Mock Draft: What Teams SHOULD Do in Round 1

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Speaker 1: Welcome to NFL Daily, where we would never meet an impass. I'm Greg Rosenthal. I'm here in the Chris Westling podcast studio with Jordan Rodrive.

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Speaker 2: Hello.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Ian Rapaport, our guy, even though he technically works for ESPN. Now reported Dexter Lawrence and the Giants reached an.

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Speaker 3: Impass in their contract negotiations.

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Speaker 1: With last night, and I was surprised to see the lack of education on social where most of the responses were like, what's the definition of impass?

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Speaker 3: Good word?

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Speaker 2: I hope they received some creditable responses.

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Speaker 3: There you go, another good one.

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Speaker 1: We're going mock draft heavy here as we get closer to the draft. As you are listening to this, we are one week away from the twenty twenty six NFL Draft, so we wanted to start talking about what we think could happen on draft night, but more in this show, what we think should happen. Jordan, we're bringing back a dueling mock draft where we go back and forth. It's gonna be some testing of our brain waves here because we have to think on our feet back and forth with picks in the first round. Not what we think will happen, what we think should happen what we want these teams to do.

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Speaker 2: Yes, it will be a test of our organizational skills. I sent myself into a little bit You're the odd numbers, yes, I do know that. But I set myself into a little bit of a tailsman yesterday, Greg when I was prepping for this, because I tried to put myself in your size fores and think of, oh, like what you would do in these, so that I could game theory around what I thought you would pick. And it really did send me into a dark place. So a little just trying to get organized here. You know.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm a size ten kind of over index and shoe size compared to heights, so not a good indicator there for you.

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Speaker 3: Jordan.

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Speaker 1: You got the choice to have the number one overall pick or not, and you did decide to take the Raiders' choice. I thought, maybe she's taken the easy way out, or or maybe you're gonna surprise us.

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Speaker 3: What should the Raiders do?

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Speaker 2: Da dah, just kidding. They're gonna pick Fernando Mendoza. They should pick Fernando Mendoza, quarterback out of Indiana. Of course, this is a no brainer to me, because they've been in the quarterback desert for so long, and even though here there have been more exciting quarterback prospects to emerge than he, there've also been far less exciting top quarterback prospects to emerge. Then he's really solid, in my opinion, gives you such a good bass around which to build, and he was not afraid to try to take the shots to make the big plays. He's kind of Donaldy in that regard. But this version of Sam Darnald not the previous, and I like the fit with what the Raiders are building around him. They've all but broadcast that this is what they're gonna do. I do expect they'll get some calls, but they should stick and pick here.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: John Spiech said this week he has gotten some calls, but there's no expectation that they'll be interested in moving. And yeah, I'm just curious who you're shading. Who are less exciting quarterback prospects at the top of the draft.

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Speaker 2: We've had some. I guess Josh Rosen was a top prospect.

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Speaker 3: People forget pretty exciting though, I.

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Speaker 2: Mean Schribitsky was a top quarterbacks.

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Speaker 3: I was a wild one.

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Speaker 2: We'll forget Daniel Jones was a top quarterback prospect Lake Bortles.

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Speaker 3: I think.

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Speaker 1: I think Mendoza has great size, great timing on those opposite field hash throws. We're going to talk about him at length. Actually on our next show, we're finally diving into the quarterbacks a little bit and running backs tight ends with Ali, so we won't go on and along, but that that makes total sense, and it'll be interesting to see how he fits with Clint Kubiak. He hasn't thrown to the middle of the field a ton hasn't played under center, but guess what, no college sent you know quarterbacks play under center.

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Speaker 3: Really all right, I'll go number two.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of where the draft feels like it's truly starting, and I feel like consensus right now is not this is not what the Jets will do. But I do think they should take Rvel Reese linebackers Slash Edge from Ohio State. I just think if you think about the premium positions, especially, he is the player that the most obvious fan scout whatever looks at to me when I watch all the players and just like, oh yeah, that's like a number one player in the draft, Like I could see him being a Miles Garrett, like a defensive player getting taken one in a draft where there were no quarterbacks. He has that sort of special ability and the fact that he might be just an absolutely transcendent linebacker prospect, but also you might be using him as an ad dresher or in the Zach Bond type of role where he is rushing.

