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Speaker 1: Well versus football player. So how much research have you

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Speaker 1: I know you're gonna like Detroit. There's a lot to

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Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you. Welcome back to the twenty in

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Speaker 1: the Huddle podcast presented by Microsoft. And you will notice

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Speaker 1: look at Jamiir Gibbs as an explosive player that keeps

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Speaker 1: And I think when you look at Jamiir Gibbs, you

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Speaker 1: level without being touched and then just make a guy

440
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Speaker 1: miss and he's gone. And you watch the film and

441
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Speaker 1: he can do that. And look, with the trade of

442
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Speaker 1: DeAndre Swift, he's gonna get an early opportunity. He is

443
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Speaker 1: an early impact guy and it'll be fun to watch

444
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Speaker 1: starting week one.

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Speaker 4: I don't know if it's a coincidence that the same

446
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Speaker 4: things that Jamo was doing in his one year at Alabama,

447
00:21:22,160 --> 00:21:24,800
Speaker 4: they get another transfer and he comes in and he's

448
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Speaker 4: returning the kicks and he's going underneath and taking you

449
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Speaker 4: know Crossers upfield, Jamier Gibbs. It's to have both of

450
00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:36,720
Speaker 4: those guys on the same team eventually in week seven here,

451
00:21:37,040 --> 00:21:40,080
Speaker 4: it's going to be dangerous. But another thing, I mean

452
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Speaker 4: he mentioned it wants to expand the route tree, which

453
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Speaker 4: I think is really important to seeing what he can do,

454
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Speaker 4: seeing can he go downfield a little bit? How creative

455
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Speaker 4: can you get with him? And then I you know,

456
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Speaker 4: we talked about it with Jamo a lot last year.

457
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Speaker 4: Can we get this guy a kick return? Do you

458
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Speaker 4: want your first round pick returning kicks?

459
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Speaker 1: Is a question? But can we let him? What if

460
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Speaker 1: you're at Holmes? What if Brad Holmes say almost to

461
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Speaker 1: end his press conference post draft, he said, we want

462
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Speaker 1: to be good in all three phases. We want to

463
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Speaker 1: be great offensively, we want to be stout defensively, and

464
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Speaker 1: we want special teams to be a weapon. Is what

465
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Speaker 1: he said. How do special teams become a weapon? You

466
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Speaker 1: don't have a kick returner at the moment.

467
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Speaker 4: Maurice Alexander returned a couple of kikes last year, But

468
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Speaker 4: your primary guy, Justin Jackson isn't here anymore.

469
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Speaker 1: You give Jamison Williams, you give Jamiir Gibbs just that

470
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Speaker 1: much room in a kick return. And you see it

471
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Speaker 1: all the time with games. A big punk return touchdown,

472
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Speaker 1: a big kickoff return touchdown. Most games are one score games.

473
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Speaker 1: Special teams scores are so huge in the league. If

474
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Speaker 1: you want your special teams become a weapon, don't be

475
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Speaker 1: just good defensively and be one of the best cover teams,

476
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Speaker 1: which the Lions were, be explosive in return. You know

477
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Speaker 1: you've got a great return man in Khalif Framing's one

478
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Speaker 1: of the best in the league. Now be explosive in

479
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Speaker 1: the kick return game with maybe one of those guys.

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Speaker 1: I think it'll be fun to watch. And it's happened before.

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Speaker 4: I mean, when Pittsburgh had Antonio Brown, he wouldn't go

482
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Speaker 4: back there every time, but when they needed him, he

483
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Speaker 4: would go and he would do it. So it's it's

484
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Speaker 4: possible to have your your best player back there in

485
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Speaker 4: Sean Jackson.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, there's there's lots of examples. All right, let's

487
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Speaker 1: slip to the defensive side of the ball. Jack Campbell,

488
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Speaker 1: we heard from him earlier. Impressive young guy. Yeah, I

489
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Speaker 1: mean he's ready, he's ready to ball, he's ready to play.

490
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Speaker 1: I think he would strap it up and play tomorrow

491
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Speaker 1: and wouldn't even care. I mean, he's that kind of guy.

492
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Speaker 1: He is a Dan Campbell guy. He's a culture guy.

493
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Speaker 1: He is Dan Campbell guy through and through.

494
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Speaker 4: And that's what you're looking for at the linebacker position,

495
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Speaker 4: especially too. I feel like if you're that leader in

496
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Speaker 4: the middle and you got a rally of the defense

497
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Speaker 4: and he's got a great guy to learn from and

498
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Speaker 4: angelone to do that and kind of groom him up here,

499
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Speaker 4: but you just you need to be ready to go

500
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Speaker 4: and in all three phases. And I think the Lions

501
00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:46,640
Speaker 4: have really gained a lot in coverage in Jack Campbell.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, six four and a half two hundred and fifty pounds,

503
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Speaker 1: four six five forty. But you look at some of

504
00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:55,439
Speaker 1: the three cone, the shuttle, some of those you know

505
00:23:55,520 --> 00:23:59,560
Speaker 1: drills that measure a quick ability and agility. That was

506
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Speaker 1: number one amongst the linebackers from a six four and

507
00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:05,120
Speaker 1: a half two hundred and fifteen pound guy. He's a

508
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Speaker 1: big guy. I mean, I'm struggling with a lot, but

509
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Speaker 1: I'm struggling with the podcast we had Dan Campbell, we had,

510
00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:15,440
Speaker 1: you know, Jack Campbell. I'm sitting next to all these

511
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Speaker 1: tall guys. You guys are leaving comments here about how

512
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Speaker 1: short I am. I can't help it, but it looks

513
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Speaker 1: you love the size with him, right, He's another one.

