Speaker 1: Both of you.
Speaker 2: I start off, just what do you kind of feel
Speaker 2: like the overall stamp that this draft class can make
Speaker 2: on this team.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'd say this draft class was probably one of
Speaker 3: our most collaborative just with the coaches and the scouts
Speaker 3: and everybody together. It's gotten better each year. Last year
Speaker 3: was great, This year got even better, and and there
Speaker 3: was so much just talk within the draft room and
Speaker 3: getting everybody's opinions, and it was really I think, I
Speaker 3: think it felt about as collaborative as it can be
Speaker 3: and we're really happy about that, you guys, And there.
Speaker 4: Are a lot of cornerbacks, you know, on the on
Speaker 4: the board. What was it about Looterer that that made
Speaker 4: him the pick?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Looter He came on a thirty visit Matt and
Speaker 3: actually Tark and I talked to him out on the
Speaker 3: deck and I remember it because we've been stuck in
Speaker 3: this draft room for weeks and there's no son in there,
Speaker 3: so it's like, instead of meeting in an office, let's
Speaker 3: go stand on the deck in the sun for a while.
Speaker 3: And he was probably the most mature guy we met
Speaker 3: probably in the whole process. He's married, he's just he's
Speaker 3: a man. Already, and he impressed the heck out of me,
Speaker 3: and I know he impressed you too, And that was
Speaker 3: probably the thing that stood out with Looting the most.
Speaker 3: Obviously the stuff on the field. We love his physicality,
Speaker 3: his strength is upside. Junior college guy's got a lot
Speaker 3: of upside still, So yeah, we're real excited about Looter.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and then part of that evaluation processed at the
Speaker 5: Senior Bowl. He really stood out to us. We thought
Speaker 5: he separated himself from a lot of different prospects there.
Speaker 3: And it made a big impact. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Strong, he's very strong, he's very sticky. At the Senior Bowl,
Speaker 5: he fitting very well down there to get some of
Speaker 5: the top competition.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he's a man already. Is that something that you
Speaker 6: look for? I mean, in terms of maturity, How important
Speaker 6: does that become when you're looking.
Speaker 3: At it is a lot. It's a hard game. It's hard.
Speaker 3: NFL is really hard. Got to be you got to
Speaker 3: be tough, you got to be mature in order to
Speaker 3: do this at your job. So we found on our team,
Speaker 3: the mature guys do really really well. You know, the
Speaker 3: guys that are they are physical, they're tough to do
Speaker 3: really well. And he fit that bill.
Speaker 1: What goes into scouting a kicker. I mean for us,
Speaker 1: it just looks like, you know, doesn't go through the upris.
Speaker 1: What goes into that and what led you ultimately to Jamie?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought the kicker questions were done yesterday. But yeah, Jake,
Speaker 3: you know, we really lean on our special teams coaches
Speaker 3: for that. And I think John and Kyle told you.
Speaker 3: Brian Schneider loved him. I absolutely loved him. Was sold
Speaker 3: on them. And it starts with the scouts during the fall,
Speaker 3: identifying them and giving the coaches a list of of
Speaker 3: of who the best kickers are and understanding that Robbie
Speaker 3: was coming up and we didn't know what we're gonna
Speaker 3: do with Robbie at the time, so you have to
Speaker 3: be very thorough and so they gave him really the
Speaker 3: top five or so kickers, and he stood out right
Speaker 3: away and throughout the process. For some reason, he didn't
Speaker 3: go to the Senior Bowl, but he goes to the
Speaker 3: East West and he's the MVP of the East West,
Speaker 3: which was probably the most boring game. If you guys
Speaker 3: watch that, it's like all field goals and it was terrible.
Speaker 3: But he stood out, and so that does you a
Speaker 3: little bit about Jake, but really we lean a lot
Speaker 3: on our special teams coaches for that and they did
Speaker 3: a great job. They were real thorough when it comes
Speaker 3: to beale.
Speaker 5: Can you expand on the GTFO and just the two
Speaker 5: yard burst that he that he showed you.
