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Speaker 1: Late fifteen to ten touched up.

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Speaker 2: What's up, guys, Welcome into a brand new episode of

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Speaker 2: Chargers Weekly. We are in Indianapolis for the NFL Scouting

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Speaker 2: combine and Buddy, this is where Chargers Weekly thrives, big

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Speaker 2: guests all week.

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Speaker 3: Man.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's you know, big thank you to Jason Man

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Speaker 4: that runs the show over there with the Chargers for

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Speaker 4: having the idea to bring us out last year and

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Speaker 4: it worked out so well. Our friends in the business

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Speaker 4: kind enough to come spend some of their time with us,

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Speaker 4: the Chargers, making you know, our front office folks available,

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Speaker 4: so all of you that like to watch and listen

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Speaker 4: and consume get an idea as we start. This is

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Speaker 4: kind of you know, we've been talking about it on

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Speaker 4: Chargers Weekly, Chris, but this is really kind of the

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Speaker 4: kickoff of draft season, right. You get excited about what's next,

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Speaker 4: who's next, who could they be looking at? What could

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Speaker 4: this team look like? What might they add that you

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Speaker 4: felt like was missing last year? And it's just a

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Speaker 4: fun way to start the process when you're in As

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Speaker 4: you can see from behind us, you know, behind those

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Speaker 4: curtains are all of the press conferences, all the player interviews,

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Speaker 4: and then just beyond that is where a lot of

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Speaker 4: the bench press stuff is going on. And then just

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Speaker 4: beyond that as Lucas Oilwall, the on field drills are

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Speaker 4: and it's all right here. It's the nucleus, it's ground zero.

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Speaker 4: It starts here, and it's just fun to be part

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Speaker 2: And this is where everything in our sex too you

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Speaker 2: and we're gonna talk a lot about the draft, but

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Speaker 2: free agency. A lot of agents are in the mix.

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Speaker 2: Joe Ortiz book this morning and just talked about how

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Speaker 2: that part of this with twenty six unrestricted free agents,

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Speaker 2: you're talking to agents and trying to figure out who's

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Speaker 2: gonna be on this Chargers team next year. So we're

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Speaker 2: gonna get into everything you know, from draft, from analysts

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Speaker 2: to Joe Ortiz, Chad Alexander and Daniel Jeremiah to this episode.

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Speaker 2: And we're gonna have like three or four podcasts similar

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Speaker 2: to last year. I know that was a big hit

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Speaker 2: last year, so we're gonna we're gonna.

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Speaker 1: Double it up.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So just assume today we're doing this, it's Tuesday.

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Speaker 4: We're gonna have a Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday pod, So

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Speaker 4: you're gonna get one a Day'll be sure to keep

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Speaker 4: an eye if you've subscribed, we appreciate that automatically downloads.

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Speaker 4: Just know you're gonna be getting something every day with

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Speaker 4: a lot of great insight throughout the course of the week.

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Speaker 4: And you said it, Chris, like, look, by the time

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Speaker 4: this thing posts, something huge could have happened by then,

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Speaker 4: you know, Matthew Stafford and Cooper Cupp could have been traded.

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Speaker 4: Like remember, that's what happens at the combine, these these

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Speaker 4: extensions happen.

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Speaker 1: It's already happening today.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly. Yeah, you have what's his name? Uh h,

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Speaker 4: Jonathan Allen, Jonathan Jonathan Allen from from the Commanders. Now

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Speaker 4: is gonna move on one of the best tackles in

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Speaker 4: the league. You saw earlier today Tom Pellasero report that

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Speaker 4: you know, basically Cooper cup was told, yeah, you're gonna

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Speaker 4: be traded. So that's now official. We had a feeling

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Speaker 4: it was going to happen, but like things like that

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Speaker 4: it's also contract signings extensions like Elijah Molden, you know,

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Speaker 4: that thing knocked out, so when you come here and

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Speaker 4: these other things figured out. So all of that stuff

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Speaker 4: and happened is obviously we're going to be bringing it

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Speaker 4: to the people.

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Speaker 1: No doubt.

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Speaker 2: So Daniel, Jeremiah and Chad Alexander a little bit later,

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Speaker 2: but let's kick this episode off with General Manager Joe Ortiz. Well,

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Speaker 2: ladies and gentlemen, he's got the best NFL GM nickname.

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Speaker 2: I'll say that, Chef Ortiz is what they're calling you

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Speaker 2: these days around Charger Land. Joe Ortiz is with us.

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Speaker 2: Appreciate your time, sir.

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Speaker 4: Appreciate you guys having me. Yep, let's let's get started.

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Speaker 4: You were at the podium earlier twenty six free agents. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: you did such a hack of a job last year

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Speaker 4: You got sixty five or whatever million bucks according to

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I mean you got we certainly have

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Speaker 2: You know, Joe, was it surprising that so many guys

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Speaker 4: So it doesn't like, you know, because people I think

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Speaker 1: So it helps them transition. I think what was that

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Speaker 4: So, Joe, the free agency and look, you get free

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Speaker 4: there's not depth here. Let's go get this here so

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Speaker 4: we can draft this there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it can. It certainly can, you know, And that's

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Speaker 1: knowing the draft, and we have our meetings the way

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Speaker 1: we do it. We meet on the draft and then

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Speaker 1: we stack free agent meetings afterwards. So if I got

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Speaker 4: it would love to start where we were, you know,

437
00:18:46,240 --> 00:18:48,040
Speaker 4: a little under a year ago in the draft and

438
00:18:48,240 --> 00:18:51,359
Speaker 4: specifically that fifth round and kind of what what you

439
00:18:51,480 --> 00:18:54,000
Speaker 4: value in corners because I mean, I'm not trying to

440
00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:55,800
Speaker 4: take anything away from Tarheed, but you know, if you

441
00:18:55,800 --> 00:18:57,960
Speaker 4: look at the two, it's cam Heart's traits and you know,

442
00:18:58,000 --> 00:18:59,720
Speaker 4: all the measurables, and then you look at Tarhebe and

443
00:18:59,760 --> 00:19:01,520
Speaker 4: it's like, okay, here's here's a guy that kind of

444
00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:04,439
Speaker 4: knows the position, sees it feels it. So how do

445
00:19:04,480 --> 00:19:07,520
Speaker 4: you value those things, especially when they were selected so

446
00:19:07,600 --> 00:19:09,840
Speaker 4: close to each other, yet it feels like it'ld be

447
00:19:09,880 --> 00:19:11,640
Speaker 4: a completely different evaluation, Right.

448
00:19:11,560 --> 00:19:13,359
Speaker 5: Well, we value all those things, and you know, and

449
00:19:13,359 --> 00:19:15,280
Speaker 5: and and they are different players, but they bring a

450
00:19:15,280 --> 00:19:17,680
Speaker 5: lot of great qualities to the table, both of them,

451
00:19:17,680 --> 00:19:20,080
Speaker 5: and it's you know, it's a premium position, so obviously

452
00:19:20,080 --> 00:19:21,800
Speaker 5: we felt like it was a position of need, and

453
00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:24,199
Speaker 5: you know, we rolled the dice on two players with

454
00:19:24,280 --> 00:19:27,960
Speaker 5: you know, extremely high character, really competitive, they both love football.

455
00:19:28,160 --> 00:19:29,280
Speaker 3: They're good in different ways.

456
00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:32,399
Speaker 5: Obviously they have different attributes that that they bring to

457
00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:35,880
Speaker 5: the table, but they're both you know, ultra competitors, and

458
00:19:35,960 --> 00:19:38,680
Speaker 5: they're versatile, and they're tough, and they're smart, and they're

459
00:19:38,680 --> 00:19:40,520
Speaker 5: good football players and they love football. So it was

460
00:19:41,200 --> 00:19:43,320
Speaker 5: it wasn't it wasn't that difficult of a decision. I

461
00:19:43,320 --> 00:19:45,480
Speaker 5: don't think for for for Joe or for myself or

462
00:19:45,480 --> 00:19:47,879
Speaker 5: anybody or Jim when we were on the clock.

463
00:19:47,920 --> 00:19:49,840
Speaker 3: I think those two guys.

464
00:19:49,560 --> 00:19:51,679
Speaker 5: Were fortunate to get and we feel like we hit

465
00:19:51,720 --> 00:19:52,880
Speaker 5: it out of the park with both of them.

