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Speaker 2: Hello today on GMFB. We're live in Los Angeles. It's

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Speaker 2: happening no more in New York. Just kidding, just for

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Speaker 2: this week. It's because our table is full with love

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Speaker 2: for football. Will Blackman, super Bowl forty six champion, Will

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Speaker 2: always looks at me terrified. How I'm going to introduce him?

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Speaker 2: It's you Will played in the NFL in your super

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Speaker 3: What you gonna say about me?

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Speaker 4: Yesterday morning? You were you are one. I bought a

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Speaker 4: specific beverage that you were missing.

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Speaker 2: So the caffeine, it just hits different at five am. Right,

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Speaker 2: Sometimes it's coffee, sometimes it's not.

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Speaker 3: Sometimes can't all right? Current Chargers defensive back Tony Jefferson.

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Speaker 3: Who how's it going currently playing on these teams? You

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Speaker 3: want to immediately get back to football.

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Speaker 2: If you're being here for an hour, I'm ready to

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Speaker 2: get back. So and Big ten Box of Football analyst

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Speaker 2: Yogi Roth, Yogi, are you bringing a friend to the table.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's why I wore the powder blue. We got

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Speaker 1: to Sean Foster coming from ucl LA huge recruiting weekend

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Speaker 1: Friday night life in Westwood by the draft picks. Excited.

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Speaker 2: That's nice. But the draft is next week.

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Speaker 3: Okay, we're talking.

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Speaker 2: We'll skip it past the prospect and we're going to

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Speaker 2: The NFL Draft is a week from now.

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Speaker 3: It starts with GMFB.

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Speaker 5: It starts right now.

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Speaker 6: Good mo football.

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Speaker 2: That's right, GMFB. Everybody, we got a list of the

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Speaker 2: first thirty two picks in the twenty twenty five NFL Draft,

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Speaker 2: and we are just having a giggle about the order

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Speaker 2: commercial breaks, right, Tony, are you very focused on where

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Speaker 2: the Chargers sit right now and who they might get

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Speaker 7: I focused on Yeah, I'm focused on going out there competing, Okay,

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Speaker 7: and you know, getting ready for a Super Bowl. I

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Speaker 7: trust in Joe or Chiez. We let Joe cook, sheeph

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Speaker 2: That's beautifully said. My goodness, what a campaign for Shephardine

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Speaker 2: Jeans Louise. All right, so we're watching what the Chargers

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Speaker 3: Pella, Sero let's go back to New York.

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Speaker 2: The Giants, who signed two quarterbacks this offseason and free agency,

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Speaker 2: that position. What is the latest not only in New York,

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Speaker 2: but what the Giants are doing around the country, Jamie.

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Speaker 8: Right now, Giants brass is in Boulder, Colorado to put

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Speaker 8: Shadeur Sanders through a private workout today. This is a

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Speaker 8: last fall, going to basically all of his games, but

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Speaker 8: a variety of different reasons. And this is not the

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Speaker 7: Out this week.

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Speaker 8: Tomorrow they're going to be in Alabama working out Jalen Milroe.

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Speaker 8: On Saturday they are going to be at Louisville working

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Speaker 8: additional work just one week out from the draft. Well,

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Speaker 8: unlike it pro day's, which are very scripted, they're in

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Speaker 8: They already worked out Jackson Dart as well. We can

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so a lot of these names are inevitable in

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Speaker 2: NFL dot com A first round surprise, guys, what's going

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Speaker 1: I never know?

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Speaker 8: When those things are going to post, Jamie, So I

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Speaker 8: Just for the record, Yeah, there's always some surprises. This

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Speaker 8: which leads to an unpredictable Round one, and there's always

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Speaker 2: He's a one time walk on.

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Speaker 8: He can run, he can cover, he can play all

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Speaker 8: surprised if the Sweessenger ends up on that list. A

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Speaker 8: Mecca Ibuka, who certainly is a first round type of

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Speaker 8: add a quarterback to that list to get They're not

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Speaker 8: saying this is happening, not saying it's even likely, but

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Speaker 2: Tom, You're an absolute pro because while you're claiming that

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Speaker 2: I don't know if this is going to happen in

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Speaker 2: the first round. If it does happen, you've squarely put

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Speaker 2: yourself in the I Told you So camp. So TP,

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Speaker 2: well done. Go check out his new list nfl dot

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Speaker 2: com slash Pelisaro to check out things. He produces so

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Speaker 3: Tom, we'll talk to you in a little bit.

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Speaker 2: Let's start with Travis Hunter, who recently said he would

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Speaker 2: Giants GM Joe Shane was asked about this on Wednesday

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Speaker 2: that if the New York Giants were going to draft Hunter,

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Speaker 9: We're in a unique position that you know, we have

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Speaker 9: So you know, would not be afraid to play him

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Speaker 2: Not giving us any clues, Joe Shane, let's play three

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Speaker 2: and out. Will What do you make of Joe Shane's

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Speaker 4: he did benefit from when he was at Colorado. So

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Speaker 7: I like Hunter? I like him more as a corner.

