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Speaker 1: And Paulie too. When that tweet came out, that acts
Speaker 1: if you will. When that came out, remember that was
Speaker 1: the first day of the combine right there. To me, Paully,
Speaker 1: that truly does mark the first day of the offseason,
Speaker 1: the new NFL season. Now technically it's not, of course,
Speaker 1: we all know that doesn't start until in March. But
Speaker 1: for me, that is the start of the new NFL season,
Speaker 1: the first day of the combine.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we know it's March thirteenth, the official start, because
Speaker 4: there are various things that happen five days after March thirteenth.
Speaker 4: The Denver Broncos would owe Russell Wilson some thirty seven
Speaker 4: million guaranteed. So everybody now, Russell Wilson will not be
Speaker 4: the Denver Broncos quarterback by the time that date rolls around.
Speaker 4: But as for right here, right now, in fact, moments ago,
Speaker 4: you had Jared Verse, the Florida State defensive ends sixty
Speaker 4: four two fifty four, running a four to six flat
Speaker 4: forty the identical same time as Will Anderson. They have
Speaker 4: almost the exact same measurables last year NFL Defensive Rookie
Speaker 4: of the Year, and Chop Robinson, the edge player out
Speaker 4: of Penn State who has been linked to the Cardinals
Speaker 4: and a lot of mock drafts, ran a four to
Speaker 4: four to eight.
Speaker 1: Oh no, he didn't, Paul, Did he really run a
Speaker 1: four to four eight?
Speaker 4: And you know why he's named Chop because when he
Speaker 4: was born, he was fourteen pounds at birth and his
Speaker 4: nickname was pork Chop. And they just.
Speaker 1: Still don't weigh fourteen pounds.
Speaker 4: All right, let's get down to it here, Okay, Big
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Speaker 1: Look.
Speaker 4: A little bit later, we're gonna get a one on
Speaker 4: one with Daniel Jeremiah from the Combine, Darren Urban, Danny Surrette,
Speaker 4: Craig Griolu. All there, we got boots on the ground
Speaker 4: in Indianapolis. Danny's gonna go one on one with Jonathan Gannon.
Speaker 4: We'll hear that a little bit later. We're gonna hear
Speaker 4: all about Garrett Williams. We'll continue our close examination of
Speaker 4: just a just a robust rookie class from a year ago.
Speaker 4: But let's go into the trenches here. Maniasin Ford talking
Speaker 4: to the media and he was answering the question, all right,
Speaker 4: you know what, you gotta find the player, but you
Speaker 4: also have to find the person what goes into that.
Speaker 5: Anytime that we add a player to our building, it's
Speaker 5: it's gonna be we're gonna talk about the fit not
Speaker 5: only on the field, it off the field as well.
Speaker 5: And so that's why this week is such a big
Speaker 5: step in that process, is that we can we can
Speaker 5: meet with players, we can compare the information that we
Speaker 5: have coming in here to our take once we get
Speaker 5: a chance to sit down across from them. Ultimately, we
Speaker 5: owe it to the locker room to bring in people
Speaker 5: that have the right mindset.
Speaker 4: Ron wolf Lee, would you say that the new decision makers,
Speaker 4: Maniasapborn head coach Johnathan Gattin, they have made that a
Speaker 4: premium part of hitting the reset button, finding those sorts
Speaker 4: of players, not just what they see on film, but
Speaker 4: what they encounter in person.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Paulie, We've been talking about this for a long
Speaker 1: long time, ever since Manias and Fort and JG started
Speaker 1: voicing their opinion on culture and what the culture they
Speaker 1: were looking for and what they wanted to build here.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is not a surprise whatsoever. They have
Speaker 1: a clear cut dude in their head. It doesn't matter,
Speaker 1: paul if you're a cornerback, if you're an edge player,
Speaker 1: if you're a running back, whatever where it is. I
Speaker 1: think Mani, Austin, Fort and JG have a clear cut
Speaker 1: image in their head as to what kind of person
Speaker 1: they want to be that player. And that really is
Speaker 1: the difference right now, Pauli. And that's why the interview
Speaker 1: process this week is going to be huge at the combine.
Speaker 4: When many usin Fort tells the media this week quote
Speaker 4: that I would put the character in the football makeup
Speaker 4: of a player and rate it as much as important
Speaker 4: as the on field ability end quote. You realize the importance,
Speaker 4: right and when you have Jonathan Gannon asked at the Combine,
Speaker 4: all right, so what is culture to you? And he said,
Speaker 4: it's who you are, it's how you behave. Culture is
Speaker 4: just a fancy word for those two things that player
Speaker 4: has to fit a locker room. You know what we
Speaker 4: value and if you have enough of those guys, you
Speaker 4: will win. That's according to Jonathan Gannon.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know again, that's why these interviews are
Speaker 1: so critical at the Combine. I think Paulli forty five,
Speaker 1: you're forty five in views at the Combine, and I
Speaker 1: believe they are twenty minutes long. Can you imagine sitting
Speaker 1: all of those all of those meetings, Paul, And you
Speaker 1: know me, I'd love to be one of the guys
Speaker 1: sitting around that table just so I could look at it,
Speaker 1: dude and say, why, sir do you play this game?
Speaker 1: Why do you play the game of football? I'd love
Speaker 1: to hear that answer right there. But man, forty five
Speaker 1: dudes for twenty minutes, I don't know, Paul.
Speaker 4: All right, So, speaking of those meetings, jonathanana has asked,
Speaker 4: what do you hope to learn from the prospects when
Speaker 4: you have that precious fifteen or twenty minutes per.
Speaker 6: If they love ball and if they're team guys. First,
Speaker 6: it's awesome meeting with them, getting to start them to
Speaker 6: know them as people before you really dive into the tape,
Speaker 6: but really looking for what I call the price of
Speaker 6: admission if they fit that. So we've had a lot
Speaker 6: of good guys that we've already talked to. We've got
Speaker 6: a lot more meetings schedule the next couple of days,
Speaker 6: so it's really cool process for us.
Speaker 4: Now, a lot of these guys are coached up Wolf.
