May 4, 2026

NFL Draft Breakdown Part 1 Dan Tortora Hobby Quick Hits E228

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I appeared on my friend Dan Tortora's broadcast breaking down the whole NFL Draft team by team. He was nice enough to let me utilize the audio for "Hobby Quick Hits". This is part 1 of 3.


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Hello, everyone, Welcome to another edition of Hobby Quick Hits.

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This one, this episode and actually the next two are

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going to be a little bit different. Recently, I was

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at an event at the Baldwinsville, New York YMCA with

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my friend Dan Tata. For those that don't know the

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story about Dan Tutora, I used to do a Friday

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morning show with him years and years ago before Sports

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Cardination that melded sports cards in the sports world. And

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it was when that when my schedule change and I

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had to go back to work on Fridays. I used

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to have Fridays off, and when my schedule change, had

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to stop doing that show, and Sports Coordination was born.

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He you know, in a way, he's the inspiration for

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that show. We've remained friends. He's still doing what he does,

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which is sports broadcasting and journalism, especially on the local

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level here in Syracuse with Syracuse covering Syracuse University, but

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he does cover the Jacksonville Jaguars and other teams and

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ACC Conference and others. So we were at an event

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at the same time at the bald ones World Why

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and we had some downtime and with the draft just ending,

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we did a draft special, so we went a to

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zene alphabetical order, covered all the draft picks by all

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the teams and appearing on his network. He was kind

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enough to share his audio with me, and so for

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this episode. In the next two I'm going to air

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those and we're gonna no hobby news segments, no product releases.

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You can see the product releases at www dot Sports

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Cardination podcast dot com. But just for sake of time,

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there's gonna be a little bit longer episodes because we

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really cover it pretty in depth. So if you're a

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football nerd as i am, me and Dan are gonna

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really chop up and review this draft team by team.

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On part one, which is today, we are going to

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cover the Arizona Cardinals to the Cincinnati Bengals. On Part two,

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we're gonna do the Cleveland Browns, City Minnesota Vikings, and

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part three we're gonna do the New England Patriots to

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the Washington Commanders. So those three parts. This is Part

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one again, no news, no product release schedule. We're gonna

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get right into evaluating all the picks and breaking down

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the draft. I want to thank Dan, Tata, Broadcast Media,

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and the d DBTM network for allowing us to use

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this audio. So with that being said, let's get right

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into the episode. And this is myself and Dan in April.

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Hey, what's up everybody.

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Dan tor Tore here with John Newman of Sports Cardination Podcast,

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and of course I am here with you of Wake

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Up Call with Dan Torta. We are at the Balwinsville

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YMCA doing an event with the kids in the community.

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Here at the Balwinsville YMCA. Always care about our central

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enough stated your community. And of course on the day

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after the draft finished up, what better way than to

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have John and I assessed the entire draft. We're going

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to talk about all thirty two NFL teams in alphabetical order.

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So if you're listening back to this or watching back

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to the show, if you know we're on A's you

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know we haven't gotten to your Baltimore Ravens yet, so

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we're be going through the draft. Where as yeah, he's

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wearing yellow too, So we got we got the NFL

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Draft going on, and happy to have you John here with.

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You, looking forward to it. Always always good when we

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chop up to whether it be sports or cards, yeah,

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or what have you. And then, like you said, the

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NFL Draft I'm a huge NFL guy.

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If you know, a steal A fan, but I followed

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the whole league.

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Yeah, and I'm coming to you as a Jaguar fan

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and very happy that this morning I can say that

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Trevor Penya is officially a Jaguar. So that's pretty cool

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to be able to say that here this morning and

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shout out to Trevor and obviously covered him while he

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was here at Syracuse. I can probably say that I

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was a fan of Trevor Penya before a lot of

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people knew about his name, and I got to be

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around his family and his mom has been absolutely wonderful

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to me. So to Divina, if you're watching, if you're listening,

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I appreciate you so very much, and thank you for

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your love and support over the years.

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I truly appreciate it.

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So with that being said, Newman and I are going

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to jump right into the first team in alphabetical order,

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the Arizona Cardinals. The Cardinals decided with the number three

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overall pick to draft Jeremiah Love out of Notre Dame.

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Running Backs have not been drafted high outside of Ashton

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gent last year. In prior years, we were seeing them

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drop to the end of the first round like a

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Clyde Edwards Hilaire or into the second round Jeremiah Loved,

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the highest drafted running back in recent history in the

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top three, and then after that, Arizona goes offensive guard

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and Chase Bisontes in the second round out of Texas

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A and M. In the third round, they go with

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Carson Beck out of Miami, which is interesting because they

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need a quarterback right now. They have journeymen Jacoby Brissett

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that I covered at NC State, but they do not

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have Kyler Murray anymore. So I actually really like that pick.

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Caleb Proctor out of Southeast Louisiana at d tackle, Reggie

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Virgil out of Texas Tech and wide receiver. A lot

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of Texas Tech players drafted in twenty twenty six, Carson

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Carson Sharrar out of Iowa the linebacker, and Jaden Williams

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in the seventh round out of Ole Miss at offensive tackle.

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So let's assess the draft for Arizona. What are your

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thoughts on them getting a quarterback getting Jeremiah Love whatso

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O Brown take?

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I like Love Dan.

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I thought they went he went very high. I even heard,

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you know, the rumor was four to Tennessee or six

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May are we like, are we seeing the resurgence of

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quarterbacks in the NFL? You know, they sort of became

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the NFL became sort of like a running back like committee.

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Most teams used two or three in their game plans

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and in their games. But we're seeing, like you mentioned

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Genty last year, six to the Raiders and now while

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even higher to the Cardinals. I don't think we can

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argue the talents there, it's just where is where they're

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getting picked, right?

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I thought that was high.

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And what we saw last year with Genty was you

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know that whether the talent's there or not, you got

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to have a decent offensive line if you're going to

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make a young running back sort of the folk point

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of your offense. And Genty had an up and down year,

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but they're adding pieces.

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Chip Kelly struggled, I think a little bit there. He's

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not there anymore.

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They got a new coaching staff this year with Kubac

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coming in and.

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Bringing his guys in. So and we see the very

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next pick was.

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Alignment that the Cardinals made Dan So, I think you're

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trying to build, you know, something for love. I like

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Perssett is he the long term answer. No, But that's

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where the Carson back pick comes in. Maybe to be

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groomed for a year or two behind percent. But if

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you look at Brissett's year last year, he had some

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big games. Again, I don't think he's the end ll

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be all or or the franchise quarterback that every team

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is trying to find. But I think for a year

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or even maybe two years until Carson Beck is ready.

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Yeah, you know, I think think Carson Beck is a

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great pick up. Again, I mean, this is a guy

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that I paid close attention to, to his story and

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to who he is and what he's about. You know,

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I had the opportunity to speak with him in my

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coverage at the College Football Playoff, got to interview him

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one on one, and you know, got to speak with

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him about his faith, about his story, about his journey.

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And you know, I've said this to people that don't

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give the guy enough credit. I said, tell me another

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quarterback that was in college football, was on a team

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in a conference, went to a national championship in the

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College Football Playoff, won a national championship in the season

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that you were the quarterback there. Then you go through

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an injury to your throwing side, and you rehab from

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that injury, you go to another team, you bring that

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team in a different conference to the College Football Playoff

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National Championship game and.

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Play again for a championship.

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I think he's arguably he could very well be the

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only guy to ever do that.

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He might.

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I think he's the only quarterback in the college Football

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Playoff era to say that he brought two different teams

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and two different conferences to the College Football Playoff National

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Championship game.

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And yet people don't talk about him enough.

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And keep in mind, outside of the interception throwing with

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about fifty six to fifty eight seconds left in the

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National Championship at hard Rock Stadium in Miami, I'm there,

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I'm watching it. He's throwing toward where I was sitting

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with the media with a minute left to go in

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the game. We're talking about this being a one possession

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game against Indiana, who went undefeated. So I don't understand

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why people didn't give Beck credit for what he did

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at Georgia, what he did rehaving from an injury, going

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to a new team, being with that team for one season,

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going to the College Football Playoff National Championship, and being

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within one possession with fifty eight seconds left to go

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in the game. So I actually am a proponent for

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Carson Beck, and I think that Arizona at some point

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this season is going to lean on him, and I

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think he's going to do some good things for that team.

