WEBVTT - Patriots Catch-22: Full Minicamp Recap, Training Camp, Roster Building 0:00:10.760 --> 0:00:14.120 This is the Patriots Catch twenty two podcasts with Evan 0:00:14.200 --> 0:00:19.040 Lazar and Alex Barth Blazar and Lazarre. Hello, everybody nailed it. 0:00:19.160 --> 0:00:25.680 He joined us always by our bard. Here is Evan 0:00:25.760 --> 0:00:29.680 Lazar and Alex bars. I would put David Andrews in 0:00:29.760 --> 0:00:32.440 terms of guys that I just enjoyed covering the most. 0:00:32.560 --> 0:00:35.240 I would put David Andrews on my personal nout rushmore 0:00:35.360 --> 0:00:39.680 up there with Devin mccordy, with Matthew Slater and those Yeah, 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:41.800 I know Matt Russ four, but I think that those 0:00:41.880 --> 0:00:46.360 three kind of stand alone for me as just perfect Patriots, 0:00:46.400 --> 0:00:48.760 like just perfect on and off the field. 0:00:49.040 --> 0:00:50.960 All throw in there too. And this was one of 0:00:50.960 --> 0:00:53.920 the first guys we ever talked to was Dante Hidawer. 0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:56.840 He's he definitely knew how much. 0:00:56.640 --> 0:00:57.639 We didn't know what we were doing. 0:00:57.760 --> 0:01:00.560 Yeah, he was like, did you get one question something 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:01.800 like that. He's like, you can talk to me once 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:04.200 a week or something. Yeah, it was like it was funny. 0:01:04.200 --> 0:01:05.240 He was always really good to us. 0:01:05.280 --> 0:01:07.320 It's just kind of funny. Was that's a good you know, yeah, 0:01:07.360 --> 0:01:09.679 giving us a little rookie moment. Yeah, he would do that, 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:12.840 and he was he was kidding, but he's also not kidding, and. 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:14.640 It had to be good, and it had to be good, 0:01:14.680 --> 0:01:15.600 and I wouldn't answer. 0:01:15.720 --> 0:01:18.440 I remember one time I tried to ask him another 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:21.000 question a couple of days later, and he remembered. He said, 0:01:21.360 --> 0:01:24.080 You've already asked me your question this week. I'm not 0:01:24.200 --> 0:01:27.040 answering it. He was kidding, But yeah, he's he's definitely 0:01:27.240 --> 0:01:29.840 he was great. Yeah, he's definitely on that list as well. 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:35.280 All Right, everybody, Hello, Evan Lazar, Alex Barth, Patriots Catch 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:37.720 twenty two with you for the next couple of hours. 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:41.800 Good story time there, good good recollection of our our 0:01:41.880 --> 0:01:44.040 young days on the beat. More that come in the 0:01:44.080 --> 0:01:46.680 next five weeks, I'll tell you, Oh yeah, yeah. But 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:49.120 I think it's a good segue though, Alex, and we 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:52.760 got Alex Barth here, Alex behind the glass, Alex is 0:01:53.000 --> 0:01:55.800 with me, and I think it's a good segue into 0:01:55.880 --> 0:01:57.960 what I wanted to talk about off the top of 0:01:58.000 --> 0:02:01.320 the show here with coming off camp two days out there, 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:03.160 I mean camp. We were both there for the last 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:07.160 couple of days of practice, and we early on in 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:10.000 our time, and I'll just speak for myself, I early 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:12.600 on in my time would come out in the spring 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:15.600 and just overrate everything that I saw this time of year. 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:18.280 You know, this guy's gonna be a star. That guy's 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:21.000 gonna you know, be he's gonna stink. You know, this 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:21.639 is my guy. 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:22.000 Now. 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:24.320 You know, we always make fun of Maurice Harris, but 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:26.600 it's the Maurice Harris of it all. We're making fun 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:30.760 of us, yes, for what we thought about. Good point, 0:02:30.960 --> 0:02:34.839 good way to put that. So I get that there 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:38.320 there's that element of this whole time of year as always. 0:02:38.400 --> 0:02:42.359 But the other thing that, you know, just along those lines, 0:02:43.600 --> 0:02:45.600 like I really want to drink the kool aid with 0:02:45.639 --> 0:02:48.680 this team right now because I am excited. I am 0:02:48.720 --> 0:02:50.480 optimistic about what they put together. 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:51.079 Uh. 0:02:51.160 --> 0:02:53.440 They they had a really good off season. They had 0:02:53.440 --> 0:02:56.600 a really good off season, a good draft, good free agency, 0:02:57.120 --> 0:02:59.720 they had a good spring. I thought the practices were 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:04.600 as energetic and just people buying in and there was 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:08.040 energy and there was buying and there was competitiveness even 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:10.760 during the team drills, you know towards the uh, the 0:03:10.800 --> 0:03:13.480 big portions of practice there during the team drills where 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:16.840 you have offense defense on the field and everybody's off 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:19.040 to the side that isn't on the that isn't playing 0:03:19.080 --> 0:03:21.960 and everyone's watching like there was a great energy and 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:24.079 back and forth to what they were doing. I'm sure 0:03:24.440 --> 0:03:26.920 that tone is obviously set by the head coach and 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:30.720 his energy and his enthusiasm, which is infectious. And I 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:34.280 have the glass of kool Aid is like on the 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:37.200 table right like I poured it. It's on the table, 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:40.080 it's right there. I'm like about to pick it up 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:41.560 and drink it. What's your favorite kol Aid? Do you 0:03:41.600 --> 0:03:44.800 have a favorite one? Oh? Man, I just the lemonade. Yeah, 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:45.920 I was gonna say lemonade. 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:49.200 Yeah, I had a long day, but that used to 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:50.920 be a summer staple. Maybe I'll bring that back to 0:03:51.000 --> 0:03:52.760 This is the analogy I came up. So did you 0:03:52.800 --> 0:03:54.800 have like how did you have it? Because I used 0:03:54.800 --> 0:03:56.800 to get or my mom used to get like the powder. 0:03:57.320 --> 0:03:59.600 I used to have the pouches, right, isn't that where 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:00.360 their power? Just know? 0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:02.760 We had like it was like a like a like 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:05.440 a powder, like a Gatorade powder, but kool Aid. Yeah, 0:04:05.480 --> 0:04:08.240 and it was in like you know, plastic kind of 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:12.720 yeah yeah right right See I didn't I didn't like 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:14.520 that one though, because I always felt like I got 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:17.520 the ratio wrong, right, Like you had to nail the 0:04:17.560 --> 0:04:21.159 water the powder ratio. Otherwise it is either too wired 0:04:21.200 --> 0:04:22.600 down or it was too sugary. 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:24.680 It was our first science experiment. 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:27.480 Put sugar in, which probably wasn't the healthiest thing to do. 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:30.040 You would put sugar in the kool aid. 0:04:30.080 --> 0:04:34.480 If I didn't get that already, I admitted it wasn't healthy. 0:04:34.680 --> 0:04:36.960 Years old, I see what like this this is country 0:04:36.960 --> 0:04:37.640 time for some reason. 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:39.840 But like yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I hear you. Yeah, 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:41.440 I used to do that. I used to have that 0:04:41.440 --> 0:04:42.800 a lot with gatoring because I think it might have 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:45.440 been a little bit cheaper than buying the body. I 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:48.120 don't even remember that. Oh yeah, that I don't remember. 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:50.600 The other thing that was great about now we're totally 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:53.800 on a tangent side summer. The other thing that was 0:04:53.839 --> 0:04:56.960 great about the Gatorade Power is that I went to 0:04:56.960 --> 0:05:00.240 overnight camp and you could keep the gatorade powder. Didn't 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:02.880 need a fridge for the gatorad power, right, So you 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:06.159 could keep the Gatorade power powder in your bunk and 0:05:06.200 --> 0:05:08.920 then you would take like a cup of it with 0:05:08.960 --> 0:05:11.159 you to the dining hall and then you'd you know, 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:13.160 you could put water in it and now you have gatorade. 0:05:13.200 --> 0:05:14.720 Oh I do remember, okay, I do remember that. I 0:05:14.720 --> 0:05:16.120 don't know that, like we were hat in the house, 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:17.479 but I do. I do remember this. 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:22.080 Okay, So back on football. I want to drink the 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:26.120 kool aid. I the class is poured. It's there, it's 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:29.440 in front of me. I see it. I see Rabel's vision. 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:32.680 I see what he's brought to the table. I've honestly 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:36.240 really enjoyed watching Josh McDaniel's work again too, you know, 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:39.320 headset on play sheet. He just seems in his element, 0:05:39.400 --> 0:05:41.560 whereas maybe as a head coach it was a little 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:44.200 bit different for him. But this seems to be his calling, 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:46.640 is to be an offensive coordinator and and be a 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:50.080 good one at that. We can't, you know, divulge too 0:05:50.160 --> 0:05:52.400 much about the plays that they were actually running, but 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:58.000 the offensive were the offensive install in particular, I'm excited about. 0:05:58.200 --> 0:06:00.680 I think there's a lot of wrinkles in there that 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:02.720 I was hoping that they were going to do, which 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:05.560 we can get into in a little bit. And I 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:08.720 want to drink the kool aid now. For the first 0:06:08.800 --> 0:06:11.880 time though, and probably my entire Patriots fandom, like I'm 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:15.360 hardened by this team a little bit right, everyone knows 0:06:15.640 --> 0:06:17.960 what they've been post Brady. You know, they have one 0:06:18.000 --> 0:06:21.120 playoff appearance in five years. They're thirty three and fifty 0:06:21.160 --> 0:06:24.240 one with one winning season since Tom Brady walked out 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:27.200 the door. So as much as I want to drink it, 0:06:28.320 --> 0:06:31.479 my guard's up, Like my guard is legitimately up about everything. 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:33.359 But at the same time, if I just trust my 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:36.400 eyes and what I'm seeing you, Drake May made progressive 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:39.680 strides throughout the entire spring where he just got better 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:42.039 and better with every practice and you could see the 0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:44.960 comfort level improving. And he even said, which I thought 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:47.440 was awesome, is exactly what you want to hear your 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:50.640 quarterback say, I don't want to leave. He literally said 0:06:50.680 --> 0:06:53.039 he doesn't want to leave because they're making so much 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:56.960 momentum here in the spring. So as much as my 0:06:57.000 --> 0:06:59.760 guard is up, my spring guard is up because I 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:03.720 don't want to, you know, overrate practices and shorts and 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:06.039 a T shirt, and we obviously know what this team 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:07.960 has been the last couple of years, So my guard 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:11.200 is up because of that. But this is as optimistic 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:15.000 as I've been. Specifically, I would say about the offensive 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:17.840 side of the ball and quite some time with this team, 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:19.520 because I really feel like by the end of the 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:23.800 spring you were starting to see some real great signs 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:26.600 about what this offense can be, especially from Drake May 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:27.760 and Josh McDaniels. 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:30.640 Yeah, i'd say for me, I don't even know if 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:33.680 it's like being hardened by the team as much as 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:37.840 it is. I don't want to overcorrect and know you 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:39.640 take so much from the spring and what does it 0:07:39.680 --> 0:07:40.120 amount to. 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:41.440 And I also don't. 0:07:41.320 --> 0:07:43.120 Want to be sit here and be that guy like, well, 0:07:43.120 --> 0:07:45.400 actually none of it matters, yeah, right, because there are 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:49.480 bits and pieces that matter you pick through it. I 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:53.480 don't know that. Like, my level of optimism is about 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:56.480 the same. I like the moves they made this offseason. 0:07:57.200 --> 0:08:00.440 I whether it be coaching, whether it be played like 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:02.600 I think they did. I think I gave him like 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:04.760 a beat, right, I think they did just about everything 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:08.000 they could do. The veteran wide receiver market was the 0:08:08.040 --> 0:08:09.800 one thing that I was like, maybe they could have done, 0:08:09.880 --> 0:08:13.480 but like, overall, really solid, especially from where they worked 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:17.960 where they are now is a significant significant improvement. So 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:22.680 I but for me, it's just like I don't know 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:24.680 how much I saw it, Like I guess the coaching 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:27.720 stuff was more validating the player stuff. They're not in pads, 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:29.960 We're not really sure. But that's not to say I 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:30.880 don't feel good about it. 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:33.480 I do. I just I felt good about it going in. 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:36.440 So it didn't The spring didn't change a ton for me, 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:39.280 other than maybe, like like you said, seeing how Vrabel 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:41.679 was about his business, seeing Josh McDaniel's work again, those 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:43.720 were probably the biggest takeaways for me. 0:08:44.000 --> 0:08:47.480 Well, I agree, and I think the hardest part about 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:50.480 this job this time of year is determining what's real 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:52.800 and what's This is the spring and there's no pads 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:55.160 and there's no contact, and we're in shorts and T shirts. 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:58.880 But one of the biggest things that I think is 0:08:58.920 --> 0:09:04.160 really important this time a year is procedural stuff. Are 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:06.079 they getting in and out of the huddle? Are they 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:10.720 lining up correctly? Are there a flurry of pre snap 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:14.640 penalties or errors, substitution errors, penalties, things like that. Are 0:09:14.679 --> 0:09:17.719 guys jumping off sides all the time? There was a 0:09:17.720 --> 0:09:19.480 little bit of that yesterday. I thought it got a 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:23.000 little bit loose in practice yesterday. But for the most part, 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:25.200 with out of the five practices that we saw in 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:28.680 the spring, it was really clean, like there weren't guys 0:09:29.160 --> 0:09:31.720 lining up incorrectly. And then it's well, you know, this 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:33.679 guy went in motion when he shouldn't have, or this 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:35.559 guy is supposed to be in this alignment and he's 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:37.360 in that alignment. Now we got to re huddle. Now 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:39.800 we got to recall the play in the huddle, and 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:41.760 like all this kind of stuff. And I know that 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:45.360 sounds elementary and like it's these are professional football players, 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:48.200 they should already know how to do these things. Yeah, 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:50.200 but based off the last couple of years of what 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:53.320 we've watched, I'm telling you it's not that simple. There 0:09:53.360 --> 0:09:58.160 are instances, especially in the last two camps, I would say, 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:00.880 where there was a ton of that kind of stuff 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:04.040 going on and to not see any of that just 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:08.640 allows you to get ahead of where they were this 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:12.480 time last year. And it really hit me yesterday when 0:10:12.520 --> 0:10:14.840 we saw them doing some of their red zone install 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:19.760 and things like that during practice how far ahead they 0:10:19.800 --> 0:10:24.040 are relative to years past. And I mean, really the 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:28.920 last two years. They are already doing things now that 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:31.680 is deep, deep, deep into the install that I just 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:34.440 don't think they ever really got to, especially this time 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:36.600 of year. Over the last couple of years, and that 0:10:36.679 --> 0:10:39.680 just allows you to continue to build, and then you 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:43.720 come back for training camp and it's more putting in 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:46.199 some of the specialized plays or some of the creative 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:48.319 plays and some of the different things, and then just 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:50.280 drilling the base stuff because you already have the base 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:54.280 stuff installed. So that part of it, the cleanliness, the 0:10:54.280 --> 0:10:58.480 procedural stuff. How far along it appears that they are 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:01.800 offensively in particular, I think defensively defense is kind of 0:11:01.800 --> 0:11:04.200 defense this time of year, and you're not really doing 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:06.839 too much, But how far along they are? Red zone, 0:11:06.880 --> 0:11:09.280 third down, like they've did all that over the last 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:11.600 couple of days, and they're already through all of that 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:14.800 kind of thing. So now that it's all about tweaks 0:11:14.800 --> 0:11:19.880 and adjustments and adding and moving forward and continuing that momentum. 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:22.320 So that's the biggest thing that I take away from 0:11:22.400 --> 0:11:26.360 this time of year, not necessarily who flashed and who 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:28.400 didn't and that sort of thing. I try not to 0:11:28.440 --> 0:11:31.840 put too much stock into that stuff anymore. But is 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:34.240 it a clean operation? Is it a professional operation? Does 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:36.640 it look like it should? Do the players look like 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:38.800 they should? Do people know where they're going? Are they 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:41.079 lined up correctly? Are they getting in and out of 0:11:41.120 --> 0:11:44.040 the huddle on time? There was a time yesterday where 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:45.880 they were a little slow getting out of the huddle 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:48.959 and Vrabel is like yelling at like, let's go right. 0:11:49.080 --> 0:11:53.520 So those attention to detail things are definitely back with 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:57.880 this football team, which is really encouraging. That's what you 0:11:57.920 --> 0:11:58.719 want this time of year. 0:11:58.840 --> 0:12:02.160 Yeah, and you know, people would ask me, well, does 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:05.520 it feel different than last year? And it you know, 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:07.040 I was kind of saying, yeah, yeah, I mean yes 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:09.000 and no, it's just so early, how do you know? 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:12.160 But I do remember one of the first things last 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:16.120 year that was a little head scratching was like they 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:19.000 didn't we've covered enough camps that we kind of know 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:21.320 when you sort of take the jump to the next 0:12:21.360 --> 0:12:25.000 step and in any various number of ways. And it 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:27.040 felt like at times they were maybe a little behind 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:29.440 schedule with the install Now that was more in the 0:12:29.480 --> 0:12:32.360 summer than the spring. But to see them get into 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:34.440 red zone and get into third down right away in 0:12:34.480 --> 0:12:37.520 mini campus like okay, here we go, like they're taking 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:42.360 that next step. So the operation from that macro standpoint 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:44.080 and then to zoom in a little bit more like 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:46.760 you said, getting in out of the huddle, the substitution stuff, 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:48.360 things like that. I think there were a few penalties 0:12:48.440 --> 0:12:51.400 yesterday that maybe went uncalled, but overall, penalty wise of 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:55.720 very clean spring like that kind of stuff is how 0:12:55.760 --> 0:12:57.280 you tell that they're making progress. 