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Chris Landry Talks NFL Draft · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Chris Landry on your radio Mondays four to four thirty. Make sure to check
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  them out Landry Football also Landry football dot com. Chris, Welcome in,
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  sir. How are you good, Jack? How you doing doing well?
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  Let's start with some NFL we might try to drop some college and hear spring
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  practices going on around the country. Some are already starting to button this thing
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  up. But with the draft now two weeks out, a lot of the
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  pro days are over. Kind of take us through where teams are at,
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  you know, generally from this point forward, you know, with just a
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  couple of weeks left, beginning their final meetings, final settling up their draft
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  board. And you know, at this stage you have in initial meetings,
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  have gone through you know every player in your book that you've seen, you
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  know, a to z at each position. And if the guys kind of
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  what we call on the reject board, you maybe spend a little time as
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  to why now you go in these final meetings and when you get to those
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  guys, unless you want to, as we call, resurrect somebody, you
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  don't spend time on them. You spend time on guys that you've been given
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  a potential draftabook grade on. And the way it works is everybody in the
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  room that's seen the guy in the area of scout, maybe a regional scout,
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  maybe a National Scout, personnel director, college director, position coach.
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  Everybody gives a report on the player, and you kind of you have discussions,
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  and we normally did we had a profile tape where you have thirty or
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  forty cut ups, good and bad plays of what a player is, and
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  you put on the tape and watch the guy and he can kind of sit
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  there and communicate with one another as you're watching it. All together. You
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  go through that process of very long, long meetings take you know, a
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  good full day early in the morning to late at night to get through one
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  position, sometimes even a day and a half or some positions. When you
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  get done with that position, you really go and try to stack the board
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  as you see them in the right order. And to me, the key
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  is not just ranked one through whatever, it's how how many guys are graded
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  in the sixty nine to sixty five categories, the sixty four to six,
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  oh whatever numerical grade you have, how guys are stacked, so you got
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  some tie breakers and maybe got four guys at the six four grade, what
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  order should they be in. You go over painstaking detail and you get through
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  all of that process and then you kind of at the end, you go
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  and make sure that your top one fifty board best players regardless of position,
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  which we call the horizontal board, are in the right order. So in
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  painstaking detail, you set up your board. It's not like people think talk
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  about on TV, well this guy's ranked here there. People are just getting
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  their final rankings now, and a lot of it by this you hear this
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  conversation folks on TV whatever say well, yeah, this guy's moving up board.
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  Not moving up board. It's just those people are late to the party
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  on getting the information and what really matters is going through that whole process.
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  Yeah, people say, well, how could great change? You know,
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  and we're here in March. They haven't played football in a while, because
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  it takes all that time to look at all the film from last year and
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  they have everybody look at So your position coach, your head coach, your
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  coordinator might just be getting through all the take now, whereas an area scout
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  you might have got done with it in January. So everybody that's the weigh
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  in and every team, every organization puts more emphasis on either their scouts or
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  a certain scout or coaches because everybody operates a little different. Chris Landry on
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  your radio Monday edition of the program. Find him on Exit Landry Football,
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  also landryfootball dot Com. All right, Chris, a lot of you know,
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  obviously chatter about the quarterbacks, but then some of these teams that may
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  possibly be looking for a quarterback. Where do you think Dallas is? With
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  Jerry Jones and Dak Prescott, And I mean Dallas hasn't made a ton of
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  moves, almost none in free agency. Jones said, you know himself,
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  he wasn't going to speak any further than twenty twenty four. I believe they
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  picked Prescott up, you know, right after Tony Romo, you know,
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  was walking out the door. I mean he was the starter, after all
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  the injuries and such. It took a couple of years. Could Dallas possibly
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  be, you know, looking around for a different type of quarterback? Well,
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  they haven't made They haven't done anything for agency because they can't afford you
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  because of Dak's contract or lack thereof, so his cap numbers high, and