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Speaker 3: I'm not even thinking about him for the Jets.

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Speaker 1: To me, you're taking this high, you should just take someone that you could at least imagine putting on like a green jacket someday. And I think he stands out with a couple other prospects we'll talk about, but they're at lesser positions as the guy most likely to be that guy. So I'm gonna take a swing for the fences, and I think the floor is plenty high with Reese at linebacker especially.

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Speaker 2: I like that pick because I like that he does multiple things well and so you can build different looks with him in the front, you could build different things around. I like that he There are some really exciting, high upside prospects that we're going to talk about here through the course of this first round, but I just he's just all around, just such a good football player that I like, the Jets saying this is best player available, and this is what we're doing.

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Speaker 3: And since we're going should I'll just you know, cop to it.

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Speaker 1: I'm basically going off like my evaluations on some level, like I think he's gonna be He's the most exciting defensive prospect to me, So I'm going to take him for the Jets. And it makes sense to me because I think they're loading up with the three first round picks next year to possibly take a quarterback. Then that they just take the best player. All right, you're up with the Cardinals.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: Almost the rest of the top seven or eight, I mean, are are fascinating, but especially the Cardinals. And again we're not predicting what they will do, what they should do.

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Speaker 2: Jordan, this is where I get a little freaky, right, because I think that the Cardinals should draft a player who sets a cornerstone and sets an identity for a new generation of what this coaching staff, what this era with Monte Austin fort hiring kind of helping hire like the guy he wanted with him pairing with Michael Floor. So you'd think they'd go offense. You'd think they might go Need and Bpa meeting each other, I went best player available in my mind, and that is Sunny Styles. I think that the Cardinals of Yore have always had a key cornerstone franchise defensive player around whom the fan base rallies. It was Patrick Peterson, it was Kalais Campbell, Dan Buchanan was really someone that they love, Buddha Baker obviously, but that era is either has ended completely or is ending soon. And I think that with Nick Rallis out from under Jonathan Gannon at this point, remember Michael Floor retained him of he gets a lot of heat from the fan base, and I think rightfully so based on the lack of production. But I do think that of the defensive coordinators, who would have a plan and a multiple enough scheme for a player of his caliber. And this is a franchise to desperately need some pop. They love Ohio State players as well, by the way, and this is a franchise that desperately needs to get someone who gets the fan base excited, gets them feeling like, okay, maybe maybe this is the start of something new. That's why I think they should pick Sonny Styles. And I throw a wrench in the rest of it, because I think popularly and I could totally see the Cardinals doing this is going with Mauinoa or someone who immediately adds juice to their offense. But they don't have a quarterback greg and they won't have a quarterback even if they pick one this year. I don't believe they'll even have that guy starting until next year if they do, and so they can wait a little bit on that side of the ball for that to continue to unfold.

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Speaker 1: All these guys, I think at this high level, you can't worry about the guys that are there that much. You have to take the guys that you think are gonna become the guys in your in your organization for a long time. And one thing I know Montiasen for isn't thinking it this way.

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Speaker 3: But I think about Andrew Berry last year.

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Speaker 1: It's like they took non premium positions and they had some of the best defensive rookies in the league, and that helped save his job.

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Speaker 3: Like if Suddy Styles comes out and he.

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Speaker 1: Might be as quote unquote pro ready and by the way, they have a massive need at linebackers. It's not like he's not fitting a huge need those are the types of guys that do win Defensive Rookie of the Year.

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Speaker 3: That's not a bad thing for the Cardinals. I love that pick.

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Speaker 1: I was debating for the Titans, who are next on the board at number four, between styles Jeremiah Love the running back, and Carnel Tate. One note on Tate and the Titans, I feel like no one's mocking that. It's like, oh, well, they still have Calvin Ridley, and you know they just gave Wandale a lot of money and they drafted those two guys last year. Io Manner, none of those guys should prevent you from taking a foundational wide receiver who would be better than all those guys.

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Speaker 3: But I'm not taking it. I'm just saying.