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Speaker 7: I think he's long, he can probably play the press.

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Speaker 2: What do you make of him coming on saying I

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Speaker 7: I think he's just talking. You know, he loves football.

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Speaker 7: That dude is a gamer. He loves football. He's not

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Speaker 7: I like where he's at mentally. I know he loves football,

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Speaker 1: I think ultimately, the role of a coach or a

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Speaker 1: be the purest version of them within the confine of

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Speaker 1: this is just what he expects, Like this isn't anything different. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: playing fifteen hundreds snaps last season was just another day

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Speaker 1: is just what this guy does, right, And I think

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Speaker 1: with that, I don't think you want to take away

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Speaker 1: hopefully seeing him play both ways because it's so unique,

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Speaker 1: everybody's going to be glued to him. But ultimately I

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Speaker 2: It must inject something into a building to have a

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Speaker 2: Bucky Brooks has a top wide receivers in this year's

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Speaker 2: Matt Golden out of Texas and a Mecca Ibuka from

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Speaker 2: Yogi Roth, are resident colleg football analysts at the table.

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Speaker 2: Which wide receiver not named Travis Hunter? Youad are not

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Speaker 1: I call the game when Travis Hunter was covering Tetro McMillan,

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Speaker 1: So I'm going to t mac in this. He's so dynamic.

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Speaker 1: A chance to talk to Brent Brennan, the head coach

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Speaker 1: like the Knox right now are on him and he goes.

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Speaker 1: He's phenomenal. His thought process, the way he prepares for

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Speaker 1: let alone many other elite wide receivers. Then you look

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Speaker 1: at his ability. I remember we're talking sixty four to

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Speaker 1: six four and a half. Excuse me, half doesn't matter.

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Speaker 1: I mean he's like Michael Westbrook in the NBA. I

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Speaker 1: mean he does everything. I mean, watch him pretty game, Mormus.

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Speaker 1: He's catching a one handed, crossing it over in the

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Speaker 1: air in between his like then Duncan and on the goalpost.

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Speaker 1: He's so natural. I think when you cop all the receivers, well,

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Speaker 1: I don't think anybody does what he does. He's that

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Speaker 4: And I had the pleasure actually not pleasure. I coached

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Speaker 4: you know, playing seven on seven. So I agree with

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Speaker 2: Yeah, what about your wide receiver not named Travis Hunter

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Speaker 7: Loud Yeah, it'll sting a little bit because this guy

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Speaker 7: went to Texas being a Rester. But I really like

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Speaker 7: Matthew Golden. I think he is an all around. One

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Speaker 7: of the best receivers out just because he's able to

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Speaker 7: running ability really stood out to me on tape and

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Speaker 7: You know, sometimes the quarterback is not going to put

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Speaker 4: All right, guys, I'm going off the grid. Right, we

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Speaker 4: have a list of guys and he may not even

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Speaker 4: Texas State. And sure I may seem biased.

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Speaker 1: I know this kid.

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Speaker 4: See he was thirteen, but he is absolutely dynamite. Heat

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Speaker 4: was able to play quarterback. He's able to punt the ball,

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Speaker 1: This kid wears no gloves.

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Speaker 4: Right when he went to Washington State and then he

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Speaker 4: went to Texas Utah Tech and had over, you know,

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Speaker 4: and I see him more like like a Doug Baldwin

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Speaker 4: and people are like, whoa Doug Baldwan's unreal?

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Speaker 1: Doug Baldman was undrafted.

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Speaker 4: He came in, he played special teams, he's blocked punts,

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Speaker 4: he was able to return punts, and then he ended

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Speaker 4: Joey Horbert, man, he's going to be my sleeper. He

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Speaker 4: probably go undrafted, but he will make someone full with

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Speaker 2: How have you known him his half of his lifetime?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 2: I did?

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Speaker 4: I did in high school. Yeah, and I just I

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Speaker 4: and now in position to put himself in NFL. His father,

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Speaker 4: Washington team And so yeah, a little bloodline there, All.

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Speaker 2: Right, third down, we'll go to Houston, Texas.

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Speaker 5: Now.

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Speaker 2: The Texans GM Nick Asario shared his draft philosophy ahead

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Speaker 6: We've never drafted for need around here. I mean we're

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Speaker 6: never going to. So we're going to pick the best

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Speaker 6: I'd say other than a quarterback, I mean, I'd say

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Speaker 6: always is, So try to stay two of our board.

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Speaker 6: That's the reason we grade the players. So we put

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Speaker 2: So you're telling me a couple of years ago you

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Speaker 2: to get Will Anderson.

