twelve Player of the Year.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: Get to know his name, Felix and you dk Ouzama Felix.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: Good luck to you man. Can't wait to see where
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: you go.
• 29:32
  Speaker 10: Thank you so much.
• 29:37
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