Speaker 1: And now Move the Sticks with Daniel Jeremiah and Bucky Brooks.
Speaker 2: To dusk settling on the seventy sixth th Reese's Senior Bowl,
Speaker 2: one of the most powerful games.
Speaker 3: That we have ever seen. Will get into that.
Speaker 2: We are fired up to welcome you into our Reese's
Speaker 2: Senior Bowl recap show. I'm Brett Lewis, joined here by
Speaker 2: our lead draft analyst that NFL Network, Daniel Jeremiah, and
Speaker 2: the executive director of the Reese's Senior Bowl, Jim Naggi. So, guys,
Speaker 2: we've had a great run here right started with our
Speaker 2: roster reveal show here on NFL Network and on the
Speaker 2: Move the Sticks podcast, we get Donomobile, three great practices
Speaker 2: leading up to just an incredible game, an emotional game. Again,
Speaker 2: we'll get into that, but Jim, as you look back
Speaker 2: on the week, man, what stands out to.
Speaker 4: You, Well, it was another great week, probably our best
Speaker 4: week we've had in terms of roster weather. And then,
Speaker 4: like you just said that, the storybook ending with the
Speaker 4: jack best touchdowns, So incredible week. You know, I think
Speaker 4: that the d line group held up as advertised. You know,
Speaker 4: there was a lot to talk about. All these top
Speaker 4: fifty players come in on the d line, they had
Speaker 4: a great week. I think the offensive line, you saw
Speaker 4: some guys really step up on that side of.
Speaker 5: The ball that really helped their case for the draft.
Speaker 4: And then you know, you ended with the quarterback class.
Speaker 4: There was a lot of high profile names in that group.
Speaker 4: You know, I thought Jackson Dart, Jalen Milroe, Dylan Gabriel,
Speaker 4: Tyler Shuck and really ended it right there with Seth
Speaker 4: Seth Henigan from Memphis on that game winning drive.
Speaker 5: Those guys showed well too.
Speaker 4: So just a lot a lot of people to be
Speaker 4: grateful for, you guys know what it takes to put
Speaker 4: this game on down here, from our office staff, our
Speaker 4: scouting staff, the volunteers, just so many people brought together
Speaker 4: such a great week.
Speaker 3: Without question.
Speaker 2: Look, I mean it's so valuable for us to get
Speaker 2: a chance to see these guys, you know, live and
Speaker 2: in person. Obviously a tremendous value for the NFL evaluators
Speaker 2: to get to see them against the best of the best,
Speaker 2: not just in the game, but of course in the
Speaker 2: three practices that provide plenty of memorable moments. Ont of
Speaker 2: standouts from the practice week in Mobile. These are a
Speaker 2: few that stood out to me over the course of
Speaker 2: the three days. Thought Max Harston was maybe the most
Speaker 2: consistent cover corner that we saw in Mobile. Kyle Williams,
Speaker 2: as you saw on that practice recap man, he's got
Speaker 2: some juice with his releases.
Speaker 3: And his route technique.
Speaker 2: Mason Taylor is the natural at tight end, certainly fitting
Speaker 2: coming from the Hall of Famer. Jason Taylor's his dad,
Speaker 2: and then Gray's Abel I think unofficially took the most
Speaker 2: one on one reps in the history of the Senior
Speaker 2: Bowl and won most of them. And then Mike Green,
Speaker 2: of course from Marshall had the viral clip of the
Speaker 2: Senior Bowl with his rep against Josh Connerly so Jim.
Speaker 2: So many great moments from the Senior Bowl. It's funny,
Speaker 2: like you heard DJ and I's voices there as we
Speaker 2: were seeing that live, Like I had the same reactions
Speaker 2: watching some of those plays again, because there were a
Speaker 2: ton a ton of standout moments.
Speaker 4: I'll piggyback on the first guy, Greys Abel, right, I
Speaker 4: mean small school guy. Really proud of all the small
Speaker 4: school offensive linemen. I thought a bunch of this guys
Speaker 4: stepped up. You know you're not supposed to helmet scout,
Speaker 4: but if you look over my left shoulder, I think
Speaker 4: it's fair to helmet scout the North Dakota State offensive line.
