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Speaker 1: one of the stranger things that happens every year teams
Speaker 1: ignore players college success. Alabama wide receiver Davante Smith won
Speaker 1: the Heisman, but mock drafts have him below his teammate
Speaker 1: Jalen Waddle, who suffered a broken ankle justin fields led
Speaker 1: Ohio State to an national title game, had incredible numbers.
Speaker 1: He could be the fifth quarterback taken. Teams love potential,
Speaker 1: not as much as the NBA does, where it seems
Speaker 1: like the less games of player plays the better. Still,
Speaker 1: the NFL seems fixated on players who haven't proven themselves yet,
Speaker 1: Zach Wilson, Trey Lance, limited windows of success. LSU wide
Speaker 1: receiver Jamar Chase sat out all of last year, but
Speaker 1: he did have one of them or productive seasons a
Speaker 1: year ago. That's one of the reasons why the draft
Speaker 1: is such a guessing game, because teams are forced to project,
Speaker 1: and maybe they do that too much. The answers are
Speaker 1: right there on the tape at least. I've always felt
Speaker 1: that now you do have the interview process, you do
Speaker 1: have them diagramming plays, you also have the medicals. There's
Speaker 1: other things that go into it. But teams sometimes act
Speaker 1: like what happened in college really didn't happen. And that's
Speaker 1: going to be the case coming up starting tomorrow night.
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Speaker 1: up with the poll question, play of the day, stat
Speaker 1: of the Day. I have some information on Mac Jones.
Speaker 1: Everything that I'm told that I've been told for the
Speaker 1: last four weeks is consistent with how I feel today,
Speaker 1: and that is the Niners want Mac Jones, that Kyle
Speaker 1: Shanahan wants Mac Jones. There are other people or a
Speaker 1: person in the organization who is pushing for Trey Lance.
Speaker 1: I mentioned that Tom House, the former baseball pitcher, he
Speaker 1: works with quarterbacks, including Tom Brady, and he's been working
Speaker 1: with Trey Lance. They're working on his mechanics. He only
Speaker 1: played one game this past season, and the Niners are
Speaker 1: monitoring that. From what I'm told, Tom House did respond
Speaker 1: to the tweet yesterday saying, yes, that's what they are doing.
Speaker 1: I think he was surprised that I knew what he
Speaker 1: was doing, but he did acknowledge that they are working
Speaker 1: with Trey Lance right now on his mechanics. The Niners
Speaker 1: are monitoring that. Now. This is what I got this morning.
Speaker 1: Source says Matt Jones interviews with teams have been extremely impressive,
Speaker 1: very smart on the board and with a playbook. The
Speaker 1: other quarterbacks aren't even close. The quarterback he mostly he
Speaker 1: most closely compares to is Matt Ryan. Kyle Shanahan had
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan in Atlanta. Now. The other quarterback that's been
Speaker 1: mentioned is Kirk Cousins, who Kyle Shanahan has a relationship
Speaker 1: with as well, but more of a Matt Ryan than
Speaker 1: a Kirk Cousins. From what I'm told, I don't know
Speaker 1: what any of this means. All it takes is one pick,
Speaker 1: somebody doing something and it throws the draft into disarray.
Speaker 1: It happens, It's happened the last couple of drafts, and
Speaker 1: usually at the top we get the first two picks,
Speaker 1: maybe even the third pick. The fourth pick is where
Speaker 1: it gets squirly, and you can go back to who
Speaker 1: is it? Cleland Farrell, McLevin. Yeah, Mike Mayock shocked everyone
Speaker 1: and took him with the Raiders. Then in Oakland at
Speaker 1: number four, and everyone he was like fifteen in mocks.
Speaker 1: And who was the tackle? Thomas? Andrew Thomas out of Georgia,
Speaker 1: which was not as huge as Shock, but I think
Speaker 1: the other tackles were higher than him in mock drafts.
Speaker 1: And then the Giants took him in I think he's okay.
Speaker 1: And that's all it takes is one team. That's why
Speaker 1: when you do a mock draft and you're going, oh,
Speaker 1: this makes sense. Well, nobody had Mitchell Trubisky going to
Speaker 1: the Bears. I said, Paulie, go back and look at
Speaker 1: mock drafts. Did anybody have an inkling that the Bears
Speaker 1: were going to trade up? And if they did, would
Speaker 1: they take Mitchell Trubisky? You can find very few mock
Speaker 1: drafts that have mister Trubisky as a top ten draft
Speaker 1: pick going into the twenty seventeen draft, even mock drafts
Speaker 1: three or four days before. It was Miles Garrett, then Trubisky,
Speaker 1: which was a trade up, and then it goes Solomon Thomas,
Speaker 1: Leonard Fournette, Corey Davis. But Mahomes, there's there's mock drafts
Speaker 1: that have him in the twenties two weeks before the
Speaker 1: draft and he went number ten, And you'll you'll hear
Speaker 1: this and you'll probably hear it from me, if not today,
Speaker 1: then maybe tomorrow on the show. And it feels like
Speaker 1: every year I get information on somebody moving up. Patrick
Speaker 1: Mahomes was the player moving up a couple of years
Speaker 1: ago that I told you about Baker Mayfield. I told
Speaker 1: you that he was going to be the number one
Speaker 1: pick in the draft. That shocked just about everybody because
Speaker 1: they're thinking, the Browns, do you take him or do
Speaker 1: you take a safer pick. I was told that they
Speaker 1: loved Josh Allen, but when I announced that I had
Speaker 1: the information the Browns were taking Baker Mayfield, people were like, no,
Speaker 1: there's no way that they're going to take Baker Mayfield.
