40s and Free Agents: March Sadness - Fixing The 5 teams Without a 1st Round Pick

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Speaker 1: Welcome to forties and free Agents, presented by Toyota. I'm Greg Rosenthal alongside my friend of me, Daniel Jeremiah aka Moved the Sticks aka the best draft analyst in the business DJ. When we last taped your mock draft three point zero was about to come out, what was the response? What was the pick that the most people got mad at?

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Speaker 2: Without question, Chiefs taking a tackle at nine? They did not want that?

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Speaker 1: Why not?

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Speaker 2: They were upset because I think because they paid more in free agency last year. And then you know Simmons is a rookie, played well when he was out there, wasn't out there the whole time. And my whole thing was I watched more play, was not not in love with what I saw from that video. So this to me was a major upgrade at right tackle. But inevitably half the comments are we were taking a pass rusher, what are you doing? And I'm like, I don't. I don't interact with these anymore. I used to, but that's the useless. But when the top three guys are gone, so then you're going to take a key Mesador with the ninth pick? So are you okay with taking a key Mesador? Because the other three guys are gone. I'm not going to have those conversations on there. And then I just I also put in there that Andy Andy Reid has a very close relationship with Kyle Whittingham, and Kyle Whittingham, you know, is going to give him a glowing endorsement of this player, and that'll matter. Kyle Whittingham's son works for Andy. He's on the staff there and people. And then so the response was like, just because he's a Mormon doesn't mean that he's going to take only a month. It's like, well, okay, that's that's the that's what you get in some of the comments there.

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Speaker 1: Hey, being a Mormon doesn't hurt though. Look news flash, Chiefs fans, Andy Reid loves taking big guys up front. And I hate to break it to you, Jalen Moore in the last year of his contract might not be your long term tackle. I think they'll take the best player. I like that. I said. The Patriots fans were a little upset.

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Speaker 2: You got it.

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Speaker 1: You went for a news tackle. But maybe just because just because follow them on Twitter, We're.

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Speaker 2: Hold on real quick, because I was gonna look that up. Okay, I didn't have any glaring. There was no glaring in your face stat there that would appoint me in that direction. So fair, fair criticism from the Patriot fans, But to me, it's a nice compliment to what they have there. You want Milton to get up the field and see what barmore those guys are up the field guys, and now you got somebody who can just do all the dirty work that McDonald just eat up blocks.

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Speaker 1: Also, it's absolutely a type of defensive lineman that they that they like. And that's thirty one. You can't get mad about anything.

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Speaker 2: Taking what's there? What are we doing today?

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Speaker 1: Greg Our show today is going to be teams without a first round pick. So all your average draft shows out there are focusing on the teams with picks a plenty, But today we're going to give a little love to the teams that don't have any first round picks because of the trades that they made. Kind of look at where they are at after free agency and what they can get done in the draft. So let's start with the Falcons. They do not have a first round pick as a result of that twenty twenty five draft trade for James Pierce where they moved up with the Rams. They're really have a pick in the next three rounds, the second, third, and fourth. They don't have a fifth round pick, they're fourth and sixth. They're actually from Philadelphia because of a separate trade. So look, they don't have a lot of draft capital. And that James Pierce trade I thought looked bad when they made it. Then it started looking better as the season went along. Although you know, they had a mediocre season. You'd love to have the first round pick, and now it looks terrible because of the off field legal situation that he's facing. His status for twenty twenty six is totally up in the air, and they have a new regime DJ that we don't know what exactly they're going to do, and they don't have a first round pick. To you, is because of the previous regime.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And if you look at the thought process behind this particular podcast, it's like, look, there's a lot of college basketball podcasts right now. Hey, March madness, March madness, but no, no March sadness. Let's talk about the teams didn't make the tournament, you know what I mean? Like, that's the vibe that we're going for here, and I dig it I was a fan of it. I was proponent of it. So when you look at the Falcons, I'm looking at the wide receiver position for them, and at pick number forty eight, it just so happens my forty eighth players Antonio Williams out of Clemson. Now they're you know, not all those forty seven other guys are going to go. There'll be some other guys that fall around there. But I do think that's a good range to find a complimentary receiver that could really help them out. Antonio Williams ultra, ultra quick, competitive, great after the catch, just a really solid player there at Clemson. I think would fit in well in that offense.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so I did kind of want to go through, like what are their biggest needs? And we're on the same page. I don't know if you saw my notes.

