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Speaker 1: Kristen here with Will and Matt and guys. I feel
Speaker 1: a little silly because at the end of the last
Speaker 1: episode last Wednesday, I was like, gosh, who knows how
Speaker 1: different this next Wednesday's podcast is going to be We're
Speaker 1: going to have all this breaking news with with the
Speaker 1: GM search. But um, there's still kind of in this
Speaker 1: holding pattern. Yeah. I mean it's it's interesting and but
Speaker 1: but by the time you hear this today, there there
Speaker 1: may be something new. UM. But you know, as we're
Speaker 1: recording here at nine am Wednesday morning, you know, there
Speaker 1: there's uh, we haven't haven't inked inked to deal yet,
Speaker 1: but I think there there are some reports out there
Speaker 1: that that are kind of leaning some certain ways, so
Speaker 1: we can certainly look at some of those absolutely. So
Speaker 1: what we know for sure is that the Panthers have
Speaker 1: interviewed fifteen total candidates. Um, they have continued interviews into
Speaker 1: this week. And well, as you said, are various reports
Speaker 1: out there and we might know more by the time
Speaker 1: this episode airs. Various ports out there from from the
Speaker 1: likes of Ian Rappaport and Adam Schefter that it seems like, um,
Speaker 1: they are kind of honing in on this group that
Speaker 1: might include Monty Austin Fort, Scott Fitterer, Adam Peters. UM.
Speaker 1: And that's just that's just what we know. That's just
Speaker 1: what's out there. By no means is that um confirmed.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't I don't believe any news until
Speaker 1: I see it straight from the tweets of panther stats guy. So, um,
Speaker 1: we don't know for sure yet, but but that's a
Speaker 1: good direction to kind of look into. UM and will
Speaker 1: Montie austen Fort was one of the first candidates that
Speaker 1: was interview while Adam Peters kind of in that middle group,
Speaker 1: and then Scott Fitter a very recent Yeah. So that
Speaker 1: since last Wednesday there have been kind of more interviews
Speaker 1: done at the end of last week and then at
Speaker 1: the beginning of this week. UM. And you know, according
Speaker 1: to some of these reports from from Schefter and rappaport Um,
Speaker 1: it sounds like the group that you just mentioned they're
Speaker 1: kind of looking at for a second round or some
Speaker 1: follow up things. UM. So I think it's really interesting
Speaker 1: because so much of what I was saying last week
Speaker 1: was that, you know, with with Dave Tepper, with the
Speaker 1: way this organization found and then really kind of signed
Speaker 1: Matt Rule last year, you know, things happened really quickly.
Speaker 1: I'd be curious kind of what kind of the anatomy
Speaker 1: of this process, because you know, this really is this
Speaker 1: is uh the new owners first time hiring a general manager.
Speaker 1: You know, Marty Herne was here. You know, he talked
Speaker 1: so much about the way that Marty Herney kind of
Speaker 1: helped him learn about this process, learned a little bit
Speaker 1: about the year a year in football and kind of
Speaker 1: the way things go. And this is also you know,
Speaker 1: this is just Matt Rules second year as an NFL
Speaker 1: head coach and working with the GM. So I think
Speaker 1: there's certainly wanting to make sure they're really doing their
Speaker 1: due diligence. They're really examining um options, really examining the
Speaker 1: people that they're looking at, and making sure they're they're
Speaker 1: making the best possible decision um, which is I think
Speaker 1: maybe different from last week where it felt like you
Speaker 1: just kind of had to race and get the first
Speaker 1: person that really felt good. UM. And So I I
Speaker 1: will certainly admit I think my hunches about how this
Speaker 1: would go we're completely wrong. Um And I'm pretty okay
Speaker 1: with that. Yeah, I don't mind this at all. You Know,
Speaker 1: something uh Dave Tepper said to me previously was that
Speaker 1: for him, he sees it as a much more um,
Speaker 1: time consuming and tougher higher than a head coach, because,
Speaker 1: as he put it, there's a lot more information out
Speaker 1: there about head coaches, and I think you can look
Speaker 1: at that, you know, just on its face in terms
Speaker 1: of win loss record and what they've been able to
Speaker 1: do UM with the program. And that was evident with
Speaker 1: with Matt Rule, and then he flew down there to
Speaker 1: to Waco last year and that's when Matt Rule said
Speaker 1: he knew that it was the right thing. So but
Speaker 1: that's interesting that you know, it was. It does seem
Speaker 1: like it was very quick last year with Rule once
Speaker 1: that in person meeting happened, But he also had all
Speaker 1: this data to go on in terms of what Matt
Speaker 1: Rule had done it previous stops, the type of coach
Speaker 1: he wanted to bring in. And I thought it was
Speaker 1: interesting that he said, you know, the information just not
Speaker 1: as readily available on GM candidates, and I think that's
Speaker 1: led to UM talking to so many and then you've
Speaker 1: got to analyze fit and then you've got to analyze,
Speaker 1: you know, how do you think they would come in
Speaker 1: and what their role would be in the Panthers organization.
