Speaker 1: NFL Inside Report is the production of the NFL in
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Speaker 1: is NFL Inside Report. We're gonna talk about the Steelers
Speaker 1: today as we wrap our Roster Reset series, but before
Speaker 1: we do, we want to acknowledge the tragedy that this
Speaker 1: organization and the NFL community is mourning, and that, of course,
Speaker 1: is the death of Steelers quarterback Dwayne Haskins. Haskins died
Speaker 1: last weekend in South Florida when he was hit by
Speaker 1: a vehicle on a highway. He was only twenty four
Speaker 1: years old. Head coach Mike Tomlin called Haskins a great
Speaker 1: teammate and said he was one of the hardest workers,
Speaker 1: both on the field and in the community. His first coach,
Speaker 1: Ron Rivera, said his zeal for life will be missed,
Speaker 1: and he came to work every day with a smile
Speaker 1: on his face and energy and love in his heart,
Speaker 1: a sentiment echoed by many of his former teammates and
Speaker 1: players that he simply cross paths with. We joined the
Speaker 1: entire NFL community and offering our condolences to the Haskins family.
Speaker 1: Back with you for another episode of our Roster reset
Speaker 1: series wrapping up the remaining divisions in the a f C.
Speaker 1: So we've been touring the league to check on moves
Speaker 1: NFL teams have made this offseason and how they'll play
Speaker 1: out here in the two season, obviously with a big
Speaker 1: look ahead towards the NFL Draft on the horizon here
Speaker 1: at the end of April. On our final stop today,
Speaker 1: we're venturing into the a f C North and the
Speaker 1: a f C South, and here to help us do
Speaker 1: it our palace here from NFL Media, Cameron Wolf and
Speaker 1: Nick Shook, guys, two of our favorites throughout the year
Speaker 1: here on Inside Report. Thanks for being back here with us.
Speaker 1: We've separated this thing out here a little bit. Starting
Speaker 1: with the a f C North. Cam's gonna cover the
Speaker 1: Steelers in the Ravens. Nick will be there with his
Speaker 1: beloved Browns, and of course the a f C champion
Speaker 1: Cincinnati Bengals. I don't know if that's a little bit
Speaker 1: of shade we're throwing your way on that one, Nick,
Speaker 1: but it's all good. Um. Cam, let's start here with
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Steelers. How would you grade what they've done
Speaker 1: this off season, their first without Ben roethlisbergers their starting quarterback.
Speaker 1: I would give them a B minus uh B minus
Speaker 1: C plus range for the Steelers simply because everything is
Speaker 1: gonna be viewed through the prism of their quarterback situation. I,
Speaker 1: for one, I'm not a Mitchell Travisca trip. Mitch doesn't
Speaker 1: go by Mitch. Mitch Trabinsky. Yeah, believer, and so I
Speaker 1: don't know if they had a lot of tons of
Speaker 1: different options, but for me, that doesn't breed any confidence. Uh,
Speaker 1: they have been doing their homework on the draft train.
Speaker 1: The best thing I think they've done this offseason is
Speaker 1: is and it's kind of went under the radar, is
Speaker 1: rebuilding their offensive line. That offensive line was really bad
Speaker 1: last year. They signed Uh, they resigned Chuka okafora they
Speaker 1: brought in James Daniels, they brought in a J. Cole
Speaker 1: or Mason cole Um. So the hope is they can
Speaker 1: be better for Naji Harris, clearly they're trying to have
Speaker 1: a more mobile offense do some things they couldn't do
Speaker 1: it Big Ben last year. So I expect them to
Speaker 1: have some mobility with Mitchell Robinsky, be a run first
Speaker 1: based offense, and I did like to move with Miles
Speaker 1: Jack to bring in to replace Joe Sherbrick. So I
Speaker 1: still think they're the fourth best team in this division. Um,
Speaker 1: but I don't think they're all season last. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: didn't think they're gonna finish last, but they're off season
Speaker 1: in general, it feels like a team in transition. Their
Speaker 1: GM Kevin Colbert's gonna resign or step down after the
Speaker 1: year been. Roethlisberger has done, their DC, Keith Butler um
Speaker 1: is gone. So I think we're gonna get a test
Speaker 1: of whether this uh non winless UH sixteen years for
Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin streak is gonna continue. But for their off
Speaker 1: season in general, I don't have any you know, Hugh
Speaker 1: issues with what they did. Yeah, talking about that, you know,
Speaker 1: even the fact on those seasons where they didn't make
Speaker 1: the playoffs still with a winning record, Mike Tomland one
Speaker 1: of the most consistently successful in that metric that we've
Speaker 1: seen at the head coaching spot for sure. Okay, And
Speaker 1: I love what you mentioned there about the mobility. I
Speaker 1: think we might see the full array of the Matt
Speaker 1: Canada offense this year as he enters into his second
Speaker 1: season as the offensive coordinator, and that perhaps is a
Speaker 1: little bit of a tease ahead to what we'll talk
Speaker 1: about with Steelers draft needs here and just a little
Speaker 1: bit talking about mobility and quarterbacks here in just a second.
Speaker 1: But first let's get to your Browns here, Nick Schuck.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, it's all about Deshaun Watson here. So
Speaker 1: how does that factor into the grade you got for Cleveland.
Speaker 1: That's a big part of the grade. It's a B
Speaker 1: plus because you know, if you get if you look
Speaker 1: at it from a football perspective and and you move
Speaker 1: beyond however long he suspended. If he is suspended, it
Speaker 1: is a massive upgraded quarterback, which is obviously their biggest need.
Speaker 1: Just to something that Andrew Area and Kevin Stefanaki identified,
Speaker 1: it seemed from the middle of last season that they
Speaker 1: needed to be better at quarterback. It had shades of
Speaker 1: Sean McVeigh and less sneed looking at Jared Goffin saying
Speaker 1: we need to be better. The Browns hopefull get a
Speaker 1: similar return out of to Shaun Watson. But the reason
Speaker 1: that they get such a you know, a positive grace
Speaker 1: because if he does end up being the guy that
Speaker 1: they expect him to be over the course of this
Speaker 1: five years, and that guaranteed you know, two or thirty
Speaker 1: million dollars. Then then it's a win. It's a big
Speaker 1: one for them, and it transforms the future of the franchise,
Speaker 1: which hasn't had a quarterback like that really ever. If ever,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe Bernie Cozar in the eighties or Auto Graham,
Speaker 1: you know, in the earliest days of the franchise, and
Speaker 1: then from there, you know, they've made some other savvy editions.
Speaker 1: The reason that they're not moving into the A range
Speaker 1: at this point is because you still have to answer
Speaker 1: a question receiver. You still have to answer a question
Speaker 1: at defensive end, and they're they're pretty thin at defensive
Speaker 1: tackle as well. So we're kind of riding that out.
Speaker 1: Does Jarvis Landry come back, Does Jadeveon Clowney come back?
Speaker 1: Do they make additions elsewhere or you know, with other
Speaker 1: players of those positions. That remains to be seen. We
Speaker 1: know that Andrew Berry likes to restock in the draft,
Speaker 1: is most gms do that aren't named Less need Um.
Speaker 1: But there's still a lot of questions I think to
Speaker 1: answer with the Browns, and and you give them credit
Speaker 1: for going and you know, answering the quarterback question um
Speaker 1: and they have the talent offensively, it's a matter for
Speaker 1: them of staying healthy and filling these needs. So the
Speaker 1: v Marii Cooper trade, uh, you know, to bring him
Speaker 1: in for Dallas was not exactly what you would consider.
