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Hello Shrewdness fans. Welcome to the World Traveler
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edition of the Shrewdness. Dex is somewhere in America.
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That's. Right.
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In the heartland in my usual KC basement.
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But we are here for you. Because the shrewdness never
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That gives you a hint. So welcome to the shrewdness
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Prude, Dex and Chiz. Here we are.
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We are post NFL draft. So tonight's episode, which I
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think guys is episode 100, right?
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World Traveller Edition for one hundo.
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The century mark for the shrewdness is that's an
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impressive feat. I don't think a lot of a lot of
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podcasts don't get past five episodes or something.
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So I agree. So we've been doing this almost
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two years. That's right, Grit baby takes
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grit. That's.
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Right. And that doesn't really include
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our 30 episodes of baseball last year that we didn't even count.
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This is. That's right.
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Of the official, that was. Like officials official anyway.
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Anyway, so moving on. We digress.
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Post NFL Draft, this a fun episode.
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We did something very similar last year diving into NFL draft
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results. Guys, I'm going to open it up to
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you here. Let's talk about your take on
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the first round or maybe the first couple rounds.
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Who do you think was a fantastic pick in that spot, who was not
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such a fantastic pick in their spot?
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And maybe what surprised you about the first round?
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Are we keeping this from a Geo perspective or just overall in
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general? Let's say overall, well, I think
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we'll do another episode here in a week or two after we've had a
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little more chance to dive into some stats and maybe projected
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lineups and that kind of thing. But just overall, from a college
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to NFL, you know, who do you think surprised you as far as
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where they went and who's going to make an impact?
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Yeah. All right.
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Cheers. Let's start with you, bud.
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What do you got? My favorite pick of the first
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round in terms of and. I evaluated it kind of based on
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value in my mind and in my mind, and I can't believe I'm going to
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say this because I live, I live there and they royally F up
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every draft in Dallas. And it's kind of like a running
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joke. Like who are they going to screw
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up with the first pick? They're going to pick somebody
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who'd no one wanted that they could have gotten in the third
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round. They're going to use a first
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round pick on and like they had a really, really good pick.
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I felt like at 11, Caleb Downs, save the Ohio State, super
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versatile, had off the chart grades according to all the
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folks that you know, were were grading this draft.
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I'm shocked that he even felt 11.
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And I think the Cowboys were a little shocked too.
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And so, you know, they, they made it, made a move to get him
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and it was a really. Paranoid, they moved up one spot
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to get him just so that team wouldn't take him.
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They moved. Up.
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One spot, which is always a strange thing to me, the trade
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up one spot's always the same thing to me because if the team
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above you was going to take the guy you wanted, they're not
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going to trade with you. Yeah.
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So he's probably going to be there.
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Now I do understand there is this, there is the potential
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scenario which could have happened in this case that
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someone else was. Trying to trade with Miami as
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well. And so, you know, they they
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decided to go ahead and pull the trigger, but I think Caleb Downs
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is going to be a superstar on defense.
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So I was really impressed with that one.
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Dex, how about you in terms of who are you impressed with out
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of the out of that first round picks?
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So it's I don't know if I'm impressed, worried, happy or
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sad. I think there's potential for
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this to be awesome. It's the best player in the
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draft. I think Jeremiah Love is the
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premier offensive player in this draft.
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Man, this is one of the few teams I didn't want them to go
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to. But it's not like they don't
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have talent. Marvin Harrison, junior Trey
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McBride, he is like the third piece of that to make it just
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awesome. But man, they need to draft a
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quarterback next year. So I think they'll be bad this
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year and next year. At this point.
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I was like, hey, at least they have Jeremiah Love, Trey McBride
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and Marvin Harrison for fill in the blank.
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Great quarterback from the 2027 class to throw to.
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He's so much talent. He's still going to be good.
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He can catch the ball. I think he had over 40 catches
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this year for Notre Dame and over 1600 scrimmage yards, 18
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touchdowns. Hard for that not to play in the
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NFL. But Dang, there's a lot of other
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teams I thought it would look better on from a Geo standpoint
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and just real life standpoint. But if you're Arizona, you got
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to be pretty happy. You've got arguably the best
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talent in the draft. So I'm happy for the fan verse.
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I'm not sure I'm happy for Jeremiah Love's stats next year.
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But you can't not like the pick if you're how do you just let
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them go? Like if you have an opportunity
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to take potentially an all pro running back, I don't know.
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I can't be mad at the pick. I just wish would have done.
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I thought they were going to take deep hits.
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I I freaking absolutely hate this pick like so Pruitt.
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You hate this situation. You don't hate to pick.
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If Arizona is good, you'd like it.
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No, I I no, here's what I hate about it.
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Here's what I hate. This is like the most cardinally
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cardinal thing to do ever. Like you have you have 8 million
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holes. Who did they just sign?
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Pruitt. Remind me this is?
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Tyler Algier Round 2 they were. Going to They were going to free
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Tyler Algier. Finally, give Tyler Algier a
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chance to be the premier running back, not to mention the fact
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you got James Connor still under contract who's coming back this
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year so. They've already got him.
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Coming back, you got Trey Benson, you got Bam Knight.
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You have like, I'm not saying Bam Knight's going to carry the
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team. I feel like got a lot of the
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guys just got bumped down the depth chart.
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Well, like they absolutely did, but like you have like 30 holes
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on this T and the one that isn't a glaring hole.
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Is running back. And you went and got So what
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made me mad about it as a huge Jeremiah Love fan is like I feel
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like they're going to waste his best years running behind a
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crappy line on a crappy team with splitting time with like a
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bunch of other running back. Like it's just the stupidest
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cardinal thing ever. I would have loved to see him go
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almost anywhere else in the top ten.
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And of course, he goes to Arizona.
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So this is a this is a bit like the Rams drafting Tysons, Oh.
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My God. Are we are we going with just
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our worst pick since Gravy? Yeah, just like what we don't
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need is a quarterback, right? A project you're There's so much
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talent in the draft. 1 snap away ish from going to the Super Bowl
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last year and probably winning the Super Bowl last year.
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And wait, Remind. Me after it quarterback in the
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future. Is is Matt Stafford, Benjamin
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buttoning or or no, because. The.
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Last I checked, he's like, 38 and, like, the clock is ticking.
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And, like, do you think he would have liked, you know, a little
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another weapon? I mean, remember, Pooka's it.
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Pooka's in rehab right now. OK, so like your number one is
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is a rehab, your number 2 is not get any younger.
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There's a litany of other needs the team had and Ty Simpson.
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So I went digging on Ty Simpson. So did some research on this and
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this is super interesting. So if I don't know if our
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listeners have heard this or not, but supposedly there was
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some stuff that went down with Ty Simpson right about time for
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his bowl game. OK, so the he was trying to
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evaluate going into the bowl game.
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I think they were the Sugar Bowl maybe.
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And he was trying to evaluate whether he was going to go out
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for the draft or not. And the Simpson family met with
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less need, the GM of the Rams. And they were talking to him
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about like, we know what's going on and like, we're trying to
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decide whether or not he shouldn't do the draft unless
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Steve was like, well, he should enter the draft.
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And they were like, why? And supposedly he said because
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I'm going to take him with the 13 pick.
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So he he was slated in NIL money.
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He had an offer, this is all reportedly, but he had an offer
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to stay and play for $6.5 million one more year in
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college. Wow, OK.
