WEBVTT - Connor Rogers talks Draft Predictions and Behind the Scenes 0:00:03.920 --> 0:00:08.560 From the King of sports Books comes the Key Sports 0:00:08.600 --> 0:00:19.040 podcast Unleashed, presented by the MGM. Here's your host, Jana's 0:00:19.079 --> 0:00:31.520 Pampas and Olivia Arlan Decker. Welcome to Unleashed, brought to 0:00:31.520 --> 0:00:35.239 you by bet MGM boy. The NBA playoffs are in 0:00:35.320 --> 0:00:37.800 full swing. What a good first round too. We've got 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:40.360 a lot to talk about there, and the NFL Draft 0:00:40.520 --> 0:00:44.080 is finally here. If you're listening to this, it's probably 0:00:44.159 --> 0:00:46.160 Thursday morning. I hope you're on your way to work. 0:00:46.240 --> 0:00:48.600 I hope you are getting ready for all the action tonight. 0:00:49.040 --> 0:00:51.760 We are going to get you ready with our guest today, 0:00:51.760 --> 0:00:55.800 it's Connor Rogers from Bleacher Report and Pro Football Focus. 0:00:55.960 --> 0:00:58.480 Last week we had Mike Renner from Pro Football Focus. 0:00:58.520 --> 0:01:00.880 We got you covered. You can get all the insight. 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:04.080 He's got a big board with over three players on it, 0:01:04.200 --> 0:01:08.679 ranking players by position. It's color coded, it's gorgeous. It's 0:01:08.680 --> 0:01:10.920 a work of art. He is going to help us 0:01:10.920 --> 0:01:13.880 get ready. And if you listen to our show, I 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:16.240 assume that you already know this, but you can bet 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:19.320 on the NFL Draft, and we're gonna get you set 0:01:19.360 --> 0:01:21.640 there too, because at the end of our show, as always, 0:01:21.720 --> 0:01:24.720 we bring in bet MGM betting expert Peter Andrew to 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:28.679 guide you in the right direction there. This episode is 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:32.560 very thorough. Guys, this one has got you covered. Honest. 0:01:32.720 --> 0:01:34.800 I just worry a little bit whenever we bring on 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:37.480 an NFL guy. How many questions are you going to 0:01:37.520 --> 0:01:40.680 ask him about your giants? I think last week I 0:01:40.720 --> 0:01:44.039 asked all the questions that I had about the giants, 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:46.759 So I don't want to be redundant, but it will 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:49.760 come up. I will ask, but you know if he 0:01:49.840 --> 0:01:52.800 answers before I ask, all I need to know is 0:01:52.960 --> 0:01:55.920 are we getting some big boys? And that's it. We 0:01:56.000 --> 0:01:58.680 need some big boys. Everyone knows what we need. Last 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:00.840 week we joked about it. Look, we may just have 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:05.320 to go to all the Buffalo Wild Wings, all the 0:02:05.360 --> 0:02:08.000 restaurants where all the big eaters go, and just pull 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:10.359 someone out of their chair and throw them in front 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:12.520 of Daniel Jones. Whatever it's gonna take to give that 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:16.519 guy a couple of seconds to throw to Shepherd. That's 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:19.280 all we need. So give us some big boys. Baby. Now, 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:21.480 you know, if you go to like any restaurant in 0:02:21.480 --> 0:02:23.679 the state of Wisconsin, we can find a couple of those. 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:25.799 I know you like to poke fun. At Wisconsin, we 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:29.120 don't get many meals. Yeah, look, male or female. I 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:36.720 just came from Madison. Hey, I'm just saying I set 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:39.079 you up. Yeah, you set me up for that. I mean, 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:41.959 you know, we're America. We like to eat, so I mean, 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:45.639 and I'm for gender equality. Whatever it takes. Just give 0:02:45.639 --> 0:02:48.920 me three pounds and put it on the line. Ye, 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:53.200 who's your cousin? He said, might be available, Vasili vasili, 0:02:53.320 --> 0:02:55.359 But you know, like we said, I don't know. I 0:02:55.400 --> 0:02:57.800 don't know if his lungs could handle it. But look, 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:00.960 if need be, I'm in New York. I like to eat. 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:03.200 I'll blow up and put a helmet on me. Throw 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:06.600 me out there. I'll pretend you're pregnant. Maybe we'll both 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:10.720 go on the line. Hey, now you've crossed it, that 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:15.400 I've crossed the line. Yeah, pun intended. Pun intended about 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:18.360 going on the line because I crossed it. Oh God, 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:22.360 you're lucky Sam's out here. He'd throw a swing at 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:27.440 that one. I'm just saying, I remember what it's like 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:30.520 to be pregnant. Not me personally, but I remember my wife. 