Speaker 4: So how tough do you think it is to discern
Speaker 4: what's truly in side a player, what truly motivates a guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, PAULI, I think you've got to ask him directly
Speaker 1: what he loves about the game and then listen to
Speaker 1: his answer, because Paulie, you know this. These scouts they've
Speaker 1: already seen this guy on tape. Right, Manti assen Ford
Speaker 1: has already seen this guy on tape. They got that
Speaker 1: what you go to the combine for. It's the interview process, yes,
Speaker 1: but you're looking for verification for what you've already seen
Speaker 1: on tape. You're looking for a guy to go out
Speaker 1: there and compete and verify what it is that you
Speaker 1: have seen right there. And maybe sometimes if a guy
Speaker 1: does so well, you're going to go back to the
Speaker 1: tape and you're going to look at it right now.
Speaker 1: But when you listen to that, Paulie, and you listen
Speaker 1: to a guy that is talking about love ball, you
Speaker 1: gotta love ball? Will you define that for me? What
Speaker 1: does that mean? That's a statement, he's got a love ball,
Speaker 1: But when you get right down to it, what does
Speaker 1: that mean? That's why the interview processes oh critical.
Speaker 4: So one player who has really stolen some of the
Speaker 4: spotlight is Terry and Arnold the corner. Most rate him
Speaker 4: the number one corner in this draft out of Alabama,
Speaker 4: and he told the media earlier today that Jonathan Gannon
Speaker 4: told me to get up, get up from my seat
Speaker 4: during the interview and demonstrate my press technique. And I said, coach,
Speaker 4: you want me to hit you for real? And JG said, yeah,
Speaker 4: hit me, go ahead, and he said, I hit him.
Speaker 4: I showed him my press technique. And Darren Urban actually
Speaker 4: confirmed that with Jonathan Gannon confirmed that moment moment really happened.
Speaker 4: Can't you see that happening with Jonathan Gannon and some
Speaker 4: of these players.
Speaker 7: Totally, I totally see that happening. So gotta be kidding
Speaker 7: me bad. I mean, it is so cool right there.
Speaker 7: But again, you know what's cool about this? If you
Speaker 7: ask your guy. I was kind of joking with you,
Speaker 7: but Paulie, I really would why do you play this game?
Speaker 1: What? Why do you love the game of football? Listen
Speaker 1: to what the guy says, and then think of the tape,
Speaker 1: Paul of the tape, right is what he's saying. Does
Speaker 1: that match up to what you actually see on tape.
Speaker 1: It's got to do that ball and if it does, man,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be very impressive, and I'm sure his grade
Speaker 1: is going to be higher and he's gonna go up
Speaker 1: well Gann.
Speaker 4: It was also asked about playing rookies because the Cardinals
Speaker 4: did that more than any other team, and he said, yeah,
Speaker 4: we put the guys out there we think can win
Speaker 4: the game. But the quicker they get to play the quicker,
Speaker 4: you see what they are. He said, that could be
Speaker 4: good or that could be bad, but you get to
Speaker 4: see him and then you're able to make your evaluation.
Speaker 4: And that's where that evaluation really starts. Right now in
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Speaker 5: That's one of the challenges of the draft is trying
Speaker 5: to anticipate. You know, I don't think we're quite at
Speaker 5: that point yet where we're going to try to figure
Speaker 5: out what's going to go on in front of us.
Speaker 5: We're still in the evaluation of our own board and
Speaker 5: trying to get guys where we think and the value
Speaker 5: and putting them where we think for our team, you know,
Speaker 5: further down the line, maybe once we get into the
Speaker 5: middle of April, the last couple of weeks leading up to.
Speaker 1: The draft, then we'll start to try to predict what.
Speaker 5: Might happen in front of us, behind us, around us,
Speaker 5: And that's part of the strategy of the draft.
Speaker 4: There you go Cardinals, GM MONIASI for this week at
Speaker 4: the NFL Combine twoenty twenty four, continues through the weekend,
Speaker 4: and in fact you'll see on the weekend Saturday quarterbacks,
Speaker 4: receivers and running backs, and then on Sunday offensive line today,
Speaker 4: d line and linebackers tomorrow DB's and tight ends. That's
Speaker 4: how it's going down, Paul calvic Ron Wolfley the Big
Speaker 4: Red Rage presented by Santan Ford and Gilbert. Later in
Speaker 4: his media session at the Combine, Many austin Ford said, yeah,
Speaker 4: you know what, I'm sure calls will start to come
Speaker 4: in at number four and quote, we're going to make
Speaker 4: our fair share of calls too, end quote. What is
Speaker 4: your expectation? What are the odds considering the Cardinals traded
Speaker 4: on a number three a year ago, what are the
Speaker 4: chances they do the same thing and trade out a
Speaker 4: number four this year?
Speaker 1: Paulie, I think it all depends on who is there
Speaker 1: at number four. This is just me, you know my
Speaker 1: take on this. I could be dead wrong right now.
Speaker 1: Many austin Ford could actually be listening to this and
Speaker 1: just laughing hysterically. Somehow, someway, he's actually listening to this
Speaker 1: and he's going, man, we'll play you so far off
Speaker 1: it's not even funny. But I think if Marvin Harrison
Speaker 1: Junior is there, I think the Arizona Cardinals will, this
Speaker 1: is just my opinion, will draft Marvin Harrison Junior at
Speaker 1: number four if he's not there, or if they get
Speaker 1: an incredible offer they cannot say no to. Because I
Speaker 1: do believe there will be teams that are desperate for
Speaker 1: a wide receiver, one who might move up and give
Speaker 1: you the house. If that happens, maybe I could see
Speaker 1: Mani ausin Fort moving down like he did with Paris
Speaker 1: Johnson Junior, and then coming back up. Maybe they moved
Speaker 1: down to number thirteen somewhere around there, right where the
Speaker 1: Raiders are actually picking, and then they come back up.
Speaker 1: I could see that scenario happening, because Mani's already done it.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: It's interesting. Daniel Jeremiah, and we'll hear an extending interview
Speaker 4: with him momentarily. He was asked earlier about, Okay, what
Speaker 4: would it take the Raiders to move from thirteen to
Speaker 4: number three? That was a question. So, considering the Cardinals
Speaker 4: are in number four, he estimated the value to that
Speaker 4: team would be the thirteenth overall pick. It would be
Speaker 4: your first round pick and third round pick next year,
Speaker 4: and your first round pick in twenty six. Ooh, that's
Speaker 4: pretty enticing.
Speaker 1: That is steep.
Speaker 4: Yes, so there's that. As for Marvin Harrison junior, maniasin
Speaker 4: Fort was asked about him at his pre session and
Speaker 4: he said, quote, We've done a lot of work on
Speaker 4: Marvin Harrison junior. Ah, yes, that's all he said, though.