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Speaker 3: Right after you got CJ.

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Speaker 2: Stroud. That's a pretty good way to evaluate players, but

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Speaker 2: they just so happened be the best two at the time.

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Speaker 2: I understand that Nick Asirio, he goes best player available strategy.

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Speaker 2: What do we make of this draft philosophy? Tony as

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Speaker 2: the guy that's played for a ton of teams, You've

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Speaker 3: How do you approach this?

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Speaker 4: And you were in the front off for a little bit, Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 7: I was just about to mention that. So I was

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Speaker 7: with the Baltimore Ravens, and they kind of have the

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Speaker 7: I signed that wasn't in the plans. But the Ravens

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Speaker 7: they said, we've drafted best player available. And I think

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Speaker 7: that's the best way to build a team is draft

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Speaker 7: who's best available. Don't draft for need, because then you

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Speaker 7: can kind of like reach at that moment if you're

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Speaker 7: trying to draft for needs. So I like the philosophy

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Speaker 4: Yeah, there's really probably three positions where you draft for need,

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Speaker 4: You do that for me, But I agree, like when

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Speaker 4: but then there's a guy on the board who's probably

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Speaker 4: a you know, maybe top five on your board, you

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Speaker 4: go get that guy. But it was funny just watching Nick.

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Speaker 4: He's he's so over there. He's like, man, I've been

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Speaker 4: doing it so long. I'm just ready to get to

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Speaker 4: the draft process right now, it's all gazemanship. So it's

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Speaker 2: It's it's sounding very much a quid asking me.

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Speaker 3: I was like, you know how I do the business

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Speaker 3: or let me.

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Speaker 7: Along, right?

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Speaker 1: I think that I want to see like all these

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Speaker 1: like them all just playing poker, because they're just all

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Speaker 1: no problem there. I'm with the both of you though.

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Speaker 1: I mean we see it every single year in the

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Speaker 1: that guy, Like who's the best player there? Right, we're

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Speaker 1: trying to create them the biggest Bill Walsh would say,

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Speaker 1: the competitive cauldron, the best competitors can we get them

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Speaker 1: But overall, I do think there's certain cornerstones and then

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Speaker 1: there's guys where you're like, let me just give you

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Like I go back to the Bengals when they

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Speaker 4: Jamar Chase obviously he panned out because he was one

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Speaker 4: of the best players, if not the best player in

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Speaker 4: but there are only a few positions where like like

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Speaker 10: An extra tackle, jack ship and hear jelly as a

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Speaker 10: Shane Burton Boston posters. From the touchdown, it looked like

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Speaker 10: left Nate's look at the power and explode in the

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Speaker 10: East shows here carrying two three poor guys. What to

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Speaker 10: get the ball in the end zone.

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Speaker 2: That was an incredible angry run. If Kyle Brant was

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Speaker 2: on this show, actually, I think his ears and his

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Speaker 3: Right now just watching that.

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Speaker 2: That was former NFL running back but current head coach

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Speaker 2: How are the how are the bright lights of la

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Speaker 11: They're great. You know, portals just opened yesterday, a couple

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Speaker 11: of days ago, and you know, just navigating through that.

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Speaker 11: But we're in the middle of spring ball. My guys

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Speaker 11: get us to where we.

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Speaker 4: Need to be.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, but you also have to have some pride in

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Speaker 2: the guys that are moving on in the next part

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Speaker 2: of the process, your NFL prospects, but also because you

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Speaker 2: What are your memories? And the question says best memories,

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Speaker 2: but there also might be some challenging ones that pop

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Speaker 11: Remember, I was pissed because I was the fourth pick

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Speaker 11: and did make the first round.

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Speaker 2: That's incredible, do you remember.

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Speaker 11: You know, So that's the first thing that comes to mind.

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Speaker 11: But no, I was excited to get drafted. Back to Carolina.

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Speaker 11: So I'm originally from North Carolina. My dad was in

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Speaker 11: because everybody on both sides of my family is in Charlotte,

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Speaker 2: Some people might think that's what I want to see.

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry that some people might be bothered by that, like, oh,

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 11: I was excited about that because playing at UCLA and college,

437
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Speaker 11: a lot of my family didn't get to see me. Yeah,

438
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Speaker 11: you know, so it was just cool that they were

439
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Speaker 11: able to see basically my whole career.

440
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Speaker 2: So that anger kind of alleviated maybe once you got okay, cool.

441
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Speaker 1: I think back to when you were drafted to Now

442
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Speaker 1: the media has changed, right, I think of this show,

443
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Speaker 1: This set a lot of opinions. Right, you can live

444
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Speaker 1: in the quote of praise and blame are all the

445
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Speaker 1: same at times. But as a young athletes sometimes you

446
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Speaker 1: hear criticism when you think about your draft process and

447
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Speaker 1: now you're mentoring guys through a draft process how were

448
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Speaker 1: you able to process it yourself when you went back home?

