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Bryce Young Visits the Raiders, Tyreek Hill Talks 2023 Season, & Cody Mauch joins the show · NFL Now

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  Speaker 1: I'm Patrick Cleavon here in the NFL LA Newsroom on
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  Speaker 1: this Thursday, where we've got a couple more non draft
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  Speaker 1: thursdays before the twenty twenty three NFL Draft. Today on
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  Speaker 1: this show, we have two pretty good offensive lineman prospects
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  Speaker 1: ahead of the NFL Draft. But let's start with what
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  Speaker 1: is new right now coming into the NFL LA newsroom
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  Speaker 1: including a team as we welcome in as we talk
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  Speaker 1: some skilled positions, two of our most skilled position guys
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  Speaker 1: at the NFL Network insider level. It's NFL Network insider
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  Speaker 1: Ian rap Report as well as Mike Garrel Follo. Appreciate
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  Speaker 1: you guys despite the odd glances from Ian, and we
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  Speaker 1: have a team that's not necessarily picking in the Bryce
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  Speaker 1: Young range right now. Taking your visit from Bryce Young,
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  Speaker 1: what can you tell us? It would be the Las
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  Speaker 1: Vegas Raiders who of course have done all the quarterback
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  Speaker 1: homework where at all the pro days and I expected
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  Speaker 1: to visit with all the top guys throughout the course
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  Speaker 1: of the process. Bryce Young is there today the Alabama
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  Speaker 1: quarterback who is certainly in contention to the number one
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  Speaker 1: overall picked by the Carolina Panthers if he has not
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  Speaker 1: taken one. If the Panthers go with CJ. Stroud or
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  Speaker 1: potentially other then presumably Bryce Show would go too. So
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  Speaker 1: why are the Las Vegas Raiders meeting with him? Well,
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  Speaker 1: one would think Mike that potentially they would consider a
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  Speaker 1: trade up to two. I know there were some people
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  Speaker 1: who thought they might end up trading up to one
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  Speaker 1: before the Carolina Panthers made that big move with the
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  Speaker 1: Chicago Bears. Either way, one thing we know about the
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  Speaker 1: draft is you really have no idea, and so it
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  Speaker 1: is better to just do your homework and be ready
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  Speaker 1: for every crazy situation rather than not. I'd say that's
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  Speaker 1: probably the category that the Raiders in right now. Talking
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  Speaker 1: to Bryce Young on his Top thirty visit NFL, now,
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  Speaker 1: we have no idea every Monday through Friday one to
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  Speaker 1: three Eastern on NFL Network, Right, Yeah, selling this one, Ian,
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  Speaker 1: But I would say this, I feel like these teams
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  Speaker 1: who are kind of in the mix for a quarterback
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  Speaker 1: have maybe one or two that they're really identifying, and
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  Speaker 1: in order to cover their tracks, are kind of meeting
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  Speaker 1: with everybody. I think the Raiders understand that there's a
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  Speaker 1: slim chance that they get themselves Bryce Young. But if
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  Speaker 1: we're going to evaluate the quarterbacks, we're gonna evaluate all
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  Speaker 1: of them. We're gonna do a deep dive. This way,
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  Speaker 1: we have a full understanding of the entire class. And again,
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  Speaker 1: if somebody's looking for who we're looking at, they don't
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  Speaker 1: necessarily know because we've kind of met with all of them.
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  Speaker 1: So they were at that Alabama Pro day down in Tuscaloosa.
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  Speaker 1: After Bryce Young met with the head dinner excuse me,
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  Speaker 1: with the Carolina Panthers, he then walked over to the
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  Speaker 1: Raiders table and met with them afterwards. So the Raiders
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  Speaker 1: definitely doing their due diligence seemingly on all the quarterbacks,
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  Speaker 1: including Bryce Young. And you could build a relationship for
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  Speaker 1: you things that may change down the road. Yeah. And
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  Speaker 1: Ian yea god, I have some questions, Mike, were you watching?
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  Speaker 1: Were you spying on their dinner? I was not spying
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  Speaker 1: on their dinner. I kind of have eyes everywhere. So
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  Speaker 1: do you don't act like you don't you do the
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  Speaker 1: same thing that I do much? It's very specific. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: if in defensive end. If we don't know, Mike, or
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  Speaker 1: if you guys don't know, it's because the Raiders don't know,
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  Speaker 1: because nobody knows until until the actual draft starts, except
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  Speaker 1: the machinations of dinner and movement about the particular restaurant,
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  Speaker 1: which Mike is well in tune too at this point.