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  they have not had much movement on getting a long term deal done. Would
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  they consider a quarterback. It's it's certainly possible. I don't know how they
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  have those guys rated, whether they remember Dak was somebody that they weren't real
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  high on but drafted him. I mean they had graded him high enough to
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  draft him where the did. But if you remember that year, they liked
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  the kid from Memphis, Paxton Lynch, and tried to trade and didn't get
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  them, and then they just took Dak in the third round. Could that
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  happen again this year? Of course it could. Anything is possible. I
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  think that to me, though, when you consider the m O of Jerry
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  and his age and wanting to win, starting with another young quarterback would probably
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  probably start the clock over again. And I don't really see that. So
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  we'll see how it plays out. If the right guy's here, certainly I
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  think they would consider it, But I just don't know that they're going to
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  go for that guy early. What about the Los Angeles rams. Stafford is
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  getting on up in age, I mean, thirty six years old. Garoppolo
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  has some age, you know, Sean McVay trying to continue to rework this
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  roster. Could they potentially be looking I think so. I think that that's
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  definitely somebody that needs to get a quarterback in there. And I think there's
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  a little bit of an issue there because they like him, but of his
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  age and injury history, I think grooming a young guy. Again. This
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  is why, and we've talked about quarterbacks the supply and demand factor, it's
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  more in the player's advantage. The demand factor is greater than the supply.
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  So who can you get there and who do you like? And let's just
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  say this, it doesn't mean that there's not going to be somebody that you
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  can't get a little bit down the road that might be able to be developed.
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  We know that has happened, it's just not as common. And the
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  reason is you got to consider quarterbacks to be in most cases overdrafted. And
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  when I say overdrafted, that's not a negative comment. It's just if you
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  like them, you better take them a lot sooner because they're not going to
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  be around longer. That's why a guy like maybe JJ McCarthy's going to go
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  a lot. I mean know you've asked about him weeks ago, and yeah,
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  he's gonna go a lot higher than people might think. Well why,
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  Well, because of the supply and demand factor, and so you have to
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  factor that in the later you're drafting, Well, you know you might be
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  taking guys a lot earlier, maybe as much as a round and a half
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  the two rounds higher than they should go. Let's finish this segment talking one
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  of the quarterback and then I want to get some college on the after the
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  break here with you. When you look at a guy like Joe Milton the
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  third, I've seen his name, you know, you just talk about these
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  articles pop up in different places that he may be a guy that people take
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  chances on third round through seventh round? Is he the kind of guy from
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  when you look at his game? That is it? Just he hasn't been
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  able to be developed. I mean, we've heard a lot of hype behind
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  this guy. He's at Michigan Tennessee. Now it's coming up in the NFL.
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  Or I mean, is this a league that he can play in?
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  If that makes sense? Well, the guy's got immense physical tooth size and
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  arm strength are there. It's never been accurate, and you know that's why
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  he hasn't develop. So I'm not high on them now. Doesn't mean that
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  somebody might take them, Yeah, somebody could take them late there's no question
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  about that. Uh, and somebody takes on them third fourth round. I
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  think you're passing up much better players, you know, at other positions to
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  take them that high. But I just mentioned they're elevated, so maybe you'd
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  take a guy like that. I just don't have a lot of confidence.
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  And that's the type of guy you can develop. But later in the draft
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  you get guys that have physical skills that haven't been real productive, or you
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  can get really productive guys that lack the physical actim in that you ideally like.
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  So it's one of the two that are late. He's certainly the former,
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  not the latter. So but I'm not real thrilled about him. I
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  think that, yes, he needs to be developed, but what are you're
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  developing. You're developing a guy that's not real actorate, doesn't give the get
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  the ball accurately the spots that you need to, and I think that's a
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  problem, and I think it's always been a problem and likely will always continue
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  to be a problem. But it doesn't mean that I don't think the guy
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  deserves a chance and won't get a chance, because I do think he has
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  intriguing physical problem