Speaker 1: Would not make that wide receiver grouping finished product yet?
Speaker 1: Yeah no, because he's your number one. But losing Jarvis
Speaker 1: Landry takes away the the heartbeat of the team really
Speaker 1: since they started their turnaround a few years ago. He
Speaker 1: was the face of that. He was also super dependable.
Speaker 1: He played through a ton of injuries, but he was
Speaker 1: the guy you could always count, especially third and five
Speaker 1: six yards, you could always go to Jervis Landry. That's
Speaker 1: a big void, And the reason that it's a big
Speaker 1: void is because the guys that are left are pretty unproven.
Speaker 1: You got Donovan People's Jones, who I think could be
Speaker 1: a star with enough time to develop. He shows flashes
Speaker 1: of it. And Anthany Schwartzer needs to work on his
Speaker 1: route running, in his his reliability with his hands. That's
Speaker 1: basically the majority of your group. You still need to
Speaker 1: put somebody else in there. So Cam, let's come back
Speaker 1: to you here on the Ravens, And I feel like
Speaker 1: This is a really interesting case here, because if they
Speaker 1: just get back healthy all the guys that they were
Speaker 1: without last year, I feel like the off season is
Speaker 1: kind of a win. How else do you kind of
Speaker 1: grade some of the additions though in subtractions that they've
Speaker 1: seen here not right, I think you're hit it hit
Speaker 1: them on money. You have to grave the Ravens a
Speaker 1: little bit on a curve, right, because they're off season
Speaker 1: is getting back Martin hun Fries, getting back now S Speters,
Speaker 1: getting back some of these ballers that made them a
Speaker 1: top contender. So I think if we were just grading
Speaker 1: them based on their additions, I might be closer to
Speaker 1: the sea range. But I think given that, I think
Speaker 1: they will be better just through attrition. I think I
Speaker 1: give him a B on this offseason. Um, I look
Speaker 1: at some of the areas this could have been a
Speaker 1: The various Smith situation really bothers me because that was
Speaker 1: maybe their biggest need, needing the pass rusher, um and
Speaker 1: they whiffed on that situation. And he's heading to Minnesota,
Speaker 1: and so there's still this big gaping hole for me.
Speaker 1: And I think we're gonna talk a little bit about
Speaker 1: that when we come draft time because I think that's
Speaker 1: where I would go if I was the Ravens. But um,
Speaker 1: I look at them getting a Marcus Williams. Um For
Speaker 1: some reason, the Ravens more than any team, always loved
Speaker 1: that free agent safety. Um. No matter how much we
Speaker 1: try to devalue that that position, the Ravens say, no,
Speaker 1: We're gonna set the market every year. So I think
Speaker 1: Marcus Williams is a really good player and him paired
Speaker 1: on along with Marlon Humphrey Marcus Peters healthy should help
Speaker 1: that secondary that was a horrific secondary last year. I
Speaker 1: don't think people will remember how bad they were. I
Speaker 1: think they gave up the most passing yards NFL NFL
Speaker 1: last year and the franchise worst touchdown passes. So just
Speaker 1: a historically bad Ravens defense. Um, they weren't able to
Speaker 1: get to the passer. I think they haven't had a
Speaker 1: double digit sack sack guy since. I think, really this
Speaker 1: team needs to go back being that smash mouth Ravens
Speaker 1: defense they used to be and stopped having Lamar Jackson
Speaker 1: having to be superman. So um, I definitely, uh, I
Speaker 1: definitely think that this is a team that with all
Speaker 1: the moves with Cleveland and Shawn Watson with Joe Burrow
Speaker 1: coming off Super Bowl. They're coming in sneaking on the radar.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be shocked if if somehow they come out
Speaker 1: with the division around this time next year. Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: certainly certainly in the mix there, and I think you're
Speaker 1: right there and SA Darius Smith that we kind of
Speaker 1: all of like, all right to Darius Smith coming home again.
Speaker 1: This sort of sort of feels like something you know,
Speaker 1: that they that that the Ravens certainly needed but then
Speaker 1: just couldn't close the deal in the end. And Smith
Speaker 1: now moves off to the n f C North with
Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings. Come back to you on that fourteenth
Speaker 1: overall pick with the Ravens here in a moment, but Nick,
Speaker 1: back to you to close out the off season grades
Speaker 1: with the reigning a f C champion Cincinnati Bengals, who
Speaker 1: look clearly got the message with the offensive line need right.
Speaker 1: I can hear their interest music now the defending a
Speaker 1: f C champions and the breaking of glass to stone
Speaker 1: cold Steve Boston Enters. Yeah, you know, and when the
Speaker 1: Ross the reset uh. This week, the top three editions
Speaker 1: I listened for them were all offensive linemen and they
Speaker 1: got the message. The message was loud and clear in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter of the Super Bowl when they were
Speaker 1: unable to protect Joe Burrow adequately enough for him to
Speaker 1: lead them down the field for a thrilling victory. And
Speaker 1: they went out and responded in kind. You know, they
Speaker 1: get Layout Collins, who I think that you know, they
Speaker 1: capitalize on on the Cowboys cutting ties with him to
Speaker 1: save some caps, basically eat Alex cap But they had
Speaker 1: Ted Carriss, they had depth. More importantly than anything they
Speaker 1: had depth they had experienced. They had guys that they
Speaker 1: can count and throw in there because they ran into
Speaker 1: this issue multiple times in the in the postseason last year.
Speaker 1: You know, you had a chemand energy at right guard
Speaker 1: and then you had Jackson Carman at right guard the
Speaker 1: next series against Kansas City because they couldn't rely on
Speaker 1: either to properly pass protect against the team that was
Speaker 1: getting after Joe Burrow. So to fill this void is
Speaker 1: a big step for them because the rest of the
Speaker 1: pieces are there. That's what we saw. And you know,
Speaker 1: the two biggest hurdles for guys are you gotta have
Speaker 1: the pieces and you've gotta stay healthy. They stayed healthy
Speaker 1: last year and now they've added pieces and they can
Speaker 1: stay healthy again. I think they continue to be can
Speaker 1: tender and and maybe they prove that they're not a flute.
Speaker 1: They're not a flash in the pan. If anything, They've
Speaker 1: definitely made the effort toward proving that in this off season. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and by the way, Nick wouldn't hate it if their
Speaker 1: first choice in this year's NFL drafted number thirty one
Speaker 1: overall was another offensive lineman out there. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe it's Zion Johnson out of Boston College. How do
Speaker 1: you see some of the areas in which they could
Speaker 1: go there at thirty one and beyond Nick, I think
Speaker 1: that that makes sense. Maybe on the defensive front as well,
Speaker 1: just because I think about the departure of Larriogen Julie.
Speaker 1: You know, they like to stick with who they had,
Speaker 1: but you know, that added some depth there that was
Speaker 1: really helpful for them. So, but I would love to
Speaker 1: see offensive line. I don't think you can have enough
Speaker 1: offensive linemen. It's like baseball, you can't have enough pitching.
Speaker 1: You can't have enough offensive lineman because you lose one guy.
