WEBVTT - Patriots Catch-22 2/9: Seven-Round Mock Draft and Senior Bowl Standouts 0:00:03.880 --> 0:00:07.280 This is the Patriots Catch twenty two podcasts with Evan 0:00:07.360 --> 0:00:12.720 Lazar and Alex Barr Lazar, Well, everybody nailed it, joined 0:00:12.760 --> 0:00:18.840 us always buy ours, Bar David match. Here is Evan 0:00:18.920 --> 0:00:22.120 Lazar and Alex Barks. All right, I know you don't 0:00:22.160 --> 0:00:24.239 want to do this, but I'm gonna bring it up. 0:00:25.040 --> 0:00:28.160 A lot of those concepts you're talking about. We're geared 0:00:28.160 --> 0:00:31.120 around the running back like Jamir Gibbs led the team 0:00:31.120 --> 0:00:33.559 and catch us. He led the team and carries. Why 0:00:33.560 --> 0:00:41.320 are we doing this? Why every draft ever? You know 0:00:41.360 --> 0:00:45.159 why your microphone? You know why every draft season you 0:00:45.240 --> 0:00:50.000 have to come at me with the running back, the 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:55.040 the punter, the the guard and do they not usually 0:00:55.120 --> 0:00:58.040 end up making those moves? Yeah, but we're not here 0:00:58.240 --> 0:01:00.440 he doesn't. It doesn't mean that we should delight or 0:01:00.480 --> 0:01:05.440 we should applaud it. I'm not Robinson in the first round. Great, awesome, 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:08.360 but here's what you mistake. I am not applauding it. 0:01:08.400 --> 0:01:12.120 But nobody cares what we would do because we're not 0:01:12.160 --> 0:01:15.319 the ones making the decisions. They want us to tell 0:01:15.360 --> 0:01:17.679 them what we think, in our expert opinion, the team 0:01:17.720 --> 0:01:20.200 is going to do. It would be malpractice not to 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:23.120 address it whether the move is right or wrong. Alex 0:01:23.200 --> 0:01:26.160 Barth back in studio, back from Vegas. We're not going 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:29.160 to get into too many wild Vegas stories, but a 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:32.000 couple of little tidbits about the lux Or, which was 0:01:32.360 --> 0:01:35.760 a beautiful you love the Luxor elevators that go at 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:39.040 thirty nine degree angles. That almost made me throw up 0:01:39.120 --> 0:01:43.000 multiple times because I was drunk, just because the elevator 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:47.600 is Evan just can't handle an elevator. Not that elevator. 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:51.600 That was kind of cool. Diabo Cantina, fantastic Mexican. I 0:01:51.680 --> 0:01:54.000 usually don't love Mexican food. That was really good, the 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:57.840 great Mexican restaurant inside the lovely lux Or. But I've 0:01:57.840 --> 0:02:00.680 had some some moments where I've woken up since we've 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:02.760 been back. I told you this that I thought I 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:04.880 was still in the Luxe store, and then i wake 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:06.880 up and I'm like, oh good, I'm home. I'm not. 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:09.840 I'm not in this hotel in Vegas anymore. I know 0:02:09.919 --> 0:02:11.880 that was your first time in Vegas. I hope you 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:15.119 enjoyed yourself. But now that I've been to Vegas three 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:17.760 times in like a seven month span, I am so 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:22.000 Vegas out. I have no need for Vegas anymore. I've 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:25.880 been there, I've done it. It smells it's hot, or 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:28.160 this time it was it was not hot, this time 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:30.880 it was cold. This time it was cold when it's 0:02:30.880 --> 0:02:33.239 supposed to be hot. Like, I'm just out on Vegas 0:02:33.320 --> 0:02:35.640 and I love Vegas, but I'm out back, like that 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:38.800 sign says when you're leaving, come back soon. That's the 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:41.280 worst part. I think that's the worst part is that 0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:44.359 knowing that the Raiders are once again on the road 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:47.560 team schedule for next year, so no matter what I do, 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:50.960 I will be back in Vegas next fall. I know. 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:53.680 This sounds like a first world problem. It tour Evan. 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:57.240 It totally more. Evan has to go to Las Vegas 0:02:57.240 --> 0:03:04.160 and watch football. Oh no, it's how It's one of 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:07.880 those places that you go with your buddies. You go, 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:10.440 you know, and have a good time for two or 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:13.240 three days, but when you have to go over and 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:16.600 over again and for a week at a time, it's 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:19.320 not even just like that. We're popping in and leaving, right, 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:23.320 I mean, we've been there for five six days straight. There. 