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Speaker 2: It happens every single year, every year, and it's going

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Speaker 2: to happen in the draft where somebody saw something at

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Speaker 2: the Combine and maybe change their opinion or elevated their opinion,

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Speaker 2: or maybe lowered their opinion. All I care about is

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Speaker 2: what did you do on Saturdays Sunday. Nobody's blocking, nobody's tackling. Okay,

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Speaker 2: you get to jump, you get to run, you get

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Speaker 2: to throw, lift weights, interviews, medicals. I get all of that. Now.

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Speaker 2: If something happened with your medicals, I understand why you

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Speaker 2: would fall. But the forty yard dash, I'm not that

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Speaker 2: interested in how many times you can lift two hundred

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Speaker 2: and twenty five pounds, I'm not interested in. Now there's

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Speaker 2: the cone drills. There's certain drills for receivers that I'm

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Speaker 2: very interested in. But I think we get caught up

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Speaker 2: because there's nothing going on, and it's like, okay, it's

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Speaker 2: kind of football, and then you're gonna see these guys

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Speaker 2: on draft night and you're gonna go and I remember

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Speaker 2: him at the combine. Every year there's one or two

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Speaker 2: guys that elevate their status and all of a sudden

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Speaker 2: they change draft boards. Anthony Richardson, Oh my gosh. Now,

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Speaker 2: when I watched him, there were times when I went

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Speaker 2: man and then other times I go man. And now

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Speaker 2: the Colts have said to him, you can work on

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Speaker 2: a trade if you want too. Kind of signals you've

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Speaker 2: moved on from Anthony Richardson, Yes see, Yeah, I.

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Speaker 3: Think the combine is important for some positions. It is

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Speaker 3: much more important for some positions than others. You know,

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Speaker 3: I think if you're looking at edge rushers in particular,

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Speaker 3: if you're looking at how explosive they are, those those

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Speaker 3: are all numbers. The forty time might not necessarily be

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Speaker 3: the most important. How many times are they going to

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Speaker 3: run forty yards? But you're just getting a glimpse at

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Speaker 3: how many times are they going to have to use

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Speaker 3: their vertical like that? Probably not many, but you're just

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Speaker 3: getting an idea of how athletic they really are, and

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Speaker 3: that's something that I think is pretty important if you

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Speaker 3: play that position.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll talk to Lewis Riddick about that.

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Speaker 4: That.

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Speaker 2: There are certain positions with certain drills where you go, okay,

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Speaker 2: now a vertical for an edge rusher. Yeah, yeah, I'm

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Speaker 2: okay with that because you're going to be jumping up,

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Speaker 2: you know, knocking down passes. Maybe you use that person

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Speaker 2: to block field goals. I think there are elements of

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Speaker 2: these skills that you can use on Sunday forty yard dash.

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Speaker 2: Not as interested, but I am interested in what's your

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Speaker 2: time for the first ten yards of that? Because that's football?

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Speaker 2: The first five yards of that? Yeah, Seaton, Yeah. Like

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Speaker 2: this kid.

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Speaker 3: David Bailey from Texas Tech. Right, he made himself some money.

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Speaker 3: Oh my gosh. He he's six three, two fifty his

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Speaker 3: times if you look at the way all of his

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Speaker 3: measurements broke down, He's faster than Antonio Kramarti, quicker than

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Speaker 3: Devonte Adams, jumps higher than aj Green, and he's more

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Speaker 3: explosive than Adrian Peterson and heavier than Von Miller.

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Speaker 2: Those are crazy numbers. But I want to know what

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Speaker 2: he did in college because Shamar Stewart of Texas A

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Speaker 2: and M we went to the Bengals. But with the

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Speaker 2: fifteenth pick, he had great numbers, but he didn't have

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Speaker 2: He had four sacks in college and he's an edge rusher.

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Speaker 2: That would concern me when you see somebody has all

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Speaker 2: that talent and you go, well, what do you do

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Speaker 2: in college? And then you go, oh, that's where I

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Speaker 2: would use the numbers against that player. But I guarantee

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Speaker 2: you there'll be a couple of players who are selected

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Speaker 2: higher than they should be. Now, one scout already told

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Speaker 2: me he had nineteen first round grades. So we know

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Speaker 2: that there are more than nineteen picks in the first round,

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Speaker 2: so there are going to be check and see, Okay,

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Speaker 2: there's going to be eleven players taken higher than they

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Speaker 2: should be. So factor that in that he had nineteen

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Speaker 2: first round grades. But you know, this happens every single year.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I remember Vernon Golston and I'm going that

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Speaker 2: guy is going to be He's going to be an

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Speaker 2: All Pro for ten years. Who is that? Justin Gilbert

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Speaker 2: to be the next Dion. I mean every single year

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Speaker 2: there's at least one guy that we go, oh my god.

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Speaker 2: I mean Jidavian Clowney, if you think about it, had

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Speaker 2: a disappointing career. The expectations were off the chart. So

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Speaker 2: you know, by comparison, it was like, Okay, had a

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Speaker 2: decent career. But it's because we just we fall in

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Speaker 2: love when you're not competing against anybody. Now, there were

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Speaker 2: to see what you do on Saturdays. And because of that,

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Speaker 2: do I want Carson Beck? Do I want Ty Simpson?

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Speaker 2: which they probably will for Ty Simpson. Okay, happens every

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Speaker 2: single year. But that's the fun part of this. And

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Speaker 2: here's another thing. At the combine. That's where you get

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Speaker 2: your director of player personnel. That's where you might get

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Speaker 2: your president. That's where you'll get a coach and or GM.

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Speaker 2: These are guys who haven't been studying this. They've been

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Speaker 2: working on their day job. Now you're going to come

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Speaker 2: in and this will happen. You have your own scouting

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Speaker 2: department who spent the entire off or the entire college

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Speaker 2: and now the experts come in and they're going to

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Speaker 2: overrule the scouts who have spent all of this time

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Speaker 2: giving grades to these players because somebody's gonna go, man,

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Speaker 2: he's fast, he can jump high. We're gonna take him.