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I honestly believe in Carson Gap. He's got a skill set.

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I mean, like you mentioned that championship game you're at,

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who's going pro for throw and co to co? Yeah,

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fifty one unpicked in Mendoza, And I'm not necessarily comparing

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them when saying he should have been, you know, a

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first round pick.

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But the talent's there, right, you know, you don't you

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don't get to a championship game, especially in today's day

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and eight. We have to run the gauntlet in the playoffs.

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It's not like they just named two teams and they're

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playing Miami had to win what three four games in

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the gauntlet, and he was the quarterback of those games.

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And then like you said, uh, brow for with row

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uh in a.

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One possession game right down to the wire against an

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Indiana team really made you a.

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Cake off with most other teams. Uh so all year?

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Yeah, So, I mean I think Carson Beck was a

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big steal for them at the top of the third

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round and Jeremiah Love. Is Jeremiah Love the question that

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I have though? And I know they tried to do

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something in the second round by getting chased Besantas Texas

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a and m offensive guard. But the biggest issue that

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I have with Area Zon is also the biggest issue

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I have with the Raiders. Is it's great that you

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have a quarterback that you bring in. It's great that

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you have a running back and ash and Gent with

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the Raiders, and now Jeremiah Love with Arizona. You have

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Fernando Mendoza with the Raiders. You have Carson Beck with Arizona.

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But do you have the offensive line that's going to

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protect and allow these quarterbacks a time to throw? And

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are they going to open up poles and create opportunities

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for the running backs? This is I look at Arizona

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like I look at Las Vegas, and I say to myself,

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it's great to have skill players, but do you have

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the offensive line to create the opportunities for those skill guys?

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Because Marvin Harrison Junior, I didn't want to go to

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Arizona two years ago because I didn't want to happen

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what I think is happening, which is they're not a

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good team at protection, so they're not good at getting

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the ball out, so we haven't really seen him excel.

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And is Jeremiah Love going to be putting the same time?

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Yeah, I think I see Dan. I don't know how

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you see it. I see a similar rookie season for

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Love like Geny had last year. He's gonna have a

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game where he breaks off a run and maybe even

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takes kind of a bubble pass and breaks a couple tackle.

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But I think he's gonna have.

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A struggles because, like you said, they did, that line

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is is not up the par to to really open

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those holes on a consistent basis.

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Obviously, these guys are all professionals.

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But they're different, you know, they're different rankings and levels

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the talent. So once they get that line built up,

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I think you'll see the.

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Best that Love has to offer. But I think he's

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gonna have an up and down rookie year.

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But no one can argue that he you know, the

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talent wasn't there.

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And he was the best running.

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But yeah, I mean that thing was if he had

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fallen to Tennessee or the Giants. I believe that he

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would have gone anywhere between three and five. Let's go

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to Atlanta. As we go to alphabetical order here the

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Atlanta Falcons. Avion Terrell, Clemson corner, joins his brother A J. Correll,

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who also plays corner. They're both from Atlanta, Georgia. They're

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families from Atlanta, Georgia. They're going to be playing for

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the Atlanta Falcons together and Avion Terrell coming from Clemson.

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So you see, the brothers have this story together growing

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up in a place that now they're both going to

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be playing in on the same team. This was an

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amazing story, a really emotional story. The Falcons first pick

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was not until the second round, kind of the midpoint

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of the second round, and then Zachariah Branch. They got

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out of Georgia at wide receiver, Kendall Daniels out Oklahoma, linebacker,

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Antario Thompson out of Washington A D tackle, Harold Perkins

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junior out of LSU at linebacker, and Ethan Oleanwa out

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of Ohio State at offensive tackle in the seventh round.

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So Atlanta really didn't have a lot of picks here.

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They had one in the second one and the third

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one and the fourth, none in the fifth, none in

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the first, two in the sixth, one in the seventh.

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But the story of Atlanta is you got two Atlanta guys,

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brothers going to be on the same team playing together

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in the NFL, which is dang near impossible when we

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look at NFL history. So the Avian and Ajterrrell story

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to me automatically makes me.

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Want to watch it Lana this year. Yeah, like you.

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Said, I don't even know if that's ever. Is that

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the first time that's happened. I know brothers have been

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in the league. We think of the Barbers, but they

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were on different teams Chandler and.

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Arthur Jones from Union End to God and a different

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and different teams. I've if it's happened before, I'm not

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aware of it. So this is sort of history naked.

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Do you think they do?

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You think he was overdrafted because of the story, Like,

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it's a great story. I don't know what his pre

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draft ranking was today you think they maybe picked them

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sooner just because of that. I love their second round

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pick with Branch the receiver. They'll pair him with Drake London,

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And if you look at the rest of the pick,

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including throughout heavy defense. So I think what they're saying,

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the message they're sending Dan is we believe the offense

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we show we have here.

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Yeah, we're just trying to upgrade to the defense. The

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Matro offense.

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So well, the thing is they have weapons, right, we

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know that they have weapons offensively, And I said last year,

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Michael Pennick Junior coming into this team a couple of

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years ago, but the last year being the starter at

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the beginning of the season, I said with Michael Pennick Junior,

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I believe that all of these guys we've been waiting

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for are automatically going to have a better season because

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I thought he'd get the ball out to more people

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and make this offense more explosive. And he did in

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the beginning, but then he's going in and out, and

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then we saw Kirk Cousins coming in and out, and

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ultimately the team was inconsistent. But the thing with Atlanta,

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and I love the point that you made, and I'll

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make two points here, Michael Pennick Junior. They brought in Tua,

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so Tua is going to be there and if and

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if Michael Pennix doesn't perform, Tua could become the starter.

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But you've got v Jon Robinson, you bring in Brian

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Robinson Junior, who was a Washington commander.

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You have Drake one and Johan Dotson.

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He has been in He's been with Washington, he's been

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with Philly, now he's with Atlanta. Alamade's a chaus He's

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a guy that I covered when he was a Virginia

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cavalier in college. Got to interview him and Austin Hooper

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went all the way around and his back in Atlanta

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after Kyle Pitts leaves Atlanta. So, I mean, I'm sad

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to see Kyle go because I thought they were finally

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seeing some output from him. Be more consistent with Michael

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Pennix Junior. But I think you've got weapons. You get

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a wide receiver and branch to help out London, to

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help out Johan Dotson, and honestly, in my opinion, to

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help out Zachaias because I think he's another weapon they have.

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So you got three or four guys there. I would

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say four. But Atlanta's not known for being a bruising defense.

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It's been many years since anybody's been afraid of their defense.

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So to your point, I think them saying let's take

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care of offense, Well, let's go heavy defense outside of

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getting branch. I think that that is a message that

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they're sending that they have to go and find talent

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that can finally put them in a place where they

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don't have to outscore somebody, but that they can hold

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someone down.

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Yeah, they don't want to win games, try to win

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games body to thirty five.

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Yeah, which is what they typically have to do.

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So let's take a look as we go in alphabetical

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order here in our draft cover. It's here on Wakeup

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Call with Dayan Torta, probably presented by gig Cards and

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breaks inside of the Travel Great Lakes on the City Studios.

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As we're here at a community event for the Balwinsville YMCA,

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for the kids and everyone here in our community to

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build it up together because central and up state New York.

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You know how much we love you. Now, the Baltimore Ravens,

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they get vega Iona I predicted this pick fourteenth overall

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out of Penn State, offensive guard. Then Zion Young out

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of Missouri goes in the second round of Baltimore and

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edge rusher. Then they go wide receiver, third and fourth

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round Jakobe Lane out of USC Elijah Surat, who I

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got to talk to from Indiana through his time and

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had the opportunity to cover his story, which was a

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lot of fun and he was great to talk to,

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by the way. And then Matthew Hibner that I've covered

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for many many years in SMU. I texted rtt Lashly

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and we are both excited about Hivner going in the

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fourth round, tight end going in the early part of

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the fourth round or part of me later part of

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the fourth round. And then in the fifth round, the

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Ravens had three picks Chadler Rivers out of Duke Corner,

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Josh Quavis out of Alabama, and tight end Adam Randall,

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who I love because he's kind of He's a tall

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running back who used to be a wide receiver, so

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he can really be an explosive piece for Lamar Jackson

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in the offense. Running back out of Clemson in the

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fifth round. And then they go and get punter the

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first punter off the board in the sixth round out

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of Michigan State, Ryan Eckley. And then in the seventh

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round they get Rashawn Benny out of Michigan at d

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tackle and Evan Burns. Burns Bertson from Northwestern at offensive guard.

