WEBVTT - The OTP: Draft Roundtable

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<v Speaker 1>been protecting Tennessee and since nineteen forty seven, Mike Keith

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<v Speaker 1>and Amy Wells with our Titans radio draft duo of

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<v Speaker 1>Rhett Bryan and coach Dave McGinnis, let's dive right into

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<v Speaker 1>some of the big draft topics. Recently, I went to

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<v Speaker 1>a wedding in Florida, and going through the Jacksonville Airport,

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<v Speaker 1>I saw the murals on the wall of all the

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<v Speaker 1>current Jags players and the Garner Menshew mural picture whatever.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean. It is funny because they put so much

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<v Speaker 1>in the mustache and Garner Menshew and whatever. But here's

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<v Speaker 1>the thing, Ratt, they needed somebody to hang their hat on.

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<v Speaker 1>And as somebody who's worked for an NFL team for

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<v Speaker 1>twenty three years and having had to go out and

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<v Speaker 1>sell two and fourteen and three and thirteen and four

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<v Speaker 1>and twelve, you're hanging your hat on whomever you have.

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<v Speaker 1>So I don't blame them for wanting to put Gardner

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<v Speaker 1>Minshew up in the Jacksonville Airport I get it. The

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<v Speaker 1>fact of the matter is what I'm getting to is

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<v Speaker 1>Gardner Minshew's coming down pretty quick. Oh yeah, he may

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<v Speaker 1>turn him into a Gardner. Yes, Gardner Minshew is coming

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<v Speaker 1>down and everything. It's gonna be Trevor Lawrence, everything, even

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<v Speaker 1>the James Robinson's you saw in there, it's down. He

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<v Speaker 1>is going to be the face of this franchise from

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<v Speaker 1>the start of their franchise. He now becomes the biggest

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<v Speaker 1>name they've ever had. Yeah. Ever, and I'm talking about

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<v Speaker 1>Brunelle and Jimmy Smith and Freddie Taylor and Maurice Jones. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>because they've never had the number one pick to take

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<v Speaker 1>up and they've never had this kind of dude. Right,

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<v Speaker 1>do you think he's ready for that? I think the

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<v Speaker 1>thing that he may not be ready for is losing.

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<v Speaker 1>That's the thing I'd be concerned with. Because the young

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<v Speaker 1>man lost three games in high school and two in college.

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<v Speaker 1>That's it. Yeah, five losses between high school and college.

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<v Speaker 1>And then you're going to a place that you come here,

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<v Speaker 1>come here, you're okay, Well, let me flip it around

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<v Speaker 1>in a different way for coach. Is it a good

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<v Speaker 1>thing than that? He has been a prodigy since he

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<v Speaker 1>was fourteen years old walking into this situation. Ali Tiger

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<v Speaker 1>Woods or Peyton Manning or somebody of that ilk Lebron James.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, you're talking about people who are built this way,

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<v Speaker 1>who are supposed to be this great, and then because

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<v Speaker 1>they've been prodigies, maybe they handle it better. Well, he

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<v Speaker 1>will handle it better. Okay, we'll handle it better. And

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<v Speaker 1>here's the other thing that'll happen too. They have positioned

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<v Speaker 1>themselves because they've been so bad for so long, with

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<v Speaker 1>so many top draft choices they still have, they will

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<v Speaker 1>put better people around him. It's gonna be it's gonna

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<v Speaker 1>be very competitive. Troy Aikman. When Jimmy took Troy Aikman,

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<v Speaker 1>they went one in fifteen. That first year Troy had

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<v Speaker 1>been at Oklahoma, he'd been at UCLA, he'd been used

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<v Speaker 1>to win in a lot of games. They were really bad,

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<v Speaker 1>really bad, but then they got really good because of him,

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<v Speaker 1>and they added people at people around him. So here's

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<v Speaker 1>what I'm saying. You've got to have that piece in

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<v Speaker 1>the National Football League. You've got to have that dude,

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<v Speaker 1>You've got to have a quarterback. Because you've heard me

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<v Speaker 1>say it before. If you don't have a quarterback. You've

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<v Speaker 1>got a highly paid rugby team, you've got to have

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<v Speaker 1>a quarterback, and now they've got him one. Yeah. But

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<v Speaker 1>here's the thing with the prodigy kind of analogy that

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<v Speaker 1>Mike was talking about. He's also had a tremendous amount

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<v Speaker 1>of consistency to go along with those wins. I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>he had the same high school coach all the way through,

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<v Speaker 1>same college coach all the way through. He's walking into

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<v Speaker 1>an organization now that is experiencing what we'll call a

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<v Speaker 1>little bit of a transition. I mean, a full new

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<v Speaker 1>coaching staff. They've got a lot of different moving parts

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<v Speaker 1>that are moving around. And in the NFL, you don't

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<v Speaker 1>have that same level of consistency. You don't have guys

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<v Speaker 1>around you for four years just because you're all the

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<v Speaker 1>same age. You don't have coaches staying. Even if you

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<v Speaker 1>are successful. Coaches change, there's so many things that change.

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<v Speaker 1>And with all of the expectations that are being put

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<v Speaker 1>on this young kid, now, is there a chance that

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<v Speaker 1>he's going to be a little on his left foot

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<v Speaker 1>for a while. I think it's possible, And you can't

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<v Speaker 1>just ride on his past record and what he's done

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<v Speaker 1>before hasn't been great. Yes, he's also been surrounded by

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of stability that he's not going to have anymore.

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<v Speaker 1>I want him on his left foot, it's great points.

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<v Speaker 1>I want him on his left foot twice a year.

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<v Speaker 1>I want him on his butt twice a year. I

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<v Speaker 1>don't want him on either foot. I second all of

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<v Speaker 1>those things. So we'll talk later this week on the

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<v Speaker 1>OTP with Frank Frangie, the voice of the Jacksonville Jaguars,

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<v Speaker 1>to discuss exactly what Trevor Lawrence is going to mean

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<v Speaker 1>to this franchise. I think that'll be some good conversation.

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<v Speaker 1>But right now, I want to talk of receivers. Dave McGinnis,

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<v Speaker 1>why has Jamar Chase emerged as the number one wide

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<v Speaker 1>receiver in the twenty twenty one NFL Draft. He possesses

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<v Speaker 1>every trait that you want right now in a receiver.

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<v Speaker 1>First of all, let's just get to his physical traits.

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<v Speaker 1>He's a physical dude. Not extremely tall, but he's physical.

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<v Speaker 1>He's a combat catcher. He's great at the glance in

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<v Speaker 1>the quick slants that are so prevalent now because he

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<v Speaker 1>can catch it, he can run through a second level.

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<v Speaker 1>He can also take the top off of it. When

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<v Speaker 1>he needs to, he can get on top of defensive backs.