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Speaker 2: And that's where your scouts will say, you know, hey,

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Speaker 2: we got a second round grade on it. Well, we

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Speaker 2: don't want to lose him. No, not that they sound

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Speaker 2: like that, but you don't want your front office.

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Speaker 3: People, I hear that on Hard Knocks all the time,

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Speaker 3: actually don't want to lose him.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well it could be the Giants front office. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: you're free to go and seek a trade. Saquon Wait

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Speaker 2: where are you going? Philadelphia? See yeah, Pauli.

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Speaker 5: Going back to that player seat mentioned David Bailey of

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Speaker 5: Texas Tech. He had everything at the combine. He broke

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Speaker 5: all the records and had these great numbers, but he

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Speaker 5: also had the performance during the season at Texas Tech

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Speaker 5: last year fourteen and a half sacks, twenty tackles for losses,

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Speaker 5: both led the United States, both led NCAA.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm fine with that. So he only led in

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Speaker 2: the United States, not in Europe.

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Speaker 5: But there's a guy who didn't didn't have three sacks

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Speaker 5: out of the combine.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, but it's fun. And then there's the interviewing

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Speaker 2: part of this, and Johnny manziel Ace the interviewing part

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Speaker 2: of this because he's such a hustler. You can't. You

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Speaker 2: can get coached up to do the interviews. But then

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Speaker 2: Todd mcshae was, you know, the draft analyst. He had

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Speaker 2: this to say about the USC wide receiver Mkai Lemon.

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Speaker 2: He didn't do well being interviewed.

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Speaker 6: The fact of the matter is, again talking to general

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Speaker 6: lot better for the other two Tyson and Tate than

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Speaker 6: it is for McKay Lemon.

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Speaker 2: And you know, me, like, I'm a Lemon guy, So

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Speaker 2: that part's interesting.

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Speaker 6: But I'm just saying there are teams out there that

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Speaker 6: may have him in a bucket, and there are teams

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Speaker 6: out there that I specifically talked to that appreciated what

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Speaker 6: they got out of the interviews from Jordan Tyson and

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Speaker 6: Carnell Tate more than they did from the mckaye Lemon ones.

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Speaker 2: So be that as it may. Now, Lemon's a great player.

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Speaker 2: He really is. I think he's undersized, but I think,

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Speaker 2: you know, at USC, he was great, and mel Kiper

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Speaker 2: loves him. Mel Kiper is like that guy plays football.

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Speaker 2: But the interviewing process, and by most accounts, he kind

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Speaker 2: It almost felt like he was auditioning for a role

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Speaker 2: don't know if he's trying to seduce me. I'm not

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Speaker 2: sure what's going on because he just had these weird

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Speaker 2: that matters, you know, can you play on Saturday? Can

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Speaker 2: you play on Sunday? All right, you're quirky, you're a

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Speaker 2: little weird. Everybody made a big deal about Kati Williamsy

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Speaker 2: paints his fingernails. I go, I couldn't care less. Are

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Speaker 2: you a good teammate? Can you play? I don't care

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Speaker 2: what you do. I was around Rodman all those years

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Speaker 2: didn't matter, he could play. But yeah, the interviewing process,

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Speaker 2: and I'm sure Mendoza aced it now Stacey Dale's she

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Speaker 2: was talking about Mendoza and just said, he's your dream.

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Speaker 2: He tells you everything. You know, he's a team for

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Speaker 2: He's just he can't wait to help the other players

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Speaker 2: on Indiana at their pro days. It does matter a

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Speaker 2: little bit to some of these teams. You just don't

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Speaker 2: know how much it matters. That's the tricky part. But

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Speaker 2: that's where you get the new set of eyes coming in.

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Speaker 2: And then they're going to bigfoot the scouts who spent

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Speaker 2: all year looking at this, Jeremy Fowler of the Mothership

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Speaker 2: on the coaches who are assessing quarterbacks now in free

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Speaker 2: agency and also assessing quarterbacks in the draft. Jeremy Faller

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Speaker 2: will join us in the final hour of the program,

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Speaker 2: as we always do every Monday, best and Worst of

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Speaker 2: the weekend. What you saw that you liked, you didn't like,

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Speaker 2: and say good morning to our radio affiliates over four

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Speaker 2: hundred cities around the country that carry this program. Seet

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Speaker 2: and you got a poll question, or at least one

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Speaker 2: to figure out. Think about ponder here for the first hour.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, why don't we start positive best month of the

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Speaker 3: year for sports?

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Speaker 4: Mmmm.

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Speaker 2: We do this every year. I do this every year.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, because March is underappreciated in terms of hmm, even

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Speaker 3: at number it's probably considered the second best month for sports.

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Speaker 2: And you're gonna be watching a lot of basketball teams

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Speaker 2: that you didn't watch at all during the regular season.

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Speaker 2: I was watching Illinois State in Belmont yesterday and I

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Speaker 2: you know, there was no shame. I'm like, yeah, I'm

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Speaker 2: gonna be watching. You know, Belmont got a twenty six

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Speaker 2: wins or something something. Miami of Ohio stays undefeated. But

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Speaker 2: if Bruce Pearl, who's now an analyst former head coach,

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Speaker 2: said if Miami of Ohio doesn't win their conference tournament,

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Speaker 2: they may not make the tournament with one loss. They wouldn't.

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Speaker 2: Now granted strength to schedule, uh not pretty. It'd be

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Speaker 2: like me on the bench press. But they're still undefeated

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Speaker 2: and there's something to be said for that. Whether it's

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Speaker 2: a novelty or not. It's still undefeated. But if they

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Speaker 2: would bow out like the first or second round of

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Speaker 2: the MAC Tournament, didn't sound like Bruce Pearl was now

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Speaker 2: he got lit up on social media. But what he's

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Speaker 2: saying is their strength of schedule is terrible, but you're

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Speaker 2: still undefeated and you've got to take somebody from the MAC.

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Speaker 2: Can you take two teams from the MAC and we

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Speaker 2: might be finding that out. Yeah, PAULI back to the

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Speaker 2: poll question. Can March stand alone without the benefits it

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Speaker 2: gets from the month of April, because the Final four

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Speaker 2: and final game are played in April. Baseball starts in April,

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Speaker 2: the Masters is in April.

