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Speaker 2: Good evening, Stealer Nation, How we do it? That's good
Speaker 2: us too, our number two. What a fun Friday we're
Speaker 2: having here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a little different feel here in the studio, right.
Speaker 2: It's been. It was a good Friday afternoon. Now into
Speaker 2: the evening. We got to see Britt Floyd play a
Speaker 2: trio of songs here in our iHeart studios.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess. Bert Kreischer was here this morning.
Speaker 2: Kreischer was here this morning. We had Jack Ham on
Speaker 2: the show in the first hours. Listen. All Fridays are
Speaker 2: a good thing, but all fridays are not created equal.
Speaker 2: I think this was the first.
Speaker 3: Day of spring too or something today. I think yesterday
Speaker 3: right in that time.
Speaker 2: It's like some decent weather on the horizon for this
Speaker 2: thing too. So I will certainly take it and Matt
Speaker 2: the people ask for it, and so we give it
Speaker 2: to him. It is mock Draft Day. We're going to
Speaker 2: continue to do this. We'll do this once a week
Speaker 2: now through through the end of April. Uh, maybe even
Speaker 2: ramp it up a little bit more than that when
Speaker 2: we get you know, a week or so away from
Speaker 2: from the draft, and we're really staring down the barrel
Speaker 2: of the twenty twenty six NFL Draft here of course,
Speaker 2: on the north shore Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. So before we get started,
Speaker 2: we'll do the same thing I think still to this point,
Speaker 2: just three rounds, right.
Speaker 3: That's why if you want it comes five picks.
Speaker 2: I think that's pretty significant.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because the way that the Minsteelers havening those extra
Speaker 3: picks makes you know, two days worth pretty nice.
Speaker 2: Absolutely five, So we'll go through five picks in the
Speaker 2: top ninety nine for the Steelers here.
Speaker 3: We've done one in a while, So maybe just put
Speaker 3: like no parameter.
Speaker 2: I was just gonna ask you you wanted to do
Speaker 2: any parameters?
Speaker 3: Yes, Okay, I see how it goes.
Speaker 2: I think you're right. Let's see how it goes.
Speaker 3: So, of course, the Steelers the two things when I
Speaker 3: when I post them online, you know here and there,
Speaker 3: the two things I get criticize for are you trade
Speaker 3: down a lot and you take max I Incher All
Speaker 3: the time, I'm like, yeah, I do. I can't lie.
Speaker 2: Well, listen, Matt, we have a type, okay, yeah, we
Speaker 2: we we certainly have a type. But I'll tell you
Speaker 2: as I fire up this edition of the Mock Draft Simulator,
Speaker 2: some people will be very well, the people who want
Speaker 2: different outcomes in different scenarios, And I understand it. That's
Speaker 2: a big that's a big part of this process.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're gonna be happy because the last two weeks
Speaker 2: that you and I have done this, both times we
Speaker 2: have taken Venga Ione true Joanna. That's actually how what
Speaker 2: I need to do is get the clip, the little
Speaker 2: drop of him pronouncing his name Venga Joanna. That's how
Speaker 2: he said it at the combine. He goes in this
Speaker 2: one fifteenth to the Bucks, so he will not be
Speaker 2: an option for us at twenty one. So we will
Speaker 2: have a dict.
Speaker 3: Next stuff happens, same.
Speaker 2: Here, same here, a little different. At the top of
Speaker 2: this one, Fernanda Mendozo of course goes first, but Jeremiah
Speaker 2: Love second to the Jets. I can't see that happen
Speaker 2: because of Breece Hall.
Speaker 3: But he's not gonna make it that twenty one.
Speaker 2: He's not gonna make it twenty one anyways. Sonny Style three,
Speaker 2: Reuben Bain Junior four, r Vel Reese not until five
Speaker 2: to the Giants. I think John Harbaugh would be doing
Speaker 2: jumping out if he could do that. The Browns do
Speaker 2: go offensive line Francis Mauigoa at pick six. David Bailey
Speaker 2: to the Commanders at pick seven, Mansord Delaane stays in Louisiana.
Speaker 2: The LSU guy goes to the Saints pick nine, The
Speaker 2: Chiefs select Caleb Downs safety from Ohio State pick ten. See.
Speaker 2: I don't think this would happen either, but I doubt
Speaker 2: he's making it to twenty one, so it probably doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: But the Bengals take Carnell Tait, wide receiver out of
Speaker 2: Ohio Street.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think they would take him, and I
Speaker 3: don't think he'd make it a twenty one, so well.
Speaker 2: Pick eleven Monroe Freeling the tackle out of Georgia, who
Speaker 2: continues to rapidly rise up draft boards. The Cowboys at
Speaker 2: pick twelve take Dylan Thinnemon, So there goes one of
Speaker 2: my draft crushes. So Venga and Fennemon both off the board.
Speaker 2: Jordan Tyson thirteen to the Rams. My goodness, that would
Speaker 2: be the type of greed they speak about in the Bible.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The Ravens do what they need to do address the
Speaker 2: offensive line. They take Spencer Fanu at fourteen and like.
Speaker 3: A guard for him.
Speaker 2: Like I said, Bucks, take Venga at fifteen. If you
Speaker 2: were Baltimore and those two guys were both there at fourteen,
Speaker 2: could could you reasonably I don't want to say justify,
Speaker 2: but would you be shocked if they went with Fannu
Speaker 2: instead of Wenger? Or is that that fair?
Speaker 3: If you just looked at Fawnu as only a guard,
Speaker 3: I could sort of understand it. He moves better, he's
Speaker 3: not as much of a masher. But from what I understand, though,
Speaker 3: I mean, this is a whole different conversation. The arm
Speaker 3: length stuff is getting crazy in this whole process the
Speaker 3: last couple of years, because I guess Fawnu's arms were
Speaker 3: like five eighths of an inch longer it is pro
Speaker 3: day than they were the combine like this has happened
Speaker 3: for a couple of years now, or whoever is measuring
Speaker 3: the combine doesn't know what they're doing, or somewhere there's
Speaker 3: a problem here.
Speaker 2: Hey, you gotta get Matt Williamson in there. Let him
Speaker 2: show you how he's done. So Spawnu at fourteen, Venga
Speaker 2: at fifteen. Mackay Lemon goes to the Jets at sixteen,
Speaker 2: a Key Messador to the Lions at seventeen, Jermad McCoy
Speaker 2: to the Vikes at eighteen, Keldrick falk Ed rusher out
Speaker 2: of Auburn nineteen to the Carolina Panthers, and then C. J.
Speaker 2: Allen linebacker out of Georgia goes twentieth to the Cowboys.
Speaker 2: So Steelers on the clock at twenty one, Matt, here
Speaker 2: is what we are looking at. Yes, your boy max
Speaker 2: Ian h R. Is still there, sure, and I have
Speaker 2: in terms of what we've done for mock drafts yet,
Speaker 2: we have not taken him yet on this show. Kenyon Sadik,
Speaker 2: Emmanuel McNeil, Warren, Avion Terrell, Omar Cooper, Junior, Blake Miller,
Speaker 2: Caden Procter still there, Kaden McDonald's still there, Denzel Boston
Speaker 2: still there, Caleb Banks still there. This would be a
Speaker 2: very interesting scenario because I like a lot of these
Speaker 2: names too, but twenty one might be a little too rich. Yeah,
Speaker 2: this would be a I'm looking at the potential trade
Speaker 2: down scenarios here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm all yours on that.