Speaker 1: That doesn't make any sense, but that's the draft, the
Speaker 1: in exact science, and certainly at the quarterbacking position, and
Speaker 1: that's why you have so much information being dispensed on quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: because that's where if you're going to win, you've got
Speaker 1: to make sure that you have a quarterback who's not
Speaker 1: going to bankrupt you with your salary cap. You know
Speaker 1: it's rare if you're winning a super Bowl and you've
Speaker 1: got a quarterback who's making a lot of money. And
Speaker 1: just go down through history, the recent history of what
Speaker 1: these teams are doing and how they're doing it, and
Speaker 1: can you spend, how much do you spend and at
Speaker 1: what point do you say he's not worth spending that money.
Speaker 1: Let's reload and get another quarterback, because we're seeing so
Speaker 1: many of these quarterbacks come into the league, like Trey
Speaker 1: Lance didn't play against anybody, and he only played one game.
Speaker 1: Zach Wilson didn't even know if he was going to
Speaker 1: be the starter. This year, he's number two. Trey Lance
Speaker 1: is going to be probably a top ten draft pick.
Speaker 1: That's how crazy it is when you're assessing that position,
Speaker 1: and it never used to be that way. You had
Speaker 1: to have a resume. If you were going to be taken,
Speaker 1: it's rare. Go back in history and go how many
Speaker 1: what's the fewest starts that a quarterback ever had? Who
Speaker 1: was taken in the top ten? Achille Smith maybe at Oregon,
Speaker 1: Mark Sanchez at USC You didn't want to run the
Speaker 1: risk of taking a quarterback that you didn't know everything about,
Speaker 1: or you saw them in a variety of situations. I
Speaker 1: want to see when you fail. I want to see
Speaker 1: when you get hit. I want to see when you
Speaker 1: get up after an interception. That's what I want to see.
Speaker 1: I want to see Mac Jones in a situation like that.
Speaker 1: I want to see Trevor Lawrence in a situation like that.
Speaker 1: I've seen justin Fields play two terrible games. I've seen
Speaker 1: him get hit where I didn't think he would stay
Speaker 1: in a game against Clemson, Trey Lance I saw him play,
Speaker 1: looked wonderful. Jimmy Garoppolo looked wonderful in college too. Who
Speaker 1: are you playing against? Who's your next opponent after a
Speaker 1: tough opponent? Those are the things that I want to know.
Speaker 1: And how smart are you? Like do you pick it
Speaker 1: up in a span of ten to fifteen seconds? Can
Speaker 1: you process that information. Zach Wilson's had a couple of
Speaker 1: surgeries on his shoulders, Like, okay, that would be a
Speaker 1: red flag. It's not a red flag. You know that.
Speaker 1: Sometimes will say, well, hey, mac Jones had all this talent,
Speaker 1: of course he's going to be good, but he did
Speaker 1: play against the sec competition. Trey Lance didn't have great competition.
Speaker 1: Well we're going to hold that against him. Well, I
Speaker 1: got to hold it against mac Jones too. That this
Speaker 1: is going to be back to back years. This has
Speaker 1: never happened before, back to back years, two receivers, same school,
Speaker 1: top fifteen picks. Crazy, He and Tua are going to
Speaker 1: be top five picks because of that. I don't know
Speaker 1: how good Tua is. Do I have concerns about it? Yes?
Speaker 1: Do I think the Dolphins were actually trying to trade
Speaker 1: Ta to Seattle for Russell Wilson? My sore said, yes,
Speaker 1: they did offer a proposed trade. It's now come out
Speaker 1: that the Dolphins were trying to trade for de Shaun
Speaker 1: Watson before his legal issues, and they were trading to
Speaker 1: a Tonga Violoh. I don't know how good he is.
Speaker 1: Liked him stepped up, played big, big moments there don't
Speaker 1: know if he has a strong enough arm. Don't know
Speaker 1: if he has you know, the athleticism. But this is
Speaker 1: what happens. It doesn't take long before you start to
Speaker 1: second guess, and certainly at that position in the NFL.
Speaker 1: So all bets are off when it comes to who's
Speaker 1: going where and why, because it's in the eye of
Speaker 1: the beholder. If Kyle Shanahan firmly believes Mac Jones is
Speaker 1: his guy because he can program Mac Jones, it's hard
Speaker 1: to program Kyler Murray, Josh Allen, they're just different. Baker Mayfield,
Speaker 1: they're trying to program. Yeah, Paul, I went back and
Speaker 1: looked at the one week before the twenty eighteen draft.
Speaker 1: I just collected ten mock drafts. I'm pretty high end
Speaker 1: people like not just Joe Blow. Six people had the
Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns taken, Josh Allen, two people had the Cleveland
Speaker 1: Browns taken Sam Darnold. Two people had Baker Mayfield, and
Speaker 1: the two had Baker Mayfield said they were totally speculating
Speaker 1: based on the star power of Mayfield in that town
Speaker 1: and they needed star power. But they said it's a
Speaker 1: very risky decision. Yeah, people, more people had Baker Mayfield
Speaker 1: going to the Jets than the Browns. But all it
Speaker 1: takes is somebody to fall in love with somebody, and
Speaker 1: that's what happened to the Bears with Mitchell Trubisky. Nobody
Speaker 1: else fell in love with Mitchell Trubisky. Daniel Jones to
Speaker 1: the Giants where he went in the draft? What was
Speaker 1: that sixth? Overall? Yep, nobody else was in love with
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones, and if they were, maybe it was gonna
Speaker 1: be later in the first round. The Giants had picked seventeen.