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So Baltimore picked in every round. They had a ton

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of picks. They went and helped their offensive line. They

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got receivers that are young and ready to go. They

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got two tight ends, knowing that Isaiah light is gone,

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and they know obviously.

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That Mark Andrews is getting older and.

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Hasn't been as consistent, and then they pull off what

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I consider one of the best steals of the draft,

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fifth round all purpose had him Randon.

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Yeah, I think they You look at their their draft

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and I think they sort of did the opposite of Atlanta. Right.

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Their defense was pretty pretty good, but they still added

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some pieces there, but they really tried.

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To add some weapons for Lamar Jacks.

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And they drafted two tight ends because, like you said,

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Andrews getting a little long in the two than likely

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headed with Harbaugh to the Giants. So I think that,

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you know, when's the last great wide receiver.

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That Baltimore's really had, Right.

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They've had some journeyman's or they have some guys that

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didn't really live up to expectation with Shaan Date and

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has been a little bit disappointing.

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Even Jay Flowers hasn't really lived up to what a

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lot of people thought they would be.

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So they added they added some some receivers to the

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receivering room between tight end and whiteouts. I think, do

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you know they have a new obviously they have a

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new coaching staff, wouldn't let him carbogo, So I think

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they're trying to give Lamar Jackson some weapons, add some

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depth to the defense to make a run in the

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ABC MO up north that I hope doesn't come.

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To schools as a Steeler free.

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Well, I think honestly, looking at their wide receiver corps,

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I think Elijah Surat could step in right away and

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become a number one guy. Yeah, really, I really do

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think he has a good camp. He may very well

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get there, man.

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I think so because of the guys you know, and

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no offense to Debateman or Flowers. They just haven't neither

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one that they've showed glimpses then, but they really haven't

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been a guy who can rely on weekend a Gallas.

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I think they're looking for Sarat to maybe hope we

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fill fill that void again. He's going to be a

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rookie of his first year. That's a lot of you

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know to put on his Yeah, uh, Pam and Jacobe Lane.

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It's wide open because he's not a true number one,

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and Rashad Bateman has been.

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Wildly under RUMs.

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Yeah, you know, and I also think, and I'm gonna

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say this, I'm gonna predict this right now, Matthew Hebner

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will have at least one touchdown as a rookie tight

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end for the Ravens.

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Yeah.

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Then they you like the Steelers, they like they use

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their tight end. So I wouldn't I wouldn't bet against

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you there. I think that's uh, that's probably likely, not

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Isaiah likely.

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Likely to happen. Likely, yes, likely, but not that likely.

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So let's go to Buffalo for all of our Bills

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fans here in central and upstate New York and beyond

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the Bills. Also, going by the way, for those of

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you that think that Dabo Sweeney's out of it and

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Clemson's out of it and they're not relevant anymore, Number one,

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I've always disagreed with you. Number two. Love talking with Dabo.

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I got to talk with him about his faith in God,

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one on one man to man at this former at

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the past ACC kickoff. Going into the season, I've covered

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a lot a lot of these Clemson players have covered Clemson

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for thirteen or fourteen years now and got to speak

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with Dabo about his faith and about a lot of

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things over the years. So for those of you to

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think that Clemson's out of it, just look at this

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year's draft. And so when it comes to Buffalo, they

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did not pick until the second round. They did what

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they did in the same draft with Xavier Worthy, where

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they had a draft pick, because.

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They traded back. They kept trading back numerous times. I

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don't know.

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Why, I'm not the capital and they thought, yeah, there's

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nobody we love. Let's get a little bit of capital.

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Let's add a pick at a pick, add two picks.

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But they did this in the Xavier Worthy draft, they

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had a pick in the twenties. They traded with Kansas City.

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They traded down three times, eventually a fourth time to

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trade out. And they did the same thing in this

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year's draft. They traded right out of the first round to.

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The top of the second. So I'll go with theory

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out there.

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You think they trade out of the first round because

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they don't want to make a bad first round pick.

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I think it's more to get capital, or maybe there's

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nobody they loved. At that time, I thought that they

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should pick up another wide receiver. I'm not sold on

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DJ Moore. I like DJA, you like DJ Moore, but

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why so here's my question. I love d gaymore.

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Yeah, but how come like he keeps bouncing around the league,

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Like if you look at his numbers, Yeah, he's a

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he's a solid, he's a I believe he's a wide

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receiver one yeah, in healthy.

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So DJ Moore was a rookie in twenty eighteen nineteen,

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he had seven hundred and eighty eight yards two touchdowns,

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and then he had three straight seasons of not one

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thousand yards, three straight seasons of eleven hundred plus so

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more than a thousand with Carolina, and then eight hundred

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and eighty eight in his last season with Carolina. First

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season in Chicago one thy three hundred and sixty four,

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then nine to sixty six, this past season six eighty two.

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DJ Moore is a guy that if I have him

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on my fantasy team, I feel like week by week

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he's not consistent. But at the end of the season

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we see that he's been a thout eleven hundred plus

476
00:24:00.240 --> 00:24:01.640
wide receiver four.

477
00:24:01.440 --> 00:24:03.480
Times since twenty eighteen.

478
00:24:03.920 --> 00:24:07.400
So his numbers are a lot better than I always

479
00:24:07.480 --> 00:24:10.079
remember them to be because I think week by week

480
00:24:10.359 --> 00:24:13.200
he kind of like Appeers disappears a Peers disappears. So

481
00:24:13.240 --> 00:24:15.759
I think in the week by week analysis, I'm not

482
00:24:15.839 --> 00:24:18.960
a big fan of djmore week by week, but overall

483
00:24:19.039 --> 00:24:21.559
output of the season, he's shown that he can do it.

484
00:24:22.039 --> 00:24:24.039
I just don't know if he's shown me that he's

485
00:24:24.079 --> 00:24:27.240
my consistent guy that I'm gonna go to at the

486
00:24:27.319 --> 00:24:29.359
end of the game if I need to win the game,

487
00:24:29.599 --> 00:24:31.920
and I'm hoping that he can become that for Buffalo.

488
00:24:32.160 --> 00:24:35.720
I think he's a better receiver than when there's a

489
00:24:35.759 --> 00:24:39.640
wide receiver two that can take some of the coverage

490
00:24:40.039 --> 00:24:44.279
off of Like taking Carolina, they didn't really have that,

491
00:24:44.400 --> 00:24:48.440
and even in Chicago, you know that was an issue

492
00:24:48.519 --> 00:24:52.119
at times, like who was that other guy? When you

493
00:24:52.160 --> 00:24:55.359
don't have that other guy that's a threat, you're gonna

494
00:24:55.400 --> 00:24:58.200
get double covered, you're gonna get chipped at the line

495
00:24:58.200 --> 00:25:01.839
of scrimmage. I like him, but again he's now he's

496
00:25:01.880 --> 00:25:04.920
in Buffalo, and like, who's who's gonna be.

497
00:25:04.920 --> 00:25:07.839
The guy that sort of takes the pressure off. Now

498
00:25:07.880 --> 00:25:10.039
he's the wide receive one in Buffalo.

499
00:25:10.119 --> 00:25:13.440
Well, Who's the two that's gonna like help him out

500
00:25:13.519 --> 00:25:15.000
to get open?

501
00:25:15.200 --> 00:25:18.559
So well, the question becomes, is it Khalel Shakir, Is

502
00:25:18.599 --> 00:25:21.680
it Josh Palmer, is it Kean Coleman, or hold.

503
00:25:21.440 --> 00:25:22.400
On for me? Here?

