WEBVTT - Draft Show: College Season Wrap; Top WR Prospects 0:00:01.560 --> 0:00:06.200 This is the Dallas Cowboys dot Com Draft Show. Cowboys 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:08.880 on the your war Room for in Center, news and 0:00:08.960 --> 0:00:13.120 draft analysis from deep within the confines of Cowboys Headquarters 0:00:13.200 --> 0:00:17.720 at the Star in for School, Dallas Cowboys Select Ezikiel Elliott, 0:00:17.880 --> 0:00:22.680 and now your hosts Dane Brugler, David Hellman and Brian 0:00:22.800 --> 0:00:25.480 brought us Welcome to another edition of the Draft Show 0:00:25.520 --> 0:00:29.200 from the s WBC Mortgage Studios. It's your faithful Scouts. 0:00:29.200 --> 0:00:32.440 Brian brought us Dane Burglar, David Hellman here with you today. 0:00:33.960 --> 0:00:37.159 Kick Garrison executive producing this thing. We're gonna put a 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:41.080 bow on this national championship thing tonight this afternoon, guys, 0:00:41.240 --> 0:00:43.959 I said, tonight. But what a game? Yeah, what a game? 0:00:44.000 --> 0:00:45.199 I want to put a bow on this. I want 0:00:45.200 --> 0:00:48.159 to ask you guys though about if these guys, if 0:00:48.200 --> 0:00:52.920 anybody elevated their game is did anybody change your mind 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:57.560 when it comes to their draft stock? Do we have 0:00:57.640 --> 0:01:00.720 them too high? Too low? Do we need to consider 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:02.880 some other guys? Well? I think that brings up another 0:01:02.920 --> 0:01:06.200 point about how much do you value a performance on 0:01:06.240 --> 0:01:08.440 a stage like that? Because you don't want to overvalue 0:01:08.480 --> 0:01:12.640 one game. But I think there is something to maybe 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:15.440 a little bit more of an emphasis towards the games 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:18.960 where they mattered that much against top competition. And so 0:01:19.640 --> 0:01:22.919 durn Payne, for example, Yeah, played the best two games 0:01:22.959 --> 0:01:25.280 of his life the last two weeks in the playoffs 0:01:25.280 --> 0:01:28.319 when it really mattered. On one hand, you're impressed. On 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:30.480 the other hand, why didn't we see this more often? 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:35.880 So it's it's something that interesting, you know, dynamic for 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:38.120 each one of these players, and I Meank I fitz Patrick, 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:39.679 we didn't hear a lot about in the title game. 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:41.800 I think it's just because they didn't test him. He 0:01:41.840 --> 0:01:45.440 had a very good game. Calvin Ridley same thing. Yeah, 0:01:45.440 --> 0:01:47.960 I heard from a lot of fans saying, do we 0:01:47.960 --> 0:01:50.040 really want Calvin Ridley? I'm not seeing it. Maybe we 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:53.520 take his brother I'm under exactly. Yeah, maybe maybe which Ridley? 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:55.600 Are we supposed to take the Georgia Ridley or the 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:57.760 Alabama Ridley? But when you when you want? If? I was, 0:01:57.880 --> 0:02:02.240 I was watching the College Coaches version of the Yeah right, 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:05.920 and that used the All twenty two and Calvin really 0:02:06.000 --> 0:02:09.679 is getting open at will. I saw your tweet and Dave, 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:11.040 I'm gonna get to you about this too, But I 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:14.040 saw your tweet about that really is open again? He's 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:16.720 open again, wide open. Yeah, you had no problem beating 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:19.320 the cover, especially in the first half when Jalen Hurts 0:02:19.400 --> 0:02:22.000 is that quarterback he couldn't find him in time. And 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:24.480 then it got a little better with Tua in the 0:02:24.520 --> 0:02:26.840 second half to a tum not even going to try 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:28.720 and pronounce that last name. Now, I don't have too 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:31.000 for two more exactly. That's that's the kind of mindset 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:34.840 I have. And so yeah, I heard a lot of 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:36.880 Calvin Ridley and I don't see a first round player 0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:38.760 and this and that he was getting open at will. 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:40.800 And again, that's why I love Calvin Riley as a player. 0:02:40.840 --> 0:02:42.360 That's why I'd love to see him as a Dallas 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:45.600 cowboy because of his ability to get open and give 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:48.560 his quarterback a clean target. Just because the Alabama quarterbacks 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:51.480 couldn't get it to him doesn't mean that he underwhelmed 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:55.320 on Monday Night. Yeah, I mean, I thought every guy 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:57.800 that we talk about as the primary targets from that 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:01.360 game pain pains a good one because he played so well. 