Speaker 1: Welcome back. I'm a staff writer reporter Breed Dix here
Speaker 1: with senior writer and editor Scott Smith. We're in the
Speaker 1: Buck Studio presented by Ticketmaster for this week's edition of
Speaker 1: To the Draft.
Speaker 2: This is the mic draft I just put up yesterday. Yes,
Speaker 2: and I'm glad you're here because you did one the
Speaker 2: week before, so we can kind of compare notes a
Speaker 2: little bit as we go along. So two weeks earlier,
Speaker 2: I was still pounding the drum on the Titans are
Speaker 2: gonna sign a veteran starter, They're gonna take a generation
Speaker 2: of talent and worry about the quarterback of the future
Speaker 2: next year. That has become increasingly clear that that's not true.
Speaker 2: They have not signed any veterans starter. They're not even
Speaker 2: apparently trying. They're clearly set on cam Orton. I think
Speaker 2: you'd find nobody that disagrees with that at this point.
Speaker 2: So cam Or to the Titans to start the draft.
Speaker 2: Is that what you did as well?
Speaker 1: Yes? Okay, I feel like there's not a whole lot
Speaker 1: of consensus in this draft, but it seems to.
Speaker 2: Be this one is now Caim Moore, yes, is going
Speaker 2: to Nashville now, eagle eyed observers would think that we
Speaker 2: have our board wrong here, because you know, the Browns
Speaker 2: are two and the Giants are three. But in my
Speaker 2: most recent draft, I made a trade with the Browns
Speaker 2: trading up one spot to the Giants to make sure
Speaker 2: no I mean the Giants trading up on spot to
Speaker 2: make sure nobody else jumped them because they wanted to
Speaker 2: get quarterback should Or Sanders. You know, it's the ever,
Speaker 2: it's the always truism of the draft that the quarterbacks rise,
Speaker 2: and you've seen Shoulder sanders supposed draft stock go up
Speaker 2: and down in recent weeks, but it only takes one
Speaker 2: team to really want him, especially at the team near
Speaker 2: the top that really needs a quarterback. Now, I made
Speaker 2: this trade, full disclosure, right before they did the Russell
Speaker 2: Wilson signing. They already had. They already had James Wilson,
Speaker 2: They already had James Winston, but he signed for what
Speaker 2: is clearly backup money. But then Russell Wilson signed. He's
Speaker 2: obviously going to be their starter this year, and so
Speaker 2: that might make me a little less sure they're going
Speaker 2: to trade up a spot. But I still think that
Speaker 2: neither of those signings takes them out of the quarterback
Speaker 2: of the future conversation because Russell Wilson's only under contract
Speaker 2: for one year and it's middling starting money, so he's
Speaker 2: clearly a bridge quarterback. I can still see them going
Speaker 2: for the quarterback of the future and the Browns trade
Speaker 2: down and get Abdulla Carter. Okay, okay, So filled in
Speaker 2: some of these others. I wanted to point out number
Speaker 2: six because I think this is becoming I've done it
Speaker 2: two drafts in a row, and I think he's becoming
Speaker 2: a popular pick. Ashton Genty, Boise State running back, really
Speaker 2: dynamic talent, right like, one of the best, maybe the
Speaker 2: best running back prospect to come out since Saquon Yeah,
Speaker 2: depending on how you feel about John Robinson. This is
Speaker 2: a team that got their new quarterback in Geno Smith.
Speaker 2: They've got some nice weapons, they have Brock powers, but
Speaker 2: they had the worst running rushing attack in the league. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so you apparently had a slightly unusual pick.
Speaker 1: I did, right, Mine was a little bit of unorthodox,
Speaker 1: but I kind of similar with what you did with
Speaker 1: the Giants. I went ahead and still did Sedor Sanders
Speaker 1: going to the Raiders after the Yes, but Geno Smiths
Speaker 1: thirty five years old. I think, you know, they have
Speaker 1: to look at the future, and I think it's been
Speaker 1: kind of noted and well documented Tom Brady's relationship and
Speaker 1: kind of been that mentor to Sanders. So if Pete Carroll,
Speaker 1: if John Spytech like his ability, and I think he
Speaker 1: can kind of be that developmental prospect. So I still
Speaker 1: like him going to.
Speaker 2: The Well, then where did you put Ashton Genty?
Speaker 1: I had him going to the Bears at number ten.