514
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Speaker 1: He's got the.

515
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Speaker 4: Wingspan you're going to get in the passing lanes at

516
00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:28,359
Speaker 4: the very least you got you can go up, you

517
00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:32,199
Speaker 4: can go out, and you can that's you know. Combine

518
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Speaker 4: that with the short agility, you really got something to

519
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Speaker 4: cover and.

520
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Speaker 1: The biggest thing to lines. Ran twenty ninth in the

521
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Speaker 1: league last year, defending the run thirtieth and average runs

522
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Speaker 1: per Carrey teams opponents averaged over five yards per Carrey.

523
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Speaker 1: I think that's where he helps you. Immediately. You mentioned

524
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Speaker 1: the past stuff. I think he does that too. But

525
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Speaker 1: I think where we see his biggest impact is when

526
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Speaker 1: you watch the IWOULD tape. I think what jumps out

527
00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:59,239
Speaker 1: is his reaction. He's smart, he's really really smart, and

528
00:24:59,280 --> 00:25:01,720
Speaker 1: he is north south and he gets their real quick

529
00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:04,200
Speaker 1: gap aware, he knows what he's he gets off blocks

530
00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:06,280
Speaker 1: because of his size. I think that's where he's going

531
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Speaker 1: to have a really big impact right away. Yeah, all right,

532
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Speaker 1: let's go to round two, pick thirty four, Iowa Baby, Yeah,

533
00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:16,040
Speaker 1: back to back. Sam Laporta, the tight end from Iowa.

534
00:25:16,040 --> 00:25:18,440
Speaker 1: And look, we talked about it before on this podcast

535
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Speaker 1: with some of the guests. We had Daniel Jeremiah before

536
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Speaker 1: the draft that this was one of the deeper tight

537
00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:26,479
Speaker 1: end groups in a long long time. I think Daniel

538
00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:29,919
Speaker 1: said he had eleven tight ends with day two. Grades

539
00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:33,320
Speaker 1: are better. I mean that is a And so when

540
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Speaker 1: you look at Laporta, he was the second one off

541
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Speaker 1: the board. Dalton kin kid went in the first round,

542
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Speaker 1: and then it was Sam Laporta. I think Mayor went

543
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Speaker 1: right after and there was a kind of a run

544
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Speaker 1: on him. But what do you like about Sam Laporta

545
00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:48,760
Speaker 1: is going to be on the production is elite at

546
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Speaker 1: avoiding tackles.

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Speaker 4: I think that's where when you're comparing him to Darnell

548
00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:55,840
Speaker 4: Washington who went a little bit later, but Mayor, especially

549
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Speaker 4: at that top of that second round, Sam Laporta's mistackle

550
00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:02,440
Speaker 4: per inch last year is off the charts. It was

551
00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:03,960
Speaker 4: the best in the tight end class. So I think

552
00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:06,240
Speaker 4: that's what you're really getting is not only can this

553
00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:09,400
Speaker 4: guy move the chains and move the six get past

554
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Speaker 4: the six first downs first downs when he gets the

555
00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:13,119
Speaker 4: ball in his hands, he stays on his feet and

556
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Speaker 4: he can go. And I think that's really what stood

557
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Speaker 4: out for the Lions.

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Speaker 1: He was Iowa's offense last year, what over fifty catches,

559
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Speaker 1: last two hundred or last two years, over six hundred

560
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Speaker 1: receiving yards. I mean, he was the guy there. And

561
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Speaker 1: I think, and you.

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Speaker 4: Think about all the Iowa tight ends, this guy is

563
00:26:30,119 --> 00:26:32,960
Speaker 4: the best receiving tight end in Iowa history. And you're

564
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Speaker 4: looking at Kittle and Hawkinson, Dallas Clark and Noah Fan.

565
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Speaker 1: Yeah, this guy's the top. Yeah. And also the fact

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Speaker 1: that he's joining a Detroit Lions offense that despite trading TJ. Hockinson,

567
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Speaker 1: you know, midway through the season, still had twelve touchdowns

568
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Speaker 1: from that seasion party of twelve times, that was a

569
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Speaker 1: franchise record. And they had TJ. Hawkins for what six

570
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Speaker 1: seven weeks I think he had he had kind of

571
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Speaker 1: for three of those touchdowns, you still had twelve. So

572
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Speaker 1: get a you know, Ben Johnson's very creative and being

573
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Speaker 1: able to be creative with the tight ends composition. And

574
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Speaker 1: now you've got an athlete the caliber of Sam Laporta

575
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Speaker 1: in you know, in that position to mix with that

576
00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:17,199
Speaker 1: group in that this kind of scheme that obviously has

577
00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:19,760
Speaker 1: a coordinator that knows how to scheme tight ends open

578
00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:23,160
Speaker 1: and get production from them even if they're not elite players.

579
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Speaker 1: Even though you know, I like you know Brock, right,

580
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Speaker 1: I like James Mitchell. I think those guys are are

581
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:30,240
Speaker 1: still going to be a big part of it too.

