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- 0:09Speaker 1: Hello, welcome back to Inside the Data. On Inside the Birds,
- 0:12Speaker 1: I'm Jeff Mosher and of course we got our data
- 0:14Speaker 1: and analytics analytics expert Sam Finkel. As we continue, as
- 0:19Speaker 1: we get closer to the draft, now less than a
- 0:22Speaker 1: week away, Sam to go through athletic testing as it
- 0:26Speaker 1: pertains to these NFL Draft eligible players and what the
- 0:31Speaker 1: Eagles prefer. We've done a lot of positions in this episode, Sam,
- 0:35Speaker 1: we're gonna do wide receivers, and there have been some
- 0:38Speaker 1: positions that we've gone through where we've had to couch
- 0:42Speaker 1: how important athletic testing is to the position, some more
- 0:46Speaker 1: than others. Right in this one, I don't think that
- 0:49Speaker 1: there's much of a debate. You don't usually see guys
- 0:52Speaker 1: at this position wide receiver drafted in round one to
- 0:54Speaker 1: two and sometimes early three that don't at least meet
- 0:59Speaker 1: some baseline top tier athletic criteria. You know, the ankwon
- 1:03Speaker 1: Bolden's run a four to seven, You run a four
- 1:05Speaker 1: to seven, You're not gonna probably get drafted in the
- 1:07Speaker 1: first three rounds.
- 1:08Speaker 2: Yeah, totally agreed.
- 1:10Speaker 1: What did you think of this year's athletic you know,
- 1:13Speaker 1: this year's class and the athleticism of it.
- 1:16Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I think that this class is pretty athletic.
- 1:19Speaker 3: I think there's a decent amount of receivers that you know,
- 1:22Speaker 3: fit a pretty good athletic profile. It's weird, despite the
- 1:28Speaker 3: top guys, there's no one that really stands out crazy
- 1:31Speaker 3: to me.
- 1:32Speaker 2: And I know that may be somewhat of.
- 1:35Speaker 3: A different, you know, opinion than some other people. But
- 1:40Speaker 3: all these prospects have like some sort of flaws. There's
- 1:43Speaker 3: no perfect receiver prospect. But I do think it's a
- 1:46Speaker 3: pretty relatively deep class.
- 1:49Speaker 1: Good good. It does look by the charts that we're
- 1:52Speaker 1: about to show that as compared to some other positions
- 1:56Speaker 1: that we've done, more guys did some more things at
- 1:59Speaker 1: the combiness far as athletic testing, there were I know
- 2:01Speaker 1: that they're like bench is not is not something that
- 2:04Speaker 1: a ton of guys did, which is fine because wide
- 2:06Speaker 1: receivers and bench presses, who cares. But guys did the forty,
- 2:10Speaker 1: They did the split, the vertical, the broad you know,
- 2:13Speaker 1: I guess there wasn't a ton of three cone But
- 2:15Speaker 1: I think when what do you think are the bigger
- 2:18Speaker 1: obviously aside from forty, what do you look for at
- 2:21Speaker 1: wide receiver?
- 2:22Speaker 3: Yeah, I think the split in the forty is really
- 2:24Speaker 3: important obviously, because you know just how fast can you
- 2:28Speaker 3: get to that speed. I think the vertical and the
- 2:33Speaker 3: broad have some importance as well, just for explosion. But yeah,
- 2:38Speaker 3: I feel like all the athletic testing is pretty good
- 2:41Speaker 3: in here.
- 2:41Speaker 1: So all right, I do have to give one guy
- 2:44Speaker 1: props at some point for doing something that is almost
- 2:49Speaker 1: like extraordinary to me at his position. You'll probably know
- 2:53Speaker 1: what I'm talking about when we get to it. Sure,
- 2:55Speaker 1: but let us bring up and we got a lot
- 2:58Speaker 1: of names here, so we'll have to go through like
- 3:00Speaker 1: the like we did last one. I forget what it was,
- 3:03Speaker 1: Corners maybe or ed rushers were there, like fifty, so
- 3:05Speaker 1: we had to do the first half in the second half. Yes,
- 3:09Speaker 1: all right, all right, I'm just gonna get it out
- 3:12Speaker 1: of the way. Okay, Dion Burks from Oklahoma, you have
- 3:16Speaker 1: my attention. Twenty six reps on the bench for a
- 3:20Speaker 1: wide receiver is pretty damn good.
- 3:22Speaker 2: Yeah, he wasn't the only one too.
- 3:24Speaker 1: Oh did I miss somebody I might have missed? Oh yeah,
- 3:27Speaker 1: that's right, Jordan Tyson, the interesting name there. Yeah, yeah,
- 3:31Speaker 1: how about that.
- 3:32Speaker 3: But there's a reason why he's highlighted green him and
- 3:37Speaker 3: Chris Brazel are my two favorite sleeper I get sleeper
- 3:42Speaker 3: risk receivers in this class. They're both projected to be
- 3:45Speaker 3: third round picks and you never know, but I think
- 3:49Speaker 3: both of them are really fun. I really like the
- 3:51Speaker 3: tape on both of them. But I also think.
