Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers has spoken and still is undecided about his future.
Speaker 1: We will break down what the four time NFL MVP
Speaker 1: said today, what he didn't say, what it all means
Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh and beyond. With the NFL Draft now just
Speaker 1: one week away, Travis Hunter is the unicorn of this draft.
Speaker 1: Just ask the man who, quite possible will pick him
Speaker 1: next week. Here from Browns GM Andrew Berry on his
Speaker 1: plans for Hunter if Hunter's the man in Cleveland at
Speaker 1: number two, and Brian Baaldinger's.
Speaker 2: Thoughts on that match as well.
Speaker 1: Another one of the most productive players in college football
Speaker 1: these past couple of years played ball at North Carolina
Speaker 1: and Bill Belichick actually tried to keep him there, but
Speaker 1: o'marion Hampton decided to go to the draft anyway, and
Speaker 1: tonight he joins us to talk about where he could
Speaker 1: be headed next. Welcome inside with the Insiders alongside Judy
Speaker 1: Batista and Ian Rappaport, I am Tom Pellisero.
Speaker 2: One week.
Speaker 1: One week from right now, the entire area around lambeau
Speaker 1: Field will be absolutely jam packed, elbow to elbow with
Speaker 1: people who may or may not be enjoying now A
Speaker 1: couple of light beers in the semi cold of Green
Speaker 1: Bay this time of year, we are in the final
Speaker 1: countdown two, that momentous occasion where we could have several
Speaker 1: quarterbacks taken in Round one, maybe the one by the
Speaker 1: Steelers who are still waiting for an answer from Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1: He came out of his silence today and appeared with
Speaker 1: his good friend Pat McAfee on the Pat McAfee Show.
Speaker 1: Discussed a lot of different things, a lot of different reports,
Speaker 1: and at a time that he is still a free agent.
Speaker 2: It does not sound like that's changing anytime soon.
Speaker 3: I'll said it all. I have no problem.
Speaker 4: Listen, you know from the jump it's you know, I'm
Speaker 4: in a different phase of my life. I'm forty one
Speaker 4: years old. I'm in a serious relationship. I have off
Speaker 4: the field, off the field stuff going on that requires
Speaker 4: my attention. I have personal commitments I made not knowing
Speaker 4: what my future was going to look like after last year,
Speaker 4: that that are important to me. And and I have,
Speaker 4: you know, a couple of people in my inner inner
Speaker 4: circle who are really battling some some difficult stuff. So
Speaker 4: I have a lot of things that are that are
Speaker 4: taking my attention and have beginning in really January away
Speaker 4: from away from football, and that's been where I've been
Speaker 4: focusing most of my attention on. You know, to make
Speaker 4: a commitment to a team is a big thing. I'm
Speaker 4: open to anything and attached to nothing. So so yeah,
Speaker 4: retirement still could be, could be a possibility.
Speaker 1: There's a lot more to that interview, Ian, but I
Speaker 1: was struck above all else by one thing when he
Speaker 1: was at asked by Pat, hey, does this come down
Speaker 1: to you're gonna play for the Steelers if you play
Speaker 1: at all? Only a couple of years ago, when he
Speaker 1: was asked a similar question about the Jets in this case,
Speaker 1: he demurred entirely.
Speaker 2: What else did we learn in that interview?
Speaker 5: Yeah, that to me was the most noteworthy thing, besides
Speaker 5: the fact that Aaron Rodgers basically had no decision, no announcement.
Speaker 5: I know, when Pat mccabee comes out and says we're
Speaker 5: gonna have a significant newsmaker, everyone's like, all right, well,
Speaker 5: this is going to be the Aaron Rodgers announcement. There
Speaker 5: was a lot of Aaron Rodgers, but it was most
Speaker 5: certainly not an announcement, And in fact, what he didn't
Speaker 5: say was to me just as important as what he
Speaker 5: didn't say. He didn't have a decision. He didn't tell
Speaker 5: us that it would be the Steelers or bust. He
Speaker 5: didn't rule out retirement. And these things are all really
Speaker 5: important because you're right. There have been a tonch of reports,
Speaker 5: lots of articles, a lot of tweets, a lot of
Speaker 5: discussion points over the last couple of months, all of
Speaker 5: us trying to figure out what Aaron Rodgers is going
Speaker 5: to do. And at each point when there's been an
Speaker 5: opportunity to either narrow it down or clarify, it's like
Speaker 5: there is some clarification, but we're left with more questions. So, yes,
Speaker 5: it is the Steelers or maybe another team, or retirement.
Speaker 5: There is no deadline. So if you, Judy, were expecting
Speaker 5: a decision before the draft next week, you are certainly
Speaker 5: not going to get it. It seems it seems the
Speaker 5: Steelers are going to have to go into the draft
Speaker 5: with this limbo. Still, if the Steelers take a quarterback
Speaker 5: at twenty one, they've done all the quarterback homework, it's
Speaker 5: not going to affect Aaron Rodgers said on the mcabee Show,
Speaker 5: it's not going to affect his decision at all. So
Speaker 5: if the Steelers take what, it's not gonna are now
Speaker 5: I'm going to retire. This is everything he told us
Speaker 5: in a nutshell, which is I know you're watching me,
Speaker 5: I know you're interested. You're going to have to keep waiting. Meanwhile,
Speaker 5: as he noted, he's not thinking about us very much
Speaker 5: at all because he has so many personal things going
Speaker 5: on in his life.
Speaker 6: Well, the person who I was thinking about when he
Speaker 6: was discussing or not really discussing the Pittsburgh Steelers where
Speaker 6: it's Arn't Runey the second, the owner of the pittsb
Speaker 6: Burg Steelers, who back when we were all in Palm
Speaker 6: Beach for the annual meeting that was sixteen days ago,
Speaker 6: he met with the Pittsburgh Steelers beat reporters and at
Speaker 6: that time, at that time he said it had taken
Speaker 6: longer than he had expected.
Speaker 7: He said they would still wait, but not forever.
