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Speaker 4: We're live in Los Angeles and Indianapolis. It's Friday, February
Speaker 4: twenty eighth. We are in the midst of the scouting combine.
Speaker 4: I'm Jamie heard all. Here's Mante Teo. Peter Schrager is
Speaker 4: there live from Indianapolis, and Cody Kessler at the table
Speaker 4: as well this week. These two guys having performed in
Speaker 4: combine back before they played in the NFL. And Peter,
Speaker 4: you have been to every single combine.
Speaker 3: Hey, combines? Have you been too? Straight? Peter, give us
Speaker 3: a little Schreger history and walk us through how your
Speaker 3: weekend is going.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 5: You know it's interesting. I talked to Sean Payton, yes say,
Speaker 5: I said, what number is this for you? He said,
Speaker 5: twenty nine straight. Then I spoke to Eric DaCosta, the
Speaker 5: GM of the Ravens. He said, twenty nine straight. I've
Speaker 5: been to probably everyone since two and five, so that's
Speaker 5: pretty good.
Speaker 2: I think that's pretty good.
Speaker 5: You think about it, you go through the years, that's
Speaker 5: about nineteen straight. I've seen all these guys. I saw
Speaker 5: Russell Wilson and Kellen Moore throw at the combine. I
Speaker 5: was there, so I feel very proud that I have
Speaker 5: my roots planted here in India Nightvet event.
Speaker 4: Okay, so, now, since you are continuing to plant your
Speaker 4: roots and grow your tree in Indianapolis, Peter, what's going
Speaker 4: on this weekend there?
Speaker 3: What are we looking forward to? How's your dayman?
Speaker 6: So far?
Speaker 5: All right, we kicked it off perfectly last night. The
Speaker 5: defensive line and the linebackers really were awesome, and we
Speaker 5: went through our winners in the first hour of the show.
Speaker 2: Tonight.
Speaker 5: We're going to get the tight ends and the defensive backs,
Speaker 5: so you're going to get some of the best athletes
Speaker 5: and the tight ends catching the ball. Then you're going
Speaker 5: to get the speedsters and the defensive backs, and then
Speaker 5: Saturday is.
Speaker 2: Just a bonanza of offense.
Speaker 5: It's quarterbacks, running backs, wide receivers, and then we ended
Speaker 5: up with the big fellows, the offensive lineman on Sunday.
Speaker 5: So my advice to anybody watching at home, put on
Speaker 5: the NFL network, take that remote control, which I know
Speaker 5: you still have, and I know you're streaming it as well,
Speaker 5: and just throw it in the garbage and just leave
Speaker 5: it on here till the rest of the week and
Speaker 5: enjoy it because it's going to be draft bonanza and
Speaker 5: these guys are all going to be balling out.
Speaker 4: All right, Peter, you started it, I'm going to go
Speaker 4: with the word bonanza. As it's time for three and
Speaker 4: out on our show on GMFB right now, We're going
Speaker 4: to start with, as Peter called it, the exciting action
Speaker 4: on Saturday in Indianapolis, it's the quarterbacks, wide receiver running backscrow.
Speaker 4: But Peter, let's start with that position. The cam Wards
Speaker 4: of the group walking down the hallway, which quarterback do
Speaker 4: you think can help themselves with their workout on Saturday
Speaker 4: having it be top notch.
Speaker 5: I think the coolest conversation I've been having here in
Speaker 5: Indianapolis is Who's number three? So it's pretty much assumed
Speaker 5: that cam Ward and Shador Sanders and you might want
Speaker 5: to toggle those two.
Speaker 2: Who's one? Who's two?
Speaker 5: Are the top two quarterbacks and they've been that the
Speaker 5: entire draft process. But who's number three? There's so many
Speaker 5: different names, and one of them that I've been talking
Speaker 5: about the entire week that I think is going to
Speaker 5: have an excellent performance is Jackson Dart Out of ole
Speaker 5: Miss Jackson darts Fen his first year at USC, then
Speaker 5: transferred to ole Miss, where he was the starter for
Speaker 5: three straight years.
Speaker 2: He's got this great way about him where it's.
Speaker 5: Not cocky, but it is also like he knows he's
Speaker 5: the man, and I think that's been felt by a
Speaker 5: lot of these teams. Loves ball, loves talking ball, and
Speaker 5: they love the fact that he played so many games
Speaker 5: in college and did so at the SEC and really
Speaker 5: took ole Miss the past two years to two of
Speaker 5: their best seasons they've had in decades. Now, does he
Speaker 5: have the armstrend, does he have the speed, Does he
Speaker 5: have the agility?
Speaker 2: All that stuff is.
Speaker 5: Why we're going to be working out and he is
Speaker 5: going to go through the drills. So I'm excited to
Speaker 5: see what Jackson Dark can do without Shador and without
Speaker 5: Cam on the field.
Speaker 2: Go own the day. I remember Justin Herbert doing just
Speaker 2: that when Burrow and Tua.
Speaker 5: We're not working out at this combine in twenty twenty,
Speaker 5: Justin Herbert was by far the most impressive quarterback on
Speaker 5: the field and he was the third quarterback taken.
Speaker 2: Jackson Dark, go and own the day Saturday.
Speaker 5: You have that opportunity go and do what we've done
Speaker 5: the last two years at All Miss, which is just
Speaker 5: play wonderful football and lead young men.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm going with Jalen Millroe.
Speaker 8: I think he has the most important performance this Saturday. Right,
Speaker 8: one of the best athletes in this entire draft, and
Speaker 8: I know he's going to test well, You're going to
Speaker 8: see him un the forty. Well, that's just the type
Speaker 8: of athlete he is. The three cone, the vertical, the
Speaker 8: broad jump. But where he can make himself some money
Speaker 8: and solidify himself as a top five quarterback in this
Speaker 8: draft is the passing portion of the combine, right when
Speaker 8: they go routes on air. He has an NFL level arm.
Speaker 8: He makes NFL level throws on film. He has a
Speaker 8: quick release too, but his footwork can get sloppy at times,
Speaker 8: and that'll lead to eron throws. And when you do
Speaker 8: that too many times, coaches or GM start worrying about, Okay, can.
Speaker 7: This guy be consistent?
Speaker 8: And one thing with Milroe that I think hurts them
Speaker 8: is that he'll look at one receiver and if it's
Speaker 8: not there, he'll try to take off and run too quickly. Right,
Speaker 8: just trust your progression, show that you can be a
Speaker 8: pocket passer and go through the progression and run the
Speaker 8: offense sets in front of you. And the other thing
Speaker 8: he does is he likes to see guys get open,
Speaker 8: and that means he'll lock on one guy and wait
Speaker 8: for them to get open instead of throwing them open.
Speaker 7: And when you get to the NFL, you cannot do that.
Speaker 8: I had to learn that the hard way my first
Speaker 8: off season in Cleveland. If you're waiting for a guy
Speaker 8: to get open and then you try to force it,
Speaker 8: Joe Hayden is ready to pick six it and take
Speaker 8: it to the house right, you get in trouble that way.
Speaker 8: So you've got to be able to throw in rhythm.
Speaker 8: He can show that this Saturday that he can go back,
Speaker 8: take five.
Speaker 7: Steps, one hitch and throw it to his spot.