582
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Speaker 1: Now you add Sam Laporta to the mix, I think

583
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Speaker 1: you've really improved your tight end group.

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Speaker 4: I think between Laporta and especially James Mitchell, who I

585
00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:42,040
Speaker 4: still really like, you have two dynamic athletes after the catch.

586
00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:43,720
Speaker 4: I mean, that's what we saw from That's what we

587
00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:46,919
Speaker 4: saw year. If you could get him, you know, in

588
00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:49,560
Speaker 4: the slot underneath, and he can turn up field and

589
00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:51,720
Speaker 4: make a couple guys miss because he's so big, he's

590
00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:53,760
Speaker 4: got the long legs, he can do everything. Now you

591
00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:56,199
Speaker 4: have Sam Laporta who can do the same exact thing.

592
00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:59,080
Speaker 4: So you got two seambusters up the middle now that

593
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Speaker 4: can make guys miss after the catch.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's go back to the defense. To go

595
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Speaker 1: back to the defense of the ball. Their second second

596
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Speaker 1: round pick, number forty five overall and PG I think

597
00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:12,840
Speaker 1: this was maybe the best value in the entire favorite

598
00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:16,000
Speaker 1: player in the class. Yeah, yeah, and it's Brian Branch

599
00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:18,320
Speaker 1: the defensive back, and I'm not calling him a cornerback.

600
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Speaker 1: I'm calling him a defensive back from Alabama because look,

601
00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:24,119
Speaker 1: I know he played the majority of the time in

602
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Speaker 1: the nickel, and I think that's going to be his

603
00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:29,480
Speaker 1: role initially in the pros. But I think you can

604
00:28:29,520 --> 00:28:31,320
Speaker 1: move him to safety. I think in a bind, you

605
00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:34,560
Speaker 1: can put him outside. Obviously, he excels in the nickel

606
00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:38,560
Speaker 1: and that's you know, where he really shined at Alabama.

607
00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:41,640
Speaker 1: But he's just a defensive back. He's just he's a

608
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Speaker 1: guy that I think can be a weapon on defense.

609
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Speaker 1: I think he's a guy. He's a guy that you

610
00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:50,680
Speaker 1: can move around, matchup, you can play the dying with him. Look,

611
00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:52,480
Speaker 1: you're in sub package more than seventy percent of the

612
00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:55,800
Speaker 1: time in the NFL right now. So that fifth defensive back,

613
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Speaker 1: you know, imagine that's a guy like Branch who has size,

614
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Speaker 1: has speed, can play a number of different positions. You

615
00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:04,120
Speaker 1: can move him around as a matchup weapon. I think

616
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Speaker 1: that's gonna be really fun for Aaron Glenn.

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00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:08,400
Speaker 4: I wrote it in our Detroit Lions Mocko traft I

618
00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:11,640
Speaker 4: Brian Branch at eighteen on Thursday night, So to get.

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Speaker 1: Him atre for you Son. But this is what I wrote.

620
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Speaker 4: You currently have the best hybrid dB in the league

621
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Speaker 4: in c J.

622
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Speaker 1: Gardner Johnson. Yeah, you're adding Brian Branch. C J.

623
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Speaker 4: Gardner Johnson's on one year deal. If he wants to

624
00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:30,000
Speaker 4: come back, great, If he doesn't, there's one for one,

625
00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:31,400
Speaker 4: there's your replacement.

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Speaker 1: Well, and you're looking to the future. I looked at

627
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three. Let's say something happens to Tracy Walker. Yeah,

628
00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:39,120
Speaker 1: so now you can move CJ. Gardner Johnson to safety

629
00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:42,880
Speaker 1: and you can put Brian Branch in the nickel. And

630
00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:46,720
Speaker 1: I don't think you really you lose anything, or you

631
00:29:46,760 --> 00:29:49,280
Speaker 1: can do it the opposite way. You can. Branch can

632
00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:51,280
Speaker 1: do some safety stuff, you can keep. It gives you

633
00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:54,760
Speaker 1: options and versatile defensive backs. And that's what they what

634
00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:57,560
Speaker 1: they got was CJ. Gardner Johnson and mostly in Cam Sutton.

635
00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:02,640
Speaker 1: It gives you options back then and look, cornerback, defensive back. Safety,

636
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Speaker 1: it's the most injured position in football. Like you've got

637
00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:07,240
Speaker 1: to be a certain size to play that position unless

638
00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:09,600
Speaker 1: you are elite, and you've got to take on offensive

639
00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:12,720
Speaker 1: linemen in space. You've got to take on big running backs.

640
00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:15,160
Speaker 1: I mean, just the injury rate at that position is

641
00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:17,480
Speaker 1: the highest in the NFL. So you can't have enough,

642
00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:21,600
Speaker 1: in my opinion, really good cornerbacks, versatile cornerbacks, guys that

643
00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:23,320
Speaker 1: can do a lot of different things. That leaves your

644
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Speaker 1: options open.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and you look at Branch's college career. There are

646
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Speaker 4: not a lot, especially of dbs that play for Nick

647
00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:32,600
Speaker 4: Saban as a true freshman and see real time. And

648
00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:35,640
Speaker 4: this guy had had seven pass breakups and two interceptions

649
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Speaker 4: as a true freshman on the college football playoff team.