Speaker 1: I thought they could get Daniel Jones at seventeen. Ye,
Speaker 1: but can you see where Kyle Sayhanan's like, yeah, but
Speaker 1: you never know if that team is out there where
Speaker 1: if you really like a guy like the Giants, you
Speaker 1: never know. Maybe there was somebody, But I don't know.
Speaker 1: If mac Jones doesn't go three, where's he go? I
Speaker 1: don't know who's infatuated with mac Jones? Do I think
Speaker 1: there are teams who would if you said to the
Speaker 1: Steelers and there are twenty four and mac Jones is there,
Speaker 1: and they go and we never thought this was going
Speaker 1: to happen. Let's take him as our future quarterback, you know,
Speaker 1: just Bill Belichick at fifteen. Hey, we didn't think he
Speaker 1: was going to be here. Let's take him. You got
Speaker 1: to take the best players on your board, and you can't,
Speaker 1: you know, overreach, because that's what happens. That's where you
Speaker 1: look at a team and you go why, and you're
Speaker 1: gonna have those moments tomorrow night. You're gonna go wow, okay,
Speaker 1: And then you have somebody like Jerry Jones. Jerry Jones
Speaker 1: been talking about Kyle Pitts. They have the tenth pick
Speaker 1: in the draft. I'm guessing Kyle Pitts won't be there
Speaker 1: at number ten. I'm guessing Dallas is not moving up
Speaker 1: to get Kyle Pitts. But Jerry Jones, the Cowboys owner
Speaker 1: and GM was talking about you gotta be smart with
Speaker 1: the team, team needs here. I think the real thing
Speaker 1: to do is don't be stupid over your needs. And
Speaker 1: last year we said Lamb was there and we had
Speaker 1: planned to take a receiver, but he was the best player,
Speaker 1: and he was a player that we immediately had a
Speaker 1: vision for I could come in here and help us,
Speaker 1: help us win. Okay, So you don't want to be
Speaker 1: put over your needs. But this is an owner who
Speaker 1: took Quincy Carter probably three rounds before Quincy Carter deserved
Speaker 1: to be drafted. He had to be talked out of
Speaker 1: Johnny Manzel. He didn't get Remember Paxton Lynch, he was
Speaker 1: in love with Paxton Lynch. How would that have worked out?
Speaker 1: So Jerry the owner, Jerry the GM, there's always a
Speaker 1: disconnect there. Now, Jerry was asked about Kyle Pitts and
Speaker 1: how much he loves Kyle Pitts. Well, reports come out
Speaker 1: said you're infatuated with a guy like Pitts. Is that
Speaker 1: legitimate or do you just like le College? Not legitimate?
Speaker 1: But when I say it, I am anybody in this
Speaker 1: draft impressed. Probably an exaggeration is fascinated. I may have
Speaker 1: used the word myself. But the point is it's it's
Speaker 1: a distortion for this draft and where we are there.
Speaker 1: It implies something that's just not the case. We're not
Speaker 1: going to go in there and spend an ordinant imagine
Speaker 1: to maneuver up there so that we can get pitt Okay,
Speaker 1: maybe that's true, but Jerry is infatuated with Kyle Pitts.
Speaker 1: Here is Jerry Jones talking about two Kyle Pitts on
Speaker 1: a zoom call boy. I'll tell you what, I'm excited
Speaker 1: to have you come into this league, and man, of
Speaker 1: what a pair up we could do with, oh, Dak Prescott,
Speaker 1: some of those guys that we've got out there of
Speaker 1: options to get to the ball. So we can dream
Speaker 1: of visions of sugar plums around here. But you're not
Speaker 1: infatuated with him, right The Cowboys posted this. This is
Speaker 1: on their Twitter. We can only dream of sugar plums. Huh,
Speaker 1: But you're not in fat. He's mentioned Kyle Pitts probably
Speaker 1: ten or fifteen times here in the last couple of weeks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Mi club. By the way, if Justin Fields falls at ten,
Speaker 1: they're probably gonna have to walk Jerry out of the room.
Speaker 1: He just gave a two hundred and forty million dollars contract.
Speaker 1: But you know it, you know, the thoughts got crosses
Speaker 1: my way. The sacabest quarterbacks here at Ted, I mean,
Speaker 1: Ceedee Lamb made no sense and they did it and
Speaker 1: already had like two great receivers. Mel Kiper Draft expert
Speaker 1: will join us. Coming up in an hour, Pro Football
Speaker 1: Focus senior analyst Steve Pavelzolo will join us. He's got
Speaker 1: some thoughts here on what the Niners do with three.
Speaker 1: Is Julio Jones in play to be traded. The Bengals
Speaker 1: got a real decision to make, do you take the
Speaker 1: tight end, the wide receiver or the tackle. Will also
Speaker 1: look at those who do well during the drafts and
Speaker 1: those who don't in the last ten years. And that's
Speaker 1: why when I when I hear people say, boy, they
Speaker 1: got a lot of draft picks, my first question is
Speaker 1: are they any good at drafting? Because you can have
Speaker 1: a lot and not do anything with it, as the
Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns and Cincinnati Bengals have proven, and then you
Speaker 1: can have the Ravens who may only have two or
Speaker 1: three picks and they somehow find somebody. The forty nine
Speaker 1: ers have done really well except for Solomon Thomas, and
Speaker 1: that's the last time they were in a position like
Speaker 1: this with a very very high draft pick, and they
Speaker 1: whiffed on him. But you get Fred Warner, you get
Speaker 1: George Kittle third fourth rounds. That's impressive. Yeah, McLevin. I
Speaker 1: think Rahim most was undrafted like they really, You're right there.