Speaker 8: And another thing as a quarterback, when it comes to
Speaker 8: the combine, you are taught leading up to this is
Speaker 8: one rep you're gonna throw, You're gonna go to a
Speaker 8: guy that throws, or you're gonna throw to a guy
Speaker 8: that runs a four to three. And then the next
Speaker 8: rep you're gonna throw a guy that might run a.
Speaker 7: Four to seven or a four to eight.
Speaker 8: So you need to do your job and that's put
Speaker 8: the ball where it needs to be in the right time.
Speaker 8: And if no Roe can go out and do that
Speaker 8: and show that he can be a true pocket passer,
Speaker 8: I think he skyrockets up a draft board comes Saturday.
Speaker 9: I'm following me the same exact narrative that you have, Cody,
Speaker 9: because the guy that I'm looking at, obviously is Riley Leonard,
Speaker 9: Notre Dame guy. Everything that Cody just said, copy and
Speaker 9: paste that and put it with Brighty Leonard because he's
Speaker 9: the exact same quarterback props back as Jalen Mirroll. Now
Speaker 9: not as explosive with the run game, but he can run.
Speaker 9: You saw it all year for the Fighting Irish. His
Speaker 9: ability to scramble, extend plays, use his legs in crucial
Speaker 9: situations in the game to help this team win games.
Speaker 9: I know people talk about the National Championship and you
Speaker 9: know he had a rough game. Well, he had a
Speaker 9: rough half in the first half. Then he comes out
Speaker 9: in the second half and he starts to respond and
Speaker 9: he starts to make those plays. So for me, if
Speaker 9: I'm a general manager, it shows a guy, a quarterback,
Speaker 9: a leader that can respond to adversity that he's going
Speaker 9: to go make the corrections at halftime and come out
Speaker 9: and play better ball. I look at what he's been
Speaker 9: doing this offseason. He's been training in Mobile, Alabama with
Speaker 9: quarterback Country Supposedly there he has a scary arm right now.
Speaker 9: So I think, just like how Cody said, the throwing aspect,
Speaker 9: the throwing portion of this combine is going to be
Speaker 9: really good for Riley Leonard to see how consistent he
Speaker 9: can be with his accuracies, because throughout the year he's
Speaker 9: been a little inconsistent. Got better later in the year,
Speaker 9: But I think the throwing portion is going to be
Speaker 9: really big for him because he's going to smash in
Speaker 9: numbers as far as all the measurables.
Speaker 4: One of the important dynamics at the combine is that.
Speaker 3: The workout portion is such a fish bowl.
Speaker 4: And Peter, I'm hoping you can speak to this that
Speaker 4: when those guys walk out on the field, they are
Speaker 4: being watched by coordinators, by coaches, by scouts, anyone that
Speaker 4: wants to see how they interact with every single person,
Speaker 4: the guy that resets the broad jump, cones, anything like that.
Speaker 3: There was a.
Speaker 4: Lot of heat last year on Caleb Williams, you know,
Speaker 4: not sharing his medicals, participating in certain interviews and then
Speaker 4: not working on the field, but then he received a
Speaker 4: glowing review for really being one of the most engaged
Speaker 4: leaders on the field during the Scout and Combine weekend.
Speaker 4: Is there anybody that this is happening to this year, Peter,
Speaker 4: that we want to watch out for on Saturday, A
Speaker 4: quarterback that might not be participating, but their body language
Speaker 4: is really being studied.
Speaker 2: Well, I think that's a great point.
Speaker 5: You can do a lot even just being here, and
Speaker 5: that was all Caleb Williams, he was the last person
Speaker 5: to leave, and I remember him thanking the stadium workers.
Speaker 5: Whether you thought that was for a performance art or not,
Speaker 5: it was noticed that he was there and was cheering
Speaker 5: on the other quarterbacks and was the last guy to
Speaker 5: leave the field. I want to see Shador Sanders and
Speaker 5: cam Ward if they ought not to work out, I
Speaker 5: want to see how they interact with the other quarterbacks
Speaker 5: and also how they interact with all the different people
Speaker 5: who are working in the events. You can't just be
Speaker 5: here checking your phone. People notice that stuff. So whether
Speaker 5: you think it's an act or not, be present the
Speaker 5: entire day and definitely definitely make sure that you go
Speaker 5: out of your way to pump up the other quarterbacks
Speaker 5: in the grip.
Speaker 4: All right, so that group is working out on Saturday. Quarterbacks,
Speaker 4: wide receivers, running backs. Let's move to some topics within
Speaker 4: the NFL. Time for second down. Peter, we talked at
Speaker 4: nauseam yesterday about the Matthew Stafford situation. It drags on
Speaker 4: to another day. Is this the type of deal whereas
Speaker 4: the thing goes.
Speaker 3: On longer and longer, that means it's less likely to happen?
Speaker 4: Or are the Rams just taking their sweet time because
Speaker 4: they're not busy at the Combine because they are one
Speaker 4: team that never attends.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, so the question is it more likely Matthew
Speaker 5: Stafford stays with the Rams the longer this plays out.
Speaker 5: The truth of the matter is the league year starts
Speaker 5: in March twelfth. Can't even make a trade to March twelfth.
Speaker 5: So the reason everybody's talking about it is because it's
Speaker 5: the buzz here at the Combine and all the teams
Speaker 5: are here, and the Raiders are here and the Giants.
Speaker 2: I guess who's not here. The Rams aren't here. The
Speaker 2: Rams are out in LA and less needs in LA.
Speaker 2: And of course you've got Sean McVay out in LA
Speaker 2: and so need is Matthew Stafford. Here.
Speaker 5: Here's my latest on everything that's going on there. As
Speaker 5: I talk to all sides of this. There have been
Speaker 5: a lot of conversations in the last twenty four hours
Speaker 5: between Sean McVay and Matthew Stafford directly. There is expected
Speaker 5: to be another conversation today. I would expect.
Speaker 2: The more conversations they have, and it's the two of.
Speaker 5: Them, it's not agent talking to it's the quarterback and
Speaker 5: the coach. And the more that they can talk and
Speaker 5: get on the same ground and kind of finally, the
Speaker 5: better chance it is that Matthew Stafford returns to the
Speaker 5: La Rams.
Speaker 2: I will note this, the money might be.
Speaker 5: Different if he goes to the Raiders, goes to the Giants,
Speaker 5: or goes to a team X than it would be
Speaker 5: with the Rams. It's almost as if he might have
Speaker 5: to end up swallowing it.
Speaker 2: And taking for a little bit less to come back
Speaker 2: with the Rams.
Speaker 5: Other than uprooting his entire life and starting anew and
Speaker 5: trying to start at thirty seven with a team that
Speaker 5: hasn't been to the playoffs in the last couple of years.
Speaker 5: So I would think the longer this goes on, yeah,
Speaker 5: I think it actually helps the RAMS, But I also
Speaker 5: think the next forty eight hours are going to be
Speaker 5: very important as far.
Speaker 2: As communication, coming to terms.
Speaker 5: And seeing whether these guys want to run it back
Speaker 5: one more year.