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Speaker 5: Am I right about those?

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Speaker 2: I think I have to combine March in April? Is

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Speaker 2: that fair? In October? How fair is that? T I

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Speaker 2: don't think. I don't think you can, because I gave

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Speaker 4: in which you prioritize the positions in terms of importance

434
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Speaker 4: one through twenty two on a football team, obviously, Okay,

435
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Speaker 4: we'll take quarterback out at the top. So the other

436
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Speaker 4: twenty one positions, what exactly how do you prioritize them?

437
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Speaker 2: So you know that?

438
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Speaker 4: Okay, when you're looking at your board like you have

439
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Speaker 4: typically if you can picture a board, a physical board

440
00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:36,359
Speaker 4: up in the draft room, you have all the positions

441
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Speaker 4: across the top of the board horizontally, and then everybody

442
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Speaker 4: stacked vertically within those positions, and you kind of and

443
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Speaker 4: then you have like a grading scale on the far left,

444
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Speaker 4: and you kind of slot them in vertically across positions

445
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Speaker 4: like this. So what winds up happening is depending upon

446
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Speaker 4: how you you know stack positions. So let's say that

447
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Speaker 4: your top five positions are quarterback, pass rusher, defensive corner,

448
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Speaker 4: offensive tackle, wide receiver. Let's see that those are your

449
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Speaker 4: top five positions in that order. Most teams are going

450
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Speaker 4: to have those five positions in some kind of order

451
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Speaker 4: outside of quarterback. Okay, and you come up and you're

452
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Speaker 4: and you're up on the you're on the clock, and

453
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Speaker 4: say you're at pick five, right, and you're looking across

454
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Speaker 4: the board, and you have three guys at premium positions

455
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Speaker 4: who are all literally, as you look horizontally across the board,

456
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Speaker 4: on the same plane, you haven't graded exactly the same.

457
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Speaker 4: Now is when you go to how you prioritize building

458
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Speaker 4: a football team? Yeah, okay, and how you prioritize building

459
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Speaker 4: a football team sometimes it's like philosophically, how you believe

460
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Speaker 4: you know teams should be built. There's obviously salary cap

461
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Speaker 4: ramifications that are involved here, So you know a guy

462
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Speaker 4: who winds up, you know, positions that carry a higher

463
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Speaker 4: value in the NFL when you're talking about you know

464
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Speaker 4: what the franchise tag would be with the average year,

465
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Speaker 4: average salary per year would be. You want to kind

466
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Speaker 4: of get those guys when they're younger on a rookie contra.

467
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Speaker 4: You don't want to have to be in free agency

468
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Speaker 4: having to find those kinds of people, So you wind

469
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Speaker 4: up prioritizing those number one they have high positional value

470
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Speaker 4: on a football team anyway, as far as how you

471
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Speaker 4: play the game. And number two, that's usually gonna come

472
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Speaker 4: with a higher salary. So you want as much cheap,

473
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Speaker 4: affordable labor as you can possibly get, so you're gonna

474
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Speaker 4: prioritize those guys higher. That's why running back, that's why

475
00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:24,880
Speaker 4: it slides down the board, and that's why pass rushers, corners,

476
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Speaker 4: offensive tackles are always gonna go higher. And there may

477
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Speaker 4: be guys who go higher even if they are on

478
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Speaker 4: your board. Jeremiah Love is sticking out. He's above everyone.

479
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Speaker 4: But you're gonna but you need an offensive tackle. You

480
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Speaker 4: may take CC Mauinoa from Miami, even if he is

481
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Speaker 4: a notch below Jeremiah Love simply because of the positional

482
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Speaker 4: value to your football team.

483
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Speaker 2: But if you take Jeremiah Love in the top ten,

484
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Speaker 2: which he probably will, Yeah, so you're gonna double down

485
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Speaker 2: on that. You're gonna have to pay him as a

486
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Speaker 2: top ten pick, yep. And then if he works out,

487
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Speaker 2: you're gonna have to pay him again yep. Correct, Like,

488
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Speaker 2: if you draft him and he turns out to be great,

489
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Speaker 2: then you get to that fourth year, Well, now you're

490
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Speaker 2: doubling down on that position. So now you get into

491
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Speaker 2: that Zeke Elliott situation, and then you go how much

492
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Speaker 2: gas does he have left? Can I get eight years

493
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Speaker 2: out of Jeremiah Love? And that's why teams I didn't

494
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Speaker 2: get nervous with that top ten pick on a running back.

495
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Speaker 4: You know what's also interesting about that though, See, I

496
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Speaker 4: do think traditionally, like back in the two thousand's, early

497
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Speaker 4: twenty tens, late nineties, Yeah, you used to you always

498
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Speaker 4: thought about could I get how much runway can I

499
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Speaker 4: get with a player? Can I get two contracts out

500
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Speaker 4: of him? Can I get a decade? Can I get

501
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Speaker 4: ten years? You see how fast the league changes now?

502
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Speaker 4: How much I mean coaches get two three years and

503
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Speaker 4: they're blown up out of there. I do think the

504
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Speaker 4: mentality has changed some, meaning, look, we got to win now.

505
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Speaker 4: Otherwise we see how impatient owners get right now. Yeah,

506
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Speaker 4: so I think a little bit of that calculus has changed. Like,

507
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Speaker 4: I don't know if you worry about that so much

508
00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:07,240
Speaker 4: as you look with Jeremiah, I wouldn't be worried about that,

509
00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:11,600
Speaker 4: about doubling down and trying to figure out, you know

510
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Speaker 4: what am I gonna do with this second contract. I

511
00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:15,680
Speaker 4: just want to get through his first contract. I want

512
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Speaker 4: to win some games. I want to be able to

513
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Speaker 4: go worse to first like some of these teams are doing,

514
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Speaker 4: because if I don't, I may be out here in

515
00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:23,560
Speaker 4: the way in which he is able to help you

516
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Speaker 4: win football games with his explosive playmaking ability, which is

517
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Speaker 4: priority number one for every general manager and head coach

518
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Speaker 4: right now.