466
00:19:52,880 --> 00:19:54,080
Speaker 2: But you hit it out of the park with the

467
00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:56,480
Speaker 2: with the draft class in general, starting with with Joe

468
00:19:56,640 --> 00:19:59,320
Speaker 2: and then moving up to get lad And obviously we

469
00:19:59,320 --> 00:20:01,280
Speaker 2: hope to see more Junior this year. He's hurt a

470
00:20:01,280 --> 00:20:05,439
Speaker 2: little bit, But how much of the combine is a

471
00:20:05,480 --> 00:20:07,919
Speaker 2: part of the evaluation process. If you could just go

472
00:20:07,920 --> 00:20:10,240
Speaker 2: back to last year seeing seeing Joe and Ladd and

473
00:20:10,760 --> 00:20:14,240
Speaker 2: Tarheeve and cam here. How much does this week play

474
00:20:14,320 --> 00:20:15,879
Speaker 2: into the overall evaluation.

475
00:20:16,160 --> 00:20:18,200
Speaker 5: I think it plays a lot into it because even

476
00:20:18,240 --> 00:20:20,080
Speaker 5: though it's not a long period of time, it's only

477
00:20:20,160 --> 00:20:23,159
Speaker 5: a week, and we've been studying these players for months,

478
00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:25,119
Speaker 5: sometimes years, you know what I mean. So there's a

479
00:20:25,119 --> 00:20:27,760
Speaker 5: lot of collecting of information. So you get information from

480
00:20:28,119 --> 00:20:30,760
Speaker 5: coaches and from staff from the different colleges and talking

481
00:20:30,760 --> 00:20:32,840
Speaker 5: to different people. But now you get an opportunity to

482
00:20:32,880 --> 00:20:34,960
Speaker 5: actually talk to the player. You get an opportunity to

483
00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:37,160
Speaker 5: actually sit down in front of the player, see what's

484
00:20:37,160 --> 00:20:39,760
Speaker 5: important to them, See why they love football, you know,

485
00:20:39,800 --> 00:20:42,120
Speaker 5: what makes them such great competitors, what makes them great

486
00:20:42,119 --> 00:20:43,440
Speaker 5: at their craft and.

487
00:20:43,359 --> 00:20:44,480
Speaker 3: The work that they put into it.

488
00:20:44,520 --> 00:20:46,640
Speaker 5: So to get an opportunity to see them, to talk

489
00:20:46,680 --> 00:20:48,720
Speaker 5: to them, to get to know their personality, I think

490
00:20:48,760 --> 00:20:49,480
Speaker 5: that's invaluable.

491
00:20:49,720 --> 00:20:51,680
Speaker 3: It really it really makes it makes a difference.

492
00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:52,879
Speaker 5: And I think that was a huge part of the

493
00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:55,080
Speaker 5: reason why we were able to draft not such good

494
00:20:55,080 --> 00:20:57,760
Speaker 5: players last year, but such good such good people in general,

495
00:20:57,800 --> 00:20:59,920
Speaker 5: you know what I mean. Just getting to know their personality,

496
00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:00,679
Speaker 5: that was awesome.

497
00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:03,720
Speaker 4: That's a so you mentioned good people and you know,

498
00:21:03,920 --> 00:21:06,520
Speaker 4: I want to make sure like there's people that there's

499
00:21:06,560 --> 00:21:09,480
Speaker 4: players that have issues off the field, and those are things.

500
00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:11,760
Speaker 4: So how big is the combine for you with some

501
00:21:11,800 --> 00:21:13,600
Speaker 4: of those players to be a little bit of a

502
00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:15,640
Speaker 4: long question, because I'm interested in how this works out

503
00:21:15,680 --> 00:21:18,399
Speaker 4: when you have off the field concerns. Are they the

504
00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:20,280
Speaker 4: same for every position? You're like, you know what, we're

505
00:21:20,280 --> 00:21:22,040
Speaker 4: willing to take a little bit more at this position

506
00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:24,640
Speaker 4: versus this position. Does that come into play at all?

507
00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:26,600
Speaker 4: And how big is the combine to talk to these

508
00:21:26,640 --> 00:21:30,480
Speaker 4: guys to see kind of why they have that issue

509
00:21:30,560 --> 00:21:31,760
Speaker 4: or that thing attached to them.

510
00:21:31,840 --> 00:21:33,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's a good question.

511
00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:35,320
Speaker 5: I think that does come into play a little bit

512
00:21:35,359 --> 00:21:39,159
Speaker 5: in terms of different positions, you know, being accepting of

513
00:21:39,240 --> 00:21:41,800
Speaker 5: certain things. But at the same time, you know, you

514
00:21:41,840 --> 00:21:43,879
Speaker 5: want to find out if they're great teammates, you know

515
00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:46,440
Speaker 5: what I mean, if they love football, if they're good

516
00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:49,040
Speaker 5: people in general, and you know, they're they're young kids.

517
00:21:49,040 --> 00:21:50,960
Speaker 5: So a lot of times these kids have gone through things,

518
00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:53,000
Speaker 5: you know what I mean, I've gone through adversity, and

519
00:21:53,119 --> 00:21:55,480
Speaker 5: you know, some of the times that's what makes them,

520
00:21:55,560 --> 00:21:58,520
Speaker 5: you know, better at playing football. You know, the adversity

521
00:21:58,520 --> 00:22:00,800
Speaker 5: they've had to overcome for what reason. You know, they

522
00:22:00,840 --> 00:22:03,240
Speaker 5: all come from, you know, different backgrounds and things of

523
00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:06,840
Speaker 5: that nature, but the one common thread is just their competitiveness,

524
00:22:06,840 --> 00:22:09,040
Speaker 5: their love for the game, and the fact that they're

525
00:22:09,119 --> 00:22:11,200
Speaker 5: you know that they're really good players and that's why

526
00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:12,960
Speaker 5: they're here. And just to get a chance to get

527
00:22:12,960 --> 00:22:15,320
Speaker 5: to know them on a personal level from that standpoint,

528
00:22:15,359 --> 00:22:16,320
Speaker 5: I think is invaluable.

529
00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:16,959
Speaker 3: It really is.

530
00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:20,880
Speaker 2: You know, every off season presents unique challenges. Last year,

531
00:22:21,320 --> 00:22:23,960
Speaker 2: you guys brought in so many players on one year deals,

532
00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:25,840
Speaker 2: and Joe mentioned it in his press are twenty six

533
00:22:26,160 --> 00:22:27,640
Speaker 2: unrestricted free agents this year?

534
00:22:28,280 --> 00:22:28,520
Speaker 3: I guess.

535
00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:30,600
Speaker 2: The good problem is that most of them hit and

536
00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:34,040
Speaker 2: most of them prove themselves to be Chargers. The fact

537
00:22:34,040 --> 00:22:36,840
Speaker 2: that you have so many guys to evaluate from your

538
00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:40,199
Speaker 2: own team versus free agency, then you have the draft.

539
00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:45,119
Speaker 2: How do you prioritize the guys who popped as Chargers

540
00:22:45,160 --> 00:22:47,760
Speaker 2: this past year and try to bring as many of

541
00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:49,359
Speaker 2: them back because it's not an easy task.

542
00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:51,280
Speaker 5: It's not an easy task, and just like Jim said,

543
00:22:51,280 --> 00:22:52,959
Speaker 5: we'd love to bring everybody back, you know what I mean.

544
00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:54,760
Speaker 5: I felt like it was a great team who had

545
00:22:54,800 --> 00:22:57,560
Speaker 5: great team chemistry, players that really cared for one another

546
00:22:57,800 --> 00:22:59,679
Speaker 5: and played for one another, and played for the coaches

547
00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:01,440
Speaker 5: and for the love of the game. And so you'd

548
00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:04,560
Speaker 5: love to bring everybody back, knowing that's probably not a reality,

549
00:23:04,680 --> 00:23:07,440
Speaker 5: probably won't be able to do that, but we know them.

550
00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:09,400
Speaker 5: So it's like we have a head start on our

551
00:23:09,640 --> 00:23:12,720
Speaker 5: unrestricted free agents because we know their personalities, we know

552
00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:15,399
Speaker 5: they're how coachorable were they are, we know, you know,

553
00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:17,879
Speaker 5: we have a development plan for them, you know, going forward.

554
00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:20,160
Speaker 3: So that's that's definitely a positive.

555
00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:22,639
Speaker 5: And then the other you know, players across the league,

556
00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:24,560
Speaker 5: you know, we do as much investigating as we can.

557
00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:26,720
Speaker 5: We try to find out as much background as we

558
00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:30,080
Speaker 5: can about these players, because again, it's it's really important

559
00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:32,040
Speaker 5: to bring you know, really good players in here, and

560
00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:34,040
Speaker 5: we want to be successful and all that, but it's

561
00:23:34,359 --> 00:23:36,880
Speaker 5: just so ultra important to bring the right person into

562
00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:37,480
Speaker 5: the locker room.