504
00:25:23.000 --> 00:25:24.480
Is it a guy who I think it can be

505
00:25:24.880 --> 00:25:27.759
fourth round picked by the Bills, Skyler Bell out of Yukon,

506
00:25:28.160 --> 00:25:30.200
who I get to vote in the Biletnikoff Award for

507
00:25:30.279 --> 00:25:33.799
the top wide receiver in all of college football. And

508
00:25:34.160 --> 00:25:36.039
I get to do this from year to year by

509
00:25:36.079 --> 00:25:38.640
the grace of God and thank you to the Bletnikoff

510
00:25:38.680 --> 00:25:41.759
Award committee. Skyler Bell was on that list, and he

511
00:25:41.880 --> 00:25:44.400
kept staying on that short list as we got closer

512
00:25:44.440 --> 00:25:47.400
and closer to deciding who it was, which eventually became

513
00:25:47.400 --> 00:25:50.480
the Kayle Lemon out of USC. But when I saw

514
00:25:50.519 --> 00:25:54.519
that the Bills drafted Skyler Bell, my brain automatically was like,

515
00:25:55.000 --> 00:25:57.599
he could step in and immediately be the two or

516
00:25:57.599 --> 00:26:00.400
the three. And if he can take pressure off of

517
00:26:00.480 --> 00:26:04.759
DJ Moore, then Khalil Shakir maybe can become a true three,

518
00:26:04.799 --> 00:26:05.880
which is what I think he is.

519
00:26:06.039 --> 00:26:07.200
Yeah, I agree with that.

520
00:26:08.119 --> 00:26:10.880
I'm looking at the they have ten picks dan in

521
00:26:11.039 --> 00:26:13.440
one wide receiver that's a little surprising.

522
00:26:13.680 --> 00:26:17.119
And I know Bell's very good, but when your receiver

523
00:26:17.319 --> 00:26:19.720
room is not super strong.

524
00:26:20.160 --> 00:26:23.079
Like I thought, they'd take a flyer out of another receiver,

525
00:26:23.359 --> 00:26:24.880
especially when you have head picks.

526
00:26:25.119 --> 00:26:27.519
Well, the Jaguars got a bunch of receivers, a bunch

527
00:26:27.559 --> 00:26:29.039
of tight ends, and I don't think they need it.

528
00:26:29.400 --> 00:26:32.759
But the bills, I mean, McCole Harmon didn't pan out

529
00:26:32.759 --> 00:26:35.200
with the chiefs Kean Coleman hasn't panned out with the

530
00:26:35.200 --> 00:26:35.599
bells On.

531
00:26:36.359 --> 00:26:38.799
He's on his way out right with what we saw

532
00:26:38.839 --> 00:26:39.920
in the opposite.

533
00:26:39.480 --> 00:26:43.240
Of Josh Palmer's bounced around like I don't I don't see.

534
00:26:43.319 --> 00:26:46.039
I feel like you maybe have a one in Dj Moore,

535
00:26:46.559 --> 00:26:49.160
you got a three in Khalil Shakir, and you have

536
00:26:49.240 --> 00:26:51.880
to have Skyler Bell become the two unless you bring

537
00:26:51.920 --> 00:26:52.680
in somebody else.

538
00:26:52.799 --> 00:26:55.799
And then you look at the depth chart a bunch

539
00:26:55.839 --> 00:26:58.039
of you know, lesser names.

540
00:26:57.759 --> 00:26:58.359
If you will.

541
00:26:58.839 --> 00:27:00.640
The fact that A get a I go back to

542
00:27:00.720 --> 00:27:04.079
a ten pick to one receiver cake and that one

543
00:27:04.440 --> 00:27:06.480
surprises me. Like you said, you have the teams like

544
00:27:06.519 --> 00:27:09.440
the Dad was another team who will have more in their.

545
00:27:09.319 --> 00:27:12.160
Wide receiver room when they've still added to it like,

546
00:27:12.279 --> 00:27:14.720
I don't know if the Bills have a little more

547
00:27:14.759 --> 00:27:17.119
faith in some of those names. We didn't mention it,

548
00:27:17.480 --> 00:27:20.599
but I thought they'd go with two or three receivers

549
00:27:20.599 --> 00:27:21.880
with a ten pick draft.

550
00:27:22.079 --> 00:27:24.240
Well, I'll tell you this, and if you are in

551
00:27:24.319 --> 00:27:26.640
my fantasy draft this year, I hope you forget this

552
00:27:26.720 --> 00:27:28.960
after I say it. I'm probably gonna take a flyer

553
00:27:28.960 --> 00:27:31.720
on Skyler Bell late in the draft. So the Bills tank.

554
00:27:32.039 --> 00:27:34.759
They don't draft until the second round because they traded down,

555
00:27:35.119 --> 00:27:37.119
so they drafted in the first part of the second

556
00:27:37.200 --> 00:27:39.480
round and in the second part of the second round,

557
00:27:39.480 --> 00:27:40.960
so they drafted the top of the second round the

558
00:27:41.000 --> 00:27:41.720
end of the second round.

559
00:27:42.039 --> 00:27:43.279
Then they did not draft.

560
00:27:43.039 --> 00:27:45.319
In the third, fourth, They had part of me three

561
00:27:45.400 --> 00:27:47.880
in the fourth, two in the fifth, none in the sixth, three,

562
00:27:47.880 --> 00:27:48.440
and the seventh.

563
00:27:48.680 --> 00:27:49.519
They drafted T J.

564
00:27:49.759 --> 00:27:53.200
Parker out of Clemson edge rusher as their first pick

565
00:27:53.480 --> 00:27:55.519
of the twenty twenty six NFL drafted the top of

566
00:27:55.559 --> 00:27:59.359
the second round, and then Davison aig Banunson out of

567
00:27:59.440 --> 00:28:02.400
Ohio State cornerback, and then in the fourth round they

568
00:28:02.480 --> 00:28:05.279
got Jude Bowery out of Boston College at offensive tackle.

569
00:28:05.559 --> 00:28:07.880
Skyler Bell, who we mentioned in fourth round Ukon wide

570
00:28:07.880 --> 00:28:10.880
receiver and also in the first round for fourth round

571
00:28:11.240 --> 00:28:15.880
Caleb l Arms or TCU linebacker, Jalen Kilgore out of

572
00:28:15.880 --> 00:28:18.799
South Carolina at safety in the fifth round, Zane Durant

573
00:28:18.799 --> 00:28:20.839
out of Penn State a tackle on the fifth round,

574
00:28:21.200 --> 00:28:25.079
Toriano Pride, junior out of Missouri cornerback in the seventh round,

575
00:28:25.440 --> 00:28:29.119
Tommy Doman Florida punter in the seventh round who probably

576
00:28:29.160 --> 00:28:31.799
had more yards than most of the quarterbacks in Florida recently,

577
00:28:32.200 --> 00:28:35.000
and then out of Texas a and m Armage Reed

578
00:28:35.079 --> 00:28:39.720
Adams offensive guard. So they went to offensive linemen. They

579
00:28:39.759 --> 00:28:44.440
went too d linemen. They addressed the cornerback situation for

580
00:28:44.480 --> 00:28:47.720
what you would imagine to be maybe some death. They're

581
00:28:47.759 --> 00:28:50.200
bringing in a punter, which you don't draft a punter

582
00:28:50.559 --> 00:28:52.920
unless you actually feel like he's going to be your

583
00:28:52.920 --> 00:28:54.359
potential starter week one.

584
00:28:54.880 --> 00:28:56.400
And then you know they went after.

585
00:28:56.240 --> 00:28:58.799
A safety in kill Gore, who I think you know

586
00:28:58.920 --> 00:29:00.880
is a name dropping to the fifth round could be

587
00:29:00.920 --> 00:29:03.960
really good for them. And I mean they they leaned

588
00:29:03.960 --> 00:29:07.000
on their defense more than anything else and then did

589
00:29:07.000 --> 00:29:08.480
a little bit of work with their offensive.

590
00:29:08.759 --> 00:29:11.839
Yeah, I'm looking at the draft their draft board here.

591
00:29:12.440 --> 00:29:15.559
Like you said, I think they beefed up the offensive line. Obviously,

592
00:29:16.160 --> 00:29:18.880
they try to keep Josh Allen a little bit cleaner.