Speaker 2: So it looks like the Browns are offering us the
Speaker 2: twenty fourth pick that they have from Jacksonville and their seventieth.
Speaker 3: Oh, let me stop you, because Dale and I.
Speaker 2: No divisional trades. Yeah, you're right if.
Speaker 3: You're deals with the Browns, Bengals, and raven.
Speaker 2: Because that's fair and it's not gonna happen.
Speaker 3: We don't do business with them.
Speaker 2: It's not gonna happen. Let's see, the Bears are willing
Speaker 2: to give pick twenty five and pick sixty for this
Speaker 2: pick twenty one. I would really consider it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was strongly considered. They only be.
Speaker 2: Moving down four spots. The Jets willing to give thirty
Speaker 2: three and the Cowboys forty fourth pick, so you'd get
Speaker 2: the first pick of the second round and an extra
Speaker 2: second rounder, so you would have three second rounds and
Speaker 2: three third rounds.
Speaker 3: We salk business with the Bears.
Speaker 2: Wait, that would be interesting, Yeah, that would be nice.
Speaker 2: The Bears are the ones other than the Browns offering
Speaker 2: you the highest first round pick, Jets, Cardinals, Lions, Rams
Speaker 2: offering second round or two's a pair of second round
Speaker 2: so if you want to stay in the first round
Speaker 2: in chicago's the only realistic option here because we're not
Speaker 2: doing business with Cleveland exactly.
Speaker 3: So let's counter their offer with throwing a fourth next year,
Speaker 3: and you got a deal. Okay, I want something next year.
Speaker 2: So we're asking for pick twenty one, are we We're
Speaker 2: asking for twenty five sixty, yeah, and a fourth from
Speaker 2: next year.
Speaker 3: You're saying, yeah, I think that's enough to get it done.
Speaker 2: Says this trade will not be accepted.
Speaker 3: Really, Well, let's throw in a late round pick this
Speaker 3: year to get to get a couple off our Okay,
Speaker 3: I like trying to make that a little more feasible.
Speaker 3: How about one, two, three, We're not going to make
Speaker 3: that many picks anyways, we throw in a six from
Speaker 3: this year or something like that, or two later picks. Binega,
Speaker 3: what however, you gotta do it. Let's see.
Speaker 2: Mm hmmmmm hmmm. What if we do interesting, they're still not,
Speaker 2: Like even if I add fifth or six round picks,
Speaker 2: they're still not. They don't want to They don't want
Speaker 2: to part with that fourth round er from next year.
Speaker 3: Well that's fine, I mean I would do the deal
Speaker 3: without it. I was just trying to milk more out
Speaker 3: of them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I it's not bad. They they countered with. How
Speaker 2: about just this pick twenty five and pick sixty for
Speaker 2: pick twenty one, and pick eighty five.
Speaker 3: Well didn't didn't they offer those two for.
Speaker 2: Just wait, no, one second. Then we'd be yeah, we'd
Speaker 2: be going back in both of those.
Speaker 3: That's not that's not what we Yeah.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, sorry, we'd be moving up from eighty
Speaker 2: five to sixty. So we'd move back from twenty one
Speaker 2: to twenty five, but we'd be moving up from eighty
Speaker 2: five to sixty.
Speaker 3: Wasn't the original deal?
Speaker 2: I think that was similar to the original deal.
Speaker 3: I thought the original deal was their first and sixty.
Speaker 2: They're yes, their first and sixty for pick twenty one
Speaker 2: and and what was it?
Speaker 3: It realize me to put something else in besides the
Speaker 3: twenty one?
Speaker 2: Yeah it was? Was it ninety nine? Maybe that's okay, sorry,
Speaker 2: that's what it was. Their original offer was picked twenty
Speaker 2: five and pick sixty for pick twenty one and pick
Speaker 2: ninety nine. Okay, so you would move back four spots
Speaker 2: in the first round, but you would trade your last
Speaker 2: third rounder for Buffalo's second for the DJ more pick.
Speaker 3: I'm in. I think I'm in for that too, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm in.
Speaker 2: You pick up an extra, you move from the third,
Speaker 2: You basically move back for spots to swap your last
Speaker 2: third round pick for a late second.
Speaker 3: Round or late second move up more than thirty picks
Speaker 3: on Day two.
Speaker 2: Should we do it?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's do it, all right? Oh, come on, it's
Speaker 2: gonna make me pay for the pro football focused thing
Speaker 2: to do it here. Yeah, you gotta be you gotta
Speaker 2: be kidding me here. Well, all right, if that's the case, Matt.
Speaker 3: Then we won't do trade.
Speaker 2: Then we won't do trade.
Speaker 3: That's fine.
Speaker 2: And if that's the case, I am looking at Maxie
Speaker 2: and it I'm looking at Kaden Proctor.
Speaker 3: I say, I like both. Those would be my two selections.
Speaker 2: This would be my yep, my guys, I clearly you
Speaker 2: favor Max out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, group not by leaps and bounds. They're the exact
Speaker 3: same tier for me. I'd be very happy with either
Speaker 3: of twenty one. I think both would start their careers
Speaker 3: at guard and probably go to left tackle, but maybe not.
Speaker 3: Cooker Jones might be my long term answer, and they
Speaker 3: might just stay at left guard forever, and I'd be
Speaker 3: very comfortable with that too.
Speaker 2: Hmmm. I like I like mad Max here. I know
Speaker 2: that I know that you've done that in a lot
Speaker 2: of your separate ones and some of the stuff you
Speaker 2: do on Twitter, but we have it yet on the show. Cool,
Speaker 2: So I think I'd take it. I would love it
Speaker 2: if we got them at pick twenty five and swapped
Speaker 2: a third rounder for a second rounder, which I think
Speaker 2: would be a realistic outcome here.
Speaker 3: But that was kind of my thighs. I figured one
Speaker 3: of the two will probably get to twenty five. Yes,
Speaker 3: you know, there's no guarantee, but that was the risk
Speaker 3: I was willing to take.
Speaker 2: But like the Chargers behind, the Steelers aren't taking a tackle.
Speaker 3: No, maybe they always could.
Speaker 2: Browns not if they already had not if they already
Speaker 2: took freeling, and then we'd be at pick twenty.
Speaker 3: Five and I don't think the Bears were moving up
Speaker 3: for a tackle. Yeah, I'd like our chances of getting
Speaker 3: one of the two.
Speaker 2: I wish we could have executed that trade. I'll have it,
Speaker 2: you know what too. I do have a I do
Speaker 2: have a Pro Football Focus account, but I'm not going
Speaker 2: to take the time to sign out all that stuff
Speaker 2: right now. We're just gonna draft max E Nhure, tackle
Speaker 2: slash guard out of Arizona State University with our first
Speaker 2: round pick, all right back on the board here at
Speaker 2: fifty three, and oh, Matt, this if this actually played out,
Speaker 2: I think this would be an easy one. But you know,
Speaker 2: real quick, let's see here Sidiq went next. A Manuel
Speaker 2: McNeil Warren to the Eagles. I think that would make
Speaker 2: a lot of sense for them, Omar Cooper Junior to
Speaker 2: the Browns, Caden McDonald to the Bears. So yeah, we
Speaker 2: would have had our choice of both of those guys.