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Speaker 1: My point is I think that would be like a good pick too. It's not the reason I'm not taking him. I'm taking Jeremiah Love because of the same reason why I took our Reese at two. And we had this discussion a little bit on forties and free agents, and reasonable minds can can disagree. I think if you see a potential future Hall of Famer there, you're not worried about the Tony Pollard at the end of a heavy contract. You're certainly, you know, not worried about my guy from Tulane being the backup to Jeremiah Love. He is such a special prospect, and I guess it's just you're just making that evaluation. But to me, his balance, size, speed, strength, everything is special in a way that I think can only be compared to a Bajon Robinson as a prospect.

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Speaker 3: Maybe Saquan and CMC are.

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Speaker 1: Maybe in that category, but I think Love might be even a little tick above them, coming out ahead of gent if he's that good. I just think about, Okay, we need offense, we need juice with cam Ward, the two of them together, it would be a lot of fun.

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Speaker 3: That's what I would do. Ah.

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Speaker 2: I love that. I think Titans fans would would love that art start.

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Speaker 1: Trying to become a little more consentency. At first it was controversial, but now how people are kind of warming up.

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Speaker 2: No. I think I know our friend Justin Graver, he has a sign in his background of the podcast that he does Miracle City Miracle that I think it says Jeremiah Love no matter what. So I think you know where, okay, where the fan base might be applauding you for that one there, Greg. This is tough because the Giants I could absolutely have seen if Jeremiah Love falls to them, I could see them totally picking him. Interesting as Saquon redemption. Right, it's just the shame. You could just see Joe Shane doing it. Just the narrative, right. But this is not Joe Shane's team anymore.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 2: This is John harbas team, and John Harbaugh wants to bring in cost controlled like his guys, guys that set a foundation for the type of heavy personnel and heavy football that he wants to play. They have greater needs on defense, in my opinion, than they do on offense. But I think so I could see like them. I don't think keve On Tibodeau is going to be their next year, so I could see them picking up like a heavier, stronger pass rusher to compliment Abdul Carter and Brian Burne. I looked at David Bailey here for that for that reason. But I'm actually going to pick I'm gonna start the offensive lineman here because I think it would be absolutely insurd if offensive lineman kept falling in this draft. Francis Malinoa, I know that he fits the type of just profile that's very like Okay, even if he's a little extraneous, you know that line needs still needs help. It was it was creditable that line could still use an effusion of young talent, even if it's a little bit more of a luxury pick in a team with a team that really has a lot of needs. If Jeremiah Love is gone, I can absolutely see them picking up a road grading offensive lineman who has a little could have a little position flex for them as well, and who also can really help set a new tone for what John Harbaugh wants to be all about.

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Speaker 1: It is so important to hit your first pick. I think you're trying to set like a groundwork of who you're going to be.

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Speaker 2: And by the way, just to just to sorry to cut you off with their greg but I was talking with a colleague about a pattern that the Giants kind of have been in over the last several years. They really love players who are once on Bruce Feldman's freaks list. They really seriously Oh yeah, I do so, Like I mean, who wouldn't write right, but like this is he's so tracy, he's so he's just somebody who even if even if they feel okay about who they have along the offensive line, this is a new era and so a head coach is going to want to bring in a person who he thinks sets a tone that he wants to be about. And I think John Harbo wants to set a tone. We want to play physical, ass kicking football, and he is certainly somebody.

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Speaker 1: Well they have to move him to guard, yes, and if he plays, and that's where for what it's worth we talked about on our show, Olly Connolly believes he's best. That a lot of people believe he would be best as a guard.

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Speaker 3: Period. That's that he has a little lacking.

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Speaker 1: And so they have Jermaine Illuminora on the right side they just gave money to. They have Andrew Thomas on the left side. That makes sense.

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Speaker 3: Let's talk.

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Speaker 1: The Dexter Lawrence News just quickly that Ian reported there was an impasse. The New York Daily News followed that up on Wednesday morning and went a little further and even just said, you know that that's putting it lightly like talks have completely broken off. There's talk of just that they're nowhere near each other in terms of contract per year value, Dexter Lawrence has two years remaining on his contract. Joe Shane I was gonna put some sound in, but it was fairly noncommittal. My takeaway from these reports and from what Joe Shane said at his press conference just support my general feeling that a trade is more likely than not.

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Speaker 3: That's my take.