563
00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:39,080
Speaker 2: You know, you bring up a great point, and you

564
00:23:39,080 --> 00:23:41,800
Speaker 2: didn't have that luxury last year of knowing the guys,

565
00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:44,480
Speaker 2: knowing how they fit in the system and the culture.

566
00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:47,800
Speaker 2: How much of an advantage is that this year versus

567
00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:49,320
Speaker 2: last year. Knowing that some of the guys you want

568
00:23:49,359 --> 00:23:51,920
Speaker 2: to keep you know, for being in that locker room

569
00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:52,439
Speaker 2: right well.

570
00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:54,560
Speaker 5: Last year, you know, it was unique because we didn't

571
00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:57,760
Speaker 5: know Joe and I didn't necessarily know these players intimately,

572
00:23:57,800 --> 00:24:00,560
Speaker 5: but at the same time had leftovers from the old staff.

573
00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:03,159
Speaker 5: Lou Clark did an outstanding job of just letting us know,

574
00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:06,400
Speaker 5: you know, the personalities of the players. You know, Dennis Abraham,

575
00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:10,800
Speaker 5: Ed McGuire obviously, Katie Silvan and Tyler Line and so

576
00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:13,800
Speaker 5: many people that were here and holdovers from the previous

577
00:24:13,840 --> 00:24:16,760
Speaker 5: staff did an outstanding job of just laying out the

578
00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:20,120
Speaker 5: details of each player, all their personalities, what they bring

579
00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:22,800
Speaker 5: to the table, and their strengths and their weaknesses, and

580
00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:25,199
Speaker 5: so we were able to make informed decisions based on that.

581
00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:27,480
Speaker 5: So I thought, you know, the background work that those

582
00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:30,280
Speaker 5: that those people did was outstanding from that regard, and

583
00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:31,880
Speaker 5: the same things continuing this year.

584
00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:34,879
Speaker 4: Is there do you have your like, is there an

585
00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:39,120
Speaker 4: individual philosophy that you then reconcile with a team philosophy

586
00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:40,880
Speaker 4: And some of the I don't know if I want

587
00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:42,520
Speaker 4: to call in cliches, but things that you hear about

588
00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:45,399
Speaker 4: with the draft premium positions in the first round versus

589
00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:47,760
Speaker 4: you know, and then running back is obviously something that

590
00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:49,200
Speaker 4: comes up. I mean you were at the Jets, you

591
00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:51,119
Speaker 4: got a great one in breast Hall and kind of

592
00:24:51,119 --> 00:24:55,640
Speaker 4: determining where you want to draft certain positions versus where

593
00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:57,800
Speaker 4: they might stack up on your vertical board. Is that

594
00:24:57,840 --> 00:25:00,240
Speaker 4: different for every team? How you treat that or is

595
00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:03,040
Speaker 4: it draft great guys because this is where we have

596
00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:05,160
Speaker 4: them slot kind of like how does that all balance out?

597
00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:05,480
Speaker 3: Yeah?

598
00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:07,000
Speaker 5: I think you know you always want to draft, you know,

599
00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:09,440
Speaker 5: an I do the future obviously, but you don't want

600
00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:10,960
Speaker 5: to get too caught up on just Hey we need

601
00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:12,959
Speaker 5: to draft on need. We need to We need these

602
00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:15,480
Speaker 5: certain positions, so we have to go after these certain positions.

603
00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:17,840
Speaker 5: You just want to take the best player available, regardless

604
00:25:17,840 --> 00:25:20,119
Speaker 5: the highest player on your board. If not, he's going

605
00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:21,560
Speaker 5: to be sticking out like a sore thumb, and the

606
00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:23,800
Speaker 5: conversation is going to be had during the draft, Hey,

607
00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:25,399
Speaker 5: why don't we think about this player? You know, we

608
00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:27,960
Speaker 5: all like them, and you know this, this this seems

609
00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:29,280
Speaker 5: like the way to go. And you know, nine times

610
00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:30,919
Speaker 5: out of ten, the way the way I see it

611
00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:33,520
Speaker 5: and throughout my career, those are the players that work

612
00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:35,280
Speaker 5: out the best. When you have a general consensus to

613
00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:38,040
Speaker 5: you know, everyone across the board likes them regardless of

614
00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:40,520
Speaker 5: the position. Regardless of Hey, this is a position, we

615
00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:42,840
Speaker 5: already have players here. They are starters, and well, you

616
00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:45,520
Speaker 5: know what, it's really important to build good depth in

617
00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:46,320
Speaker 5: the NFL as well.

618
00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:47,600
Speaker 3: So I think you want to you.

619
00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:49,760
Speaker 5: Always want to take the highest player available with in

620
00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:52,280
Speaker 5: mind obviously you know, players that you've already selected and

621
00:25:52,320 --> 00:25:55,760
Speaker 5: players that you know you might have strength on your

622
00:25:55,760 --> 00:25:56,680
Speaker 5: team and on your roster.

623
00:25:56,840 --> 00:25:59,080
Speaker 2: So you know what's remarkable about the guys you selected

624
00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:01,040
Speaker 2: last year in the draft this year is you know,

625
00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:03,440
Speaker 2: Daniel Jeremi was just here, he said, Lad mccaukey would

626
00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:05,680
Speaker 2: have been a top fifteen pick this year. In terms

627
00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:08,400
Speaker 2: of wide receiver, Joe All probably would not have been

628
00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:11,119
Speaker 2: there at five. You know, this year with the amount

629
00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:14,040
Speaker 2: with the quarterback class last year versus this year, because

630
00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:17,600
Speaker 2: the quarterback class isn't as deep in the first round,

631
00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:20,840
Speaker 2: how does that affect thinking with teams that don't need

632
00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:24,199
Speaker 2: a quarterback that hey, maybe there's some other position groups

633
00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:26,240
Speaker 2: that may go earlier than expected.

634
00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:29,040
Speaker 5: Right, Yeah, No, it's amazing, and you know, quarterbacks just

635
00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:32,159
Speaker 5: one of those positions. Obviously, it's the most important position

636
00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:35,080
Speaker 5: in sports. So you know, you might say that, you know,

637
00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:37,320
Speaker 5: this year's class is not as good as last year's class,

638
00:26:37,359 --> 00:26:39,159
Speaker 5: But the bottom line is, when you don't have a

639
00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:41,760
Speaker 5: quarterback and you need a guy, and that guy that's

640
00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:43,320
Speaker 5: in the draft is better than the guy you have,

641
00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:45,680
Speaker 5: you're probably gonna end up having to take him, you

642
00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:46,080
Speaker 5: know what I mean.

643
00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:47,560
Speaker 3: It's that important of a position.

644
00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:49,680
Speaker 5: So you know, for us, we have the luxturer of

645
00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:50,920
Speaker 5: what we feel like, we have one of the best

646
00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:52,919
Speaker 5: quarterbacks in the league most definitely, you know what I mean,

647
00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:55,840
Speaker 5: a guy who is a great competitor, great player, and

648
00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:58,040
Speaker 5: so that gives us the luxury of not necessarily needing

649
00:26:58,040 --> 00:27:00,439
Speaker 5: a quarterback. But at the same time, it puts other

650
00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:02,960
Speaker 5: players down to us that you know that we find value.

651
00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:05,560
Speaker 5: And so that's that's always you're always operating, I think

652
00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:07,400
Speaker 5: from a position of strength when you have a guy

653
00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:10,639
Speaker 5: like Justin Herbert who's your quarterback and is just really

654
00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:14,560
Speaker 5: just a cornerstone of your franchise, So that's awesome.

655
00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:19,640
Speaker 4: Goes into projection evaluation when you're a gap team and

656
00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:23,240
Speaker 4: you're looking at an olignment or a center guard and

657
00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:25,840
Speaker 4: a running back that that have kind of running they're

658
00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:29,439
Speaker 4: running zone, Like, how can you project that? Can you

659
00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:32,040
Speaker 4: see it in the way they play? Is it harder

660
00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:34,320
Speaker 4: to have those guys you stay away from because all

661
00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:36,760
Speaker 4: they're doing is, you know, running zone and you're looking

662
00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:38,440
Speaker 4: for gap, Like, how does that all work out?

663
00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:40,320
Speaker 5: I don't think you necessarily stay away from them. And

664
00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:42,359
Speaker 5: that's why I think this week is critical as well,

665
00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:43,800
Speaker 5: just for the coaches to be able to talk to

666
00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:46,520
Speaker 5: the players about their scheme. Hey, coach me through this.

667
00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:48,159
Speaker 5: What do you what are you doing on this play?