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  Speaker 1: But let's look over to a quarterback who was the
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  Speaker 1: number one overall pick. Cam Newton had a chance to
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  Speaker 1: throw at Auburn's pro day. He says, he's willing to
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  Speaker 1: be a backup ian in twenty twenty three. What can
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  Speaker 1: you tell us there? And he listed several of the
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  Speaker 1: quarterback that he'd be willing to be a backup four,
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  Speaker 1: which were basically all of the top guys as you
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  Speaker 1: would sort of think, plus several rookies. So Cam Newton
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  Speaker 1: would be open to, in his words, mentoring a rookie
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  Speaker 1: coming in being a backup for one of the top
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  Speaker 1: quarterbacks and saying, you know what, I will help you
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  Speaker 1: in a way that I don't know if he was
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  Speaker 1: helped coming out, but he probably didn't need it because
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  Speaker 1: he was a pretty awesome quarterback coming out. This is
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  Speaker 1: a tough one for me, Mike, because you know Cam
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  Speaker 1: Newton has not played in a while, and when he
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  Speaker 1: did play, it did not go great. I mean, this
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  Speaker 1: sounds like to me, despite that he looked pretty good
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  Speaker 1: throwing at Auburn prote including throwing to his brother who
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  Speaker 1: is a prospect. To William and Mary, this sounds like
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  Speaker 1: a quarterback who probably has played his last down in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL. And I know it's saying all the right
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  Speaker 1: things and wanting to be a backup quarterback. I just
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  Speaker 1: know looking around the league, most of the backup quarterback
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  Speaker 1: jobs are set, and the ones that aren't are teams
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  Speaker 1: that planned to draft a backup quarterback. I would be
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  Speaker 1: at this point, I would be very surprised if Cam
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  Speaker 1: Newton never played again in the NFL. Well, Cam Newton's
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  Speaker 1: trying to set the record straight because when he was
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  Speaker 1: done in New England, he said I was going to
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  Speaker 1: be a distraction as a backup. What he was saying
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  Speaker 1: was they were going to perceive me as being a distraction,
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  Speaker 1: and that's what he said. Yeah, it's not that he
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  Speaker 1: didn't want to be a backup or was threatening that
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  Speaker 1: he was going to be a distraction. So he's trying
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  Speaker 1: to set the record straight and saying, if you want
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  Speaker 1: me in there, and you want my skill set, I'm
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  Speaker 1: willing to be a guy that will work with the starter,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's a young guy or whoever. He was well
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  Speaker 1: liked in the locker He's always been well liked in
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  Speaker 1: the locker room. I mean, I know that that Cam
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  Speaker 1: comes with a lot, right, I get that part. But
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  Speaker 1: this is not a guy that I really feel like
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  Speaker 1: is a distraction in the sense of he's doing things
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  Speaker 1: to undermine other players. That's never been the case with
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  Speaker 1: Cam Dowton. Frankly, I would explore it if I was
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  Speaker 1: an NFL team and I wasn't exactly solid at the
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  Speaker 1: backup position. But I sort of agree with you, Ian.
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  Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of general managers and coaches
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  Speaker 1: out there it was say, hey, I we'll look for
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  Speaker 1: something else where. I don't necessarily agree with that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there's one coach that we do know. I had a
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  Speaker 1: very good relationship with Cam Newton during their time in Carolina.