Speaker 6: He said at that time he thought it was looking
Speaker 6: positive like it was going in their direction. Again, sixteen
Speaker 6: days later, the Steelers, I would say, at that meeting
Speaker 6: felt pretty good about where this was headed. I think
Speaker 6: they felt fairly confident that at some point Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 6: would be their quarterback. But obviously two weeks have gone
Speaker 6: by and there's been no movement, and the takeaway listening
Speaker 6: to Aaron Rodgers today was there is no end in
Speaker 6: sight to this unless the Pittsburgh Steelers put an end
Speaker 6: to this. He feels no pressure to make a decision,
Speaker 6: he said, you know, he doesn't feel like he owes
Speaker 6: teams an answer right away.
Speaker 7: So he clearly.
Speaker 6: Does not feel an internal deadline or any internal pressure
Speaker 6: to answer the teams. He doesn't feel like he is
Speaker 6: holding teams hostage. He used that phrase a few times.
Speaker 6: If you're the Pittsburgh Steelers, I do wonder internally if
Speaker 6: they now are looking at their draft plans and saying,
Speaker 6: you know what, if we weren't sure that we had
Speaker 6: to take a quarterback before, do we have to revisit
Speaker 6: that decision. Do we have to go into this draft
Speaker 6: thinking maybe we need to take one of these quarterbacks
Speaker 6: in the second tier or the third tier. Because it
Speaker 6: really sounds uncertain with Aaron Rodgers right now.
Speaker 1: So as much as passively, there was certainly a message
Speaker 1: delivered about his interest level or his commitment at this
Speaker 1: point to the Steelers, there was also a very direct
Speaker 1: message about his old team, the Jets. Juty in the
Speaker 1: first comments we've had from Rogers since Aaron glennon company
Speaker 1: informed him that they were moving another direction.
Speaker 6: Well, he said that their meeting, which happened a few
Speaker 6: days before the Super Bowl, lasted fifteen minutes. Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 6: said that he flew on his own dime to the
Speaker 6: New York area to have that meeting face to face.
Speaker 6: He said that he thought there was a lack of
Speaker 6: respect shown in that meeting. He basically said, well, if
Speaker 6: it was only going to be fifteen minutes, and Aaron
Speaker 6: Glenn told him like, yeah, we're going in a different direction,
Speaker 6: couldn't we have done this on the phone. I mean,
Speaker 6: I would quibble with that. I would say that always
Speaker 6: face to face is more respectful than dropping somebody over
Speaker 6: the phone. He certainly was not happy with how that
Speaker 6: meeting went. I would say that the Jets are sort
Speaker 6: of like shrugging their shoulders about this. They moved on
Speaker 6: long ago. They turned the page basically ever since they
Speaker 6: told Aaron Rodgers that they were turning in a different direction.
Speaker 6: I don't really think they've spent much time thinking about
Speaker 6: Aaron Rodgers since then. I will say this. Aaron Glenn
Speaker 6: played for Bill Parcells in Dallas and in New York.
Speaker 6: Bill Parcells is one of his mentors. When Aaron Glenn
Speaker 6: got hired, I talked to Bill Parcells and he said
Speaker 6: to me about Aaron Glenn, he doesn't mind being contentious.
Speaker 6: He's not rude, but he will get his message across.
Speaker 6: You never doubted who was in charge when Bill Parcells
Speaker 6: was the coach, and I have a feeling we are
Speaker 6: not going to ever doubt who is in charge as
Speaker 6: long as Aaron Glenn is in charge of the New
Speaker 6: York Jets.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean message delivered about what the Jets wanted to do,
Speaker 5: what they thought of Aaron Rodgers. Makeups are always pressed.
Speaker 5: I are always messy. I broke up one time over
Speaker 5: text message. It wasn't my fault, it was just how
Speaker 5: it happened. Anyway, face to face is much better. That's
Speaker 5: not the only thing we learned, though. Aaron Rodgers also
Speaker 5: took the opportunity to shoot down a couple of reports
Speaker 5: regarding a lot of things.
Speaker 3: It seemed.
Speaker 5: I talked about how he was not, in fact waiting
Speaker 5: for the Minnesota Vikings, not still waiting something Ben Roethlisberger
Speaker 5: had opined about a week or so ago. He was
Speaker 5: asked specifically about the Saints, didn't confirm her de and
Speaker 5: I obviously the Saints and now have a quarterback question
Speaker 5: with Derek Carr's future very much in doubt, and said
Speaker 5: he's not looking for a lot of money, not looking
Speaker 5: for a multi year deal. He would play for just
Speaker 5: ten million dollars with certainly if it ends up being
Speaker 5: the Steelers, no doubt, something they're gonna remember. Clear to
Speaker 5: the air on a lot of things. Didn't clear the
Speaker 5: air on whether he wants to play or where he's
Speaker 5: gonna play, which you know is sort of the important
Speaker 5: thing for his future in ours.
Speaker 1: We got plenty more to say about Aaron Rodgers, but
Speaker 1: real quick before I let this point go here, Ian,
Speaker 1: why did you break up with the girl over text?
Speaker 1: And why was text the preferred form of communication in
Speaker 1: that moment?
Speaker 5: It wasn't the preferred It was just the conversation led
Speaker 5: us in a direction and it was either like pick
Speaker 5: up the phone or just continue on, And the inertia
Speaker 5: of the conversation took me to finish it out on TAKEE.
Speaker 3: It wasn't great.
Speaker 5: I'm not like that that proud of it, but such
Speaker 5: as life, you know it's too bad.
Speaker 1: Well you brought it up on national TV, so I'm
Speaker 1: sure we will absolutely revisit this again sometime soon. Don't
Speaker 1: mention it's one week out from the NFL Draft. We'll
Speaker 1: have many more important things to talk about, including guys
Speaker 1: like cam Lord, shaduor Sanders, Ashtroing Genty and Travis Hunter,
Speaker 1: who after Award is the presumptive number one pick to
Speaker 1: the Titans, could well be the second man off the board.