668
00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:50,840
Speaker 5: Talk to me about your technique, Talk to me about

669
00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:54,520
Speaker 5: your terminology. You know, we we value players on the

670
00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:57,320
Speaker 5: offensive line, especially that are big and athletic and versatile,

671
00:27:57,359 --> 00:28:00,320
Speaker 5: guys that can play different positions, Guys that are extremely smart,

672
00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:03,120
Speaker 5: guys that communicate well. So you know, gap scheme versus

673
00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:05,080
Speaker 5: own scheme. Yeah, we look at it, obviously, we do.

674
00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:07,800
Speaker 5: But you know, we football's football. You know, you look

675
00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:11,480
Speaker 5: for guys that are tough, big, fast, physical, smart, and durable,

676
00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:13,560
Speaker 5: you know what I mean. And across the office line

677
00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:16,520
Speaker 5: like that, those those attributes were vitally important, you.

678
00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:16,840
Speaker 6: Know, Chell.

679
00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:19,480
Speaker 2: One of the things I think our fans appreciated so

680
00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:22,159
Speaker 2: much this past year is just how active you and

681
00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:24,440
Speaker 2: Joe were throughout the season, you know, bringing guys in,

682
00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:28,320
Speaker 2: making sure that you know, no stone was unturned. I

683
00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:30,840
Speaker 2: go back to the the Atlanta week, but Marcus Bay

684
00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:33,240
Speaker 2: comes in, makes an interception, comes off the streets like

685
00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:37,919
Speaker 2: three days before. How important is that to always keep churning,

686
00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:41,840
Speaker 2: always making sure that you are maximizing your roster, and uh,

687
00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:43,760
Speaker 2: to do it at a clip where you know, I

688
00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:45,560
Speaker 2: don't think we've really seen it.

689
00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:47,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's really important. And Marcus made is

690
00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:48,240
Speaker 3: a great guy.

691
00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:49,520
Speaker 5: You know, I knew him from when I was with

692
00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:51,640
Speaker 5: the Jets obviously, and you know, he's been a really

693
00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:53,360
Speaker 5: good player in this league for a long time. Came

694
00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:55,640
Speaker 5: in at a time when we needed him and made

695
00:28:55,640 --> 00:28:58,920
Speaker 5: a huge play and really played well down the stretches.

696
00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:00,160
Speaker 3: Unfortunately that he got.

697
00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:02,880
Speaker 5: Hurt there, but yeah, like we're always trying to turn

698
00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:04,760
Speaker 5: the bottom of the roster, and it's always in the

699
00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:08,600
Speaker 5: spirit of competitiveness, always trying to get better at certain positions.

700
00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:12,560
Speaker 5: You know, injuries happen. Things happen, and unfortunately sometimes we

701
00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:14,440
Speaker 5: have to let go of certain players and bring other

702
00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:17,200
Speaker 5: players in just to get through practice and to build

703
00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:19,280
Speaker 5: depth and things of that nature. But I think as

704
00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:24,000
Speaker 5: long as you keep that consistent competitive spirit on your

705
00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:26,440
Speaker 5: roster and you always turn in the bottom of the roster,

706
00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:28,680
Speaker 5: always trying to get better through different ways, whether it's

707
00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:31,320
Speaker 5: through you know, before the trade deadline, through trades, picking

708
00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:33,840
Speaker 5: up guys, is you know, street free agents, bringing them

709
00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:35,520
Speaker 5: in for workouts, looking at guys that are on other

710
00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:38,400
Speaker 5: teams practice squads. I think that's really important because I mean,

711
00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:41,680
Speaker 5: you know, everything is done in the spirit of competitiveness,

712
00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:43,280
Speaker 5: and as long as you keep that going, I think

713
00:29:43,320 --> 00:29:44,160
Speaker 5: that builds a really.

714
00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:45,280
Speaker 3: Really good culture for your team.

715
00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:47,360
Speaker 4: I we'd love to know, and I don't think you're

716
00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:50,760
Speaker 4: sharing state secrets. I hope you know that you'll kind

717
00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:52,400
Speaker 4: of get where I'm going with this. What happens in

718
00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:55,600
Speaker 4: the room in the seventh round when you're trying to

719
00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:59,880
Speaker 4: weigh who you select versus who's a priority free agent,

720
00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:03,040
Speaker 4: and how you come to the decision of which guys

721
00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:05,080
Speaker 4: you want to make sure you select versus the ones

722
00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:07,200
Speaker 4: you're willing to kind of roll that, like what goes

723
00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:08,560
Speaker 4: into those decisions.

724
00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:10,400
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean there's a lot of discussion that goes

725
00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:13,440
Speaker 5: into those decisions. I mean, we're we're looking at We're

726
00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:15,120
Speaker 5: looking at the board, and we're looking at guys that

727
00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:17,440
Speaker 5: are out there, and and and and guys that are

728
00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:19,800
Speaker 5: available to draft, and and and who do we who

729
00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:22,360
Speaker 5: do we think, you know, we have a great shot

730
00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:24,120
Speaker 5: at getting a free agency those are the guys that

731
00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:26,680
Speaker 5: we're gonna you know, keeping that category. And sorry, we

732
00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:28,720
Speaker 5: feel like we have a good good shot at these

733
00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:31,240
Speaker 5: guys in free agency. We've been recruiting these guys, We've

734
00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:33,360
Speaker 5: been talking to their agents, we've been you know all

735
00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:35,360
Speaker 5: that stuff. And then there's other guys who are like, well,

736
00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:37,720
Speaker 5: we may not have a great shot of getting this

737
00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:39,560
Speaker 5: guy in for agency. Maybe he's a guy we need

738
00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:41,440
Speaker 5: to think about drafting right now, you know what I mean,

739
00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:43,040
Speaker 5: just to take any of the doubt out of it.

740
00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:45,360
Speaker 3: So, yeah, so there's a lot of discussions.

741
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:47,480
Speaker 5: That happen, but uh, a lot of those discussions are

742
00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:49,960
Speaker 5: are are happening months in advance as well, you know

743
00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:51,680
Speaker 5: what I mean. Like when we go to the pro days,

744
00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:54,360
Speaker 5: we're recruiting players, We're telling them, hey, we like you.

745
00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:55,760
Speaker 3: We really would love to draft you.

746
00:30:55,960 --> 00:30:58,080
Speaker 5: If we don't get the opportunity to draft you, we'd

747
00:30:58,080 --> 00:30:59,720
Speaker 5: love to have you as a priority free agency so

748
00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:02,720
Speaker 5: those those routes are plannet that you know, early early

749
00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:03,480
Speaker 5: in the process.

750
00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:06,320
Speaker 2: So Chad, last one for me, I'd love for you

751
00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:08,720
Speaker 2: to just take us into these interview rooms with the

752
00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:12,320
Speaker 2: prospects and you know what you're looking for in a charger,

753
00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:17,080
Speaker 2: starting with competitiveness. How vital are those interviews in terms

754
00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:19,760
Speaker 2: of kind of maybe weeding out the guys that don't

755
00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:22,240
Speaker 2: fit what it means to be a charger or maybe

756
00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:25,640
Speaker 2: having more conviction in a pick, being like, hey, that

757
00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:27,520
Speaker 2: was an oppressive fifteen minutes with this guy.

758
00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:27,800
Speaker 3: Yeah.

759
00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:30,000
Speaker 5: Yeah, some guys just just stand out, you know what

760
00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:32,400
Speaker 5: I mean. And just like everything else at the combine,

761
00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:34,920
Speaker 5: I mean, it's a competitive type situation, you know. I mean,

762
00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:37,080
Speaker 5: these guys are competing in each with each other, not

763
00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:39,000
Speaker 5: just on the field, not just through these drills, they're

764
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:41,360
Speaker 5: competing with each other in these interviews as.

765
00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:42,080
Speaker 3: Well, you know what I mean.

766
00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:44,720
Speaker 5: So you want you want to get a good opportunity

767
00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:47,240
Speaker 5: to figure out their personality and you know, fifteen twenty

768
00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:48,960
Speaker 5: minutes is not a very long time to do that,

769
00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:52,440
Speaker 5: but just to get a snapshot of their competitiveness, you

770
00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:54,920
Speaker 5: know what I mean, of their football acumen, how smart

771
00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:57,120
Speaker 5: these guys are are they are they able to you know,

772
00:31:57,400 --> 00:31:59,960
Speaker 5: you know repeat, you know, do they have good recall

773
00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:01,840
Speaker 5: of the plays that that we're going through, the coaches

774
00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:03,640
Speaker 5: are going through and all that stuff. And a lot

775
00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:05,520
Speaker 5: of times, you know what, we've done so much background

776
00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:07,280
Speaker 5: and so much work on these guys and talk to

777
00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:09,880
Speaker 5: so many people that it checks out like it's just

778
00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:11,520
Speaker 5: it really does. I mean, it's just you know, you

779
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:14,480
Speaker 5: talk to these guys and and and it's it's just

780
00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:16,800
Speaker 5: as you expect, you know, because because our scouts do

781
00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:19,120
Speaker 5: an outstanding job of collecting that type of information.

