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Speaker 1: This is straight Fire with Jason McIntyre. What is up, everybody,

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Speaker 1: It's me Jason McIntyre, Straight Fire for Thursday, February. The

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Speaker 1: month is just flying by, is it not. Uh got

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Speaker 1: some great reaction so far from hosting Undisputed this week.

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much for the kind words. Except for

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Speaker 1: seventy Sixers fans and Clippers fans who are just destroying

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Speaker 1: me in my mentions all week for stuff I've said

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Speaker 1: calm down. It's the middle of February. There's a long

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Speaker 1: season left to go. Um. Also, great reaction to the

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Speaker 1: Albert ber interview on yesterday's podcast. You guys really seem

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Speaker 1: to enjoy that. And I have to say, Rob G

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Speaker 1: and I like to dig through the numbers. We're looking

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Speaker 1: for anything we can find, any nuggets, kind of looking

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Speaker 1: for a needle in a haste. Dec Right, We're doing

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Speaker 1: five pods a week and for whatever reason, Um, the

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Speaker 1: numbers for the podcast we did earlier this week regarding

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Speaker 1: as a podcast for sure. Actually it's been a little

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Speaker 1: longer than six months. We started in August. But for

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Speaker 1: whatever reason, that episode is flying around. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if it got caught up. It's some message boards or

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Speaker 1: on some Reddit um action or whatever, but thank you

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Speaker 1: guys for sharing it and obviously subscribing, rating and reviewing. UM.

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Speaker 1: We have a good episode today coming up. An interview

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Speaker 1: with a guy who just got hired to contribute to

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Speaker 1: ESPN's draft coverage, Matt Miller. UM, we disagree on some players. Uh,

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Speaker 1: he's got some interesting insight on some wide receivers. We

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Speaker 1: do agree the wide receivers are gonna be fall ling

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Speaker 1: in the draft. I will be gambling on the NFL Draft.

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Speaker 1: We will be doing stuff for Fox Sports. UM, definitely

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Speaker 1: stick around for that. It's a good way to make money. Listen,

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Speaker 1: nothing to slam duncan gambling, but if you can read

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Speaker 1: of I've had a good couple of years UM betting

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Speaker 1: Real quick before we get to the interview. Just a

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Speaker 1: couple of things. Um. First of all, I don't care

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Speaker 1: The Lakers are a wounded animal right now. UM, I

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Speaker 1: think the better story by a mile. Um, probably we'll

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Speaker 1: get you know, glossed over. But have you looked at

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Speaker 1: the second half schedule that came out for the Lakers? Um?

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Speaker 1: I said this on Undisputed. I don't think the other

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Speaker 1: But according to Basketball Reference, the Lakers had the easiest

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Speaker 1: schedule in the NBA in the first half of the season.

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Speaker 1: Their second half schedule is absolutely brutal. They have eight

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Speaker 1: I can't say it enough. Lebron and the Lakers had

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Speaker 1: a seventy one day off season, shortest in the history

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Speaker 1: of sports NFL, MLB, rugby, soccer, whatever, seventy one days. Okay.

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Speaker 1: Lebron is thirty six years old. Under no circumstances should

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Speaker 1: a move here, folks. The waving of Quinn Cook is

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Speaker 1: Let's get to our our interview with Matt Miller, who

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Speaker 1: doing well, Jason Man. I've been following your York forever.

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Speaker 1: falls in the middle of that trend, right. And then

425
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Speaker 1: with you mentioned Jayalen Waddle Davante Smith, I can see

426
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Speaker 1: a scenario where they're coming off the board in the

427
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Speaker 1: early teens. Just because you mentioned those positions in the

428
00:20:30,840 --> 00:20:35,000
Speaker 1: top ten. Quarterback, pass rusher, left tackle, corner. Those are

429
00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:37,919
Speaker 1: the four most important positions in football and wide receiver.