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:04.600 But I mean that bother you, guys. I mean, I 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:06.240 know you mentioned it, but does that bother you if 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:09.240 you're thinking about a guy that on the national stage 0:03:10.280 --> 0:03:14.880 two times played great, was a dominant player in those 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:18.480 two games, and then you watch him in Alabama during 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:21.000 the season. I'm watching to play Florida State, Texas A 0:03:21.040 --> 0:03:26.320 and M, and I'm kind of thinking, Okay, get rid 0:03:26.360 --> 0:03:28.680 of this guy a little quicker, you know, Okay, You're 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:32.720 better than this, you know. Is there something to be said? 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:34.400 I get what you're saying. Yeah, okay, I mean you 0:03:34.440 --> 0:03:36.680 want a guy that has the same intensity and the 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:39.560 same effort and the same performance weekend and week out. 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:41.880 But there's something to be said, like if he can 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:44.400 tap into that talents too critical here, the NFL is 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:45.800 a hell of a place to do it, you know. 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:48.080 I mean, all right, great, he doesn't want to play 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:50.760 great against Mercer, and that doesn't mean he's not worth taking. No, No, 0:03:50.800 --> 0:03:53.280 I'm talking about against Florida State, Texas A and M. 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:55.560 It's fair, I mean, because he did it. He did 0:03:55.600 --> 0:03:58.080 not play as well the whole season that we saw, 0:03:58.160 --> 0:04:00.960 and again, he knew his college crew is coming to 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:03.080 an end. He was playing a little extra motivated. So 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:06.000 it does worry you a little bit. But at the 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:08.440 same time, I thought he was a first round player 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:10.560 before the playoff, and then what he did the last 0:04:10.560 --> 0:04:13.440 two games only cements that for me. But it is 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:15.360 something that is in the back of your mind. First 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:17.839 round player I thought he was because again the traits 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:20.400 the guys that are six four, two hundred and thirty 0:04:20.400 --> 0:04:22.719 pounds aren't supposed to move like that. That gets that 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:25.039 gets into like the right kind of guy debate, like 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:28.000 like you would prefer the guy who plays, like I said, 0:04:28.080 --> 0:04:30.520 with the same motor all the time, snap in, snap out. 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:34.200 But if he's that talented, and assuming I don't know 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:37.400 his whole story, like assuming there's no like legitimate off 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:39.920 field baggage, Like if the only thing that worries me 0:04:40.120 --> 0:04:44.400 is his consistency, I'll take that talent every time. I'll 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:46.360 worry about that once I get him in the locker room. 0:04:46.520 --> 0:04:49.520 He doesn't have the same intensity is Don mckinsue, but 0:04:49.640 --> 0:04:51.960 there are a lot of similar traits there that might 0:04:52.040 --> 0:04:54.560 not be the worst thing in the world, though Don 0:04:54.680 --> 0:04:57.200 mckinsue could stand to take it down a notch or 0:04:57.240 --> 0:05:00.839 three probably, so, I mean, you know, Don mcnsue was 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:03.000 one of the best college players I've ever seen one 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:06.000 of that if you want to ask me, he's probably 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:08.720 top five for me. Yeah, but he's not Sue, is 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:10.400 what I'm saying. But there are a lot of there's 0:05:10.440 --> 0:05:12.760 a lot of Sue in him. When you're that size, 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:15.919 you have that type of hip action, the quickness, the 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:18.120 power with your upper body, and we saw it the 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:21.479 last two games. I didn't mean to take I didn't 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:23.160 mean to take a deep dive on pain right there. 