Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL Podcast as tremendous upside. Welcome to
Speaker 1: another edition of the Around the NFL Podcast. My name
Speaker 1: is Dan Hansens. I come from a come to you
Speaker 1: from a virtual room filled with some heroes. Mark Sessler,
Speaker 1: Greg Rosenthal. All right, the draft is now forty eight
Speaker 1: hours away. Thank god. I have I have an idea.
Speaker 1: I have a product pitch. I think I know you're
Speaker 1: gonna love it. Mark, Okay, I think you'll like it too. Um.
Speaker 1: Game pass Okay, and this might actually exist. Game Pass
Speaker 1: A game in forty. You know everybody loves that. He
Speaker 1: used to be Game in thirty. Mark, I know both
Speaker 1: you and West. That was a sensitive subject. Um. Some
Speaker 1: people like the draft more than other people. Me. I
Speaker 1: love like certain subplots around a draft. I like the
Speaker 1: how things shake out after the draft. But the draft
Speaker 1: itself is not the easiest watch for me. Draft in
Speaker 1: forty give me the first round with go all through
Speaker 1: the picks, give me a little bit of the analysis
Speaker 1: from our team and some highlights, um, and then any
Speaker 1: other drama and then you. Instead of a three or
Speaker 1: four hour exercise, I could just do whatever I want
Speaker 1: on my Thursday night and then plug in and watch
Speaker 1: draft in forty like, what am I actually missing? Uh?
Speaker 1: In fact, what am I gaining a part of my
Speaker 1: life back? Well, well, so let's start here. You're missing nothing, um.
Speaker 1: And I love this. It was even this morning that
Speaker 1: I was thinking to myself, you know, this is a
Speaker 1: King has No Clothes scenario because we can hype up
Speaker 1: the draft all we want. And I think the process
Speaker 1: and the lead up um, and they're intrigue around certain
Speaker 1: plot points is wonderful television. And I was the kid
Speaker 1: that would sit and watch the entire thing when it
Speaker 1: used to be on one day way back in the win.
Speaker 1: But um, let's be real, it is um. It is
Speaker 1: used as a television pick. And Mark said in Criss
Speaker 1: Crossed Applesauce in front of the Radio, No, no, but
Speaker 1: I mean they didn't spread it out over like you know,
Speaker 1: a long weekend. It used to be you know, they
Speaker 1: an incredibly ponderous long television event. Um. But now you
Speaker 1: know they've done that even more now. I mean remember
Speaker 1: Mike MAYOCKX, UM, I thought appropriate annoyance, um when there
Speaker 1: was like a baboon um like the cults pick in
Speaker 1: Round seven. It's just it's it's absurd, it borders on numbing. Yes,
Speaker 1: they do have that option. I wouldn't be surprised. I
Speaker 1: think it would. It would be heartbreaking for most of
Speaker 1: the country that loves the draft because I think to
Speaker 1: a lot of people I've talked to, so many like
Speaker 1: Draft Night is better than any game all year, and
Speaker 1: they want the whole thing. It would be like the
Speaker 1: same way you'd feel about, you know, the a Jets
Speaker 1: playoff game versus watching condensed or even worse worse than that.
Speaker 1: So people want to eat it up. I do love
Speaker 1: Draft Night. I don't If you could give me the
Speaker 1: last two months in forty that's what I would go for.
Speaker 1: Give me everything I need to know from the last
Speaker 1: two months of draft coverage in forty as a condensed
Speaker 1: um signing up for that. But I love I love
Speaker 1: like Draft one. The most fantastical thing anyone has said
Speaker 1: so far this podcast is a Jets playoff game. I
Speaker 1: don't even know what that is anyway, that long ago.
Speaker 1: What do we got? I mean, it's one of the
Speaker 1: longest droughts in football now about over a decade. But
Speaker 1: um so yeah, So you go game pass round one
Speaker 1: and then you could do rounds two through seven, and
Speaker 1: forty minutes. Also, that's I mean that third day, that
Speaker 1: third day, I can just you can feel like the
Speaker 1: blood about to come out of your ears. They're gonna change.
Speaker 1: I just thought about this to last week we met.
Speaker 1: I was saying, how you know, the way society is now,
Speaker 1: Mr Irrelevant is not going to be lasting. Is a
Speaker 1: name a monker because it's gonna be deemed insensitive. They're
Speaker 1: just gonna make him Mr Relevant and then give him
Speaker 1: a little blue ribbon with his parade. Mr Brave? How
Speaker 1: brave you to be the last? I can't I want
Speaker 1: this sandwich? Do we have the sandwich Undrrelevant? Yeah? The
Speaker 1: sandwich wager is and by the way, go get my lunch.
Speaker 1: Draft edition is coming up tomorrow, so make sure you
Speaker 1: check it out. The wager is in the next five years,
Speaker 1: Mr Irrelevant gets scrubbed uh from NFL dot com and
Speaker 1: in general as a cultural thing around the draft, to
Speaker 1: a more sensitive name that celebrates what the athlete has accomplished.
Speaker 1: That is my prediction in five years. And if it's
Speaker 1: it's a five sandwich prop Greg, I'll give you five
Speaker 1: sandwiches in five years. Okay, great, I could. I'm really
Speaker 1: excited about this one, and you remember to your condensed drafting.
Speaker 1: I mean they have condensed to remember. It used to
Speaker 1: be fifteen minutes per pick in the first round. So
Speaker 1: I think they could go even a little farther, make
Speaker 1: it like five minutes per pick, and let's just would
Speaker 1: be a wild, would be a wild couple of hours.
Speaker 1: All right, nice show coming up, Carbs back with us.
Speaker 1: Chase Goodbread, one of NFL dot COM's great college football
Speaker 1: writer and reporters, is going to talk to us. He's
Speaker 1: he's embedded down there in Alabama. UM and UM, you know,
Speaker 1: Alabama has been a hotbed at the top of the
Speaker 1: first round for the last two years really for her,
Speaker 1: but this these past two years especially, So I want
Speaker 1: to talk about UH some of these UM Crimson Crimson
Speaker 1: Tide guys and UH and other other draft related UH
Speaker 1: situations around UM as we get closer to the draft. Also,
Speaker 1: we gotta do some news, gotta see what's going on
Speaker 1: in our league. So let's hit it. Rick. UM, I
Speaker 1: can't guarantee that anybody in the world will be alive Sunday,
Speaker 1: so I can't guarantee who will be on our roster
Speaker 1: on Sunday. UM, So that goes for all of us. Wow.
Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan digging in in his uh Monday press conference
Speaker 1: talking about the number three overall pick in the NFL
Speaker 1: Draft held by his forty Niners. That was in relation
Speaker 1: Mark two questions about the future of Jimmy Garoppolo and
Speaker 1: whether he is still a part of the Niners going forward,
Speaker 1: and uh, Greg, as you put it on Twitter, that
Speaker 1: was very cessil in. Yeah, even like the look in
Speaker 1: his eyes the way he said it, because there's a
Speaker 1: way that you could say that, Yeah, that I think
Speaker 1: could have been more of like of a existentialists like
Speaker 1: live in the moment. To me, that's like a positive
Speaker 1: way to look at life that we might not be
Speaker 1: here on Sunday to enjoy like what you have there's
Speaker 1: there's nothing guaranteed. But that didn't feel like where he
Speaker 1: was coming from with that. It felt it felt dark
Speaker 1: and it felt like a darkness coming over Jimmy Garoppolo's
Speaker 1: tenure with the forty Niners too. Yeah. I took that
Speaker 1: away from it too, that I think Jimmy g will
Speaker 1: be somewhere else, didn't It always kind of feel a
Speaker 1: little absurd this song and dance about how Jimmy g
Speaker 1: is excited and how upfront the Niners are with him,
Speaker 1: and he's gonna be a good little boy. The only
Speaker 1: reason he'd be a good little boy is because of
Speaker 1: the money, because he's not gonna go with the money
Speaker 1: if he got cut. But if he the best scenario
Speaker 1: for him is to get traded and retain the what
Speaker 1: twenty six million dollars he's meant to make this season? Mean.