430
00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:41,080
Speaker 1: Depending on your scheme, it falls in there somewhere. But

431
00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:43,800
Speaker 1: you know, if you're the Dolphins, you have three and eighteen.

432
00:20:44,280 --> 00:20:46,440
Speaker 1: At three, you should be looking for a blue chip

433
00:20:46,520 --> 00:20:48,879
Speaker 1: difference maker, someone who at number three over all you

434
00:20:48,920 --> 00:20:51,440
Speaker 1: should be an all Pro. And does Jamaar Chase look

435
00:20:51,520 --> 00:20:53,240
Speaker 1: like an All Pro? Or does he look like a

436
00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:55,520
Speaker 1: pretty good receiver. That's what they have to try to

437
00:20:55,520 --> 00:20:58,160
Speaker 1: figure out. Yeah, and that's why you know, like, okay,

438
00:20:58,280 --> 00:21:01,800
Speaker 1: let's let's go through it. Obviously, quarterback one, assuming the

439
00:21:01,880 --> 00:21:06,160
Speaker 1: Jets don't get Watson. Quarterback to assuming Miami doesn't get Watson,

440
00:21:06,760 --> 00:21:09,199
Speaker 1: it gets interesting. I would assume they go with the

441
00:21:09,640 --> 00:21:12,720
Speaker 1: you know, one of the tackles, right slater or or

442
00:21:13,320 --> 00:21:17,040
Speaker 1: maybe yeah, yeah S from Oregon and Rashon Slider from Northwestern.

443
00:21:17,040 --> 00:21:18,680
Speaker 1: You would think so, but I think they're a trade

444
00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:21,520
Speaker 1: out scenario. Only get too deep for that, but something

445
00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:25,280
Speaker 1: trade team to get a quarterback, to get a quarterback, right,

446
00:21:25,320 --> 00:21:27,760
Speaker 1: you want to get ahead of Atlanta. Just in case

447
00:21:28,240 --> 00:21:31,360
Speaker 1: you want ahead of Let's talk about Atlanta for a sex.

448
00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:33,480
Speaker 1: They're they're one of the toughest teams. I've mocked them

449
00:21:33,560 --> 00:21:36,400
Speaker 1: quitty just because of something I heard from somebody who

450
00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:39,280
Speaker 1: I respect and I got I got text messages like

451
00:21:39,359 --> 00:21:41,399
Speaker 1: Jay there's no way he's going for I'm like, all right,

452
00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:44,960
Speaker 1: well that's Atlanta for me. Is the toughest to figure

453
00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:46,719
Speaker 1: out right that they're not going to need a receiver.

454
00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:49,840
Speaker 1: I don't see them moving on. Arthur Smith gets the

455
00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:51,480
Speaker 1: job and then kicks Matt Ryan to the curb and

456
00:21:51,520 --> 00:21:54,840
Speaker 1: gets the court makes it doesn't make sense. So where

457
00:21:54,840 --> 00:21:56,600
Speaker 1: do where do you see that? And they got five

458
00:21:56,680 --> 00:21:59,520
Speaker 1: first round picks. Now they haven't all played like them

459
00:21:59,560 --> 00:22:02,760
Speaker 1: on the pensive line. Is it too rich for a cornerback?

460
00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:04,800
Speaker 1: Where are you on four men? I think it's too

461
00:22:04,840 --> 00:22:06,480
Speaker 1: rich for a corner I look at someone like Kyle

462
00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:09,600
Speaker 1: Pits from Florida, who is he a tight end? Is

463
00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:11,520
Speaker 1: he a wide receiver? You call him whatever you want.

464
00:22:11,600 --> 00:22:14,119
Speaker 1: He's just a playmaker. He's just a difference maker. So

465
00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:17,400
Speaker 1: you have Julio, you got Calvin Ridley, Hayden Hurston played

466
00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:19,520
Speaker 1: terribly for them last year after they got in from Baltimore.