519
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Speaker 2: But why just take him at two? You know what?

520
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Speaker 4: Probably because they're thinking this, Look, they're gonna believe at

521
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Speaker 4: some point here. I think they're gonna franchise bres Hall.

522
00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:42,359
Speaker 4: They really do like breast ball, and Breeze is a

523
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Speaker 4: good player, and I just don't think that makes sense

524
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Speaker 4: for them. But I think, look, could Tennessee wind up

525
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Speaker 4: taking him, Could Arizona wind up taking him? Could the

526
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Speaker 4: Giants at five for sure wind up taking him? I

527
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Speaker 4: absolutely think so. I absolutely think that he may not

528
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Speaker 4: get past the Giants at five. He's well, they saw

529
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Speaker 4: what they gave up, and I understand why they thought

530
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Speaker 4: they maybe needed to give this up, meaning let Sa

531
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Speaker 4: Kwan go. But they saw the difference that he can make.

532
00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:12,480
Speaker 4: They saw the difference that he can make. Now, obviously

533
00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:14,240
Speaker 4: you need to make sure your sae Quon went to

534
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Speaker 4: the perfect place with the perfect offensive line at that time.

535
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Speaker 4: But Jeremiah is different. And I know for a fact

536
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Speaker 4: as I hear it all the time. It's what every

537
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Speaker 4: head coach is after. We need guys who can win

538
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Speaker 4: games on one play. It's too hard to try and

539
00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:30,119
Speaker 4: go ten to fifteen plays, and Jeremiah can do. I

540
00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:31,960
Speaker 4: ended up running back. Coach told me this, tell me

541
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Speaker 4: this Dan, he said, you know who he reminds me of.

542
00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:36,320
Speaker 4: He goes, don't, don't, don't. I'm not saying this is

543
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Speaker 4: the one to one comparison, but he moves with the

544
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Speaker 4: ease and fluidity of Eric Dickerson. That's what reminds me of.

545
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Speaker 4: And I haven't heard anybody in my entire time of

546
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Speaker 4: scouting since I got done playing compare anybody to Eric Dickerson. Nobody, No,

547
00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:54,520
Speaker 4: but not a single runner. That was pretty high praise.

548
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Speaker 4: And I respect the hell out of this guy who

549
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Speaker 4: told me.

550
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Speaker 2: That you're in love with love.

551
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Speaker 4: I say, yeah, I'm not the only one.

552
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Speaker 8: Yeah, everybody, he's a special Yeah.

553
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Speaker 2: But see then I go back to the Jets. Why

554
00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:09,480
Speaker 2: not have another playmaker? Yeah, okay, I have Breeze Hall.

555
00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:12,719
Speaker 2: I get another playmaker. I want to put pressure on

556
00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:17,000
Speaker 2: you on the defensive side. Yeah, now, now deal with this.

557
00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:20,760
Speaker 2: We'll we'll incorporate these guys in the offense. If he's

558
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Speaker 2: the second best, most valuable player, difference maker, I have

559
00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:27,160
Speaker 2: a hard time passing.

560
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Speaker 4: The only problem is like they were, they were like

561
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Speaker 4: epically historically bad on defense, Like they have no playmakers onside,

562
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Speaker 4: they gave all of them away.

563
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Speaker 2: We're just gonna score more points. We don't have to

564
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Speaker 2: score one more point, Lewis.

565
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Speaker 4: Well, I mean what you're looking at is can we

566
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Speaker 4: address it somewhere later on down the you know, down

567
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Speaker 4: the line. I know they're gonna get a quarterback too,

568
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Speaker 4: so that that's the other thing too, Dan, I mean,

569
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Speaker 4: what are they gonna do with sixteen? What are they

570
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Speaker 4: gonna do?

571
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Speaker 8: I mean, are they gonna.

572
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Speaker 4: Wind up taking a guy. I'm sitting here looking.

573
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Speaker 8: At my board.

574
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Speaker 4: I'm going, hey man, they got to get somebody. They

575
00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:03,160
Speaker 4: gotta get somebody to pull the trigger. I know they've

576
00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:06,200
Speaker 4: got so many different things going on there, but yet,

577
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Speaker 4: Jeremiah's got a lot of people right now in personnel

578
00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:12,920
Speaker 4: departments sitting there going should we we saw what Jamier Gibbs,

579
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Speaker 4: did we know what Bjon Robinson can do? We saw

580
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Speaker 4: what Saquan can do when he's at the right spot.

581
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Speaker 4: Are we set up to where we can get that

582
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Speaker 4: kind of return on investment if he's ours? And I

583
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Speaker 4: think that's this is this is the fun time of year.

584
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Speaker 4: It's a fun time of year for us. I don't

585
00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:28,720
Speaker 4: know how fun it is for the teams. And you know,

586
00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:31,560
Speaker 4: we're actually trying to make these decisions. But there's some dudes, man,

587
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Speaker 4: there are some guys right now who just showed over

588
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Speaker 4: the week, over the past week, that the athletic component

589
00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:44,960
Speaker 4: of the game is skyrocketing. These athletes are insanely, insanely

590
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Speaker 4: talented and skilled and trained, and the game has never

591
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Speaker 4: been more more specialized and more athletic than it will

592
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Speaker 4: be in twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 2: That's for sure, great to talk to you as always,

594
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Speaker 2: of course, thank you, Bud, already most riddick of the Mothership.

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Speaker 2: Jeremy Fowler The Mothership, ESPN Senior, NFL reporter, David Montgomery

600
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Speaker 2: traded from the Lions to the Texans. Your thoughts on that,

601
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Speaker 2: and then what's that mean for Joe Mixon?

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Speaker 9: Yeah, Dan, David Montgomery's trade market might as well have

603
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Speaker 9: had a trade me sign at the NFL Combine because

604
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Speaker 9: teams had the full expectation that he would welcome a

605
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Speaker 9: change of scenery that Jamier gives being the one in Detroit.