Speaker 3: Guys, Yeah, the GTFO is something that our R and
Speaker 3: D group came up with and really just mimicking what
Speaker 3: coach Casarak wants. And you guys know what the acronym means,
Speaker 3: or I assume you know, but it's something we look
Speaker 3: for and it's something they measure and they do a
Speaker 3: great job of that. And when you get to the
Speaker 3: later rounds and you see guys like him stand out
Speaker 3: on that, and then it matches up with his forty
Speaker 3: and all the different athletic measurements. It's it's something that
Speaker 3: separated him from the other guys at that point on
Speaker 3: the board. Yeah.
Speaker 7: Thanks, we're covering Robbie the last you know, six seasons
Speaker 7: that he's supremely confident he wants to be out there
Speaker 7: with the game.
Speaker 4: On the line. Do you do you get that sense
Speaker 4: that that Moody has that that same I mean that
Speaker 4: same confidence and how do you sort of assess that
Speaker 4: it seems like a very important thing to find out
Speaker 4: about it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you're right that that's something that Robbie
Speaker 3: had and he was awesome for six years, Like sent
Speaker 3: him out there and you I mean, he thought it
Speaker 3: was gonna be good, and that's hard to replicate with Jake.
Speaker 3: I think that's one of the things that coach Knight
Speaker 3: really liked is the kid just just wasn't scared of anything.
Speaker 3: He'd go out there and kick it and kick it
Speaker 3: as hard as he could every time. You can try
Speaker 3: to replicate that in a practice or something, but that's
Speaker 3: not real. But you see him make big kicks and
Speaker 3: games and I reference the East West, but he made
Speaker 3: big kicks. I think was Illinois won the game and
Speaker 3: there's I think three game winning kicks that he had.
Speaker 3: So those are the things you see under pressure, he
Speaker 3: did it, and that's past performance is the best predictor
Speaker 3: of future performance, and that's what he's done. We try
Speaker 3: to replicate it in a workout and he did the
Speaker 3: same thing. And I don't know if they told you
Speaker 3: the specific incident, but when we worked him out privately,
Speaker 3: he did like a last second rush out on the
Speaker 3: field field goal thing was all messed up, laces are
Speaker 3: the wrong way, he didn't care, kicked it right through
Speaker 3: the uprights fifty yards. So those are the things you
Speaker 3: can do, but you don't really know until they're in
Speaker 3: that moment.
Speaker 5: And then part of the evaluation process with the people
Speaker 5: that we talked to that are inside that building, that
Speaker 5: was one of the things they emphasized. How this guy
Speaker 5: is ice in his bands. This guy's as consistent as
Speaker 5: any position player that they had there. So it's something
Speaker 5: that we felt really good about.
Speaker 2: Yeahs a roster that you know, it looks like there's
Speaker 2: virtually a starter at every spot. You know, the depth
Speaker 2: looks pretty good. Does it change like how you approach
Speaker 2: it and where your eyes go when it comes to
Speaker 2: evaluating the talent, Yes.
Speaker 5: It doesn't change the process. Right, So we're evaluating everyone
Speaker 5: through the fall as if we're starting the roster from
Speaker 5: scratch to get the value exactly correct. But as we
Speaker 5: talk about the players as we go in the winter
Speaker 5: and then during the April meetings, we compare them to
Speaker 5: the guys on our roster and how they would fit in.
Speaker 5: So initially it doesn't change at all, but then we
Speaker 5: have to be able to clearly communicate what their exact
Speaker 5: value is a little bit later in the.
Speaker 2: Process, basically in the essence scouting your own guys too,
Speaker 2: to figure.
Speaker 5: Out exactly So everyone has a specialty that they focus
Speaker 5: on in those April meetings, and that's one of the
Speaker 5: things that we ask them to evaluate our own roster
Speaker 5: and stack those guys amongst the guys on our roster.