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<v Speaker 1>And he's a competitive dude, because most of your catches

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<v Speaker 1>down the National Football League their combat catches, and you've

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<v Speaker 1>got to have those kind of guys. He's got all

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<v Speaker 1>the requisite skills that it takes, and he's produced over

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<v Speaker 1>a period of time. He is the number one receiver

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<v Speaker 1>in my humble opinion, in this draft. And I'll give

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<v Speaker 1>you some of the numbers to back up what coach

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<v Speaker 1>Mack is saying, because while his speed isn't Tyreek Hill,

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<v Speaker 1>he's still pretty quick. It comes down to his play strength.

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<v Speaker 1>When he's hand fighting with those dbs, he's a bully.

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<v Speaker 1>He's physical. His run after a catch ability it's impressive.

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<v Speaker 1>It's a J. Brownlike and he has that long speed,

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<v Speaker 1>like he said, to take the top off the defense

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<v Speaker 1>and to go with all that, a sick vertical leap

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<v Speaker 1>for those combat catches forty one inches. The contested catches

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<v Speaker 1>are usually his, and the production is there. Twenty one

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<v Speaker 1>game started at LSU opted out in twenty twenty twenty

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<v Speaker 1>three receiving touchdowns. I got a scenario for you, play

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<v Speaker 1>a little game here. See what the three of you

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<v Speaker 1>think of this scenario. The Atlanta Falcons are scheduled to

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<v Speaker 1>pick at number four. Many people think they are going

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<v Speaker 1>to take Kyle Pitts, the tight end from Florida. Here's

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<v Speaker 1>my scenario. Tell me what you think. I say they

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<v Speaker 1>take Jamar Chase and then they think about making a

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<v Speaker 1>post June one cut of Julio Jones and saving the money. Well,

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<v Speaker 1>you think, coach, they could do that. They absolutely could

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<v Speaker 1>do that. I mean, that's not that's not far fetched,

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<v Speaker 1>and you know, for real reasons, and they're in they've

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<v Speaker 1>got money issues. Oh yeah, I mean our good friend

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<v Speaker 1>Arthur Smith has got money issues down there. They do,

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<v Speaker 1>that's not far fetched. Mike Keith, I propose another scenario,

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<v Speaker 1>two different scenarios. One they take panasul as the tackle

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<v Speaker 1>to tackle from Oregon to protect Matt Ryan going forward.

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<v Speaker 1>But the one I think they really do, and the

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<v Speaker 1>money trouble comes into this is trading down and trading

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<v Speaker 1>down into the round somewhere in the low twenties before

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<v Speaker 1>you get to the Titans, but certainly before you get

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<v Speaker 1>to the Pittsburgh Steelers at twenty four. And you if

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<v Speaker 1>you're Arthur Smith and you can talk Terry Fontno into

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<v Speaker 1>doing this. You get yourself a guy like Naja Harris

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<v Speaker 1>to duplicate some of what you've done here as an

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<v Speaker 1>offensive coordinator with Derek Henry as a running back in

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<v Speaker 1>this thing, because you don't have a runner. You need

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<v Speaker 1>a running back in this thing. You still have some receivers,

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<v Speaker 1>but you need a running back. I think that your

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<v Speaker 1>scenario with the Falcons going after Jamar Chase makes a

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<v Speaker 1>ton of sense because of the financial component and the

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<v Speaker 1>Julio Jones think they were not happy with him last year. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>it was not not happy with how he handled twenty twenty.

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<v Speaker 1>So just a theory. Are you you're the next scenario question?

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<v Speaker 1>All right? For the draft duo Ratt, We're starting with you.

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<v Speaker 1>Who are your three three favorite edge rushers. I'm gonna

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<v Speaker 1>give you guys that are I think value picks on down.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not talking first round here, and there's some guys

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<v Speaker 1>I really like. One of them who is going to

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<v Speaker 1>be a name that'll be called early on night two

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<v Speaker 1>on Friday Night in the second round is Carlos Boogie

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<v Speaker 1>Basham from Wake Forest. Boogie fifteen quarterback sacks, seven force

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<v Speaker 1>fumbles over his last two years at Wake Forest. He

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<v Speaker 1>has explosion measurables in this thing. He ran a four

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<v Speaker 1>six four forty at his pro day at two hundred

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<v Speaker 1>and seventy four pounds, and the reason I bring that

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<v Speaker 1>up since the year two thousand, defensive lineman weighing more

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<v Speaker 1>than two hundred and seventy pounds and running a sub

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<v Speaker 1>four seventy forty include Miles Garrett, Everson Griffin, justin Houston,

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<v Speaker 1>Mario Williams, and the best defender in the game, Aaron Donald. Well,

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<v Speaker 1>those are good players. So he's number one. Give us

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<v Speaker 1>two more. Peyton Turner. He's in treeing prospect out of Houston,

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<v Speaker 1>and this is young man. He put on weight a

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<v Speaker 1>year ago to try to take on a role as

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<v Speaker 1>a bigger defensive lineman. Too sluggish, too much, dropped down

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<v Speaker 1>to two seventy, and he is an enormous human being.

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<v Speaker 1>At six to five, has an eighty five inch wingspan,

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<v Speaker 1>thirty five and a half inch vertical leap. Did an

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<v Speaker 1>impressive six point seven seconds in his three cone drill

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<v Speaker 1>twenty three reps at two twenty five, showing explosion and

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<v Speaker 1>short area quickness. He's developmental, but he is an athlete

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<v Speaker 1>big time and the last one is a young man

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<v Speaker 1>from Lifonia, Georgia like Kevin Bayard. And this man is

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<v Speaker 1>Jordan Smith a B. And he was one of the

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<v Speaker 1>guys that got in trouble in Florida, committed there and

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<v Speaker 1>had a credit card scandal fraud deal, went to Butler

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<v Speaker 1>Community College in Kansas and tore it up there, then

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<v Speaker 1>transferred to U A B. Four forced fumbles in fourteen games,

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<v Speaker 1>thirteen starts, First team all. I mean, he's just gotten

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<v Speaker 1>numbers all over the place. Good motor, good burst. He

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<v Speaker 1>could stand to add some functional strength in his lowers

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<v Speaker 1>because he has a huge guy at six six, two

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<v Speaker 1>hundred and fifty whatever pounds. I like all three of

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<v Speaker 1>those guys, but Carlos Boogie Basham leads the way. Mac

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<v Speaker 1>the most pure pass rusher. Now again, I'm not talking

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<v Speaker 1>about anything off the field. I'm not talking about medicals.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not drafting players any more. I'm just watching traits

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<v Speaker 1>on film. Okay, okay. Jalen Phillips, he's a complete pass rusher.

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<v Speaker 1>He's got counter moves, he understands how to set people up.