0:12:57.400 --> 0:13:02.040 Yeah, so all positive things, good things. Now I'll do 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:04.600 a little bit of a compliment Sandwich here. All that 0:13:04.720 --> 0:13:07.200 was really positive for the first thirteen minutes of the show, 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:09.600 and I meant to every word. I think, you know, 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:12.760 like I said, the drink is the kool aid is poured, 0:13:12.800 --> 0:13:14.360 it's right in front of me. I just need to 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:17.280 see I need to see some padded practices before I'm 0:13:17.320 --> 0:13:19.320 starting to drink it, right, But it's right there in 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:19.720 front of me. 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:20.320 Now. 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:25.079 The one to make this a compliment, Sandwich. The criticisms 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:27.520 are just sort of the small sea concerns, I guess 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:29.600 is the better way to put it. That I still have. 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:33.640 And I'm still focused mostly on offense right now. One, 0:13:34.440 --> 0:13:36.160 I don't know what this offensive line is going to 0:13:36.200 --> 0:13:39.800 look like. I still am not one hundred percent sure 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:43.440 that their line is going to be significantly improved, mainly 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:46.000 because we haven't seen it in pads, so like that's 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:47.440 a big reason and I think a lot of this 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:50.520 time of year or two when you're not in pads, 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:53.480 like it's hard to pass block without pads on, you 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:57.120 really can't hit anybody. You're in a basketball stands and 0:13:57.200 --> 0:13:59.200 just trying to kind of stay in front of guys. 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:02.240 It's clearly advance defense in that respect with the pass rush, 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:04.800 and it's basically third down every play because you know 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:07.679 they're running. You're not running the ball, so there's a 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:10.760 lot of advantages. But just looking at it on paper, 0:14:11.480 --> 0:14:15.880 you have what I believe is probably the biggest hole 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:19.200 on in this you know, all twenty two right now, 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:21.880 and the starting lineup on both sides of the ball 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:24.120 at left guard. I have no idea what they're gonna 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:26.120 do at left guard. Now. They have bodies to throw 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:28.480 at it. It's not that they don't have options. I 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:30.200 just don't know if any of them are good options. 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:32.920 You know, Cole Strange probably right now is the leader 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:35.720 in the clubhouse. He's got the inside track if he doesn't, 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:39.600 if he stays healthy and all that momentum continues, I 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:42.760 do think he's probably gonna hold off everybody and keep 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:45.960 that job going into the season. But left guard is 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:50.200 a giant unknown right now at center, we probably know 0:14:50.240 --> 0:14:53.280 what Brad Burry is gonna you're hoping he's gonna just 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:57.720 be a serviceable starting center. I don't think anybody's thinking 0:14:57.720 --> 0:15:00.080 that he's going to be anything more than that. So 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:03.720 those are two spots on your interior. Morgan mos is 0:15:03.720 --> 0:15:06.760 thirty four years old, just is what it is. Will 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:09.120 Campbell's a rookie, is what it is. He's a highly 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:12.360 drafted rookie, and you hope that that means that he's seamless, 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:13.760 but he's a rookie at the end of the day. 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:17.000 And then there's Big Mike, who is Big Mic, right, 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:20.240 So you put all this together, and that's my biggest 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:22.800 concern with this team right now. We know what it 0:15:22.840 --> 0:15:26.360 looks like when the offensive line is so bad that 0:15:26.400 --> 0:15:29.800 you just can't really function offensively. I don't know if 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:31.760 we're going to get to that point. Hopefully we don't. 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:33.880 But right now, if I had to say, what's my 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:36.280 biggest concern on this team, it's still the offensive line. 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:38.480 Yeah, there's still a lot of unknowns there. And look, I 0:15:38.520 --> 0:15:42.120 think I was talking to somebody about this. Guess say, 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:44.040 like I think they're in a much better spot on 0:15:44.080 --> 0:15:45.840 the offensive line than they were last year. I think 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:50.000 they're significantly improved, but I still think that there are 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:51.200 concerns with that group. 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:52.760 Both of those can be true. 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:55.000 It's more just kind of an indictment on where they 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:58.600 were last year with it. But they have like this 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:00.920 time last year, you just did it left guard right, 0:16:00.920 --> 0:16:02.520 We don't know, And I think even to say Cole 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:04.760 Strange is the favorite, like he was out there good 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:06.480 amount in the spring, but he was kind of after 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:10.120 by the fault, they weren't really you know, I city 0:16:10.200 --> 0:16:11.840 so I was playing on the right side because Mike 0:16:11.880 --> 0:16:14.200 when wine was limited and west Weis, who's I was 0:16:14.240 --> 0:16:15.480 since retired, wasn't out there. 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:18.600 Tyres Robinson missed a couple of. 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:21.560 Practice at this moment, but he wasn't out there, so 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:23.800 we don't know would have been out there. You know, 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:26.600 Lane Robinson's the one guy that just kind of seems 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:28.960 like clearly he isn't getting the work. But you know, 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:31.960 last year we were doing that at both tackle spots, right, 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:33.600 who are both tackles. 0:16:33.200 --> 0:16:33.640 Going to be? 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:36.040 And you at least know going in Like nobody's question, 0:16:36.360 --> 0:16:38.480 where's Morgan Moses added thirty four years old. 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:39.160 It's a fair question. 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:41.040 But we know he's proven he can be in his 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:44.600 starting caliber right tackle in the NFL. Will Campbell, Yeah, 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:47.440 there's it's based on potential, but he was the fourth 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:48.480 overall pick for a reason. 0:16:48.480 --> 0:16:50.000 He's a very technically skilled guy. 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:53.160 Like you're looking at upside there with Brad Berry, I 0:16:53.240 --> 0:16:55.200 think I still think that's a battle with him at 0:16:55.240 --> 0:16:57.080 Jared Wilson. It was limited the spring, so we didn't 0:16:57.080 --> 0:16:59.880 get to see much of him, But like you feel 0:16:59.880 --> 0:17:00.520 like you're gonna. 0:17:00.320 --> 0:17:02.320 Be able to get a starter there, there is. 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:04.919 There is much more of a foundation from where they 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:06.600 were last year. That doesn't mean it's gonna be great, 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:08.440 but I just think you're gonna be able to build 0:17:08.480 --> 0:17:10.840 more continuity and in that continuity, even if it's not 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:13.840 the best group. What was it How many games was 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:15.800 it last year before they used the same offensive line 0:17:15.800 --> 0:17:19.399 back to back games? It was deep into the season 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:23.159 like that. You know, injuries or injuries, but just in 0:17:23.240 --> 0:17:25.200 terms of swapping guys in and out, that shouldn't be 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:28.000 a problem last year, And you can raise the level 0:17:28.000 --> 0:17:30.440 of the group, even if individually you know you don't 0:17:30.480 --> 0:17:33.320 have five great players across. If you get guys that 0:17:33.359 --> 0:17:35.679 are consistently out there working together, starting in camp and 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:38.600 going through the season, that can make the group better. 0:17:38.640 --> 0:17:42.439 I know Kegan Steve Stifle from Steve wil firmness and 0:17:42.480 --> 0:17:45.760 has it, so I'll find the oh this stat yeah, I. 0:17:46.680 --> 0:17:48.800 Well, he was charting it every week last year. It's 0:17:48.840 --> 0:17:52.240 a good point that with continuity and hopefully the same 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:54.200 set of five guys and see it through the same 0:17:54.200 --> 0:17:56.640 set of eyes and all that that good stuff, that 0:17:57.160 --> 0:18:01.119 the talent level could be better than. Was that saying 0:18:01.160 --> 0:18:03.000 that the whole could be better than the some of 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:05.040 the park, better than the sum of their part. Yeah, 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:08.280 So that there's that potential. I always look at it 0:18:08.280 --> 0:18:11.280 from a defensive perspective though, and when you talk about 0:18:11.560 --> 0:18:14.520 the offensive line, you're always looking for like where's the 0:18:14.560 --> 0:18:18.280 weak link that we can attack? And even teams that 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:22.680 have great offensive lines, it's always about almost like who's 0:18:22.720 --> 0:18:25.040 your weakest link and how bad is that guy? Right? 0:18:25.280 --> 0:18:29.040 Because if it's a if that player is below replacement 0:18:29.119 --> 0:18:33.159 level and you're going out there Week one against the 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:36.399 Las Vegas Raiders and they have Max Crosby, all the 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:38.760 Raiders are gonna do is line up Max Crosby over 0:18:38.800 --> 0:18:41.359 your weakest link and they're just gonna have him rush 0:18:41.800 --> 0:18:45.160 twenty times over your weakest link on the offensive line, 0:18:45.160 --> 0:18:48.360 and they're gonna expose that. So the good news is 0:18:48.480 --> 0:18:51.639 for the offensive line, they have bodies. I'm not concerned about. 0:18:52.960 --> 0:18:54.440 They just don't have anybody to play here. 0:18:54.560 --> 0:18:57.120 So Week ten was Week ten was the first time 0:18:57.119 --> 0:18:58.840 they used to repeat line last year, but it was 0:18:58.840 --> 0:19:01.120 eight to ten. They didn't use it back to back weeks. 0:19:01.400 --> 0:19:03.520 Week ten and eleven was the first time they used 0:19:03.520 --> 0:19:05.360 the same offensive line and back to back weeks. Yeah, 0:19:05.359 --> 0:19:07.639 that sounds the Darian Lowe, Michael Jordan, Ben Brown, Mike 0:19:07.680 --> 0:19:12.760 oh and Winnho Demntro Jacobs. Yeah, we're better. They're beyond that, honestly. 0:19:12.840 --> 0:19:15.680 How many Well, Michael Jordan's obviously not here anymore. Yeah, 0:19:16.200 --> 0:19:18.280 there's a real chance only one of those five guys 0:19:18.359 --> 0:19:20.360 is on the team this year. Michael went who's gonna 0:19:20.359 --> 0:19:22.800 make team obviously, right, Ben Brown I think is right 0:19:22.840 --> 0:19:26.920 on the bubble. Jacob's and low like they they brought 0:19:26.960 --> 0:19:28.719 in backup tackles to compete too. 0:19:28.840 --> 0:19:31.640 So there's a chance that one of those five guys 0:19:31.680 --> 0:19:33.320 is on the team this year. They're in much better 0:19:33.320 --> 0:19:36.480 shape than that. Yeah, there's no doubt about that. Now. 0:19:36.480 --> 0:19:40.119 The other thing is we've talked about in the past. 0:19:40.800 --> 0:19:43.320 You can cover up one hole on the offensive line 0:19:43.400 --> 0:19:45.520 if you have one week link. There's ways to cover 0:19:45.560 --> 0:19:48.199 it up. It's honestly probably easier to do it on 0:19:48.240 --> 0:19:50.680 the interior than it is at tackle. Yes, because you 0:19:50.720 --> 0:19:52.399 can use the center. You know that you can put 0:19:52.480 --> 0:19:54.800 him in the slide side and not the man's side, 0:19:54.840 --> 0:19:58.080 and that way there they have somebody coming over, you know. 0:19:58.160 --> 0:20:01.480 So usually with protections you have three man slide side 0:20:01.560 --> 0:20:03.840 and then the backside is man to man. So those 0:20:03.880 --> 0:20:06.080 two guys on the backside are man to man. So 0:20:06.560 --> 0:20:09.840 if you have to put Morgan, Moses and Mike Onwenu 0:20:10.119 --> 0:20:12.920 one on one for a little while and then kind 0:20:12.920 --> 0:20:14.760 of have the left side be the slide side, now 0:20:14.800 --> 0:20:16.879 you can't be that predictable. You have to change it 0:20:16.960 --> 0:20:20.160 up and the defense. The front also dictates like where 0:20:20.200 --> 0:20:22.080 you're sliding and where you're man to mand and all 0:20:22.080 --> 0:20:24.760 that kind of stuff. But in general, if that's like 0:20:24.800 --> 0:20:29.840 the rule of thumb, then they can cover up for 0:20:29.880 --> 0:20:32.960 a left guard that isn't the best. They can cover 0:20:33.080 --> 0:20:35.600 up for a center, you know, Garrett Bradbury that has 0:20:35.640 --> 0:20:38.040 some limitations because of his size and his play strength 0:20:38.080 --> 0:20:40.040 and things like that in the past game. So you 0:20:40.040 --> 0:20:43.280 can cover up stuff like that. It's doable. I just 0:20:44.119 --> 0:20:46.520 it's another area of the team that I still think 0:20:46.560 --> 0:20:50.280 that they're They're maybe one year away from truly fixing it. 0:20:50.320 --> 0:20:53.560 They made strides this offseason, but now there's other holes 0:20:53.560 --> 0:20:57.800 that have presented themselves and things like that. Andrews gets 0:20:57.800 --> 0:21:00.880 cut and retires. You know, left guard hasn't really gone 0:21:01.240 --> 0:21:04.000 the way that they necessarily plan. Now. The two guys 0:21:04.000 --> 0:21:06.399 at left guard, I want to mention before we move on, 0:21:07.400 --> 0:21:10.760 Cayden Wallace, who saw some reps at left guard during 0:21:10.800 --> 0:21:14.840 Mini camp, which I don't think is a small thing. 0:21:14.840 --> 0:21:17.600 I think that's actually something we should focus on because 0:21:18.840 --> 0:21:21.879 coming out of college at Penn State, there were a 0:21:21.960 --> 0:21:24.639 group of people in the scouting community and in the 0:21:24.680 --> 0:21:27.040 media who felt like he was a guard in the 0:21:27.119 --> 0:21:28.840 NFL and not a tackle. He was one of those 0:21:28.840 --> 0:21:32.200 tackle to guard converts types of guys. So we see 0:21:32.240 --> 0:21:35.440 this a lot in college left and right tackles. They 0:21:35.480 --> 0:21:37.119 just don't have the foot speed, or they don't have 0:21:37.160 --> 0:21:39.800 the length, or they don't have something to play tackle 0:21:39.840 --> 0:21:42.040 in the NFL, so they move him inside the guard 0:21:42.080 --> 0:21:44.320 and they're pretty good guard. So I do think Kidd 0:21:44.320 --> 0:21:46.560 and Wallace could be a pretty good guard. So maybe 0:21:46.600 --> 0:21:49.680 he's a left guard. And I'm still holding out hope. 0:21:49.680 --> 0:21:52.080 We didn't see him much this spring. He's limited with something, 0:21:52.760 --> 0:21:55.280 but I still believe that Jared Wilson could be heard 0:21:55.280 --> 0:21:58.120 from in this competition as well. Maybe he starts his 0:21:58.200 --> 0:22:00.680 career at left guard instead of center. So those two 0:22:00.720 --> 0:22:02.560 guys are younger guys that maybe have a little bit 0:22:02.640 --> 0:22:05.680 more upside or unknown compared to Cole Strange, which I 0:22:05.680 --> 0:22:07.320 think we kind of know what he is at this point, 0:22:07.680 --> 0:22:11.199 So maybe those two could eventually push Cole Strange. I 0:22:11.240 --> 0:22:13.639 have no idea, you know, it's just a spring. No 0:22:13.720 --> 0:22:16.119 clue what's going on with Leyden Robinson doesn't seem like 0:22:16.200 --> 0:22:19.840 he's someone that's right now at least in the plan. 0:22:20.320 --> 0:22:22.760 And then Cities is still kicking around too. He's still 0:22:23.119 --> 0:22:25.679 around and could be in that Jack Connelly and there 0:22:25.720 --> 0:22:27.320 tim Jack Conley is a good one too, I mean 0:22:27.320 --> 0:22:30.920 because he can you know, maybe not as a starter ultimately, 0:22:30.960 --> 0:22:33.200 but like he can play four positions. Yeah, and he's 0:22:33.240 --> 0:22:37.560 got tremendous size, and I think that value probably helps 0:22:37.600 --> 0:22:38.960 him push for a roster spot. 0:22:39.040 --> 0:22:42.159 And then if he's doing that, you know, again that 0:22:42.240 --> 0:22:44.800 left guard competition's wide open, maybe he kind of sneaks 0:22:44.840 --> 0:22:45.200 in there. 0:22:45.560 --> 0:22:48.600 So the other thing on offense, you know, offensive line 0:22:48.640 --> 0:22:52.560 is the biggest small sea concern right now for me, 0:22:53.240 --> 0:22:56.600 because if you give McDaniels a functional offensive line and 0:22:56.640 --> 0:23:00.480 a good quarterback, they have enough weapons that I feel 0:23:00.520 --> 0:23:02.720 like he can mix it up and he can figure 0:23:02.720 --> 0:23:05.520 it out schematically. It gives you almost like a twenty 0:23:05.600 --> 0:23:07.639 twenty one vibe at that point, with maybe even a 0:23:07.640 --> 0:23:10.359 better quarterback, so you might even be better than you 0:23:10.400 --> 0:23:12.960 were in twenty twenty one. Twenty twenty one that the 0:23:13.240 --> 0:23:16.200 skill positions were fine, but they weren't anything special. You know, 0:23:16.359 --> 0:23:20.520 is Nelson agil or, Kendrick Bourne, Jacobe Myers, Henry Ormandre 0:23:20.800 --> 0:23:24.320 still right. It wasn't like it. They were the seven Patriots, 0:23:24.320 --> 0:23:26.840 like they had some guys, but it wasn't great. So 0:23:27.600 --> 0:23:30.639 they were a good offense to you know, above average 0:23:30.680 --> 0:23:32.480 offense that year. I don't see why they couldn't be 0:23:32.520 --> 0:23:33.879 this year if they have the line play and the 0:23:33.960 --> 0:23:37.919 quarterback play. The outside receiver spot still also feels like 0:23:37.960 --> 0:23:42.640 a little bit of a small sea concern. They played 0:23:42.680 --> 0:23:46.200 a lot of packages this week and in the spring 0:23:46.200 --> 0:23:48.439 in general. It's a lot of Kishan Boodie, who I 0:23:48.560 --> 0:23:52.200 like as a player. He's a fine player. But every 0:23:52.240 --> 0:23:53.879 team is going to know they're gonna want to funnel 0:23:53.880 --> 0:23:55.880 the ball through the middle of the field. Pop Douglass 0:23:55.880 --> 0:23:58.000 caught like a million passes over the last two days. 0:23:58.240 --> 0:23:59.760 Hunter Henry is going to be a big part of 0:23:59.840 --> 0:24:02.159 the Stefan Diggs when he's healthy, is going to be 0:24:02.200 --> 0:24:04.639 a big part of the things. And all those guys 0:24:05.200 --> 0:24:08.320 feature or you know, I would assume are going to 0:24:08.400 --> 0:24:11.840 be in those McDaniels, you know, slot receiver, tight end 0:24:11.880 --> 0:24:14.639 over the middle, like that kind of role. So what 0:24:14.680 --> 0:24:17.359 do they do They have anything on the outside to 0:24:17.400 --> 0:24:20.800 at least make the defense respect it. Maybe that's Diggs, 0:24:21.080 --> 0:24:23.560 Maybe it's Kyle Williams if he can emerge and that I. 0:24:23.480 --> 0:24:25.520 Think they want Kyle Williams as the X. There's also 0:24:25.600 --> 0:24:27.840 Mac Hollins, who we didn't I mean, he was out there. 0:24:27.680 --> 0:24:30.159 But he wasn't in uniform. He's dealing with something who 0:24:30.200 --> 0:24:30.920 we didn't get to see. 0:24:30.960 --> 0:24:34.080 I think that's probably between you know, I almost wonder 0:24:34.080 --> 0:24:35.639 if they want to move booty back to the Z 0:24:36.000 --> 0:24:38.560 where he's the more natural fit and it's Mac Hollins 0:24:38.600 --> 0:24:39.960 and Kyle Williams for the X. 0:24:40.119 --> 0:24:45.240 Yeah, so Kyle Williams maybe the catch a camp of 0:24:45.359 --> 0:24:48.600 mini camp with the bomb on Monday, right, he catches 0:24:48.760 --> 0:24:51.119 runs right through the middle of his own defense. Looked 0:24:51.119 --> 0:24:53.720 like it was cover two. Linebacker is trying to carry 0:24:53.800 --> 0:24:56.320 him up up the hole, the pole runner, and he 0:24:56.480 --> 0:24:58.879 just ran right by the linebacker and caught about a 0:24:58.960 --> 0:25:02.080 forty five forty four forty five yard bob from Josh Dobbs. 0:25:03.200 --> 0:25:06.679 Not press though, No, there wasn't where he's not contacted. Right, 0:25:07.119 --> 0:25:09.720 yesterday we got into practice and he had a one 0:25:09.800 --> 0:25:12.800 on one on the outside against Christian Gonzales and it, 0:25:13.000 --> 0:25:15.520 you know, second team All Pro did second team All 0:25:15.560 --> 0:25:19.160 Pro things. So I'm not saying like that's not to 0:25:19.200 --> 0:25:22.359 be overly critical of Kyle Williams. He's a rookie third 0:25:22.440 --> 0:25:25.600 round pick going up against a top five to six 0:25:25.680 --> 0:25:28.480 corner in the NFL. He's probably gonna have some ups 0:25:28.480 --> 0:25:31.840 and downs against Christian Gonzales. But can Kyle Williams get 0:25:31.840 --> 0:25:34.640 off press? Can he get off the line of scrimmage 0:25:34.640 --> 0:25:37.959 against physical press man coverage? At five ten one ninety. 0:25:38.119 --> 0:25:40.440 He's got a great release package, he's got great quicklins 0:25:40.520 --> 0:25:42.720 off the line, But when guys get into his grill 0:25:42.760 --> 0:25:44.520 and get into his airspace, is he going to be 0:25:44.560 --> 0:25:47.679 able to get off the line of scrimmage in you 0:25:47.720 --> 0:25:50.160 know a good amount of time, right, you know, on time, 0:25:50.520 --> 0:25:52.200 all those types of things. I think that's a question 0:25:52.240 --> 0:25:56.840 mark with him. I feel like they're gonna always, like 0:25:56.880 --> 0:25:58.879 with McDaniels, and I want to get into some of 0:25:58.920 --> 0:26:02.040 the McDaniels stuff, They're always going to have that middle 0:26:02.080 --> 0:26:04.520 of the field option. I just feel like he's always 0:26:04.520 --> 0:26:06.800 going to find a way to get slot receivers and 0:26:06.840 --> 0:26:09.280 tight ends and running backs the ball. Are they going 0:26:09.359 --> 0:26:11.240 to have enough on the outside? It would be the 0:26:11.280 --> 0:26:14.199 other thing to me when we're talking about the ceiling 0:26:14.240 --> 0:26:16.320 of this offense and how far they really could go. 0:26:17.359 --> 0:26:21.040 I like Keishawan Boodie, like I said, it still feels 0:26:21.040 --> 0:26:22.880 like they're begging for more there though a little bit, 0:26:22.960 --> 0:26:26.000 you know, And maybe again maybe it's just the fact 0:26:26.040 --> 0:26:28.440 that Digs isn't in team drills, right, I think that's 0:26:28.440 --> 0:26:30.800 part of it. Yeah, So maybe that and mac collins, 0:26:30.880 --> 0:26:32.159 Like I think those are two guys that are going 0:26:32.200 --> 0:26:33.639 to be involved that we didn't get to see how 0:26:33.640 --> 0:26:36.400 they're going to be using. Yeah, okay, so Kampleman sandwich. 