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Speaker 2: Our preducedent crew.

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Speaker 1: Said put the notes into the docs, so I did it this time. I think their biggest needs number one wide receiver. So they do pick up a couple of wide receivers in free agency. A Lamite z Akias and then Johan Dotson, who you know right now, are two three on their list. Probably on a best case scenario, would be three to four on an NFL team, So they have some receivers, but I had corner back after that where Mike Cues was getting torched quite a bit. Last year, they lost Cayden Ellis in free agency linebacker, defensive lineman. I really have kind of a bigger question for this team, which is like, what is this regime's vision gonna be. I don't think free agency gave us a ton to work off because they were really going for guys at the margins. They got to a tongue of Iloa at quarterback, they get Samson ebacom as an edge and Deshaun Han. I thought they did an okay job filling in some just huge holes so they can draft wherever. But it's also a team when I look at a DJ where they don't have a lot of clear strengths, like what are the Falcons really good at right now?

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Speaker 2: Well, I think you look at some of the key players, obviously with Bijon the offense running through him. But it feels to me like they've almost in some ways with what they've done in freegency, built around the style of Tua more so than the style of Pennix, where Pennix is more of a drive the ball down the field. Two is going to be more about run after catch, quick decisions, get the ball out, be accurate, and the kind of guys they've added so far to run after the catch guys. So that's another reason why I've put Antonio Williams in there. But that seems to be more The identity is we're going to play in space. We're gonna get our athletes, We're gonna get Beejon out in space, pits London, you know, add some more weapons there, but we want to get the ball out quick, get it to them and let them go.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Kevin Stefanski inherits the exact same offensive line as a year ago. I think that's a strength for them overall. And they lose a lot of players who played a lot for them last year. Darnell Mooney, Tyler Elzier, David On, Yamada, Kanellis, Arnold, Debacchetti. Like these guys were resourceful, good players for them a year ago. They're a team where I look at them, it's hard to see like why are they better right now? It's a team that could use extra draft picks and instead because of the situation that they're hearing they're light right here, so I feel like they could go in a few directions and I still don't know, like what is a Matt Ryan team. It does surprise me. Are you a little surprised that they've been very hands off with committing to Pennix to the point where it's almost disrespectful, like they're kind of making it clear that Tua is probably the leader in the clubhouse and that Penix will have to earn that job back whenever he does get healthy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, which is interesting because when I talk to some of their folks at the combine in the organization, I thought they were excited about Pennex, but there was some trepidation there of like, you know, hey, if if he stays healthy, we feel like we can, you know, we can win this division. And that was before they brought in Tua. And then it was like, okay, was that insurance or competition or replacement? And it definitely leaning more away from the insurance side of that argument.

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Speaker 1: They also traded for Sydney Brown, the safety from the Eagles, over the weekend. They're pretty good at safety with Jesse Bates Xavier Watts there, but like I said, like they signed these guys Christian Harris at linebacker from the Texan. That's not necessarily a starter. You could certainly use another starting edge and then I mean a starting linebacker and then yet edge. They signed Ebacom and Hand, who are useful players. Again, but I think it speaks to that you can't count on James Pierce. I don't know about this team. I kind of slot them unless they have like a great rest of the offseason behind the Saints and the Bucks and maybe even the Panthers in that division. Wow, team in transition? Crazy? What are they excited about? Even Bajohn, who's amazing. They don't have a backup running back. You can find one, but that's a position I would say they could absolutely use. All right, let's go to the Colts. They do not have a first round pick as a result of the Sauce Gardner trade with the Jets. They have a second, third, a fourth, They have a couple sevens. In general, they just have their regular picks. They did get a sixth back from the Michael Pittman trade, but that was just a swap. In free agency, they've they've watched some good players go out the door. They traded Zion Franklin they traded Pittman away, Quitty pay and Brandon Braden Smith and Nick Cross all got paid elsewhere. So it's another team to me, kind of like the Falcons, who on paper they don't They're a rare that I don't think their fans even can look at them and say, oh, we're better than we were at the end of the season.