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Speaker 1: I think he's a risky evaluation for other teams out there because you have to give a lot of money and he's coming off a season. I went back and watched a little. I think I'm just sick of watching the college Dave. I got admitaged just like watching the NFL tape. I mean, compared to the NFL, he was like a bad run defender. He was not the same player returning off a major surgery as he was before. But there's still that pass rush juice. He's still pretty young. You could make the argument he was unhappy with the Giants and maybe it wasn't like the best effort in the world, Like you're going to get a better Dexter Lawrence. It's a little tricky to give him a raise to the very top when he's coming off a season that wasn't as good.

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Speaker 3: But I do think they'll be a.

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Speaker 2: Market for him, Yeah, for sure. I mean it's been reported widely that the Giants received calls ahead of last season's trade deadline about him and weren't willing to part ways.

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Speaker 3: And he made it clear he wanted out.

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, and so I definitely think he'll have a market. What's always kind of a tough reality check for a player is maybe your market isn't what you thought it was going to be before the draft. Now, let's see how the draft shakes out, or even Draft Day leading up to the draft, if the Giants feel that they can recoup some capital that they'll want to use in the draft itself. But a team is much more likely to, in my opinion, want to see just strategically thinking, unless there's a real market that's competitive, teams will probably want to see how the boards fall. Oh yeah yeah before doing anything.

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Speaker 1: The meat Giants fans are going to be disappointed because of the contract that he'll require. I mean, he's certainly not going to get traded for a first round pick. I don't think it's not a Quinn Williams situation. The conversations start during Day two, but it wouldn't surprise me if the Giants are ready to just say goodbye, And I don't think it's crazy if it's like a high third round pick something like that. All right, let's go to the Browns. Okay, this is kind of how I figured the board would would fall on some level. And so I'm choosing between two Ohio State guys Cardinal Tate, and I don't think it's that crazy to think about Caleb downs here if you were, if you were looking at a.

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Speaker 2: Long shotte, don't you know. I think I think they'll go higher, like the run will go higher.

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Speaker 1: They could take one. Certainly, they're they're expected to take an offensive lineman or a receiver. But I do think Cardinal tit makes sense here. So let's let's not get too cute. It's the best receiver in the draft by a decent amount. It's the best receiver on the Browns by a decent amount. You just have to take offensive players, I think early in this draft. If you're the Browns, I think the way that this NFL draft, the fact that their second first round picked at twenty four, I think you feel okay about who will be there at tackle.

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Speaker 3: There's probably eight or nine.

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Speaker 1: Offensive lineman who might go in the first round, maybe even have to trade back up, which I know that they wouldn't.

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Speaker 3: Love to do for the tackle the capital though that they'd love.

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Speaker 1: But Carnel Tate just makes all the sense in the world to me to step in as a foundation, potential top twenty wide receiver in the league.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Carnel Tate off the board. Commander is going again what I think they should do. They absolutely are in dire straits with their pass rush, have been for a little bit. Dan Quinn potentially coaching for his job this year. I'm going David Bailey the edge to the Washington Commanders, and I think he gets immediate, you know, immediately is a factor for them and help set the rest of the puzzle along their offensive front where they just need help defensively. I'm going a lot of defense for Commanders in this draft in general.

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Speaker 1: This I think is a dream scenario for them that they at least get one tackle taken ahead of them and that the Titans in Brown go offense, because then they get one of the real deal, highest ceiling defensive players in this draft, David Bailey or maybe one of the Ohio State guys. Obviously, it goes differently, but I tend to agree with you. I think they would love any situation where any three of those guys fall to them, and in terms of first step quickness and just potential to fix that defense, in terms of just juice off the edge, he would be the top of the list.

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Speaker 3: I agree with you.

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Speaker 1: I'll go Saints next. The Tate's off the board. Our friends at the Saints Block Party podcast did like a word cloud of the players that they wanted, and unfortunately, I'm going to take someone that's not really near the top of that.

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Speaker 3: I'm I'm gonna take now once I'm on the clock. Tricky.

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Speaker 1: It's tricky because I just think Rubin Bain is such a Saint. But I guess now that I get to to the end of this, if I'm doing what they should do, what I want them to do, I am gonna go Caleb Downs.