Speaker 1: I looked at their list. It's a hit, hit hit,
Speaker 1: except for Solomon Thomas. Your guy, what kind of poll
Speaker 1: question do you got today? Well, do you want to
Speaker 1: drive in. Well, first, all right, I'm gonna put up
Speaker 1: who's gonna win the bet, Seaton or I okay, recap
Speaker 1: the bet. So where will Justin Fields go in the draft?
Speaker 1: I say eight or higher? Seaton says nine or below.
Speaker 1: So are over under on Justin Fields? Who's eight and
Speaker 1: a half? Right, which is along right along with that
Speaker 1: Vegas right? Okay, yeah, vandalize eight and a half. DraftKings
Speaker 1: has seven and a half, which makes me feel very happy,
Speaker 1: by the way, but I don't those are moving around.
Speaker 1: So for each pick that we're off, we get a pie.
Speaker 1: So if he goes fifteen to the Patriots, that means
Speaker 1: six or seven pies for me, And if he goes
Speaker 1: three to the nine Ers, that's five pies for Seaton. Okay,
Speaker 1: what if he goes thirty two to Tampa Bay. That's
Speaker 1: a lot of pies. Now if that were the case,
Speaker 1: because I don't have enough people to throw pies at you,
Speaker 1: everybody in the building should be able to throw a
Speaker 1: pie at you. There's a firehouse next door. I'm thinking
Speaker 1: of getting some firefighters to come in and they're able
Speaker 1: to throw pies at you as well. Yes, poll or
Speaker 1: the firefighters could hose him off after all the pies
Speaker 1: just a thought, so they could take the hose from
Speaker 1: the fire truck and hose him off like a rinse
Speaker 1: off mclovin. Is that safe? I don't. Oh, we'll find
Speaker 1: you out. Probably not. Yeah, you put out huge fires,
Speaker 1: so it's not bad enough that I get twenty four
Speaker 1: pies to the face and then I have to get
Speaker 1: tortured by a How about we cut the pies in
Speaker 1: half if you take the hose, yes, Todd, that water pressure,
Speaker 1: unless you're a safe distance away, that could probably break
Speaker 1: some bones. Thank you. That is not meant to it, Organs,
Speaker 1: thank you, Yes for love. Yeah, I'm out on the hose,
Speaker 1: but I'm excited about I watched the ESPN NFL Nation
Speaker 1: Draft and Fields fell to fifteen, and I felt, even
Speaker 1: in a mock draft, I felt pain every pick. I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, oh, this is gonna be so great.
Speaker 1: I love when we have these draft day bets because
Speaker 1: it makes that first round so much more interesting. Yeah, seedon, No, No,
Speaker 1: it's the best when you're like, because he's like watching
Speaker 1: your team, You're all right, let's just see what they do.
Speaker 1: I don't know whatever. But then all of a sudden
Speaker 1: you got something on the line. Yeah great, Yeah, you
Speaker 1: know when they go best candidates available, and it'd be
Speaker 1: like Justin Fields is there, and then you're going and
Speaker 1: the Carolina Panthers are on the clock. You know, they
Speaker 1: could go Justin Fields here and all of a sudden
Speaker 1: they take you know, and it's not Justin Fields. Yeah pulling.
Speaker 1: Do you know what I love is that at seven
Speaker 1: oh one tomorrow morning, one of our back room guys
Speaker 1: is gonna walk into the local baker and go twenty
Speaker 1: four chocolate cream pies. Please no Friday, right, not tomorrow.
Speaker 1: But I love that. I love the visual one of
Speaker 1: our guys going, can I get twenty four? Chu? I'm
Speaker 1: gonna send Tyler out and he's gonna have to get
Speaker 1: all of these paues. What guy folid at thirty two?
Speaker 1: Stop this lutacy. Chris Simms just threw that out there
Speaker 1: just yes time. Michael even also had some concerns the
Speaker 1: other day. Better is it going to be all at
Speaker 1: once or scattered? If it ends up being a lot
Speaker 1: of pies. I think the reasonable thing is to do
Speaker 1: it all at once so you doesn't have to keep
Speaker 1: One of the best bets I ever had was with Seton,
Speaker 1: and I said, you got to take five paes, but
Speaker 1: not all at once, and it could be any time.
Speaker 1: Just Seton would come out of the bathroom and I'd
Speaker 1: smashing with a pie. That was the best one ever.
Speaker 1: That was that was absolutely the best, the best of
Speaker 1: one because you just you had no idea when it
Speaker 1: was going to happen, and over the course of a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks and just randomly get smashed in the
Speaker 1: face with a pie. And we were at the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl in San Francisco and JJ Watt. I lured Seaton
Speaker 1: outside and he walked out and JJ Watt had a
Speaker 1: pie and smashed him with it. Jim Harball got you
Speaker 1: with a pie as well. We figured out I got
Speaker 1: hit with cupcakes too. At some point, like I had,
Speaker 1: I walked out of that back room to go say
Speaker 1: hi to people. All of a sudden I got, you know,
Speaker 1: seven dozen cupcakes hurled at me. I closed the door
Speaker 1: behind him. The Seaton's out in the prison yard and
Speaker 1: they're firing cupcakes and he's like banging on the door
Speaker 1: to get back in. They're just smashing him with cupcakes.
Speaker 1: Yes time, and what wasn't exactly gentle I think Seaton
Speaker 1: for a while he had like a ringing in his ear.
Speaker 1: He smacked him in the side of the head man.
Speaker 1: He got me good for sure. All right, we'll take
Speaker 1: a break, we'll talk the draft. The phone calls are welcome.
Speaker 1: We'll get we'll settle on a poll question. Here. Got
Speaker 1: a couple of stats of the day that are interesting
Speaker 1: on teams that draft well and teams that don't. Twenty
Speaker 1: two after the hour, back after this in the Dan
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Speaker 1: some mocks. As a first round pick, I'm being told
Speaker 1: that he will probably not be a first round pick.
