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Chuck & Buck 4-27 Hour 4: More with Hugh Millen on the draft! · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: Julian, I'm gonna paint a scenario for you. It's it's
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Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter, it's a critical time. You get
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Speaker 1: the huddle call or from the sideline. What's the coverage,
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Speaker 1: what's the defense that that you like the most that
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Speaker 1: you say, yeah, that's the one I want to be in.
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Speaker 2: And what's your role in that?
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Speaker 1: So we're in a front two five country a country
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Speaker 1: cover three, basically a true zone.
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Speaker 2: Wait you said you say we're in a fourth quarter, yeah,
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Speaker 2: fourth quarter, any important situation. What's your favorite what's your
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Speaker 2: favorite defensive call? And and you're rolling it. So you're
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Speaker 2: saying you're playing country cover three. Oh no, no, no, no, no, no,
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Speaker 2: we're playing man, I'm gonna touch them.
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Speaker 3: I'm gonna go I'm gonna go tounch them.
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna go touch on somebody. I'm gonna go punch
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Speaker 2: on somebody. They're not getting gassed me. And if you
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Speaker 2: get gassed, I'm gonna look back for the ball and
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna get that simple and somebody at the line
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Speaker 2: love it.
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Speaker 1: Now, are you in off coverage or impress in this situation?
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Speaker 2: I'm impresious, I'm all up in your face. I'm gonna
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Speaker 2: get down and go you with it from home there.
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Speaker 4: It is the first of many future interviews exchanges and
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Speaker 4: now you're just being truculent Olie.
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Speaker 2: I get that. I don't know how many others. But
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Speaker 2: and again there's some context there because he had earlier
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Speaker 2: in the interview, had had described all when he plays
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Speaker 2: in off coverage. He had been asked about that. You know,
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Speaker 2: what he's looking at and how he loves playing an
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Speaker 2: off coverage you know, reading the concepts and what have you.
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Speaker 2: So it meant he's expressing his versatility. But you hear
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Speaker 2: the you know, honestly, you hear the feistiness in his
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Speaker 2: answer matches the feistiness on the field.
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Speaker 4: Well, I was going to ask you that because I mean,
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Speaker 4: he talks a big game. He acts like he's a
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Speaker 4: physical guy. Uh does that show up in the game
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Speaker 4: film study?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it does. Yep. He comes down here, and I
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Speaker 2: think that when you see corners go particularly high in
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Speaker 2: the draft from now on, Uh, you're gonna you're not
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Speaker 2: gonna see anybody who is is you know, middle of
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Speaker 2: the road on run support. That that is a big
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Speaker 2: part of it, you know, Reek Woolen member, Now he
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Speaker 2: got benched by Pete Carroll for you know, lack of
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Speaker 2: will uh in in the run support. And so it's
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Speaker 2: something they just kind of managed. Uh. He brought so
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Speaker 2: many traits that that he demanded to be put on
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Speaker 2: the field. Talking about Woolan. But when they're targeting those
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Speaker 2: traits they want, they're gonna want a guy who gets
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Speaker 2: nasty coming downhill on screens and outside runs and and yeah,
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Speaker 2: he puts that on tape. All right, that's a big
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Speaker 2: part of what and and and uh again, Chuck, I'm
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Speaker 2: just telling you. They they figured they did a hell
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Speaker 2: of a job for their first three picks. They figured
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Speaker 2: Julian Love would be right there. They didn't want to
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Speaker 2: They would have liked to have have traded down a
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Speaker 2: few spots, but when they you know, all the trade
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Speaker 2: partners dried up, they just said, let's not get cute here,
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Speaker 2: let's get the guy we want. Price that that was
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Speaker 2: absolutely targeted. And then, as we said, the Julian Neil
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Speaker 2: there in the third round, Bud Clark in the second round.
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Speaker 2: Those guys were targeted and predicted to be available in Seattle.
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Speaker 2: You know, took their.
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Speaker 4: Guys humillanus with us Monday morning, Quarterback Draft edition. We've recapped,
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Speaker 4: we've talked about everybody drafted on today's programs with the
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Speaker 4: exception of Jadari and Price, and I did that intentionally.
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Speaker 4: We got some analysis on Price back on Friday show,
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Speaker 4: and so here on Monday, I wanted to get to
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Speaker 4: the guys we haven't analyze broken down here on Chuck
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Speaker 4: and Buck in the morning. So we took care of
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Speaker 4: that in our last hour. So let's go back and
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Speaker 4: circle back to that first round draft selection Jadari and
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Speaker 4: Prize thirty second overall out of Notre Dame. And now
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Speaker 4: that you've had an entire weekend to think about it,
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Speaker 4: what do we feel about him being the seahawks first selection.
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Speaker 2: Well, I feel good about it because I think it's
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Speaker 2: the number one need. I think that they feel that
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Speaker 2: he was the number two running back on the board. Obviously,
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Speaker 2: Jeremiah Love was in a whole nother cut of steak
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Speaker 2: and unavailable to them, had they unless they wanted to
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Speaker 2: really expend resources to climb up to three or higher
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Speaker 2: to get him, right, Yeah, So you know, I like
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Speaker 2: Mike Washington, I thought there was well, it'll be interesting
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Speaker 2: to watch him.
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Speaker 4: He went early in the fourth, right, Yeah, he didn't
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Speaker 4: go until the fourth to the Raiders.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, but that doesn't mean you know, Chyle Davis
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Speaker 2: didn't go until the sixth, you know, so so I
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Speaker 2: don't think that that signifies anything. And Seattle's had three
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Speaker 2: second round draft pick running backs, you know, and and
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Speaker 2: with in addition to Rissard Penny was the twenty seventh pick,
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Speaker 2: so you know, four guys that that were drafted right
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Speaker 2: around then, and you know, kind of mixed results, right
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Speaker 2: christ and Michael was a second round pick. Now that
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Speaker 2: was later in the second round. But at an event,
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Speaker 2: I'm yeah, he asked me. I'm I'm I'm really happy
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Speaker 2: that they got some competition there. This is a guy
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Speaker 2: that has great lateral quickness, I think, very good vision.
