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Speaker 1: Happy Draft Week, everybody. We are just days away from

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Speaker 1: the NFL Draft and I am absolutely positively pumped up

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Speaker 1: and will sell them. These are your good morning football

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Speaker 1: headlines from NFL Network. According to the NFL networking Satan Rappaport,

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Speaker 1: the forty nine Ers, owners of the third overall picking

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Speaker 1: Thursday's draft, have narrowed their focus on selecting either Alabama

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Speaker 1: quarterback Matt Jones or North Dakota State quarterback Trey Lance.

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Speaker 1: Even though Ohio States Justin Fields is a highly touted prospect,

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Speaker 1: the belief is he's out of the running elsewhere. New

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Speaker 1: Lions general manager Brad Holmes made the first big trade

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Speaker 1: of twenty twenty one and in Matthew Stafford to the

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Speaker 1: Rams for Jared Goffin and bebby of picks, and he

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Speaker 1: may not be done making moves at seven. We do

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Speaker 1: have a cluster of players that were compartable with picking,

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Speaker 1: you know. And but at the same time, you know,

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Speaker 1: we will be very prepared and you know, also willing

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Speaker 1: to move, you know, in either direction. But you know,

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Speaker 1: so we're still open in those regards, but there are

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Speaker 1: a cluss of players that would be calls. Yeah, then

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Speaker 1: just to quickly clarify, have you had talked with other

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Speaker 1: teams regarding trading down at this point. Uh, yeah, there

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Speaker 1: has been discussions with other teams. I will keep those

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Speaker 1: in the house, but yeah, I mean there has been discussions. Carolina,

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Speaker 1: who picks that eighth overall, is heading into its second

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Speaker 1: draft and a head coach Matt Rule. Recently he met

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Speaker 1: with reporters and let us in on his process evaluating

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Speaker 1: draft prospects. The tape drives who they are, that they're

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Speaker 1: they're measurables, and trades drives who they are what people

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Speaker 1: say about them. I think it's really key. I think

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Speaker 1: when you treat people well, um, you know, people in

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Speaker 1: the building, Uh, you know, we're excited to talk about you.

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Speaker 1: And then and then as I've talked to guys, you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm leaving here and going back down and doing another

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Speaker 1: zoom call. I have something tomorrow to um. You know,

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Speaker 1: I like to ask it. I like to ask everything

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Speaker 1: from you know, if you could, you know, if you're

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Speaker 1: on a desert island, you can listen to one artist,

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Speaker 1: what would it be that who your favorite player was

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Speaker 1: growing up? I think you find out a lot about guys.

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Speaker 1: But at the end of the day. You know what

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Speaker 1: they put on tape in college is the most important

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Speaker 1: thing to me in terms of, you know, the way

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Speaker 1: that they play the game. Just like Carolina and Detroit

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Speaker 1: into GM Chris Ballard acquiring a new signal caller for

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Speaker 1: his franchise. When he's want to deal with Philly for

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Speaker 1: Carson Wentz, Ballard knows he has to protect him with

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Speaker 1: the possible pick with the twenty first overall selection, because

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Speaker 1: when we're left tackle Anthony Costanzo retired this off season,

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Speaker 1: the Ballard acknowledge another position could be in play. I

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Speaker 1: think it's a good draft. I think it's I think

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Speaker 1: it's in terms of just all the offensive lineman as

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Speaker 1: a whole, it's really good. And then for defensive end,

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Speaker 1: I mean you lose Denico Austrey, you know, justin Houston.

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Speaker 1: You know, two good players and Justin's still you know

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Speaker 1: out there right now. Those are those are big shoes

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Speaker 1: to field. On Friday, the Browns exercise in the fifth

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Speaker 1: year options for both of the twenty eighteen first round picks,

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Speaker 1: quarterback Baker Mayfield and cornerback Denzel Ward, both players now

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Speaker 1: under contract through twenty twenty two. Cleveland general manager Andrew

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Speaker 1: Barry feeling with the way his rosters currently constructed, this

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Speaker 1: draft provides the ability to improve upon last season's success.

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Speaker 1: I like we're picking and not just at twenty six,

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Speaker 1: but at fifty nine, eighty nine, nine, one, one, ten

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Speaker 1: and so forth. You know, I think there are plenty

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Speaker 1: of opportunities where we can, you know, add young players

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Speaker 1: that that can grow with us, you know, over the

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Speaker 1: next several years. I think the positioning in this draft

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Speaker 1: allows us to be very flexible, you know, whether that's

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Speaker 1: moving up, down or sitting in picking. And you know,

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Speaker 1: largely that'll be dictated by how the walls, how the

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Speaker 1: ward falls ahead of us, you know, but I think

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Speaker 1: we have a lot of flexibility heading into on Thursday night.

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Speaker 1: It's a new jersey number for a former Cardinals starr

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Speaker 1: veteran corner Patrick Peterson and now sitting on his All

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Speaker 1: Things Covered podcasts that he will wear the number seven,

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Speaker 1: the same number he wore during his days at LSU.

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Speaker 1: That number seven was worn previously by the team's seventh

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Speaker 1: round pick from last season, quarterback Nate Stanley. Stanley is

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Speaker 1: now going to don number fourteen. For look ahead to

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Speaker 1: great week. I'm Will Silva and those of you. Good

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