Speaker 1: He's had a couple of back procedures. This is the
Speaker 1: Virginia Tech cornerback who sat out last year. Now comes
Speaker 1: word from Adam Schefter, tested posited for COVID today, will
Speaker 1: not attend the draft in Cleveland. That's been a tough
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Speaker 1: any PF subscription. Steve, where are you today on what's
Speaker 1: going to happen at number three? Overall? You locked in?
Speaker 1: You know, I've been believing it's justin Fields despite all
Speaker 1: of the smoke. I'm getting talked you out of that by,
Speaker 1: you know, the more people I speak to. But you know,
Speaker 1: I thought it was Fields for a while because I
Speaker 1: just thought he was the best combination of passing and
Speaker 1: running and what Kyle Shanahan might want to do. I
Speaker 1: am starting to believe the Mac Jones hype and that
Speaker 1: Trey Lance might be number two. So I'm believing in
Speaker 1: you know, it's probably Mac Jones. But deep down, I'm
Speaker 1: believing that Kyle Shanahan made the decision that it's Justin
Speaker 1: Fields because I think that's the best selection for the
Speaker 1: forty nine ers. But Justin Fields isn't his kind of quarterback.
Speaker 1: That's my only thought on that. Do I think Justin
Speaker 1: Fields is as talented, if not more so? Yes? But
Speaker 1: does he fit what Kyle Shanahan wants in a quarterback
Speaker 1: and considering who he's had, you know, the comp that
Speaker 1: I got this morning from his source was he's like
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan. Yeah. I mean so when I look at
Speaker 1: when I look at Shanahan historically, right, he has done
Speaker 1: an incredible job of elevating quarterbacks. I think we all
Speaker 1: agree on that. Matt Shop and you know, but the
Speaker 1: two times that he had kind of a trump card
Speaker 1: was twenty twelve with RG three, where they had a
Speaker 1: rushing attack in the play action game you know, was
Speaker 1: multiplied by ten. And then Matt Ryan was the MVP
Speaker 1: season in twenty and sixteen. So I'm thinking, Okay, he's
Speaker 1: gonna chase one of those two things. So you have
Speaker 1: two quarterbacks who can run. They can add that run
Speaker 1: game components, you know, change the arithmetic at the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage. That's what the Shanahan's do. The Shanahan's will
Speaker 1: put on the earth to make defenses, you know, not
Speaker 1: be able to defend the run. And a running quarterback
Speaker 1: does that. So I'm thinking, Okay, that's justin Fields or
Speaker 1: it's Trey Lance. And then Fields is a little bit
Speaker 1: slow at times he holds the ball, but three seconds
Speaker 1: per dropback, that's that's not fast enough. He's got to
Speaker 1: work a little bit quicker. But the Shanahan offense makes
Speaker 1: that easier. And when Fields throws the ball, he's as
Speaker 1: accurate as any quarterback in the league. So that's why
Speaker 1: I thought that was the best combination of accuracy but
Speaker 1: also that run game component that Fields brings. The Falcons
Speaker 1: are interesting here because I don't know if they know
Speaker 1: who they are right now? Are they Are they a
Speaker 1: playoff caliber team? Do you add Kyle Pitts, do you
Speaker 1: trade Julio Jones, do you draft Matt Ryan's successor where
Speaker 1: do you think they go? I think the way they
Speaker 1: structured Matt Ryan's contract, they're pretty much tied to him
Speaker 1: for two more years, which means, okay, they got to
Speaker 1: make a run. How do you build around Matt Ryan?
Speaker 1: And I think it's just an odd draft because there
Speaker 1: might not be a defensive player off the board till
Speaker 1: nine or ten. I mean, that hasn't happened since nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety nine when it was seventh overall. So the Falcons
Speaker 1: would love to go defense. I think they'd love to
Speaker 1: trade down and accumulate draft capital because their defense is
Speaker 1: just depleted. But Kyle Pitts is really intriguing there, especially
Speaker 1: if Julio's there or not. There's only three teams in
Speaker 1: the league who have a Kyle Pitts like a player.
Speaker 1: It's Travis Kelsey, George Kittle, and maybe Darren Waller with
Speaker 1: the Raiders. So you put Kyle Pitts on the field
Speaker 1: with Julio, with Calvin Ridley, even if Julio ends up
Speaker 1: getting traded. Kyle Pitts is an absolute game changer and
Speaker 1: that's going to make the next two years of Matt
Speaker 1: Ryan in Atlanta look a lot easier. But if I'm Atlanta,
Speaker 1: I'm exploring trading Julio Jones to get a defensive player
Speaker 1: from somebody in return. I want an impact defensive player
Speaker 1: for Julio Jones. If I can get that at age
Speaker 1: thirty two. That way, I can take Kyle Pitts, and
Speaker 1: I think I've strengthened my team. I've got Pits on
Speaker 1: a rookie contract and he's going to be a game changer.
Speaker 1: I lose a game changer, but now I get somebody
Speaker 1: to help us defensively, because if you draft Kyle Pitts
Speaker 1: and keep Julio Jones, this just means you lose forty
Speaker 1: two to thirty five. Yeah, I mean there's Look, they're
Speaker 1: so depleted defensively. They drafted aj Terrell, a cornerback in
Speaker 1: the first round. They still probably need two more corners.
