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Speaker 1: Welcome to another edition of the Official Jets Podcast powered

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Speaker 1: by Amazon Web Services. We have a new series starting

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Speaker 1: called the Draft Pick Profile Series presented by Verizon, where

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Speaker 1: e A and myself were breaking down each draft pick

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Speaker 1: talking about how they can fit in with the Jets.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna hear from Joe Douglas and his staff, You're

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Speaker 1: gonna hear from players or different people that have coached

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Speaker 1: the draft pick, or you're gonna hear from the draft

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Speaker 1: pick himself and e A. Let's start at the top

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Speaker 1: with McKay Beckton, the jets first round selection, Joe Douglas's

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Speaker 1: first selection as GM of the New York Jets, and

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Speaker 1: they take him at the eleventh overall spot. And when

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Speaker 1: you look at where and how the board fell out,

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Speaker 1: they had their option at tackle if they decided to

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Speaker 1: go that way, and they had every receiver available, but

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Speaker 1: they end up going with the big man. Well Green

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Speaker 1: is really quick. Do we have to give ourselves a

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Speaker 1: little bit of credit here on Official Jets Podcast? Remember

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Speaker 1: leading up to the draft, we had a mock draft,

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Speaker 1: and yourself, Anthony Becked and yours truly we all selected

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Speaker 1: Louisville tackle McKay Beckton. Yeah, I think we do. I

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Speaker 1: think we do need to give ourselves a little credit here.

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Speaker 1: That's a good point. So, yeah, getting to your question

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Speaker 1: for Joe Douglas in company, like you mentioned Greens, every

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Speaker 1: receiver still on the board if you want to go,

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Speaker 1: if you wanted it to go in that direction. But

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Speaker 1: at the tackle position, Tristan Worse from Iowa was still there,

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Speaker 1: and of course Mackay Beckton, Joe Douglas, his personnel staff,

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Speaker 1: and most of Jets Nation very pumped up with how

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Speaker 1: the board worked out on draft night and on the

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Speaker 1: Jets filed suit with taking McKay Beckton. Yeah, the Jets

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Speaker 1: really had their options, and I think if you were

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Speaker 1: board to play out, because it felt like if Joe

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Speaker 1: Douglas and company wanted to take attack that they deemed

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Speaker 1: worthy of the eleventh pick, and they did, then you

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Speaker 1: have your option there and if not, maybe you go

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Speaker 1: towards the receiver. And of course, when the Jets selected

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Speaker 1: at eleven, no receivers were taken. Into your point, Rugs,

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Speaker 1: Judy and Lamb came off the board in that twelve

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Speaker 1: to seventeen range, and you know I think that if

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Speaker 1: you're a Jets fan, you have to be excited about

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Speaker 1: this move. And we're gonna dive into McKay Beckton the

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Speaker 1: player and a bit here. But this board fell out

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Speaker 1: in a favorable way for the Jets. And you know,

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Speaker 1: before you and I dive into McKay Beckton in his

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Speaker 1: past at Louisville and grown up in Highland Springs, Virginia,

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Speaker 1: which is a suburb of Richmond. Let's here from Joe Douglas,

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Speaker 1: Chad Alexander, and Phil Savage, who are of course all

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Speaker 1: parts of this Jets scouting staff, and hear what they

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Speaker 1: had to say about the six seven, three hundred sixty

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Speaker 1: four pound monster. You know, the thing that jumps out

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Speaker 1: when you first watch McKay on tape is it's like

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Speaker 1: a giant among boys out there on the field. I mean,

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Speaker 1: his sheer size just jumps out. And then you see

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Speaker 1: how he can mirror uh defenders, and then his heavy

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Speaker 1: just move people with these that's there's there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of unusual traits to this young man's game. There's times

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Speaker 1: it doesn't even look like he's hitting someone hard and guys,

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Speaker 1: getting just a very naturally powerful young man who can,

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Speaker 1: gonna come in, he's gonna compete, and at the end

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Speaker 1: get him in the program, you know, and see where

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Speaker 1: you know, I think that's gonna be a decision that

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Speaker 1: I'll leave to them. I think we feel good about

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Speaker 1: where we are up front. I've always said from the beginning,

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Speaker 1: this game is won and lost of the trenches. You

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Speaker 1: have to have a good offensive defensive line, and you

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Speaker 1: very excited about this edition. It looked like, uh, he's

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Speaker 1: it's just a massive kid. You know, he's just really

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Speaker 1: And I think the term freak of nature gets thrown

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Speaker 1: On the other side of it, he's a hard worker.

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Speaker 1: fact that he's got a lot of upside and potential

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Speaker 1: to be, you know, really something special. Other part of

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Speaker 1: he there was a level of advancement with him that

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Speaker 1: he's got the same kind of foot agility. He's not

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Speaker 1: quite the same fluid athlete. But in terms of making

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Speaker 1: I mean, Joe Thomas would dream to be as big

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Speaker 1: future Hall of Famer, and they're different players, no doubt,

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Speaker 1: the size he is just really rare. No comparisons and

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Speaker 1: guy who's got plenty to learn on the National Football

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Speaker 1: Six seven sixty four pound screens seven foot wingspan. You

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Speaker 1: this is very rare. His athleticism. Um, that was unofficially

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Speaker 1: The numbers are dazzling. Uh, it is somewhat staggerant. But

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Speaker 1: brought edge and nastiness. That's what Adham Gates wants up

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Speaker 1: Historically the first tackle taken by the Jets in the

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Speaker 1: you what, this organization had a good run with that

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Speaker 1: And I know the last what twenty one starts at

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Speaker 1: louis Bell, McKay Beckton played on the left side. That's

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Speaker 1: Not to mention at the pro level, he might not

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Speaker 1: excited about what McKay Breckton brings to the table. The

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Speaker 1: He did the fell A drug test at the Combine Greens,

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Speaker 1: I will continue to break down each and every of

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Speaker 1: the Jets draft class and next up Denzel Mims out

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Speaker 1: of Baylor open as in sp