606
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Speaker 9: Montgomery fell like at age twenty eight, so it's some

607
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Speaker 9: miles left and he had a good market because he's

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Speaker 9: only do six million dollars. So Houston gave up a

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Speaker 9: lot to get him a fourth and a seventh round pick,

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Speaker 9: which is a little rich. But GM Nick Cassario is

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Speaker 9: one of the most aggressive in the league. He will

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Speaker 9: do a trade like that and get ahead of it

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Speaker 9: and just take the guesswork out, even if it means

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Speaker 9: giving up more than maybe he would have wanted. So

615
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Speaker 9: that certainly helps. Montgomery will go into Houston as the

616
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Speaker 9: number one back. I think that's pretty clear at this point.

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Speaker 9: They have what he mark's a young player, and that

618
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Speaker 9: leaves a big question mark for Joe Mixon, who is

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Speaker 9: a cap casualty candidate. Anyways, So I believe that that

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Speaker 9: marriage is probably over at this point, barring a surprise.

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Speaker 9: You know certainly that they loved mixing last year, so

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Speaker 9: maybe there's a chance he can come back healthy this year.

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Speaker 9: But it seems like the writing's on the wall with

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Speaker 9: this Montgomery trade.

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Speaker 2: Does CJ. Strong get a contract extension before this new season?

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Speaker 8: You know what?

627
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Speaker 9: I actually think there's a trend that could be brewing,

628
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Speaker 9: and this will be an interesting.

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Speaker 8: Case study for that. Do teams pay.

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Speaker 9: Quarterbacks the huge money even if that quarterback is not

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Speaker 9: a top tier guy? Right like we saw it with

632
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Speaker 9: two years ago, Jared Goff, Trevor Lawrence, Jordan Love, all

633
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Speaker 9: those guys were kind of outside of the top ten.

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Speaker 9: They all got paid. It worked out for some, it

635
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Speaker 9: didn't work out for Miami and Tua where they're now

636
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Speaker 9: stuck with fifty four million dollar and guaranteed money. I

637
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Speaker 9: think the teams are going to rethink that process that

638
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Speaker 9: they don't have a guy who's at the top shelf,

639
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Speaker 9: if they have a guys in the middle shelf, they

640
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Speaker 9: might wait a year, make them prove it in that

641
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Speaker 9: fourth year. So you know, Houston has made clear they

642
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Speaker 9: want CJ. Stroud to be their quarterback in twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 9: What that financial commitment looks like is still unknown, and

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Speaker 9: I'm not wholly convinced that they're going to do it.

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Speaker 9: I think they could kind of wait this out a

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Speaker 9: little bit and see what he does, continue to build

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Speaker 9: the team around him. Now, I do believe Stroud is

648
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Speaker 9: not just looking for the most massive number you can

649
00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:33,440
Speaker 9: think of. He doesn't want to suppress his own market.

650
00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:35,280
Speaker 9: But he does know that they got to pay Will

651
00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:37,680
Speaker 9: Anderson the pass rusher, they got to pay some other pieces,

652
00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:40,040
Speaker 9: They got to build a winner around him. I think

653
00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:42,400
Speaker 9: he values being in Houston doesn't want to cripple them

654
00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:44,800
Speaker 9: long term as well. So maybe because of that there's

655
00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:47,000
Speaker 9: a sweet spot deal that they can do in the

656
00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:48,880
Speaker 9: short term that makes sense for both sides. But I

657
00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:50,800
Speaker 9: just think buying large teams are going to start to wait.

658
00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:53,160
Speaker 9: I mean, Dan, you know, you've seen there are eight

659
00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:56,120
Speaker 9: or nine quarterbacks out there in the last few years

660
00:33:56,200 --> 00:33:59,360
Speaker 9: of guys that were not very good coming out, got

661
00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:02,960
Speaker 9: benched set and now they're good options. So you're not

662
00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:07,200
Speaker 9: beholden to the draft pick that you selected who's maybe

663
00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:09,800
Speaker 9: like good and not great. Like you can wait a

664
00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:11,600
Speaker 9: little bit and you can find a Daniel Jones or

665
00:34:11,640 --> 00:34:13,520
Speaker 9: a Baker Mayfield if you need to, you know, just

666
00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:15,160
Speaker 9: because you don't want to pay the guy you have right.

667
00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:19,600
Speaker 2: Now Kyler Murray's market are the Cardinals on the hook

668
00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:21,560
Speaker 2: for how much?

669
00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:25,319
Speaker 9: So they're on the hook for they've already paid or

670
00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:28,040
Speaker 9: locked into some guarantees. I think it's eighteen million somewhere

671
00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:30,680
Speaker 9: around there. He's got another big trigger coming up, I

672
00:34:30,680 --> 00:34:33,279
Speaker 9: believe the fifth day of the new league year. So

673
00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:36,520
Speaker 9: think mid March is an artificial deadline. I think it's

674
00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:38,400
Speaker 9: close to twenty million. It's a pretty big number that

675
00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:40,839
Speaker 9: would be on the hook for if they let him

676
00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:44,560
Speaker 9: stay on the roster through say March fifteenth or whatever

677
00:34:44,560 --> 00:34:48,040
Speaker 9: that date is. So that's an artificial deadline that they

678
00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:50,320
Speaker 9: are going to move on. It would be a shock

679
00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:53,200
Speaker 9: if they kept him on that number. So if you

680
00:34:53,280 --> 00:34:56,120
Speaker 9: cut them, that does open up a situation where a team,

681
00:34:56,160 --> 00:34:58,000
Speaker 9: because of the guarantees has already been paid, can get

682
00:34:58,040 --> 00:35:01,360
Speaker 9: him on a cheap contract. Potentially he's going to have value.

683
00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:04,359
Speaker 9: You know, Minnesota, I know is considering Kyler Murray. He's

684
00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:06,719
Speaker 9: one of their stronger considerations. I would say, along with

685
00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:10,160
Speaker 9: Geno Smith, that's probably tier one for them. You know,

686
00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:12,560
Speaker 9: maybe they look into the Derek Carr situation, but I

687
00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:14,600
Speaker 9: haven't heard anything strong there that teams are in that

688
00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:17,800
Speaker 9: market right now. TUA would probably be more of a backup,

689
00:35:17,880 --> 00:35:19,960
Speaker 9: second tier option for them.