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Speaker 2: Not much of a contributor in the pass game from
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Speaker 2: a stats standpoint. They threw it to him seven times,
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Speaker 2: he caught six. Uh the seventh was uncatchable. But of
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Speaker 2: those he uh uh, you know, he looks like he's
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Speaker 2: a natural in catching the football. So I think he
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Speaker 2: can be a contributor in the passing game. And and uh,
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Speaker 2: I just think it's his his lateral quickness and vision
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Speaker 2: is probably his best friend. So I think he has
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Speaker 2: good contact balance. I think the physical piece is is
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Speaker 2: you know, it's certainly not a plus. You know, a
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Speaker 2: plus is Marshawn Lynch, you know, closing the first the
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Speaker 2: circle of physicality on the football team, as Pete Carroll
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Speaker 2: would describe. So don't expect a guy that's, you know,
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Speaker 2: gonna be an intimidating back, but very skilled. You know,
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Speaker 2: there's a you watch the combine. There's a drill that
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Speaker 2: every NFL team I've ever seen or been on, they
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Speaker 2: do the same drill with the running backs. And and
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Speaker 2: basically the running back goes straight ahead with the ball
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Speaker 2: and then a coach is going to take a dumb
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Speaker 2: and then move one way. And then that guy has
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Speaker 2: to go laterally like ninety degrees and then and then
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Speaker 2: go vertical again. And and it's kind of like a
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Speaker 2: portion of an H you know and kapital H or something.
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Speaker 2: You know. It up lateral up. And this guy, you
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Speaker 2: see it on the game tape over and over again,
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Speaker 2: he just he's he's going someplace, he reacts, he's lateral.
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Speaker 2: He looks like he looks like the the example that
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Speaker 2: you would show young running backs. Okay, this is how
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Speaker 2: it's supposed to look, you know, just and just beautiful
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Speaker 2: feet that are well connected to his decision, making smart
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Speaker 2: guy resilient, a lot of grit to him. So other
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Speaker 2: than the physical piece or you know, he doesn't have
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Speaker 2: great finishing with the physical and I think his his
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Speaker 2: top end speed is is good but not elite. But
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Speaker 2: other than that, you know, very worthy of getting taking
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Speaker 2: a pick there, and given this year's draft and the
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Speaker 2: need you had, Yeah, that's that's that's a real good pick.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, you brought up twel Davis's name earlier. I mean
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Speaker 4: one of the things that people brought up with his
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Speaker 4: success was that because you didn't have transferring wasn't easy
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Speaker 4: back then, and and because he didn't get the ball
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Speaker 4: much in Georgia, like all the tread was on his
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Speaker 4: tires as a running back when he got to the
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Speaker 4: National Football League. And you can say that maybe not
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Speaker 4: all of it, but Jadarian pricely got a lot of
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Speaker 4: tread left. He didn't get a lot of carries because
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Speaker 4: he's backing up Jeremiah Love.
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Speaker 2: But on the flip side of.
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Speaker 4: That, also a two hundred and three pound guy that
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Speaker 4: we've not seen go through an entire game being the
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Speaker 4: bell cow ball carrier, and I'm not sure he'll ever
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Speaker 4: fill that role with the Seattle Seahawks, the way that
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Speaker 4: we divvy up carries in the National Football League today
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Speaker 4: and the way they divvied up carries last year on
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Speaker 4: this particular in this particular organization. But marry those two together,
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Speaker 4: wave them against the other to get a running back
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Speaker 4: that really didn't really take much abuse in college. But
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Speaker 4: also he never went through the proving ground to show
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Speaker 4: that he can take abuse.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the knife cuts both ways, right, I mean, as
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Speaker 2: soon as you're the more you want a laud how
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Speaker 2: much he has on his tire, then by necessity you
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Speaker 2: are acknowledging that he didn't really have a workload. In college.
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Speaker 2: He touched the ball, counting receptions a little under eight
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Speaker 2: point two touches per game, and you know you'd want
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Speaker 2: to be close to double that at the NFL level,
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Speaker 2: So you know, it's a little bit of a concern.
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Speaker 2: He goes from the number two running back for Notre Dame.
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Speaker 2: Who has a relative? I mean, Notre Dame's got a
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Speaker 2: sexy brand, right, Like, who doesn't know Notre Dame? That
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Speaker 2: sounds pretty cool. I Hey, you're from Notre Dame and
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Speaker 2: you know, coach Freeman there. You know, they're they're bringing
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Speaker 2: a high caliber of dude, and this guy's a high
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Speaker 2: caliber of dude. But they're not playing a great schedule. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: they play the Miami Hurricanes, and I'm not saying they
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Speaker 2: didn't have some quality opponents, but they're not playing a
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Speaker 2: Big ten schedule. They live in Big ten country, but
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Speaker 2: they don't play a Big ten schedule. And so not
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Speaker 2: only did he not you know, have a great workload,
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Speaker 2: it was against relatively soft competition, you know there that
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Speaker 2: was more like a you know, Big twelve schedule at best,
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Speaker 2: you know, or an ACC schedule at best. You know,
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Speaker 2: a couple of good opponents, but that's not a SEC
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Speaker 2: or Big ten schedule that Notre Dame's playing. And then
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Speaker 2: the other part is outside zone is his I'm gonna
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Speaker 2: get a little technical on the x's and o's here.
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Speaker 2: Outside zones his specialty. Uh well, excuse me, he says
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Speaker 2: it's his specialty. You watch the tape, and he has
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Speaker 2: more inside zone and duo and and and power than
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Speaker 2: he has outside zone. But I he did a run
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Speaker 2: a fair number of outside zones. It was mostly from
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Speaker 2: the offset position. What do I mean by that he
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Speaker 2: lined up on the left. We talked about this. I'll
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Speaker 2: just repeat it real quickly. He lines up on the
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Speaker 2: left of the quarterback instead of behind the quarterback. And
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Speaker 2: so his reads as he looked at he's reading the
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Speaker 2: n man to hook. That's a farther distance for him
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Speaker 2: to travel. So his reads would would more likely to
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Speaker 2: cause him to turn up and go inside in the
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Speaker 2: middle because he would look at the tight end trying
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Speaker 2: to hook the defensive end and he says, well, I can't,
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Speaker 2: I can't get to the stretch. I better go up
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Speaker 2: north and you know, go in the A gap or
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Speaker 2: the B gap, you know, go over the guard or
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Speaker 2: even the backside guard. So his reads are going to
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Speaker 2: be different. You don't see as many reads where where.