Speaker 1: But Paully, no, he did not. You know. He also
Speaker 1: followed that up with this is a very very deep
Speaker 1: wide receiver class. Yes, okay. Now I've just thought you
Speaker 1: want as a general manager, you want your opponent, You
Speaker 1: want anyone out there who is watching you to believe
Speaker 1: you'll do whatever they don't want you to do. You
Speaker 1: will do it. Whatever you don't want me to do,
Speaker 1: I'm going to do. You want to keep all your
Speaker 1: doors wide open.
Speaker 4: Say you want my sleeper trade candidate.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: The New York Giants at number six, we keep hearing
Speaker 4: about Atlanta. At eight, keep hearing about Minnesota and Denver
Speaker 4: in Vegas. Right eleven through thirteen, there's a lot of
Speaker 4: chatter about the Giants and how they can cut Daniel
Speaker 4: Jones after this coming season and save about nineteen million.
Speaker 4: They met with Caleb Williams. Why so, there's a lot
Speaker 4: of thinking. So think about that. If they come up
Speaker 4: to the Cardinals at four and the Cardinals go down
Speaker 4: to six, oh, you could still get a Roma doonsay?
Speaker 4: You could still get a Terry and Arnold the top.
Speaker 4: You could get the top edge guy, the top d tackle.
Speaker 4: I mean, six would be a great spot, and you
Speaker 4: get some further draft capital, perhaps from the New York Giants.
Speaker 4: I like that potential scenario.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I like it as well. But see what's
Speaker 1: cool about this is you've already got how many picks
Speaker 1: in the top ninety one, Paul? How many?
Speaker 4: Six?
Speaker 1: Yes, six picks in the top ninety one?
Speaker 4: Eleven total and eleven.
Speaker 1: Total of course, but man, six picks in the top
Speaker 1: ninety one right now, and you've got a wide receiver,
Speaker 1: one who could be a generational talent, a kid that
Speaker 1: is a bit of a freak. When you look at
Speaker 1: Marvin Harrison Junior and the fact that did you see this, Paul,
Speaker 1: have you heard this story where they stood Marvin Harrison Junior,
Speaker 1: who's six ' four next to his dad, Marvin Harrison
Speaker 1: and Paul. Their hipline was exactly the same. What. Yes,
Speaker 1: Marvin Harrison's only six feet tall, his son is six ' four,
Speaker 1: Yet the hipline was the same, which explains why he
Speaker 1: runs such good routes. His legs aren't really long, his
Speaker 1: torso is long ball. This is the kind of thing
Speaker 1: right now that happens at the combine, right.
Speaker 4: Well, it's an epic receiver class between Marvin Harrison Junior,
Speaker 4: Roma Dunesay, and Malik Neighbors. So you know there's all that.
Speaker 4: I mean, what do you make of it? Well, guess what.
Speaker 4: Greg Griilu, Danny Sirek a good get, and Daniel Jeremiah.
Speaker 4: They sat down with him at the twenty twenty four combine.
Speaker 8: This week, I've read a number of different mock drafts,
Speaker 8: including yours.
Speaker 4: Quarterbacks do that to yourself quarterbacks.
Speaker 8: Going one, two, and three. So where the Cardinals sit
Speaker 8: at number four?
Speaker 1: Good position?
Speaker 9: It's an awesome position. Yeah, I mean it's pole position
Speaker 9: because they're literally they're more than likely going to get
Speaker 9: their pick of any other position in the drafts. It's
Speaker 9: your choice and if you want to auction it, if
Speaker 9: you feel like you want to auction it, you might have
Speaker 9: a chance to do that. If somebody wants to them
Speaker 9: up for Marvin Harrison Junior, you might have a chance
Speaker 9: to move the pick. But I think more than likely
Speaker 9: we do have quarterback. Quarterback quarterback. I don't need trades
Speaker 9: and mock drafts. So it's kind of switch it up
Speaker 9: and put a different quarterback to a different team. Did
Speaker 9: it with the Giants. But I think if you know,
Speaker 9: if three New England does not want to take a quarterback,
Speaker 9: they'd be almost dumb to stick and pick when they
Speaker 9: could get something for that pick for somebody coming up.
Speaker 9: Which again Cardinal's sitting there staring at everybody.
Speaker 10: Which positions are deepest in this year's draft class, Well.
Speaker 9: I almost feel like it's the same every year.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 9: As wide receiver we are this is college game is
Speaker 9: just spitting out wide receivers left and right, so we
Speaker 9: have a ton of wide outs. That's the deepest position
Speaker 9: in the draft. I would say offensive tackles would be next.
Speaker 9: It could be a record setting year for first round tackles.
Speaker 9: I think that there's a chance we see eight. I
Speaker 9: think seven, I want to say, is the record. So
Speaker 9: it's a really really good group. After you get to
Speaker 9: those first you know, eight to nine guys. I think
Speaker 9: it starts to fall off pretty good. I don't know
Speaker 9: that this draft is a great depth draft. You know,
Speaker 9: rounds five and six, don't you know There's been other
Speaker 9: years I'm like, oh my gosh, I'm in Ross Saint
Speaker 9: Brown's They're in the fourth round, Like, how that possible?
Speaker 9: This year's not that, it's it's a it feels to
Speaker 9: me like a three round draft. It's really really good
Speaker 9: for those three rounds, and those probably have two deepest positions.
Speaker 10: Wide receiver and offensive tackle, two positions the Cardinals need
Speaker 10: Crag absolutely.
Speaker 8: And in your latest two point zero as far as
Speaker 8: your top fifty prospects, you have three wide receivers in
Speaker 8: your top four, four in your top sixteen number one
Speaker 8: wide receivers, all three of those names. How do you
Speaker 8: differentiate what is a best fit for a particular team.
Speaker 9: I mean, some days you wake up and you feel
Speaker 9: like going for a run. Some days you wake up
Speaker 9: I feel like going for a bike ride. You know,
Speaker 9: some days you might want to do some polities. I
Speaker 9: don't know if it's just like they're all they're all
Speaker 9: whatever flavor that you want. What do you what are
Speaker 9: you looking for. I mean, if you want the run
Speaker 9: after catch and the explosiveness, you're gonna love Neighbors for
Speaker 9: what he brings there.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 9: Marvin Harrison Junior kind of is, you know, a complete
Speaker 9: package obviously with all the size that he has, and
Speaker 9: a Duneza is the one who can go up and
Speaker 9: get contested catches and play above the rim. And he's
Speaker 9: actually better at that than Marvin is in terms of
Speaker 9: contested catches. So they all have distinct strengths. You know,
Speaker 9: I have it Marvin Harrison Junior at Dunesay, then Neighbors
Speaker 9: just from my personal preference because I feel like when
Speaker 9: you get to third down, red zone and then in
Speaker 9: the playoffs, the windows shrink, and those are those that's
Speaker 9: how you win games, That's how you win championships as
Speaker 9: guys who can win in crowds, and that to me
Speaker 9: is why I had the bigger guys over Neighbors.
