Speaker 1: Hi, everybody. Welcome to Packers Unscripted from Packers dot Com.
Speaker 1: I am Mike Spofford and he is my trusted colleague
Speaker 1: Wes Hodkowits. We're coming to you here from our studios
Speaker 1: at lambeau Field and West as we continue our post
Speaker 1: draft week recapping the Packers two thousand eighteen draft. Remember
Speaker 1: one of the shows we did before the draft where
Speaker 1: I sort of fired a bunch of questions at you
Speaker 1: and we both gave our answers and we kind of
Speaker 1: rattled through the show. Well, our producer, Marvin, he thought
Speaker 1: that was one of our best shows I've ever done.
Speaker 1: So I thought, why not do a show like that
Speaker 1: in the post draft world. So I've got my list
Speaker 1: of questions here, I'm gonna throw them at you. You
Speaker 1: give your answer, I'll give my answer. We'll see how
Speaker 1: many we get through here. And then twenty two or
Speaker 1: so minutes, right off the bat, which of these eleven
Speaker 1: draft picks for the Green Bay Packers do you believe
Speaker 1: will have the biggest impact in back on the hot
Speaker 1: seat over here. Yeah, uh, you know, Jarry Alexander. I
Speaker 1: think is the easy answer to this one, Mike, just
Speaker 1: because I think with his skill set, being able to
Speaker 1: play outside, being able to play inside, there's just a
Speaker 1: more direct path for him getting onto the field if
Speaker 1: you're a boundary type corner We even saw it to
Speaker 1: some extent with Kevin King last year. It's more difficult
Speaker 1: to be able to get that spot right off the
Speaker 1: bat because of just you know, the mona competition and
Speaker 1: a lot of times it takes a more veteran player
Speaker 1: to excel out there. You saw Casey Hayward excel in
Speaker 1: the slot as a young player before Damarius Randall handled
Speaker 1: that position. Mike A. Hyde in two thousand thirteen, when
Speaker 1: Casey Hayward got hurt, ended up manning that position quite
Speaker 1: a bit. So I think there's probably more of a
Speaker 1: direct outlet for Alexander to make a Day one contribution.
Speaker 1: But but even still, as we've talked about a million times, cornerback,
Speaker 1: it's a position that takes time to learn and develop.
Speaker 1: You can play off your instincts, you can play off
Speaker 1: your natural athleticism, but you need to pair that with
Speaker 1: technique and knowledge of the defense. So that'll be his
Speaker 1: number one hurdle when he comes to Green Bay, when he,
Speaker 1: you know, gets involved in this. Mike Petton defense, But
Speaker 1: I just think given where he was taken, the amount
Speaker 1: of ability that he has, I think he's probably the
Speaker 1: surest bet to be able to make a contribution right
Speaker 1: off the battle. Yeah, that's a good call. And I
Speaker 1: like what you said to about the difference between slot
Speaker 1: corner and boundary corner for young guys, especially in the
Speaker 1: sense that a lot of times defensive coordinators can be
Speaker 1: a little hesitant to put a rookie matched up against
Speaker 1: a number one receiver type out there on the boundary.
Speaker 1: That's sort of a job, an assignment that you that
Speaker 1: you work your way up to, So we'll see how
Speaker 1: that evolves. My answer to this question comes with a
Speaker 1: bit of a caveat, and the caveat is if he
Speaker 1: wins the job, which is a little bit of a
Speaker 1: cop out. But my answer is j K. Scott, I
Speaker 1: think he could have a really big impact on this
Speaker 1: on this team if he indeed beats out Justin Vogel
Speaker 1: for the punting job. And I'm not saying he's going
Speaker 1: to and with the rook he sees in Justin Vogel
Speaker 1: had and all the promise that he has shown, I
Speaker 1: think this is going to be quite a competition, and
Speaker 1: Justin Vogel is certainly not going to give up his
Speaker 1: job without a heck of a fight. But you look
Speaker 1: at the pedigree of J. K. Scott in college at Alabama,
Speaker 1: all the big games, the bright spotlight type of games
Speaker 1: that he punted in, and how he performed and how
Speaker 1: he evolved from his freshman year as a punter through
Speaker 1: his senior year with improving the hang time and bringing
Speaker 1: the gross average and the net average closer together by
Speaker 1: you know, limiting if not eliminating most returns. I think
Speaker 1: he's uh. I think he's a rookie to watch on
Speaker 1: this team again if he wins the job. Yeah. And
Speaker 1: the thing that really stands out to me about him
Speaker 1: more than any other character is just the fact that
Speaker 1: he is so darn big and for the you know,
Speaker 1: we've heard it a million times, those long lever type hunters.