Speaker 1: The Bucks just resigned Antonio Brown. You're not keeping up
Speaker 1: with the Bucks with only one half decent cornerback. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree, the entire back seven does need to be
Speaker 1: overhauled in Atlanta. So exploring the Julio trade, which would
Speaker 1: be a post June first trade, I mean, it's a
Speaker 1: smart move. It's got to be at the right value though,
Speaker 1: because there's also an element of it's an offensive league
Speaker 1: and the way you win in the NFL, we saw this.
Speaker 1: We've seen this with the Chiefs, the Bucks, the Bills.
Speaker 1: It's how do you defend this offense? You keep defensive
Speaker 1: coordinators up at night? How do you defend this? And
Speaker 1: I'm really intrigued by how do you defend Julio, Calvin Ridley,
Speaker 1: and Kyle Pitts all at the same time. Best rosters
Speaker 1: heading into the draft. Give me the top two or three? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I think you look at the entire final
Speaker 1: four last year. Of course, the Bucks and the Chiefs
Speaker 1: are both in there. The Bucks are I mean, they
Speaker 1: brought everybody back. It has to be them. The Chiefs
Speaker 1: are up there, The Bills and the Packers are all
Speaker 1: up there. But we just did a ranking over at
Speaker 1: pf dot com a couple weeks ago. In the Cleveland
Speaker 1: Browns were a number two. And this is the drafts
Speaker 1: in Cleveland. They're picking late in the first round. And
Speaker 1: then there's talent. This is strictly talent on the roster,
Speaker 1: the Browns of the second most talented team in the NFL. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when you look up and down as far as there's
Speaker 1: no real glaring holes, and where there is a hole,
Speaker 1: it might be linebacker, which you know it's it's less
Speaker 1: important in today's NFL unless you have a great one.
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's just a tough position to play.
Speaker 1: So the Browns have incredible depth. They have a good
Speaker 1: quarterback in Baker Mayfield, so they actually go into the
Speaker 1: draft without any glaring needs and then they could, you know,
Speaker 1: pick the best players for their roster. Where do you
Speaker 1: have Justin Fields going? I mean again, deep down, I
Speaker 1: was thinking, Okay, the Niners don't. They're not really putting
Speaker 1: all this stuff out. Maybe they love Justin Fields. They
Speaker 1: want to just make sure the Jets don't take him
Speaker 1: if he doesn't go to the Niners at three, which
Speaker 1: has been my inkling. I think Denver's in play at nine.
Speaker 1: I think Detroit is a wild card at seven because
Speaker 1: they're just in the middle of a rebuild. It's a
Speaker 1: six year contract for Dan Campbell and the new regime there.
Speaker 1: They don't have to force a quarterback. But man, if
Speaker 1: Justin Fields is there, you say, okay, Justin Fields, you're
Speaker 1: coming in. You're sitting behind Jared Goff. You're gonna be
Speaker 1: our guy going forward. I think the Lions at seven,
Speaker 1: the Broncos at nine, and then the Patriots of course,
Speaker 1: at fifteen. It's just been a different offseason for the Patriots,
Speaker 1: right the most aggressive off season in New England Patriots history.
Speaker 1: They could put the cherry on top by trading up
Speaker 1: to go get at Justin Fields and have him be
Speaker 1: the successor to Cam Newton. Steve Poundezolo is the senior
Speaker 1: analyst a Pro Football Focus, host of the PFF NFL podcast.
Speaker 1: First running back off the board is who and goes where?
Speaker 1: I'm thinking Naja Harris from Alabama. I'm looking at Miami
Speaker 1: at eighteen, and then Pittsburgh it's twenty four. I definitely
Speaker 1: think Pittsburgh's in the market there for Naj. I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not a big believer in running backs going in
Speaker 1: the first round. The only team I think could teams
Speaker 1: can handle it might be the Bills or the Bucks
Speaker 1: because their roster strength is so good. But I think
Speaker 1: Miami and Pittsburgh might be in play there for Naj.
Speaker 1: If Christian McCaffrey was coming out in this draft, where
Speaker 1: would he go? He would He'd probably be the top
Speaker 1: running back on the board. He still might go top fifteen. Again,
Speaker 1: you know, all of our data and analysis says, look,
Speaker 1: the running back is by far just the cherry on
Speaker 1: the top of a perfect roster, and it's not the
Speaker 1: guy that you want to feature in the first round.
Speaker 1: And even if you don't have a ton of needs
Speaker 1: like some of these other teams we're talking about, needs
Speaker 1: change daily. Look at the Chiefs last year, right, they
Speaker 1: grabbed the running back. Now they need two tackles, you know,
Speaker 1: coming into this offseason. So McCaffrey would probably be the
Speaker 1: top running back off the board. He'd still probably go
Speaker 1: top fifteen. But I think the league is getting a
Speaker 1: little bit smarter and saying, look, the running back is
Speaker 1: the most interchangeable position in the NFL, even with the
Speaker 1: great Christian McCaffrey. So I think they're starting to slide
Speaker 1: a little bit more than they have in recent years.
Speaker 1: Does the data show that you shouldn't resign a running back? Yeah? Absolutely.
Speaker 1: I mean part of it's the interchangeability. The other part
Speaker 1: is it's not tough to identify differences in talents. You know,
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey's awesome, Zeke Elliot's awesome, those guys are great,
Speaker 1: But the difference in talent level doesn't show up in
Speaker 1: production on the field. So essentially, you know, rushing production
Speaker 1: the number one driver is run blocking or what the
Speaker 1: defense is doing, or simply I mentioned what Shanahan does, right,
Speaker 1: He just counts the box, right, says, look, there's seven
Speaker 1: guys in the box. I got eight blockers. We're winning,
Speaker 1: you know. So that's the biggest issue. And trying to
Speaker 1: resign a running back and paying him a big deal
Speaker 1: almost never pays off. We'll see if Derek Henry, Dalvin Cook,
Speaker 1: you know, they're trying to buck that trend. It's just
Speaker 1: not a good track record. If I gave you all
Speaker 1: the players in the first round, and I got all
Speaker 1: the other rounds, and we totaled up the number of
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl appearances, would you stay with the first round
Speaker 1: talent or would you take everybody else in the draft
Speaker 1: and this particular draft or in general, this this particular draft. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I'd take the first rounders. I think there's
Speaker 1: there's there's a little bit more certainty in the first round.