449
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Speaker 1: As your referenced earlier, against some of the things that

450
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Speaker 1: people said about you within your draft profile.

451
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Speaker 11: At the time, you probably let that stuff bother you

452
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Speaker 11: or motivate you on whatever you're hearing or whatnot. But

453
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Speaker 11: if I can go back, you know, you're never as

454
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Speaker 11: bad as they say. You're never as good as they say.

455
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Speaker 11: So you know, there's just always come out there and

456
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Speaker 11: just compete and play hard every day and everything work out.

457
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Speaker 7: Yeah, you got several players getting ready to go in

458
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Speaker 7: the draft, like, what's some good advice that you've been

459
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Speaker 7: giving them to prepare them obviously for a draft day

460
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Speaker 7: and post trap there.

461
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Speaker 11: So when we were talking to our guys about getting

462
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Speaker 11: ready for the combat, just be yourself. You know, we

463
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Speaker 11: have a lot of highly intelligent guys that can come

464
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Speaker 11: in there and really articulate what they can, what they've

465
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Speaker 11: done on the field, and what the rest of the

466
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Speaker 11: defense or offense does. So make sure that you let

467
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Speaker 11: them know and exactly what you know him how you

468
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Speaker 11: can line up everybody else on the field.

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Speaker 7: Showcase the UCLA education.

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Speaker 4: The shan we just had Tom post Serio mentioned one

471
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Speaker 4: of your incredible linebackers. Carson Swasenger, like, talk about what

472
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Speaker 4: kind of player he is because he has I'm possibly

473
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Speaker 4: sneaking to the first round, and just talk about him,

474
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Speaker 4: like what kind of player, what kind of person he is?

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Speaker 11: Great person, He's a player that waited to get his opportunity,

476
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Speaker 11: and as soon as he got that, he took it,

477
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Speaker 11: took off. You know. He was somebody that we had

478
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Speaker 11: a relationship because he was on scout team and he

479
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Speaker 11: was somebody that I always like, are my running backs

480
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Speaker 11: looking at the hole? Are they how are they giving

481
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Speaker 11: away where they're running? You know, just give me any

482
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Speaker 11: kind of tips that you can see. And he would

483
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Speaker 11: always just give me good insight. That's how I knew,

484
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Speaker 11: like this guy is really a student of the game.

485
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Speaker 11: But he was always on all four course special teams.

486
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Speaker 11: He's a guy that you know he was playing. He

487
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Speaker 11: just wasn't playing linebacker. But once he got on the field,

488
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Speaker 11: we couldn't take him off.

489
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Speaker 1: So many talented layers on that defense. He referenced Carolina,

490
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Speaker 1: I love it sell Sincearri was on that staff. Now,

491
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Speaker 1: your offensive cordator is his son Tino, who is like

492
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Speaker 1: a ball boy way back in the day navigating the

493
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Speaker 1: quarterback room, you're navigating the portal, like, what has it

494
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Speaker 1: been like here with a new staff as well as

495
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Speaker 1: a chaotic time in college football? Especially these ten days

496
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Speaker 1: here with the portal beat open.

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Speaker 11: I really enjoyed my staff. You know, Tino's fiery. He's

498
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Speaker 11: a young, expiring coach. I really wants to get out

499
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Speaker 11: there and show that he has the ability to lead

500
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Speaker 11: the offense. And you know, he played quarterbacks, so I'm

501
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Speaker 11: excited about that. But you know, he's similar to his dad.

502
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Speaker 11: You know, his dad, as a D line coach, played

503
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Speaker 11: linebacker at Pittsburgh. He played quarterback at Pittsburgh. So there's

504
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Speaker 11: a little bit of a competition in there. But we

505
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Speaker 11: actually played Pittsburgh in the Bowl, so he has one

506
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Speaker 11: up on me.

507
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Speaker 1: A little bit. But how about this time now it

508
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Speaker 1: seems chaotic like here we're talking NFL. You imagine paying

509
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Speaker 1: a one year deal, like a one year deal and

510
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Speaker 1: you get to renegotiate every year. You get to do

511
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Speaker 1: that now, like in literal real time with your roster.

512
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Speaker 1: How is UCLA positioned to navigate that? And of course

513
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Speaker 1: there's a ton of news around that in the quarterback

514
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Speaker 1: room right.

515
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Speaker 11: Now, It's just it's just a nature of the game

516
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Speaker 11: right now, you know, So you have to be open

517
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Speaker 11: if you want to play ball. This is what's going on.

518
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Speaker 11: And we're excited that the players actually can make money now,

519
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Speaker 11: and we're going to continue to you know, raise money

520
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Speaker 11: and get the top talent that's locally in the United States.