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<v Speaker 1>He can he can rush the passer. If you're asking

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<v Speaker 1>me who can rush the passer in this draft, just

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<v Speaker 1>pure pass rusher. I like Jalen Phillips. Now, was he

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<v Speaker 1>the young man who started at use in La and

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<v Speaker 1>then transferred to Miame of Florida. Yes, okay, yes, and

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<v Speaker 1>so he's got other issues. But as I said, I'm

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<v Speaker 1>not involved in issues. I'm just involved in traits. Go

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<v Speaker 1>hit the quarterback, yeah, and that okay. I like Joe

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<v Speaker 1>Tryon from Washington. This is a bigger guy six five,

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<v Speaker 1>two hundred and sixty one pounds. Now, he needs technical work,

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<v Speaker 1>but he has got size coming off the edge, and

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<v Speaker 1>he can go speed to power. He's got some bend

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<v Speaker 1>to him, but he can also I think once he'd learned,

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<v Speaker 1>and I say technical work, he needs to learn how

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<v Speaker 1>to how to you know, how to how to step,

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<v Speaker 1>how to come off lower, all of those things that

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<v Speaker 1>are that are real, you know, either learned traits or

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<v Speaker 1>they're taught traits. But I like what he brings. Here's

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<v Speaker 1>a guy that's not big but that just knows how

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<v Speaker 1>to go get the quarterback. Is from Georgia. I just

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<v Speaker 1>like the way he plays. He plays with a lot

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<v Speaker 1>of motor. He's not tall, but he plays long. He's

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<v Speaker 1>got a good reach, he's got long reach and he

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<v Speaker 1>understands you know how to go, how to go get

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<v Speaker 1>to a spot. And so those are three They're entirely three,

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<v Speaker 1>entirely different guys, but those are the three l I

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<v Speaker 1>want to ask a question about the three cone drill,

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<v Speaker 1>because as we hear bench press, forty yard dash, all

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<v Speaker 1>the different the vertical jump, the broad jump, all that stuff.

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<v Speaker 1>As I've talked to football people and tried to learn

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<v Speaker 1>things over the year, the three cone drill is the

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<v Speaker 1>one that has consistently been something that has pointed out

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<v Speaker 1>to me as maybe the most telling test of athleticism.

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<v Speaker 1>Coach mac, what is the three cone drill? Where did

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<v Speaker 1>it come from? And why is it so important in

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<v Speaker 1>evaluating athleticism. First of all, the three co drill, the

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<v Speaker 1>cones are set up and you've got to go around

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<v Speaker 1>a series of three cones. You cannot touch the cones.

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<v Speaker 1>And I'm gonna go back and say, we know who

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<v Speaker 1>started it. It was c Obra cop long time oilers,

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<v Speaker 1>Tight and Scout. You know, one of a really dear

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<v Speaker 1>friend of all of us, really good friend of mine.

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<v Speaker 1>Knew him for years. God bless rest his soul. But

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<v Speaker 1>what it does, first of all, you hear me all

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<v Speaker 1>the time talk about that that gumby bend. Can you bend?

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<v Speaker 1>Can you bend? Off the inside? And it shows you that.

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<v Speaker 1>Now this is for all positions, shows lower body flex. Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>it also it also shows balance and then if you

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<v Speaker 1>if if they set it up and run it correctly,

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<v Speaker 1>c O used to get I've been to I can't

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<v Speaker 1>count the number of pro days I've been to a

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<v Speaker 1>CEO at different colleges. And if they had the three

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<v Speaker 1>cone drills set up with cones that were too tall.

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<v Speaker 1>He didn't like those little baby cones that look like

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<v Speaker 1>the pup cup that you get when you go through

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<v Speaker 1>Starbucks right now, he didn't didn't like that. And okay,

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<v Speaker 1>they had to be they had to be the medium

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<v Speaker 1>sized cone because the bigger cones, okay, because if you

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<v Speaker 1>touch the cone, then the drill started over, all right,

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<v Speaker 1>So he wanted the medium sized cones. And then he

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<v Speaker 1>wanted them he wanted them set up, you know, in

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<v Speaker 1>a precise manner so that you were running not only

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<v Speaker 1>ninety degree angles, you were running forty five degree turns there.

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<v Speaker 1>And there's a lot to it and what it shows

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<v Speaker 1>you is and a good measure for it a skilled guy.

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<v Speaker 1>If you've got a skilled guy that's running under seven

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<v Speaker 1>seconds on the three cone, you got a dude. It

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<v Speaker 1>doesn't mean he can play football, but at least you've

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<v Speaker 1>got to do this. Got some lower body flex and

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<v Speaker 1>can can change directions and can also stay in continuous motion.

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<v Speaker 1>The game of football is a real short burst game.

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<v Speaker 1>It's a short burst game, but it's got to be

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<v Speaker 1>short burst in continuous motion. You don't start stop a

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<v Speaker 1>lot in football, you just don't you know, you start

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<v Speaker 1>stopping basketball, you stop a lot in baseball, you don't.

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<v Speaker 1>You know. Football, Once you get an explosive movement, then

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<v Speaker 1>you've got to keep continually moving. And it's a lower

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<v Speaker 1>body game. What you surety? I mean, got these mister

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<v Speaker 1>Americas out there and they can't play dead on the

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<v Speaker 1>football field. And he got some dudes who I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>you see those guys with those lower bodies, and you

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, you'd like to see the athletic upper body

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<v Speaker 1>guys too. Don't get me wrong, but it's a game

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<v Speaker 1>of legs. Well, because it's again it's a short burst game, right,

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<v Speaker 1>it's a it's a game of leverage, and it's a

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<v Speaker 1>game of flexibility. You know, it's what it is. And

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<v Speaker 1>then it's a game of when you get in space,

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<v Speaker 1>not only in space. I mean we could go over

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<v Speaker 1>this forever, but it's a game of length. It's a

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<v Speaker 1>game of length. I mean you've got to have you

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<v Speaker 1>got to have length as a defensive front player to

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<v Speaker 1>be able to separate because you got to get off

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<v Speaker 1>quick and then be able to move. You need length

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<v Speaker 1>on the edges offensively, and then you need length to

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<v Speaker 1>be able to win one on one downfield. So that's

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<v Speaker 1>the three cone drill. But c O Brocado, who in

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<v Speaker 1>my mind should be in the Hall of Fame for

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<v Speaker 1>what he did for scouting in the National Football League,

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<v Speaker 1>that was his drill. But he if you ever went

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<v Speaker 1>to a school workout with Ceo, you did not touch

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<v Speaker 1>the three cone drill because he would dog cush you.