Speaker 10: You can feel like a risk to potentially use the
Speaker 10: fourth overall pick on a wide receiver a dependent position.
Speaker 10: It's worked out well in the past for the Cardinals
Speaker 10: and they drafted Larry Good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he worked out all right.
Speaker 10: Which attributes are telling when a wide receiver is really
Speaker 10: good in college and can transition those skills into the pros.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 9: I look at it like the flip side of what
Speaker 9: should be a warning sign if you're if you're going
Speaker 9: in on a receiver. To me, when you have this
Speaker 9: is like the killer traits here when you're stiff, when
Speaker 9: you have inconsistent hands, and you have a limited route tree.
Speaker 9: Those are like if you find a guy who has
Speaker 9: all three of those things, it's like blinking lights buyer beware.
Speaker 9: Now with these guys, you know, neighbors will let some
Speaker 9: balls get into his chest every now and then, but
Speaker 9: he's got reliable hands. None of the top three guys
Speaker 9: have any of those warning sets.
Speaker 8: Defensively, the Cardinals need help as well. Line of scrimmage.
Speaker 8: Secondary edge rusher I think, at least for me, would
Speaker 8: be the biggest need. Where do you see those positions
Speaker 8: relative to the depth of the prospects on this.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, if you're going to look on the
Speaker 9: defensive side of the ball, corners that is the deepest
Speaker 9: there's as a really you know, deep crop of corners.
Speaker 9: So if you're going to say, you know, man, I've
Speaker 9: got an edgeresser, I like in a corner. I like
Speaker 9: you take the edge rusher, that would be you know,
Speaker 9: the move to make there with that second pick. What
Speaker 9: it's number twenty seven, right, so you're looking at you know,
Speaker 9: if this chop Robinson get there, potentially from Penn State
Speaker 9: would be an option there, Darius Robinson from Missouri. Those
Speaker 9: that's kind of like the collection of you know, those
Speaker 9: types of players you're looking at that point in time.
Speaker 10: Which positions do you prioritize in this specific draft that
Speaker 10: can have a trickle down fact to have a positive
Speaker 10: impact on the rest of the defense.
Speaker 9: Why I always you know, everybody has different thoughts on it.
Speaker 9: I'm still a front to back believer that if you
Speaker 9: can build up the front, it'll take some ease, some
Speaker 9: pressure off the back.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 9: Bill Belichick kind of famously towards the end of his
Speaker 9: career kind of flip that and just said, let's put
Speaker 9: our resources in the secondary and I can manufacture a
Speaker 9: pass rush. So you can do it either way. But
Speaker 9: I still think that's the way you do it. And
Speaker 9: I think when you look inside the division, it's what
Speaker 9: the forty nine ers have done. You know, they are
Speaker 9: strong front to back and that's how they're built, So
Speaker 9: that to me is where the priority would start and
Speaker 9: that you know, look free agencies where you can get
Speaker 9: a leg up there. But I think to me they
Speaker 9: need to double down and continue to add resources to
Speaker 9: that front.
Speaker 10: So when you're looking overall arching, what would you say
Speaker 10: are the most glaring needs for the Cardinals to address
Speaker 10: with some of their I mean they've got eleven draft picks,
Speaker 10: They've got six in the top one hundred, most in
Speaker 10: the league. What are the glaring needs for the Cardinals
Speaker 10: to address?
Speaker 9: I think if they come out of this draft and
Speaker 9: they get an impact player on each side of the
Speaker 9: line of scrimmage, offensive line, defensive line, and then they
Speaker 9: could get two dynamic players. Now you can one of
Speaker 9: those guys probably gonna have to be raw when you
Speaker 9: think about the receiver or the dB. But just getting
Speaker 9: some juice, some explosiveness, you know, with the receiver in
Speaker 9: a defensive back and with the resources they have, I
Speaker 9: think that's accomplishable. But you know, the old it's like
Speaker 9: the old Sunday school of visual though. If you want
Speaker 9: to get all that stuff in the jar, you know,
Speaker 9: the rocks, the sand, the water, like you got to
Speaker 9: get the big rocks in first.
Speaker 1: So to me, you don't want to leave the first.
Speaker 9: Round without a big So if we're going to dedicate
Speaker 9: that fourth pick to taking the playmaker, I think that
Speaker 9: that next pick has to be an offense or a
Speaker 9: defensive one.
Speaker 4: That's great stuff. Daniel Jeremiah, NFL Draft analyst right with
Speaker 4: Craig Griglu Danny Surrek. For the entire interview. All you
Speaker 4: have to do is search Cardinals Cover two every year podcast,
Speaker 4: go to the Cardinals YouTube page. So that's interesting, Wolf,
Speaker 4: we know offensive tackle, we know receiver is really deep.
Speaker 4: He says corner is deep as well. You know what
Speaker 4: that makes me think with the Cardinals first pick in
Speaker 4: the first round, it's going to be either edge or
Speaker 4: d tackle because you can get those other three position
Speaker 4: groups later in a loaded draft, but there's not nearly
Speaker 4: as many guys to play along the defensive front.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's really interesting, Polly, I would disagree with you.
Speaker 1: I think this is all gonna be about building around
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray, and that means you've got to protect Kyler Murray.
Speaker 1: And the best way to protect Kyler Murray is to
Speaker 1: go ahead and get him a offensive lineman, maybe an
Speaker 1: interior offensive lineman. Graham Barton. Maybe an offensive tackle Paully
Speaker 1: you bring him in, Tyler Giden. Maybe it's a situation
Speaker 1: where you also have a Marvin Harrison junior that is
Speaker 1: a huge force for him in the secondary and maybe
Speaker 1: gets the ball out quicker because he can see him
Speaker 1: that much easier a guy that is running such excellent routes.
Speaker 1: I think it's all about protecting Kyler Murray, and you
Speaker 1: do that via offensive lineman and targets. He can throw
Speaker 1: the ball too.