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:32.760 She definitely like to eat a little bit. This is 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:34.600 your time to eat. This is your time to eat 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:37.160 and not be And you know what, you haven't eating 0:03:37.200 --> 0:03:39.080 at all. You look great. You're trying so hard. You're 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:41.160 digging out of that hole, aren't you. I'm doing what 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:45.160 they call damage control. I am my own publicist right now. 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:48.600 You're honest here, do you want to go right into 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:50.920 bad beat? Yeah? Well, now, while I'm trying to dig 0:03:50.960 --> 0:03:53.880 myself out of this hole, I basically saying Olivia is 0:03:53.920 --> 0:04:00.480 eating too much. Bad Beat of the Weak. Let's talk 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:03.440 about someone who suffered a tough loss this week. His 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:07.400 name is Tim Tronzo. He's the winner of our bad 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:12.480 Beat of the week. He had a same game parlay 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:16.320 with the Vegas Nights San Jose Sharks that looked like 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:20.120 it was about to cash big. Vegas had a two 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:23.279 goal lead with two minutes to go, six seconds left 0:04:23.279 --> 0:04:28.360 in regulation, and that's when things went downhill. Vegas let 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:31.680 up two goals, including the time goal with less than 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:36.720 a second left, then lost one doughnut in the shootout. 0:04:36.920 --> 0:04:41.080 Bad news for your bet, my friend. But good news, Timmy. 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:43.520 The good news is you are the winner of our 0:04:43.560 --> 0:04:45.640 bad Beat of the week and you are getting one 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:51.240 hundred dollars in bet MGM site credit coming straight to you, 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:54.280 my friend. So hopefully that eases the pain a little bit. 0:04:54.560 --> 0:04:57.440 I hope you can. It rubs a little Icy Hot 0:04:57.480 --> 0:05:02.960 on it for you. Not promoted, just say now, yeah, 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:04.880 I hate when I give a company free promore. Don't 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:07.120 do that. Yeah, send us money, Icy Hot, you give 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:09.560 shock enough. Put in your venmo right here. Yeah, I'll 0:05:09.560 --> 0:05:11.680 put my venmo right there. Icy Hot sent it to 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:13.840 my account. Now there's last week. Want to talk about 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:16.719 this week? From fans running on the court to Ben 0:05:16.920 --> 0:05:20.400 Simmons staying off the court. So, Olivia, you know what 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:25.440 it is. It's time for Rush to unleaved. It's time 0:05:25.560 --> 0:05:29.840 to unleash. I wanted to do that understated. I love 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:32.839 every week to do that different. That was understated. Oh 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:37.440 that was understated. You know what's not understated is my 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:41.760 opinion on this last week. I unleashed on the Celtics 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:43.839 fans who I thought were out of line to Kyrie 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:46.880 Irvan and might have deserved the double bird. I didn't 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:48.760 so much say that, but it was kind of implied. 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:51.880 So I'm not encouraging bad behavior, but I just thought 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:54.479 there are a couple of Bostonians who might have deserved it. 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:57.039 And it's happening again this week in other sports. What 0:05:57.480 --> 0:06:02.080 is going on? We have fans going absolutely crazy, running 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:04.679 on the court, getting into it with players. And then 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:07.320 when I just tapped out when I saw this had 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:10.679 gone too far, was someone instigating it with Mike Tyson 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:14.280 on an airplane. So first of all, we had, I 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:17.880 believe our third protesters stormed the court at a Timberwolves game, 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:20.800 And if you aren't familiar, their whole stick is. It's 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:23.480 a group of animal rights activists who have an issue 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:27.320 with the chicken farm that the Timberwolves owner, Glenn Taylor owns, 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:30.120 and the way the farm killed chickens who had a 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:34.560 bird flew outbreak. The organization deems it an ethical and 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:36.520 I'm not taking a side on either of that. I'm 0:06:36.520 --> 0:06:38.359 not touching that one with a ten foot poll because 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:42.120 those animal rights activists are very passionate group of people. 