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Like we said, so love that deal. Right, so the only reason that
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he would go would have gone out for the draft is if he knew he
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was going to be a first round pick and get, you know, first
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round money. So they were looking for some
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assurances. Well, then Leslie drops that
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assurance in their lap and is kind of on the hook at this
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point, right. So he's already said like, hey,
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I'm going to take him. Evidently when it came to their
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pick, they realize like, this is way too early to take him, so
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they scrambled, try to trade back because they're like, he's
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still going to be there, so let's get some more draft picks.
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And nobody would talk to him. They're like, keep your 13 pick
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and enjoy it. So then they were like, OK,
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well, I guess we got to ride or die.
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Ty Simpson, like just absolute tomfoolery.
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And there's two reactions to this pick that really cracked me
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up. 1 you guys I forwarded. Immediately.
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The Sean McVay reaction when asked about this pick.
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Which he? Clearly was not on board with
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because. He's like.
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He'll compete for, you know, I was like, oh, God.
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Like. This he'll compete for the two
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spot. This is your first round.
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You're like. The coach.
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And then the second reaction was, I don't know if you guys
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saw this clip, but they asked John Lynch, who's the GM of the
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49ers. What?
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And all of you, all the listeners, if you haven't seen
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this, Google it because he's at his press conference.
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They said, what do you think about the Rams taking Ty Simpson
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with 13 pick? And he visibly starts to smile
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and laugh and has to like catch himself and turn away.
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And he's like then he like gathers trying to, but it's like
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he's giddy. He's like, I can't believe these
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idiots. Just they.
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Wait. There pick that has to be the
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rivalry big a surprise. Even the announcers they try to
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you know, they try to play it cool during the draft, but it
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was like huh, surprising move by the Rams.
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I don't. Know they couldn't even come up
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with very many nice things to say.
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Yeah, I mean, it was like. Like what did did it was it was
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just like did Stafford like like lose a limb right before the.
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Track right or something? Did we not get?
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News have a bad day and he's like I'm retiring or something.
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Right. Who knows?
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The most I agree, Brew. That was like the most
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perplexing pick to me for a team that is like really good and to
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your point, a couple plays away from a Super Bowl.
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They don't need, yeah, they don't need a backup quarterback.
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They have. No, Ruben Bayne would have been
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nice. I started to say right?
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Yeah, and he's just sitting there falling like a rock for no
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real reason, right? It was weird.
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So I was going. So my worst pick, I mean, Ty
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Simpsons was certainly way up there.
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But just to mix it up a little bit, the other one I really
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didn't like, and probably because I'm a fan of his team,
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was the 18th overall pick to the Minnesota Vikings defensive
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tackle. Broken foot, Caleb Banks.
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All right. That was not a good.
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Pick banks, like, huh, I mean, there's first round talent that
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you can get in the second round because you've got injury risk.
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That's when you take guys like this early, mid, second round.
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Yeah, middle of the first round. The guy was like, Oh my gosh,
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why did you not trade with the stupid, dumb Rams?
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Just trade that pick and then like a fifth rounder they could
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have taking Ty Simpson at 18. You could had Ruben Bane.
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He's. Had two.
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He's had two surgeries. Yeah, and big, fat defensive
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tackles, You think they use their feet?
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You think there's a little force on those little metatarsals and
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metatarsals down there? There are.
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There are. And I'm like, oh man, Minnesota
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fans, at least the ones I was talking to there in my little
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group. Well, I hope it works out.
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Otherwise what a monumental waste of a pig was.
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So there's. Somebody.
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Is there somebody that Minnesota fans were hoping they would have
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taken right there? I mean anyone else I think was
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on that list. Corners lineman edge runner mean
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Leak Lemon was there. We'll take another because
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Jordan Addison were probably losing next year because we're
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not going to pay for that contract.
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I would have taken his backup have Justin Jefferson in a
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rookie contract level white out who was.
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AC Concepcion. He was available in the Kyle
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Lemon, though, was first team All American out of USC.
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He would have been. I was being selfish wanting
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that. But do we need some defense?
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Yeah, we could use defense, but pretty good on defense, right?
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And I don't know, I just didn't think we need to reach for our
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very first pick at 18 for a guy with broken surgery.
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Foot guy. I mean, I hate to say it Dex,
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but I felt like there were better D lineman available at
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that point, even if you're going to go D line like.
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Man, I don't study the D line like many of these analysts at
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the athletic team. He was definitely a few down the
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list of who was. Ahead of him.
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Now, maybe he just worked out and had an extremely good
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meeting and they didn't really like what he had to say.
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I hope so. I hope it all pans out like, oh,
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man, remember, we were all worried about this guy right?
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Right now, look at him. He's all pro first year.
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I'm like, that'd be cool. Yeah.
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I just hope he's not playing six games and.
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Then weird. Gets a foot injury cause a big
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lineman that's 380 lbs steps on it or something weird?
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I do see a lot of risk. So, So Dex, you mentioned Mackay
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Lemon. I thought one of the more
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interesting stories of the draft was, was that move with both
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between Dallas and Philly. Totally.
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To swap spots and move Philly ahead of the Steelers.
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And it was it was very brought, you know, widely broadcast that
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Steelers really wanted Mackay Lemon with that extra big Philly
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swooped in and grabbed him and this.
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And there was some insider knowledge, supposedly some ex
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Dallas guys on the Steelers. Yeah, because they Dallas and
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they were like, hey Philly, guess who the Steelers are
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getting here to draft? And they they wheeled and deal.
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Then anyway, Philly swooped in. I bet there's.
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So. Many players that move all
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around now, you wouldn't think they would have the most up to
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date draft boards. I hope they're not just.
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No, this was cameras. In there Oceanville, well, I
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mean. Because you got McCarthy in in
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Pittsburgh. So McCarthy took a bunch of guys
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from Dallas. So McCarthy brought his cronies,
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you know, with him to oh. Boy, yeah, that's fun.
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Well. And it was bad, too, because if
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you, I don't know if you guys listened to the interview that
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McKay Lemon did, but he he was like, I was talking to the
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Steelers, yeah, like on the phone and he thought the
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Steelers are going to draft him and then.
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He's like, hey, why is Philly calling?
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Yeah, hey, he'd. Hang.
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Us out of the line there bro. His agent runs in.
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He's like Philly just drafted you.
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Right. I mean, you're right, Pru.
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That was a great story, though, that that because it kind of
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gives you an insight into, I mean, quite honestly, like the
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the pettiness that's. Still pretty cutthroat, right?
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Yeah. Yeah.
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In the NFL, because. Some of these guys are hot
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commodities and you hear you get, you catch wind.
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That was that was one of the reasons the Chiefs were so like
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hush hush on their first round pick is they were like, we don't
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want anybody knowing what we're doing.
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Which it's. An effective way, yeah.
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I want to talk about one other guy before we jump into kind of
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some other interesting ones. So at #4 Carnell Tate goes to
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Tennessee wide receiver, Ohio State.
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We like Carnell Tate. Nothing wrong with him.
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I just did not think he would go there.
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I just thought that the Tennessee, when you get Sala,
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Robert Sala, defensive coordinator from San Francisco,
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becomes head coach for Tennessee.
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I thought he was for sure going to grab anybody.
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Like. Like who was arguably the top
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talent in the draft of any position?
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Again, he was probably top defense and Jeremiah Love top
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offensive. His talent mean obviously
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Fernando Mendoza. Went first.