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<v Speaker 1>In a second, yes he wouldn't. Yeah, And so that's

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<v Speaker 1>the three cone drill. Who is the player that is

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<v Speaker 1>going to go higher in this draft. Then he is

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<v Speaker 1>currently being projected in mock drafts in the days leading

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<v Speaker 1>up to the twenty twenty one NFL Draft. Zaven Collins

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<v Speaker 1>from Tulsa, who the more you look at him, I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>here's here's a kid that is even bigger now. I

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<v Speaker 1>think his last day was two seventy. He was two

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<v Speaker 1>fifty at Tulsa. But this is a space athlete. We

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<v Speaker 1>talk about space athletes, we talk about guys that have

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<v Speaker 1>those those movement numbers. He's from Hominy, Oklahoma. So anybody

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<v Speaker 1>here could pinpoint Hominy on a map. I'll give you

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<v Speaker 1>five hundred dollar right now, and it's clear up in

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<v Speaker 1>the northern part by eleven people in town. There'll be

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<v Speaker 1>ten when he leaves. But this guy, this guy is

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<v Speaker 1>an athlete. He is an athlete, and he is he's

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<v Speaker 1>in today's football what you need because at that type

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<v Speaker 1>of weight, I mean, he can play on the edge

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<v Speaker 1>in a three four, you can move him around. I

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<v Speaker 1>mean he is a he is a lot like if

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<v Speaker 1>you want to stand him up behind the line, Tremaine Edmonds.

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<v Speaker 1>He's like six nine, he's got a wingspan, but he

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<v Speaker 1>can play in space, right, he can play in space.

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<v Speaker 1>But he's got the physical size and length. And because

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<v Speaker 1>he played at Tulsa, which you know, you know, not

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<v Speaker 1>any disrespect to the Golden Hurricanes, but it's not a

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<v Speaker 1>power of five school. And so what who he's played

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<v Speaker 1>against now he's had some nice games against some Power

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<v Speaker 1>of five schools, but I think that the more we

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<v Speaker 1>get to it, and again, I you know, I've talked

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<v Speaker 1>several you know, people involved in draft rooms, and I

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<v Speaker 1>don't ask him specific questions because it's not fair because

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<v Speaker 1>I wouldn't tell him if I was met doing that.

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<v Speaker 1>So I know better than what to not ask. But

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<v Speaker 1>the talk around him is and when you just start

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<v Speaker 1>looking at him and what the game is today. Defensively,

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<v Speaker 1>he's a nice piece rat. I'm gonna give you three

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<v Speaker 1>guys that are moving up the board, and not necessarily

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<v Speaker 1>on nine one, but one is Javonte Williams, the power

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<v Speaker 1>running back from North Carolina. I think he's the third

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<v Speaker 1>running back taken in this draft. And I don't you know,

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<v Speaker 1>some mocks even show him, you know, bottom of the

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<v Speaker 1>first round. Don't know that that happens. But he is

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<v Speaker 1>a low, built to the ground, solid rock dude five nine,

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<v Speaker 1>two hundred and twelve pounds who is a power rusher

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<v Speaker 1>in this thing. Okay. The other is a guy who

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<v Speaker 1>has an interesting story. He's a Louisiana native. He originally

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<v Speaker 1>committed to LSU, got in trouble there, transferred to Kentucky,

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<v Speaker 1>had one year as a starter, and that's Kelvin Joseph

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<v Speaker 1>at cornerback. And this guy had an incredible Pro Day

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<v Speaker 1>and has production in the one year. There are some

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<v Speaker 1>scouts that think he has a first round grade had

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<v Speaker 1>he not had the off field issues in this thing.

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<v Speaker 1>He's a guy that's gonna rise on night too. And

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<v Speaker 1>then the third one is an obvious one, and that's

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<v Speaker 1>Davis Mills, the quarterback from Stanford, and Davis is a

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<v Speaker 1>season and a half starters, a bad knee that I

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<v Speaker 1>don't know about the medicals on this thing, but he's

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<v Speaker 1>a Georgian native who played at Stanford, and he starts

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<v Speaker 1>the next tier of quarterbacks after the five that we

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<v Speaker 1>think will be taken in the first round. All Right,

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<v Speaker 1>Rhett seems to know the depth of this draft really well.

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<v Speaker 1>So let me give you another one. If we're assuming

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<v Speaker 1>Patrick certain is the first cornerback to come off of

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<v Speaker 1>the board, who do we think is the second? Right?

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<v Speaker 1>I think if you're asking coach Mack the same question,

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<v Speaker 1>he and I are going to have the same answer,

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<v Speaker 1>and that would be JC Horn from South Carolina. He

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<v Speaker 1>is just a shade over six feet two hundred and

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<v Speaker 1>five pounds. All of his measurables, including a forty one

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<v Speaker 1>and a half inch vertical and a broad jump of

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<v Speaker 1>eleven plus feet at his pro day, are in the

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<v Speaker 1>ninety sixth percentile of cornerbacks in draft evaluation. Big physical,

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<v Speaker 1>long guy, thirty three inch long arms, who is just

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<v Speaker 1>a super physical guy. Like a lot of young corners

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<v Speaker 1>coming out. He's a bit two, sticky and grabby. I

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<v Speaker 1>think he's got some things to work on that. But

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<v Speaker 1>if Sir Tan is gone and I'm a team that

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<v Speaker 1>wants a next cornerback, it's Jac Horn from South Carolina. Yes,

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<v Speaker 1>I mean that, what's true? I mean it is now.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean we get into the Caleb Farley, you know conversation,

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<v Speaker 1>but we're talking about the Virginia Tech. Yeah, we're talking

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<v Speaker 1>about the draft now. If you want a healthy dude

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<v Speaker 1>right now, it's JC Horn. And the best thing that

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<v Speaker 1>he does. Red has gone through a lot of his traits,

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<v Speaker 1>but the best thing that he does we talk about

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<v Speaker 1>these combat catchers. He is tremendous at the catch point

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<v Speaker 1>because he's got the vertical, he's got the length, and

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<v Speaker 1>he's got he can stay in phase. He's an in

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<v Speaker 1>phase corner. There are some corners that are ketchup corners,

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<v Speaker 1>there are some corners that are immediate jump corners, and

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<v Speaker 1>then there are some in phase corners. This is an

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<v Speaker 1>in phase dude that is really good at the catch point.

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<v Speaker 1>So third corner taken? Is it Caleb Farley from Virginia Tech?

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<v Speaker 1>Or is it Greg Newsoon from Northwestern? Am I drafting? Yes? Yes,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm taking Greg Newsom from Northwestern. You're worried about the

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<v Speaker 1>back I am again. I dropped out of medical school

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<v Speaker 1>after once a year because it was way too easy.

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<v Speaker 1>But this, you know, Caleb Farley is a wonderful prospect

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<v Speaker 1>from what I know. Again, as I said, I don't

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<v Speaker 1>do medicals anymore, I'm not ding. But this is not

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<v Speaker 1>the only issue he's had. He's got a little history.

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<v Speaker 1>But Newsom has a history too. Yes he does. Newsom

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<v Speaker 1>miss thirteen games over three years, but he's still he

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<v Speaker 1>has not had anything this recent. Okay, in my mind,

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<v Speaker 1>there's a little bit of lack of production with Greg

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<v Speaker 1>Newsom in terms of what he had one pick in college,

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<v Speaker 1>that's it. One an interception. Man. He played great this year,

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<v Speaker 1>he really did. And the Caleb Farley thing is interesting.