Speaker 9: Yes, Trigs, I would talk about communication. It makes sense
Speaker 9: why that communication between Matt Stafford and Sean mcvac they
Speaker 9: has been more consistent than the other teams because right
Speaker 9: now we're talking about the combine, there's thirty thirty one
Speaker 9: other teams that are trying to analyze the talent that
Speaker 9: is coming into the NFL in the twenty twenty five
Speaker 9: NFL Draft, and so I'm not sure if all that
Speaker 9: attention can be paid solely on Matt Stafford for these
Speaker 9: other teams. So it's really good for the RAMS and
Speaker 9: their chances of resigning Matt Stafford that Sean McVay and
Speaker 9: the Rams aren't at in Indianapolis at the combine, but
Speaker 9: that they have the personal relationship and they have the
Speaker 9: time now to have those one to one conversations, those
Speaker 9: personal conversations. Obviously, he's been there for a few years,
Speaker 9: so they know him very well, and I'm sure they
Speaker 9: would like to make a deal done. So I do
Speaker 9: agree with you, Peter, that the longer disdain drags out,
Speaker 9: and the more conversations that the Rams can have with
Speaker 9: matt Stafford without any distractions distructions of the other thirty
Speaker 9: one teams, I think the chances of him stay staying
Speaker 9: in LA increases.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I e goo both of that. I just I
Speaker 7: do believe though.
Speaker 8: I think the sooner that the Rams can get this
Speaker 8: deal done, the quicker they can move on right and
Speaker 8: focus on other areas of their roster. They do have
Speaker 8: a young talented roster, one of the most young talented
Speaker 8: rosters in the NFL right now. And we saw what
Speaker 8: Matthew Stafford did with them a year ago, went all
Speaker 8: the way to the divisional round.
Speaker 7: And I like what Peter said too.
Speaker 8: If you start over at thirty seven, if I'm Matthew Stafford,
Speaker 8: you don't know what that's going to look like. And
Speaker 8: the Raiders may come in, who are second in calorie
Speaker 8: and salary cap space right now, they could come in
Speaker 8: and operate a ton of money. Tim, you have Pete
Speaker 8: Carroll who comes in right if he wants to come in.
Speaker 8: He's hungry, he wants to go out there and win.
Speaker 8: They can come in and throw a lot of money
Speaker 8: at him.
Speaker 7: But is that in his.
Speaker 8: Best interest to go over there if he wants to
Speaker 8: win another Super Bowl?
Speaker 7: I think the answer is you stay.
Speaker 8: With the Rams, You try to get the same figured
Speaker 8: out as quickly as possible, and then you help out
Speaker 8: this young roster by going and buying some veterans and
Speaker 8: some better depth and run it back in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 5: I also think of it from a public relations standpoint here,
Speaker 5: where Stafford will be taking less with the Rams and
Speaker 5: he would be making with the Raiders or the Giants.
Speaker 5: So if any RAMS fan was thinking that he was greedy,
Speaker 5: like if he does come back, it's going to be
Speaker 5: a restructured deal. They'll figure it out, but it won't
Speaker 5: be the numbers that they would have gotten on the open.
Speaker 2: Market, and it's not even an open market. That's the thing.
Speaker 5: He is under contract with the Rams, So Jimmy Sext
Speaker 5: and his agent is able to talk to these teams,
Speaker 5: but Stafford directly can't go and meet with the Giants.
Speaker 5: Stafford directly can't technically go meet with the Raiders. We
Speaker 5: know about their Montana interaction with Brady, but that wasn't
Speaker 5: a full meeting with Pete Carroll and with Chip Kelly,
Speaker 5: like he would have to know exactly what he's going into.
Speaker 5: And I'll add this other part here. Family stuff matters.
Speaker 5: For Stafford a father of four young girls, they are
Speaker 5: very happy in Los Angeles. You'd like to think they
Speaker 5: could make this thing work. And if you're the Rams,
Speaker 5: do you up the money just a little bit? Do
Speaker 5: you figure it out, keep your guy happy and let's
Speaker 5: run it back one more year, or do you say
Speaker 5: let's tear it down now where his stock would be
Speaker 5: at his all time high and we can actually get
Speaker 5: some draft picks and pay some of the young guys
Speaker 5: in future years.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Between bringing a Lombardi to LA and the rams
Speaker 4: involvement and support of the community with the LA fires
Speaker 4: and Stafford's the Stafford family direct involvement in that, you
Speaker 4: can imagine the ties that they now feel to this
Speaker 4: part of the country. And if it does end up
Speaker 4: this way that Stafford runs it back, it should be
Speaker 4: to no surprise for anybody. All Right, They're down back
Speaker 4: to the combine to Prospects twenty twenty four, Heids and
Speaker 4: trophy winterer Travis Hunter was asked Thursday about playing both
Speaker 4: offense and defense full time in the NFL, and here.
Speaker 3: Was his answer.
Speaker 10: They say, everybody, nobody has ever done it for real
Speaker 10: the way I do it. But I tell him that
Speaker 10: I'm just different. I'm a different person. But I feel
Speaker 10: like I'll put my body through a lot. I do
Speaker 10: a lot of treatment. People that get to see that
Speaker 10: part what I do for my body to make sure
Speaker 10: I'm one hundred percent in each game. But I feel
Speaker 10: I can do it because nobody have done it, and
Speaker 10: I know I could do I did at college level,
Speaker 10: which the game is. You know, we really get we
Speaker 10: rarely get breaks in It's a lot more breaks in
Speaker 10: the NFL, all right.
Speaker 3: You know it's different.
Speaker 4: This media scrum around Travis Hunter. This is the look
Speaker 4: from Stacy Dale's. This is what this young man is
Speaker 4: answering and preparing for, because what he's.
Speaker 3: Trying to accomplish is an anomaly.
Speaker 4: Peter, what do you make of Travis Hunter's comments, Whether
Speaker 4: or not you agree with that in the NFL you
Speaker 4: get more breaks or not. What do you make of
Speaker 4: Travis Hunter and his approach trying to play two way
Speaker 4: full time in the NFL.
Speaker 5: Travis Hunter averaged one hundred and twelve snaps a game,
Speaker 5: not last year, the last two years playing in major
Speaker 5: college football at Colorado, and he won a Heisman Trophy.
Speaker 5: And as he said, just because it's never been done
Speaker 5: doesn't mean I can't. I think Travis Hunter is a
Speaker 5: top five pick. I might go as far as saying
Speaker 5: Travis Hunter is a top three pick.
Speaker 2: That is how good he's viewed. And we've heard different opinions.
Speaker 5: You heard Brian Callahan here at the combine say that
Speaker 5: you know he's a corner, and then you heard Andrew Berry,
Speaker 5: the GM of the Browns who has the second pick,
Speaker 5: saying he's always also a wide receiver, like you can
Speaker 5: use him in both places. I like the fact that
Speaker 5: he's confident in his abilities and wants to be the
Speaker 5: first to ever do it. I work with Charles Woodson
Speaker 5: on the weekends for Fox. Charles Woodson obviously had his
Speaker 5: offensive snaps at Michigan, won a Heisman as a corner,
Speaker 5: got to the NFL, and was used very sparingly in
Speaker 5: anything but cornerback. I think Travis Hunter looks at himself differently,
Speaker 5: and I wonder if there's a head coach who says
Speaker 5: if I am taking a defensive back or a wide
Speaker 5: receiver in the top three, is it not worth it
Speaker 5: to at least try to see if we can get
Speaker 5: this guy as much action as we can on the field. Remember,
Speaker 5: corners and wideouts, they don't go first overall.
Speaker 2: Keith Shawn went first overall. That was in ninety six.