0:26:36.800 --> 0:26:39.840 Those are my small sea concerns on offense. The other 0:26:39.880 --> 0:26:41.919 positive I want to talk about on offense is just 0:26:41.960 --> 0:26:44.440 some of the things that we saw already from McDaniels 0:26:44.600 --> 0:26:48.120 and the different things that they're going to incorporate within 0:26:48.200 --> 0:26:51.880 this offense. I'm mostly really excited about. I think there's 0:26:51.880 --> 0:26:54.840 a little bit of everything. Honestly from what I saw 0:26:55.359 --> 0:26:58.680 out of this offense or some of the old McDaniel staples. 0:26:58.680 --> 0:27:00.840 I think for the most part, the quick game and 0:27:00.880 --> 0:27:04.280 the shotgun package in the way they call the offense 0:27:04.280 --> 0:27:06.960 from the shotgun for the most part, is gonna be 0:27:07.000 --> 0:27:10.000 pretty much you're everyone's gonna kind of recognize it. You know, 0:27:10.040 --> 0:27:13.159 you're gonna understand what you're watching. There's maybe a little 0:27:13.200 --> 0:27:16.200 bit of West Coast flavor going in there from under center. 0:27:16.240 --> 0:27:19.320 I think that's possible. Uh, And I still feel like 0:27:19.400 --> 0:27:22.479 there's a dimension that maybe we'll see what Drake may 0:27:22.520 --> 0:27:25.880 as a runner, you know, those types of things. It's 0:27:25.920 --> 0:27:27.679 it's really what I wanted them to do. For the 0:27:27.680 --> 0:27:31.520 most part, I really thought that what he showed at 0:27:31.600 --> 0:27:34.639 least in mini camp and granted, you know, these are 0:27:34.640 --> 0:27:36.160 base plays and we have a long way to go, 0:27:37.160 --> 0:27:40.600 but it's encouraging. The other thing I wanted to point 0:27:40.600 --> 0:27:43.119 out was there's a lot of stuff going on in 0:27:43.160 --> 0:27:45.520 the backfield, like with running backs and stuff. I think 0:27:45.520 --> 0:27:48.200 they're gonna be it's gonna be a big running back here. 0:27:48.760 --> 0:27:51.560 There's a chance that we're pony expressing, you know, going 0:27:51.600 --> 0:27:54.520 back to the sm days, right, Like, there's a chance 0:27:54.520 --> 0:27:57.440 that that's happening. Oh wait, that's not why they're called 0:27:57.440 --> 0:28:02.000 the pony express. Yeah, it is Craig James and Eric Dickerson. 0:28:02.520 --> 0:28:05.040 Right, but not because of the formation. It's because they're 0:28:05.080 --> 0:28:07.679 the Mustangs. No, is that what the pony is? That 0:28:07.720 --> 0:28:10.120 why that sets called pony? Yes, I didn't actually know that. 0:28:11.359 --> 0:28:13.280 I like, I like what I teach you something like that, 0:28:13.359 --> 0:28:15.520 I feel did I feel like that's normally the other 0:28:15.520 --> 0:28:16.119 way around? 0:28:16.400 --> 0:28:20.040 I figured, Well, I figured that term existed before nineteen 0:28:20.080 --> 0:28:20.439 eighty two. 0:28:20.800 --> 0:28:22.800 I don't think so. I'm pretty sure that's why they 0:28:22.840 --> 0:28:27.320 call it pony pony package anyways. Interesting, So I think 0:28:27.359 --> 0:28:28.879 we could see some of that, and you could see 0:28:29.359 --> 0:28:32.960 the complimentary skill sets because reminder Stevenson is that power back, 0:28:33.040 --> 0:28:36.200 bigger back, and then they have these speedbacks with Antonio 0:28:36.240 --> 0:28:40.280 Gibson and Trayvon Henderson especially that they compliment each other 0:28:40.320 --> 0:28:42.160 really well and there's some different things they can do. 0:28:42.560 --> 0:28:45.600 There's obviously a brock Lampy element to this as well, 0:28:45.640 --> 0:28:47.320 a full back element that I think is going to 0:28:47.400 --> 0:28:50.480 be there too, and in this offense. So there's there 0:28:50.560 --> 0:28:52.360 was a lot going on in the batfield, like they 0:28:52.360 --> 0:28:56.080 have different formations, different looks, you know, different personnel groupings. 0:28:56.560 --> 0:28:58.880 It was it was interesting. I don't know what all 0:28:58.920 --> 0:29:01.000 of it, if all of it will right right, This 0:29:01.120 --> 0:29:03.520 might be let's just throw as much as we see 0:29:03.520 --> 0:29:05.680 what yeh, try see what we can do. Yeah, see 0:29:05.720 --> 0:29:07.840 what works. But there was a lot of that going 0:29:07.840 --> 0:29:08.360 on as well. 0:29:08.800 --> 0:29:13.479 Yeah, absolutely, it's this is what we talked about when 0:29:13.480 --> 0:29:15.320 they hired McDaniels, was it's going to be there's a 0:29:15.520 --> 0:29:19.000 big variation. Seeing the Josh McDaniels offense doesn't really mean 0:29:19.000 --> 0:29:22.240 anything because there are so many different iterations of it 0:29:22.280 --> 0:29:23.920 and he looks like he's really empty the back. 0:29:24.400 --> 0:29:28.400 Yeah, yeah, absolutely, that's so that's my compliment, Sandwich. I 0:29:28.400 --> 0:29:30.080 want to talk about a bunch of other things from 0:29:30.480 --> 0:29:33.640 uh mini camp as well, So keep it going here 0:29:33.720 --> 0:29:36.720 and then we'll take your calls and emails. See the emails. 0:29:36.760 --> 0:29:38.160 I see the calls. We'll get to those in a 0:29:38.160 --> 0:29:40.920 few minutes, I promise. But the other big talking pointer 0:29:41.120 --> 0:29:43.840 storyline that we got to touch on coming out of 0:29:43.840 --> 0:29:47.680 mini campus Stefon Diggs and seeing Steffan Diggs really for 0:29:47.720 --> 0:29:49.200 the first time. We saw him at that ot A 0:29:49.400 --> 0:29:53.280 right last week. So we've seen three practices now Stefon Diggs, 0:29:54.200 --> 0:29:57.040 and I'm just talking about the football. He didn't do 0:29:57.080 --> 0:29:58.920 any team drills yet and he's still not cleared for 0:29:59.280 --> 0:30:01.840 He did like some team walked through, not any fold. 0:30:02.040 --> 0:30:05.120 So I like to see that because that tells me 0:30:05.320 --> 0:30:09.040 that they think it could be early, sooner rather than 0:30:09.120 --> 0:30:11.160 later once we get the training camp. So they want 0:30:11.200 --> 0:30:13.680 to make sure he's on the same wavelength in terms 0:30:13.720 --> 0:30:16.600 of learning everything as everybody else. So that's a good side. 0:30:16.640 --> 0:30:19.160 But I gotta tell you, even though his routes are against air, 0:30:19.760 --> 0:30:22.000 when he was turning it on on some of those routes, 0:30:22.040 --> 0:30:24.120 I think Mark Daniels posted a video of him kind 0:30:24.120 --> 0:30:26.920 of opening it up in some routes against air type stuff, 0:30:27.160 --> 0:30:30.240 and he looks great. I mean his leg, the injured 0:30:30.320 --> 0:30:32.680 leg is clearly smaller than the healthy legs. Still, he 0:30:32.720 --> 0:30:35.040 still got to add some like muscle mass back to 0:30:35.120 --> 0:30:38.760 that leg. But the twitchiness and the explosiveness look like 0:30:38.800 --> 0:30:41.120 Stefan Diggs to me, like he looked really good moving 0:30:41.160 --> 0:30:45.040 out there, especially relative to how close he He just 0:30:45.080 --> 0:30:48.240 tores acl in October, and he looks miles ahead of 0:30:48.240 --> 0:30:50.760 other guys that we've seen in this position. So he 0:30:50.840 --> 0:30:52.640 said his goal was to be ready for week one. 0:30:53.320 --> 0:30:55.000 I'm not ruling it out. I think there's a real 0:30:55.080 --> 0:30:57.000 possibility that he's ready for week one based off of 0:30:57.000 --> 0:30:57.560 what we've seen. 0:30:58.160 --> 0:31:01.000 Look, yeah, he's not one hundred percent yet, but he's 0:31:01.000 --> 0:31:03.840 got what three months, right, yeah, to get there, and 0:31:04.160 --> 0:31:08.479 he doesn't seem very far away. So I yeah, he 0:31:08.520 --> 0:31:10.360 looks like a guy that could play week one certainly. 0:31:10.520 --> 0:31:13.600 Yeah, So that was good. He talked yesterday for the 0:31:13.640 --> 0:31:17.160 first time as well since for the in the spring, 0:31:17.200 --> 0:31:20.760 since his introductory press conference goals to be ready week one. 0:31:20.800 --> 0:31:23.120 I thought the other thing that stood out besides all 0:31:23.120 --> 0:31:27.320 the other stuff, was the fact that there's a lot 0:31:27.320 --> 0:31:29.800 of overlap for him and from Brian Dable which I 0:31:29.880 --> 0:31:33.080 think you probably could have guessed. But right that helps, 0:31:33.200 --> 0:31:35.440 It definitely helps. He said, there's some of the terminology 0:31:35.520 --> 0:31:39.120 is slightly different, but for the most part the concepts 0:31:39.120 --> 0:31:41.480 are the same. So they might call it something different 0:31:41.520 --> 0:31:44.000 here than Brian Dable called it, but he's still running 0:31:44.040 --> 0:31:46.680 the same rout. It's still those same mechanics of the row. 0:31:46.720 --> 0:31:49.480 Whether there's an adjustment or there's a sight adjuster, or 0:31:49.520 --> 0:31:51.640 whatever the case may be, it's all the same. So 0:31:52.120 --> 0:31:55.240 that's good. I think he'll pick it up quickly. Looked 0:31:55.280 --> 0:31:58.880 good out there. That could be the missing ingredient. Maybe 0:31:58.880 --> 0:32:01.160 that would make me feel better, the whole outside receiver 0:32:01.240 --> 0:32:03.720 thing that I was talking about earlier. So that's the fun. 0:32:03.800 --> 0:32:06.600 Diggs the other there's one other thing on offense that 0:32:06.680 --> 0:32:11.360 I wanted to bring up. Oh yeah, there's some scuttle butt, 0:32:11.640 --> 0:32:14.960 some talk about Pop Douglas and where does he fit 0:32:14.960 --> 0:32:17.320 into this whole equation fits I'll tell you that he 0:32:17.760 --> 0:32:19.880 could he get eftin Chisholmed and you know, could he 0:32:20.440 --> 0:32:23.200 be a surprise cut candidate if you will, like all 0:32:23.240 --> 0:32:27.120 those you know, talk radio things that we do. That's 0:32:27.160 --> 0:32:30.200 not happening. I don't think that's happening. I think that 0:32:30.200 --> 0:32:33.160 that is we basically ruled that out this week in 0:32:33.200 --> 0:32:38.440 my opinion. Now he is a jitterbug slot receiver in 0:32:39.120 --> 0:32:42.200 non padded practices, so he should look great. This is 0:32:42.520 --> 0:32:45.120 this is his time to shine like this is basically 0:32:45.120 --> 0:32:48.040 glorified flag football. He should be a stud in these 0:32:48.080 --> 0:32:50.880 types of practices. But to his credit, he was awesome 0:32:51.000 --> 0:32:51.920 for two straight. 0:32:51.640 --> 0:32:54.560 Down And we've seen him, We've seen it translate when 0:32:54.600 --> 0:32:56.320 the pads come on before, so it's not like we 0:32:56.360 --> 0:32:59.239 have nothing to go off of. He looked exactly at 0:32:59.280 --> 0:33:03.360 home and the mcdan slot receiver role, all those slot routes, 0:33:03.400 --> 0:33:06.080 and one of the things that really impressed me watching 0:33:06.120 --> 0:33:09.120 him run routes this week was how well he was 0:33:09.160 --> 0:33:11.520 adjusting the route based off the coverage. And you know, 0:33:11.560 --> 0:33:13.680 all those those routes on the inside have a bunch 0:33:13.720 --> 0:33:15.320 of options on them, and you're. 0:33:15.200 --> 0:33:18.120 Reading leverage, you're reading man zone. You know, too high, 0:33:18.200 --> 0:33:20.840 you're sitting here one high, he might be sitting someplace else. 0:33:20.880 --> 0:33:24.040 You're breaking away from man. You're reading leverage. So if 0:33:24.080 --> 0:33:26.520 the defender is outside of you, you're breaking inside. If 0:33:26.520 --> 0:33:29.480 he's inside, you're breaking outside. Like all that kind of stuff, 0:33:29.760 --> 0:33:32.120 and he was doing all of it pretty seamlessly, and 0:33:32.160 --> 0:33:34.960 they were finding matchups for him. He's getting on linebackers 0:33:34.960 --> 0:33:36.800 and stuff like that. In the middle field. It looked 0:33:36.880 --> 0:33:40.840 like Edelman, Welker, Troy Brown, Dion Branch like. It looked 0:33:40.880 --> 0:33:43.080 like all those types of guys doing it at a 0:33:43.080 --> 0:33:45.360 really high level. He was open for two straight days 0:33:45.400 --> 0:33:47.920 pretty much all the time, and that was really good 0:33:47.920 --> 0:33:52.120 to see. I pot Douglas is a lock on this team. Yes, right, 0:33:52.440 --> 0:33:55.080 he always was, but I'm not wrong to say that 0:33:55.120 --> 0:33:57.520 there were people that were people sitting that those people 0:33:57.520 --> 0:34:00.440 were wrong. Yeah, okay, I'm glad with his stat much that. 0:34:00.520 --> 0:34:02.560 So those are my offens thing. Is there anything I missed? 0:34:02.560 --> 0:34:05.280 I tried to jot these all down and make sure 0:34:05.280 --> 0:34:07.400 we got to everything. Josh Dobbs had a couple of 0:34:07.440 --> 0:34:10.880 nice throws. Josh Dobbs can. Josh Dobbs is a classic 0:34:11.680 --> 0:34:14.800 veteran backup. In Mini camp, like Brian Hoyer was the same. 0:34:14.719 --> 0:34:17.080 I was gonna say, he's no like Training Camp Brian 0:34:17.120 --> 0:34:20.000 Hoyer was MVP one of the most fun things I've 0:34:20.000 --> 0:34:22.959 ever seen. Yeah, training Camp Brian Hoyer stands alone. But yeah, 0:34:23.000 --> 0:34:25.279 Dobbs definitely has some of that where he'll he'll go 0:34:25.320 --> 0:34:26.279 out there and sling and he hit. 0:34:26.320 --> 0:34:28.560 He had the deep throw to to Kyle Williams, yep, 0:34:28.719 --> 0:34:29.480 I don't remember what it was. 0:34:29.480 --> 0:34:31.279 He had one yesterday. It wasn't deep, but he'd fit 0:34:31.360 --> 0:34:32.760 the ball in like a really tight window. 0:34:32.800 --> 0:34:36.000 That again, you're probably not testing, but he's testing it 0:34:36.080 --> 0:34:38.719 because it's it's practice and he knows his role and 0:34:39.800 --> 0:34:41.759 looked fair. I thought, I thought, you know, he had 0:34:41.960 --> 0:34:44.360 had a couple bad picks as well, but I thought, 0:34:44.400 --> 0:34:47.160 there's he's got more live than arm than maybe I 0:34:47.200 --> 0:34:51.160 thought he. It's always the guys like Josh Dobbs who 0:34:51.200 --> 0:34:52.919 have a little bit of a time in the league 0:34:52.920 --> 0:34:55.359 and a little bit of confidence and also just like 0:34:56.120 --> 0:34:58.520 they don't give an f Like if Josh Dobbs was 0:34:58.520 --> 0:35:00.840 a pick in this practice, does he care, No, he 0:35:00.880 --> 0:35:03.080 doesn't care. Like he cares, but like it's not like 0:35:03.360 --> 0:35:07.799 no pressure on Josh Dobbs to avoid turnovers and things 0:35:07.840 --> 0:35:10.440 like that. So a lot of these veteran backup quarterbacks 0:35:10.440 --> 0:35:12.960 in these practice they just rip it. They just rip it. 0:35:13.000 --> 0:35:15.360 And all of them can throw like they're all NFL quarterbacks, 0:35:15.360 --> 0:35:17.480 so they all have, you know, good arms, and they 0:35:17.480 --> 0:35:19.400 can all put it there and all that kind of stuff, 0:35:19.600 --> 0:35:22.120 especially when it's you know, glorified seven on seven and 0:35:22.160 --> 0:35:23.600 there's really no live pass rush. 0:35:23.640 --> 0:35:25.759 So yeah, he did make some good None of them 0:35:25.840 --> 0:35:27.640 rip it like Brian hoyre No, he come out with 0:35:27.640 --> 0:35:31.000 the dark visor and just Brian Hoyer and I say, 0:35:31.080 --> 0:35:32.879 practice squad, not practice squad. 0:35:32.920 --> 0:35:35.279 Training camp. Brian Hoyer was me playing Matt. I say 0:35:35.280 --> 0:35:37.919 this a little bit tongue in cheek, like training camp. 0:35:37.960 --> 0:35:42.440 Brian Hoyer what like had some moments that were like 0:35:43.080 --> 0:35:45.960 Brady esque, right, Like obviously Brady was Brady, but like 0:35:46.239 --> 0:35:48.399 there were times where Brian Hoyer would make just as 0:35:48.400 --> 0:35:50.040 good of a throw, like you were just like, wow, 0:35:50.080 --> 0:35:52.360 that was an absolute dime. Now Brady would make that 0:35:52.400 --> 0:35:54.440 throw like ten times in a row, and that was 0:35:54.480 --> 0:35:57.319 the difference. But like, yeah, Brian Hoyer is definitely all 0:35:57.440 --> 0:36:00.680 training camp team. Josh Dobbs might be close. Josh Oobs. 0:36:00.719 --> 0:36:03.279 Guy has some moments. He can put the ball, He 0:36:03.280 --> 0:36:06.560 can put the ball on guys. Yeah, he can absolutely good. 0:36:06.560 --> 0:36:10.840 Point oh really quickly. Also, before we move on to 0:36:10.920 --> 0:36:17.280 the defensive side, running back, running back's interesting Trayvon Henderson 0:36:17.280 --> 0:36:23.040 and Antonio Gibson feel redundant. Now there's still a role 0:36:23.080 --> 0:36:25.440 for both those guys, right, that's not necessarily a bad 0:36:25.520 --> 0:36:29.200 thing because they need to carry at least three. But 0:36:29.280 --> 0:36:32.200 I was playing around with the roster projection. I know 0:36:32.239 --> 0:36:39.279 you're playing around with the roster projection as well. Between Gibson, Henderson, Larison, Like, 0:36:39.360 --> 0:36:43.200 those three guys are probably the most likely. Obviously Henderson's 0:36:43.200 --> 0:36:45.240 going to be on the team, but those three guys 0:36:45.239 --> 0:36:48.439 behind Ramandre Stevenson, those four are really what we're talking 0:36:48.480 --> 0:36:52.200 about at running back. Those three Gibson, Henderson, Larison kind 0:36:52.200 --> 0:36:56.600 of are very redundant, very you know, similar to each other. 0:36:57.760 --> 0:36:59.239 Do they have room for all three of those because 0:36:59.239 --> 0:37:01.319 when I was doing the rows for projection, I wasn't 0:37:01.440 --> 0:37:03.200 sure if they needed to carry four. 0:37:04.160 --> 0:37:05.719 I mean, I don't think it's a guarantee that they 0:37:05.800 --> 0:37:07.879 keep all of them, but I certainly think they have room. 0:37:08.000 --> 0:37:09.600 Especially you know, if you keep a guy like Marcus 0:37:09.640 --> 0:37:13.840 Bryant or Jack Conley or King Wallas can play some 0:37:13.880 --> 0:37:15.840 guard like that saves you an offensive lineman. 0:37:16.080 --> 0:37:18.920 How many safeties are they really gonna keep? Maybe we 0:37:18.960 --> 0:37:20.080 didn't really get to tight ends. 0:37:20.080 --> 0:37:22.320 I'll use this as an excuse to talk about tight ends, 0:37:22.960 --> 0:37:24.839 they may only keep two tight ends right away. Yeah, 0:37:24.960 --> 0:37:28.160 because nobody from that third tight end group emerged this spring. 0:37:28.200 --> 0:37:30.960 And look, there's still ways to go, but just just 0:37:31.040 --> 0:37:33.480 looking at it, if you know, between CJ. 0:37:33.600 --> 0:37:35.080 DePree, jahem Bell, G. 0:37:35.320 --> 0:37:38.439 Scott, and Jack Westover and I think all like west 0:37:38.440 --> 0:37:39.839 Over got a lot of run. I'm not rolling any 0:37:39.840 --> 0:37:41.560 of those guys out, but none of them really had 0:37:41.560 --> 0:37:43.880 any moments in the spring. You can get You're probably 0:37:43.920 --> 0:37:45.480 not gonna keep all four on the practice squad. You 0:37:45.520 --> 0:37:47.960 can get two of those guys to practice squad, maybe three, 0:37:48.080 --> 0:37:50.240 and you can just elevate as you need and eventually 0:37:50.280 --> 0:37:53.080 a roster spot will open up. So never really gonna 0:37:53.120 --> 0:37:55.879 keep two tight ends to start fourth running back makes 0:37:55.880 --> 0:37:56.520 a lot of sense. 0:37:57.760 --> 0:38:00.000 When when I looked at tight end, I did feel 0:38:00.000 --> 0:38:02.759 fel the same way. Do you need to keep all 0:38:02.800 --> 0:38:06.560 those guys on the roster There are so many with 0:38:06.600 --> 0:38:08.840 all the new rules, with the practice squad, with the 0:38:08.960 --> 0:38:11.960 elevations and all that stuff. If you really feel like 0:38:12.040 --> 0:38:15.120 you need a third tight end on game day, it's 0:38:15.160 --> 0:38:17.480 pretty easy to just elevate that plan right now from 0:38:17.520 --> 0:38:20.560 the practice squad for the short term and then there's 0:38:20.560 --> 0:38:23.759 all Unfortunately, there's always injuries and ir stints and things 0:38:23.800 --> 0:38:26.360 like that that open up roster spots if you feel 0:38:26.360 --> 0:38:28.200 like you run out of elevations and you need to 0:38:28.200 --> 0:38:31.080 put that guy on the fifty three man roster. So 0:38:31.120 --> 0:38:34.440 there's definitely ways to go with that. But I agree, 0:38:34.520 --> 0:38:36.440 I didn't feel like any of those tight ends really 0:38:36.840 --> 0:38:40.359 separated themselves where if you're gonna be the third tight 0:38:40.440 --> 0:38:42.319 end on this team, you're gonna have to earn that role. 0:38:42.520 --> 0:38:45.120 It's not like just a we need to have three 0:38:45.120 --> 0:38:46.840 tight ends, so we're just gonna put this guy on 0:38:46.880 --> 0:38:49.000 the team. You're gonna have to earn it, especially with 0:38:49.080 --> 0:38:52.160 the flexibility from the practice squad. Now, I'll give my 0:38:52.200 --> 0:38:55.520 guy a CG dupre training camp because he's a pads 0:38:55.560 --> 0:38:58.719 on guy, he's a blocker, he's an inline tight end. 0:38:59.040 --> 0:39:00.680 I don't know if this time year is really c 0:39:00.840 --> 0:39:04.160 G dupreeze time to shine. Probably not. But I didn't 0:39:04.200 --> 0:39:06.200 think any one of those guys stood out either. So 0:39:06.520 --> 0:39:09.080 the way I look at it, you know, Henry Hooper 0:39:09.440 --> 0:39:11.719 definitely on the team at tight end, and then Brock 0:39:11.800 --> 0:39:14.640 Lampy if they want to have a full back package. 0:39:14.680 --> 0:39:16.759 There's only one full back on this team right now, 0:39:17.040 --> 0:39:18.719 and that's what it felt like. I compared it the 0:39:18.760 --> 0:39:22.680 other day to in lacrosse in high school when I 0:39:22.760 --> 0:39:25.480 was on JV. We only had one goalie, so there 0:39:25.520 --> 0:39:27.800 was no debate about who was going to be the 0:39:27.840 --> 0:39:31.160 starting goalie. There's no competition because we only had one goalie. 0:39:31.200 --> 0:39:32.880 So every single time they called the full back on 0:39:32.920 --> 0:39:34.720 the field, there was only one guy on the ninety 0:39:34.800 --> 0:39:36.960 man roster that was running on the field and it 0:39:37.000 --> 0:39:40.239 was Brock Lampy. So you know, maybe that's the way 0:39:40.239 --> 0:39:43.360 they go there with the tight ends and running backs. 0:39:43.400 --> 0:39:46.239 It's a numbers game there as well. So moving over 0:39:46.320 --> 0:39:49.680 to the defense, My biggest takeaway on defense from this 0:39:50.040 --> 0:39:54.759 camp in this spring the health of Christian Barmore, and 0:39:54.800 --> 0:39:57.080 in a good way. Christian Barmore looks like he's in 0:39:57.120 --> 0:39:59.680 great shape. He looks like he's a you know, he 0:39:59.719 --> 0:40:03.000 told us that green light, full go. He's got no 0:40:03.120 --> 0:40:08.040 limitations whatsoever if they have twenty twenty three. Christian Barmore 0:40:09.440 --> 0:40:12.400 not even thinking about Oh, him next to Milton Williams 0:40:12.440 --> 0:40:14.960 and him next to Keyon White, like just Christian Barmore 0:40:14.960 --> 0:40:17.320 in a vacuum. Going back to twenty twenty three form 0:40:17.719 --> 0:40:20.920 is absolutely huge for this team. Not that I doubted 0:40:20.960 --> 0:40:22.400 that he was going to be a full go, but 0:40:22.440 --> 0:40:25.560 you still were a little bit wary with what happened, 0:40:25.600 --> 0:40:27.279 you know, with the blood clots last year. That's not 0:40:27.400 --> 0:40:30.560 a no joking matter, that's a very serious thing. But 0:40:30.640 --> 0:40:32.719 it was great to see him and he looks like 0:40:32.760 --> 0:40:35.239 he's in great shape, you know, running all around the field, 0:40:35.400 --> 0:40:38.640 chasing down plays, getting in the backfield of course, like 0:40:38.880 --> 0:40:41.400 we know he can. So that's a huge development. And 0:40:41.440 --> 0:40:44.719 the two of those guys, him and Milton Williams were 0:40:44.760 --> 0:40:47.200 attached to the hit the entire spring. Like those guys 0:40:47.200 --> 0:40:51.200 were the two interior starting defensive tackles from wire to 0:40:51.200 --> 0:40:53.560 wire this spring, and they would run on the field 0:40:53.560 --> 0:40:57.120 together and they run off the field together. They're becoming friends, 0:40:57.120 --> 0:40:59.319 I'm sure. But it was great to see Barmore as 0:40:59.320 --> 0:41:02.000 a full go. TH's he looks like his old self, 0:41:02.040 --> 0:41:03.200 which is great development. 0:41:03.320 --> 0:41:05.960 Yeah, there was no ramp up, there was no I mean, 0:41:05.960 --> 0:41:08.520 you wouldn't know just watching Praudice that this was a 0:41:08.520 --> 0:41:10.759 guy that went through a major medical issue last year. 0:41:10.840 --> 0:41:13.360 So that that was my big takeaway too. Well, that 0:41:13.440 --> 0:41:15.799 was one of two I had on defense. He looks good, 0:41:16.160 --> 0:41:17.600 he looks healthy, he looks ready to go. 0:41:17.960 --> 0:41:19.719 I don't know what your other one is, but my 0:41:20.040 --> 0:41:23.400 next one was the best player on the field for 0:41:23.480 --> 0:41:26.920 the spring, Christian Zalez easily the best player on the 0:41:26.920 --> 0:41:30.200 team throughout the entire spring. That's not surprising. He was 0:41:30.239 --> 0:41:32.040 a second team All Pro last year. He is the 0:41:32.040 --> 0:41:34.759 best player on the team. Yeah, until maybe Drake May 0:41:34.800 --> 0:41:36.399 takes that next step, he's going to be the best 0:41:36.400 --> 0:41:41.000 player on the team. And he's he just looked, I 0:41:41.719 --> 0:41:44.480 would say, almost even better than he did last year. 0:41:44.680 --> 0:41:47.279 And the one thing that he's added maybe to his 0:41:47.320 --> 0:41:49.080 game is he's making a lot more plays on the 0:41:49.120 --> 0:41:51.200 ball now. Maybe that's just because he was being tested 0:41:51.239 --> 0:41:53.520 more because Drake May said he wanted to kind of 0:41:53.520 --> 0:41:55.400 test him and he didn't want to let him off 0:41:55.400 --> 0:41:57.600 the hook by not throwing his way and things like that. 0:41:58.080 --> 0:42:00.439 But he had two picks on that practice that Drake 0:42:00.480 --> 0:42:03.800 May had a couple of picks to start this spring. Yesterday, 0:42:04.239 --> 0:42:07.760 we actually posted it on Twitter on Patriots Twitter handle. 