Speaker 3: Still side noted, I think we want Sidiq to be
Speaker 3: on the board at twenty one. Like you could you
Speaker 3: look at two ways, like if he falls, I'm glad
Speaker 3: you're bringing this up up. Yeah, Like if he falls,
Speaker 3: you're like, why was it gonna take him anyway? So
Speaker 3: somebody else moves one spot closer. But I could see
Speaker 3: him being one of the few dudes that late in
Speaker 3: the draft that a playoff team might trade.
Speaker 2: A playoff team calls and says, we'll give you pick
Speaker 2: twenty nine right and an extra thing or a third
Speaker 2: rounder next year, you know which. You would love to
Speaker 2: start building up some capital for next.
Speaker 3: Year, because I don't think picking a twenty one is
Speaker 3: all that much different than twenty seven or twenty eight
Speaker 3: in this draft.
Speaker 2: You know, I concur Caden Procter goes off the board
Speaker 2: thirtieth to the Dolphins. That's the Jaylen Wattle pick from
Speaker 2: the from the Broncos. Caleb Banks goes off the board
Speaker 2: of the Patriots. Denzel Boston to the Seahawks. A little
Speaker 2: bit of a run on these interior defensive linemen. Peter
Speaker 2: Woods goes off the board, Lee Hunter off the board.
Speaker 3: Did any of them go in the first round?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 2: Just Banks at pick thirty one? Gotcha, Zion Young, Emanuel
Speaker 2: Pregnant oh Man. I would really like this for the
Speaker 2: Raiders if they were able to get him in the
Speaker 2: second round. Yeah, I mean you put you plug him
Speaker 2: next to Linderbush there and Jackson powers Johnson, and you
Speaker 2: might have the future of your interior offensive line for
Speaker 2: a long time. Christian Miller goes off the board. Brandon
Speaker 2: Sissi to the Browns at thirty nine, Casey Concepcion to
Speaker 2: the Chiefs at forty, Jacob Rodriguez at forty two to
Speaker 2: the Saints. Caleb Lomu goes to the Dolphins at forty three.
Speaker 2: I tell you what for Miami, if you were able
Speaker 2: to get you get Procter a Lomu out of this
Speaker 2: class that's a nice start to here. That's a nice
Speaker 2: start to your rebuild. Chase Bistanis goes to the Colts
Speaker 2: at forty seven. Jake Galladay, another one of those off
Speaker 2: ball linebackers, goes to the Packers at pick fifty two.
Speaker 2: Matt This would be albeit unrealistic. Ty Simpson is still
Speaker 2: on the board and has not yet been drafted, and
Speaker 2: I think that that's unrealistic. But if you could get
Speaker 2: him at pick fifty three, I think that's a very
Speaker 2: I don't know about easy decision, but a very enticing decision.
Speaker 3: It's certainly something you gotta think about.
Speaker 2: But I just don't think that's realistic for him to last.
Speaker 3: There's once a while we do these be like I
Speaker 3: just think that's a little too unrealistic. Who are the receivers.
Speaker 2: Though, receivers? There's some ones to like. Chris Brazil is
Speaker 2: still available, Skyler Bell still available, Bryce Lance still available.
Speaker 2: So not the the run on receivers has happened.
Speaker 3: They they're not picked through.
Speaker 2: But so that's kind of where I was looking to,
Speaker 2: is that at this point, if you want to add
Speaker 2: a receiver with one of your top two picks, and
Speaker 2: you really want to get one of those top seven
Speaker 2: eight nine guys.
Speaker 3: Yance. I know we didn't we didn't make the trade,
Speaker 3: but it's I think we got to take one of
Speaker 3: the whiteouts.
Speaker 2: I do too. Chris Brasel, Skyler Bell, Elijah Surrat, Zach
Speaker 2: Zachariah Branch.
Speaker 3: I think i'd go to Serrat. Yeah, yeah, I like.
Speaker 2: That because that's a little again. I like different, that's
Speaker 2: different than what we've done, and amongst this group, I
Speaker 2: think I might lean towards Brasl But here's my choice.
Speaker 2: Serrat would be it would be my very different.
Speaker 3: Is a real technician, tough guy, multiple spots. You can
Speaker 3: line them up in Brazzle. If you watch just his
Speaker 3: highlight tape, you'd be like, is he not a first
Speaker 3: maybe the first year off the board? Right?
Speaker 2: You want to go Elijah Surratt, Dude, I would do
Speaker 2: it differently here. Let's do it so we get offensive
Speaker 2: lineman and wide receiver with our first two picks. That
Speaker 2: would be a very welcome scenario. Ty Simpson of course,
Speaker 2: goes off the board pretty quickly. Let's see who went
Speaker 2: right after the Steelers. Chris Brazzle goes two picks later
Speaker 2: to the Chargers. Aj Houseley, the safety from Lsu that
Speaker 2: I'm warming up to goes fifty six to the Jags.
Speaker 2: Ty Simpson finally drafted by the Cardinals, and that'd be
Speaker 2: a nice that'd be nice for the Cardinals. Eli Stowers,
Speaker 2: the tight end out of Vanderbilt that I really like,
Speaker 2: goes to the Patriots. Josiah Trotter, Jeremiah Trotter's son, sixty
Speaker 2: seven to the eight is there early in round three
Speaker 2: trade Ann Stukes goes off the board at seventy one
Speaker 2: to the Commanders, Zachariah Branch seventy four to the Chiefs,
Speaker 2: and Kamari Ramsey right before the Steelers. He would have
Speaker 2: been an interesting one. He goes seventy fifth to the Dolphins.
Speaker 2: So let's do one more here before we take a break.
Speaker 2: Pick number seventy six. This is our third selection for
Speaker 2: the Steelers. Let's see Grayson Houghton, defensive linean out of Oklahoma,
Speaker 2: is still there. Oh, Big Citrus is still there. Matt
Speaker 2: max Clair tight end out of Ohio State, Kyle Lewis
Speaker 2: is still there, Kyle Louis out of pre Be. I'd
Speaker 2: be tempted. Anthony Hill, junior linebacker out of Texas. Really
Speaker 2: probably really like that guy. Nuts is still there, Aller
Speaker 2: is still there. Ted Hurst is still there, although we
Speaker 2: just took a wide receiver, so I think it's too
Speaker 2: early to go back. Let's look at just the safeties.
Speaker 2: Genesis Smith is the key, Wheatley, Bud Clark, Kyle Lewis,
Speaker 2: if you're counting him in that in that spot, those
Speaker 2: are the safeties that are still available.
Speaker 3: Anybody tickling you.
Speaker 2: Big Big Citrus certainly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I would be.
Speaker 2: I just wonder if Hill certainly. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Hill's not the most physical guy, but boy he flies
Speaker 3: around the field.
