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Malik Nabers' Reaction When Cardinals Took Jeremiyah Love | 2026 NFL Draft · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: Fourteen. It will be the first year for coach Mike Lafleur.
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  Speaker 1: They have Nathaniel Hackett now taking over at OC, but
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  Speaker 1: it is the pick for Monty, the GM of the
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  Speaker 1: Arizona coge and they do go Jeremiah Love and Malik
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  Speaker 1: Neighbors is smacking the couch.
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  Speaker 2: What are you feeling right now?
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  Speaker 1: Is this someone you clearly wanted?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I mean, granted, do I love my running backs?
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  Speaker 4: I have no, absolutely, you know, but having that kind
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  Speaker 4: of running back in the backfield with Jackson, with Jackson, bro,
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  Speaker 4: you don't know who's getting the ball, right, he's a home.
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  Speaker 1: RUNNA under lightning with Cam.
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  Speaker 4: Home run back. You know, the defense have to come
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  Speaker 4: down and play that.
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  Speaker 1: So this is the guy you wanted.
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  Speaker 4: It gives me an opportunity to not face double coverage.
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  Speaker 4: You have to bring him down. They got Jackson back
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  Speaker 4: there with Jay Love, So it's like you got to
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  Speaker 4: pick your poison.
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  Speaker 1: And what you're saying is the exact reason the Arizona
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  Speaker 1: Cardinals took this player. He averaged six point nine yards
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  Speaker 1: of carry as a sophomore, came back as a junior,
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  Speaker 1: averaged six point nine again, forty touchdowns, zero lost fumbles,
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  Speaker 1: a Doke Walker Award winner, and the Cardinals clearly believe
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  Speaker 1: the best is still ahead. Trevor Sikma a running back
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  Speaker 1: at three. Yeah, running back at three.
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  Speaker 3: We'll talk about the analytics that a second, because we're
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  Speaker 3: just gonna talk about how good Jeremiah Love is really quick.
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  Speaker 3: I mean the overall size, the explosiveness that this guy has.
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  Speaker 3: He's been the best running back in all of college football.
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  Speaker 3: It feels like for the last two seasons. He reminds
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  Speaker 3: me of Jamiir Gibbs and how Jamiir Gibbs plays, where
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  Speaker 3: every single time Gibbs touches the football, he could take
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  Speaker 3: it to the house. Obviously, Love is a little bit bigger,
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  Speaker 3: but when you watch some of these plays, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 3: get my Chris Berman on here. In a second, you
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  Speaker 3: give the ball to Jamiir Gibbs, who you get a
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  Speaker 3: spin move in there? You get right away from the defender. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: now you're putting your foot in the ground. He's just
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  Speaker 3: a person who can make you miss at all times.
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  Speaker 3: Here we go again, what spin move right there? I mean,
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  Speaker 3: these guys and what they are able to do from
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  Speaker 3: an agility, a balance, a home run hitting standpoint. Again,
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  Speaker 3: watch Jamir Gibbs here. This is inside zone type of play,
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  Speaker 3: but it doesn't matter. He gets out to the outside.
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  Speaker 3: We got a good block there, We're off to the races.
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  Speaker 3: Same thing with Jerem. I love here an inside zone
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  Speaker 3: play to one side. He hits the backside cut and
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  Speaker 3: he's making dudes miss all over the place. So that's
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  Speaker 3: what we're talking about with these caliber of athletes, and
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  Speaker 3: that's why he reminds me of a Jamiir Gibbs. Now,
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  Speaker 3: all that to say, I gotta remember that everything that
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  Speaker 3: goes into a pick here. Not only do you have
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  Speaker 3: now the most expensive running back room in the NFL,
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  Speaker 3: I still think that you have offensive line needs and
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  Speaker 3: you probably had good trade back options that you did
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  Speaker 3: not take. I am once again given this a B
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  Speaker 3: minus here because I think that you could have done
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  Speaker 3: a little bit better with this pick, even though I
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  Speaker 3: love the player that they're acquiring.
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  Speaker 1: We're having a discussion here. Malik said he's nasty, and
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  Speaker 1: then Micah, you said he's not Jamiir Gibbs. So why
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  Speaker 1: don't you go because Malik already talked about how much
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  Speaker 1: he loves him.
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  Speaker 2: Honestly, Like if I didn't get traded to the Packers.
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  Speaker 2: I want to have known how good Gibbs is. But
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  Speaker 2: Gibbs is exceptional. He's one of the freakiest players and people.
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  Speaker 2: It says Gibbs ran four three six or whatever, four
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  Speaker 2: three four or whatever. I don't even know what it
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  Speaker 2: came up as, but I'm swear to guy. He plays
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  Speaker 2: like a four to two, a four to one.
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  Speaker 1: With Tell me about Jeremiah because I know you like
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  Speaker 1: the player.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I love the player. Jeremiah's top five board. I
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  Speaker 2: just get word like he said, is he the number
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  Speaker 2: three pick? It's not that I disagree with the pick,
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  Speaker 2: but is there enough around him where it makes the
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  Speaker 2: run game elite? Like that's what people are missed.
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  Speaker 1: Like we're thirty first in rushing the ball yesterday last
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  Speaker 1: year at about ninety three yards per game. But you're right, like,
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  Speaker 1: other than Paris Johnson, the offensive line, there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of holes there and they just scientized.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like he's going to have to overuse his
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  Speaker 4: talent there.
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  Speaker 1: I mean to overcome a little bit like gent Like
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  Speaker 1: a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: Like when Sakuan got drafted. You gotta do the most.
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  Speaker 4: Got a jump, got a jew gotta spend just to
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  Speaker 4: you know, create a sparking play on that team. So
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  Speaker 4: I mean I take I read this as a C
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  Speaker 4: pick because cause like you don't give him an opportunity
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  Speaker 4: to show case his talent from.
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  Speaker 1: The player where it's like, I want this guy to
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  Speaker 1: succeed because he's nasty and I'm worried he's not in
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  Speaker 1: a good position.
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  Speaker 4: That's a cool thing.
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  Speaker 2: I never thought, like I look at like if I'm
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  Speaker 2: a GM right, Like, look at the Bengals, right, they
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  Speaker 2: took Joe Burrow that uh that year, Right, the next
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  Speaker 2: year they took him. They could have took Suel, But
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  Speaker 2: who they took, They said, Jamar Chase. We need to
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  Speaker 2: help Joe. When I look at these first three picks,
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  Speaker 2: I just don't see the help around them where it
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  Speaker 2: takes them to the next level where this player can
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  Speaker 2: go all Pro Pro bowler right away. That's the thing, Like,
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  Speaker 2: I want these guys to be all Pro Pro bowlers
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  Speaker 2: like Gibbs, he walked into amazing offensive line. Yes, Decker
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  Speaker 2: rag noo, Suol get him at twelve because we know
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  Speaker 2: our offensive line is great and he's just gonna make
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  Speaker 2: this exponentially greater.
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  Speaker 4: I