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<v Speaker 1>Because he had the micro dissected me on his back.

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<v Speaker 1>He's supposed to be cleared by July. I think he

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<v Speaker 1>got some good medical news. You know, Indianapolis de oh

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<v Speaker 1>a couple of three weeks ago. But he's an athlete.

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<v Speaker 1>This guy's a former high school quarterback through twenty one

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<v Speaker 1>touchdowns and ran for thirty some odd more in his

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<v Speaker 1>senior year and you know, committed as a wide out

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<v Speaker 1>then moved to cornerback. He's got physical traits, it's just

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<v Speaker 1>the health because he's missed some stuff with the back

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<v Speaker 1>before he opted out in twenty twenty. How much of

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<v Speaker 1>an impact more than maybe in previous years, is a

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<v Speaker 1>medical report or previous injuries going to have on this

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<v Speaker 1>draft because so many teams need their drafted players to

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<v Speaker 1>play right now, Mac, is that going to have a

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<v Speaker 1>bigger impact than typically it would? It's always had an impact,

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<v Speaker 1>And it's a it's a relevant question because I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>we're sitting here right now with a great example of

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<v Speaker 1>a guy that you know, the our general manager, John

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<v Speaker 1>Drives had the foresight to take and the patients, with

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<v Speaker 1>the coach and staff to wait on. That is very

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<v Speaker 1>much worth it. But I think that you have to

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<v Speaker 1>know exactly what that. Now, if people know more about

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<v Speaker 1>Farley than I do, that says this is nothing that

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<v Speaker 1>are deep down and they know, well, then that's the dude, okay,

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<v Speaker 1>or if you're willing to wait on him a little bit,

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<v Speaker 1>but what you say brings up a point. And here's

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<v Speaker 1>the other thing too. This draft class is the most

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<v Speaker 1>unusual for a long time because this is the fewest

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<v Speaker 1>eyes these players have ever had on him in person,

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<v Speaker 1>the fewest eyes ever in person. And so to me,

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<v Speaker 1>the more health that you can get, the earlier that

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<v Speaker 1>you can get it is going to be important. So

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<v Speaker 1>what is the surest thing in the twenty twenty one

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<v Speaker 1>NFL Draft? Mac slam dunk, no question, surest thing? Coupit? Okay, Wow,

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<v Speaker 1>Florida tight end. He's not a tight end. He's a

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<v Speaker 1>mismatch monster beast. He will line up anywhere that they

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<v Speaker 1>want to whoever gets him. This guy is that. And

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<v Speaker 1>I can't help but look at the draft as a

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<v Speaker 1>defensive coach because that's what I was and his you know,

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<v Speaker 1>m at heart, you think about the matchup nightmares that

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<v Speaker 1>he's going to cause defensive coaches because this is a

0:24:04.640 --> 0:24:07.040
<v Speaker 1>guy with an I mean RT's got all his numbers

0:24:07.040 --> 0:24:10.160
<v Speaker 1>Retz and numbers guy this year, but he's got the

0:24:10.160 --> 0:24:13.199
<v Speaker 1>wingspan that this guy has. You talk about combat catches,

0:24:13.240 --> 0:24:16.920
<v Speaker 1>but he can run. He's combative. He could line up removed.

0:24:17.240 --> 0:24:19.200
<v Speaker 1>If you're gonna go three by one and have him

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<v Speaker 1>the single guy by himself over on the other side

0:24:22.480 --> 0:24:24.720
<v Speaker 1>where you're either going to demand single coverage or be

0:24:24.760 --> 0:24:28.159
<v Speaker 1>able to get roll coverage. This guy cow pits. The

0:24:28.200 --> 0:24:31.560
<v Speaker 1>interesting thing about Kyle Pitts is when people have done

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<v Speaker 1>the comparables of him to former players, former prospects. The

0:24:37.200 --> 0:24:40.960
<v Speaker 1>comparable that I've seen the most is Megatron is Calvin Johnson,

0:24:41.320 --> 0:24:44.400
<v Speaker 1>who was not a tight end, who was a extremely

0:24:44.520 --> 0:24:48.600
<v Speaker 1>large wide receiver who ran four four ish, and I

0:24:48.680 --> 0:24:52.000
<v Speaker 1>found that fascinating. How good was Megatron? He was okay, Yeah,

0:24:52.040 --> 0:24:54.360
<v Speaker 1>he was fine, he was fair. Yeah, So to me,

0:24:54.520 --> 0:24:57.920
<v Speaker 1>that's a and I've seen him compared to tonygan Zalez, right,

0:24:58.240 --> 0:25:01.120
<v Speaker 1>just because of tight end, But I think the Megatron

0:25:01.440 --> 0:25:05.439
<v Speaker 1>is a more fair comparison. Mike Rhet, who's your suriest thing.

0:25:05.600 --> 0:25:09.399
<v Speaker 1>I'll answer it like Coach Mack. Yes, it's Kyle Pitts.

0:25:09.720 --> 0:25:12.720
<v Speaker 1>Coach Mack taught us all there's the draft, and then

0:25:12.720 --> 0:25:15.119
<v Speaker 1>there's the quarterback draft. He's the best player in this

0:25:15.200 --> 0:25:18.600
<v Speaker 1>draft that's not involved as a quarterback. Everyone you talk

0:25:18.680 --> 0:25:21.879
<v Speaker 1>to when you hear some evaluators call him the unicorn,

0:25:22.720 --> 0:25:25.200
<v Speaker 1>that he is as big as he is, and as

0:25:25.200 --> 0:25:27.440
<v Speaker 1>coach Mack says, he's got the twitch. In other words,

0:25:27.480 --> 0:25:32.600
<v Speaker 1>he is just absolutely explosion everywhere and has an incredible

0:25:32.640 --> 0:25:38.280
<v Speaker 1>physique and the measurables, and I think that's what all right, Yeah,

0:25:40.160 --> 0:25:42.680
<v Speaker 1>but Coach Max, right, if you're just putting him in

0:25:42.720 --> 0:25:46.160
<v Speaker 1>a box's tight end. Some people have him rated better

0:25:46.160 --> 0:25:48.760
<v Speaker 1>than Tony Gonzalez, who you know has a gold jacket.