0:42:08.080 --> 0:42:11.839 Just a beautiful over the shoulder one handed to interception 0:42:12.040 --> 0:42:14.280 staying over the top of a go route by Kyle 0:42:14.320 --> 0:42:18.000 Williams he just looks like he's maybe is sending to 0:42:18.280 --> 0:42:19.880 from second team to first team All Pro. 0:42:20.560 --> 0:42:24.160 I was saying this yesterday on Patriots Beat, like the 0:42:24.200 --> 0:42:28.640 next step, Like he's already in the conversation of is 0:42:28.680 --> 0:42:30.399 he one of the best corners in the league? 0:42:30.440 --> 0:42:31.919 Is he a top five corner in the league? 0:42:32.000 --> 0:42:32.080 Right? 0:42:32.080 --> 0:42:34.239 Which I think he is, But you know, people have 0:42:34.320 --> 0:42:36.719 that conversation, So what's the step up from that? 0:42:37.520 --> 0:42:37.680 Well? 0:42:37.719 --> 0:42:40.080 Is he the best corner in the league? And is 0:42:40.120 --> 0:42:42.439 he like if he takes that step, holy cow? Right, 0:42:42.480 --> 0:42:45.200 and that's it, sir Tan right now, right? I don't 0:42:45.200 --> 0:42:48.160 think that's a hot take. How big is the gap 0:42:48.200 --> 0:42:50.359 between him and Sirtan or at least based off last year, 0:42:50.360 --> 0:42:52.400 how big is the was the gap between him and Sirtan? 0:42:52.680 --> 0:42:54.759 And do you think he can close that? I've said 0:42:54.760 --> 0:42:55.320 this before. 0:42:55.760 --> 0:42:57.040 Well, I don't know if you want to answer that, 0:42:57.320 --> 0:43:01.319 but it's fun because they're similar players, Yeah, and they've 0:43:01.719 --> 0:43:05.840 Christian Zalez has talked about Patrick Surtan being sort of 0:43:05.880 --> 0:43:08.440 an idol or like an example for him that a 0:43:08.560 --> 0:43:11.200 guy he's studied and a guy he's followed his career, 0:43:11.320 --> 0:43:14.239 So they really play a lot of the same way, 0:43:14.360 --> 0:43:16.880 you know, they're both man coverage guys. They're both guys 0:43:17.200 --> 0:43:20.520 that can travel and and just take out your best player, 0:43:20.760 --> 0:43:24.680 your best receiver. So I'd probably give the experience in 0:43:24.719 --> 0:43:26.640 the edge a little bit to start tam. But the 0:43:26.640 --> 0:43:28.640 only thing that I felt like was missing from Christian 0:43:28.760 --> 0:43:31.360 Zalez's game, and it wasn't like a huge criticism or 0:43:31.400 --> 0:43:34.640 anything like that, but could you make some more picks, 0:43:34.680 --> 0:43:36.279 you know, more players, more plays of the ball. So 0:43:36.320 --> 0:43:37.680 that's that's what I wanted to get to. 0:43:37.800 --> 0:43:40.360 Is you mentioned, you know, is he getting more plays 0:43:40.360 --> 0:43:41.880 on the ball in the springs, is getting testimony. I 0:43:41.880 --> 0:43:43.360 think that's part of it, certainly, But I think the 0:43:43.400 --> 0:43:45.920 other thing is there really was no need to throw 0:43:46.000 --> 0:43:48.720 near him last Yeah, and now you get Carlton Davis 0:43:48.760 --> 0:43:52.080 on the other side, Marcus Jones fully healthy, ideally in 0:43:52.120 --> 0:43:54.400 the slot, Kyle Duggars, Brill. 0:43:54.239 --> 0:43:55.080 Pepper's fully healthy. 0:43:55.120 --> 0:43:57.640 By the way, Craig Woodson looks really good in coverage too, 0:43:57.880 --> 0:44:02.000 really goodn't coverage specifically, So there's gonna be more times 0:44:02.400 --> 0:44:03.960 where teams are gonna have to throw in his direction 0:44:04.000 --> 0:44:05.760 because they're not gonna want to test these other guys. 0:44:06.160 --> 0:44:07.879 So I think he will have an opportunity to make 0:44:08.120 --> 0:44:09.439 more plays on the ball this year. 0:44:10.280 --> 0:44:12.520 It certainly showed out this spring, and it was around 0:44:12.520 --> 0:44:14.880 the ball a lot. You look at his box scores, 0:44:14.920 --> 0:44:17.480 you know, from a charting perspective last year, like there 0:44:17.480 --> 0:44:20.480 are games where he's targeted once, targeted three times, you know, 0:44:20.960 --> 0:44:23.400 two times. I think the one gam where he's targeted 0:44:23.400 --> 0:44:25.840 a bunch was that Cardinals game with Marvin Harrison Junior, 0:44:26.160 --> 0:44:29.719 and he locked them down. So you look at those 0:44:29.760 --> 0:44:31.719 types of games and it's like, well, he just doesn't 0:44:31.719 --> 0:44:34.200 have the opportunities, so he may picks on the ball 0:44:34.280 --> 0:44:36.480 like they're just if you're only getting targeted once or 0:44:36.520 --> 0:44:39.080 twice a game, you're just not it's not gonna have 0:44:39.120 --> 0:44:40.279 a ton of people, Matt. 0:44:40.320 --> 0:44:42.239 I'm trying to remember this wasn't he like one of 0:44:42.280 --> 0:44:46.120 the most targeted corners in football last year and people 0:44:46.120 --> 0:44:47.759 are like, why is he being targeted so much? But 0:44:47.800 --> 0:44:48.600 he'd like the lowest. 0:44:50.040 --> 0:44:51.920 Uh, he might have been targeted a lot because they 0:44:51.920 --> 0:44:53.200 played a ton of man, you know. 0:44:53.600 --> 0:44:56.200 Eighty four he was the twenty third most targeted, but 0:44:56.600 --> 0:45:03.200 among qualified corners completion percentage, I don't think I think 0:45:03.200 --> 0:45:04.040 it was really. 0:45:03.760 --> 0:45:07.480 Low top ten. I would I would guess like tenth. Yeah, 0:45:07.560 --> 0:45:10.120 tied for ninth, fifty four point eight. So like, I 0:45:10.120 --> 0:45:12.640 don't mind if his targets are high, target them all 0:45:12.680 --> 0:45:16.799 you want. I don't care if he's not allowing completions. Great, yeah, 0:45:16.840 --> 0:45:19.320 awesome when you have the number when you play a 0:45:19.360 --> 0:45:21.600 lot of man coverage and you're man to man on 0:45:21.680 --> 0:45:24.600 the number one guy, they're not gonna just not throw 0:45:24.640 --> 0:45:27.600 to their number one receiver. It doesn't happen very often. 0:45:27.840 --> 0:45:31.760 You have to be really that's that's prime Revus right 0:45:31.600 --> 0:45:34.600 right right, But or you played Cincinnati week one, they're 0:45:34.600 --> 0:45:36.520 not gonna just not throw the ball to Jamar Chase, 0:45:36.560 --> 0:45:38.040 like they're gonna try to throw it to him, even 0:45:38.040 --> 0:45:41.920 if Gonzo's on him, right, But it's yeah, no, that's Revas. 0:45:41.960 --> 0:45:42.319 Was that guy? 0:45:42.440 --> 0:45:44.279 Or remember when teams just didn't throw it non the 0:45:44.320 --> 0:45:47.040 Osma off for like two years off reputation, and then 0:45:47.080 --> 0:45:49.000 one year they're like, hey, maybe we should throw at 0:45:49.040 --> 0:45:50.680 this guy again and see and then it turned out 0:45:50.719 --> 0:45:53.200 he didn't have any more. So, yeah, gonzalso's twenty third 0:45:53.440 --> 0:45:57.680 in targets and he was thirty sixth in catches. 0:45:57.680 --> 0:45:59.920 Eleve it's a fun uh, it was a fun new 0:46:00.000 --> 0:46:02.120 answered by Drake may And and a good point by 0:46:02.200 --> 0:46:06.000 him of he's gonna see some targets in the season. 0:46:06.040 --> 0:46:07.600 So if I'm just afraid to throw it to his 0:46:07.640 --> 0:46:09.840 side of the field all of training camp, I'm not 0:46:09.920 --> 0:46:12.279 helping him get back, and it doesn't help me get 0:46:12.280 --> 0:46:14.480 better because he's going to be great coverage and I'm 0:46:14.480 --> 0:46:16.200 gonna have to put the ball on a platter for 0:46:16.320 --> 0:46:18.560 my guy. And so it's, you know, that whole iron 0:46:18.560 --> 0:46:21.040 sharp and iron thing. And it's good that those two 0:46:21.080 --> 0:46:23.320 are going back and forth a little bit. So Barmore 0:46:23.360 --> 0:46:26.600 and Gonzo Arrow up looking good on the both those guys. 0:46:27.280 --> 0:46:31.440 The other item I wrote down here not quite compliment 0:46:31.480 --> 0:46:34.359 sandwich style on the defense, but similar the third down 0:46:34.360 --> 0:46:36.640 pass rush. I think we saw a little bit more 0:46:36.680 --> 0:46:39.000 of what they have in store for it over the 0:46:39.080 --> 0:46:40.840 last couple of days they were in third down a 0:46:40.880 --> 0:46:43.200 little bit more, it felt like. So I do think 0:46:43.200 --> 0:46:45.000 that they're going to get into some of those you know, 0:46:45.080 --> 0:46:47.800 five man like mug looks and things like that a 0:46:47.800 --> 0:46:49.799 little bit more. Uh. You know, they did a lot 0:46:49.800 --> 0:46:52.719 of overload in Tennessee where they would still be in 0:46:52.760 --> 0:46:54.920 a four down line, but they have three guys to 0:46:55.000 --> 0:46:57.440 one side of the center and overload that side, and 0:46:57.440 --> 0:46:59.839 then you're gaming and picking guys and stunting and all 0:46:59.840 --> 0:47:03.360 that good stuff to get guys free. But maybe you know, 0:47:03.360 --> 0:47:05.080 they have a little bit more of a blitz package 0:47:05.080 --> 0:47:08.520 that we saw yesterday especially. I would say they kind 0:47:08.520 --> 0:47:10.840 of turned it up a little bit after the offense 0:47:10.880 --> 0:47:14.719 had a good day on Monday, Rabel said, pre practice, 0:47:15.320 --> 0:47:17.000 they did a lot of three man rush from the 0:47:17.000 --> 0:47:19.239 red zone. He'll drop eight in the red zone and 0:47:19.320 --> 0:47:21.439 Drake May was just kind of standing there with all day. 0:47:21.680 --> 0:47:23.839 So yesterday they did the opposite, the kind of came 0:47:23.880 --> 0:47:26.000 after him and the defense got a little bit of 0:47:26.040 --> 0:47:30.120 a leg up there. I look at you know, Bar Moore, 0:47:30.520 --> 0:47:33.520 Milton Williams gonna be on the field as much as possible, 0:47:34.040 --> 0:47:37.480 especially on third down. I do think on White's getting 0:47:37.480 --> 0:47:40.560 into that conversation too. Is being a regular on all 0:47:40.600 --> 0:47:42.719 three downs. They're moving him around though he's not playing 0:47:42.719 --> 0:47:44.960 the same position. Yeah, I've been handing the dirt mostly, 0:47:45.040 --> 0:47:47.360 I just write, but he's playing inside, he's playing outside. 0:47:47.360 --> 0:47:49.200 I think he's their chest piece. Yeah, I think he's 0:47:49.200 --> 0:47:51.400 the guy they're gonna hnt matchups with X factor. To me, 0:47:51.560 --> 0:47:53.319 like a big time X factor if he takes that 0:47:53.440 --> 0:47:56.360 next step in this scheme, which is more aggressive and 0:47:56.440 --> 0:48:00.520 more gaming and more to his skill set right worried 0:48:00.560 --> 0:48:03.920 about rush lane integrity and holding the edge and all 0:48:03.960 --> 0:48:06.440 that stuff that they did in the old system. If 0:48:06.480 --> 0:48:08.919 he is just allowed to just tee off, I think 0:48:08.920 --> 0:48:11.720 he could have a really a good year in that role. Now, 0:48:12.040 --> 0:48:14.080 when they get into third down, how are they one 0:48:14.080 --> 0:48:16.960 of their personnel around those guys gonna look like? Is 0:48:17.000 --> 0:48:19.440 Harold Landry gonna be a three down player for this team? 0:48:19.800 --> 0:48:23.480 Is that going to be Chaseon That's gonna merk? He 0:48:23.520 --> 0:48:26.360 got a lot of run? Is there a chance still? 0:48:26.560 --> 0:48:28.680 We didn't see it necessarily in the spring, but like 0:48:28.680 --> 0:48:31.880 a Brandon Swinson or an Elijah Ponder or someone that 0:48:31.920 --> 0:48:35.600 they just drafted, uh coming and breaking out into like 0:48:35.640 --> 0:48:38.280 a third down pass rusher role, you know that Joshua 0:48:38.280 --> 0:48:41.160 a type of role. I think it's probably Chason right 0:48:41.200 --> 0:48:43.080 now that they have in mind at least for this year. 0:48:43.560 --> 0:48:46.080 We'll see maybe if Swinson can take over that eventually. 0:48:46.560 --> 0:48:49.080 But the edge rush is still something that I would 0:48:49.160 --> 0:48:52.880 say somewhat unknown. Like the interior pressure. I feel like 0:48:52.880 --> 0:48:55.160 it's going to be really good and maybe that's enough 0:48:55.480 --> 0:48:58.239 that they can just flush the quarterback one way and 0:48:58.600 --> 0:49:01.480 Landry or a chaseon just to clean up sacks. And 0:49:01.520 --> 0:49:03.560 that doesn't necessarily mean you have to win your one 0:49:03.600 --> 0:49:05.920 on one as that guy. You just kind of have 0:49:05.960 --> 0:49:09.560 to be there and be ready. But do you feel 0:49:09.640 --> 0:49:12.640 any concern at all about pass rush off the edge 0:49:12.640 --> 0:49:14.879 in particular? I think Williams and Barnware and are gonna 0:49:14.880 --> 0:49:15.360 get after. 0:49:15.280 --> 0:49:17.160 Yeah, kind of like I said about the offensive line, 0:49:17.200 --> 0:49:19.520 like it's better. That doesn't mean they're where they need 0:49:19.560 --> 0:49:22.279 to be. It's more about how far away they were 0:49:22.360 --> 0:49:25.799 last year. Ye Chazon's gonna play a role. He was 0:49:25.920 --> 0:49:29.600 very involved. We didn't see a ton of Braden Swinson, 0:49:29.800 --> 0:49:31.640 but that's another guy I'll be interested to see more 0:49:31.680 --> 0:49:32.440 when the Pats come on. 0:49:32.800 --> 0:49:35.000 I hope they find a role for Anthony Jennings. I 0:49:35.080 --> 0:49:35.560 really do. 0:49:36.120 --> 0:49:37.960 He didn't really have much of one in the spring, 0:49:38.400 --> 0:49:40.520 and it is kind of square peg round hole with 0:49:40.560 --> 0:49:42.440 this defense with him. We've talked about this, like, I 0:49:42.440 --> 0:49:46.040 just think he can play. But they have and did 0:49:46.080 --> 0:49:48.440 I mention Landry like and they have Langer so like 0:49:48.480 --> 0:49:51.319 they have guys that can compete there. I don't know 0:49:51.400 --> 0:49:53.160 that they have. Like we've talked about them getting that 0:49:53.200 --> 0:49:56.680 coverage dictating wide receiver for so long. That same kind 0:49:56.719 --> 0:50:00.880 of concept exists on defense, and you know, you might say, well, 0:50:00.960 --> 0:50:03.600 Christian Barber, Milton Williams, those guys can dictate blocking. 0:50:03.800 --> 0:50:06.080 Yeah, which they can, and that's not nothing. 0:50:06.120 --> 0:50:08.920 But that's sort of like you know, a tight end 0:50:09.040 --> 0:50:11.759 being your coverage dictating wide receiver where it's gonna make 0:50:11.760 --> 0:50:14.920 a difference, like it's a factor, but it's not that 0:50:15.200 --> 0:50:18.160 there are more ways to counter that versus if it's 0:50:18.160 --> 0:50:19.759 a guy on the edge. It's a lot harder to 0:50:19.800 --> 0:50:21.680 double a guy on the edge versus guy in the middle. 0:50:21.840 --> 0:50:22.800 It's a lot eaer. 0:50:24.080 --> 0:50:26.920 Yeah, and like sliding protections and things like that. So 0:50:27.760 --> 0:50:32.000 there's still that like premiere pass rusher away. But the 0:50:32.040 --> 0:50:32.800 players they. 0:50:32.680 --> 0:50:34.160 Have there aren't bad. 0:50:34.840 --> 0:50:36.839 I just don't know that they have that guy that is, 0:50:36.880 --> 0:50:38.280 you know, they don't have their Matthew Judon. 0:50:39.000 --> 0:50:41.040 There's a little bit of that with this roster right now. 0:50:41.200 --> 0:50:44.520 And I don't yeah, in a better way than it 0:50:44.640 --> 0:50:49.160 sounds because unlike Lash, you're like you're bringing up earlier 0:50:49.239 --> 0:50:51.000 with the tackles where we didn't know who their starting 0:50:51.000 --> 0:50:53.839 tackles were and that was not good this year. You know, 0:50:54.480 --> 0:50:57.640 I would say twenty of twenty two starters or twenty one. 0:50:57.840 --> 0:51:00.160 Like really, left guard is the only spot that I'm 0:51:00.200 --> 0:51:02.760 not really sure who's starting right now at that spot. 0:51:02.800 --> 0:51:05.319 Maybe you could make that case for X receiver that's 0:51:05.320 --> 0:51:07.480 sort of still up in the air. Other than that, 0:51:07.520 --> 0:51:09.719 I pretty much know who's starting everywhere on this team 0:51:09.800 --> 0:51:12.680 right now. It feels like now for the most part, 0:51:12.719 --> 0:51:15.319 they're like starting caliber players. Right The question is is 0:51:16.560 --> 0:51:19.319 are they starting caliber players or are they really like 0:51:19.360 --> 0:51:21.960 elite players, you know, maybe they're still missing some of that, 0:51:22.280 --> 0:51:25.680 you know, edge rusher. I think it's one spot outside 0:51:25.760 --> 0:51:29.600 receivers another spot where they could probably use still a 0:51:29.680 --> 0:51:30.759 talent upgrade there. 0:51:30.920 --> 0:51:32.839 I think those are the two, and I mean, we'll 0:51:32.840 --> 0:51:34.640 see what happens in right tackle, but I think going 0:51:34.680 --> 0:51:37.520 into when we start doing the draft, those are the 0:51:37.520 --> 0:51:38.760 two spots we're talking about. 0:51:38.840 --> 0:51:41.400 And then the other thing is just depth, and that 0:51:41.520 --> 0:51:44.600 was the next thing I wanted to talk about. Defensive 0:51:44.640 --> 0:51:48.719 line depth, inside linebacker depth. Those are two spots that 0:51:48.760 --> 0:51:51.640 I look at with this team that until we get 0:51:51.080 --> 0:51:54.080 into the real meata training camp and we see some 0:51:54.160 --> 0:51:56.600 of those guys. Now, I thought that there were some flashes, 0:51:56.640 --> 0:51:59.040 you know, Joshua Farmer, I thought flashed a couple of times, 0:51:59.280 --> 0:52:02.040 especially with getting hands and passing lanes and things like that, 0:52:02.080 --> 0:52:04.840 made a couple of bad passes down in the spring. 0:52:05.880 --> 0:52:07.800 I really liked what I saw from Jack Gibbons a 0:52:07.840 --> 0:52:10.319 couple of times. You pointed out a coverage rep he 0:52:10.320 --> 0:52:15.560 had yesterday running with Javon's line five yards down the field. 0:52:15.640 --> 0:52:18.040 But that's impressive, Yeah, with Javon Baker, So maybe he's 0:52:18.080 --> 0:52:20.480 a guy that steps in there. We saw a lot 0:52:20.520 --> 0:52:23.320 of Robert Spulaine and Christian Ellis on the second level. 0:52:23.960 --> 0:52:26.560 That seems to be the the right now the leaders 0:52:26.600 --> 0:52:29.480 you know in the clubhouse to start. Certainly Robert Splaine's 0:52:29.520 --> 0:52:32.680 gonna start. We know that whether it's Ellis or if 0:52:32.760 --> 0:52:35.439 Julna Tevai comes back. You know, obviously to has been 0:52:35.600 --> 0:52:38.359 banged up with that calf, so he wasn't He was there, 0:52:38.440 --> 0:52:43.360 but he wasn't working out, wasn't participating. That that depth 0:52:43.400 --> 0:52:45.120 can be thinned out really quickly. And I think the 0:52:45.160 --> 0:52:48.520 same thing with the offensive line. If Will Campbell knock 0:52:48.520 --> 0:52:50.880 on wood, if Will Campbell has an injury, you know 0:52:50.920 --> 0:52:52.400 you're you're back into trade. 0:52:52.480 --> 0:52:52.600 Right. 0:52:52.640 --> 0:52:55.440 We talked about this like it wasn't just the starters 0:52:55.440 --> 0:52:57.000 a tackle, they didn't have backups eas. 0:52:57.000 --> 0:52:58.640 Right, So you know that we're still kind of in 0:52:58.719 --> 0:53:00.960 that mode a little bit. But I wanted to focus 0:53:01.200 --> 0:53:04.120 on the linebackers because we get tons of questions about 0:53:04.200 --> 0:53:09.200 depth at insidelnebacker and after Splaine, what really is there. 0:53:09.760 --> 0:53:14.680 They're really seem to be optimistic about Christian Ellis, like 0:53:14.760 --> 0:53:16.879 I think they think he can be a weak side 0:53:16.920 --> 0:53:20.840 linebacker and next to Spallaine, I mentioned Tobai and Gibbons. 0:53:21.080 --> 0:53:23.160 After that, you're probably getting into a little bit of 0:53:23.640 --> 0:53:26.520 great territory of whether those guys are NFL players or not. 0:53:27.320 --> 0:53:30.279 Marte Mapu, So what do you like, linebacker? What do 0:53:30.320 --> 0:53:33.680 you make of all that? Well, his body type certainly 0:53:33.760 --> 0:53:36.200 fits it more in this scheme than it did in 0:53:36.280 --> 0:53:38.400 the other scheme, because you're not in this scheme in 0:53:38.480 --> 0:53:41.920 theory the defensive lines getting up the field. They're occupying 0:53:41.960 --> 0:53:44.239 blockers and they're getting up the field with that, and 0:53:44.320 --> 0:53:48.560 so you're not necessarily taken on guards or polers or 0:53:48.600 --> 0:53:52.120 full backs or whatever in the whole like Juwan Bentley 0:53:52.160 --> 0:53:54.960 Wood or a Dante High, Tower Wood or one of 0:53:55.000 --> 0:53:57.440 those types of guys, so you can be lighter in 0:53:57.520 --> 0:54:01.799 this defense at linebacker. I've always thought he was a linebacker, 0:54:01.840 --> 0:54:05.880 like a modern day NFL linebacker, maybe mostly on third downs, 0:54:06.080 --> 0:54:08.320 but if you can put a linebacker in that spot, 0:54:09.480 --> 0:54:12.799 you know, a safety body type that's playing linebacker like 0:54:12.800 --> 0:54:15.399 a Marte. Mapu just says things that you can do 0:54:15.640 --> 0:54:18.200 in theory, in theory because of the body type and 0:54:18.239 --> 0:54:20.399 the skill set, but things that you can do and 0:54:20.440 --> 0:54:23.680 from a coverage standpoint with that player become a lot more. 0:54:23.760 --> 0:54:26.120 You become a lot more flexible. You just do you know, 0:54:26.200 --> 0:54:29.000 if you want to play some split safety coverage for example, 0:54:29.200 --> 0:54:32.160 like he can run the middle of the field, you know, 0:54:32.200 --> 0:54:35.400 with a faster receiver, with an inside receiver, with a 0:54:35.440 --> 0:54:37.839 pass catching tight end. If you want to put him 0:54:37.840 --> 0:54:40.160 a man to man on a running back coming out 0:54:40.200 --> 0:54:42.239 of the backfield, then he has a little bit more 0:54:42.280 --> 0:54:46.160 coverage upside maybe than a true linebacker like a Tavai would, 0:54:46.160 --> 0:54:49.440 for example, to cover a decent running back coming out 0:54:49.480 --> 0:54:51.440 of the backfield. There's just a little bit more that 0:54:51.480 --> 0:54:54.640 you can do there with him in coverage. Now, I 0:54:55.080 --> 0:54:57.680 don't necessarily see it in terms of him being like 0:54:57.680 --> 0:55:01.280 a first down, you know, first and second down run player. 0:55:01.760 --> 0:55:04.120 I don't know if that will work out, but if 0:55:04.120 --> 0:55:06.279 he's in the third down package and he's playing at 0:55:06.280 --> 0:55:08.520 the second level and the third down package, there could 0:55:08.560 --> 0:55:10.359 be a role there for him. I've always thought that. 0:55:10.400 --> 0:55:12.960 I've always felt like that's where he belonged. Yeah, it's 0:55:13.000 --> 0:55:14.200 just a matter of what do they want with that 0:55:14.280 --> 0:55:16.640 last linebacker spot. Do they want a downhill guy who's 0:55:16.719 --> 0:55:18.239 kind of counter to what they have to give them 0:55:18.280 --> 0:55:20.160 a different look, or do they want more depth for 0:55:20.200 --> 0:55:21.759 the kind of players they have. Because if it's the 0:55:21.760 --> 0:55:24.800 second thing, it's mopoof, it's the first thing it's to buy. Yeah, 0:55:24.800 --> 0:55:28.520 it's a good point. Tavai and Jennings are sitting out. 0:55:28.560 --> 0:55:30.440 We had Jennings on yesterday. He's a good guy and 0:55:30.640 --> 0:55:36.040 I like Jennings, but both those guys still still kind 0:55:36.080 --> 0:55:40.920 of stand out to me as holdovers from an old defense. 0:55:41.719 --> 0:55:43.520 I don't mean old in age, I just mean old 0:55:43.600 --> 0:55:45.600 the old defense in terms of what they used to do. 0:55:46.719 --> 0:55:49.399 Are these schematic fits and what they're doing now they're 0:55:49.400 --> 0:55:53.080 not bad football players like their NFL players like they 0:55:53.200 --> 0:55:55.600 belong in the league, and everything. I just don't know 0:55:55.600 --> 0:55:58.680 if they belong in this scheme. You know, Anthony Jennings, 0:55:59.600 --> 0:56:00.920 is he a hand in the dirt end? 0:56:01.080 --> 0:56:01.160 Like? 0:56:01.280 --> 0:56:03.799 Probably not. You know, he's a stand up guy, He's 0:56:03.800 --> 0:56:06.600 a set the edge guy. You know, Tavai is in 0:56:06.640 --> 0:56:09.040 that hybrid role that I don't know if that exists 0:56:09.080 --> 0:56:12.239 as much anymore. So those two guys definitely still stand out. 0:56:12.640 --> 0:56:15.000 I could hear it with Tavai two in terms of 0:56:15.040 --> 0:56:17.080 that as well. So you're right, you know, if they 0:56:17.120 --> 0:56:20.360 want to really turn this over at linebacker to just 0:56:20.560 --> 0:56:25.279 all two thirty two, twenty five and under type of linebackers, 0:56:25.280 --> 0:56:26.840 and that's not him, you know, he's not going to 0:56:26.880 --> 0:56:27.399 be on the team. 0:56:27.440 --> 0:56:29.000 But again, I think there's something to be said for 0:56:29.040 --> 0:56:30.759 having a guy that's maybe a little bit different for 0:56:30.760 --> 0:56:31.600 certain situations. 0:56:31.680 --> 0:56:34.279 Yeah, agreed. Now, the other spot on the defense that 0:56:34.320 --> 0:56:36.160 I thought was interesting is what they were doing in 0:56:36.160 --> 0:56:38.600 the slot. They're they're putting a lot of different guys 0:56:38.600 --> 0:56:40.759 in the slot, a lot of different body types in 0:56:40.760 --> 0:56:44.360 the slot. Some safeties, some big corners, some small corners 0:56:44.360 --> 0:56:46.960 like Marcus Jones, a little bit like Pop Douglas. I 0:56:47.000 --> 0:56:49.480 thought there was a there was some chatter about Marcus 0:56:49.560 --> 0:56:52.040 Jones and does he still fit because of the type 0:56:52.040 --> 0:56:54.160 of slot corner he is. I thought he had a 0:56:54.160 --> 0:56:56.440 really nice spring. I still feel like he's in people's 0:56:56.520 --> 0:56:58.560 hip pockets all the time in coverage. They used him 0:56:58.560 --> 0:57:01.200 outside too, Yeah, as a strap player. So I think 0:57:01.200 --> 0:57:03.479 Marcus Jones is going to be here. Certainly has a role, 0:57:03.600 --> 0:57:06.880 you know, whether it's fifth or sixth defensive back slash 0:57:06.880 --> 0:57:08.120 punt returner, that's enough. 0:57:07.960 --> 0:57:10.560 Of a you know, Josh McDaniels is itching to get 0:57:10.600 --> 0:57:14.279 involved on offense too. I also think, like I think 0:57:14.320 --> 0:57:16.680 some of that conversation like, oh, he's in a contract here, 0:57:17.640 --> 0:57:19.320 is he gonna get a second contract? I don't know, 0:57:19.360 --> 0:57:20.880 but he'll be here this year. Like he's not a 0:57:20.920 --> 0:57:22.120 guy you rush off the roster. 