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And there's nothing wrong with that, but it's that's
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quarterback position. But for talent in the draft,
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Reese, not intelligence. My God there's some bad videos
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out there for a. Dude is like Rick if you asked.
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Him. What his name was?
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He was taking a long pause. Like, do you like football?
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He did not ace the interview portion of the draft.
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For sure. He liked football.
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Yeah, he was not drafted for his interview skills.
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Exactly, so what's good for John Harbaugh and the Giants is that
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re spelled him at the 5th pick and not he did not go forward to
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Tennessee. But do you like Carnell Tate?
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We wouldn't say it means guillotine and real life going
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to Tennessee. Is that a good fit for him?
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Real life and fantasy, what do we think?
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Personally, I think there's a bit of a log jam there.
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They've got two other young guys that they've already been
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developing for a year. Yeah, So it's not like they're
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entrenched veterans. So maybe he steps in and you
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know, does like a three man rotation thing, but.
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I I got DK and I old manner already, right?
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Yeah. Is he going to come in and just
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bump them? Like I don't know if he just
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automatically bumps him down the depth chart.
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Similar similar to your your Jeremiah Love comments earlier
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Dex I it seems like they had other holes they could have
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filled like wide receiver was not a glaring need.
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Right. And you had guys like Arvel
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Reeves still available or Sony styles or I mean, there's a lot
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of defensive. Flame anchors.
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Probably could have been a better immediate impact.
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Yeah, so too, we'll see Like Chizzy think he's going to.
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Is he going to be third, first, second?
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Do we even want to worry about him?
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Is he just now fantasy around it until Week 6?
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I I think he's going to be one of the starters.
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I think I think he'll come in and I think he'll take, I mean,
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I think he's going to have to earn it, but I think he'll earn
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it in the preseason. Like I think he's a lot better
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talent than what they have. So if he has, if he from, from
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what I understand, he's a pretty smart kid.
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So I think he's not going to have playbook problems.
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And from an athlete, from an athletic standpoint, he's better
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than either the ones they've got.
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So I think he'll get one of the spots I tend to think he's going
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to. He'll beat IO Manor out.
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DK is more the speed, speed threat.
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I think he's going to be like the deep guy and big play guy
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and Tate's going to be more of your possession, you know, big
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body across the middle, you know, out route kind of guy and
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and he he'll be really good at that.
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Yeah, I think so too. Well, there's also nothing wrong
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with playing three wide receivers, right?
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And have a guy playing in the slot and just having fewer tight
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end plays. At all.
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I agree with that, but I did not have him go on there.
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How much more fun would it have been to have Jeremiah Love go to
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Tennessee, though? Oh man.
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What? That was the pick I wanted to
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see. Like if you're not going to go
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defense, it's like, oh but stupid Arizona sniped him and
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messed up. I I, I, I only made two bets on
00:21:54
the draft and, and one of them was that Jeremiah was going to
00:22:00
the four spot. That was like what I thought was
00:22:03
like. A for sure thing.
00:22:04
I was like, I was like, he's going to go for.
00:22:08
I didn't know if it was going to be the Titans or if they would
00:22:11
trade back, but I was like, he's going for because I was like,
00:22:14
there's no way Raiders, Jets or Cardinals are taking a running
00:22:18
back. Yeah.
00:22:21
And then and then the Cardinals Cardinaled and and took a
00:22:24
running back. So I think that kind of threw.
00:22:27
That's kind of when for me. The chaos started.
00:22:29
Happening in the draft as it was like, oh, wait a second.
00:22:33
Like Cardinals didn't do what they were supposed to.
00:22:36
Duh. So like you know how?
00:22:38
Who could have seen that like? Like everyone's like, what I
00:22:41
mean, to your point, Dex, not like Jeremiah.
00:22:42
I mean, Jeremiah was a great player.
00:22:44
He probably is the best player in the draft.
00:22:45
When you hear him interviewed, you're like, I want that dude on
00:22:47
my team. Like, Oh yeah, he is like
00:22:50
everything you want on your team, but God, just such a
00:22:53
waste. I'm like, it's just so
00:22:56
frustrating to me. As a fantasy.
00:22:58
Player too, like I'm. Like and why go build your time
00:23:02
You you went and got Tyler Algier after you knew that you
00:23:06
had the 3rd pick. Right.
00:23:08
Yeah. Like this wasn't a new thing.
00:23:10
Like they knew Jeremiah Love was going to be there for them at 3,
00:23:14
right? Right, so.
00:23:15
Why go sign out here it? Just a waste.
00:23:18
It's absolutely crazy time so back.
00:23:21
To back to Cardinal Tate, I think what's kind of funny about
00:23:23
this fourth overall pick in the draft that is that that says so
00:23:28
that means something. I was looking up because when I
00:23:30
read a status it said second team all American.
00:23:33
I'm like what? He's just second team all
00:23:36
American and he's 4th overall pick #1 white out taken.
00:23:38
So I was like, well, who's first team?
00:23:40
All American. We've got Jeremiah Smith, his
00:23:42
teammate who wind up on the opposite side, and we'll talk
00:23:45
about him a little later. Yeah, he's just a beast.
00:23:49
And then you've got Makai Lemon, USC, who went 20th to Philly.
00:23:52
We talked about him, too. And then Malachi, Tony Freshman
00:23:55
out of Miami. Yep.
00:23:57
Saw him do his work all through the college championships.
00:24:00
And then Skylar Bell, Yukon, Like, who the heck?
00:24:03
Skylar Bell. He beat out Cardinal Tate.
00:24:05
This is weird. And exactly.
00:24:08
And so one goes four overall to Carnell Tate and Mikaelima goes
00:24:12
20 and Skylar Bell goes to Buffalo.
00:24:15
I mean, you got to flip pages to find where you end up going
00:24:18
fourth round, 125th overall. Wide receiver Skylar Bell, you
00:24:22
got to Buffalo. So I wanted to just kind of hit
00:24:25
on that. He's a first team All American.
00:24:27
We've talked about some of the lesser teams and lesser
00:24:30
conferences. Don't get the love.
00:24:32
Well, he's got the love. And they don't usually fake the
00:24:34
funk on first team All Americans.
00:24:35
They don't like you earned it because no matter what team
00:24:39
you'd be on, they think you're that good in the country.
00:24:43
Do we think that Josh Allen, did he get somebody here with this
00:24:47
guy? Again, only four first team All
00:24:49
Americans. He's one of them.
00:24:51
And they got him in the fourth round and I tried to find a hole
00:24:54
with them. He had 101 catches, 1278 yards,
00:24:58
13 touchdowns A4440 time. He's 6 foot 192 second in the
00:25:03
country with 835 yards after the catch, only four drops to 141
00:25:07
targets. He looks like an explosive
00:25:10
Khalil Shakur. He does pretty well.
00:25:12
What do we think? Like, is it just the Yukon
00:25:15
problem? And now it won't be any good?
00:25:17
What do you think on this, Chiz? Do they have a weapon?
00:25:20
Skylar Bell. It is a small school problem.
00:25:23
So that's what that that's the knock against him as well.
00:25:26
He hasn't played against top tier defenses.
00:25:28
He hasn't played against top tier D backs.
00:25:30
Yeah. You know who else didn't play
00:25:31
against top tier D backs with Jerry Rice?
00:25:33
So he came from division two school.
00:25:36
So, you know, like, I mean, there's some there's some people
00:25:39
that just have it. I like the kid.