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  Speaker 1: That is the Washington Commander's head coach, Ron Rivera. Speaking
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  Speaker 1: about the fifth year option for former top ten pick
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  Speaker 1: Chase Young, what can you tell Steria, Ron Rivera is
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  Speaker 1: saying that the health situation surrounding Chaishung and obviously played
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  Speaker 1: sparingly last year, took the entire year to come back
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  Speaker 1: from a very significant ACL injury. That plays a part
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  Speaker 1: in their decision about whether or not pick up his
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  Speaker 1: fifth year option in the beginning of May. That is
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  Speaker 1: not the only decision, that's not the only factor in
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  Speaker 1: the decision for the Carolina Panthers for this twenty million
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  Speaker 1: twenty million dollars so fully guaranteed tech. Remember, they're fully
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  Speaker 1: guaranteed now, so much different than they used to be
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  Speaker 1: when they're originally injury guaranteed, then eventually fully guaranteed, all
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  Speaker 1: fully guaranteed now. So there's injury situation for Chaise Young
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  Speaker 1: and he's gonna have to be fully healthy and ready
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  Speaker 1: to go. And then there's the other situation, which is
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  Speaker 1: the Commanders do not yet have a owner for the
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  Speaker 1: long term. It seems pretty clear that Dan Snyder are
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  Speaker 1: going to sell and probably the coming weeks, potentially the
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  Speaker 1: coming months. These twenty million dollars decisions are often made
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  Speaker 1: by owners in accordance with general managers and coaches. Sounds
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  Speaker 1: like Romerver would like to know what the new owner
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  Speaker 1: thinks before he makes this decision as well. N no
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  Speaker 1: word yet on the future of Chaise Young. Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: certainly an explosive player. To God, we can't wait to
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  Speaker 1: see back healthy in the league in Chase regardless of
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  Speaker 1: how this particular contract situation and plays out. Let's look
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  Speaker 1: to a guy who we're looking forward to in the
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty three NFL Draft. That's Devin Witherspoon. He was
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  Speaker 1: talking about his potential reunion with the former teammate Kirby Joseph.
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  Speaker 1: And there's other news. Michael Quite tell us there Devin
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  Speaker 1: Witherspoon working out for teams yesterday at his pro day.
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  Speaker 1: I was told he was timed anywhere from four one, four,
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  Speaker 1: four one excuse me to four four seven are Daniel
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah says four four, two to four or four to six?
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  Speaker 1: Who do you believe? Frankly, I believe him. But regardless,
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  Speaker 1: it's in the low to mid four fours for Devin Witherspoon,
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  Speaker 1: which was a really good time. He had an excellent
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  Speaker 1: workout from what I was told from all evaluators on hand,
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  Speaker 1: so potentially could be the first cornerback taken potentially by
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  Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions. I'm told that he spent a good
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  Speaker 1: amount of time with the Lions around that pro day.
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  Speaker 1: So let's look for Debon Witherspoon as a shore fire
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  Speaker 1: what it seems like, although Ian says nobody knows anything
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  Speaker 1: about the draft a shore fire top ten pick after
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  Speaker 1: this workout yesterday. First of all, I agree with you.
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  Speaker 1: I trust Tao Jeremiah White more than I trust you.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about another top cornerback who's on a visit
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  Speaker 1: actually today, Joey Porter is on a visit with the Ravens.
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  Speaker 1: Joey Porter Junior, not the other Joey Porter. But remember
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  Speaker 1: Joey Porter played a lot for the Steelers, was very good.
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  Speaker 1: His son is on a visit with the Ravens, which
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  Speaker 1: would be just spectacular and great theater and lots of fun.
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  Speaker 1: And I know it's only a position the Ravens like
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  Speaker 1: a pretty hard look at in the draft. Also has
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  Speaker 1: the latch Vegas Raiders on his visit sheet, and that
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  Speaker 1: is another team that will look hard at the quarterback position.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure if it's going to be seven, certainly
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  Speaker 1: would be a possibility there anyway, that is one of
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  Speaker 1: the top cornerbacks visiting a potential quarterback drafting team, and
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  Speaker 1: it gives us visions of perhaps Joey Porter visiting wearing
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  Speaker 1: a Ravens jacket on the sideline. Will be a lot
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  Speaker 1: of fun reaction there. But we do aside from fun,
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  Speaker 1: we do have actual news today, breaking news coming to
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  Speaker 1: the nfl LA newsroom courtesy of you, Mike Garofolo. The
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  Speaker 1: Jets are finally getting a former Packers quarterback book you
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  Speaker 1: it tell us, Yes, it's all happening. It's here, it's happening.
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  Speaker 1: Stay come. The Jets have signed veteran quarterback Tim Boyle,
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  Speaker 1: Packers quarterback who was with Nathaniel Hackett, the offensive coordinator
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  Speaker 1: with the Jets in Green Bay. So there's your reunion.