593
00:29:19.400 --> 00:29:22.599
When he's your franchise quarterback, he goes down, so go

594
00:29:22.799 --> 00:29:26.160
to your season, and then they went during this year,

595
00:29:26.240 --> 00:29:28.480
ay times you got and then they went defense. I

596
00:29:28.839 --> 00:29:32.359
thought they try to add a little more weaponry to

597
00:29:32.720 --> 00:29:36.119
for Allen, but I think they feel like the addition

598
00:29:36.240 --> 00:29:39.960
of DJ Moore may be enough. Obviously, have James Cook

599
00:29:40.559 --> 00:29:43.960
already there and there they're there. They use their tight

600
00:29:44.039 --> 00:29:47.240
ends as well with with Kin Kaid and not so

601
00:29:47.920 --> 00:29:50.960
I think they feel like they have enough offense adding

602
00:29:51.359 --> 00:29:54.359
more in bell and then they kind of beefed up

603
00:29:54.400 --> 00:29:55.400
their defense.

604
00:29:55.519 --> 00:29:58.640
Yeah, and they definitely, as you look at the Jets heart,

605
00:29:58.920 --> 00:30:01.160
they need to fill in some hole on the offensive line.

606
00:30:01.200 --> 00:30:02.839
So it's good that they try to assess that a

607
00:30:02.839 --> 00:30:05.640
little bit in the draft. Going in alphabetical order in

608
00:30:05.720 --> 00:30:08.599
the twenty twenty six NFL Draft results and also talking

609
00:30:08.640 --> 00:30:11.240
about undrafted free agents. At the end, We're happy to

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be here on Wake Up Call with Dan tor Torah

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00:30:13.440 --> 00:30:15.839
inside the Travel Great Lakes on the City Studios. John

612
00:30:15.880 --> 00:30:19.200
Newman joins me from Sports Cardination Podcast. This is like

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when you have the two shows like this is when

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you have Everybody Loves Raymond and King of Queens and

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then the sitcoms have the people go onto each other shows.

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That's what's happening here. It's the bonding of the two

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at Sports Cardination and of course here on Wake Up

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Call with Dan tor Torah. We're at the Balwinsville YMCA

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for a community event for the kids and happy to

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be here with you, proudly presented exclusively by GGI Cards

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and Breaks. So let's get into Carolina. Carolina, I had

622
00:30:46.240 --> 00:30:49.640
a pick in the first, one in the first, second, third, fourth, fifths,

623
00:30:49.680 --> 00:30:51.480
two in the fifth, none in the sixth, one, and

624
00:30:51.519 --> 00:30:55.480
the seventh they had Monroe Frielan, who when I was

625
00:30:55.519 --> 00:30:58.960
doing my prediction for the NFL draft, I had him

626
00:30:59.000 --> 00:31:02.160
going some wearing my first round mock draft around this

627
00:31:02.319 --> 00:31:06.240
place with Carolina, so I'm not surprised. I thought Carolina

628
00:31:06.359 --> 00:31:10.200
might go tight end here, but Kenyan Sadik coming out

629
00:31:10.200 --> 00:31:13.920
of Oregon went early three picks before to the Jets,

630
00:31:13.920 --> 00:31:16.119
when I thought he would go to Carolina. When Roe

631
00:31:16.200 --> 00:31:19.039
Frieling is their first pick nineteenth overall out of Georgia

632
00:31:19.200 --> 00:31:22.519
offensive tackle, and then you look to protect Rice Young.

633
00:31:22.880 --> 00:31:25.000
In the second round, they get Lee Hunter, Texas tech

634
00:31:25.039 --> 00:31:27.359
D tackle, So they go O line D line in

635
00:31:27.400 --> 00:31:29.559
the first two rounds and then they go Chris Brazzl

636
00:31:29.759 --> 00:31:32.319
the second out of Tennessee at wide receiver in the

637
00:31:32.359 --> 00:31:35.559
third round, Will Ye the third in the fourth round

638
00:31:35.599 --> 00:31:38.480
out of Texas, A and m at corner. Sam Heckt

639
00:31:38.839 --> 00:31:41.039
Center out of Kansas State in the fifth round is

640
00:31:41.079 --> 00:31:45.279
a Key Wheatlee out of Penn State at safety in

641
00:31:45.359 --> 00:31:48.279
their fifth round, and in the seventh round Jackson Kawach

642
00:31:48.440 --> 00:31:53.359
Miami of Ohio linebacker. So you see that they're assessing

643
00:31:53.400 --> 00:31:57.680
their defense strongly. They go O line D line and

644
00:31:57.680 --> 00:32:00.200
then they say, hey, what the heck, Let's bring in

645
00:32:00.240 --> 00:32:02.440
a wide receiver out of Tennessee and see if he

646
00:32:02.480 --> 00:32:03.200
can help our up.

647
00:32:03.279 --> 00:32:06.920
Chip. I like the Brall Brozelle pick I liked Freeday

648
00:32:07.599 --> 00:32:10.039
to give Bryce you some some protection.

649
00:32:10.720 --> 00:32:12.400
You know, you mentioned thinking they were going to go

650
00:32:12.440 --> 00:32:14.039
tight end. They never even picked one.

651
00:32:14.240 --> 00:32:16.480
Yeah, not only did they not pick one where you

652
00:32:16.599 --> 00:32:18.559
thought they were going, they never went.

653
00:32:18.839 --> 00:32:20.440
They never addressed. Uh.

654
00:32:21.880 --> 00:32:25.400
They have Jatavian Sanders who was drafted recently Tommy Tremble,

655
00:32:25.440 --> 00:32:27.680
who is the older brother of Jamie Tremble, who plays

656
00:32:27.680 --> 00:32:31.200
at Syracuse and has been shifted to linebacker but still

657
00:32:31.359 --> 00:32:34.279
is a tight end if they need him, Mitchell Evans,

658
00:32:34.359 --> 00:32:37.920
Felipe Franks who is a quarterback for Florida, James Mitchell,

659
00:32:38.039 --> 00:32:40.759
and Bryce Pierre. So they got a bunch of tight ends.

660
00:32:40.759 --> 00:32:46.000
But the thing is is, if Sanders isn't going to

661
00:32:46.039 --> 00:32:48.720
be a pass catching tight end, do you really have

662
00:32:49.160 --> 00:32:52.400
outside of blockers? I mean Tommy Tremble, I don't see

663
00:32:52.480 --> 00:32:55.039
him as the guy that they're truly throwing the ball to.

664
00:32:55.519 --> 00:32:57.480
So the only one I see is like a throwing

665
00:32:57.519 --> 00:33:00.559
threat is Sanders. But outside of the I'm kind of

666
00:33:00.559 --> 00:33:03.960
scratching my head. Jimmy Horn junior, my buddy, Jason Lucas

667
00:33:04.119 --> 00:33:07.960
helped him to get recruited collegiately, and then Xavier Lagette

668
00:33:08.000 --> 00:33:09.880
still there. John Metchi the third has been all over

669
00:33:09.880 --> 00:33:14.559
the place, David Moore's bounced around, Jalen Cocher, Tenoroald McMillan.

670
00:33:14.599 --> 00:33:16.640
Outside of McMillan, who I thought would be a great

671
00:33:16.680 --> 00:33:18.799
rookie and have a great rookie season, which he did,

672
00:33:19.240 --> 00:33:22.519
outside of him, out of Arizona to Carolina last year.

673
00:33:22.759 --> 00:33:25.119
There is no wide receiver on this team that I

674
00:33:25.160 --> 00:33:27.960
would tell you to draft in fantasy or to lean on.

675
00:33:28.160 --> 00:33:31.119
So you know, Brizell might be the guy that they're

676
00:33:31.160 --> 00:33:32.599
really hoping steps up.

677
00:33:32.720 --> 00:33:34.119
I think that's what they say.

678
00:33:34.200 --> 00:33:38.440
And he is good, you know, and you know he

679
00:33:38.599 --> 00:33:41.599
probably slots in is the just based on what we

680
00:33:41.680 --> 00:33:45.359
saw like the wide receiver too, to take some of

681
00:33:45.400 --> 00:33:49.799
that pressure off of McMillan. I think the lack of

682
00:33:49.920 --> 00:33:54.440
drafting the tight end to me just says, hey, we're

683
00:33:54.480 --> 00:33:55.200
not really.

684
00:33:54.920 --> 00:33:58.079
Gonna use the tight ends like some teams, don't.