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Speaker 2: If he was behind the center and he's closer to
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Speaker 2: that block, his read would more likely to take him
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Speaker 2: to have to bounce it outside. At that juncture, we'd
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Speaker 2: be able to evaluate his speed and and and his
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Speaker 2: ability to get to the edge. The only time he
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Speaker 2: got to the edge is a Notre dame, was when
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Speaker 2: it was just block like so clean. It's like anybody
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Speaker 2: could have gone there, you know. And so I think
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Speaker 2: that the timing of the of the outside zone is
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Speaker 2: gonna change for him. On his reads. They'll be interesting
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Speaker 2: to see when the red declares him to go outside.
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Speaker 2: And again you're just saying, okay, aj Barner, he's trying
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Speaker 2: to get to the outside shoulder of that defender. That
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Speaker 2: defender is coached, No, I need to keep my outside
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Speaker 2: shoulder free. So generally, more often than not, the defensive end,
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Speaker 2: the n man will win that battle because that's his responsibility.
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Speaker 2: But on the times where the tight end does win
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Speaker 2: the battle, and that's a green light to go wide
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Speaker 2: towards the sideline does Now we see the burst that
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Speaker 2: Kenneth Walker has. He reads and he goes, okay, okay,
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Speaker 2: stretch go time, green light go, and then boom, you
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Speaker 2: see the burst. Remember now, Canine had the second fastest
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Speaker 2: ten yard split of any running back over in a
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Speaker 2: ten year period. And you know Price didn't. You know
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Speaker 2: it shows up quicker in the tape than the that
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Speaker 2: the stop watch showed. But but you know, there's there's
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Speaker 2: some real nuance to hey, do you have the burst
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Speaker 2: to get outside if the retakes you outside? I'm gonna
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Speaker 2: be interested to watch to be able to answer that question.
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Speaker 4: Well, it sounds like Hugh Millen is satisfied draft wise
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Speaker 4: with the boxes that the Seahawks did check. But man,
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Speaker 4: you can't cover all you can't keep all the plates spinning.
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Speaker 4: Is there an area that you kind of wish the
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Speaker 4: Seahawks would have addressed? Or if nothing else, you didn't
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Speaker 4: have enough chips to cover the roulette.
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Speaker 2: Wheel and so maybe it didn't get covered. Yeah, I'm
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Speaker 2: not the first to say it. I think the losing
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Speaker 2: Boy Mafey and the idea that you want to have
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Speaker 2: a rotation if they had four quality guys, you know,
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Speaker 2: two older guys in Nuosu and DeMarcus Lawrence and then
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Speaker 2: and then two younger guys and Derek Hall and and
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Speaker 2: Boy mafe and and so I thought that that was
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Speaker 2: a real nice comment the nation. And to lose twenty
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Speaker 2: five percent of that, you know, is a little bit
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Speaker 2: of concern. But I want I've said it before, I
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Speaker 2: want it. I'm gonna say it again. Write this down.
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Speaker 2: Jared Ivy six foot six, he's been you know, he's
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Speaker 2: been lingering behind the scenes with no varse, real varsity time.
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Speaker 2: He's measuring two hundred and eighty pounds a solid to
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Speaker 2: eighty that guy is going to be a factor for
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Speaker 2: this football team. And you know, and Jeremiah Pritchett, you know,
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Speaker 2: to a lesser extent on that end, Connor O'Toole like
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Speaker 2: I think that the Seahawks feel like they have guys.
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Speaker 2: They didn't when the defensive ends were were getting plucked off.
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Speaker 2: They didn't think that they had the value at defensive
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Speaker 2: end that they hit they had at the dbs, and
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Speaker 2: so they said, instead of getting a slightly lesser quality
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Speaker 2: defensive man, let's just get a higher quality quality dB.
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Speaker 2: So that you know, that's a little bit of a concern.
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Speaker 2: You know, you look at this, chuck. So the Seahawks
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Speaker 2: won the Super Bowl in convincing fashion, so you're you're
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Speaker 2: left to think, well, they're you know, a dominant team.
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Speaker 2: But had the Rams been in the AFC and you'd
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Speaker 2: played them in the Super Bowl, it would have been
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Speaker 2: a super Bowl for the ages right down to the
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Speaker 2: wire and the Seahawks or Super Bowl champions, and you go, wow,
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Speaker 2: that's that's that's really a close. Right. So now let's
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Speaker 2: just take the think of it like a horse race.
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Speaker 2: But as we know horse races, they all line up
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Speaker 2: at an even spot. But just as a thought experiment.
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Speaker 2: Let's say now they're staggered. I mean kind of like
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Speaker 2: you see on a on a track, on a on
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Speaker 2: a four hundred meter right, they're they're they're staggered based
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Speaker 2: on how they finished last year. So the Seahawks they're there.
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Speaker 2: They are a horse in the horse race, that is
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Speaker 2: that starts with the lead and the Rams are just
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Speaker 2: behind him. And then of course you got the Cardinals
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Speaker 2: way in the back, and and you know the Jets,
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Speaker 2: you know, way in the back and their stack. Right, Okay,
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Speaker 2: so this is this horse race is called the twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty six horse race. Right. So so right after the
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Speaker 2: Super Bowl, the morning after the Super Bowl, all the
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Speaker 2: teams are in the blocks. All excuse me, all the
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Speaker 2: horses in the blocks because because again this is the
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Speaker 2: thought experiment. Since then, the other teams have been able
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Speaker 2: to catch up more to the Seahawks on paper. I mean,
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Speaker 2: you know, just look at who Seattle brought in and
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Speaker 2: who they lost. If you if you don't count Malik
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Speaker 2: Willis because he's actually a backup, and it doesn't really
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Speaker 2: affect the Packers when they're on the field because Jordan
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Speaker 2: Love is their quarterback. Right if if you don't count
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Speaker 2: Malik Willis the Seahawks. They had the most net losses
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Speaker 2: by guaranteed money and contracts of any team, So that
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Speaker 2: means that the Horses got a little closer to the Seahawks.