00:25:42
I do. I think he's going to I think
00:25:45
he'll compete. He may end up being just depth
00:25:47
for them this year, but I could definitely see him stealing some
00:25:50
snaps. And I do think he's
00:25:51
complimentary to what they have already.
00:25:53
So yeah, I thought it was a really good pig, especially
00:25:57
where they took him. Like I said, no, he's that good.
00:26:01
Yeah, I don't know much about the kid, but like you said, Dex,
00:26:03
they don't just hand that award out to just anybody.
00:26:06
No. And they picked him out of, you
00:26:08
know, every school. Yes.
00:26:11
Yes, there's a lot of choices they could have made and they
00:26:13
picked him so. Every school, every class
00:26:16
because. Buffalo.
00:26:17
Made it. Right.
00:26:19
Yeah, yeah, that's awesome. Buffalo did get really good
00:26:22
draft grades. I can.
00:26:25
See why now? I mean, this kid who left the
00:26:27
country with seven 100 yard games, he broke all the school
00:26:31
records for UConn yards receptions, and he's not a
00:26:35
little guy. I thought he'd be like, whoa,
00:26:36
he's probably 5-8 then Nope, 6 foot he probably weighs 160.
00:26:40
Nope, 192. Well, he probably has a drops.
00:26:43
Probably. He probably just can't catch
00:26:45
anything. Well, he had 7 the year before.
00:26:48
He reduced it to four this last season and he doubled the volume
00:26:52
of targets. Yeah.
00:26:54
Like yeah, you said 140 something targets, right?
00:26:56
Yeah. It's just.
00:26:59
I think he's kind of a steal. I don't know, I'm I'm excited to
00:27:01
watch him now in preseason and I didn't even know his freaking
00:27:03
name before the draft. And then I said to look it up
00:27:06
because I I wanted to know why Carnal Tate wasn't a first team
00:27:08
all American. He's 4th overall the draft, the
00:27:12
the second best on his team and not even on the 1st chunk of
00:27:16
four in college. Anyway, I digress.
00:27:18
Just wanted to hit that one real fast.
00:27:20
Yeah, I want to. I want to hit on one too that I
00:27:22
thought was a steal. I don't know.
00:27:24
This is a I've. I've tried to avoid being a
00:27:27
Homer for the the first whatever almost 30 minutes of this
00:27:30
episode, but. Right, but did it?
00:27:33
Done a good job bro, good job. But I want to talk about Emmett
00:27:38
Johnson, the Chiefs, 5th. Round pick.
00:27:42
Yeah. Yeah, he was.
00:27:42
He was projected to be a third or fourth round pick.
00:27:46
Yeah, so #1 what's wrong with him?
00:27:49
Why did he call the fifth round? But I I view that as a potential
00:27:53
steal as well. He's 511, six foot tall and 200
00:27:57
lbs. So he's, you know, maybe middle
00:28:01
of the pack to to large for a running back that's.
00:28:04
Probably gonna be played in that ratty Big 10 conference.
00:28:08
They don't have any good teams. He LED LED football with like
00:28:13
150 something yards per game and like fourth in the nation and
00:28:18
rushing yards per game or something.
00:28:20
I mean, pretty good company that he was among.
00:28:24
And I, it just, it felt really odd to me that he felt, to the
00:28:28
yeah, it felt really odd that he he fell to the first round.
00:28:32
Yeah, Nebraska played real teams and they didn't have a lot of
00:28:35
good talent either besides him. So it's not like he was like,
00:28:39
oh, they're always throwing and getting a bunch of yards on the
00:28:41
in the air. So he's he's got a loose defense
00:28:44
run against like, you know, they knew he's getting the ball.
00:28:49
Yeah, you know, in more ways than one he.
00:28:52
So he caught a bunch of passes, he ran a bunch of, you know, ran
00:28:56
in, put touchdowns, caught touchdowns because.
00:28:59
More competition in the Chiefs running backroom is never a bad
00:29:02
thing as a Chiefs fan because man, we've just seen some.
00:29:08
We haven't had that goat. There's no Saquan Barclays for
00:29:12
the Chiefs, we just don't have anything like that remotely
00:29:15
close the. Last, the last.
00:29:17
The last one was Jamaal Charles I think.
00:29:19
Yeah. Priest Holmes back in the day.
00:29:22
Too, But. Yeah, I, yeah, I mean,
00:29:25
competition is probably a strong word.
00:29:26
I don't think he'll compete with Ken Walker, but he's a nice
00:29:30
compliment for sure. Yeah.
00:29:32
And, and if he can learn from him and, and become a, you know,
00:29:36
even a remotely close #2 over the next couple years, that'll
00:29:41
be a really solid running backroom.
00:29:43
Yeah. For sure, if the Chiefs use
00:29:44
Kenneth Walker like Seattle did, yeah, he only plays half the
00:29:48
drives. I mean, Charbonnay took the
00:29:51
other half. So there's going to be some
00:29:52
opportunities for other running backs to step up in this Chiefs
00:29:56
office with the enemy back. Why not him, right?
00:29:59
I mean, it, he fell to him. We got to steal out of it.
00:30:02
Great. I never hate more talent in the
00:30:04
running backroom. To, to I think a point we've
00:30:07
made on multiple shows now, it's what can you do on 3rd down?
00:30:11
Can he really be effective pass blocking?
00:30:14
We, we need Patrick to stay vertical #1 So if he can step in
00:30:19
on 3rd downs and contribute somewhat, but Kenneth Walker be
00:30:25
the first, second round, first and second round back and all
00:30:29
that, maybe he'll find a, a niche where he can step in and
00:30:32
contribute right away. But anyway, great value pick for
00:30:36
the Chiefs. Not a lot of bell horse cows
00:30:37
that are going to run it every time now.
00:30:39
So I think, you know, you need you need a compliment of people
00:30:43
back there. Speaking of running backs,
00:30:44
though, Dex, I want to say I want to ask you what you thought
00:30:49
of the number 32 pick to the Super Bowl champion Seattle
00:30:53
Seahawks, who just lost lost their running back.
00:30:56
To the. Chiefs Kenneth Walker and they
00:30:59
picked up the second Notre Dame running back in the first round.
00:31:04
Not that I'm biased, but 2 running backs in the first round
00:31:07
is pretty. Damn good domes.
00:31:09
Not good enough to make the playoff last year.
00:31:12
But. It's pretty good.
00:31:15
What do you think of Jadarian Price in Seattle?
00:31:19
So Jadarian Price, I mean, if you watch them play, there
00:31:23
wasn't much from a rushing perspective that he wasn't doing
00:31:25
that. Jeremiah loved it.
00:31:27
I know they look, I think he actually is a little bit better
00:31:31
rusher. His problem from what I was
00:31:33
reading and I, I only saw him play a few games.
00:31:35
You watched every Notre Dame game.
00:31:37
I went live to on his phone and he had a huge game because
00:31:39
everybody had a big game against Syracuse that game.
00:31:42
But Jadarian Price is explosive. He's fast.
00:31:46
I guess his bugaboo, which you can probably attest to is ball
00:31:49
security. And if he fixes that, I think, I
00:31:53
mean, they took him to the first round.
00:31:55
So I think he is a high upside guy that they got at the back.
00:32:00
He's first round talent clearly and they're going to immediately
00:32:03
plug him in that role. It sounds like he doesn't have
00:32:05
to beat out much talent and Chardonnay's there.