Speaker 1: Hunter will be in Green Bay. The Browns own that
Speaker 1: number two overall selection. One of the rare, rare people
Speaker 1: that we've seen in the NFL. He's a wide receiver,
Speaker 1: he is a cornerback. He is somebody that Andrew Berry says, well,
Speaker 1: we really haven't seen before.
Speaker 8: We wouldn't necessarily put a cap or a governor in
Speaker 8: terms of like what he could do. You know, we
Speaker 8: would want to be smart in terms of how we
Speaker 8: how we started him out. You know, I think I've
Speaker 8: mentioned before, you know, we would see his first home
Speaker 8: as receiver in a second home, you know, on the
Speaker 8: defense at the ball and I'm going to use a
Speaker 8: crossboard now. It's a little bit like Otani right where
Speaker 8: you know, when he's playing one side, he's he's an
Speaker 8: outstanding player. If he's if he's a pitcher, he's a hitter,
Speaker 8: he's an outstanding player. You obviously get a unicorn if
Speaker 8: you use them both ways.
Speaker 2: Be very similar to Otani.
Speaker 1: If Travis Hunter suffered a torn acl you still could
Speaker 1: play one of the two positions.
Speaker 2: Anyway. We'll let that slide. Decent enough comparison there.
Speaker 1: Take a look at Bucky Brooks top five wide receiver
Speaker 1: prospects in the twenty twenty five NFL Draft, Travis Hunter
Speaker 1: number one top corners. Also, Travis Hunter right there at
Speaker 1: the top. Absolutely no surprise and certainly a very very
Speaker 1: rare occasion as we bring our Brian Baldinger into the
Speaker 1: conversation where you're talking about both these guys both positions
Speaker 1: for one player being up at the top. Here, Baldi,
Speaker 1: and we know that Travis Hunter wants to play both ways.
Speaker 1: What in your mind is the feasibility of that and
Speaker 1: really the reasonability to the club that's going to be
Speaker 1: expending a lot of draft capital to get them.
Speaker 9: Well, I was at Schadure Santa's pro day when Travis
Speaker 9: Hunter ran routes for him, and the entire Cleveland Brown
Speaker 9: organization was there from Jimmy asm the Owner, Andrew Barrety,
Speaker 9: Kevin Stefanski, and they were just smitten by watching him work.
Speaker 9: I don't think he had to beat a sweat on
Speaker 9: him and all those routes that he ran. But you
Speaker 9: go back, like every day, I feel like I go
Speaker 9: back and watch another piece of Travis Hunter. If you
Speaker 9: watch him just in his interception reel, seven interceptions in
Speaker 9: two years of Colorado, he's a thief. Like he baits
Speaker 9: quarterbacks in college to throw it to one place, and
Speaker 9: he beats him to the ball. Like that's an advanced skill.
Speaker 9: You know, that's something Ed Reid did not. Everybody knows
Speaker 9: how to bit a quarterback to get him to throw
Speaker 9: it where they think they can throw it until he
Speaker 9: takes away. But he also has that skill to go
Speaker 9: get the ball. He's got terrific hams. You see it
Speaker 9: on defense, you see an offense I can see. I
Speaker 9: think you have to play in both ways because you're
Speaker 9: going to see it in practice. If he lines up
Speaker 9: in your starting corner against your number one wide receiver,
Speaker 9: he might shut him down. He might make your quarterback
Speaker 9: look bad. And then if you flip it and you
Speaker 9: put him at receiver, against your number one corner. He
Speaker 9: might make him look bad and at some point the
Speaker 9: whole iron thing sharpens iron. Look, we're in the entertainment business.
Speaker 9: I told Andrew Barry in Boulder, Colorado two weeks ago.
Speaker 9: I said, I can't wait to do my first breakdown
Speaker 9: on Travis Hunter.
Speaker 3: He just laughed.
Speaker 9: He goes, we'll watch, and I going, you might very
Speaker 9: well watch both sides because we've never seen anything like this.
Speaker 9: When they say unicorn, we might actually need another term,
Speaker 9: because I think people know what a unicorn is.
Speaker 2: I think he's an advanced unicorn.
Speaker 5: You know what's interesting to me, Baldy is let's just
Speaker 5: say the Cleveland Browns take him a number two. It's
Speaker 5: obviously something they are considering. Trying to understand the value
Speaker 5: of Travis Hunter is really difficult. You say, like, well,
Speaker 5: if you're going to take a receiver at number two,
Speaker 5: it has to be worth it.
Speaker 3: He has to be like Calvin Johnson.
Speaker 5: Okay, what if you're taking Calvin Johnson and Patrick Peterson
Speaker 5: or whoever high in the like, what's the actual value?
Speaker 5: And it's hard to figure out because it hasn't existed before.
Speaker 2: So for the Browns, if it ends up being the Browns.
Speaker 5: They're going to get theoretically a player that really has
Speaker 5: not existed in the NFL. And I'm here for all
Speaker 5: of that because that's pretty fun.
Speaker 9: Well real quick, yeah, I mean, I honestly like that
Speaker 9: contract might be the most voluminous contract we've ever seen
Speaker 9: because there's going to be incentives on both sides of
Speaker 9: the ball, I'm sure, and if he reaches those the milestones,
Speaker 9: you know, that contract could be inflated pretty quickly.
Speaker 6: I am not sure if you're Andrew Berry, how you
Speaker 6: can possibly pass on somebody you just compared to show.
Speaker 6: Hey Otani, I feel like once you say that out loud,
Speaker 6: you're pretty much tipping your hand that this is the
Speaker 6: guy you're going to draft.
Speaker 7: I am fascinated.
Speaker 6: And this came up at the annual meeting too, talking
Speaker 6: to general managers and coaches there the different ways that
Speaker 6: teams look at him and how they feel about the
Speaker 6: possibility of him playing both ways. And just in the
Speaker 6: last two days you've heard two gms say two pretty
Speaker 6: different things. Joe Shane for the Giants yesterday said like, yeah,
Speaker 6: I think he can play both ways. We would let
Speaker 6: him play both ways. He seems to be unique. He
Speaker 6: seems to have unique stamina. You would let him try
Speaker 6: to do it. And then Andrew Berry, who has been
Speaker 6: steadfast and saying, we think he's a wide receiver first,
Speaker 6: and there would be a package for him on defense,
Speaker 6: but wide receiver first, and the stamina would be something
Speaker 6: of a concern. I am so interested to see what
Speaker 6: team it is. If it's the Browns, great uh, and
Speaker 6: how they approach this end, especially how they approach his
Speaker 6: desire to play both ways full time.