Speaker 1: And and Dave Tepper has also said, you know, he
Speaker 1: he doesn't necessarily just want to look at it as
Speaker 1: the way a GM role is traditionally always operated. So
Speaker 1: I think it's great. I think it's great that they've
Speaker 1: interviewed so many and I would guess will when we
Speaker 1: talked about last week and how quick they got into
Speaker 1: the interviews. You don't want to lose out on someone,
Speaker 1: you know, Um, so you don't want to not interview
Speaker 1: Nikissario and then he goes to the Texans and you go, Okay,
Speaker 1: well that could have been our guys. So they had
Speaker 1: a chance to interview someone like him. So to me,
Speaker 1: I order, if that's it, which is like, we want
Speaker 1: to meet with everyone immediately so that someone doesn't get
Speaker 1: taken out from under our nose. That could have been
Speaker 1: our perfect candidate. But at the same time, you know,
Speaker 1: once we've gotten those initial meetings out of the way,
Speaker 1: we've scheduled interviews with everyone we want to talk to,
Speaker 1: let's really make sure that we're making the right decision.
Speaker 1: It's one of the most important jobs in the organization.
Speaker 1: So I say, take as long as you need to
Speaker 1: make sure that that you're getting this right. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: I think that that might have there might be a
Speaker 1: larger view at stake here, you know, think of this
Speaker 1: group of you know, of the fifteen. You know, obviously
Speaker 1: they're not necessarily looking at all fifteen in the same
Speaker 1: way you know them. But there aren't there aren't that
Speaker 1: many GM positions that are getting filled quickly around the NFL.
Speaker 1: You know, you think of Houston, and that's the only
Speaker 1: one right now, isn't it the only one? So I
Speaker 1: think maybe somewhat of the kind of feeling out the
Speaker 1: pace of everybody else and feeling that out and saying, okay,
Speaker 1: we we might have a little we might have another
Speaker 1: day or two. Well, what do you think of have
Speaker 1: a little bit more time? What do you think about
Speaker 1: the fact that the interviews thus far have been on
Speaker 1: zoom not in person. Now, I know everything has been
Speaker 1: on zoom since March, and certainly we're all used to it.
Speaker 1: I've done all my interviews, and you can certainly get
Speaker 1: the sense of who a person is um and and
Speaker 1: create that um that bond with them, get a sense
Speaker 1: of of how they want to operate. But maybe it
Speaker 1: just takes a little bit longer when you're hiring for
Speaker 1: a role that is this important to the franchise to
Speaker 1: just really make sure when you've never met this person
Speaker 1: in person before. Yeah, and I would imagine that while
Speaker 1: there certainly have been zoom interviews with the candidates themselves,
Speaker 1: you know, you would think that there'd be some background,
Speaker 1: there's going to be some other conversations going around that
Speaker 1: kind of, you know, try to help fill in some
Speaker 1: of those gaps. One thing I would caution our fans,
Speaker 1: you know that might be worried about, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: fifteen you know, what are they doing. I think that
Speaker 1: there's at least with the zoom, you know, the numbers
Speaker 1: this year versus what you would think like a normal
Speaker 1: amount of interview candidates would be are gonna be inflated
Speaker 1: because of how easy this is. You just roll through exactly.