Speaker 5: It's the last time we've seen a wide receiver go
Speaker 5: first overall. We've never seen a corner go first overall,
Speaker 5: not that I can recall. I'm sure there might have
Speaker 5: been someone in the fifties of the sixties, But in
Speaker 5: recent years, you've seen a couple of corners go two.
Speaker 5: You've seen Jeff Akuda go three. You see Stingley go
Speaker 5: three from the Texans. But to go one or two,
Speaker 5: that's so high. I would love it if he was
Speaker 5: the first one to go both. And I like the
Speaker 5: fact that he's confident that he can. Let the coaches
Speaker 5: tell you can't. Don't come in here and say, look,
Speaker 5: I'm only going to be playing this position. Don't be
Speaker 5: making any demands. Go in there and compete at every position.
Speaker 5: I would love to see him compete at both sides.
Speaker 2: In the drills. We'll see if we get that tonight
Speaker 2: and on Saturday.
Speaker 9: Strikes and narrative has been about the physicality of it,
Speaker 9: the snapcount, his treatment, his body's ready for this. My
Speaker 9: argument with with Travis is this, The difference between college
Speaker 9: and the NFL is mental. That's the mental part. So
Speaker 9: right now, in college, this is the playbook right here,
Speaker 9: that's how big it is. In the NFL, it looks
Speaker 9: like this. And if you're gonna play both ways, it's
Speaker 9: gonna look like this. So for me, if I'm Travis Hunter,
Speaker 9: it's I'd rather limit it to one. Let me matter one.
Speaker 9: I'm not against Travis playing both ways.
Speaker 7: I am not. What I am against is.
Speaker 9: As a rookie who's transitioning from college where the place
Speaker 9: they aren't as elaborate, they aren't there, there aren't as
Speaker 9: many and then you're going to go into the NFL
Speaker 9: game where you're going to have a playbook that is
Speaker 9: as thick as a Harry Potter series and you're gonna
Speaker 9: have to memorize that, and then you're gonna have to
Speaker 9: memorize the opposite.
Speaker 7: Side of the ball.
Speaker 9: And oh, by the way, if you do play ride
Speaker 9: receiver in the NFL game, you have to play multiple
Speaker 9: positions in wide receiver, you can't just play Z receiver,
Speaker 9: X receiver. You got to play them all. You gotta
Speaker 9: play the slot. If you can't, a defense is going
Speaker 9: to know those tendencies. Oh he only lines up here,
Speaker 9: he only runs these routes, then that production doesn't really
Speaker 9: look the same. So for Travis, play one master one
Speaker 9: and then go throughout the rest and try them out.
Speaker 9: But I think if you can limit it to one playbook,
Speaker 9: I think you should be fine.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I have no doubt that Travis Hunter can play both
Speaker 8: sides of the ball in the NFL.
Speaker 7: It's just the question is to what extent.
Speaker 8: Like Manti said, I think when it comes down to it,
Speaker 8: he's gonna have to pick a position, whether it's play
Speaker 8: offense and have some packages on defense or play corner
Speaker 8: and then come in for some packages on offense. But
Speaker 8: people said he couldn't do it in college, right, They
Speaker 8: said it wasn't sustainable, that they question the durability that
Speaker 8: he would have, And he went out there and proved
Speaker 8: them wrong. And all he did they do that, he
Speaker 8: did it at the highest level and one a Heisman Trophy.
Speaker 8: So I'm not going to sit here and doubt him.
Speaker 8: But I will say this, It frustrated me a little
Speaker 8: bit was when Travis Hunter came out and said, you know,
Speaker 8: I want to play one hundred percent of the snap.
Speaker 8: So a lot of people looked at as arrogant, as cocky.
Speaker 8: Well he'll learn, like he doesn't understand. I saw it
Speaker 8: as someone that's a competitor and that's willing to do
Speaker 8: whatever it takes to win football games. And he's going
Speaker 8: to go to a organization and tell the coach, Look,
Speaker 8: if I need to play one hundred percent of the
Speaker 8: snap on both sides of the football, I'm willing to
Speaker 8: do that. If I have to play fifty percent of
Speaker 8: the snap, I'm willing to do that as well. So
Speaker 8: when I look at Travis Hunter, I just see a
Speaker 8: competitor and a kid that wants to win, and someone
Speaker 8: that enjoys playing the game of football on both sides
Speaker 8: of the ball. And I've said it before and I'll
Speaker 8: say it again. If you draft Travis Hunter, you are
Speaker 8: getting two players for the price of one. He is
Speaker 8: that valuable and you're immediately making your team better come April.
Speaker 4: All right, I'm going to generalize grossly here because I'm
Speaker 4: not trying to shame any guy that went up against
Speaker 4: Travis Hunter when he played in college. But there were
Speaker 4: some highlights I just watched there where the move that
Speaker 4: Travis Hunter had to make off the line as a
Speaker 4: wide receiver was about ten percent of the effort that
Speaker 4: he is going to have to do to beat a
Speaker 4: cornerback in the NFL, these guys are the best of
Speaker 4: the best at their position. If this young man wants
Speaker 4: to go and compete on both sides, you think you
Speaker 4: were dog tired at the end of a college ruble game.
Speaker 4: Like the emotional, the mental, and the physical demand that
Speaker 4: this takes, because this is not you're not going up
Speaker 4: against some of these schools that you had to go against.
Speaker 3: And like, I'm again not trying to offend anybody, but
Speaker 3: some of those beats that he had.
Speaker 4: For like running in for a touchdown, the corner just
Speaker 4: kind of like stood there after you broke his ankle
Speaker 4: one time, Like this is the comeback and the effort
Speaker 4: on the corners And frankly, if you're a corner you're
Speaker 4: going up against Justin Jefferson and the Vikings and you're
Speaker 4: going to turn around and play wide receiver, that is
Speaker 4: an insane ask and to demand Peter for this young man.
Speaker 4: I just find it like this is an incredible challenge,
Speaker 4: an incredible accomplishment at the college level, and incredible challenge
Speaker 4: in the NFL.
Speaker 5: It is, and it's been on president like we don't
Speaker 5: see it. Chuck bed and Arek played both ways. In
Speaker 5: nineteen sixty. We saw Dion Sanders catch a few long
Speaker 5: balls with the Cowboys and have a couple of receptions
Speaker 5: in a Super Bowl like we've seen in spots, but
Speaker 5: we've never seen someone do it full time the way
Speaker 5: he's looking to do it. I did speak with one
Speaker 5: general manager this week here and I was like, where
Speaker 5: do you have hundred? He's like, you can make the
Speaker 5: argument he's the best corner and he's the best wide
Speaker 5: receiver in this draft. If that's the case, Jamie, he
Speaker 5: may be different.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and I'm biased.
Speaker 8: I'm a former quarterback and I still stand loud by
Speaker 8: what I said earlier in the week. I am knocking
Speaker 8: on my offensive coordinator's door to my GM door the
Speaker 8: next day after we draft Travis Hunter, saying this is
Speaker 8: why he needs to play offense right And to Manti's point,
Speaker 8: he said something great there, very important is if you
Speaker 8: overload yourself mentally by trying to learn two playbooks, and
Speaker 8: it was very hard.
Speaker 7: I don't know.
Speaker 8: I can't speak on defense, but on offense, it was
Speaker 8: so difficult when you get there for rookie mini camp
Speaker 8: to try to learn those plays and in the same
Speaker 8: day go out there and perform at the best of
Speaker 8: your ability while all the coaches are watching right and
Speaker 8: your future and that organization is on the line.