Speaker 1: I love that Travis Hunter is so good that Balding
Speaker 1: didn't think unicorn was enough. He said he's an advanced unicorn.
Speaker 1: Maybe he's got two horns, just kidding, that would be
Speaker 1: a duocorn.
Speaker 3: Here's Hampton stands a middle.
Speaker 9: Look.
Speaker 2: Now it's a foot race.
Speaker 3: Think's Lenny Han's gonna lose that foot race? Captain with
Speaker 3: a steam breaks a tackle. Oh Marion Hampton.
Speaker 9: Oh, Marion Hampton would not give up.
Speaker 3: Did pitch it to Hampton and he.
Speaker 8: Would touchdown Candy to tackle it.
Speaker 3: Here's Hampden hurtled the man lobby and stores.
Speaker 8: Wow.
Speaker 1: Oh Marion Hampton is going to be bringing highlights like
Speaker 1: that to one of the thirty two NFL teams very soon.
Speaker 1: Take a look at Bucky Brooks's top five running back
Speaker 1: prospects in the NFL Draft, which is one week away.
Speaker 1: Of Marion Hampton checking in right there underneath Ashton genty
Speaker 1: of Boise State. He's checking in with us right now
Speaker 1: as well on the Insiders with me, Tom Pellicero and
Speaker 1: Ian Rappaport. So, Mario, you grew up in North Carolina,
Speaker 1: you go to the University of North Carolina. This is
Speaker 1: the first time Panthers can take you, but this may
Speaker 1: be the first time you're leaving.
Speaker 2: Like, what are the emotions like.
Speaker 1: Knowing that you're one week away from figuring out exactly
Speaker 1: where you're going to be headed.
Speaker 10: I mean, yeah, I'm just excited to see where I'm
Speaker 10: gonna end up. Means it's been a long process. I've
Speaker 10: been thanking for it, So I mean, I'm excited it's
Speaker 10: coming to It's coming to the end and get to
Speaker 10: play ball.
Speaker 5: You've had several visits, We've talked about them. You've been
Speaker 5: seemingly all around the NFL. Take us through what your
Speaker 5: last two or three wait, two or three weeks have
Speaker 5: been like, and then was there any particular place or
Speaker 5: places where you like felt the most comfortable or felt
Speaker 5: the most interest.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I feel like all of them had like a different.
Speaker 3: Type of style.
Speaker 10: I feel like all of them were in unique and
Speaker 10: different kind of ways. So I feel like just going there,
Speaker 10: going there being blessed enough to get those opportunities to
Speaker 10: meet coaches, Bill connects and stuff like that has been amazing.
Speaker 10: A lot of traveling, but I mean it's still blessing.
Speaker 1: So we got some numbers here from NFL research. I'm
Speaker 1: just going to say this is a running back. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna say any names. This is a running back
Speaker 1: in this class right here. First Power Conference player to
Speaker 1: have three thousand rushing yards and thirty touchdowns of two
Speaker 1: seasons span since Breeze Hall. First FBS player to have
Speaker 1: fifteen ard rushing yards and fifteen touchdowns and back to
Speaker 1: back seasons since Travis Etn and Jonathan Taylor. That's not
Speaker 1: Ashton Genty, that's Omrion Hampton. Is there a case for you,
Speaker 1: Omaron to be the first running back off the board
Speaker 1: come next Thursday Night?
Speaker 10: For me, I just feel like I try to just
Speaker 10: focus on ball, trying not to look at any of that.
Speaker 10: I feel like whatever team fits me, piace Me is
Speaker 10: gonna be the best fit for me. So I feel
Speaker 10: like what every team fits me, I'm gonna be excited
Speaker 10: for I know they're gonna get the best out of me.
Speaker 3: And then yeah, ye'es there.
Speaker 5: Well, So I want to talk about you and Ashton
Speaker 5: Genty a little bit, and there's obviously some other good
Speaker 5: runners in this draft. Seems to be a really really
Speaker 5: good running back class.
Speaker 2: Can you take us.
Speaker 5: Through what makes you special, what you've seen from Ashton
Speaker 5: Genty on film, kind of compare and contrast a little
Speaker 5: bit your styles for us.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I feel like this class is very, very talented.
Speaker 10: I feel like we all got like different type of
Speaker 10: running styles. It kind of just depends on what the
Speaker 10: team wants and there with their football team. So I
Speaker 10: feel like me, I'm just excited to see all of
Speaker 10: the running back the value of the position come back
Speaker 10: in style, just like with the same and Derek Henry,
Speaker 10: them just going out there showing what the running bent
Speaker 10: position can do. So I fel like I'm just decided
Speaker 10: to see it and bring that the position itself.
Speaker 1: I'm Arion, you clearly bring you know, speed and elusiveness
Speaker 1: to the tail, but a lot of those. How it's
Speaker 1: the fun ones to me that we showed them that
Speaker 1: reel off the top was you lowered a shoulder into somebody,
Speaker 1: You moving a pile, you bouncing off dudes like a pinball.
Speaker 1: What do you enjoy more making somebody miss or knocking
Speaker 1: somebody back?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 10: I would say, I would say, now you got to say,
Speaker 10: run through somebody. It's always it's always good to run
Speaker 10: through somebody. It's always good.
Speaker 1: Look at this, you're there, any garman, you're you're breaking
Speaker 1: arm tackles. It's a bad idea to arm tackle you.
Speaker 1: I think it's the bottom line of these highlights right here.
Speaker 1: How do you work on the technique? You know you
Speaker 1: can't really they're not tackling you to the ground. I
Speaker 1: don't think regularly in practice, how do you work on
Speaker 1: the technique and making sure that first guy doesn't get
Speaker 1: you on the ground.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just a mindset thing.