782
00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:22,920
Speaker 4: Last thing overall, Chad, we appreciate it. Small schools and

783
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:26,000
Speaker 4: you know, guys that aren't invited. The Athletic just did

784
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:29,360
Speaker 4: a big piece on Thomas Perry from Middlebury and like

785
00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:31,800
Speaker 4: everybody's talking about him now, like what goes in You

786
00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:33,800
Speaker 4: only have so many guys that can go out and

787
00:32:33,960 --> 00:32:36,280
Speaker 4: see these guys in person, these players in person. You

788
00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:39,360
Speaker 4: can get the tape, But is it harder? Is it

789
00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:42,560
Speaker 4: easier with the transfer portals to become easier? Because those

790
00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:45,000
Speaker 4: kids find their ways? So like kind of what's changed

791
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:46,360
Speaker 4: in all the years you've been doing this when it

792
00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:49,160
Speaker 4: comes to those small school guys that can end up

793
00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:50,080
Speaker 4: having a huge impact.

794
00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:52,520
Speaker 5: It has changed a little bit. And you know, shoot

795
00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:54,160
Speaker 5: man like just like you know Jared Vers, you know

796
00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:55,920
Speaker 5: what I mean, guys that start out at.

797
00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:57,520
Speaker 3: Small schools and then go to big schools.

798
00:32:57,560 --> 00:32:59,800
Speaker 5: It makes it a lot easier obviously for scouts, but

799
00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:02,680
Speaker 5: also think that you know, just to see their competitiveness

800
00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:05,240
Speaker 5: and you know, certain guys obviously aren't invited to the Combine,

801
00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:07,080
Speaker 5: but you get to see him at the All Star Games,

802
00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:08,400
Speaker 5: you know what I mean, And do they play up

803
00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:09,560
Speaker 5: to their level of competition.

804
00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:10,560
Speaker 3: That's really important for me.

805
00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:12,200
Speaker 5: I like to see a guy if he's from a

806
00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:14,080
Speaker 5: small school but he's showing out at the Senior Bowl

807
00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:15,880
Speaker 5: doing a great job, then hey, that's a guy you

808
00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:17,560
Speaker 5: need to keep on your radar because that's a guy

809
00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:21,080
Speaker 5: that rises his level of competition and and and can

810
00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:22,920
Speaker 5: play you know, and it's proven, he proves that he

811
00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:25,360
Speaker 5: can play with with the best players in the country.

812
00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:27,840
Speaker 5: So yeah, that that's really important. But it's it's not easy.

813
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:30,680
Speaker 5: It's it's difficult. It's difficult to be able to kind

814
00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:33,320
Speaker 5: of find those diamonds in the rough and and and

815
00:33:33,320 --> 00:33:34,840
Speaker 5: and from the small school standpoint.

816
00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:37,400
Speaker 1: Chat you're the man. We appreciate your time.

817
00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:39,760
Speaker 2: As always, a busy off season ahead, we're looking forward

818
00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:39,959
Speaker 2: to it.

819
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:42,800
Speaker 3: Thanks you, guys, appreciate it. You got it well.

820
00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:45,280
Speaker 2: The best draft analyst in the business happens to be

821
00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:46,160
Speaker 2: on our team.

822
00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:49,400
Speaker 1: Daniels Jeremiah. You said indie famous, indie combine famous.

823
00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:51,320
Speaker 6: This wait mean I'm like the easter bunny. You know

824
00:33:51,320 --> 00:33:54,320
Speaker 6: you hearing about me one day a year. Let's go. Yeah, exciting.

825
00:33:54,560 --> 00:33:57,720
Speaker 2: Thank you for being with us, sir. This never gets

826
00:33:57,720 --> 00:34:00,360
Speaker 2: old for you. H what's it been like this.

827
00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:00,800
Speaker 1: Week so far?

828
00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:03,720
Speaker 6: It's fun, man, I love it to me. It's great

829
00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:05,960
Speaker 6: to see all your friends. You know, you've been doing

830
00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:07,440
Speaker 6: this for a long time, so you get to see

831
00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:09,880
Speaker 6: guys just a couple times a year, so catching up

832
00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:12,320
Speaker 6: all your buddies with teams is fun. And then look,

833
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:15,560
Speaker 6: I love watching this event. When I was just you know,

834
00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:18,520
Speaker 6: growing up, and when this thing first got on the air,

835
00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:21,840
Speaker 6: when I was just started scouting, it was always the

836
00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:24,600
Speaker 6: event itself I enjoyed. I like watching guys run fast.

837
00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:27,280
Speaker 6: Call me crazy. I know everybody that's the underwear Olympics

838
00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:28,880
Speaker 6: is set and the other like, if you don't like

839
00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:31,000
Speaker 6: watching guys run fast, then we can't be friends.

840
00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:34,359
Speaker 4: So I'm going to maximize your time here. DJ your

841
00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:38,200
Speaker 4: latest mock Amari and Hampton to the Chargers, kind of

842
00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:39,920
Speaker 4: give us an idea because you've talked about this being

843
00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:42,800
Speaker 4: a deep running back draft. So Amar and Hampton at

844
00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:45,640
Speaker 4: twenty two versus you know, kind of what the other

845
00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:47,920
Speaker 4: running backs are. Let's just say starting like four, if

846
00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:49,799
Speaker 4: you wait till the fourth round or something like that,

847
00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:51,279
Speaker 4: and what the Chargers might get there.

848
00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:54,080
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think there's Again, it is a deep draft

849
00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:56,359
Speaker 6: at running back, and I think you'll find some big

850
00:34:56,400 --> 00:35:00,359
Speaker 6: guys and you'll find some change of pace guys. There

851
00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:02,840
Speaker 6: aren't many that are two hundred and twenty plus pounds

852
00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:06,600
Speaker 6: that give you the home run ability, the pass catching ability,

853
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:09,799
Speaker 6: and all the running stuff that you want. He gives

854
00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:12,200
Speaker 6: you all that in one package, so you can find

855
00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:14,640
Speaker 6: backs later on in the draft. There's some intriguing names,

856
00:35:15,239 --> 00:35:17,759
Speaker 6: you know, like Samson from Tennessee who's got some home

857
00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:20,480
Speaker 6: run ability. I think there. I think that's an element

858
00:35:20,560 --> 00:35:23,160
Speaker 6: that they definitely want to get. Is someone that when

859
00:35:23,239 --> 00:35:26,200
Speaker 6: you get with this offensive line, a crease instead of

860
00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:28,480
Speaker 6: singles and doubles, like we start seeing some triples and

861
00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:30,600
Speaker 6: some home runs. So that's what I think they'll be

862
00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:31,000
Speaker 6: looking for.

863
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:32,719
Speaker 4: What do you do you think it's changed with you know,

864
00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:36,400
Speaker 4: just kind of front offices of like kind of balance

865
00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:38,480
Speaker 4: the hey, we draft this guy in the first round.

866
00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:41,200
Speaker 4: It's a running back, and with the franchise tag not

867
00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:43,440
Speaker 4: being big, it's like you get six years. Do you

868
00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:45,680
Speaker 4: think there's value in that versus the people that say,

869
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:48,120
Speaker 4: get a running back later, get a premium position in

870
00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:48,640
Speaker 4: the first round.

871
00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:52,200
Speaker 6: No, to me, when you have the premium positions, do it?

872
00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:54,880
Speaker 6: You know that's the Detroit Lions, you know thing, and

873
00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:57,040
Speaker 6: everybody's okay, they took Gibbs, like, gosh, how you take

874
00:35:57,040 --> 00:35:58,239
Speaker 6: a running back to the high Well, you can take

875
00:35:58,239 --> 00:36:00,080
Speaker 6: a running back high when you've got Aiden Hudginson, the

876
00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:03,280
Speaker 6: premier pass rusher, when you've got Sewel the premier tackle.

877
00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:05,480
Speaker 6: They had. You know, they went and got the secondary

878
00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:07,759
Speaker 6: the following year, but they had those cornerstone pieces. They

879
00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:10,440
Speaker 6: had the quarterback. So when you have those things in place,

880
00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:12,600
Speaker 6: My whole argument on running backs is I just want

881
00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:14,880
Speaker 6: all their carries to matter, and I don't want to

882
00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:17,040
Speaker 6: be a team picking in the top five and in

883
00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:21,400
Speaker 6: Saquon Barkley, perfect example. The Giants weren't good enough. Saquon

884
00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:25,080
Speaker 6: Barkley is a thy, twelve hundred yard rusher, They're not

885
00:36:25,120 --> 00:36:26,799
Speaker 6: winning a ton of games. Doesn't make a whole lot

886
00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:29,400
Speaker 6: of sense. Philadelphia Eagles pay him top of the market

887
00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:31,440
Speaker 6: and free agency. Well, guess what their team's ready to

888
00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:33,359
Speaker 6: win right now. Now he's a two thousand yard back,

889
00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:35,400
Speaker 6: and now that does looks like a pretty good investment.