0:57:22.560 --> 0:57:25.120 But I was intrigued by some of the different body 0:57:25.160 --> 0:57:28.200 types that they were throwing at the slot position. Isaiah 0:57:28.240 --> 0:57:31.080 Bolden and Marcel's dial got a decent amount of run inside. 0:57:31.120 --> 0:57:35.000 Alex Austin, Alex Austen, Jail Pepper's got some run yesterday 0:57:35.040 --> 0:57:37.800 in the slot. Craig Woodson was playing a little bit 0:57:37.800 --> 0:57:41.120 in the slot at times. So they're clearly and they've 0:57:41.160 --> 0:57:43.880 said it, they clearly are looking for somebody to be 0:57:43.920 --> 0:57:46.200 a big slot and be someone that will be a 0:57:46.200 --> 0:57:48.520 little bit bigger and have a little bit more sturdiness 0:57:48.560 --> 0:57:52.480 to him than Marcus Jones. And to me though that 0:57:52.560 --> 0:57:54.440 I don't necessarily know if that's going to be a 0:57:54.480 --> 0:57:59.040 full time thing as more is it's gonna be game 0:57:59.080 --> 0:58:03.040 plan and packagedify. So if they're going to play Miami, right, 0:58:03.040 --> 0:58:05.520 if you're going up against a team that plays a 0:58:05.520 --> 0:58:07.000 lot of bass, like you know, you know, a lot 0:58:07.040 --> 0:58:10.000 of regular whether it's two tight ends or a full 0:58:10.040 --> 0:58:12.720 back or something like that, Yeah, like you might want 0:58:12.720 --> 0:58:14.080 to be a little bit bigger. You might want to 0:58:14.120 --> 0:58:17.040 have a Jabiro Peppers in the slot or Craig Woodson 0:58:17.040 --> 0:58:19.360 in the slot instead of a Marcus Jones in the slot. 0:58:20.040 --> 0:58:22.200 Miami's actually one of those teams that does it. And 0:58:22.240 --> 0:58:24.280 then that's how they win is they have the speed 0:58:24.320 --> 0:58:26.760 on the outside with the bigger personnel on the inside, 0:58:26.800 --> 0:58:29.400 and it's tough to match up against. So a lot 0:58:29.440 --> 0:58:31.560 of these teams do that now where they put big 0:58:31.600 --> 0:58:33.840 people on the field and then they throw out of 0:58:33.840 --> 0:58:36.880 those big groupings and that's where they get you. You're 0:58:36.920 --> 0:58:39.200 in your base personnel, you only have four dbs on 0:58:39.240 --> 0:58:41.440 the field, but they have speed and they have playmaking 0:58:41.480 --> 0:58:44.080 at receivers still even with a full back or an 0:58:44.120 --> 0:58:47.000 extra tight end on the field. So where they go 0:58:47.080 --> 0:58:48.480 with that, I think it's going to be a lot 0:58:48.480 --> 0:58:50.919 of mixing and matching. But they're clearly looking to see 0:58:50.920 --> 0:58:53.080 what's our best combination so that when we want to 0:58:53.120 --> 0:58:55.520 go to the big nickel look, or we want to 0:58:55.560 --> 0:58:57.600 go to a big slot, who's going to be the 0:58:57.600 --> 0:58:59.360 big slot and who's going to be the best one 0:59:00.240 --> 0:59:03.080 that role. I kind of could see it with your 0:59:03.120 --> 0:59:05.080 real Peppers a little bit. I thought he did it 0:59:05.160 --> 0:59:07.960 yesterday and did it pretty well. Craig Woodson had a 0:59:08.000 --> 0:59:10.240 really strong camp. I don't know where they put him, 0:59:10.280 --> 0:59:12.480 whether he's in the back end or they see him 0:59:12.520 --> 0:59:14.600 as a slot guy as well. You know, maybe it's 0:59:14.640 --> 0:59:16.720 one of those corners that we mentioned too. Where who 0:59:16.760 --> 0:59:19.720 do you think is the best fit for that type 0:59:19.720 --> 0:59:22.600 of role right now on this team? For the slock mark, Yeah, 0:59:22.640 --> 0:59:25.920 for the big slot corner, the big slot, who's the 0:59:25.960 --> 0:59:26.640 best fit? 0:59:27.200 --> 0:59:29.480 I mean, I think Alex Austin's the best player, but 0:59:29.520 --> 0:59:32.760 I think some of that is there's value and he 0:59:32.800 --> 0:59:36.440 can be your third boundary corner and backup slot slash 0:59:36.720 --> 0:59:38.760 big slot like counter to Marcus Jones. 0:59:39.000 --> 0:59:40.760 So that saves you a roster spot. 0:59:41.200 --> 0:59:44.720 But you know, is he as good in the slot 0:59:44.840 --> 0:59:48.600 as Marcella's Dial? Probably not, But Dial's not going to 0:59:48.680 --> 0:59:50.880 give you what Austin gives you on the outside. So 0:59:51.160 --> 0:59:52.720 I think they might end up keeping both of them 0:59:52.920 --> 0:59:55.520 and Bolden like they might keep six corners. I'm not 0:59:55.600 --> 0:59:57.880 rolling that out, but and I've said this, I kind 0:59:57.880 --> 0:59:59.240 of want to see Asa a Bolden play safety. 0:59:59.280 --> 1:00:00.960 I think he'd be good at. 1:00:01.960 --> 1:00:04.400 I think Alex Austin makes the most sense. Dial's probably 1:00:04.400 --> 1:00:06.960 the best pure slot corner of the group. But you know, 1:00:06.960 --> 1:00:09.040 if we're talking about somebody to start, if we're talking 1:00:09.080 --> 1:00:11.080 about somebody to be a counter to Marcus Jones and 1:00:11.120 --> 1:00:13.680 be depth Alex Austin because he can do so much. 1:00:13.840 --> 1:00:15.680 Yeah, it'd be interesting to see what they go with that. 1:00:15.760 --> 1:00:17.920 But there they threw a lot of different bodies in 1:00:17.960 --> 1:00:21.040 that position to try to find the best combination, at 1:00:21.120 --> 1:00:24.280 least to experiment right now with those combinations. So they're 1:00:24.280 --> 1:00:26.880 gonna have a big nickel look like a three safety nickel. 1:00:27.720 --> 1:00:29.800 It's just whether you know who's gonna be where it 1:00:29.840 --> 1:00:32.080 is really good question. Who's going to be that nickel 1:00:32.080 --> 1:00:36.440 player will be fascinating. It's it's a really cool evolution 1:00:37.680 --> 1:00:40.040 to me just to get into like the nickel defender 1:00:40.040 --> 1:00:41.560 in the slot role a little bit. It's a cool 1:00:41.560 --> 1:00:45.280 evolution throughout the league of how that position has evolved. 1:00:45.800 --> 1:00:49.680 The Patriots deserve the credit. Josh McDaniels really deserves the credit. 1:00:49.960 --> 1:00:52.760 The two thousand and seven Patriots changed everything. They went 1:00:52.840 --> 1:00:56.240 eleven personnel with the slot receiver Wes Welker, and they 1:00:56.400 --> 1:01:00.200 forced teams to put a cornerback in the. 1:01:00.360 --> 1:01:02.160 Well, let's not forget they were able to do that 1:01:02.200 --> 1:01:05.400 because the two thousand and three Patriots changed everything because 1:01:05.440 --> 1:01:07.920 they were so dominant physically that it changed the rules 1:01:07.920 --> 1:01:10.880 which allowed you to send a five ft ten over 1:01:10.920 --> 1:01:12.880 the middle, which would have been unthinkable before that. 1:01:13.000 --> 1:01:15.040 So you get the you got eleven personnel, the three 1:01:15.040 --> 1:01:17.800 wide receivers, you have the player in the slot. So 1:01:17.880 --> 1:01:20.160 now the slot corner becomes a thing where they need 1:01:20.200 --> 1:01:23.800 a man to man slot corner that can guard a 1:01:23.840 --> 1:01:26.160 Wes Welker, that can guard a Julian Edelman, so on 1:01:26.200 --> 1:01:29.040 and so forth. So that happens that of all, as 1:01:29.120 --> 1:01:32.160 everybody kind of catches up with that. I would also 1:01:32.240 --> 1:01:35.200 give Belichick, and I don't think he gets enough of 1:01:35.240 --> 1:01:39.760 this credit from like a coaching perspective. When Patrick Chunk 1:01:39.800 --> 1:01:42.560 came back the second time and he turned Patrick Chung 1:01:42.640 --> 1:01:45.360 into a tight end stopper and started putting him man 1:01:45.360 --> 1:01:47.040 to man on tight ends and playing him in the 1:01:47.040 --> 1:01:51.160 box as that moneybacker, that I think that revolutionized it 1:01:51.200 --> 1:01:54.760 again where Patrick Chung. So you had Patrick Chung doing 1:01:54.800 --> 1:01:56.800 that and that sort of thing on tight ends and 1:01:56.840 --> 1:01:59.560 playing in the box as a safety, and then we 1:01:59.640 --> 1:02:02.840 sort of got into this iteration of the slot defender, 1:02:03.160 --> 1:02:05.640 which is turning a lot more into safety body types 1:02:05.680 --> 1:02:08.880 playing the slot because you have all the Shanahan inspired 1:02:08.920 --> 1:02:11.720 teams that are running outside zone all the time. So 1:02:11.800 --> 1:02:14.040 now the slot corners at the point of attack all 1:02:14.080 --> 1:02:16.480 the time. The slot you know, defender nickel back is 1:02:16.520 --> 1:02:18.560 at the point of attack in the run game because 1:02:18.560 --> 1:02:20.680 they're trying to get outside the numbers in the run game. 1:02:21.000 --> 1:02:25.360 So now it's like, all right, well, we originally we 1:02:25.400 --> 1:02:28.560 needed to cover one hundred and eighty pound jitterbug slot receiver, 1:02:29.440 --> 1:02:32.080 so we're worried about that. So the Jonathan Joneses of 1:02:32.120 --> 1:02:36.560 the world emerge, right, and those guys become important now, 1:02:35.600 --> 1:02:41.720 k Kyle Arrington. Now the outside zone world has taken over. 1:02:42.120 --> 1:02:46.240 So you got tackles and guards and blocking tight ends 1:02:46.240 --> 1:02:48.040 that are getting up on one hundred and eighty pounds 1:02:48.040 --> 1:02:50.919 slot corners. Well, that ain't gonna work, so they out 1:02:51.000 --> 1:02:53.400 now all of a sudden, like the you know Cheucey 1:02:53.480 --> 1:02:56.200 Gardner Johnson types, like the safety slots, Yeah, start to 1:02:56.200 --> 1:02:58.880 become thing. Brian Branch, you know in Detroit, he starts 1:02:58.880 --> 1:03:00.840 to become a thing. And now you need to be 1:03:00.880 --> 1:03:02.280 a little bigger there, and you need to be able 1:03:02.280 --> 1:03:05.560 to take on a blocker and you'll be at side 1:03:05.600 --> 1:03:08.680 and bigger slot receivers like it got like Jacobey Mitay. Yeah, yeah, 1:03:08.680 --> 1:03:11.919 it's good point too. You know, bigger slot receivers, pass 1:03:12.000 --> 1:03:14.280 catching tight ends that are really just receivers, right, you 1:03:14.320 --> 1:03:17.280 know Dalton Concaid types that are truly just pure receivers. 1:03:17.600 --> 1:03:20.040 So you have all these different things that are going on, 1:03:20.120 --> 1:03:22.800 and it's cool how the game is so cyclical like that. 1:03:23.160 --> 1:03:25.280 And now the Patriots are sort of in this different 1:03:25.280 --> 1:03:28.520 type of defense and now they're looking for their Brian Branch, 1:03:28.640 --> 1:03:30.640 Like who's going to be that slot safety that's going 1:03:30.680 --> 1:03:32.640 to be able to play that role, you know, is 1:03:32.680 --> 1:03:35.480 it Peppers, is it Dugger or is it Woodson? Is 1:03:35.520 --> 1:03:37.560 it someone like that that's already on the team or 1:03:37.600 --> 1:03:39.320 is this something that we look at in twenty six 1:03:39.560 --> 1:03:41.160 Not that I want to lose that many games, but 1:03:41.320 --> 1:03:44.240 Caleb downs, well, I mean now they're back in the 1:03:44.280 --> 1:03:48.200 top ten tops hopefully not. Yeah, So that that's a 1:03:48.480 --> 1:03:50.280 I mean maybe that's just me, but I can find 1:03:50.320 --> 1:03:51.080 that kind of stuff cool. 1:03:51.160 --> 1:03:54.200 No, the whole you know, I could do hours on that, 1:03:54.360 --> 1:03:56.600 the history of the game evolving and all that. 1:03:57.760 --> 1:04:00.480 Last thing on the list, very bottom of the I 1:04:00.480 --> 1:04:03.400 have like ten things listed out on my rundown. Here, 1:04:03.640 --> 1:04:05.120 we get it. You don't care, and it is the 1:04:05.240 --> 1:04:07.040 very last thing on the list, and I'm gonna see 1:04:07.080 --> 1:04:12.640 you up for it. Andy Borgoalis, looks like you can kick. Yeah, 1:04:12.880 --> 1:04:14.320 looks good. Yeah he was. 1:04:14.400 --> 1:04:17.160 You had a really good spring, closed it out yesterday, 1:04:17.360 --> 1:04:20.360 went four to four, drill to fifty one yarder. I 1:04:20.720 --> 1:04:23.760 think they're gonna keep John Parker Romo one just to 1:04:23.880 --> 1:04:25.720 keep the pressure on and keep the competition up. 1:04:25.760 --> 1:04:26.480 In two. 1:04:26.880 --> 1:04:28.480 I think they're gonna want him on the practice squad. 1:04:28.560 --> 1:04:31.160 Is Essentially a lot of teams use a practice squad 1:04:31.200 --> 1:04:32.640 now to have a backup kicker. You're not gonna have 1:04:32.640 --> 1:04:34.440 two kickers on the fifty three, right, But now you 1:04:34.480 --> 1:04:36.960 have a guy that has worked with your long snapper 1:04:36.960 --> 1:04:39.320 and your holder and his experienced and it's kind of 1:04:39.320 --> 1:04:42.080 tough to cut the guy and you know, mid August, 1:04:42.520 --> 1:04:45.080 only to then bring him back after roster cuts if 1:04:45.080 --> 1:04:46.680 he's even still around, and we'll come back. 1:04:46.760 --> 1:04:48.440 So I think Parker Romo is. 1:04:48.360 --> 1:04:51.000 Going to be here, and with him being here, there 1:04:51.000 --> 1:04:53.280 will be a kicker competition. They will both be kicking 1:04:53.320 --> 1:04:57.680 and we'll obviously track it. But Borgalis has advertised so far. 1:04:58.480 --> 1:05:01.040 So my question for you about kick it is not 1:05:01.680 --> 1:05:04.360 necessarily about that because Borgolis what missed one kick in 1:05:04.400 --> 1:05:06.240 the practices? I think it was nineteen for twenty, so 1:05:06.280 --> 1:05:08.960 that is a number. I think Brian Hines put that 1:05:09.000 --> 1:05:13.000 one out yesterday. So Ben Dynamite, Now, there's no live 1:05:13.080 --> 1:05:16.480 rush right, truly live rush right, And there's no pressure 1:05:16.680 --> 1:05:19.960 really like there's some pressure, but we're not talking about 1:05:20.160 --> 1:05:23.600 eighty thousand people in Jillette Stadium in Week one, you know, 1:05:23.640 --> 1:05:27.280 game winning kick pressure. So those are still unknowns, right, 1:05:27.360 --> 1:05:29.960 You know whether he's gonna when he kicks with a 1:05:30.080 --> 1:05:33.320 rush against him if it's just as good. But with 1:05:33.720 --> 1:05:35.680 what we've been able to see, he's been great. Do 1:05:36.000 --> 1:05:38.200 you have a like do you have weight on kickers too, 1:05:38.280 --> 1:05:39.680 to like gauge that kind of stuff. 1:05:39.720 --> 1:05:41.919 Well, the big thing with him is the weather, right, 1:05:41.960 --> 1:05:44.720 And that's I mean, we can't no, we can't get it. 1:05:44.800 --> 1:05:46.320 That's not a training camp thing. 1:05:46.320 --> 1:05:48.360 That's on an early season thing like it's gonna Although 1:05:48.360 --> 1:05:50.240 who knows the way these saturdays have been. Maybe we 1:05:50.280 --> 1:05:51.959 will get to see him kick in fifty and raining 1:05:51.960 --> 1:05:55.000 in July. Yeah, but that's just good. We're gonna have 1:05:55.000 --> 1:05:56.720 to cross operation we come to it. I said this 1:05:56.800 --> 1:05:58.600 at the draft. I liked his approach. When he was 1:05:58.640 --> 1:06:01.680 asked about it, he did downplay it. He didn't because 1:06:01.680 --> 1:06:04.240 I hate it when guys like, well, you know, they 1:06:04.240 --> 1:06:06.880 get asked on that. Well, you know, kicking's kicking. Well okay, 1:06:06.880 --> 1:06:09.080 but part of kicking is adjusting to the elements, and 1:06:09.160 --> 1:06:11.640 the same for any position, whether it be in any sport. 1:06:12.160 --> 1:06:14.160 You know, you hear baseball players well you know in 1:06:14.200 --> 1:06:16.240 the plane in the cold, Oh, you know, we get you. 1:06:16.240 --> 1:06:18.200 You know, we play one hundred and sixty two games team, 1:06:18.200 --> 1:06:21.520 but they're not all the same. So he didn't downplay it. 1:06:21.600 --> 1:06:23.919 He said, yeah, I understand why people have that question, 1:06:23.960 --> 1:06:25.919 but I'm looking forward to proving people wrong, which means 1:06:26.080 --> 1:06:28.720 he understands it's gonna be adjustment. He understands's gonna be different. 1:06:28.920 --> 1:06:30.960 You hope he's kind of mentally wired right that he 1:06:31.040 --> 1:06:33.200 just goes about it business wise and doesn't let it 1:06:33.240 --> 1:06:35.840 bother him. But that's just something we're gonna have to 1:06:35.840 --> 1:06:38.320 see when we see it. There's really no way unless 1:06:38.320 --> 1:06:40.960 they have a really, really really large walk in freezer 1:06:41.000 --> 1:06:43.200 here that we don't know about that they can empty out. 1:06:43.320 --> 1:06:45.000 That's just gonna be something that we're gonna have to 1:06:45.000 --> 1:06:45.920 see when it comes up. 1:06:46.080 --> 1:06:48.400 Is it that crazy to go Rocky style and go 1:06:48.440 --> 1:06:50.280 in the walk in freezer? Because I've always thought that that, 1:06:50.440 --> 1:06:52.600 But it's a possibility, right, Like why not? 1:06:52.840 --> 1:06:55.040 So the Saints did that with their quarterbacks I think 1:06:55.120 --> 1:06:56.960 last year before they played the package, So why not? 1:06:57.160 --> 1:06:59.439 Like they cleaned it out and they brought a cup 1:06:59.440 --> 1:06:59.880 a receiver. 1:07:00.120 --> 1:07:02.800 They have the bubble right, and it's just like how 1:07:02.880 --> 1:07:04.880 we get as cold as you possibly don't think you 1:07:04.920 --> 1:07:08.600 can get that bubble that cold because it's it's not 1:07:08.640 --> 1:07:11.040 like maybe the maybe the new facility will have like 1:07:11.080 --> 1:07:12.840 temperature control. So that's what I'm wondering. 1:07:12.880 --> 1:07:14.760 Can you get it because you also need significant size 1:07:14.800 --> 1:07:16.000 because you got to be able to make sure the 1:07:16.080 --> 1:07:20.560 kicks work. Could you create a golf simulator type room 1:07:21.080 --> 1:07:23.840 for a kicker where you don't need to see the 1:07:23.880 --> 1:07:25.800 ball flight because it's track, but you can also get 1:07:25.840 --> 1:07:28.320 the room really cold, or you put fans on the 1:07:28.320 --> 1:07:30.040 walls to simulate wind, or something like. 1:07:30.160 --> 1:07:32.800 The VR type stuff right where they have the v V. 1:07:33.120 --> 1:07:35.440 You have to feel it, Yes, you have to feel 1:07:35.480 --> 1:07:39.400 the cold furniture thing. Have you ever been to that thing? 1:07:40.840 --> 1:07:44.720 Shuns right, it's called I think it's called mom it's 1:07:44.880 --> 1:07:47.000 and it's like you could like feel the wind in 1:07:47.040 --> 1:07:47.840 your face. 1:07:47.640 --> 1:07:50.439 Like on the Oh yeah, well they have I don't 1:07:50.440 --> 1:07:51.840 know if they haven't been in a while. They used 1:07:51.840 --> 1:07:54.920 to have at the hall where you could do the vinetaries. 1:07:55.000 --> 1:07:57.760 They still have. It needs to be just that, but 1:07:57.960 --> 1:08:01.280 close it in so you can make it. You need to. 1:08:01.360 --> 1:08:03.080 They need to update that a little bit. It's seen 1:08:03.120 --> 1:08:06.760 it's better days, but they still have it. But the technology, 1:08:06.920 --> 1:08:09.560 you know, they could say so updated do that, but 1:08:09.680 --> 1:08:13.640 make it actually feel like January two thousand and two, 1:08:14.640 --> 1:08:16.960 before that blizzard or in that blizzard, and then let 1:08:17.000 --> 1:08:19.320 him go kicking that you get fake snow, you put 1:08:19.320 --> 1:08:21.759 it on the ground, Like, I think it's a good idea. Yeah, 1:08:21.800 --> 1:08:23.439 I think it's you got to do it right. I mean, 1:08:23.479 --> 1:08:27.280 he's not going to feel that until November December the earliest. 1:08:27.280 --> 1:08:28.920 Now, you got to hope that if he's kicking in 1:08:28.920 --> 1:08:34.160 a snowstorm, that it snows during the week so he 1:08:34.240 --> 1:08:36.280 can get out there during the week and kind of 1:08:36.320 --> 1:08:37.840 experiment and work with it. 1:08:37.960 --> 1:08:40.120 Let's face it, if he's kicking during a snowstorm, with 1:08:40.160 --> 1:08:42.759 the way that our weather has been true, they're playing 1:08:42.800 --> 1:08:46.040 in the championship, yeah, or something like, they're playing deep 1:08:46.080 --> 1:08:48.799 into the playoffs, which is uh, which is good anyways, 1:08:48.880 --> 1:08:51.479 Right if hopefully he makes a kick, but it will 1:08:51.520 --> 1:08:53.960 be good anyways. 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Hopefull 1:10:16.360 --> 1:10:21.160 you guys are still there. Chad is in LA. What's up? Chad? Hey? 1:10:21.200 --> 1:10:21.960 How are you guys? 1:10:22.000 --> 1:10:23.800 Thank you good? 1:10:23.880 --> 1:10:24.599 How are you Chad? 1:10:24.800 --> 1:10:28.160 My question is offense defense. I'm getting a little bit 1:10:28.160 --> 1:10:30.679 of feedback, so I apologize if I'm a little stuttered. 1:10:32.040 --> 1:10:37.559 My defense question is, with everything looking the way that 1:10:37.600 --> 1:10:42.000 it's looking, are, can we confidently say potentially top five 1:10:42.160 --> 1:10:43.920 top ten defense this year? 1:10:46.200 --> 1:10:46.479 All right? 1:10:46.439 --> 1:10:47.960 If they want to get a top five like key 1:10:48.040 --> 1:10:50.160 On White's kind of take a pretty significant jump. 1:10:50.680 --> 1:10:52.280 Yeah, I think that's a lot. That's I mean, they 1:10:52.320 --> 1:10:54.240 were you need dugg Er and Peppers to both be 1:10:54.360 --> 1:10:56.200 fully healthy. It's a little lofty. 1:10:56.439 --> 1:10:59.280 Yeah, it's a top five every single what if goes 1:10:59.320 --> 1:11:01.240 their way with the schedule they have, they could sneak 1:11:01.280 --> 1:11:02.880 in the top five, but it would take a lot. 1:11:04.120 --> 1:11:09.439 Okay, So our offense is competing on a daily basis 1:11:09.520 --> 1:11:12.559 against a really good defense on a regular bait, right, 1:11:12.600 --> 1:11:12.800 you know? 1:11:13.760 --> 1:11:15.000 Yeah, sure. 1:11:15.320 --> 1:11:18.639 Okay, So my my question then is this, so they're 1:11:18.680 --> 1:11:23.679 gonna they're gonna be battle ready. Has Campbell's arms shown 1:11:24.000 --> 1:11:27.880 any issue whatsoever since all of the hype during the draft. 1:11:29.640 --> 1:11:32.559 I would say that he's gotten better with every practice, honestly. 1:11:32.800 --> 1:11:34.400 I mean, I try to watch him as much as 1:11:34.439 --> 1:11:37.400 I can. H I wish that we could watch film 1:11:37.400 --> 1:11:39.679 a practice because it's always hard with the line of scrimmage, 1:11:39.720 --> 1:11:42.040 a lot of moving bodies and flashes of color and 1:11:42.080 --> 1:11:44.479 things like that in there. But I felt like you 1:11:44.520 --> 1:11:47.000 got better at each practice. And the one thing that 1:11:47.040 --> 1:11:51.599 I definitely saw him making real strides with was protecting 1:11:51.640 --> 1:11:54.000 his inside. That was the biggest issue with him in college. 1:11:54.240 --> 1:11:56.519 He get opened up and then he'd get crossed inside, 1:11:56.520 --> 1:11:59.000 whether with an inside counter or like a spinner or 1:11:59.040 --> 1:12:01.840 a crossover or something like that. I thought he did 1:12:02.040 --> 1:12:04.360 a better job of that of staying inside out and 1:12:04.680 --> 1:12:07.720 not drifting off of his set as a camp went 1:12:07.760 --> 1:12:09.360 on here. So we'll see when the pads come on. 1:12:09.400 --> 1:12:12.160 But no, I wouldn't say that it was majorly. Sometimes 1:12:12.200 --> 1:12:14.000 I could see guys getting into his body, but he's 1:12:14.000 --> 1:12:16.200 got such a great anchor that I didn't see it 1:12:16.240 --> 1:12:20.360 was as a huge deterrent, at least so far. Yeah. 1:12:20.400 --> 1:12:23.400 I mean it's it's non padded practice, so it's a 1:12:23.400 --> 1:12:27.160 little early to say yeah. Yeah. 1:12:27.200 --> 1:12:29.160 And then if I could ask one more question, if 1:12:29.160 --> 1:12:33.800 our olne is challenging, that affects our running game, doesn't it? 1:12:34.880 --> 1:12:37.760 Yeah? Yeah, I mean that that And thanks for the call, Chad, 1:12:37.960 --> 1:12:40.280 and thanks for waiting that. That's where I'm at with 1:12:40.320 --> 1:12:43.400 the line. I don't I'm not trying to be alarmist 1:12:43.400 --> 1:12:46.320 about it yet. It's not in that level of it 1:12:46.360 --> 1:12:48.439 wasn't like last year like you brought brought up earlier. 1:12:48.439 --> 1:12:53.040 We're ways away from that, luckily. But that's that's the 1:12:53.040 --> 1:12:55.920 engine of your offense. I know everybody gets bored by 1:12:55.960 --> 1:12:59.040 the offensive line talk and stuff, but truly, uh, you 1:12:59.120 --> 1:13:01.120 cannot call every thing if you don't have a good 1:13:01.160 --> 1:13:03.200 offensive line, like you just there are things on the 1:13:03.200 --> 1:13:06.320 playsheet that you're just eliminated, you know, the longer developing 1:13:06.360 --> 1:13:10.320 plays obviously, but there also might be run plays that 1:13:10.400 --> 1:13:13.200 you're just not good enough to execute, and the more 1:13:13.240 --> 1:13:16.400 complex run schemes, and so then it just narrows the 1:13:16.400 --> 1:13:18.040 scope of the things that you can call, and that 1:13:18.080 --> 1:13:20.600 makes you predictable and easy to scout and all that 1:13:20.680 --> 1:13:22.920 kind of stuff. So it's a huge part of it, 1:13:23.040 --> 1:13:24.920 the run game, the pass game, all of it. It's 1:13:24.920 --> 1:13:27.519 not just pass protection though, so it's a good point 1:13:27.560 --> 1:13:30.280 of by the caller. That's a big part of it. 1:13:30.520 --> 1:13:34.479 And the best run games truly are the most diverse, 1:13:34.600 --> 1:13:37.040 like the ones that can call you know, a pluthor 1:13:37.080 --> 1:13:41.400 of runs like Detroit under Ben Johnson. I mean, my god, 1:13:41.400 --> 1:13:44.080 their run game install must have been like a like 1:13:44.439 --> 1:13:46.439 a phone book, right, like they just said, you have 1:13:46.479 --> 1:13:48.519 all these different types of runs and you have no 1:13:48.640 --> 1:13:51.040 limitations with the personnel up front, so you can just 1:13:51.040 --> 1:13:53.000 do whatever you want. And that's just a lot of 1:13:53.000 --> 1:13:56.439 things that adds a lot to the table. And you hope, 1:13:56.479 --> 1:14:00.439 you know, Will Campbell's are really athletic, high end run 1:14:00.439 --> 1:14:03.040 blocker as a prospect, and you hope that he's one 1:14:03.040 --> 1:14:04.920 of those types of tackles that now he's not going 1:14:05.000 --> 1:14:06.959 to be Penny Suol, but like you hope that he 1:14:07.040 --> 1:14:08.920 is one of those types of guys from cut from 1:14:08.920 --> 1:14:11.519 that same clot that he can pull and he can 1:14:11.640 --> 1:14:14.360 get out in front of blocks and he can you know, 1:14:14.439 --> 1:14:16.559 reach front side on the outside zone and like he 1:14:16.600 --> 1:14:18.960 can't allow you to have more range to your run game. 1:14:19.479 --> 1:14:21.920 That would be great. That's exactly what you're what I'm 1:14:21.960 --> 1:14:24.519 looking for out of him in year one, you know, 1:14:24.560 --> 1:14:27.839 to go back to the question about Campbell pass protection 1:14:27.960 --> 1:14:30.080 is probably gonna have some hits and misses for him. 1:14:30.120 --> 1:14:32.519 I would say year one, as he learns his body, 1:14:32.640 --> 1:14:34.439 learns how to you know, get away with the shorter 1:14:34.640 --> 1:14:36.800 arms and like all that kind of stuff, there might 1:14:36.880 --> 1:14:40.439 be some losses there early. But can he really be 1:14:40.560 --> 1:14:43.320 a day one impact run blocker, because he should be. 1:14:43.439 --> 1:14:45.679 That's what he was at LSU, and then he should 1:14:45.720 --> 1:14:48.160 be that in the NFL. If he's that already out 1:14:48.200 --> 1:14:50.920 of the gate, then I'll be really optimistic about where 1:14:50.920 --> 1:14:53.760 they're at with Will Campbell. All right, Nate is in Connecticut. 