Speaker 1: How much more leverage you're able to put onto a football,
Speaker 1: the things that you're able to do, the way you
Speaker 1: can harness that. Uh. He he checks all those boxes
Speaker 1: across the board. And he also seems to line up
Speaker 1: per quickly with what the Packers have been looking for
Speaker 1: with their punters. Guys that can put the ball on
Speaker 1: the sideline, they get the proper hand time, they get
Speaker 1: the proper distance. Uh, Punting in Green Day, Wisconsin is
Speaker 1: a lot different than it was in Alabama. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: cold the cold weather is going to be is going
Speaker 1: to potentially be an issue. Vogel hand little King from Miami. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so Vogel had experience last year two and did just
Speaker 1: fine in the month of December. But for both of
Speaker 1: those guys, I will say this, I challenge you, Mike,
Speaker 1: to go back and find me a better punting competition
Speaker 1: that the Packers have had in the last twenty five years.
Speaker 1: I mean, Craig Hendrick man that spot for a few years.
Speaker 1: Obviously Josh Bidwell was there. Um, you know, I guess
Speaker 1: you could kind of talk it's it doesn't doesn't match
Speaker 1: up though, even if you look at the years where
Speaker 1: you had Derek Frost and you know, and Sean John Ryan,
Speaker 1: Jeremy Kapanos was in that mix. And this is as
Speaker 1: far as like one verse one, I think this is
Speaker 1: gonna probably one of the best summers to watch for
Speaker 1: that position. Alright, Question number two, which of these draft
Speaker 1: picks is the biggest unknown in terms of perhaps what
Speaker 1: his upside might be. Oh, that's a great question, Michael.
Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna probably have to say or in
Speaker 1: Burke's just because he really hasn't been in just one
Speaker 1: spot for more than one season. Uh. He came to
Speaker 1: Vanderbilt and he was a defensive back, and he played
Speaker 1: that for two years, and he became a hybrid safety
Speaker 1: and then he became a full fledged inside backer. He
Speaker 1: seems and sounds like he's going to be able to
Speaker 1: carry two hundred and thirty five pounds naturally, Like it's
Speaker 1: not going to be a stretch to put that much
Speaker 1: weight on his body. To give you an example in
Speaker 1: terms of a comparison, Jack Cichy from Wisconsin weighs two
Speaker 1: thirty eight and was considered, other than the injuries, one
Speaker 1: of the best pure inside linebackers in this draft class.