Speaker 2: If I would sit down with Patrick Graham, yeah, in
Speaker 2: a off the record but truth serum type conversation, and
Speaker 2: he told me, I think Kyle Lewis can be one
Speaker 2: of those great like yes, it's it could translate, translate,
Speaker 2: it could work in our defense. Yeah, that might be
Speaker 2: the guy here. But I think I'm narrowing it down
Speaker 2: to Big Citrus and Anthony Hill Junior.
Speaker 3: I just don't know if the Steelers are looking for
Speaker 3: the traditional noses anymore. I mean, who's the last one
Speaker 3: they've had that you would say is like a Hampton
Speaker 3: like nose. It's been a long time, and Orange is
Speaker 3: in that mold you know. I mean he's not a
Speaker 3: massive pass rusher, but I think he's a good player,
Speaker 3: and he certainly would have a role, and you can
Speaker 3: move a lot of dudes around. I don't have a
Speaker 3: strong feeling on either one of those. I mean, both
Speaker 3: of them make a lot of sense to me. Hill's
Speaker 3: pretty good for this late in the draft too.
Speaker 2: He can be a top forty guy a lot of years,
Speaker 2: and you're getting him at seventy six here. H and
Speaker 2: then and then Kyle Lewis, like, listen, right, you can
Speaker 2: accuse me of being a pit hater, but I am
Speaker 2: at least honest. Those would be the three that I
Speaker 2: would be. If it's my if it's if it's west
Speaker 2: Uler's war room, and it's you know, we've got ten
Speaker 2: minutes to make this decision on. It would be Big Citrus.
Speaker 2: It would be Kyle Lewis, It would be Anthony Hill Junior.
Speaker 3: I can understand any of the above.
Speaker 2: Hmmm. I would love it if there was just a true,
Speaker 2: pure safety here that was jumping off the screen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I might go Big Citrus. That's fine,
Speaker 3: You're never gonna.
Speaker 2: I just want to keep I want to keep adding
Speaker 2: to the trench.
Speaker 3: I want to keep adding the trenches too.
Speaker 2: Let's do it. Dominique Orange aka Big Citrus is our
Speaker 2: seventy sixth overall first third round pick. Okay, before we
Speaker 2: go to break, here's who because because the good part
Speaker 2: about this is you're back on the clock nine picks later.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, you may get one of the other.
Speaker 2: For example, Anthony Hill went off the board to the jag,
Speaker 2: but Kyle lewis still there at pick eighty five. Garrett
Speaker 2: Nusmeyer still there at pick eighty five. Oh man, some
Speaker 2: interesting options for the Steelers there at pick eighty Five's
Speaker 2: a Key Wheatley, the safety out of Penn State. Who
Speaker 2: we talked to Jack Ham about. Malachi Field's still there, Matt,
Speaker 2: I didn't see him buried on the wide receiver list here.
Speaker 2: So let's take a break here, you know this, Let's
Speaker 2: leave you hanging a little bit. Where will we go
Speaker 2: with our next mock draft selection? Here it'll be our
Speaker 2: fourth overall pick, the second of the trio of third rounders.
Speaker 2: We will pick up where we left off on the
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Speaker 2: Back on the Drive here, continuing the Weekly Mock Draft Hour,
Speaker 2: Part two. Matt, you know, all right, the Best Things
Speaker 2: in the World, Part one, Part two. Much like The Godfather,
Speaker 2: we ignore that the third part exists and we just
Speaker 2: focus on the first two. This is part two of
Speaker 2: our three round weekly Steelers Mock draf. Eventually, at some
Speaker 2: point we'll beef this thing up and we'll.
Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, yeah, we'll go.
Speaker 2: Yes, sure, we'll run the marathon. Right, a lot of picks,
Speaker 2: but it's gonna be a lot of picks and that
Speaker 2: would take a full hour, I think maybe even more.
Speaker 2: But for this exercise, we're doing these Steelers first three rounds,
Speaker 2: which includes of course five picks. We have three picks
Speaker 2: in the books for those who missed it. In our
Speaker 2: previous segment. At the start of our number two pick
Speaker 2: twenty one, we took max E. Nhure tackle guard offensive
Speaker 2: linemen out of Arizona State. We would have accepted a
Speaker 2: trade with the Bears to move down four spots and
Speaker 2: as yeah and flip pick yeah, and I think we
Speaker 2: still would have gotten them, and we would have moved
Speaker 2: one of our third round picks to a second round pick,
Speaker 2: so would have still gotten your guy at twenty five.
Speaker 2: Then you get two second rounders and two third rounders
Speaker 2: instead of one second rounder in the trio of third rounders.
Speaker 2: But regardless, and.
Speaker 3: Side note, if we would have pulled that off, I mean,
Speaker 3: in the real world, it's harder to do on these,
Speaker 3: but like two second rounders, I'd have been to shop
Speaker 3: one one for next year next year's first yeah, right, right, right.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, And so we took Nhure first round, Elijah Surrat
Speaker 2: wide receiver out of Indiana, second round, and big Citrus
Speaker 2: Dominique Orange, the defensive lineman out of Iowa State, with
Speaker 2: our first of three third round picks seventy sixth overall.
Speaker 3: So I think that would do it for D lineman.
Speaker 3: I've heard a recent signing and a third round pick.
Speaker 3: I think you'd be done on the D line.
Speaker 2: So where we before I get to the list of
Speaker 2: names still available? Where are we looking for?
Speaker 3: Here?
Speaker 2: Safety still on the board.
Speaker 3: Safety still on the board. Quarterback still on the board. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'd lean more and more to not taking one at
Speaker 3: all unless you take a real late flyer. But I
Speaker 3: could definitely be convinced, you know me, I get greedy
Speaker 3: a second old lineman.
Speaker 2: Second ol linman, second wide receiver.
Speaker 3: Wide receiver. I mean, I think that's not crazy. With
Speaker 3: these third these extra third round picks.
Speaker 2: I think we could still add a linebacker at some point.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that wouldn't be bad.
Speaker 2: So here are the best available on the big board.
Speaker 2: Caid Club Nick the number one quarterback. So Ty Simpson
Speaker 2: obviously gone. Nuss went a couple picks before before we
Speaker 2: took Wait, is Nuss still on the board? Hold the phone,
Speaker 2: give me a second. No, I don't think he is.
Speaker 2: He's been drafted. He's been drafted, so on the clock
Speaker 2: at pick eighty five. Here are second of the three
Speaker 2: third round picks. Albert Regis on the board from A
Speaker 2: and M. But we're not going back to back defensive lineman.
Speaker 3: No, I think the linemen are done.
Speaker 2: You know what, Let me do this position by position.
Speaker 2: Here's the wide receivers that are still available. Oh, Ted
Speaker 2: Hurst and Malachi Fields both still on the board.
Speaker 3: I think Hurst would be perfect here, just because I
Speaker 3: know he's a little bit harder adjustment. If I was
Speaker 3: only having won, I might take Fields over Hurst. But
Speaker 3: if as a second one, if you could kind of
Speaker 3: wait until he adapts to the NFL, Hurst would be
Speaker 3: really attractive. Yes he would, just a note, yes he would.