650
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Speaker 1: Mean, what were the stats last year? They were ridiculous. Yeah,

651
00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:42,320
Speaker 1: he had fourteen pass breakups. I think last year, I

652
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Speaker 1: think he had ten tackles for loss or plus ten

653
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Speaker 1: tackles for lost, ninety overall tackles, three sacks.

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00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:49,680
Speaker 4: This is just a guy who does it all that

655
00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:54,600
Speaker 4: has three years of experience for Nick Saban, like really

656
00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:57,680
Speaker 4: playing as a true freshman. They're not the last guy

657
00:30:57,680 --> 00:31:00,280
Speaker 4: to have. That was Patrick's fortan and that one's worked

658
00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:01,000
Speaker 4: out pretty well on.

659
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:03,160
Speaker 1: The pro so far. Maybe it doesn't mean anything, but

660
00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:05,160
Speaker 1: you know what else I liked about him? He stayed.

661
00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:07,160
Speaker 1: I love the fact that he stayed. I love the

662
00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:09,400
Speaker 1: fact that there was a young man who expected to

663
00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:12,600
Speaker 1: be a first round draft pick, obviously very disappointed round

664
00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:15,840
Speaker 1: when he didn't hear his name called. Stayed there because

665
00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:18,720
Speaker 1: he wanted to experience walking out there, going on the

666
00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:22,160
Speaker 1: stage in that moment. Other guys in the room didn't,

667
00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:24,560
Speaker 1: they left. I love the fact that he stayed, wanted

668
00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:27,080
Speaker 1: to be part of that moment. To me, it tues me.

669
00:31:27,080 --> 00:31:30,320
Speaker 1: He loves ball, you know, he just he loves the ball,

670
00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:35,560
Speaker 1: He loves the moment, loves football. Just again, a Campbell

671
00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:36,960
Speaker 1: Holmes Lions type guy.

672
00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:39,960
Speaker 4: Another Lions dB that stayed after thinking he was going

673
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:43,520
Speaker 4: in the first round, Darius A.

674
00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:46,880
Speaker 1: He's okay, all right, let's move to the third round.

675
00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:50,680
Speaker 1: And I know fans have been eager to get a

676
00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:53,520
Speaker 1: quarterback in here the last couple of years. Look, Jared

677
00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:55,720
Speaker 1: Golf is a guy. We both agree with that, there's

678
00:31:55,760 --> 00:32:00,000
Speaker 1: no disputing that. But they had to address the talent

679
00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:03,719
Speaker 1: in the depth of that quarterback room. Look, they resigned

680
00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:06,959
Speaker 1: Nate Sudfeld. Obviously reports are out there they have. You know,

681
00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:10,200
Speaker 1: before the draft, they had a contract offered out to

682
00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:12,880
Speaker 1: Teddy Bridgewater. Teddy, smartly, as a veteran, was going to

683
00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:15,240
Speaker 1: maybe see how the draft went. And see what his

684
00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:17,800
Speaker 1: options were that could still be in play. We'll see

685
00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:22,120
Speaker 1: how that develops afterward. But in Hooker, can I make

686
00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:25,000
Speaker 1: an admission here and you're probably not. I know you're

687
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:26,760
Speaker 1: not going to agree with me because we've gone back

688
00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:30,360
Speaker 1: and forth on this before. Hooker was my second favorite

689
00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:36,000
Speaker 1: quarterback in this class. Bold, very bold, bold, but Bryce

690
00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:40,080
Speaker 1: Young was one. Look, I like c J. Stroud. I

691
00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:42,680
Speaker 1: know you like Anthony Richardson, but I like Hndon Hooker

692
00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:45,800
Speaker 1: right there with c J. Stroud. That's how much I

693
00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:49,680
Speaker 1: like it. He's a player, he's accurate, and look, I

694
00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:51,720
Speaker 1: know that Tennessee system is a little bit quirky. It's

695
00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:54,160
Speaker 1: a lot of option routes with receivers in high tempo.

696
00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:57,360
Speaker 1: But if you just watched him, and you watch how

697
00:32:57,400 --> 00:33:00,440
Speaker 1: he handled himself in the pocket the act, you receive

698
00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:05,200
Speaker 1: sixty seven eight touchdowns throughout his entire Tennessee career, and

699
00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:07,520
Speaker 1: then I think it's very underrated part of his games

700
00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:09,600
Speaker 1: he decided to take off and run. Look, he ran

701
00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:12,040
Speaker 1: for over four hundred yards or you know this past

702
00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:15,040
Speaker 1: season before the acl SO and some of those like

703
00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:18,120
Speaker 1: he finished those runs, you know, And so I think

704
00:33:18,120 --> 00:33:20,640
Speaker 1: you're getting an athletic guy. You're getting a smart guy.

705
00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:23,880
Speaker 1: People talk about his age, right, Pg's twenty five years old,

706
00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:26,920
Speaker 1: he's too old. What is the role of a backup

707
00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:30,280
Speaker 1: quarterback in the NFL? Ready? When when your number is called?