Speaker 10: You just gotta uh, you gotta can't let the first
Speaker 10: man tackle, You can't let get talk about arm tackles,
Speaker 10: and then you just gotta in one on one situations,
Speaker 10: you gotta win that one on one battle. So I
Speaker 10: feel like just doing that on the off season getting
Speaker 10: ready for it. Uh, doing stuff like balance different Jews.
Speaker 10: This is stuff like that I feel like helps overall.
Speaker 11: So yeah, so you obviously went to North Carolina. North
Speaker 11: Carolina has been in the news plenty over the course
Speaker 11: of the past year with Bill Belichick. Now there, Uh
Speaker 11: and one of the biggest story of not the biggest
Speaker 11: story in college football. You do not get the chance
Speaker 11: to play with Bill Belichick.
Speaker 2: But first of all, have.
Speaker 5: You interacted with him at all? And second, have you
Speaker 5: thought about what it would have been like to play
Speaker 5: with one of the NFL's legends.
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, Yeah, he's a good guy. Me and him
Speaker 10: talked a couple of times, just over a few things.
Speaker 10: We talked actually once the season got when he first
Speaker 10: got hired, I was like one of the few people
Speaker 10: first people he talked to and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: But I feel like, yeah, he's a good coach.
Speaker 10: I feel like it's hard to not want to come
Speaker 10: to you and see it's I feel like it's easy
Speaker 10: to recruit f him because he can just say he's
Speaker 10: Bill belichick best coach. I mean, I feel like I'm
Speaker 10: I'm excited to see what happened.
Speaker 1: Really, so wait, now he's one of the first people
Speaker 1: that he talks to after taking the job. Is he
Speaker 1: at that point, o Marion, trying to trying to bring
Speaker 1: you back, trying to convince you.
Speaker 2: What was his what was his sales pitch if he
Speaker 2: made want to you?
Speaker 10: Yeah, Yeah, he talked to me a little bit trying
Speaker 10: to get me back. But I kind of have my
Speaker 10: mind made up. I talk with my family already, talk
Speaker 10: to my agent. So it's been a dream of mind
Speaker 10: play in the NFL. So I mean yeah, I feel
Speaker 10: like I just had to take the opportunity to do it.
Speaker 5: So we are a week out from the draft today,
Speaker 5: is I believe Thursday? Uh, your life is going to
Speaker 5: change dramatically next Thursday.
Speaker 2: Where are you going to be?
Speaker 5: What's it going to be like and what's kind of
Speaker 5: your mindset going in?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 10: Yeah, I got a place Alan Riley, with my family.
Speaker 10: I'm just being with my family at two coaches and
Speaker 10: stuff like that, Adams on Small. Just be with the
Speaker 10: guys who helped me out throughout this process because it's
Speaker 10: a day for them too. So I feel like just
Speaker 10: being there all together the Femina after like, is gonna
Speaker 10: be really special.
Speaker 1: Mario on your fun Dude to watch can't wait to
Speaker 1: see you making plays in the NFL too. Good luck
Speaker 1: next week, man, enjoy. We appreciate you being here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I appreciate you for having me.
Speaker 1: Bears could use your running back, but is that their
Speaker 1: perfect draft fit? At number ten, Stay Scales has answers.
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Speaker 1: made a bunch of big additions in this offseason, none
Speaker 1: bigger than the new head coach Ben Johnson. They've remade
Speaker 1: the offensive line, they beaped up the defensive front, and
Speaker 1: now they got the number ten pick to continue adding.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Insiders, Tom Piliserobrian Baldingers back.
Speaker 2: We bring in. Are Stacey Dale's there in Chicago? Number ten? Dales?
Speaker 2: What are they going to do?
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 12: Your guest is as good as mine. Listen, they got
Speaker 12: seven picks. They've got four through seventy two, so they've
Speaker 12: got a first, two seconds and a third and at
Speaker 12: number ten. It's going to be interesting because it's been
Speaker 12: from my knowledge, very interactive right with the new head coach,
Speaker 12: Ben Johnson, his new defensive coordinator, Dennis Allen, and Ryan Poulsen,
Speaker 12: Ian Cunningham, the.
Speaker 7: GM and the assistant GM.
Speaker 12: So interactive that Dennis Allen actually talked today about how
Speaker 12: Ryan Poles guys sat his group down, their group plus
Speaker 12: his group, and they put up the board, the draft board,
Speaker 12: so they have it assembled and kind of said, these
Speaker 12: are the defensive players we like, and they went through
Speaker 12: them and how those guys potentially will fit into this scheme.
Speaker 12: And then, you know, just to take it a step further,
Speaker 12: Decklan Doyle, the new offensive coordinator. We know Ben Johnson's
Speaker 12: going to call the plays, but he discussed how the
Speaker 12: standard has been so highly raised already in the building
Speaker 12: by Ben Johnson. So what that tells me is these
Speaker 12: new draftees have to have a standard. And so when
Speaker 12: you're looking and staring down that number ten pick, if
Speaker 12: you are the Chicago Bears, I fully expect them to
Speaker 12: use it. I don't perhaps you know, they could move up,
Speaker 12: perhaps they could move down a little bit, but that's
Speaker 12: a golden.
Speaker 7: Pick, and it wouldn't put I wouldn't put.
Speaker 12: It past them if they don't go for let's say
Speaker 12: a Will Campbell, the left tackle out of LSU to
Speaker 12: go skill position once again with Ben Johnson's offense, and
Speaker 12: it's all going to be about how.
Speaker 7: This board falls for the Chicago Bears.
Speaker 12: But if you're staring down, we just heard from great
Speaker 12: interview with Oarmi and Hampton the running back, but there's
Speaker 12: a lot of running backs that the Bears have looked at.
Speaker 12: Ashton Genty right there at ten guys. When I spend
Speaker 12: time with him at the combine, this is an old soul.
