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Speaker 1: He's The Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson on

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Drive. I'm Dale Lolly here with Matt Williamson. Matt, Uh,

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Speaker 1: it's uh we're getting We're two weeks out today from

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Speaker 1: the start of the new league year. Oh wow, I

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Speaker 1: thought of that. I mean that makes a lot of sense,

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Speaker 1: you know, things like J. J. Watt gets signed, but

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Speaker 1: mostly things like well, there's rumors that this guy's getting

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Speaker 1: to start the sting to long snappers were signed today,

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Speaker 1: you know, like that's not big news, but they're little

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Speaker 1: housekeeping things. Housekeeping things. Get your cap in order to

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Speaker 1: get your your your your place ready to go go

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Speaker 1: to battle. Yeah. Um, one thing I did want to

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Speaker 1: do though, as we get ready for that, our friend

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Speaker 1: of the show, Cynthia Freelan, and joined us last year

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Speaker 1: at the NFL Scouting Combine, which would have been last week.

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Speaker 1: We missed that, but she did a mock draft based

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Speaker 1: solely on her analytics. That's interesting. It's just you know,

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Speaker 1: I assume it's more are gonna draft positions of value

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Speaker 1: and you know you don't want to be in the

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Speaker 1: open market looking for tackles. And you know, I'm curious

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Speaker 1: how it went because I haven't seen it yet. As

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Speaker 1: she said, she said, I'm not attempting to predict or

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Speaker 1: divine what teams will actually do on draft day. She's

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Speaker 1: predicting who they should take based on her needs and

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Speaker 1: your analytics and value and all that kind of stuff.

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Speaker 1: So she has Jacksonville taking Trevor Lawrence. No surprise there.

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Speaker 1: If it didn't, I say, babe, we should do something else.

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Speaker 1: A segment, she has the Jets taking Pine Seul. See,

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Speaker 1: I think that's more and more of a possibility. Like,

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Speaker 1: if you're the Jets, do you know that Wilson or

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Speaker 1: Fields is better than Donald? You have to really hate Donald,

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Speaker 1: you know, you know, And what can you get for

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Speaker 1: him in trade? You know, I'm here and they want

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Speaker 1: him for a year and put stuff around him. Uh,

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Speaker 1: that's it really solidifies your line, by the way, for

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Speaker 1: places except for their three. She has the Miami Dolphins

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Speaker 1: taking Jamar Chase I'm fine with that. I wonder what

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Speaker 1: the analytics. I love that this conversation with her. Everyone

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Speaker 1: but think of all the great value of wide receivers

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Speaker 1: back to Michael Thomas and Davante Adams and some of

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Speaker 1: the best players in the league. But receivers are expensive

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Speaker 1: on the open market, and this guy's I mean you

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Speaker 1: just saw you just saw Justin Jefferson from the same

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Speaker 1: years he was nineteen. Yeah, right, right now. I have

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Speaker 1: no problem with Chase. I think he's clearly the number one.

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Speaker 1: I just wonder if analytics taking a receiver super high

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Speaker 1: you get your pick uh four. This is where it

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Speaker 1: She has the Atlanta Falcons taking Quitty pay. Wow. I

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Speaker 1: true for every mock draft you ever analyze. A lot's

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Speaker 1: gonna happen between now and draft. Absolutely. I mean there's

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Speaker 1: del Moore. Wow, that's early. It's the earliest I've seen

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Speaker 1: Dylan Raddin's. Okay, his stock seems to be inflating a

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Speaker 1: Cleveland takes Trevor Moring, best safety in the draft, and

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