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:27.040 There's definitely a such thing as too much Vegas, and 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:30.280 I've I've hit the Vegas quota and then some So 0:03:30.720 --> 0:03:34.040 that's our Vegas minute. We want to start the show. 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:36.280 I published my first mock draft today, as I know 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:39.360 you have one coming shortly on the Sports Up, but 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:41.120 I want to go through some of the picks that 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:43.280 I made in the mock draft and explain some of 0:03:43.320 --> 0:03:46.760 my methodology here of why I got to some of 0:03:46.760 --> 0:03:49.200 these things. Then we're gonna do some Senior Bowl stuff 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:51.360 that will segue us into some Senior Bowl stuff because 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:53.560 we haven't been on the air since the Senior Bowl, 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:55.840 so we'll get an opportunity to talk about some of 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:58.640 the standouts and we'll see take some calls and see 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:01.120 where that takes us. Eight five five patch five hundred 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:04.200 is the phone number you can email at web radio 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:07.080 at Patriots dot com as well. Let's get into the 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:10.520 mock draft, though, I think the biggest thing that when 0:04:10.560 --> 0:04:12.680 I went into this mock draft, so the first thing 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:16.600 that I wanted to do was get through the top receivers, 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:18.880 the top corners, and the top tackles in the draft 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:21.040 to have a really good feel of the guys that 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:24.600 realistically the Patriots might target in the first round this year. 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:26.719 In the draft, I think we can all agree that 0:04:26.800 --> 0:04:29.200 those three positions back to the rand at the beginning 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:33.240 of the show, they're not I pray that they're not 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:36.359 taking another guard. I pray that they're not taking Bijean 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:39.520 Robinson or your boy Gibbs from Alabama in the first 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:43.039 round of running back, is my point. We pray that 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:44.920 that's not going to be I pray. I can't speak 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:46.560 for you. Can I give you one more position that 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:48.919 I could not be less interested in the first round. 0:04:49.320 --> 0:04:52.000 And some people actually like the positions you named. I 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:55.280 don't think anybody's really talking about that. The tight end 0:04:55.279 --> 0:04:57.520 in the first round thing, Yeah, that too when you 0:04:57.560 --> 0:05:01.840 stop because especially like Mayor in particular, I'm not saying 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:03.280 I think he's a bad player. I actually think he's 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:05.840 a very good player. But a big issue for the 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:10.799 Patriots offense really going back to Cam Newton year, has 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:16.480 been they're not horizontal enough, right, Like, if you stack 0:05:16.560 --> 0:05:18.880 the box against the Patriots, you're pretty much gonna take 0:05:18.880 --> 0:05:21.919 away everything. I think Michael Mayer is a really good player, 0:05:22.000 --> 0:05:25.400 but he barely lines up in the slot. Forget out 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:28.359 Why I mean you're lining him up in line? Everything 0:05:28.480 --> 0:05:30.880 is being played in a phone booth, right You're you're 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:33.520 no more. You don't prevent teams from stacking the box. 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:36.880 You don't prevent teams from you know, taking players outside 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:39.240 the numbers, right, So I just if you're gonna use 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:43.960 that hive and investment on a pass catcher, either trade 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:47.400 it for a guy like Tee Higgins right or at 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:51.160 least draft And what's weird is the top receivers in 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:53.720 this draft or all slot receivers. So they don't necessarily 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:55.840 fix that problem either, at least not to the extent. 