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:46.320 And these protesters have glued themselves to the court, handcuffed 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:50.200 themselves to the hoop, and most recently, one dressed as 0:06:50.240 --> 0:06:54.520 a referee and her plan was to eject Glenn Taylor 0:06:54.600 --> 0:06:59.640 from the game. Now points for creativity, it's clever, it's ballsy. 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:04.160 That was until she got tackled and ejected by arena security. 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:06.840 You just you can't make the shift up. Then there 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:09.520 was an incident at the Yankees game on Sunday. Cleveland 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:13.520 Guardians outfielder Stephen Kuan crushed into the outfield wall trying 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:16.720 to make a catch right. Fans started yelling while he 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:19.720 was getting checked on, and you know, make sure he 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:22.920 was okay. His teammate outfield or Miles Straw came to 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:26.160 his defense. But boy, that's when things got interesting as 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:30.200 Straw climbed the outfield wall and had words with fans. 0:07:30.320 --> 0:07:32.680 So after the Yankees hit a walk off for the win, 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:38.120 the fans just pelted the field with garbage and bottles 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:40.280 and all the like. I gotta say it was a 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:43.960 very ugly, embarrassing scene. After the game, Straw called the 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:49.120 Yankees fans classless in the worst fan base on the planet. 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:55.040 And Jannie, that's your team, that's your squad. Were you there? 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:59.640 I was not there. I am highly disappointed in the 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:04.160 Yankee fan base. Jesus, I'm sure brutal. You've got to 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:06.640 be though, that's so, that's so embarrassing. Yeah, and this 0:08:06.720 --> 0:08:09.239 is like coming on the heels of the Boston incident. 0:08:09.240 --> 0:08:12.360 With Kyrie. I think I unleashed last week on Boston fans, 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:16.360 and this is karma coming back to haunt me because 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:20.640 this was much uglier than what Kyrie was dealing with. 0:08:20.800 --> 0:08:24.559 So I have no excuse. I gotta say, Yankee fans 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:28.640 can be horrible, especially those Bleacher monsters back there. You know. 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:31.640 It's not making a good case for drinking at games. No, 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:34.319 And that's the whole thing about baseball games. They're so long, 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:36.760 they're usually you know, in the middle of the day, 0:08:36.840 --> 0:08:38.760 you're with all your boys, you're having a good time. 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:41.920 Like I only go to baseball games to drink. I 0:08:42.000 --> 0:08:44.960 don't really enjoy baseball's sport. I've been very honest about that. 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:46.959 I like sitting in the sun and having a beer, 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:51.200 but I would never throw my trash at a player. 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:54.199 And do you remember, like after COVID, when fans were 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:57.640 allowed back at games and no one knew how to 0:08:57.679 --> 0:09:02.000 act right. Every woman crazy at games, college games, pro games, everything. 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:05.240 There were all these fan incidents. But this weekend has 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:08.000 gotten really bad. But the craziest thing I've seen involving 0:09:08.040 --> 0:09:10.640 a fan was up in the air. We got our 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:15.960 maskless privileges back, So everyone should just got our face 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:18.760 priges back. We could go raw daddy, now we can 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:23.560 breathe raw daddy. We should all be celebrating, like this 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:26.400 is what we've been wanting for two years. But instead, 0:09:27.040 --> 0:09:29.319 someone on a Jet Blue flight turned it into a 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:32.840 Jet Blue fight. As there was video and pictures of 0:09:32.840 --> 0:09:36.679 a passenger who got into it with Mike Tyson. Mike Tyson, 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:40.680 who is a character and itself, let alone a champ, 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:43.960 just don't mess with the man. It's like poking a bear. 