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  Speaker 1: Tim Boyle and Nathaniel Hackett about to reunite in Florham
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  Speaker 1: Park with the Jets. Tim Boyle's a guy that a
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  Speaker 1: lot of folks liked throughout his career, including Aaron Rodgers
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  Speaker 1: like that. Now we're messing with people now, right, Like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't mean to make light of Tim Boyle signing.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's got a shot to stick around, perhaps
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  Speaker 1: be the primary backup, perhaps be a guy that's gonna
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  Speaker 1: work with Zach Wilson. But obviously the connection to Aaron
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  Speaker 1: Rodgers and the fact that you've got a guy now
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  Speaker 1: that knows Nathaniel Hackett, and if Rodgers is not available
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  Speaker 1: for whatever reason in the spring at any point, whether
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  Speaker 1: it's OTA's or minicamp, or even in the summer with
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  Speaker 1: training camp, because who knows how long this is going
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  Speaker 1: to take, at least he got Tim Boyle there to
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  Speaker 1: run the offense for the rest of the Guess yeah,
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  Speaker 1: at this point, who cares how long it's gonna When
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  Speaker 1: they got Tim Boyle, so there's there's no problem solved. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we're good. We've been tracking it all off season. It's
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  Speaker 1: finally here at Thaxts NFL Networking Signers to Ian Rappaport
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  Speaker 1: and Mike garl follow especially regarding the news on Tim World,
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  Speaker 1: we do have news from one of the best receivers
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL. Tyreek Hill had an incredible twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: two season over seventeen hundred yards receiving one hundred nineteen catches,
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  Speaker 1: and he was talking about his future on Sports Radio
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  Speaker 1: eight ten WHB. How many more years do you think
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  Speaker 1: you can play? More? Do you want to play? I'm
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  Speaker 1: going for Tim Man, I'm gonna finish out this contract
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  Speaker 1: with the Dolphins. Man, and then I'm gonna call it quiz.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I want to I want to go into
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  Speaker 1: the business side. You know, um, you want to be
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  Speaker 1: in the coaching too, right, Yeah, but not for long though,
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  Speaker 1: like I want to, like, I want to do so
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  Speaker 1: many things in my life. Bro ts Keen. And when
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  Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins come to Arrowhead Stadium this year, guess
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  Speaker 1: what we're gonna do. Guess what we're gonna do. I
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  Speaker 1: hate to say it, man, I hate the thought the
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  Speaker 1: peace sign against y'all. I hate to do it. But
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  Speaker 1: guess what. I'm gonna be y'all worse enemy that day.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be y'all worse enemy that day. We'll edit
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  Speaker 1: that now, the signals, I know every signal. Y'all got well.
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  Speaker 1: Tyrink is having fun during that interview, but now his
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  Speaker 1: mentions are getting a bit itchy. He says, stop tagging me.
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  Speaker 1: I know what I said. Just having a little fun there.
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  Speaker 1: That's signified by the emotion. Tyrink knows what he's doing.
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  Speaker 1: He's just having fun on the radio show. Let's have
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  Speaker 1: some fun with Jeff Jadea joining us now to talk
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  Speaker 1: about his former team, The Chiefs. They have to look
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  Speaker 1: forward to that, but they also have to fund a
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  Speaker 1: wide receiver because they're still looking after Tyrink's department. Jeff,
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  Speaker 1: what are they doing there? Yes, they are. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: they had Quentin Johnston, the TCU star receiver in this
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  Speaker 1: past week to talk about the possibility of him being
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  Speaker 1: an option there. Now he's gonna be highly coveted, so
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  Speaker 1: he might not be anywhere close to where they're going
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  Speaker 1: to drafted thirty one overall, but the Chiefs have to
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  Speaker 1: start forward to find their wide receiver corps. All they
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  Speaker 1: have back fromast year's groups. Mark was about the scandaling
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  Speaker 1: Sky Moore and Cadarius Tony. Andy Reid is very high
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  Speaker 1: on Tony by the way. He loves his quickness and
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  Speaker 1: his potential. But again, you need to round this group out,
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  Speaker 1: and they've talked about bringing back Justin Watson, who was
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  Speaker 1: a key cog last year they obviously created he didn't
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  Speaker 1: have a ton of options here. So they will be
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  Speaker 1: looking forward receiver in the draft at some point and
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  Speaker 1: they're gonna have to find ways to do this. But
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  Speaker 1: as General Magic Brett Beach said, good thing here, Patrick
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  Speaker 1: mahomes the poop he can play with a lot of
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  Speaker 1: different receivers. Whoever's out there, they'll find a way to
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  Speaker 1: get it done. Looking back to going to having a
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  Speaker 1: generational athlete and Tyree Hill to find him a way
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  Speaker 1: and they were able to do it win the Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs still a pretty good organization with a
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  Speaker 1: pretty good coach and quarterback. Let's talk about another explosive athlete.