521
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Speaker 11: So I'm just excited that, you know, we have a

522
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Speaker 11: collective that's able to raise money and get me the

523
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Speaker 11: players that I want to get to be successful.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Coach, I have a two part question. Are you

525
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Speaker 2: one of these coaches who runs your building where you

526
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Speaker 2: know everything that's going on in every nook and cranny

527
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Speaker 2: of your building, in the hallways and out on the

528
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Speaker 2: field and the strength room and everything. Are you one

529
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Speaker 2: of those.

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Speaker 11: Guys you could probably ask the people.

531
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you think you're like that. So when a future

532
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Speaker 2: Hall of Fame quarterback who lives in Malibu wants to

533
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Speaker 2: go throw in the off season and just show up

534
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Speaker 2: on someone's field, how does one navigate that request? And

535
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Speaker 2: were you aware that Aaron Rodgers was going to show

536
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Speaker 2: up and work out in Westwood?

537
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Speaker 11: We actually can't tell you if we were aware or no,

538
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Speaker 11: but we made sure that it was open.

539
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Speaker 2: So you're telling me that Rogers and Dk didn't have

540
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Speaker 2: the jump the fence in Westwood.

541
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Speaker 11: Exactly exactly what.

542
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Speaker 3: Someone just left the lock hanging open.

543
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Speaker 11: But one thing that is Dk works out every morning,

544
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Speaker 11: so we see him, our player see Dk macalf every

545
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Speaker 11: morning five am. He's one of the first player people

546
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Speaker 11: in the building with the coaches, and he trains and

547
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Speaker 11: he helps our players out. So I'm pretty sure that's

548
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Speaker 11: how Erin ended up.

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Speaker 2: There were you on site when that workout happened.

550
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Speaker 11: I would say, so, okay?

551
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Speaker 2: Was it because like some people who see no I

552
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Speaker 2: because some people who see Rogers throw, like in person,

553
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Speaker 2: whether it be is first year or twenty year in

554
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Speaker 2: the NFL, it's just something to beholds sometimes. Were you

555
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Speaker 2: just it's just a beautiful football that's throng when he

556
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Speaker 2: works out.

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Speaker 11: To be honest with you, we get a lot of

558
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Speaker 11: the top quarterbacks that come and throw at our school.

559
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Speaker 11: You know, a couple of years ago, Kronk and Tom

560
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Speaker 11: were always out there. You see Russ Watson, dtr you

561
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Speaker 11: know our current guy. So it's just somewhere we we

562
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Speaker 11: like to open it up to our to the NFL

563
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Speaker 11: guys if you need to train and come train here like,

564
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Speaker 11: you know, because you can give knowledge to my current players.

565
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, you know.

566
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Speaker 11: So it's just it's a it's a way that they

567
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Speaker 11: can get back to us and we just allow them

568
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Speaker 11: to use our facility.

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Speaker 4: Get some work in TJ. What we're doing San Diego.

570
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Speaker 2: So speaking of your current players, you have an event

571
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Speaker 2: coming up tomorrow and Friday night, Lice. This is going

572
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Speaker 2: to be a Drake Stadium on the campus there in Westwood.

573
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Speaker 2: What's going on? And apparently we have even the guys

574
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Speaker 2: at the table are.

575
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Speaker 5: Going to show up.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, so this is a huge event. It's basically Rucker

577
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Speaker 11: Park on a football field. That's the vision that I

578
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Speaker 11: had last year and we probably outdid that. That's how

579
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Speaker 11: we moved it to Drake Stadium. We needed just a

580
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Speaker 11: little bit more space. We had easily six thousand people

581
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Speaker 11: just on the field, recruits, alumni, donors, so it was

582
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Speaker 11: just it was an amazing event. We had food trucks,

583
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Speaker 11: we had through an old baby performing all the smoke podcasts,

584
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Speaker 11: Matt Barnes, Kerry Champion, all types of stuff. So you know,

585
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Speaker 11: food trucks, it's just gonna be a major event and

586
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Speaker 11: it's just something. It's gonna be a staple that you're

587
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Speaker 11: going to see in LA for a while.

588
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Speaker 4: And sold that food trucks.

589
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Speaker 2: Yeah, crazy the podcast and that's awesome.

590
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Speaker 3: That's really really smart.

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Speaker 7: Coach.

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Speaker 2: We appreciate you so much. Coming Will you come back again?

593
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Speaker 11: Most definitely anytime you guys want to have me on.

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Speaker 1: Okay, highwlights, right.

595
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Speaker 3: Yeah, let us know when that gates open for us.

596
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Speaker 2: Okay, we'll show up and we'll come do some workouts.

