Speaker 1: So six picks. Busy day, really good day, and open
Speaker 1: it up to questions.
Speaker 2: I guess the one thing you look at this, you
Speaker 2: guys did did not take an offensive linement. So what
Speaker 2: does that tell us?
Speaker 3: That wasn't one there that we would love to take
Speaker 3: ano alignment, but it just drop didn't work out that way.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think even in the first round in a year
Speaker 1: that was very limited, especially at the tackle position, a
Speaker 1: lot of them went early. There was a huge run
Speaker 1: or early that affected. It starts at the top and
Speaker 1: then it's a trickle down or up or whatever you
Speaker 1: call it effect, and that happened, and so they're just
Speaker 1: we weren't going to take one just to take one,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 2: And you said on Monday that you were open to
Speaker 2: trading Mike last year would suggest that you were fine
Speaker 2: with whatever you had last year as a starter. You
Speaker 2: probably colden m kibbitz. So is this a vote of
Speaker 2: confidence for Colton?
Speaker 4: The Kibbits as well, Very much much so. I you know,
Speaker 4: we believe in Colton.
Speaker 1: Uh you know, I'll let Kyle talk a little bit
Speaker 1: about Colton as a player, but uh, you know, Colton,
Speaker 1: the gold helmet is a hard standard up there. We
Speaker 1: give it to very few people. Colton was one of
Speaker 1: those when he came out of West Virginia. You know,
Speaker 1: I think when he got here we didn't we didn't
Speaker 1: necessarily see that all the time because he was shy.
Speaker 4: He kind of took him a little while.
Speaker 1: But I think over time, as his confidence grew, you
Speaker 1: started to see all those traits and qualities, the spirit
Speaker 1: as we.
Speaker 4: Call it, really start to show.
Speaker 1: And then Colton sninaky talented as well, and we like
Speaker 1: him a lot as a player.
Speaker 4: Kyle, you go ahead and talk about him.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I mean, just get an old linement ready
Speaker 3: to start in this league is really tough, especially how
Speaker 3: different playing in the league is in college and the
Speaker 3: lack of you know, preparation we get with how ots
Speaker 3: are this year, how much shorter training camp is.
Speaker 5: But you can win with Colton. He's been here for
Speaker 5: a while.
Speaker 3: When he has played, we have one games with him.
Speaker 3: Did help the job last year helping us or two
Speaker 3: years ago getting into the playoffs when you had to
Speaker 3: start unexpectedly versus the Rams and seventeen I think, but
Speaker 3: I mean I look at Colton very similar to how
Speaker 3: Jake was last year. I mean, we felt very good
Speaker 3: about Jake, but you never know until they get out
Speaker 3: there a ton and you look in the draft to
Speaker 3: add depth, and you always want to. If there's someone
Speaker 3: there that falls in that you think can beat out
Speaker 3: your starter, that's really it's.
Speaker 5: A good pick. But it's not easy to find a
Speaker 5: guy I pick ninety nine or.
Speaker 3: Later who can beat out Colton mckivitz, just like you
Speaker 3: don't just find anyone for Jake Brendle last year. So
Speaker 3: when you have guys who played and you practice with
Speaker 3: a lot, and you have an idea about them, I
Speaker 3: get how not everyone else knows about him as much
Speaker 3: because they haven't seen him. But I mean, we were
Speaker 3: going to that draft hoping to find depth and hoping
Speaker 3: to find some competition. But to go into that draft
Speaker 3: and to think you're going to find someone to start
Speaker 3: over someone like Coldner as good as Colton can be
Speaker 3: and has been as would be very unusual.
Speaker 1: The other thing I'd add Matt at a you know,
Speaker 1: big shout out to RJ.
Speaker 4: Gillen and his staff.
Speaker 1: You go get a guy like Matt Pryor who started
Speaker 1: games and played at a high level last year wasn't
Speaker 1: as good. Whatever happened in Indy. I think their O
Speaker 1: line struggled as a whole. They moved him over to
Speaker 1: the left side, he didn't play as well. But we
Speaker 1: think Matt Pryor is a guy who's shown that he
Speaker 1: can play, So that gives you, you know, at least
Speaker 1: whoever we draft better be able to beat him out.
Speaker 1: And we didn't see that happening.