685
00:33:58.240 --> 00:34:00.119
You know what you see like a Bills team of

686
00:34:00.160 --> 00:34:03.119
the Steelers that do yeah, other teams that take the

687
00:34:03.160 --> 00:34:06.440
opposite approach, and like a tight end is not going

688
00:34:06.519 --> 00:34:09.800
to be a focal point of our offense anyway, so

689
00:34:09.960 --> 00:34:14.599
we're not going to draft it or or address it

690
00:34:15.000 --> 00:34:16.760
maybe like teams that utilize them.

691
00:34:16.840 --> 00:34:20.480
So Justavian Sanders played twenty nine games in his two

692
00:34:20.480 --> 00:34:23.079
seasons in the NFL. In those twenty nine games, he

693
00:34:23.119 --> 00:34:26.840
has sixty two catches and he was targeted.

694
00:34:26.440 --> 00:34:28.480
Seventy seven times. He has five.

695
00:34:28.360 --> 00:34:31.400
Hundred and thirty two yards in two seasons combined and

696
00:34:31.519 --> 00:34:35.320
only two touchdowns in two years, one per year, so

697
00:34:35.599 --> 00:34:37.679
they've already kind of proven they really don't use the

698
00:34:37.679 --> 00:34:39.480
tight end in the pass game. Yeah, I think they're

699
00:34:39.519 --> 00:34:41.519
gonna be crazy because breg Olsen used to be a

700
00:34:41.599 --> 00:34:42.280
reg element.

701
00:34:42.760 --> 00:34:44.880
I think they're just gonna use the tight end as

702
00:34:45.119 --> 00:34:50.639
basically another blocker for their running backs and Young to

703
00:34:50.679 --> 00:34:53.599
throw the ball to the receivers right and.

704
00:34:53.440 --> 00:34:56.159
And hoping that Jonathan Brooks, who was drafted last year

705
00:34:56.199 --> 00:34:58.800
can be healthy to be Hubbard. They have a j

706
00:34:59.000 --> 00:35:01.679
Dillon who I covered it Austin College who's bounced around,

707
00:35:02.079 --> 00:35:04.239
and then they have Trevor Etn, the younger brother of

708
00:35:04.320 --> 00:35:08.199
Travis Etn junior. So I mean there are elements on

709
00:35:08.239 --> 00:35:10.559
this team that can help them out. And Bryce Young

710
00:35:11.079 --> 00:35:14.480
did you know he had an uptick with Carolina after

711
00:35:14.519 --> 00:35:16.679
being the number one pick within the last few seasons

712
00:35:16.679 --> 00:35:19.960
in the entire NFL draft. He's getting better, but he

713
00:35:20.079 --> 00:35:23.119
needs more weapons of wide receiver. Again, he doesn't have

714
00:35:23.119 --> 00:35:25.599
a lot of pass catching tight ends, and he needs

715
00:35:25.639 --> 00:35:27.800
to see what this running back room is going to

716
00:35:27.880 --> 00:35:30.639
be like if it's healthy. Because Jonathan Brooks was supposed

717
00:35:30.639 --> 00:35:34.119
to be the guy drafted and step right in but

718
00:35:34.239 --> 00:35:34.719
he got hurt.

719
00:35:35.039 --> 00:35:37.599
Yeah, And I thought they might even take another running

720
00:35:37.639 --> 00:35:40.760
back to add uh to that room, and they didn't.

721
00:35:40.840 --> 00:35:43.719
So some odds, I don't want to say odd but

722
00:35:44.159 --> 00:35:47.159
like the feeling in Brazil picks I love, Yeah, But

723
00:35:47.280 --> 00:35:50.239
after that, some definitely some head scratchers as far as

724
00:35:51.000 --> 00:35:54.239
I'm not against the players themselves with the positions that

725
00:35:54.320 --> 00:35:55.079
they draft with.

726
00:35:55.880 --> 00:35:58.960
Yeah, and then we go to an alphabetibal order assessing

727
00:35:59.000 --> 00:36:02.280
here Chica go Bears twenty fifth pick overall in the

728
00:36:02.320 --> 00:36:05.079
first round. They got a guy that I interviewed, loved

729
00:36:05.119 --> 00:36:07.400
talking with him, the type of human being he is,

730
00:36:07.440 --> 00:36:11.079
and how he speaks about his teammates, and just everything

731
00:36:11.119 --> 00:36:14.360
about him, the essence of Dylan Finnemon. I'm a really

732
00:36:14.360 --> 00:36:17.159
big fan of the safetyatta Oregon. The Bears get him

733
00:36:17.159 --> 00:36:19.280
to bolster up a defense they used to be scary

734
00:36:19.320 --> 00:36:21.920
but hasn't been in recent years. This is a team

735
00:36:22.280 --> 00:36:24.400
that had to play it from behind so many times

736
00:36:24.519 --> 00:36:28.519
last year, and Caleb Williams came through. I predicted that

737
00:36:28.559 --> 00:36:31.159
he would have a better sophomore than rookie season. He did,

738
00:36:31.559 --> 00:36:34.159
but this team was giving you a heart attack almost

739
00:36:34.239 --> 00:36:37.400
every single week because their defense couldn't stop anybody, and

740
00:36:37.440 --> 00:36:39.840
it was on Caleb in the offense. Now they go

741
00:36:39.920 --> 00:36:42.480
into this draft and they assess the defense in the

742
00:36:42.519 --> 00:36:44.519
back end of the draft, put in their first pick

743
00:36:44.519 --> 00:36:46.840
with Dylan Finnemon, and then in the second round they

744
00:36:46.840 --> 00:36:49.679
get Logan Jones center out of Iowa, and then they

745
00:36:49.719 --> 00:36:51.440
bring in a guy that I also have had on

746
00:36:51.480 --> 00:36:55.239
the show, really excited, arguably the best tight end in

747
00:36:55.280 --> 00:36:57.880
the draft, maybe out of Stanford to get Sam Roush,

748
00:36:58.199 --> 00:37:03.320
which Chicago with all due Chicago, is they are stealing

749
00:37:03.360 --> 00:37:06.000
tight ends and they are literally taking them away from

750
00:37:06.039 --> 00:37:09.679
the NFL. You've got Cole Comett, who is serviceable. You've

751
00:37:09.719 --> 00:37:13.480
got Coleston Lovelin, who was great last year as a rookie.

752
00:37:13.719 --> 00:37:15.760
Then you go and get Sam Rouch. And this is

753
00:37:15.800 --> 00:37:18.599
what you do sometimes when you're in fantasy football, is

754
00:37:18.599 --> 00:37:20.679
you draft people not to play them, but so you

755
00:37:20.760 --> 00:37:23.800
don't have to play against them. Chicago now has three

756
00:37:24.280 --> 00:37:26.480
tight ends that I think can be number one guys,

757
00:37:26.800 --> 00:37:29.159
which is great. It's gie to the credit to them.

758
00:37:29.000 --> 00:37:31.079
In their depth. And if they ever need to trade and.

759
00:37:31.119 --> 00:37:34.320
Need some trade bait, I'm wondering if one of those three,

760
00:37:34.400 --> 00:37:37.480
probably not Ralph, since they just dram I think Cole

761
00:37:37.519 --> 00:37:39.280
Comet's gonna be the odd man out.

762
00:37:39.360 --> 00:37:41.039
I don't think. I don't think they.

763
00:37:42.400 --> 00:37:45.519
I don't think they drafted Raush to keep all three

764
00:37:45.639 --> 00:37:48.400
like you just alluded to. So when they made the

765
00:37:48.519 --> 00:37:52.000
roush pick, I even said to myself watching the draft, like,

766
00:37:52.400 --> 00:37:53.760
they don't really need a tight end.

767
00:37:53.960 --> 00:37:58.519
Get I get the talent, but why draft a position

768
00:37:58.599 --> 00:38:00.800
you don't need so they can trade of Carolina.