Speaker 2: Indeed, my friend Kyle lewis still on the board. Okay, wait,
Speaker 2: sorry I was wrong. Nuss is still on the board.
Speaker 2: So those two wide receivers, Kyle lewis Nuss. Let's see
Speaker 2: who the top linebackers still a Genesis Smith, the safety
Speaker 2: is still there. Zakey Wheatley out of Penn State, who
Speaker 2: we talked about with jack Ham.
Speaker 3: Still there and we pick again soon we do.
Speaker 2: Michael Trigg, the crazy talented tight end out of Baylor
Speaker 2: still there, So I mean there's options everywhere. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I tell you what, this might be the spot where
Speaker 2: I would take Kyle Lewis. I considered taking him nine
Speaker 2: picks earlier. He if you really kind of view him
Speaker 2: as the safety, big nickel type, And yeah, maybe he
Speaker 2: learns from Jalen Ramsey and doesn't see the field a
Speaker 2: ton his rookie year.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't think he would, but that's okay, But I
Speaker 3: think he'd be as good as special teamer as or
Speaker 3: is in his class. By the way. That's that's just
Speaker 3: his makeup and speed and.
Speaker 2: All that exactly right.
Speaker 3: So Matt, I don't have a problem with that.
Speaker 2: With the options here, I do not.
Speaker 3: Think he's going to be an every down linebacker.
Speaker 2: I don't think. I just don't think he as the
Speaker 2: size now.
Speaker 3: He should be a specialty player, yes now, and that
Speaker 3: doesn't he doesn't play lost now.
Speaker 2: He played in Jack Ham's era, he could play linebackerund.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, he might have been bigger than Ham.
Speaker 2: And on game day, Matt, with the way that this
Speaker 2: line's out, I would be thinking of Kyle Lewis or
Speaker 2: one of those wide receivers. I think those are the
Speaker 2: best players available, and I think they still help.
Speaker 3: I think i'd grab Lewis and then keep your eyes
Speaker 3: open for one of the wide receivers.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm thinking, because I do like I do
Speaker 2: like ze Key Wheatley, but I think Lewis has a
Speaker 2: lot more up. Wheatly might be the safer pick for
Speaker 2: a pure safety, but Lewis, if he hits, could hit big.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he could, he could do.
Speaker 2: We add a pitman here, former pitman Matt Williamson, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I think so.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Louis Louie Louie Louie.
Speaker 2: Eighty fifth overall from next door. The Pittsburgh Steelers select
Speaker 2: Kyle Lewis, linebacker safety hybrid out of the university located
Speaker 2: in the Oakland District of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. So Matt, that
Speaker 2: leaves one more left for this exercise and bummer out
Speaker 2: a feeling this was gonna happen. But boys, both those
Speaker 2: wide receivers went off the board, not surprising. Ted Hurst
Speaker 2: actually went right after we picked eighty sixth to the Chargers.
Speaker 3: I think he's got a chance.
Speaker 2: We really good same. He's could be one of those
Speaker 2: small school guys that flies under the radar. That you know,
Speaker 2: if he went to Notre Dame, yeah, would have been
Speaker 2: the fiftieth pick.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I'd hear that.
Speaker 2: And Malachi Fields goes ninety third to the Rams. So
Speaker 2: both of those guys end up in LA, just on
Speaker 2: different rosters. Zakey Wheatley goes to the Dolphins at ninety four,
Speaker 2: Genesis Smith goes to the Seahawks at ninety six. So
Speaker 2: good thing we got a safety secondary type because the
Speaker 2: other ones that we had talked a lot about we
Speaker 2: were gone. So to this point we have a tackle
Speaker 2: slash guard in Maxie and Hure. We have a wide
Speaker 2: receiver and Elijah Surat defensive linemen, big citrus, dominique orange
Speaker 2: and safety we're gonna call him and Kyle Lewis. I
Speaker 2: love how that fits for in terms of the positions
Speaker 2: of need there too. Yeah yeah, like the players and
Speaker 2: where we got them, and I think they all fit
Speaker 2: a need that the Steelers have at this point. So
Speaker 2: with that, Matt with the last pick of the third round,
Speaker 2: with the last pick of this exercise that we're doing,
Speaker 2: this is another spot where I would really consider trading.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah yeah, but if not, and for this exercise,
Speaker 2: we're not going to NUSS is still on the board.
Speaker 3: I said I would consider a quarterback here.
Speaker 2: Michael Trigg is still on the board.
Speaker 3: O line would certainly interest me too. I it's down
Speaker 3: the road, but I don't know how much longer you'll
Speaker 3: be able to keep McCormick. I mean, I'm just preparing
Speaker 3: for that day.
Speaker 2: So let's look at specific positions here. Okay, wide receivers.
Speaker 2: Dejeon Stribbling out of Old miss is still there. Brennan
Speaker 2: Thompson from Mississippi State, CJ. Daniels from the U, Reggie
Speaker 2: Virgil from Texas, this tech. Those are the names at
Speaker 2: the top.
Speaker 3: For me, especially a double down at a position.
Speaker 2: YEA running back Matt Jonah Coleman from Washington. I thought
Speaker 2: a little.
Speaker 3: Early, but I thought I almost threw running back out there. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that Jem might be the second best in this class.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say I would not expect him to
Speaker 2: be here. Both the Penn State guys are still there.
Speaker 2: Emmett Johnson from Nebraska is still there. Interesting, he's interesting.
Speaker 2: SETH McGowan out of Kentucky. So there are some good
Speaker 2: running back options. Quarterbacks. You got Nuts, you got Aller,
Speaker 2: you got everyone but club Nick and Simpson and Mendoza.
Speaker 2: Those are the three that are so club. Nick was
Speaker 2: actually club same, but he was actually taking his QB three.
Speaker 3: I think would be my quarterback pick.
Speaker 2: Agreed, So let's sort this by you wan to QB
Speaker 2: and we're looking guard here, I would imagine right offensive line.
Speaker 3: Because Max might just steak guard. I mean, okay, here's
Speaker 3: the here's both.
Speaker 2: Here's the big board, yes, big board of all offensive lineman.
Speaker 2: Jalen Farmer out of Kentucky still there, Markel Bell out
Speaker 2: of the U, Demetrious crown Over out of A and
Speaker 2: M Billy Shureth out of Georgia, Cage Casey out of
Speaker 2: Boise State, Brian Parker the second at A Duke bo
Speaker 2: Stevens out of Iowa.
Speaker 3: I like Belle quite a bit in this neighborhood. He's
Speaker 3: not the quickest athlete, but he's enormous. Yes, he could
Speaker 3: be like your sixth tackle for now. Maybe he's your
Speaker 3: left tackle next to Max a year from now. Who knows?
Speaker 3: That would interest mens? Interest me? This lest interest me, Yeah.
Speaker 2: If they really think there's something there. But at the
Speaker 2: same time, maybe they would look at it and go, hey,
Speaker 2: Nuss is still there. Aler's still there, Carson Beck's still there,
Speaker 2: you know, like we can Yeah, yeah. I would be
Speaker 2: very intrigued here to go offensive line or running back,
Speaker 2: Matt because.