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Speaker 2: And then going into the draft, they only had four picks,
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Speaker 2: the lowest amount, and so all the teams that had
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Speaker 2: you know, more draft value and more picks, they got
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Speaker 2: a little closer. So the Seahawks are still starting you know,
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Speaker 2: you know or you know, the you know ahead, but
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Speaker 2: everybody else has closed a gap. So the question is
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Speaker 2: was the gap big enough that they can they can
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Speaker 2: withstand it? And I mean that's kind of the picture
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Speaker 2: from my end. But but in you know, looking at
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Speaker 2: the Rams, you know, an interesting thing happened with them
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Speaker 2: at thirteen that we'll talk about. But that's kind of
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Speaker 2: the is that a fair way of eshing that? Yeah?
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Speaker 4: That way, I mean, that's the way that that's why
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Speaker 4: we have the draft, That's why it's set up this way,
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Speaker 4: is that some of those teams that are behind and
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Speaker 4: have some advantages that they didn't earn and to try
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Speaker 4: to close the gap, and the good teams with the
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Speaker 4: good front offices will do it and the bad teams
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Speaker 4: with the bad front offices always do seem to remain
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Speaker 4: a step or two behind. That's just kind of how
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Speaker 4: it's all set up. And fortunately for us, we've got
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Speaker 4: one of those organizations that's one of the good ones
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Speaker 4: that does the right things.
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Speaker 2: Well. It's interesting the NFL, in their would I say wisdom,
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Speaker 2: they are very married to this idea of parody. I
18:33
Speaker 2: think the mayors, the owner of the Giants, if you
18:35
Speaker 2: read the history of it, there's a book called America's
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Speaker 2: Game by I believe Michael McCambridge. I've read years ago.
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Speaker 2: It's about six hundred and twenty pages of the history
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Speaker 2: of the NFL and how influential the mayraors were the
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Speaker 2: owners of the Giants to say, no, we need to
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Speaker 2: share all the revenue. We're not going to act like
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Speaker 2: George Steinbrener, you know, who didn't exist then. But you know,
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Speaker 2: think of it that way, and you know, the Steelers
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Speaker 2: and the Packers are going to get just as much,
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Speaker 2: and we have to have, uh, you know, the worst
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Speaker 2: teams draft first, and and they want to prevent dynasty.
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Speaker 2: Now think of college football, where you know they're even
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Speaker 2: in recent negotiations about Okay, how are we going to
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Speaker 2: have any kind of super conference or what have you.
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Speaker 2: All the teams that are at the top are demanding
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Speaker 2: that they get they get more, uh more of a
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Speaker 2: share of the revenue, right, you know, have you read
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Speaker 2: about this the you know, the Alabama and the and
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Speaker 2: the Georgia and the Ohio State, all of those say no, no, no,
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Speaker 2: we're going to get more than the others, you know.
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Speaker 2: And and so college football is designed to prevent dynasty
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Speaker 2: excuse me, perpetuate dynasties. Pro football is designed to prevent dynasties.
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Speaker 2: So so Seattle was trying to have a dynasty. Right,
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Speaker 2: the whole league and its structure is conspiring against them.
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Speaker 2: And so we'll see how they can battle those forces
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Speaker 2: that work against them. You know, drafting last in every round,
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Speaker 2: and you know, the toughest schedule, they'll have the number
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Speaker 2: one schedule and all the other things. Yep, yep, yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 4: And you look ahead to next year, I mean, there'd
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Speaker 4: be a lot of guys leaving Nuosu and Lawrence who's
20:19
Speaker 4: already talked about retirement. Cooper Cups probably near in the end,
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Speaker 4: Jaron Reid's probably near in the end. So it's probably
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Speaker 4: going to be a good thing to have ten picks
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Speaker 4: next year because there might be a few more veterans
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Speaker 4: that are that are exiting the operation.
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Speaker 2: Hugh Mellen is with us.
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Speaker 4: We are Monday Morning Quarterback Draft edition here today and
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Speaker 4: we've talked thoroughly about the Seattle Seahawks and what they
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Speaker 4: did over the course of their three days of drafting.
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Speaker 4: But there are thirty one other teams in the league
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Speaker 4: and I want to get huge thoughts. What stood out
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Speaker 4: to him about what everybody else did at the draft.
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Speaker 4: Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM. Well, of course,
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Speaker 4: the NFL draft has come to a close and it
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Speaker 4: was just the Seahawks a drafted this weekend. There are
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Speaker 4: a lot of interesting storylines, a lot of fun stuff
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Speaker 4: out there to break down. And Hugh Millan did all
21:09
Speaker 4: that work, all of that research to make sure on
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Speaker 4: the Malar Millon Monck Draft and during our draft coverage
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Speaker 4: that he was prepared. And yes, he sounded very prepared.
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Speaker 4: He's joined us here today for some Monday Morning Quarterback
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Speaker 4: Draft edition and so we should use all of that knowledge.
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Speaker 4: We should show it off, we should showcase it here
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Speaker 4: this morning and get his thoughts on what happened in
21:32
Speaker 4: the draft league wide, But I do want to start
21:35
Speaker 4: with the Rams. We had a conversation about it Friday,
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Speaker 4: and Sean McVay has since gone out of his way
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Speaker 4: to try to explain Hugh that he was just trying
21:45
Speaker 4: to protect Matthew Stafford, that he is in fact in
21:48
Speaker 4: lockstep with less Need, that he really likes Ty Simpson
21:52
Speaker 4: and glad he's part of the organization. But you've had
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Speaker 4: a couple of days away from it. Here we sit
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Speaker 4: on a Monday morning. What is your avoutal of all
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Speaker 4: of that drama that went down in the pick itself.