- 3:53Speaker 2: Their athletics scores were pretty good as well.
- 3:56Speaker 1: So let's talk about Brazil, right, because he's from Tennessee,
- 4:00Speaker 1: you know the Eagles. I think a lot of people expect,
- 4:04Speaker 1: and fairly so that you know, especially with the aj
- 4:06Speaker 1: Brown situation, that if the Eagles don't wind up using
- 4:08Speaker 1: a first round pick on a wide receiver, it's likely
- 4:12Speaker 1: to come in round two or round three. And Brazil
- 4:14Speaker 1: is a guy who I've seen. I know, Andrew Decheco
- 4:16Speaker 1: has followed him and made some sort of mock draft
- 4:19Speaker 1: connections there as well. What do you like about Brazil?
- 4:23Speaker 3: Yeah, I just I love the way he moves. I
- 4:26Speaker 3: think he it has pretty good ability to his hands
- 4:32Speaker 3: are pretty solid, but it's it's more about how he
- 4:36Speaker 3: at the catch point. He does a pretty good job of,
- 4:39Speaker 3: you know, finding the ball, and I really enjoyed everything
- 4:42Speaker 3: I saw about him. I mean, his athletic testing is
- 4:44Speaker 3: pretty impressive at four to three seven, and he he
- 4:47Speaker 3: looks like it on film.
- 4:49Speaker 2: It's quite impressive.
- 4:51Speaker 1: He's also a big guy, right, So to run a
- 4:53Speaker 1: four to three seven, I think he's like six six'
- 4:55Speaker 1: three something like.
- 4:56Speaker 2: THAT i will confirm.
- 4:59Speaker 1: That, YEAH I i think he's one of the bigger
- 5:01Speaker 1: wide receiver prospects in The. Giraffe this is not a
- 5:04Speaker 1: Little Deshaun jackson kind of. Guy so to run a
- 5:07Speaker 1: four to three seven at his SIZE i thought was pretty. Impressive.
- 5:11Speaker 3: Definitely it's not looting for, me but either, way, YEAH i.
- 5:15Speaker 3: Do he is a bigger guy for.
- 5:17Speaker 1: Sure and what do you like about the other? Guy
- 5:20Speaker 1: you haven't green that with that Like Dean.
- 5:23Speaker 3: Brooks, YEAH i mean he also was pretty impressive on.
- 5:26Speaker 3: FILM i mean he has a rare combination of speed and,
- 5:30Speaker 3: strength as you can kind of see with the bench.
- 5:32Speaker 3: Press he was our bronze medal finisher and athleticism. Score
- 5:37Speaker 3: BUT i actually, thought out of the three guys in
- 5:41Speaker 3: that were, MEDALISTS i thought he did the best out
- 5:44Speaker 3: of the.
- 5:44Speaker 2: Three. RIGHT i enjoyed his film the most out of the.
- 5:48Speaker 1: Three i'll, say sure got to like that vertical by
- 5:52Speaker 1: the way of forty two and a.
- 5:53Speaker 2: Half, yeah it's.
- 5:55Speaker 3: Incredible and his broad jump is also, impressive but his
- 5:59Speaker 3: a vertical particularly, impressive and his split was really really.
- 6:03Speaker 2: Great.
- 6:03Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah he was a silver medalist there behind and
- 6:06Speaker 1: tied With Bryce, lance who was an excellent athlete From
- 6:10Speaker 1: North Dakota.
- 6:11Speaker 2: State by the, way, brother go, Ahead Trey lance's.
- 6:15Speaker 1: Brother, yes, Right Trey lance's. Brother and going back To,
- 6:18Speaker 1: Brazil sam six ft. Five, now he's one ninety, eight
- 6:22Speaker 1: so he's, lanky, Right it's not like he's carrying a
- 6:25Speaker 1: lot of. Weight BUT i still think with long arms
- 6:28Speaker 1: and long legs to run a four to three seven
- 6:31Speaker 1: that's pretty pretty. Good.
- 6:32Speaker 3: Yeah and the thing, IS i think he will have
- 6:34Speaker 3: to put on weight in the next. LEVEL i really
- 6:38Speaker 3: enjoyed watching his, film BUT i remember his frame being really,
- 6:42Speaker 3: small AND i do think if he can keep some
- 6:46Speaker 3: of that speed and put on you, know twenty, pounds
- 6:49Speaker 3: maybe it'd be pretty.
- 6:51Speaker 2: Impressive, yeah for.
- 6:53Speaker 1: Sure Brendan, thompson you have shaded also along With Bryce
- 6:57Speaker 1: lance in A i don't, know, Well i'm trying to
- 7:00Speaker 1: figure out a good green to describe, that like.
- 7:02Speaker 3: A Min, yes, YEAH i put the guys in mint
- 7:09Speaker 3: green THAT i really liked and then the like kind
- 7:13Speaker 3: of bluish. COLOR i just because there was just so
- 7:15Speaker 3: many of, them and there's some we can only talk
- 7:18Speaker 3: about so many people.
- 7:21Speaker 2: Like Antonio.