Speaker 4: I thought, you know, we had Cody mock down here
Speaker 4: a couple of years ago, played all five spots. I
Speaker 4: think Graysabel had a very similar week to Cody. And
Speaker 4: you know, Cody's had a good first couple of years
Speaker 4: there in Tampa Bay. I think Graysabel put himself in
Speaker 4: position to be the first center taken in this year's
Speaker 4: in this year's draft, now that people have seen him
Speaker 4: play center, and then if you flip it over to
Speaker 4: the American side. One one standout for me was Walter Nolan,
Speaker 4: the defensive tackle from All Miss. I mean, this is
Speaker 4: a guy not a lot of people know. He gutted
Speaker 4: through a lot injury wise during the week. You know,
Speaker 4: he could have easily packed it in.
Speaker 5: He did not. He saw the week all the way through.
Speaker 4: If you're looking for like a disruptive, penetrating three technique,
Speaker 4: all those tools were really obvious. We're seeing him in
Speaker 4: some of the clips right here. This guy jumps off
Speaker 4: the ball. So teams needing that three technique that could
Speaker 4: add to their pass rush next year.
Speaker 5: To me, Walter Nolan's that guy in this year's draft.
Speaker 6: And I like what Walter Nolan accomplished during that week.
Speaker 6: And you talked about that twitch that jumps off. He
Speaker 6: wasn't alone. I mean, this is the deepest position in
Speaker 6: the draft at defensive tackle. And Darius Alexander, what he
Speaker 6: did coming out of Toledo with his length and size
Speaker 6: and then seeing the twitch and explosiveness during the week
Speaker 6: of practice, to me, that was one that just jumped
Speaker 6: off the tape when you're watching those one on ones
Speaker 6: and looking what he was able to get done this
Speaker 6: week again in a very very deep field. Then on
Speaker 6: the other side, I'll go to Miles Frasier from LSU,
Speaker 6: who's got some positional flexibility, can play tackle. I love
Speaker 6: him at guard. I think he's got a chance to
Speaker 6: really plug and play as a guard with a big frame,
Speaker 6: a big physical guy who's got good feet. So it's
Speaker 6: a trench's draft. It's a line of scrimmage draft and
Speaker 6: no shortage of players to choose from.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and we saw plenty of it.
Speaker 2: Those just a couple of the names that popped out
Speaker 2: to us, a couple of the moments that stood out
Speaker 2: to us from the practice week, but there were plenty
Speaker 2: more once we got to game day there inside Hancock
Speaker 2: Whitney Stadium in Mobile. And when we come back, we'll
Speaker 2: head back to one of the most emotional, powerful and
Speaker 2: talent filled.
Speaker 3: Games that we've had in Mobile.
Speaker 2: Five Vreese's Senior Ball in Mobile had the stars out
Speaker 2: all week and not just on the field. This year's
Speaker 2: festivities featuring a free concert on January thirty first at
Speaker 2: Cathedral Square headlined by a country music star, Sammy Kershaw
Speaker 2: and the Eli Young Band.
Speaker 3: Great time for all and then of course we got
Speaker 3: to game day.
Speaker 6: Well, you're not gonna find a better finish to any
Speaker 6: game than the one we saw there with that Jack
Speaker 6: Besh touchdown. He was one of the five guys that
Speaker 6: stood out with big time game performance. Oli Gordon there
Speaker 6: not only running the ball you saw with the touchdown
Speaker 6: pass a big two hundred and thirty pound running back
Speaker 6: from Oklahoma State Landon Jackson was he was a dynamo
Speaker 6: coming off the edge really really long, really explosive. Was
Speaker 6: getting after the quarterback all day long, Saveon Jones inside
Speaker 6: for LSU some really quick wins, a dynamic, explosive interior
Speaker 6: rusher and then Seth Henigan kind of gets lost because
Speaker 6: of the Besch touchdown. We forget where that came from,
Speaker 6: which was Seth Hennigan, who had an unbelievable game, very efficient,
Speaker 6: capped it off with a game winner there at the
Speaker 6: very end.
Speaker 2: A month before the scene your Bowl, Jack Besh and
Speaker 2: lost his brother Tiger Bash, former Princeton football player, in
Speaker 2: the terrorist attacks. On New Year's Day in New Orleans,
Speaker 2: played with a heavy heart, wearing Tiger's jersey number seven
Speaker 2: on his chest.
Speaker 3: With seven seconds left.
Speaker 2: On the clock, he caught that game winner from Memphis
Speaker 2: Tiger quarterback Seth Henigan.
Speaker 3: Tom Pellisera got the raw motion from.
Speaker 1: Besh one month ago today, I think your brother passed away.