708
00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:33,440
Speaker 1: And also to me, it's just sport starter. Yeah, you know,

709
00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:35,320
Speaker 1: it's to be that guy in the film room that

710
00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:39,200
Speaker 1: can see things and relay that to the quarterback. It's

711
00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:41,960
Speaker 1: that guy that helps prepare the quarterback throughout the week

712
00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:45,560
Speaker 1: to do his job better. A twenty five year old,

713
00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:48,600
Speaker 1: he sperienced guy with forty nine and two different systems.

714
00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:50,400
Speaker 1: I think there's a guy that can come in and

715
00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:54,120
Speaker 1: support and help Jared Golf in the quarterback which, look,

716
00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:55,640
Speaker 1: you're right, he's got to be ready to play and

717
00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:58,479
Speaker 1: ready to go. But the when the the number one

718
00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:02,120
Speaker 1: guy's healthy, that job is to support the quarterback make

719
00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:04,920
Speaker 1: him better. And I think a guy that's twenty five

720
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:07,000
Speaker 1: years old that's played as many games as hen and Hooker,

721
00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:07,720
Speaker 1: I think he can do that.

722
00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:10,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you know what are we going to see

723
00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:13,520
Speaker 4: this year with the ACL It might be nothing, you

724
00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:17,080
Speaker 4: know it, really this is a down the road thing.

725
00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:19,600
Speaker 4: But you have him for four years, so let's see

726
00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:21,640
Speaker 4: what you got, but you mentioned the legs. I think

727
00:34:21,680 --> 00:34:24,719
Speaker 4: that's the biggest thing to me. We've seen what a

728
00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:27,920
Speaker 4: running quarterback can do to a defense. Jalen Hurts played

729
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:29,880
Speaker 4: very well against the Lions last year. This is just

730
00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:33,560
Speaker 4: another dynamic and he doesn't have to be your starter

731
00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:36,200
Speaker 4: to come in in goal line packages. If you need

732
00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:39,759
Speaker 4: somebody to burst through QB power on the goal line

733
00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:44,040
Speaker 4: and get a QB sneak first down or make something

734
00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:46,319
Speaker 4: hap with his legs, there are sub packages that you

735
00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:48,360
Speaker 4: could throw him in and get him out there. But

736
00:34:49,040 --> 00:34:51,400
Speaker 4: as a quarterback, I mean he can throw. It's a

737
00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:53,560
Speaker 4: pitch and catch thing if guys were open. He showed

738
00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:56,759
Speaker 4: that at Tennessee. And this is a it's really an

739
00:34:56,760 --> 00:34:59,279
Speaker 4: ideal situation because he doesn't have to be rushed in

740
00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:01,480
Speaker 4: to end anything whatsoever.

741
00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:04,359
Speaker 1: He's got developmental traits, which is all you can ask for.

742
00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:08,320
Speaker 4: With the third round especially, I mean, it's just you

743
00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:12,520
Speaker 4: want to talk about positional value hard.

744
00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:17,279
Speaker 1: Yeah, So we thought Day two was over. We were

745
00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:19,919
Speaker 1: getting ready to go home and enjoy it, and no,

746
00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:24,200
Speaker 1: Brad Holmes had trader Brad, Yeah, Brad Holmes had other ideas.

747
00:35:24,239 --> 00:35:27,160
Speaker 1: He traded a fourth and two fifth round picks. That's

748
00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:30,640
Speaker 1: quite a bit of capital their page to move back

749
00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:36,480
Speaker 1: into the third round to take Roderick Martin Hilltoppers. The Hilltoppers.

750
00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:39,960
Speaker 1: I know you guys are probably saying, who Western Kentucky,

751
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:44,640
Speaker 1: Western Kentucky, Roderick Martin. And I think this is a

752
00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:49,160
Speaker 1: great example of the value of the East West Shrine Game,

753
00:35:49,520 --> 00:35:52,239
Speaker 1: the value of the Senior Bowl, and how some of

754
00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:55,719
Speaker 1: those guys that are actually going to these events practicing

755
00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:58,880
Speaker 1: and playing football and you're being a valuable on football

756
00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:04,120
Speaker 1: can sometimes pop onto especially radars guys when they come

757
00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:06,000
Speaker 1: and they get to see because at this point, you've

758
00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:09,440
Speaker 1: just seen them dominate lower level competition. So the big

759
00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:12,680
Speaker 1: thing with those guys is going to those all star

760
00:36:12,719 --> 00:36:15,960
Speaker 1: games and playing better competition. And then now if you

761
00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:20,000
Speaker 1: still dominate or or you stand out during that week,

762
00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:21,759
Speaker 1: now what the teams do is they go back to

763
00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:24,319
Speaker 1: the tape, and they go back to the evaluation, and

764
00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:26,239
Speaker 1: then they're going to watch that tape throughout the week,

765
00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:28,160
Speaker 1: and now your projection gets better. And that was the

766
00:36:28,160 --> 00:36:30,640
Speaker 1: case with Project Martin, a three hundred and thirty pound

767
00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:36,239
Speaker 1: space eating defensive tackle knows one two technique, but when

768
00:36:36,239 --> 00:36:38,960
Speaker 1: they saw him, they saw a guy who moved like

769
00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:40,680
Speaker 1: a three hundred pound guy, like a two hundred and

770
00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:42,960
Speaker 1: ninety pound guy, not a three hundred and thirty pound guy.