1:14:53.800 --> 1:14:54.360 What's up? Nate? 1:14:56.000 --> 1:14:59.760 Hey, guys guys here you well, yes, we got you. So, 1:15:00.160 --> 1:15:03.280 like my question to you guys is, well, hold on. First, 1:15:03.320 --> 1:15:06.120 I'll say it is my second to last day of school. 1:15:06.479 --> 1:15:09.360 Very excited. So I'm going to talk about something that 1:15:09.439 --> 1:15:13.080 excites me, and that is our cornerback room. What I 1:15:13.120 --> 1:15:16.559 really think. I think we have a really strong room 1:15:16.920 --> 1:15:20.200 with the addition to Carlton Davis and of course the 1:15:20.240 --> 1:15:23.439 main star Christian Zalees and Marcus Jones, and then uh 1:15:23.960 --> 1:15:27.240 maybe Alex Austin on the outside and sometimes in the slot. 1:15:27.600 --> 1:15:31.760 But my main thing is that where would you rank 1:15:31.880 --> 1:15:35.560 our cornerback room like in the league? Like is it 1:15:35.640 --> 1:15:36.200 top five? 1:15:36.360 --> 1:15:36.960 Top ten? 1:15:37.080 --> 1:15:40.000 Because I know we're getting compared to a lot of 1:15:40.080 --> 1:15:42.920 duos like Derek Stingley and then you have Pats their 1:15:43.000 --> 1:15:43.680 Tan and. 1:15:43.880 --> 1:15:45.559 The Bronx and the new Broncos DV. 1:15:46.280 --> 1:15:49.840 But yeah, where where you guys thought on where the 1:15:49.920 --> 1:15:53.000 Pats cornerback room stands across the league? Thank you guys. 1:15:53.120 --> 1:15:57.120 Thanks for the calling Nate and congrats on ending school. 1:15:57.160 --> 1:16:01.360 Yeah like that because you know he's he's cool and 1:16:01.400 --> 1:16:04.000 he calls catch twenty two during school. Awesome. Maybe I 1:16:04.040 --> 1:16:06.519 don't know where do they rank and quarterback. It's a 1:16:06.520 --> 1:16:09.439 good question. I haven't necessarily looked at. Yeah, I don't know, 1:16:09.760 --> 1:16:11.519 but the other team's de charge off the top of 1:16:11.520 --> 1:16:14.000 my head is high. Yeah, yeah, it's the duo is 1:16:14.080 --> 1:16:16.400 high for sure. I mean it's a second team All 1:16:16.439 --> 1:16:19.320 Pro corner and a really good corner in Carlton Davis. 1:16:19.360 --> 1:16:22.280 So I would say the duo is high. Uh, I 1:16:22.320 --> 1:16:24.799 think they have a chance to be in that conversation, certainly, 1:16:25.040 --> 1:16:27.880 and they definitely have a chance to be one of 1:16:27.920 --> 1:16:30.519 the best man coverage groups in the league, maybe already 1:16:30.560 --> 1:16:33.400 are the best man coverage group in the league. Denver 1:16:33.479 --> 1:16:34.320 has a good one. 1:16:34.400 --> 1:16:34.559 You know. 1:16:34.600 --> 1:16:37.600 Pat Sartan will obviously hold that down. They have a 1:16:37.640 --> 1:16:42.599 good all the all the corners by the team. Yeah, so. 1:16:44.120 --> 1:16:48.439 Christian Benford, Maxwell Harrison about Storm Duck, Jalen Ramsey's not 1:16:48.479 --> 1:16:55.760 gonna be there, Yeah, Sauce Gardner, Brandon Stevens, Nate Wigan, No, No, Denzel. 1:16:55.360 --> 1:16:59.919 War Martin Emerson not bad. It wasn't bad. Darius Slade, 1:17:00.080 --> 1:17:01.120 Joey Porter, not bad. 1:17:01.160 --> 1:17:04.760 Him still taking the Patriots there, Stingley, Kamari Lassiter's up 1:17:04.800 --> 1:17:10.639 there right, D'Angelo ross is on the Texans, former Patriot 1:17:11.080 --> 1:17:14.000 Pats er Tan Riley Moss, Chris Abrams, Draine in the slot. 1:17:14.000 --> 1:17:17.960 I mean that's pretty good. I'd say Denver's probably Rileys 1:17:18.080 --> 1:17:18.880 really good player too. 1:17:18.960 --> 1:17:23.559 Yeah, Kansas City is Christian Fulton, Jalen Watson. 1:17:23.560 --> 1:17:27.120 Why isn't is he hurt McDuffie or maybe this isn't 1:17:27.160 --> 1:17:29.400 including slot corners? Well, he plays a little bit on that, 1:17:29.400 --> 1:17:33.679 that's true. It's a good group two. Yeah, Trayvon Diggs 1:17:33.720 --> 1:17:38.439 here elam No keey Ringo Quinny and Mitchell Dorri Jackson, 1:17:38.479 --> 1:17:42.080 Eli Rix. I mean that's a good Philly Philly. 1:17:42.120 --> 1:17:42.320 Yeah. 1:17:42.360 --> 1:17:45.920 And then what's his name? Is counting him as a safety? 1:17:46.040 --> 1:17:47.519 I think all right, they're probably I don't think this 1:17:47.560 --> 1:17:49.400 includes slot corners, so maybe this isn't the best thing 1:17:49.439 --> 1:17:49.880 to go off of. 1:17:49.920 --> 1:17:53.120 I can't think of his damn name. I have a kid. Yeah, 1:17:53.160 --> 1:17:57.360 I know, Cooper Gen Cooper Deen like literally, yeah, Mike 1:17:57.400 --> 1:18:01.599 Sayner still, marsha On Lattimore's not bad, but I'm still 1:18:01.600 --> 1:18:05.599 taking Yeah, the Patriots, it's probably it's Denver. Probably Moss 1:18:05.600 --> 1:18:07.519 and Patrick Startan are a really good duo. 1:18:07.600 --> 1:18:07.720 Oh. 1:18:07.760 --> 1:18:08.519 I saw J. C. 1:18:08.600 --> 1:18:10.479 Horn cool Aid McKinstry next to each other, but they're 1:18:10.479 --> 1:18:13.160 on different teams, so that's not it. Uh Yeah, I 1:18:13.160 --> 1:18:16.479 mean that's pretty much it. Look I the Patriots are 1:18:16.520 --> 1:18:17.560 right there with anybody. 1:18:17.320 --> 1:18:18.040 Along those lines. 1:18:18.040 --> 1:18:19.960 I'll ask you this because I've been asked this to 1:18:19.960 --> 1:18:22.839 bring it up je or Alexander, at least by the Packers. 1:18:23.360 --> 1:18:28.240 I don't get the like I see some Patriots fans 1:18:28.280 --> 1:18:29.240 really clamoring for it. 1:18:29.400 --> 1:18:32.000 Where's he? What's the plan there so he could play, 1:18:32.120 --> 1:18:34.559 he could play Nickel. Is he gonna come here and 1:18:34.560 --> 1:18:37.000 play Nickel though? Or I don't know. So, like he's 1:18:37.040 --> 1:18:42.040 a boundary corner. Just I love Jeor Alexander. I do too. 1:18:42.080 --> 1:18:44.479 He's a really good player, but so was he he 1:18:44.640 --> 1:18:47.000 was nineteen draft. I want to say he was one 1:18:47.040 --> 1:18:49.280 of our first drafts that I was really covering the 1:18:49.400 --> 1:18:55.080 NFL and covering the team, and I was horrible at 1:18:56.439 --> 1:18:58.400 evaluating whatever word you want to use. I know people 1:18:58.400 --> 1:19:00.160 get all up in arms when I say scout, So 1:19:00.479 --> 1:19:02.800 I won't say that I was horrible at it. Twenty eighteen, 1:19:03.080 --> 1:19:05.559 I'm sure, yeah, I was very I was, you know, 1:19:05.640 --> 1:19:07.640 young buck, trying to do this, trying to fake it 1:19:08.000 --> 1:19:11.200 till I bake it. But I saw JayR. Alexander's tape 1:19:11.200 --> 1:19:12.920 at louis Ville and was just like, that's a dog. 1:19:13.240 --> 1:19:15.439 So is a heck of a corner. And he ended 1:19:15.520 --> 1:19:17.160 up being as good of a player as I thought 1:19:17.160 --> 1:19:20.120 he would be. In he's a stud. But he's been injured. 1:19:20.760 --> 1:19:23.559 He's been consistently injured for like three or four years now. 1:19:23.600 --> 1:19:26.479 He's also progressively played fewer percentage of his snaps in 1:19:26.520 --> 1:19:28.599 the slot every year last year he played three thirty 1:19:28.600 --> 1:19:30.400 one on the boundary, just fourteen in the slot. 1:19:30.479 --> 1:19:33.640 Like he's a boundary corner. So it's a name, you know, 1:19:34.120 --> 1:19:36.400 every time this comes about, I know, but it's gonna happen, 1:19:36.400 --> 1:19:38.080 That's what I'm saying. Like, and there are names they 1:19:38.120 --> 1:19:38.439 could add. 1:19:38.479 --> 1:19:39.920 I'm not saying they don't need to add, but like, 1:19:41.120 --> 1:19:43.360 first off, the guys I look at right away if 1:19:43.360 --> 1:19:45.080 you're gonna make that kind of splash move, and it 1:19:45.080 --> 1:19:48.280 would be a splash move, yeah, Trey Henderson, t J. 1:19:48.400 --> 1:19:50.280 Watt, and I don't know that of those guys are 1:19:50.640 --> 1:19:53.479 where they are, Like you, Gyr, you are just signing him. 1:19:53.600 --> 1:19:56.360 So what about Jayalen Ramsey? Because Jaalen Ramsey can play 1:19:56.360 --> 1:19:58.080 the slot, he can play some safety. At this point, 1:19:58.479 --> 1:20:02.400 Ramsey is probably in my mind, the best slot corner 1:20:02.439 --> 1:20:04.280 in the NFL. He doesn't play there all the time. 1:20:04.360 --> 1:20:06.240 He does play a little bit on the outside still, 1:20:06.560 --> 1:20:08.439 but when you use him in that like and he 1:20:08.479 --> 1:20:11.320 has experienced doing he's yeah, it's like two hundred STAPs. 1:20:11.920 --> 1:20:14.000 You know. Some teams call it different things. You know, 1:20:14.240 --> 1:20:17.559 Star is probably the most common one. When he plays 1:20:17.600 --> 1:20:20.120 that star role, like he's he's awesome at it. He's 1:20:20.240 --> 1:20:20.920 really really good. 1:20:21.080 --> 1:20:23.360 That's the guy. And is Miami gonna trade him or 1:20:23.360 --> 1:20:24.160 they're gonna release him? 1:20:24.640 --> 1:20:27.200 Might be a post June one designation guy, So that's 1:20:27.240 --> 1:20:29.080 if he haven't traded him yet. There's probably not a 1:20:29.120 --> 1:20:29.920 huge market. 1:20:29.680 --> 1:20:32.640 If he gets cut. And I think Jeier Alexander is 1:20:32.640 --> 1:20:33.679 a better player at this point. 1:20:34.160 --> 1:20:36.120 I think Ramsey might be a better player because Jeer 1:20:36.200 --> 1:20:39.160 Alexander has but he's just hurt. He hasn't really I 1:20:39.200 --> 1:20:39.960 guess health assume. 1:20:40.040 --> 1:20:41.880 Yeah, like Jeer Alexander, I think at this point is 1:20:42.160 --> 1:20:43.360 Ramsey just peak was a better player. 1:20:43.400 --> 1:20:45.400 But I'm just saying Ramsey is a better investment because 1:20:45.400 --> 1:20:46.080 he's so this. 1:20:46.080 --> 1:20:48.679 This is what I'm getting at Madden rating, Jeer Alexander 1:20:48.720 --> 1:20:50.960 is probably higher. Who's a better fit for the Patriots 1:20:51.040 --> 1:20:52.400 right now? If you're gonna add one of those two guys, 1:20:52.400 --> 1:20:54.120 I think it's Jalen Ramsey and I don't think it's close. 1:20:54.160 --> 1:20:56.040 I think it's Jalen Ramsey on both things, but it's 1:20:56.200 --> 1:20:58.439 it doesn't matter. That's not here nor there. Jalen Ramsey 1:20:58.479 --> 1:21:01.519 is a really good player still, and the fact that 1:21:01.560 --> 1:21:05.320 he has that twilight of his career option of moving 1:21:05.360 --> 1:21:08.200 inside to the slot because he's so instinctive and he's 1:21:08.240 --> 1:21:11.000 such a great playmaker inside that he just as it 1:21:11.120 --> 1:21:14.040 knows for the football. Yeah, he would be a great fit. 1:21:14.240 --> 1:21:17.040 Jalen Ramsey. Honestly, now, I don't know if he was 1:21:17.160 --> 1:21:20.280 run available. Miami is not trading him here, No, he 1:21:20.400 --> 1:21:22.280 probably have to get cut. Yeah. Well, then again, they 1:21:22.280 --> 1:21:25.920 traded Devonte Parker here. Well, I think that's a different Well, 1:21:26.000 --> 1:21:29.560 but if they're clearly done with Ramsey, I mean I 1:21:29.600 --> 1:21:31.360 don't actually I haven't followed that one close enough for 1:21:31.360 --> 1:21:32.880 they've done with him or is he done with them? 1:21:33.000 --> 1:21:34.639 I think it's a little bit of ball. So they. 1:21:35.960 --> 1:21:38.280 Remember when they got him from the Rams and everybody 1:21:38.320 --> 1:21:40.040 talked about that was the end of the AFC East 1:21:40.080 --> 1:21:44.519 ever being competitive Jalen Ramsey, So, well, it was kind 1:21:44.520 --> 1:21:47.080 of a it's been a messy marriage from the beginning, 1:21:47.200 --> 1:21:49.759 if I have my facts. Trade here, he got traded 1:21:49.800 --> 1:21:53.439 to Miami from the Rams, like you said, and he 1:21:53.439 --> 1:21:56.320 played in Vic Fangio's defense, yeah, the very first year. 1:21:56.760 --> 1:22:00.240 And Vic Fangio is not a matchup guy. He is 1:22:00.720 --> 1:22:04.679 do what we do, play sides. Everybody's got their side 1:22:04.680 --> 1:22:07.120 of the field. That they're gonna play and he's not 1:22:07.160 --> 1:22:09.960 a he's not like a shadow guy, he's not a 1:22:10.000 --> 1:22:13.639 travel guy. And Jalen Ramsey didn't like it. He took 1:22:14.080 --> 1:22:17.479 exception to it, was vocally public about it and said that, 1:22:17.760 --> 1:22:19.840 you know, I'm Jalen Ramsey essentially like I want to 1:22:19.880 --> 1:22:22.360 do the whole revis tylaw thing like I got you, 1:22:22.160 --> 1:22:25.640 you know, cat cover cat coverage, as Mike Rabel called it, 1:22:25.680 --> 1:22:27.880 like that's the way he wants to play, and they 1:22:27.880 --> 1:22:28.800 didn't want him to do that. 1:22:28.840 --> 1:22:30.519 They wanted him to play his side of the field 1:22:30.560 --> 1:22:32.840 and play his role and that sort of thing. So 1:22:32.880 --> 1:22:36.120 he butted heads with Vic Fangio Vic Fangio leaves and 1:22:36.160 --> 1:22:38.080 then last year I thought that they did that more 1:22:38.160 --> 1:22:40.599 and they are more creative with his usage, and he 1:22:40.640 --> 1:22:42.519 was doing more he wanted to be doing. So I 1:22:42.560 --> 1:22:45.160 don't know what the hold up is now. A contract 1:22:45.200 --> 1:22:48.120 probably would be my guest, like he's getting expensive and 1:22:48.120 --> 1:22:51.040 he's getting older, so maybe it's it's some sort of contract. 1:22:51.560 --> 1:22:53.840 I always hate to use cap casualty because it's really 1:22:53.880 --> 1:22:55.960 not what it is, but maybe it's something like that. 1:22:56.040 --> 1:23:00.880 I haven't looked up the exact particulars of why he's Yeah, it. 1:23:00.840 --> 1:23:03.080 Doesn't really and it doesn't really say but it looks 1:23:03.120 --> 1:23:06.120 like he wants out. Yeah, they've also got to figure 1:23:06.120 --> 1:23:07.640 out they got a whole thing on their hands with 1:23:07.680 --> 1:23:08.360 John who Smith. 1:23:08.520 --> 1:23:11.599 That was a long winded way of saying that it 1:23:11.640 --> 1:23:14.040 doesn't feel like the coaching staff has nailed it with 1:23:14.160 --> 1:23:17.639 Jalen Ramsey. Yeah, like they haven't really exactly. And when 1:23:17.680 --> 1:23:20.360 I say nailed it eight, he hasn't been thrilled with 1:23:20.400 --> 1:23:23.280 his usage and and like the defense and the scheme 1:23:23.320 --> 1:23:26.160 that they're running and all that kind of stuff. I'll 1:23:26.160 --> 1:23:29.720 tell you you're anti Mike McDaniel. We know that you 1:23:29.720 --> 1:23:31.479 don't want as a head coach. Yeah, you don't like him? 1:23:32.160 --> 1:23:33.519 I do think, well, no, because this is where we 1:23:33.560 --> 1:23:36.479 always gets twisted. He's a good play designer. He's a 1:23:36.560 --> 1:23:37.519 very good play designer. 1:23:37.560 --> 1:23:39.400 He is. I will give him credit for that. I 1:23:39.400 --> 1:23:42.280 don't like him as a head coach. So I watched 1:23:42.320 --> 1:23:45.120 his press conference the other day. Yeah, he looks a 1:23:45.120 --> 1:23:47.360 little bit like a beaten man. Like he looks he's 1:23:47.880 --> 1:23:50.280 he's very you know, he used to be this like 1:23:50.400 --> 1:23:54.000 vibrant guy, this big personality. Uh maybe even to a 1:23:54.040 --> 1:23:58.080 detriment at times he's feeling you can feel the hot 1:23:58.120 --> 1:24:00.439 butt almost like he was hired to that king early 1:24:00.439 --> 1:24:03.679 and he's in overseas and you feel the seat warmer 1:24:03.880 --> 1:24:07.600 on that guy. I wonder who said that that that 1:24:07.680 --> 1:24:10.439 might be the case. It's tough when for them, and 1:24:10.520 --> 1:24:12.479 I know this is in Dolphins Catch twenty two, but 1:24:12.720 --> 1:24:15.280 they are a division. It is tough for them that 1:24:15.880 --> 1:24:18.320 they just can't keep to a healthy Like if I'm 1:24:18.360 --> 1:24:20.080 not saying they would have won the super Bowl, then stop. 1:24:20.080 --> 1:24:22.559 But they've also had a couple of decent backup quarterbacks 1:24:22.560 --> 1:24:25.479 that they just get rid of. Sure, but like invest 1:24:25.520 --> 1:24:27.679 if you know you have an injury prone quarterback, invest 1:24:27.720 --> 1:24:28.400 in a good backup. 1:24:28.439 --> 1:24:31.920 When they win to a plays, they are like a 1:24:31.960 --> 1:24:34.680 ten to eleven win pace team. That's not the differentiator. 1:24:34.760 --> 1:24:37.840 And he's I think he is a differentiator because of 1:24:37.840 --> 1:24:40.400 how they run their offense. Like their offense is so 1:24:40.560 --> 1:24:43.040 motion heavy and it's so multiple and all these different 1:24:43.080 --> 1:24:47.320 things that you need a true to a esque trigger 1:24:47.400 --> 1:24:49.920 man like Tua is a point guard. He's not a 1:24:50.040 --> 1:24:53.719 he's not an overlease like toolsy quarterback. He's not Josh 1:24:53.720 --> 1:24:56.639 Allen or you know, Mahomes or Lamar right where he's 1:24:56.680 --> 1:24:59.519 got these crazy physical tools. He's more of like that 1:24:59.600 --> 1:25:03.519 point G distributor, and they the way that offense hums 1:25:03.560 --> 1:25:05.559 when he's out there is just different than what they 1:25:05.760 --> 1:25:08.400 has been with their backups, so that that's not just 1:25:08.479 --> 1:25:10.200 to let them off the hook, like they have a 1:25:10.240 --> 1:25:13.120 fragile quarterback and they don't necessarily account for it the 1:25:13.160 --> 1:25:16.479 way if they should with a reliable backup. But they're 1:25:16.640 --> 1:25:18.479 a ten to eleven win paced team. They're a playoff 1:25:18.479 --> 1:25:20.479 team with two and they're not without them. Right, it's 1:25:20.520 --> 1:25:22.800 that simple. What year did McDaniel get there? 1:25:22.800 --> 1:25:23.040 Again? 1:25:23.160 --> 1:25:27.920 Oh man, twenty twenty one, twenty twenty twenty ish, I 1:25:27.960 --> 1:25:29.680 want to say it's like the third or fourth year. 1:25:30.000 --> 1:25:36.240 So the thing I'm trying to find is the real differentiator. 1:25:36.320 --> 1:25:42.120 So here it is against teams over or under five hundred. 1:25:42.600 --> 1:25:45.360 I gotta look up the year here. This is why 1:25:45.360 --> 1:25:47.400 it's not Dolphins catch twenty two because we don't know the. 1:25:47.640 --> 1:25:50.720 I want to say it was twenty it was twenty two, Okay, Yeah, 1:25:51.120 --> 1:25:54.679 So since twenty twenty two, the Dolphins against teams under 1:25:54.800 --> 1:25:58.160 five hundred, five and three, ten and one, seven and 1:25:58.240 --> 1:26:02.400 four against teams over five hundred which gave for five 1:26:02.960 --> 1:26:07.800 one in five, one in five. They can't beat good 1:26:07.800 --> 1:26:09.960 team two has played in these games. Will because there's 1:26:09.960 --> 1:26:11.639 the other thing about to his record in the cold. 1:26:11.800 --> 1:26:14.000 I'll give you that they can't beat good teams and 1:26:14.000 --> 1:26:16.800 they can't beat teams with the cold because shocker Mike 1:26:16.880 --> 1:26:19.360 mcdanne refuses to make any adjustments about anything. 1:26:19.360 --> 1:26:21.519 Ever, I don't think it's that. I really don't, and 1:26:21.560 --> 1:26:24.040 I know we get into this argument philosophically all the time. 1:26:24.280 --> 1:26:27.080 It's still in your school, though, what I think my 1:26:27.160 --> 1:26:30.120 biggest criticism of the Dolphins, My biggest criticism of the 1:26:30.160 --> 1:26:33.040 Dolphins is that they can't beat the good teams because 1:26:33.080 --> 1:26:36.960 they get killed in the trenches. They get murdered every time. 1:26:37.120 --> 1:26:39.040 Especially they're all good teams are usually good in the 1:26:39.080 --> 1:26:39.960 trenches right there. 1:26:40.000 --> 1:26:42.760 They just they are not a physical football team. So 1:26:42.800 --> 1:26:44.920 they don't play well in the cold. They don't play 1:26:44.920 --> 1:26:46.720 well against good teams that are built in the mid 1:26:47.200 --> 1:26:49.599 through the trenches. They don't, you know, they don't play 1:26:49.600 --> 1:26:52.679 well in those situations. Their offensive line has been terrible 1:26:52.760 --> 1:26:55.439 for basically like two or three years now, as bad 1:26:55.479 --> 1:26:58.040 as the Patriots in some ways, and a big reason 1:26:58.080 --> 1:26:59.680 why is because they don't invest in it. You know, 1:26:59.680 --> 1:27:02.840 they don't draft people, know, they don't really invest highly. Now, 1:27:02.840 --> 1:27:04.679 they drafted an offensive lineman this year, right. 1:27:04.560 --> 1:27:07.639 Defensive linean didn't they take the kid from Michigan Kenneth Grant. 1:27:07.640 --> 1:27:10.200 You're right they did. Yeah, Now they need to run defense. 1:27:10.640 --> 1:27:12.200 That was a bit, That's a part of it. It's 1:27:12.200 --> 1:27:14.320 both sides of the ball. They needed to be sure 1:27:14.439 --> 1:27:17.400 up the middle. But they just feel they're like allergic 1:27:17.439 --> 1:27:20.000 to drafting a good offensive lineman. And it's worse this 1:27:20.080 --> 1:27:23.280 year because Toront Armstead retired. So it's like they don't 1:27:23.280 --> 1:27:25.439 have I don't even think they have a starting left 1:27:25.439 --> 1:27:28.000 tackle that you feel great about right now. They have 1:27:28.160 --> 1:27:31.920 invested in speed on the outside, you know, Hill and Waddle, 1:27:32.000 --> 1:27:35.040 obviously John new Smith. That tight end was an investment. 1:27:35.280 --> 1:27:38.320 They are heavily invested in their backfield like they're running 1:27:38.360 --> 1:27:41.720 backs like a chan and those guys they that's all 1:27:41.720 --> 1:27:43.800 they care about. This is to your point. They care 1:27:43.840 --> 1:27:46.280 about the skill players, and they care about the scheme, 1:27:46.439 --> 1:27:48.559 and they don't care about the trenches, and they just 1:27:48.640 --> 1:27:52.280 get bullied by these good teams and the trenches. It's 1:27:52.320 --> 1:27:53.640 tough so to. 1:27:55.320 --> 1:27:59.200 Against teams over five hundred or sorry, yeah, against teams 1:27:59.240 --> 1:28:04.240 over five hundred six and thirteen since since Mike McDaniel 1:28:04.280 --> 1:28:08.080 got there, against teams over five under five hundred nineteen 1:28:08.120 --> 1:28:13.400 and three nineteen and three against under five hundred six 1:28:13.479 --> 1:28:15.840 and thirteen against it. So it it too is a 1:28:15.920 --> 1:28:16.360 part of that. 1:28:16.960 --> 1:28:18.320 It's not all of it, but it is a part 1:28:18.360 --> 1:28:20.719 of Okay, So I want to hear they're starting projected 1:28:20.720 --> 1:28:25.040 offensive line. This is our lads, Debtha Winstill No, I 1:28:25.040 --> 1:28:27.599 thought it was. He started from the last year. It's 1:28:27.640 --> 1:28:29.800 not good. Okay, So here's their starting five on the 1:28:29.840 --> 1:28:31.599 offensive line. Tell me if this is better or worse 1:28:31.600 --> 1:28:34.840 than the Patriotskay, your boy Patrick paul I left tackle. 1:28:35.280 --> 1:28:37.400 I do like Patrick did not play really as ad 1:28:37.479 --> 1:28:41.960 play last Yeah, a total unknown. Isaiah Win is maybe 1:28:41.960 --> 1:28:45.960 on the Dolphins. Keep going. James Daniels, who's a veteran 1:28:46.160 --> 1:28:49.240 free agent signing over from Pittsburgh, was a good player. 1:28:49.280 --> 1:28:51.040 But it's been heard so that would have been their 1:28:51.120 --> 1:28:53.559 West s White Seri equivalent. He's a little bit better. 1:28:53.600 --> 1:28:54.800 Then, we'll call that, all right, So we'll give that 1:28:54.840 --> 1:28:57.000 one of the Dolphins. They know left guard, that's left guard. 1:28:57.040 --> 1:28:59.120 We'll give that one. Of the Dolphins. Aaron Brewer at 1:28:59.120 --> 1:29:01.600 center is a really good player, so give him that. 1:29:01.720 --> 1:29:07.160 He's good. Here's one that was Patriot adjacent Jonas right 1:29:07.200 --> 1:29:11.760 now projected starting right guard. I'll take Austin Jackson at 1:29:11.800 --> 1:29:14.320 right tackle. I'll take more Moses. That might be the 1:29:14.360 --> 1:29:17.760 worst offensive line. Not good, it's not good. Brewers are 1:29:17.840 --> 1:29:20.840 really good center. And then what's there about it? Like, uh, 1:29:21.200 --> 1:29:24.759 not great? Any names that we'd even recognize that? Jackson 1:29:24.800 --> 1:29:27.360 Carmen is still kicking around the league. He's backing up 1:29:27.400 --> 1:29:30.200 at guard. Liam Eichenberg still Kaaran Irad has been a 1:29:30.280 --> 1:29:33.120 huge bus for them. Yeah. Uh, Andrew Meyer is like 1:29:33.400 --> 1:29:36.560 a veteran journeyman center. He's kind of like a West Tweitzerka. 