Speaker 1: Take me to just the emotions of coming to this
Speaker 1: event and then obviously being able to score the winner.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's been surreal just to be able to come
Speaker 7: and take place in this game. It's a goal you
Speaker 7: set for yourself, you know. But if I had the
Speaker 7: option that if I came here, had the worst week ever,
Speaker 7: ruined my draftstock, But that means I could give my
Speaker 7: brother a hug right now, you know, I would take that,
Speaker 7: you know. But but on the flip side of that,
Speaker 7: I don't think I could have had the week that
Speaker 7: I had if if all that would have happened. So,
Speaker 7: like I said, you know, his wings were on my
Speaker 7: side and him and Jesus Christ for the reason I
Speaker 7: was able to do all of this.
Speaker 2: Man still get some of those goosebumps thinking about that
Speaker 2: and about what that moment certainly meant. And as he
Speaker 2: was certainly a standout won the MVP, and rightly so DJ.
Speaker 2: But looking at a couple of the other players on
Speaker 2: that list, Ali Gordon, obviously we're gonna have to go
Speaker 2: scout his arm now and then Landed Jackson was shot
Speaker 2: out of a cannon in that game.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And he's so big and just so rangy and long,
Speaker 6: and he's winning right off the snap and when if
Speaker 6: you're a little bit late getting out of your set,
Speaker 6: he's going to hit you with that long arm and
Speaker 6: it's over. So it was an impressive, impressive game for him.
Speaker 6: And we could go a laundry list of guys that
Speaker 6: were standouts in that game. But man, that's five years
Speaker 6: from now, that's going to be known as the Jack
Speaker 6: Besh Senior Bowl.
Speaker 2: Oh, without question, And Jim, I would imagine you got
Speaker 2: no problem with that, with the way that it all
Speaker 2: ended up playing out. Who are a couple other guys
Speaker 2: that stood out to you in the game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you couldn't have scripted the ending with Jack any better.
Speaker 4: But one of the guys on DJ's Saveon Jones from LSU,
Speaker 4: you know, to me, one of the most scheme diverse,
Speaker 4: versatile defensive linemen in the class. And again, a lot
Speaker 4: of times you got to go back and watch the
Speaker 4: tape to see who played well in the trenches. I mean,
Speaker 4: this guy was in the backfield all day, so he
Speaker 4: was an easy guy to notice. And I'm glad he
Speaker 4: had a good game because a lot of the other
Speaker 4: SEC defensive linemen got a lot of love during the week.
Speaker 4: And then Saveon steps up and has this type of game.
Speaker 4: And then to flip it over on the other side,
Speaker 4: I could have win a lot of directions on the
Speaker 4: national team. I mean, they had seven sacks on that team,
Speaker 4: but I went with Sebastian Castro, the defensive back from Iowa.
Speaker 4: You know, let's just say the national secondary took some
Speaker 4: hits before game day, so Castro had to play forty two.
Speaker 5: Of the fifty nine snaps in the game.
Speaker 4: He had a PBu, a force fumble, a fumble recovery,
Speaker 4: a big stop right here on third down.
Speaker 5: That was a big play in the game right there.
Speaker 5: You know, talk about a chess piece.
Speaker 4: This guy played reps at NICOL, He played free safety,
Speaker 4: played outside corner. So as we moved through the draft process,
Speaker 4: this is going to be a guy that dB coaches
Speaker 4: just fall in love with.
Speaker 2: What do you know, a dB from Iowa has incredible instinct,
Speaker 2: great fundamental tackling as we saw throughout the week. All right,
Speaker 2: much more on the way here in our recent Senior
Speaker 2: Bowl recap show. When we come back, talk to another
Speaker 2: one of the standouts for both the practice week and
Speaker 2: game day at a couple of those sacks that Jim
Speaker 2: was talking about. Femi Ola da Show joins us. Next,
Speaker 2: just a glimpse right there into the passion, the energy
Speaker 2: and the talent that ol femi Ola Dejo from UCLA
Speaker 2: brought to Mobile in the Senior Bowl and in the
Speaker 2: three practices leading up to the game. And he joins us, now, Femi,
Speaker 2: thanks for being here with us. Man, excited to chat
Speaker 2: with you. Just getting a glimpse there of you wearing
Speaker 2: the microphone we got to kind of see your infectious personality,
Speaker 2: the way you love the game.
Speaker 3: How'd you feel like that played in that week.