467
00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:22,320
Speaker 1: But you're gonna roll with Matt Ryan for at least

468
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Speaker 1: another year, maybe two. Right, he's only thirty five. You

469
00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:27,280
Speaker 1: plan a dome, so you're okay, it's not he's out

470
00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:30,240
Speaker 1: in Chicago throwing you know, missiles against you know, the

471
00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:33,199
Speaker 1: frigid air in the Windy City. So I think you

472
00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:34,920
Speaker 1: running back from Matt Ryan and you try to put

473
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Speaker 1: something around him. You mentioned it. I mean they've spent

474
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Speaker 1: a lot on the offensive line. You know, three players

475
00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:42,240
Speaker 1: that they've drafted themselves, two more that they brought in,

476
00:22:42,640 --> 00:22:45,080
Speaker 1: and so there's not a defender that you look at

477
00:22:45,080 --> 00:22:48,320
Speaker 1: there that's a huge difference maker. So I think it

478
00:22:48,359 --> 00:22:50,720
Speaker 1: has to be has to be someone on offense or

479
00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:53,840
Speaker 1: you know, or Terry Fotno says, we're not gonna be

480
00:22:53,840 --> 00:22:56,240
Speaker 1: picking this high very often. Let's get our quarterback in

481
00:22:56,280 --> 00:22:59,080
Speaker 1: the future while we can. Yeah, when you're analyzing, you know,

482
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Speaker 1: my drafts. And I know a lot of the people say, hey,

483
00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:03,560
Speaker 1: I'd rather just do a top fifty list, you know,

484
00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:05,960
Speaker 1: wait till the later for the MOX. But how much

485
00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:09,440
Speaker 1: do you take into account new GM, familiarity with the GM,

486
00:23:09,840 --> 00:23:12,760
Speaker 1: what they've done in the past, things like that. Oh,

487
00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:15,480
Speaker 1: it's everything, it really is. I try to I try

488
00:23:15,480 --> 00:23:17,639
Speaker 1: to put myself in the seat of that front office

489
00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:19,520
Speaker 1: with that pick. So when I do mock drafts, it's

490
00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:22,040
Speaker 1: like a It's a long, exhaustive thing for me. I

491
00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:24,119
Speaker 1: don't just sit down and write down thirty two names.

492
00:23:24,119 --> 00:23:27,080
Speaker 1: It's okay. If I'm Atlanta and I make this decision,

493
00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:28,960
Speaker 1: how do you know what do I do in the

494
00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:31,040
Speaker 1: second round? What is that? What am I looking at?

495
00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:33,040
Speaker 1: In terms of future contracts? And so I try to

496
00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:36,280
Speaker 1: stay really organized with Google spreadsheets to basically say, here's

497
00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:38,400
Speaker 1: your teammates for this year, here's your teammates for next year,

498
00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:41,360
Speaker 1: here's your cap situation, here's the scheme that we run

499
00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:44,200
Speaker 1: on offense and defense, and so trying to be as

500
00:23:44,640 --> 00:23:46,680
Speaker 1: you know, organized as possible to make that right pick.

501
00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:49,200
Speaker 1: I know fans don't always like it, because fans don't

502
00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:51,720
Speaker 1: like anything, but you know, you you really do try

503
00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:54,119
Speaker 1: to be to make the best educated guests in the

504
00:23:54,119 --> 00:23:56,560
Speaker 1: absence of intel. As you get closer to the draft,

505
00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:59,040
Speaker 1: just start to hear things of Atlanta's kind of go

506
00:23:59,119 --> 00:24:01,359
Speaker 1: in this direction or that direction, and you can usually

507
00:24:01,359 --> 00:24:04,159
Speaker 1: get the position right, if not the player. But you know,

508
00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:07,080
Speaker 1: mock drafts are a thankless process, that's for sure. That's

509
00:24:07,080 --> 00:24:09,480
Speaker 1: for sure. Yeah, So let me ask you about Arthur Smith.