0:05:55.920 --> 0:05:58.960 But I just I see all these people who are 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:02.279 all excited about Michael Mayer, you know as the US 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:08.520 but may or like a big guy, where's eighty seven? Like, yeah, 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:11.120 it just it doesn't make sense. I'm not saying tight 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:12.800 end in the draft doesn't make sense. We'll get to that, 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:15.359 but if we're listening, the positions we're out on in 0:06:15.360 --> 0:06:20.640 the first round unless they do something spectacular in free agency, 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:24.080 it with trades and whatever. For now, I am out 0:06:24.160 --> 0:06:27.800 on sight end in the first round. So I think 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:30.240 the biggest issue that I had is that every single 0:06:30.279 --> 0:06:32.640 time I came up with a reason to take a 0:06:32.720 --> 0:06:35.600 position other than the guy at the position I took, 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:40.840 I still came back to this still feels like such 0:06:40.839 --> 0:06:44.719 a glaring hole that they absolutely need to address. And 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:47.960 over the last couple of years, the Patriots have targeted 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:50.920 major holes on their roster with their top picks in 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:54.119 the draft. Coles Strange needed guards, They draft a guard, 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:57.720 need a quarterback. They draft Mac Jones. Patrick Chung is 0:06:57.760 --> 0:07:00.680 about to retire, They draft Kyle Dugger. Right, they have 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:04.039 gone need based a little bit here. Well, so my 0:07:04.200 --> 0:07:06.640 and you've heard me do this rump before drafting for 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:10.240 need versus drafting the best player available. And everybody always says, well, 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:12.040 you don't draft for need, You never draft for need. 0:07:12.080 --> 0:07:13.640 Just take the best player on the board, and that's 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:16.840 what you do. Okay, Well, what does that mean? What 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:18.880 does the best player on the board mean? Are we 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:22.720 talking about like overall talent level? Because if that's the case, 0:07:23.360 --> 0:07:25.520 there should be kickers and punters going in the first round, 0:07:25.600 --> 0:07:28.280 Like you know, we're gonna get twenty twenty five picks 0:07:28.280 --> 0:07:29.920 into this thing. And if we're just going back, like Pier, 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:32.960 throwout positional value, just who is the best at their 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:37.120 position relative to everybody else at their position. Jake Moody's 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:39.760 a top thirty player in this draft. Would you agree 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:42.800 with that in that context? I understand. And then but 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:45.239 that's the thing. Then people come back and say always 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:47.000 got to come up. But then, but then people are 0:07:47.080 --> 0:07:50.600 A running back Jimir Gibbs is a top thirty talented 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:53.120 player in this draft, just just to John Robinson, I 0:07:53.160 --> 0:07:55.520 think is a top twenty guy. Okay, so, but so 0:07:55.600 --> 0:07:57.520 they're the best player available. So if you're gonna come 0:07:57.560 --> 0:08:01.360 at me and say, well, no, it's not what it means, well, 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:03.080 all right, well now you're not taking the best player. 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:05.640 Now you're putting qualifiers on it, right. I also think 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:11.040 that their approach has been pretty consistently the best player 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:15.120 available at the biggest areas. They're trying to get those 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:17.880 two things. And what does Bill Belichick always say? You know, 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:21.000 we're gonna do what's best for the team. So if 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:24.040 the best player available is the best player for the team, 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:29.120 you are factoring need in. So best player available doesn't 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:32.600 actually mean anything because you can make an argument that 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:35.000 a kicker or running back. How about all those years 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:37.400 with Brady when they were passing on quarterbacks who were 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:40.680 better players than the guys they were drafting in the 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:43.160 first round, right, Well, that one you know later in 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:45.040 his career, maybe you could argue taking a quarterback, but 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:48.000 I'm talking earlier on right, Aaron Rodgers falls all the 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:50.040 way to twenty. Whatever