Speaker 2: Of jam packed activities, both practices, games, and all things
Speaker 2: going on with NFL teams throughout the week of the
Speaker 2: Senior Bowl.
Speaker 8: Yeah, man, great question and one thanks for having me today.
Speaker 8: But man, I think it just allowed me to have
Speaker 8: a good mindset throout the way and just you know,
Speaker 8: have a attitude where it's an opportunity and a blessing
Speaker 8: to be here and just compete and to have fun
Speaker 8: and to embrace the moment. I knew going into the
Speaker 8: week there was a lot of talk that it was
Speaker 8: draining and a lot of things going on. But just
Speaker 8: had to have fun, you know.
Speaker 6: I mean when you get a chance to dig into
Speaker 6: your tape at UCLA see all the different things you
Speaker 6: can do in the different ways you were utilized. But
Speaker 6: to me watching and seeing you live there and then
Speaker 6: watching how you're used, you look like a pig and
Speaker 6: slop getting a chance to just rush the quarterback, pin
Speaker 6: your ears back and have some fun. How much fun
Speaker 6: was it to just cut it loose?
Speaker 8: It was incredibly fun. I mean, football is you know,
Speaker 8: I love football. And playing since I was nine years old.
Speaker 8: Just opportunity, like I mentioned, you know, to play football
Speaker 8: in February and to be competing against the best, and
Speaker 8: just to compete and just dominate and show my skills
Speaker 8: and versatility.
Speaker 4: I mean, good to see again to DJ's point, I mean,
Speaker 4: not a lot of people know you probably played off
Speaker 4: football linebacker for a lot of your career at Cal
Speaker 4: before where they move to you kind of down this
Speaker 4: year rushing the passer.
Speaker 5: But I want to circle back to what Ratt talked about.
Speaker 4: You were are we We give a good Guy award
Speaker 4: at the end of the week to the guy behind
Speaker 4: the scenes that you know brought the best energy, just
Speaker 4: a great guy behind the scenes that everyone on the
Speaker 4: support staff like.
Speaker 5: And now was you this year? Where does that come from?
Speaker 8: Man?
Speaker 4: I want to tell you, we appreciate that what you
Speaker 4: brought to the week on the practice field behind the scenes,
Speaker 4: But where is that attitude come from?
Speaker 5: Because it's special, man, you what you got is special.
Speaker 8: Thank you so much.
Speaker 3: I appreciate it.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 8: I think it's just who I am and how I
Speaker 8: care myself and.
Speaker 5: Really my faith in Christ.
Speaker 8: Just really trying to be a great steward to whoever
Speaker 8: it is, and be humble, have a be a man
Speaker 8: of integrity and just you know, cheer everybody how you
Speaker 8: want to be treated. You know, you never know who
Speaker 8: you're talking to, what they know, or just what day
Speaker 8: someone's going to Just to be a good light. It's
Speaker 8: a Brian someone's day if you never know what it
Speaker 8: can mean to them.
Speaker 5: So very honored to receive that award.
Speaker 3: Well, it was obviously well deserved Femi.
Speaker 2: And and then just kind of going back to what
Speaker 2: Jim had mentioned there the position switch for you, right,
Speaker 2: I mean you were what ten games into playing edge
Speaker 2: rusher by the time you got to the Senior Bowl, right,
Speaker 2: because it happened.
Speaker 3: A couple of games into the season at U c.
Speaker 1: L A.
Speaker 2: By the way, a selfless move by by you as
Speaker 2: a you know, a guy playing in your final year
Speaker 2: there to make that move. You know, it's kind of
Speaker 2: bold on your part and on the defensive part, but
Speaker 2: obviously worked out very well. Where do you feel like
Speaker 2: you are in that transition at this point?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think I think I found where I'm supposed
Speaker 8: to be at bustling on the edge. You know, now
Speaker 8: I feel I have the capability and the versus lived
Speaker 8: to play both, but most dominant on the edge, and
Speaker 8: I think within the move, like you said, it was
Speaker 8: for the team. It was the best way to get
Speaker 8: the best level on the field and just to overall
Speaker 8: produce as a defense and shouts, my dog Carson stepped
Speaker 8: up in right.
Speaker 5: I mean he killed it.
Speaker 8: I mean he's about to be probably the second line
Speaker 8: back off the board.
Speaker 5: So I'm proud of him. It's just texting him. So
Speaker 5: I'm very.