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Speaker 2: Well, the default would be that Sean McVay would be
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Speaker 2: highly valued by the Rams and they would never want
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Speaker 2: to thrust upon him. You know, who's an offensive guru
22:18
Speaker 2: a quarterback that he doesn't want, right, So the default
22:21
Speaker 2: is that he would sign off on it. What's peculiar
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Speaker 2: to me is the guy they signed off on, because
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Speaker 2: I just go to Jared Goff, who was the number
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Speaker 2: one overall pick, who made two Pro Bowls as a Ram,
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Speaker 2: took him to a Super Bowl, had a season where
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Speaker 2: he was first in the NFL in the yards per completion,
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Speaker 2: and net yards per attempt. I had another year where
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Speaker 2: he's number one and pass attempts. I mean, this guy
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Speaker 2: was a certainly a quality quarterback. And yet they they
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Speaker 2: sent two number ones and Jared Goff to the Lions
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Speaker 2: to get Matthew Stafford. So it's what did Stafford provide?
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Speaker 2: Like that should be on some level a tell that
23:11
Speaker 2: of what Sean McVay needs that get. You know, what
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Speaker 2: is what does Stafford give you that GoF doesn't. And
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Speaker 2: you know, you look and you say, there's a an
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Speaker 2: idea that Goff just kind of needs to be in
23:25
Speaker 2: a system, right that that he cannot elevate. You know,
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Speaker 2: he cannot play above the system and the structure he
23:35
Speaker 2: has to have the protection, doesn't have the arm, you know,
23:39
Speaker 2: and you know Stafford he can, you know, he played
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Speaker 2: in Detroit bad teams. You know he can throw off angle.
23:46
Speaker 2: But but really, more than anything, he just to drive
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Speaker 2: the football. He just has this elite one of the
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Speaker 2: best arms that's ever played in the National Football League.
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Speaker 2: And so so if you you take golf and you
23:59
Speaker 2: put Ty Simpson and Matthew Stafford and golf, and then
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Speaker 2: you have to rank them, well, golf is going to
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Speaker 2: be in the middle of all of those attributes, Stafford
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Speaker 2: is going to be the best and Simpson's is gonna
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Speaker 2: be the worst. And so you know, now there's other
24:17
Speaker 2: things about Simpson's game and and and maybe some of
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Speaker 2: his deterioration really had to do with the injury halfway
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Speaker 2: through the season. So I'll put an asterisk on that.
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Speaker 2: But you're talking about six to one quarterback with not
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Speaker 2: a real strong arm and uh and not you know,
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Speaker 2: not you know, you know, extraordinary playmaking ability off script,
24:40
Speaker 2: it just seems seems odd that they would, uh, they
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Speaker 2: would make that that that that uh, that evaluation of Stafford.
24:49
Speaker 2: We got to have that. But then they would turn
24:52
Speaker 2: around and say, but but the guy that replaces them,
24:55
Speaker 2: you know, has all of these you know, wolfully short
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Speaker 2: at those those critical attributes that that he had over Goff.
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Speaker 2: Does that I don't know if I'm making sense, but
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Speaker 2: it doesn't make sense to me. Yeah, yeah, I mean
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Speaker 2: maybe the plan is that, hey, we just do it again.
25:09
Speaker 2: We trade Simpson and five first round picks for Josh
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Speaker 2: Allen in three years. Yeah, maybe, I don't know. There's
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Speaker 2: a pretty smart down there.
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Speaker 4: All right, So let's talk about the just draft overall,
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Speaker 4: I don't I don't even want to guide you anywhere
25:31
Speaker 4: in case there's some nugget out there that stood out
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Speaker 4: to you that you definitely want to get to. But
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Speaker 4: is there one pick, or or one team or one
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Speaker 4: situation that you found particularly interesting from this weekend's draft?
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Speaker 2: Oh? I think the entire draft is interesting. But let's
25:47
Speaker 2: let's focus on the Chiefs and their decision. Remember now,
25:52
Speaker 2: who are the Kansas City Chiefs. Well, their quarterback by
25:54
Speaker 2: Pat Mahomes, thought to be the greatest quarterback of our generation.
25:59
Speaker 2: They were two times champions, and and if Seattle's going
26:03
Speaker 2: to try and repeat, uh, it's not unfathomable that you'd
26:09
Speaker 2: have to go through the Chiefs in the Super Bowl? Right?
26:11
Speaker 2: Is that a fair assertion? I think what they did
26:16
Speaker 2: they trade McDuffie and I and I went through all
26:20
Speaker 2: the three different draft value charts that Jimmy Johnson, the
26:25
Speaker 2: Rich Hill and the Fitzpielberger charts, and and that might
26:29
Speaker 2: be a little too nerdy for some, but but you're
26:33
Speaker 2: you're really just kind of saying, Okay, what was the
26:36
Speaker 2: Chief's thoughts about this? They have they have a quarterback
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Speaker 2: with a high cap number now and and what are
26:45
Speaker 2: they going to do. So they get rid of McDuffie,
26:48
Speaker 2: and that was for the twenty ninth pick, right, But
26:52
Speaker 2: then they turn around and they have to trade up
26:56
Speaker 2: to get Monsieur de Layton from the ninth spot. They
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Speaker 2: become I'm so dependent the Rams pick up not just
27:03
Speaker 2: O J McDuffie or OJ McDuffie. But you know, I
27:07
Speaker 2: was going to do at some point Trent McDuffie, Right,
27:10
Speaker 2: I played with OJ McDuffie with Dolphins anyway, And and
27:15
Speaker 2: they get you know, they get two corners from the Chiefs,
27:17
Speaker 2: and really what it all comes down to is that
27:22
Speaker 2: that Brett Veach the GM of the Chiefs, and with
27:27
Speaker 2: Andy Reid's blessing, presumably effectively, what they did they traded
27:32
Speaker 2: Trent McDuffie the Husky, a third rounder and a fifth
27:36
Speaker 2: rounder for Monsieur, delaying the sixth overall pick and also
27:41
Speaker 2: a late round debt pick. So I think, I think,
27:44
Speaker 2: I just think it's interesting what teams are doing to
27:48
Speaker 2: kind of deal with the salary cap impact of their
27:53
Speaker 2: high prey price quarterbacks. And you know, will the Bills
27:57
Speaker 2: do something like this with Josh Allen? But but you know,
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Speaker 2: you think of like, Okay McDuffie, one of the best
28:02
Speaker 2: corners leaves the building. Okay, what are we going to
28:06
Speaker 2: do here? Well, now, the Chiefs necessitate moving up all
28:10
Speaker 2: the way, that's the six pack, from from just nine
28:13
Speaker 2: to six to make sure they get their guy in
28:17
Speaker 2: monsieur or the top corner of the draft. So interesting
28:20
Speaker 2: the Chiefs, they get younger, they get cheaper at corner,
28:24
Speaker 2: replacing you know, arguably one of the best corners and
28:27
Speaker 2: certainly the highest paid corners in the league. And McDuffie.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, in a year from now, depending on what
28:34
Speaker 4: we pay Sam Darnold, we might have to make similar
28:38
Speaker 4: kind of you know, adjustments to the investor into the payroll.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so that that in a way almost necessitates Seattle,
28:48
Speaker 2: you know, being you know, we're in now mode, right,
28:52
Speaker 2: and which is you know, maybe one of the reasons
28:55
Speaker 2: why you got Rashid shaheat and maybe that'll affect decisions
28:59
Speaker 2: that while you have Sam Darnold at a very manageable
29:04
Speaker 2: you know, I know, he's eighteenth or nineteenth last year
29:07
Speaker 2: in cap hit. I'll have to look at what it'll
29:10
Speaker 2: be for next year, but it's very manageable for now, absolutely,
29:15
Speaker 2: and so but Anyways, I thought the Chiefs were interesting
29:19
Speaker 2: among many, you know, almost all of them. I could
29:21
Speaker 2: go through ten others, but I thought the Chiefs were interesting.