0:05:23.160 --> 0:05:25.360 But I was gonna say, is all those guys either 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:28.760 played about where how I thought they would, or you know, 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:31.960 or maybe even better. Yeah, they all looked like the 0:05:32.000 --> 0:05:34.000 guys they're supposed to be. Ridley played a good game, 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:36.600 which okay, maybe he didn't have like, he didn't take 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:38.599 over the game. He had a touchdown, did he have two? 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:41.520 Maybe he just had the one, just one one where 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:45.279 he one where it? Yeah he basically yeah, an offensive interception. 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:47.760 All those guys that were supposed to show up showed up. 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:50.080 I mean I thought Smith was there, Ridley was there. 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:53.680 And did Smith play himself out of any position for Dallas? 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:55.920 I think he did that before he played that game. 0:05:56.320 --> 0:05:58.800 I don't think were we hoping for hope. I don't 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:00.720 think anything changed, should be honest with you, I think 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:06.600 he the last four games of the season were outstanding. 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:10.279 Georgia Tech, the SEC title game Oklahoma. He had some 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:12.440 bumps in the road in the first half against Oklahoma, 0:06:12.440 --> 0:06:14.120 but it's still a great game. And then of course 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:16.599 in the National title game. I still think it comes 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:19.000 down to some teams will ding him because of the size. 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:21.920 He won't be for everybody, So there, you know, there 0:06:21.960 --> 0:06:24.240 might only be in the top eighteen picks. There might 0:06:24.320 --> 0:06:28.360 only be five teams that seriously consider him because of 0:06:28.400 --> 0:06:31.240 the size and so crazy. There is a chance I 0:06:31.279 --> 0:06:33.560 think he could get you know, followed in nineteen. Not 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:35.920 a likely chance, but there's a chance. I don't think 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:39.200 anything happened Monday night change that, because again he didn't 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:40.840 grow two inches in that game. Will he be the 0:06:41.320 --> 0:06:43.799 It's just hard to say because you don't know the direction. 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:47.159 But if he's there at nineteen, is that a no brainer? 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:51.120 As to if say Ridley was there as well, well, 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:53.520 Ridley would make it a tough conversation if you're picking 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:55.600 outside the top ten. I don't think there's such thing 0:06:55.600 --> 0:06:57.880 as no brainer, Like how often do you really wind 0:06:57.920 --> 0:06:59.800 up in a situation where there's just no doubt. I 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:04.440 was surprised that Washington ended up with Jonathan Allen last year. Yeah, yeah, 0:07:04.200 --> 0:07:07.200 I was shocked. Okay, I'm not and I'm surprised if 0:07:07.279 --> 0:07:09.720 the Colts end up. Yeah, I mean, these are guys 0:07:09.720 --> 0:07:14.160 that we talked about, is top five players in this draft, 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:17.480 and all of a sudden it's seventeen. Not everybody who 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:20.760 used these things the same way? Do they? No? They don't. Well, 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:22.480 let me ask you who would have the bigger impact 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:27.640 on this team. Roquan Smith or Calvin Ridley. Oh, I'm 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:29.680 sure there's some folks right now that right now are 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:32.360 just they're they're they're having the same issues we are 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:35.240 right now. With that that I think, I think you're 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:37.840 taking us. You're taking a current starter off the field 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:43.000 to get them on the field. Either way, I would say, man, 0:07:43.120 --> 0:07:47.720 that is tough. Probably probably Ridley, But I'm not. I 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:49.720 don't feel good about it. I'm just like you could 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:52.720 revisit that in a week you might have a different answer. Yeah, okay, 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:55.080 who are you worried more about the defense of the 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:59.560 offense for the Cowboys. I'm more worried you're worried about 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:02.400 dak Us Scott in his development? Here's that is that now? 