Speaker 1: But the Shanahan's have always um kind of had their
Speaker 1: ups and downs with the media. I mean, Mike Shanahan
Speaker 1: number when we started at the NFL. He at that
Speaker 1: press conference where he walked out UM when reporters were
Speaker 1: jabbing at him about um, the concept of leaks inside
Speaker 1: the team. I would just say this, if you're Kyle Shanahan, Yeah,
Speaker 1: It's like, why, um, why share secrets with a bunch
Speaker 1: of ham and eggers? Why spill things that you hammon
Speaker 1: eggers because they work in the media. What makes him
Speaker 1: like a god where he is? You're saying he he
Speaker 1: can do whatever he wants with these plebans beneath him?
Speaker 1: Is that what your angle is there? I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: I'm he has to work with them in terms of
Speaker 1: doing the press conference, but why, like you know, is
Speaker 1: Jimmy G gonna be traded? Like, sure, let me give
Speaker 1: you a full dossier on what we plan to do
Speaker 1: with Jimmy G. It's like you asked these questions. I'm
Speaker 1: not going to answer them. I'm not going but how
Speaker 1: they answer him is instructive. And it doesn't surprise me
Speaker 1: that there's some report, you know, CBS aid one where yeah,
Speaker 1: they think Jimmy G is gonna get traded this weekend.
Speaker 1: And I think, you know that an answer like that,
Speaker 1: you know, did give it was a good way to
Speaker 1: ask it because it gave I think a little bit
Speaker 1: of information that that maybe Jimmy G will be on
Speaker 1: another team, that they're not going to go through with this.
Speaker 1: Who knows what's happening in the conversations between Jimmy G
Speaker 1: and Kyle and that he said that they've had and
Speaker 1: the big headline is that the forty Niners like five
Speaker 1: quarterbacks uh as they said at the number three overall pick,
Speaker 1: and they're like five better than Jimmy G. It's kind
Speaker 1: of it's kind of insulting to Jimmy G. Let's let's
Speaker 1: listen to the general manager John Lynch his thoughts that
Speaker 1: came out of this press conference. It's been an incredibly
Speaker 1: thorough process. But ultimately someone's got to be charged with
Speaker 1: making a decision, and in this case, it's the both
Speaker 1: of us. Everyone has you know in your contract you
Speaker 1: do this. The draft is mine. But I told Kyle
Speaker 1: from the beginning that this is he and I are
Speaker 1: doing this together. And when it comes to quarterbacks, I'd
Speaker 1: be foolish, I believe. Um, we have a head coach
Speaker 1: who's also our offensive play caller. I will always defer
Speaker 1: to him. And uh, you know what's cool about that
Speaker 1: is that Kyle, I think, respects my opinion enough he
Speaker 1: always wants it. And ultimately we arrive at decisions we will,
Speaker 1: and come Thursday, we'll have a pick that hopefully makes
Speaker 1: everyone proud, but that will be judged in years to come. Okay,
Speaker 1: here's the part of that quote that I found interesting
Speaker 1: because it does speak to the way this is all
Speaker 1: this goes down. Um, Ultimately someone has to got someone
Speaker 1: has got to be charged with making a decision, and
Speaker 1: in this case, it's the both of us. But that's
Speaker 1: not what it's. Ultimately someone decides who that guy is.
Speaker 1: It's not something that they necessarily agree on. It comes
Speaker 1: down to one person that decides for the organization, and
Speaker 1: that is if you're looking to dig in to some
Speaker 1: intrigue behind the scenes here and maybe why there's little
Speaker 1: edginess in Kyle Shanahan's voice when he's talking about things
Speaker 1: that maybe there's some bumping heads here. Go ahead, Mark, No,
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, you hear that. Like the football side,
Speaker 1: you know under John Lynch that those guys are into
Speaker 1: They're not into mac Jones. That's not who they want.
Speaker 1: But but if he does, if he does, then he
Speaker 1: you We're going to find out how the power structure
Speaker 1: operates here. I think it's Kyle Shanahan above all the rest. Right,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you how it is. It's Kyle Shanahan, it's
Speaker 1: his team. He essentially hired John Lynch. I think that
Speaker 1: gets forgotten. The order of who gets hired matters a lot.
Speaker 1: Now officially Lynch is in charge of the draft, but
Speaker 1: Shanahan got hired. There was like a little process between
Speaker 1: when they got the GM when when Shanahan was still
Speaker 1: the o C of Atlanta and he basically rubbers stamp Lynch,
Speaker 1: who we talked to he essentially interviewed and hired Lynch
Speaker 1: And Okay, yeah, it does make sense. Of course he
Speaker 1: should pick the quarterback. But the edginess you talk about, Dan,
Speaker 1: I think could have something to do with these reports
Speaker 1: coming out because Kyle Shanahan's no dope. He knows where
Speaker 1: these could be coming from. They could be coming from
Speaker 1: inside the building, and I think that could be very frustrating.
Speaker 1: And I think there could be a frustration inside the
Speaker 1: building because I think you can look at Kyle Shanahan
Speaker 1: and recognize that he is the best play caller in league.
Speaker 1: He helps quarterbacks, I think more than any guy in
Speaker 1: the league, but that he maybe isn't the best quarterback
Speaker 1: evaluator ever because he's the same guy who passed on
Speaker 1: Watson and Mahomes so that he could take C. J.
Speaker 1: Bethard and talks of beth word he and everyone wants
Speaker 1: to say, well, Garoppolo fell in his lap. No, he's
Speaker 1: the one in charge of quarterbacks. Garoppolo has been his
Speaker 1: guy for three years, whether you like it or not,
Speaker 1: like has he been pristine in like orchestrating the quarterback
Speaker 1: position in San Francisco. Now he gets a chance to
Speaker 1: get his guy so I'm I'm looking forward to that,
Speaker 1: and I don't really doubt him making a choice, But
Speaker 1: I think I think there is something going on here
Speaker 1: in terms of the front office in Shanahan. Keep tracking it.
Speaker 1: Trade went down today Tuesday. Uh. Ian Rappaport broke it
Speaker 1: that Washington the football team acquired Eric Flowers to tackle
Speaker 1: into late round draft pick from the Dolphins, who sent
Speaker 1: back a excuse me, who received a late round pick. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's Flowers, who was drafted back as the first rounder.
Speaker 1: They gave him a three or thirty million dollar deal.
Speaker 1: Twenty of that guaranteed didn't really work out. So now
Speaker 1: he goes back over to Washington and we'll see what
Speaker 1: happens there. What does this mean, Gregg in terms of
Speaker 1: going forward with Miami and their pick at number six,
Speaker 1: A lot of people think it might be them taking
Speaker 1: Pena Swell if he's available at six, or possibly Rashaun
Speaker 1: Slater a tackle because now they need a write tackle.