Speaker 1: When you're kind of stacking those guys, say you've got
Speaker 1: two guys that are pretty close to one guy, maybe
Speaker 1: have more traits, more upside, but may not get it
Speaker 1: for a year, versus a guy who kind of a
Speaker 1: little more polished, you know what he's getting. Do you
Speaker 1: have to think about, like, you know, it might be
Speaker 1: worth going for the guy that might take a year
Speaker 1: because and we'll have a spot for him. Like does
Speaker 1: that factory into it at all?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I would say our job is to communicate exactly
Speaker 5: what you just said, Communicate those differences, also understand who
Speaker 5: that person is who can reshare potential and clearly communicate
Speaker 5: that to the assistant GM, to the GM, to the
Speaker 5: coaching staff and just help make a good decision.
Speaker 3: Thanks very including me. Yeah, it's really communicating that to
Speaker 3: John and Kyle and making sure they know the total
Speaker 3: package and what this player can be now and then
Speaker 3: in the future, give them all the information to make
Speaker 3: the best decision.
Speaker 6: Seemed like two themes that were through a lot of
Speaker 6: your draft picks. Work, speed and then also guys that
Speaker 6: were team captains. How important are all of those futures.
Speaker 6: I mean, I know that doesn't mean that they're going
Speaker 6: to be successful on the field, but those are reoccurring things.
Speaker 2: That we saw.
Speaker 3: Yeah, OK, I got it. Sure.
Speaker 5: Those are two things that are very important to us.
Speaker 5: The forty nine or the what it takes to be
Speaker 5: as successful forty nine or football player is something that
Speaker 5: we emphasize. We emphasized in the preseason, we emphasize it
Speaker 5: during winter meetings, we emphasize it prior to our April meetings.
Speaker 5: And those are two things that are extremely important to us.
Speaker 5: So it is communicated. It's something that they try to
Speaker 5: gather as much information on as possible, like a captain,
Speaker 5: but what is a captain and captain is a leader
Speaker 5: that can connect, can motivate, and so those are things
Speaker 5: that we're working on as we get into the schools,
Speaker 5: and that's what we're communicating when we get into those meetings.
Speaker 7: The collaborative process. I noticed there was a lot of
Speaker 7: talk about Steve Wilks. It seemed that he was calling
Speaker 7: prospects even letting them know some of the good news.
Speaker 7: I think, yes, Jay or Jerry Brown, when a new
Speaker 7: coach does come in, is it hard to get him
Speaker 7: kind of integrated into that whole flow? How did that
Speaker 7: whole process work? Because it seemed that he was very
Speaker 7: involved in the get go.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but Steve, it was real seamless, and I think
Speaker 3: we talked about it before. Maybe I talked with you,
Speaker 3: Matt about how seamless it was from the get go,
Speaker 3: from free agency and then and then going into the
Speaker 3: draft is the same way. And he just it was.
Speaker 3: He was like he was part of us right away,
Speaker 3: and he was a really smart guy. He communicates exactly
Speaker 3: what he's looking for, eyes, hands hips, and feet and
Speaker 3: I've heard that about thirty times, but it's the real
Speaker 3: thing because it was But he is. He's been about
Speaker 3: as integral as he could be in such a short time,
Speaker 3: and he's not afraid to speak his mind, but he's
Speaker 3: also real respectful of everybody else's opinions. And it's been
Speaker 3: it's been really good so far.
Speaker 8: Yeah, well, he obviously has break it off in length
Speaker 8: and speed. I understand George has been a lot of players,
Speaker 8: but you know, you look at his packages. How company
Speaker 8: didn't do more in college for what what was kind
Speaker 8: of behind that other than talented roster.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think bial really looking more at him for
Speaker 3: how he fits us and with what they did at Georgia,
Speaker 3: they had him dropping a lot, they had him doing
Speaker 3: a lot of different things, and talking to the people
Speaker 3: at Georgia, talking to Kirby Smart, he says, the best
Speaker 3: thing he does is get off the ball GTFO and
Speaker 3: get the quarterback and set the edge. And those are
Speaker 3: the things we do. As you know, Chris Casara, you
Speaker 3: see him at practice every day. So those are the
Speaker 3: things that fit us really well. So maybe it didn't
Speaker 3: fit other teams as well, but his skill set fits
Speaker 3: us really really well. All Right, thank you guys.
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