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:04.520 Paramount is that like the one. Yeah, it should be 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:08.440 priority number one. I'm more worried about the personnel on defense. 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:10.720 I think, to be totally honest with you, but you 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:13.160 lost games without Sean Lee for the million But for 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:15.320 the millionth time, I say this all the time. The 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:17.600 offense is what's going to get you where you want 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:21.120 to go. This isn't this isn't twenty thirteen Seattle, and 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:23.280 you just strap whatever you can to that defense. I 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:25.760 would would have the bigger impact because we have seen 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:29.400 some receivers not have impact right first year. Yeah, it 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:31.640 happens all the time. But would Smith have such an 0:08:31.680 --> 0:08:33.920 impact with your defense? We've seen with some young kids 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:37.000 when you draft young kids like they did in the secondary. 0:08:37.120 --> 0:08:39.959 And I think one what makes really different though, you 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:41.599 look at some of the receivers that I've struggled, like 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:46.320 Corey Coleman, Laquon Treadwell, guys that had questions by their 0:08:46.360 --> 0:08:49.640 route running uh and just a technical savvy of the position. 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:52.240 That's not the case with Ridley and that's why I 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:56.319 don't I expect him to have a instant success, immediate 0:08:56.440 --> 0:09:00.360 impact in some way. And that's the thing we have 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:03.960 to think about too, is the depth of the position. Now, 0:09:04.040 --> 0:09:06.440 I'm a big believer, and you take the best player 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:08.960 if you believe that's Ridley or Smith. But if you 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:12.240 have them similar rated and you just you're torn on them. 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:15.160 Wide receiver is a much deeper position this year in 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:17.280 the linebacker I went on, I went on, and artist, 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:20.040 I heard you. That makes sense. It's well, it's you 0:09:20.080 --> 0:09:22.720 took the line right out of Stephen Jones's mouth, BPA 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:25.440 with oh last night. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I do BP 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:29.240 a w R best player available within reason. Yeah, it's 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:31.320 it's a similar type of thing where you need to 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:33.520 take the best player, but you know, not out of 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:36.440 the realm of you know what helps your team. So 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:39.880 you look at linebacker. To me, there are two first 0:09:39.920 --> 0:09:43.040 round linebackers. Now we didn't answer this question yet, did we. No, 0:09:43.120 --> 0:09:45.000 I mean we haven't really answered the question. I know, 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:47.679 the further in this whole rabbit hole we go it 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:50.360 just it off shoots the other. But you'll try. I mean, 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:54.800 it's a fair question that he asked. It's a fair question. 0:09:54.840 --> 0:09:57.079 And I wonder who on the stack will have a 0:09:57.160 --> 0:10:00.560 higher grade. I wonder on the stack, who will have 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:06.040 a higher grade. Will the production of Smith trump the 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:12.920 production of Ridley? They're both a little undersized. But again, now, okay, 0:10:12.960 --> 0:10:15.600 here's the Stephen Jones thought, and you were gonna circle back. 0:10:15.600 --> 0:10:19.160 I know what you're gonna do. You look at the 0:10:19.240 --> 0:10:22.320 approach of Okay, how many first rounds or how many 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:25.160 in the first two rounds of names? How many first 0:10:25.240 --> 0:10:27.199 or how many how many graded players you have in 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:30.240 the first two rounds at wide receiver? I've got sevens 0:10:30.320 --> 0:10:32.760 quite a log gym and in the first how many rounds? 