510
00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:13,119
Speaker 1: So in Tennessee, you know, was it his idea to

511
00:24:13,480 --> 00:24:16,119
Speaker 1: use Derrick Henry as a battering ram three and seventy

512
00:24:16,119 --> 00:24:18,639
Speaker 1: times or whatever last season or was that Vrabel saying

513
00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:21,000
Speaker 1: this is what we're doing, because you know, you look

514
00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:23,040
Speaker 1: at that offense and you're like, they don't need a

515
00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:26,240
Speaker 1: tight end. But I agree, Pitts is a phenomenal player

516
00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:28,320
Speaker 1: and he he might help that offense go to the

517
00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:30,439
Speaker 1: next level. But they have no running back to do

518
00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:34,760
Speaker 1: what Smith was doing in uh Tennessee, right, And I

519
00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:36,800
Speaker 1: think that's something we're in around two round three. They

520
00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:39,480
Speaker 1: have to look because you would assume that Arthur Smith

521
00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:41,439
Speaker 1: is gonna, you know, go with what worked for the

522
00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:44,080
Speaker 1: last two years. They're just pounding Derrick Henry into the

523
00:24:44,119 --> 00:24:46,040
Speaker 1: line take some of the pressure up the quarterback. But

524
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Speaker 1: as you said, you have Matt Ryan, you have Julio Jones,

525
00:24:48,280 --> 00:24:50,000
Speaker 1: you have Calvin Ridley. You're not gonna completely go with

526
00:24:50,119 --> 00:24:52,479
Speaker 1: from your identity, so you don't you don't necessarily need

527
00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:55,840
Speaker 1: a pound running back carrying the ball five times a game.

528
00:24:56,080 --> 00:24:59,360
Speaker 1: You might keep some power run elements in your system,

529
00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:01,960
Speaker 1: but you don't completely you know, go to that and

530
00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:03,480
Speaker 1: go to that only. So I think you can look

531
00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:06,119
Speaker 1: at someone like Javonte Williams in North Carolina who's two

532
00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:08,679
Speaker 1: hundred twenty pounds as a second round back. If you

533
00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:10,679
Speaker 1: get into round three and you like the medicals on

534
00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:13,399
Speaker 1: trade sermon from Ohio State, that would be an option

535
00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:16,720
Speaker 1: a day three. Some of like Ram Stevenson from Oklahoma

536
00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:18,800
Speaker 1: who kind of did a little bit of everything for

537
00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:20,520
Speaker 1: them before late in the year where he just took

538
00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:23,520
Speaker 1: over those tailback duties. He dropped a little weight is

539
00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:26,160
Speaker 1: down to I think are at So there are options

540
00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:28,320
Speaker 1: where you don't have to you know, it's not you

541
00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:30,960
Speaker 1: don't draft Nagi Harris at four overall because you're coming

542
00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:33,160
Speaker 1: from Tennessee where you had Derrick Henry, right, So there's

543
00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:36,240
Speaker 1: a lot of other options there. Sean Wade, Ohio State

544
00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:40,000
Speaker 1: just a perplexing player. I mean last year, well sorry,

545
00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:42,640
Speaker 1: two seasons ago with a Kuda. I mean, he looked amazing.

546
00:25:42,760 --> 00:25:44,440
Speaker 1: You know, Sean Wave was a great and then they,

547
00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:46,360
Speaker 1: I guess had to kick him outside this past year,

548
00:25:46,840 --> 00:25:50,479
Speaker 1: um and anything, it wasn't good. Um. Now, do you

549
00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:53,120
Speaker 1: think they try to whoever takes him, do you think

550
00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:56,280
Speaker 1: they try to move him either to the slot, to

551
00:25:56,480 --> 00:25:59,760
Speaker 1: a safety position. What's your best guest on Sean Weed? Yeah,

552
00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:02,000
Speaker 1: I think to the slot, Like you said in twenty nineteen,

553
00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:03,640
Speaker 1: he was he was really good there, you know, because

554
00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:05,800
Speaker 1: he was protected by Damon Arnett and jeff A. Cood