690
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:21,120
Speaker 8: So all these guys want.

691
00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:22,840
Speaker 9: To go to Minnesota, Dan because it's a great environment.

692
00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:25,399
Speaker 9: You've got Kevin O'Connell, You've got Justin Jefferson, you got

693
00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:26,560
Speaker 9: some pieces to work with.

694
00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:29,200
Speaker 8: That is a hot team right now for the quarterback market.

695
00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:30,760
Speaker 9: Even though they don't have a lot of money to spend,

696
00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:33,600
Speaker 9: they have all these quarterbacks that are probably getting cut

697
00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:35,840
Speaker 9: that are cheap because of the offset language and the

698
00:35:35,880 --> 00:35:36,840
Speaker 9: guarantees they already have.

699
00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:39,160
Speaker 2: Is JJ McCarthy going to get cut?

700
00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:43,160
Speaker 9: I would be surprised if he gets cut. It's a

701
00:35:43,239 --> 00:35:46,120
Speaker 9: similar situation to Anthony Richardson last year. I think in

702
00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:49,239
Speaker 9: a perfect world, they would like to bring somebody on,

703
00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:51,839
Speaker 9: like if you bring on Geno Smith. Let's say, right

704
00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:55,480
Speaker 9: why I think he's interesting to Minnesota is because you

705
00:35:55,480 --> 00:35:58,600
Speaker 9: know he's had enough struggles where if you bring him

706
00:35:58,640 --> 00:36:01,279
Speaker 9: in and sell him as a competitor to JJ, you

707
00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:03,560
Speaker 9: can kind of sell it, but you can also sell

708
00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:06,200
Speaker 9: it as yeah, he's probably the starter, So you're hedging

709
00:36:06,239 --> 00:36:09,480
Speaker 9: both ways and you can keep it alive with JJ

710
00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:11,680
Speaker 9: a little bit and maybe he surprises you in camp,

711
00:36:11,719 --> 00:36:13,839
Speaker 9: but you know, we've all been there.

712
00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:14,040
Speaker 2: Dan.

713
00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:15,799
Speaker 9: It's kind of like when you get broken up with

714
00:36:16,200 --> 00:36:19,319
Speaker 9: where somebody starts seeing other people, Like when they do that,

715
00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:21,200
Speaker 9: it's kind of clear it's probably over. So there's that

716
00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:24,960
Speaker 9: element to the JJ McCarthy situation as well. Similarly, Anthony

717
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:27,400
Speaker 9: Richardson with Daniel Jones. When they signed Daniel Jones, they

718
00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:29,560
Speaker 9: were probably going to start him. They were going to

719
00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:32,480
Speaker 9: have a competition in camp and maybe see if Richardson

720
00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:34,799
Speaker 9: can play him out, but they sort of knew where

721
00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:36,680
Speaker 9: it was going. I think this is a similar situation

722
00:36:36,719 --> 00:36:38,960
Speaker 9: in Minnesota. They know where this is headed, but they'll

723
00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:41,200
Speaker 9: leave a little wigger room for JJ to maybe surprise him.

724
00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:46,760
Speaker 2: Okay to Jeremy Fowler, Mothership ESPN senior NFL reporter, if

725
00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:50,960
Speaker 2: the Steelers don't have Aaron Rodgers, what is plan.

726
00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:54,600
Speaker 9: B right now? I would say Plan B is Will Howard,

727
00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:57,560
Speaker 9: who's a six round pick. You know he that wouldn't

728
00:36:57,600 --> 00:37:00,440
Speaker 9: be the flashy option, but they, you know, talking to

729
00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:01,719
Speaker 9: people there, they really do like him.

730
00:37:01,760 --> 00:37:02,040
Speaker 8: A lot.

731
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:05,080
Speaker 9: You know, he's great in the huddle, in the locker room,

732
00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:07,400
Speaker 9: he's great with teammates, he's ac quitted himself well.

733
00:37:08,280 --> 00:37:09,520
Speaker 8: They felt like Aaron.

734
00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:11,520
Speaker 9: Rodgers did a really good job mentoring him last year

735
00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:13,800
Speaker 9: that he might just be ready to play now. The

736
00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:15,920
Speaker 9: flip side of that is they've done a lot of

737
00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:19,120
Speaker 9: homework on this draft, dating back to really two years ago.

738
00:37:19,239 --> 00:37:22,360
Speaker 9: They've been kind of loading up for this draft class

739
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:24,640
Speaker 9: to potentially take a quarterback. Now it's not as strong

740
00:37:24,680 --> 00:37:26,160
Speaker 9: as people thought it was probably going to be six

741
00:37:26,239 --> 00:37:29,080
Speaker 9: months ago when you had all those names that you know,

742
00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:31,120
Speaker 9: whether it's Drew al or Penn State or three or

743
00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:32,719
Speaker 9: four of them that you thought were going to be

744
00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:34,760
Speaker 9: in the mix in the first round. It just didn't

745
00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:37,640
Speaker 9: work out. So that's the crapshoot of the draft. But

746
00:37:37,680 --> 00:37:39,719
Speaker 9: they've done a lot of homework. Or if they took

747
00:37:39,719 --> 00:37:42,359
Speaker 9: one this year, it would not shock me. And maybe

748
00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:44,520
Speaker 9: it's somewhere high. Maybe it's Tye Simpson in the late

749
00:37:44,560 --> 00:37:46,520
Speaker 9: first or they can find a way to get him

750
00:37:46,520 --> 00:37:48,960
Speaker 9: in the second, or Garrett Nssmeyer day two. Like I

751
00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:50,960
Speaker 9: do think they've looked long and hard at those type

752
00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:51,440
Speaker 9: of options.

753
00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:56,880
Speaker 2: The Jets situation, what did they do at quarterback?

754
00:37:58,440 --> 00:38:01,719
Speaker 9: So for playing musical chairs, Dan, they're probably gonna get

755
00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:05,759
Speaker 9: the last chair, like whoever's whoever's left, the Jets are

756
00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:06,239
Speaker 9: going to get.

757
00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:09,879
Speaker 2: Why, you know, nobody wants to play there.

