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Speaker 1: NFL dot Com. Bucky, former NFL scout, has his mock
Speaker 1: dre part three point oh up on NFL dot com
Speaker 1: and I thought we would take a look at that
Speaker 1: and see what Bucky now has. When did that post
Speaker 1: that posted on March twenty nine, which would have been yesterday,
Speaker 1: So this was this was pretty fresh. Nice, let's go. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's let's roll into what Bucky thinks will happen in
Speaker 1: the draft. He has a side note yourself might pursued it.
Speaker 1: And I also all just put out our mock draft,
Speaker 1: so you can check that out on that will come
Speaker 1: out on the Friday April that's April Fool's Day. And well,
Speaker 1: my draft look pretty fools. Yeah. Uh, he has Aidan
Speaker 1: Hutchinson going at number one to Jacksonville. I think that's
Speaker 1: starting to become the consensus now. It absolutely is. And
Speaker 1: I hadn't thought of this angle until my co host
Speaker 1: on the Peacock and Williamson podcast brought it up. And
Speaker 1: Peacock is a Niners guy who lived through the tread
Speaker 1: bulky era, and he said, yeah, I think this Hutchinson
Speaker 1: Touchinson thing is close to setting stone. But the only
Speaker 1: thing Alkie really doesn't like his short armed guys. And
Speaker 1: he thought maybe a Travon Walker might get the edge
Speaker 1: just because he's freakier, you know, dimension wise. I'm just
Speaker 1: throwing it out there, but I think Hutchinson is going
Speaker 1: to be the pick. Yeah, I don't disagree. Um, he
Speaker 1: has actually Treyvon Walker going to the Detroit Lions, so
Speaker 1: that I think he's definitely be a top five guy.
Speaker 1: At three, he has the Texans taking Cavon thibodeaute edge
Speaker 1: rushers one to three. Yeah, I think that's possible. Three
Speaker 1: of my first four in the mock or edge and
Speaker 1: by no means he's at a slight on the tackles.
Speaker 1: It's just once and it is a deep position. But man,
Speaker 1: those guys are all high quality prospects. I look at
Speaker 1: the Jets and Texans in particular as defensive schemes that
Speaker 1: don't want to blitz a lot. So if it's corner
Speaker 1: or tackle versus edge, I think you go you if
Speaker 1: you're those teams. Yeah. At four, he has the Jets
Speaker 1: taking Sauce Gardner the cornerback out of Cincinnati. I mean
Speaker 1: that for those first three edge are gone, You're not
Speaker 1: gonna probably go four in a row there. That's kind
Speaker 1: of changed, you know, from from previous from like a
Speaker 1: month ago, pre combine, there are a lot of those
Speaker 1: had three offensive tackles with those tops or Hamilton's and
Speaker 1: the top. Yeah, now it's those guys at five years
Speaker 1: the Giants taking Evan Neil real quick. I think Mel
Speaker 1: put out a mock. Somebody on ESPN had London going four.
Speaker 1: That supposedly the Jets are in love with London. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm sure they could get him with their second pick. Yeah,
Speaker 1: with I would think so. Yeah, I just want to
Speaker 1: throw that out. There's a possibility though. Uh so at
Speaker 1: five years the Giants taking Evan Neil. I think you'd
Speaker 1: be thrilled with that if you're the Giants, if you
Speaker 1: get your choice between Kuana and Neil, like, okay, great.
Speaker 1: Speaking of Kuana, he has him going at six to
Speaker 1: the Panthers. Yeah, see that. That's interesting to me in
Speaker 1: that I think there's a high percentage chance that Willis
Speaker 1: are actually more likely pick. It ends up at six
Speaker 1: to the Panthers. But can you take them over at
Speaker 1: Kwanu or deal? Right? Where do you take him over across?
