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Speaker 1: What's going on everybody? John Middletop The Three and Out

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Speaker 1: Podcast brought to you live aka recorded because it's a podcast.

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Speaker 1: Colin Coward Podcast Network got a big show coming up today,

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Speaker 1: gonna touch on Matt Ryan and his new deal and

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Speaker 1: why I like it. Looking back a couple of weeks

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Speaker 1: removed from the draft, some trades that should have been done,

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Speaker 1: uh that we're not done, and just my thoughts and

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Speaker 1: my ever growing philosophies on what to do in the

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Speaker 1: first round when you're presented with a big trade package.

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Speaker 1: And then the way that these rookie quarterbacks right now

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Speaker 1: are being treated by their organizations Baker, Sam Donald, Josh Allen,

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Speaker 1: and just the way they're approaching you know, whether the

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Speaker 1: competition is open or whether it's not. But wherever you

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Speaker 1: about anything college football. We actually have kind of an

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Speaker 1: interesting college football nugget question today, obviously the NFL, and

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Speaker 1: I'll get to him at the end of every podcast.

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Speaker 1: But let's start here. Matt Ryan just signed a massive deal,

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Speaker 1: the most expensive deal in league history, averaging that the

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Speaker 1: agents and NFL executives they love the term average per year.

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Speaker 1: I I don't give a shit. The The only thing

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Speaker 1: I ever care about is how much truly guaranteed. Like

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Speaker 1: like in baseball, if you sign a hundred fifty million

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Speaker 1: I just know you have a hundred and fifty million

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Speaker 1: dollars coming to you. Football, that's not the case. What

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Speaker 1: is the guaranteed cash? Like Jimmy Garoppolo signed the biggest

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Speaker 1: deal ever in NFL history, average per year but as

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Speaker 1: but a total guarantee was not. It got trumped by

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Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins. I think Jimmy was seventy four million. Kirk

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Speaker 1: Cousins obviously got a little over eighty four million. Then

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Speaker 1: Matt Ryan flew by them all and well deserved and

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Speaker 1: got a hundred million dollars. I think this is probably

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Speaker 1: the easiest contract the Atlanta Falcons will ever sign, and

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Speaker 1: I think most of you will go God. You know,

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Speaker 1: Matt Ryan's a little bit overrated. He always leaves a

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Speaker 1: little bit to be desired, And I'd argue, beside maybe

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Speaker 1: gonna be wishing you had, you know a little bit better.

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Speaker 1: But to me, Matt Ryan is in the crew of

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Speaker 1: the next group of guys, which is Russell Wilson, which

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Speaker 1: is Matt Ryan. I'd also probably put Drew Brees up

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Speaker 1: what Matt Ryan brings the table when you're signing a

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Speaker 1: franchise quarterback, like, let's face it, what the forty divers

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Speaker 1: are doing and I support the contract is a massive

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Speaker 1: projection that Jimmy Garoppolo. Think about this. Jimmy Garoppolo has

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Speaker 1: never gone into an offseason as a starter like this.

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Speaker 1: These O t A s that are coming up are

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Speaker 1: the first ones he's ever manned as the starter. He's

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Speaker 1: Has seven career starts, and it was an easy signing.

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Speaker 1: Same thing with Minnesota eighty four. They didn't even flinch.

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Speaker 1: They think they could win the Super Bowl. With Kirk Cousins,

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Speaker 1: Matt Ryan has made the playoffs six times. I forgot

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Speaker 1: this and I read it this week. When he came

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Speaker 1: the tidal wave of negativity that the Michael Vick drama.

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Speaker 1: you know, crumbled, Bobby Petrino had bounced. They were in shambles.

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Speaker 1: He saved the organization and then he consisted. I know,

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Speaker 1: two years ago. You could blame Kyle Shanahan, you know,

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Speaker 1: let's face it. He's played for two defensive coaches in

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Speaker 1: Somehow Matt Ryan in the toughest division this year in

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Speaker 1: Was it two thousand twelve when they played the forty

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Speaker 1: Look at the two rosters. Now. I know he had

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Speaker 1: really think Matt Ryan is an easy top five quarterback

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Speaker 1: the outside, he's just not good enough, except he basically

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Speaker 1: the end of the day. And when you really look

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Speaker 1: make the playoffs again. Uh, Matt Ryan earned every penny

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Speaker 1: of that hundred million dollars guaranteed. I, like many of you,

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Speaker 1: love the NFL Draft. It's one of my favorite sporting

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Speaker 1: events of the year. It's basically Wall Street with humans

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Speaker 1: And I think it's easy once you land your quarterback

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen and he talked about how he was calling Cleveland,

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Speaker 1: my most basic philosophy and hopefully one day the more

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Speaker 1: you know money we all make in life, you have

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Speaker 1: that two thousand fourteen draft. It's one of the better

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Speaker 1: though the history of the draft, that's not what's happening.