Speaker 1: I mean, Flowers wasn't playing tackle, but they drafted Robert
Speaker 1: Hunt last year who played some tackle, and he's probably
Speaker 1: gonna move inside and uh and so it would make
Speaker 1: their their trade down from three to six would also
Speaker 1: make a little more sense whether they're taking a playmaker
Speaker 1: or not. It's like they ultimately pulled a swap where
Speaker 1: they got some picks, moved from three to six, and
Speaker 1: now they're looking at a tackle. It just continues this
Speaker 1: trend though, of them moving on from guys fast Shack
Speaker 1: Laws and Kyle Van Noy, Eric Flowers, Jordan Howard all
Speaker 1: signed big contracts last year. None of them made it
Speaker 1: back to the team this year. And he's on his
Speaker 1: third offensive coordinator in three years and his second and
Speaker 1: he's had two defensive coordinators, so they they a lot
Speaker 1: of guys. I was gonna say, is that a sign
Speaker 1: of a coach that knows exactly what and has great vision?
Speaker 1: Or or is there something often how how this is
Speaker 1: coming together in Miami. I know he's made progress, of course,
Speaker 1: floors and deserves a lot of credit for what he's
Speaker 1: built so far, But there's a little bit of I
Speaker 1: don't know, it's there's a lot going on there. It seems.
Speaker 1: I mean, the Eric Flowers and Kyle Van Noise of
Speaker 1: the world, they overpaid for average players. They're not stars.
Speaker 1: They're not moving on from foundational pieces. I think they
Speaker 1: overpaid for them because they tried to get that roster
Speaker 1: up and running in a hurry. It was a real mess.
Speaker 1: But um, you'd like to see maybe more one one
Speaker 1: or two year deals more cost efficient that that maybe
Speaker 1: one of the I love the front office, but they
Speaker 1: haven't been totally perfect. And if they take Fuel or
Speaker 1: Slater at six, that could put Caroline in a bad spot.
Speaker 1: Who wants one of them? And it so I think
Speaker 1: is going to lead to something happen which happened last year,
Speaker 1: which is all these receivers everyone loves end up falling
Speaker 1: because there's so many of them, because you know that
Speaker 1: it feels like you can get a good one in
Speaker 1: the second round, and so maybe there's not as many
Speaker 1: of these like Alabama receivers which we'll talk about going
Speaker 1: in the top ten that people thought. I also would
Speaker 1: not be shocked if the Dolphins moved down again. I
Speaker 1: mean this is just a team number six. There could
Speaker 1: be a lot of intrigue if there's a run on quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: which there will be, and someone is viewing number six
Speaker 1: as the place they can go get justin fields Miami.
Speaker 1: I don't care who they're they may be hot on um,
Speaker 1: they seem like more than any team in the league
Speaker 1: willing to move up and down the board at their leisure.
Speaker 1: In other news, Kyler Murray, entering his third year in
Speaker 1: the NFL at the Arizona Cardinals, former number one overall pick,
Speaker 1: was on Good Morning Football on Tuesday, and he was
Speaker 1: asked whether he has any input on selections by Arizona
Speaker 1: and whether general manager Steve Come considers the QB's opinion
Speaker 1: when making Troy is Here's what he had to say.
Speaker 1: I do believe. I do believe. I think I have
Speaker 1: an influence in it. Um. I don't know why I
Speaker 1: wouldn't you know. I think, you know, if you've got
Speaker 1: a guy quarterback and you trust him, and you you know,
Speaker 1: you want to be the face of the franchise for
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of years, I think he should
Speaker 1: have influenced just because I mean everything, you know it's
Speaker 1: technically built around the quarterback. So, UM, I think I
Speaker 1: have that relationship with Steven in Cliff and UM, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm excited to see what we do on Thursdays. It
Speaker 1: feels like that's where football and sports are going. Your
Speaker 1: biggest stars. They're not just the guys on the field
Speaker 1: putting up the numbers that are involved if they're at
Speaker 1: that high level franchise quarterback uh and certainly is the
Speaker 1: top of the heap. Um, I feel like they should
Speaker 1: have a voice and should be in the decision making
Speaker 1: process to a certain degree, do you guys agree? I mean,
Speaker 1: I would just say this, like yes, to a certain degree.
Speaker 1: I think you want to build a bridge with your
Speaker 1: stars and and they, especially if you're a quarterback, you
Speaker 1: want to feel supported in her and I think so
Speaker 1: we've seen some organizations the Seahawks kind of bungle that
Speaker 1: and you suddenly you're in a place of chaos. But
Speaker 1: I would just say this too, that for the like
Speaker 1: the regional scout that is spending like six straight months
Speaker 1: and like blasted out motel rooms, um, you know, putting
Speaker 1: together massive you know, dense reports and all these players,
Speaker 1: the idea that we get to a place where your
Speaker 1: star player has equal time in a draft room as
Speaker 1: that person. I'm not that's the scouts who deserve respect
Speaker 1: for putting in the work and grinding. But when you're
Speaker 1: a Kyler Murray type player, you're a quarterback, you are
Speaker 1: kind of a football savant. So I feel like that
Speaker 1: guy has just as much I should have just a
Speaker 1: loud of voice in terms of knowing what's talent and
Speaker 1: what's not and who can help and who can help.
Speaker 1: I think, well, I'm not saying that he's not talented,
Speaker 1: but the idea that you're that you go, you go
Speaker 1: take the scouting department out for beers after making Kyler
Speaker 1: Murray of the decision making processes certain extent, it's just
Speaker 1: it's just another voice. And especially if you're talking about
Speaker 1: receivers or something like that, it is interesting to know
Speaker 1: he this is sort of it's not new for Kyler.
Speaker 1: He publicly campaigned for his old UH teammate Ceedee Lamb
Speaker 1: last year and uh, that would have been a nice
Speaker 1: pick for them in hindsight, and there and there pick
Speaker 1: Isaiah Simmons had some big struggles. It's only one year.
Speaker 1: You don't want to get to I wonder who maybe
Speaker 1: better pick. Maybe it's connected, maybe that he stews about
Speaker 1: that a little bit and just hasn't spoken up on
Speaker 1: it um And maybe maybe the Browns should have led
Speaker 1: Brandon weed and organized the three drafts after he was
Speaker 1: picked by the team, right Mark, Mark's fired up it. No,
Speaker 1: I just find it slightly absurd. I mean, it's like like,
Speaker 1: just because you're great at quarterback, you should be. I
Speaker 1: look at I'm with you. It's just it's lip service.
Speaker 1: Just let them feel like part of the process. If
Speaker 1: you find out you've got this person that's like a
Speaker 1: true wizard. Okay, but I wouldn't assume. Just to be clear,
Speaker 1: Brandon Weedon was a terrible, like thirty four year old
Speaker 1: rookie quarterback that never did anything in the league. Kyler
Speaker 1: Murray is widely seen as one of the great young
Speaker 1: stars in football. There's a difference. Sure, go wait and
Speaker 1: eate again. You know what I know it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a good Cessler show. Oh man is when he uses
Speaker 1: the phrase good little boys at some point. This is
Speaker 1: like what Cessler has different phrases which kind of like
Speaker 1: pop up as they get hot and not and good
Speaker 1: little Boys is a hot one. Now when you got
Speaker 1: the good little boy dropped early in the show. Well,
Speaker 1: I am annoyed at myself, and I will tell you
Speaker 1: something because I made a major mistake, which just revealed
Speaker 1: how big of a fool I am when I when
Speaker 1: I don't do my homework. I wish our friend Matt
Speaker 1: money Smith a happy birthday because I had seen someone
Speaker 1: else wish and happy birthday, and so I just jumped
Speaker 1: on it and uh, you know, put out a tweet
Speaker 1: and all these people think it's like three or four
Speaker 1: hundred likes and Matt well, so Matt, Matt texted me
Speaker 1: and he's like, hey, man, like, um, I should actually
Speaker 1: read this to you. This is like, it's very quintessential
Speaker 1: Matt money Smith. Um, thanks for the birthday wishes, brother,
Speaker 1: very kind of you. It pains me to say, I
Speaker 1: don't don't know why my Wikipedia page, which I didn't
Speaker 1: even that's where I got it from, is wrong. But
Speaker 1: for whatever reason it is. My birthday is in August
Speaker 1: and I've never updated it. So he was back, I
Speaker 1: was like, should I keep it up? Should I take
Speaker 1: it down? And said, let's just keep it up because
Speaker 1: who's going to remember in August that this happened. Let's
Speaker 1: just get you a lot of likes and love on
Speaker 1: this weird little Monday. But what a fool I mean,
Speaker 1: like he I emailed him and said, happy birthday. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't beat yourself up over it. It's no big deal.