Speaker 10: Now.
Speaker 8: Obviously he'll be a high draft pick. He's not out
Speaker 8: there for a tryout basis or any of those things.
Speaker 8: But I just see it as if he overloads himself mentally,
Speaker 8: are you going to be great at one position? Are
Speaker 8: you going to be I don't want to say average,
Speaker 8: but not play it to the best of your ability
Speaker 8: if you're trying to do too much, especially early on
Speaker 8: in your career.
Speaker 4: Yeah, isn't that quarterback knocking the same door that if
Speaker 4: he gives up on a route because he's so tired
Speaker 4: from playing corner or like the next day. I mean,
Speaker 4: it's just it's a lot And this is not knocking
Speaker 4: again what he can or cannot do. It's just that
Speaker 4: we want him to be great at whatever position that
Speaker 4: he picks.
Speaker 3: It's it's a really hard choice because they're really fun
Speaker 3: to watch him play.
Speaker 4: Still the com this is one of the great questions
Speaker 4: of the Combine, is where Travis Hunter goes.
Speaker 3: And what he does with that skills that he has.
Speaker 4: We're going to head back to Indianapolis for some of
Speaker 4: the best sites in sounds. From day one at the Combine,
Speaker 4: Timmy Checks has been out there getting to know the
Speaker 4: guys when they get done with the workout and their
Speaker 4: off field stuff.
Speaker 3: She's so good at this. We have a whole look.
Speaker 4: Back, plus we're going to look at guys and their
Speaker 4: futures with some of the most memorable moments from this
Speaker 4: past season.
Speaker 3: More GMFB when we return.
Speaker 2: Good Morning Football.
Speaker 5: One of the cool things about being here in Indianapolis
Speaker 5: is getting a chance to catch up with all the
Speaker 5: general managers and the coaches who are present. That can
Speaker 5: be everything from the defensive line coach of a certain
Speaker 5: team or to the highest of certain organizations. And I
Speaker 5: had the opportunity last night to speak with one of
Speaker 5: the best personnelmen in all of football and a guy
Speaker 5: who's running one of.
Speaker 2: The best organizations in the sports.
Speaker 5: Here is my interview with Eric DaCosta the VP and
Speaker 5: the general manager of the Baltimore Ravens.
Speaker 2: Last night, very.
Speaker 5: Happy to be here with the general manager and the
Speaker 5: EVP of the Baltimore Ravens, mister Eric DaCosta.
Speaker 2: We were just talking off camera a little bit.
Speaker 5: Twenty ninth combine with the same NFL team, Is that right?
Speaker 7: It is?
Speaker 2: I've been blessed.
Speaker 11: And you know my first combine nineteen ninety seven, I
Speaker 11: sat with Ozzie Newsom here I am now twenty nine
Speaker 11: years later, I'm still sitting up there with Ozzie Newsom
Speaker 11: watching players.
Speaker 5: Who do you remember it was? It like, I guess
Speaker 5: it's after Ray Lewis, but I gotta think like Ed
Speaker 5: Reed and Bulwear and Hellodi Nada, all these guys you
Speaker 5: remember seeing them here in.
Speaker 11: Indy Terrell suggs Helodi put on a show here, Ed Reid,
Speaker 11: you know all those guys recently, you know, Kyle Hamilton,
Speaker 11: Tyler Lindebaum, guys like that, Zay Flowers. You know, we've
Speaker 11: been blessed. I've seen a bunch of them. Joe Flacco,
Speaker 11: I mean, you know, put on an exhibition here. So
Speaker 11: I've had a chance to see a lot of great
Speaker 11: players play here and we've been fortunate to draft a
Speaker 11: lot of those guys.
Speaker 2: They call you e DC.
Speaker 5: In earlier this month, Lamar Jackson joke that it's DC
Speaker 5: because every dollar counts. There are some decisions to be
Speaker 5: made in Baltimore this offseason. When do you start really
Speaker 5: digging in because we know there's been lots of conversations
Speaker 5: with agents and you start talking to the players, but
Speaker 5: there are some big decisions in Baltimore to be made
Speaker 5: right now.
Speaker 11: Well, I would say that DC stands for every draft
Speaker 11: counts because we never have any money. We're always up
Speaker 11: against the cap, and our job is really to find
Speaker 11: the best talent we can Here. We have eleven picks.
Speaker 11: I think this year, you know, we're going to try
Speaker 11: and retain some of our guys. We do have some
Speaker 11: free agents, not quite as many as last year, but
Speaker 11: we definitely have some tough decisions to make. In saying
Speaker 11: that you're looking at our team, we would have the
Speaker 11: majority of the team coming back this year, which is
Speaker 11: exciting based on the season we just had with a
Speaker 11: great opportunity to improve, you know, via the draft. I
Speaker 11: think it's a good draft with quality players in every round,
Speaker 11: and I would expect us to have a very good
Speaker 11: team in the field next year.
Speaker 5: I would think most people would agree that the Baltimore
Speaker 5: Ravens have one of the best front offices, most consistent
Speaker 5: front offices. But it sounded like this week when they
Speaker 5: were talking to you in the media, you're getting contributions
Speaker 5: from everybody. Apparently Lamar Jackson weighs in on some players,
Speaker 5: especially in the Florida region, of guys that he's had
Speaker 5: his eye on.
Speaker 2: Do you really consult some of the players on guys
Speaker 2: that they like I do?
Speaker 7: You know?
Speaker 11: I think you've got the best in the business plan
Speaker 11: for you. It's wise to consider their opinions at different times,
Speaker 11: and I think too, it's a great way to build
Speaker 11: relationships with your guys to ask them about players that
Speaker 11: might have played with, guys they've seen on TV, guys
Speaker 11: from their hometowns.
Speaker 7: You know, they feel a part of the process. It's
Speaker 7: a fun thing.
Speaker 11: Our guys love college football, so they watch the games
Speaker 11: on Saturdays. They definitely in some case they have strong opinions.
Speaker 11: We don't feel obligated to band to those opinions every
Speaker 11: single year, but it's a nice aspect of my job
Speaker 11: to be able to talk to these guys and get
Speaker 11: their opinions on players.
Speaker 2: Love it.
Speaker 5: Hey, twenty nine years of the com years with the Ravens,
Speaker 5: all with one team in an NFL career that's been
Speaker 5: really decorated.
Speaker 2: Thanks so much for joining us.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 2: Thanks Pete.
Speaker 5: He's a good man right there, and he's a great evaluator.
Speaker 5: Last year they took Nate Wiggins of the first round,
Speaker 5: and of course Wiggins was a starting corner by into
Speaker 5: the season, one of the best rookies in the game.
Speaker 5: Eric DeCosta values the combine. So many of these general
Speaker 5: managers do. They're on the premises. We're going to see
Speaker 5: them all, hopefully. I'm interviewing a couple tonight on the coverage.
Speaker 5: I think Brandon Bean has agreed. We'll see if they
Speaker 5: actually follow through. That's a test publicly, Brandon, you better.
Speaker 2: Stand with me there.
Speaker 5: Okay, So Jamie, we go back to you guys at
Speaker 5: the table and honor to be here as always.
Speaker 2: I just love it. I'm a kid in a candy store.