Speaker 1: You know, you don't necessarily hear that many in terms
Speaker 1: of other searches. When in the past, in a different
Speaker 1: age in time, you were flying people in or you
Speaker 1: were flying out, you were flying around. You know, when
Speaker 1: you can go four interviews in an afternoon, just one
Speaker 1: by one by one, you know, everything becomes a little
Speaker 1: bit easier. The candidates, maybe you can interview with more
Speaker 1: people because they can do it by zoom. Um. So
Speaker 1: I do think that, you know, we kind of have
Speaker 1: to take take that number and take these circumstances with
Speaker 1: a wider view of you know, what's really going on
Speaker 1: in Yeah, I personally like it. I know that may
Speaker 1: not be the popular opinion, as you said, among fans,
Speaker 1: but I like it. I think turn over every stone
Speaker 1: or whatever, all of the you know, corny ways of
Speaker 1: saying that kind of thing is, but I really do
Speaker 1: believe it. It's it's such an important position, will impact
Speaker 1: this franchise for for years and years to come and
Speaker 1: talk to buddy UM. Like you said, you got you
Speaker 1: got an hour and a half, two hours, whatever it is,
Speaker 1: and you roll through zoom calls. I think it's great
Speaker 1: that they are really searching far and wide for this UM.
Speaker 1: But as you said, we may know more UM even
Speaker 1: by the time this podcast comes out, as as the
Speaker 1: list inevitably starts to narrow, and you know, the official
Speaker 1: word is that they will make a decision by the
Speaker 1: end of this week, so we'll know something soon. Yeah,
Speaker 1: hold on and hopefully come back next week to get
Speaker 1: the exclusive inside interview. I'm just clicking refresh on Panther stats. Guy.
Speaker 1: I want to see. I want to know the Kristen
Speaker 1: Balboni YouTube. That's what I want to see. We just
Speaker 1: break it. We just break the news. Also, more news
Speaker 1: this week is that the Panthers staff was picked to
Speaker 1: coach in the Senior Bowl, which is exciting. It's something
Speaker 1: that Matt Rule is very excited about, very enthusiastic about,
Speaker 1: especially this year when there are so many unknowns leading
Speaker 1: up to uh, the draft and leading into this season.
Speaker 1: You know, what is the combine gonna look like? Is
Speaker 1: it going to happen at the normal time, is it
Speaker 1: gonna happen at all? Um. So it's a great opportunity
Speaker 1: for the Panthers to to get in front of a
Speaker 1: lot of these prospects and I get to know them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I think that it's funny because I was kind
Speaker 1: of trying to draw into the GM conversation too. I
Speaker 1: think sometimes even in my head, you seem to think
Speaker 1: that because we've been doing people have been doing mock
Speaker 1: draft season since November and everyone thinks they know everything
Speaker 1: about every college football player. And the fact that the
Speaker 1: last game was on Monday and that was what everything
Speaker 1: you need to see from Mac Jones and that was that,
Speaker 1: you know, was the definitive statement on Davonte Smith. You
Speaker 1: know all these guys. It's amazing how much. Guess what,
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, you still need things
Speaker 1: like the Senior Bowl and whatever the combine ends up
Speaker 1: being this year. You know, those things really do make
Speaker 1: a difference. And being able to actually sit in a
Speaker 1: room or sit socially distanced from a guy and talk
Speaker 1: to him. You know, all of the stories last year
Speaker 1: about Derek Brown where that you know, meeting the guy
Speaker 1: made the difference. You know, it wasn't just looking at tape.
Speaker 1: It wasn't just seeing what he did in a bowl game,
Speaker 1: you know, or seeing what he did against Alabama or whatever.
Speaker 1: It was meeting Derek Brown that really made the difference,
Speaker 1: you know, and and potentially meeting some maybe some other
Speaker 1: players you might have thought were great fits and then realizing,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe maybe that isn't as much of a fit.
Speaker 1: So I think that being able to go down there
Speaker 1: to be the ones that are that are directing these guys.
Speaker 1: You know, when you're out in the field and you
Speaker 1: know you're running guys through drills and you can see
Speaker 1: the way that they interact with you, they react to
Speaker 1: your direction, um, all of that stuff, you can get
Speaker 1: a really good feel for, um for for how these
Speaker 1: players react to coaching for for who they are as people.