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Speaker 2: The linebacker the Colts took in the second round that was Rookie of the Year. When they also took the guard, right, they both didn't they get the offense and defensive Rookie of the year. This is going back Leonard Jack. Yeah. So I'm looking at this team and I'm going, Okay, he's gonna revisit the past and he's going to try and take a linebacker in the second round that could very easily be the defensive rookie of the year. And Jacob Rodriguez out of Texas Tech. So that's the one that I like for them. Ultra ultra productive, instinctive, all the all the all that stuff that doesn't require the athleticism, and then he goes out and ran I think four five to seven and proved he was a better athlete than people thought. So all all that stuff together. I remember Shack Lenard watched him coming out. He was two hundred and eighteen pounds, but it was like, this guy is just a stat stuffer. Like there's picks, there's force fumbles, there's sacks. Like Rodriguez is not as long as him, a little different body type, but the same type of stat stuffing. So to me, I think that's that would kind of be on brand for them. In the second round, that.

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Speaker 1: Would be an interesting pick. Now they pick up forty seventh, that's actually one pick ahead of the Falcons, who I think could use an off ball linebacker. So maybe they'll be maybe they'll be sniping the Falcons with that pick. There you go in the DJ mack. When do you have to do like a two round mock? Do you ever have to do that?

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Speaker 2: Never?

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Speaker 1: You're not slumming it like that. They got Eric Kettel. I'm doing like seven rounds or something.

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Speaker 2: Oh dude, they get after it. They get after it on those I much respect for Chad Ryder for doing that.

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Speaker 1: What what do you think about this team overall? Because look, they are a team that in free agency they were supposedly going to be in on Trey Hendrickson. They thought they had a chance for him. He ends up going to Baltimore instead. They signed Arden Key and Michael Clemens to kind of replace Quitty Pay. They bring back, you know, a couple of really low wattage guys, Cam Taylor Britt who was with lou An Arumo in Cincinnati. They have Nick Westbrook. Akini Like, that's a downgrade from Michael. That's why, Like, even though I like what they've done developing their offensive linemen in general, this is a team that I don't quite see the vision because it's kind of like, hey, we're bringing back the gang, except we have our two best players, Daniel Jones and sasgarter or maybe our most important players. They should say. When it comes to Jones coming off major injuries, You're like, yeah, we get them back, but are they gonna be as good as they were before?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a tough one for me because look at some of these other teams inside of the division. You see them trending trending north. Now we'll see what happens with the Texans and the offensive line with the swap out and the swap in. If that's if that's an upgrade at all, for them, But I think Jacksonville is going to be better. Tennessee's got no choice but to be better, and they're gonna have more resources to throw at their roster after an aggressive free agency. I don't really see this team as improved over last year, and so as everybody else is getting better and you're kind of staying still, that's not a great combination.

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Speaker 1: Do you think they believe in Riley Leonard more than the outside believes in Riley.