Speaker 6: Grateful for those that are watching your training in Dallas
Speaker 6: right now, and by the story the looks of the
Speaker 6: folks behind you, I think you've made a few friends
Speaker 6: during your training process. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Man, with a lot of great athletes. Man, they just
Speaker 5: you know, playing around a little bit.
Speaker 8: We just did some combine work on the board, but
Speaker 8: with Nick Scoring, Baron Surrell, Schamar Turner, Brayden Swint, Savean Jones,
Speaker 8: Kenneth Grant, just so many great guys going around and
Speaker 8: to and to learn learn from and you know, set
Speaker 8: up their knowledge and their wisdom and added to my
Speaker 8: arsenal as well.
Speaker 7: So it's really fun out here.
Speaker 3: Femi.
Speaker 5: Last one real quick.
Speaker 4: Before you left Bobile, you talked about you felt like
Speaker 4: you got better down here over the course of the week.
Speaker 5: And again that's the cool part of you being so
Speaker 5: early in your development as a rusher. Just talk to that.
Speaker 5: Getting the NFL coaching for the first time down here mobile.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was great.
Speaker 8: Funny enough, my edge coach was kJ Wright and when
Speaker 8: he played in Seattle, he was coached by Ken Norton junr.
Speaker 8: And that was my coach my junior year at u
Speaker 8: c LA, So it's kind of a trickle efface. So
Speaker 8: that was really cool. But coach Quez with the Browns
Speaker 8: from the coordinator, coach Bland. I talked to him this morning.
Speaker 8: Actually he's our DV coach, coach Anderson. I met him
Speaker 8: last year, so it was incredible, man, just talking up
Speaker 8: the knowledge and I think for myself, I really learned
Speaker 8: the football is football, just different terminology. But it was
Speaker 8: great over to be in the atmosphere and that environment
Speaker 8: and just to learn.
Speaker 5: What it will be like in the next level.
Speaker 2: Well, just one of the many valuable pieces of the
Speaker 2: Senior Bowl experience, certainly that Oloa Femiola Dejo took full
Speaker 2: advantage of throughout the week.
Speaker 3: Fami, thanks for being with us man.
Speaker 2: All the best to you as you get started here
Speaker 2: with the combine and then of course all the way
Speaker 2: down to the NFL Draft.
Speaker 5: Thank you, buddy, thank you so much having going.
Speaker 2: For so many of the Senior Bowl attendees. The next
Speaker 2: stop is Indianapolis. Back here with DJ and Jim. Jim.
Speaker 2: Who's a couple of guys that maybe you're looking forward
Speaker 2: to seeing get out there on the Turfet Lucas Oil
Speaker 2: Stadium that were down in Mobile.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 4: The first Mobile's fastest man Darien Porter Corner from Iowa State.
Speaker 4: Over the last seven years, there's only been five guys
Speaker 4: at twenty two miles per hour on our Zebra Technology GPS.
Speaker 4: Four of the five and run four three five are faster,
Speaker 4: so Porter's gonna blaze. The other guy would be Shamar James,
Speaker 4: the linebacker from Florida. This guy was our fastest linebacker,
Speaker 4: the seventh fastest overall player in the game this year.
Speaker 4: The only guy's faster four DB's and two wide receivers.
Speaker 4: So Shamar James is another guy who had a great week,
Speaker 4: kind of flying under the radar. Look for him to
Speaker 4: do some big things this week in Indy as well.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I look forward to watching those guys. I'll just
Speaker 6: throw one more in there for fun Tedes Johnson. We
Speaker 6: saw from Oregon. Nobody could cover him during the week
Speaker 6: of practice. He is going to run fast and all
Speaker 6: the change of direction stuff. I expect it'll be off
Speaker 6: the charts.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 2: One more small school guy that will give a shout
Speaker 2: out to Marcus Yarns from Delaware who we were told
Speaker 2: was running north of twenty two on the GPS coming
Speaker 2: into Mobile. He showcased some real fluidity I thought, especially
Speaker 2: running some of those routes and catching balls from quarterbacks.
Speaker 3: So excited to see that.
Speaker 2: When he gets down there on the field in indianputa
Speaker 2: pl us.
Speaker 3: Jim. Can't wait for next year. Man, let's get it rolling.
Speaker 3: Thanks for being with us.
Speaker 2: You are in our Senior Bowl recap show and can't
Speaker 2: wait to see everybody
Speaker 3: At the combine from any