771
00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:46,480
Speaker 1: So I think they see huge upside with him. Come

772
00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:49,120
Speaker 1: in here, get some technique work, strengthen his hands a

773
00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:51,520
Speaker 1: little bit. He's already got the quick step in the burst.

774
00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:54,200
Speaker 1: Now they think maybe they can give him that. He

775
00:36:54,239 --> 00:36:56,359
Speaker 1: can give them excuse need some juice in the middle,

776
00:36:56,560 --> 00:36:58,799
Speaker 1: play on the other side line of scrimmage and be

777
00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:01,880
Speaker 1: a great addition to the middle that defense with Alien McNeil,

778
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:03,399
Speaker 1: Isaiah Bugs and those other guys.

779
00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:05,879
Speaker 4: He's get thirty five inch arms too, So if you're

780
00:37:06,080 --> 00:37:09,080
Speaker 4: running right up the middle, you are running into a

781
00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:12,480
Speaker 4: massive human being, which I think is important. But this

782
00:37:12,640 --> 00:37:15,440
Speaker 4: is just you know, you saw what the run defense

783
00:37:15,520 --> 00:37:17,719
Speaker 4: was we mentioned with Jack Campbell. I think this is

784
00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:20,880
Speaker 4: you know, this was the pick that was on the whiteboard.

785
00:37:20,880 --> 00:37:23,640
Speaker 4: It's like, we are stopping the run. This is the

786
00:37:23,640 --> 00:37:25,960
Speaker 4: guy that you're you're bringing in to help do that.

787
00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:29,799
Speaker 4: But I think even bigger in the past game he's

788
00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:31,640
Speaker 4: on the field, I think you might be able to

789
00:37:31,680 --> 00:37:34,040
Speaker 4: see Alle McNeil talked about cut a little bit of weight.

790
00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:38,760
Speaker 4: Wants to get more athletic, more consistent. Yeah, so could

791
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:42,200
Speaker 4: we see, you know, Proderick Martin at knows Alie McNeil

792
00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:45,160
Speaker 4: play a little three pass rush a little bit more

793
00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:47,520
Speaker 4: use that athleticism. See if you can get a little

794
00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:49,600
Speaker 4: bit more juice out of a liem in the past game.

795
00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:51,600
Speaker 4: This could open the door for that if he doesn't

796
00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:52,880
Speaker 4: have to just play nose every snap.

797
00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:56,120
Speaker 1: They needed to add to that position. In my opinion,

798
00:37:56,120 --> 00:37:58,120
Speaker 1: that was the biggest need coming into the draft. They

799
00:37:58,160 --> 00:38:01,040
Speaker 1: need to get another body to add to that interior mix.

800
00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:04,120
Speaker 1: Broderick Martin is the guy, all right, So let's go

801
00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:06,120
Speaker 1: to the final day and look the final of the

802
00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:09,839
Speaker 1: day of the draft pages. That's when you're looking for traits, right,

803
00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:13,640
Speaker 1: I mean projectable, yeah, because I mean if guys were

804
00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:16,399
Speaker 1: clean prospects, they would have gone first, second, third round.

805
00:38:16,520 --> 00:38:18,720
Speaker 1: You know, when through fourth or seventh, you're looking at

806
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:22,120
Speaker 1: guys who think fit your scheme, certain traits that maybe

807
00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:24,080
Speaker 1: you really love in a football player. There might be

808
00:38:24,160 --> 00:38:26,960
Speaker 1: some deficiencies, some things guys need to improve on, but

809
00:38:27,239 --> 00:38:29,840
Speaker 1: that's what you're looking for. And so the first pick

810
00:38:29,920 --> 00:38:32,239
Speaker 1: that they had, one hundred and fifty two, fifth round,

811
00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:39,719
Speaker 1: they take Corby Colby. Excuse me, sorezdel big, massive, six

812
00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:44,520
Speaker 1: foot five, three hundred pound right tackle, five year starter

813
00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:48,880
Speaker 1: at William and Mary at right tackle. But a guy again,

814
00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:51,719
Speaker 1: like we talked about with Martin, went to the East

815
00:38:51,719 --> 00:38:55,319
Speaker 1: West Shrine game, really stood out. Teams wanted to see

816
00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:58,440
Speaker 1: him at guard, which he moved to, had never played

817
00:38:58,440 --> 00:39:01,120
Speaker 1: before in college, and was really good during that week

818
00:39:01,160 --> 00:39:04,279
Speaker 1: against good competition. So I think that might be in

819
00:39:04,360 --> 00:39:06,960
Speaker 1: his future. He's got thirty three inch arms, a little

820
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:10,040
Speaker 1: bit small for a tackle, tenant chands which aren't bad,

821
00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:11,960
Speaker 1: but you'd like to see them a little bit bigger.

822
00:39:12,080 --> 00:39:13,879
Speaker 1: I think the fact that the Lions have a need

823
00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:16,080
Speaker 1: for an interior offensive lineman. He was a guy that

824
00:39:16,239 --> 00:39:19,120
Speaker 1: moved inside at the East West rank game and almost

825
00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:22,399
Speaker 1: looked better at that spot thing tackle, I think that

826
00:39:22,480 --> 00:39:25,680
Speaker 1: could be in his future. But a versatile guy and

827
00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:29,000
Speaker 1: another guy they can just throw to an already you know,

828
00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:30,480
Speaker 1: area of strength of this football team.