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:47.280 It's literally poking a bear or so. Yeah, he threw 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:49.760 a water bottle at him, and all of a sudden, 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:52.600 ironed Mike cat enough and we got the real life 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:56.320 Mike Tyson's punch out. And I just think this guy 0:09:56.400 --> 0:09:58.440 had it coming. One of my favorite musicals, you honest, 0:09:58.480 --> 0:10:01.120 you know I'm a big musical theater Junkie is Chicago 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:03.480 and one of my favorite songs in it is he 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:06.640 had it coming. And this guy did this was crazy. 0:10:06.679 --> 0:10:09.000 I don't feel bad for him at all, Like, don't 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:18.800 do that, talk about someone who probably had a few, Yeah, yeah, 0:10:18.840 --> 0:10:22.320 put them all in time out ground him. It's this 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:27.199 is really I think I'm hoping this is all post pandemic. 0:10:27.400 --> 0:10:30.600 Just kind of pent up people have. You know, they've 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:34.080 been on break from being socialized and we're getting back 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:37.600 into society. And this ends soon because I don't think 0:10:37.640 --> 0:10:40.400 it's a coincidence that these are all happening back to 0:10:40.440 --> 0:10:43.440 back to back to back. Hopefully this dies down. Do 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:47.200 not do not provoke Mike Tyson if you see him 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:50.560 out there. He's a retired boxer. He's all chilled out now. 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:53.440 He likes to smoke weed. He's like Confucius all the 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:59.559 time on Twitter doing you know, tweeting all these sages tweets. 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:03.720 But make zero mistake about it. He's a kid from Brownsville, Brooklyn, 0:11:04.280 --> 0:11:07.080 and if you keep pressing him, you're gonna find out. 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:09.760 Active full round Tyson, You're gonna find out. So there's 0:11:09.760 --> 0:11:12.640 nobody who's siding with that kid. And and the common 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:16.480 theme everyone who's been harassing these athletes are drunk. So 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:21.000 let's just legalize marijuana and that's it. They should only 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:25.600 serve marijuana at these games and it'll be chilled out. Yeah, 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:29.040 except baseball, where where maybe they should give them riddling 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:31.520 or cocaine just to make it exciting. Can you imagine 0:11:32.600 --> 0:11:35.400 I'm joking I'm bet, I'm gm I'm joking. I know 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:38.040 this this I'm going I'm crossing the line of the play. 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:43.880 I'm really I'm dancing on the wire. Yes, okay, that's 0:11:44.000 --> 0:11:46.720 that's why they hired you. Right, Let's let's talk about 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:49.200 Ben Simmons a little bit. Everyone's talking about it, but 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:51.880 I want to throw my two cents into the pot 0:11:52.240 --> 0:11:54.640 because my take is a little different. I think what 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:58.640 we have here is another example of the spell that 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:03.000 dating of the Kardashians can put on you. I don't 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:05.839 know what is going on, but any time any one 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:09.360 of these athletes comes in contact with one of those women, 0:12:10.240 --> 0:12:14.040 their lives in their careers just fall apart. I mean 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:17.880 it seems like they love like guys who are like 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:22.440 borderline role players, emerging as stars the Tristan's, you know, 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:26.920 and then they just fall apart. Ben Simmons was a star, 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:31.560 but now he's scared to play. I don't know what 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:34.160 is going on. I don't know what kind of which 0:12:34.360 --> 0:12:38.600 powers these ladies have, but I think it has something 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:41.080 to do with what's going on with Ben Simmons. Now 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:43.319 you know how much I hate Boston, all right, I'm 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:47.000 a New York Yankees fan, it's just part of the tradition. 