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:37.200 Two rounds? Nine? There you go, I'm more. You're right. 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:40.920 Actually give me your linebackers. Yeah, four? See, there you go. 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:43.360 You just you, just you. You made it really easy 0:10:43.440 --> 0:10:45.840 because for the millionth year in a row, I feel 0:10:45.840 --> 0:10:48.720 like we say this every year. I feel great about 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:51.720 the wide receivers that you can probably find between thirty 0:10:51.720 --> 0:10:54.880 two and eighty. I don't, but I don't feel like 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:56.640 it's that good for line. Did they give a set 0:10:56.679 --> 0:10:59.520 reason last year why they drafted Taco? That's one hundred 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:02.240 percent why they did what they did. Hey, did you 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:04.920 feel like that the defensive ends could stretch and they 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:08.360 felt like the dbs could? Why did they draft Zeke 0:11:08.880 --> 0:11:13.200 two years ago to help the quarterback? Help Tony Romo. Okay, well, 0:11:13.280 --> 0:11:16.520 it's time to help Dak Prescott. That's fair. But don't 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:17.880 get what I'm saying though. I mean, do you think 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:19.720 you can find a guy who can help Dak at 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:24.160 fifty or eighty one? Possibly? Yeah, it's if you feel 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:26.240 that great about Ridley, then obviously you want the best 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:30.040 possible option. I have no problem with Ridley, I really don't. 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:32.679 Then let's make it clear. If you're choosing between real 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:35.240 Quan Smith and Kelvin Ridley, you've already done very well 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:37.600 in the first round, and that's probably a pipe dream 0:11:37.679 --> 0:11:40.000 that both of them. Yeah, somebody's at home right now, 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:41.520 just like neither one of them is gonna be there. 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:45.559 Shut out. No, but that's but. But Dane made a point. 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:51.360 The physical makeup of both of these players is not prototypical. 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:57.120 I'm not and scouts and they trust me. You're talking 0:11:57.160 --> 0:12:00.240 to a guy again who's taken the tall receipt. Ever, 0:12:00.600 --> 0:12:02.520 all those tall receivers for me are all in the 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:06.839 same round. All those tall guys, sudden, I hate to 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:09.760 hate to even men. All those guys are all in 0:12:09.760 --> 0:12:11.640 the same round. To me. I don't even want to 0:12:11.640 --> 0:12:14.760 make this comparison because I don't think they're super similar players, 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:17.480 but just in terms of the impact, don't you can't. 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:21.079 Can't you just see Roquan doing what like Deon Jones 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:23.480 is doing for Atlanta in terms of sure, you could 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:26.440 like a linebacker that you're never worried about having on 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:30.000 the field whatever, down in distance. I like, if Deon 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:33.240 Jones was taking nineteenth overall in that draft, no, I 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:36.000 mean he'd be living up the potential based on and 0:12:36.120 --> 0:12:39.120 based on if you were if you redrafted, that's probably 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:40.640 he would go up there. I mean what he was 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:43.840 in the fifties, I think her forties, fifties and yeah, 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:46.080 MITI he would be a first round pick if you 0:12:46.160 --> 0:12:49.000 redid it. I agree, probably top twenty. Yeah, so I 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:50.600 like the sound of that a lot. That guy has 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:53.360 done wonders for that Atlanta defense. I mean they used 0:12:53.400 --> 0:12:55.840 to be and their corners people going back to what 0:12:56.040 --> 0:12:59.560 Dangers said, we're a quarterback out today, that's yeah, you're 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:02.560 not the orderback? I know. Is that the most important 0:13:02.559 --> 0:13:07.000 position here for the Cowboys? Now, that's never changed part 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:11.560 of me that every team. Okay, but now after what 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:15.720 you've seen in year two, is it the most important? 