- 7:22Speaker 3: Williams isn't that light? Blue BECAUSE i liked, him BUT
- 7:24Speaker 3: i didn't love. HIM i thought his concentration was. Incredible
- 7:30Speaker 3: but you, know like guys Like Brennan thompson And Bryce,
- 7:33Speaker 3: LANCE i really enjoyed. THEM i thought their film looked pretty.
- 7:36Speaker 2: Good uh they.
- 7:37Speaker 3: Didn't brazil And burke's kind of looked like the complete
- 7:41Speaker 3: package to. Me and they're guys THAT i don't feel
- 7:43Speaker 3: like are talked about. Enough BUT i Think Brennan thompson
- 7:46Speaker 3: And Bryce lance have some. Limitations Bryce lance looked, incredible
- 7:51Speaker 3: but his level of competition like not so. Great SO
- 7:54Speaker 3: i would have loved to see him against you, know
- 7:56Speaker 3: a top tier defensive.
- 7:58Speaker 2: Back it would have been better to.
- 7:59Speaker 3: See And i'm not saying he's not capable of, it but,
- 8:02Speaker 3: yeah And Brendan THOMPSON i thought was also.
- 8:05Speaker 2: Interesting so, yeah.
- 8:07Speaker 1: With the nice forty yard, desk there are four two
- 8:09Speaker 1: six that's pretty.
- 8:10Speaker 2: Good and he looks like he runs four to six.
- 8:12Speaker 2: Feet it's.
- 8:13Speaker 1: Great, Yeah and so what was the the sort of
- 8:18Speaker 1: baby bluish there with. Answer it's kind of like someone
- 8:20Speaker 1: you sort of.
- 8:21Speaker 3: Like, yeah it's SOMEONE i kind of Like antonio And.
- 8:24Speaker 3: WILLIAMS i really liked his. Concentration it was his best
- 8:28Speaker 3: best feat for. SURE i mean he was catching the
- 8:31Speaker 3: ball and making these contorted catches and he just he
- 8:36Speaker 3: seemed to have a really good, concentration AND i thought
- 8:38Speaker 3: it was worth discussing. Him but like the rest of his,
- 8:41Speaker 3: film there was nothing that was that impressive besides the.
- 8:43Speaker 2: Concentration in My, yeah.
- 8:45Speaker 1: WHAT i find interesting about him is that a lot
- 8:48Speaker 1: of guys who if they don't think they're going to
- 8:50Speaker 1: like test really well in certain, categories they won't do.
- 8:53Speaker 1: Him you, see half these guys are are not five for, five,
- 8:56Speaker 1: right he did, everything even though he did not you,
- 9:00Speaker 1: know he didn't win a, medal although he wasn't too far.
- 9:03Speaker 1: Off but a four to four is it's, Okay. Matt
- 9:06Speaker 1: so it's hard to believe that in twenty twenty six
- 9:09Speaker 1: we're calling four four speed. Okay but that's the reality of.
- 9:12Speaker 2: IT i mean it really.
- 9:13Speaker 1: Is, yeah but the split is, good, right one five
- 9:16Speaker 1: to five year al right with and the vertical is
- 9:19Speaker 1: not far off from from the. Bronze, SO i mean
- 9:25Speaker 1: it's it's not he didn't test. Terrible he just didn't
- 9:27Speaker 1: meddle in.
- 9:28Speaker 3: Anything, yeah AND i thought that's kind of how his
- 9:31Speaker 3: film looked. Like he didn't look, bad but he didn't
- 9:35Speaker 3: look great besides his. Concentration his concentration was definitely his
- 9:39Speaker 3: best attribute for.
- 9:40Speaker 1: Sure So Denzel boston And Carnel, tate let's parse them
- 9:44Speaker 1: for a. Second boston out Of, Washington tate out Of Ohio.
- 9:47Speaker 1: State tate will probably be a top ten, pick at
- 9:51Speaker 1: least the first round. Pick boston could be a first round.
- 9:53Speaker 1: Pick should, Be, well we'll, see we'll. SEE i shouldn't
- 9:56Speaker 1: say should, be we'll. See let's start With. Tate four five.
- 10:01Speaker 1: Three concern you at? All, no, okay because he's such
- 10:04Speaker 1: a technician and he's An ohio state.
- 10:05Speaker 3: Guy, YEAH i, mean you get The ohio state coelo.
- 10:09Speaker 3: APPROVAL i wonder if it'll change now the heartline left.
- 10:13Speaker 3: Right probably.
- 10:14Speaker 1: Not i'm not totally. Concerned i'm and for those who
- 10:17Speaker 1: are only listening and not, watching he only did the
- 10:20Speaker 1: forty and the, split nothing, else which is normal for
- 10:23Speaker 1: a guy who's, gonna you, know go that. High BUT
- 10:25Speaker 1: i guess in my If i'm a scout AND i
- 10:28Speaker 1: did have a little bit of, CONCERN i would have
- 10:30Speaker 1: hoped that the split at least would be a little bit.
- 10:35Speaker 1: BETTER i mean one five five is not bad by
- 10:37Speaker 1: any stretch of the, means but if you're gonna run
- 10:38Speaker 1: a slower, forty you would love that split to be
- 10:41Speaker 1: a little faster and, say, hey you, know at least
- 10:43Speaker 1: he in short. Area he has got great.