769
00:38:00.880 --> 00:38:04.960
Yeah, maybe that's Chicago took advantage of Carolina in the

770
00:38:04.960 --> 00:38:08.639
past and it worked now. Zamon Thomas also drafted in

771
00:38:08.679 --> 00:38:12.079
the third round for Chicago wide receiver on lsu Malik

772
00:38:12.199 --> 00:38:15.400
Muhammad out of Texas corner in the fourth round, Keyshawn

773
00:38:15.440 --> 00:38:17.920
Elliott out of Arizona State linebacker in the fifth round,

774
00:38:18.239 --> 00:38:21.880
Jordan vander Vandenberg out of Georgia Tech, a name that

775
00:38:21.920 --> 00:38:24.000
I know d tackle in the sixth round, nobody in

776
00:38:24.039 --> 00:38:27.239
the seventh round for Chicago show. Chicago goes into the

777
00:38:27.320 --> 00:38:31.480
season with Caleb Williams in the backfield, DeAndre Swift, Kyle

778
00:38:31.760 --> 00:38:35.599
meneng Guy and then they have Romaduns a Luther Burden

779
00:38:35.760 --> 00:38:39.000
the third and obviously they need some help at wide receiver.

780
00:38:39.400 --> 00:38:40.920
Not a lot of household names.

781
00:38:40.719 --> 00:38:43.039
Which is why they get a guy like Xavion Thomas

782
00:38:43.280 --> 00:38:46.280
and maybe Sam Rousch. At tight end, you got Colston Lovelin,

783
00:38:46.280 --> 00:38:49.400
which is great. And then the son of the missile,

784
00:38:49.800 --> 00:38:55.360
kadre Ismael, his brother, his son, kadir Ismael is now

785
00:38:55.800 --> 00:38:59.079
shifted from wide receiver to tight end and he's a

786
00:38:59.079 --> 00:39:02.000
member of the Chicago Hopefully he won't make the team.

787
00:39:02.280 --> 00:39:04.280
But I mean, I'm looking at Chicago right now saying

788
00:39:04.519 --> 00:39:07.320
I like your backfield, I like your quarterback, I kind

789
00:39:07.320 --> 00:39:10.639
of like your wide receiver at one, but I don't

790
00:39:10.719 --> 00:39:13.400
like anything else after that. So they needed to get

791
00:39:13.400 --> 00:39:14.000
a wide receiver.

792
00:39:14.079 --> 00:39:14.519
They did.

793
00:39:14.840 --> 00:39:16.679
But this is also a team that throws to their

794
00:39:16.719 --> 00:39:19.559
tight end, so I would imagine that Roush and Lovelin

795
00:39:19.679 --> 00:39:22.360
are both gonna get looks as wide receivers even though

796
00:39:22.360 --> 00:39:22.920
they're tight end.

797
00:39:23.199 --> 00:39:26.960
Yeah, and and I know the wide receivers like a Dunda.

798
00:39:27.159 --> 00:39:29.119
I think he's ready to step up and be the

799
00:39:29.119 --> 00:39:32.400
wide receiver one. I like Luther Burden. If you watch

800
00:39:32.519 --> 00:39:36.880
the last half of last year, he sort of stepped

801
00:39:36.880 --> 00:39:39.480
it up. So I think they're they're not as bad

802
00:39:39.559 --> 00:39:42.440
off as wide receiver as we might think. Where they

803
00:39:42.519 --> 00:39:45.159
might look on paper, and like you just said, I

804
00:39:45.199 --> 00:39:47.280
think they're gonna lean on their tight end have the

805
00:39:47.400 --> 00:39:51.159
offense anyway they you know, they maybe they don't need

806
00:39:51.559 --> 00:39:55.880
as many receivers as a team that doesn't utilize tight end.

807
00:39:56.039 --> 00:39:59.199
Yeah, and then so I think Chicago definitely has the

808
00:39:59.239 --> 00:40:01.199
tight end wide re receiver help that it needs to

809
00:40:01.239 --> 00:40:02.960
put together a good receiving corps.

810
00:40:03.159 --> 00:40:04.239
We go to Cincinnati.

811
00:40:04.679 --> 00:40:06.440
They did not have a pick in the first round,

812
00:40:06.840 --> 00:40:09.199
and so the ninth pick of the second round they

813
00:40:09.199 --> 00:40:12.360
take Casius Howell, a guy who some had as one

814
00:40:12.400 --> 00:40:14.800
of those top edge rushers out of Texas.

815
00:40:14.480 --> 00:40:15.199
A and M.

816
00:40:15.320 --> 00:40:17.480
So he could be a steal for them there at

817
00:40:17.519 --> 00:40:20.000
the top of the second round. Keep in mind that

818
00:40:20.079 --> 00:40:23.199
they went back and forth with you know, their their

819
00:40:23.280 --> 00:40:26.679
recent their recent issues. Now, they brought in Dexter Lawrence

820
00:40:26.719 --> 00:40:31.239
on the defensive line, but they traded they traded away

821
00:40:31.280 --> 00:40:34.599
a defensive lineman and when they when they went and

822
00:40:34.719 --> 00:40:37.880
I mean, you look at bringing in Dexter Lawrence, but

823
00:40:38.000 --> 00:40:41.920
then also being in a situation where they ended up

824
00:40:42.000 --> 00:40:45.400
losing one of their players. And so I mean the

825
00:40:45.440 --> 00:40:48.639
Bengals in their roster that they had for twenty twenty five,

826
00:40:48.719 --> 00:40:50.960
I want to go back to that roster and look

827
00:40:51.000 --> 00:40:53.719
at the depth chart for Cincinnati and what they had.

828
00:40:54.159 --> 00:40:57.599
So bringing in Dexter Lawrence now is a great move

829
00:40:57.679 --> 00:40:59.719
for them, and it's great for them to have that.

830
00:41:00.119 --> 00:41:02.559
Keep in mind, they gave up a pick, so they

831
00:41:02.559 --> 00:41:04.920
were going to draft in the first round. The Giants

832
00:41:04.920 --> 00:41:07.360
had the fifth pick. The Giants got the tenth pick

833
00:41:07.760 --> 00:41:11.000
thanks to the Dexter Lawrence trade, and then Cincinnati brings

834
00:41:11.039 --> 00:41:12.679
him in. He has two years, they give him a

835
00:41:12.679 --> 00:41:16.719
third year, so he's now extended for three years with Cincinnati,

836
00:41:17.000 --> 00:41:20.559
and in that extension, they paid him twenty eight million

837
00:41:20.719 --> 00:41:23.599
dollars to be a part of the team in that

838
00:41:23.760 --> 00:41:27.199
final year, which is kind of wild. But I want

839
00:41:27.199 --> 00:41:29.320
to go and I want to look at what they

840
00:41:29.480 --> 00:41:32.519
had and you know, I mean what they lost, because

841
00:41:32.599 --> 00:41:36.159
keep in mind that they were dealing with TJ Henderson

842
00:41:36.400 --> 00:41:38.639
and they were trying to figure out what to do

843
00:41:38.760 --> 00:41:41.320
with him and how he was going to fit. It's

844
00:41:41.360 --> 00:41:44.599
going to parton me, Trey Henderson, So they were dealing

845
00:41:44.599 --> 00:41:48.840
with Trey Henderson. They eventually let Trey go and he

846
00:41:49.000 --> 00:41:52.199
was going to potentially hold out last year. They let

847
00:41:52.280 --> 00:41:55.360
him go after this back and forth last year, they

848
00:41:55.480 --> 00:41:58.039
automatically make a move at the top of the second

849
00:41:58.079 --> 00:42:00.280
round to bring in an edge rusher, and they bring

850
00:42:00.320 --> 00:42:03.480
in Dexter Lawrence on the defensive line. So I think

851
00:42:03.719 --> 00:42:07.239
Cincinnati immediately was like, Okay, we don't have Trey, We're

852
00:42:07.280 --> 00:42:09.159
gonna go get Dexter that we believe in. We're gonna

853
00:42:09.159 --> 00:42:11.480
bring in Cashus Howe, and we're gonna make this thing

854
00:42:11.519 --> 00:42:14.559
work without Trey. And so I think going after that

855
00:42:14.639 --> 00:42:17.480
need immediately state something that they were looking to do there.