Speaker 1: I mean, they lost Riley Reef late in the season
Speaker 1: last year, and it became, you know, one of the
Speaker 1: biggest weaknesses that we saw, so you can't have enough
Speaker 1: depth and developing guys for the future is always a
Speaker 1: good thing, alright, Cam, coming back to you here with
Speaker 1: the Ravens as we come back up the division now
Speaker 1: and looking at Baltimore sitting at number fourteen over all,
Speaker 1: and there's gonna be a really good player available there,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe on either side of the offensive or
Speaker 1: defensive line. Um, although you know, uh, there's a bunch
Speaker 1: of different ways that GM Eric di Costa could go.
Speaker 1: What do you see as some of those possibilities? Now,
Speaker 1: I started the trenches where you mentioned. I remember a
Speaker 1: game I uh covered last year that puzzled me the most.
Speaker 1: It was a Thursday night football game. We did the
Speaker 1: Dolphins Ravens game, and that was when the Ravens were
Speaker 1: coming in super hot. Everybody was talking about Lamar Jackson
Speaker 1: as an m VP candidate, and then the Dolphins went
Speaker 1: zero blitz, zero blitz, zero blitz and it broke everything.
Speaker 1: And so although we talk a lot about the defensive
Speaker 1: side of the ball and they have to get better there,
Speaker 1: you can't have enough offensive alignment. So it wouldn't it
Speaker 1: wouldn't bother me at all if they sat there at
Speaker 1: fourteen and took the best offensive lineman, whether that's you know,
Speaker 1: Trevor Penning out of Northern Iowa's he's if he's there,
Speaker 1: Charles cross Falls there from Mississippi State, um, or even
Speaker 1: if they wanted to do interior offensive linement like a
Speaker 1: king in Green from Texas A and M. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: have a problem with any of those picks. Um. But
Speaker 1: if I were in the GM circle, I'd probably go
Speaker 1: and try to find that edge rusher who's on the board. Um.
Speaker 1: And you know some of the top guys are gonna
Speaker 1: be going in the top five. Your Hutchinson's, your Trayvon Walkers,
Speaker 1: who's getting a lot of buzz um. But maybe you
Speaker 1: get a guy like a Jermaine Johnson from Florida State.
Speaker 1: They're sitting there at fourteen, and I'd say one other thing,
Speaker 1: this is a team we talked in the past about,
Speaker 1: uh what made them great? Um? Why not go out
Speaker 1: and get that middle linebacker spot figured out? If if
Speaker 1: you if you love one of these two guys here
Speaker 1: in Devon Lloyd or na Kobe Dean, your your offensive
Speaker 1: linement is not right for you. You You don't want to
Speaker 1: reach out an edge there in a deep edge class.
Speaker 1: Maybe you find fall in love with a Devon Lloyd
Speaker 1: or Nakobe Dean and he fills that middle linebacker spot
Speaker 1: for you for a long time. Yeah, there's definitely some options.
Speaker 1: They're all all really good ones for the Baltimore Ravens.
Speaker 1: And then with that, Nick, let's go back to the
Speaker 1: Browns here who will take night off as it stands
Speaker 1: currently on night one, But once we get into day two,
Speaker 1: they're back on the clock in the second third rounds
Speaker 1: with a couple of positions that they could look at there.
Speaker 1: I think you gotta look at receiver. You gotta look
Speaker 1: at edge rusher, depending on what happens with the clinic,
Speaker 1: but I think even down the road, you gotta look
Speaker 1: at edge rusher. I know they went out and got
Speaker 1: Chase one of it, but that's a depth guy. Um.
Speaker 1: You look at the defensive front because the rest of
Speaker 1: the defense makes sense for the most part. I for
Speaker 1: the last few years have looked at the roster and thought,
Speaker 1: I mean, you got to add a linebacker. Now. They
Speaker 1: went and got Jeremiah Usi Cormo last year and he
Speaker 1: turned out to be a stud, but that's not the
Speaker 1: middle linebacker that I'm still seeking. They resigned Anthony Walker,
Speaker 1: so I still think somewhere in there. And then especially
Speaker 1: with this class, there are some values you just mentioned.
Speaker 1: They could add somebody to be a playmaking, uh you know,
Speaker 1: type of guy, and and it can be there beyond
Speaker 1: the one year deal that you keep signing a guy
Speaker 1: like Anthony Walker too. But I think you gotta look
Speaker 1: first at receiver because of what we already discussed, and
Speaker 1: you have to you have to look at edge because
Speaker 1: of the importance of the position and pairing with Miles
Speaker 1: Garrett because the one thing you don't want to get
Speaker 1: caught doing is having to face an offense that's going
Speaker 1: to dedicate to blockers, whether it's a tackle on the
Speaker 1: tight end, a tackle and a guy chipping, whatever it
Speaker 1: is to Miles Garrett. Might that might give you an
Speaker 1: edge on the offensive side, but you've got to have
Speaker 1: a guy who is able to take advantage of that
Speaker 1: of that situation on the you know, the opposite side.
Speaker 1: So I think that you really need to look at
Speaker 1: that spot as well. If I had a way between
Speaker 1: the two, I still think wide receiver is more important. Um,
Speaker 1: just because the way that their units played last year.
Speaker 1: But again there's a lot of unknown with this team
Speaker 1: because you're mixing in a new quarterback. I expect a
Speaker 1: bit of a scheme change. We'll see how that reflects
Speaker 1: either way. You know, if I were to do a mock,
Speaker 1: it was coming right out of Indie. I thought sky More,
Speaker 1: if he's there in round two, is a great fit
Speaker 1: for them. I don't think Star is going to be there,
Speaker 1: but you're right, yeah, I think you're right. In fact,
Speaker 1: in that piece that I was mentioning, uh, using the
Speaker 1: pff mox simulator and NFL dot Com, I actually had
Speaker 1: to give sky More to the Lions at number thirty
Speaker 1: two in the first round. So it's some other wide
Speaker 1: receiver names to look at. David Bell for Purdue I
Speaker 1: think would maybe give the round something they don't have
Speaker 1: at that position, which is, you know a little bit
Speaker 1: more of the physical type of guy. You've got the
Speaker 1: burner with Anthony Schwartz. Um, I look at John Mechi
Speaker 1: from Alabama, Uh, George Pickens from Georgia, another big physical guy,
Speaker 1: UM Khalil Shakier from Boise State. Or if they're waiting
Speaker 1: till the third round Alec Pearson Wandale Robinson from Cincinnati
Speaker 1: and Kentucky respectively, two of my favorites in this class.
Speaker 1: But all good options there, Nick, Thanks for that. And
Speaker 1: let's finish this on the draft here with the Pittsburgh Steelers, Cam,
Speaker 1: who have been at all the quarterback pro Day's right,
Speaker 1: um and and definitely making you know, making that not
Speaker 1: not you know, hiding anything there. I think it's clear
Speaker 1: that they're definitely considering a quarterback here with the twentie
Speaker 1: overall pick in this year's draft. You think that's right
Speaker 1: at the top of the board here for the Steelers, Oh,
Speaker 1: I absolutely do. Right. I'd go as far as saying
Speaker 1: I'd be pretty surprised if they don't walk out of
Speaker 1: here with the quarterback. Um. Given what we've seen um
Speaker 1: from the Steelers organization. They want stability at that position.
Speaker 1: You know, is a franchise that has been been, has
Speaker 1: had they been for much of the last two decades.
Speaker 1: Before that, they had Terry Bradshaw for over a decade.