Speaker 3: And that's the hardest thing too, when you in order
Speaker 3: not just to play, you talk about Colton because you know,
Speaker 3: but Matt Pryor we brought him free agency, who we
Speaker 3: liked two years ago too. And then you got Jalen Moore,
Speaker 3: who's been our swing tackle for a couple of years.
Speaker 5: Is played in games.
Speaker 3: So it's not only finding someone who can have a
Speaker 3: chance to compete with the starter, which we feel we
Speaker 3: brought in some vets to do that. But if they
Speaker 3: can't compete with a starter, they have to beat out
Speaker 3: those vets to make the team. And when you look
Speaker 3: at a draft and you look at O lineman and
Speaker 3: you're sitting there in your first picks at ninety nine,
Speaker 3: all the way down, we're not just talking about who
Speaker 3: can come start at a position. We're talking about who
Speaker 3: do we think can make the team, and you compare
Speaker 3: that to every single position. We believe the kicker for
Speaker 3: sure could. That's probably why I was the pick there
Speaker 3: you see the safety. But you know, we'd love to
Speaker 3: get depth at every position, and we can at every position,
Speaker 3: but we also got a good team that does have
Speaker 3: some depth. And our first goal is that we hope
Speaker 3: that these draft picks.
Speaker 5: Can make our team, which is easy to do.
Speaker 4: And you guys drafted with.
Speaker 6: Defense been So what do you see out of him
Speaker 6: and how to.
Speaker 4: See for him? Yeah, bial's a really really gifted athlete.
Speaker 1: You know, I want to we we you rely a
Speaker 1: lot on relationships in this thing, and Kirby Smart's been
Speaker 1: good to us. He's got a lot of players. You know,
Speaker 1: Kirby was a safety and we kind of bonded over that.
Speaker 1: But uh, you know, Kirby said, someone's going to get
Speaker 1: a really gifted and talented player if they just let
Speaker 1: this guy hunt qbs and set edges and and when
Speaker 1: he said that, that's exactly what we do.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, he's not really good at going back and
Speaker 1: all that stuff. He could do it, but what Kirby
Speaker 1: said there really resonated our eyes saw the same thing.
Speaker 1: Ran a four four seven as in, so he had speed.
Speaker 1: He's you know, he's in the six three you know range,
Speaker 1: but he's got thirty four and five inch, so he's
Speaker 1: got that length you look for.
Speaker 4: That's right.
Speaker 1: Uh, our analytics see if anyone can guess, we have
Speaker 1: a you know, I tell our analytics guys all the time.
Speaker 1: Plant Sky and his crew go go watch the coaches
Speaker 1: get in there and let's come up with measurables that
Speaker 1: are what we coach. And GTFO is something Chris Caseric
Speaker 1: is always screaming, you guys know what it is. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: So he had the highest GTFO great in the in
Speaker 1: the draft, so we're really fired up about that.
Speaker 7: It's hard to get an offensive linment from college transition
Speaker 7: and ready to start in the NFL.
Speaker 5: Why is it harder for an offensive linment than a
Speaker 5: defensive linment.
Speaker 4: Sometimes those guys.
Speaker 3: Get ground running because just like receivers, just like running
Speaker 3: backs and d lineman rotating, you can put guys who
Speaker 3: just have a certain skill set, put them in that situation.
Speaker 3: In that situation, only an old lineman. Show me someone
Speaker 3: who rotates, You're out there seventy plays. That's also why
Speaker 3: the guy with the best highlight tape is not the
Speaker 3: guy that you go get if it's the highlight tape
Speaker 3: and the whole game. Yes, but an old linement is different.
Speaker 3: You got to be built to last. You don't have
Speaker 3: to be flashy. You got to make sure that you
Speaker 3: can survive that game and not be the reason that
Speaker 3: we lost. And if you can have a guy who
Speaker 3: can dominate someone like Trem Williams and stuff, it's still
Speaker 3: only so much you can do there.
Speaker 5: Or the d ns.
Speaker 3: You know, these pass rushers, they might not be able
Speaker 3: to play their run, they might not be able to
Speaker 3: do something, but you can put them in a two
Speaker 3: minute situation and have them win a game for you.
Speaker 3: So that's why you you can win with d lineman
Speaker 3: by a group of them. O line, How good do
Speaker 3: those five play together? And one goes down and the
Speaker 3: next one comes in?
Speaker 5: How's that a gusture five? And how they play together?
Speaker 6: Paul?