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Speaker 2: Yes, Okay, I well, no, I wanted him to be a Saint.

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Speaker 3: Okay.

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Speaker 2: I think with Brandon Staley's defense and how that group came along last year. I mean, people who watched those games, including our friends at the Saints Black Party podcast, I think would be thrilled to have a player of that versatility that caliber, that smart like I mean, I think that he's just a friend. He's a franchise player for them. He remember remember the days of Tyron Matthew. He is a friend. I think he's a franchise player for them if they pick him up.

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Speaker 1: I agree, and I think there are teams out there that see him differently. Dana Jeremiah mentioned some teams don't have him as their top safety. I think you look at the lack of like crazy physical traits and you know you think it's a safety.

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Speaker 3: Is he enough of a playmaker?

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Speaker 1: I just think, again, this is a guy that talking about like like we did with Reese, that you have an image of him being a total franchise cornerstone. I think rubyen Bain fits exactly the type of defensive ends that they normally want, and it's absolutely a need for them and would make sense. But if it's my team, I think I think Downs helped calm down the secondary, improves all the players around him.

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Speaker 2: All Right, you're up with the Chiefs well, and that leaves the Chiefs very happy because they're gonna pick up ruben Bain in my mock draft. They need pass rush help. They just do flat out This was kind of a bummer for me though, because I really wanted to put like a really top corner with them. I think Caleb Downs would be really fun with them. With Spags specific, you.

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Speaker 1: Could take a top corner and just leave Ruben Baine on the board, but I think.

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Speaker 3: That for me.

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Speaker 2: But they but they need they need pass rush help, and they are a team that is historically more likely to overlook any red flags a prospect may have coming in good point and also Steve Spagnolo needs to start resetting that entire defense front to back and starting front, starting up front is probably where they're going to go because they lost so many players and they already had deficiencies that absolutely have to start, like resetting the mathematical equation that he likes to play with, and so obviously you're going to get some pass rush juices.

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Speaker 1: I think the floor is high for him. I think the ceilings a little higher than people think. We talked at length with Ali about him as a player earlier this week to check out that episode, but also talked about the off field stuff, which I don't know if it's going to impact his draft status that much ultimately, especially not with a team like the Chiefs.

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Speaker 3: I think this is the worst case scenario for the Bengals.

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Speaker 1: I think they want more than one tackle to go ahead of them because they don't need to tackle. And I think they would love a scenario where Downs fell to them. I think Bain would fit well to them. I think there's a drop off now at edge, and so I am going with the guy who I saw, Paul Daaner, your colleague, got the athletic for them, very plugged in.

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Speaker 3: In a mock. I had him written down.

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Speaker 1: You can even look at my little board as the third guy on my board behind Downs in Baine, my Bengals board, and then Daner had him too. It's Jermond McCoy taking a little bit of a swing coming off of a torn acl the cornerback from Tennessee who had the highest ceiling tape in this draft, that cornerback. And I do think that the more I've heard, the more I've talked to some people, that the top two cornerbacks in this draft are probably viewed a little like higher than we gave him credit for. Maybe in a normal draft, like they're pushed down like slightly, but I think they're a representative, creditable top two cornerbacks of a draft that everyone would be excited about. And I know when positions kind of fall off, then players get pushed up a little. It's a huge need for the Bengals. They have a lot of huge needs on defense. You could actually argue cornerback is like not at the very top, but I think they just have to take best defensive player, and to me, he's the highest ceiling. Mansur Delaine is obviously another option, maybe a little bit of a safer pick because you're not worried about the injuries. The Bengals like to take swings, So I'm going.

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Speaker 2: McCoy, Yeah, I love how you're drafting Greg okay, because it gives me the players that I want to match the teams that I want to match them too. I want the Dolphins to pick up Mancer Delaane, the cornerback out of LSU, for all the reasons actually that you just said. The Dolphins are in a sprint rebuild, so they need not only the best defensive player out of their totally decimated defense to help fix that fix that area immediately, but they also need dependability because if you're going to sprint rebuild, you have to stay healthy. And that is exactly what they're trying to do. So I think that this being their first pick, I really thought about going tackle here. I thought of, you know, from from Utah. I thought about even receiver here. There's been some some chatter locally about Jordan Tyson and how you know, a lot of the local market it is sort of high on him.