Speaker 3: The running backs are better than I expect them to be.
Speaker 2: I just don't want to take another quarterback for this exercise.
Speaker 3: I'm leaning more and more to just don't take a quarterback.
Speaker 2: And I think there's only two running backs off the
Speaker 2: board to this point.
Speaker 3: So I would be it's definitely a luxury item. But
Speaker 3: when you have this many picks.
Speaker 2: If you want me to go luxury item, I would
Speaker 2: argue for Michael Trigg, the tight end out of Baylor.
Speaker 2: But I got to go smart and kind of a luxury,
Speaker 2: but fits a need as well. I would be looking
Speaker 2: at running back and offensive line here, so I.
Speaker 3: Would say Bell or Coleman. Bell would be the old lineman.
Speaker 3: I would probably pick pure tackle. Yep, Coleman's just like
Speaker 3: probably the third best back in the.
Speaker 2: Would you go you'd go Markel Bell full pure tackle
Speaker 2: over Jalen Farmer pure guard.
Speaker 3: I think out of Kentucky. I think just because tackles
Speaker 3: are worth more.
Speaker 2: Sure, do we go offensive line or do we go
Speaker 2: running back? That is the question.
Speaker 3: O line's the wiser choice.
Speaker 2: It is, and there's still a lot of those running
Speaker 2: backs there. Man.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I say, you probably get Coleman's.
Speaker 2: Tempting, but he might be gone.
Speaker 3: I doubt it would make it to the fourth, but EMITTT.
Speaker 2: Johnson and those Penn State guys will probably still be there.
Speaker 2: SETH McGowan out of Kentucky will probably still be there.
Speaker 3: I don't take.
Speaker 2: I don't hate double dipping on the offensive line here.
Speaker 3: I don't either. It's probably the direction I would lean,
Speaker 3: but I do worry. Worst case scenario, Caleb Johnson's a
Speaker 3: bust like you. Just the new staff looks at him
Speaker 3: and says, sorry, I just don't think you're good enough,
Speaker 3: and I don't think.
Speaker 2: That'st you to run the outside zone scheme. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: that's not our cup of tea.
Speaker 3: You're not for us. And one of the other two
Speaker 3: backs gets hurt because they do that. You know, like
Speaker 3: back might be of a little bit bigger need than
Speaker 3: you think. I'm just it's probably fourth, fifth round, but
Speaker 3: we have this is not something we've discussed. Yeah, at
Speaker 3: least we need to throw it out there. Yes, yeah, yes,
Speaker 3: so I think I take the old lineman here, it's
Speaker 3: probably your last chance to get a tackle.
Speaker 2: That's where I'm thinking. I'm thinking, after this, there's not
Speaker 2: going to be any offensive lineman that really tickle our fancy.
Speaker 2: But it could still be a running back or two.
Speaker 2: And it's done.
Speaker 3: Like if you take the old linement, you're done with
Speaker 3: the line.
Speaker 2: Let's take MARKL. Bell lock it in.
Speaker 3: He'd be like, you're taking two tackles. And what if
Speaker 3: Roderck Jones good and Cook's good? And good problem to have?
Speaker 3: Great that we have extra tackles, great problem to have.
Speaker 3: Sign me up.
Speaker 2: So in this version of what is this, I think
Speaker 2: the third or fourth week that we've done this are
Speaker 2: s n R Drive Weekly Mock Draft, our five picks.
Speaker 2: We take first round Maxie and h R Tackle slash
Speaker 2: guard out of their potential to play guard for a
Speaker 2: year or so out of Arizona State. Then we go
Speaker 2: wide receiver National champion, which fits. That's something Omar Kahn
Speaker 2: has done every year. But Roderick Jones, Roman Wilson will hired.
Speaker 2: Remember national champ, oh Jack Sawyer will hired and Jackson.
Speaker 3: I think the Indiana guys are gonna go pretty high,
Speaker 3: a little higher than people think they're just so well coached,
Speaker 3: so well coast. Nflready is a term I don't really like,
Speaker 3: but they're a little more NFL ready professional with you know,
Speaker 3: I think those guys are going to play a lot
Speaker 3: in his rookies. The Indiana crew.
Speaker 2: Elijah Surratt second round, wide receiver out of the National
Speaker 2: champion Indiana Hoosiers. Third round, we go big citrus Dominique
Speaker 2: Orange out of Iowa State, the big nosy defensive linemen.
Speaker 2: Then we stay local. Kyle Lewis third round. Some potential.
Speaker 2: He's the jack of all trades, but master of none.
Speaker 2: That doesn't translate to the NFL.
Speaker 3: Should happen. That could certainly be a lifetime special teamer.
Speaker 2: But he could also hit and be one of these
Speaker 2: unique kind of big nickel slot capable type pieces in
Speaker 2: the secondary that are the new wave in the National
Speaker 2: Football League. He's our second third round pick. And then
Speaker 2: Markel Bell from National Champion runner up Miami the tackle.
Speaker 2: We double dip there on the offensive line, so two
Speaker 2: offensive linemen, why receiver, a defensive lineman, and a safety.
Speaker 2: Matt If that's if those are the first five picks,
Speaker 2: I'm I'm signing up for that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'd be pretty excited about that.
Speaker 2: We're still too early in this process.
Speaker 3: Go into day three really not needing much running back.
Speaker 3: But that's about a running back at some point. But
Speaker 3: you could start trading picks or moving up. I mean again,
Speaker 3: there's they have such a well have seven picks after this? Yeah,
Speaker 3: I know where you do it after a while, fight
Speaker 3: a camp arm or whatever. But you know, maybe maybe
Speaker 3: he's more than that. So there another tight end.
Speaker 2: Yeah, another tight end, I think too. Yeah, running they
Speaker 2: will draft the tight end, maybe linebacker, but yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: but you would really feel like you would be wide
Speaker 2: open for business and any and all possibilities. One more
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Speaker 2: Final segment of the week. Here fired Up on a Friday.
Speaker 2: It's been a good day. It's been a good week
Speaker 2: of shows, and Matt, there's only one thing left to
Speaker 2: do but close this week down with some participation on
Speaker 2: the ex Twitter. All right, but before we do that,
Speaker 2: we do have some uh some some Steelers news, breaking
Speaker 2: Steelers news that we do need to discuss today. And
Speaker 2: that is a name that we've mentioned, Ryan McCollum back
Speaker 2: in the fold for the Black and Gold.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I forget exactly how it went. They did not
Speaker 3: offer him a tender as a restricted, but then they
Speaker 3: signed him to a one year deal just now, which
Speaker 3: means he'll be in camp. I assume there won't be it.
Speaker 3: I haven't seen the exact contract details, but I assume
Speaker 3: it's not a huge, you know, amount of money or
Speaker 3: a lot of guaranteed money, because you know, if he
Speaker 3: doesn't make the team, then you know he doesn't make
Speaker 3: the team. So I don't think he's guaranteed a spot,
Speaker 3: but he's a quality backup center and you probably play
Speaker 3: him a ton in the preseason with Howard and go
Speaker 3: from there. And I know he has played guard, but
Speaker 3: I would rather that guy be three players, three position strong,
Speaker 3: as opposed to just juste.