890
00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:38,719
Speaker 6: So the Chargers with the quarterback, the left tackle, you know,

891
00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:40,880
Speaker 6: a lot of the key pillar pieces in place. I

892
00:36:40,920 --> 00:36:42,920
Speaker 6: think every single one of those carries for a guy

893
00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:45,440
Speaker 6: like Lamara Hampton, Amar and Hampton in that six year

894
00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:46,600
Speaker 6: window would be valuable.

895
00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:49,440
Speaker 2: DJ tight end is interesting. We don't think Warrant's going

896
00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:51,920
Speaker 2: to be there at twenty two from pet State. I

897
00:36:52,040 --> 00:36:55,360
Speaker 2: wish he would be that, I know, right love Loveland potentially.

898
00:36:55,520 --> 00:36:58,719
Speaker 2: What's the gap between maybe those those first two guys.

899
00:36:58,719 --> 00:37:01,240
Speaker 2: I know you have four in your top fifty tailor

900
00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:02,680
Speaker 2: from LSU and Arroyo.

901
00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:05,960
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think that there's just less questions with the

902
00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:09,400
Speaker 6: top two and you get both the premiere talent and

903
00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:12,160
Speaker 6: ability different skill sets, but premier guys with those two

904
00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:15,400
Speaker 6: two of the top ten players in the draft, and

905
00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:17,440
Speaker 6: I just don't know that there's a lot of holes there,

906
00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:21,680
Speaker 6: whereas Arroyo, like Arroyo's explosive dynamic, unfortunately not going to

907
00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:24,600
Speaker 6: work out here, but he's got injury history, so you've

908
00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:27,400
Speaker 6: got to navigate around that. Taylor, I love, is an

909
00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:30,400
Speaker 6: option in the second round. He's polished, you know exactly

910
00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:32,960
Speaker 6: what you're getting with him, but maybe not that high

911
00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:36,680
Speaker 6: end explosiveness. You know. In that regard those top two guys,

912
00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:39,480
Speaker 6: you get guys who can hit home runs, big plays

913
00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:43,120
Speaker 6: a little differently with the physicality of Warren and the

914
00:37:43,200 --> 00:37:46,400
Speaker 6: size and fifty to fifty balls boxing guys out, whereas

915
00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:49,520
Speaker 6: Loveland's gonna make you miss like we see Kelsey twice

916
00:37:49,520 --> 00:37:51,400
Speaker 6: a year, and his ability to kind of get in

917
00:37:51,440 --> 00:37:54,200
Speaker 6: and out of breaks, option routes, things like that. Lovelin

918
00:37:54,239 --> 00:37:55,200
Speaker 6: can do all that stuff.

919
00:37:55,320 --> 00:38:01,239
Speaker 4: Will you have padres A's Mariners, Reds and Royals on

920
00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:05,920
Speaker 4: a separate screen spring training? That's that's your spring training run.

921
00:38:06,520 --> 00:38:10,360
Speaker 4: Will you distract yourself during the nine hours of combined

922
00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:13,319
Speaker 4: coverage with a nice two hour window of padre spring training.

923
00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:15,480
Speaker 6: We go to the side set every now and then,

924
00:38:15,760 --> 00:38:17,200
Speaker 6: and that's what I'm saying, when we go to the

925
00:38:17,239 --> 00:38:20,480
Speaker 6: side set, there's a very good chance I'm watching Tearsore

926
00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:23,640
Speaker 6: Nilis and Egi Rosario. There we see who can who

927
00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:24,799
Speaker 6: can compete for that last bench.

928
00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:26,239
Speaker 2: John, I don't know how you do it anyway with

929
00:38:26,239 --> 00:38:28,040
Speaker 2: all the names in the draft, and now we're we're

930
00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:30,360
Speaker 2: breaking out spring training now our forty man roster.

931
00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:33,640
Speaker 6: Podcast Money Money knows this too, because this happens all

932
00:38:33,640 --> 00:38:35,799
Speaker 6: the time with me, but this time of year, I'm

933
00:38:36,040 --> 00:38:38,399
Speaker 6: jamming these names in and then like I could even

934
00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:40,000
Speaker 6: be like a Chargers team that I call each and

935
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:41,400
Speaker 6: every week and he'd be like, you know, what what

936
00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:43,120
Speaker 6: do you think of the you know the guards that

937
00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:45,200
Speaker 6: you know? Is there? Who do you think starts at

938
00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:47,680
Speaker 6: that guard spot? And you know, opposite of Zion? And like,

939
00:38:47,760 --> 00:38:49,479
Speaker 6: Jamari saw your's name nowhere in my.

940
00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:50,759
Speaker 1: Brain it happened in the Houston game.

941
00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:52,120
Speaker 6: It's gone, It's gone.

942
00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:52,960
Speaker 1: It's crazy.

943
00:38:53,719 --> 00:38:55,440
Speaker 6: I'm just glad I remember the names of my kids.

944
00:38:55,640 --> 00:38:59,400
Speaker 4: What about so let's go to guard free agency versus

945
00:38:59,680 --> 00:39:02,280
Speaker 4: you know, draft. What goes on in the front office

946
00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:04,800
Speaker 4: when it's like, okay, we've got all this money to spend,

947
00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:09,920
Speaker 4: here's Will Fries here's you know, trace whatever versus okay,

948
00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:12,960
Speaker 4: we think Booker MBU like these guys Karen both might

949
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:15,080
Speaker 4: be there. Like how does that work when you weigh

950
00:39:15,239 --> 00:39:18,080
Speaker 4: we've got money to spend versus we've got draft capital.

951
00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:21,040
Speaker 6: I always, you know, to me identifying kind of your

952
00:39:21,040 --> 00:39:23,319
Speaker 6: big needs. And I like going into the draft if

953
00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:25,480
Speaker 6: you're not picking at the very top, you know, top five,

954
00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:27,880
Speaker 6: top ten. I like being able to say, this is

955
00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:30,080
Speaker 6: my this is my biggest need. Let's get a play

956
00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:32,160
Speaker 6: at least we're gonna get a placeholder, someone that we

957
00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:34,719
Speaker 6: can upgrade over what we have at this biggest need.

958
00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:36,520
Speaker 6: So you know, I don't want to go into the

959
00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:38,200
Speaker 6: draft and have a gun to my head where I

960
00:39:38,280 --> 00:39:39,759
Speaker 6: have to take one of these guys and now I'm

961
00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:41,600
Speaker 6: having to maybe trade up. I don't really want to

962
00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:43,359
Speaker 6: do that, but you know I have to do it.

963
00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:45,359
Speaker 6: You don't want have tos in the draft. You want

964
00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:46,719
Speaker 6: to be able to let the draft faul to you

965
00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:48,920
Speaker 6: and then take the best, you know, type player. And

966
00:39:48,960 --> 00:39:50,759
Speaker 6: that's what our tea's grown up on. I mean, that's

967
00:39:50,760 --> 00:39:53,840
Speaker 6: the Baltimore way of doing things. So you know, everybody,

968
00:39:53,920 --> 00:39:54,920
Speaker 6: do you wait on it?

969
00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:55,080
Speaker 1: No?

970
00:39:55,080 --> 00:39:56,960
Speaker 6: No, no, you go get a guard in free agency,

971
00:39:57,000 --> 00:39:59,719
Speaker 6: you go get one. Now you got to find, you know,

972
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:02,839
Speaker 6: where you're comfortable with value wise. But I don't think

973
00:40:02,840 --> 00:40:04,200
Speaker 6: that's one thing where you say, well, you know, it's

974
00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:05,799
Speaker 6: a pretty deep group and we'll just kind of see

975
00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:08,640
Speaker 6: how the draft falls. And I don't personally, I don't

976
00:40:08,640 --> 00:40:08,880
Speaker 6: think you.

977
00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:09,239
Speaker 3: Can do that.

978
00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:11,280
Speaker 4: How does it balance, like, because it feels like it's

979
00:40:11,320 --> 00:40:14,040
Speaker 4: a pretty good free agent guard class, right you kind

980
00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:16,600
Speaker 4: of got just and you can speak to it, I can,

981
00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:20,080
Speaker 4: you know, but just Zeitler and McCary and Fries and

982
00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:22,320
Speaker 4: Smith and all that is it Is there good value

983
00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:24,239
Speaker 4: out there where you're not writing too big of a check.