00:32:07
Got you. But the second back, the one
00:32:09
that was Kenneth Walker last year, sounds like him right off
00:32:13
the get go. And I think the only thing
00:32:15
that's going to screw him is if he starts getting the ball
00:32:17
knocked out. That's the only way I see he's
00:32:19
not going to have an impact right off the bat.
00:32:21
And many riders across the NFL industry, we're saying they
00:32:25
wouldn't be surprised whatsoever if he led all rookies in rushing
00:32:28
yards. Yep.
00:32:29
I'm including Jeremiah Love there.
00:32:31
So that's what's kind of interesting there.
00:32:34
Just Jeremiah Love plays for. Arizona, yes.
00:32:37
I actually believe of the first round draft picks from a
00:32:41
guillotine fantasy standpoint, he's my favorite.
00:32:45
Yes, an offensive player, because he's going to.
00:32:48
A best situation. Situation right?
00:32:51
He you know, like he's not going to a team with a horrible lion
00:32:55
and a horrible defense. So you know you're not going to
00:32:57
run the ball when you have a horrible lion and horrible
00:32:59
defense. They're going to be ahead a lot
00:33:01
of games. He's going to be getting the
00:33:03
ball. They're going to run the ball a
00:33:04
lot. Charbonnay, we know is not an
00:33:06
every down guy. He's not.
00:33:07
He's not ever able to be. Relied on 2 backs last year.
00:33:11
They're going to probably operate pretty similarly this
00:33:14
year. I agree.
00:33:15
So I I feel like he is probably my favorite guillotine first
00:33:19
round pick out of everybody, and that's include Jeremiah Love,
00:33:23
who I love and including Makai Lemon who I really love in that
00:33:26
in that spot too. But I think it's a really good
00:33:29
pick. So everyone, I want to get you
00:33:30
guys opinion on kind of last time before we start rolling
00:33:33
through some just teams that have made some decent picks.
00:33:35
Is the 6th or the 8th overall pick to New Orleans wide
00:33:39
receiver Jordan Tyson out of Arizona State?
00:33:43
I don't know if I love this pick.
00:33:45
I love the talent. I love upside.
00:33:47
I don't like it at 8. I don't really like it in the
00:33:49
Orleans. What do we think about Jordan
00:33:52
Tyson? I mean, we we said he's a a good
00:33:55
player that could be in a good situation.
00:33:57
I'm not sure this is that. I'm less focused on the, the
00:34:02
situation that he's stepping into, but just his history and
00:34:05
the value at #8 I think it feels like he's got, you know, too
00:34:11
much injury risk for me to take him that high.
00:34:14
In college, he was hurt every season.
00:34:17
Similar to, I think we've talked about this in the past too,
00:34:20
similar to fantasy drafts. My number one pick needs to be a
00:34:23
guy that I know will be vertical, very low, very low
00:34:27
injury risk and taking a guy that's the was he the third wide
00:34:32
receiver off the board? 2nd number.
00:34:35
Two, he's his. Cardinal Tate, man, yeah, second
00:34:38
wide receiver off the board 2nd. And to me there's maybe other
00:34:44
value. If you really needed a wide out,
00:34:49
you probably could have traded down and still gotten somebody.
00:34:51
Pretty sorry that that was a better.
00:34:53
I would have I would have loved I.
00:34:55
Would have I would have played them.
00:34:57
There's so many you could have kept dropping back and kind of
00:35:00
seeing where people were going. I don't know why they didn't.
00:35:03
There's there's a lot of teams. I'm wondering why they maybe
00:35:05
just no one made trades or they weren't good enough.
00:35:08
But some teams took people too early that you could have felt
00:35:12
like other teams would have gone up to get Sonny Styles.
00:35:15
They would have gone up to get these dudes and.
00:35:17
This. Didn't mean styles went 7, so I
00:35:20
guess not. That's a bad example, but you
00:35:23
know what I mean. There's some people that could
00:35:24
have gone lying. For example, hit on the earlier
00:35:28
chase, I think the Caleb Downs at 11, I think there's a steal.
00:35:31
Reuben Bayne at 15 was a steal. Absolutely.
00:35:34
Yeah. A lot of teams could have jumped
00:35:36
up there and grabbed those guys and.
00:35:38
I think Sunny Styles at 7 was a steal.
00:35:40
Like when the when the Chiefs traded up to 6 and got Monsoor
00:35:45
Delaine out of LSU cornerback. I thought they were going up to
00:35:48
get Sunny Styles. The guy who was unbelievable and
00:35:53
missed, they they said it was only one tackle.
00:35:56
I looked it up. It seems to be accurate and it
00:35:58
seems to be in the Miami game. Like you didn't miss a tackle
00:36:01
all damn season until the last game of the season.
00:36:03
Yeah. What?
00:36:04
I don't understand how that's possible in college football in
00:36:09
today's day and age. So the fact is.
00:36:12
What that? Is exactly the fact you passed
00:36:14
up something like that kind of crazy?
00:36:17
But that said, I want to hit on. Do we think the Chiefs made a
00:36:20
good pick with Monsoor Delaine? Given that we gave away every
00:36:23
single quarterback in trades and free agency this offseason, we
00:36:27
now have someone to backfill. By our accounts, he was the
00:36:31
number one on on the board. Not even close.
00:36:34
He was distant second for anyone else. 2nd, 3rd and 4th.
00:36:36
We're all projected late 1st or early second round picks.
00:36:40
Do we like the pick that the Chiefs did when they trade it
00:36:42
up? I, I wasn't sold on it at first.
00:36:44
I was, I, I was joking with you guys.
00:36:47
I was like, hey, I hope we're not all talking about Sonny
00:36:49
Styles a year from now, like how awesome he is for Washington,
00:36:54
right? So.
00:36:55
He will be awesome for Washington.
00:36:57
He will be. That's a fact.
00:36:58
Yeah, so I, I hope that Delane's not a bust.
00:37:02
I hope he steps in and can can fill, at least mostly fill the
00:37:07
gap that Mcduffie left behind here.
00:37:09
But I I do like the pic. I think that was the one glaring
00:37:14
position that I was worried about based on the Chiefs
00:37:18
offseason moves. They've kind of they've filled
00:37:20
in their D line. They've obviously went and got
00:37:23
Kenneth Walker, that kind of stuff.
00:37:24
So I felt like they were weakest probably on the outsides.
00:37:30
And so I don't, I don't fault the pick at all.
00:37:33
I think it's a good attempt to fill your defense up with with
00:37:37
what you lost. Yeah, I just, I hope they know
00:37:42
what they're doing. I think I, I like Monsieur du
00:37:45
Lane and I think, I mean, if you play as good as he did last year
00:37:50
in the SEC, you can play in the NFLI think he's a, he's a safe
00:37:55
pick for sure. Like I, I don't think there's a
00:37:57
risk of him like really truly being a bust.
00:38:01
I just don't like what they did to get.
00:38:04
I feel like he's there at 9:00 and so like maybe or and you
00:38:09
know, he may not be but like to give up a third to get him.
00:38:15
That's the part I didn't like. Like like to move up a few spots
00:38:18
in the third. That's the part that I didn't
00:38:20
love. But I don't dislike the pic.
00:38:23
I just. I thought it was.
00:38:26
When I really wanted him, obviously.
00:38:27
It's a little hour ago they. Had.