Speaker 1: And I think that's been so much of what the
Speaker 1: bet uh. You know, the bedmark of this UM franchise
Speaker 1: is going to be moving forward is you know, who
Speaker 1: are they as people? So that they can grow into
Speaker 1: really great football players? Absolutely, and how can you develop
Speaker 1: talent that maybe other people don't see. I was talking
Speaker 1: to to coach Rule on the one year anniversary of
Speaker 1: his hiring, which was on January seven of last year,
Speaker 1: and um, you know, we kind of walked through the
Speaker 1: season and how crazy everything was and how different and unique,
Speaker 1: and um I asked him about the draft and drafting
Speaker 1: from home, and he said the thing that stood out
Speaker 1: to him the most that he'll take away from that
Speaker 1: draft is just what great players they got and you know,
Speaker 1: really uh and he said, you know, if we can,
Speaker 1: if we can do that this year, and if these
Speaker 1: guys can all play and really contribute with no O,
Speaker 1: T A S, no preseason, just imagine what we could
Speaker 1: do with more time. And then he even talked about
Speaker 1: some of the undrafted guys Joe Charlton, Um Miles Hartsfield,
Speaker 1: like those guys as well, and so this is just
Speaker 1: more of an opportunity for this Panther staff that can
Speaker 1: develop young talent quickly, um, to to get in front
Speaker 1: of of more of those guys. As you said, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, and it's gonna be tough again. You know,
Speaker 1: I think the Senior Bowl is going to be even
Speaker 1: more important this year with so many question marks around
Speaker 1: what the Combine may or may not be. So, oh,
Speaker 1: that's a great point. I might have just said that
Speaker 1: about three minutes ago. Okay, I'm teasing you. I'm teasing,
Speaker 1: but you're absolutely right. Um, you're absolutely We're both absolutely right.
Speaker 1: But let's let's talk about the Combine versus the Senior Bowl.
Speaker 1: Do you have a preference? I would say in a
Speaker 1: normal year, I would say the Combine because there I
Speaker 1: think there might be a little bit more time in
Speaker 1: terms of like the one on one interviews with guys.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, I think that I think
Speaker 1: that maybe for a coach that's within, you know, an
Speaker 1: actual coach that's coaching, that's out in the field rather
Speaker 1: than you know, maybe in the stands or something, I
Speaker 1: think you can see a lot with some of the
Speaker 1: drills and some of the actual football things versus a
Speaker 1: cone drill or you know, when you're when you're going
Speaker 1: up against another really really good lineman in blocking drills.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm not going to write a guy off
Speaker 1: because he got beat by the really good lineman from Alabama.
Speaker 1: But you can see maybe more than just let's compare
Speaker 1: tents of a second on a cone drill um. And
Speaker 1: so I think there's there's some different things that each
Speaker 1: each set of activities gives you. I think traditionally the
Speaker 1: combine has really been important for for interviews with players,
Speaker 1: and because there's a there's something about the combine where
Speaker 1: this collection of player personnel, staff, coaching staff, media, they
Speaker 1: all kind of create these narratives that kind of feed
Speaker 1: into each other, and it's this interesting sort of wave
Speaker 1: of information that kind of comes out of the combine
Speaker 1: that are you know, some of it's a little bit
Speaker 1: false to throw somebody else off, but for for the
Speaker 1: most part, it's it really drives the narrative towards the draft,
Speaker 1: and it kind of drives the way that the draft
Speaker 1: sometimes ends up happening. You know, just all of those
Speaker 1: late nights in Indianapolis, there's a lot of interesting things
Speaker 1: that kind of start spurring interest one way, or spurring
Speaker 1: interest a different way. Um that I think is unique
Speaker 1: to what the Combine has been is there was it,
Speaker 1: right Thompson that wrote an article, a really in depth
Speaker 1: article for ESPN on it a few years ago. Was
Speaker 1: that what was it? Just a fascinating That's what it
Speaker 1: reminds me of. If anyone wants to to read more
Speaker 1: into what we was talking about. I still remember that
Speaker 1: article being just really incredible in terms of, like you said,
Speaker 1: all of the I don't want to say wheeling and dealing,
Speaker 1: but all of the different stuff that happens at the
Speaker 1: Combine every single year, what it's like behind the scenes,
Speaker 1: very very interesting stuff. All right, let's take a quick
Speaker 1: break and we'll be back in a second with more.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if you've heard, but there's plenty of
Speaker 1: other football stuff going on outside of the world of
Speaker 1: the Panthers. A little something called Super wild Card Weekend,
Speaker 1: a little something called college Football Playoff Championship game. So
Speaker 1: what is your level of interest in all of those things?