Speaker 12: It feels like he's played in the NFL his personality
Speaker 12: for ten years. Baldy, Like, that's how impressive and mature
Speaker 12: this young man is. We know what he can do, contact,
Speaker 12: balance extraordinary, yards after catch extraordinary.
Speaker 7: And then I'm staring down Tyler Warren Baldi.
Speaker 12: I mean, the guy was a left handed quarterback in
Speaker 12: high school and he does.
Speaker 7: Everything on the field.
Speaker 12: When I talked to him at the combine and he
Speaker 12: basically said to me, like learning offensively at the tight
Speaker 12: end position is like a big picture for him because
Speaker 12: he played quarterback, and so it's going to be super
Speaker 12: interesting to see what the Bears do there at number ten.
Speaker 9: They would be like new monsters in Chicago. I mean
Speaker 9: both those guys. First of all, Ashton gen gis the
Speaker 9: biggest biceps on a running back I've ever.
Speaker 2: Seen in my life.
Speaker 9: Like, I mean, everybody who's going to get like muscled
Speaker 9: up just to try and be like I mean, they
Speaker 9: would be two great picks. I mean, they're very talented players,
Speaker 9: but I feel like there's still a real hole opposite
Speaker 9: Montese Sweat on the defensive line Stacy, and this is
Speaker 9: a deep draft, you know for defense line you're out
Speaker 9: there at the combine. I was at the Senior Bowl
Speaker 9: watching these guys, like Mike kel Williams was on a
Speaker 9: path to be in the top ten. Kick now he
Speaker 9: got a high ankle spraying Week one against Clemson. He
Speaker 9: played through it, but he wasn't really the same guy
Speaker 9: that we saw the year before. But I feel like, uh,
Speaker 9: Montes and Michel would be That'd be a good alliteration
Speaker 9: Montez and Michael out here, you know for the Bears
Speaker 9: building his defense you know where you know a soldier field,
Speaker 9: it's about defense.
Speaker 2: A lot of Sundays.
Speaker 9: I feel like this could be a good draft to
Speaker 9: address it in a real need with that tenth pick
Speaker 9: as well.
Speaker 1: You got a pretty good track record on the Lions
Speaker 1: at this point, Stacy Dan Campbell Brad Holmes going into
Speaker 1: another draft together, What do you expect from them at
Speaker 1: twenty eight and beyond?
Speaker 12: Yeah, I love mikel by the way. I love that guy.
Speaker 12: I want to sit in the draft room with the
Speaker 12: Detroit Lions. I don't care if they pick late all
Speaker 12: the time, because they're good. They are fascinating. Brad Holmes
Speaker 12: is the wild card, right. You just don't know what you're.
Speaker 7: Getting with him.
Speaker 12: He spoke today, he is so unpredictable in the draft,
Speaker 12: and I wanted to put together the whiteboard because I
Speaker 12: just you got to get creative a week out from
Speaker 12: the draft, and so I put together the whiteboard just
Speaker 12: to show you what he's done and remind you what
Speaker 12: he's done in the first round of the NFL Draft
Speaker 12: in his era. Right in twenty one, they're sitting at seven,
Speaker 12: He's like, I gotta have Pine Sewel.
Speaker 7: So he goes and gets him right away. I mean
Speaker 7: that was his.
Speaker 12: First year, right, So you got to get the best
Speaker 12: player available right there, and that's what he does. He
Speaker 12: hates it if you ask him, are you going to
Speaker 12: draft this position of need?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 12: That's not his style, but he falls in love with players.
Speaker 12: In twenty twenty two, right eight, Hutchins is sitting there
Speaker 12: at number two, take him right, but instead of using
Speaker 12: the thirty second pick, so they were going to have
Speaker 12: to wait all the way to the end of the
Speaker 12: first round. They love Jamison Williams, the wide receiver, despite
Speaker 12: that injury coming into the pros.
Speaker 7: They moved all the way.
Speaker 12: Up to twelve and did some nifty trade work to
Speaker 12: get him at number twelve, and that was massive, and
Speaker 12: they targeted him. Brad Holmes said that today they wanted
Speaker 12: him so badly they moved up that much.
Speaker 7: In twenty twenty three, here's where it gets interesting.
Speaker 12: They're sitting there at number six, right, We've seen him
Speaker 12: take sewell, we've seen him take hutch and now they
Speaker 12: moved down instead of using the six pick overall, they
Speaker 12: moved down and get Gibbie and then at eighteen they
Speaker 12: stay right there. They get Jack Campbell, the linebacker, and
Speaker 12: then in twenty twenty four, another twenty ninth later pick,
Speaker 12: and they love Terry On Arnold, Bradholms said today. We
Speaker 12: had an affinity for him. We saw him play as
Speaker 12: a starter last year at his rookie campaign. He's going
Speaker 12: to be a hell of a player. They move up
Speaker 12: to twenty four to get him. What is my point?
Speaker 12: What are they going to do at twenty eighth overall
Speaker 12: in this draft?
Speaker 7: They've got seven picks. They could do anything.
Speaker 12: And I want to sit in that draft room with
Speaker 12: the Detroit Lions because Brad Holmes, it starts with him,
Speaker 12: and he's a master at it.
Speaker 3: He is.
Speaker 2: He's very good, very talented. Stacy, good job there.
Speaker 9: But you know, the last time we saw the line
Speaker 9: and play Stacy, they scored thirty one points on offense
Speaker 9: with a lot of the guys you just described. They
Speaker 9: lost by two touchdowns to the Washington Commanders.
Speaker 2: They put it.
Speaker 9: They have forty five points that day, and they've got
Speaker 9: issues on defense. Now, obviously they lose Aiden Hutchinson the
Speaker 9: fifth game, they lose Marcus Davenport in the second game.
Speaker 9: Zadaria Smith comes in, he's already gone. They've got need
Speaker 9: a pass rusher. We think Aiden Hutchon we'll be back.
Speaker 9: We don't know what you're going to get from Marcus
Speaker 9: Davenport because he has a strong injury history. This is
Speaker 9: a deep draft for defensive line. We have discussed that earlier.