597
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Speaker 11: All right, Well, you guys are gonna get me a

598
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Speaker 11: little bit of street Craig because now I hope my

599
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Speaker 11: players stell this and you know, I don't have to

600
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Speaker 11: answer these questions.

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Speaker 2: Nice just watch gumffe and you'll hear the answers. Shot Foster.

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Speaker 3: Everybody appreciate you so much. Absolutely, it's time.

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Speaker 2: Forget to Know, presented by Chase Sapphire. Boise State running

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Speaker 2: back Ashton Gentsy protected to be off the board early

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Speaker 2: and next Thursday's draft after putting up one of the

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Speaker 2: best seasons in Coological football history. Let's get to know

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Speaker 2: him a little better as he talks about growing up

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Speaker 2: overseas his love of dancing. In this first edition.

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Speaker 5: Of First draft.

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Speaker 1: Let's go, baby.

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Speaker 8: Chilsey aluding taglers, So book please go to another touchdown, so.

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Speaker 7: You listen as Trajecy will late.

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Speaker 12: You pay before the ball snaps. I'm thinking of how

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Speaker 12: it can make somebody miss.

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Speaker 5: Fallow, break a tackle.

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Speaker 1: Touchdowns, run somebody over year too.

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Speaker 12: Breakaway speed and shed tacklers off at a high level,

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Speaker 12: and make those special runs down the field.

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Speaker 1: Saturday five, Get out of Town.

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Speaker 12: Actually gent running back from Boise State University. My dad

621
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Speaker 12: was in the Navy for twenty years. We lived in

622
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Speaker 12: Virginia and then we moved overseas to Naples, Italy. Football

623
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Speaker 12: was a little different out there, and you know, the

624
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Speaker 12: competition wasn't as good as the States, but it was

625
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Speaker 12: still a lot of fun. And you know, an away

626
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Speaker 12: game was really an away game, like we're traveling to Germany, France, Belgium, Spain.

627
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Speaker 12: That was really when I started building my passion for

628
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Speaker 12: football and playing running back, and.

629
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Speaker 1: Growing up I was always.

630
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Speaker 12: Dancing, so I actually am Haitian and Haitian culture, there

631
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Speaker 12: was a lot of dancing going on when I was younger.

632
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Speaker 12: Me and my siblings and my uncle used to make

633
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Speaker 12: bunch of dance videos and then when you score a touchdown,

634
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Speaker 12: I mean, you got to hit your touchdown, Selly.

635
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Speaker 1: So I got good news.

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Speaker 12: Draft night is going to be everything. I'll have a

637
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Speaker 12: lot of my family with me.

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Speaker 5: You know.

639
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Speaker 12: I get emotional thinking about how far I've come When

640
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Speaker 12: I was a little kid every day dreaming of you know,

641
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Speaker 12: being in this seat and you know, having this opportunity

642
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Speaker 12: to play professional football. So to hear my name called

643
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Speaker 12: will just be a dream come true.

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Speaker 2: You know, Josh Mttalis just lost his dance partner and

645
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Speaker 2: cambine him to the Colt, So the Vikings might need

646
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Speaker 2: somebody to dance in the end zone with that Mash

647
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Speaker 2: and Genty, it might work. The Boys of State running

648
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Speaker 2: back is the headliner for this year's running back class

649
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Speaker 2: in the draft for many, but there's a lot of

650
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Speaker 2: other prospects that are expected to make a big impact

651
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Speaker 2: at the next level. Yogi as a college football unless

652
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Speaker 2: you see a ton of these guys come out of

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Speaker 2: the backfield, do you have anyone else?

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Speaker 3: Do you want to give a pop do in this

655
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Speaker 3: year's running back class?

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Speaker 1: I do, because I think overall it's like a down

657
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Speaker 1: year in the draft. Like how many times we heard

658
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Speaker 1: that at running back. It's the best class I've ever seen.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I love this group, and I think when

660
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Speaker 1: you look at running the running the football, I always

661
00:29:21,948 --> 00:29:23,948
Speaker 1: go to where I was trained, Alex Gibbs, the run

662
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Speaker 1: game of Alex Gibbs and the Denver Bronco has made

663
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Speaker 1: super famous Mike Shanahan. But what do they do? They

664
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Speaker 1: just rotated guys in at running back. You go back,

665
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Speaker 1: it's Trel Davis sixth round pick, or land Is Gary

666
00:29:33,108 --> 00:29:34,748
Speaker 1: fourth round pick. You just looked at these guys who

667
00:29:34,748 --> 00:29:37,268
Speaker 1: were leading the league and rushing in this scheme. So

668
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Speaker 1: when I look at this year's class, like gues Ashton

669
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Speaker 1: Genty is at the top of it, but I think

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Speaker 1: has got tremendous depth. I look at Quinn Shawn Jenkins

671
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Speaker 1: out of Ohio State, just called their spring game a

672
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Speaker 1: week ago. Track them in the CFP. He's got home

673
00:29:48,548 --> 00:29:51,388
Speaker 1: run Ability's transferred from Ole miss a dynamic player, does

674
00:29:51,428 --> 00:29:53,268
Speaker 1: a little bit of everything, and he remembered he split

675
00:29:53,308 --> 00:29:55,748
Speaker 1: carries last year with Trevon Henderson, also home run ability.