Speaker 1: How much of everything did you watch over the weekend
Speaker 1: and then Monday? I was very upset that my current
Speaker 1: subscription plan does not include Nickelodeon. That's that's why had
Speaker 1: we had it at my house. Oh my god, I'm
Speaker 1: so jealous. The I mean just there's just something about
Speaker 1: our entire generation, like this group from of like twenty
Speaker 1: six to maybe like thirty eight year olds, of all
Speaker 1: of us engaging in football and then having Nick bring
Speaker 1: back like all of this to us. I think it
Speaker 1: was so much fun. Oh yeah, all the slime and
Speaker 1: everyone doing their Top five Nick shows and just just
Speaker 1: a lot of nostalgia over the weekend. Matt, you're younger
Speaker 1: than Will and I were you a Nick person or not? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I didn't watch Disney Channel. I watched Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network,
Speaker 1: but I was with my father in law this weekend
Speaker 1: and I had to settle for the CBS broadcast or
Speaker 1: the whichever. I think it was CBS. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: was a little disappointed. I wanted to watch Nickelodeon, but
Speaker 1: I couldn't talk I couldn't talk Wayne into it. Wayne
Speaker 1: not a big nick fan, understandable. No, I thought it
Speaker 1: was great. I remember when the news first came out about,
Speaker 1: you know, the simulkust on Nickelodeon. I was like, that's
Speaker 1: that's strange. You know my husband I was like, what
Speaker 1: is this? And then when you get into it, I
Speaker 1: completely agree it was. It was so fun and what
Speaker 1: a great way to to bring young kids, potentially young
Speaker 1: fans into the fold in a different way. Absolutely. I
Speaker 1: thought Sean Payton was a pretty good sport after the
Speaker 1: game for getting a bucket of slime dumped on them too.
Speaker 1: I was surprised him, of all people to be such
Speaker 1: a good sport about that. I mean, look, who's gonna
Speaker 1: say no to the slie? I would I would definitely
Speaker 1: get slimmed. Oh absolutely, It's like a it's everyone our
Speaker 1: age is dream I think, right, well, I mean that
Speaker 1: and or watching your team from your basement and having
Speaker 1: the very first play from scrimmage be hyked over Ben
Speaker 1: Roethlisberger's head and having your kids go nuts seconds behind them.
Speaker 1: I mean, this it was an incredible weekend. You go
Speaker 1: straight from Nick into the Browns being this ridiculous underdog
Speaker 1: and having the type of game that they did nothing
Speaker 1: at the before it was nine o'clock at night. I mean,
Speaker 1: it was nuts and and and to not even have
Speaker 1: your head coach there, and to have Pittsburgh, you know,
Speaker 1: feeling like it was potentially at the end of an
Speaker 1: era after starting undefeated for so long, I mean, it
Speaker 1: was just it was an incredible weekend of storylines. And
Speaker 1: how about former Panther Taylor Heineke absolutely bawling out That
Speaker 1: was incredible that that robe he dove from like the
Speaker 1: five yard line and made it in. That was incredible. Yeah, really,
Speaker 1: I mean and then you have you know, you have
Speaker 1: Buffalo that you know, holding off Philip Rivers and potentially
Speaker 1: what could be his last game and a fantastic opener
Speaker 1: on Saturday, and you know the Bills and Sean McDermott
Speaker 1: and Josh Allen and Mario Addison, you know the obviously
Speaker 1: the huge list of Panthers up there, um, seeing what
Speaker 1: they're doing. I mean, it's it was a really great weekend.
Speaker 1: I mean, after all that, just the the snooze fest
Speaker 1: on Monday, to watch Davante Smith just run by. Everybody
Speaker 1: was like, okay, Alabama, what was that? They did not
Speaker 1: cover him at all? You'd think you would want to
Speaker 1: cover the Heisman Trophy winning. I don't know how you
Speaker 1: cover him. Yeah. I think that might have in it.
Speaker 1: I think they might have been trying and it just
Speaker 1: didn't work out. Um. I love Yeah, I mean everyone
Speaker 1: loves wild Card weekend, but Super wild Card week and
Speaker 1: it's just great. You just roll into the next one.