Speaker 1: I'm not beating myself up. It's just like another you know,
Speaker 1: like you know the mistakes like, you know, I got
Speaker 1: a few tweets yesterday it was like, by the way,
Speaker 1: the Johnny Manzel draft was not nine years ago? And
Speaker 1: it all also wasn't nine years ago? Was nine years
Speaker 1: ago today? How could how could you make that mistake?
Speaker 1: And I was like Tommy Lee Jones and the fugitive,
Speaker 1: I don't care, calm down, who cares? Um? I mean,
Speaker 1: I thought it was. It wasn't like I purposely got
Speaker 1: the time element wrong. But you're really gonna fact check
Speaker 1: me on that. We had a full little to the
Speaker 1: day though to the day feels like I must have
Speaker 1: like it was. I mean, now we're giving a time
Speaker 1: but I think I must have seen April six. Maybe
Speaker 1: that was the upload date of the YouTube video. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't remember exactly why, but everybody relaxed.
Speaker 1: It was not nine years ago, it was seven years ago,
Speaker 1: and it was seven years ago this week? Happy? Now
Speaker 1: does that make a better show? Is that? Is that
Speaker 1: what you were looking for? Right? To me? Also, birthday
Speaker 1: wishes are like a state of mind, so I think
Speaker 1: it would be totally appropriate if all our listeners, you know,
Speaker 1: sent birthday messages to Matt money Smith. Now still like
Speaker 1: after the fact I think they let him know that
Speaker 1: you care. H Two more news items and then we're
Speaker 1: gonna get the carbs on here. First, new Vikings cornerback
Speaker 1: Patrick Peterson is the first player to take advantage of
Speaker 1: the NFL's new relaxed rule on jersey numbers. He's now
Speaker 1: going to be number seven. Seems insane to me, but again,
Speaker 1: as not a huge college football guy. Uh, seeing cornerbacks
Speaker 1: run around in secondaries at number seven, like that's not
Speaker 1: something I've ever really seen. So to me, it's like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's like Mickey Mantele wearing number seven
Speaker 1: and playing catcher or something. It just doesn't add up.
Speaker 1: But Peterson's he's happy. Now we know greg that he
Speaker 1: has to buy out the existing stock of his old number.
Speaker 1: He's a team, right, does that count because he's on
Speaker 1: a new team, So maybe that so he doesn't have
Speaker 1: to buy out the jerseys and drop him over, drop
Speaker 1: him over an orphanage or something like Alvin Cook said
Speaker 1: his would cost one point five million, and he was like,
Speaker 1: nohing and finally in the news and this was interesting
Speaker 1: to me, But also I have to be honest, be fuddling. Uh,
Speaker 1: the Chiefs tight end Sean Culkin um I imagine no
Speaker 1: relation to mcaulay and here and the rest of the
Speaker 1: Culkin gang. Uh. He announced via Twitter that he will
Speaker 1: be the first NFL player to convert all of his
Speaker 1: salary to bitcoin and culkin. He doesn't have a guaranteed
Speaker 1: roster spot with Kansas City, but if he could become
Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey's backup, uh, he would be paid dollars by
Speaker 1: the Chiefs and U s dollars, but in turn will
Speaker 1: convert that to bitcoin, and you know, you got bitcoin
Speaker 1: and you got an f T and all this stuff.
Speaker 1: Sometimes either it's me not having any type of economics background,
Speaker 1: or be just getting older and just being a little disconnected.
Speaker 1: This stuff confuses me. So I decided this would be
Speaker 1: a good time to introduce a new micro segment I
Speaker 1: call it micro seg on the pod called Money on
Speaker 1: Money Hit. Bitcoin is a currency, so if you're on
Speaker 1: boards and your own currency trading, think of it as
Speaker 1: a dollar. I think probably the better way to run
Speaker 1: a parallel is gold. Right, if you own gold, you
Speaker 1: don't you kind of own the physical gold itself. I
Speaker 1: suppose you could figure out a way to get your
Speaker 1: hands on it, but really you own um the idea
Speaker 1: of gold. You loan shares of gold UM and you
Speaker 1: can trade in gold. A lot of people have gold
Speaker 1: to balance out their portfolio to protect against um different
Speaker 1: directions of inflation or a volatile market. You know, gold
Speaker 1: has been around for what five thousand years as an anchor. Basically,
Speaker 1: what Sean Fulcan is gonna do is get paid in
Speaker 1: whatever his regular paycheck, and then he's just gonna take
Speaker 1: that that paycheck to a place like coin base or
Speaker 1: where some particular market base that trades in bitcoin, and
Speaker 1: he's going to purchase the pitcoin. I think that would
Speaker 1: be no different than him taking that paycheck and saying
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put my entire paycheck into the smp UM
Speaker 1: or I'm gonna put my entire paycheck into the dial
Speaker 1: either their NaSTA. Seaun Culton, I'm assuming is trying to
Speaker 1: angle for some sort of endorsement deal or to be
Speaker 1: part of a company that would be interested in hiring
Speaker 1: him um to promote and sell the idea of bitcoin.
Speaker 1: There it is, well, I mean, it would be smarter.
Speaker 1: Just now, I think we all just got a little bit.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's like, it would be more ironic if
Speaker 1: Matt money Smith actually were bad with money or had
Speaker 1: no interest in money. But the problem is he I'm like,
Speaker 1: what Netflix show should I watch tonight? Like, and he's
Speaker 1: like digging into like deep portfolios and stuff. There's different
Speaker 1: types of people and different he added, there's his portfolio
Speaker 1: um consists of a sizeable portion of it has some
Speaker 1: type of Bitcoin leaning. So money is money on money
Speaker 1: is a segment that's on fire already because you just
Speaker 1: know it's come from somebody that lives it. I mean,
Speaker 1: his name is money. I mean, I don't know how
Speaker 1: this isn't already a part of his life. How he's
Speaker 1: not getting paid to do this. I'm like CNBC or whatever,
Speaker 1: what is the financial one? It's yes, I believe it's that.
Speaker 1: That's it. That's it. I think that was very informative,
Speaker 1: and it's good you asked him. He gave like a
Speaker 1: very education educated answer, because I think that's part of
Speaker 1: part of the problem with bitcoin. There's just not enough people,
Speaker 1: you know, who will talk to you, talk to you
Speaker 1: about at it, like even when you don't want to
Speaker 1: hear about it. It's just like I just wish like
Speaker 1: the bitcoin people would be a little more aggressive and
Speaker 1: like talking to everyone about it. You know, it's just
Speaker 1: like I need to hear more. So let's come out
Speaker 1: come at us. Gregg is, Greg Is, I don't know
Speaker 1: where he's coming from sometimes with the arrows that he
Speaker 1: slings in all directions. So here's where I'm coming from.