676
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Speaker 1: Probably the best pass protector in this year's draft. Cam Skattabuo,

677
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Speaker 1: how about him at Arizona State. Another guy who's done

678
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Speaker 1: a little bit of everything led Arizona State, he went

679
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Speaker 1: to Sack State. He went to Sack State, and then

680
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Speaker 1: he found his way to ASU, led them to the

681
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Speaker 1: College Football Playoff again. I go to zone schemes under

682
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Speaker 1: Marcus Royal, your offensive coordinator, the one time coordinator for

683
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Speaker 1: Tampa Bay back in the day, and then I think

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Speaker 1: about Katle Johnson. There's a massive back. We're talking about

685
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Speaker 1: sixty two two forty. You played at Iowa, very big

686
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Speaker 1: time a zone scheme. The entire system was based on

687
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Speaker 1: what Alex Gives did back in the day. And I

688
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Speaker 1: just think we see his fingerprints all over the best

689
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Speaker 1: run games in the NFL and in college. So there

690
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Speaker 1: is a world if you miss on gent because you

691
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Speaker 1: don't draft him early on. I think the value is

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Speaker 1: so big time. And I think in the history of

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Speaker 1: the NFL draft, guys like Derrick Henry second round pick, like,

694
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Speaker 1: you don't always have to be a top ten pick

695
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Speaker 1: to be an elite bell kout type back.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. No, I agree with you in terms of like

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Speaker 4: the best running back class, in terms of like it's deep,

698
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Speaker 4: like there's gonna be a lot of running backs in

699
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Speaker 4: the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh round, they're going to contribute nowadays. Right,

700
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Speaker 4: you have a big running back room, you're using two

701
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Speaker 4: running backs, and I love the example you made. This

702
00:31:02,348 --> 00:31:05,388
Speaker 4: is a Shanahan's scheme because Kyle he finds running backs

703
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Speaker 4: wherever and they fit and they able to perform. I mean,

704
00:31:07,868 --> 00:31:10,748
Speaker 4: we're not even talking about running back from Oklahoma State

705
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Speaker 4: Olie Gordon the second, who was a dok Walker winner

706
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Speaker 4: in twenty twenty three. On some lists, he's ranked number

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Speaker 4: twenty four as one of the backs in the country.

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Speaker 4: So I think right now, in terms of what's going

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Speaker 4: on here, like some teams, they're just gonna wait later

710
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Speaker 4: because there's so many talented players that's going to be

711
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Speaker 4: later on. In terms of like best class, there aren't

712
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Speaker 4: going to be many. They might be two in the

713
00:31:31,028 --> 00:31:33,708
Speaker 4: first round in Jens and Hampton, but just overall, you're

714
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Speaker 4: gonna find guys sixth round, seventh round that are going

715
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Speaker 4: to contribute to your team immediately.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: I agree, very deep running back class. Obviously gent headlining that,

718
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Speaker 7: but there's so much talent and the way that teams

719
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Speaker 7: are using their running backs with by committee, I don't

720
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Speaker 7: think they'd be in a rush really to go early

721
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Speaker 7: and get these backs because they know they're going to

722
00:31:55,468 --> 00:31:58,188
Speaker 7: be able to get valuable backs in those mid rounds.

723
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Speaker 7: But Jenny, I watched his tape and he's that guy.

724
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Speaker 7: And I saw what he put out yesterday sending out

725
00:32:05,028 --> 00:32:07,908
Speaker 7: to the NFL teams how Saquon did it. I could

726
00:32:07,908 --> 00:32:09,668
Speaker 7: see this guy being in the rice game behind the

727
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Speaker 7: right olpensive line and making those that type of impact

728
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Speaker 7: on the offense. I really believe this, this this guy

729
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Speaker 7: here out of Boise State is going to be an

730
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Speaker 7: impactful player.

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Speaker 1: What was his line? I think at the end of

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Speaker 1: that letter in the Place for being it was like,

733
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Speaker 1: don't run for a meek. Somebody running ound at you.

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Speaker 4: That's a bar.

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Speaker 1: That's a bar. That's a bar. Like I was in

736
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Speaker 1: New York City covering the Heisman and just ran into

737
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Speaker 1: him in the elevator and you meet him. Yeah, I'm

738
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Speaker 1: all right, He's not the biggest guy in the world,

739
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Speaker 1: but you see him like we talked about earlier with

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Speaker 1: Dylan Gaber, like he just lights up the elevator, right,

741
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Speaker 1: he lit up Times Square. He's got this infectious ability

742
00:32:42,788 --> 00:32:44,548
Speaker 1: and what I love kind of I think most take

743
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Speaker 1: out his style and scheme and all those unique traits.

