Speaker 1: All right, hello everyone, and welcome to another edition of
Speaker 1: the NFL Draft Triple Take, presented by UPMC. I'm Mike Persuda,
Speaker 1: joined as always by Matt Williamson and Dale Lawy. We
Speaker 1: are your first line of NFL Draft speculation, and we're
Speaker 1: here today to take a look at round one in
Speaker 1: the upcoming NFL Draft. For those about to mock, we
Speaker 1: salute you, and we remind you as well that these
Speaker 1: are our opinions. What you're going to see expressed on
Speaker 1: this program is what we think, not necessarily what anybody
Speaker 1: else thinks, but hey, everybody's doing it, why not us?
Speaker 1: Right as well. Let's dive right in and take a
Speaker 1: look at Dale Lawley's first ten picks. If you're new
Speaker 1: to the show, this is kind of how we roll
Speaker 1: through it. We go by thirds one to ten, and
Speaker 1: then the middle portion and then the bottom third of
Speaker 1: the draft. So Dale wanted to lead us off, Well.
Speaker 2: We've already seen one trade with the Vice Kings making
Speaker 2: a deal to have two first round picks. Now, I
Speaker 2: think they did that with the idea that they're going
Speaker 2: to move up and get a quarterback. So I've got
Speaker 2: that trade involved here with them going up to number
Speaker 2: four to go get JJ McCarthy. I think that's not
Speaker 2: what I would give up for him. But you know,
Speaker 2: when you're when you're a quarterback needy team, you give
Speaker 2: what you need to do to get to get up
Speaker 2: there to get the quarterback. So I've got four consecutive
Speaker 2: quarterbacks going to start this draft, and then you start
Speaker 2: looking at some of the other stuff. Yeah, the Atlanta Falcons,
Speaker 2: to me, you are an interesting situation here. They could
Speaker 2: go a couple of different ways here. I've got them
Speaker 2: taking Byron Murphy, the defensive tackle out of Texas at
Speaker 2: eight as well. So you know, I think the rest
Speaker 2: of it's kind of chalky when you get down to
Speaker 2: you know, to the brass tacks here. But everything's going
Speaker 2: to hinge on what the Vikings do and who they
Speaker 2: make that trade with to get up into the into
Speaker 2: the top ten to get the quarterback.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it makes all the sense in the world. I
Speaker 3: did the same thing with McCarthy and the Vikes, but
Speaker 3: I had them go into five. Very similar though. I
Speaker 3: mean Harrison goes four or five. I mean that's pretty
Speaker 3: much the same. Giants and Titans just sit back and
Speaker 3: gladly take neighbors and all that works out well, And
Speaker 3: like you, I had Atlanta taking the first defensive player
Speaker 3: off the board, as well as brock Bauers going to
Speaker 3: the Jets after they I mean, they're older guys, but they.
Speaker 4: Just added into two tackles as supposed to go to
Speaker 4: tackle there.
Speaker 1: Now, I'll make it unanimous on the seventh overall selection,
Speaker 1: Joe Alt going to Tennessee's. Every once in a while,
Speaker 1: there are certain guys that just look like they belong
Speaker 1: with a certain team. Yeah, and there's no science to that,
Speaker 1: but I think Joe Alt and Tennessee is a match
Speaker 1: made in heaven. I didn't include any trades in my
Speaker 1: mach here mock two point zero for those of you
Speaker 1: who are scoring along at home, and I probably like
Speaker 1: Drake may better than the other two quarterbacks personally. But
Speaker 1: part of what I've done here is to sort of
Speaker 1: guess what the teams might do, and part of it
Speaker 1: is just to slot what I think a team should do.
Speaker 1: There's not a whole lot of science to it, but boy,
Speaker 1: a lot of good players to shoes from. To me,
Speaker 1: the really interesting one is going to be the Chargers
Speaker 1: at number five. New regime. No track record in terms
Speaker 1: of what might happen there, So stay tuned.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean they could go a lot of different ways.
Speaker 2: And you know, offensive tackles certainly need so he's wide
Speaker 2: receiver because well they don't have any right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, more of those than tackles though, as this thing
Speaker 1: true enough, we'll play out though. Let's go back to
Speaker 1: Dale now and check out picks eleven through twenty.
Speaker 2: I have with the Cardinals sliding back to that eleven spot,
Speaker 2: with the Vikings taking Quinny and Mitchell as the first
Speaker 2: cornerback off the board, and then the Broncos go with
Speaker 2: another quarterback. That would be five in the first round
Speaker 2: and five in the top twelve. If you're a Steelers fan,
Speaker 2: you probably want to see that.
Speaker 4: Oh you love it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then some of the edge rushers starting to
Speaker 2: go there. At pick sixteen, you see a couple of
Speaker 2: edge rushers go off the board in a row there,
Speaker 2: and the Steelers sit back and they get an offensive
Speaker 2: tackle in the first round. I like Fatanu. I think
Speaker 2: there were some questions about whether he could be a
Speaker 2: guard or a tackle, or whether he was a guard
Speaker 2: or a tackle. The arm length at the combine of
Speaker 2: thirty four and a half inches plenty long enough for
Speaker 2: him to stick a tackle.
Speaker 1: Matt, what's your take on eleven through twenty.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so Dale and I spend too much time together, obviously.
Speaker 3: I mean, I have Fatan who also going to the Steelers.
Speaker 3: I would plug him in a tackle and if by
Speaker 3: chance he moves has to move to guard, so be it.