Speaker 1: And I don't know I can take him over the
Speaker 1: other two? Then if you're the Panthers, you just wait
Speaker 1: until you get down in the second round you need
Speaker 1: to take Sam. How well, that's the wrench. They don't
Speaker 1: pick again until the fourth Oh they don't pick Oh yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I think they're a team, they've been very aggressive. It
Speaker 1: would not surprise me if Slash when Baker Mayfield is released,
Speaker 1: he winds up with being a Carolina Panther. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean I can see that too. I also think that's
Speaker 1: a potential landing spot for Jimmy. Yeah. At seven, he
Speaker 1: has a Giant's taking Jermaine Johnson, the add rushia out
Speaker 1: of Florida state. So at least I've seen that, but
Speaker 1: makes some sense with them flying off the board already
Speaker 1: have a tackle. Yeah. At eight, he has the Falcons
Speaker 1: taking Garrett Wilson, the wide receiver out of Ohio state. See,
Speaker 1: that's what I would do too. I mean Atlanta and
Speaker 1: Seattle picks next, right, Yes, I think their rosters are
Speaker 1: so awful that they may be in the first overall
Speaker 1: conversation a year from now that instead of reaching for
Speaker 1: a picket or even a Willis, I want to be
Speaker 1: in the market for next year's better version. And I
Speaker 1: know that's risky. I mean that was Spencer Rattlers you'd
Speaker 1: like to bring up, you know, a year ago. But
Speaker 1: I think I I can't imagine throwing Willis or pick
Speaker 1: It into the awful situation that Atlanta and Seattle are
Speaker 1: right now and this Wilson pick, is there a position
Speaker 1: group and the whole league worse than the Falcon's white
Speaker 1: out right now? That would be a no. I'm the
Speaker 1: Kekiss or whatever his name is. Is there one? Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're they're they're in bad shape there. You could consider
Speaker 1: Kyle Pitsy wide receivers and these factors that no doubt. Uh.
Speaker 1: At nine, he has the Seahawks taking devn Lloyd. That's
Speaker 1: a Seahawk type move. I mean, Waer's gone, Okay, I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess I understand the logic. At ten, the Jets
Speaker 1: then get Kyle Hamilton's follows all the way to ten.
Speaker 1: When I did my mock, I had the Jets take
Speaker 1: an edge guy maybe it was Thibodeaux, and Hamilton's and
Speaker 1: Stingley were both available, and I was really torn what
Speaker 1: I would do there, and then I said, Washington take
Speaker 1: the other. Yeah. Well put like let's say, let's say
Speaker 1: Kyle Hamilton's has a he slips in the draft, kind
Speaker 1: of like Derwin James did all the way that he.
Speaker 1: Derwin James went for. People don't remember at seventeen in
Speaker 1: his draft, did you see Hamilton's time at Notre Dame.
Speaker 1: Supposedly they were even worse than the Combine. Yeah for me, yeah, um,
Speaker 1: would you consider if you're the Steelers will move up
Speaker 1: to go get Kyle Hamilton's Let me rephrase that, would
Speaker 1: you give up today end of March? Would you give
Speaker 1: up the Steelers third and number twenty for Hamilton's and
Speaker 1: considering their needs? I'd hate to be that invested in
Speaker 1: a safety, but boy, he's worth it. I mean he's yeah,
Speaker 1: he's a really good football player. You know. Uh, the
Speaker 1: defense would be pretty awesome. It just wouldn't be It's Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just think that would be interesting. Somebody asked me
Speaker 1: that in my chat the other day, and like, would
Speaker 1: you would you consider? How where would Kyle Hamilton's have
Speaker 1: to fall before you consider trading up for him? I'm like,
Speaker 1: it would have to be at Derwin James like situation
Speaker 1: where he's okay, you get past fifteen and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden he's still there and you're like, this guy
Speaker 1: is too good to still be there, right, I mean that,
Speaker 1: No way am I giving up next year's first. I
Speaker 1: don't know if I can give up a second even
Speaker 1: this year, but if I only have to move up
Speaker 1: three spots, four spots, you know, and I can give
Speaker 1: you this year's third or maybe next year or third
Speaker 1: on top of that, then I'm interested, you know. I'm
Speaker 1: just I'm looking here on on obviously on the NFL
Speaker 1: dot com site, and they have a picture here of
Speaker 1: Kyle Hamilton's at the Notre Dame pro Day standing next
Speaker 1: to Steve Smith. No wow, and he's a full head
Speaker 1: taller than Steve Smith. Like it's he's a big, big dude. Um. Yeah.
Speaker 1: At eleven, he has the Washington Commanders taking Derek Stingley. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's kind of what I said. I was torn between
Speaker 1: Hamilton and Stingley, and then if I'm Washington, I would
Speaker 1: saying the other. Yeah. At twelve, the Vikings take Andrew Booth.