Speaker 4: I'll say this, though, the Cardinal's first four draft picks,
Speaker 4: if it ends up being offensive tackle, defensive line, corner,
Speaker 4: and receiver in some order, you know, I mean, I
Speaker 4: think it's probably gonna be those four positions in some order.
Speaker 4: The question is who exactly comes first in that sequence.
Speaker 4: And I'll say this, Jonathan Gana and Maniasivor talked about
Speaker 4: how they value versatility and defensive lineman so much. They
Speaker 4: told the media that again, it does make me think
Speaker 4: of Darius Robinson, the guy that Daniel Jeremiah named out
Speaker 4: of Missouri. He plays anywhere from the one technique all
Speaker 4: the way out to the edge. He tore it up
Speaker 4: with the Senior Bowl. He's supposedly going to test really well,
Speaker 4: and he was just a force at Missouri.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he was a force, no doubt about it. I
Speaker 1: like Chop Robinson as well. I really like this guy, PAULI.
Speaker 1: Did he run an excellent forty times? Were you just
Speaker 1: talking about four eight four four four to eight, PAULI?
Speaker 1: From a guy that's two hundred and fifty pounds in
Speaker 1: Job Robinson right now? I like that out there on
Speaker 1: the edge. But let me just say, Polly, I really
Speaker 1: loved that. Daniel Jeremiah reacted to the number four spot
Speaker 1: and called it the pole position in this draft. Isn't
Speaker 1: that interesting? Paul? He called it the pole position because quarterback, quarterback,
Speaker 1: quarterback is the way he sees this going. And then
Speaker 1: the draft starts when you get away from the quarterback
Speaker 1: and you got a position, a position room you might
Speaker 1: want a draft.
Speaker 4: And well, if I know you're flying the flag for
Speaker 4: the Marvin Harrison Junior fan Club, I get it. But
Speaker 4: did you also catch where he said roma Doonsay had
Speaker 4: more contested catches, Yes, than the Ohio State All American
Speaker 4: And it's true, I got it right here. He had
Speaker 4: twenty one Marvin Harrison Junior at thirteen and by the way,
Speaker 4: Roma Doonsay is six three two fifteen and might run
Speaker 4: a sub four four. He was the high school state
Speaker 4: two hundred meter champion.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm just saying. He did say that Marvin Harrison
Speaker 1: Junior was the complete package. She did.
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Speaker 6: I do think that we have a good plan in
Speaker 6: place to improve our players and get better culture. Guys
Speaker 6: is people and how you behave.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 4: It's not some fancy word.
Speaker 6: It's like, hey, like, who do you have and how
Speaker 6: do we behave on a daily basis? Right, So it's
Speaker 6: my job to hold them to that set, say hey,
Speaker 6: this is what we want and then let's make sure
Speaker 6: we do it, and when it's right, we point that out,
Speaker 6: and when it's not right, we point that out. And
Speaker 6: then ultimately the locker room took that.
Speaker 4: Over This year, there go Jonathan Gannon, really interesting and
Speaker 4: he's really fourth right with the media, and you know
Speaker 4: they asked him for example, Okay, as a new head coach,
Speaker 4: What did you learn your takeaways year one? He said,
Speaker 4: you know what I learned to delegate. I learned to
Speaker 4: trust people, you know. And he said, I made my
Speaker 4: biggest jump as a position coach from year one to
Speaker 4: year two, and I expect that out of myself in
Speaker 4: my second year as a head coach of the Arizona Cardinals.
Speaker 4: There he was from the combine. In fact, that is
Speaker 4: where we have boots on the ground, Darren Rman, Danny Sirek,
Speaker 4: Craig Greeley, which is the big red rage presented by
Speaker 4: Santan Ford in Gilbert. We are Santan Ford, Paul Kelbc,
Speaker 4: Ron Molfley. Well, if would you have enjoyed playing for
Speaker 4: Jonathan Gannon?
Speaker 1: Yes, I believe with all my heart, Polly, that I
Speaker 1: would have fit really, really well into this kind of
Speaker 1: culture right here now listen. He doesn't have a full
Speaker 1: back steam fall, so I doubt that I would have
Speaker 1: been here. But in terms of the culture, yeah, I
Speaker 1: think I would have fit like a glove. I really do.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is one of the things I love
Speaker 1: about these two guys many as and Ford and Jonathan Gannon.
Speaker 1: It's the fact they know exactly the type of human
Speaker 1: being they want inside that locker room.
Speaker 4: In fact, with no further ado, let's just kick it
Speaker 4: to Danny Sirec. She had a chance to sit down
Speaker 4: with Jonathan Gann and the Cardinals head coach here this
Speaker 4: week and they got into some big picture topics about
Speaker 4: the big red.
Speaker 10: You've said, you talk every day with general manager Mani
Speaker 10: asin Ford, especially this week when it comes to player
Speaker 10: evaluations and interviews. When it comes to finding the right fit,
Speaker 10: it's about the price of admission, which not everybody pays.
Speaker 10: How much is the price of admission to become an
Speaker 10: Arizona Cardinal.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a lot. And what we're talking about there
Speaker 6: is the people that they are in their football character.
Speaker 6: So we like to look for certain things, you know,
Speaker 6: just as they're going through their college career, what that
Speaker 6: looks like for us when they submerge into our culture
Speaker 6: with the Arizona Cardinals, what we think is needed to
Speaker 6: get the job done. And last year's draft class all
Speaker 6: paid that price of admission, so mining his staff and
Speaker 6: we did a really good job on that.
Speaker 4: So that's what we're looking for this year.
Speaker 10: Reflecting on last season, four wins defensively twenty ninth passing defense,
Speaker 10: thirty second in the run. What's required to turn things
Speaker 10: around and become a threatening defense and just one.
Speaker 6: Off set a lot obviously not where we need to
Speaker 6: be to win enough football games to be relevant in January,
Speaker 6: as I would say, and I think continuity of the
Speaker 6: coaching staff and some of the things that we did
Speaker 6: last year moving into year two will help the players
Speaker 6: that are here. And then you know, obviously excited about
Speaker 6: the acquisition phase too. You know, free agency in the
Speaker 6: draft always add new people to the room. But the
Speaker 6: guys that we have back, they did a good job
Speaker 6: of trying to do what we wanted them to do,
Speaker 6: and I think obviously there's a big area and a
Speaker 6: big room for a jump and improvement going into year two.
Speaker 10: He saw eight games with your franchise quarterback Kyler Murray.