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:18.200 Is it the one position. Now oh wait, wait, hey, 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:21.440 we went into last year. I guarantee you thinking the 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:24.920 only way that Dak Prescott regresses is the talent around him. 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:28.960 If you happen this year, if you tell me that 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:32.640 I'm getting sixteen games from Zeke and Tyrn Smith, I 0:13:32.679 --> 0:13:36.120 feel good enough that I'll wait and give me Dj 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:38.880 Moore at fifty instead of Calvin Ridley at nineteen. And 0:13:38.920 --> 0:13:41.079 I think that's okay. Yeah, And that's the argument because 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:44.400 that's if you draft Calvin Ridley, then the argument against 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:46.120 it is, well, then why do we spend such a 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:47.920 high draft pick on Zeke? You know, if we're going 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:50.000 to feature the run game, why do we need to 0:13:50.040 --> 0:13:52.200 take a wide receiver in the first round. But at 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:54.920 the same time, you still you need d have to 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:57.600 develop because there's going to be a time, whether it's 0:13:57.600 --> 0:13:59.560 in the playoffs, whether it's a game that you need 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:01.679 to win to into the playoffs, where Dak's gonna have 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:04.839 to make a big time throw and you just it's 0:14:04.880 --> 0:14:06.319 not going to beat to Zeke. It's gonna have to 0:14:06.360 --> 0:14:09.480 be down the field third and twelve, and it's gonna 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:12.480 be on the arm of the quarterback. So you still 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:14.599 need to develop him. Even if you rely on the 0:14:14.679 --> 0:14:17.760 run game to get you, you know, for most of 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:19.760 the game, for sixty percent of the game, you're still 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:21.840 gonna have to use that armor the quarterback. Please call 0:14:21.880 --> 0:14:24.920 me a disgusting homer if you think it's warranted. But 0:14:26.000 --> 0:14:28.520 part of me wonders if all the hand ringing about 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:31.480 the offense is a little knee jerky, because wasn't it 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:34.680 They got to replace every court, every coach on staff 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:37.400 on the offense this year another interesting wrinkle to the 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:39.760 whole damn near all of them. Think about that. I 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:43.680 just think about how good the offense looked right before 0:14:43.760 --> 0:14:47.720 Zeke got suspended. Sure, so, like we've seen him do it. Yeah, 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:49.840 And I'm not just talking about Dax's rookie year, like 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:52.400 he'd played pretty damn well for the entire first half 0:14:52.400 --> 0:14:56.000 of the season, with a few exceptions Denver. The Denver 0:14:56.120 --> 0:14:58.720 game really sticks out to mittin that was baffling on 0:14:58.920 --> 0:15:01.440 across all fronts. I'm not trying to say he was great. 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:03.160 I'm not trying to say there's nothing they need to 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:06.200 work on. But I think the pieces are in place 0:15:06.360 --> 0:15:09.560 for this offense to function. Like I don't. I'm not great. 0:15:09.600 --> 0:15:12.840 I don't. I don't. I'm this is something we will debate, 0:15:12.840 --> 0:15:15.600 probably up until the draft days though. And let's go on. 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:17.280 I go back to the National title game. Would you 0:15:17.280 --> 0:15:19.680 think of the Georgia running backs? See, that's what I Yeah, 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:22.920 I'm gonna get into that too. Yeah, I have a 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:26.720 different thought. And here I am with my bold prediction 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:30.440 about carry on Johnson. You know. And then after watching 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:34.200 Jones from USC play last night, Jamal Charles, what the 0:15:34.240 --> 0:15:36.560 heck was I thinking? And then and then I look 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:39.400 at Yeah, Ron Jones USC running back And then I 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:41.040 look at and then I look at what you say? 