Speaker 1: Welcome to Road to the Draft Casey Phillips. Here was
Speaker 1: senior writer and editor Scott Smith, and as always, this
Speaker 1: is where we talk about things going on in the
Speaker 1: world of the Buccaneers, how they might affect the draft,
Speaker 1: what they might do. And we have talked a lot
Speaker 1: about the first round. We know that's the thing that
Speaker 1: gets everybody excited, call the hype as it should as
Speaker 1: we have seen, man, the Bucks have done a great
Speaker 1: job in the second round and later that it is
Speaker 1: not just about that first round er. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of great talent to be had. So if you were
Speaker 1: to be a betting man right now, what would be
Speaker 1: your idea of a second round pick that would be
Speaker 1: a good value pick, kind of how it would match
Speaker 1: up needs players available. That's always where you start really
Speaker 1: getting into I'm actually well prepared for that question. We'll
Speaker 1: look at that because for next week's mock draft on
Speaker 1: Buccaneers dot Com, which we do every week, and I
Speaker 1: did one on the second round, and how do you
Speaker 1: do that? You got to know who goes in the
Speaker 1: first round. So I went online and found a mock
Speaker 1: draft generator. Yes those exist, what a world we live in?
Speaker 1: And I ran it a few times until I got
Speaker 1: one I liked, which basically meant, did I like who
Speaker 1: the buckscott? And did the first ten seem to make sense?
Speaker 1: And so I did that. So you have your thirty
Speaker 1: one picks in the first round, and then I picked
Speaker 1: for every team after that. And when we get to
Speaker 1: the Bucks that pick number fifty overall, I gave us
Speaker 1: North Dakota State tackle Cody Mock. Now we know we
Speaker 1: were I'm sorry your mock draft. I had to. I
Speaker 1: had to do it. I'm assuming his name is pronounced Mock.
Speaker 1: Now this is the guy. So, this is a guy
Speaker 1: that's kind of famous because he got a he got
Speaker 1: a couple of teeth knocked out, and he just decided
Speaker 1: not to do anything about it. I think he got
Speaker 1: tired of so he just he just has the big
Speaker 1: smile with that long flowing hair, and I think he'd
Speaker 1: be good friends with Cookeef probably like Kindred spirits Um.
Speaker 1: This guy. Uh, you know, there's a lot of good
Speaker 1: tackle depth in the league in the draft this year,
Speaker 1: and what was particularly good about Cody Mock of North
Speaker 1: Dakota State is that he's very good blocking on the
Speaker 1: run on the move, and with our new offensive coordineyer
Speaker 1: Dave canalis Um. Apparently we're going to see a lot
Speaker 1: more outside zone type running where the guy's base. Basically
Speaker 1: three or two or three offensive linemen are moving in
Speaker 1: the same direction in tandem to create double teams, and
Speaker 1: the back chooses the gap, and so they need to
Speaker 1: be good blocking on the move, and he's very good
Speaker 1: at that. So that's why I thought this could be
Speaker 1: a good player for the Bucks, who may be looking
Speaker 1: for a new right tackle if there's some worse moves
Speaker 1: to left. I do think also the fact that they're
Speaker 1: picking nineteenth in the first round, there's so much there
Speaker 1: about what's there and what's not at nineteen to then
Speaker 1: decide what you might want to use yourself. In this
Speaker 1: particular mock, we got Nolan Smith, the edge rusher from
Speaker 1: Georgia in the first round. That's why I went offensive
Speaker 1: tackle in the second round. If we had taken like
Speaker 1: Darnell right in the first round, that I would have
Speaker 1: gone probably an edge rushing in second round. And so yeah,
Speaker 1: so who would that be in your mind? That we
Speaker 1: know edge rusher is something that is one of those
Speaker 1: where you tackle and edge rusher definitely two of the
Speaker 1: position premium position that you can see that are premium
Speaker 1: in the draft and would probably be premium to the bucking.
Speaker 1: And this particular draft has a couple guys like Will
Speaker 1: Anderson and Tyree Wilson I think that are very highly
Speaker 1: ranked and probably going in the top ten. But there's
Speaker 1: a good it's hard to get good edge rushers without
Speaker 1: using a premium pick on it, so you don't often
Speaker 1: find them in the second and third round. But there's
Speaker 1: there's good depth in this year's draft at that position
Speaker 1: that a lot of teams are going to be taking
Speaker 1: them in the second round. And a guy that fell
Speaker 1: to me, I think in some of the mock drafts
Speaker 1: I see at picked him or fifty as LS Hugh's
Speaker 1: bj OJILARI. Now, if this guy were a fully formed,
Speaker 1: great pass rushing prospect, he wouldn't be there at pick fifty.
Speaker 1: But he's really good off the edge. He's quick, he's bendy.
Speaker 1: You look at that, See how he got a round
Speaker 1: the corner on that guy. Real quick. That's what he's
Speaker 1: really good at. Probably needs to improve against the run
Speaker 1: and hone his pass rushing moves a little bit, but
Speaker 1: he's a guy with a lot of speed. And potential.
Speaker 1: So that's the guy I could see how the Bucks
Speaker 1: take him. And I know the Bucks have done this
Speaker 1: in a few years where they've picked several of certain
Speaker 1: positions multiple years in a row or multiple times in
Speaker 1: a draft. And we saw last year they took two
Speaker 1: tight ends ended up being both of them played well.
Speaker 1: They played well as rookies, but they also had Cam
Speaker 1: Braid and other people. Now you've lost Cam Breds. So
Speaker 1: even though they took two tight ends last year, do
Speaker 1: you see that something that they could still focus on
Speaker 1: in one of those early rounds. Yeah, one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: Because again I'm talking about Dave Canalis, the new offensive
Speaker 1: coordinator for the Buccaneers, assuming he's going to do things
Speaker 1: similar to the way they did it in Seattle with
Speaker 1: Shane Waldron as our offensive coordinator. They used the twelve
Speaker 1: package two tight endsets a lot more than the league average,
Speaker 1: like twenty three percent of the time. And so you
Speaker 1: do have the guys we drifted to last year, ka
Speaker 1: Dot and then co Keifed, But I think co Keifed
Speaker 1: is more of a move around fullback h back blocker
Speaker 1: type for the actual two tight end sets where both
Speaker 1: guys are legitimate receiving threats. It'd be nice to add
Speaker 1: another guy, which is why I think a guy like
Speaker 1: Luke Musgrave or of Oregon State. It's a very deep
Speaker 1: tight end class, so even if four or five or
Speaker 1: even six tight ends are already off the board, he
Speaker 1: could still be there at pick number fifty. He didn't
Speaker 1: have giant pass catching numbers basically because you know, the
Speaker 1: COVID season kind of took away some of this playing time.
Speaker 1: He was hurt last year, but he's definitely got down
Speaker 1: as you see on these clips, he's definitely got the
Speaker 1: ability to get downfield to work. Seems he's a very
Speaker 1: smooth route runner. He obviously catches the ball very well.
Speaker 1: So he's a guy that could give you With Kate Otten,
Speaker 1: who had a really nice rookie season, he could give
Speaker 1: you some really good looks in two tight end sets.
Speaker 1: That's why I think it's possible. Yeah, that's going to
Speaker 1: be so interesting to watch. Again. We love that it
Speaker 1: is not just the first round. That the Bucks have
Speaker 1: done a great job in all these other rounds. So
Speaker 1: there's a lot to look forward to and a lot
Speaker 1: more to talk about on road to the draft. So
Speaker 1: we'll be back with another one next week,