Speaker 9: Like I just think of a guy like Mike Green
Speaker 9: was still there and you played him opposite of Hutching
Speaker 9: what they have inside right now that could start to
Speaker 9: rebuild their defense. I think they've got to do it
Speaker 9: with a young player, and I know he's going to
Speaker 9: draft the best player available and all that's which is true.
Speaker 2: If Mike Green is hanging around there.
Speaker 9: Like, I just don't know that they could pass him
Speaker 9: up with his ability to turn the corner bend and
Speaker 9: get to the quarterback like he did at Marshall this
Speaker 9: past season.
Speaker 2: Baldi, Stacy, thank you very much.
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Speaker 13: Obviously, the expectations that he's had, you know, throughout his
Speaker 13: college career and then taking Colorado to new heights like that.
Speaker 13: You know, that's not easy. The knock is a little
Speaker 13: bit of the arm strength, and then you know, holding
Speaker 13: the ball took a lot of sacks with my experience
Speaker 13: of playing, Like if I can show my guys you
Speaker 13: know that I can get hit and then keep going,
Speaker 13: that just shows a lot about you know, your leadership
Speaker 13: and just being able to learn to get the ball
Speaker 13: out play within the timing of the offense and concepts.
Speaker 13: I think those are things that he has and will
Speaker 13: continue to learn and development.
Speaker 3: Ward back of the ends for a touchdown.
Speaker 14: I guess so, mister rival in space to the pot
Speaker 14: on touchdown.
Speaker 3: War another one on one.
Speaker 14: Drops it over the shutter, throws into the ends Todd
Speaker 14: ten yard line.
Speaker 8: Ward's gonna take off diving touchdown.
Speaker 14: Cam Ward, there's the wheels.
Speaker 5: So many mock draft creators probably can get the first
Speaker 5: one right, as our Mark Cross almost certainly does. Cam
Speaker 5: Ward likely going one to the Tennessee Titans. Mark Cross
Speaker 5: unveils his first and only mock draft. We'll see if
Speaker 5: he got the other thirty one picks right. If only
Speaker 5: there was so many we could talk about it with.
Speaker 3: And he shows up.
Speaker 5: Mark, Welcome inside with the insiders. Let's go over your
Speaker 5: first and only mock draft of this draft season. Three
Speaker 5: quarterbacks going in the top ten. Obviously Cam out of surprise,
Speaker 5: take me through the other two.
Speaker 3: What went into that decision?
Speaker 14: Yeah, Cam's and no brainer at one, the only player,
Speaker 14: in my opinion, can transform a franchise. Now let's get
Speaker 14: to number six with Shador Sanders and people say, well,
Speaker 14: they just drafted have it just traded for Gino Smith?
Speaker 3: Well, there's precedent for this.
Speaker 14: Pete Carroll on twenty twelve had a big free agent
Speaker 14: signing from the Green Bay Packers Matt Flynn. Yes, that
Speaker 14: was a thing back then, but that same year drafted
Speaker 14: Russell Wilson in the third round, who eventually became that
Speaker 14: Russell Wilson. Well, so now you've got Gino, let's double
Speaker 14: down and take Shador as our future quarterback. And also,
Speaker 14: let's not forget Tom Brady, the minority owner is there
Speaker 14: who has an extensive relationship with Shador and Dion that
Speaker 14: cannot be discounted his presence there. Now we get to
Speaker 14: number nine with Jackson Dart with the Saints and of
Speaker 14: course the.
Speaker 3: Derek car injury there.
Speaker 14: They drafted Spencer Rattler last year but showed some flashes,
Speaker 14: but really doesn't seem to be the quarterback of the future.
Speaker 14: Head coach Kellen Moore just came off the Super Bowl
Speaker 14: with Billy who showed the ability to double down. Had
Speaker 14: Carson Wentz drafted Jalen Hurts, now he's a Super Bowl MVP.
Speaker 14: So now Kellen Moore putting his own stamp on the
Speaker 14: Saints by drafting Jackson Dart.
Speaker 3: You say, is that a little bit too high?
Speaker 14: But we always see quarterback desperation in these drafts.
Speaker 6: Let's look at picks two and three together. Today we
Speaker 6: heard Brown's general manager Andrew Berry. He compared Travis Hunter
Speaker 6: to show, hey, o'tani, you have the Browns going though
Speaker 6: with Abdul Carter and the Giants taking Travis Hunter and
Speaker 6: not taking a quarterback. Take me through both of those decisions.
Speaker 14: Well, look, Judy, as you know, I'm Perry Miles Garrett.
Speaker 14: Without Duel Carter, it's a giant success. And that's what
Speaker 14: we were border rays on the two Super Bowls. All
Speaker 14: those guys up front, you go get it and everything
Speaker 14: else stems from there. So I just cannot imagine a
Speaker 14: world where the Browns are not looking at Miles Garrett
Speaker 14: and looking at Dull Carter and say, we.
Speaker 3: Have to get these two.
Speaker 14: Guys together to terrorize Joe Burrow and Lebar Jackson in
Speaker 14: that division. And then it always seemed like, well, now
Speaker 14: the Giants get the leftovers, and Travis Hunter's a heck
Speaker 14: of a left over there to have if you get him,
Speaker 14: and that I think he can help the Giants even
Speaker 14: more so on the offensive side of the ball, pairing
Speaker 14: him with elite neighbors and then spot play on defense.
Speaker 14: And I shot away from giving them Shador Sanders there
Speaker 14: because I just have real apprehension that the Giants ownership
Speaker 14: in front office really want to take on that personality
Speaker 14: and everything that comes with Shador Sanders in the building.
Speaker 5: I was going to move on to the Jets pick
Speaker 5: at number seven for Ashton Genty, which I want you
Speaker 5: to explain, but first, just give me a little more
Speaker 5: Giants for a second. Do you see them coming back
Speaker 5: in at the back half of one and taking a quarterback.