Speaker 1: They want to have that stabilizer at the position. And
Speaker 1: you've heard Mike Tomlin talk about mobility there. Actually had
Speaker 1: a really good draft to have maybe a pick this
Speaker 1: is a draft where you probably don't want to take
Speaker 1: a quarterback in the top five or ten, but there's
Speaker 1: gonna be one of those four available at twenty, and
Speaker 1: probably multiple of those four. So you know, whether it's
Speaker 1: a Matt Corrall or or Desmond Ritter, I think those
Speaker 1: are probably the two of the names that are a
Speaker 1: little bit more realistic for them. I think Milick Willison's
Speaker 1: up going top ten. Um So, I was there at
Speaker 1: Matt Carroll's pro day with Mike Thomlins and nobody else,
Speaker 1: a coach or a scout spent more time talking to
Speaker 1: Corral than Mike Thomlins, and you could. You know, we
Speaker 1: all can make our conclusions on that. Maybe it means nothing,
Speaker 1: maybe it means something. But I did see value in
Speaker 1: that they, personally, him and Kevin Colbert wanted to go
Speaker 1: to all all the top pro days and wanted to
Speaker 1: do their due diligence here. So, um, I see that
Speaker 1: being their result there, and I think that makes sense.
Speaker 1: I did my little look through the a f C
Speaker 1: and you can legitimately put twelve out of the sixteen
Speaker 1: teams in the playoffs this year, and that's not even
Speaker 1: including the Steelers and so you have to look at
Speaker 1: a path not only this year, we're going forward. How
Speaker 1: are you going to consistently be a contender And it's
Speaker 1: not gonna be with mtro BISTI. So you're either gonna
Speaker 1: punt on this year and wait till next year, um,
Speaker 1: or you gotta make the plunge. And I do think
Speaker 1: they make the plunge at number twenty or even trade up.
Speaker 1: They have their their full lot mint of picks. If
Speaker 1: a Malik Willis or whoever they love falls there some
Speaker 1: more towards the back of the top ten or outside
Speaker 1: of the teams, why not see them make a trade
Speaker 1: up move. So I think this is the this is
Speaker 1: the move that we all anticipate, and I don't think
Speaker 1: it'll be a shock um on that Thursday of draft weekend. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that's fair, um. And look it's just a
Speaker 1: matter of you know, how does their quarterback board shake out?
Speaker 1: And if three are gone by twenty, do they really
Speaker 1: have a high enough grade on the fourth guy, you
Speaker 1: know to make him that twenty overall pick. You know,
Speaker 1: that's that's how you that's where it's hard to get
Speaker 1: inside a GM's head and really know how they value you. Know,
Speaker 1: those players at a position whereas you know, do they
Speaker 1: do they take the fourth best quarterback or you know,
Speaker 1: the fourth best edge rusher, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Those types of debates or some of the things that
Speaker 1: you have to weigh here at this point when you
Speaker 1: get into the twenties and beyond. Uh okay, and it's
Speaker 1: interest interesting, right real Briefly you hear all the BP
Speaker 1: a versus need conversations, right, but if you talk to
Speaker 1: people in the league, it's always best Yeah, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: always best player of the laiable unless all of a
Speaker 1: sudden the quarterbacks there and you know so, so I
Speaker 1: believe the best player available and less of quarterbacks involved
Speaker 1: and that and then the quarterback is almost never the
Speaker 1: best player available on the board. Yeah. Well, now last
Speaker 1: year you consider that, there's a different argument, But this
Speaker 1: year is kind of a unique class, you know for sure.
Speaker 1: But I think that's a that's a fair point. All right.
Speaker 1: That's the a f C North here for a roster
Speaker 1: reset series. Gonna take a quick break here on the
Speaker 1: NFL Side Report. Come right back with a look inside
Speaker 1: the a f C South back here with you on
Speaker 1: NFL Inside Report. Rett Lewis here with Cameron Wolf and
Speaker 1: Nick Shook, as we wrap up our Roster Reset series
Speaker 1: by taking a look at the a f C sal
Speaker 1: looking at offseason moves as we have done for all
Speaker 1: thirty two teams and draft needs as we are nearing
Speaker 1: the start of the NFL Draft live from Las Vegas April.
Speaker 1: And a reminder that you can read more on the
Speaker 1: Roster Reset series over on NFL dot com slash Roster Reset.
Speaker 1: In there you will find our good pal Nick Shook
Speaker 1: lending his brain and literary prowess to all of the
Speaker 1: teams in the a f C over on NFL dot Com.
Speaker 1: Of course, you could check out all of these angles
Speaker 1: as well this week on NFL Network. Okay, so we
Speaker 1: split up the teams here. Cam's gonna take the Titans
Speaker 1: and the Jags. Nick, you're taking the Colts in the
Speaker 1: Texans um and with that, then let's start with the Colts. Nick,
Speaker 1: team that had an opportunity, you know, to get into
Speaker 1: the playoffs in the final week of the regular season,
Speaker 1: but obviously just just completely fell apart. There. Carson Wentz
Speaker 1: is now gone. You got Matt Ryan coming in. What
Speaker 1: kind of great are we given the Colts? You know
Speaker 1: from a Colts fan perspective, it's like a home run.
Speaker 1: It's an A plus. But from my perspective, it's great
Speaker 1: that you replaced Carson Wentz with Matt Ryan, right because
Speaker 1: that's the upgrade you got rid of what Jimmy Ursay
Speaker 1: has not been very bashful about believing that, you know,
Speaker 1: was the problem. Carson Wentz was the issue. They realized
Speaker 1: they needed to move on the upgrade with a veteran
Speaker 1: who they know can step in right away and make
Speaker 1: a difference behind a solid offensive line. But my issue
Speaker 1: is is that I still see didn't need to see.
Speaker 1: You know, they're another playmaker too. You know, you got
Speaker 1: t Y Hilton Lingering out there. I don't know if
Speaker 1: it ends up being, you know, a reunion or not. Um,
Speaker 1: if you look at this receiver depth chart, you know
Speaker 1: Paris Campbell for my ald the monitor Savis of St.
Speaker 1: Mary and went to Ohio State. He's a burner, but
Speaker 1: he hasn't been able to stay healthy. So um, you
Speaker 1: don't have a ton to count on beyond Pittman in
Speaker 1: the receiving corps right now, and so you can you know,
Speaker 1: one of my biggest addition Slash signings was retaining mo
Speaker 1: Alei Cox because of what he brings that offense. But
Speaker 1: if that's in my top three, now, of course you
Speaker 1: have not got Yanniakua on the other side of the ball.
Speaker 1: But if that's your top three in terms of playmakers,
Speaker 1: I don't know. You have Jonathan Taylor and you got
Speaker 1: Nahem Hines, both two very good backs. Taylor one of
Speaker 1: the best backs in the league. I just need one
Speaker 1: more guy, um And so to to that point, it's
Speaker 1: like a B B plus somewhere in that range because
Speaker 1: if we compare with the grades we gave in the
Speaker 1: other division. You know, I gave the Browns B pluss
Speaker 1: because getting Watson potentially transforms their franchise. Matt Ryan doesn't
Speaker 1: have that much football left in him. Not saying he
Speaker 1: can't play well, because I think that he has been
Speaker 1: unfairly criticized for Atlanta struggles. I think he's been one
Speaker 1: of the brighter spots and otherwise dim last couple of
Speaker 1: years there. And I think he's gonna step in and
Speaker 1: do great and he's probably gonna be the guy that
Speaker 1: Carson couldn't be, which is the guy that can get
Speaker 1: into the playoffs. And you know, let's not forget five
Speaker 1: weeks left in the season. Last year, we were talking
Speaker 1: about the Colts is a potential super Bowl favorite before
Speaker 1: they ultimately missed the playoffs. Matt Ryan's gonna get them there.