984
00:40:24,640 --> 00:40:26,759
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think the problem is And this is and

985
00:40:27,080 --> 00:40:29,560
Speaker 6: I even could pull up the this is my go

986
00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:31,520
Speaker 6: to right here. Also it's behind the curtain here. So

987
00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:33,719
Speaker 6: this is when you take every team and then you

988
00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:36,080
Speaker 6: go through and you find their biggest needs. And I

989
00:40:36,200 --> 00:40:39,200
Speaker 6: keep this with me. And what happens is when you're

990
00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:41,880
Speaker 6: looking at this stuff and you start seeing, you know what,

991
00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:43,880
Speaker 6: we're not the only team that needs an interior offensive

992
00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:47,680
Speaker 6: line that fans out everybody. There's a lot to do

993
00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:50,640
Speaker 6: so and the other thing is we have so many

994
00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:52,600
Speaker 6: young quarterbacks that teams are hoping are going to take

995
00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:55,480
Speaker 6: the next step, and there's issues with offensive line. But

996
00:40:55,600 --> 00:40:59,000
Speaker 6: in Chicago, so you're there's a lot of people shopping

997
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:01,879
Speaker 6: in that market. So I think it's you can look

998
00:41:01,880 --> 00:41:03,680
Speaker 6: at the depth of it in free agency and say,

999
00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:06,319
Speaker 6: maybe you're gonna get a value with Zeitler. I could

1000
00:41:06,320 --> 00:41:08,600
Speaker 6: give you five teams that are gonna think that's a

1001
00:41:08,719 --> 00:41:11,080
Speaker 6: pretty darn good value. It's probably gone on. I think

1002
00:41:11,120 --> 00:41:14,360
Speaker 6: that those prices and teams have more money, there's more space.

1003
00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:16,800
Speaker 6: I think you're gonna see. I think you're gonna be

1004
00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:18,239
Speaker 6: shocked at what some of these guys get.

1005
00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:20,880
Speaker 2: You talk about defensive tackle and how loaded it is

1006
00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:23,200
Speaker 2: in this draft, and you know, Joe's just talking about

1007
00:41:23,239 --> 00:41:25,560
Speaker 2: twenty six underd stixted free agents for the Chargers, and

1008
00:41:25,840 --> 00:41:31,319
Speaker 2: that holds Tierre Tart, Puna Ford, Morgan Fox. How does

1009
00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:33,440
Speaker 2: this draft class and how deep it is a defensive

1010
00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:36,080
Speaker 2: tackle maybe dictate what they do in free agency and

1011
00:41:36,160 --> 00:41:38,360
Speaker 2: what is the drop off between, you know, a defensive

1012
00:41:38,360 --> 00:41:40,520
Speaker 2: tackle you would get in the late first round versus

1013
00:41:40,520 --> 00:41:41,480
Speaker 2: maybe the second or the third.

1014
00:41:41,520 --> 00:41:45,160
Speaker 6: Done this year, there's twenty four potential starting defensive tackle

1015
00:41:45,239 --> 00:41:48,480
Speaker 6: in the Draft twenty four. Last year I had twelve.

1016
00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:50,560
Speaker 6: And again that's just one opinion. That's just how I

1017
00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:53,799
Speaker 6: see them. Other teams see it differently. I have never

1018
00:41:53,800 --> 00:41:55,840
Speaker 6: seen a year with this much depth, and I'll be

1019
00:41:55,880 --> 00:41:58,480
Speaker 6: shocked that's one will have an I'll be shocked to

1020
00:41:58,680 --> 00:42:01,759
Speaker 6: have an impact in free agency. Set your price. I

1021
00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:04,200
Speaker 6: love Punaford and we saw what he did last year.

1022
00:42:04,239 --> 00:42:06,359
Speaker 6: He played it a very high level. But I think

1023
00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:08,040
Speaker 6: you're going to get to a number and say here's

1024
00:42:08,040 --> 00:42:10,160
Speaker 6: the number. We want you back. We'd love to have

1025
00:42:10,239 --> 00:42:12,560
Speaker 6: you back, but this is the number, and if you

1026
00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:14,480
Speaker 6: want to go north of that, you got to go

1027
00:42:14,520 --> 00:42:16,200
Speaker 6: get it somewhere else, because we're welcome.

1028
00:42:16,280 --> 00:42:18,360
Speaker 7: We have a million of these guys lined up in

1029
00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:20,960
Speaker 7: the draft. So we see the Chiefs do it all

1030
00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:24,080
Speaker 7: the time. There's a are the Eagles. There's a prospect

1031
00:42:24,160 --> 00:42:27,600
Speaker 7: that slides, and people have their concerns, and those are

1032
00:42:27,600 --> 00:42:29,040
Speaker 7: the two teams that jump out at me and they're like,

1033
00:42:29,080 --> 00:42:31,200
Speaker 7: we'll take them and they'll figure it out. Feels like

1034
00:42:31,239 --> 00:42:33,960
Speaker 7: Walter Nolan is that guy from Ole miss Just kind

1035
00:42:33,960 --> 00:42:36,520
Speaker 7: of what are you hearing about him versus what you

1036
00:42:36,560 --> 00:42:39,320
Speaker 7: see Some people that I've talked to have said, this

1037
00:42:40,200 --> 00:42:42,800
Speaker 7: is far and away the most explosive guy at that position,

1038
00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:45,560
Speaker 7: But there are teams that have issues like what's going

1039
00:42:45,600 --> 00:42:47,600
Speaker 7: on with him at the top, Like what would his

1040
00:42:47,680 --> 00:42:50,719
Speaker 7: number be if it was all good? Like where is

1041
00:42:50,719 --> 00:42:52,759
Speaker 7: he going to get drafted versus where he might get dried.

1042
00:42:52,760 --> 00:42:55,719
Speaker 6: Well, he's got the he's got the toolkit of a

1043
00:42:55,760 --> 00:43:00,360
Speaker 6: top ten, top twelve pick, like just size explosi. He

1044
00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:02,480
Speaker 6: was a number one recruit in the country's He's been

1045
00:43:02,480 --> 00:43:04,400
Speaker 6: this guy his whole life. It's all in there. He's

1046
00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:06,440
Speaker 6: got it all in his body, you know. My thing

1047
00:43:06,480 --> 00:43:09,200
Speaker 6: with him that sometimes is more so than often. There's

1048
00:43:09,239 --> 00:43:11,040
Speaker 6: a lot of when the battle lose the war where

1049
00:43:11,080 --> 00:43:13,239
Speaker 6: you're like, gosh, he just whipped this dude in front

1050
00:43:13,239 --> 00:43:14,839
Speaker 6: of him and they have the ball went the other way,

1051
00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:16,480
Speaker 6: Like he's got to be able to be you know,

1052
00:43:16,520 --> 00:43:19,400
Speaker 6: find the football, have more plays to show for it,

1053
00:43:19,440 --> 00:43:22,160
Speaker 6: have more production to show for how freaking explosive and

1054
00:43:22,239 --> 00:43:25,400
Speaker 6: athletic that you are. So I think there's some safer

1055
00:43:25,480 --> 00:43:30,440
Speaker 6: players that might get elevated over him. Defensive line, offensive line.

1056
00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:32,319
Speaker 6: I chased the floor. I don't want to have any

1057
00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:34,400
Speaker 6: tomato cans. I want to have just you know you're

1058
00:43:34,400 --> 00:43:36,640
Speaker 6: a strong as your weakest link defensive line. I want

1059
00:43:36,920 --> 00:43:38,880
Speaker 6: I want to chase Upside go to the ceiling and

1060
00:43:38,920 --> 00:43:40,240
Speaker 6: he is a ceiling dude.

1061
00:43:40,520 --> 00:43:42,319
Speaker 1: You know, Horties hit it out of the park with

1062
00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:43,600
Speaker 1: Alton did. He's saying in.

1063
00:43:43,600 --> 00:43:44,799
Speaker 6: By the way I talked to him before he went

1064
00:43:44,840 --> 00:43:46,000
Speaker 6: up them all you're getting ready to go up here

1065
00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:48,160
Speaker 6: and say absolutely, well, we we.

1066
00:43:48,160 --> 00:43:48,960
Speaker 1: Had to coming up.

1067
00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:52,000
Speaker 4: So's we get I asked no questions, so we can

1068
00:43:52,080 --> 00:43:53,040
Speaker 4: get it all right here.

1069
00:43:54,360 --> 00:43:54,960
Speaker 1: That's what I did.