Speaker 10: His presence immediately rejuvenated the offense the team as a
Speaker 10: whole offensively, What pieces are missing where, if addressed, can
Speaker 10: elevate his play and in turn, the offense is play
Speaker 10: as a whole of EI.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I wouldn't say miss and I would just say
Speaker 6: we're looking to add good football players everywhere, and the
Speaker 6: offensive line, I always think in my mind that's where
Speaker 6: I look to first, you know, because there's five guys
Speaker 6: on that and they got a tough job and they're
Speaker 6: running pass game. And then and then how many playmakers
Speaker 6: can we surround Kyler with? You know? So, and that
Speaker 6: comes in all kinds of different shapes and sizes and
Speaker 6: forms and positions. So as long as we add good
Speaker 6: football players will be.
Speaker 1: On our way.
Speaker 10: You've said this offseason you want to tear things down
Speaker 10: with your staff and keep them on their toes. What
Speaker 10: good are you carrying over from last year to build.
Speaker 1: Upon a lot?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I think like certain things, just our
Speaker 6: standard of our you know, our way of doing certain
Speaker 6: things I think was good, and the players liked it
Speaker 6: and they're comfortable with that, and they showed improvement with that.
Speaker 6: But I want us to really what I was talking
Speaker 6: about with that comment was I want us to have
Speaker 6: a growth mindset and making sure that we're talking and
Speaker 6: thinking about everything that we're doing and to make sure
Speaker 6: that it's the best thing for the players. And as
Speaker 6: long as we're improving I say, individually and collectively, then
Speaker 6: the players will improve. So that's what I wanted done
Speaker 6: this offseason. They've done a good job with it.
Speaker 10: First year as a head coach, check done. What was
Speaker 10: the biggest lesson learned?
Speaker 6: I got to delegate, got to delegate a little bit,
Speaker 6: I got, I got we have really good people in
Speaker 6: the building. Michael went out and you know, the people
Speaker 6: that he'd let us hire were exactly what I was
Speaker 6: looking for, and so I listened to those guys. So
Speaker 6: I listened to them and then I delegate some responsibility
Speaker 6: at times. But it was it was fun. But I'm
Speaker 6: looking forward to the growth for myself in year two
Speaker 6: as well. Just being on a job, you know, the
Speaker 6: the greatest experiences experience. So going into year two, I
Speaker 6: have to improve my game too, So I'm working on that.
Speaker 10: At what point what week did you realize I got
Speaker 10: to delegate a little bit more?
Speaker 6: Training camp?
Speaker 9: Okay, training camp?
Speaker 6: Yeah, training camp.
Speaker 1: It kind of hit me. So but that was cool.
Speaker 6: People were ready to do that, you know what I mean.
Speaker 6: So that that was That was kind of a neat
Speaker 6: experience for me a little stressful, but it was good.
Speaker 10: You were pretty hyped in the war room last year's draft,
Speaker 10: which makes sense money also for it was making big moves.
Speaker 10: How prepared are you for the Manti magic this.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I was just gonna sit back and you know,
Speaker 6: get your popcorn ready.
Speaker 4: It's good stuff right there. Jonathan Gannon with Danny Sirek.
Speaker 4: Catch the entire interview YouTube dot com slash Az Cardinals.
Speaker 4: All right, so in order of appearance there, uh talking
Speaker 4: about player acquisition and we've obviously talked a lot about
Speaker 4: the draft and that comes from the combine free agency.
Speaker 4: Ron Wolfley because on Arizona Sports last week, the owner
Speaker 4: Michael Bidwell said we're going to be active in free agency.
Speaker 4: In fact, you use the words very active. MANI said
Speaker 4: we're going to be active in free agency. What does
Speaker 4: that mean? I can't spell that out right now, Dot
Speaker 4: dot dot. What do you think that means?
Speaker 1: You know what, Paulie, I really don't think we're going
Speaker 1: to see a big free agent splash. That is just me.
Speaker 1: I don't think that is the Mani Austin fort way.
Speaker 1: You know, Mani asin for Paulie. You talked to him
Speaker 1: as well, and I just think that Mani Austin Ford
Speaker 1: is more about building through the draft in supplementing with
Speaker 1: free agency. Of course, I don't know if we're going
Speaker 1: to see a big signing via free agency based on
Speaker 1: what he did last year. I thought it was very
Speaker 1: very interesting. He brought in a bunch of pros. Paul
Speaker 1: guys who were pros brought him in here. Kaiser White
Speaker 1: is a guy that I will point to and say,
Speaker 1: this is a pro. Kaizer White didn't go, of course
Speaker 1: to the Pro Bowl. Hasn't been in the Pro Bowl.
Speaker 1: We know that. But Kaizer White, he only played eleven
Speaker 1: games last year. This is a guy who is a
Speaker 1: pro and a guy that's going to go out there
Speaker 1: and he's never going to get you beat at the
Speaker 1: NFL level. That's what I think. He's going to be
Speaker 1: looking for more and more and more guys. Now they
Speaker 1: actually paid Kaiser White, actually gave him a little bit
Speaker 1: of money, But I don't think we're going to see
Speaker 1: a twenty million dollars signing a year Pully. I think
Speaker 1: Manti asen Ford is about building through the draft and
Speaker 1: then using free agency to supplement.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I had forecast. I would agree with you. I
Speaker 4: would say this though. The reason I think in part
Speaker 4: they gave Kaysier money the most money Kayser White the
Speaker 4: most money of any free agent is because they knew
Speaker 4: him so well. True, is there a defensive lineman out there,
Speaker 4: they trust an edge guy, they trust a corner out there,
Speaker 4: because right now the defensive line room it's an empty cupboard.
Speaker 4: I mean, you need guys and you could really use
Speaker 4: a game wrecker in so, yes, I wonder about that
Speaker 4: and the difference from last offseason. You have about fifty
Speaker 4: million available in spending power.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right, Paully. You know it's it's very interesting
Speaker 1: because just listening to you talk right there, would you
Speaker 1: say Fletcher Cox would be a guy that time? You
Speaker 1: might just you know what I mean? There he is
Speaker 1: and we all know that. Fletcher Cox, of course a
Speaker 1: guy that has been an awesome three technique and the
Speaker 1: National Football League for a long time. He's thirty three
Speaker 1: years old right now he might be at that point
Speaker 1: where suddenly it's going to be a change of scenery
Speaker 1: for him. What could you possibly get Fletcher Cox for Paul?