Speaker 1: I think they have kind of bulked up the interior
Speaker 1: of the offensive line. Should get a guy to kind
Speaker 1: of take some of that pressure off Caleb Williams and
Speaker 1: kind of reinvigorate.
Speaker 2: All Right, I can see it. I really could see
Speaker 2: Ashton Genty going to a whole lot of different places
Speaker 2: in this range. Right here, I think his stock is now, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's the most common one, right but I think at
Speaker 2: this point a lot a lot of mincrafts are having
Speaker 2: him go before Dallas, even as a shot. The reason
Speaker 2: I wanted to highlight Dallas's pick is because I gave
Speaker 2: them g had Campbell, Ghid Campbell, the Alabama linebacker, And
Speaker 2: the reason I point that out is I think that's
Speaker 2: a guy that the Keneers would be interested at nineteen,
Speaker 2: but I have not done a draft in weeks where
Speaker 2: he's still available at nineteen. So and what did you
Speaker 2: do here for the Cowboys?
Speaker 1: I had the Cowboys since Gent was already off the board,
Speaker 1: I had them taking Luther Burdon, ok, kind of adding
Speaker 1: another target for DK Prescott. And I think Missouri kind
Speaker 1: of used him their offense to kind of build off
Speaker 1: of his yards after catchability. And I see the Cowboys
Speaker 1: kind of diversifying his usage a little bit, and I
Speaker 1: think he could be a good compliment to Ceedeland.
Speaker 2: Right, Okay, cool, moving on down a little bit. The
Speaker 2: reason I wanted to point out this pick, this is
Speaker 2: another trade we had to trade in my MIC draft.
Speaker 2: We had to trade here, so you'll see those two
Speaker 2: aren't in the normal order. The Cardinals seeing Will Johnson
Speaker 2: fall a little bit trade up to make sure they
Speaker 2: get their guy. And here the Rams traded from twenty
Speaker 2: six with Seattle up to eighteen, and they want John Barron.
Speaker 2: And to me, I think the reason being there is
Speaker 2: after Will Johnson and Johnny Barron and Travis Hunter, if
Speaker 2: you count him as a quarterback, I think there's a
Speaker 2: gap between that and the next group of cornerbacks, and
Speaker 2: so they make the bold move to move up here
Speaker 2: to get the guy rather than wait for whatever falls
Speaker 2: to them. I think Jahday barn is a great player,
Speaker 2: and I point this out because that's a guy I
Speaker 2: would love to see the Buccaneers get at nineteen. But
Speaker 2: well they don't hear because and I honestly, the Rams
Speaker 2: or any team that is trading up to eighteen to
Speaker 2: take a guy like Johddy Baron is probably thinking, hey,
Speaker 2: he could go at nineteen. So that's why I think
Speaker 2: that would happen. And now we get to the Bucks pick,
Speaker 2: and that is for me Donovan as a rock up
Speaker 2: Boston College ed rusher, I love the idea of us
Speaker 2: getting an edge rusher in the first round, particularly if
Speaker 2: Johnny Barn and Jihad Campbell are already off the board.
Speaker 2: This is a guy with lots of production and if
Speaker 2: it gets down to it, if you ask me Todd Bowles,
Speaker 2: Jason Light, all of their people working for them, when
Speaker 2: it comes to the idea of production versus like raw skills,
Speaker 2: like a Shamar Stewart kind, I think they would tend
Speaker 2: to lean towards reduction. Now we know that Mike Green
Speaker 2: had seventeen and a half sacks. He had sixteen and
Speaker 2: a half sacks last year, twenty one tackles for lost
Speaker 2: three force fumbles. This is a guy that had the
Speaker 2: production and then he went to the combine, and he
Speaker 2: did quite well at the combine, particularly in the three
Speaker 2: cone drill and the short shuttle drill, and those are
Speaker 2: measuring both like your acceleration and your change direction and
Speaker 2: your quick you know, short space speed, which is what
Speaker 2: you need out of a pass rusher. Right, So that's
Speaker 2: why I think you look at him. He's six two eight,
Speaker 2: he says he can probably get up to two fifty
Speaker 2: five and still play the same. There may be a
Speaker 2: little bit of a question about how well he sets
Speaker 2: the run against the edge against the run, but you know,
Speaker 2: in our rotation, we already have a couple of guys
Speaker 2: that do that well, like yai Ya Diyami, right, and
Speaker 2: Anthony Nelson. I'm talking about the edge guys, okay. So
Speaker 2: if you could throw a guy in there that maybe
Speaker 2: need to work on his run defense a little bit,
Speaker 2: but he's a pure pass rusher, I think there's room
Speaker 2: for that in the Buccaneers edge roch rotation. Now you
Speaker 2: add him, you got Hassan Redick, and you've taken what
Speaker 2: was as Todd Bowles himself has pointed out a couple
Speaker 2: times already since the season, they need to get more
Speaker 2: pressure off the edge, specifically and when only rushing four.