Speaker 1: These corners. I'm shocked at McDuffie's not the three yeah,
Speaker 1: because he seems to be climbing up boards like crazy.
Speaker 1: But I'm getting the impression that three corners will absolutely
Speaker 1: be gone by twenty and maybe Booth, I mean there
Speaker 1: might be four off the board before it could be
Speaker 1: could be. At thirteen, the Texans then take Drake London. Sure,
Speaker 1: I mean the Texans are the easiest, hardest, seemed to
Speaker 1: mock for in the league. What do you think they
Speaker 1: could take whatever? They could use guys everywhere. There's nothing
Speaker 1: they couldn't do right. At fourteen, the Ravens take Trent McDuffie.
Speaker 1: I think he's a Raven Steeler like guy. It's a
Speaker 1: lot tough, you know, that makes perfect. You could do
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff with him. At fifteen, the Eagles
Speaker 1: take Crystal Love. I'm fine with that. I would just
Speaker 1: prefer a bigger body if I were them. He's a
Speaker 1: little too much like Devontae Smith and de Vontae Smith
Speaker 1: and the Love a don't block anybody and they run
Speaker 1: the ball of time. Yeah, YEA qualm with that. Just
Speaker 1: a style of receiver there. At sixteen, he has the
Speaker 1: Eagles taking Kyler Gordon, the other Washington cornerback. That's the
Speaker 1: earliest I've seen Gordon go. Yeah. Yeah, I don't like
Speaker 1: him quite as much as I cold on him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and his combine wasn't great and he's fine. He's a
Speaker 1: second pounder to me. Yeah. It's seventeen. The Chargers get
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Speaker 1: I mean they don't need a left tackle, but so
Speaker 1: what they need a tackle and that's last all. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you can play him there. At eighteen, the Saints take
Speaker 1: Trevor Penning. Yeah. I would think they can't pass on
Speaker 1: if Cross or Penning is there for them. I think
Speaker 1: they run up to get their Armstead replacement. Yeah. At nineteen,
Speaker 1: the Eagles stake Tyler Linder bamb Yeah. I mean Kelsey
Speaker 1: is only there for one more year. Dickerson is going
Speaker 1: to be a guard, which sounds like is the case
Speaker 1: certainly this year with Kelsey there, lender bombs like the
Speaker 1: closest thing to Kelsey there is. Yeah, it makes no
Speaker 1: sense that brings us the twenty. I wouldn't be thrilled
Speaker 1: if I was an Eagles fan and I left the
Speaker 1: draft with a lave A Gordon and Linder bomb, though, No,
Speaker 1: I would not either, like you got you're waiting there
Speaker 1: for three you got three premium picks in the Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's twenty. He has the Steelers taking Johan Dotson. I
Speaker 1: bet they like him a lot. I like him a lot.
Speaker 1: I just bet I like twenty players more. Well. That
Speaker 1: would be passing on Jordan Davis. Steeler fans would go
Speaker 1: curray see if that happened. Yeah, yeah, that's definitely one
Speaker 1: of them that would be in my top twenty. And
Speaker 1: I don't think Dotson would be, but yeah, he's he's
Speaker 1: in that range. Yeah, yeah, I think he's a good
Speaker 1: player at one. The Patriots take Roger McCreary cornerback out
Speaker 1: of off the sixth corner the fifth because elm was
Speaker 1: the one still out there. But yeah, man, that's a
Speaker 1: run on corners to say the least. I think there
Speaker 1: could be. My latest mock draft I did for Steelers
Speaker 1: dot Com, I had a run on corners in the
Speaker 1: first round, and I could definitely see it happening because
Speaker 1: everybody needs coverage. Guys. Yeah, I didn't have McCreery or
Speaker 1: Gordon going, but I had Elim going to the Bengals.
Speaker 1: I had Yeah, I had Elim in the first tround.