0:25:48.880 --> 0:25:51.360
<v Speaker 1>But I'm with you, he's not necessarily tight end. He's

0:25:51.359 --> 0:25:55.560
<v Speaker 1>a mismatch nightmare, six five two forty five hands, an

0:25:55.560 --> 0:25:59.919
<v Speaker 1>incredibly big ten and five eight eighty four inch wings

0:26:00.040 --> 0:26:03.080
<v Speaker 1>span four to four in the forty ten foot nine

0:26:03.119 --> 0:26:06.200
<v Speaker 1>inch broad jump, his vertical thirty three and a half

0:26:06.240 --> 0:26:08.280
<v Speaker 1>even at that size, and he's got the power at

0:26:08.320 --> 0:26:11.360
<v Speaker 1>twenty two reps at two twenty five plug and play

0:26:11.440 --> 0:26:14.199
<v Speaker 1>and just watch people just have fits over. Where is

0:26:14.440 --> 0:26:18.159
<v Speaker 1>Kyle Pitts on the field. I'm just disappointed that Matt

0:26:18.200 --> 0:26:21.680
<v Speaker 1>gave your nickname of monster Beast Mike to this guy,

0:26:21.760 --> 0:26:23.639
<v Speaker 1>he hasn't even done anything yet, and that's what we

0:26:23.680 --> 0:26:26.560
<v Speaker 1>call you. Thank you. So yeah, do you have a

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<v Speaker 1>surest thing in this draft as you have studied? I

0:26:29.359 --> 0:26:31.840
<v Speaker 1>have another one. Actually, I would like to throw this

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<v Speaker 1>to the the draft duo to see what they think

0:26:34.880 --> 0:26:37.320
<v Speaker 1>of my surest thing. Well, mine is a lame one

0:26:37.600 --> 0:26:41.720
<v Speaker 1>because my surest thing was Trevor Lawrence going to Jacksonville

0:26:41.760 --> 0:26:45.040
<v Speaker 1>and everyone just kind of reaffirmed that to me earlier

0:26:45.200 --> 0:26:49.240
<v Speaker 1>in the podcast. So that's also a correct thing. That

0:26:49.359 --> 0:26:51.960
<v Speaker 1>was My surest thing is that he will be a Jagon.

0:26:52.000 --> 0:26:54.000
<v Speaker 1>We will see him twice year. My surest thing in

0:26:54.000 --> 0:26:58.560
<v Speaker 1>this draft is Oklahoma center Creed Humphrey. Oh you'll get

0:26:58.560 --> 0:27:01.879
<v Speaker 1>sure centers very often. Creed Humphrey didn't allow a sack

0:27:01.920 --> 0:27:06.400
<v Speaker 1>in his entire career at Oklahoma. Is a great wrestler.

0:27:06.480 --> 0:27:09.760
<v Speaker 1>It's in his family. It's in his family. He's massive,

0:27:10.160 --> 0:27:12.480
<v Speaker 1>and he's the Unicorn of centers because he's a left handed,

0:27:12.720 --> 0:27:15.200
<v Speaker 1>left handed center. I don't think I realized he was

0:27:15.280 --> 0:27:19.680
<v Speaker 1>left handed, but yeah, he is scary good. Yeah, somebody's

0:27:19.680 --> 0:27:23.119
<v Speaker 1>gonna go Creed, You're the center. I mean, this guy, Hello,

0:27:23.280 --> 0:27:25.240
<v Speaker 1>he could be, he could be all pro. We were

0:27:25.280 --> 0:27:27.800
<v Speaker 1>around a pretty good left handed center Hall of Famer

0:27:28.720 --> 0:27:31.600
<v Speaker 1>Kevin what that's right left handed? I'd forgotten that. How

0:27:31.600 --> 0:27:33.640
<v Speaker 1>about that? All right? I want to end with this,

0:27:33.920 --> 0:27:37.440
<v Speaker 1>So I've gone through the top three hundred prospects from

0:27:37.480 --> 0:27:41.720
<v Speaker 1>Todd McShay and the top three hundred prospects from Dane Brugler,

0:27:41.920 --> 0:27:44.439
<v Speaker 1>two draft analysts that I think we can all agree

0:27:44.480 --> 0:27:47.520
<v Speaker 1>we respect. They're a picture, yes, and they're pretty similar

0:27:47.560 --> 0:27:49.560
<v Speaker 1>on a lot of guys and a lot of the

0:27:49.560 --> 0:27:52.800
<v Speaker 1>top guys that their numbers are pretty similar. But then

0:27:52.840 --> 0:27:55.640
<v Speaker 1>they have some that they're way apart on, like, for example,

0:27:55.760 --> 0:28:00.000
<v Speaker 1>duke tight end Noah Gray. McShay has him his number one,

0:28:00.080 --> 0:28:04.520
<v Speaker 1>one sixty five prospect. Brugler has him at two seventy nine,

0:28:04.560 --> 0:28:08.280
<v Speaker 1>so they're one hundred and fourteen Apolle Wow Sage Sarat

0:28:08.280 --> 0:28:11.320
<v Speaker 1>the wide receiver from wake Forest McShay one oh four.

0:28:11.600 --> 0:28:14.399
<v Speaker 1>Brugler has him number two fourteen, so they're over one

0:28:14.480 --> 0:28:19.080
<v Speaker 1>hundred apart there. Then b Yu offensive tackle Brady Christiansen,

0:28:19.280 --> 0:28:22.199
<v Speaker 1>Brugler has him at sixty two. McShay has him at

0:28:22.200 --> 0:28:25.600
<v Speaker 1>two thirty nine. No, now, if Brett doesn't like that

0:28:26.359 --> 0:28:31.120
<v Speaker 1>you're getting angry. Here's how that's gonna happen. Okay, that's

0:28:31.160 --> 0:28:33.560
<v Speaker 1>all right. I like that. But that's to the point,

0:28:33.600 --> 0:28:35.040
<v Speaker 1>and this is what I want to know from you,

0:28:35.080 --> 0:28:38.200
<v Speaker 1>coach mac. I'm not being critical of either one of

0:28:38.200 --> 0:28:42.160
<v Speaker 1>these two guys. I just wonder, with human beings and

0:28:42.360 --> 0:28:46.960
<v Speaker 1>objectivity being in everything about this process. When you sit

0:28:47.040 --> 0:28:49.800
<v Speaker 1>in a room with other men and now women who

0:28:49.880 --> 0:28:53.440
<v Speaker 1>scout as well, what are the factors that force people

0:28:53.520 --> 0:28:57.200
<v Speaker 1>to be so far apart on the same player. A

0:28:57.200 --> 0:28:59.440
<v Speaker 1>lot of it can be when you've seen him, Okay,

0:28:59.440 --> 0:29:01.160
<v Speaker 1>that's when you've seen them. A lot of it can

0:29:01.200 --> 0:29:04.360
<v Speaker 1>be how much personal exposure you've had to him. And

0:29:04.480 --> 0:29:07.160
<v Speaker 1>a lot of it depends, especially this year, as to

0:29:07.200 --> 0:29:11.959
<v Speaker 1>how much actual recency tape you have on them. And

0:29:12.120 --> 0:29:13.920
<v Speaker 1>some of them might be just how much time you

0:29:14.000 --> 0:29:16.280
<v Speaker 1>spent on them. I mean, you don't really know that.