I believe they picked before the 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:52.720 Packers that year, I'm gonna guess he's a better player 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:55.560 and whoever they took, but that one helps them. So 0:08:56.040 --> 0:08:59.520 best player available as a fallacy, best player available doesn't 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:01.360 actually mean what you think it means. When you say 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:04.640 best player available, the full sentence should be best player 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:07.960 available for the football team. So don't come at me with, oh, 0:09:08.000 --> 0:09:10.320 you're too focused on drafting for need That's not what 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:13.360 teams do. That's what every team does. It just sounds 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:16.280 sexier to say taking the best player avail. So I 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:20.360 think that we can agree that corner, tackle, wide receiver 0:09:20.800 --> 0:09:24.120 are the three biggest spots where a significant upgrade on 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:26.280 the roster would really move the needle. And we're taking 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:28.200 quarterback out of it. I know some people would would 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:30.680 say quarterback, but we're taking quarterback out of it because 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:32.480 I think they're taking quarterback out of it right at 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:35.200 least for this year and at that high in the draft. Right. 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:40.160 So my other the way that I always go about 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:43.400 this is that I try to eliminate guys before I 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:46.040 pick a guy, right like, I try to eliminate options 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:48.840 where I don't love this, I don't like that, and 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:51.480 then I end up with the last man standing right 0:09:52.400 --> 0:09:56.040 at corner. I got admit, I've watched all of these guys, 0:09:56.120 --> 0:10:01.720 Christian Gonzalez, Joey Porter Junior, Cam Smith, Ringo from Georgia, 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:05.600 and who's the other, A Witherspoon from Illinois. I think 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:09.040 all of them have first round caliber traits, but I 0:10:09.040 --> 0:10:11.319 don't think any of them are really the entire package. 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:13.000 And that's why I don't think you're gonna have a 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:14.960 Sauce Gardener right like, You're not gonna have somebody go 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:17.400 in the top five at that position this year. Because 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:20.000 of that. I think that a guy that could be 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:22.680 available there that I would at that position is Joey 0:10:22.720 --> 0:10:25.600 Porter Junior. But then you have some political things with 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:28.080 his father and the Patriots that I think you have 0:10:28.120 --> 0:10:30.200 to bring up in this conversation when it comes to 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:33.440 draft and fit. But based off the things that Joey 0:10:33.440 --> 0:10:36.480 Porter Senior has said about New England in the past, 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:38.160 and you can just go look him up on your 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:40.720 own time, I'm not necessarily sure that Bill's gonna draft 0:10:40.760 --> 0:10:44.760 his son. I just and even on top of that, 0:10:44.800 --> 0:10:47.559 there's the Penn State thing he never takes. And I 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:50.679 would also mention that as good as I think Joey 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:53.839 Porter Junior could probably be in the protect in a 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:57.280 proper role, in the proper scheme, he is a higher, 0:10:57.720 --> 0:11:01.040 higher legged, or tighter hipped corner. He's somebody that when 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:04.720 you look at him play, if he's not getting redirects 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:07.959 or jams instantly early on in the route and guys 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:10.040 are able to get up to top speed on him, 0:11:10.200 --> 0:11:13.199 he has a difficult time I think on film flipping 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:15.800 his hips and then mirroring guys down the field right, 0:11:15.880 --> 0:11:18.439 being able to turn and run with guys even out 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:21.160 of press coverage. I think out an off coverage, smaller, 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:23.000 shiftier guys are going to be able to break down 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:25.000 on him, and they're gonna be able to change directions 0:11:25.000 --> 0:11:27.320 on him. So I'm not in love with any of 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:30.679 the corners. We've talked a ton about wide