Speaker 1: It's twenty two. The Packers stake Bernard Raymond. That's the
Speaker 1: one that I mocked to them too. I mean, receivers
Speaker 1: are gone, their lines not fixed. Yeah. Right. At twenty three,
Speaker 1: the Cardinals then take Jordan Davis. I can't believe you'd
Speaker 1: last that long, but I mean the league prefers corners
Speaker 1: the noses. We know that, right, absolutely absolutely. Twenty four,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys steak Bowie a Mafe Okay, I mean over
Speaker 1: car Loftus. I guess would be a question, but they
Speaker 1: need it. I think they're either gonna take someone on
Speaker 1: the V line or someone on the old line. Yeah,
Speaker 1: um could have he could have put this guy with
Speaker 1: the with the Cowboys, but he didn't. He has the
Speaker 1: Bills taking Zion Johnson. Yeah. It's funny because we're the
Speaker 1: last two picks Cardinals, Cowboys, Bills. Yeah. I thought Zion
Speaker 1: is gonna be one of those three picks and I'm
Speaker 1: going to the Cardinals. When I did it at twenty six,
Speaker 1: he has the Titans taking Kenyan Green. That's fine. I
Speaker 1: hadn't taken the Tulsa kid. He fits their mold though
Speaker 1: they like the big, you know, brawling offensive lineman Reduce,
Speaker 1: who they took last year, doesn't really fit their mold.
Speaker 1: He doesn't know, you're right. The Bucks take Davante, Wyatt,
Speaker 1: Boy Richard and Richard there. Yeah. Um, I've had Steeler
Speaker 1: fans asked me about him, and I don't know that.
Speaker 1: I don't know that if he fits their defense. I
Speaker 1: know he's a little older, and he's not six five. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's already he's already twenty four years old. He's like
Speaker 1: three months younger than Isaiah louder Milk. M Um, you know,
Speaker 1: but he's smaller. He's not you know, at in size,
Speaker 1: but he's not. He's not a defensive lineman that they've
Speaker 1: drafted bold right, Yeah. Is he that special to go
Speaker 1: off the path, off the tracks for? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, at some point I'm gonna put that together
Speaker 1: my top twenty. If I was through the Steeler's eyes,
Speaker 1: I bet he'd be outside of it. Yeah, I agree,
Speaker 1: like I'd take McDuffie over him. Well, here's some Now
Speaker 1: we're getting some real surprises here from Buckey. It's twenty eight.
Speaker 1: He has the Packers taking Christian Watson. I've heard some
Speaker 1: first round buzz I mean big and fast, and then
Speaker 1: man does have some drop issues like he does. I
Speaker 1: guess what surprises me isn't the fact that the Packers
Speaker 1: would take a receiver late but it's not Burkes. It's
Speaker 1: not Burks. Yeah, there's there's another receiver off the board
Speaker 1: at twenty nine, and it's not Burkes. At twenty nine,
Speaker 1: the Chiefs take sky More. I bet they like Scutt More.
Speaker 1: I Steeler fans hoping that the Steelers can get sky
Speaker 1: More in the second round. I just don't see it happening. Chance,
Speaker 1: I don't see it happening. I mean, I'm not taking
Speaker 1: sky More twenty but you're not getting him at fifty two.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I don't think he's come to stay at
Speaker 1: home fellas. But I find that Chiefs and Packers very
Speaker 1: interesting in that they both just trade away stud receivers
Speaker 1: they both know have two first round picks in the
Speaker 1: same neighborhood. You know, after twenty and they got to
Speaker 1: take wide receivers and I'm not sure what's available. You know,
Speaker 1: I don't think the Lava gets that far. I mean
Speaker 1: I think Dotson has a chance too, but you know,
Speaker 1: New England and some of these teams are can swipe
Speaker 1: receivers ahead of them too. At thirty with their second
Speaker 1: first round pick, Bucky Brooks says, the Chiefs taking the
Speaker 1: same guy I had him taking in our mock draft
Speaker 1: on the Friday, Dax Hill. They do like when you
Speaker 1: made that pick, I was like, that makes a lot
Speaker 1: of sense. I mean even thorn Hill has a corner background,
Speaker 1: and they like these versatile, do it all safeties. I mean,
Speaker 1: the Honey Badger is the obvious one, but they have
Speaker 1: several examples of guys that could do some corner, can
Speaker 1: play some man. I bet they like Hill a lot. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and they could even try him at corner if they
Speaker 1: don't sign something. Oh yeah, he's certainly athletic enough to Yeah.
Speaker 1: At thirty one is the Bengals taking Logan Hall, the
Speaker 1: defensive end out of Houston. They like the big Carlos
Speaker 1: stun Lap sized ends. He can do that. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: gonna As I mentioned before, I'd eat them going there.
Speaker 1: I mean, folks, I don't think it's a slam dunk
Speaker 1: that that's an offensive lineman anymore. No, they've signed three.