Speaker 1: So he is going to be able to check the
Speaker 1: box from the size the size component of it. It's
Speaker 1: just gonna be a question of you know where his
Speaker 1: speed is at, because you're no longer in that too
Speaker 1: twenty range. But I just think when you put his
Speaker 1: numbers on the board, how he tested in the role
Speaker 1: that he filled at Vanderbilt, it just seems like he's
Speaker 1: tailor made for that hybrid position now in the NFL,
Speaker 1: with the way that things have sort of steered themselves. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and my answer to this one is the South Florida
Speaker 1: wide receiver Marquez Valdi Scantling. And I say that because
Speaker 1: of a couple of numbers six four and four three seven,
Speaker 1: and I've said it in our insider inbox. I'm really
Speaker 1: curious what this is going to look like. I know,
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, Packers drafted Trevor Davis, speedy
Speaker 1: wide receiver from cal The thought was he would maybe
Speaker 1: developed into one of these guys that could take the
Speaker 1: top off the defense. That hasn't happened yet, not to
Speaker 1: say that it couldn't happen in year three as Trevor
Speaker 1: continues to develop. But this is a this is a
Speaker 1: size and speed prospect that's that's really intriguing. And uh
Speaker 1: and again, I just I think there's a lot of
Speaker 1: unknown with the upside here. Packers fans get all excited
Speaker 1: about Jeff Janice, and you know, Valdez Scantling has a
Speaker 1: faster forty and he's taller, so a lot to work
Speaker 1: with their All, Right, with that, we're gonna go to
Speaker 1: a break back with moreen Packers Unscripted. Right after this,
Speaker 1: Welcome back to Packers Unscripted. Mike Spofford in this chair,
Speaker 1: Wes Hodkowitz in that one the hot seat again, some
Speaker 1: more questions come in your way. Okay, best value pick
Speaker 1: out of this team draft for the package, Josh Jackson
Speaker 1: has to be. I mean, this is a guy that
Speaker 1: had a lot of first round grades by you know,
Speaker 1: a number of teams. He ends up falling to the
Speaker 1: middle of the second round. I don't know exactly what's
Speaker 1: going through Brian Goodquin's mind at that point. Um. I
Speaker 1: have to imagine they were pretty geeked about it though.
Speaker 1: The fact that you know, as as I talked about
Speaker 1: Mike when you and I were in Indianapolis, I think
Speaker 1: a lot of people at that point in time thought
Speaker 1: he was the number two cornerback on the board as
Speaker 1: far as a pure corner here corner pushing Denzel Award
Speaker 1: for that spot. Alexander ends up testing through the roof.
Speaker 1: Some other things fall into line, but he has great size. Uh.
Speaker 1: You love his competitiveness and you love the production. Again,
Speaker 1: I just I really wonder if he could have if
Speaker 1: that forty would have been under sub five or in
Speaker 1: the more around that five poor four point five. You
Speaker 1: know whether or not he probably is a first round pick.
Speaker 1: But uh, he had the one big year in Iowa.
Speaker 1: But I think that gives you a lot to work
Speaker 1: with and as we've talked about earlier this week, he's
Speaker 1: a he's an unfinished product, and now he gets to
Speaker 1: work with Joe Wynne. I think that's an exciting combo. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think Josh Jackson is definitely a value pick being
Speaker 1: there at forty five in the second round. There's also
Speaker 1: an argument to be made that the first round pick
Speaker 1: Jirie Ji Year excuse me, Alexander is a great value
Speaker 1: pick because essentially you traded a third round pick and
Speaker 1: got a first rounder next year and got Alexander. So Um.
Speaker 1: But I'll also say, as far as a value pick
Speaker 1: in this draft, Equanimius st. Brown from Notre Dame at
Speaker 1: the end of the sixth round a compensatory sixth round
Speaker 1: pick if I'm not mistaken, Um, and I say value
Speaker 1: pick because most analysts across the board said this, This
Speaker 1: guy was projected as a third or fourth rounder. Um
Speaker 1: had a lot of success at Notre Dame when he
Speaker 1: had a legitimate NFL caliber quarterback there and in Deshaun Kaiser.
Speaker 1: And as I said on the show the other day,
Speaker 1: I think this is I think I think the way
Speaker 1: he fell in the draft of the late sixth round
Speaker 1: makes him a very, very motivated player. And it's a
Speaker 1: question whether he channels that motivation in the right way,
Speaker 1: um to uh to start his NFL career. Probably gonna
Speaker 1: have to weigh probably ten or fifteen years to get
Speaker 1: an honest answer from Brian goodkinst on this. But I
Speaker 1: do wonder, you know, he said e q st. Brown
Speaker 1: said he was told by the Draft Advisory Committee had
Speaker 1: a fourth round grade. I'm curious to see what great
Speaker 1: the Packers had on him. I gotta imagine they had
Speaker 1: him higher than the sixth round based on you know,
Speaker 1: one of the things I was working on this week
Speaker 1: for Packers dot Com. You know, good Can said, really
Speaker 1: he went into that last day. It wasn't like he
Speaker 1: just wanted draft through receivers, but every time they came
Speaker 1: on the board in the fourth, fifth and sixth round,
Speaker 1: the receivers were the best value options for them, and
Speaker 1: he thought that was a way to really improve the team.
