WEBVTT - NFC South Division Draft Discussion | Road to the Draft | Tampa Bay Buccaneers 0:00:00.440 --> 0:00:02.680 Welcome into another road to the draft, coming to you 0:00:02.680 --> 0:00:05.600 from the Buck Studio, presented by Ticketmaster Casey Phillips here 0:00:05.640 --> 0:00:07.920 with senior writer and editor Scott Smith, and we have 0:00:08.039 --> 0:00:09.480 continued further down our road. 0:00:09.520 --> 0:00:11.000 We got on the on ramp last week. 0:00:11.320 --> 0:00:13.560 Now we're going further down the road, which means that 0:00:13.640 --> 0:00:15.760 last week we kind of looked at some films some 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:18.439 guys we thought we'd seen around multiple mock drafts of 0:00:18.480 --> 0:00:21.920 being the most likely potentially in some of those mock drafts. Well, 0:00:21.960 --> 0:00:24.560 now we have your mock draft, the best of all 0:00:24.640 --> 0:00:25.439 the mock drafts. 0:00:25.480 --> 0:00:28.400 Obviously, that is what we're going to be going through today. 0:00:28.440 --> 0:00:30.480 We obviously are not going to go through all thirty 0:00:30.520 --> 0:00:33.080 two picks, so you've already pre filled in a few. 0:00:33.120 --> 0:00:34.919 We're going to go through some of the others. And 0:00:35.000 --> 0:00:37.680 we have this list of the available people for you 0:00:37.720 --> 0:00:38.159 to plug in. 0:00:38.240 --> 0:00:39.400 Where did we find this list? 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:42.640 This is from Daniel Jeremiah's most recent just on Monday 0:00:42.720 --> 0:00:45.440 dropped Top fifty is big Board if you will on 0:00:45.560 --> 0:00:47.959 NFL dot com. Check that out. Some of the names 0:00:48.000 --> 0:00:49.880 have already been dragged, but this is where we got 0:00:49.880 --> 0:00:52.800 it from. And then this is my draft and I've 0:00:52.800 --> 0:00:54.120 filled in a lot of it because you probably don't 0:00:54.120 --> 0:00:55.920 want to see me drag every single name, but there's 0:00:55.920 --> 0:00:57.920 some way left blank because we wanted to discuss it 0:00:57.920 --> 0:00:58.320 a little bit. 0:00:58.400 --> 0:01:00.160 Yeah, so let's start up here at the top with 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:03.080 the almighty top three picks that always end up being 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:03.480 really fun. 0:01:03.480 --> 0:01:05.840 Okay, Now, I will say that this post was posted 0:01:05.880 --> 0:01:09.120 about twelve days ago. I have a new mock draft coming. 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:11.039 I've already turned it in. It's coming in two days, 0:01:11.040 --> 0:01:13.080 so check that out on buccaneers dot com. And I 0:01:13.120 --> 0:01:15.120 will admit that the some picks have changed. But the 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:17.920 first time I went through this, I did think that 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:19.600 the two quarterbacks are going to go in the top 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:22.360 three picks. So I have the Titans going with cam Ward. 0:01:22.560 --> 0:01:24.959 I think they probably would like to move on from 0:01:24.959 --> 0:01:28.280 will Levis and try again there. And then I don't 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:30.480 have Shugar Sanders going to Cleveland because I think there 0:01:30.880 --> 0:01:33.720 isn't eventually going to be something to that Sanders effect 0:01:33.760 --> 0:01:36.640 about how maybe they don't want to go to certain 0:01:36.680 --> 0:01:40.120 places and teams kind of have to factor that in. 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:43.120 But the great news for Cleveland is that they don't 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:45.920 mind because they get this incredible prospect on the best 0:01:45.959 --> 0:01:48.920 pass rushing prospects in a while. A Miles Garrett is 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:51.360 asking for a trade, so if they do end up 0:01:51.360 --> 0:01:54.240 trading him, there's a ready made replacement. He's a fantastic 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:56.400 player with just an amazing burst around the edge and 0:01:56.440 --> 0:01:58.920 ability to get around the corner. So he's probably gonna 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:01.360 be a game wrecker right from his rookie season. Then 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:03.720 the Giants, who have been trying to get their quarterback 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:07.000 situation right for a while, do take the next quarterback, 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:13.960 and that is dear Sanders from California, Colorado, California, whatever 0:02:14.200 --> 0:02:17.520 thing one of those. So there there's your top three picks, 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:18.120 all right. 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:19.560 And so now it looks like your next ones you've 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:22.000 left blank. I'm noticing a bit of a theme potentially. 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:24.880 There. Let's take a look at our division. 0:02:24.480 --> 0:02:25.800 Right, we want to know what our divisions go. 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:27.040 What are they going to do? So it's starting with 0:02:27.040 --> 0:02:27.400 the Panthers. 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:30.119 Anthers and the Saints bolt end up in the top ten, 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:31.959 so they've got a lot of options here. 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:34.200 There's a lot of competition for those top ten picks 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:37.120 this year too. The way that the Panthers started, we 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:38.160 really thought they was hard to believe. 