receiver and 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:32.800 I feel the same. And I would also mention that 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:34.760 with both these groups, I think it's a really deep 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:37.880 draft at both of these positions. So is there really 0:11:37.880 --> 0:11:39.800 all three that the Patriots need. I know you're getting 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:41.760 a tackle, but if there is there a huge drop 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:45.640 off from Christian Gonzales to some of the corners that 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:47.800 you might be able to get. I think this corner 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:50.480 has the narrowest drop off I think in a lot 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:53.440 of years. And we're going to talk about this, I oh, 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:55.320 this guy's the first round picked. This guy's second round pick. 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:59.080 It's very important to remember that's all relative. Yeah, there 0:11:59.080 --> 0:12:03.080 are guys in last year's like they're guys in this 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:06.600 year's class who aren't going to go in the first round, 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:08.720 who would have been first round picks last year, like 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:12.480 easy locked first round picks that this year might go 0:12:12.520 --> 0:12:14.480 in the second round. Might they might even go in 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:17.280 the third. So it's all relative when you look at 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:19.040 it like that. And yeah, this is a year where 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:21.600 I think at cornerback, you can there's gonna be one 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:23.880 or two guys that go outside of the top sixty 0:12:23.920 --> 0:12:27.280 at corner that in an average year might be first 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:31.720 round picks. Yeah. So the other position was wide receiver, 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:35.400 and I love wide receivers. I love breaking them down, 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:37.920 I love talking about them. It's the sexy position for 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:40.880 them to draft. It's the most fun position. For them 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:44.600 to take is to take a weapon. One punters can 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:46.600 be weapons. The problem that I have with this wide 0:12:46.600 --> 0:12:50.080 receiver class is one the vast majority of the guys 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:53.079 that I think fit their system or inside receivers. I'm 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:55.280 not touching Quentin Johnston with a ten foot poll for 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:57.200 the page. Well, not just the guys that pick their system. 0:12:57.240 --> 0:12:59.719 I think the majority of the best receivers in this 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:04.319 after inside receivers. Right, so we're talking about guys at 0:13:04.400 --> 0:13:09.160 inside receiver that also have flaws in terms of playing 0:13:09.400 --> 0:13:13.080 obviously outside. I think speed, vertical speed, long speed is 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:15.360 something that some of these guys like a Jackson Smith 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:17.520 and Jigba is going to have a knock on unless 0:13:17.520 --> 0:13:19.520 he goes to the combine and runs a four four. 0:13:20.160 --> 0:13:22.800 If he even runs, I think that people are going 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:26.000 to worry about play speed or you know, elite top 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:29.280 end speed with a player like that. Jordan Addison I 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:31.439 think had a lot of struggles against press man when 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:34.240 he went to USC He was better in that situation 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:36.400 against when he was with Pitt, But he goes to 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:39.120 a better conference and he struggled. I thought, getting off 0:13:39.160 --> 0:13:41.120 press coverage. Thank you for saying the PAC twelve is 0:13:41.120 --> 0:13:43.280 a better conference than the ACCT it is it was, 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:46.080 and handling those types of things. I think size as 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:48.720 a whole with some of these guys, right Zay Flowers 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:53.679 say Flowers, Tank Dale right, size issues. So all of 0:13:53.679 --> 0:13:58.880 these things, I think come back to what is how 0:13:58.920 --> 0:14:00.520 do you hit the ball straight down on the runway. 