Speaker 1: It was, it was awesome. It's so much fun. But well,
Speaker 1: you brought up a good point. Um, as you said,
Speaker 1: it's already mock draft season. It has been mock draft season,
Speaker 1: um for a while now. Um, but you brought up
Speaker 1: a good point with the Super wild Card weekend about
Speaker 1: the eighteen draft and how many of the guys represented
Speaker 1: in that draft or were out there this weekend. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean you think of Lamar Jackson. Oh yeah, I
Speaker 1: forgot about the Ravens. Of course, you have Lamar Jackson,
Speaker 1: you have Baker Mayfield with a big Win, Josh Allen,
Speaker 1: you know, really kind of three of the five major
Speaker 1: quarterbacks from that draft, which also included Sam Donald and
Speaker 1: Josh Rosen. But you know, to have three of those
Speaker 1: guys advanced to the Visional Round was is pretty amazing.
Speaker 1: Um And you know, that draft is an inch interesting
Speaker 1: kind of first round to look at because while you
Speaker 1: had so much debate over which of those quarterbacks was
Speaker 1: going to be successful or not, then kind of the
Speaker 1: back end of that draft you still have this kind
Speaker 1: of little, like many narrative of the Ridley versus More
Speaker 1: uh storyline, which I think, you know that his will
Speaker 1: continue to be something I think for the rest of
Speaker 1: their careers for people that don't necessarily know, you know,
Speaker 1: I think Carolina was certainly focusing in on a wide
Speaker 1: receiver dressing. I remember the draft as a fan, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you knew it was. It felt like it was going
Speaker 1: to be one of those two guys, you know, DJ
Speaker 1: More Calvin Ridley at so yeah. I mean with those
Speaker 1: two guys, they've had pretty similar careers over the last
Speaker 1: three years. I think Ridley jumped out to having more
Speaker 1: receiving touchdowns this first little bit. DJ kind of struggled
Speaker 1: to find the end zone. But the thing about DJ
Speaker 1: More was he was always the guy that you could
Speaker 1: count on after the catch. In their three seasons, DJ
Speaker 1: has eleven eighty seven yards after the catch and four
Speaker 1: hundred ninety seven yards after contact compared to just one
Speaker 1: hundred yards after contact for Calvin Ridley. Ridley has way
Speaker 1: more touchdowns to ten in receiving touchdowns, but overall, like
Speaker 1: the receiving yards between Ridley and More, I think they're
Speaker 1: divided by like ninety three yards. It's three thousand, one
Speaker 1: fifty six two three thousand sixty one between the two
Speaker 1: of them. So I mean, I would venture to say
Speaker 1: you probably couldn't have gone wrong with either one of them.
Speaker 1: Both of them have been really, really good these first
Speaker 1: three years of their career. Certainly guys you'd want on
Speaker 1: your receiving corps um as leaders. But I think the
Speaker 1: Panthers are still going to be pretty happy with d J. Moore.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna leave that right here, because we've got
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Speaker 1: conditioning is acting up, call Morris Jenkins or visit more
Speaker 1: Jenkins dot com. Alright, so instead of a weird question
Speaker 1: of the week, we thought we would. I thought, I'll
Speaker 1: take full responsibility for this, this game about um, it
Speaker 1: would be fun to do a little mock draft since will,
Speaker 1: as you said, it is mock draft season. I thought
Speaker 1: we had good success with this and Thanksgiving the Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: foods mock draft, so I kind of thought, stay with
Speaker 1: me on this one. You know, it's January, it's the
Speaker 1: start of a new year. Everything's fresh, so much possibility
Speaker 1: in front of us. Why don't we mock draft months
Speaker 1: of the year. Al Right, everyone seems enthusiastic about it,
Speaker 1: dead silence. Matt was nodding his head. But that's what
Speaker 1: we're doing, because I say so, So, how do we
Speaker 1: go about quickly? Who's gonna pick first? Here's what I thought?
Speaker 1: Why don't we go alphabetical order middle names? Because I
Speaker 1: don't know you guys middle names? Okay, that's a well,
Speaker 1: what's your middle it's McFadden? Yeah, okay, So here am
Speaker 1: I'm Edward. I'm Elena first. I went first last time, though,
Speaker 1: so Why don't you go first? Why don't we go reverse,
Speaker 1: We'll goes first. All right, we'll go We'll goes first.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, okay, my first pick of the month draft
Speaker 1: goes to March. What that was? That's a bus to
Speaker 1: me alright with people? Literally, the greatest two weeks of
Speaker 1: the year are the Thursday and Fridays of the beginning
Speaker 1: of the tournament. That's the only reason it's not last
Speaker 1: on my list. That's fine, that's fine if that's what
Speaker 1: you if you want to take March first overall. Okay, wow,
Speaker 1: this is gonna go really yeah, that's why it's so fun.