Speaker 1: Do they have the strength otherwise? I don't know if
Speaker 1: that's if that's true at this point. Now, they can
Speaker 1: do pretty well and the draft, Chris Ballad loves to
Speaker 1: do that, but they gotta get a little bit better
Speaker 1: in terms of roster to this point. Right now it's incomplete,
Speaker 1: but it's pretty close to being complete. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: that's a that's a fair point. And look again, the
Speaker 1: Colts without a first round pick one of those eight
Speaker 1: teams as a result of the trade to acquire Carson Wentz,
Speaker 1: but they did get some of that capital back getting
Speaker 1: a second and third to send him off to the
Speaker 1: Washington Commanders. So we'll come back to the Colts on
Speaker 1: draft needs here just a little bit. But let's get
Speaker 1: to you Cam now on the Tennessee Titans, obviously a
Speaker 1: perennial contender these last few years with Mike vrabel as
Speaker 1: the head coach, to win this division and get into
Speaker 1: the post season as they did this last year. How
Speaker 1: do you feel the you know, obviously the receiver turnover
Speaker 1: was one of the big pieces of this offseason. How
Speaker 1: does that factory in your grade? Yeah, I'd probably give
Speaker 1: him a C. Honestly. Um, I think that, you know,
Speaker 1: you look at what we've talked about in the a
Speaker 1: f C and everything changing over. You get the Browns
Speaker 1: making their big move. You see all of these teams
Speaker 1: loading up the whole a f C West pre paying
Speaker 1: for an arms race, and the Titans just sort of
Speaker 1: stayed the same. And so you swap out Julio Jones
Speaker 1: for Robert Woods, which I think is an upgrade because
Speaker 1: you can't count Julio to stay healthy. So at the
Speaker 1: same point, you're got a sinking calls in the in
Speaker 1: the money situation for the dead cap situation for Julio. Um,
Speaker 1: so it limits what you can do going forward. UM.
Speaker 1: I did like to move to get Austin Hooper. Um.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe he bounced back to the Titan he was
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago. In a scheme that really
Speaker 1: prioritizes tight ends. They needed that tight end really since
Speaker 1: de Laney Walker left and so that should help as well.
Speaker 1: But I think they will need one more playmaker and
Speaker 1: they didn't do enough for me to upgrade that offensive line.
Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill was the second most sack quarterback in the league,
Speaker 1: only behind Joe Burrow, and the only really notable move
Speaker 1: they did was resigning Ben Jones their center, which I
Speaker 1: think was a good move. But they need to do
Speaker 1: more um on the offensive side of the ball to
Speaker 1: protect Ryan Tannehill, to create those lanes for Derrick Henry.
Speaker 1: I'm a big believer in their defense. I love them
Speaker 1: resigning Harold Landry. Some of the analytics sites were torn
Speaker 1: on whether or not he was a value there, but
Speaker 1: I think that the trio really the quartet of rushers
Speaker 1: with him, Jeffrey Simmons, de Nico Autree, but dupri Um
Speaker 1: is really what made the Titans the team they were
Speaker 1: down the stretch. So um. I think they'll be really
Speaker 1: good next year, but I think there will be still
Speaker 1: a natural step back because of all the ANFC teams
Speaker 1: and because I don't think they made a big enough
Speaker 1: step and the quarterback will always be the question is
Speaker 1: he good enough to lead you to where you need
Speaker 1: to be? I think the Sea is the right grade
Speaker 1: for them. Yeah, do you feel like the Titans have
Speaker 1: that answer with I don't know I don't. I know,
Speaker 1: I think they have that they're going to be stuck
Speaker 1: with him in his contract is guaranteed, so the check's
Speaker 1: gonna clear regardless. Um, But this is a team, and
Speaker 1: I know I've mentioned this a couple of times this offseason.
Speaker 1: Titans fans have gotten their feelings. But I wouldn't be
Speaker 1: shocked if they sat there at twenty nine and found
Speaker 1: a quarterback they loved they decided to go ahead and
Speaker 1: make the plunge, Like, you have to start thinking about
Speaker 1: the future. This is a a team that just gave
Speaker 1: extensions to both Mike Rabel and John Robinson, so you
Speaker 1: get a level of security, and when you have that
Speaker 1: level of security, you can start thinking long term rather
Speaker 1: than just now. So although this is a team that
Speaker 1: they're in their core window, they have to decide like
Speaker 1: how much do we sacrifice the now for the future.
Speaker 1: So I I definitely think they will evaluate quarterbacks now.
Speaker 1: This time might not be the right class, maybe they
Speaker 1: wait another year, but I think they are starting to
Speaker 1: get the realization that, hey, we have to prepare for
Speaker 1: life after Ryan Tannehill. Regardless of what they're saying publicly
Speaker 1: about how he's still there. Guy can't how many people
Speaker 1: how many people have gotten in your mentions about Ryan
Speaker 1: Tannehill and pointed to the fact that the Tight still
Speaker 1: managed to lock up the number one seed in the
Speaker 1: f C without Derrick Henry for the half. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying a bunch of a bunch of a bunch of people.
Speaker 1: Anytime I mentioned quarterback anywhere near the top of the draft,
Speaker 1: They're like, we're the one seed next year. We just
Speaker 1: need one more weapon, we need one more of this,
Speaker 1: And I'm like, on paper, yes, but football is not
Speaker 1: played that way, right everybody else catches up. So I
Speaker 1: was a big believer of the Titans last year. I
Speaker 1: was champion the boat when nobody cared about them. But
Speaker 1: I also understand the reality of how they play football.
Speaker 1: It's not it is not necessarily conducive for them to
Speaker 1: continue to win a lot of these shootout games like
Speaker 1: they did last year. So, um, when you lose a
Speaker 1: game in the a f C playoffs where you have
Speaker 1: nine sacks of Joe Burrow and the reason you lose
Speaker 1: this for your quarterback through three interceptions, to me is
Speaker 1: is the big the big you know, blinking lights that hey,
Speaker 1: we have to get better at this position. So I
Speaker 1: don't see them getting better immediately this year. But I
Speaker 1: do think they know deep in their hearts, even if
Speaker 1: they don't admit at the front office the head coach,
Speaker 1: they know that, hey, we're gonna eventually have to get
Speaker 1: an upgrade from bryan' sienna see here. And I thought
Speaker 1: Brown's aficionado Nick Shook was gonna level an opinion on
Speaker 1: Austin Hooper after a big contract with the Cleveland Browns
Speaker 1: to now join the Tennessee Titans. But perhaps you're right,
Speaker 1: Cam and he can get back to that form we
Speaker 1: saw his final year with the Atlanta Falcons. Okay, let's
Speaker 1: come back to you now, Nick, with a look at
Speaker 1: the Houston Texans who sent to Shawn Watson someone finally
Speaker 1: on his way out of town and into Cleveland. They
Speaker 1: get three first round picks in return, uh In, in
Speaker 1: addition to a little sugar in that deal as well,
Speaker 1: and now have two first round picks at three and
Speaker 1: number thirteen overall. So look, obviously that big subtraction is
Speaker 1: an addition and draft capital. How does that factory of
Speaker 1: your grade well for a team that was struggling to
Speaker 1: have any draft capital on the on the heels of
Speaker 1: the Bill of Brian Era. This is this is huge.