1070
00:43:54,960 --> 00:43:57,440
Speaker 2: But to get lad and to see what he did

1071
00:43:57,520 --> 00:44:01,040
Speaker 2: last year, it's expensive to pay for a wide receiver,

1072
00:44:01,160 --> 00:44:01,680
Speaker 2: and free.

1073
00:44:01,480 --> 00:44:04,680
Speaker 6: Agency gonna go north t Higgins. I don't think he's

1074
00:44:04,680 --> 00:44:06,200
Speaker 6: gonna get out there, but if he did, you're talking

1075
00:44:06,239 --> 00:44:07,000
Speaker 6: about thirty million.

1076
00:44:07,160 --> 00:44:07,359
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1077
00:44:07,520 --> 00:44:10,719
Speaker 2: So in the talk this offseason is okay, what can

1078
00:44:10,760 --> 00:44:13,200
Speaker 2: you do to maximize justin Herbert? Get him some skill

1079
00:44:13,239 --> 00:44:16,120
Speaker 2: guys in the draft, Like what do you see at

1080
00:44:16,120 --> 00:44:18,560
Speaker 2: the wide receiver position? A lot of star power last year?

1081
00:44:18,640 --> 00:44:21,920
Speaker 2: Like how would you evaluate what it is this year

1082
00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:22,759
Speaker 2: versus last year?

1083
00:44:23,360 --> 00:44:25,279
Speaker 6: I'll say last year? Like if you looked at the

1084
00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:27,279
Speaker 6: grading skill that I used it or same one that

1085
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Speaker 6: Joe uses, Like there's a there's a grade of sixty seven,

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Speaker 6: which is it's just like you're talking about Pro Bowl

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Speaker 6: caliber players. And last year, I think overall, positionally, you know,

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Speaker 6: across boards, not just wide receiver. I think I had

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Speaker 6: like eighteen or nineteen. This year there's like six to seven.

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Speaker 6: And that that's just an example. But as you get

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Speaker 6: to the wide receiver position, there's there's a million starters.

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Speaker 6: Like there's a million good solid guys, could be number twos,

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Speaker 6: maybe you know, eventually really good threes, potentially some twos.

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Speaker 6: But I mean, last year, you're getting lad McConkie. Ladin

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Speaker 6: Conky in this draft would be a top fifteen pick,

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Speaker 6: you know. So it's and that's not revisionist history, like

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Speaker 6: based off what we saw is I'm saying George Georgia

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Speaker 6: lad Conky in this draft would have been a top

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Speaker 6: fifteen pick.

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Speaker 4: All right, last thing for you to get you on

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Speaker 4: your way here, I just saw Jordan Reid from ESPN

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Speaker 4: walking behind us. He's all suited and booted, and I'm

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Speaker 4: looking at you quarter zip kind of disheveled, your shirt

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Speaker 4: tails hanging out there underneath the quarter zip.

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Speaker 1: Just kind of with the idea behind it's that.

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Speaker 6: Soft fabric too.

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Speaker 1: It's that you know I had to do.

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Speaker 6: I had to take the shower and I had to

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Speaker 6: kind of hang that thing up and.

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Speaker 4: There you go, get a little wrinkles out of it.

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Speaker 4: You got a like that, a list actor who just

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Speaker 4: wears whatever he wants. You got the you got the

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Speaker 4: Golf Bay appointment. A little bit later at the Roger

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Speaker 4: done up the road or something like that. But we

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Speaker 4: got going here, DJ. I think I found something last week.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I think I found I found something here.

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Speaker 4: I think I planned out the backswing a little bit.

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Speaker 3: I did.

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Speaker 6: I just was launching that hybrid really well. It's a

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Speaker 6: post I think it was a post conference call, relaxed

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Speaker 6: version of my golf games.

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Speaker 1: Golf you getting in these days right now much.

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Speaker 6: I hadn't played in a long time. But once I

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Speaker 6: finished that conference call, I was like, I'm we're gonna

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Speaker 6: go out there, and I'll tell you. I took my son,

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Speaker 6: who's seventeen, out on the big course for the first time.

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Speaker 6: He only played the par three and I think this

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Speaker 6: was a second the second hole, I mean, I've never

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Speaker 6: seen the rock was maybe thirty feet in front of us.

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Speaker 6: That thing hit so hard, and it was backwards and

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Speaker 6: it was yeah, it was back on the tips, back

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Speaker 6: back behind.

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Speaker 1: It all dangerous.

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Speaker 3: Man.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you don't get out of the way. You're showing

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Speaker 4: up here, little little dot on your forehead.

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Speaker 6: Like we got home and I said, hey, we didn't

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Speaker 6: hit any houses. We flushed a few in the water,

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Speaker 6: but we didn't hurt Anybody's right, that's a wine.

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Speaker 4: If you don't have to utter the words umbrella policy,

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Speaker 4: you're right, it's a great problem.

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Speaker 1: I do.

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Speaker 6: I do have some for your clothing information though I

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Speaker 6: made some purchases, so we have we got I'm pushing

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Speaker 6: pushing it a little bit, uh fashion wise this week.

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Speaker 6: So we've got three new sport coats. Okay, we're gonna

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Speaker 6: have a little fun. Probably gonna catch some heat from

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Speaker 6: some folks out there, but we're trying to.

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Speaker 4: Hollywood suit outlet. Yeah no, because you get what you

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Speaker 4: get there. If you get six coats, you get four

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Speaker 4: pairs of pants. You get like I pocket squares.

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Speaker 2: Bro here here to ford belt, put him for belt,

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Speaker 2: put them on Instagram and like rate like grade them afterwards, right, A,

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Speaker 2: B and C.

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Speaker 6: I mean. And the funny thing is the guy at

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Speaker 6: Men's Warehouse told me I can't alter anything.

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Speaker 1: I said. They all fit.

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Speaker 2: Great, exactly right. Go continue your your car watch here, sir,

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much. Thanks all right, a successful episode

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Speaker 2: one here in n D and money. This is just

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Speaker 2: the beginning.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so as slated as it is scheduled right now,

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Speaker 4: just off the top of our heads, we'll have all

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Speaker 4: the NFL network folks. Danny Markino doesn't even come over

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Speaker 4: to say hello. He just waves his hand and walks

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Speaker 4: out the door. What a big big league does. What

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Speaker 4: a jerk Chicago now exactly right, thinks he's all special

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Speaker 4: working for the Chicago Bears. Chirk so uh still to come.

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Speaker 4: Our friends at NFL Network, Lancer a Line uh CD,

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Speaker 4: Charles Davis, two of the best lances. There's no one

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Speaker 4: better on offensive line. Can't wait for that one than Lance.

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Speaker 4: So you got that. You got Charles Davis. Mina is

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Speaker 4: going to join us tomorrow. He's in, he's walking around.

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Speaker 4: Minakime's going to join us, I believe as well. We

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Speaker 4: got Brett Coleman, our friend. Bretta does awesome film work,

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Speaker 4: and I'm sure many of you subscribe to that. We

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Speaker 4: got Bruce Feldman Freaks List, Mike Tennenbaum, former general manager

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Speaker 4: someone I absolutely scared the crud out of his first

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Speaker 4: ever media appearance. And he comes up to him, Oh yeah,

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Speaker 4: it comes and sits on the field and he sits

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Speaker 4: at the desk and he's like, so, so, how long

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Speaker 4: are we going to be doing this?

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Speaker 1: I said seven.

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Speaker 4: Hours, Mike, So I hope you got a little a

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Speaker 4: little bit of notes here on everybody, because you're looking

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Speaker 4: at a host and you're the guy that's supposed to

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Speaker 4: know all this stuff. He just looked at me like

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Speaker 4: a like a deer in the headlights. He's like, I'm

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Speaker 4: just kidding, man, I gotta taken care of don't worry

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Speaker 4: about it. Just sit here and weigh in with whatever

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Speaker 4: you got. So Mike Tennenbaum is going to join us. Uh,

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Speaker 4: Dame Bruler is going to check in exactly from the

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Speaker 4: Athletic and the Beast, And I feel like I'm forgetting somebody,

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Speaker 4: ten people exactly.

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Speaker 1: Whatever.

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Speaker 4: That's uh, that's how busy. Stacy Dale's is going to

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Speaker 4: join us. Now, she's waving me up. Everybody's blowing me off.

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Speaker 4: You know, it's like whatever, dech with that guy. It's great.

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Speaker 4: It's great to be here. So be sure to check

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Speaker 4: your feed every single day because we're going to keep

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Speaker 4: loading it up.

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Speaker 2: Favorite week of the year for charges weekly because we

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Speaker 2: just pack them all in all these interviews. So hope

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Speaker 2: you guys enjoyed episode one. Appreciate you watching listening.

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Speaker 1: We'll see you tomorrow. I'm charge this weekly