Speaker 4: I bet maybe we'll just take this one minute in
Speaker 4: after that conversation just to really wax poetic about how
Speaker 4: great the Ravens have been the last couple of years
Speaker 4: and a lot of that has to do with the
Speaker 4: decisions that the brass and their team makes. The Zay
Speaker 4: Flowers pick has been one that has really shine and
Speaker 4: that is a young man who's kind of been through
Speaker 4: it in the NFL. I think he arrived in this
Speaker 4: organization that the high powered why wide receiver just wasn't
Speaker 4: where they put their investment in that position for a
Speaker 4: long time, and now he has kind of carved out
Speaker 4: a beautiful role for himself within this offense that has
Speaker 4: Lamar Jackson at the helm.
Speaker 3: I think the Ravens are great.
Speaker 4: I think they are one of the cornerstone organizations in
Speaker 4: the NFL and the way they conduct their business over
Speaker 4: draft weekend, and it really starts Cody with the combine
Speaker 4: with how impressive the Ravens have been with their decision making.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and I love what the Costas said about, you know,
Speaker 8: and to what extent by having Lamar Jackson play a
Speaker 8: role and who they're in to their roster, you know,
Speaker 8: And when you talk about teams like that, it's a continuity, right.
Speaker 8: You have the same head coach, the same front office,
Speaker 8: the same quarterback. And I know there was that time
Speaker 8: when when you know they gave Lamar Jackson the franchise
Speaker 8: tag and he went and looked other options, but then
Speaker 8: he came home and stayed with the Ravens. Just when
Speaker 8: you have continuity and teams in the AFC that you
Speaker 8: think about with like the Ravens, the Bills, the Chiefs,
Speaker 8: that's why they're competitive year in and year out, and
Speaker 8: they trust each other. When you build that relationship, it's
Speaker 8: it's difficult to beat those teams, right, and that's why
Speaker 8: they stay so consistent for a long time. So I
Speaker 8: love that interview. That was a great job by Peter
Speaker 8: and in DaCosta.
Speaker 9: Whether continuity as a result of the success, right, like
Speaker 9: if you don't have success, there's a lot of firings
Speaker 9: that go on a lot of transitions, a lot of
Speaker 9: people have to go elsewhere, and so there are certain
Speaker 9: teams that operate at a level of detail that's a
Speaker 9: little bit different. You would think that in the NFL
Speaker 9: everybody's the same, but the experience based on the team
Speaker 9: may be a little bit different. And when you go
Speaker 9: to the better teams in the NFL that now we
Speaker 9: would to say better teams, the teams that you consistently
Speaker 9: see in the playoff, they just.
Speaker 7: Do things a little bit different. The Ravens are one
Speaker 7: of them.
Speaker 4: Absolutely so Peter, despite having any pigot a litter of
Speaker 4: envy general manager that's walking through the corridor and he
Speaker 4: flags him down and says, hey, can I ask you
Speaker 4: a couple of questions? He's not the only one. Like
Speaker 4: a kid in the candy store in Indianapolis. Kimmy Checks
Speaker 4: is there as well. She is stationed down on the
Speaker 4: field during the workouts. She has been crushing it at
Speaker 4: the Combine. Let's take a look back at some of
Speaker 4: the best moments from Kimmy Checks and the participants working
Speaker 4: out this weekend.
Speaker 7: We're live and three two one. Hello, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 7: This is Kimmy and I'm Danny, and.
Speaker 6: We are Danny and Kimmy. Kimmy and Danny. There you
Speaker 6: go live at the twenty twenty five scouting comment. You
Speaker 6: actually just stole my introduction.
Speaker 12: But hello, Danny, how are you lying backer from Oklahoma
Speaker 12: here at the combine?
Speaker 7: Amazing? How about yourself?
Speaker 6: I'm doing great? But this isn't your interview.
Speaker 7: This is all right. I'll give you the key, I'll
Speaker 7: give you back to Keys.
Speaker 13: I'm sorry, Okay, thank you, Keys coming back to me,
Speaker 13: defensive lineman representing oleness today here in Indianapolis, Walter Nolan,
Speaker 13: you described your skill set in saying I'm the next
Speaker 13: Aaron Donald Man.
Speaker 7: I wholeheardly believe that. I can't wait to show it.
Speaker 14: So I heard you said You're the next Aaron Donald Man.
Speaker 2: It's a short time you get to play this game
Speaker 2: and go.
Speaker 12: Bad fant But Mason Graham and Kenneth Grant?
Speaker 6: Who has a better sax celebration?
Speaker 2: Oh, who's a.
Speaker 6: Better trash talker? Who has better style?
Speaker 3: Mason?
Speaker 6: Mason's the drift.
Speaker 7: Yeah he got the d for ship.
Speaker 6: It's funnier.
Speaker 7: He's just goofy, Like, who's.
Speaker 12: A better dancer? It's gonna be swaggier on drafted mar
Speaker 12: Stewart out of Texas A And and how.
Speaker 6: Do you feel?
Speaker 5: I feel?
Speaker 7: I feel like I could be doing a little bit better.
Speaker 6: Though, where are all the dogs fans at across the world?
Speaker 6: And you will be so excited because.
Speaker 12: I'm here with one of your own, linebacker, Dalen Walker.
Speaker 12: You've got a lot of skill though, Yeah.
Speaker 7: I got a little bunnies.
Speaker 14: Going back to my freshman year in high school when
Speaker 14: the duck contest and.
Speaker 15: Crazy enough that jump before jumping over, and that was
Speaker 15: my first time doing that.
Speaker 7: So that first I was like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're in a dunk contest. I was like, oh really,
Speaker 2: They're like yeah. I was like, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 7: And I was like, I have no idea. So I
Speaker 7: found one of my friends crowd and I was like, hey,
Speaker 7: let me jump over, and.
Speaker 6: He trusted you.
Speaker 12: I trusted who fought linebacker representing ole miss here with me.
Speaker 6: As a cambine poo.
Speaker 7: You made it?
Speaker 6: Are you still nervous?
Speaker 2: Here?
Speaker 7: Like?
Speaker 6: I did the thing? Now I'm done. Now I can
Speaker 6: take a deep breath.
Speaker 14: It's kind of a sour relief at this moment. I
Speaker 14: really got past.
Speaker 7: My biggest thing was was my forty and I did
Speaker 7: a fantastic job.
Speaker 6: I love this too.
Speaker 12: It's like the hard work has been a grind slight
Speaker 12: five one five.
Speaker 14: That's insane, just for real, you know, something right, eating right?
Speaker 14: You know it's just with my coach bunte in the bag,
Speaker 14: you know, hyping me up.
Speaker 7: I mean, you can't teach that.
Speaker 2: That's just pliny.
Speaker 7: No, this right here, Tell me about it. Tell me
Speaker 7: about I grew up in South Georgia.
Speaker 14: Most of my family are Falcon fans, and when I
Speaker 14: seen him, I immediately started fangirling.
Speaker 7: I'm not ashamed to say it.
Speaker 14: I started fangirling, and I was like, man, I have
Speaker 14: to have a photo with you. As you can see,
Speaker 14: I'll pull in a serious face because I didn't want
Speaker 14: to show all my brackets.
Speaker 12: But I was like, Heileek Williams of the Ohio State University.
Speaker 6: Where do you get all this feed from what's going on?
Speaker 7: I played running back when I was younger.
Speaker 2: I played all the skilled positions when I was when
Speaker 2: I was younger.