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  Speaker 1: You went down to Texas Texas Pro Day, Tyree Wilson
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  Speaker 1: was dealing with an injury. How's he doing and how
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  Speaker 1: was the performance down there well? Talking to his agent,
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  Speaker 1: Eric Burkhard during that workout, he was pretty excited about
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  Speaker 1: just the demand for Tyree Wilson. He's got a ton
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  Speaker 1: of visits schedules. He's been with the Texans this week,
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  Speaker 1: the Bears yesterday. He's going to visit with every top
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  Speaker 1: ten team. And as you mentioned, he had that foot
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  Speaker 1: surgery back in November, and there was discussion about since
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  Speaker 1: he missed the Combine and didn't work out the Pro day,
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  Speaker 1: whether he would do a workout in April for cardson.
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  Speaker 1: He might do a virtual workout, not something where they're
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  Speaker 1: gonna have a bunch of scouts coming and look at him,
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  Speaker 1: but just something that would check the boxes because they
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  Speaker 1: feel like what they're hearing from a lot of these
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  Speaker 1: teams is that workout or not. There's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: excitement about what this kick can do in the NFL
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  Speaker 1: and Seattle the Lions, a lot of teams need pass rushers, raiders.
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  Speaker 1: Very good chance that he's going to be a top
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  Speaker 1: ten pick regardless of workout or not. Yeah, we saw
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  Speaker 1: Lancearli mocked him number two overall. Rising is coming for
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  Speaker 1: Tyree Wilson. Thanks with Jeff Jadia checking out a couple
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  Speaker 1: of things here with us on NFL Now. As we
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  Speaker 1: continue on the show, We've got a lot of prospects
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  Speaker 1: to look forward to, including one of the most intriguing
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  Speaker 1: prospects who's been called a icon. For a look, we
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  Speaker 1: talk with Cody Mack on the Mock Draft. As indicated
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  Speaker 1: on the lower third there, he is set to join
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  Speaker 1: us coming up on NFL Now. We're back here on
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  Speaker 1: NFL Now looking ahead to the twenty twenty three NFL
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  Speaker 1: Draft and Cody Mock is a two time FCS All
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  Speaker 1: American out of North Dakota State, started all fifteen games
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two and won four FCS National Championships
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  Speaker 1: started thirty nine consecutive games and joins us now on
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  Speaker 1: NFL Now a serious contender for most interesting man in
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  Speaker 1: the twenty twenty three draft. He's running a little av
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  Speaker 1: right now, holding the camera dealing with some airplane issues. Cody,
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  Speaker 1: thanks for spending time with us on NFL now, Man, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: no doubt, thanks for having me on. So coming up,
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  Speaker 1: looking into this draft, I'm going through I see a
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  Speaker 1: Google article that highlights you as an iconic looking FCS
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  Speaker 1: prospect coming to visit the New England Patriots. What's the
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  Speaker 1: reaction for you've been like from other people reacting to
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  Speaker 1: just your look? Man? Yeah, it's just kind of funny.
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  Speaker 1: I figured when I started to grow up the long
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  Speaker 1: hair and decided not to get my teeth fich that
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  Speaker 1: it would it would become something like that. So many
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  Speaker 1: comments about looking like a football player, looking like a
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  Speaker 1: football guy. To you, what does a football player look like?
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  Speaker 1: Is that even a thing? I didn't think that was
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  Speaker 1: a thing. I guess I don't know. And so, Cody,
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  Speaker 1: looking back at your time, there's obviously so many guys
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  Speaker 1: out of North Dakota State the past few years who
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  Speaker 1: have made this Leap who've had successful NFL careers. What's
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  Speaker 1: it been like to be a part of that family,
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: because your family is a big part of the Bison
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  Speaker 1: family as well. Yeah, you know, there's just so many
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  Speaker 1: good guys that come through that program, Guys that go
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  Speaker 1: on to play at the next level, guys that don't
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  Speaker 1: just just a lot of great people to learn from.