Speaker 2: You know, but if you get to a point where
Speaker 2: you don't have that guy that's three positions strong, Collum
Speaker 2: is a certainly a capable backup center. According to our
Speaker 2: buddy Alan Saunders, the restricted if they would have retained
Speaker 2: his rights as a restricted free agent, it would have
Speaker 2: been three and a half million bucks last year McCollum.
Speaker 2: Last year McCollum made a little over a million, so
Speaker 2: allan kind of prognosticating that it's probably somewhere in between those.
Speaker 3: Yeah, probably one year two million or something like that,
Speaker 3: which makes that out a lot of guarantee or anything
Speaker 3: like that. So an underrated job of the GM and
Speaker 3: roster builder is you really need to have not not
Speaker 3: that they have to be great, but you have to
Speaker 3: be able to field preseason offensive lines from first quarter,
Speaker 3: second or third quarter, fourth quarter that are at least
Speaker 3: good enough that you can evaluate the other players.
Speaker 2: That's that's a sneaky part of this process that if
Speaker 2: you put Will Howard out there behind it a bunch
Speaker 2: of traffic cones, Right, how are you really going to
Speaker 2: evaluate if he can play or not?
Speaker 3: Or hey, is Caleb Johnson good enough or not? But
Speaker 3: you don't block for him at all in the games?
Speaker 2: You know, Like, come on, it's the same conversation that
Speaker 2: we had with Malik Willis and Miami kind of stripping
Speaker 2: off all the assets around him, right right, but just
Speaker 2: at a second string level.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, exactly. Like if you're a or quarter in
Speaker 3: the preseason and you're a line which is a shortage position,
Speaker 3: can't block a soul, well, I can't evaluate anybody else.
Speaker 3: Quarterback got sacked for a receiver he can open.
Speaker 2: You know, that's a great point. It's something we don't
Speaker 2: think about often, but yeah, certainly.
Speaker 3: For figuring out who your best guys are big.
Speaker 2: Part of the process. All right, let's get to some
Speaker 2: tweets before we get out of here. We got about
Speaker 2: six minutes or so. Let's buzz through as many of
Speaker 2: these as we can t MAAC tweets and says, if
Speaker 2: you guys were to make an all time franchise team
Speaker 2: for every team in the league, would the Steelers be
Speaker 2: the best? I think so by far, thanks Jents. I
Speaker 2: don't know about by far far really really really sure
Speaker 2: would be very good. Niners would be very good, Patriots
Speaker 2: would be very good. Packers would be very good.
Speaker 3: Yeah. And the thing about the stage they might be
Speaker 3: at the top. There aren't many weak spots, that's to
Speaker 3: the Steelers exactly right, Like offensive tackles not amazing, And
Speaker 3: by that I mean there's just not Hall of Famers,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean. I mean, Max Start, but you.
Speaker 2: Know it's not Joe Thomas right and Trent Williams and you.
Speaker 3: Know, I mean if your guard center combination is Fanica
Speaker 3: and the Castro, and then you've got to pick between
Speaker 3: Dirt and Webby good Lord, tackles not as strong.
Speaker 2: You need to move one of Dirt Webb conversation.
Speaker 3: But yeah, but yeah, I mean and tight end Heath
Speaker 3: Miller's pretty darn good. I mean, but if those are
Speaker 3: your weaknesses, that's what I'm saying, Like, that's your weaknesses,
Speaker 3: and you've.
Speaker 2: Got a Hall of Famer at every other position.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I mean Woodson and Blunt, or maybe two
Speaker 3: of the top three corners ever lived, or two of
Speaker 3: the deathly the top five. You know. So, and you
Speaker 3: can say that a lot of spots.
Speaker 2: Yes, you can.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I think I think the answers yes.
Speaker 2: Off the top of my head, I think the answer
Speaker 2: is yes, the Cowboys would be really good. The Niners
Speaker 2: would be really good.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think the Steelers might have the best roster. Yeah,
Speaker 2: on paper. Yeah, in terms of the defense, would have
Speaker 2: a Hall of Famer at every position.
Speaker 3: I mean, especially if you're filling out like a fifty three,
Speaker 3: if like Levon Kirkland's your third string linebacker, or you
Speaker 3: know things.
Speaker 2: Like that lev Bell is your third string running back.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, right right, or you know, Bradshaw's your backup.
Speaker 3: You know things like that, Matt.
Speaker 2: Matt, talk to me about this real quick. Antonio Brown,
Speaker 2: Lynn Swan, John Stalworth, Hines, Ward, Plexico Burs.
Speaker 3: I think Wards you're four, Like, come on, it's pretty strong.
Speaker 2: Prances your five?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, like, come on, pretty good.
Speaker 2: It's unbelievable.
Speaker 3: It's unbelievable. Yes, Stellers, I would shocked if I could
Speaker 3: come up with a team bet.
Speaker 2: Maybe that's something we could say for the offseason in
Speaker 2: June if we need to kill an hour of like
Speaker 2: what does the Cowboys team look like? What does the
Speaker 2: Niners and the Packers teams look like? And they'd be
Speaker 2: really good, it'd be really awesome, without a doubt, without
Speaker 2: about Let's see here, here's a smooth Dave. This is
Speaker 2: a good one. What's the furthest you would trade up
Speaker 2: for these players? Sunny Styles, Caleb Downs, Carnel Tait.
Speaker 3: I don't know if I would trade up for any
Speaker 3: nothing realistic. I mean, like, yeah, i'd go to like fifteen.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say I would go to the fifteen
Speaker 2: to seventeen range, probably for Styles and.
Speaker 3: Probably any of that.
Speaker 2: Probably for any of them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, great, And I just don't think that's realistic. I'm
Speaker 3: not going to eight or nine and have to give
Speaker 3: up like next year's first And that's why I think
Speaker 3: we'd have to go. I mean, I'm giving up no
Speaker 3: picks next year to go up in any trades.
Speaker 2: Yes, I am absolutely not doing that, Absolutely not doing that.
Speaker 2: Let's see here, tweets us and says Matt has talked
Speaker 2: about how he's liking the idea of offensive line in
Speaker 2: round one and then receiver after that. I think we're
Speaker 2: both warming up to that idea. Who are some of
Speaker 2: your favorite wide receivers after round one?
Speaker 3: So we've kind.
Speaker 2: Of played this out with some of our exercises. But
Speaker 2: I think Tate is a round one guy, Lemon, round
Speaker 2: one guy, Tyson round one.
Speaker 3: Guy most likely. But I don't think any of those
Speaker 3: are there in the second.
Speaker 2: For the steal Boston conception.
Speaker 3: I would think they're all gone for sure.
Speaker 2: Did you put Omar Cooper Junior as the.
Speaker 3: Sixth you'd be the next one? Yeah?
Speaker 2: By fifty three?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's gone by then.
Speaker 2: So at that point, Chris Brazil, Malachi Fields, Ted.
Speaker 3: Hurst surat that we took that.
Speaker 2: We just took Jeremy Bernard out of Alabama.