0:29:16.360 --> 0:29:19.440
<v Speaker 1>And but the thing about those large disparities and gaps,

0:29:19.880 --> 0:29:23.200
<v Speaker 1>that's what great draft rooms are about, leading up to

0:29:23.280 --> 0:29:26.120
<v Speaker 1>the draft, when you write a player up. When I

0:29:26.160 --> 0:29:28.560
<v Speaker 1>first started writing players up, you know, Bill Tobin said

0:29:28.840 --> 0:29:31.880
<v Speaker 1>you can write players, but be ready to read them

0:29:31.920 --> 0:29:34.840
<v Speaker 1>to the room and then if you're challenged, have a

0:29:34.840 --> 0:29:37.440
<v Speaker 1>reason why, not that you're wrong and not that you're right,

0:29:37.520 --> 0:29:41.040
<v Speaker 1>but have reasons why. That's extremely important. And then with

0:29:41.200 --> 0:29:44.480
<v Speaker 1>a group, with everybody with opinions, you can come to

0:29:44.520 --> 0:29:47.600
<v Speaker 1>a consensus. And at the end, that's the general manager's job,

0:29:47.840 --> 0:29:50.360
<v Speaker 1>is to get a consensus of all of these picks.

0:29:50.400 --> 0:29:53.880
<v Speaker 1>And so nobody's right or wrong. There is no The

0:29:54.120 --> 0:29:57.360
<v Speaker 1>draft is not right or wrong right. You know, people

0:29:57.360 --> 0:29:59.560
<v Speaker 1>try to say it's an inexact science. It's not a

0:29:59.600 --> 0:30:03.560
<v Speaker 1>science at all. It really isn't because what you are

0:30:03.600 --> 0:30:06.240
<v Speaker 1>doing is you're given opinions. Now you've got a body

0:30:06.240 --> 0:30:09.880
<v Speaker 1>of work to draw on, and you can't manufacture experience

0:30:09.960 --> 0:30:12.560
<v Speaker 1>doing this. You have to be able to take years

0:30:12.600 --> 0:30:15.760
<v Speaker 1>and years, and sometimes it take years of bad moves

0:30:15.880 --> 0:30:18.680
<v Speaker 1>or of failures, and you were able to compare. But

0:30:18.880 --> 0:30:22.040
<v Speaker 1>I don't mind a big disparity to begin with. I

0:30:22.080 --> 0:30:25.240
<v Speaker 1>really don't. Because somebody they put those grades on those

0:30:25.240 --> 0:30:27.360
<v Speaker 1>guys for a reason. Sure, but I want to hear

0:30:27.400 --> 0:30:30.480
<v Speaker 1>the reason. I want to hear your reason, and then

0:30:30.720 --> 0:30:32.800
<v Speaker 1>not that you're going to convince me I'm right. It's

0:30:32.840 --> 0:30:35.160
<v Speaker 1>not about right or wrong. I mean, I've got a

0:30:35.200 --> 0:30:38.840
<v Speaker 1>great example here we talk about CEO Bricado. Okay, when

0:30:39.680 --> 0:30:42.400
<v Speaker 1>you know, when Clay Matthews was coming out, Okay, you know,

0:30:42.840 --> 0:30:45.520
<v Speaker 1>CEO was now over the whole West, and he had

0:30:45.600 --> 0:30:48.560
<v Speaker 1>only seen Clay Matthews, you know, for a few games.

0:30:48.560 --> 0:30:52.080
<v Speaker 1>And Clay Matthews wasn't a starter at USC for a while.

0:30:52.360 --> 0:30:55.000
<v Speaker 1>Then somebody got hurt and he started. And then but

0:30:55.200 --> 0:30:58.240
<v Speaker 1>because CEO had all of the West all right, then

0:30:58.280 --> 0:31:00.000
<v Speaker 1>he was only able to spend a little short of time.

0:31:00.120 --> 0:31:02.600
<v Speaker 1>So when we started reading them, and you know I

0:31:02.600 --> 0:31:05.640
<v Speaker 1>had seen you know, of course I wasn't like CEO.

0:31:05.760 --> 0:31:08.040
<v Speaker 1>I wasn't in charge of the whole West. They gave

0:31:08.080 --> 0:31:10.120
<v Speaker 1>me a few people to watch, and so when I

0:31:10.160 --> 0:31:12.960
<v Speaker 1>watched him, you know, I said, well, I think this

0:31:13.000 --> 0:31:15.600
<v Speaker 1>guy got a chance maybe to be a late first

0:31:15.640 --> 0:31:18.400
<v Speaker 1>round draft pick, and CEO did not have him that high.

0:31:18.440 --> 0:31:22.240
<v Speaker 1>So you know, c got me after the draft and said,

0:31:22.600 --> 0:31:25.360
<v Speaker 1>how could you do that? He said, show me right

0:31:25.400 --> 0:31:27.280
<v Speaker 1>now what you watched to make him. I thought, I

0:31:27.360 --> 0:31:29.200
<v Speaker 1>taught you better than that. And CEO taught me a

0:31:29.240 --> 0:31:32.960
<v Speaker 1>lot a lot about scouting. So I took him downstairs

0:31:33.000 --> 0:31:34.800
<v Speaker 1>and showed him. But I showed him some of the

0:31:34.880 --> 0:31:37.840
<v Speaker 1>later games that you know that he had played. I mean,

0:31:37.880 --> 0:31:40.280
<v Speaker 1>and you know against I said, look, watch this Oregon

0:31:40.320 --> 0:31:43.240
<v Speaker 1>State game. Oregon State, I said, CEO, they won eleven

0:31:43.280 --> 0:31:46.120
<v Speaker 1>games this year. I mean, you know, it's a different

0:31:46.200 --> 0:31:49.280
<v Speaker 1>Oregon State. In other words, so I'm saying, it's not

0:31:49.360 --> 0:31:52.720
<v Speaker 1>that you're right or wrong. And look, C graded more

0:31:52.720 --> 0:31:54.440
<v Speaker 1>players than I ever grated, and I would all first

0:31:54.440 --> 0:31:57.560
<v Speaker 1>about him, but I had a reason and some other

0:31:57.560 --> 0:31:59.680
<v Speaker 1>people did too, and so we all came to a consensus.

0:31:59.680 --> 0:32:01.440
<v Speaker 1>And see I went, you know what, I could see

0:32:01.440 --> 0:32:03.720
<v Speaker 1>why watching this that you would say that that's a

0:32:03.720 --> 0:32:07.920
<v Speaker 1>great explanation, coach, That is just fantastic, because you you know,

0:32:07.960 --> 0:32:12.240
<v Speaker 1>you just wonder. Both Brugler and McShay obviously at Trevor

0:32:12.280 --> 0:32:15.280
<v Speaker 1>Lawrence number one and Kyle Pitt's number two, and then

0:32:15.360 --> 0:32:18.680
<v Speaker 1>they started differentiating, and then you come back. They had

0:32:18.680 --> 0:32:22.760
<v Speaker 1>two players later in the draft at exactly the same number.