829
00:39:30,520 --> 00:39:34,520
Speaker 4: You don't really see many offensive lineman forty six career starts, right.

830
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:37,960
Speaker 4: I mean, this is an experienced player, so at the

831
00:39:38,040 --> 00:39:41,359
Speaker 4: very least, you know that's just game reps. You used

832
00:39:41,360 --> 00:39:44,880
Speaker 4: to live reps. And he's played ever since. He was

833
00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:48,359
Speaker 4: a true freshman, first offensive lineman at William and Mary

834
00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:50,759
Speaker 4: to started a true freshman since nineteen eighty three. Look

835
00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:55,560
Speaker 4: at you making the stats. This is for you, but

836
00:39:55,640 --> 00:39:58,120
Speaker 4: this is this is the guy. He's got ability to move.

837
00:39:58,640 --> 00:40:00,839
Speaker 4: You're looking at the what they on the East West

838
00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:03,319
Speaker 4: Shrinde Bowl from on the broadcast. He was able to

839
00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:05,360
Speaker 4: move laterally a little bit, get out there in space.

840
00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:08,360
Speaker 4: If you're running some outside zone, some wide zone, he

841
00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:10,480
Speaker 4: can get out there and kind of throw some blocks,

842
00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:13,719
Speaker 4: move some weight around. You know, the Lions used a

843
00:40:13,760 --> 00:40:16,200
Speaker 4: six offensive lineman a jumbo set more than anybody else.

844
00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:18,760
Speaker 4: A good point by the end of the year. Nelson

845
00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:20,839
Speaker 4: was very good at that last year and it's still here.

846
00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:22,400
Speaker 4: But by the end of the year, could could he

847
00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:24,680
Speaker 4: be out there running a little bit? You saw what

848
00:40:24,719 --> 00:40:28,360
Speaker 4: Sewell can do moving his weight around in Green Bay.

849
00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:30,120
Speaker 4: Could that be something that we see by the end

850
00:40:30,160 --> 00:40:33,279
Speaker 4: of the year. It's just, you know, an athlete, an

851
00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:36,240
Speaker 4: experienced athlete that has time to develop.

852
00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:38,840
Speaker 1: Obviously behind a great offensive line. All right, let's finish

853
00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:41,680
Speaker 1: this out. Seventh round, pick two nineteen. They moved up

854
00:40:41,840 --> 00:40:44,560
Speaker 1: thirty spots from two forty nine to nineteen in the

855
00:40:44,560 --> 00:40:49,000
Speaker 1: swift trade with Philly and they take Antoine Green. Here's

856
00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:53,319
Speaker 1: a guy from North Carolina, spent you know, five year guy,

857
00:40:53,680 --> 00:40:57,160
Speaker 1: and you look at every year he got better, substantial

858
00:40:57,200 --> 00:41:00,880
Speaker 1: for some more time, more snaps. Yeahlast year, I mean

859
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:04,360
Speaker 1: six foot two, two hundred pounds four four seven forty

860
00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:07,239
Speaker 1: so sub four to five guy at that size, and

861
00:41:07,560 --> 00:41:11,200
Speaker 1: nineteen point zero average yards per catch, Like that's the

862
00:41:11,280 --> 00:41:13,920
Speaker 1: number that shoot out to me. He was their vertical threat.

863
00:41:14,239 --> 00:41:16,080
Speaker 1: And I think, look, we talked about you're gonna miss

864
00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:18,799
Speaker 1: Jamison Williams for the first six weeks. I think here's

865
00:41:18,840 --> 00:41:20,759
Speaker 1: a guy that's going to get an opportunity to come

866
00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:24,800
Speaker 1: into camp. He makes some plays, Scott size good, fifty

867
00:41:24,800 --> 00:41:27,560
Speaker 1: to fifty ball guy, vertical guy. You start to make

868
00:41:27,600 --> 00:41:30,479
Speaker 1: some plays and maybe there's an opportunity there with James

869
00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:32,800
Speaker 1: and Williams gone for you to fit into this offense

870
00:41:32,880 --> 00:41:35,160
Speaker 1: in that kind of role of moving down the field,

871
00:41:35,160 --> 00:41:37,359
Speaker 1: maybe an X guy that they're going to maybe miss

872
00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:38,839
Speaker 1: here for the first month and a half.

873
00:41:38,920 --> 00:41:40,799
Speaker 4: I was gonna say, I think the size is the

874
00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:43,960
Speaker 4: biggest thing. So you got you got Josh Reynolds, big dude.

875
00:41:44,040 --> 00:41:46,080
Speaker 4: Marv's a big dude. But then you're looking at the rest,

876
00:41:46,120 --> 00:41:50,400
Speaker 4: it's like, okay, Amen Ra smaller, Cleiverahimond smaller, Tom Kennedy smaller.

877
00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:53,520
Speaker 4: You got a six ' to two body out there

878
00:41:53,560 --> 00:41:56,520
Speaker 4: now that has experience on the outside, and the nineteen

879
00:41:56,560 --> 00:42:00,240
Speaker 4: yards per catches is it's a real number. It's it's

880
00:42:00,280 --> 00:42:04,120
Speaker 4: pretty good. So you're looking downfield that that somebody can

881
00:42:04,280 --> 00:42:06,640
Speaker 4: can go up there and get it when you're you know.