Speaker 1: And I've st Brown gonna be really motivated to show
Speaker 1: that he should have been higher in this draft. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right. Most surprising pick of this draft for the
Speaker 1: Packers in your opinion, Oh, Mike, that's a tough one.
Speaker 1: Most surprising pick. I guess if you're gonna tell me
Speaker 1: what the biggest surprise was overall, I have to say, Scott,
Speaker 1: just from the standpoint of I did not envision the
Speaker 1: Packers drafting a punter. To be honest with you, I
Speaker 1: knew nothing about the punters in this class. And I
Speaker 1: remember talking to a couple of the beat writers in
Speaker 1: the auditorium on on Saturday night. Really not very many
Speaker 1: did because I don't think we thought of it as
Speaker 1: a position of need. I thought a lot of people
Speaker 1: were comfortable, myself included with Vogel. So I didn't do
Speaker 1: much research into these punters. But once you start to
Speaker 1: look up his bio and you go on NFL dot
Speaker 1: com and look up his draft page and see that
Speaker 1: I think they had a third or fourth round grade
Speaker 1: on the kid. Um they did get good value for him.
Speaker 1: And and I want to stop one thing right here,
Speaker 1: because I saw some things on Twitter about well b J.
Speaker 1: Sander two thousand and four. Brian Goodkins didn't trade up
Speaker 1: into the third round to take J. K. Scott. He
Speaker 1: got him in the fifth round at his pick, you know,
Speaker 1: and in around the Packers had three picks. Yeah. So
Speaker 1: I'll be honest with you, I don't I don't get
Speaker 1: that argument at all. I think this kid's a lot
Speaker 1: of talent there. And in the fact that a third
Speaker 1: round pick, that's a different ballgame. Fifth round pick, I
Speaker 1: think you know that the board starts to open itself
Speaker 1: up a little bit more. Yeah, And for me, the
Speaker 1: most surprising pick was the other specialist, Hunter Bradley from
Speaker 1: Mississippi State. And even though I know you predicted it did,
Speaker 1: I still did not. I just did not think the
Speaker 1: Packers would draft along snapper. I just I figured, you know,
Speaker 1: you you grab one of those guys in the undrafted route,
Speaker 1: you know, right after the draft concludes. But lo and behold,
Speaker 1: they used a seventh round pick on a long snapper
Speaker 1: and made a little history. Marvin the production booth is
Speaker 1: gonna get mad at me here because he's probably gonna
Speaker 1: be telling me to throw the break. But I just
Speaker 1: want to make this point about Bradley. The reason I
Speaker 1: was not surprised is because you look at the past
Speaker 1: history when Packers have had injury problems at positions around positions,
Speaker 1: running back, offensive line, receiver, they address it in the draft.
Speaker 1: They make sure that that doesn't happen again. Safety being
Speaker 1: another one of them. After what they went through last year,
Speaker 1: three or four different long snappers throughout the course of
Speaker 1: the year. It was a carousel, you know what. I
Speaker 1: think there's something to be said in the seventh round
Speaker 1: for taking the best available long snapper at that spot.