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Speaker 1: New Orleans was desperate from Marcus Davenport. They went back

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Speaker 1: Taylor or again just his equal, it's gonna become one

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Speaker 1: of the bigger quarterback controversies and talking points in the league.

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Speaker 1: And it was so unnecessary. And this is why Hugh Jackson,

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Speaker 1: I mean you you can the time is ticking because

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Speaker 1: I think at the end of the season, when the

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Speaker 1: last game ends and they win three, four or five games,

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Speaker 1: he is like the huge axon is not even on

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Speaker 1: the hot seat. He will be fired at the end

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Speaker 1: of the year unless they, you know, somehow like make

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Speaker 1: the playoffs. It's inevitable. There is no chance that Hugh

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Speaker 1: Jackson's going to be the coach when the year ends.

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Speaker 1: And I I'm a little shocked that John Dorsey's allowing

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Speaker 1: this to happen because it really doesn't make much sense.

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Speaker 1: Always have quarterback competitions when you're starter as a bridge

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Speaker 1: and you draft a guy in the top ten, because

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Speaker 1: more than likely we see it time in and time out,

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Speaker 1: the young guy is gonna be the better player and

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Speaker 1: beat him out when all the dust settles. Okay, let's

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Speaker 1: get to my favorite part of the podcast, the questions

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Speaker 1: from the listeners. iTunes again, you can always leave your questions.

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Speaker 1: Go to subscribe, subscribe to the podcast, rate it, and

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Speaker 1: then in the review section, leave a question. I got

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Speaker 1: an excellent question here. First, kind of actually preview of

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Speaker 1: future draft players. I don't know if this guy's a

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Speaker 1: draft pick, but actually might be. But let's die into

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Speaker 1: it from Pat McDonald. Does Trace McSorley, the Penn State

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Speaker 1: quarterback comp to Baker Mayfield? Will he be a first

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Speaker 1: round first rounder if he is productive? Again? And I

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Speaker 1: looked at I've obviously watched his career because of Sa

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Speaker 1: Kwon Barkley. I just went back on YouTube and just

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Speaker 1: watch his arm strength a little bit. The first thing

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Speaker 1: that jumps out to me is his arm is not

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Speaker 1: as strong as Baker's. Uh. The other thing is he

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Speaker 1: has eighteen turnovers in his career and really eighteen turnovers

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Speaker 1: the last two years that he's been the full time start.

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Speaker 1: Of the last two years Baker Mayfield had twenty one

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Speaker 1: in his three at Oklahoma, so he didn't turn the

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Speaker 1: ball over as much. Now, obviously played with se Kwon Barkley.

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Speaker 1: UH this year with him gone, he's gonna have the

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Speaker 1: opportunity to you know, help his stock a lot. But

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Speaker 1: like Baker, he's undersized. He's a better athlete than Baker.

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Speaker 1: If you just watch him. He tucks the ball, keeps

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Speaker 1: in runs a lot more, which is not necess necessarily

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Speaker 1: a positive. The thing that Baker really had going for him,

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Speaker 1: I mean, he ended up being the number one overall pick,

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Speaker 1: but that he was a pocket quarterback. And I think

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Speaker 1: when you look at Trace McSorley, is he a natural

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Speaker 1: pocket quarterback? That that'll be the big question. He does

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Speaker 1: not have a big time arm or just I would

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Speaker 1: even say an above average arm like Baker's. To me,

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Speaker 1: his arm strength and something John Dorsey said over and

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Speaker 1: over the just the armed talent is there, and that

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Speaker 1: made Baker pretty special. On top of his elite accuracy,

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Speaker 1: which when you're an undersized guy at six ft tall,

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Speaker 1: you have to be, you know, a big time accurate player.

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Speaker 1: And if you look at McSorley two years ago, in

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Speaker 1: two thousand and sixteen, he was fifty basically fifty eight

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Speaker 1: percent in that spread offense, which is not great. This year,

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Speaker 1: he was a lot better, uh about sixty six and

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Speaker 1: a half percent. If he does that again, I do

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Speaker 1: think he might become a draftable player. But I guess

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Speaker 1: I can't say you completely write him off because I

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Speaker 1: would have said Baker mayfields like a third or fourth

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Speaker 1: round pick heading into a senior year. I think it'll

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Speaker 1: be very challenging for McSorley to have the same type

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Speaker 1: rise as Baker. When you think about it, Baker lost

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Speaker 1: Joe Mixon, some g P Rhyan Sterling Shepherd over d

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Speaker 1: D Westbrook and that team that he took with all

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Speaker 1: those guys gone, he took a team to the playoffs

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Speaker 1: and I really thought they were the best team in

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Speaker 1: the country, probably beside Alabama. Ultimately they lost in that

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Speaker 1: final four game to Georgia, but he was It was

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Speaker 1: like a basketball team with one dude just carrying them.