Speaker 2: I mean, how do you assess that?
Speaker 8: Is it the first guy who's off the line scrimmage?
Speaker 8: You look at the ten yard split.
Speaker 3: I mean that's what we look at coaches, but analytics
Speaker 3: I have no clue how they do that stuff.
Speaker 1: You know, like it's within the first two yards is
Speaker 1: what we're measuring, and you know they've they've come up
Speaker 1: with a way to measure that, and Beal's right at
Speaker 1: the top of it. So it's something you know, we're
Speaker 1: always talking about getting length and explosion out of that stance,
Speaker 1: and Beal's a guy who kind of embodies that, you know,
Speaker 1: the other unique thing that you get from bal and
Speaker 1: I think it really helps on game day. You know,
Speaker 1: we dress a lot of D lineman. He's a guy
Speaker 1: who can help you a lot in special teams as
Speaker 1: well because he can really run and he's really good
Speaker 1: in space, so kind of a unique ability when you
Speaker 1: get a D lineman who can do that.
Speaker 4: It's an added bonus to McCaffrey's contract. Is that just
Speaker 4: gives us some room.
Speaker 1: We were we were pressed right up there when when
Speaker 1: we were to sign our rookies. We could have done it,
Speaker 1: but we would have been right there, and we wanted
Speaker 1: to have some flexibility and made sense.
Speaker 4: Christian is going to be here.
Speaker 1: Simple conversion, and we did it, and we're thankful to
Speaker 1: Christian for agreeing to do it.
Speaker 4: Good thing for him, good thing for us.
Speaker 3: Signs don't count against the camp formula right after the draft.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's correct, give you, you.
Speaker 2: Know, some some thoughts, some free agency considered.
Speaker 1: We're working on undrafted free agency right now. We got
Speaker 1: a lot of numbers on our roster. You know, I
Speaker 1: had a healthy draft. Our numbers were pretty good. We'll
Speaker 1: see where it's at after this. You know, this is
Speaker 1: always kind of nerve wracking because we're down here and
Speaker 1: they're up there filling out that class. But we've got
Speaker 1: it pretty slotted and uh, you know, we'll see what.
Speaker 1: We're never gonna stop looking for players that can help.
Speaker 1: And it's just a lot of that slots are filled
Speaker 1: and where they aren't, we'll go add to it if
Speaker 1: we need to.
Speaker 5: Then he went to Michigan.
Speaker 3: Just how consistent of a football player he is. You know,
Speaker 3: he's I believe he was a captain, you know, coach's son.
Speaker 3: Not that doesn't mean much, but he plays like what
Speaker 3: you want that to be like. He was just so consistent,
Speaker 3: special teams player, a good returner, did really everything they asked,
Speaker 3: very good in his routes. There was not one thing
Speaker 3: that he struggled with when you can put him into
Speaker 3: a group and just whatever skill set is, I think
Speaker 3: he could fit in any position, and he seemed like
Speaker 3: one of the more reliable guys wide outs that we
Speaker 3: watched in all of college football. And you know, we
Speaker 3: want guys to be good over time, and I feel
Speaker 3: like he's a guy who's been as good of a
Speaker 3: football player as there is in college, and we got
Speaker 3: to see how he adjusted this level. But if he
Speaker 3: can play at this level the way that he did
Speaker 3: in college, we're gonna have a really good football player.
Speaker 1: I think, not the biggest package, but real tough, physical,
Speaker 1: gritty player with the ball in his hands. Made a
Speaker 1: lot of big plays in big moments. The returnability is
Speaker 1: a big thing. We had Rey Ray, and behind Rey
Speaker 1: Ray we didn't really have. You know, Pa has done
Speaker 1: it before, but we wanted another return But really he
Speaker 1: made it just just on those traits. He's He's a
Speaker 1: guy that the more we watched more we liked and
Speaker 1: did it at the right times too.
Speaker 4: So Ronnie was a great addition.
Speaker 6: Willison made you want to take a second tight end.
Speaker 1: Really that we had him ranked really high. You know
Speaker 1: everybody always says this, but you know, we had him
Speaker 1: kind of into fifth round grade and so when he
Speaker 1: was still around, it made a lot of sense. He's
Speaker 1: got a lot of versatility to his game. He's a
Speaker 1: guy who kind of embodies what we like in terms
Speaker 1: of after the balls in his hands, he can do
Speaker 1: some special things. Play some tight end, play some full back. Uh.