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:51.200 But I gotta say congrats to the Celtics for taking 0:12:51.200 --> 0:12:55.560 out the brooms and sweeping KD and Kyrie. This has 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:58.280 got to be embarrassing for Katie and Kyrie. I mean, 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:01.240 let's just think about it. One guy is talked about 0:13:01.320 --> 0:13:04.480 as being better than Lebron. The other guy thinks he 0:13:04.520 --> 0:13:08.000 doesn't need Lebron and that's why he left. This is 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:10.040 not a good look. This is not a good look 0:13:10.040 --> 0:13:12.800 for that argument. Look, I know they had a lot 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:15.920 of problems this season. They weren't on the court at 0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:18.319 the same time for a lot of the season, and 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:22.320 everyone's familiar with the Kyrie not playing the first thirty 0:13:22.360 --> 0:13:24.800 seven games. Then the organization says you can't play on 0:13:24.840 --> 0:13:27.640 the road either if you can't play at home, and 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:31.560 then of course Harden didn't work out and Ben Simmons. 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:34.120 But still, when you have a healthy Katie and Kyrie 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:37.240 on the court, you're expecting they're gonna not get swept 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:41.480 at least. So this is a bad, bad look. But 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:45.680 let's focus in on Betty Simmons. I mean, it's really 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:48.400 become a joke on the internet now that everyone's joining 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:52.280 in going he's gonna be ready for Game one on seven, 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:54.959 He's gonna be ready for game one in the season 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:59.640 of I mean, who knows. He's getting paid a lot 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:02.760 of money. Think it's over a hundred million dollars and 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:06.320 he just says his back hurts or whatever. Nobody knows 0:14:06.360 --> 0:14:08.360 what's going on. He was supposed to be ready for 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:11.120 Game four and all he is is out there in 0:14:11.480 --> 0:14:16.160 an outfit looking like he's sitting He's it's fashion. It 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:18.400 just looks like he's just sitting there in fashion week. 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:22.760 He's getting ripped by everybody. I don't know what is 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:25.920 going on with Ben Simmons, but I think we need 0:14:26.000 --> 0:14:30.520 to really start looking at the Kardashians and try to 0:14:30.560 --> 0:14:33.560 find out. There needs to be an NBA rule put 0:14:33.560 --> 0:14:37.520 into effect where if you are an athlete in the NBA, 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:40.720 you cannot date a Kardashian. It's got to go in 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:44.440 the contract. It has to go in the contract. This 0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:47.760 is the third NBA player we've seen who just falls 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:52.560 apart after they come in contact with those witches. So enough, Okay, 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:57.720 Halloween's over, go watch hocus Pocus instead. That's my advice 0:14:58.320 --> 0:15:01.600 to any NBA play here. I really crossed the line 0:15:01.640 --> 0:15:03.760 this episode. I just called him witches, but why not? 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:14.840 I have no explanation for this other than a spell. 0:15:15.080 --> 0:15:17.600 I mean, can you explain what's going on with Ben Simmons? 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:21.280 What injury can he have that is keeping him off 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:24.920 the court this long? There's no conceivable injury. There's nothing. 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:27.440 Be honest, I cannot tell you that. I'm not a doctor, 0:15:27.520 --> 0:15:30.080 but I am a spectator with a lot of opinions. 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:33.000 And I do think if he wants to dial down 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:36.800 the negative convo around him, he should just wear something 0:15:37.080 --> 0:15:40.960 so normal to these games. He's drawing so much more 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:46.440 attention in for dressing so extravagantly and sitting on the 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:49.400 bench and watching his team lose, And I think sportsmanship 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:52.080 that just kind of looks bad. It's just a bad look, Like, 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:54.560 just show up, man, if you're not gonna play, just 0:15:54.600 --> 0:15:57.920 show up and don't cause any more attention. And I 0:15:57.920 --> 0:16:00.280 don't know where your team issued sweats, I don't know. 