856
00:42:17.679 --> 00:42:20.599
And then Tacario Davis in the third round, Washington corner

857
00:42:20.960 --> 00:42:24.079
Connor lou out of Auburn center in the fourth round,

858
00:42:24.400 --> 00:42:27.320
Kolby Young in the fourth round, a wide receiver out

859
00:42:27.320 --> 00:42:30.800
in Georgia, and then Duke center Brian Parker the second

860
00:42:30.800 --> 00:42:33.800
in the sixth round. And then they go Jack Injuries

861
00:42:33.880 --> 00:42:35.960
out of Texas at tight end in the seventh and

862
00:42:36.079 --> 00:42:40.639
Landon Robinson de tackle shifted there for them and out

863
00:42:40.639 --> 00:42:42.440
of Navy defensive lineman.

864
00:42:42.519 --> 00:42:43.360
He's been on the show.

865
00:42:43.400 --> 00:42:46.320
I sat next to him a few months back, Love

866
00:42:46.400 --> 00:42:49.360
Landon Robinson love covering him. In the seventh round of

867
00:42:49.400 --> 00:42:52.119
the twenty twenty six NFL Draft, not one but two

868
00:42:52.199 --> 00:42:56.000
service members were drafted both out of Navy and Eli

869
00:42:56.079 --> 00:42:59.239
Heidenreich going to the your Pittsburgh Steelers, and then Landon

870
00:42:59.320 --> 00:43:03.880
Robinson going to the Cincinnati Bengals, both in the AFC North.

871
00:43:03.960 --> 00:43:06.559
I love seeing these guys go for the military academy.

872
00:43:06.840 --> 00:43:09.719
The new rules allow you to defer your time so

873
00:43:09.760 --> 00:43:12.599
that you can chase an NFL career. I love the

874
00:43:12.679 --> 00:43:15.440
Landon Robinson pick. I think he's gonna make the team.

875
00:43:15.599 --> 00:43:18.079
I'm hoping the best for him. He's a fighter, he's

876
00:43:18.119 --> 00:43:20.440
awesome to talk to and just a great guy to

877
00:43:20.480 --> 00:43:24.599
be around, A very humble guy. So I love Cincinnati's draft.

878
00:43:24.880 --> 00:43:28.800
I love again that post Trey they go and they

879
00:43:28.800 --> 00:43:31.599
bring in Dexter, Lawrence and cashis how then they bring

880
00:43:31.639 --> 00:43:34.599
in Landon Robinson in the interior, and then they bring

881
00:43:34.639 --> 00:43:37.239
in two centers on their offensive line to try and

882
00:43:37.280 --> 00:43:40.280
help them out. And drafting two centers is obviously saying

883
00:43:40.519 --> 00:43:42.639
they don't believe in the center they have and they

884
00:43:42.679 --> 00:43:44.480
want to make sure that they have a competition going

885
00:43:44.519 --> 00:43:47.159
into camp for Joe Burrow, who's been hit and injured

886
00:43:47.199 --> 00:43:48.159
a couple times in a week.

887
00:43:48.280 --> 00:43:49.320
Here's what I'll say.

888
00:43:49.840 --> 00:43:53.239
I get the Lawrence acquisition Dan, but do you give

889
00:43:53.360 --> 00:43:57.079
up the tenth pick that's a high value pick.

890
00:43:57.280 --> 00:43:57.679
Yeah.

891
00:43:57.880 --> 00:44:01.360
Form when they made that trade, I just said I

892
00:44:01.840 --> 00:44:04.599
wouldn't have given up. I'm not saying you don't try

893
00:44:04.599 --> 00:44:08.440
to acquire him. I just think they gave up get him.

894
00:44:08.880 --> 00:44:12.320
One d agree you give up a top ten pack

895
00:44:12.679 --> 00:44:14.679
for a guy that's been in the league for a while.

896
00:44:15.360 --> 00:44:19.360
And you could have picked an end uh in the draft,

897
00:44:19.400 --> 00:44:22.480
maybe even with that tenth pick that was on the board.

898
00:44:24.400 --> 00:44:26.280
And and and if you pick them in.

899
00:44:26.239 --> 00:44:29.199
The draft, he's gonna cost you a lot less money

900
00:44:29.760 --> 00:44:32.639
uh than Dexter Lawrence is costing yourself.

901
00:44:32.880 --> 00:44:35.159
That move was a little bit of a head scratcher.

902
00:44:36.440 --> 00:44:39.800
I know they got Chase Brown, who who's a legit

903
00:44:40.239 --> 00:44:44.239
starting running back in the NFL. But death wise, I

904
00:44:44.239 --> 00:44:47.480
thought they would go and get another running back behind him.

905
00:44:47.599 --> 00:44:51.480
Because been all the longer the two I thought they'd

906
00:44:51.519 --> 00:44:55.760
get another younger back to kind of pair with Chase Brown.

907
00:44:55.800 --> 00:44:57.079
They didn't get a tight end.

908
00:44:57.199 --> 00:45:02.159
Yeah, Mike Osaki Andrew Sample are kind of your guys.

909
00:45:02.199 --> 00:45:03.960
But does either one of them wow you?

910
00:45:04.119 --> 00:45:07.000
And on the offensive line, I mean, they obviously need depth,

911
00:45:07.320 --> 00:45:09.880
so going center, maybe they'll shift one of those guys

912
00:45:09.880 --> 00:45:12.440
that they both play well to the one of the

913
00:45:12.480 --> 00:45:16.039
guard positions. But I mean they tried to bolster up

914
00:45:16.039 --> 00:45:17.880
their D line and their O line, which I think

915
00:45:17.960 --> 00:45:19.960
is great because that's how you build a championship, and

916
00:45:20.360 --> 00:45:23.400
Cincinnati struggled recently in the playoffs and then not making

917
00:45:23.400 --> 00:45:26.360
the playoffs. I like their wide receivers, but I think

918
00:45:26.480 --> 00:45:29.559
tight end or running back, to agree with you, would

919
00:45:29.599 --> 00:45:31.960
have made sense for them to go there at some point.

920
00:45:32.079 --> 00:45:34.320
Yeah, I just look at I thought they'd add a back.

921
00:45:34.360 --> 00:45:35.559
I know they added a.

922
00:45:35.519 --> 00:45:38.920
Receiver to the receiver, which I think the receivers are

923
00:45:39.000 --> 00:45:42.119
kind of set. I'm surprised that wasn't a running back

924
00:45:42.199 --> 00:45:44.079
pick rather than a receiver.

925
00:45:44.239 --> 00:45:46.159
But again, a lot of it has to do game.

926
00:45:46.239 --> 00:45:48.840
As you know, with the draft, who's left, who's still

927
00:45:48.880 --> 00:45:49.840
on the board.

928
00:45:49.920 --> 00:45:52.480
And maybe there wasn't a running back that they said,

929
00:45:52.880 --> 00:45:56.440
you know what, we like him enough, and so they

930
00:45:56.519 --> 00:45:59.119
I think it might be something they address, you know,

931
00:45:59.199 --> 00:45:59.960
with another.

932
00:45:59.760 --> 00:46:03.199
Team cut somebody to maybe pick up. Looking back in that.

933
00:46:03.840 --> 00:46:07.320
Yeah, but obviously getting the two centers and you're as

934
00:46:07.400 --> 00:46:10.679
rusher and bringing in Dexter, trying to help those offensive

935
00:46:10.679 --> 00:46:12.960
and defensive lines for Cincinnati all right.

936
00:46:12.840 --> 00:46:16.320
We're gonna stop the audio there with the completion of

937
00:46:16.320 --> 00:46:19.119
the Bengals. We're gonna be back with Part two in

938
00:46:19.159 --> 00:46:23.360
a couple of weeks, going Cleveland to Minnesota. I'm gonna

939
00:46:23.440 --> 00:46:27.320
keep the hobby Quickets every other week, even though this

940
00:46:27.400 --> 00:46:30.920
is all pre recorded, just to keep the same rhythm

941
00:46:31.039 --> 00:46:35.599
and release schedule. So Part two in a couple of weeks,

942
00:46:35.639 --> 00:46:39.000
Part three in a couple of weeks after that. We

943
00:46:39.079 --> 00:46:42.000
hope you enjoyed this kind of different little content. We

944
00:46:42.079 --> 00:46:46.360
mix in some card you know, chat in there, but

945
00:46:47.079 --> 00:46:50.280
breaking down the draft. So come back in a couple

946
00:46:50.280 --> 00:46:54.159
of weeks to hobby Quickets and we'll have Part two

947
00:46:54.280 --> 00:46:54.719
for you