- 10:44Speaker 2: Burst and if you look at his, film HE i said.
- 10:48Speaker 1: One it was one six,' one so that is kind of,
- 10:51Speaker 1: far off.
- 10:52Speaker 2: And, it is but it's it's here's.
- 10:54Speaker 3: The thing, his film like a lot of, the times
- 10:57Speaker 3: when you're looking at the athletic testing you're trying to,
- 10:58Speaker 3: confirm things it is a little bit of a red
- 11:00Speaker 3: flag when you see it doesn't. Confirm it but he
- 11:03Speaker 3: consistently was beating top defensive backs over, The Top so
- 11:07Speaker 3: i'm not worried about it.
- 11:09Speaker 2: At.
- 11:09Speaker 1: All, YEAH yeah i mean if the worst thing he
- 11:12Speaker 1: winds up becoming as a slot receive a high volume.
- 11:14Speaker 1: SLOT receiver, i mean that's not what you want out
- 11:17Speaker 1: of a top ten to. Twelve pick but THAT'S why,
- 11:19Speaker 1: i said if it's if the worst thing he be
- 11:20Speaker 1: kinds upcoming Is Like, nelson agalore you at least get a,
- 11:24Speaker 1: productive player. You, Know yeah boston did. The vertical thirty five,
- 11:30Speaker 1: was okay and he was a, that is a bronze
- 11:36Speaker 1: third place finisher in, the shuttle which not a lot of.
- 11:38Speaker 1: People did but what did you make?
- 11:40Speaker 2: Of, THAT yeah i mean.
- 11:42Speaker 3: HIS vertical i know that thirty five was the. MAGIC
- 11:46Speaker 3: number i was saying for a lot of these guys,
- 11:48Speaker 3: for receiver you want it a little.
- 11:49Speaker 1: Bit, higher yeah it.
- 11:51Speaker 2: Doesn't need to be that much like maybe like thirty
- 11:54Speaker 2: six would. Have been so it's.
- 11:55Speaker 3: Not concerning it's a little bit lower THAN what i
- 11:57Speaker 3: would have liked, to, See, RIGHT so i.
- 12:01Speaker 2: DON'T know i.
- 12:02Speaker 1: REALLY question i. HAVE that i was wondering to, ask
- 12:05Speaker 1: you is THAT because i think he's the only one
- 12:08Speaker 1: who ran the shuttle but didn't run the forty or.
- 12:11Speaker 1: The split i'm sort of like curious as to why
- 12:16Speaker 1: he would.
- 12:16Speaker 3: Do, That yeah i'm sure there was. A reason maybe
- 12:20Speaker 3: he just wasn't going to perform, as WELL or i
- 12:23Speaker 3: don't who knows in the head of his agent. And,
- 12:26Speaker 3: him YEAH but i Really. LIKE boston i think he's
- 12:29Speaker 3: a really fun prospect one of my favorite receivers in
- 12:32Speaker 3: this draft, Class too, so.
- 12:33Speaker 1: Yeah he's another kind, of big, strong.
- 12:35Speaker 2: Guy.
- 12:36Speaker 1: Right Yeah denzel boston six four, To twelve, so okay
- 12:43Speaker 1: you're six four, to twelve you're forty time unless You're
- 12:46Speaker 1: Like randy moss is not going to be like you're you're, carrying,
- 12:49Speaker 1: car right you Know what. I'm saying like you're a
- 12:50Speaker 1: big contested. Catch GUY and i now maybe he wanted
- 12:54Speaker 1: to show people doing the, shuttle that for a he's
- 12:58Speaker 1: not stiff hipped for a big, strong guy he can
- 13:01Speaker 1: he can move laterally. Pretty well that would be my read. Into,
- 13:04Speaker 1: it agreed, Good stuff We'll move is there anybody else
- 13:09Speaker 1: you WANTED to I know chris bell is a is
- 13:11Speaker 1: a really good wide, receiver prospect but he didn't. Do
- 13:13Speaker 1: anything so for the purposes of, this show it's kind
- 13:16Speaker 1: of hard to talk.
- 13:16Speaker 2: About, it yeah. For SURE and i watched his film
- 13:19Speaker 2: and it.
- 13:20Speaker 3: WAS okay, i mean there was nothing that really stood
- 13:22Speaker 3: out to me as much as some of these.
- 13:24Speaker 2: Other, guys okay.
- 13:27Speaker 1: We will move ON to i Was Hoping elijah surratt
- 13:30Speaker 1: would do IT because i kind of liked Him. From,
- 13:32Speaker 1: indiana yeah he also didn't. Do, Anything Now, Jeremy Bernard
- 13:36Speaker 1: jeremy Bernard, from alabama a guy who could PROBABLY go.
- 13:40Speaker 1: I don't some people say, late first but he's more
- 13:43Speaker 1: like a second, round pick maybe. Early third, you know he.
- 13:46Speaker 1: Did everything, but again this is a receiver who is
- 13:50Speaker 1: more of a almost the taate like where he's a
- 13:52Speaker 1: technician more than athletic freak.