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  Speaker 1: When I was a young guy in the program, there's
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: so many people to look up to. And then even
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: as I'm growing up in the program, you get guys
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: like Dylan Raidens and uh like Easton Cordell Christian was
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: in my class. Just so many, so many good athletes
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: that U and great leaders that you can just kind
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: of learn from and and going through. Of course, you've
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: evolved your look over the years, but you've also evolved
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: as a player. Cody looking back, tell us about Cody
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: Mount the tight end, the receiving prospect coming up and
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: is that guy still in there? I really think he's
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: in there somewhere. Um. I was pushing all year to
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: try to get some kind of tackle throwback play and
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: never really got it done, just to show that hey,
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: I can still do a little bit tight end. Uh,
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: But um, I guess, I guess we'll have to see
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: you did have the two point conversion right a couple
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: of years ago in the playoff game. We're looking back
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: at some of your your your prep football. H this
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: guy is making plays. He look like you had. You
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: had number three was deal with some problems. They're trying
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: to cover you in the secondary. Um, it's it's been
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: those years, though, Why don't we never go back to it?
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: You feel like they only had one offensive line throwback
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: play that we we don't want to go back. Yeah,
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: I don't know, man, We've done it before too. Uh yeah,
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, got to catch a two
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: point conversion, which was awesome, but uh yeah, I was
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: hoping to get some complay. And and we're looking here
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: at you over the years. Of course you elect to
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: keep the teeth, but then the hair starts to come out. Um,
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: you've got this versatility, the athleticism, Cody, Where do you
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: think you best fit in the NFL? Here on the
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: offensive line? You know, I really think it's tough to
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: label myself. I don't want to sound political or anything,
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: but it really I really don't know exactly Like I've
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: played tackle my whole my whole career, and uh, you know,
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: keep comfortable playing guard and playing center as well. It's
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: really just I mean, whatever a team wants me to play,
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: I feel comfortable I can do that. And going back,
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: you're we're looking at some of your success you had
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: on the field. You saw a tweet where he said,
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: gotta love some Billy Joel after the game. If you're
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: if you're picking, is there a particular Billy Joel song
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: or you're going through albums, what Billy Joel spot is
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: going on the playlist after a week that might have
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: been about twenty fourteen. I don't even know. I don't know.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: I've maybe listened to a little for the longest time.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: Me and my buddies were big into that at the time.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: You know, always always fun to harvest old tweets. That
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: one is exceedingly innocuous and still it still holds up today.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: And Cody looking, you've also picked up the violin that
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: there was a violin celebration. Take us through that, man, Yeah,
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: I mean it was really just, uh, for our semifinal games,
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: you know, when we win that one, we go down.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: We played the national championship in tex This and for us.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: We always uh, we'll always play on the loudspeakers. If
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: you're gonna play in Texas, you gotta have a fiddle
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: in the band by Alabama, So you know, it's just
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: been kind of a tradition where we just kind of
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: do an air fiddle on the field. And I was
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: kind of doing that and then one of my teammates
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: came up and actually handed me a fiddle, and I'm like, no, no,
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: it don't do it like, I don't know what I'm doing.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: I have no idea, and so I started just trying
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: to play it, and then m yeah, I got I
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: got a that next Monday, I got a violin lesson
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: from a sixth grade orchestra class. It's I'm really interested
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: in Cody, are gonna have to hit you up to
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: get the backstory of who was holding the violin the
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: whole game? And it looked pristine by the time it
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: got to you that There's a lot, there's a lot
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: to catch up on. But Cody Mount, thanks for spending
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: time with us on NFL Now. I can't wait to
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: see where your NFL career starts. Man. Yeah, thank you
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: so much for the time. One of the best linement prospects.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: And there's another. It's Peter Skorinsky. Scorosky number two Bucky
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: Brooks top five tackle prospects coming in to the twenty
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: twenty three NFL Draft, and here's a look at his
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: first draft. Kronski the top rated offensive tackle. A style
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: of play is technically dominated. Guy not him out of
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: the play every single down to four quarters. Speed up
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: on him and make him quit. Peter Skronsky, offensive leman,
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: Northwestern University. I'm from park Ridge, Illinois, group of Packers
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: fan in Chicago, which is kind of fun living and
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: diving with the Packers. My grandfather's name is Bob Scarnsky,