Speaker 1: And what kind of discount might he actually give Jonathan
Speaker 1: Gannon and Manti Assin for it to come out here
Speaker 1: to Arizona, beautiful Arizona and play that. That is the
Speaker 1: question that I have right now, Paul. Would he give
Speaker 1: him a hometown discount so to speak? That's right.
Speaker 4: The Niners got Javon Hargrave, So Cardinals go after Fletcher Cox. Yeah,
Speaker 4: there you go. That'd be a by the way. He
Speaker 4: also mentioned Kyler Murray in that interview, and it was
Speaker 4: interesting to hear Jonathan Gannon tell the media in Indianapolis
Speaker 4: that you know what the game is going to go
Speaker 4: through one and then he talked about how it's one
Speaker 4: thing to be a cornerback in a new system, but
Speaker 4: when you're a quarterback in a new scheme and you
Speaker 4: don't have an entire offseason actually rep it because you're
Speaker 4: coming back from a knee injury. You know, we saw
Speaker 4: some of Kyler's best ball at the very end. It
Speaker 4: makes sense, and he still thinks there's plenty of upside
Speaker 4: Kyler in this offense.
Speaker 1: Yeah, PAULI no doubt about it. And what do you
Speaker 1: gotta do. You got to protect Kyler Murray. That's what
Speaker 1: you gotta do. I loved his answer right there when
Speaker 1: Danny asked him what pieces are missing to help Kyler,
Speaker 1: he said, the offensive line is where I look first,
Speaker 1: and then how many playmakers can we surround him with? There?
Speaker 1: It is right there offensive lineman to protect him and
Speaker 1: also to protect him with wide receivers who are going
Speaker 1: to get open and run the right routes and be
Speaker 1: in the right spot to get the ball.
Speaker 4: I keep citing the Detroit Lions, the Honolulu blue print,
Speaker 4: if you will. Yes, they went and they got Calvin
Speaker 4: Johnson and he was a Hall of Famer. What to
Speaker 4: do for their postseason fortunes. But when they started focusing
Speaker 4: on the offensive line and they shunned Jamar Chase or
Speaker 4: they didn't have a shot at him, they ended with
Speaker 4: Penny Sewell right then boom. They just they focused on
Speaker 4: that offensive line. And so whether it's that, whether it's
Speaker 4: the defensive line, whether it's corner, we'll talk about that
Speaker 4: when we come back and name some names. It's the
Speaker 4: Big Red Rage presented by santan Ford and Gilbert we Are.
Speaker 11: Santane forward, shotgun snap Smith moves to his left, rolling
Speaker 11: that way, hump fake now throws harside.
Speaker 3: Picked off at the one yard line, It's intercepted by
Speaker 3: the rookie Williams out of Syracuse, his first game after
Speaker 3: missing the last twelve months doing an injury suffered at
Speaker 3: Syracuse in the middle of the season. He makes a
Speaker 3: huge play picking off Geno Smith in the Red zone.
Speaker 4: He knows mea level ls he Gara Williams, Lizizi present
Speaker 4: the Welcome to the NFL Wuchacho Garra Williams as Luis Hernandez,
Speaker 4: preceded by Dave Pash. Yes, that is the interception times
Speaker 4: to English and Spanish. That was his debut in the NFL,
Speaker 4: after coming back from the knee injury that Kurt tailed
Speaker 4: his final season at Syracuse. There he was mid season
Speaker 4: at Seattle. As soon as he was available. He was
Speaker 4: in the lineup, the starting Nickel and Boom comes away
Speaker 4: with the takeaway. It's the Big Red Rage presented by
Speaker 4: santan Ford in Gilbert. We are santan Ford, Paul calvic
Speaker 4: Ron Wolfley our special NFL combine addition, and you go
Speaker 4: back to the combine where the Cardinals were blown away
Speaker 4: by Garrett Williams. At least that's the story Monyosip Fort
Speaker 4: and Jonathan Gannon have told recently where there they were
Speaker 4: wolf And you mentioned it earlier. You got like thirty
Speaker 4: interviews in a row, right, all fifteen minutes a piece
Speaker 4: at speed dating. You get to the end of the day,
Speaker 4: it's ten o'clock in the evening. You are dragging and
Speaker 4: worn out, and they said the very last interview was
Speaker 4: Garrett Williams, and within the first minute he had them
Speaker 4: on the edge of their seat, and by the time
Speaker 4: he left that room in the interview, they looked at
Speaker 4: each other and said, if we have a shot at
Speaker 4: that guy, we're going to turn in the card with
Speaker 4: his name on it. And sure enough it happened in
Speaker 4: the third round.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, Paul, I also thank Gerrett Williams two
Speaker 1: is going to be the starting corner for the Arizona
Speaker 1: Cardinals and the nickel corner. I think that that really
Speaker 1: is where his future is now. Once again, I'm not
Speaker 1: saying that Garrett Williams can't play on the outside. He's
Speaker 1: big enough to actually play on the outside. He's five ten,
Speaker 1: about one hundred and ninety two pounds. He's big enough
Speaker 1: to actually play out there. He proved that of course
Speaker 1: last year. But I really think the future for Garrett
Speaker 1: Williams is inside that nickel corner over maybe a number
Speaker 1: three receiver in the slots. I think that's where his
Speaker 1: future is. But having said that, they need to find
Speaker 1: more guys like him, Paul.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Well, it was after that interception. The very next
Speaker 4: week we had him on the Big Red Rage. And
Speaker 4: you might remember when we asked Garrett Williams about playing
Speaker 4: slot corner.
Speaker 12: Things are moving fast, but you got to adjust with it,
Speaker 12: you know. So definitely a big adjustment because when you're
Speaker 12: at a corner, your vision is just so different than
Speaker 12: when you're playing this slot. When you're a corner, you
Speaker 12: can kind of see everything around you. When you're in
Speaker 12: the slot, you kind of got to search a little
Speaker 12: bit more, you know, to see the full formation and
Speaker 12: things like that.
Speaker 4: You know, what else stands out to me about that
Speaker 4: interview just to what degree he's a thinking man's coin.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Look, I'm not blowing your cover by saying you're not
Speaker 4: exactly the biggest fan of college football, and he agreed
Speaker 4: with you for the same reason because to him, college
Speaker 4: football is a little bit simplistic and he's not even
Speaker 4: a year removed from the college game. And he talked
Speaker 4: about how he enjoys how complex the NFL is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know, Pall two. Garrett Williams is a
Speaker 1: physical guy as well. I think he's a good from
Speaker 1: what I saw, He's a good open field tackler for
Speaker 1: the most part, and an he tackles with some physicality.