Speaker 1: Everyone has you know, everyone has diverse opinions on months. Alright,
Speaker 1: So it's my turn next. So with the second overall
Speaker 1: pick month draft, I'm going with June. That was my
Speaker 1: third one. What June one? June is a great month.
Speaker 1: It's the start of summer. It's my birthday month. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it just it feels nice outside. You got a whole
Speaker 1: um summer stretched ahead of you. People are a little
Speaker 1: more laid back, you might be going on a vacation.
Speaker 1: June is great. Well, I picked last, and I'm going
Speaker 1: to get my first pick. I'm gonna take November. Okay, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: the winner, You've got Thanksgiving, you got the Christmas feeling
Speaker 1: kind of coming up at the end of the At
Speaker 1: the end of the month, football is in full swing
Speaker 1: and games matters. So I'm gonna take November. All right.
Speaker 1: I'm just making sure I write all the stat I'm
Speaker 1: taking this very seriously. Alright. So off the board are March, June,
Speaker 1: and November. Those are our first overall picks. Will what
Speaker 1: ridiculous month are you going with next? Well, I mean,
Speaker 1: because you guys are ridiculous. I get two first round
Speaker 1: picks in my first two picks, so my Tier one
Speaker 1: was March, November, December, so I still have December. I'm
Speaker 1: taking December. That was okay, that's where That's where, um,
Speaker 1: I was going to go next. Yeah, So I mean
Speaker 1: it's similar to November. You still have football in the South,
Speaker 1: it's still not freezing, it's you can have risk, no
Speaker 1: nice days, you have all of the holiday parties. You
Speaker 1: know usually you get see family, um, and then you
Speaker 1: know you kind of have bull season, you have end
Speaker 1: of the year, uh NFL, you have everything. Alright, Well,
Speaker 1: December was gonna be my next pick, but since it's
Speaker 1: no longer on the board. I'm gonna go with October
Speaker 1: for all of the reasons that you guys said, Oh
Speaker 1: I just Matt's face just looks so dejected. Just it
Speaker 1: was like a nod and a smile of um, you know,
Speaker 1: you're resigned to it. So I'm gonna go that. You're
Speaker 1: still going to get your guy, all right, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go October for you know, all of the sports slash
Speaker 1: um holiday, uh reasons that you guys have already mentioned.
Speaker 1: Wish wish, November, December, we're still there. But I feel
Speaker 1: good about where October is going to slot into my team. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get September. It's the best two weekends in
Speaker 1: a row in my opinion of the whole year. You
Speaker 1: get the Labor Day weekend or yeah, Labor Day weekend
Speaker 1: where you get all the college football. In the very
Speaker 1: next weekend, it's NFL red zones back with the Octobox.
Speaker 1: So I'm a big fan of those two those first
Speaker 1: two weeks, and it's it's like kind of the end
Speaker 1: of summer, beginning of fall. It's just it's great. So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get September to go with my November. Alright,
Speaker 1: so we're through two rounds, two rounds left to go.
Speaker 1: Here's what's still on the board January, February, April, May, July,
Speaker 1: and August. Will where are you going next? All right?
Speaker 1: This is tough because I have a I have a
Speaker 1: Tier two. But I think I knowing you guys now,
Speaker 1: I think I might be able to save it for
Speaker 1: my fourth round. I don't know. Um, I'm I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna use it. I'm gonna go with July because it's
Speaker 1: my birthday month. It's July four, and usually in a
Speaker 1: normal year, it's kind of the last It's kind of
Speaker 1: the last month of summer because training camp always starts
Speaker 1: at the end of July, so it's kind of like
Speaker 1: your last chance to to really get out there and
Speaker 1: enjoy summer before like August becomes working again. Um. So
Speaker 1: there's a little bit of Sunday scar eas to it,
Speaker 1: but there's also some you know, kind of you savor
Speaker 1: it maybe a little bit more. Yeah, I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 1: I was gonna. I was looking at July for this
Speaker 1: next pick. Um. All right, all right, I'm gonna I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go August for my third pick. I got too
Speaker 1: strong summer months there. Oh, like August, it's still summer.