- 13:54Speaker 2: Of, NATURE absolutely i. Don't disagree he is a kind
- 13:59Speaker 2: of a.
- 13:59Speaker 3: Fun prospect, He, TESTED okay i don't like the thing
- 14:06Speaker 3: is it's not super concerning because of his production and
- 14:09Speaker 3: some of the. Other THINGS but i would have liked
- 14:11Speaker 3: him to test a little bit better in some of.
- 14:13Speaker 2: The.
- 14:13Speaker 1: Areas yeah, but again so this is an example OF
- 14:16Speaker 1: what i was. Talking, about right he didn't run the
- 14:19Speaker 1: fastest forty at four to, four eight but a one
- 14:21Speaker 1: five to two split compared to what the one six one,
- 14:24Speaker 1: that right it's a. Great, split yeah and then that's
- 14:27Speaker 1: not too far off from whatever the the bronze was at. One,
- 14:32Speaker 1: five oh so you're you're happier.
- 14:35Speaker 2: About that you're definitely happier.
- 14:36Speaker 3: ABOUT that i really don't love his, vertical, though yeah
- 14:42Speaker 3: or HIS broad, i mean it's, broad's good but, it's, vertical.
- 14:44Speaker 1: Okay but the vertical. Yeah no but then and this
- 14:48Speaker 1: is like this is the beauty of like right analytics
- 14:51Speaker 1: or just an. Athletic testing then he winds up putting
- 14:54Speaker 1: in a. Gold medal is that a h at? Three?
- 14:58Speaker 1: Cone yep so go figure figure, can't jump but he's.
- 15:03Speaker 1: Very agile doesn't, run fast but he can run fast
- 15:07Speaker 1: in a. SHORTER space i mean it kind OF has
- 15:10Speaker 1: z slot written all, over him almost a, Yeah YEAH
- 15:14Speaker 1: and i bet you he's the type of guy that
- 15:17Speaker 1: will really, excel there, you know like almost Like A
- 15:20Speaker 1: jason elevant type.
- 15:21Speaker 2: Of, GUY yeah i could see that, for sure.
- 15:24Speaker 1: Just made for. The slot what do you Like About?
- 15:26Speaker 1: Jacoby lane you got him?
- 15:26Speaker 2: In. BLUE yeah i think he is an.
- 15:30Speaker 3: INTERESTING prospect i really think he tested pretty well relative to,
- 15:36Speaker 3: you know. HIS production i think at the four four
- 15:39Speaker 3: seven speed, pretty solid one five eight, split solid the
- 15:43Speaker 3: forty vertical was, PRETTY good i mean really, good actually
- 15:48Speaker 3: and then the ten to nine broad also. Pretty good,
- 15:52Speaker 3: so yeah, ALL around i thought his testing was, pretty
- 15:55Speaker 3: good AND so i thought he was worth just, you
- 15:57Speaker 3: know even just talking.
- 15:59Speaker 2: About passing, so.
- 16:01Speaker 1: Yeah another guy who did not meddle but wasn't far
- 16:04Speaker 1: off in some of. The. Categories, Yeah yeah so the
- 16:08Speaker 1: other RECEIVER from Usc Is. Makay lemons are the, purple
- 16:12Speaker 1: guys like guys who you think are gonna go. Top
- 16:13Speaker 1: fifty is that why?
- 16:14Speaker 3: They're, Purple yeah and they're also just like the obvious
- 16:17Speaker 3: guys that we should at least be, talking, ABOUT.
- 16:20Speaker 1: Right, I mean conceptsi on is a Really, INTERESTING conceptcian i,
- 16:23Speaker 1: DON'T know i pronounce it like The OLD dave conceptsi
- 16:25Speaker 1: from The. Reds uh he didn't, do, anything unfortunately so
- 16:30Speaker 1: but we know he's going to be a. Good Player,
- 16:31Speaker 1: malchai lemon another, top guy didn't. DO anything i think
- 16:36Speaker 1: it really jumps out To me sam looking at, like
- 16:37Speaker 1: like Oh So omar cooper did do, a lot and
- 16:39Speaker 1: he's another one of those GUYS that i think this
- 16:42Speaker 1: class is more full of wide receivers who are not
- 16:45Speaker 1: going to blow you away with their, forty time but
- 16:50Speaker 1: are good athletes in.
- 16:51Speaker 3: Other, AREAS yeah, I mean i think that this class
- 16:55Speaker 3: has a lot of. GOOD receivers, I really i really
- 16:58Speaker 3: am impressed this class as, a WHOLE and i think
- 17:02Speaker 3: there's a lot of value you can get in. This
- 17:05Speaker 3: CLASS like i think, the second, the third the. Fourth
- 17:09Speaker 3: round there's a lot of value in.
- 17:10Speaker 1: These, Receivers yeah like if you're Getting A omar Cooper
- 17:14Speaker 1: from indiana who, made that, You know SAM and i.