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:02.480 I'll use a golf analogy for you, right, how do 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:05.920 you split the fairway here? Or fairway? I'm gonna go 0:14:05.920 --> 0:14:09.080 with the fairway, that's correct, Yeah, how do you split 0:14:09.120 --> 0:14:12.839 the fairway? And I think that there's this is why 0:14:12.880 --> 0:14:15.679 I got the tackle, and I think number one, it's 0:14:15.679 --> 0:14:19.800 the biggest need. The season starts tomorrow. I don't even 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:22.400 know if they have a two starting caliber tackles. I 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:25.040 think Trent Brown you can count, but they definitely don't 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:27.160 have But he even Trent Brown's on the last year's contracts, 0:14:27.160 --> 0:14:29.200 So you gotta start planning ahead and you don't even 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:32.040 you definitely don't have one. You have one starting tackle 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:34.320 missing right because you just don't even have anybody under 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:38.320 contract honestly to play right tackle at the moment or 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:40.400 left if you know you're flipping Trent back to right. 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:43.200 So tackles the biggest area of need on the roster, 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:46.160 and I think there's three guys that are Tier one 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:49.760 tackles in this class that realistically one of them I 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:52.520 think will be available at fourteen. Now, the guy that 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:56.280 I pegged at fourteen was Kronsky, and the reason why 0:14:56.320 --> 0:14:59.720 I did that is because I think Paris Johnson is 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:03.240 built in a lab to play left tackle in the NFL. 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:07.120 He's the prototype, right He's He's a Tyre and Smith type. 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:09.640 He's like the guy that's just you printed him out 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:13.040 and he's a left tackle. He's six foot five, good length, 0:15:13.440 --> 0:15:16.440 good balance, good all that stuff, like a good feet 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:19.080 like just exactly what you want in a tackle. I 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:21.560 think that that guy is too polished and in terms 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:24.080 of his body type and his building his frame to 0:15:24.200 --> 0:15:27.000 not go top ten. Broderick Jones, to me, is going 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:29.200 to put on an absolute show at the combine. You 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:31.280 can see it when he blocks in space on film 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:33.680 at Georgia. He can get out of his stance, he 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:39.240 can run, he can really block on the move, screens, polls, 0:15:40.040 --> 0:15:43.120 second level climbs like whatever. He can do all that. 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:45.200 So that tells me that I think that he's going 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:47.560 to run really well and test really well and Indie, 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:50.280 and I think that he'll be a fringe top ten, 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:54.120 like late like five to nine ten range, let's call it. 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:56.920 So that leaves Scarronsky, who I think is the least 0:15:56.960 --> 0:16:01.600 likely to put up a huge onbine workout. I think 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:04.200 there are some concerns about his arm length. I am 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:06.560 not a big arm length guy, but that's gonna come 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:11.080 up in his draft evaluation. But ultimately, I think that 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:16.960 the floor of him is extremely high. It's a safe pick. 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:19.960 He's tackled Coal Strange. You are gonna I think he's 0:16:20.000 --> 0:16:22.760 more polished than Coal Strange. And I think that when 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:26.360 you draft him, you are drafting a player that and look, 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:28.920 everybody could get injured every like all that, like all 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:32.080 those types of caveats aside, you are drafting a player 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:35.720 that is going to be your starting tackle on either 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:38.040 the left or the right side for the next half 0:16:38.120 --> 0:16:41.280 decade plus if you actually pay him when the time comes. 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:43.680 And that's a whole separate conversation. So at least for 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:46.600 the rookie contract, you're not gonna you're gonna put him in. 