1:29:37.040 --> 1:29:39.439 He's in that mold. The one good player on their 1:29:39.479 --> 1:29:41.760 offensive line that I feel good about. Jonah will be 1:29:41.760 --> 1:29:45.280 a good player, but he's Aaron Brews a really good center, 1:29:45.439 --> 1:29:47.920 like top five, top ten centers in the league. But 1:29:48.080 --> 1:29:50.320 other than that, you're you're looking at a bunch of Yeah, 1:29:50.320 --> 1:29:53.120 that's not pretty, and they don't they Their highest draft 1:29:53.120 --> 1:29:55.160 pick was Jonaho's a high second round pack well, because 1:29:55.160 --> 1:29:57.880 they just want fast guys and offense aren't fast. They 1:29:57.880 --> 1:30:00.840 want Chop Robinson and they want athletes on offense, like 1:30:00.880 --> 1:30:02.439 that's what they're looking at. All right, let's get back 1:30:02.439 --> 1:30:06.479 to the phones. Uh At, it was a full Dolphins minute. 1:30:06.520 --> 1:30:09.240 And I feel like like we don't have to be 1:30:09.320 --> 1:30:11.559 like glass houses anymore because I feel like the Patriots 1:30:11.560 --> 1:30:13.800 are kind of in a good spot. So I don't 1:30:13.800 --> 1:30:16.920 better than that offensive line wise, they might be better. Honestly, 1:30:17.000 --> 1:30:18.800 that might be the worst offensive line in the NFL. 1:30:18.800 --> 1:30:20.679 All right, Emories in Virginia. What's up, Emory? 1:30:21.920 --> 1:30:26.800 Yes, good afternoon, Jim. Enjoy your show man. Hey, I 1:30:26.800 --> 1:30:30.679 got a couple of questions here. What have you seen 1:30:30.680 --> 1:30:34.519 from Kobe minor anything? I'll take anything if you've seen 1:30:34.560 --> 1:30:38.719 anything from Nick Kids and my last one, My last 1:30:38.760 --> 1:30:43.000 one is a fante Samuel s has the Patriots closed 1:30:43.000 --> 1:30:45.559 the door on him? The kind of had a Hall 1:30:45.600 --> 1:30:47.800 of Fame career as far as his total career, and 1:30:47.920 --> 1:30:51.480 he has some good years here with New England Patriots. 1:30:52.320 --> 1:30:53.799 Help me out, what do you mean. 1:30:53.640 --> 1:30:56.440 By closing the door, like in terms of like alumni stuff. 1:30:56.240 --> 1:31:00.880 Or yeah, alumna stung. I haven't seen in any games, 1:31:01.240 --> 1:31:06.320 no conversation from you guys or all of anybody realt. 1:31:06.680 --> 1:31:10.360 Nobody talks about Asante sam You've seeing it, and I 1:31:10.360 --> 1:31:13.800 thought the guy had an amazing career Hall of Fame 1:31:14.000 --> 1:31:18.679 work over fifteen interceptions, seven returns for touchdowns. He owned 1:31:18.680 --> 1:31:23.960 the NFC in NFL postseason interception return for touchdowns. He 1:31:24.040 --> 1:31:27.000 owns that and two Super Bowls. 1:31:28.960 --> 1:31:31.400 Yeah, it's a fair point, Emory, Thanks for the call. 1:31:32.280 --> 1:31:35.599 I I know it didn't end great with Bill and Sante, 1:31:36.360 --> 1:31:39.559 so that it might stem from that Bill's not here anymore, 1:31:39.600 --> 1:31:43.760 So maybe there's an opportunity to iron out that relationship 1:31:43.800 --> 1:31:47.320 again now that that he's not around anymore. Rabel must 1:31:47.400 --> 1:31:50.400 must have played with Sante Samuel right today? He was 1:31:50.880 --> 1:31:54.360 he was on seven seven? Yeah, yeah, so last year, yeah, 1:31:54.479 --> 1:31:58.320 I think he was here. I think they overlapped, so maybe. 1:31:58.120 --> 1:32:02.800 Two years uh or no, yeah, they overlapped for a while. 1:32:02.920 --> 1:32:05.400 Rabel was here one oh eight, Samuel was here three 1:32:05.479 --> 1:32:05.880 zero seven. 1:32:05.920 --> 1:32:06.080 Yeah. 1:32:06.120 --> 1:32:09.840 I thought it was the Vergificantly Yeah, yeah so maybe yeah. 1:32:10.040 --> 1:32:11.600 Well, I also wonder if that question is we were 1:32:11.600 --> 1:32:13.479 just talking about the slot corners, like a Sante Samuel 1:32:13.560 --> 1:32:14.479 Junior still a free agent. 1:32:14.720 --> 1:32:16.880 Yeah, so I've seen some people bring him up as 1:32:16.880 --> 1:32:19.439 a potential fit. Yeah, what was the first thing Zobe minor? 1:32:19.520 --> 1:32:22.599 Kobe Minor he had. He's been in that opportunity group. 1:32:23.400 --> 1:32:25.519 I didn't really see anything eye bobbing from him, but 1:32:25.560 --> 1:32:27.840 just in terms of where he's playing and who he's 1:32:27.840 --> 1:32:30.960 playing with. He's been sort of with that with that 1:32:30.960 --> 1:32:33.559 third group, I would say for most of minicamp, which 1:32:33.600 --> 1:32:36.360 isn't surprising, you know. So it was like Marcus Bryan 1:32:36.560 --> 1:32:39.479 was like, you know, playing in that that spot, would 1:32:39.479 --> 1:32:41.679 tackle with a lot of Ben Woolridge reps and stuff 1:32:41.720 --> 1:32:44.080 like that with him. Yeah, so similar. All right, Uh, 1:32:44.600 --> 1:32:46.920 William is in Philly. What's up, William? Haven't heard from 1:32:46.920 --> 1:32:47.479 you in a while. 1:32:48.840 --> 1:32:55.720 It's been a while. How you doing good? Yeah? Well, 1:32:56.040 --> 1:32:57.880 I just wanted I didn't get a chance that the 1:32:58.920 --> 1:33:03.080 talk about far as the real fast just I was 1:33:03.160 --> 1:33:07.280 very pleased. I was pleased. Uh, will Campbell, I understand it, Evan, 1:33:08.320 --> 1:33:10.200 you know I was. I was a little against it, 1:33:10.240 --> 1:33:13.720 but I understand we needed a tackle. I like to 1:33:13.800 --> 1:33:20.679 running back and Kyle was a Kyle Williams the wide receiver. Yeah, 1:33:20.920 --> 1:33:24.479 I said, okay, okay, I like free agency everything I have. 1:33:25.720 --> 1:33:28.320 If Bill was doing this, it probably wouldn't went this 1:33:28.439 --> 1:33:31.680 way though, But I was very pleased. I have no 1:33:31.760 --> 1:33:32.799 complaints of anything. 1:33:32.840 --> 1:33:33.320 I just. 1:33:35.040 --> 1:33:37.320 Still looking trying to for that true number one. And 1:33:37.360 --> 1:33:39.400 that's just the take I wish you want to have 1:33:39.560 --> 1:33:44.040 with Alex will Fast. I know we in twenty twenty five. 1:33:44.280 --> 1:33:47.519 I know his name is, is it John Mayors? 1:33:47.600 --> 1:33:48.000 S missed? 1:33:48.040 --> 1:33:49.920 If I'm staying right, he doesn't come out. 1:33:49.800 --> 1:33:52.880 To Jeremiah Smith. Yeah, you gonna ask about wide reserves 1:33:52.880 --> 1:33:56.240 next year. So Jeremiah Smith's twenty seven, right, and Ryan Williams. 1:33:56.240 --> 1:33:58.320 Those are the two best receivers in college football. They're 1:33:58.320 --> 1:33:59.240 both another year. 1:33:59.320 --> 1:33:59.840 Yeah. 1:34:01.880 --> 1:34:05.439 Do you see Mark Wave was moving up to get them, 1:34:05.520 --> 1:34:09.000 I mean to get one of them. Maybe that's our 1:34:09.080 --> 1:34:11.400 chance to finally get a true number one. 1:34:12.680 --> 1:34:15.160 I mean two years from now hopefully, or you know, 1:34:15.240 --> 1:34:17.519 by the time we get there twenty twenty seven draft, 1:34:17.520 --> 1:34:19.320 that's year three of Drake May right, and. 1:34:19.360 --> 1:34:21.640 Doing my math right there, Yeah, they should be a 1:34:21.680 --> 1:34:24.639 playoff team. They shouldn't be this year four we're going 1:34:24.680 --> 1:34:26.000 into here, or year four of Drake. 1:34:25.840 --> 1:34:29.080 May Yeah, they should not be in a spot where 1:34:29.080 --> 1:34:30.880 they can trade up that I mean, those guys will 1:34:30.920 --> 1:34:33.320 both gonna be top five picks. They shouldn't be in 1:34:33.320 --> 1:34:34.920 a spot where they can trade up to the top five. 1:34:35.560 --> 1:34:37.160 I think I can give you some names this year 1:34:37.160 --> 1:34:40.320 if you want, if they're in a position now. Granted, 1:34:40.320 --> 1:34:41.880 I think I said this about who was it a 1:34:41.880 --> 1:34:43.680 couple of years ago, and I was like, if they're 1:34:43.680 --> 1:34:46.080 in a position draft and they it's not good. 1:34:46.320 --> 1:34:47.880 Yeah, I'll say that. 1:34:47.840 --> 1:34:50.960 About Jeremiah Smith and Ryan Williams if they're in a 1:34:51.000 --> 1:34:52.560 position draft those guys. 1:34:53.680 --> 1:34:54.439 Something went wrong. 1:34:54.720 --> 1:34:58.439 As good as those players are right, this year's draft 1:34:58.479 --> 1:35:02.519 is weird just because some of the top receivers are 1:35:02.720 --> 1:35:06.800 true juniors. So are they gonna come out? Are they 1:35:06.800 --> 1:35:09.559 gonna go back to school? One name I've heard a lot, 1:35:09.640 --> 1:35:11.840 so Carnel Tait is the guy you like from Ohio 1:35:11.920 --> 1:35:12.640 State and they got to. 1:35:12.600 --> 1:35:13.120 Get an X. 1:35:13.160 --> 1:35:13.240 So. 1:35:13.640 --> 1:35:16.240 Antonio Williams from Clemson is so many people have talked about. 1:35:16.240 --> 1:35:18.320 I think he's an inside guy. He's a good player, 1:35:18.360 --> 1:35:20.479 but he's more redundant than he get that true X. 1:35:20.800 --> 1:35:24.519 Carnel Tate from Ohio State is a big name, and 1:35:24.560 --> 1:35:26.000 I think he's a senior. 1:35:26.000 --> 1:35:26.880 I think he's coming out. 1:35:27.080 --> 1:35:30.160 Denzel Boston from Washington is another name you'll hear a 1:35:30.200 --> 1:35:35.160 lot he is really that traditional, big, physical X. I 1:35:35.200 --> 1:35:36.960 haven't done a ton of work, so this is a 1:35:37.120 --> 1:35:39.600 very light comparison. Don't take this gospel. 1:35:39.880 --> 1:35:41.160 It will probably change. 1:35:41.479 --> 1:35:44.040 But that is your sort of tech McMillan kind of player, 1:35:44.439 --> 1:35:46.120 the guy I really like. And he is a true 1:35:46.160 --> 1:35:48.559 junior and his quarterback's a true junior. So I don't know. 1:35:48.600 --> 1:35:51.479 They may stay and I'm gonna be watching this all year. 1:35:51.960 --> 1:35:54.479 Jordan Tyson from Arizona State, he. 1:35:54.439 --> 1:35:56.760 Is, yeah, he is. 1:35:57.160 --> 1:35:58.640 I don't know if I can let you go. You 1:35:58.640 --> 1:36:01.240 don't have to stay odd for this whole explanation, I 1:36:01.280 --> 1:36:02.880 don't want to. I don't want to hold you, but 1:36:03.080 --> 1:36:07.599 uh yeah, Jordan Tyson is like he's big, but he's 1:36:07.600 --> 1:36:10.639 not so big that he's lumbering, right. He's got good speed, 1:36:10.640 --> 1:36:13.519 he's quick, he's got great ball skills. He's just really young. 1:36:14.000 --> 1:36:15.680 And so there's a lot of variation there. And I 1:36:15.680 --> 1:36:18.080 think I said this about Tet McMillan last year, who 1:36:18.080 --> 1:36:20.360 came out as a true junior. A lot of the hype, right, 1:36:20.360 --> 1:36:23.280 there is projection, right, this kid is going to turn 1:36:23.320 --> 1:36:27.519 twenty one in August. So what you know we're talking about, Well, 1:36:27.560 --> 1:36:30.080 this is what he's on the path to become If 1:36:30.080 --> 1:36:32.880 he becomes that guy, you're talking about, somebody who's a 1:36:32.880 --> 1:36:35.000 top ten, top fifteen pick and can play the X 1:36:35.000 --> 1:36:37.240 and be a legitimate playmaker in the NFL. There are 1:36:37.280 --> 1:36:38.760 also guys that have been at this point in their 1:36:38.800 --> 1:36:40.439 career that have that hype that they just don't take 1:36:40.479 --> 1:36:43.080 that next step. He's got a good quarterback in Sam Levitt. 1:36:43.640 --> 1:36:47.519 It's a really rising program, fast rising program at Arizona State. 1:36:47.640 --> 1:36:49.599 They've done a great job with player development. I think 1:36:49.640 --> 1:36:51.800 he's in good hands there. I think Hines Ward is 1:36:51.800 --> 1:36:53.960 actually their wide receivers coach. I know he wasn't one point, 1:36:54.520 --> 1:36:57.120 but I feel like it was around in this time 1:36:57.160 --> 1:36:59.559 last year. I did this, this feel about Tet McMillan. 1:37:00.080 --> 1:37:02.000 So this is this is the guy that I'm kind 1:37:02.000 --> 1:37:03.439 of behind. As we start the season. 1:37:03.479 --> 1:37:05.479 It can change. There's a whole other season to go. 1:37:05.880 --> 1:37:07.720 But if we're talking about a first round receiver for 1:37:07.760 --> 1:37:09.960 the Patriots in twenty twenty six, if he comes out, 1:37:10.320 --> 1:37:11.320 I like Jordan Tyson. 1:37:12.200 --> 1:37:15.320 Okay, there you go, Okay, uh just real, just real fat. 1:37:16.360 --> 1:37:19.080 But I know I haven't been calling like that. Whatever, 1:37:19.120 --> 1:37:21.120 It's not that because my job is kind of a 1:37:21.160 --> 1:37:23.960 little demanded and asking a lot of me. But but 1:37:24.040 --> 1:37:25.800 when I'm like, I'm off to dato. So that's why 1:37:25.840 --> 1:37:28.040 I'm able to call when I just to check it 1:37:28.080 --> 1:37:30.599 in on y'all guys. But I'm always listening to y'all. Okay, 1:37:30.680 --> 1:37:32.639 So I have agree and y'all take care. 1:37:32.680 --> 1:37:34.600 Okay, Thanks William, it was good to hear from you. 1:37:34.680 --> 1:37:37.120 Thanks for the kindes. Ward is the wide receivers coach 1:37:37.160 --> 1:37:37.720 Arizona State. 1:37:37.760 --> 1:37:37.960 Still. 1:37:38.040 --> 1:37:41.240 Oh okay, that's interesting. Yeah, I really liked. Uh. You know, 1:37:41.280 --> 1:37:43.600 I haven't watched any of these guys closely, but just 1:37:43.600 --> 1:37:46.679 seeing Cardinal Tate in the in the college football playoff, 1:37:47.080 --> 1:37:50.080 just one of those smooth Ohio State wide receives. 1:37:50.120 --> 1:37:54.880 He's in Ohio State X. He's not like JSN No. 1:37:54.840 --> 1:37:59.479 He's more like a laved Garrett Wilson type. Yeah, just 1:37:59.520 --> 1:38:03.519 like smooth athletes. He's big, six', three, toy he's, big 1:38:03.960 --> 1:38:06.920 he's got some he's got some. SKILL i think you 1:38:06.960 --> 1:38:11.040 will Like Jordan tyson The arizona's. Take, YEAH i think 1:38:11.040 --> 1:38:13.640 you will Like you're not it's not AND i know 1:38:13.720 --> 1:38:16.600 all the caveats of a whole fault college football season to. 1:38:16.640 --> 1:38:19.679 Go but this class is is not is not? Great, 1:38:19.800 --> 1:38:23.240 right it's not? There, well it's it's similar to this, year, Right, 1:38:23.280 --> 1:38:25.599 like it's. Not there's not A i think it's better 1:38:25.640 --> 1:38:28.320 than this. Year there's. Not there's not A Marvin harrison, 1:38:28.360 --> 1:38:32.400 Junior Milik. Neighbors, well here's the weird thing about this. 1:38:32.439 --> 1:38:35.960 Class there's so many young. Guys there's so Many Red 1:38:35.960 --> 1:38:38.400 strips sophomores And Drew junior is that there's a lot of. 1:38:38.479 --> 1:38:41.280 Variants so there are guys that have that, upside but 1:38:41.320 --> 1:38:43.720 they haven't played to it. Yet there's nobody going into 1:38:43.720 --> 1:38:45.360 the season that you're hyping like. That there, is but 1:38:45.400 --> 1:38:47.920 they're not in the draft until next. Year so but 1:38:48.120 --> 1:38:51.559 like last, year there's more upside with this group than 1:38:51.600 --> 1:38:55.280 there was last. YEAR'S i would, Say, so we're getting 1:38:55.280 --> 1:38:57.000 the way ahead of ourselves with the twenty twenty. Seven 1:38:57.000 --> 1:38:59.760 you knew it was going to happen. Eventually but has 1:38:59.760 --> 1:39:04.000 there ever been a wide receiver going one two in the? 1:39:04.080 --> 1:39:07.960 Draft probably, not not THAT i can think. Of, No, 1:39:07.960 --> 1:39:11.880 NOW i Would Jeremiah smith to me IS i would 1:39:11.880 --> 1:39:14.479 Pick Jeremiah smith Over Ryan. WILLIAMS i think he's a 1:39:14.520 --> 1:39:17.800 little bit more physically. Imposing, Yeah Jeremiah smith And ryan's 1:39:17.800 --> 1:39:20.760 are a lot Of Julio jones like. THAT i see 1:39:20.760 --> 1:39:23.280 that sort of. Player he's just so freaking, good where 1:39:23.520 --> 1:39:27.040 Like Ryan williams still looks a little his body type so. 1:39:27.160 --> 1:39:30.120 Long Ryan williams to, me is a Good Ryan williams 1:39:30.160 --> 1:39:30.839 is just souped. 1:39:30.880 --> 1:39:32.920 Up and this guy's really good AND i think HE 1:39:33.280 --> 1:39:35.160 i think he's a better version Of DeVonta. 1:39:35.160 --> 1:39:37.400 Smith, yeah that's a good. Comp, yeah just from the 1:39:37.400 --> 1:39:41.320 body type perspective and the. Place Jeremiah smith just is 1:39:41.439 --> 1:39:43.840 just a freaking you, Know. 1:39:44.400 --> 1:39:47.000 Jeremiah, okay you know how we always get annoyed when 1:39:47.040 --> 1:39:50.920 people throw out generational, prospect, Right this is why we get, 1:39:50.920 --> 1:39:53.720 annoyed because When Jeremiah smith comes, along we need a 1:39:53.760 --> 1:39:54.519 way to describe. 1:39:54.560 --> 1:39:58.280 Him Maybe Jamar chase, TOO i GUESS i could see that. 1:39:58.320 --> 1:39:59.320 COMP i know that gets thrown. 1:39:59.320 --> 1:40:03.080 Out so When Jeremiah smith got when we finished What 1:40:03.840 --> 1:40:06.080 Jeremiah smith was a true freshman last, year, Right, Yeah 1:40:06.120 --> 1:40:09.760 so when we finished the twenty four, draft, YES i 1:40:09.880 --> 1:40:13.160 started looking at recruiting and the true freshman coming, in 1:40:13.560 --> 1:40:16.520 AND i was Reading Jeremiah smith's, bio which was unbelievable 1:40:16.520 --> 1:40:17.040 on twenty four to. 1:40:17.080 --> 1:40:18.760 SEVEN i was asking people about, it AND i saw 1:40:18.760 --> 1:40:22.559 somebody said somewhere like like he's better Than Marvin Harrison. 1:40:22.640 --> 1:40:26.559 Junior And i'm, like, oh like a better, Prospect like 1:40:26.600 --> 1:40:29.479 he's gonna be a BETTER nfl? Prospect is, no right, 1:40:29.520 --> 1:40:33.000 now he's better Than Marvin Harrison, junior who everybody was 1:40:33.040 --> 1:40:34.920 calling generational coming out of the. 1:40:35.000 --> 1:40:37.240 Draft SO i the one thing that's going to stop 1:40:37.280 --> 1:40:41.040 them Going julio is like high school games are ON. Espn, 1:40:41.200 --> 1:40:44.160 yeah but they, were like they were showing. Him they 1:40:44.320 --> 1:40:46.839 do those Like friday night, lights like high school, specials 1:40:46.880 --> 1:40:48.759 and they would go and they would Show Julio jones' 1:40:48.840 --> 1:40:52.240 high school. Game you don't really, do like who nobody 1:40:52.240 --> 1:40:56.519 gets that? Anymore like where? Then, yeah but that's the last. Name, 1:40:56.760 --> 1:41:00.200 yeah DID i did she do or have one of? 1:41:00.200 --> 1:41:01.800 THOSE i think you had. ONE i don't think he. 1:41:01.840 --> 1:41:05.759 Did he might, have like they televised some high school, 1:41:05.760 --> 1:41:07.280 games but it wasn't because the. 1:41:07.400 --> 1:41:09.519 Cruits so CAN i CAN i bring this back to 1:41:09.520 --> 1:41:11.280 to twenty? SIX i want to give you one more 1:41:11.280 --> 1:41:11.680 thing on next. 1:41:11.760 --> 1:41:14.120 Year by the, Way Jeremiah smith is the ninth highest 1:41:14.240 --> 1:41:17.160 rated recruit in twenty four to seven. History he is 1:41:17.200 --> 1:41:21.799 the highest rated wide. Receiver this is since two, thousand 1:41:22.400 --> 1:41:26.920 so this Includes Julio, jones who is the thirty seventh 1:41:26.960 --> 1:41:29.519 highest rate of all. Time the reason they're not gonna 1:41:29.520 --> 1:41:30.960 go one. TOO i mean they might go one, too 1:41:31.000 --> 1:41:34.559 but if they, Don't Dylan stewart From South, carolina WHO 1:41:34.600 --> 1:41:37.559 i know you watched because he Faced Well, Campbell Dylan 1:41:37.640 --> 1:41:41.040 stewart is maybe it's Not Jeremy, smith maybe he's close 1:41:41.040 --> 1:41:44.120 To Ryan, williams but like he is one of the 1:41:44.160 --> 1:41:47.400 best edge prospects we've. Seen he get AND i mean 1:41:47.400 --> 1:41:50.600 it's the, school but he gets a lot of comps to, clowning. 1:41:50.400 --> 1:41:52.439 Right and that will be the that will be will, 1:41:52.479 --> 1:41:56.360 happen whether It's smith Or. Williams you, know someone's gonna 1:41:56.400 --> 1:41:58.400 fall a couple OF i don't think they're gonna go one. 1:41:58.439 --> 1:42:01.000 TOO i actually don't think they're gonna both. Go like 1:42:01.080 --> 1:42:03.120 there's a chance that one of them, falls like slightly 1:42:03.200 --> 1:42:05.439 just because of Positional Jeremiah smith should go one, One 1:42:05.520 --> 1:42:08.400 yeah he. Might Jeremiah smith is. Different But Ryan williams 1:42:08.479 --> 1:42:10.680 might go like. Six LIKE i wouldn't be, shocked you, 1:42:10.680 --> 1:42:13.280 Know Like Milik neighbors went, Six you, know, LIKE i 1:42:13.520 --> 1:42:15.080 don't think that's out of the. Possible can we get 1:42:15.080 --> 1:42:17.080 back to the twenty six offseason, though because now we're 1:42:17.120 --> 1:42:19.519 two years ahead of. Time but here's let me just 1:42:19.520 --> 1:42:21.479 say this on. That it's that kind of. 1:42:21.560 --> 1:42:23.600 Draft this is a lot of the context for the 1:42:23.960 --> 1:42:26.120 twenty years away from. It you were gonna hear a 1:42:26.120 --> 1:42:28.840 lot during the twenty sixth. Draft, no, okay but if 1:42:28.840 --> 1:42:30.840 they do, this it means they can't get this guy twenty. 1:42:30.880 --> 1:42:32.880 Seven get ready for? That so can we can we 1:42:32.920 --> 1:42:35.519 talk about the twenty six? Offseason? Yeah this is very 1:42:35.560 --> 1:42:37.880 catch twenty. Two they have not played a game in 1:42:37.920 --> 1:42:39.639 twenty five and we're talking about twenty. 1:42:39.680 --> 1:42:42.599 Six but getting too far? Ahead isn't talking about the next? 1:42:42.680 --> 1:42:43.679 Draft is talking about. 1:42:43.520 --> 1:42:46.680 The draft After So nicholas And oslo norway across the. 1:42:46.720 --> 1:42:51.280 Pond he mentions, that you, know what is the our 1:42:51.280 --> 1:42:54.200 biggest needs heading into twenty twenty? Six like what we 1:42:54.240 --> 1:42:56.800 think The patriots' biggest needs will be in twenty? Six 1:42:57.520 --> 1:43:03.280 he MENTIONS x, receiver right, tackle tight. END i would 1:43:03.320 --> 1:43:06.240 say those are all on the. List edge, rusher pass 1:43:06.320 --> 1:43:07.360 rusher is gonna be really. 1:43:07.400 --> 1:43:09.000 High you know how we do like a big three 1:43:09.040 --> 1:43:11.920 needs every. Year, yeah zooming on Our henry stays, healthy 1:43:11.960 --> 1:43:14.879 they're probably year away from tight end on that developmental titands, 1:43:15.040 --> 1:43:17.679 Right but that's not a big three. Thing, sure it's 1:43:17.760 --> 1:43:20.479 the wide, receiver the right, tackle and then that pass. 1:43:20.560 --> 1:43:23.559 Rusher, yeah class rusher might be a little bit of 1:43:23.520 --> 1:43:28.560 a weaker. Class SO I i know it's easy to, say, like, 1:43:28.600 --> 1:43:31.960 oh just go drafted In, hutchinson, right like obviously that's but, 1:43:32.120 --> 1:43:35.439 YEAH i would say a real true three down impact 1:43:35.439 --> 1:43:38.120 pass rusher is probably there still their biggest hole when 1:43:38.160 --> 1:43:41.559 you start to factor in positional value and like all 1:43:41.560 --> 1:43:43.920 that kind of, Stuff, like obviously left guard is probably 1:43:43.960 --> 1:43:46.960 they're truly their biggest hole on their depth chart right. 1:43:46.960 --> 1:43:49.000 Now but you're not. Good hopefully they're not drafting a 1:43:49.080 --> 1:43:51.719 left guard as high as you know in the first. Round, 1:43:51.760 --> 1:43:55.040 well we've been down this road. Before, Yes but even 1:43:55.080 --> 1:43:58.000 if they have a even if they're as good as 1:43:58.000 --> 1:44:00.360 some people think they're gonna be and they're that team 1:44:00.439 --> 1:44:02.599 that goes from worse to first or something like that 1:44:02.640 --> 1:44:05.160 and they make the, playoffs they're picking early twenties and 1:44:05.200 --> 1:44:06.559 they take a left guard THAT i. 1:44:06.479 --> 1:44:08.920 Was gonna, say we've been down that road BEFORE i 1:44:09.000 --> 1:44:11.200 WAS i know you're gonna be. Upset we've been down 1:44:11.200 --> 1:44:14.400 that road. Before there is one pass. Rusher so some 1:44:14.439 --> 1:44:16.559 of the names of the top right, Now Ruben bain From, MIAMI. 1:44:16.680 --> 1:44:21.439 Jt overton From, Alabama Michael, kamara WHO i think some 1:44:21.439 --> 1:44:23.240 people started looking at last. Year he could have come 1:44:23.280 --> 1:44:26.599 out if that's What i'm thinking, Of Denise Dennis sutton 1:44:27.040 --> 1:44:30.599 From Penn, state number thirty. THREE i don't know if 1:44:30.600 --> 1:44:33.519 you recall any of him from Watching Abdul. Carter he 1:44:33.680 --> 1:44:35.800 had he had a really good college football. Playoff he 1:44:35.800 --> 1:44:38.559 had a really good college football. Playoff he's one of, 1:44:38.600 --> 1:44:41.880 these like It's Penn, state freak. Athlete coach him up 1:44:41.880 --> 1:44:44.240 on the skills kind of, thing, like that's a. Guy 1:44:44.320 --> 1:44:46.639 if The patriots are a five hundred team or, BETTER 1:44:47.600 --> 1:44:49.280 i think that's probably gonna be one of the guys 1:44:49.280 --> 1:44:49.719 we're talking. 1:44:49.760 --> 1:44:53.640 About, YEAH i would say right now for, me And 1:44:53.680 --> 1:44:56.240 i'm an offense, guy BUT i would like to see 1:44:56.280 --> 1:45:00.080 them get a pass. Rusher it got off the. Edge you, 1:45:00.080 --> 1:45:01.760 KNOW i say pass, rusher BUT i really mean edge, 1:45:01.800 --> 1:45:04.880 rusher that type of. Player it just seems like that 1:45:04.920 --> 1:45:07.120 would really put a bow on a lot of. Things 1:45:07.120 --> 1:45:10.240 and plus it's also a blue chip. Position it's a 1:45:10.280 --> 1:45:12.720 premium position if you get a boot chip, talent like 1:45:12.760 --> 1:45:16.000 it's another building block type of. Position right where you Have, 1:45:16.040 --> 1:45:18.719 gonzo you Have Drake may hopefully you Have Will campbell 1:45:18.760 --> 1:45:21.879 at left. Tackle and then if you add a premium 1:45:21.960 --> 1:45:25.559 pass rusher to that, too now that's another pillar type 1:45:25.600 --> 1:45:28.880 of player in position that you can stack the board 1:45:28.960 --> 1:45:31.960 on like? That do you to watch some constructive criticism 1:45:32.000 --> 1:45:34.640 that is really just a constructive? Criticism to, me this 1:45:34.760 --> 1:45:38.439 might be like a pu email actually because you're mentioned in, 1:45:38.479 --> 1:45:42.760 it but none of these criticisms are about. You. No, 1:45:42.760 --> 1:45:45.360 no the second ONE i think is more. Pus i'll 1:45:45.400 --> 1:45:50.080 read the first. Criticism he says that on catch twenty, Two, evan. 1:45:49.840 --> 1:45:54.000 We get a, name not get criticized. Anonymously It's jared In. 1:45:54.120 --> 1:45:57.360 La but again he likes. You there's no criticisms of you. 1:45:57.439 --> 1:46:00.280 Here So, evan on catch twenty, two when you wanted 1:46:00.280 --> 1:46:02.800 to say something But alex is, talking you make a 1:46:02.840 --> 1:46:06.360 noise that is unfathomly uncomfortable to. SAY i don't never 1:46:06.360 --> 1:46:10.880 even notice. That it sounds like he types a bunch 1:46:10.920 --> 1:46:15.759 of e's yeah you and, Ah i'm probably saying yeah 1:46:16.040 --> 1:46:20.519 Because i'm agreeing With alex's point or actively listening to his. 1:46:20.560 --> 1:46:21.000 Point it's. 1:46:21.040 --> 1:46:23.120 Okay this could also be one of those things where 1:46:23.120 --> 1:46:25.160 like it's all critical you and then he's watching this 1:46:25.240 --> 1:46:26.920 and it's, like oh, SHOOT i got them mixed. 