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:39.800 They're down here at eight. Down here at eight. Yeah, 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:42.519 so there's a lot of options here for the Panthers, 0:02:42.560 --> 0:02:44.400 but I had them going with an EDE rusher because 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:46.880 this is a really good draft for ed drushers. In 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:49.920 this case, James Pierce of Tennessee one of the higher 0:02:49.960 --> 0:02:52.200 ranked ones. But I think you're going to see five, six, 0:02:52.320 --> 0:02:55.400 seven of them go in the first round. Now, then 0:02:55.440 --> 0:02:58.200 we get to the Saints, who they've got a lot 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:00.840 of needs on defense, and they have such a restrictive 0:03:00.880 --> 0:03:03.720 cap situation that it's really going to be hard for 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:05.920 them to rebuild through free agency. They may even have 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:07.520 to lose some of the players that they have to have. 0:03:07.919 --> 0:03:10.200 You know, their safeties are either free agents or getting 0:03:10.280 --> 0:03:14.040 up there like and so I think they could really 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:16.160 use help in their secondary. And this is a really 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:20.840 dynamic player, Malachi Starks. I could absolutely see him going 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:23.160 in the top ten, even though safeties don't normally do 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:24.079 so interesting. 0:03:24.440 --> 0:03:27.080 So, now if we scroll down a little bit, our next, 0:03:27.360 --> 0:03:30.919 our final remaining person from the division, the Falcons. 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:34.079 They threw a fun little wrench into the mix last year. 0:03:34.080 --> 0:03:36.160 Do you see them making the headlines this year? 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:36.400 Yeah? 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:38.800 And imagine they'll do anything as shocking as when they 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:42.119 took Michael Pennock's eighth overall, about a month after they'd 0:03:42.360 --> 0:03:46.440 given Kirk one hundred million dollars. Right, So what I 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:48.480 think they'll do is what everybody has been predicting for 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:50.440 the Falcons year after year. They have really had a 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:52.840 hard time getting an edge rush, going a pass rush 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:55.280 in general, and that's been a yearly problem a year 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:57.840 after year for them. So with this draft, with so 0:03:57.880 --> 0:04:00.280 many good options, I think they go with Mike Green 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:03.040 from Marshall. If he's still there, I gotta admit in 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:06.080 my next mock draft he's going to go hire them. 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:08.960 He's since the Senior Bowl, he's really shut up, and 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:11.480 he led the he led the nation in zacks last year. 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:12.160 Yeah, it's a big deal. 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:13.000 Production is there. 0:04:13.080 --> 0:04:15.280 I've already noticed in these ones we've done so far, 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:19.440 you've mentioned multiple edge rushers i'sane, and you also mentioned 0:04:19.440 --> 0:04:22.360 how many you thought might be going in this first round, 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:24.840 So that probably sounds like there's potentially even more you're 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:27.400 scene going here. And it's a position that we've discussed 0:04:27.440 --> 0:04:28.760 the books potentially being interested in. 0:04:28.839 --> 0:04:32.800 That's why it's so relevant because you will probably our 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:35.800 brain trust will probably come up with their well definitely 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:38.400 will come up with their rankings of how these guys, 0:04:38.480 --> 0:04:40.040 how they like them. You know, it might not be 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:43.400 the way I'm showing you here. And if the ones 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:46.440 they want are all gone, that's definitely a position of 0:04:46.480 --> 0:04:49.560 need for the Buccaneers. But if the guys they are 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:51.720 hoping for in this range go in this range, then 0:04:51.760 --> 0:04:53.360 it might not happen. And that's why I left these 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:56.280 planks because in my microdraft, after Mike Green, I also 0:04:56.279 --> 0:05:00.640 have the Cardinals taking Shamar Stewart and the the Bengals 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:03.520 taking mikel Williams from Georgia. 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:06.080 Lots of Georgia guys. Well, that's already a lot of 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:07.000 edge guys off. 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:09.080 The board, so three in a row just right before. 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:11.159 So if we're sitting there, or if our brain trust 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:13.120 is sitting there in the draft room, thinking we got 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:14.960 a real good shot at an edge. Should we take 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:16.480 an edge, should we take a cornerback, should we take 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:19.760 a linebacker, this might be where they you know, tips 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:22.000 the scales and the Buccaneers don't taken that drush. 0:05:22.000 --> 0:05:23.880 Or even do they try to trade up, but a 0:05:23.920 --> 0:05:25.640 couple of spots three they have for somebody like a 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:27.560 Tristan wirfs where you're like, we got to get this guy. 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:28.920 There's a run on offensive lineman. 