Speaker 1: And also keep in mind, I think the draft value charts,
Speaker 1: seventh round picks at that point are worth one point
Speaker 1: one point overtaking the guys trying to sign him as
Speaker 1: a prior having to compete for him, compete for him
Speaker 1: potentially with other teams. All right, with that, we are
Speaker 1: going to go to a breakback with moreen Packers unscripted
Speaker 1: right after this, Welcome back to Packers Unscripted. Mike Spofford here,
Speaker 1: Wes Hodkuhit's over there, okay, West. We just answered the
Speaker 1: question last segment about most rising picks. So the next
Speaker 1: question is most surprising non pick. What was the biggest
Speaker 1: surprise to you in terms of what the Packers did
Speaker 1: not do in this draft. You know what I'm gonna say,
Speaker 1: tight end. I think pass rusher obviously can make that argument,
Speaker 1: but they did eventually address it in the seventh round.
Speaker 1: Tight end, and for the reason you and I discussed
Speaker 1: earlier this week, that's a position that takes time to develop.
Speaker 1: I don't care if your first round pick or your
Speaker 1: seventh round pick, it is going to be very difficult
Speaker 1: for you at that position to go into the NFL
Speaker 1: and just become a Pro Bowl type player. You need time,
Speaker 1: and there's only so many Ron Gronkowski's out there. So
Speaker 1: I thought it made a lot of sense with having
Speaker 1: eight picks on the third day, that they would go
Speaker 1: and find one. They didn't do that. I think that
Speaker 1: is somewhat a reflection of the changing time in the NFL.
Speaker 1: We're seeing more three and four wide receiver approaches. Jimmy
Speaker 1: Graham in some ways could be considered a receiver. I
Speaker 1: know that's been a debate that's been had over the years.
Speaker 1: So in one way it makes sense and then the
Speaker 1: other way though, I just think that this was a
Speaker 1: draft that it was relatively deep at that tight end position.
Speaker 1: There were lot of intriguing guys you talked about several
Speaker 1: of them in the pre draft process. I thought this
Speaker 1: would have potentially been a year to go find one
Speaker 1: of those guys. Yeah, I agree with you, tight end
Speaker 1: was was a surprising non pick to me, and I
Speaker 1: will I will also say pass rusher is the one
Speaker 1: that sticks out to me. And nothing against Kendall Donnerson
Speaker 1: being taken from Southeast Missouri State in the seventh round,
Speaker 1: but I thought the Packers would use a much earlier
Speaker 1: pick on a pass rusher. And I guess where where
Speaker 1: I got surprised the most is that when Brian goudacun
Speaker 1: has decided to trade that top pick in the fourth
Speaker 1: round on Friday night to get back into the third
Speaker 1: round to take a player, I thought, Okay, here's where
Speaker 1: he's targeted a pass rusher and this is where he's
Speaker 1: going to take him any any taking took Burke's the
Speaker 1: inside linebacker instead. So to me, that was the surprising
Speaker 1: non pick, that that a pass rusher was not taken earlier,
Speaker 1: as we talked about. But a larger overarching question West,
Speaker 1: what is the most important thing that the Green Bay
Speaker 1: Packers accomplished with this draft when you look at it
Speaker 1: from a big picture perspective, We asked a lot of
Speaker 1: questions this week, Mike, We've talked about a lot of
Speaker 1: different topics. You know, the one thing that has not
Speaker 1: come up, what are the Packers going to do at cornerback? Uh,
Speaker 1: that that question has been answered. It's up to the
Speaker 1: players in that room now to play this thing out.
Speaker 1: But the one thing, Mike, I don't think you're gonna
Speaker 1: be able to say going into two thousand eighteen. Going
Speaker 1: into it. The season plays out how it plays out.
Speaker 1: But I don't think you can say. I don't think
Speaker 1: Mike Petton could say he doesn't have enough options at cornerback.
Speaker 1: You have Alexander and Jackson, two guys that very easily
Speaker 1: could have both been first round picks. You brought back
Speaker 1: Trumon Williams, a guy that gives you versatility throughout the secondary.