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Speaker 2: Leonard to start, Yeah, to start early in the season. I think that. I think all signs point towards that. I don't. I mean, I haven't been in on anybody so or they believe in the superhealing powers of Daniel Jones, one of the two.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he'll be back at some point, and then maybe it's early in the season, but you have to at least be ready. And at this point, Riley Leonard's taking first team snaps. I'll be interested to see who they sign. At some point, they should sign someone. Anthony Richardson is still on the roster. I also think they need some defensive tackles. They've been trotty out Buckner, who was talking about was he going to even retire. Potentially, he's still there. Grover Stewart is on the roster. They lost Nick Cross. There's kind of a hole at safety. I actually think they need a wide receiver. I think that's a sneaky position for them because you trade Pittman away and now Josh Downs is hitting free agency. You also traded Ady Mitchell away in the Sauce Gardner deal. Suddenly, that actually is kind of a thin position. And he's been great at drafting wide receivers. So wouldn't shock me if they look wide receiver in the second round.

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Speaker 2: Oh, there you go. I like that idea. There'll be good options, so we just talked about that in that range. So there'll be tons of white House. If you want a white I think you can afford to wait on that one.

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Speaker 1: And they're another team that needs a backup running back. Don't really have anyone behind Jonathan Taylor. Right now, let's talk about the Packers, who have no pick as a result of the Micah Parsons trade with the Cowboys. They also, you know, will be sending next year's first to the Packers. They could go in a lot of directions. I counted seven starters that they lost in free agency DJ. I think that's the most of any team. In addition to trading away Colby Wooden, who's a young rotational defensive tackle who helped them losing their backup quarterback in Malik Willis, losing their backup running back and Emanuel Wilson. That has a lot of contributors. They have been a draft and develop team. Like to me, they have a lot of needs. Where do you think they look first.

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Speaker 2: Well, at the running back position. If Jadarian Price was somehow there, would I would take him there because I just think he's a really, really good player. I think this is a two running back, so I would imagine he won't be there, But that would be a fun one two punch there if they brought him in there. And he's already used to being a you know, complimentary back after being with Jeremiah Love at Notre Dame, so be kind of a fun be a fun fit there for that offense. But I'm gonna go edge rusher, getting another guy they can roll through there. I think you are going to see in terms of the copycat thing we talk about every year with the last two teams, you know, being so deep along the front, having so many waves of guys. I think you are going to see teams really really reinforce the trenches. So I'll go our Mason Thomas at fifty two edge rusher out of Oklahoma. He's a little bit light, but he's got big time juice, plays extremely hard and someone I think as you're rolling guys through, I think he you know, think about how Chennanawosu you know, is used, and how he's played and what he's been I could see our Mason Thomas having that type of impact.

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Speaker 1: Do you know what the R in our Mason Thomas stands for?

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Speaker 2: Nothing?

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Speaker 1: Okay, so you beat me to this. I thought I would have one little nugget that No, that was it. It just sounds cool.

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Speaker 2: Does sound cool? Like I said at the combine, it sounds like the name of an author to go back to our library.

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Speaker 1: Hmmm.

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Speaker 2: And I brought that up to somebody in the league and they said his best selling novel would be to Kill a Quarterback? And I thought, I wish I would have thought of that before you did, but I will steal it.

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Speaker 1: You know what's crazy to me, like the answer of where they go it was I agree, like by far, their biggest need is edge. I mean, you just traded for Michael Parsons and it's not even close. Like Michael Parsons, you got to assume is not going to be ready for Week one. Lucas van Ness is your number two. He's been a disappointment overall. Like he's an NFL player, but he hasn't really developed in the way that you would hope someone with his skill set would. And you don't have a number three. Their number three edge right now is Baron Sorel. Is that pronounced correctly. I don't know if you remember. You're, yeah, like a Day three pick, and they don't really have a fourth. That's at this point. If you had to play a game, that's your Week one starting edge, Baron's route. I assume they're going to get in the middle. For some of these veterans that are out there, they're a team that screams for second wave. On's the compic for you, Joey Bosa, Joey Bosa, Clowney like, get like two of these guys. Cam Jordan is still out there. There's still a decent amount of people. They just need NFL players and they need they need their first round picks. Like some of their old picks to step up to. Jordan Morgan is now going to be their left tackle. Did you remember your Jordan Morgan?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, out of Arizona. Out of Arizona they've used it was two years ago.