Speaker 3: Both the small dudes Lance with North Coast North Dakota
Speaker 3: State and the Georgia State dude Hurst Hurst, Yep, absolutely,
Speaker 3: both the little dudes Georgia and Oklahoma. I think they're
Speaker 3: really interesting. Did you mention Bernard from Alabama?
Speaker 2: I think yes, yes, Jeremy Bernard. Yep.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of names, and some of them will
Speaker 3: drift into the third round. I don't know at the
Speaker 3: end of the third round, but they'll drift into the
Speaker 3: third round for sure. Day two receivers in this class
Speaker 3: are really really good. The other one that's a crazy
Speaker 3: one is the Louisville kid. He's two and twenty five
Speaker 3: pounds and I.
Speaker 2: Guess the spell best spell.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he got hurt late in the year. He is
Speaker 3: unbelievable with the ball in his hands. People think he
Speaker 3: was going to run like a four to three if
Speaker 3: you if you look at his charting data, you know
Speaker 3: his mal per hour stuff. It was one of the
Speaker 3: fastest in the country. And he's like two twenty five
Speaker 3: with like a he's like a bigger debo. He has
Speaker 3: some real ups and downs, but his ups are He's
Speaker 3: another one that you put his highlight tape out there.
Speaker 3: It's like he's the best player in the league. He's
Speaker 3: the best best receiver in the draft. Now he's injured
Speaker 3: as we speak, but he's really interesting.
Speaker 2: Let's see, we got time for one or two more here.
Speaker 2: Rj tweets about the rule change conversation that we had yesterday,
Speaker 2: said that he enjoyed that, but he would add. The
Speaker 2: rule change that he would add is stop giving the
Speaker 2: ball to the defense when the offense fumbles it through
Speaker 2: the end zone.
Speaker 3: I've said that for thirty Yearsay this is a.
Speaker 2: Big point of contention in these conversations.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's a popular.
Speaker 2: One, But I think a lot of people would tell you, like, hey,
Speaker 2: we legislate everything in the end of this, like this
Speaker 2: would this would always be Motes's argument when this, when
Speaker 2: this would come up. Everything in the NFL is legislated
Speaker 2: to make life or easier on the offense. Can you
Speaker 2: give the defense this one thing? Yeah, Like creating a
Speaker 2: turnover at the goal line is not equal to creating
Speaker 2: a turn turnover on the rest of the field. Like
Speaker 2: it's a heightened situation. The offense should know that they
Speaker 2: have to have more ball security and be on their
Speaker 2: p's and q's in that situation. Which I get that
Speaker 2: side of it, But yeah, there's also the rule that
Speaker 2: a fumble can advanced the ball forward, So why don't
Speaker 2: we keep that same logic in the end zone so
Speaker 2: I can see both sides of.
Speaker 3: That are my big take on I hate the rule
Speaker 3: as it is because I don't like that a team
Speaker 3: can get possession without ever possessing the ball, like the
Speaker 3: defense never possessed the football. I just fumbled it out.
Speaker 3: It's reaching across a pylon or whatever. But I've also
Speaker 3: never heard an answer that I like for to solve it.
Speaker 3: I've never been like, so we do this instead, I'm like, give.
Speaker 2: It to him at the toy, answer to him at
Speaker 2: the two or.
Speaker 3: I've heard a lot of people throw things out, but
Speaker 3: none of them have been like, yep, that's the answer.
Speaker 2: I sit on the fence.
Speaker 3: One smart needs to come up with an answer.
Speaker 2: I sit on the fence on that one big time too.
Speaker 2: So I can see both sides of the argument. Last one,
Speaker 2: Sudesh says football is not just my favorite sport, it's church.
Speaker 2: That being said, I love March badness. How about you, guys,
Speaker 2: with your time constraints considered.
Speaker 3: Are you a big fan?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, Matt, you and I are. I think
Speaker 2: it's kind of funny actually, in the ways that you
Speaker 2: and I are similar were very similar, but in the
Speaker 2: ways that were different were very different. I've made this
Speaker 2: joke before. If it's not the NFL or Mario Lemieux,
Speaker 2: you don't really care in the sports world.
Speaker 3: I used to when I was younger. It just had
Speaker 3: to keep whittling it down and right.
Speaker 2: I love the sports calendar as much as football is
Speaker 2: my end all be all. I love March Badness, I
Speaker 2: love the l I love college sports. I love European soccer,
Speaker 2: the Premier League and the Champions League and the World Cup.
Speaker 2: I love the Olympics. I love the difference. I'll be
Speaker 2: tuned into the Masters here in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 2: I do love the different things on the sports calendar.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't even fill out a bracket. If I
Speaker 3: don't watch any of it, so be it.
Speaker 2: You know this Baseball is my least favorite sport of
Speaker 2: all major sports. But when the World Baseball Classics on,
Speaker 2: I'm locked in. Yea, when it's the World Series, I'm
Speaker 2: locked in.
Speaker 3: I respect the tournament to know end, though. I mean
Speaker 3: there's a difference in terms of do I actually on
Speaker 3: or go out of my way to watch it, or
Speaker 3: care who wins. I mean, it's an unbelievable event and
Speaker 3: all that part I respect to no end. This year,
Speaker 3: I actually care about two teams Ohio. I have a
Speaker 3: friend of the family who's own Miami, Ohio, and my
Speaker 3: son goes to Kentucky. So but we write them a
Speaker 3: big check. I want them to win, you know. But
Speaker 3: all the other games, I really don't. I heard fashion,
Speaker 3: but overall, I don't care who wins and any of it.
Speaker 3: And like my buddies, I got a lot of buddies
Speaker 3: that have taken Thursday and Friday off for decades and
Speaker 3: they go watch it all and that's cool, you know.
Speaker 3: And I would sit there and have a cold one
Speaker 3: with them, no doubt. And I might even deny after
Speaker 3: britt Floyd or whatever or tomorrow or whatever. But I
Speaker 3: don't care who wins, and I wouldn't change my schedule
Speaker 3: for it's just where I am now.
Speaker 2: That makes a lot of sense, and I think that's
Speaker 2: how a lot of people are. But I also don't
Speaker 2: begrudge the people that use Thursdays a personal day, take
Speaker 2: some pto and belly up to their favorite establishment and
Speaker 2: watch hoops all day. It is. It's a fantastic tradition
Speaker 2: here in this country.
Speaker 3: I mean, I know many men that have gotten snipped right.
Speaker 2: Before that that's their busiest thing to do.
Speaker 3: That's their busiest time, right, Like I gotta stay on
Speaker 3: the couch on you're a.
Speaker 2: Right sorry man, can't do anything right all.
Speaker 3: Do Wednesday says Thursday, I can't do anything.
Speaker 2: Enjoy the madness this weekend, everybody, Matt. Enjoy the Britt
Speaker 2: Floyd tonight.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's true fun.
Speaker 2: We'll be back on Monday to kick off another week
Speaker 2: for the intrepid video producer Tyler V Mister TV for
Speaker 2: Matt Williamson, and a big, huge thanks to the legend
Speaker 2: Jack Ham. Take care everybody. We'll talk to you next week.
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