- 17:16Speaker 1: Are torture we probably still lose sleep. Over it the
- 17:20Speaker 1: catch on the back of the line of the end
- 17:22Speaker 1: Zone Against penn state for. That miraculous who would have
- 17:25Speaker 1: thought we would have two heartbreaking Losses to indiana in
- 17:29Speaker 1: a seven, Year SPAN like i still lose sleep About
- 17:32Speaker 1: The michael pennix touchdown stretching the ball over the pylon, allegedly,
- 17:37Speaker 1: right yes and then just NOT to I would i would.
- 17:40Speaker 1: HAVE think i remember, thinking like we will go a
- 17:43Speaker 1: long long time before we ever Lose to indiana, like
- 17:46Speaker 1: that and then, sure enough, sure enough just a few,
- 17:51Speaker 1: years later we Lose to indiana just. Like that but
- 17:54Speaker 1: THE point i was Making was sam that you know four,
- 17:57Speaker 1: four two, it's fine not going to blow, your way
- 18:00Speaker 1: but it's good one five, To, five okay you're happy
- 18:02Speaker 1: that the split is at, least competitive if not, you
- 18:05Speaker 1: know close. To medaling if, not there if you're not
- 18:09Speaker 1: going to run the fastest forty and at, thirty seven that's,
- 18:12Speaker 1: you know it's higher than the baseline that you want on. A,
- 18:15Speaker 1: JUMP yeah.
- 18:15Speaker 3: I agree he did everything he needed to do to
- 18:19Speaker 3: at least solidify his spot as that like second tier
- 18:22Speaker 3: of receivers in.
- 18:24Speaker 1: THIS class i have to, ask you did you watch
- 18:27Speaker 1: this Kid, From Connecticut, skylar bell because there's been some
- 18:30Speaker 1: buzz on him because of. HIS athleticism.
- 18:33Speaker 2: I did i did.
- 18:34Speaker 1: Watch him what do YOU think i?
- 18:36Speaker 2: Like?
- 18:36Speaker 4: HIM yeah i actually went IN and i, Was like
- 18:39Speaker 4: he's one of the FIRST guys, i WATCHED and i
- 18:42Speaker 4: enjoyed his film quite. A bit AND then I watched
- 18:46Speaker 4: Brazil and BURKES and i, Was, LIKE okay i like
- 18:49Speaker 4: these guys a little.
- 18:49Speaker 2: Bit, more SURE but i Really. LIKED bell i thought
- 18:53Speaker 2: he was a.
- 18:54Speaker 3: FUN prospect i think he will be successful at the
- 18:58Speaker 3: next level.
- 18:59Speaker 2: For.
- 18:59Speaker 1: Sure yeah well. HE can i don't know how much
- 19:01Speaker 1: this helps a, wide receiver but he can really jump. Long, distances,
- 19:06Speaker 1: yes again that. Is true and by, the way his
- 19:10Speaker 1: broad jump wasn't, a medal but it was pretty good at.
- 19:12Speaker 1: FORTY one i mean that broad, jump vertical RIGHT yeahh
- 19:16Speaker 1: i mean that's.
- 19:16Speaker 2: He missed the bronze medal by half. An.
- 19:18Speaker 1: INCH yeah i was, gonna say that's that's pretty pretty good.
- 19:22Speaker 1: Right there and How About.
- 19:25Speaker 2: Ted, hurst yeah.
- 19:27Speaker 3: INTERESTING prospect i definitely thought he was worth mentioning just
- 19:32Speaker 3: because of, his athleticism and he gold medaled in the,
- 19:37Speaker 3: broad jump which is. Pretty IMPRESSIVE but, i, mean look
- 19:40Speaker 3: he hit every measurable you're kind of looking for for.
- 19:44Speaker 2: A receiver, i mean.
- 19:45Speaker 3: His speed is, good enough his split is, pretty solid
- 19:50Speaker 3: he's over that threshold for vertical and obviously again the
- 19:53Speaker 3: gold medal in the broad.
- 19:54Speaker 1: So right, but yeah by, the, way again like if
- 19:59Speaker 1: you're just looking at the forty time and not taking
- 20:02Speaker 1: into a context that he's six, foot four, two eight
- 20:05Speaker 1: so you run that forty times four to four at,
- 20:07Speaker 1: that size. That's good that's. Really, good, yeah that, My friend,
- 20:12Speaker 1: sam right is what you CALL an, x receiver a
- 20:15Speaker 1: guy who has that kind, of build which means you
- 20:18Speaker 1: can strong physical fight off, press coverage but can also
- 20:22Speaker 1: run down the field with four four speed at. That
- 20:24Speaker 1: size if YOU'RE Trading, aj brown you're kind of looking.
- 20:27Speaker 3: FOR that, i MEAN If aj brown's down the ROSTER
- 20:30Speaker 3: and x is definitely the receiver they're. Looking FOR so
- 20:33Speaker 3: i wouldn't be shocked if they took a swing at.
- 20:35Speaker 2: This guy, of.
- 20:36Speaker 1: Course we can't have a show without talking About a, georgia,
- 20:39Speaker 1: Kid Right. Zachariah branch, of course he was the bronze
- 20:44Speaker 1: medalist in the in the, test split so.