Speaker 1: But then you start to think about fall. Then you've
Speaker 1: got preseason. It's a good time. August is Watford. That's
Speaker 1: all I can think of when I think of August,
Speaker 1: someone who's never been to Watford. I enjoy the month
Speaker 1: of the worst because if you're getting so excited for football,
Speaker 1: it's right around the corner. Yes, but it's the anticipation,
Speaker 1: all right. You know what you already made your third
Speaker 1: round pick, Matt, who you got January? It's the beginning
Speaker 1: of a new year, and it's winter. Like I said,
Speaker 1: I love winter, So I get December, I get November
Speaker 1: and January, two pretty pretty good winter months. I'm very
Speaker 1: happy with my board so far. Alright, let me fill
Speaker 1: this in, Matt. I think the way it lines up,
Speaker 1: I hope we all have what I have last. I
Speaker 1: think I think it might happen. I think it's going
Speaker 1: to happen to all Right, Well, your last pick, you
Speaker 1: so far have drafted March, December and July, and still
Speaker 1: on the board is February, April and May. M hm. Tough,
Speaker 1: but you know sometimes your your seventh round pick, can
Speaker 1: you know, can can get onto the field, so you
Speaker 1: have to make sure it counts, even if it feels
Speaker 1: like a throwaway pick um. I'm still I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: with April. That's the one. I hate. That that's the
Speaker 1: one I hate. I don't hate anything that has a
Speaker 1: grudge against April. I don't like April. Really, it's just nothing.
Speaker 1: There's nothing going on in April. So we have you
Speaker 1: have like the college basketball National Championship to start the month,
Speaker 1: like in the Master's usually in April. Yeah, yeah, usually
Speaker 1: in my years you have you have the Masters, Like
Speaker 1: I get it. College baseball hasn't finished yet, so like
Speaker 1: that's still kind of happening. So there's not really that
Speaker 1: many great sports going on. But I mean May in February,
Speaker 1: I don't It doesn't always have to be about sports.
Speaker 1: It could just be like what months do you like?
Speaker 1: If you know me, it has to be about sports,
Speaker 1: all right. I mean that's that's what makes the months
Speaker 1: I like. I'm sorry, that's fair. Um, I will go
Speaker 1: with May for my fourth pick um. Now, guys, I
Speaker 1: gotta be honest. My birthday is in February. I don't
Speaker 1: even want it, Like that's just the last one you
Speaker 1: know it's well, I'll take your birthday months since you
Speaker 1: took my birthday month. Is that where you Is that
Speaker 1: what you thought would be last? Matt, No, I thought
Speaker 1: April would be last because April is the worst. I
Speaker 1: don't mind April, but April is a nice little month.
Speaker 1: I ended up getting four of the top seven, so
Speaker 1: I'm very happy with four of your top seven. All right,
Speaker 1: So let me just make sure that I've got everyone's
Speaker 1: um bis September. I'm doing this in real time. I'm
Speaker 1: making sure that all of our picks are right. It
Speaker 1: does matter, all right. So this is what we've netted
Speaker 1: out with. And I think it's important to note that
Speaker 1: this is an important draft to have. You know that
Speaker 1: that good draft position that Will had, absolutely so you know,
Speaker 1: he gets stocked a few points just because, like, man,
Speaker 1: what great draft position. But Will came away with March, December, July,
Speaker 1: and April. I'm not gonna lie. That's a that's a
Speaker 1: pretty good draft to me, even though Matt hates it. Whiffed.
Speaker 1: He whiffed on March. That was that was, But then
Speaker 1: he got December in July. Yes, he got December in
Speaker 1: December is the only one that I'm jealous. I got June, October,
Speaker 1: augustin May, not gonna lie, not feel don't feel great
Speaker 1: about it, but you know, we go with what we got.
Speaker 1: At least you didn't get in March, in April, and Matt,
Speaker 1: you've got November, September, January, and February. Absolutely all right.
Speaker 1: I think we all feel okay. I feel great. I
Speaker 1: feel really good about March. I don't care what y'all say,
Speaker 1: all right, I gotta develop some prospects, so yeah, let
Speaker 1: us know, let us know what you guys think, who
Speaker 1: had the best draft. I'm already making excuses for mine.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't feel like I had a great showing. Uh.
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