Speaker 1: Devon House is back, and you have a litany of
Speaker 1: other defensive backs that you return from last season. I
Speaker 1: think to me the fact that they did address that,
Speaker 1: even though there are some lingering questions about the pass rush,
Speaker 1: but they have prospects now in that pipeline at cornerback,
Speaker 1: and considering how deep they had to go into those
Speaker 1: reserves last year, I have to imagine that Joe Wait
Speaker 1: and company are very happy about that. Ye. And if
Speaker 1: I were to say the next most important thing that
Speaker 1: the Packers accomplished in this draft, I think it's what
Speaker 1: they did at wide receiver, and it's for a lot
Speaker 1: of reasons. We saw the benefit of taking the three
Speaker 1: running backs on the third day of the draft last
Speaker 1: year and what that meant when injuries hit and you're
Speaker 1: finding out what you've got in these young guys. The
Speaker 1: Packers are going to have an opportunity to figure out
Speaker 1: what they have with these young receivers that they took.
Speaker 1: Do you have potentially another Davante Adams, you know, moving
Speaker 1: up the pipeline here with one of these guys. Will
Speaker 1: it help you make a decision on Randall cob who's
Speaker 1: in the last year of his contract. There are a
Speaker 1: lot of things here and maybe if things don't work
Speaker 1: out with the approach that you took this year, then
Speaker 1: it tells you we need to address wide receiver earlier
Speaker 1: in the draft. We need to get more of a
Speaker 1: top prospect to find the next Davanta Adams to to
Speaker 1: pair with him long term, potentially as a as a
Speaker 1: big body boundary receiver. So I think what they did
Speaker 1: at wide receiver was very, very important, and I did
Speaker 1: a little bit of a dive this week, Mike, looking
Speaker 1: into the history of that. When the Packers overdraft at
Speaker 1: receiver and actually their turns have been pretty good. You're
Speaker 1: not going to hit on all three guys that, yeah, basically,
Speaker 1: but they did in two thousand fourteen. They got Davante Adams,
Speaker 1: they did, They got Robert Brooks they did, and Bill
Speaker 1: Schrader came out of that. So when you go and
Speaker 1: address a position like that, sometimes you can really hit
Speaker 1: it big and maybe find a lot of playmakers. But
Speaker 1: I think the one thing it does it guarantees that
Speaker 1: at least somebody's going to rise out of that and
Speaker 1: become a contributor for you. All Right with that, we're
Speaker 1: going to go to another break back with more on
Speaker 1: Packers Unscripted right after this. Welcome back to Packers Unscripted.
Speaker 1: Mike Spofford joined by Wes Hodko. It's Okay West final
Speaker 1: segment here. Before we go the final question, I'm going
Speaker 1: to throw at you the best non Packers moment of
Speaker 1: the two NFL Draft. I mean it has to be
Speaker 1: Sakine Griffin from Seattle. Not only does he get drafted,
Speaker 1: and we remember talking at the combine about what emotional,
Speaker 1: how emotion that was going to be for him, but
Speaker 1: he gets picked by the Seattle Seahawks, so he gets
Speaker 1: to go play with his twin brother story. A really
Speaker 1: cool side note to that, Marquez Veldez Scantling, who the
Speaker 1: Packers draft of fifth round, was high school teammates with
Speaker 1: the two brothers as well, back at Lakewood High School
Speaker 1: in St. Petersburg, So a little bit of a Packer
Speaker 1: tie into that. But the fact that that Griffin is
Speaker 1: able to get drafted after testing the way he did,
Speaker 1: I think it was a foregone conclusion that was going
Speaker 1: to happen. But then John Schneider ends up calling in
Speaker 1: his number and now he'll be able to be teammates
Speaker 1: with his brother. That's pretty special. Yeah, it is pretty special.
Speaker 1: And and there be a lot of people. There are
Speaker 1: a lot of people in the country rooting for Griffin
Speaker 1: no matter which team would have drafted him, a lot
Speaker 1: of people rooting for him. A lot of people are
Speaker 1: gonna be watching to see just just what sort of
Speaker 1: career develops here with with really an amazing athletic story.