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:03.080 Don't wear all that nonsense. It's bad luck, I think. 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:05.600 But good unleashed boy. You hit on like five different 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:09.320 points there. I was taking notes and drawing a diagram. 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:11.800 It is I'm telling you, this is the weirdest story 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:14.440 in sports that I can remember. It just doesn't make 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:17.160 any sense. So that's why I'm saying. It's got to 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:20.120 be a curse put on him by those witches. That's 0:16:20.160 --> 0:16:21.960 all I'm saying. I kind of hope none of the 0:16:22.000 --> 0:16:25.080 Kardashians listen to our show. We don't know, We have 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:27.600 yet to confirm. You know, what can you do? And 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:29.560 next thing you know, I'm going to divorce my wife 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:32.320 and I'm gonna be sitting on the bench on this podcast. 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:36.160 Your comedy career would go downhill. If that is what 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:39.880 would happen. Oh my gosh, Well that was good. Hey, 0:16:39.960 --> 0:16:42.240 let's get back to NFL Draft. Let's leave the NBA 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:44.400 alone for a minute. Let's leave the Kardashians alone for 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:47.560 a minute, and let's get into the draft and bring 0:16:47.600 --> 0:16:57.320 on Connor Rodgers. Okay, let's bring in our guest on 0:16:57.400 --> 0:16:59.880 the eve of the NFL Draft. He's made as my 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:02.960 draft and checked it twice, probably a couple more times. 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:06.080 The host of NFL Stock Exchange for Pro Football Focused 0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:10.520 and lead draft analyst for Bleacher Report, Connor Rogers is here. Connor, 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:12.800 thanks for joining, Thanks so much for having me. Happy 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:15.120 to be here, happy to rip up that mock draft 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:17.720 at least eight more times before Thursday in the countdown 0:17:17.800 --> 0:17:20.040 goes on the clock. So here we go, right, And 0:17:20.080 --> 0:17:21.879 not only that, I feel like everyone's going to be 0:17:21.960 --> 0:17:24.480 ripping up their mock draft when it's all said and done, 0:17:24.520 --> 0:17:28.000 because no one seems that confident in their draft picks. 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:30.640 How confident are you in your mock draft? Oh, this 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:33.199 is the worst year I can remember, honestly, because it 0:17:33.200 --> 0:17:35.680 starts at number one, right. I think that's the hardest thing. 0:17:35.760 --> 0:17:37.880 For so long I was set on Aidan Hutchinson going 0:17:37.920 --> 0:17:39.960 first overall in this draft, and you know, for the 0:17:40.000 --> 0:17:42.919 longest time I kind of put aside the Trayvon Walker 0:17:43.000 --> 0:17:44.960 rumors and now it's you have to buy in a 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:47.560 little bit. So I think the unpredictable nature of the 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:50.320 number one overall pick kind of sets everything else in line. 0:17:50.359 --> 0:17:52.040 The good thing is it's going to be some kind 0:17:52.040 --> 0:17:54.639 of combination at one and two, whether it's Walker first 0:17:54.640 --> 0:17:57.399 and hutch second or reversed. And then after that is 0:17:57.400 --> 0:18:00.240 where it gets really fun. The drafts in vegases year, 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:03.159 which gives it, of course an extra layer of excitement. 0:18:03.359 --> 0:18:05.760 But if you were given an all access pass to 0:18:05.880 --> 0:18:08.960 any team's draft room this year. Who's would it be. 0:18:09.359 --> 0:18:11.480 It's a great question, and I think it has to 0:18:11.520 --> 0:18:13.840 be one of the two New York teams right just 0:18:13.920 --> 0:18:17.280 because it's unprecedented to see a two teams picked twice 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:20.200 in the top ten and two teams that really gotta 0:18:20.240 --> 0:18:22.080 get it right. And I know that's kind of cliche 0:18:22.119 --> 0:18:23.679 to say. You have the Giants starting with the new 0:18:23.720 --> 0:18:25.880 regime and Joe Shane, I think they'll be a little 0:18:25.880 --> 0:18:28.119 bit more flexible in terms of willing to move one 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:30.840 of the two picks to get later capital for two 0:18:30.840 --> 0:18:34.360 thousand twenty three if that opportunity presents itself. And then 0:18:34.359 --> 0:18:36.160 a New York Jets football team that has to start 0:18:36.160 --> 0:18:38.280 