Speaker 7: You know, just put a little weight on, but the
Speaker 7: feet never leave me.
Speaker 12: Landon Jackson edge Rusher from Arkansas, so I.
Speaker 7: Know I could get up, but forty and a half.
Speaker 7: I mean I impressed myself.
Speaker 8: I tried getting back to kids like myself that are
Speaker 8: growing up with alopece more to life than stressing about that.
Speaker 7: I mean, everybody's different and brace being different.
Speaker 12: Edge Rusher out of Marshall, Mike Green in the house,
Speaker 12: you've got hops.
Speaker 6: Are you ready to take this to the league next level?
Speaker 16: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Hopefully I don't get like fine or anything for it.
Speaker 12: You've been kind of famous for your celebrations. He's like
Speaker 12: a bow and arrow boom.
Speaker 7: I was a dog and I feel like I'm the
Speaker 7: best player in the country. Only it's a chill guy,
Speaker 7: you know.
Speaker 2: I like to crack jokes on the side, just a disruptor,
Speaker 2: make plays.
Speaker 7: You're just getting a dog.
Speaker 8: You're getting a guy who's gonna go out there and
Speaker 8: give it us all, every every snap.
Speaker 7: People have been telling me I'm not this, I'm not that.
Speaker 2: You would never get there.
Speaker 7: Oh, you're over exaggerating.
Speaker 2: You've been delusional.
Speaker 7: Kids. Keep your dreams.
Speaker 14: People may not see the vision, but you see it
Speaker 14: and that's all that matters.
Speaker 6: Danny and Kimmy, this is our show.
Speaker 7: Great show. Pleasure to have me on here and dropping
Speaker 7: the mic.
Speaker 3: Awesome job, Kimmy. Wait to get those guys to open
Speaker 3: up a little bit.
Speaker 4: I know the gms and the coaches appreciate seeing their personalities.
Speaker 3: There is Shadre Sanders walk in the hallway.
Speaker 4: We were just talking about how he's not gonna work out,
Speaker 4: But what is he gonna say? How is he gonna
Speaker 4: present himself in the meetings?
Speaker 3: Well, we're gonna hear from him. He spoke at the podium.
Speaker 3: You can imagine the scrum around him. You're gonna hear
Speaker 3: for sh Door Sanders.
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Speaker 7: This is seven eleven. I'm always open, baby.
Speaker 17: One time for a winner, one time for a winn about.
Speaker 15: A NFL network forget your boys on since hour candy
Speaker 15: riding spot.
Speaker 2: Not that they have any one time one time for
Speaker 2: winner twelve two on the broad Jump went up hands
Speaker 2: in the.
Speaker 3: Stregs.
Speaker 4: You're gonna put that hoodie in, sunglasses and combine necklace
Speaker 4: on again and do the tunnel shot with the confetti.
Speaker 3: I love that.
Speaker 5: I gotta say it is a great tradition when we
Speaker 5: see our on air partners and our friends here an
Speaker 5: NFL network stepp into the tunnel with the confetti and
Speaker 5: you hold the ball and you kind of do one
Speaker 5: of these. I haven't done the tunnel shot yet. In fact,
Speaker 5: I've been here in this seat for the last twenty
Speaker 5: four hours.
Speaker 2: Shut I slept here last night, guys.
Speaker 5: So it's nice and cozy, it's good, the lighting is perfect.
Speaker 5: But yeah, I'll be here again all day to day
Speaker 5: and all night tonight, So let's look forward to what
Speaker 5: we got up ahead.
Speaker 4: Okay, So to Peter's points, everyone is on all hands
Speaker 4: on deck and Indianapolis, the coverage is wall to wall
Speaker 4: and every time a position group is up for the
Speaker 4: day the day before they work out, that means that
Speaker 4: they have to do media availabilities and the meet for
Speaker 4: the team. The quarterbacks are talking today, Cody, So Shador
Speaker 4: Sanders is going to have to stand up at a
Speaker 4: podium and answer questions about his time in college, his family,
Speaker 4: his life. What can you tell us about watching him
Speaker 4: in college and just the personality that he is and
Speaker 4: make sure it really stays to shudure and it doesn't
Speaker 4: kind of bleed into who his dad is.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean the interviews are almost more important than
Speaker 8: the on the field stuff, right because you can watch
Speaker 8: all of their film and I truly believe that, yes,
Speaker 8: on the field workouts of the combine are important, the
Speaker 8: pre draft process, all of that, But your game film
Speaker 8: tells a lot more of the story of who you are.
Speaker 7: But those coaches gms don't.
Speaker 8: Don't get to sit down with you face to face
Speaker 8: as much, right, So now you get a chance to
Speaker 8: show your personality And my biggest advice with that is
Speaker 8: be authentic, but also be honest, because if they're asking
Speaker 8: you a question, I promise they already know the answer
Speaker 8: because they've done their research.
Speaker 7: They've done their due diligence.
Speaker 8: When you're shaudor Sanders too, and you're going to be
Speaker 8: that high of a draft pick or potentially that high
Speaker 8: of a draft pick, they've done all of their research.
Speaker 7: But they want to know what type of person they're
Speaker 7: getting in their building.
Speaker 8: And can they trust you if you sit there and
Speaker 8: say things that aren't completely honest or you you know,
Speaker 8: beat around butsch a little bit and they're gonna ask
Speaker 8: him about the watch thing and about all those you know,
Speaker 8: is that your personality?
Speaker 7: Do that for show?
Speaker 8: Just be honestly authentic because when get in the locker room,
Speaker 8: guys trust you when you're authentic.
Speaker 7: Don't be someone new every single day.
Speaker 3: All right, let's see it for itself.
Speaker 4: Should were Sanders at the podium from Indianapolis right now.
Speaker 15: I've been through six different OC's, you know, so I'm
Speaker 15: able to adjust to in the office in every scheme
Speaker 15: and make it work. We went from Jackson State to
Speaker 15: Colorado and change two programs back to back. So you
Speaker 15: don't think I could come to the NFL franchise and
Speaker 15: change the program again. It's history. We've done it again,
Speaker 15: It's always gonna repeat it. So I'm truly thankful. You know,
Speaker 15: my dad was able to assemble a staff. He was
Speaker 15: able to assemble because it's knowledge everywhere. We're able to
Speaker 15: talk to the running back coach, receiver coaches, defensive coordinators,
Speaker 15: all these different types of coaches to give you the
Speaker 15: perspective and what you need to improve on and grow at.
Speaker 7: So I'm realistic.
Speaker 15: You know, I know what I need to improve on,
Speaker 15: I know what I need to grow at, and year
Speaker 15: by year, cut on the tape, those mistakes cut down yearly,
Speaker 15: So I'm hyper aware of everything I need to do
Speaker 15: to be successful. So I'm ready to get to it.
Speaker 15: If you ain't trying to change the franchise or the coach,
Speaker 15: that don't give me. So you should know history repeats
Speaker 15: itself over and over and over, and I've done it
Speaker 15: over and over and over, so it should be no
Speaker 15: question why NFL franchise should pick me. You think I'm
Speaker 15: worried about what critics saying, what people got to say?
Speaker 15: You know who my dad is they hate it on
Speaker 15: him too, so it's like it's almost normal without people hating.
Speaker 15: It's not normal for us. So we like the adversity.