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Speaker 4: What did you make of the Cardinals and the Jeremiah
29:27
Speaker 4: of I've had a couple of different conversations with people
29:31
Speaker 4: that didn't agree with my assessment, and my assessment is simply, Hey,
29:35
Speaker 4: I don't think that you ever go broke in the
29:37
Speaker 4: National Football League by just drafting great players. You can
29:41
Speaker 4: try to get cute and you try to put the
29:43
Speaker 4: you know, build the cart before you buy the horse.
29:46
Speaker 4: I mean, I get that argument, but I think too
29:50
Speaker 4: many teams try and play that game.
29:53
Speaker 2: You know, you got a horse, I don't.
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Speaker 4: I think it was a smart move by the Arizona Cardinals,
29:59
Speaker 4: regardless of position, to get a guy that can help
30:01
Speaker 4: them in both a running game and the passing game.
30:04
Speaker 4: I mean, as a Seahawk fan, I don't really want
30:07
Speaker 4: to face Jeremiah Love two times per year for the
30:10
Speaker 4: next ten years, and that's the potential that you're going
30:14
Speaker 4: to face. I realized that just getting a running back
30:17
Speaker 4: doesn't turn around the Arizona Cardinals overnight, but I do
30:22
Speaker 4: believe that they made a wise decision and just taking
30:26
Speaker 4: their favorite player and we'll build the.
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Speaker 2: Rest of it over the course of time. Well, I
30:32
Speaker 2: don't think there's any question. If you go back a
30:34
Speaker 2: couple of years ago, you know, the draft that had
30:37
Speaker 2: six quarterbacks in the top twelve, I'm sure they would
30:40
Speaker 2: have taken a quarterback at least I think they would have.
30:43
Speaker 2: I think in years past there's been offensive tackles on
30:48
Speaker 2: rare occasions that are number one overall, but certainly there's
30:51
Speaker 2: offensive tackles that weren't a top three, four five pick.
30:55
Speaker 2: I don't think Francis Malingoa or Spencer Fano or Kate
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Speaker 2: Proctor or any of the tackles were worthy of the
31:05
Speaker 2: number three pick. When you compare it to Jeremiah Love,
31:09
Speaker 2: Jeremiah Love just you know, at a position of need
31:12
Speaker 2: for them and and almost from a you know, let's
31:16
Speaker 2: get some juice in the building type of thing with
31:19
Speaker 2: the fans and and create an energy and a buzz
31:21
Speaker 2: you know what that that actually helps your entire team.
31:24
Speaker 2: Like you say, well, that's just fluff and marketing. No, no, no,
31:28
Speaker 2: If you have if you have more people passionate about
31:31
Speaker 2: your team and they create an environment, a home field advantage,
31:35
Speaker 2: which you know, they have a dome, they can they
31:37
Speaker 2: can they can create some noise. And in No. Eight
31:41
Speaker 2: in that Super Bowl run you were weren't you in
31:43
Speaker 2: Phoenix at the time when when the during the eight run? Ah? Yes, yes,
31:49
Speaker 2: So so you know the it's not a fan base
31:53
Speaker 2: that is easily inclined to, uh, to get revved up
31:57
Speaker 2: about the Cardinals, but if you show them a great team,
32:01
Speaker 2: they can. And so I think that there's a piece there, like,
32:04
Speaker 2: let's get some juice here, and Love is just a
32:08
Speaker 2: running back without a weakness. Really yeah, And so I
32:11
Speaker 2: think it was a really good pick for them. You
32:13
Speaker 2: can say, well, okay, who's gonna block from Yeah, you
32:16
Speaker 2: can figure out that piece. But you know, guys like
32:20
Speaker 2: Love only come around every three or four years. I'm
32:22
Speaker 2: not going to go hyperbolic and say he's a once
32:25
Speaker 2: in a generation. You know that term's thrown out a lot,
32:27
Speaker 2: and I go, wait a minute, is a generation twenty
32:29
Speaker 2: or twenty five years? I promise you that there's a
32:32
Speaker 2: running back in the last twenty or twenty five years.
32:35
Speaker 2: This is as good as Jeremiah Love. But I would
32:38
Speaker 2: also say that most years, at least in the last
32:40
Speaker 2: twenty eight that I've been covering it the majority of
32:43
Speaker 2: the years, there's not a running back as good as
32:46
Speaker 2: Jereedmiah Love. He's a top you know, every three to
32:49
Speaker 2: four year guy. Well I just look back, look back
32:52
Speaker 2: at twenty twenty three. I mean the Cardinals in a
32:55
Speaker 2: similar situation, they took Paris Johnson. He's a good player,
32:58
Speaker 2: good tackle, good offense of linemen, and that was supposed
33:01
Speaker 2: to be a foundational piece. Two picks later Bjon Robinson,
33:06
Speaker 2: and then three picks later Tennessee, Well we got to
33:09
Speaker 2: you know, we got to build with the interior first,
33:12
Speaker 2: and let's get Peter Skarnsky, the tackle out of Northwestern.