Speaker 1: I don't think they're in the offensive line market now.
Speaker 1: I think it's a defensive player. And at thirty two
Speaker 1: of the Lions finish off the first round by taking
Speaker 1: Arnold Epiquette, So correct me if I'm wrong. He has
Speaker 1: zero quarterbacks? No quarterbacks? Wow, I mean Epicchetty is worth
Speaker 1: that pick. I mean didn't have Karl Loftus though he had. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Karl Loftus not in the first round. Okay, car Off
Speaker 1: is not in the first round. And no quarterbacks in
Speaker 1: the first round. Yeah, those are no Burkes in the
Speaker 1: first round. Interesting, there's some different names in that first round.
Speaker 1: And again, I can't stress this enough. I think once
Speaker 1: you get past those first dozen or so picks, there's
Speaker 1: sixty guys that could be in those spots. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're gonna have similar grades. Um, it's just how how
Speaker 1: my where are teams going to slot the quarterbacks in
Speaker 1: this draft? And I think it was I don't have
Speaker 1: a good feel for it. I think it was great
Speaker 1: cosl when we had him on at the Combine said
Speaker 1: that there really should be consider two different drafts, the
Speaker 1: quarterback draft and then the rest of the draft. And
Speaker 1: this this really makes I mean that's the case this year,
Speaker 1: more so than any other draft that I can remember. Like,
Speaker 1: I don't know where these I don't know where these
Speaker 1: quarterbacks are gonna go. I don't have any feel for it.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think too to Lions is off
Speaker 1: the table. And I don't think the fact that zero
Speaker 1: going to first rounds off the table. I mean that's
Speaker 1: such a contradiction to say. And even if Pickett and
Speaker 1: Willis are gone, they're the only first rounders. I still
Speaker 1: think there's gonna be a lot of chatter or Thursday
Speaker 1: night when round one's done. Boy, I want to get
Speaker 1: up there to get Ritter or how or Corral or whoever,
Speaker 1: you know. Like, yeah, I don't know what to make
Speaker 1: of this rookie class of where we go. I can't
Speaker 1: get a feel and I'm not gonna stand on the
Speaker 1: table one way or another for it. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: we've got another three four weeks before that all takes place.
Speaker 1: But it's it's very intriguing. I mean, I go back
Speaker 1: and forth, you know, people ask me all the time
Speaker 1: or Steeve is gonna take a quarterback? I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, I mean I think they could. You know,
Speaker 1: do they love this guy? Do they love that guy?
Speaker 1: They've gone to all the pro days. You know, they've
Speaker 1: had dinner with all these guys, They've they're definitely interested
Speaker 1: in the quarterback. Mike Tomlin says that the combine they'll
Speaker 1: probably draft a quarterback, but I don't know that it
Speaker 1: would be in the first round. Um. You know, just
Speaker 1: because you speed date though, doesn't mean you fall in love. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And in this situation, you know, if if, for example,
Speaker 1: if they passed on Johan Dotson instead of taking him
Speaker 1: as they did in this draft, because of all the
Speaker 1: receivers that went ahead of them, like there, the receiver
Speaker 1: position might be pretty well picked over in the second
Speaker 1: by the time they get the sky Mores and Watson's
Speaker 1: are gone. You know, right now, I think that they
Speaker 1: I think I do think they like George Pickens, but
Speaker 1: I think a lot of teams like George Pickens. You know,
Speaker 1: there's again, there's no guarantee you're gonna get those guys
Speaker 1: down at fifty two. No, No, I mean this is
Speaker 1: a bigger project. But I would be interested in who
Speaker 1: my top fifty two are because you'll probably get number forty,
Speaker 1: number forty two or something like that. But I bet
Speaker 1: I can come up with fifty two names that I've
Speaker 1: been pretty happy with it too. Two or three defensive tackles,
Speaker 1: you know that question. Yeah, absolutely, But that was Bucky
Speaker 1: Brooks mock draft on NFL dot Com. Um, we'll do
Speaker 1: Bucky though he went outside the box a little bit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll do another mock draft on Friday. See how that
Speaker 1: comes out for us when we come back on Friday show. Um,
Speaker 1: we'll see where where that goes for us. But that's
Speaker 1: going to do it for today's show. So for my
Speaker 1: partner Matt Williamson, I'm Dale Lally. We appreciate you listening
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