Speaker 1: The worst people on Twitter are the ones talking about bitcoin.
Speaker 1: That's where I'm coming from. I can find some people
Speaker 1: that can compete with that. That's an auto auto mute.
Speaker 1: That's an auto mute. All right, that's what's happening. And
Speaker 1: I didn't know. I had no idea Greg that that
Speaker 1: you had that take. But maybe there's some really good
Speaker 1: people out there also that are they're they're probably good people,
Speaker 1: but it's kind of like it's just like a religion.
Speaker 1: It's I'm all for people doing whatever makes them money
Speaker 1: and happy, but when they're pushing it on you aggressively
Speaker 1: all the world, right, well, that there's a lot of
Speaker 1: carry over there. There's a lot of carry over there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like this limey stockbrokers of the eighties are now
Speaker 1: like these type of people that are in this advanced
Speaker 1: currency if you will, like you're not you don't understand money.
Speaker 1: I'm in the future and you're in the past. It's like, okay, bro, condemn.
Speaker 1: We'll put our pants on one like at a a time.
Speaker 1: See now I'm on gregside. Now that what I don't understand.
Speaker 1: I'm not against you. I just it's a world I
Speaker 1: don't I'm a child in the in those realms. All right,
Speaker 1: that's what's happening in the news. All right, man, Pink Floyd.
Speaker 1: That's a good band. You know. It's another good band,
Speaker 1: the Drive By Truckers. And when I think of the
Speaker 1: Drive By Truckers, I think of one man, Chase good Bread,
Speaker 1: and we welcome him in. Now to the Around the
Speaker 1: NFL podcast. There he is. I call him Carbs. But
Speaker 1: this is a dude that eats during draft time. He
Speaker 1: eats all the knowledge and then delivers it to us.
Speaker 1: What's up, Carbs? I don't know where I was going
Speaker 1: with that. Good to be back on here. How are
Speaker 1: you all good? It's been a while. What do you
Speaker 1: have it's been a while. Yeah, it's about annual with
Speaker 1: you guys. But I enjoyed every year, so for for sure. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to the draft, probably gonna not not
Speaker 1: in Cleveland this year. I've been some years, not others.
Speaker 1: This is a night year and so uh, I'm happy
Speaker 1: to fire up to grill and do it that way, right,
Speaker 1: nice beautiful Carb is a man that knows how to
Speaker 1: have fun down there in Alabama. And you know, cards,
Speaker 1: it's kind of fascinating symmetry here with these last two drafts.
Speaker 1: So of course, last year, uh to ah goes fifth
Speaker 1: overall in the first round. Um, Henry Ruggs goes twelve
Speaker 1: to the Raiders, Jerry Judy to the Broncos. So all
Speaker 1: Alabama products products. This year, you're here in mac Jones
Speaker 1: as a top five pick in the first round, and
Speaker 1: then you have Davonte Smith and Jalen Waddle that are
Speaker 1: projected to be fron half of the first round guys
Speaker 1: as well. This is pretty wild. And I know it's
Speaker 1: a football factory down there, but this pretty hard core. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Two quarterbacks and two two quarterbacks and four receivers across
Speaker 1: two years, um, all maybe in the I guess in
Speaker 1: the top half of the first round. It is. It
Speaker 1: is pretty crazy. The the receiving corps that too have
Speaker 1: had at Alabama. At one point, Jaden Wattle was the
Speaker 1: number four right because he was he was stuck behind
Speaker 1: Devonte Smith and Rugs and Judy. It's I don't think
Speaker 1: I'll ever see a deeper college receiving corps in my lifetime.
Speaker 1: I really don't than those four. Uh and Smith and Waddle.
Speaker 1: You know, that's been a fun discussion for a lot
Speaker 1: of people. Who's who's gonna get picked first, Who's gonna
Speaker 1: be the better pro and all that. I like Waddle
Speaker 1: a little bit more than Smith as a pro, which
Speaker 1: which kind of cuts against the grain because Smith is
Speaker 1: the one that had a monster year. Uh And I
Speaker 1: think Smith will be a good pro. I don't buy
Speaker 1: into this wait stuff, you know, him being two small.
Speaker 1: I think that's largely kind of media creation. But I
Speaker 1: do think while I was gonna make a little a
Speaker 1: little bit better pro, he's he's a faster, he's faster,
Speaker 1: he's he's got more shake and bake in the open field.
Speaker 1: He's crazy good as a return guy. Um, if you
Speaker 1: wanted to, if you wanted a comp from me on
Speaker 1: Jayden Wattle, I would say to you, if you remember
Speaker 1: Dante Hall, the kicking specialist, the return specialist with the Chiefs.
Speaker 1: If Dante Hall had been an all Pro receiver along
Speaker 1: with being an all pro return guy. That's what Jayden
Speaker 1: Wattle is gonna look like in the NFL. To me,
Speaker 1: m that's why I still not ruling out him going
Speaker 1: to Miami and six. This this trade they made and
Speaker 1: some talk that um that they'll take a tackle there
Speaker 1: makes like more sense. But I you know, you look
Speaker 1: around people kind of in people you know they wager
Speaker 1: on this. We can talk about this now and in
Speaker 1: this new NFL like the idea of like Wattle or
Speaker 1: Smith who goes first, it would not surprise me at all. Carbs,
Speaker 1: if the a lot, if a lot of NFL teams
Speaker 1: agree with everything you just said in that because of
Speaker 1: that Wattle actually goes off the board first, it won't
Speaker 1: surprise me a bit. And and it's a shame that
Speaker 1: he busted his foot pretty bad against Tennessee and missed
Speaker 1: most of his last year at Alabama. But there's lots
Speaker 1: of film on him, even even when he was a
Speaker 1: number four his freshman year, which I guess would have
Speaker 1: been two thousand and eighteen. Uh, he was you can
Speaker 1: see flashes that this this guy is gonna be a pro.
Speaker 1: There's no doubt about it. He's just too fast. He's
Speaker 1: too quick, he's too good. His sophomore year he was.
Speaker 1: He was dynamite as well, although again behind Rugs and Judy,
Speaker 1: he didn't get a ton of catches, so uh, not
Speaker 1: a lot of mileage on him, I guess when you
Speaker 1: look at it that way. But for sure, he's a
Speaker 1: he's a special athlete, and I think he's gonna be
Speaker 1: making big plays and and returning and returning punch and
Speaker 1: kickoffs and in a big way right away. You know,
Speaker 1: Carbs um Tomorrow around this time, my mock draft goes
Speaker 1: live before the Nation's the eyes of the nations, so
Speaker 1: there'll be some surprises there, but like you know, not
Speaker 1: surprising a lot of Alabama players. Um. Patrick's certain. I'm
Speaker 1: not going to reveal to you or anyone else where
Speaker 1: I placed him, um, but it feels organic, it feels right.