00:38:29
So when I read about this behind the scenes, the Chiefs beat
00:38:32
reporter, he said the Chiefs had Delaine top five overall in the
00:38:37
draft period. And so when Six opened up as a
00:38:40
viable trade partner, they didn't think he would go much
00:38:45
further. So it made sense why they did
00:38:48
it. When you think if we have a 5
00:38:50
and we have now the 6th pick and there's been some weird stuff
00:38:53
happening, maybe someone trades up, scoops them from us and then
00:38:56
we don't have the guy we want. This is the top guy left on our
00:38:59
board. And for a third round pick, I
00:39:02
mean, name the last 10 third round picks for the Chiefs.
00:39:04
Right, OK, right. So that's fair that.
00:39:07
Miss Delay's baseball card disappears, and who cares?
00:39:10
And so now you've got the guy you want for that.
00:39:13
But with that context, I'm pretty comfortable with it.
00:39:16
And so I'm kind of good. Yeah, yeah.
00:39:19
Yeah, that's that's the truth. 11 little oddity that I really I
00:39:23
thought I'd share with you guys is when the Steelers made their
00:39:26
draft pick, I misread they they picked a 21 and they picked Max
00:39:33
E high an anchor. E high an anchor.
00:39:37
Easy for you to say, but. If you look.
00:39:40
At if you look at his name, I thought it said Max the anchor
00:39:46
and I was like that is a. Kick ass name.
00:39:50
For an offensive tackle, Max the anchor is like the best name
00:39:54
ever for an offensive tackle. And and like, because I thought
00:39:59
the I was AT and it's the anchor that so I was like, man, and
00:40:03
then for a second I actually, this is this is how slow I am.
00:40:06
I was like, I wonder if he actually legally changed his.
00:40:10
Named the Anchor because he's a left tackle.
00:40:13
And I'm like, this is awesome. And then I was like, yeah, they
00:40:16
start talking about him. I'm like, oh, oh, wait.
00:40:19
Oh, I just can't see. Yeah, I just can't read anymore.
00:40:23
His agent was he hate me and he said this is gonna be a great
00:40:26
idea, right? They're gonna draft him for
00:40:28
this. I.
00:40:30
Will say. I will say a another another
00:40:33
thing we talked about the Cardinals Cardinaling.
00:40:37
So they picked running back. They didn't need a running back.
00:40:39
Then in the third round, in the third round, they picked Carson
00:40:42
Beck, who is like the most mediocre quarterback like this.
00:40:49
He's a guy that came in highly recruited and, you know, in.
00:40:54
Nine years in college. He gave it highly recruited
00:40:58
everywhere he went. He just slightly disappointed.
00:41:03
You know, was never great. Was like, OK, and it's like.
00:41:08
He did keep going to Championship games, though.
00:41:11
I know, but man, he just. Kept going if you just want to.
00:41:15
Play. You're just like, there's
00:41:17
nothing to be excited. There's.
00:41:19
I'll tell you right now, there's no chance this guy's a star in
00:41:22
the NFL. I'll tell.
00:41:24
I've seen and there's no chance, especially on the Cardinals, and
00:41:29
you're spending a third round pick on him.
00:41:31
Yeah. Like, I'm going to throw out
00:41:33
Brody Croyle and yeah, raising that one.
00:41:37
So he was also not, I had no way he'd be a starter.
00:41:42
And lo and behold, he was the chief starter for far too many
00:41:45
games, right? Well, you.
00:41:48
Did go to Arizona, Jess the. Best the best quote I read about
00:41:53
about Carson Beck I wrote this down was your offseason
00:41:58
investment at the most valuable position is a 24 year old with
00:42:01
limited tools after you've taken a running back and a guard.
00:42:07
So their their first 2 picks were running back that I don't
00:42:10
need and a guard like tackle maybe guard and then you take
00:42:16
Carson back. Like if I have an Arizona fan
00:42:19
I'm like F it, I'm not watching next year.
00:42:22
Like. This is this is an abomination.
00:42:25
What are we doing? Yeah, like they.
00:42:28
I think they had one of the worst drafts of anybody.
00:42:33
Again, I'll tell you, I'll tell you who I think had one of the
00:42:37
best drafts. And this hurts my heart to say,
00:42:42
but the Raiders and. I think the.
00:42:45
I think the Raiders had a great draft and I'll tell you maybe
00:42:49
the best value pick in the draft.
00:42:51
In my mind, it's not a guillotine guy, but a guy named
00:42:54
Jermad McCoy, who is a cornerback from Tennessee.
00:42:59
The Raiders took him. In the fourth round, OK, I'll
00:43:02
tell you, having watched this guy Hewitt, I'm not
00:43:06
exaggerating. He's a top ten talent.
00:43:09
He is a top ten talent. And because of injury, he
00:43:13
slipped to the fourth round and I was going, how is he not being
00:43:16
take like, like I was like just kept waiting for him to get
00:43:19
taken. And I get it, you're risking
00:43:21
injury. But this to me feels like a lot
00:43:23
of a lot like the Trey Smith draft pick that the Chiefs did a
00:43:26
few years back where Trey Smith was like a top ten talent.
00:43:30
And then they were worried about him.
00:43:31
They're like he's been hurt and he had the issue with blood
00:43:34
clots and they were like, we're going to everyone just stayed
00:43:38
away from a top ten talent and the Chiefs finally pulled the OR
00:43:42
pushed the button. And I feel like Jermont McCoy is
00:43:45
that guy. I feel like he's going to be a
00:43:46
guy we look back and go, Dang it, like that is a guy we should
00:43:51
have, should have drafted not. As the Chiefs.
00:43:53
Man, but like just everybody's, I think it'll look back and go,
00:43:58
I mean, it could be that like, OK, the injuries are real, real
00:44:00
and really, really, really bad. Could be I?
00:44:03
Don't think so. I love the pick and I hate
00:44:05
saying that for Raiders. Today they had him at 18th
00:44:09
ranked again average across all the big major boards from all
00:44:12
the analysts. You went 101st to your .18 to
00:44:15
101 because of the risk of injury.
00:44:17
He's not even hurt right now. He's right.
00:44:20
Like you got to help me dude with that much talent.
00:44:23
I I did that one was surprising because you know when you're
00:44:26
watching the draft and you always got milk Hyper's big
00:44:28
board best available and you saw McCoy round after round after
00:44:32
round sitting there as best available player.
00:44:34
I'm like, what is wrong with this guy?
00:44:35
Did he just get invested? Like what is wrong with him is
00:44:38
is one leg shorter than the other?
00:44:40
About two feet like? I.
00:44:41
Don't understand how he's falling so far.
00:44:44
You know, you know the part that made me more MAD about it too,
00:44:47
Dex was. What's that?
00:44:49
It was 8 picks later, the Chiefs took a corner and so I thought
00:44:54
he was actually going to be sitting there still.
00:44:58
That would have been nice. I know we'd already taken the
00:45:00
corner in the first round, but I was like, dude, I was sitting
00:45:02
there thinking if we could get McCoy on top of Monsoor.
00:45:07
Like I was like, Oh my gosh, like we're going to have great
00:45:10
second round. And I mean, the guy that the guy
00:45:13
that the Chief selected after that was Jayden Kennedy, who?
00:45:18
He's really good, too. Oregon.
00:45:20
He's a pretty good pick. Yeah, but.
00:45:22
Yeah, but in terms of pure talent, he's not.
00:45:24
He's not as good as McCoy. So yeah.