winning games under Joe Douglas. He's done a nice job 0:18:38.320 --> 0:18:40.720 making trades, he's done a nice job acquiring the picks, 0:18:40.920 --> 0:18:43.000 but none of that matters if you're constantly losing on 0:18:43.040 --> 0:18:44.919 the field. So they know how much four in ten 0:18:45.080 --> 0:18:47.919 means to them. There's a lot of different combinations that 0:18:47.960 --> 0:18:50.280 both of those teams can go. So I would love 0:18:50.320 --> 0:18:53.639 to see the arguments between the offensive staff, the defensive staff, 0:18:53.800 --> 0:18:56.200 and the front office evaluators in both those war rooms 0:18:56.280 --> 0:18:59.200 right now. Connor you have picked a bone here with you, honest, 0:18:59.240 --> 0:19:02.040 good one. Got a Giants fan on our hands, yeah, 0:19:02.160 --> 0:19:04.359 we do. But first, I definitely want to focus on 0:19:04.359 --> 0:19:07.720 the Jets because they've had four top ten picks in 0:19:07.840 --> 0:19:12.160 two years, Zach Wilson, Barrett Tucker, four picks in the 0:19:12.200 --> 0:19:15.359 top forty this year? Are they running out of excuses? 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:17.600 The Jets? I mean, should they just should they be 0:19:17.680 --> 0:19:20.400 sent down like they do in soccer in Europe? I mean, 0:19:20.400 --> 0:19:23.200 they gotta get it done right, and this is the relegation. 0:19:23.280 --> 0:19:28.000 Is that the relegation? It's God, it's tough. Yeah, that's 0:19:28.000 --> 0:19:31.680 how most of us know it, right, man, it's crazy, right. 0:19:31.720 --> 0:19:34.360 I mean, I think the reason why they're selling themselves 0:19:34.359 --> 0:19:36.600 on some hope is that Robert Salis still knew there. 0:19:36.600 --> 0:19:39.399 But I'm Joe Douglas's terms. The first draft does not 0:19:39.440 --> 0:19:42.199 look good. The second draft it's early returns. But that 0:19:42.240 --> 0:19:43.879 one does look good. And it's all gonna matter what 0:19:43.920 --> 0:19:46.600 happens with Zach Wilson, So every other pick that it 0:19:46.640 --> 0:19:49.120 looks like a hit, it's still gonna focus on the quarterback. 0:19:49.640 --> 0:19:51.639 I mean, you're right, you gotta get this right. And 0:19:51.680 --> 0:19:53.720 it's not just four in ten it's thirty five and 0:19:53.760 --> 0:19:56.520 thirty eight. Those don't need to be developmental players, don't 0:19:56.560 --> 0:19:58.800 need those need to be two starters. Whether they get 0:19:58.800 --> 0:20:01.760 better at safety, lin acker, wherever it may be, they 0:20:01.800 --> 0:20:05.800 need to upgrade at starter level positions, not deaf pieces. 0:20:05.800 --> 0:20:07.480 So they need to hit on not just day one, 0:20:07.680 --> 0:20:10.120 but on day two as well. And with the Giants, 0:20:10.160 --> 0:20:12.600 I mean, I'm hearing they want an offensive tackle at five, 0:20:12.720 --> 0:20:16.040 but maybe trade back at ten. They need more assets. 0:20:16.040 --> 0:20:19.200 They're in salary cap hell, the worst in the league. 0:20:19.359 --> 0:20:21.440 What are you predicting they do? Maybe not with that 0:20:21.560 --> 0:20:23.479 first pick, but that second. Yeah, I feel like this 0:20:23.560 --> 0:20:26.080 is uh, you know, jenxing myself by saying this, But 0:20:26.119 --> 0:20:27.840 I feel like they're actually one of the more easier 0:20:27.880 --> 0:20:29.639 teams to figure out in terms of at least the 0:20:29.640 --> 0:20:31.760 position groups. They want to go at five, it's gonna 0:20:31.800 --> 0:20:35.520 be the best offensive lineman available now, whether Ikey Aquanu 0:20:35.720 --> 0:20:38.560 is gone, Evan Neil is gone, that it'll be Charles Cross. 0:20:38.920 --> 0:20:40.360 I think one of the two are there. I don't 0:20:40.359 --> 0:20:41.840 think it will be there. I don't think he makes 0:20:41.840 --> 0:20:44.040 it pass the Jets at four, maybe the Texans at three. 0:20:44.280 --> 0:20:45.920 I think the Giants would love to have Evan Neil 0:20:45.960 --> 0:20:48.520 from Alabama at five, and then once again that consolation 0:20:48.560 --> 0:20:51.960 prize being Charles Cross That is not a bad consolation prize. 0:20:52.000 --> 0:20:54.240 So they're kind of zoned in on getting an offensive 0:20:54.280 --> 0:20:56.480 lineman who will play on the right side, Andrew Thomas 0:20:56.520 --> 0:20:58.320 will stay on the left side. Then you look at 0:20:58.359 --> 0:21:00.639 that other pick and you're absolutely right, they're gonna answer 0:21:00.640 --> 0:21:02.320 the phones. They're gonna look at if anyone wants to 0:21:02.320 --> 0:21:04.960 come up jump Atlanta for the first wide receiver to 0:21:05.000 --> 0:21:06.800 come off the board. Maybe we have the shock of 0:21:06.840 --> 0:21:09.040 the draft and a quarterback sneaks in that top ten. 0:21:09.080 --> 0:21:11.160 We'll see about that. But if they can't get out 0:21:11.160 --> 0:21:12.960 of that pick or they don't like the offers on 0:21:12.960 --> 0:21:15.560 the table, I think they're looking at the cornerbacks something 0:21:15.600 --> 0:21:18.600 on defensively, Sauce Gardner at corner. I think Derek Stingley 0:21:18.640 --> 0:21:20.880 is a little bit more of a long shot. Jermaine Johnson, 0:21:20.920 --> 0:21:22.960 the pass rusher from Florida State, that would be his 0:21:23.119 --> 0:21:26.199 range at well. Maybe a Cabon Thibodeau slide begins and 0:21:26.240 --> 0:21:28.560 the Giants are willing to end that slide. But Sauce 0:21:28.560 --> 0:21:30.840 Gardner would be the top player I would project in 0:21:30.880 --> 0:21:33.040 that spot. He's a scheme fit with Wink Martindale, and 0:21:33.040 --> 0:21:34.960