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:30.760 We got to do what we want to do. That'll 0:05:30.800 --> 0:05:31.600 be interesting to see him. 0:05:31.640 --> 0:05:33.680 That was a perfect example because when we traded up 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:35.479 for Tristan Worris, if you recall, I believe it was 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:38.719 just fourteen to thirteen, yep. But Jason Night was just 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:40.760 too worried and who knows he could have been right. 0:05:41.040 --> 0:05:42.960 Not only that that team ahead of us could have 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:44.640 taken it, but somebody could have jumped us for him. 0:05:44.680 --> 0:05:46.880 So yeah, so that's a great point. So if like say, 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:50.720 the Buccaneers loved mikel Williams, you could see him, you 0:05:50.880 --> 0:05:53.920 swap pretty much every team is a threat to take 0:05:53.920 --> 0:05:55.880 an edge. Yeah, even if you have two good ones, 0:05:55.880 --> 0:05:58.120 you still could use another one, right, and it's it's 0:05:58.200 --> 0:05:59.560 hard to find them outside the first round. 0:05:59.760 --> 0:06:02.599 Now here we are finally to our Buccaneers. 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:04.440 Yep, And so I'm thinking with the run on edges, 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:08.120 the Buccaneers instead go cornerback. And the one I picked 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:10.880 in my first minccraft was Notre Dame's Benjamin Morrison. He's 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:12.880 as we talked about last week, the issue there is 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:15.680 that he he heard his hip and had hip surgery 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:18.520 in October. So that makes some bit of a question mark, 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:20.640 and it makes the combine, which is just starting now 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:23.000 important for him in terms of not the workouts but 0:06:23.040 --> 0:06:25.560 the medicals. Way, if you get good medicals, maybe he's 0:06:25.640 --> 0:06:28.719 stock goes up, right, because before you got hurt, really 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:32.920 polished cornerback, great footwork, smooth, enough speed to keep you know, 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:35.120 to catch up speed on deep balls. And so I 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:38.960 think he's really, you know, ready to go cornerback as 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:39.719 long as he's healthy. 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:42.000 And as we know, you believe you can never have 0:06:42.120 --> 0:06:43.240 enough corner So. 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:45.560 I think you loved this run on edges to be like, look, 0:06:45.839 --> 0:06:47.280 I got my guy, and I also noticed it's very 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:51.080 convenient where we stopped scrolling here that as a Miszoo graduate, 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:54.600 I noticed that you passed on my guy here, and 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:56.000 even looking at the rest of your MinC draft, you 0:06:56.000 --> 0:06:56.880 passed on another. 0:06:57.920 --> 0:06:59.880 Yeah, a little farther down is armand Mimbo. 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:00.960 It's fine. It's fine. 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:03.000 Now, if they went to Northwestern, I imagine you had 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:04.239 the books picking them, but I'll. 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:04.560 Just ignore that. 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:07.600 It's just this is confidence, Casey. What this is confidence 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:08.760 that the Bucks are getting get something done. 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:11.000 Chris Godwin, that's true, and I do like that sentiment, 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:13.640 so I will allow. Okay, thanks, I will allow the score. 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:14.240 And you showed. 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:15.960 And I want to say just one more time that 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:17.720 a new I have a new mock draft coming up. 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:20.400 You can also read read Dix's mock draft from last week. 0:07:20.600 --> 0:07:22.920 I have one coming in two days on Thursday. And 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:25.240 as I said, they all right, and maybe I didn't 0:07:25.240 --> 0:07:26.920 say yet, but the first two picks are not going 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:30.280 to be quarterbacks. Yeah that one, And I changed this pic. 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:32.040 Oh, interesting look at the tease. 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:34.200 After a couple of weeks of reading up, I found 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:36.400 a player that I think maybe is even better fit 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:36.920 right there. 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:37.520 Interesting. 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:39.560 So now a you have to make sure you check 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:41.960 out all their other mock drafts that they're posting, and 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:43.640 you just stay tuned for our next road to the draft, 0:07:43.680 --> 0:07:46.800 because clearly this road is a windy one with some. 0:07:46.840 --> 0:07:49.119 U by the way, who's driving, Because if I'm driving, 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:50.119 we're going to get there faster. 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:51.440 That's very true. 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:53.800 Let me tell you people, this man is a speechter. 0:07:53.920 --> 0:07:55.600 So that's why, Yeah, we're gonna we're gonna get to 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:57.840 the draft very quickly. If he's in charge, all right, 0:07:57.840 --> 0:07:59.280 that's going to do it for us on this edition 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:00.240 of Road to the Raft. 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:01.040 We'll see you next time.