0:32:23.040 --> 0:32:26.240
<v Speaker 1>Houston edge rusher Peyton Turner both had him at number

0:32:26.280 --> 0:32:30.760
<v Speaker 1>sixty and Tennessee guard Trey Smith both at number ninety nine.

0:32:31.160 --> 0:32:35.320
<v Speaker 1>So they saw those two players exactly the same way.

0:32:35.360 --> 0:32:38.640
<v Speaker 1>Among the three hundred, somebody said on a show that

0:32:38.680 --> 0:32:42.320
<v Speaker 1>I was on this week that a draft board is

0:32:42.360 --> 0:32:48.320
<v Speaker 1>an organization's fingerprint. Everyone is different, and it's it's just

0:32:48.520 --> 0:32:54.040
<v Speaker 1>fascinating how people see things and what they see as important,

0:32:54.080 --> 0:32:58.040
<v Speaker 1>what they see as disqualifying, what they see as oh,

0:32:58.200 --> 0:33:01.800
<v Speaker 1>this is what this guy can be. It is unbelievable.

0:33:01.920 --> 0:33:04.600
<v Speaker 1>The best general managers, and again I've got a little

0:33:04.600 --> 0:33:06.560
<v Speaker 1>point of reference because I've been doing this for a while,

0:33:07.200 --> 0:33:10.160
<v Speaker 1>are those guys that are really good listeners because they're

0:33:10.160 --> 0:33:12.840
<v Speaker 1>gonna watch the tape and they're gonna have their opinions.

0:33:12.840 --> 0:33:15.280
<v Speaker 1>But they've hired all these other people to go out

0:33:15.320 --> 0:33:18.880
<v Speaker 1>and do a massive amount of work, and they're they're

0:33:19.000 --> 0:33:22.400
<v Speaker 1>the best listeners. That's why. That's why a general manager

0:33:22.760 --> 0:33:25.400
<v Speaker 1>he won't read his report in the room he wants

0:33:25.400 --> 0:33:28.120
<v Speaker 1>to listen. You need to have that autonomy when you're

0:33:28.120 --> 0:33:30.560
<v Speaker 1>in a draft room. If you know, if the five

0:33:30.600 --> 0:33:32.360
<v Speaker 1>of us are sitting in a draft room and everybody

0:33:32.400 --> 0:33:35.280
<v Speaker 1>reads the report, everybody has a right to read their

0:33:35.280 --> 0:33:39.840
<v Speaker 1>report and to not be disparaged by anybody while they're

0:33:39.920 --> 0:33:42.440
<v Speaker 1>reading it, and then not have anybody don't dispute it

0:33:42.520 --> 0:33:45.120
<v Speaker 1>until you read me your report, and then read me yours,

0:33:45.160 --> 0:33:47.440
<v Speaker 1>read me, and then we all sit here and go okay,

0:33:47.560 --> 0:33:50.600
<v Speaker 1>you know, and then the wise. The wise are big.

0:33:50.840 --> 0:33:52.960
<v Speaker 1>The wise are big in the draft room. And are

0:33:53.000 --> 0:33:56.240
<v Speaker 1>you always going to be right? No, you're not. I

0:33:56.280 --> 0:33:59.160
<v Speaker 1>mean I've I've made some good draft choices. I've made

0:33:59.240 --> 0:34:03.120
<v Speaker 1>some really bad ones. But when but when I made him,

0:34:03.320 --> 0:34:06.320
<v Speaker 1>I didn't think they were bad. Of course, I didn't think,

0:34:06.320 --> 0:34:08.640
<v Speaker 1>you know what, I'll take this guy. He's really really terrible.

0:34:10.080 --> 0:34:14.439
<v Speaker 1>It's just gonna I'll just take him because I'm ready

0:34:14.440 --> 0:34:17.160
<v Speaker 1>to get fired. You know, that's that's not what you do.

0:34:17.360 --> 0:34:21.239
<v Speaker 1>Coach Mack is so spot on with what I've just

0:34:21.400 --> 0:34:23.680
<v Speaker 1>heard you. I was on a show this week where

0:34:23.719 --> 0:34:25.879
<v Speaker 1>we had Brian Billick as a guest, and the first

0:34:25.880 --> 0:34:28.960
<v Speaker 1>thing I asked him, because it's draft season, about a

0:34:29.040 --> 0:34:30.960
<v Speaker 1>guy I think that could be a double Hall of

0:34:31.000 --> 0:34:34.319
<v Speaker 1>Fame inductee and and Ozzie Knewsom, I think he's a

0:34:34.360 --> 0:34:37.759
<v Speaker 1>fantastic general manager for the Baltimore Ravens. And I said,

0:34:37.760 --> 0:34:39.759
<v Speaker 1>what was it about him that made him made you

0:34:39.920 --> 0:34:42.560
<v Speaker 1>so good? To set you up? You still have to

0:34:42.600 --> 0:34:44.759
<v Speaker 1>hit on those picks, but he set up on the

0:34:44.840 --> 0:34:47.960
<v Speaker 1>tea for you. He said he was an excellent listener.

0:34:48.120 --> 0:34:51.279
<v Speaker 1>He said he was the best at it. And he said,

0:34:51.320 --> 0:34:53.920
<v Speaker 1>when we had a difference of opinion about a prospect,

0:34:54.000 --> 0:34:56.480
<v Speaker 1>we call it in our war room. It was we

0:34:56.520 --> 0:35:00.120
<v Speaker 1>called it scrimmaging. And he said it was healthy, it

0:35:00.280 --> 0:35:03.880
<v Speaker 1>was good. We wanted to get out the wise, the who's,

0:35:03.920 --> 0:35:07.000
<v Speaker 1>the what's all of that, And he said, that's what

0:35:07.239 --> 0:35:10.120
<v Speaker 1>made those war rooms so good, is that we got

0:35:10.160 --> 0:35:11.960
<v Speaker 1>all that stuff out there and we might have a

0:35:12.000 --> 0:35:14.840
<v Speaker 1>different opinion, but we scrimmaged our points and they stumped

0:35:14.880 --> 0:35:17.799
<v Speaker 1>for why here's what I saw. But he said the

0:35:17.840 --> 0:35:21.560
<v Speaker 1>listening was where it started for a coach. Dave McGinnis

0:35:21.560 --> 0:35:25.000
<v Speaker 1>and Rhet Bryan and Amy Well, I might keep We

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<v Speaker 1>thank you for joining us, for the oaks and teas

0:35:28.840 --> 0:35:34.480
<v Speaker 1>where the legends go. Everybody knows it's our house Tennessee.

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<v Speaker 1>Making us to read cleanness is we got tight and

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<v Speaker 1>butter running through a v