758
00:38:10,440 --> 00:38:12,920
Speaker 9: I mean, unless they're willing to just overpay. You have

759
00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:14,719
Speaker 9: to overpay in New York to get the guy you want.

760
00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:17,360
Speaker 9: No nobody wants to play there. I shouldn't say nobody,

761
00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:21,000
Speaker 9: but it's not an attractive spot for these quarterbacks. Like

762
00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:25,400
Speaker 9: I mentioned Minnesota. You know, I would say Arizona and

763
00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:27,839
Speaker 9: Miami are both probably slightly more attractive than the Jets

764
00:38:27,880 --> 00:38:30,000
Speaker 9: right now. I would say that, and the view of

765
00:38:30,040 --> 00:38:34,280
Speaker 9: these quarterbacks or people in the market. Now the Jets

766
00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:36,800
Speaker 9: offer Garrett Wilson, they have a pretty good offensive line,

767
00:38:37,360 --> 00:38:39,680
Speaker 9: Breece Hall, They're probably going to tag him. So you

768
00:38:39,719 --> 00:38:41,920
Speaker 9: do have some pieces there. They got a ton of

769
00:38:41,960 --> 00:38:44,440
Speaker 9: first round picks in the next two drafts. Darren Mougie,

770
00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:46,640
Speaker 9: the GM has set that up with trades, so you

771
00:38:46,680 --> 00:38:48,880
Speaker 9: know you might have something. But they got justin Fields.

772
00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:50,920
Speaker 9: He's still in the books for ten million in guarantees.

773
00:38:51,480 --> 00:38:53,439
Speaker 9: You know, they very well could just kind of bite

774
00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:57,080
Speaker 9: that bullet cut them and move on. I just think

775
00:38:57,080 --> 00:38:59,000
Speaker 9: they'll end up getting, you know, one of those bridge options.

776
00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:02,080
Speaker 9: Maybe it's Jacoby Brisset at in Arizona, trade him, It

777
00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:03,640
Speaker 9: could be somebody like that. I just don't think they're

778
00:39:03,640 --> 00:39:04,879
Speaker 9: going to get the top top option.

779
00:39:04,960 --> 00:39:08,160
Speaker 2: Can somebody build a bridge and name it the you know,

780
00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:10,440
Speaker 2: Jacoby Brissette Bridge, like.

781
00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:12,520
Speaker 8: The Brisette Bridge. Yeah, yeah, I mean.

782
00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:15,360
Speaker 2: They should after all these years he's been a bridge quarterback.

783
00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:19,239
Speaker 2: I mean, there's Teddy Bridgewater, but you know it's like

784
00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:25,120
Speaker 2: it's Jacoby Bridgewater. Kirk Cousins sure gonna have a home.

785
00:39:27,239 --> 00:39:29,480
Speaker 9: I think there's a chance of that. I think he's

786
00:39:29,520 --> 00:39:31,319
Speaker 9: gonna have to wait a little bit. I don't since

787
00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:32,920
Speaker 9: he's in that top tier guys that's going.

788
00:39:32,880 --> 00:39:34,200
Speaker 8: To get a job right off the bat.

789
00:39:34,560 --> 00:39:36,320
Speaker 9: I think he'd be a backup or a third option

790
00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:39,440
Speaker 9: for Minnesota. Backup as in, I mean, like who they

791
00:39:39,440 --> 00:39:43,399
Speaker 9: want to sign as their bridge, you know. I think

792
00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:44,960
Speaker 9: he's sort of in that group with two in that

793
00:39:45,080 --> 00:39:46,880
Speaker 9: second tier from Minnesota for example.

794
00:39:49,080 --> 00:39:50,040
Speaker 8: But I don't.

795
00:39:50,200 --> 00:39:51,799
Speaker 9: I don't think it's going to be moving on him

796
00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:53,960
Speaker 9: heavy out of the gate. Now he's got to be

797
00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:55,799
Speaker 9: released by Atlanta. That will happen at the new league

798
00:39:55,840 --> 00:39:58,879
Speaker 9: year next week, and then you go from there. He's

799
00:39:58,880 --> 00:40:01,719
Speaker 9: played well enough to get a job somewhere, but there's

800
00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:03,560
Speaker 9: not a clear path right now that I'm hearing. I

801
00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:06,319
Speaker 9: think he could just strategically wait a little bit and look,

802
00:40:06,360 --> 00:40:09,160
Speaker 9: he's got this TV situation in his back pocket. You know,

803
00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:11,560
Speaker 9: he kind of did a trial basis during the season,

804
00:40:12,080 --> 00:40:15,160
Speaker 9: did pretty well. You know, he's good talking football like,

805
00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:17,520
Speaker 9: he kind of has that as an option. I think

806
00:40:17,520 --> 00:40:20,000
Speaker 9: he still wants to play, but certainly he's intrigued by

807
00:40:20,040 --> 00:40:21,040
Speaker 9: that side of things.

808
00:40:21,280 --> 00:40:22,879
Speaker 8: On the broadcast media side.

809
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:24,799
Speaker 2: What about my guy, Malik Willis.

810
00:40:25,880 --> 00:40:27,680
Speaker 9: Malik Willis is going to get He's gonna get a

811
00:40:27,719 --> 00:40:29,800
Speaker 9: nice contract. He's gonna get paid. Some of the numbers

812
00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:32,960
Speaker 9: that have been floated out there several times last week,

813
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:35,560
Speaker 9: thirty plus million dollars. I would shoot that down. I've

814
00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:38,719
Speaker 9: talked to a dozen teams about it. They don't have

815
00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:40,600
Speaker 9: him in the thirty million dollar range. They have him

816
00:40:40,600 --> 00:40:43,680
Speaker 9: in that twenty million dollar bucket, maybe twenty five. So

817
00:40:43,719 --> 00:40:45,640
Speaker 9: I think that's a sweet spot and less things get

818
00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:47,440
Speaker 9: crazy and he's just got three teams that have to

819
00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:52,759
Speaker 9: have him. Miami's definitely in Arizona might very well be in,

820
00:40:53,320 --> 00:40:55,799
Speaker 9: but they also might go Jimmy Garoppolo another bridge option

821
00:40:55,880 --> 00:40:59,960
Speaker 9: for you, Dan, and then the third one would be

822
00:41:00,560 --> 00:41:02,799
Speaker 9: I mean, you know, like maybe the Jets won't overpay.