33:15
Speaker 2: He's turned out to be an okay player.
33:17
Speaker 4: But the very next picks Jamier Gibbs, and it's say, okay, well,
33:21
Speaker 4: you know, I mean I get that the whole thing,
33:24
Speaker 4: the whole Space Shuttle's got to be built here. Yeah,
33:28
Speaker 4: but I'd kind of like to if I got a
33:30
Speaker 4: chance to get a good rocket on on the cheap,
33:34
Speaker 4: I think I want to get the rocket and then
33:36
Speaker 4: I'll build the structure around that. How about how about
33:38
Speaker 4: we do that. Let's get the explosive element of it.
33:41
Speaker 4: And it's there's not just one way to build it.
33:44
Speaker 4: But when you've got to I mean, I know Atlanta
33:46
Speaker 4: hasn't won a lot, and I know that Detroit's not
33:50
Speaker 4: won the Super Bowl with Gibbs, But do you think
33:53
Speaker 4: they regret those decisions way back in the day that
33:55
Speaker 4: they ended up with those two dudes.
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Speaker 2: Not a bit. And I think I spoke for four minutes,
34:00
Speaker 2: and you made a better case in one minute that
34:03
Speaker 2: I made in four soh yeah, I just all co
34:05
Speaker 2: sign on everything you just said. Those are great examples.
34:09
Speaker 2: And and you know Paris Campbell, you know, he was
34:14
Speaker 2: really thought to be as you said, you know, if
34:16
Speaker 2: he's a Walter Jones type, then you kind of get it.
34:20
Speaker 2: But he hasn't had that kind of impact. So the
34:22
Speaker 2: guys that touch the ball, and you're indirectly making my
34:27
Speaker 2: case about Canine and and how how I you know,
34:31
Speaker 2: the the primacy of replacing him. So and you got
34:37
Speaker 2: a quarterback, and whether it's Jacoby Brisset or now they
34:40
Speaker 2: draft Carson Beck or you know, they're they're just you know,
34:43
Speaker 2: kind of wandering in the woods now that they've let
34:46
Speaker 2: Kyler Murray go. And I would argue they were wandering
34:48
Speaker 2: in the Woods, even when they had Kyler Murray. They
34:50
Speaker 2: just need a quarterback and so they'll have to address
34:53
Speaker 2: that piece later. This happened to have been a draft
34:56
Speaker 2: where I think the Fernando Mendoza was absolutely worth the
34:59
Speaker 2: number one, no hesitation there if I'm the Raiders. But
35:03
Speaker 2: the drop off was extremely rare, the caliber from the
35:09
Speaker 2: first to the second. Guy Simpson thought to be, you say, well,
35:12
Speaker 2: from one to thirteen isn't a big drop off. Well
35:15
Speaker 2: we'll see, Yeah, we'll see. We'll see. I thought that
35:18
Speaker 2: there was a bigger gap than that gap would indicate.
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Speaker 4: All right, one more segment here, Monday Morning Quarterback Draft
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Speaker 4: Edition coming up next, One last thing on Sports Radio
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Speaker 4: ninety three point three kJ RFM. All right, time for
35:36
Speaker 4: one last thing here on our draft edition, a Monday
35:40
Speaker 4: Morning Quarterback. And I'll just start by just saying, great job, Hugh,
35:48
Speaker 4: excellent work Wednesday all the way through Friday, and a
35:52
Speaker 4: great job to everybody at our station. I mean a
35:55
Speaker 4: lot of hard work goes into it and it does payoff.
35:58
Speaker 4: It always sounds great. And of course thank you to
36:02
Speaker 4: Ashley for everything she did for Draftmas. So yes, I mean,
36:06
Speaker 4: maybe it's just I'm just filled with the draftmas spirit.
36:09
Speaker 2: I don't know, but I really want to just hug
36:11
Speaker 2: my co workers. Yeah, yeah, the team comes together and
36:16
Speaker 2: and I echo that a lot of people working behind
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Speaker 2: the scenes, and and thank you to all of them.
36:21
Speaker 2: And and uh, you know, the draft is such a
36:23
Speaker 2: unique event in some ways, it's the hardest we work
36:28
Speaker 2: all year, and and yet it's, uh, it's an event
36:33
Speaker 2: with such drama. I think you have exactly chucked the
36:37
Speaker 2: right outlook on it. That it's it's more than just
36:41
Speaker 2: well the players selected. There's a there's a human interest
36:45
Speaker 2: story in every single one of those picks, every single one.
36:50
Speaker 2: And so you know, clearly the number shows that America
36:54
Speaker 2: has a fixation with reality TV. You know, whether it's
36:57
Speaker 2: the you know, the Housewives of Miami or The Bachelor,
37:00
Speaker 2: what what have you?
37:01
Speaker 3: You know, we worst Housewives? We don't watch that one.
37:05
Speaker 2: What is it? Is it the worst or best?
37:06
Speaker 3: The worst?
37:07
Speaker 2: The worst? Yeah, well aren't aren't, but don't people watch
37:12
Speaker 2: that stuff? Yeah?
37:13
Speaker 3: Other real housewives, just not the main other.
37:15
Speaker 2: Real house Okay, I got it all. Well, well I
37:17
Speaker 2: know the Bachelor. I did some I'm googling on The
37:21
Speaker 2: Bachelor to get the numbers and and they they get
37:24
Speaker 2: more viewers, as I said, than Major League Baseball, NBA,
37:28
Speaker 2: and hockey combined, now regular season, of course, not the NFL.