Speaker 1: This is how you jump started rebuild by getting a
Speaker 1: ton of capital at the top of the draft. They
Speaker 1: have to hit on those picks, of course, and you
Speaker 1: have to hope that Nick Kissirio does so. But you know, otherwise,
Speaker 1: the biggest move they made this off season was convincing
Speaker 1: Brandon Cooks to stick around, because they are still when
Speaker 1: you look at him on paper, they're still lacking in talent.
Speaker 1: You know, I closed this section of the roster reset
Speaker 1: with a list of positions that could still address and
Speaker 1: dot dot dot you get the drift. I mean, there's
Speaker 1: there's still a lot of holes to fill. But what
Speaker 1: it really does too is it takes away the constant
Speaker 1: questioning about Deshohn Watson, which will be a load off
Speaker 1: of you know, Nick kiss Ario, it will be a
Speaker 1: load off of Lovey Smith, something he won't have to
Speaker 1: deal with in his first season as the head coach there.
Speaker 1: And more importantly, it's got to help Davis Mills a
Speaker 1: little bit because he finished wrong down the stretch. They
Speaker 1: tuned out the noise. He was basically given the keys
Speaker 1: knowing that the season was headed nowhere and that the
Speaker 1: best thing they could do is help him develop. But
Speaker 1: now that we're going into this season, it seems the
Speaker 1: Texans believe in him, and though they haven't surrounded him
Speaker 1: with a ton of talent, keeping Cooks is a big
Speaker 1: part of it and it allows him to kind of
Speaker 1: take that next step. We all talk about year two
Speaker 1: jumps and how guys make this huge jump in the
Speaker 1: game slows down and everything. Davis Mills is in a
Speaker 1: pretty solid situation for that with all things considered. So
Speaker 1: I mean, grade wise, I don't know, you get maybe
Speaker 1: a C plus because you didn't do it and make
Speaker 1: a ton of splash moves. But that's not where they
Speaker 1: are right now. The road is long, you know, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I think I think that's a fair point too.
Speaker 1: And if an edge rusher is their choice at number three,
Speaker 1: you know, perhaps they come back with a wide receiver
Speaker 1: at thirteen. We'll dig into that here a little bit. Uh,
Speaker 1: But let's finish this up here, cam with a look
Speaker 1: at the Jacksonville Jaguars, who are drafting number one overall
Speaker 1: for the second straight year. Again. I'll get into those
Speaker 1: draft needs here in a moment, but in terms of
Speaker 1: other editions, they were out and spent with g M.
Speaker 1: Trent Balky on the first couple of days of the
Speaker 1: free agency frenzy. Kind of great. Does that get them? Yeah? Money, money, money, man.
Speaker 1: I wish, I wish I was someone I could interest
Speaker 1: in Jaguars and some services they're handing out money tex
Speaker 1: so so so initially when I first saw their free
Speaker 1: agency period, I was a little word about the value
Speaker 1: they gave out. But the more it sat on me,
Speaker 1: I realized just how far away this team is cons
Speaker 1: and then you have to overpay some people, and so
Speaker 1: I liked a lot of the moves they made, even
Speaker 1: if I didn't love the value. So I think overall,
Speaker 1: I give m a beat um because I think that
Speaker 1: this team was in desperate need of players. And so
Speaker 1: when you look at uh the the players they brought in.
Speaker 1: I really like a Darius Williams they brought in, which
Speaker 1: was an undercover um signing for them to help that
Speaker 1: cornerback position um and really shine there. I liked Evan
Speaker 1: ingram Um signing for them. UM. We really looked at
Speaker 1: how Doug Peterson used tight ends in Philly with Zach Ertz,
Speaker 1: with Dallas Godder, I see no reason why if everything
Speaker 1: works out that every Ingram can't be the Duvall version
Speaker 1: of zach Ertz. You know, there if he comes a
Speaker 1: little bit more reliable as a pass catcher. Um. So
Speaker 1: I like those moves. They made some really good splashing
Speaker 1: on defensive side of the ball. Obviously they have their
Speaker 1: first round pick. Um, I think this team will be
Speaker 1: uh noticeably better. I don't think they're they're close to
Speaker 1: being a playoff team, but I think you you get
Speaker 1: more talent, you get a grown up in the building
Speaker 1: running the program, and Doug Peterson and things should start
Speaker 1: building the right way. And so I like that they
Speaker 1: focused on building around Trevor this offseason and doing with
Speaker 1: their actions, but also building up the depth of their
Speaker 1: team because honestly, that team talent. Even with urban Meyer's dysfunction.
Speaker 1: They were talent wise the worst team in football last
Speaker 1: year too. So it's it's something be said about just
Speaker 1: simply adding talent, coaching up the guys you have, and
Speaker 1: seeing how it works. Yeah. Look at and I think
Speaker 1: a lot of people want to talk about, you know, overspending.
Speaker 1: Oh man, I can't believe you paid that much money
Speaker 1: for Christian Kirk. Well, look, everybody overpays the free agency.
Speaker 1: That's just that's just the cost of doing business. And
Speaker 1: so when you need to plug holes like that in
Speaker 1: free agency, you're going to spend that kind of money.
Speaker 1: That's just the way it is. And so that's why
Speaker 1: teams would prefer to build through the traffic or cost
Speaker 1: effective and where players are under you know, a bit
Speaker 1: more cost control. So, um, that's just the way the
Speaker 1: NFL a us here at this point. So let's get
Speaker 1: to the draft then, and Nick, let's come back. Um, well,
Speaker 1: actually you know what, Camp, let's just continue right there
Speaker 1: with the Jacks because they leave this thing off here
Speaker 1: at number one overall for a second straight year. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, we've we've kind of gone back and forth
Speaker 1: on tackle or edge rusher there number one overall. I
Speaker 1: can make a case for both, how do you see it?
Speaker 1: So I am of the opinion they should still go
Speaker 1: offensive tackle. And so I know that the board is
Speaker 1: shifted more towards the Aiden Hutchinson and more recently seeing
Speaker 1: some Trayvon Walker buzz uh, which I'm just not on
Speaker 1: board with. But that's just me personally. Um, But I
Speaker 1: I just feel feel this whole off season was about
Speaker 1: building for for Trevor and so if that's your most
Speaker 1: important piece, that's your franchise piece, I wouldn't let the
Speaker 1: bad decisions the franchise. Cam Robinson, uh changed the jurch
Speaker 1: trajectory of my franchise decision. So whether it's Evan Neil,
Speaker 1: whether it's Ikey from North Carolina State, UM, I don't
Speaker 1: see you going wrong there with that number one pick.
Speaker 1: Slot him in at left tackle if you need to
Speaker 1: put him at guard for one one year while you
Speaker 1: have Cam Robinson there. Cool. But I don't think any
Speaker 1: team has ever been disappointed on building their offensive line
Speaker 1: around a quarterback, and we've seen it um year year again,
Speaker 1: particularly recently, the value of having a competent offensive line.
Speaker 1: So I just and ultimately, I obviously don't think the
Speaker 1: drop off when you talk about drop off from the
Speaker 1: edge rusher class from the top of the first round,
Speaker 1: top of the second round, I think that's a lot
Speaker 1: smaller than the drop off of the offensive tackle class.