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Speaker 1: He didn't run to another team. We're in this world

745
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Speaker 1: where he's at Boise State. The guy who went to

746
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Speaker 1: Italy didn't play football. It's an eighth or ninth grade year.

747
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Speaker 1: And then to find his way back because he referenced

748
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Speaker 1: in the piece fall in love with the craft. There's

749
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Speaker 1: a lot of teams. I'm sure Deshaun Foster just here

750
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Speaker 1: would have loved to have him a big N school

751
00:33:03,668 --> 00:33:05,828
Speaker 1: in UCLA, but he said, no, No, I'm going to

752
00:33:05,908 --> 00:33:08,268
Speaker 1: lead Boise State to a place they've never been. The

753
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Speaker 1: platform they got back to, like the Chris Peterson earra

754
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Speaker 1: what he did, so, I just think that's going to

755
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Speaker 1: be unique. And then what do the Raiders do? Did

756
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Speaker 1: they do best available? Do they take need? Like? That

757
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Speaker 1: is going to be the interesting part where they sit.

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Speaker 2: I think in the when I look at prospects, running

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Speaker 2: back prospects especially, I always look at their get off

760
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Speaker 2: me ability, which like punch on Judkins, like he had

761
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Speaker 2: a couple of.

762
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Speaker 3: Those where he just stiff armed guy.

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Speaker 2: My favorite story from this show one of them, and

764
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Speaker 2: I'll bore you with it because I know you guys

765
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Speaker 2: haven't heard it. Jason McCarty's a rookie with the Tennessee Titans,

766
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Speaker 2: and no, he's in a second year. And Dereck Henry

767
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Speaker 2: gets drafted and they're all sitting around the launch table

768
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Speaker 2: and they're like, okay, rookie, stand up, and Derrick Henry

769
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Speaker 2: stands up next to Jason McCarty and he was just like,

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, I can't.

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Speaker 3: Believe somebody else has to tackle that guy. That's a nightmare.

772
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Speaker 2: What's it like to have to tackle some of these guys,

773
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Speaker 2: especially the units that are coming out of the running back.

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Speaker 7: You have to go back to your fundamentals, keep your

775
00:33:56,308 --> 00:33:58,788
Speaker 7: head up because these guys are I don't know what

776
00:33:58,868 --> 00:34:02,988
Speaker 7: they're feeding these young kids now they're dieboards and like

777
00:34:03,068 --> 00:34:08,108
Speaker 7: they're so, well, that's our that's our target point. As

778
00:34:08,148 --> 00:34:10,228
Speaker 7: a defender, you want to hit him at a thick.

779
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Speaker 3: Cross was here this week and he's all about the thigh.

780
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Speaker 7: But yeah, I mean, it's it's tough now with these backs,

781
00:34:18,108 --> 00:34:20,708
Speaker 7: and like you really just need to be on your

782
00:34:20,708 --> 00:34:24,348
Speaker 7: fundamentals at those times. So it's getting tougher. And now

783
00:34:24,628 --> 00:34:26,948
Speaker 7: with the schemes now they're trying to make the balls

784
00:34:26,988 --> 00:34:29,348
Speaker 7: bounce so that the corners have to tackle these guys

785
00:34:29,668 --> 00:34:31,988
Speaker 7: so it's tough. It's tough.

786
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Speaker 2: Who is the hardest takedown that you had to do

787
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Speaker 2: with a running back in the NFL in your career.

788
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Speaker 7: Marsha Lynch, Oh, Marsha Lynch, and I was with the Cardinals.

789
00:34:40,988 --> 00:34:43,148
Speaker 7: I had to say him twice a year. Oh, I

790
00:34:43,148 --> 00:34:47,508
Speaker 7: know you guys remember him Sunday night two. Oh man,

791
00:34:48,868 --> 00:34:51,828
Speaker 7: I got ripped. I got ripped in that meeting because

792
00:34:52,028 --> 00:34:54,628
Speaker 7: I got cracked on the crack block. So that was

793
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Speaker 7: kind of reason. But that was a very tough tackle,

794
00:34:58,028 --> 00:34:58,428
Speaker 7: very tough.

795
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Speaker 2: Don't say any specific play because we have an innate

796
00:35:00,788 --> 00:35:02,308
Speaker 2: ability on the show to find place.

797
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Speaker 4: Don't it, don't Eric, They're good, thank you, We're going

798
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Speaker 4: to see it any minutes.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk.

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Speaker 2: They're panicking. Get to the top of the Florida