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:48.760 He's gonna plug and play as a rookie, and you're 0:16:48.800 --> 0:16:50.640 not gonna move him right and that and that I 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:53.120 think there's something to really be said for that. I 0:16:53.200 --> 0:16:56.280 understand that maybe some people want a higher ceiling, like 0:16:56.320 --> 0:17:00.760 they want that, you know, all pro maybe future type 0:17:00.760 --> 0:17:03.360 of multi all probe type of player. But I think 0:17:03.400 --> 0:17:06.600 at fourteen, you're really just trying to get a guy 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:09.560 that is a plug and play player as a rookie, 0:17:09.920 --> 0:17:13.280 that isn't gonna miss and can really hold down a 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:15.960 position for you long term. And I think that that's 0:17:15.960 --> 0:17:20.920 Scarnsky's tackle. It's the most likely option I think at 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:23.680 fourteen to fall to you amongst those Tier one tackles. 0:17:23.880 --> 0:17:26.439 And I would also mention lastly, he can play on 0:17:26.480 --> 0:17:29.239 the left side, which I think is important. Yeah, as 0:17:29.320 --> 0:17:30.960 much as I don't think I don't think he's a 0:17:31.040 --> 0:17:32.720 right tackle, I don't think he's a commo tackle like 0:17:32.760 --> 0:17:35.560 that's just as much as I love guys like we've 0:17:35.600 --> 0:17:39.400 talked about them a ton, Dawn Jones, Darnell Right from Tennessee, 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:43.199 I love those guys, but they're pure right tackles, and 0:17:43.240 --> 0:17:45.560 I think that it's more important for them right now. 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:48.720 Tayo address left. Maybe you flip Trent Brown back to 0:17:48.840 --> 0:17:51.280 right if Scarronsky is ready to go and you have 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:53.399 that for next year, and then you were you maybe 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:57.360 drafted right tackle later in the draft or another tackle prospect, 0:17:57.400 --> 0:17:59.399 which I did in this and double dip at the 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:02.560 position to get two starters in one draft. So Scronsky 0:18:02.680 --> 0:18:05.040 was my first round pick at fourteen. I just think 0:18:05.040 --> 0:18:08.200 it's too easy of a projection for them. Give you 0:18:08.280 --> 0:18:11.080 an interesting hypothetical, not a hypothetical, I don't know what 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:15.399 this is. Let's say they didn't need a tackle. Let's 0:18:15.440 --> 0:18:18.480 say it's like last year, right where you're set for 0:18:18.480 --> 0:18:20.840 the position for one year. You know you're gonna need 0:18:20.880 --> 0:18:24.359 a tackle next year. I almost wish they could draft 0:18:24.400 --> 0:18:26.320 to Wan Jones, red shirt him, and like teach him 0:18:26.359 --> 0:18:29.840 left tackle behind the scenes. I don't think there's a 0:18:29.840 --> 0:18:32.000 way where I think there's a way that you could 0:18:32.040 --> 0:18:34.800 play him at right tackle. And then let's say he's 0:18:34.960 --> 0:18:37.840 absolutely balls out at right tackle. You could flip him 0:18:37.880 --> 0:18:39.960 at some point. And I know that that scares some 0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:42.320 people because of what it see. I wouldn't flip him 0:18:42.320 --> 0:18:44.719 if he has to play immediately. That's the thing. I 0:18:44.720 --> 0:18:47.600 think it's possible. Look, it's risky though, that's and you're 0:18:47.600 --> 0:18:49.480 talking about that. That's the thing. It's not the safe pick, 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:51.919 it's not I love to want Jones, man, he's so 0:18:51.960 --> 0:18:54.280 freaking good. I like to want Jones a lot too. 0:18:54.280 --> 0:18:57.879 And I'm not completely ruling out making you know, I 0:18:57.880 --> 0:19:00.240 didn't take another tackle on the top one hundred. I 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:03.200 took Steen in the fourth round. So maybe they do 0:19:03.440 --> 0:19:06.080 go and take two tackles in the top one hundred 0:19:06.240 --> 0:19:09.200 and really solidify that spot. But even still they're not 0:19:09.480 --> 0:19:11.320 If they don't take Dwan Jones at fourteen, I don't 0:19:11.320 --> 0:19:15.560 think you're getting no. And no, I don't think so either. 0:19:15.600 --> 0:19:17.679 And the other thing that I didn't do trades in 0:19:17.680 --> 0:19:19.960 this one because to me, sometimes I think we get 0:19:20.000 --> 0:19:22.000 lost in the sauce with the trades, Like you're all 0:19:22.040 --> 0:19:25.639 you're moving on and you're like, oh, I'm gonna trade this, 0:19:25.640 --> 0:19:27.080 and i'm gonna trade that, and I'm gonna trade a 0:19:27.080 --> 0:19:29.240 future pick. Like I'm just trying to get guys that 0:19:29.320 --> 0:19:32.959 make sense, right, Like, and if if Joe, you know, 0:19:33.200 --> 0:19:36.120 Skrotsky ends up getting picked in the first thirteen picks 0:19:36.160 --> 0:19:38.359 and they don't have a chance to draft them, then okay, whatever, 0:19:38.400 --> 0:19:40.440 But we need to talk about Skarroski. Yeah, Like he's 0:19:40.440 --> 0:19:43.000 somebody that they could easily target in the first round. 0:19:43.359 --> 0:19:49.320 So my second round pick was Josh Downs from uncom 0:19:49.520 --> 0:19:52.320 preseason some people. For some people can't. The feedback that 0:19:52.359 --> 0:19:54.440 I got was that it's too low, right, that he's 0:19:54.440 --> 0:19:56.920 gonna go higher than this. I don't really like that. 0:19:57.040 --> 0:20:01.520 Are those discussions either, because somebody always falls, like somebody 0:20:01.600 --> 0:20:05.240 we're not expecting always falls. Somebody that we're not expecting 0:20:05.600 --> 0:20:07.280 we think is going to go in the thirties goes 0:20:07.320 --> 0:20:09.520 in the forties, and so on and so forth. So 0:20:09.560 --> 0:20:11.560