Speaker 1: Even historically, you get that the NFL's not bad at drafting.
Speaker 1: They're pretty good at picking the best players. It is interesting, though,
Speaker 1: if you if you go back three or four years
Speaker 1: and you say, okay, who are the best thirty two
Speaker 1: players in a given draft, you will have some late
Speaker 1: rounders and some undrafted free agents and all that, but
Speaker 1: for the most part, you do generally get your best
Speaker 1: players in the first round. So I'll take Round one.
Speaker 1: Least talented team in the NFL is who. So the
Speaker 1: Lions and Texans are both in the mix. The Lions
Speaker 1: have just, you know, gutted the entire roster. The Texans
Speaker 1: have been gutting their roster unintentionally the last couple of years,
Speaker 1: trying to build around to Shaun Watson making some mistakes.
Speaker 1: And as of right now, the Jaguars, you know, before
Speaker 1: they draft Trevor Lawrence, have some work to do. But
Speaker 1: I look at the Lions probably as that team that
Speaker 1: is just in full rebuild mode and they have needs
Speaker 1: all over the place. So I'd say the Lions give
Speaker 1: me a draft prediction that on Friday, I give you
Speaker 1: credit for I call you or I make fun of you,
Speaker 1: but give me a draft prediction, not an obvious one
Speaker 1: that this audience will take into the draft. All right,
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna well, first to be justin fields to
Speaker 1: the night. Okay, fields, to stay with it. Stay with it, Steve,
Speaker 1: don't waiver often just because you have experts who were
Speaker 1: saying this, or scouts or insiders, whatever, stay with it
Speaker 1: if you're committed what you've been trying to get into.
Speaker 1: I've been trying to get into College Hannahan's head this
Speaker 1: entire time, and I still think his head would move
Speaker 1: towards Justin Fields being the guy. But I'll say Justin Fields.
Speaker 1: I'll also say, maybe there's less quarterback movement than we think.
Speaker 1: You've got those three locked in, or there'll be three
Speaker 1: quarterbacks at the top. If Fields is the third quarterback
Speaker 1: as I predicted, I don't know if there's as much
Speaker 1: of a market for a mac Jones or even a
Speaker 1: Trey Lance as far as trade ups go. You might
Speaker 1: see those guys drop a little bit if it is
Speaker 1: mac Jones at three. I do think Justin Fields becomes coveted, though,
Speaker 1: and there'll be some movement in the top ten. Good
Speaker 1: to talk to you is always Steve. Have fun tomorrow night.
Speaker 1: Thank you sounds great, Thanks Dan, Steve Poundlozolo. You know,
Speaker 1: once we started pronouncing his name correctly, it was a
Speaker 1: lot easier to book him, you know, because I said
Speaker 1: to Tod, do you know how to pronounce his name?
Speaker 1: And I guess usually like when we get their names. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. Yeah, and instead of Steve Palazzio. Yes,
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Speaker 1: poll result. Okay, who will win the draft bet? Seaton?
Speaker 1: I have a draft bet where Justin Fields will go.
Speaker 1: I'm refreshing here. I say eight or lower. Seaton says
Speaker 1: eight or higher. Care to guess where people are voting, mclovin.
Speaker 1: I think that has more to do with Justin Fields
Speaker 1: than mclovin. Well, speaking of which, this is a tweet
Speaker 1: that was sent out Kevin Fishbane on the Patriots. Word
Speaker 1: is there. They think highly of Ohio States, justin Fields,
Speaker 1: highly enough that they've even spoken with the Falcons about
Speaker 1: the fourth pick. Overall, I don't know if anybody truly
Speaker 1: knows what the Patriots are doing now. If the Falcons
Speaker 1: are leaking this to draw interest from maybe another team,
Speaker 1: that's how this usually works. Yes, Polly, as soon as
Speaker 1: you said it all we all ye that none of
Speaker 1: us are buying it. None of us are buying a
Speaker 1: piece of information about what the Patriots are doing got
Speaker 1: into a reporter's hands unless the Falcons leaked it, or
Speaker 1: the Patriots purposely leaked it to throw everybody off and
Speaker 1: they could take the A M quarterback at the spot
Speaker 1: they're at. Kellen mummed, Yeah, yeah. See. I feel like
Speaker 1: every day or two, like before every draft, the day
Speaker 1: or two leading up, there's a rumor about, oh man,
Speaker 1: the Patriots might jump up early to get this guy,
Speaker 1: and then it's all nonsense. Yes, they're gonna trade out
Speaker 1: of the first three rounds somehow and get fifty seven
Speaker 1: draft picks. Yeah. I love your theory. The Atlanta at
Speaker 1: leaked this, of course they leaked the Yeah, yeah, the
Speaker 1: Patriots offered five first rounders to the number four, Like,
Speaker 1: why wouldn't they do that? So how do you trust
Speaker 1: anything right now? You don't. And that's why when I
Speaker 1: hear this, even if I respect you in what you do,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm skeptical about it. And people may be skeptical
Speaker 1: with the information that I present on this show. I
Speaker 1: mean that's fine, but you know, my takes are usually
Speaker 1: are pretty good. They they they they stay. But you
Speaker 1: start to wonder if somebody knows something. Somebody knows somebody
Speaker 1: who knows somebody, somebody's trying to tell somebody something. Hey,
Speaker 1: can you put this out there? This is what happens.