Speaker 1: Is he the most short thing? Could you make an
Speaker 1: argument that he's the most short thing in this entire
Speaker 1: first round? By the way, I want the audience to
Speaker 1: know that we know Chase good Bread very well from
Speaker 1: the years back at different events, but not on a
Speaker 1: day to day basis. We don't work together, So I
Speaker 1: don't know if Carbs had a very like straight faced
Speaker 1: I don't know if he thinks Marks being dead serious
Speaker 1: about the mock draft uh and was taking in Strider
Speaker 1: if he knows that was all in jest. But either way,
Speaker 1: it's it's funny to me. I like it now, I
Speaker 1: get it. I get it. The world is waiting with
Speaker 1: bated breath for Sessler's for the tiniest of minutia about
Speaker 1: Sessler's mock Why would why would they not? Absolutely, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna predicts going to the Cowboys. You know now, he'll
Speaker 1: have to change it if he did that, But I'm
Speaker 1: gonna predict that him. Sergeant is a safe pick though, Yeah,
Speaker 1: no doubt he's. Yeah. I got a chance to watch
Speaker 1: him at his pro day up close. That was on Marche,
Speaker 1: and yeah, you could tell the scouts were buzzing about him.
Speaker 1: His vertical jump, the broad jump, all that athletic stuff.
Speaker 1: He ran a strong forty or dash. I think his
Speaker 1: forty was in the four fours. He's got the tape.
Speaker 1: He started for Nick saban as a freshman, which tells
Speaker 1: you a lot because Nick saban Is is a defensive back.
Speaker 1: He's not only a defensive coach, he's a defensive backs coach.
Speaker 1: He calls himself the highest paid dv g A in
Speaker 1: college football. UH. He's always with the dvs and practice
Speaker 1: and he's been a big startan fan from from day one.
Speaker 1: UH has worked him some early in his career. He
Speaker 1: actually worked a little bit at Nickel in that slot
Speaker 1: corner spot, and then he's he he ended up being
Speaker 1: more of a full time guy on the outside. He's
Speaker 1: plenty big enough to play outside, but if an NFL
Speaker 1: club wanted to drop him inside, he could handle that.
Speaker 1: To you. I'm fascinated though about these teams that are
Speaker 1: taking cornerbacks early and teams are like, okay, that upgrades
Speaker 1: that position, that's a safe pick. When was last cornerback
Speaker 1: to come into the league and make a difference like
Speaker 1: that is a tough position right now to come into
Speaker 1: the league and be good right away. I'm not saying
Speaker 1: that they don't eventually, but it wasn't last it wasn't
Speaker 1: the year before. Yeah, that's though, So that's that's tricky
Speaker 1: when when you're drafting top ten, certain seems really like
Speaker 1: a safe pick and it's exciting, but I do wonder,
Speaker 1: you know, towards the top of the draft, if that's
Speaker 1: gonna affect any team probably not because everyone needs cornerbacks,
Speaker 1: but it just seems like it's a trend right now.
Speaker 1: Linebackers are a little similar to like guys that have
Speaker 1: to cover. They're getting they're getting flayed, like like, no
Speaker 1: matter who you are, if you're coming out from college,
Speaker 1: maybe it's just a two or three year thing that
Speaker 1: it's been something on my radar that none of these
Speaker 1: cornerbacks have have had a great transition. Curtan seems like
Speaker 1: a unique guy in that he he knows the game
Speaker 1: so well. Maybe you could avoid that. Yeah, for sure,
Speaker 1: the cornerback spot you used to you don't hear about
Speaker 1: it so much anymore, But it used to be if
Speaker 1: you if you get drafted as a corner, you can't
Speaker 1: cut it at corner, right, we just move you to safety. Well,
Speaker 1: safety is not nearly as valuable as a position at
Speaker 1: corner anymore. The separation of value to me in those
Speaker 1: positions is widened, and so you know, if you're if
Speaker 1: you're a bust of a corner as a first round pick,
Speaker 1: even if you do move to safety and flourish a
Speaker 1: little bit, it's it's not the same as having a
Speaker 1: guy who can lock down a big time receiver on
Speaker 1: the outside, not nearly the same. Hey, Carbs, I want
Speaker 1: to get back to this draft and specifically some SEC sleepers,
Speaker 1: because I know that's your area of extreme expertise. But
Speaker 1: I do want to touch on the Alabama class um
Speaker 1: and to a first and foremost, because there's so much,
Speaker 1: so much speculation around him, how he's gonna look in
Speaker 1: year two and how the Dolphins are potentially putting him
Speaker 1: in a spot where he's gonna have huge upgrades around him, uh,
Speaker 1: in an Alabama type set up in terms of skill
Speaker 1: players potentially, Um, how did he look to you last
Speaker 1: year in Miami? And then I'm curious also about Rugs
Speaker 1: and Judy, who had very kind of up and down
Speaker 1: rookie years themselves. Yeah, they did, for sure to a
Speaker 1: struggle at times, There's no doubt about it. I think
Speaker 1: that club weapons he yeah, he he did. He did.
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not gonna say the hip was was
Speaker 1: was a problem for him necessarily. I think they just
Speaker 1: they got to get more weapons in there for him.
Speaker 1: And it doesn't matter if they're Alabama guys, great, if
Speaker 1: it's somebody else, you know, if if if it's Caadarius
Speaker 1: Tony at Florida. Whoever it is, Uh, get some people
Speaker 1: in there for him who can who can lie it
Speaker 1: up the secondary. I think you'll see a lot of
Speaker 1: improvement from him. Rugs and Judy were up and down
Speaker 1: for sure. Judy had a lot of drops with the Broncos,
Speaker 1: was never drops were never a problem for him at
Speaker 1: the college level, So that certainly surprised me. He was
Speaker 1: never really on the same page. I don't think with
Speaker 1: with Drew Lock. I saw one particular Broncos game, uh
Speaker 1: late in the season where we're him in a lot
Speaker 1: just just could not connect at all. Lots of frustration
Speaker 1: for sure, on on both ends of that, and and
Speaker 1: and Rugs. You know, he just didn't He just didn't
Speaker 1: get enough balls in his hands. And so I think
Speaker 1: he's got some developing to do himself. But you could
Speaker 1: you could still there's flashes of explosiveness with Rugs that
Speaker 1: you can't deny. He had one game for the Raiders
Speaker 1: where he was two for one eighteen. He had another
Speaker 1: game from the Raiders where he was three for eighty four.
Speaker 1: So he can get downfield if he can get the
Speaker 1: ball in his hand with with two uh out circling
Speaker 1: back to two of there. I think one thing that
Speaker 1: jumped out to me was how much dink and dunk
Speaker 1: was in his game and how much do you like
Speaker 1: at Alabama? Was he a guy that you believe saw
Speaker 1: was like a guy was attacking downfield? And you think
Speaker 1: if they do surround him with the right guys, he
Speaker 1: changes the way he played his game because he was
Speaker 1: not a lot of fun to watch last year, to
Speaker 1: be totally honest, right right, he can absolutely go downfield.
Speaker 1: He's got a lot of velocity on that arm. I
Speaker 1: think he's I think he's the most talented Alabama quarterback
Speaker 1: i've I've I've ever seen frankly Um. So you know,
Speaker 1: he doesn't like to check it down, but I think
Speaker 1: in Miami he probably had to. Was told to, was coach,
Speaker 1: to what have you. But uh, you know, there's there
Speaker 1: There's no question the guy can push the ball down
Speaker 1: the field. Now that the differences to at Alabama, he
Speaker 1: could hit a slant or a screen or some kind
Speaker 1: of short pass to one of these four receivers we've
Speaker 1: been talking about and that will turn into a fifty
Speaker 1: yard touchdown. So um, he got a lot of big
Speaker 1: plays at Alabama through that they had a they had
Speaker 1: a couple of slant plays that that nobody could stop.