Speaker 1: So you go get one of the top offensive linement
Speaker 1: at one, and you come back there at thirty three
Speaker 1: and maybe a guy like a David and Joe who
Speaker 1: was still sitting there, or a boy a ma Fe
Speaker 1: someone in that realm and they can get you get
Speaker 1: you that edge rush ability that you need. So um,
Speaker 1: that would be the route. Eye go. Yeah, that's interesting
Speaker 1: because you know people want to say, well, they just
Speaker 1: franchise tag Cam, you know Cam Robinson. Again, well yes,
Speaker 1: but that's good for one year unless they worked on
Speaker 1: a long term deal with which it doesn't you know,
Speaker 1: doesn't seem like that's something that's a huge priority here
Speaker 1: at this point. And so if he ends up leaving
Speaker 1: after this next season, well then you've got another potential
Speaker 1: replacement there at left tackle, along with a guy like
Speaker 1: Walker Little, who they drafted last year on Day two. Um. Okay,
Speaker 1: so yeah, that's that's the case for the Jacks. But
Speaker 1: I also wouldn't be shocked if Aton Hutchinson is the pick.
Speaker 1: Like I called this thing a yard drive straight down
Speaker 1: the fairway at TPC Sawgrass, Like it's just one that
Speaker 1: can't miss. He's he's the safest player in the draft.
Speaker 1: So I could definitely see it from that perspective as well. Nick,
Speaker 1: let's go to the Texans, who are sitting right there
Speaker 1: at number three overall and also at thirteen. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: if if you know Davis Mills is our guy, as
Speaker 1: love Smith has said, are these picks about supporting him? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I feel like this isn't the draft to replace Davis
Speaker 1: Mills with somebody. Let's give him another year and and
Speaker 1: and address the many other needs elsewhere. And I think,
Speaker 1: you know, in this class, and we just came just
Speaker 1: talked about the depth of edge rusher being one of
Speaker 1: those positions. I think it's came on Timoda. I think
Speaker 1: that's the guy that you bring in to to put
Speaker 1: on a defensive front that needs that kind of impact player.
Speaker 1: You know, Whitney Merciless moved on last year. You you've
Speaker 1: lost you know J. J. Watt two years ago, you
Speaker 1: know before last season as well. You need to restocked
Speaker 1: that with some young talent that's kind of a big
Speaker 1: name as well. I mean, like we said before, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of areas they could go. They have a
Speaker 1: ton of needs, but I think at that top selection
Speaker 1: you go with probably the second best edge rusher in
Speaker 1: this class. And then you know, fortunately for them, they
Speaker 1: have a franchise left tackle and Laramy Tunsel who's getting
Speaker 1: you know, better with each year and and is getting
Speaker 1: paid like it, so they don't necessarily need to go
Speaker 1: to that position. To address it, I think they could
Speaker 1: go best player available, as you guys said, you know,
Speaker 1: it's always best player available. I think that's gonna end
Speaker 1: up being Tibodeau, who Tiboda was a guy we were
Speaker 1: talking about, you know, maybe a year or two ago,
Speaker 1: as being number one in the draft before Hudgerson rose.
Speaker 1: And so I think you get that out of that.
Speaker 1: And yeah, though it seems like a player that to me,
Speaker 1: you get the overthought up of players in this draft. Yes,
Speaker 1: because they've been in the class for so long, we've
Speaker 1: heard their name. You start picking at them, picking at them,
Speaker 1: picking at him, Well, well, he doesn't have the character
Speaker 1: or the personality of the maturity. Sometimes doos this ball?
Speaker 1: I remember what they did that to Justin Herbert and
Speaker 1: look at it now. So to meet Cavon Thibodeau is
Speaker 1: going to be one of those guys. A year or
Speaker 1: two from now, we're gonna wonder why did he go
Speaker 1: why didn't he go one? Why did he go you know,
Speaker 1: as low as he did, and just it's gonna seem foolish. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And to that point, you know, Tibodeau has been getting
Speaker 1: picked apart since he was a high school sophomore at
Speaker 1: Dorsey in l A. Before he even transferred a Christian,
Speaker 1: before he chose ore again. And then he's been getting
Speaker 1: picked apart because he said it chose Oregon because of
Speaker 1: the business opportunities, because he was thinking, you know, beyond college,
Speaker 1: because of the Nike branding and everything else. Um, he's
Speaker 1: gonna be a good player. It's really hard to argue otherwise.
Speaker 1: The motor question, I guess is there. I think once
Speaker 1: against the NFL, he's gonna prove everybody wrong. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: certainly could be. And if you know, if that's the pick,
Speaker 1: what if edge rushers go one and two? Um, you know,
Speaker 1: is Cavon Thibodeau the highest guy on the board at
Speaker 1: that point, or for Nick Kissarrio, do one of those
Speaker 1: top two tackles if you have your choice of Evan
Speaker 1: Neil or Ricky A Kwandu there? Does Nick Asserio have
Speaker 1: them slotted just ahead of Cavon? It? But I think
Speaker 1: will be the ultimate, um you know, decision point there
Speaker 1: for Cassio. And look, I'm just tell any of if
Speaker 1: Garrett Wilson or if Drake London or is available there
Speaker 1: at thirteen, I don't think they will be Jamison Williams
Speaker 1: might be. There's a lot to think about there. From
Speaker 1: the wide receiver spot at thirteen overall for the Texas,
Speaker 1: you can get a lot of value with the position.
Speaker 1: You know, always draft especially there, So I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: you can't go wrong at thirteen. There's they really shouldn't
Speaker 1: fret about that at thirteen at all. No, exactly right,
Speaker 1: exactly right. It's a great spot to be in there
Speaker 1: for for that team. All right, let's move back to
Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans here, Cam, who pick at twenty six
Speaker 1: overall in the first round. Where do you see that going?
Speaker 1: Is that? Is that another? Is that an offensive line thing?
Speaker 1: As you mentioned, one of the one of the perhaps
Speaker 1: you know areas where they were a little light in
Speaker 1: terms of offseason acquisitions. Yeah, I think this makes a
Speaker 1: lot of sense for offensive line. I think it's got
Speaker 1: to be on the offensive side of the ball. You
Speaker 1: either go get you a top playmaker that you love,
Speaker 1: or you're got to get offensive linement that secure protection
Speaker 1: for them. So they're picking two six, so they're a
Speaker 1: little lower in the draft. You're probably gonna be looking
Speaker 1: through your end of your first round grade some second
Speaker 1: round grades there. Um, this is a lot of times
Speaker 1: where you gotta decide, hey, do you want to take
Speaker 1: a little bit of a project offensive tackle or do
Speaker 1: you take a guard and you know your positional value there.
Speaker 1: I mentioned his name earlier, but ken Yan Green is
Speaker 1: a guy that I think they like a lot. He
Speaker 1: could fill a guard spot for them. You take a
Speaker 1: guard there in the late second round at late first
Speaker 1: round if he's available. I don't see any issue with that.
Speaker 1: We're standing what guards are getting paid these days and
Speaker 1: free agency. That position is no longer a luxury position.