- 20:47Speaker 2: That's, GOOD yeah i mean his speed's.
- 20:50Speaker 3: Pretty, good yeah his vertical and, broad solid and his
- 20:54Speaker 3: bench was, bronze medalist, so.
- 20:57Speaker 1: Yeah everything's, above baseline like a four to. Three five
- 21:00Speaker 1: he was. Absolutely fine like, that's good that's. Really GOOD.
- 21:04Speaker 3: And i enjoyed watching, his film but it WASN'T what
- 21:11Speaker 3: i was hoping it. Would BE like I still i
- 21:14Speaker 3: kind Of Like dylan bell a little, bit MORE like
- 21:16Speaker 3: i liked watching his film a little.
- 21:17Speaker 2: Bit MORE but i do Think.
- 21:20Speaker 3: Zach rya branch will BE an, nfl player and a
- 21:23Speaker 3: pretty good one. At, THAT sure i could see him
- 21:26Speaker 3: having a pretty, solid CAREER but i think he's a
- 21:30Speaker 3: little bit, role LIMITED so i.
- 21:33Speaker 1: Don't know, he's, short right he's like, five nine so
- 21:36Speaker 1: he might so, when again when you see a guy
- 21:38Speaker 1: who has five to nine and a little bit more
- 21:40Speaker 1: of a short area burst with the one to five
- 21:44Speaker 1: split and he's strong ry because he had twenty twenty
- 21:49Speaker 1: reps on, the bench which was good enough for BRONZE
- 21:52Speaker 1: that i think that makes me think slot like, you
- 21:54Speaker 1: know a guy who can block a little bit line
- 21:57Speaker 1: up in. The slot he's not gonna have great size
- 21:59Speaker 1: or speed on. The outside soul could be a functional, slot, player.
- 22:03Speaker 2: YEAH and i think he'd be a really good.
- 22:04Speaker 3: Slot PLAYER but i do think you can't really put
- 22:07Speaker 3: him on the outside. AS much i mean, you COULD
- 22:10Speaker 3: but i think you lose. A, LOT yeah i think
- 22:13Speaker 3: it's optimal having him in. The SLOT and i think
- 22:16Speaker 3: something that is valued is the ability to have Guys
- 22:21Speaker 3: Like DeVonta smith where you can put in the slaught
- 22:23Speaker 3: or you can have on.
- 22:24Speaker 2: The outside like.
- 22:25Speaker 3: There's VALUE and i Guess aj brown, as well.
- 22:29Speaker 2: Having that versatility. IS valuable i think a Guy.
- 22:32Speaker 3: Like branch you feel almost like you're losing some of
- 22:35Speaker 3: his efficiency if you move him to.
- 22:37Speaker 1: The outside, So agreed, All right well we have to
- 22:40Speaker 1: talk about a kid that probably not a lot of
- 22:43Speaker 1: people are, talking About But jeff Caldwell from cincinnati who
- 22:47Speaker 1: just blew it up here at the combine and he
- 22:52Speaker 1: meddled in three, different events including. Second place he can
- 22:56Speaker 1: obviously jump right forty, two vertical eleven, two broad so
- 23:01Speaker 1: that's good and a one four eight split four to
- 23:05Speaker 1: three speed is. Very good It. Didn't meddle, but again
- 23:08Speaker 1: guess what a Size.
- 23:09Speaker 2: Is sam he's a big boy, for sure six.
- 23:12Speaker 1: Five six you give me a six foot five guy
- 23:15Speaker 1: who can run a four to Three and i'm happy,
- 23:17Speaker 1: with that especially one hundred and.
- 23:18Speaker 3: Sixteen pounds and the, THING IS i i, watched HIM
- 23:22Speaker 3: and i was actually more Impressed With bryce lance's film
- 23:25Speaker 3: who had he had ninety eight instead of ninety nine. Athleticson, score,
- 23:29Speaker 3: yeah which by, the way a ninety eight and a
- 23:31Speaker 3: ninety nine athleticism score. Is, ridiculous yes it is. Absolutely.
- 23:35Speaker 1: Ridiculous right it means not only did you test, really
- 23:38Speaker 1: well but your size is. Awesome too so you have
- 23:40Speaker 1: to have both of, those things, you know the measurables and.
- 23:42Speaker 3: The TESTING but I think caldwell is a little bit of.
- 23:45Speaker 3: A project i think you can develop him a. LITTLE bit,
- 23:51Speaker 3: i mean he has clearly has all the tools, and ability,
- 23:55Speaker 3: BUT yeah i think that there's some something to be
- 23:59Speaker 3: desired a. Little bit i'm trying to remember back because
- 24:02Speaker 3: obviously there's forty six GUYS and i watched, them All
- 24:05Speaker 3: so i'm.
- 24:06Speaker 2: Trying to remember.
- 24:06Speaker 1: EXACTLY well i do want to point, out though that
- 24:09Speaker 1: when you're comparing his Tape To bryson. Lance's tape right
- 24:14Speaker 1: One Of bryson lance is getting thrown the ball by
- 24:17Speaker 1: a quarterback who will play IN the Nfl In. Cole,
- 24:19Speaker 1: payton sure you know it'll probably Be a, day three
- 24:23Speaker 1: maybe a, Day late, day two but, you know something
- 24:26Speaker 1: in the three to. Six ROUND but i don't Know
- 24:28Speaker 1: if cincinnati's quarterback is. A PRO probably i doubt that.
