Speaker 1: Welcome into another road to the draft, coming to you
Speaker 1: from the Buck Studio, presented by Ticketmaster Casey Phillips here
Speaker 1: with senior writer and editor Scott Smith, and we have
Speaker 1: continued further down our road.
Speaker 2: We got on the on ramp last week.
Speaker 1: Now we're going further down the road, which means that
Speaker 1: last week we kind of looked at some films some
Speaker 1: guys we thought we'd seen around multiple mock drafts of
Speaker 1: being the most likely potentially in some of those mock drafts. Well,
Speaker 1: now we have your mock draft, the best of all
Speaker 1: the mock drafts.
Speaker 2: Obviously, that is what we're going to be going through today.
Speaker 1: We obviously are not going to go through all thirty
Speaker 1: two picks, so you've already pre filled in a few.
Speaker 1: We're going to go through some of the others. And
Speaker 1: we have this list of the available people for you
Speaker 1: to plug in.
Speaker 2: Where did we find this list?
Speaker 3: This is from Daniel Jeremiah's most recent just on Monday
Speaker 3: dropped Top fifty is big Board if you will on
Speaker 3: NFL dot com. Check that out. Some of the names
Speaker 3: have already been dragged, but this is where we got
Speaker 3: it from. And then this is my draft and I've
Speaker 3: filled in a lot of it because you probably don't
Speaker 3: want to see me drag every single name, but there's
Speaker 3: some way left blank because we wanted to discuss it
Speaker 3: a little bit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so let's start up here at the top with
Speaker 1: the almighty top three picks that always end up being
Speaker 1: really fun.
Speaker 3: Okay, Now, I will say that this post was posted
Speaker 3: about twelve days ago. I have a new mock draft coming.
Speaker 3: I've already turned it in. It's coming in two days,
Speaker 3: so check that out on buccaneers dot com. And I
Speaker 3: will admit that the some picks have changed. But the
Speaker 3: first time I went through this, I did think that
Speaker 3: the two quarterbacks are going to go in the top
Speaker 3: three picks. So I have the Titans going with cam Ward.
Speaker 3: I think they probably would like to move on from
Speaker 3: will Levis and try again there. And then I don't
Speaker 3: have Shugar Sanders going to Cleveland because I think there
Speaker 3: isn't eventually going to be something to that Sanders effect
Speaker 3: about how maybe they don't want to go to certain
Speaker 3: places and teams kind of have to factor that in.
Speaker 3: But the great news for Cleveland is that they don't
Speaker 3: mind because they get this incredible prospect on the best
Speaker 3: pass rushing prospects in a while. A Miles Garrett is
Speaker 3: asking for a trade, so if they do end up
Speaker 3: trading him, there's a ready made replacement. He's a fantastic
Speaker 3: player with just an amazing burst around the edge and
Speaker 3: ability to get around the corner. So he's probably gonna
Speaker 3: be a game wrecker right from his rookie season. Then
Speaker 3: the Giants, who have been trying to get their quarterback
Speaker 3: situation right for a while, do take the next quarterback,
Speaker 3: and that is dear Sanders from California, Colorado, California, whatever
Speaker 3: thing one of those. So there there's your top three picks,
Speaker 3: all right.
Speaker 1: And so now it looks like your next ones you've
Speaker 1: left blank. I'm noticing a bit of a theme potentially.
Speaker 2: There. Let's take a look at our division.
Speaker 3: Right, we want to know what our divisions go.
Speaker 2: What are they going to do? So it's starting with
Speaker 2: the Panthers.
Speaker 3: Anthers and the Saints bolt end up in the top ten,
Speaker 3: so they've got a lot of options here.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of competition for those top ten picks
Speaker 1: this year too. The way that the Panthers started, we
Speaker 1: really thought they was hard to believe.