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: heep playing for the Packers in the nineteen sixties under
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: Events Lombardi, starting left tackle offensive captain, won five NFL championships,
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: including two Super Bowls. I think the left tackle position
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: has changed a lot, you know, the nineteen sixties, But
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: I think just his mentality of being consistent and being
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: someone that could be relied on by his team's inspiring
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: to me and something I strive for it. I didn't
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: play tackle football until sixth grade, which is a little
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: bit later than most people. My dad was one of
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: my first coaches, He's a very stern coach and kind
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: of a disciplinarian. It's always funny seeing other kids react
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: to just how like disciplined my dad is as a coach.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: Ten push ups when they weren't listening or talking while
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: he was talking. He's strict like that. At times of
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: this process, I've kind of stopped and been like, Oh, wow,
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: this is really happening. Draft night will be my biggest
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: sort of a wild moment that this is really happening,
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: and just for the culmination of what I've dreamed about
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: since I was a kid, found my dream, but found
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: my grandfather's footsteps carrying nuts crosskey name and coming up
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: tomorrow on n F. Well, now we've got a couple
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: of skilled position guys including UCLA quarterback Dorian Thompson Robinson
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: and then Oregon State tight end Luke Musgrave, both joining
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: the show. That's tomorrow one o'clock eastern right here on
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: inn FL network, looking at what the Jacksonville Jaguars were
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: able to accomplish in their first year under Doug Peterson
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: and now looking to the future in Jacksonville. That's coming
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: up next little bit. Yeah, wine picking number one in
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: the twenty twenty two NFL Draft all the way to
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: a playoff berth And here's the changes the jackson seen
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three. Those of the additions on the left.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: They do lose Marvin Jones Junior, but they have Calvin
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Ridley coming in, also Juwan Taylor. Now we'll play tackle
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: for the Kansas City Chiefs. For more on the Jacksonville Draguars,
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: we'll bring in Sarah Waltz. Good afternoon to you. Sarah.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: You spoke with Doug Peterson this week. How different is
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: the draft strategy this year from what it was last year?
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: Well a year ago, I was camped out up there
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: in Jacksonville because they had the number one pick in
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: the draft, and I remember walking out on the field.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: It was the first time that Doug Peterson got to
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: do any hands on work with the players that were
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: already there in Jacksonville in April. And Doug told me
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: this week, it's definitely a different vibe, right because last year,
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: all eyes were on Jacksonville and they held the keys
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: to the draft. They were on the clock the entire time,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: and they controlled what they were going to do. And
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: he said, obviously it's different when this year you're going
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: to sit back and wait. They're at twenty fourth overall.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: But it is a little bit different in terms of
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: strategy because a year ago they had a record spending.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: In that offseason, they spent more than one hundred and
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: seventy five million dollars on players, and Doug said that's
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: because it allowed them to solidify what they needed at
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: certain positions, and in some ways, he said that took
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: a little bit of the pressure off of the draft
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: because they chose what positions they were going to filly,
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: he said, this year, obviously you're still looking for value,
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: but now we're really looking for depth. He said, he
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: feels like they've really filled out this roster. Well, now
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: they're going to go look for depth. So the Jacksonville
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: Jaguars looking to get stronger once again after really a
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: dream season for them. Peterson and their GM Trent Bulky
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: told me they are never going to be drafting number
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: one again, and so far, Patrick, they are holding true
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: to that promise. And that's because they saw so much
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: improvement last year. Where do they want to see improvement now,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Sir Well, Peterson said that they got a taste of
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: what it's like having the spotlight on them, and I
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: believe that most people are going to think this is
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: the team to beat in the division if you look
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: at what else is going on there. But he said, ultimately,
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: while they had a really nice run, we didn't meet
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: our goal. So he said it's now time for a
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: reset for this team. And he doesn't want to take
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: away from what they did last year because certainly it
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: was such a drastic improvement for the Jaguars, but now
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: their eye is on something much bigger, and he made
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: no bones about it. He said, we have to get
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: better on third downs and he said that's offense and defense.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: We got to stay on the field on third down.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: On defense, we have to get off in the field.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: And then he said they want be better in the
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: red zone. He said they need to be more efficient.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: They can't have those turnovers in the red zone. Any