- 24:32Speaker 1: HE is i DON'T think i remember Seeing A cincinnati
- 24:34Speaker 1: qb on, that list.
- 24:35Speaker 3: So yeah, BUT anyway i think it's definitely worth talking
- 24:40Speaker 3: about him with again ninety nine athleticism and IT only
- 24:43Speaker 3: i feel like it only goes up to ninety nine or.
- 24:45Speaker 3: One hundred, so yeah, it's insane the measurables and.
- 24:50Speaker 2: THE testing i think that's a guy that you take a.
- 24:55Speaker 1: Swing, On sure so Sure absolutely, day three, sixth round.
- 25:00Speaker 1: Seventh round hope that maybe with, you know in an
- 25:03Speaker 1: offense with a better quarterback, or something that all the stuff.
- 25:07Speaker 1: Shines through that happens quite. A, Bit, yeah yeah you
- 25:11Speaker 1: almost slipped one past me here because he's not he's
- 25:14Speaker 1: not color coded and there's really nothing to say about
- 25:16Speaker 1: him other than it didn't hit me until seeing his
- 25:19Speaker 1: name for the third time that, you know we are
- 25:21Speaker 1: Familiar With. Harrison wallace the third who you Know Us
- 25:25Speaker 1: penn staters Know As, Trey Right trey WALLACE who i we, Always,
- 25:29Speaker 1: THOUGHT sam i thought that was gonna be the guy
- 25:32Speaker 1: that kind of Broke The penn state's recent mold of
- 25:36Speaker 1: just underwhelming. Wide receivers and he wound up like just
- 25:39Speaker 1: Like A lambert smith right transferring. Somewhere else he Goes.
- 25:43Speaker 1: To mississippi he only did the forty and the and.
- 25:46Speaker 1: The SPLIT but i was a little surprised by the.
- 25:49Speaker 1: FORTY time i thought he was a little bit faster.
- 25:51Speaker 3: In, that yeah it was not an impressive showing in,
- 25:56Speaker 3: terms of like the, thing is Guys like tate don't
- 26:01Speaker 3: need their forty to be, anything Crazy right willis did
- 26:05Speaker 3: he needed to be crazy in order to get as.
- 26:08Speaker 2: A prospect he's. Nothing special it's. A, shame yeah it's. A, SHAME.
- 26:12Speaker 1: Well i guess maybe it Wasn't All drew. Allard's fault
- 26:15Speaker 1: then in, The end right.
- 26:17Speaker 2: Agreed.
- 26:19Speaker 1: ANYBODY else i neglected to mention here that you Want To,
- 26:22Speaker 1: josh cameron you have In.
- 26:24Speaker 2: Nybe, BLUE yeah i just thought he was a pretty,
- 26:26Speaker 2: solid Prospect.
- 26:27Speaker 1: Just okay he sat on all of his. GREAT times,
- 26:30Speaker 1: I guess i.
- 26:31Speaker 2: Guess, So.
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- 27:32Speaker 1: Up awesome i'm. REALLY listen i like this class ONLY
- 27:36Speaker 1: because i feel like sometimes there's a class of receivers
- 27:40Speaker 1: come out and they all just run these amazing, forties
- 27:42Speaker 1: right and everybody falls in love, with them and then
- 27:44Speaker 1: they don't really translate because they have straight line speed and.
- 27:47Speaker 1: NOT else i like that this class is full of
- 27:50Speaker 1: with a bunch of guys who don't have The great they,
- 27:53Speaker 1: have size they, have weight they have, positional versatility they
- 27:57Speaker 1: excel In other you got a couple guys who excelled the,
- 28:00Speaker 1: bench PRESS which i like. To, SEE uh i feel.
- 28:03Speaker 1: Like that that's impressive about. This class they may not
- 28:06Speaker 1: be the, greatest burners but they might actually be more. Complete.
- 28:09Speaker 2: RECEIVERS yeah i really like.
- 28:12Speaker 1: This, class, YEAH yeah i think there'll be some good
- 28:14Speaker 1: guys in round three and round four that can help
- 28:18Speaker 1: a team out and then three years down the road
- 28:19Speaker 1: maybe develop into.
- 28:20Speaker 2: Something agreed.
- 28:22Speaker 1: Good stuff, My friend are we gonna do? One more is?
- 28:27Speaker 1: The question do we have one more position that we
- 28:29Speaker 1: have yet to? Focus on what if we probably got
- 28:32Speaker 1: to do corner before all is said, and, done right
- 28:34Speaker 1: maybe that'll be the last one before, all right we'll
- 28:37Speaker 1: do corner next and call it a. Great series that's
- 28:40Speaker 1: gonna do it for inside the data on Inside the
- 28:42Speaker 1: Birds For. Sam Finkel I'm. Jeff mosher we'll catch you
- 28:46Speaker 1: all on the. Next one