Speaker 15: We like everything that comes with the name. That's why
Speaker 15: we are who we are.
Speaker 4: Okay, Peter, what do you think about first answers We're
Speaker 4: hearing out of store at the podium in Indie.
Speaker 5: He's got a way about him where it comes off
Speaker 5: very confident, but it doesn't come across as cocky or arrogant,
Speaker 5: which is important. I also think being Dion's kid and
Speaker 5: also having a spotlight on you since you were in
Speaker 5: middle school and then high school and then choosing Jackson
Speaker 5: State and then going to Colorado. Like, I don't think
Speaker 5: New York is too big for him. I can't say
Speaker 5: that for every quarterback. I don't think that the historical
Speaker 5: woes of Cleveland.
Speaker 2: Is gonna be too big for him.
Speaker 5: Like, if this guy comes in, he's already had a
Speaker 5: spotlight on him, he's already been a superstar, and he's
Speaker 5: already had all the questions and doubters. So I actually
Speaker 5: kind of like the way he approaches this. He knows
Speaker 5: who he is, He's comfortable in.
Speaker 2: His own skin. The football will be a different story.
Speaker 5: But you better not think you're getting somebody who's scared
Speaker 5: of the moment.
Speaker 2: With Shadora Sanders.
Speaker 4: Nanty, you were very intensely listening to the way he
Speaker 4: was talking.
Speaker 9: You know, personally, for me, I'm just not a talker.
Speaker 9: I'd rather show and improve and do all of those things.
Speaker 9: And you know, I'm confident in myself and my abilities
Speaker 9: to go out there and be a leader that you
Speaker 9: need me to be for your franchise. But I'm not
Speaker 9: going to talk about my accolades and all of this stuff.
Speaker 9: I'm gonna let the outside do that for me. And
Speaker 9: you know, we talked earlier this week with Will when
Speaker 9: you talked about what arrogance, Oh oh.
Speaker 4: Will Packer's healthy arrogance.
Speaker 9: You know, there's a healthy arrogance that you can go
Speaker 9: about and you need that in the NFL. It's it's
Speaker 9: a room flowed with alpha's and you have to beat
Speaker 9: the alpha. So you know, credit to him is just
Speaker 9: not my way that I'll go about it.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, I mean that was a perfect example of
Speaker 8: what I was just saying. Authenticity, Right, that's who you're
Speaker 8: going to be in front of the media. Now, that's
Speaker 8: the way you're going to be in front of the
Speaker 8: media when you get to our organization general managers.
Speaker 7: Although it may.
Speaker 8: Look cocky and flirt in the line with confident and cocky,
Speaker 8: that's authentic and they want to know what they're getting
Speaker 8: in their building.
Speaker 7: So I'm fine with it. I get it.
Speaker 8: Just when you start making comments like that when you
Speaker 8: get to the NFL, you got to back it up right,
Speaker 8: and you've got to stay true to who you are.
Speaker 8: You can't switch up if things don't go the way
Speaker 8: you want. But again, this is a confident young man
Speaker 8: that's had a lot of pressure on his shoulders. He
Speaker 8: changed the culture down at Colorado right, and I know
Speaker 8: he had Travis Hunter and his dad and other people
Speaker 8: helping out. But at the end of the day, I
Speaker 8: love the confidence I think he has go out there
Speaker 8: and then improve some people wrong.
Speaker 4: We had his dad, Dion Sanders, on GMFBOT from the
Speaker 4: Super Bowl week and when I asked him about people's
Speaker 4: opinions whether or not he should be involved in his
Speaker 4: son's meetings with teams. How he very simply said, if
Speaker 4: your child had to go have surgery, wouldn't you walk
Speaker 4: into the hospital with them and consult with the doctor
Speaker 4: and you know a coach. That's a good point, and
Speaker 4: it kind of stopped me right there. It's a valid explanation,
Speaker 4: but the fact that it's Dion and it's Shadeur and
Speaker 4: it's the Sanders family it also carries a different weight.
Speaker 3: But that is a very charming smile. That is a very.
Speaker 4: Talented young man and he's putting the words out there
Speaker 4: and now Peter and everybody at the table, he's going
Speaker 4: to have to fulfill that not only this weekend, but
Speaker 4: at the draft and onto his NFL career.
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Speaker 4: it's quarterbacks they're talking today. Jackson Dart is at the
Speaker 4: podium now in Indianapolis, and of course, as they always are,
Speaker 4: these guys are asked who they mirror their games after.
Speaker 3: Here's the answer from Jackson Dart.
Speaker 7: Oh.
Speaker 18: You know, I feel like it's a little bit of
Speaker 18: a cop out because he just won the Super Bowl,
Speaker 18: But you know, I love Jay Hurts and what he does.
Speaker 18: I feel like I'm very similar in my play style
Speaker 18: to him. I feel like we we can do a
Speaker 18: lot of the same things. You know, obviously, he's an
Speaker 18: elite player and I'm trying to reach that level. But
Speaker 18: you know, he's been somebody that I've tried to resemble
Speaker 18: my game after, just because of his versatility, being able
Speaker 18: to run and throw the ball, and just you know,
Speaker 18: how strong he is in the pocket. I think that's
Speaker 18: something that I've had a lot of fun, you know,
Speaker 18: watching and observing his play style.
Speaker 4: Guy's got a brother, a little brother named Diesel, as
Speaker 4: Cody just so eloquently reminded us, we love Jackson Dart.
Speaker 3: We love answers like.
Speaker 4: That as man type waited out, Jay hurts, not Jalis Jay,
Speaker 4: it hurts.
Speaker 3: That's all right, It's not a cop out.
Speaker 4: I think if you want to play quarterback in the NFL,
Speaker 4: you can model yourself after.
Speaker 3: A guy that won a Lombardi.
Speaker 4: We're gonna have more sound from the quarterbacks and the
Speaker 4: wide receivers and the running backs speaking at the podium
Speaker 4: today on GMFB right here and the rest of the
Speaker 4: day on NFL Network. We're back on GMFB, Peter. People
Speaker 4: are just walking the hallways. The cameras are going. We're
Speaker 4: trying to keep track of these guys without their college
Speaker 4: uniforms on. We're just getting used to them in the NFL. Peter,
Speaker 4: what are you looking forward to today?
Speaker 2: Today's going to be great.
Speaker 5: We got to tight ends to the defensive back tonight,
Speaker 5: but we have all the drills Saturday and Sunday too.
Speaker 5: I want to thank everyone on the ground here in
Speaker 5: Indianapolis a couple good days here. I want to thank
Speaker 5: Carly Lindsay, our wonderful producer, Barb who's been great and
Speaker 5: everyone here in Indy stay with us here on NFL Network.
Speaker 5: Awesome stuff all week. And guys, you guys have been
Speaker 5: tremendous in studio.
Speaker 3: Peter, you're crushing it.
Speaker 4: Did you get that confirmation text from Brandon Bean that
Speaker 4: he's going to sit down with you, buddy?
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's gonna sit down with you. Just publicly shamed him.
Speaker 7: So I'll have you to night with the combat.
Speaker 3: Peter. Enjoy, we appreciate everything.
Speaker 4: Happy Friday, enjoy your whole weekend, and enjoy uh whatever
Speaker 4: time off you get after this, because you've been working
Speaker 4: like a dog.
Speaker 3: Peter Schrager, enjoy the combine. Everybody,