823
00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:04,520
Speaker 2: There, but Pittsburgh is not an option.

824
00:41:05,880 --> 00:41:08,759
Speaker 9: I don't sense that right now. Cleveland as well. I

825
00:41:08,760 --> 00:41:12,560
Speaker 9: don't think Cleveland's an option. Malie Wills's agent is David Mulligetta,

826
00:41:12,560 --> 00:41:14,680
Speaker 9: who has Deshaun Watson, who has a chance to start

827
00:41:14,680 --> 00:41:15,160
Speaker 9: in Cleveland.

828
00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:16,279
Speaker 8: I would be shocked if that.

829
00:41:16,600 --> 00:41:20,240
Speaker 2: Do you think that's a legitimate shot that Deshaun Watson's

830
00:41:20,239 --> 00:41:22,200
Speaker 2: his starting quarterback this upcoming season.

831
00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:24,640
Speaker 8: I think it's a shot.

832
00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:26,640
Speaker 9: I don't know if I'm gonna say legitimate shot, yet

833
00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:28,360
Speaker 9: I do believe it's it will be on the table.

834
00:41:28,440 --> 00:41:30,200
Speaker 9: I was oil They're gonna let those guys compete in rule.

835
00:41:30,239 --> 00:41:33,360
Speaker 2: But if he's healthy, though, he should be the starting

836
00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:35,000
Speaker 2: quarterback well.

837
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:38,680
Speaker 9: And I would say people close to Deshaun would tell

838
00:41:38,719 --> 00:41:42,080
Speaker 9: you that the Kevin Stefanski Deshaun Watson fit just it

839
00:41:42,120 --> 00:41:44,640
Speaker 9: didn't work, and it probably wasn't the offense where he's

840
00:41:44,680 --> 00:41:48,760
Speaker 9: been best. You know that Gary Kubiak wide zone system

841
00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:50,440
Speaker 9: where it's a lot under center in the play action.

842
00:41:50,960 --> 00:41:53,359
Speaker 9: Todd Monkin's system will be better for Deshaun Watson. It's

843
00:41:53,480 --> 00:41:56,279
Speaker 9: it's more of what he's used to. Todd Monkin is

844
00:41:57,280 --> 00:41:59,279
Speaker 9: sort of a chameleon. You know, he can change his

845
00:41:59,280 --> 00:42:01,480
Speaker 9: offense a lot of differ ways, but he can appeal

846
00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:03,239
Speaker 9: to the guy who was really good in college and

847
00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:06,480
Speaker 9: did some spread offense concepts like that's Deshaun. So the

848
00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:09,040
Speaker 9: feeling is like, hey, let's try this. Maybe he's got

849
00:42:09,040 --> 00:42:11,200
Speaker 9: this last year left on his deal. We owe him

850
00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:13,799
Speaker 9: forty six million dollars. Nobody's going to take him, so

851
00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:15,319
Speaker 9: let's just see how it goes and roll the ball

852
00:42:15,360 --> 00:42:18,080
Speaker 9: out and see if Shador Sanders or Dylan Gabriel can

853
00:42:18,080 --> 00:42:19,040
Speaker 9: beat him out.

854
00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:23,400
Speaker 2: The Raiders' situation, so you take Fernando Mendoza. Yeah, I

855
00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:26,840
Speaker 2: don't assume he's going to start this season as the

856
00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:30,839
Speaker 2: number one quarterback unless you hear otherwise. But I think

857
00:42:30,840 --> 00:42:33,279
Speaker 2: they got to beef up that team a little bit,

858
00:42:33,360 --> 00:42:37,040
Speaker 2: certainly the offensive line. Who is the backup or maybe

859
00:42:37,040 --> 00:42:39,400
Speaker 2: who's going to be the starting quarterback with the Raiders.

860
00:42:40,320 --> 00:42:42,359
Speaker 9: Well that's a big piece to all this, Dan, because

861
00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:44,680
Speaker 9: you have Geno Smith who could find a home as

862
00:42:44,680 --> 00:42:47,719
Speaker 9: a starter elsewhere. Still, you know, last year wasn't all

863
00:42:47,760 --> 00:42:50,239
Speaker 9: his fault. It was a really bad team. And so

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Speaker 9: I think what's happening here is if you're Gino, you're saying, Okay,

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Speaker 9: if I stay here, I'll probably start. But we're still

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Speaker 9: bad and I'm playing eight games that I'm gonna get

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Speaker 9: benched and then my career is great. Where can they

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Speaker 9: just trade or release me here and I can get

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Speaker 9: out and go to a Minnesota or a Miami or

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Speaker 9: somewhere to just reset my career again, which he's done

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Speaker 9: multiple times.

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Speaker 8: And you know, to his credit, he's become a pro bowler,

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Speaker 8: you know, a couple years ago in Seattle.

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Speaker 9: So that's the sense right now. I'd be surprised that

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Speaker 9: he's on the roster in Vegas. I think what they'll

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Speaker 9: do is w'll draft Mendoza and they'll get a steady

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Speaker 9: veteran somewhere, whether it's eight and O'Connell who's there, or

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Speaker 9: it's somebody else, you know, somebody who can kind of

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Speaker 9: half mentor half play games and just get men does

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Speaker 9: out there when he's ready, you know, whether that's week

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Speaker 9: one or week twelve or next year, But they're trying

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Speaker 9: to play the long game there with everything they know

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Speaker 9: they need a lot. They're gonna be active and freegency

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Speaker 9: because they have to. They've got one hundred million dollars

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Speaker 9: to spend. They're gonna get a guard or a center,

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Speaker 9: and a receiver and a linebacker. Like they have a

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Speaker 9: lot of holes and it's going to take two years

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Speaker 9: to film. Great stuff is always Thank you, Jeremy, Thanks, Dan,

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Speaker 9: appreciate it. That's Jeremy Fowler.