555
00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:07,959
Speaker 1: on the outside, two first round picks, and so he

556
00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:09,960
Speaker 1: was able to hold his own. And we saw, you

557
00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:13,359
Speaker 1: we saw in the National Championship game against DeVante Smith,

558
00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:15,760
Speaker 1: like he could not keep up with DeVante Smith. And

559
00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:17,960
Speaker 1: and DeVante is a great college receiver. He looks like

560
00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:19,840
Speaker 1: a really good prospect. But I mean it was just

561
00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:22,360
Speaker 1: it was sad, it was pitiful. So I do think

562
00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:26,480
Speaker 1: that we'll see him getting moved inside. You know, the

563
00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:29,080
Speaker 1: way teams value different scheme fits is always unique. It's

564
00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:31,679
Speaker 1: always interesting. But I have him at like one hundred

565
00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:34,479
Speaker 1: overall on my big board, and it's just I do

566
00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:38,040
Speaker 1: think someone coming in coming into the season, he was

567
00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:42,560
Speaker 1: projected probably top twenty, right, right, he absolutely was some

568
00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:47,160
Speaker 1: of the you know yeah right the season before and reputation.

569
00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:49,560
Speaker 1: I always like, I try to be careful with those

570
00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:51,840
Speaker 1: because you know there will be things like, oh, if

571
00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:54,640
Speaker 1: Cardell Jones would come out after those three games, first

572
00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:57,359
Speaker 1: round pick, and it's like, would you like they would

573
00:26:57,359 --> 00:26:59,760
Speaker 1: have poked holes in him? The interview process might have

574
00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:02,600
Speaker 1: got him lack of experience, like cooler heads would have prevailed.

575
00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:05,479
Speaker 1: You know, in January after watching him throw, you might

576
00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:07,960
Speaker 1: have been like that, dude's first rounder. You have four

577
00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:10,720
Speaker 1: months where or you can calm down a little bit. Yeah,

578
00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:13,960
Speaker 1: that's interesting. On Wade one hundred, So didn't he opt

579
00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:16,840
Speaker 1: out and then up back in I don't remember if

580
00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:18,480
Speaker 1: he was one of those guys I think so oh

581
00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:20,239
Speaker 1: had quite a few of those. They did like they

582
00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:24,359
Speaker 1: were going to play. It's like, hey, we're it seems

583
00:27:24,359 --> 00:27:26,200
Speaker 1: like the guy probably cost himself a lot of money.

584
00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:28,280
Speaker 1: But again, if he could play, it doesn't matter. He's

585
00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:30,720
Speaker 1: gonna get that second deal anyway. All right, Another one

586
00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:35,239
Speaker 1: more guy, Dylan Moses the Alabama linebacker. Obviously, medicals are

587
00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:38,040
Speaker 1: going to be a huge issue um for him and

588
00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:41,040
Speaker 1: a lot of other players. But just speak to a

589
00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:45,080
Speaker 1: little bit the narrative about Alabama players being ground into

590
00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:48,680
Speaker 1: dust by Nick Saban and his staff, Well, it goes

591
00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:51,280
Speaker 1: both because they're ground into dust, right, they're just road

592
00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:53,560
Speaker 1: hard and and then sometimes you look at it, it's

593
00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:55,600
Speaker 1: like they're pro ready. You know, it's like you've been

594
00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:58,120
Speaker 1: coached so well at Alabama. You might be coached better

595
00:27:58,119 --> 00:27:59,920
Speaker 1: at Alabama than you will be in the NFL. Your strength,

596
00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:02,600
Speaker 1: conditioning is gonna be top notch. You know how to

597
00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:06,199
Speaker 1: be a professional. I think Nick Saban heard that about

598
00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:09,440
Speaker 1: himself and has changed it to some degree of you know,

599
00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:11,360
Speaker 1: we know that we're a little hard on our players

600
00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:13,720
Speaker 1: that maybe they come into the NFL they're they're injured.