Speaker 3: They're down here at eight. Down here at eight. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so there's a lot of options here for the Panthers,
Speaker 3: but I had them going with an EDE rusher because
Speaker 3: this is a really good draft for ed drushers. In
Speaker 3: this case, James Pierce of Tennessee one of the higher
Speaker 3: ranked ones. But I think you're going to see five, six,
Speaker 3: seven of them go in the first round. Now, then
Speaker 3: we get to the Saints, who they've got a lot
Speaker 3: of needs on defense, and they have such a restrictive
Speaker 3: cap situation that it's really going to be hard for
Speaker 3: them to rebuild through free agency. They may even have
Speaker 3: to lose some of the players that they have to have.
Speaker 3: You know, their safeties are either free agents or getting
Speaker 3: up there like and so I think they could really
Speaker 3: use help in their secondary. And this is a really
Speaker 3: dynamic player, Malachi Starks. I could absolutely see him going
Speaker 3: in the top ten, even though safeties don't normally do
Speaker 3: so interesting.
Speaker 1: So, now if we scroll down a little bit, our next,
Speaker 1: our final remaining person from the division, the Falcons.
Speaker 2: They threw a fun little wrench into the mix last year.
Speaker 2: Do you see them making the headlines this year?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: And imagine they'll do anything as shocking as when they
Speaker 3: took Michael Pennock's eighth overall, about a month after they'd
Speaker 3: given Kirk one hundred million dollars. Right, So what I
Speaker 3: think they'll do is what everybody has been predicting for
Speaker 3: the Falcons year after year. They have really had a
Speaker 3: hard time getting an edge rush, going a pass rush
Speaker 3: in general, and that's been a yearly problem a year
Speaker 3: after year for them. So with this draft, with so
Speaker 3: many good options, I think they go with Mike Green
Speaker 3: from Marshall. If he's still there, I gotta admit in
Speaker 3: my next mock draft he's going to go hire them.
Speaker 3: He's since the Senior Bowl, he's really shut up, and
Speaker 3: he led the he led the nation in zacks last year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a big deal.
Speaker 3: Production is there.
Speaker 1: I've already noticed in these ones we've done so far,
Speaker 1: you've mentioned multiple edge rushers i'sane, and you also mentioned
Speaker 1: how many you thought might be going in this first round,
Speaker 1: So that probably sounds like there's potentially even more you're
Speaker 1: scene going here. And it's a position that we've discussed
Speaker 1: the books potentially being interested in.
Speaker 3: That's why it's so relevant because you will probably our
Speaker 3: brain trust will probably come up with their well definitely
Speaker 3: will come up with their rankings of how these guys,
Speaker 3: how they like them. You know, it might not be
Speaker 3: the way I'm showing you here. And if the ones
Speaker 3: they want are all gone, that's definitely a position of
Speaker 3: need for the Buccaneers. But if the guys they are
Speaker 3: hoping for in this range go in this range, then
Speaker 3: it might not happen. And that's why I left these
Speaker 3: planks because in my microdraft, after Mike Green, I also
Speaker 3: have the Cardinals taking Shamar Stewart and the the Bengals
Speaker 3: taking mikel Williams from Georgia.
Speaker 2: Lots of Georgia guys. Well, that's already a lot of
Speaker 2: edge guys off.
Speaker 3: The board, so three in a row just right before.
Speaker 3: So if we're sitting there, or if our brain trust
Speaker 3: is sitting there in the draft room, thinking we got
Speaker 3: a real good shot at an edge. Should we take
Speaker 3: an edge, should we take a cornerback, should we take
Speaker 3: a linebacker, this might be where they you know, tips
Speaker 3: the scales and the Buccaneers don't taken that drush.
Speaker 1: Or even do they try to trade up, but a
Speaker 1: couple of spots three they have for somebody like a
Speaker 1: Tristan wirfs where you're like, we got to get this guy.
Speaker 1: There's a run on offensive lineman.
Speaker 2: We got to do what we want to do. That'll
Speaker 2: be interesting to see him.