00:45:26
That's the that's the thing. To stay on our and it's this
00:45:29
again, it's cringy to keep talking about Raiders doing good
00:45:32
things. I don't know what happened.
00:45:35
Like I don't know what happened. But I also don't mind their pick
00:45:38
of Mike Washington, junior out of Arkansas running back same
00:45:42
round. So again, the fastest running
00:45:44
back in the draft a little bit last.
00:45:46
Week, I think. Absolutely.
00:45:48
So he ran a 4340, kind of put himself on the board, but he's
00:45:52
also just really good for Arkansas last year.
00:45:54
I think that is a pick to watch. I mean, obviously Genti is the
00:45:58
clear 1. The injuries happen, There's
00:46:01
weird stuff that happens, and when you have a guy with talent
00:46:04
and then you put it with some opportunity and they did draft
00:46:07
some players to help. So the Raiders, they kind of did
00:46:12
all right. I don't know.
00:46:13
They it's just the line needs to get better and Kurt Cousins
00:46:16
needs to have a decent season, year one.
00:46:17
But there's some they got better.
00:46:20
They got better in the draft. That was the only that was the
00:46:22
only hole in in their draft in my mind was like they didn't
00:46:26
address offensive line, which I was like, yeah, man, we we saw
00:46:30
what happened with Ashton Genti running behind that.
00:46:32
Yeah. Swiss cheese line and it's like
00:46:35
I'm looking at their draft picks now.
00:46:37
They also have no DA though they had no defense whatsoever.
00:46:42
And so this year stacked with defense, as we highlighted, they
00:46:44
took three cornerbacks, they took an edge.
00:46:47
They in one of those corners was McCoy, who has again top ten
00:46:51
talent and was ranked top 18 on all the boards.
00:46:54
So when you think that they did address that they need a wide
00:46:56
out and they got Oregon's Malik Benson, who a lot of people
00:46:59
like. I didn't watch him enough to
00:47:01
know if he's good. I'll have to dig into him more
00:47:02
later. And we do like our division, our
00:47:05
team previews and going to depth.
00:47:07
We'll have a lot more stuff on that.
00:47:08
But Blake Benson looks like a pretty good white out too.
00:47:11
We'll see what's up. But Raiders did not hurt
00:47:14
themselves this draft. And you only have so many picks.
00:47:17
And so maybe each time they had a lineman or another guy and
00:47:19
they just like the defensive guy better each time.
00:47:21
Obviously, that's why they took who they could.
00:47:24
Let's go with another annual poop team.
00:47:28
Just always is stepping in a flaming bag of poo on their
00:47:31
front step. Cleveland, and arguably by most
00:47:36
accounts, you're going to see them as listed as the best draft
00:47:39
or one of the top three. I haven't seen anything that has
00:47:42
them below that and here's why. They accidentally did a smart
00:47:47
thing off the bat. They took a lineman to protect
00:47:50
their 42 rookie quarterbacks and Deshawn Watson and whoever else.
00:47:56
They actually drafted another rookie quarterback, Whatever.
00:47:59
Whoever's going to be there, I mean, should do.
00:48:01
Or maybe it's you, buddy. Maybe you are the all Pro and
00:48:05
that you were last year by default, everybody just didn't
00:48:09
go. But they took Spitzer Fano
00:48:12
offensive tackle out of Utah. Then they took two good wide
00:48:17
outs. So from fantasy standpoint, next
00:48:20
year when they draft their real quarterback of the future in
00:48:22
2027, they're going to have Casey Concepcion out of Texas
00:48:27
A&M. And then you have Denzel Boston
00:48:30
out of Washington. And both these guys were, I
00:48:33
mean, first round of talent, KC Kozepjeon actually went in the
00:48:36
first round. Denzel Boston went to pick 39.
00:48:40
But those are very helpful. I mean, to go with Harold Fannon
00:48:43
Junior, I think that's going to be nice pieces because they
00:48:47
didn't really have wide outs to speak of last year, right?
00:48:51
So I think at least putting some more talent in the room to
00:48:54
compete with, maybe they bring in some more players, who knows.
00:48:58
But Cleveland did a lot of good picks too to help themselves.
00:49:02
What do you guys think about Cleveland's picks?
00:49:03
Do you agree with that? Also acquired Justin Jefferson.
00:49:07
Not me, Justin Jefferson. But linebacker from Alabama,
00:49:12
Justin Jefferson. Everybody got really excited in
00:49:14
Cleveland and they were like, what we got, Justin.
00:49:17
Jefferson, Justin JJ. We got oh wait, what happened?
00:49:24
Justin L Jefferson or whatever. Justin L Jefferson No, I I love
00:49:29
Cleveland's draft, but I just here's the problem.
00:49:32
Like it automatically, I feel like there's a hex on them.
00:49:35
So like I feel like whoever gets drafted by them, it's just like
00:49:39
spontaneously gonna burst into flames or all their bones just
00:49:42
disintegrate or like. I feel like they they like were
00:49:48
dialed in on the 1st 5 rounds and then the last, their last
00:49:51
three picks were two tight ends and a quarterback, right?
00:49:55
You already have 6 quarterbacks and you already have Harold
00:50:00
Fanon. Yeah.
00:50:02
You probably could use another lineman somewhere or a defensive
00:50:05
player. I don't know.
00:50:07
I I thought they started out really strong and then it was
00:50:09
like, I don't know what they're doing those last few picks, but.
00:50:12
Yeah. Maybe they saw the some value
00:50:14
there or whatever. But kind of faded.
00:50:16
I could see that too for yeah, I agree with that though.
00:50:19
Absolutely. So I want to finish with some
00:50:21
Geo note noteworthy picks from just a few of the teams because
00:50:25
again, not every team took some Geo noteworthy ones.
00:50:28
So we've already talked about quite a few, but The Jets picked
00:50:30
up two of them. So they picked up the the rising
00:50:34
tight end of the draft, Kenyan Siddiq out of Oregon because of
00:50:37
his his combine 16th overall, they took him.
00:50:41
So he was tight in off the board.
00:50:43
What do we think about The Jets? And Siddiq is a landing spot for
00:50:47
him with all that quarterback talent there.
00:50:51
Only the no quarter. Not not a fan.
00:50:55
Thought Mason Taylor was adequate.
00:50:57
Yeah, plenty adequate as a starting tight end for The Jets.
00:51:00
Again, they was not a position. Of need.
00:51:05
I don't understand that pick, right?
00:51:07
The other one they took was wide receiver Omar Cooper out of
00:51:10
Indiana. So if we watched the champion
00:51:13
team there, yeah, he's pretty good.
00:51:15
I don't have a problem with it. Again, is it a position of need?
00:51:21
I don't know, but it could be relevant.
00:51:23
Again, I just don't know if they have enough talent to make him
00:51:26
relevant there. But what do we think about Omar
00:51:27
Cooper? I like that pic better.
00:51:30
I actually like Omar Cooper. I think he's going to be.
00:51:34
I think he could. He can play in the league and I
00:51:36
like his talent level. So I didn't mind that one.
00:51:38
I did feel like we talked about Kenyan Sadiq and like who's
00:51:42
going to reach, reach a bit for him.
00:51:45
And. Actually would have.
00:51:47
I would have understood if he'd gone a lot of places.
00:51:49
I thought it was a weird room to go there given.
00:51:52
Yeah. Given who they have, so I guess
00:51:55
it's one of those best available on my board kind of deals, but.