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Speaker 1: Right, he's going to be entering his third year. So that's a twenty four draft pick, right, and they've used them a lot at guard. This is me talking to fill in the time.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you keep going, get up.

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Speaker 1: Okay, And this year they say goodbye to Rashid Walker and they're basically saying, all right, big boy, you've developed. Now you're going to be our left tackle.

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Speaker 2: All right. Jordan Morgan Arizona. He was six five, three eleven. He just under thirty three in charms, left tackle coming off an eight cel quick feet and absorbed twists, redirect a little bit soft with the inside shoulder. Does have good FBI football intelligence. He can recover plays with takes good angles, plays with balance. He was my forty seventh player in that draft. So there you go.

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Speaker 1: So you thought they had a little bit of a reach and so far his relative lack of playing time, you know, would indicate me. Would you suggest that, Yeah, I have a question, who is this is this is one asked from our producer Drew. Do you think Josh Jacobs could be a tradable asset to maybe get more picks if they got a running back.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. And the problem is is just there's no it's a two running back draft, so last year there's a lot more options there to do something like that. So, you know, I don't know. I don't think i'd I'd be partying with the running back of any skill at this point in time, with this class that we have in front.

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Speaker 1: Of us, I have to say I'm confused by their offseason because usually they are all about the young guys. They are still the youngest in the entire NFL, so they are a draft and developed team. Their entire offensive line was drafted except for Aaron Banks. All those receivers were drafted in the last four or five years. Tucker Craft obviously like, these are all there guys. But then they trade for guysz Ayer Franklin and Javon Hargrave who were coming off kind of bad years. The guys the teams that just had them didn't really want. I'm just just a little confused about where the Packers are at. I want I want them to be like better than they are better than this.

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Speaker 2: See yeah, well it'll be uh, it'll be a big year for them in that division because Chicago is not getting any worse. They're just they're in continue to build mode right now. And Minnesota is going to be fun if nothing else. We'll see what Kyler, what that looks like. It's an intriguing division and Detroit's going to be all ticked off coming off last year. See what they do. So yeah, interesting division year.