37:31
Speaker 2: But but you know, people have been watching The Bachelor
37:34
Speaker 2: for a while for the weirdism in all of us, right,
37:37
Speaker 2: and uh and and and uh and so to carry
37:41
Speaker 2: out the analogy, the final rows that these guys gets, uh,
37:44
Speaker 2: that these guys get, and and the the human interest
37:47
Speaker 2: stories it's it's it's really phenomenal. And then now we
37:51
Speaker 2: take these guys and well, you know, Snyder has proven
37:55
Speaker 2: to be a top talent evaluator. I think there was
37:59
Speaker 2: a lull in the middle of his career, but he's
38:01
Speaker 2: kind of bounced back. And and uh, and we need it, yeah,
38:05
Speaker 2: we we We only had a few at the top
38:08
Speaker 2: of this draft, and and a lot of these are
38:10
Speaker 2: at the bottom. But we we need these to be
38:12
Speaker 2: a high success rate given the stakes now, right, somebody
38:16
Speaker 2: could say, well you need it, Well, don't the Jets
38:18
Speaker 2: need it more? You could argue that, but given where
38:21
Speaker 2: Seattle is and and what you're trying to accomplish, I
38:24
Speaker 2: feel like you those those those particularly those top three picks,
38:29
Speaker 2: they've really got a hit, no doubt yeah, uh yeah,
38:32
Speaker 2: but just the as you mentioned, like the human element,
38:35
Speaker 2: uh human element of the entire thing. I mentioned this
38:39
Speaker 2: on Friday, the Woods family which all got dressed up
38:42
Speaker 2: and they were all in white, and the men were
38:44
Speaker 2: in tuxedos and the women were all dolled up. And
38:47
Speaker 2: then here was Peter Woods in the middle of it
38:49
Speaker 2: in a green suit, and he stood out from the
38:52
Speaker 2: group and they just went all about it. I mean,
38:54
Speaker 2: that was the biggest day of his life to this point,
38:56
Speaker 2: certainly professionally, and I love that they embraced it. I
38:59
Speaker 2: love the Terrell brothers that got drafted to the Falcons
39:02
Speaker 2: and then their reaction. I love the Hide and Reich story,
39:06
Speaker 2: the kid out of Navy. I think Greg was the
39:08
Speaker 2: only one booing him, but he you know, he got
39:12
Speaker 2: drafted by the Steelers and that wasn't a dry eye in.
39:15
Speaker 4: The house to see that exchange. I mean, I like
39:18
Speaker 4: the picks. I love the puzzle making aspect of sports.
39:22
Speaker 4: But you're right that little reality television you know, backstory
39:26
Speaker 4: of almost every single one of these picks and their
39:29
Speaker 4: journey to this point.
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Speaker 2: I mean, that's what puts it over the top for me.
39:31
Speaker 2: It's what I look forward to every year. Yeah, and
39:34
Speaker 2: you know, you're you figure most of them. It's it's
39:37
Speaker 2: joyous certainly earlier in the draft, but you know, you
39:40
Speaker 2: get guys in the sixth seventh round there there's happy
39:44
Speaker 2: that they got their name called as the first round
39:47
Speaker 2: guys were that their first rounders and in some cases
39:50
Speaker 2: even more you know, you aptly point out there's always
39:54
Speaker 2: a couple of brats in the show that that kind
39:56
Speaker 2: of you know, give us you know, the the uh,
40:01
Speaker 2: the the contrarian, not the country, and who's the antagonist
40:05
Speaker 2: in the plot? Right, there's always a brat or two
40:08
Speaker 2: that's the antagonist. And and so in any event, I
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Speaker 2: think the league has done a great job of Roger
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Speaker 2: Goodell moving around to the different cities. That's that. That
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Speaker 2: was a that's a total win in my opinion, and
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Speaker 2: hopefully Seattle gets theirs. But yeah, cool event and and
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Speaker 2: a lot of hard work. But uh I most importantly
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Speaker 2: I echo your thought about thanking the team team. Yeah.
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Speaker 4: I mean almost a million people showed up at Pittsburgh,
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Speaker 4: and there's still people out there that are like, why
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Speaker 4: are you talking about the draft?
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Speaker 2: No one cares, like what are you?
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Speaker 3: That's the crazy thing. Is the people that say that,
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Speaker 3: then when they put how many people showed up? I wrote,
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Speaker 3: that's impossible. I keep hearing that no one cares about
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Speaker 3: the draft.
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Speaker 2: People are just stuck in that mode.
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Speaker 3: Radio doesn't mean no one cares.
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Speaker 4: Pretty much, a lot of frigging people care. A lot
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Speaker 4: of frigging people just cling to every pick. For goodness sake.
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Speaker 4: Our ratings do really well on day three on Saturday,
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Speaker 4: for goodness sake. Yeah, our ratings. But and then the
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Speaker 4: network ratings. Now does it bother you as a baseball
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Speaker 4: guy when I when I say that the the draft,
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Speaker 4: first round of the draft in this decade averages more
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Speaker 4: viewers than the World Series averages, Well, I'm father draftmas.
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Speaker 4: So I mean, if you were to tell, if you
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Speaker 4: were to rub it in my face like soccer was
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Speaker 4: killing ratings for.
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Speaker 2: For baseballing a little bit, but you're okay with it. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: but just have that stat handy. Yeah, I know, I'll
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Speaker 2: forward you that the the the numbers if you need them.
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Speaker 2: But but but for anybody Ashley who says that, just
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Speaker 2: you know, have that one in your holster with the
41:48
Speaker 2: with the the safety off, just ready to ready to pull.
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Speaker 2: Just okay, because that one pretty much just lays everything
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Speaker 2: down all right here. Well, thanks man, we appreciate it,
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Speaker 2: and we will talk to you real soon. Yep. All right.
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Speaker 4: Hugh Mellen our QB one and of course our chief
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Speaker 4: analysts throughout our draft coverage on the weekend along with
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Speaker 4: Rob Ring and we appreciate him. On Monday morning quarterback
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Speaker 4: here today, we're not done with the draft. I mean,
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Speaker 4: I'm still there's still some leftover topics certainly discussed throughout
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Speaker 4: the course of the week, but Draft miss has come
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Speaker 4: to an end, the trees being put away today and
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Speaker 4: we'll get back to a little bit of a state
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Speaker 4: of normalcy around here.
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Speaker 2: SAMs Bucky. Still still not normal, but we'll talk to
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Speaker 2: you tomorrow at six am.
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Speaker 4: Greg Bell is coming up next to Boo Eli Heidenreich, and.
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