Speaker 1: And I want to see what kind of player he
Speaker 1: can become too, because he's gonna have to make a transition.
Speaker 1: He was an edge rusher kind of at at UCF.
Speaker 1: He's not gonna be able to do that in the NFL.
Speaker 1: Is just not big enough, so he's gonna have to
Speaker 1: be a hybrid type inside linebacker player. A lot to
Speaker 1: work with, but he's gonna have to adjust his game
Speaker 1: a little bit too. Yeah. Well, I will say as
Speaker 1: much as I loved Jerry Kramer's jab at the at
Speaker 1: the Dallas fans there, with regards to the Ice Bowl,
Speaker 1: the question is the best non Packers moment of the draft? Um?
Speaker 1: Watching uh Ryan Shazier gets there on the stage and
Speaker 1: announce a announce a pick for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Um.
Speaker 1: Really good to see obviously what happened to him, very
Speaker 1: sad and tragic. Fortunately, Um, it looks like maybe not
Speaker 1: as tragic long term as as it looked on the
Speaker 1: field when it happened. So UM, just really a very heartwarming,
Speaker 1: heartwarming moment, I thought. Yeah, And to be able to
Speaker 1: have that tie in with the Steelers and announcing you know,
Speaker 1: their first round pick, obviously, the emotions that go into
Speaker 1: that and there was so much going on for the
Speaker 1: Packers at that time because they were trading and moving
Speaker 1: around and we were trying to write stories and whatnot.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I did able. Did get a chance to
Speaker 1: watch a little bit then, obviously after the fact, and uh,
Speaker 1: definitely an emotional moment after such a scary incident last year. Um.
Speaker 1: The other thing I want to just touch on two
Speaker 1: just the unpredictability of this draft was probably one of
Speaker 1: the more fun things. There was no Andrew Luck. I
Speaker 1: mean there there was no quintessential These are the top one, two, three,
Speaker 1: four or five guys. The first hour is gonna just
Speaker 1: fly off the board. You know exactly what's going to happen.
Speaker 1: A lot of stuff happened that I don't think people predicted,
Speaker 1: especially when it came around to the Packers pick at fourteen. Um.
Speaker 1: You can run through all these mock drafts, Mike, but
Speaker 1: the one thing very few people take into account for,
Speaker 1: at least accurately gauge for, is the trades. And I
Speaker 1: believe there's forty nine trades in the top one picks.
Speaker 1: At some point those picks removed from one team to
Speaker 1: a different one. So, um, this was a year where
Speaker 1: I think from one pick to another. I was glued
Speaker 1: to the television because I didn't really know what was
Speaker 1: gonna happen or what these teams were gonna do. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I will I will end this with saying, on
Speaker 1: a much more lighthearted note, um that one of my
Speaker 1: favorite non packers moments of this draft was seeing the
Speaker 1: parrot on the shore of that the gal on the
Speaker 1: the pirate ship at Raymond James Stadium and all the
Speaker 1: hype about a parrot announcing a draft pick in the
Speaker 1: fourth round for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and the parent
Speaker 1: never opened its beak, and then everybody went crazy about it,
Speaker 1: like what, like what is this? Like everybody was everybody
Speaker 1: was robbed of this, you know, what was supposed to
Speaker 1: be this wonderful, you know, made for television moment. I
Speaker 1: just got to kick out of the whole thing. Six
Speaker 1: draft picks this year, Like nobody will end up being
Speaker 1: a bigger bust than that parrot, especially. I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't know if you remember that when they announced that
Speaker 1: that was going to happen. The list of unique places
Speaker 1: and people that we're going to announce these picks, it
Speaker 1: was like a national sensation. Oh yeah, it was a
Speaker 1: huge story. Is the parent going to get the pick right?
Speaker 1: Is it gonna work out well? Is he gonna be
Speaker 1: able to do it? Are they gonna have to have
Speaker 1: a backup plan? And didn't even try at least tried? Yeah,
Speaker 1: complete epic fail, as my kids would say. All right,
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