Speaker 1: Once again, it's not a surprise to me because this
Speaker 1: is exactly what JG and maniassin Ford are looking for,
Speaker 1: guys that are physical football players. When you say our
Speaker 1: culture is going to be about physicality, and that's one
Speaker 1: of the things. That's one of the things they look
Speaker 1: for in a football player is a guy that is physical.
Speaker 1: When you say that, you're talking about blocking and tackling,
Speaker 1: and it does no matter what position the guy plays.
Speaker 1: You're looking for somebody who plays it physically. Garrett Williams
Speaker 1: is that guy.
Speaker 4: Buddha Baker knows that guy when he sees one. Right,
Speaker 4: here's the six time Pro Bowl or Buddha Baker when
Speaker 4: he was asked about Garrett Williams.
Speaker 6: Garrett is a pro.
Speaker 13: You know, he knows the ins and outs of what
Speaker 13: his job is supposed to be. And it's definitely special
Speaker 13: to have, you know, a young guy like that understand
Speaker 13: his job and know what to do each and every place.
Speaker 13: So he's going to continue to get better as a player,
Speaker 13: continue to gain knowledge on the field as well, and
Speaker 13: you know, sky's the limit for him.
Speaker 4: And look, he wasn't the only rookie to play. Starling
Speaker 4: Thomas was a starting corner for quite a bit of
Speaker 4: the latter part of the season. They started this season
Speaker 4: with six round rookie Key Troll Clark as a starter.
Speaker 4: You know, well, if we talk a lot about O line,
Speaker 4: D line in this draft, receiver obviously, but could corner
Speaker 4: be the sleeper pick? For example, Terry and Arnold, we
Speaker 4: mentioned how he met with the Cardinals. The Alabama corner
Speaker 4: considered the top corner prospect in this draft. I mean,
Speaker 4: if he ends up being the Cardinals pick, maybe not
Speaker 4: at four, but if they trade down the middle of
Speaker 4: the first round, would you be surprised by that?
Speaker 1: You know, no, I would not, Paully, I would not
Speaker 1: be surprised. And cornerback for the most part, once again
Speaker 1: is probably the second Yeah. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 1: Daniel Jeremiah said that, yep, cornerback was probably the second
Speaker 1: deepest position in the draft right now. As a matter
Speaker 1: of fact, there are estimated ten cornerbacks that are going
Speaker 1: to go in the first seventy picks of the draft. Wow, ten,
Speaker 1: Pauli in fifteen overall, so in the top one hundred.
Speaker 1: So that's going to be interesting to watch because I
Speaker 1: think the Cardinals at number twenty seven. Could be very
Speaker 1: interested in who is there.
Speaker 4: Here's some of the top names we mentioned, Terry and
Speaker 4: Arnold from Bama, Quinny and Mitchell from Toledo. He bawled
Speaker 4: out and just went way up everybody's draft board at
Speaker 4: the second BA get to it, paul Then you have
Speaker 4: Ennis Rakestraw from Missouri, Okay. And then you at number
Speaker 4: four Nate Wiggins of Clemson. By the way, he says
Speaker 4: he ran a four to two seven recently and he's good.
Speaker 4: He's going to be a Blazer, a burner in the forty.
Speaker 4: And then the fifth one on the board that I
Speaker 4: saw was Cooper de jan from Iowa.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 4: Wait a minute, late, kool Aid mckinstree.
Speaker 1: You did have kool Aid mckinstreet ball. You might have
Speaker 1: the best name in the entire draft. And you know
Speaker 1: this is a guy that was down in the SEC
Speaker 1: playing ball for Bama.
Speaker 4: Well, he was opposite Terian Arnold and those two would
Speaker 4: push each other. So you're right. I mean, could kool
Speaker 4: Aid McKinstry be the Cardinals pick at thirty five, for example?
Speaker 4: I could definitely see that happening.
Speaker 1: I don't know, Paulie. I've got my heart set on
Speaker 1: Graham Barton at thirty five right now. I think he's
Speaker 1: probably gonna go higher. I think he'll probably go in
Speaker 1: the twenties somewhere, but who knows. He might fall in
Speaker 1: this draft. And if he does, man, I've got Graham
Speaker 1: Barton slated for number thirty five.
Speaker 4: By the way, based on what all the coaches and
Speaker 4: GM's were saying at the combine this week, here's my forecast.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna look into the Crystal Football and I'm gonna
Speaker 4: project a few things. You ready, justin fields traded to Atlanta,
Speaker 4: that's gonna happen. Caleb Williams will be drafted by the Bears.
Speaker 4: Russell Wilson will go to Pittsburgh after he's cut because
Speaker 4: based on what Sean Payton was saying to the media,
Speaker 4: that decision is coming really soon. By the way, it's
Speaker 4: interesting to hear the Broncos GM George Payton say we've
Speaker 4: gotten no trade calls on Russell Wilson, so that was
Speaker 4: interesting they gave that up. I'm thinking the Seahawks are
Speaker 4: gonna rock the world and take Michael Pennox number sixteen. Overall,
Speaker 4: they're gonna keep him in Seattle. And I also think
Speaker 4: that the Cardinals will trade out from number four, and
Speaker 4: it's going to a team in desperate need of a quarterback,
Speaker 4: whether it's Minnesota, Denver, the Giants, the Raiders, whomever. And
Speaker 4: I think JJ McCarthy is gonna be that guy who's
Speaker 4: gonna climb the draft boards. Maybe Bo Nicks. But you know,
Speaker 4: our new saying, our campaign slogan is let there be
Speaker 4: a fourth QB, because then Manti asen Fort is presented
Speaker 4: with the option of either trading out and taking the
Speaker 4: bonanza from a quarterback desperate team, or you stay at
Speaker 4: four and take the best position player.
Speaker 1: You know. Once again, Paulie, I absolutely love it. I
Speaker 1: can see that possibly happening, number four being there and
Speaker 1: MANI trading back again and then jumping back up after
Speaker 1: collecting some more picks, including another first round pick. I mean,
Speaker 1: I love that scenario right there, as long as Marvin
Speaker 1: Harrison Junior isn't there at far.
Speaker 4: Speaking of receivers, the Vikings gym called Justin Jefferson quote
Speaker 4: the best receiver, the best non quarterback in the NFL,
Speaker 4: and he should be compensated as such. He realizes he
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