Speaker 1: They were rpo plays. But but they they ate ownes
Speaker 1: of yard Is doing that kind of stuff. But in
Speaker 1: terms of zip on the ball and being able to
Speaker 1: thread a needle, you know in the intermedi and the
Speaker 1: eat your intermediate level, he can do that. They're they're
Speaker 1: so fascinating because in theory there they were in position
Speaker 1: they still are at six to take another quarterback comparing
Speaker 1: him to Mac Jones, give me a couple of comparisons
Speaker 1: him to Mac Jones. Who do you think was a
Speaker 1: better prospect? They think they're probably more similar than people think.
Speaker 1: And and Naza Harris compared to the running backs that
Speaker 1: have come out of Alabama lately. Because I'm wondering if
Speaker 1: any running backs get taken in the first round. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of buzz that the Steelers may take him Harris,
Speaker 1: but it's also seems possible that like no running backs
Speaker 1: go in the first round. Yeah, it could be. I
Speaker 1: liked in terms of just straight talent. I like to
Speaker 1: uh more than Mac Jones. Jones had a great year
Speaker 1: and no doubt about it too, is definitely the better
Speaker 1: athlete I think two has got more zip on the ball.
Speaker 1: I think he's just as accurate. I think he makes
Speaker 1: decisions just as quick as Mac Jones and so uh.
Speaker 1: If I was grading him as prospects, I would have
Speaker 1: two uh higher than Jones. Uh for sure, Harris. You know,
Speaker 1: he's an interesting case. He's not the fastest guy in
Speaker 1: the world. As productive as he was at Alabama, he
Speaker 1: didn't break a bunch of fifty and sixty yard runs
Speaker 1: at all. Uh. He's and he's an exciting player with
Speaker 1: some great athletic skills. Uh. But but you really, I
Speaker 1: don't in four years at out and all this time
Speaker 1: at Alabama, I'm not sure he broke a run more
Speaker 1: than fifty yards and so and he never ran a
Speaker 1: forty yard dash, by the way, no combine, he didn't.
Speaker 1: He didn't run the forty at his pro day. He
Speaker 1: had an injury through the spring that he was kind
Speaker 1: of rehabbing a little bit. So I think that's a
Speaker 1: question for some clubs, for sure. But the guy can
Speaker 1: catch the ball, he can go between the tackles, he
Speaker 1: can make people miss. He's big for a guy who's
Speaker 1: so light on his feet. You know, he weighs two
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty pounds and in the open field sometimes
Speaker 1: he looks like weighs about one nineties. So uh. Tons
Speaker 1: of of athleticism for sure, but not a game breaker,
Speaker 1: not in the NFL. He he won't get loose from
Speaker 1: his own twenty and put it in the end zone.
Speaker 1: He's not He's not that fast, you know, Carbs. Uh,
Speaker 1: we haven't seen you since we lost our friend West.
Speaker 1: And when I think about West and when it came
Speaker 1: to you know, he maybe not have been the biggest
Speaker 1: college football guy of all time, but he was a
Speaker 1: tape watcher and he was a lone wolf. Like the
Speaker 1: whole society would say this player is looking great and
Speaker 1: he tells you, no, he's not, and he'd be right
Speaker 1: so often. So I wonder if there's um a guy
Speaker 1: out there that you're kind of a lone wolf on
Speaker 1: where you know, the the whole college side and the
Speaker 1: draft knicks and all the stuff we're saying we love
Speaker 1: or hate this guy, and you just don't you feel differently? Um?
Speaker 1: And secondly, like you guys were both big green egg fans,
Speaker 1: Like what is the perfect kind of big green egg
Speaker 1: um project for it? Maybe not the first night of
Speaker 1: the draft, but like those that long weekend that follows
Speaker 1: these endless picks that go on for weeks. Time to
Speaker 1: cook something? What would you be cooking? Yeah, if I
Speaker 1: had the time, him would be a would be a brisket.
Speaker 1: But a brisket is just I'll answer the second question first,
Speaker 1: just a more fun question. But uh, brisket. I love
Speaker 1: to do it, but but you gotta babysit it for
Speaker 1: for a long long time, ten twelve hours. Sometimes probably
Speaker 1: not ideal because I'm actually gonna be working during the draft,
Speaker 1: so uh in order to juggle uh nfl dot com
Speaker 1: draft weekend duties and the grill, I'm thinking something hot
Speaker 1: and fast, you know, steaks, something something like that that
Speaker 1: can get done quick. As for an SEC sleeper, somebody,
Speaker 1: I think somebody, I think that that West would have liked.
Speaker 1: I'll give you Seth Williams, a wide receiver from Auburn
Speaker 1: who's probably gonna be picked on the last day of
Speaker 1: the draft. I don't know why. The guy's hands are unbelievable.
Speaker 1: He's unbelievable in traffic. He can he can make that
Speaker 1: back shoulder catch. He's got great body control, you know.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's the fastest guy in the world.
Speaker 1: Maybe that was the issue. I don't know what he ran,
Speaker 1: but uh, Seth Williams is gonna make some team. Uh
Speaker 1: really fine third day pick. I think anybody else in
Speaker 1: your sec sleeper watch. I like Tray Smith, the the
Speaker 1: offensive lineman from from Tennessee. Uh, he's gonna be a
Speaker 1: mid round guy. I think he's got a whole lot
Speaker 1: of potential. I thought he looked pretty good at the
Speaker 1: Senior Bowl down in Mobile. He's had some medical issues.
Speaker 1: He had some long issues actually that kept him off
Speaker 1: the field and hampered him early in his career. He
Speaker 1: got the medical clearances to get back on the field
Speaker 1: for the balls and uh it was was dominant pretty
Speaker 1: much the last couple of years. If you go back
Speaker 1: and watch twenty nineteen tape of of Tennessee against South Carolina,
Speaker 1: he handles uh um, he handles the slipping slip in
Speaker 1: my mind, the defensive tackle from South Carolina that went
Speaker 1: first round last year. Thank you, Thank you, Greg he
Speaker 1: nominating kin law Um for the most part in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1: If you go back and look at kin laws last
Speaker 1: year at South Carolina, which which was nineteen nobody blocked
Speaker 1: and Mike Smith did mm hmm. That's why they call
Speaker 1: him Chase good Bread. Well, his mom called him Chase
Speaker 1: good brushy game in the name. We call him Carbs,
Speaker 1: and you always deliver the goodness, uh, Carbs, and we
Speaker 1: hope to see you uh down the line. We've all
Speaker 1: been separated for all long, far too long now, So
Speaker 1: whenever we do see you again, perhaps we will celebrate
Speaker 1: over a big green egg or something. Who knows looking
Speaker 1: forward to it. Fellas take it easy right there, he goes. See,
Speaker 1: we have we have these sparrows that are helping us
Speaker 1: out landsier line. Yesterday Chase good Bread uh. Today tomorrow
Speaker 1: we have a special guest, someone that has a lot
Speaker 1: of skin in the game, I'll say, when it comes
Speaker 1: to college football. Uh. And and that person we'll be
Speaker 1: able to hopefully give it, hopefully give us some information.
Speaker 1: I want to touch on something that just kind of
Speaker 1: a follow up point before we say goodbye and again
Speaker 1: remember the Mark Sessler mock draft. I want to touch
Speaker 1: on that as well, is coming up tomorrow. Um. We
Speaker 1: were nominated, of course for a Cyclops Award, and um
Speaker 1: a lot of people wanted to know whether we came
Speaker 1: out on top. I believe it's actually the Synopsis Award
Speaker 1: Awards show. I don't know, I have no idea actually,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, we were not nominated in the
Speaker 1: Innovators and Disruptors category. I was fine with that, but
Speaker 1: Best Podcast Series Series felt like a lock for us.