Speaker 3: That was a perfect example because when we traded up
Speaker 3: for Tristan Worris, if you recall, I believe it was
Speaker 3: just fourteen to thirteen, yep. But Jason Night was just
Speaker 3: too worried and who knows he could have been right.
Speaker 3: Not only that that team ahead of us could have
Speaker 3: taken it, but somebody could have jumped us for him.
Speaker 3: So yeah, so that's a great point. So if like say,
Speaker 3: the Buccaneers loved mikel Williams, you could see him, you
Speaker 3: swap pretty much every team is a threat to take
Speaker 3: an edge. Yeah, even if you have two good ones,
Speaker 3: you still could use another one, right, and it's it's
Speaker 3: hard to find them outside the first round.
Speaker 2: Now here we are finally to our Buccaneers.
Speaker 3: Yep, And so I'm thinking with the run on edges,
Speaker 3: the Buccaneers instead go cornerback. And the one I picked
Speaker 3: in my first minccraft was Notre Dame's Benjamin Morrison. He's
Speaker 3: as we talked about last week, the issue there is
Speaker 3: that he he heard his hip and had hip surgery
Speaker 3: in October. So that makes some bit of a question mark,
Speaker 3: and it makes the combine, which is just starting now
Speaker 3: important for him in terms of not the workouts but
Speaker 3: the medicals. Way, if you get good medicals, maybe he's
Speaker 3: stock goes up, right, because before you got hurt, really
Speaker 3: polished cornerback, great footwork, smooth, enough speed to keep you know,
Speaker 3: to catch up speed on deep balls. And so I
Speaker 3: think he's really, you know, ready to go cornerback as
Speaker 3: long as he's healthy.
Speaker 2: And as we know, you believe you can never have
Speaker 2: enough corner So.
Speaker 1: I think you loved this run on edges to be like, look,
Speaker 1: I got my guy, and I also noticed it's very
Speaker 1: convenient where we stopped scrolling here that as a Miszoo graduate,
Speaker 1: I noticed that you passed on my guy here, and
Speaker 1: even looking at the rest of your MinC draft, you
Speaker 1: passed on another.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a little farther down is armand Mimbo.
Speaker 2: It's fine. It's fine.
Speaker 1: Now, if they went to Northwestern, I imagine you had
Speaker 1: the books picking them, but I'll.
Speaker 2: Just ignore that.
Speaker 3: It's just this is confidence, Casey. What this is confidence
Speaker 3: that the Bucks are getting get something done.
Speaker 2: Chris Godwin, that's true, and I do like that sentiment,
Speaker 2: so I will allow. Okay, thanks, I will allow the score.
Speaker 2: And you showed.
Speaker 3: And I want to say just one more time that
Speaker 3: a new I have a new mock draft coming up.
Speaker 3: You can also read read Dix's mock draft from last week.
Speaker 3: I have one coming in two days on Thursday. And
Speaker 3: as I said, they all right, and maybe I didn't
Speaker 3: say yet, but the first two picks are not going
Speaker 3: to be quarterbacks. Yeah that one, And I changed this pic.
Speaker 2: Oh, interesting look at the tease.
Speaker 3: After a couple of weeks of reading up, I found
Speaker 3: a player that I think maybe is even better fit
Speaker 3: right there.
Speaker 2: Interesting.
Speaker 1: So now a you have to make sure you check
Speaker 1: out all their other mock drafts that they're posting, and
Speaker 1: you just stay tuned for our next road to the draft,
Speaker 1: because clearly this road is a windy one with some.
Speaker 3: U by the way, who's driving, Because if I'm driving,
Speaker 3: we're going to get there faster.
Speaker 2: That's very true.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you people, this man is a speechter.
Speaker 1: So that's why, Yeah, we're gonna we're gonna get to
Speaker 1: the draft very quickly. If he's in charge, all right,
Speaker 1: that's going to do it for us on this edition
Speaker 1: of Road to the Raft.
Speaker 2: We'll see you next time.