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Speaker 1: I think Jordan Love's just going to be full Jordan Love and be like in the MVP conversation, with three weeks left of the season, maybe that will be six. Let's take a quick break as you suggested, DJ, and we'll come back with little Broncos talk. It is time for all in presented by Toyota. And yes, the Denver Broncos fit that description. After the big Jalen Wattle trade that messed with our podcast, that messed with your mock draft at the last second, that is the ultimate all in move, I think, DJ, let's just start with that because I want to hear how you think that impacts them. They not only lose their first round pick, they lose their third round pick. And it's in an off season where they've essentially done nothing else other than bring everyone back, and then they're putting a lot of pressure on this Wattle move as the move that kind of takes this offense over the top. How do you see him kind of fitting in before we get to the draft picks of it all?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I totally got it. I just when I was going through the mock draft process when you get to them, of all the teams, like there's just nothing staring you right in the face other than you know, I think they'd like to upgrade the running back or the tight end. But they've got guys there. I mean, RG Harvey's a good player. They bring back JK. Dobbins, his thing is just hasn't been able to stay healthy. They've got Evan Ingram who's just been a little underwhelming from what the expectations were there. But just about everywhere else when you look at the roster, they're in good shape, Like they have solid players across the board. So it's like, Okay, well, who moves the needle for him? You're coming off of a year last year where Jedai Baron didn't even start for him as a first round pick, they're just not many holes. So if you're trying to find impact and impact right now on a team that's very close to, you know, get into a Super Bowl, I thought it made sense to identify a veteran you thought could come in and impact you right away. And I do think Waddle's, you know, a great fit there, not only for some of the run after catch stuff with you go back to bow Nix and watch him in college at Oregon. A lot of the stuff that they asked Wattle to do in Miami's the stuff that Bo's really comfortable and good with. And then you're gonna have all those design schemed up winners where you're gonna have some of those throwbacks and things like that. And I mean, he's gonna be a fun toy for Sean Payton to play with.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna be fantastic because he doesn't even have to, as you said, kind of win one on one anymore. Peyton is so good at getting guys open over the middle of the field. I think of obviously very different style players, but Michael Thomas and Lance Moore and Waddle, like with a little space, I think end Up will be a true number one by production I actually think, yeah, people kind of look, Okay, it's him in Courtland Sutton, you know, one A, one B. I think it's gonna be a pretty clear one in terms of volume. I can just see Wattle really making it happen. So I agree with you on all that, And yet history tells us I'm a little wary of teams that just run it back. What about the idea that like, yeah, their offensive line, defensive line has been as good as any team, I would say, the last two years if you kind of combine them and rank them, but you gotta find your next generation of guys along those lines or else suddenly it gets stale. A lot of times I've said like, Okay, this is the best roster in the league, and then a couple of years later it's no longer there. So do you think that is where they end up looking with their second round pick along one of the lines, just building for the future, even if it's not a huge need right now.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you just I don't love the defensive tackle group in this draft, but there are some there's some interesting guys along the edge that you could throw into this pot here and just continue to have more guys just kind of mix in and again go with that same theory we've been talking about, which is just waves and waves of guys. So when you're picking there at pick sixty two, there's a couple interesting Michigan guys that I think kind of falling around that range, And Derek Moore and Jayshawn Barham they're both kind of in that range for me. Gave Acus is another one, but I'm gonna I'm gonna actually go with keiroon Crawford from Auburn because they they are about juice, they're about get off, and that's kind of what he does. He's raw, he hasn't played a ton of football, so his best as ahead of him, which again matches their timeline. You don't need him to be some impact player right now. So if trading the first round pick is to help you for today, I think with pick sixty two they can play a little bit more of that long game and say, Okay, this is a player for twenty twenty seven.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that makes all the sense in the world. I'm glad you know we're on the same Patriot. They could look at right tackle, but the value might not be there. Mike mcglinchy. I don't know if it's like a long, long term answer, but you're shaking your head that by the eyes.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the tackles all run off the board. Then I think there's a little bit of a lull after that first group, and.