1:46:26.960 --> 1:46:29.479 Up it happens all the, time BUT i say it 1:46:29.560 --> 1:46:32.479 under my breath and the mic picks it up every every, 1:46:32.640 --> 1:46:37.120 time period after every. Period, LITERALLY i can't describe it. 1:46:37.360 --> 1:46:40.280 BETTER i. CAN i assume he MEANS i. Can he 1:46:40.320 --> 1:46:43.639 SAID i, can't BUT i can describe it better without calling. 1:46:43.680 --> 1:46:47.720 IN i don't. KNOW i Think i'm pretty sure it's 1:46:47.960 --> 1:46:49.600 me saying, yeah WHICH i do some. 1:46:49.760 --> 1:46:51.880 Type i've never noticed anything out of place in. THAT 1:46:51.960 --> 1:46:53.200 i know you do, that but that's NOT i don't 1:46:53.200 --> 1:46:55.400 think you say it. Weird THAT'S i know people get 1:46:55.439 --> 1:46:58.080 on me for and, yeah AND i know people get 1:46:58.120 --> 1:46:59.240 on me With that's WHERE i thought that was. 1:46:59.280 --> 1:47:01.639 Going, see, YEAH i just did it like oh, that, 1:47:01.760 --> 1:47:05.160 yeah that's. Normal it's. OKAY i don't. Protest i'll take the. 1:47:05.200 --> 1:47:09.960 CRITICISM i. Constructive the other one is more PU I i. 1:47:10.120 --> 1:47:14.240 Think but when we like preface our takes With i'm 1:47:14.280 --> 1:47:16.960 not saying we're fitting him for a red, jacket Or 1:47:17.920 --> 1:47:20.240 i'm not, saying you, know he's gonna be an all 1:47:20.280 --> 1:47:22.840 pro or, anything Or i'm not comparing him To Tom. 1:47:22.880 --> 1:47:25.640 BRADY i get it like those he. Says it's me 1:47:25.720 --> 1:47:28.439 in particular again that does this too. Often but, LOOK 1:47:28.479 --> 1:47:30.479 i do that a. Lot And i'm not trying to 1:47:30.479 --> 1:47:33.040 say this to toot my own. Horn but we're in 1:47:33.080 --> 1:47:35.080 the business where like IF i come on this show 1:47:35.439 --> 1:47:37.960 AND i say That Drake may is gonna is going 1:47:38.040 --> 1:47:40.240 to be the Next Tom, brady that will get clipped 1:47:40.320 --> 1:47:42.439 and then it will be like held over that. Forever 1:47:42.880 --> 1:47:44.960 you've got to qualify stuff in this. Business, Yeah so 1:47:45.000 --> 1:47:47.800 like IF i don't qualify, stuff THEN i leave My 1:47:48.040 --> 1:47:51.240 LIKE I i don't want to get in that sort of. Thing, 1:47:51.479 --> 1:47:53.960 Okay and Again i'm NOT i know that sounded a little. 1:47:54.080 --> 1:47:56.040 Arrogant i'm not trying to be, arrogant But i'm just 1:47:56.080 --> 1:48:00.040 saying that if you say something about a player and 1:48:00.040 --> 1:48:01.960 you're get a little bit, excited and you get a 1:48:01.960 --> 1:48:04.880 little bit over the top about, it then you're you 1:48:04.960 --> 1:48:07.639 will Get. Oh Evan lazar said On catch twenty two 1:48:07.720 --> 1:48:10.240 that you Know Drake may is gonna WIN, Mvp, like, 1:48:10.280 --> 1:48:12.840 NO i didn't say, that, Right so that's why we do. 1:48:12.920 --> 1:48:16.360 That BUT I i. UNDERSTAND i appreciate the constructive. CRITICISMS 1:48:16.400 --> 1:48:20.639 i will work on my. YEAHS I i guess that's 1:48:20.640 --> 1:48:23.120 WHAT i was. AT i think that's what than. 1:48:23.120 --> 1:48:23.200 That. 1:48:23.280 --> 1:48:24.720 NO i told you that none of them are about, 1:48:24.760 --> 1:48:26.760 you and they all love, you all, Right, kendall but 1:48:26.800 --> 1:48:29.720 it wasn't even juicy for. You minor. Stuff kendall is 1:48:29.760 --> 1:48:30.920 In North. Carolina what's, Up? 1:48:31.000 --> 1:48:33.360 Kendall, Hey, hey how you? 1:48:33.400 --> 1:48:37.760 Doing he Could, HEY i wanted to, ask what's going 1:48:37.800 --> 1:48:40.120 on with Jaylen. POLK i know he's been, hurt BUT 1:48:40.160 --> 1:48:42.960 i was just seeing him participating like like in most 1:48:43.000 --> 1:48:44.840 of the. Drills look like he's kind of competedive be 1:48:44.840 --> 1:48:46.800 in the, drills going up for the, balls catch and running. 1:48:46.800 --> 1:48:49.080 Around is he just he just can't participate in the 1:48:49.160 --> 1:48:52.160 practice right? Now Or and my second, thing how far 1:48:52.160 --> 1:48:54.080 do you feel he's behind you think you'd be ready to? 1:48:54.080 --> 1:48:54.240 Train? 1:48:54.280 --> 1:48:54.599 Account? 1:48:55.400 --> 1:48:59.240 Yeah so he's uh, Appreciate, Okay, kendell thanks for the. 1:48:59.240 --> 1:49:02.759 Call so he said. That rabel actually said this. Yesterday 1:49:02.760 --> 1:49:05.719 he did have a shoulder procedure in the off. Season 1:49:06.200 --> 1:49:08.240 he indred his shoulder at the very end of last. 1:49:08.280 --> 1:49:10.320 Year it was the last second to last game of the. 1:49:10.360 --> 1:49:12.640 SEASON i want to say it was actually finished the 1:49:12.720 --> 1:49:15.000 year on ir, technically but it. Was it was one like, 1:49:15.080 --> 1:49:19.640 that and he had the. Shoulder he's still coming back from. 1:49:19.720 --> 1:49:22.760 That he is. Running him And digs are on the 1:49:22.800 --> 1:49:27.000 same exact. Program they do absolutely everything in, practice, individuals, 1:49:27.720 --> 1:49:31.000 walkthroughs and then when the live team stuff, starts they 1:49:31.160 --> 1:49:32.960 are off on a side, field so they're all they're 1:49:33.000 --> 1:49:35.280 not the only thing they're not doing is the live 1:49:35.400 --> 1:49:38.800 live team eleven on. Eleven's they are doing everything else 1:49:39.280 --> 1:49:43.599 AND i actually it's routes against air, again same THING 1:49:43.640 --> 1:49:47.160 i said With, Diggs bulk looks like he's in good. 1:49:47.200 --> 1:49:51.400 Shape he's just not cleared for full contact. Yet not 1:49:51.439 --> 1:49:54.160 that we're full contact, now but full, PRACTICE i guess 1:49:54.240 --> 1:49:56.080 is a better way to put. That so that's what he's. 1:49:56.080 --> 1:49:58.479 Doing him And digs have been on the same. Regiment 1:49:58.479 --> 1:50:01.040 they're working together off on this on the other field 1:50:01.160 --> 1:50:03.800 or whatever the case may. Be and when the team 1:50:03.880 --> 1:50:07.400 is running eleven on, eleven's they're running through. Routes it's 1:50:07.479 --> 1:50:11.599 usually With Ashon, grant the offensive assistant that they're running 1:50:11.640 --> 1:50:14.000 routes and it seems like they're trying to mirror what's 1:50:14.040 --> 1:50:16.479 going on on the like the other field and running 1:50:16.479 --> 1:50:18.200 the same type of routes that they would be if 1:50:18.200 --> 1:50:21.559 they were participating in the eleven on. Eleven so that's 1:50:21.560 --> 1:50:23.000 what those guys have been. Doing that was the other 1:50:23.040 --> 1:50:25.040 thing about practice as we wrap up with the show, 1:50:25.040 --> 1:50:28.360 here AND i want to mention one Non patriots thing 1:50:28.400 --> 1:50:31.920 real quick. Too that was one thing that stood out 1:50:31.920 --> 1:50:34.680 to me about to practice is just the method of 1:50:34.680 --> 1:50:39.040 the madness of how they structure. Practice AND i want 1:50:39.040 --> 1:50:41.320 to Say bill did, this AND i don't necessarily want 1:50:41.360 --> 1:50:43.519 to say That jirod didn't do, this because maybe they 1:50:43.520 --> 1:50:46.479 did And i'm just not one hundred percent remembering. It 1:50:46.560 --> 1:50:49.439 but there is a very clear build up To Mike 1:50:49.560 --> 1:50:54.160 rabel's practice script where they start practice within these like 1:50:54.160 --> 1:50:57.160 every team, individuals but then they go to like routes 1:50:57.160 --> 1:51:01.280 against air or defense against, air where the rep the 1:51:01.320 --> 1:51:03.920 same stuff they're gonna rep in the eleven on. Elevens 1:51:04.240 --> 1:51:06.960 so they'll do it against, air then they'll do it 1:51:07.040 --> 1:51:09.720 at a jog through pace against the, defense whereas it's 1:51:09.760 --> 1:51:12.760 eleven on, eleven but it's at a slower tempo like 1:51:13.080 --> 1:51:16.080 an upscale walk through and then they get to the 1:51:16.120 --> 1:51:18.559 live team. Drill so by the time they get To 1:51:18.640 --> 1:51:22.400 live eleven on eleven's that's the third time that they've 1:51:22.439 --> 1:51:25.599 repped that set of plays that they're working on in. 1:51:25.640 --> 1:51:29.519 Practice like that's gotta be really helpful for like muscle 1:51:29.600 --> 1:51:32.240 memory and learning the. Plays so you have this like 1:51:32.320 --> 1:51:37.120 clear build up from routes on, air walk through reps 1:51:37.520 --> 1:51:39.760 live eleven on eleven and they just like do that 1:51:39.840 --> 1:51:42.680 as like a circuit each, day and then each day 1:51:42.720 --> 1:51:44.280 is you, know obviously the plays are a little bit, 1:51:44.280 --> 1:51:47.080 different but even some of the uh between the twenties 1:51:47.120 --> 1:51:49.799 eleven on, elevens when they're doing base, stuff it's clearly 1:51:49.800 --> 1:51:50.680 the same play as each. 1:51:50.720 --> 1:51:53.439 Day, well AND i think some of it too is 1:51:53.920 --> 1:51:56.160 we talked earlier about just how practice there's a good 1:51:56.160 --> 1:51:56.479 flow to. 1:51:56.520 --> 1:51:57.720 Practice everything's, moving they're not. 1:51:57.800 --> 1:52:00.840 Stopping you can fix what you need fix during those 1:52:00.840 --> 1:52:03.639 slower periods when you get into the up tempo rat 1:52:03.680 --> 1:52:05.519 parts moving because you've already kind of made the. 1:52:05.560 --> 1:52:08.200 Corrections, yeah it's you can see. It and then there's 1:52:08.240 --> 1:52:12.080 times where you literally will see a guy against air 1:52:12.160 --> 1:52:14.720 run a route and then you go fast forward to 1:52:14.760 --> 1:52:17.160 the eleven on eleven and he wins on the route 1:52:17.160 --> 1:52:19.720 on eleven on, eleven and it's, like, oh, okay well 1:52:19.760 --> 1:52:22.519 they practiced that earlier and now they're doing. It borne 1:52:22.520 --> 1:52:25.160 had one the other, day ran that circus route where 1:52:25.200 --> 1:52:27.519 you fake like you're gonna break inside and then you 1:52:27.600 --> 1:52:30.479 break out on the out and and he ran that 1:52:30.600 --> 1:52:33.640 route perfectly in the, drill and then he ran it 1:52:33.640 --> 1:52:35.920 perfectly in eleven on elevens and caught a touchdown in red. 1:52:36.000 --> 1:52:38.880 Zone so that was a that's a very clear kind 1:52:38.880 --> 1:52:41.799 of structure to. Practice all, RIGHT a couple more questions 1:52:41.800 --> 1:52:43.880 from the, emails and THEN i want TO i want 1:52:43.880 --> 1:52:46.760 to talk like two minutes On Roman anthony Because i'm 1:52:46.760 --> 1:52:49.280 really excited About Roman, anthony all, right AND i gotta 1:52:49.320 --> 1:52:53.320 get this. Out but in a, second this is a good, 1:52:53.400 --> 1:52:56.479 question in your, opinion who on the roster would you 1:52:56.520 --> 1:53:00.559 trade and? Why who on the roster would trading? 1:53:00.680 --> 1:53:03.120 WHY i just think if they have players with trade, 1:53:03.160 --> 1:53:05.240 value they probably shouldn't be trading those guys because they 1:53:05.280 --> 1:53:05.519 need the. 1:53:05.560 --> 1:53:11.519 Talent that's a tough. Question do you have an? Answer 1:53:13.360 --> 1:53:16.080 it's Between Kendrick born And Kishan. Boody, YEAH i guess 1:53:16.120 --> 1:53:18.719 a wide receiver would be my. Answer so we both 1:53:18.760 --> 1:53:21.400 did our run throughs of a roster. Projection so far 1:53:21.439 --> 1:53:23.680 you're gonna post, YOURS i think right, on, yeah on 1:53:24.720 --> 1:53:27.240 The Sports. Up so maybe Next, wednesday well we'll talk 1:53:27.680 --> 1:53:30.360 more in depth about roster projections and do that sort 1:53:30.400 --> 1:53:35.960 of thing on the. Air but the we both sort 1:53:36.000 --> 1:53:39.000 of got settled on maybe seven guys in the wide receiver. 1:53:39.080 --> 1:53:43.320 ROOM i just feel it just feels one. Heavy and 1:53:43.400 --> 1:53:45.880 if you're gonna Keep Afton, chisholm if he's truly gonna 1:53:45.880 --> 1:53:48.760 be here and is already stamped the roster and things 1:53:48.800 --> 1:53:51.840 like not, already but is going to treading in that, 1:53:51.880 --> 1:53:54.160 direction it just seems like they have a lot of 1:53:54.160 --> 1:53:58.720 bodies there AND i don't, know maybe It's, born maybe It's, 1:53:58.720 --> 1:54:00.920 Booty maybe it's just which ever guy has the most 1:54:00.920 --> 1:54:03.800 trade value in that. Room no offense or anything to 1:54:04.120 --> 1:54:07.120 any of these, players but, yeah Like Javon, BAKER i 1:54:07.160 --> 1:54:08.840 just don't know what kind of trade value you're gonna 1:54:08.840 --> 1:54:11.479 have With Javon. Baker you, know he's probably a guy that's, 1:54:11.520 --> 1:54:14.000 Expendable but it's hard to sit here and say you're 1:54:14.000 --> 1:54:16.360 gonna get anything, Back like if you could get something. 1:54:16.400 --> 1:54:19.400 Back you, know day three pick For booty or born like, 1:54:19.640 --> 1:54:22.800 that that's probably worth. It maybe if you feel like 1:54:22.800 --> 1:54:26.320 you have a logjam in numbers, there what position would 1:54:26.400 --> 1:54:27.240 you look to add and? 1:54:27.320 --> 1:54:31.960 Why WHAT i mean starting left guard for free. Safety 1:54:32.000 --> 1:54:36.160 i've been on. THIS i think that They Craig. Woodson he, 1:54:36.320 --> 1:54:39.720 honestly he's just been so good in. Coverage, yeah like 1:54:39.880 --> 1:54:42.120 at the you, know at line of scrimmage man. COVERAGE 1:54:42.120 --> 1:54:43.400 i don't know THAT i want them in center. FIELD 1:54:43.400 --> 1:54:45.360 i don't know if that's the best use of his skill. 1:54:45.360 --> 1:54:47.200 SET i would say left guard as. WELL i pass 1:54:47.200 --> 1:54:50.200 strusher is definitely up there. Too Ed, dresher if they 1:54:50.280 --> 1:54:53.560 could pull off a Trade hendrickson trade or who's the 1:54:53.600 --> 1:54:56.800 other guy's holding? OUT Tj, Watt, yeah OBVIOUSLY i would 1:54:56.800 --> 1:54:58.840 do that if it's if it's available and it makes 1:54:58.840 --> 1:55:00.680 sense with the picks and all that stuff that would 1:55:00.680 --> 1:55:04.040 have to go, Back but you could probably find a 1:55:04.400 --> 1:55:07.960 veteran left guard that you could just plug in And 1:55:08.880 --> 1:55:10.680 i'll hold them to it on This this was one 1:55:10.680 --> 1:55:13.360 thing that we talked about on this show all off. 1:55:13.400 --> 1:55:16.920 Season we just were looking for them to add that 1:55:17.120 --> 1:55:19.760 one year stop gap left. Guard, yeah who was The 1:55:19.760 --> 1:55:22.760 Morgan moses of left, guards, right, like just get that 1:55:22.880 --> 1:55:25.400 guy so that you can kick that can down the 1:55:25.480 --> 1:55:28.520 road and then invest in that later. On but get 1:55:28.600 --> 1:55:31.560 through the season with a serviceable. Player did they think 1:55:31.600 --> 1:55:33.880 it Was Wes. SCHWEITZER i don't, know maybe they. Did 1:55:34.000 --> 1:55:36.320 it would seem like early on maybe they thought that 1:55:36.360 --> 1:55:38.760 who's that's who it was going to. Be BUT i 1:55:38.880 --> 1:55:40.880 never felt great about. THAT i compared him To Michael 1:55:40.920 --> 1:55:42.960 jordan last. YEAR i thought that was the level of 1:55:42.960 --> 1:55:47.440 Player jordan ended, up, Right so that was one, Thing and, 1:55:48.720 --> 1:55:51.320 yes it was one thing they might have missed out 1:55:51.360 --> 1:55:53.880 on this, Offseason BUT i don't hold it too much 1:55:53.880 --> 1:55:56.320 against them because if that's the one thing they they 1:55:56.320 --> 1:55:58.560 didn't hit this, offseason then they had a pretty good. 1:55:58.560 --> 1:56:02.280 Offseason it's a left. Guard it's not like they ignored left, 1:56:02.320 --> 1:56:06.520 tackle so, right SO i give them a break and 1:56:06.560 --> 1:56:08.360 that you probably weren't going to be able to hit 1:56:08.440 --> 1:56:12.560 everything that you needed in one. Offseason but could you 1:56:12.600 --> 1:56:15.080 have paid a little bit more for a free agent 1:56:15.120 --> 1:56:17.760 guard who was a little bit better Than Wes schweitzer 1:56:18.200 --> 1:56:20.200 that you knew was going to play this, year and 1:56:20.320 --> 1:56:22.960 not that you could have predicted a? Retirement But Wes 1:56:23.000 --> 1:56:27.200 schweitzer was a journeyman. Guard that is not one snap last. Year, yeah, 1:56:27.280 --> 1:56:28.920 Right so could you have done a little bit more 1:56:28.960 --> 1:56:31.040 at that? Spot would be the one second GUESS i would. 1:56:31.080 --> 1:56:33.600 HAVE i know they're probably bigger second, guesses like A 1:56:33.640 --> 1:56:37.000 Dk metcalf trade or something like, that but that was 1:56:37.040 --> 1:56:38.760 a spot that could have been that should have been 1:56:38.800 --> 1:56:42.920 more easily filled in my. Opinion all, right so that's the. 1:56:42.960 --> 1:56:45.360 SHOW i know everybody hates WHEN i do, this but 1:56:46.080 --> 1:56:48.880 last two Nights i've been watching Some Red sox Because 1:56:49.160 --> 1:56:51.400 Roman anthony is up for The Red sox AND I 1:56:51.680 --> 1:56:55.400 i was excited, Mildly, alex and you're the baseball guy, 1:56:55.440 --> 1:56:57.120 here so that's Why i'm talking to you about. THIS 1:56:57.360 --> 1:57:00.640 i was excited mildly About mayor And hamble a, little, 1:57:00.760 --> 1:57:04.440 yeah but just based off of my very uneducated, opinion 1:57:04.680 --> 1:57:07.600 Like Roman anthony seems like a lot better. Player he's 1:57:07.600 --> 1:57:08.440 a different level of. 1:57:08.440 --> 1:57:10.720 Prospect, YEAH i don't know that he's a different level 1:57:10.720 --> 1:57:13.480 of player right, now but like he's gonna get. There you, 1:57:13.520 --> 1:57:15.200 know he has the potential to be a five tool. 1:57:15.240 --> 1:57:17.600 Guy very excited about. 1:57:17.640 --> 1:57:20.120 Him you saw it last, Night like they don't and 1:57:20.200 --> 1:57:21.400 some of this is the, approach and we don't need 1:57:21.440 --> 1:57:23.760 to get into that whole, thing but, like, yeah they 1:57:23.760 --> 1:57:25.160 don't have a ton of guys who hit the way 1:57:25.160 --> 1:57:27.160 the hit the ball the way he did last night 1:57:27.200 --> 1:57:29.840 to just kind of find that space down the line 1:57:30.360 --> 1:57:31.640 in driving a couple of. 1:57:31.720 --> 1:57:34.080 Runs like they they're just kind of swinging out of 1:57:34.080 --> 1:57:37.400 their shoes a. Lot so you, know his nuanced approached, 1:57:37.440 --> 1:57:40.680 plate you, know he's he's ahead on that and he 1:57:40.760 --> 1:57:42.560 made the air and right field he probably shouldn't be 1:57:42.560 --> 1:57:45.160 playing right. Field, uh you know he's a left. Fielder 1:57:45.160 --> 1:57:46.640 but he's. 1:57:46.440 --> 1:57:48.520 A like he's the number. One he wasn't just their 1:57:48.600 --> 1:57:50.240 number one. Prospect he was the number one prospect in. 1:57:50.280 --> 1:57:55.240 Baseball there's juice there that that being a number one 1:57:55.240 --> 1:57:58.880 prospect in baseball at whatever point in your, career being 1:57:58.920 --> 1:58:02.640 that almost equation as much to being a first overall 1:58:02.640 --> 1:58:05.040 pick as being a first overall pick in baseball. Does 1:58:05.600 --> 1:58:08.920 like that's the prospect rankings are as much draft rankings 1:58:08.960 --> 1:58:11.120 as the actual draft. Rankings it takes them more, time, 1:58:11.320 --> 1:58:14.120 right so you've proven you can do it at one. 1:58:14.120 --> 1:58:16.640 Point SO i mean almost think of this like the 1:58:16.760 --> 1:58:17.840 first overall picks coming. 1:58:17.880 --> 1:58:20.480 In that's the. Way that's why it feels and just you, 1:58:20.520 --> 1:58:24.080 know again my very uneducated baseball, opinion just watching the 1:58:24.120 --> 1:58:26.680 swing and when he does make, contact even when he makes, 1:58:26.680 --> 1:58:28.920 out it's like he makes hard. Contact, Yeah so that 1:58:29.080 --> 1:58:31.360 was the big book liner off the. Pitcher that was 1:58:31.360 --> 1:58:33.200 like one hundred something miles an hour off the. 1:58:33.240 --> 1:58:36.240 Bat they have something called barrel, percentage which is, basically 1:58:36.240 --> 1:58:38.000 what percent of the time that you hit the ball 1:58:38.040 --> 1:58:39.240 are you hitting the ball with. 1:58:39.120 --> 1:58:40.480 The part of the bath you're supposed to hit it. 1:58:40.520 --> 1:58:42.480 With and he was putting up like goofy numbers in 1:58:42.520 --> 1:58:46.520 the miners, percentage, exit, velocity all that, stuff which it 1:58:46.520 --> 1:58:48.960 could not be the be all end all of. Evaluation, 1:58:49.280 --> 1:58:50.360 well but it's a definitive. 1:58:50.440 --> 1:58:53.240 Number so that's one of those. Ones hit the way 1:58:53.240 --> 1:58:56.280 he swings, too, Though and he's this, big tall dude 1:58:56.320 --> 1:58:58.360 six foot three six y. Four he's got you, know 1:58:58.960 --> 1:59:01.240 long lake you aren't when he gets the arm, extend 1:59:01.360 --> 1:59:02.920 like you can tell that he's just gonna be able 1:59:02.960 --> 1:59:04.720 to hit the ball a mile and he hits it. 1:59:04.760 --> 1:59:07.000 Hard LIKE i, said even some of these outs that he's, 1:59:07.040 --> 1:59:09.080 MAKING i know he's only as a one hit in two, 1:59:09.120 --> 1:59:11.200 games but some of the outs that he's made are 1:59:11.680 --> 1:59:14.200 just hard hit balls or like the fly balls that 1:59:14.240 --> 1:59:16.920 he hits Like opo to left, field like he's still getting, 1:59:16.960 --> 1:59:19.560 it like pretty close to the, monster you, know like 1:59:19.600 --> 1:59:20.560 you were still. 1:59:20.280 --> 1:59:22.840 And that's, early like usually the first couple of weeks 1:59:22.920 --> 1:59:23.640 during an adjustment. 1:59:23.560 --> 1:59:25.919 Period, yeah a lot Of i'm not a big baseball 1:59:25.960 --> 1:59:28.400 prospects guy and like some like we were furious like 1:59:28.400 --> 1:59:30.800 two years ago that weren't Calling, Marcelo, yeah because it's 1:59:30.840 --> 1:59:33.040 ridiculous the way that they baby these. Guys and then 1:59:33.080 --> 1:59:35.360 on top of, that you like we had so many 1:59:35.400 --> 1:59:38.360 as kids Like Blake swihart and like all these like 1:59:38.440 --> 1:59:42.880 Other Anderson he's Not he's Not Blake, Swihart like it's 1:59:43.000 --> 1:59:45.640 this is just For Roman. Anthony you. Have there's different 1:59:45.680 --> 1:59:48.120 than sufferable to handholding you these. 1:59:47.960 --> 1:59:50.560 Guys to be up at twenty. One players don't come 1:59:50.600 --> 1:59:54.680 up with twenty one years. Old they don't nine a rare. 1:59:55.240 --> 1:59:58.640 Player, okay everybody tells Me Roman anthony is a rare. 1:59:58.720 --> 2:00:01.480 Player what took so? Long so this this was. Different 2:00:01.480 --> 2:00:03.200 this was not about his he was ready to. 2:00:03.200 --> 2:00:06.480 Play the international guys are different than the high school 2:00:06.520 --> 2:00:11.000 like different development paths for an international signing versus a 2:00:11.040 --> 2:00:13.600 high School this is What if baseball really wants to 2:00:13.600 --> 2:00:15.320 get people excited in the young players and they want 2:00:15.360 --> 2:00:16.800 more of, this they need to do a couple of. Things, 2:00:17.000 --> 2:00:20.440 one everybody's in the. Draft no more international. Signing everybody's 2:00:20.440 --> 2:00:23.040 in the. Draft, two no more drafting out of high. 2:00:23.040 --> 2:00:25.960 School everybody's gonna go play, college and that will shorten 2:00:26.040 --> 2:00:28.720 that minor league, windows so guys will come right. Up and, 2:00:28.800 --> 2:00:31.360 then uh was they gotta let teams trade draft. 2:00:31.360 --> 2:00:34.160 Picks the only place doesn't do it like THE. Nba 2:00:34.240 --> 2:00:37.720 basically basically, yeah all, right but with a more functional minor. 2:00:37.800 --> 2:00:40.200 League all, right so we have to. Go But i'm. 2:00:40.240 --> 2:00:41.680 CALLING i Think Roman anthony is going to be a. 2:00:41.720 --> 2:00:45.000 STAR i really. DO i just LIKE i think he's. 2:00:45.040 --> 2:00:46.320 RELAXED i think he's, cool. 2:00:46.120 --> 2:00:49.280 And you know WHAT i like about, Him Ted, Williams, 2:00:49.480 --> 2:00:52.680 Yazz Jim, Rice Many. Ramirez The Red sox when they are, 2:00:52.720 --> 2:00:56.640 good they have a top player in left. Field they 2:00:56.640 --> 2:00:59.920 have not had a star left fielder really since me And, 2:01:00.200 --> 2:01:02.600 hey as much AS i Love Jason bay, so, like 2:01:02.960 --> 2:01:04.840 this is a chance they got to Get Roman anthony 2:01:04.880 --> 2:01:06.960 in the left, field and once they, do like, here we. 2:01:07.000 --> 2:01:09.600 Go it's just one of those. Positions it's kind of 2:01:09.600 --> 2:01:09.880 a bell. 2:01:09.960 --> 2:01:10.120 Cow. 2:01:10.440 --> 2:01:14.600 Yeah in when they have a star left, fielder they're generally. 2:01:14.600 --> 2:01:16.200 Good they have a chance to have a star left fielder. 2:01:16.240 --> 2:01:18.520 Here all, right we'll be back next. Week The patriots 2:01:18.520 --> 2:01:21.200 are on summer, break but we are not. Yet we 2:01:21.280 --> 2:01:22.640 will have a little bit of a break which we 2:01:22.640 --> 2:01:25.960 can talk about in a few. Weeks but this we'll 2:01:25.960 --> 2:01:28.320 be back next. 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