Speaker 1: That's becoming a premium position going forward. So I can
Speaker 1: definitely see them pulling the trigger there. You know, maybe
Speaker 1: a guy like a Bernard Raymond from Central Michigan if
Speaker 1: you wanted to take you know that type of player. Uh,
Speaker 1: in the late rounds there. They try with Isaiah Wilson
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago. It didn't work out, but
Speaker 1: they need somebody to feel that right tackle spot. It's
Speaker 1: been a revolving door um there as well, and I'd
Speaker 1: love to see them with another a fun playmaker if
Speaker 1: the offensive lignement is not there. Um, you know, if
Speaker 1: Traylon Burke's is there at twenty six imagine him and
Speaker 1: him A J. Brown and Robert Woods all on the
Speaker 1: field together. Uh, that would be. That would be that
Speaker 1: would make the Titans offense fun for the first time
Speaker 1: in a long time. So I can imagine that. And
Speaker 1: guys couldn't load the box up for Derrick Hemery anymore.
Speaker 1: So that would be that would be a fun pick
Speaker 1: for for me to see if if it was an
Speaker 1: offensive line, I think, um, in terms of offensive line,
Speaker 1: their opinion on Dylan Ratings, their second round pick last year,
Speaker 1: will probably factor into that choice. There does he does
Speaker 1: he finally does he slide in? Um, you know, at
Speaker 1: right tackle? I think I think it will be one
Speaker 1: of those decision points. Yeah, what he got, Kim, And
Speaker 1: so I'm Dylan Ratings. I actually talked to a couple
Speaker 1: of their coaches this offseason, and the general consensus I
Speaker 1: got was they felt like he wasn't ready to be
Speaker 1: penciled in as a starter yet, and so they were like, hey,
Speaker 1: this is a challenge to him prove us wrong. This
Speaker 1: officas improved that you can take one of those starters spots.
Speaker 1: But they said, as of what they've seen for so far,
Speaker 1: he still needs some development. So you know, I think
Speaker 1: a lot of these. You're probably not gonna find a
Speaker 1: rookie who's gonna be super developed there at either, So
Speaker 1: they're probably in a in a rock and a hard place.
Speaker 1: But I don't know if they're going in saying Dylan
Speaker 1: Radans is for sure a starter for us. So, UM,
Speaker 1: a lot more questions at that spot. If you remember,
Speaker 1: they end up releasing what's the guard's name, the veteran
Speaker 1: guard that they Roger Safe, Yeah, Roger Saffle. So that's
Speaker 1: another spot that needs to be filled as well. So, um,
Speaker 1: most offensive line spots. Maybe Dylan Radings fills one, but
Speaker 1: I definitely think they need to still still go get
Speaker 1: another one. Yeah. By the way, Kenyan Green's played all
Speaker 1: over the offensive line for Texas A and M, so
Speaker 1: you know, not just to guard, even though that might
Speaker 1: be what he's best suited for at the next level,
Speaker 1: you know, could help as a as a versatile piece
Speaker 1: as well. Let's finish this off here. Nick Shook, with
Speaker 1: the team without a first round pick in this division,
Speaker 1: that is, the Indianapolis Cold Tool, joined the party as
Speaker 1: it currently stands now with the tenth pick of the
Speaker 1: second round forty two overall. What do you got there
Speaker 1: for Chris Ballard to the Colts. Yeah, there's about thirty
Speaker 1: one picks in between their second and third round pick,
Speaker 1: so you know, you don't have a ton of luxury
Speaker 1: in terms of, well, let's play the situation this way.
Speaker 1: Let's get this b p A here, and then maybe
Speaker 1: we address a need lower down. They got to basically,
Speaker 1: you know, identify I think, you know a mix between
Speaker 1: best player available and needs. And if you look at
Speaker 1: them on paper, this is probably the first time the
Speaker 1: last five years maybe where you look at their offensive
Speaker 1: line and you think that's not as solid as I
Speaker 1: thought it was. Um, there's there's some questions that left tackle.
Speaker 1: There was a question of left tackle last year before
Speaker 1: they brought on Eric Fisher and and that you know
Speaker 1: they didn't quite get the return from that that they expected.
Speaker 1: Right guard is interesting. Mark Lewinski has gone, you've taken
Speaker 1: that old starting five and and kind of chopped it
Speaker 1: down to the remaining three. So I think there's some
Speaker 1: questions there. We've talked about receiver already. The fact that
Speaker 1: they're picking in the second round, you think about the
Speaker 1: depth of the draft. Receiver is a very deep position.
Speaker 1: They don't really need any edge rushing help, not after
Speaker 1: they went out and gotten gok Way impaired him with
Speaker 1: quidty pay. So that's one of the other deeper positions
Speaker 1: that's already addressed. My other big need for them cornerback.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you look at them on paper as well,
Speaker 1: you know, you get rid of Gisin, who I don't
Speaker 1: think lived up the expectations they had for him, which
Speaker 1: is part of why they were convinced to trade him. Um,
Speaker 1: the departure of him leaves a little bit of a
Speaker 1: hole they Brandy Brandon faces, and but you know, I
Speaker 1: think they could stand to add there as well. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, they had a nice little pro bowler and
Speaker 1: Kenny Moore, who is your slot corner. I don't think
Speaker 1: he ends up kicking out, so I think he's best
Speaker 1: suited to stay at the slot corner and then we
Speaker 1: kind of move from there. Again, the lack of a
Speaker 1: first round pick is gonna hurt them a little bit.
Speaker 1: If I had to guess they go receiver just because
Speaker 1: of the depth of the class. There are many ways
Speaker 1: they could go. It's not a talent poor team, but
Speaker 1: they do have a few holes that they still need
Speaker 1: to fill. Yeah, it is kind of interesting because it
Speaker 1: does seem like holes that premier positions left tackle, um,
Speaker 1: you know, cornerback, these are these are positions that teams
Speaker 1: go out and spend a lot of money on, or
Speaker 1: go out and spend a lot of draft resources on. Camp. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I actually have a quick question if I could just
Speaker 1: listen to you with the Colts, and I'm curious what
Speaker 1: the national perspective would be, but do you view the
Speaker 1: close edition of Matt Ryan has enough to get them
Speaker 1: over the Titans? Are they still with the holes of
Speaker 1: some of the holes you mentioned Nick's short That's a
Speaker 1: good question. I would say yes, uh quick answer, yes.
Speaker 1: You know, you could kind of delve into some of
Speaker 1: the potential pitfalls and weaknesses of this team, but out
Speaker 1: of right now, I would say yes, because that was
Speaker 1: their biggest weakness. They didn't lose a ton of guys
Speaker 1: this offseason. They did make additions and they certainly upgraded
Speaker 1: at quarterback. And the thing I liked the most about
Speaker 1: the addition to Matt Ryan is the fact that he's
Speaker 1: got experience. I mean, he's not named nicknamed Maddie Ice
Speaker 1: for just no reason. I mean, the guy knows how
Speaker 1: to play under pressure and He's stepping into a situation
Speaker 1: that hasn't been this good for him since he was
Speaker 1: leading the Falcons to the Super Bowl. So I think
Speaker 1: he is enough. But if I want to consider them
Speaker 1: a legitimate contender beyond the a f C South to
Speaker 1: get deep into the a f C playoffs, They're still
Speaker 1: gonna need to add somebody else. Great point and conversation
Speaker 1: full of them right there with Cameron Wolf and Nick Shook,
Speaker 1: setting a straight on the a f C North in
Speaker 1: the a f C South, and finishing up our Roster
Speaker 1: Reset series. Thanks very much, fellas. All Right, that's gonna
Speaker 1: do it for this episode of NFL Inside Report. Thanks
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