Speaker 1: A nice tool that to to move around. You know,
Speaker 1: made made a lot of big plays for Oklahoma former quarterback.
Speaker 1: Real smart, cerebral kid. You can put a lot on him.
Speaker 1: So when he was still there, it just made sense
Speaker 1: for us.
Speaker 7: I kind of refer to Brown potentially being a succession
Speaker 7: player for Gibbson like was for Tart, and you've had
Speaker 7: other guys like that. Banks did that, Drake Jackson. I
Speaker 7: guess we'll be doing this year. When you get guys
Speaker 7: at this point, when you're bringing guys in that are
Speaker 7: kind of maybe doing that, aren't going to necessarily start
Speaker 7: right away. How can that year help them, you know,
Speaker 7: maybe set them up.
Speaker 4: For that future kind of succession.
Speaker 3: And I think it's really good when you have someone
Speaker 3: like Get there to watch, you know, someone who's done
Speaker 3: it for a while, who's done it, succeeded in this
Speaker 3: league when when his skill set was at the top
Speaker 3: of his game, and when as he's gotten older, you've
Speaker 3: seen nothing change, so like give the proas and everything.
Speaker 3: When you can sit and watch that, it really helps
Speaker 3: you learn how to play. But you know, when you
Speaker 3: look at like Banks and stuff, a line is a
Speaker 3: little tougher because you're not gonna there's not many.
Speaker 5: Other places to do it.
Speaker 3: So you really sit there and you want them in
Speaker 3: case there's an injury, but you're kind of just hoping
Speaker 3: they can develop and learn the game and practice and stuff.
Speaker 5: So for the next year. When you take a guy like.
Speaker 3: A safety who you believe does have that capability, hopefully
Speaker 3: pushes the whole group this year.
Speaker 5: So everyone's got to be on and take it to
Speaker 5: another level.
Speaker 3: Because we do want to be better than we were
Speaker 3: last year. So we're never going to say like we
Speaker 3: just brought in a guy to make them the next
Speaker 3: guy once people leave. I'm also not trying to threaten
Speaker 3: people either, but we didn't bring in Banks to take
Speaker 3: Laken's job, but he could have if he was ready to.
Speaker 3: And I look at that at every single position. If
Speaker 3: they're better, we're going to play the best guy. I
Speaker 3: think that's really hard to do when you have someone
Speaker 3: like Lake in that year, like someone like Gip but
Speaker 3: when you have a safety's there's still so much more value.
Speaker 3: You can have three safeties on the field at once.
Speaker 3: Safeties are always up. You need a guy to play
Speaker 3: special teams. You usually have four safeties up a game.
Speaker 3: Two are playing. Those other two are your special teams demons,
Speaker 3: but just in one injury, they got to know how
Speaker 3: to play safety too. When you look at a guy
Speaker 3: like George Otom, I think he's one of the best
Speaker 3: special teams players in the league who also can help
Speaker 3: us at safety. And now we're bringing in another guy
Speaker 3: who I think and we all think can be a
Speaker 3: starting safety in this league as soon as that makes
Speaker 3: sense for the Niners. But in the meantime, we think
Speaker 3: you can be a difference maker and all the other
Speaker 3: parts too.
Speaker 7: Guys kind of later in rounds like you were this weekend,
Speaker 7: are you kind of under the understanding that you know, yeah,
Speaker 7: they may not start like you were saying, they're just
Speaker 7: going to try to make the team. But do you
Speaker 7: look for different things in those guys that might be
Speaker 7: developable over that for lack of put or work over
Speaker 7: that course of a year to maybe eventually.
Speaker 5: Become that Yeah, you do, and I mean it goes
Speaker 5: either way.