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Speaker 1: It wouldn't surprise me if they take another swing at running back. I know the Broncos fans probably want like more of a premium player. I think the Broncos kind of wanted more of a premium player. They were in on some of the Travis etn like Kenneth Walker talks. It just didn't happen. They got they got out spent in the end. But I wouldn't be surprised if they add to that position as well. But man, they're really counting on Vance Joseph to keep providing a schematic advantage and a lot of these same guys to just stay at that same level. It's a little dangerous. But if you look at the additions and the departures, it was all about re signings. No team had fewer, like they literally have not signed an outside free agent yet. Jalen Watta was a trade, and then they only lost a couple guys Jonathan Franklin, Meyers, Dre Greenlaw who was a cut in PJ Lock. So you're basically getting the same team back and they're gonna be one of the favorites for the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 2: So they could be in that next wave though, like we were talking about earlier, that next wave of veterans that could be in that mix.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's wrap up with the Jaguars, team that, similar to the Broncos, hasn't made a ton of moves. They've only signed one outside free agent. That was Chris Rodriguez from the Commanders, who's a running back who will probably be the one bee behind Basel two and they'll share the workload there. He's more of like a tough guy. Now, that's the bad news. And they also traded their first round pick in a Travis Hunter deal that I still will defend, but right now it's not looking amazing. What's good about the Jags? And I don't know if this was intentional or not, but they do have still four picks in the top one hundred three between eighty one and one hundred and when I look at that, DJ, and I listen to what you've been talking about, where the meat of this draft is do you think they're actually in a good spot there in this draft in particular to get quality players versus some other drafts.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is Gladstone taking what he learned from the Rams too. I mean, think about some of those years where the Rams had a bunch of picks in this range of the draft, which, if you're very you know, there's two things about it. If you know what you're looking at, you can find the great value there of getting starters at a very cheap price. But there's also the fact when you don't have a first round pick, and I've been on a team a year where we didn't have a first round pick, you get to spend more time on this crop of players than the other teams do. The other team's trying to sort out, you know, if they're picking twenty seven who you know, they had to really hone in on those twenty seven guys or really probably those twelve guys think will be in their pick range and do tons of homework on them. Where they're taking that same microscope to the group of players in this range of the draft. So I think it helps your hit rate when you're in that spot. And I do think in this particular draft, they can get a lot of players, a lot of starters in that range. So I think it's whether it was totally planned out this way or for Tuitis. Either way, it's going to work out well for him.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they got a trade during the draft from the Lions which netted them those extra third round picks in addition to their own, so they now kind of look ahead to this draft. And here's where I went with needs. I would say guard is and again, this is not a team I think with screaming needs. I think they go into twenty twenty six with good enough starters almost at every position, but many that could be upgraded. And I would start with guard. I would think about edge because Travon Walker is entering his free agent year and they don't really have a third guy, and I just think they're a team that's going to really value that. But you could also say defensive tackle, really anywhere along the defensive line. Those are probably the primary ones, and then cornerback, off ball linebacker would also be on my long list of needs there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, to me, the perfect fit and player is Keelan Rutlige from Georgia Tech, who's a guard who I thinks outstanding and plug and play, ready to go right now. The tape's really really good. He plays, you know, I think Tony Boselli will love him as someone who just finishes and he's got a little nastiness to him, a little edge to him. They are one of the more physical teams. I've seen them a couple of times over the last couple of years doing Charger games, and the two of the more physical teams. I would say that I don't know that they get talked about like that. Jacksonville. Jacksonville and Tampa are too when you're there in the building watching them like they're physical line of scrimmage teams and this kind of fits that mode.

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Speaker 1: Well, you know who's listening right now and saying I did that Trent valk I mean a little bit of a vindication if Trent Balki had had a type, whether it was in San Francisco or Jacksonville, and he was, you know, persona non grada by the end. In Jacksonville it was big, strong, physical guys and frankly, if you think about what they did last year, wasn't a lot of new players. They had a couple of free agent signings, that worked out like Jordan Lewis, But for the most part, they took the players that were there and just helped them get better. And it is it is a big, physical team.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. No, so this that's a fit that I like for them, big big guard at Georgia Tech.

00:28:30
Speaker 1: How about the fact that on almost every one of your picks you picked my first biggest need. It's like, we're we're becoming.

00:28:37
Speaker 2: Well, here's the problem here, here's the problem. When I saw the original rundown, I thought Drew had been compiling the list of needs, and so I was a little bit working off of my faith and belief and Drew to use that as a little bit of a guide. But then I find out it was your list. Yeah, and so we're probably gonna have to retake this thing.

00:29:00
Speaker 1: We are not going to be retaping anything. I need to run in and tape an NFL daily.

00:29:06
Speaker 2: Uh.

00:29:07
Speaker 1: I'm excited about this Jags team, by the way, I think be fun. And I you know, I was thinking, like, do they need a cornerback? And then I thought, oh, Travis Honnor full time, you know, right. I was gonna say the way their roster is set up, the fact that they haven't traded Brian Thomas Junior. I don't think they're going to trade Brian Thomas Junior in the end. I think they were maybe willing to listen if they got a godfather offer, but that doesn't happened. He really, he really makes more sense for them at cornerback. That defense looks pretty good. If he's at cornerback, let's go.

00:29:34
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's going to happen. He'll sprinkle on a little offense, just a little sprinkle.

00:29:38
Speaker 1: You know, speaking of a guy who can, you know, do multiple things. Check out Daniel Jeremiah on Move the Sticks on NFL Network and then on forties and free agents in a week. We'll see that