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Speaker 1: So if Trace McSorley has any normous year, Penn State

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Speaker 1: makes it to the playoffs, obviously losing Sae Kwon Barkley.

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Speaker 1: I would never say never, but I don't see that

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Speaker 1: many similarities beside an undersized guy trace better athlete with

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Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield. I like this question, Uh, let me find

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Speaker 1: it from Kobe d He's I think he's asked a

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Speaker 1: couple of questions. Now that the draft is over and

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Speaker 1: no football is being played, what happens next for a scout?

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Speaker 1: And let's just say the scouts, college and pro do

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Speaker 1: they look at film on next year's prospects from this

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Speaker 1: past year? Et cetera? What what do they do? I

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Speaker 1: think it depends if you're a pro scout. As your

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Speaker 1: work in the office, you know, you basically work hand

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Speaker 1: in hand with the coaching staff. You're pretty busy because

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Speaker 1: right now there are still a ton of street free agents,

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Speaker 1: older guys that you're bringing in maybe running workouts. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Derek Johnson, for example, just signed with the Oakland Raiders.

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Speaker 1: There's a list of guys at every position right now

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Speaker 1: that are available, Uh, that are veteran players like Derek.

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Speaker 1: For a linebacker, for example, it would have been naval

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Speaker 1: bowman Derek Johnson, players of that level. Uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: running back, a guy like DeMarco Murray. You're bringing those

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Speaker 1: guys into your organization. Sometimes players of those stature aren't

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Speaker 1: typically working out for you, but you're meeting with the

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Speaker 1: coaching staff and you're doing that, you know, basically at

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Speaker 1: least a couple of times a week, bringing street free

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Speaker 1: agents into your organization and developing lists of guys that

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Speaker 1: if you have an injury and o t as you

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Speaker 1: can immediately sign someone. And you're also evaluating every day

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Speaker 1: at ot a practice, usually come back as a staff

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Speaker 1: and watch practice together and kind of isolating not not

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Speaker 1: just on you know, your starters, but more on some

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Speaker 1: of the fringe undrafted free agent late round draft picks.

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Speaker 1: How they compare, you know, to your veteran players on

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Speaker 1: your own team. You're scouring the internet, you know, kind

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Speaker 1: of gathering and keeping an eye on teams that you're

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Speaker 1: gonna play, teams in your division, players that late round

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Speaker 1: draft picks, how they're doing in these camps. Uh. It's

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Speaker 1: actually a pretty busy time for pro scouts. Maybe not

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Speaker 1: you're only working three or four days a week, usually

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Speaker 1: get three day weekends, but when you're at the office,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot going on. For college scouts, the usually

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Speaker 1: the couple of weeks after the draft are pretty chill.

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Speaker 1: You're really not doing anything. I would say, within the

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Speaker 1: next month, you'll get a list of the seniors and

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Speaker 1: you have a pretty good idea in your area the

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Speaker 1: young sophomores that are gonna be juniors, you know that

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Speaker 1: will be underclassmen that our top couple round picks, and

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Speaker 1: you'll just start slowly kind of easing in. You have

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Speaker 1: the entire summer up until training camp to kind of

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Speaker 1: get some initial grades on those guys and maybe, you know,

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Speaker 1: start working your contacts and getting some background information on

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Speaker 1: some of those guys to make it a little easier

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Speaker 1: when you hit the road. I mean, you had a

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Speaker 1: couple of months, so this is actually a a pretty

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Speaker 1: chill time for most college scouts, unless I've always heard

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Speaker 1: the for the New England Patriots is actually pretty busy.

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Speaker 1: Like their scouts watch a ton of college film right now.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they're just they're running circles around the league.

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Speaker 1: They're just always so ahead. Uh might be a little

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Speaker 1: bit of a waste of time. Who's to tell the

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Speaker 1: Bill Belichick's doing it wrong, But but I know that

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Speaker 1: they spend a lot of time and do a lot

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Speaker 1: of work on on getting ready for next year. So

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Speaker 1: I think it's personal preference. Some guys have watched a

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Speaker 1: lot of film and take good side notes, you know,

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Speaker 1: while they've watched underclassman. I know, in my experience, I

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Speaker 1: was just so focused on the guys that were coming out.