Speaker 1: You get manipulated. Now do I think that the Falcons
Speaker 1: are putting this out now? I'm just guessing. I don't
Speaker 1: know this for so I'm you know, I'm not being
Speaker 1: fair to the Falcons, but you know, being the being
Speaker 1: skeptical at this time of the draft leading up to
Speaker 1: it tomorrow, Yes, I would go, oh, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: how does this come out? Because Patriots don't do this,
Speaker 1: the Falcons can say, hey, you know I'm getting some
Speaker 1: phone calls for the fourth pick. Overall. If the Falcons
Speaker 1: don't know what they're doing, and you think you have
Speaker 1: to go to four to get Justin Fields, Okay, I
Speaker 1: get it. I mean it's it's not far fetched. But Atlanta,
Speaker 1: it feels like would be leaking this to try to
Speaker 1: see if anybody else feels like, oh, New England could
Speaker 1: go get him, maybe we need to go get him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: po I was looking back at the Mahome trade with
Speaker 1: the Chiefs to see I could find nothing. I looked
Speaker 1: for about an hour to see if there's anyone who
Speaker 1: had a rumor and an inkling that the Chiefs were
Speaker 1: trading up for a quarterback. There's nothing. They were totally
Speaker 1: satisfied with the quarterback position. They were set at. The
Speaker 1: quarterback position is what Andy Reid was staying before the draft.
Speaker 1: But that night they had a plan in place to
Speaker 1: jump up again Mahomes and they were quiet about it.
Speaker 1: And after the draft there's articles where or Andy Reid's
Speaker 1: people said, we never said a word about any thoughts
Speaker 1: about it because it didn't help us. So the quieter
Speaker 1: teams are probably the ones you gotta watch out for
Speaker 1: and go back to Jacksonville taking Blake Bortles. They didn't
Speaker 1: even interview Blake Bortles. They purposely didn't even bring him in.
Speaker 1: And look, he had a little bit of success early
Speaker 1: in his career and then became a career back up.
Speaker 1: But that's what happens. It's really rare when a team goes, hey,
Speaker 1: you want to know what we're doing. We're doing this.
Speaker 1: Nobody tells you anything. We speculate. These mock drafts come
Speaker 1: out a year in advance, and we don't have much
Speaker 1: information other than and you go, well, the Steelers need
Speaker 1: a running back. Of course they'll take Naja Harris. Well,
Speaker 1: they have other needs. They got a quarterback on his
Speaker 1: last year, they could use offensive line help. Like we go, yeah,
Speaker 1: they'll take a running back. Okay, do you take a
Speaker 1: running back in the first round. I wouldn't, but we
Speaker 1: think we know and you know, we may have a
Speaker 1: better idea than the teams do because they'll make a
Speaker 1: decision and you go, why did you take Cleveland Farrell?
Speaker 1: What grade are you using there? Raiders, So we don't know.
Speaker 1: But when it comes to the last ten drafts, Chiefs, Ravens,
Speaker 1: Vikings each selected an NFL high thirteen players who would
Speaker 1: go on to make at least one Pro Bowl. The
Speaker 1: Bengals drafted just three such players in the last decade.
Speaker 1: Chiefs at thirteen, Ravens, thirteen Vikings, thirteen Packers, twelve Cowboys
Speaker 1: eleven fewest Pro Bowl players selected in the last ten drafts,
Speaker 1: the Bengals at three Giants, four Jets, four Patriots, four.
Speaker 1: Stat of the day, stat of the day, that beast
Speaker 1: out of the day, stat of the day? Here comes that,
Speaker 1: what stat of the day. You can have a lot
Speaker 1: of draft picks. What do you do with those draft picks.
Speaker 1: We didn't think it was going to happen anytime soon,
Speaker 1: but it looks like it could happen a lot sooner
Speaker 1: than people thought. Andy Staples just sent out a tweet.
Speaker 1: Stuart Mandel as well. FBS commissioners are considering expanding the
Speaker 1: college football Playoff from four schools to up to double
Speaker 1: digit teams, a source telling Stuart Mandel, I sense twelve
Speaker 1: teams is building support. Yesterday, Mark Emritt had his contract extended.
Speaker 1: He is the president of the NCAA. It was kind
Speaker 1: of a quiet footnote at the end of a press
Speaker 1: release than Mark emertt the head of the NCAA is
Speaker 1: staying in place and its status quo. But if you
Speaker 1: look at the amount of revenue that was lost during
Speaker 1: the pandemic, you go up to twelve teams now, and
Speaker 1: those twelve teams in those conferences, those conferences share in
Speaker 1: the money that they make new TV deals. Now, all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, that playoff system the number of games
Speaker 1: that you have there. Now, all of a sudden, you
Speaker 1: have more bowl games that are actually meaningful because you
Speaker 1: might be playing in the Outback Bowl to get into
Speaker 1: the Orange Bowl and then get to the Rose Bowl.
Speaker 1: So the Outback might be the first round of the playoffs.
Speaker 1: So I disagree with Nick Saban who yesterday told Paul
Speaker 1: Feinbaum he's not in favor of this because it renders
Speaker 1: the bowl games. You know, less, that's not the case.
Speaker 1: They're even more important now. So a secondary bowl game
Speaker 1: might get a first round matchup, and then you go
Speaker 1: to the Fiesta Bowl, and then you go to the
Speaker 1: Rose Bowl, and then you play for the national title.
Speaker 1: It's coming. It's coming. Mel kiper Draft expert, will join
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