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:43.160 What were what were you thinking? Oh? I wasn't thinking 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:45.720 to him. He needs to be he needs to be 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:47.920 up the board where you have him I had in 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:51.000 the second round. Oh that's not terrible. But I got 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:53.720 I will, I will, I'll tell you what. And I 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:56.240 know Taylor Stern is gonna join us at the at 0:15:56.240 --> 0:15:58.080 the at the end of show with the Taste takes. 0:15:58.560 --> 0:16:02.680 She's got some really interesting questions and and I think 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:05.520 what him has to do with the running backs? But 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:12.760 I the thing with Michelle, I was very impressed with him, 0:16:12.880 --> 0:16:17.280 very impressed every time they handed him the ball, and 0:16:17.360 --> 0:16:19.280 yet he did. It was attack, and yet he didn't 0:16:19.280 --> 0:16:21.600 get a carry in the fourth quarter. You know, coaches 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:24.120 take two stupid pills and a cup of gay orade 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:26.520 and here we go. It seems like it happens way 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:28.560 too oft. It happens way too often. All that, I 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:30.840 get it. Why they gave it to Nick Chubb as 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:34.480 much as they did. Chubb is building swift, yeah, yeah, 0:16:34.520 --> 0:16:38.680 the freshman. Yeah, Chubb is. He's two hundred and thirty 0:16:38.680 --> 0:16:41.320 pounds that lower body to balance the power. I mean, 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:44.040 he's more built for a fourth quarterback, you know, to 0:16:44.080 --> 0:16:46.640 wear down the defense. But yeah, where if you're not 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:50.360 getting first downs, it's not gonna matter. So I get it. 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:53.040 I wish we would have seen more Sonny Michelle in 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:55.680 the fourth quarter. Uh you know, it's it's funny. I've 0:16:55.680 --> 0:16:58.200 loved Michelle all year, been propping him up, and now 0:16:58.200 --> 0:17:00.440 it's almost I got so many message is always a 0:17:00.440 --> 0:17:03.480 first rump. Now he's getting overrated, yeah, because of how 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:05.239 what he's done the last two weeks and people are 0:17:05.240 --> 0:17:07.480 actually starting to watch him. But he's a very good player. 0:17:07.720 --> 0:17:10.880 He's in that second round mix along with some other guys. 0:17:11.240 --> 0:17:14.720 So which Georgia running back. Do you like better, Michelle, Michell, 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:17.600 that's a prospect. Yeah, clearly, clearly. Not a debate, No, 0:17:18.280 --> 0:17:21.120 not a debate. I think I actually have Stanford's love 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:24.439 in between the two. Okay, I'm still waiting on him 0:17:24.440 --> 0:17:26.360 to declare, but yeah, well yeah, the way I looked 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:29.440 at him, I was got until next week one day. Yeah. Yeah, 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:36.000 he's the Clemson defensive line lineman. Farrell bryant Um, Christian 0:17:36.000 --> 0:17:42.399 wilkins Um, Bryce Love waiting on him step Yeah, and 0:17:42.440 --> 0:17:45.400 all the other guys were Clemson defensive lineman. Like you said, 0:17:45.600 --> 0:17:52.119 all right, but satisfied with how that game was well played. Yeah, 0:17:51.640 --> 0:17:54.760 I liked that. All the guys that we're talking about 0:17:54.760 --> 0:17:57.160 played pretty damn well. I mean, I don't think anybody 0:17:57.200 --> 0:17:58.840 that is really in the mix at the top of 0:17:58.840 --> 0:18:01.280 the draft really laid an egg in that game. But again, 0:18:01.520 --> 0:18:05.399 the riser, the riser? Could it be Michelle? Could the 0:18:05.520 --> 0:18:08.960 riser be Michelle? Or could it or about your boy? Pain? 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:13.080 Pain in my mock draft. My first mock draft that 0:18:13.119 --> 0:18:15.640 I've done was before Thanksgiving, and I had Pain going 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:20.200 twenty overall, So I'm probably gonna go sixteen seventeen. Yeah, 0:18:20.200 --> 0:18:21.760 I mean, I think he's yeah, somewhere in that mid 0:18:21.800 --> 0:18:25.359 first round range. You know, Vida Veya is right there too. 0:18:27.320 --> 0:18:30.520 I think Vita Vea earlier. Just again the traits I mean, 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:33.760 but if you who you could take between Pain defensive 0:18:33.800 --> 0:18:38.400 tackle Alabama Vita Vea defensive tackle Washington. Sure is fun 0:18:38.520 --> 0:18:41.920 just watching Veya just throw guards around and Stamford tackle 0:18:42.000 --> 0:18:44.760 running backs using the center to do so, and say, 0:18:45.160 --> 0:18:47.200 I think you probably go via Veya Pain if we're 0:18:47.200 --> 0:18:49.359 talking about just the nose tackles, the one technique. Yeah, 0:18:49.440 --> 0:18:52.080 I think it's Veya than Pain. Yeah, okay, all right, 0:18:52.280 --> 0:18:54.159 when we come back, we're gonna get into some Twitter 0:18:54.200 --> 0:18:57.000 on the twenty. Stay tuned. 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