601
00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:15,760
Speaker 1: That was the thing like four years ago. It was

602
00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:19,000
Speaker 1: like Alabama prospect, you want your own doctor to check

603
00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:20,879
Speaker 1: them because there's probably some stuff that they needed done

604
00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:23,800
Speaker 1: that didn't get done. That perception has definitely changed to

605
00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:26,280
Speaker 1: where they've become more player friendly. They've i think they've

606
00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:29,040
Speaker 1: innovated a little bit, but that is definitely, you know,

607
00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:30,399
Speaker 1: something that used to be out there. I think with

608
00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:33,240
Speaker 1: Dylan Moses. You know, Dylan didn't help himself last year

609
00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:36,040
Speaker 1: with the I'm gonna declare and then his dad is like,

610
00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:39,720
Speaker 1: he can't declare without the approval of like the kingdom

611
00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:41,920
Speaker 1: or the tribe or whatever, and he's like, so I'm

612
00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:44,080
Speaker 1: not declaring and going back and then you know, he

613
00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:46,760
Speaker 1: was coming off an injury. He didn't even play last year.

614
00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:49,479
Speaker 1: So he comes back this year and he's rusty, he's stiff.

615
00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:51,240
Speaker 1: I thought by the end of the year he looked

616
00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:53,120
Speaker 1: pretty good, Like we started to see shades of the

617
00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:55,400
Speaker 1: dude that we saw it two years ago. But you know,

618
00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:59,080
Speaker 1: it's just that seems like a messy situation where you know,

619
00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:02,600
Speaker 1: it's like nobody wants the NFL version of the ball brothers.

620
00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:04,520
Speaker 1: Like you don't want to deal with the parents on

621
00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:08,640
Speaker 1: top of the pot right when you have, you know,

622
00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:10,240
Speaker 1: and that's one of the things that you hear a

623
00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:13,360
Speaker 1: lot about it, like these quarterback dads or like football parents,

624
00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:15,160
Speaker 1: where you just you don't want to deal with that.

625
00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:18,160
Speaker 1: You wanna you wanna, like your professional coach, your professional

626
00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:20,680
Speaker 1: strength and conditioning guy. You want to to help these

627
00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:24,840
Speaker 1: players achieve their results and achieve their best potential and

628
00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:27,920
Speaker 1: sometimes that's hard to do, so Dylan is definitely interesting

629
00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:31,800
Speaker 1: case though. All right, so uh, last one purely speculative.

630
00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:38,120
Speaker 1: Speculative sorry, um, most likely team to trade down in

631
00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:41,520
Speaker 1: the top ten, to trade out of the top ten

632
00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:44,840
Speaker 1: out or down? Yeah, out either one. I think Miami

633
00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:46,800
Speaker 1: is that the team most likely to get out at

634
00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:49,040
Speaker 1: number three, just because you know, as we were saying before,

635
00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:52,440
Speaker 1: unless you love Jamaar Chase like love, love love, you

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Speaker 1: could maybe even still slide down and still get him,

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Speaker 1: right because like, the Falcons aren't taking a receiver, the

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Speaker 1: Bengals are gonna go tackle at six, the Eagles. I mean,

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Speaker 1: the Eagles could be the team that would take a

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Speaker 1: wide receiver there, but they might have to go tackle.

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Speaker 1: I'm seeing Andre Dillard. Yeah. So it's like I think

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Speaker 1: the Dolphins they don't need to write. They have plenty

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Speaker 1: of picks, They've got a lot of capital, but it

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Speaker 1: just feels like the value at that spot is not

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Speaker 1: great for what they actually need. Yeah, I think I

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Speaker 1: would agree with that. Alright. Matt Miller, congrats on being

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Speaker 1: uh named a contributor to ESPN. I'm sure we'll see

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Speaker 1: you all over for the next few months and UH

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Speaker 1: continued success. Man, thank you, Man, I appreciate you so much. Dude,