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Speaker 1: I didn't really mess with you know, freshman or sophomores.

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Speaker 1: Some teams do, though, Uh. Every team is a little

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Speaker 1: different because some teams like to set their board right now.

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Speaker 1: I mean a very very loose board obviously for next

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Speaker 1: year and just get somewhat of an idea like what's

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Speaker 1: the first and second and third round kind of of

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Speaker 1: elite players looking like, So you know, when you're approaching

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Speaker 1: free agency, how you're gonna approach it this year. You're

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Speaker 1: just you're always trying to work from a position of strength,

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Speaker 1: not a position where you have to react to everything.

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Speaker 1: So the farther you can get ahead, uh, the easier

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Speaker 1: it makes everything. This is a pretty good question. What

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Speaker 1: do you think of the Vikings passing on a guard

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Speaker 1: at the end of the first round and going with

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Speaker 1: DV Mike Hughes on the fence about the pick. This

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Speaker 1: is from Schmitty eighty four especially with James Daniels and

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Speaker 1: Will Hernandez sitting there. I think this is a hard balance.

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Speaker 1: Talking to some people in Minnesota, I knew that obviously

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Speaker 1: they loved offensive lineman. I thought they were going to

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Speaker 1: take an offensive lineman. They love the guy that Detroit

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Speaker 1: ended up picking rag Now from Arkansas. But I I

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Speaker 1: think there's a balance. And this is why their general

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Speaker 1: manager Spielman has kind of established himself as one of

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Speaker 1: the better talent evaluators in the league, because they clearly

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Speaker 1: need interior offensive lineman, just offensive lineman in general the

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Speaker 1: last several years. But when you force a need pick,

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Speaker 1: that's usually when you screw up in the draft. To me,

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Speaker 1: this simply says that they have an organizational philosophy that

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Speaker 1: we take the best available player on the board, and

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Speaker 1: when they picked towards the end of the first round,

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Speaker 1: Mike Hughes was the best player on their board, and

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Speaker 1: that's what they did. And I'll say this, if you're

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Speaker 1: gonna kind of bypass a need and take a position,

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Speaker 1: it better be a position like a premium position. They

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Speaker 1: have an abundance of linebackers. If they would have taken

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Speaker 1: a linebacker, and just because the linebacker was the best

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Speaker 1: player on the board. I would be like, I don't

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Speaker 1: love it, but they have a legit corner Xavier Rhodes.

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Speaker 1: Other than that, do they have a corner where you

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Speaker 1: go you know that that's a legitimate defensive backfield. I

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Speaker 1: don't think you would. Mackenzie Alexander has been a little

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Speaker 1: hit or miss to me. Trey Waynes, I'm pretty sure

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Speaker 1: they picked up his fifth year option. He's not very

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Speaker 1: good to me. If Mike Hughes, if you can find

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Speaker 1: your other starting corner that becomes a high level starter,

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Speaker 1: you're in pretty good shape. Because you can never have

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Speaker 1: enough corners. Well, I mean, look at the Denver Broncos

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Speaker 1: several years ago, look at even this year with Bill Belichick.

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Speaker 1: Obviously that Malcolm Butler was kind of influx all season,

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Speaker 1: but he went out and he got Gilmore who was

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Speaker 1: kind of underwhelming, but then when push came to shove

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Speaker 1: in the playoffs, he started making big plays. Having two corners,

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Speaker 1: most teams, most good teams have one good corner and

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Speaker 1: usually that guy's a star, like a Patrick Peterson, who

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Speaker 1: were Richard Sherman or you know Carolina with Josh Norman

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Speaker 1: and they're constantly looking for the second. If you're a

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Speaker 1: team that can have just two really good corners, let

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Speaker 1: alone three, you're in great shape, especially with Minnesota in

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Speaker 1: the front seven, so good if you can cover because

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Speaker 1: they also have good safety. I mean, how good Harrison Smith.

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Speaker 1: So if you can develop two good corners, you just

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Speaker 1: look at it like, how are they? How are the

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Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings gonna win a Super Bowl? Obviously paying Kirk

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Speaker 1: Cousins all that money, you'd say, well, their offense is

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Speaker 1: gonna be better in the big moments. They're not gonna

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Speaker 1: lay an egg like they did against the Philadelphia Eagles.

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Speaker 1: But also you'd say they couldn't cover the Eagles. So

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Speaker 1: you gotta be able to cover in the NFC, because

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Speaker 1: how are you gonna win the NFC, which to me

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Speaker 1: is dramatically better than the f C. You gotta beat

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Speaker 1: Drew Brees, you gotta beat Carson wentz Uh, you gotta

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