Speaker 2: So you've taken a spot that was a bit of
Speaker 2: a weakness for the Bucks last year and now maybe
Speaker 2: you can turn it into a strength. There's I always
Speaker 2: loved the idea of these double dips at positions or
Speaker 2: in free agency in the draft. So you got Hassan
Speaker 2: Reddick and now Donovan as a Rock. Now you had
Speaker 2: a draft a week before. Who did you guess?
Speaker 1: So I kind of had the same theology when I
Speaker 1: did mine. And I don't think you can have too
Speaker 1: many edge rushers. And I don't think necessarily getting your
Speaker 1: son Reddick having Anthony Nelson, I don't think that prohibits
Speaker 1: you from getting and edge. And I just think this
Speaker 1: draft particularly is so deep at the edge position. So
Speaker 1: in terms of value, I really liked in mind mckel
Speaker 1: Williams was still there at nineteen and I think he's
Speaker 1: a guy that you know, Todd Bowles has talked a
Speaker 1: lot about wanting a guy that finishes plays, gets to
Speaker 1: the quarterback, but also disrupts, whether that's getting stripsacks, whether
Speaker 1: that's getting the batted passes. And that is exactly what
Speaker 1: makes Tell Williams has done throughout his tenure. And again
Speaker 1: he doesn't have a huge sample size, but you have
Speaker 1: the explosion you have to speed.
Speaker 2: Over.
Speaker 1: Thirty percent of his tackles resulted in a loss. He
Speaker 1: finishes through the whistle, and I just think he's kind
Speaker 1: of a Todd Bowles and Jason Light.
Speaker 2: Type of player. Well, as you can see in my
Speaker 2: MIC draft, he was already off the board. Yeah, so
Speaker 2: they would have to trade up to get him in
Speaker 2: Fit one. So in this case, he's gone, We go
Speaker 2: with him. And I wanted to point out one more
Speaker 2: pick after us, and that's the Steelers, because I gave
Speaker 2: them Jackson Dart, the old most quarterback in I think
Speaker 2: there's a lot of quo. I think there's a bit
Speaker 2: of divisiveness about him. Is this a guy you take
Speaker 2: in the high second round or is somebody going to
Speaker 2: move on him in the first round. And again, quarterbacks
Speaker 2: tend to rise. Pittsburgh needs a court. They may or
Speaker 2: may not get Aaron Rodgers. They clearly need a quarterback
Speaker 2: and a quarterback of the future. I think this guy
Speaker 2: has impressed a lot of people with his skills. So
Speaker 2: who did you put here? At twenty one?
Speaker 1: I had him taking Jean de Baron, so I had
Speaker 1: them going more of the veteran QB route as well.
Speaker 1: So obviously when I did mine, Russell Wilson was still
Speaker 1: in play. So you have potentially Aaron Rodgers. But I
Speaker 1: just think Johnny Barron just kind of seems like a
Speaker 1: Steeler's kind of guy's physical nickel. He can cross train
Speaker 1: at safety, great kind of mitigating the middle of the field.
Speaker 1: So I think I could see him having success in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1: But I mean he's a guy that honestly could go
Speaker 1: a lot higher. He seems to be rising, could be
Speaker 1: a guy that the Bucks also go go for. At nineteen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you put Jadday Baron here, as means he
Speaker 2: was on the board when you took the Ed Rusher here.
Speaker 2: I have to admit that in my miccraft, if Jadday
Speaker 2: Baron had made it to hear, I would have taken him.
Speaker 2: But I'm always the you can't have too many corners guys, right,
Speaker 2: So yeah, that said, you can watch, you can look
Speaker 2: at the rest of it here you can read on
Speaker 2: buccaneers dot com or on the app about you know
Speaker 2: why I think these picks went as they did, and
Speaker 2: you know, we've still got a little bit to so
Speaker 2: we'll do a few more of these. But that's where
Speaker 2: we are right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And that does it for this week's episode of
Speaker 1: Road to the Draft, and stay tuned next week for
Speaker 1: a closer look as we get closer to the Draft
Speaker 1: at the end of April.