Speaker 3: When you get the later round picks, sometimes you got
Speaker 3: you want the guy with the most traits and stuff,
Speaker 3: just to guy to develop. But that I've been in
Speaker 3: this league a long time, and it's hard to develop
Speaker 3: guys with the way it's structured. I mean, it's there's
Speaker 3: only so many practice squad spots, there's only so many
Speaker 3: people on a roster, and there's only so many people
Speaker 3: up on game day. And that's what's tough when you
Speaker 3: take some real talent to guys early, because those guys
Speaker 3: aren't ready to play. And sometimes I've been in places
Speaker 3: where regardless you have to play him right away because
Speaker 3: of their draft status, and then they come out and
Speaker 3: they look really bad and they're not. You want to
Speaker 3: stash them away a little bit so they can practice
Speaker 3: and develop. Unfortunately, in this league just we're not You
Speaker 3: don't have one hundred guys on the team like you
Speaker 3: might in college. There are certain rules to that and stuff,
Speaker 3: so you got to weigh all that in the like, man,
Speaker 3: I would love to work with this guy, he's got
Speaker 3: it in him, but he looks so far away. How
Speaker 3: are we going to be able to stash him? Can
Speaker 3: you keep him on practice squad. No, he's got to
Speaker 3: be he's got to be your third tight end. All right, well,
Speaker 3: we use our third tight end, and so that's gonna
Speaker 3: be it's gonna be a big problem in week two
Speaker 3: if someone's hurt. And so you look into all that stuff,
Speaker 3: and that's why.
Speaker 5: There isn't any absolute answer.
Speaker 3: Sometimes we will go for the most upside and guy
Speaker 3: to develop, and sometimes you want just the best football
Speaker 3: player you can count on.
Speaker 5: And but the higher you go, you hope if fits all.
Speaker 6: He's been watching Fred Warner for a couple of years.
Speaker 6: He was because he's a former safety and he was
Speaker 6: looking for someone that kind of went that route. And
Speaker 6: Warner told us he came here as a positionless player.
Speaker 6: Probably not hear to compare him to a Pro Bowl guy,
Speaker 6: but do you see some of those traits in him?
Speaker 4: I think his linebacker coach did.
Speaker 1: Johnny Holland was a huge D Winners fan, you know,
Speaker 1: and we trust Johnny's eye a lot. Our scouts like
Speaker 1: the Winners a lot, and you know, we had a
Speaker 1: we had a really nice discussion. We ended up with
Speaker 1: Jalen Graham. The reason why we drafted Jalen Graham when
Speaker 1: we already had a linebacker was because we were kind
Speaker 1: of torn, all right, J D Winners Jalen Graham. Ultimately
Speaker 1: D Winners went out and so when he's still there
Speaker 1: at the end, you go get Jalen Graham. We liked
Speaker 1: him both. D kind of fits who we are. A
Speaker 1: player that drew some comparisons. Comparisons are dangerous because you
Speaker 1: got to go do it, but similar traits to Drake Greenlaw,
Speaker 1: you know, similar suddenness.
Speaker 4: To his game. Uh, you know, I had the advantage.
Speaker 1: TCU was a heavily scouted school by me selfishly because
Speaker 1: my daughter Lily goes to school there, so got to
Speaker 1: be there on three different occasions this year. And I
Speaker 1: heard plenty of anyone who who I would talk to
Speaker 1: would talk about D Winners as being just a real
Speaker 1: leader on that team, another captain, but the unequivocal leader
Speaker 1: for that defense and the voice of that defense and
Speaker 1: very much of that team.
Speaker 4: So that carried weight as well.
Speaker 1: Ultimately, we felt like he was just a guy we
Speaker 1: needed to to bring in and we're really excited to
Speaker 1: take him.
Speaker 8: The plan at number four quarterback, which could be number
Speaker 8: three quarterback for a big chunk of the off season,
Speaker 8: is that one of the positions they're working on upstairs
Speaker 8: right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're looking to fill out everything with the free agents.
Speaker 3: We'd love to get a fourth guy here. We'll see
Speaker 3: which one it is, but it's you know, we'll be
Speaker 3: all right though in the off season, you know, we
Speaker 3: get to training camp. Hopefully we'll get brought back soon.
Speaker 3: But regardless, we'd love a fourth guy here. You never
Speaker 3: know how much we end up doing in the Ota sessions.
Speaker 3: But it's been good having two guys out there just throwing.
Speaker 3: They've been on their own. We'll start with everybody tomorrow
Speaker 3: where we actually can go out on the field with
Speaker 3: them as coaches. But hopefully when it's said and done,
Speaker 3: we'll have a fourth guy.
Speaker 4: It's it's completely clear. I know you're practicing. You've been
Speaker 4: out there throwing doing everything.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, do you have an agreement with an undrafted quarterback?
Speaker 3: When we came down where we left the next couple
Speaker 3: of hours, all right, all, thank you,