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: referenced Trevor Lawrence sort of just catapulting himself into this
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: next level in the second half of that season. Well,
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: now Lawrence is going to have another weapon in Calvin Ridley,
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: who Peterson said is so excited to be there. Peterson
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: hasn't been able to work with him yet, but we
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: have seen video obviously of Lawrence working with his new receiver,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: and that should alleviate some pressure on other guys like
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: Christian Kirk, who had an amazing year for the Jaguar.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: So things are really looking up in Jacksonville, and they're
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: excited to get this thing going once again. And they're
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: certainly excited to have Ridley. Peterson told me they have
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: watched every single snap he ever took in Atlanta. Patrick. Yeah,
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: they're coming out a season where in the regular season
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: they won six of their last seven games, scoring well
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: over twenty five points per game. Looking forward to the
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: Jags in twenty three. Thank you to Sarah Wolsh shot strike.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: It'll be Robinson to the second level and beyond touchdown.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: That's Bijean Robinson under immedia brut off, the chin not escaped,
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Will Anderson homes. Oh my gosh, s Trout fires Man,
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: it is crabbed in the ngue. C. J. Strout. Wow,
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: it a grow. This week the new edition of Daniel
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: Jeremiah's Top fifty Prospects. It's the fourth version dropping on
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: NFL dot Com and it's all tied at the top.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: Bryce Young and then Will Anderson Junior, Bijan Robinson, Tyree Wilson,
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: and Jalen Carter rounding out the top five. For more
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: on a breakdown of the whole top fifty, including some
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: guys who've risen up on the board, Here's the Path
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: to the Draft. Hello, fellow draft enthusiast and mock drafters,
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: Welcome to the set of Path to the Draft for
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: at Lewis, Fucky Brooks, and Cythia Freeland. Here with you
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: Daniel Jeremiah, of course not in studio with us, but
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: here in Spirits after releasing his latest update to the
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: top fifty prospects in this year's draft, and we're looking
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: at the biggest risers that DJ has identified, and pj
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: O Gillari takes the cake, moving up for forty two
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: to thirty five plus seven moving up the list, and
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: then he got a host of players sitting there at
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: plus four that are going up as well. And again
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: that doesn't necessarily mean that they did anything right or
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: wrong to make that move or just getting a clearer picture.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: What does that picture tell you about BJ? Fuck? Well,
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: he does a couple of things that allows him to
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: grow and rise in the scoutter community. He sped and
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: he has skills and that a gil who a long
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: way when it comes to being a edge rusher. This
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: guy has great first step quickness, outstanding snapcount in anticipation,
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: plays with a relentless motor so he never stops moving
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: on the field, and then he has finishing skills. When
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: he turns the corner gets close to the quarterback, he
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: knocks him down. That is one of the reasons why
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: he's a hot, hot commodity in the scout and could
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: be finding himself in that first round conversation if you're
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: sitting there as the thirty fifth overall player in this
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: draft class. So a name to watch as we get
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: closer to April twenty seventh. Cynthia, let's talk a little
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: bit about Hindon Hooker. In his rise, Well talked about commodities,
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: and I'm talking to you about something that's super rare,
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: which is the quarterback position. And that lift is probably
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: due to something that I look at to judge what
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: is the best a quarterback can do, and that's you're
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: throwing from a clean pocket when you're not under pressure.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: Look at what he can do in the deep passing
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: game when he's not under pressure. That upside will help
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: scouts forecast what his ultimate ability would be at the
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: next level, and let's just say it is very good.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: I love Hindon Hooker as a prospect as a person,
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: lot to like their potential face of somebody's franchise down
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: the road. I'm gonna go to another riser, in fact,
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: the biggest riser or the highest riser among the wide
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: receiver group, and that is Jackson Smith in Jigba from
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: Ohio's state, who actually rose above now NFL wide ales
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: Garrett Wilson and Chris Olanve whose teammates with back in
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. It was Jsen who actually had the
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: better production that year for the Ohio State Buck Guys
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: phenomenal Rose Bowl Game that year too. Didn't get to
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: see him a lot this year, so I think that's
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: why maybe now we're just kind of starting to get
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: reminded about how good of a player this guy is
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: when he's healthy and all on the field, and certainly
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: understand why DJ has him as number nineteen on his
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: top fifty prospects list. Could very well be the first
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: wide receiver off the board. And you get much more
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: of this kind of analysis as we lead up to
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: the draft. Right here, on path in the Draft each
• 29:23
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