Speaker 14: Well, you know, Joe Shane did say he's comfortable, but
Speaker 14: you know, everything's possible. They have to be looking at
Speaker 14: all these quarterback extensively and knowing like, okay, Russ and
Speaker 14: Jamis may just be one year, stop gaps. Is there
Speaker 14: somebody there? It has to be the right person. It
Speaker 14: can't just be a philosophy. If we got to get
Speaker 14: a guy, it still has to be the right person,
Speaker 14: the right quarterback that they feel can take the franchise
Speaker 14: to another level.
Speaker 2: All right, we know what what about gent to the Jets?
Speaker 2: Take me through that genty to the Jets?
Speaker 14: Back to genty with the Jets and working with new
Speaker 14: head coaches, they always feel comfortable about where they were
Speaker 14: before Philly. We got Andy Reid. He'd liked to do
Speaker 14: things the way the Packers did it. So here is
Speaker 14: Aaron Glenn. He was in Detroit. Of course, you know
Speaker 14: they had the two headed monster. They're a thunder and
Speaker 14: lightning of David Montgomery and Jamier Gibbs. So now he's saying, look,
Speaker 14: I've already had Breeze Hall, but let's get bashing genty
Speaker 14: in here. Even Allen that they also have a three
Speaker 14: headed monster to go with justin fields. Now you've got
Speaker 14: four runners there.
Speaker 3: We're going to play solid defense. But we want to.
Speaker 14: Pound the ball with our running quarterback and now a
Speaker 14: dynamic backfield of a lot of dudes who.
Speaker 3: Can take these snaps. Genty, you break the game open.
Speaker 3: You are the guys.
Speaker 14: You do your specialty runs here to bring what you
Speaker 14: have to the offense. So I think that was the
Speaker 14: thinking there, Aaron Glenn knowing how they had success in
Speaker 14: Detroit bringing that to New York.
Speaker 6: Last one for me, Mark, you only do one mock draft.
Speaker 6: What was the hardest team to nail down when you
Speaker 6: were doing this?
Speaker 3: Oh wow? So and I mentioned this in my article.
Speaker 14: When I was part of our groups there, we never
Speaker 14: did mock drafts in our draft room. We just talked
Speaker 14: about the groups of players who would be there before
Speaker 14: we picked, and you kind of just count the numbers there.
Speaker 3: But I mean, there's a lot dudy.
Speaker 14: Even at two and three, just trying to figure out
Speaker 14: what Cleveland's going to do. I know, we're really boiling
Speaker 14: it down to these two but Abdul Carter and Travis Hunter.
Speaker 14: But a lot of times you don't see a lot
Speaker 14: of smoke with a team. They may go another direction.
Speaker 14: So could Shador Sanders really still be in play for Cleveland?
Speaker 14: Because no one's really been associating Chador Sanders with Cleveland.
Speaker 14: So you know, overall, it's it's really a fun exercise
Speaker 14: to talk through.
Speaker 3: And it's all easy, Judy.
Speaker 14: Just give a team, give a player to a team,
Speaker 14: and next thing, you know, who cares.
Speaker 3: I don't have to be responsible for it.
Speaker 5: Say what if Schadoor Sanders goes two to the Browns,
Speaker 5: that is going to ruin all of the mock drafts,
Speaker 5: including yours. But otherwise we'll expect thirty two of thirty
Speaker 5: two all correct.
Speaker 2: Mark, Thank you very much for joining us.
Speaker 5: Great stuff as always, Tom Peliasero take it away.
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Speaker 5: All right, Tom, That's enough for you can't let you
Speaker 5: lead a segment where you wrote the article. So let's
Speaker 5: go over your five potential first round surprises. I read
Speaker 5: the whole article from the top all the way to
Speaker 5: the bottom, so I already know what you're gonna say.
Speaker 5: But spot now, I really didn't, but I almost did.
Speaker 5: I got almost down to the bottom. Give me your
Speaker 5: favorite first round surprise.
Speaker 1: The name that's come up the most is Carson Schwessinger,
Speaker 1: the linebacker from UCLA.
Speaker 2: Friend of the show.
Speaker 1: He came on The Insiders a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 13: Here.
Speaker 1: This guy was a walk on at UCLA. Last year
Speaker 1: was the first time he'd even been a starter, but
Speaker 1: he was a butt Kiss Award finalist.
Speaker 2: He was one of the best and most.
Speaker 1: Productive linebackers in the entire country. He can run, he
Speaker 1: and covering, and play all three downs. He is not
Speaker 1: a versatile edge rusher type like Jihad Campbell. There's a
Speaker 1: bunch of teams now at the bottom of the first round,
Speaker 1: Judy that all need off the ball. Linebacker Schwestinger could
Speaker 1: fill a hole.
Speaker 6: My surprise pick is actually also on Tom's list, Shuck,
Speaker 6: the quarterback from Louisville. I think it's inevitable with so
Speaker 6: many teams needing quarterbacks that there's going to be a push,
Speaker 6: especially at the bottom of the round. Could teams start
Speaker 6: to come back into the bottom of the first round.
Speaker 2: I think Tyler Schuck.
Speaker 6: Is going to be well positioned. He was really productive.
Speaker 6: He's a little bit older, injury questions, injury history to
Speaker 6: be concerned about, but again, I think there is such
Speaker 6: a desperate need for quarterbacks, we're going to see him.
Speaker 5: He's a lot older, but we call that experience and
Speaker 5: I would agree with both of you guys on your
Speaker 5: picks as you should agree with my pick. Ariance Urseri,
Speaker 5: the Minnesota tackle right in Tom's backyard, didn't even put
Speaker 5: him on his list. This is a guy that I
Speaker 5: know teams like a lot more than the media knows.
Speaker 5: You look late in the first round and figure out
Speaker 5: who would maybe need to tackle. A team like the
Speaker 5: Knnes City Chiefs come to mind. He is talented, he
Speaker 5: is athletic. Maybe a little wrong, but this is a
Speaker 5: guy the team's really like. I believe, potentially, maybe theoretically,
Speaker 5: that he could go in the first round.
Speaker 1: I've gotten burned before by people telling me the Chiefs
Speaker 1: are definitely taking that offensive lineman at the bottom of
Speaker 1: the first and then they just go and find another
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