Speaker 3: But I thought I was being slick putting bow Nixt
Speaker 3: to Denver, you know. I mean, he's a lot like
Speaker 3: I'm not saying he's Drew Brees, but he's a quick
Speaker 3: process or he's very accurate. I think Sean Payton would
Speaker 3: love him. So I do like that fit quite a bit,
Speaker 3: although it seems a little bit early. And then I
Speaker 3: think Jacksonville and Cincinnati sitting there with those two tackles
Speaker 3: would be thrilled to get that kind of talent in
Speaker 3: the middle of the first round.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Dale, you had a tackle going to the Steelers
Speaker 1: twentieth overall, Matt, you had a tackle going to the
Speaker 1: Steelers twenty tho overall, look at that about I have
Speaker 1: a tackle going to the Steelers twentieth overall, I'm going
Speaker 1: back to the Georgia Store. Marius Mims not the most
Speaker 1: experienced tackle of the you know, wide variety available this
Speaker 1: time around, but something very intriguing about him. I've got
Speaker 1: Bowers going to Indianapolis because I think Bowers is an
Speaker 1: Indianapolis Coult just strikes me that way. And Bengals, I've
Speaker 1: got them going tackle as well, but a different tackle.
Speaker 1: Some of these corners too, I think are just too
Speaker 1: good to pass up. Terry and Arnold and Quinn and
Speaker 1: Mitchell to me or slam dunks if you have a
Speaker 1: big need at death position.
Speaker 4: Both really good player, they'll.
Speaker 1: Probably slam dunks. If you don't have a need at
Speaker 1: death position, they're still very good.
Speaker 4: They have a lot of good landing spots for those guys.
Speaker 1: Yeah, again, a lot of the same names that you
Speaker 1: guys had, just kind of in a different order. Dale
Speaker 1: take us home with the bottom third of round number one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have the Cardinals Mike at twenty three with
Speaker 2: that second pick that they acquired, taking Brian Thomas, so
Speaker 2: they get the receiver that they kind of passed over
Speaker 2: in the first round and make that trade down. Then
Speaker 2: you start looking here, some of the cornerbacks start to
Speaker 2: go here a little run in this second half of
Speaker 2: this of the draft.
Speaker 4: Here, I just.
Speaker 2: Think you know, with so many good, big bodies early
Speaker 2: in this draft, I think that the cornerbacks might slip
Speaker 2: a little bit more than they typically would. And this
Speaker 2: is a really deep cornerback class. So I kept waiting
Speaker 2: to slide Terry and Arnold in there somewhere. He was
Speaker 2: my number one ranked cornerback in this draft. Detroit makes
Speaker 2: a ton of sense for him easy, a kneecap bier,
Speaker 2: I think, so he would fit him well there and so,
Speaker 2: you know, and then for Kansas City, why not go
Speaker 2: get another wide receiver as well.
Speaker 3: I really like your fit of Barton to the Packers,
Speaker 3: and you know, sticking with the interior oh line theme,
Speaker 3: there aren't that many teams that are really in the
Speaker 3: center market at this point. They got scooped up pretty
Speaker 3: quick in free agency. But I do think Dallas is
Speaker 3: one of them, and they end up getting the best
Speaker 3: one in the draft in my opinion. I also had
Speaker 3: a trade, you know, for the with the Vikes, and
Speaker 3: they get there, you know, much needed receiver.
Speaker 4: For the Chargers as well.
Speaker 3: Philadelphia always drafts big guys high lane Johnson's up in age,
Speaker 3: so that made a lot of.
Speaker 4: Sense to me too.
Speaker 3: And Snuff Darius Robson and at the end too, to
Speaker 3: the Super Bowl champs. He'll do something on that offense
Speaker 3: or defensive Yeah, a lot.
Speaker 1: I think maybe his the discussion about whether he's an
Speaker 1: interior guy or an edge might be taking away from
Speaker 1: the fact that he's really good.
Speaker 4: One.
Speaker 1: Yeah, looking at my bottom third, I'll look at that
Speaker 1: Vikings get their quarterback at twenty three, So why didn't
Speaker 1: have any trades? They didn't have to trade, and Denver
Speaker 1: you can get one later. Uh. Again, a lot of
Speaker 1: the same guys here. One of my favorite players in
Speaker 1: this draft, Keon Coleman, who spent his first couple of
Speaker 1: years at Michigan State, really broke out at Florida State.
Speaker 1: Better quarterback situation, better team, and a lot of touchdowns.
Speaker 1: You know, he had the slowest combine forty time of
Speaker 1: his receiver group, but he had the fastest gauntlet drill time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's one of those fast he plays fast times.
Speaker 2: Med DeAndre Hopkins a little bit that he's just going
Speaker 2: to go up and fight.
Speaker 4: For the football.
Speaker 1: Well, you know what, he used to do a little
Speaker 1: for the rebound when he was at Michigan State. He
Speaker 1: played football and basketball. Not a lot of guys have
Speaker 1: done that. I like the Cowboys to do something splashy
Speaker 1: just because that's what they do. And I think getting
Speaker 1: the new record holder into forty yard dash Davior Worthy
Speaker 1: is very apropos for Dallas, and I went with Kamari
Speaker 1: Lassiter to Detroit. I don't know if I'd necessarily think
Speaker 1: he's among the top quarterbacks available, but I think he's
Speaker 1: a Dan Campbell kind of guy, and his lines proved
Speaker 1: last year. They go on their evaluations, not what everybody
Speaker 1: else thinks.
Speaker 4: Yeah, one hundred percent.
Speaker 3: And one thing I think it's starting to show up
Speaker 3: with this draft is once you get past twenty five,
Speaker 3: twenty six, it starts to look like second rounders, you know,
Speaker 3: and that's a bigger number than usual. I mean, usually
Speaker 3: the first round has fifteen, sixteen, seventeen surefire first round picks.
Speaker 4: This year's a little deeper with those guys.
Speaker 1: Robinson another guy I think is just a Bald Ravens
Speaker 1: type of player that's going to do it for this edition.
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