00:51:59
Yeah, I don't know. It doesn't feel right.
00:52:03
I didn't really. Yeah.
00:52:04
I don't know if that's the best landing spot for, but whatever
00:52:06
is what it is. All right.
00:52:08
Philly got the Blitnikoff winner, Makai Lemon, which we
00:52:11
talked about often. So if A.J.
00:52:15
Brown stays there and they still have Devante, Slim, Reaper
00:52:17
Smith, he would be the third wide out there.
00:52:21
It's a great team, good situation.
00:52:23
Jalen Hurts we have our opinions on, but some days he can throw
00:52:28
the ball, some days he doesn't, but let's just say they do.
00:52:32
Do we like, do we like him on his team this year for Gio or is
00:52:36
it kind of a wait and see? For me, it's a wait and see.
00:52:40
They still have A.J. Brown, they still have Goddard
00:52:44
and Devante Smith. I don't see any.
00:52:46
Too many mouths to feed. Yeah, I don't see any real need.
00:52:50
They also have this guy named Saquon Barkley in the backfield.
00:52:54
You may have heard of him. He may.
00:52:56
Have heard of. Him.
00:52:57
So I don't I don't see a lot of opportunity in year 1 if all
00:53:02
those guys are still there. Now if they do go away, you
00:53:05
know, different direction with A.J.
00:53:07
Brown or something, then yeah, I think there's a lot of
00:53:10
potential. Opportunity comes into play,
00:53:12
then it's different story. I agree.
00:53:14
I'm with you, but. I'll tell you.
00:53:15
I'll tell you who I like more. A.J.
00:53:17
Brown on whatever team he goes to, that's what I like more.
00:53:21
Like I feel like on his shoulder.
00:53:23
I feel like this is going to be a bit of a free A.J.
00:53:25
Brown move, because I do think he is.
00:53:29
I think they're going to trade him.
00:53:30
I think they'd be dumb not to trade him at this point because
00:53:32
there's so much bad blood in. That.
00:53:35
Locker room, then you then you draft a wide receiver so it's
00:53:38
like you're putting him on notice.
00:53:40
He already is mad he doesn't get along with the quarterback.
00:53:43
Get some draft picks man. Trade him.
00:53:45
Get some draft picks. Sitting somewhere.
00:53:47
Out of division, Yeah, let him. Let him tear somebody up.
00:53:53
Do you think there's anything to this that maybe just wanted more
00:53:55
pitch from 2027 and not anymore in this draft, so they waited
00:53:58
till after this draft? I think there might be
00:54:01
something. I could definitely see that.
00:54:04
Like, there's so much talent. Coming to accumulate, This is
00:54:07
not the draft. You wanted to accumulate draft
00:54:09
picks. Yeah, for sure.
00:54:11
That's right. They took another interesting
00:54:13
one, which I think could be again, Dallas Goddard.
00:54:17
I think he's still pretty darn good.
00:54:19
I don't know why you need it, but Eli Stowers or Stowers, I'm
00:54:21
not exactly sure how he'd say his last name about it.
00:54:23
Vanderbilt, he is someone that kind of is a Swiss Army knife.
00:54:26
He can kind of run the ball. He's tight in he catch the ball.
00:54:29
I guess he blocks pretty well. I don't know how fantasy
00:54:32
relevant he's going to be, but I thought it was interesting that
00:54:35
they thought enough of him to take him in the second round.
00:54:37
And I believe he is that he's one of the top three or four
00:54:40
tight ends off the board. So that's an interesting 1 for
00:54:44
me. So I think Stowers is someone to
00:54:47
watch and see how they're going to use him.
00:54:48
I don't know if he's going to be this gadget guy or if he's
00:54:50
actually going to be lining up opposite of Dallas Goddard.
00:54:53
I just don't know. Right, right.
00:54:56
Yeah. And now I, I agree with that
00:54:58
Dex. I feel like he he was a real, he
00:55:01
was a really good player in college.
00:55:02
And I like, I like him. You know interestingly enough,
00:55:07
his quarterback in college who was a runner up for the Heisman,
00:55:12
I don't know if you guys remember did not get drafted and
00:55:17
as I as at least time of this taping, I don't believe he's
00:55:21
even signed with anyone which. Shows you why which which which.
00:55:27
I think shows you why these kids are all petitioning for like
00:55:30
fifth and sixth years in college now, because you could be you
00:55:34
could be Diego Pavia and be one of the best players and one of
00:55:38
the most exciting players to watch in college.
00:55:41
And your game just doesn't translate to the NFL.
00:55:43
And that dude is is wishing he could go back for another five
00:55:47
years in college because he'd make a lot of money there.
00:55:50
But he's definitely burned. He's out of he burned his
00:55:53
eligibility, but he also burned bridges while he did it.
00:55:56
He definitely wasn't a character guy and no one's even willing to
00:55:58
give him a chance at a practice squad or anything right now,
00:56:02
which is. Yeah, he might be on the Battle
00:56:04
Hawks radar for next spring. Yeah, we'll see what happens.
00:56:09
It could be. The last thing I wanted to throw
00:56:11
out and then you guys can say whatever you want to, but I
00:56:15
wanted to throw out my favorite name in the draft besides Max
00:56:18
the Anchor, which wasn't a real name kicker.
00:56:22
You don't see a lot of kickers drafted these days.
00:56:24
Usually they're. Undrafted free agent, but the
00:56:27
Green Bay Packers drafted kicker out of Florida.
00:56:30
Trey Smack. How much better could you get
00:56:35
for a kicker? You're kicking for three.
00:56:37
Your name is 3. Trey Smack is an awesome name
00:56:43
for a kicker. So I am super hot excited to
00:56:45
watch Trey Smack play this year and I don't think you can.
00:56:50
The dude was born to be a field goal kicker in the NFL with that
00:56:52
name. Come on.
00:56:54
It's awesome. So I think that's going to wrap
00:56:57
us up for this week's episode. Stay tuned for upcoming
00:57:02
episodes. We're going to go into depth on
00:57:05
the teams and the picks and kind of how they really stand out.
00:57:08
We'll have some highlight clips that will really go all in once
00:57:11
we get a little closer to the season.
00:57:12
Any final thoughts for kind of a immediate draft recap?
00:57:16
Oh, it's one of my favorite times of the year, like to see
00:57:19
all the the young guys get spread out into their, you know,
00:57:23
potential careers in the NFL and, and this is a fun time to
00:57:28
to talk about them all with you guys and absolutely speculate on
00:57:33
what this next year is. Never know.
00:57:34
You never know who's going to be the guy that just comes out of
00:57:36
nowhere and you know, ends up being puka nakua and dominate in
00:57:41
the league so. It is super.
00:57:43
Fun and I love the grading and there's some of these guys who
00:57:47
got drafted you won't ever hear again because they're going to
00:57:49
get cut before they even get to the you know, so it is a lot of
00:57:53
fun. It's and and it's super fun when
00:57:55
you start thinking about the the guillotine aspect, which we'll
00:57:58
dive into more later. So look forward to those
00:58:01
episodes coming up. Absolutely.
00:58:04
All right, Well, save travels, Chiz as you tour around South
00:58:08
America. We'll be back in our normal
00:58:11
spots next week, so that should be all good.
00:58:14
I think so. Absolutely happy 100.
00:58:18
That's right, happy 1 hundo in the meantime till next week.
00:58:22
Stay shrewd, stay shrewd. Stay shrewd, everybody.