882
00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:09,200
Speaker 4: He said in his media call that he had experienced

883
00:42:09,239 --> 00:42:11,120
Speaker 4: at Gunner and played a little bit of teams, which

884
00:42:11,160 --> 00:42:13,120
Speaker 4: is a seventh thrond pick you're gonna have to do

885
00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:15,400
Speaker 4: if you want to stick around. So that's just an

886
00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:18,040
Speaker 4: added bonus. But I think, really, when you're looking at,

887
00:42:18,200 --> 00:42:22,040
Speaker 4: you know, the Lions wide receiver room, even with Jmo

888
00:42:22,160 --> 00:42:25,520
Speaker 4: in it, another body at that size, it could be

889
00:42:25,560 --> 00:42:26,080
Speaker 4: really key.

890
00:42:26,360 --> 00:42:28,880
Speaker 1: So I look at Jamior Gibbs, I look at Jack Campbell,

891
00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:31,040
Speaker 1: I look at Sam Laporta, Brian Branch. I think these

892
00:42:31,040 --> 00:42:33,960
Speaker 1: are gonna be early impact guys. Martin's got a chance

893
00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:37,080
Speaker 1: to be a rotational guy pretty early on. You mentioned

894
00:42:37,120 --> 00:42:40,879
Speaker 1: that that that swing tackle wool for Sorezdel. I think

895
00:42:40,920 --> 00:42:43,680
Speaker 1: there's an opportunity there Green will have a chance. I think,

896
00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:46,319
Speaker 1: you know, my takeaway from this draft is I think

897
00:42:46,360 --> 00:42:49,160
Speaker 1: they got their kind of guys, and I think they

898
00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:52,279
Speaker 1: got a collection of guys that they expect to impact

899
00:42:52,600 --> 00:42:55,080
Speaker 1: football games pretty early on in their career. And I

900
00:42:55,120 --> 00:42:57,400
Speaker 1: look their rookies, you can't expect too much from a

901
00:42:57,440 --> 00:43:01,000
Speaker 1: lot of these guys. But in terms of and Campbell especially,

902
00:43:01,160 --> 00:43:03,000
Speaker 1: and I'd even put Laporta in there, I think they're

903
00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:06,319
Speaker 1: gonna have a chance to be really impact players early on,

904
00:43:06,520 --> 00:43:12,040
Speaker 1: starting caliber guys that that end up you know, you know,

905
00:43:12,320 --> 00:43:20,640
Speaker 1: being or having a good lotman of production. And so overall,

906
00:43:20,680 --> 00:43:23,120
Speaker 1: I like the draft. I think it was a good

907
00:43:23,239 --> 00:43:26,719
Speaker 1: draft by Holmes. They got their guys. And speaking of which,

908
00:43:26,719 --> 00:43:30,399
Speaker 1: we're going to have Brad Holmes on the podcast this week.

909
00:43:30,440 --> 00:43:31,960
Speaker 1: He's going to join me this week. We're gonna go

910
00:43:32,040 --> 00:43:34,520
Speaker 1: over all these picks. We're gonna go over just kind

911
00:43:34,560 --> 00:43:36,680
Speaker 1: of what he thinks of the impact these guys gonna

912
00:43:36,800 --> 00:43:38,759
Speaker 1: are going to have and the next steps in the

913
00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:43,360
Speaker 1: off season. So what did you think of I think this.

914
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Speaker 4: Is a draft, a list of a team that's ready

915
00:43:47,520 --> 00:43:50,080
Speaker 4: to play and a team that's ready to compete right now.

916
00:43:50,239 --> 00:43:53,600
Speaker 4: And yeah, you know, you can harp on the positional value,

917
00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:57,200
Speaker 4: but when Jimior Gibbs is out there and gets fifteen

918
00:43:57,239 --> 00:43:59,799
Speaker 4: touches early on in the season and you see what

919
00:43:59,840 --> 00:44:02,640
Speaker 4: he can do with that, that changes a lot of things,

920
00:44:02,760 --> 00:44:06,160
Speaker 4: especially for a team that that just fundamentally wants to

921
00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:10,200
Speaker 4: run the ball down your throat. Between the investment and

922
00:44:10,280 --> 00:44:13,640
Speaker 4: David Montgomery, which was a real monetary investment, and then

923
00:44:13,680 --> 00:44:17,480
Speaker 4: the twelfth overall pick, I don't think they're shying away.

924
00:44:17,200 --> 00:44:19,319
Speaker 1: From that at all. So we've got the rookie mini

925
00:44:19,360 --> 00:44:21,640
Speaker 1: camp coming up. We'll break down that, We've got the

926
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Speaker 1: schedule release and we'll talk. We're gonna have Brad Holmes

927
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Speaker 1: on for Thursday's podcast release, and so we'll kind of

928
00:44:31,200 --> 00:44:35,359
Speaker 1: put the draft in a bow there and and move

929
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Speaker 1: on to some of the things in the offseason. So

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Speaker 1: we've got we've got a busy few weeks here on

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Speaker 1: the podcast. Peach, thanks for joining me, Thank you guys

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Speaker 1: for joining us, and stick around the next couple of weeks.

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Speaker 1: There's the there's a lot of content. It will be

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Speaker 1: a lot of fun podcasts.