Speaker 1: I mean we were we got a nice little show here,
Speaker 1: but we didn't win. They gave it to Chris Russo,
Speaker 1: of all people digging up the passed with Chris Russo.
Speaker 1: I don't know what that is, um. And so we
Speaker 1: we take another l and it is starting to feel
Speaker 1: like with these awards, and we are of course best
Speaker 1: New Sports Podcast. Apple Podcast two thousand thirteen got that
Speaker 1: in our back pocket. We got the what's the award
Speaker 1: that was stolen by our producer Spotify or stitch Stitcher
Speaker 1: got your stitcher, not not the current producer. Um. But
Speaker 1: now they're starting a bit of a Marcus Susan Lucci
Speaker 1: thing going on for us, and I I just I
Speaker 1: don't think it's right. I don't think it's fair. I
Speaker 1: think we've got a nice little show here and it's
Speaker 1: time to start getting some hardware to and be rewarded
Speaker 1: for it. Well, it's the one thing I'd say is
Speaker 1: I don't. It doesn't sting as much for me to
Speaker 1: lose to a a friend of the show, but a
Speaker 1: childhood hero. I don't know if I We've talked about
Speaker 1: this a billion times. I don't know if we'd be
Speaker 1: here if it weren't for Chris Russo. Russo even know
Speaker 1: that he won the Cyclops That's I guess my issue. Well,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be sure of that. I mean I would
Speaker 1: suggest he maybe someone told him and he thought rate
Speaker 1: and you know, moved on with this day. We might
Speaker 1: have been a little more zeroed in. But um, you
Speaker 1: know it that it irritates me on on other levels. UM,
Speaker 1: I will think about it. Um, but I don't know
Speaker 1: how to Greg help me out here. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: what it doesn't care, it matters very much. I'm rewatching
Speaker 1: the Last Dance right now? What had When was it?
Speaker 1: It happened a few days back. Um, I was watching
Speaker 1: rewatching the Last Dance the Jordan dock and it's like
Speaker 1: when B. J. Armstrong um hit a dagger shot too
Speaker 1: and the Hornets beat the Bulls in Game one of
Speaker 1: like the ninety eight Eastern Conference semifinals, and then Jordan's like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna ruin your life now. Um, I have
Speaker 1: that in me when it comes to these awards shows.
Speaker 1: In fact, I declare vengeance on the entire awards industry.
Speaker 1: Related to the podcast, I just think it's time to
Speaker 1: stop being Mr. Nice guy and maybe we start getting
Speaker 1: some trophies. Well, yeah, the money dropped today was you
Speaker 1: know that we're filled with upside, but our our track
Speaker 1: record which show we're we're a little more like them.
Speaker 1: What what's your guy's name? Landon Dickerson of this draft?
Speaker 1: Like we got a lot of hardware early, you know,
Speaker 1: but we're just kind of plugging along right now. You know,
Speaker 1: not getting Randerson is going to make someone very happy,
Speaker 1: a team very happy. The rock solid man in the pivot,
Speaker 1: great leadership, great player. I am tracking him hard. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna actually check in on Landing. Um wait, did he
Speaker 1: go to Alabama? Did I'm with on asking Chase about
Speaker 1: Landon Dickerson? Oh no, I actually, you know what, because
Speaker 1: I was organized. We organize our questions. Unless you're some
Speaker 1: sort of savant maybe, but I'd like to you know what,
Speaker 1: know what, I'm asking carves ahead of time, and I
Speaker 1: decided to not even touch Landon Dickerson. I assumed that Dan,
Speaker 1: you would have like three or four of questions about
Speaker 1: his person brutal. I'm gonna I'm gonna hit him up privately.
Speaker 1: Landon Dickerson, Who's my favorite back? We could call him
Speaker 1: back right now? What happens, because I mean, after Zack Wilson,
Speaker 1: He's he He's the only guy that I'm really tracking
Speaker 1: in this draft. Um, he's in my draft in forty
Speaker 1: um round up, um in my mock I have the
Speaker 1: Jets taken Dickerson. Landon Dickerson at number two. So you
Speaker 1: can be sure that you get your guy, don't worry.
Speaker 1: So this is and yes, so that's what's going on.
Speaker 1: Vengeance declared on the awards industry. U'm not I'm not
Speaker 1: being a nice guy about it anymore. I'm demanding what
Speaker 1: we demand to be taken seriously. That's that's my message
Speaker 1: to the award industry and Mark, I know you demand
Speaker 1: to be taken seriously in the mock draft game. And
Speaker 1: I've noticed this, there's a little bit of an edginess
Speaker 1: with Greg toward your mock draft, almost like he's trying
Speaker 1: to kind of deflate it a little bit. And I
Speaker 1: want to say I personally, I'm not comfortable with it
Speaker 1: because I know it's sneaky. Does mean a lot to
Speaker 1: you to be accepted, uh industry wise as a serious
Speaker 1: football man. And I think when you rise up in
Speaker 1: an industry, you're going to UH, You're going to experience
Speaker 1: a wide range of emotions from the people around you.
Speaker 1: So you know, I think Greg is watching Um, someone
Speaker 1: that he works with, take off like a rocket into
Speaker 1: the draft space, and I think that's uncomfortable for him
Speaker 1: because probably he thinks I should be the one. I'm Greg,
Speaker 1: I should be the one doing the mock draft. Why
Speaker 1: is this clown Mark Um? You know, you know, in
Speaker 1: charge of this area. But you know I got there first.
Speaker 1: And it's not just getting their first, Greg, it's excelling
Speaker 1: at it. Um. I was. I did a marvelous job
Speaker 1: last year, and I planned to absolutely blow the community
Speaker 1: away with what I prepare for you this time around. No,
Speaker 1: I'm with you, Mark, I mean I think you you
Speaker 1: looked around the football landscape and you saw a need
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, you saw like a hole
Speaker 1: in the market place in you were like, this needs
Speaker 1: another Mark draft, This like a mock draft. You know,
Speaker 1: during draft week we need another one. I'll just say
Speaker 1: one thing, uh, Mark, just because I don't want you to,
Speaker 1: because I know you have a lot on your plate
Speaker 1: already and I don't want you to be have more
Speaker 1: anxiety ahead of the mock draft to reveal tomorrow on
Speaker 1: the Around the NFL podcast. But just because you got
Speaker 1: there first doesn't mean you're safe. Because Greg just ran
Speaker 1: up a column a couple of weeks ago called power Rankings,
Speaker 1: which was a little shot across my bow. So just
Speaker 1: know that there could be a Rosenthal mock draft. There
Speaker 1: will never be another. There will never be another draft. No,
Speaker 1: that's instructed, Dan you, Thank you. I will I'll mull that.
Speaker 1: All right, good stuff, big show come out tomorrow. You
Speaker 1: heard it. We've been teasing it. Thank you to Chase
Speaker 1: good Bread. Uh. One more show tomorrow ahead of the draft,
Speaker 1: and then we dig in with a big Thursday night show.
Speaker 1: So make sure you tune in all week because we
Speaker 1: got this thing covered, we got it unlocked. They don't
Speaker 1: give us trophies, but really the only trophy we need
Speaker 1: is you, the listeners coming back every show. That's not true.
Speaker 1: I want the physical ment. Yes, all right, this stand
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