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Speaker 3: But ky Lemon is not a crazy pick here.

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Speaker 2: Kayle Lemon would be a great pick here. But I also, to me, if I'm looking at just the formula of what these sprint rebuilds have looked like, it is going draft heavy at the position group that you just decimated, and basically that is their defense and that dependability and his upside and talent. They could really use a badass cornerback in the mix in Miami. So I think he's a good fit for them, And it feels like John Eric Sullivan, this is what I want to be about.

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Speaker 1: Okay, you're you, Honkin so long made me able to check what I think is true. Brian Gudakan's first ever draft pick was Jyira Alexander, which was a great one, and so here here would be the pupil. John Eric Sullivan also taking a cornerback. Magic Alexander was a little later, right, they traded.

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Speaker 3: Up, they traded back, and they traded up.

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Speaker 1: They traded two times where they took him a little later in the top twenty, around eighteen, I believe. So that's a fun one, all right. I'm gonna go Cowboys again. A lot of these teams, and I just think it was because I had the even numbers. I think I got the teams that didn't necessarily need the offensive lineman, at least so far. I don't think the Cowboys just doesn't make sense for them. They take another guard, that would just be a little crazy. I think they'll have to think about the cornerbacks. They'd have to think about Caleb Downs. I think the board has not fallen well for them in general. This is the first time where I'm officially scrambling while I'm on.

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Speaker 2: The clock, despite all your advice to me before the show started.

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Speaker 1: Well that's it, But do you need a pause? I said, I don't need a pause. You just keep talking. If it's my team, I don't care that I gave Jake Ferguson money to me. He's there. I'm gonna go Kenyan Sadik and take him much later. So there's so many versions of this mock draft that tight end from Oregon goes to Dallas here at number twelve. There's so many versions of this mock draft where I think Cidik could fall into the twenties. But in this particular version, I'm adding juice to an offense that we're just going to try to outscore people because I don't necessarily think that the value is there with the defensive players that are available on the board, and I think it's a two tight end set world. I don't know if George Dickens is their long term and that's what I went with.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Greg. I mean, I love that. First of all, I would love to see Kenyon Sidik in Brian Schottenheimer's system. I thought that was a fun, fun offense to watch. I want to see Kenyon Sidek in Oh my god, now I just forgot his name. Clayton Clayton Adams. Yeah, I was about to say Clayton.

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Speaker 3: Tune Clayton Kershaw out there.

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Speaker 2: But I would love to see what he as a blocker too, as how you can kind of activate him along the run surface.

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Speaker 1: That's why I think he compliments Ferguson fine. To me, if Kenyon Sidik has an upside comp or even a mid to upside, it's like Vernon Davis, like not the most natural.

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Speaker 3: Pass catcher exactly.

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Speaker 1: Like he's not like he's gonna be more of the blocker, but when he gets the ball in his hands, he's so big, strong, and that he's also going to be a big time weapon. So I think he's better with another tight end. I think Ferguson fits well with him. I know they took Scoon Maker in the second round. That was three years ago. It didn't work. You know, you keep trying. I don't know if Cowboys fans are going to be happy with that one, but frankly, I think the way this draft fell again for a team that doesn't need tackles is about worst case scenario.

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Speaker 3: So I did the best I could. Sorry Cowboys.

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Speaker 2: Well. I also think that if we talked about this on the show earlier this week, if you consider the tight end to be a premium position on your roster because of what they can do as a skill player, then yeah, you have to keep replenishing and keep restocking. And I see him more in the mold of what you know we're talking about with some of these very volume heavy targets of tight end, and certainly after the catch, he's really special too. So like we already know they can stretch the field.

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Speaker 1: You got to be a little bit of both having two tight ends. And especially in this draft, I just think sometimes the premium positions quote unquote, it's not matching up where the best talent is. And so I think the and goes to the Cowboys. All right, you're up with the Rams. Of course you have the Rams. It wasn't on purpose.

00:27:05
Speaker 2: It certainly wasn't on purpose. Okay, I was thinking going between offensive linemen and receiver here. And I just want to point out for the listeners and for the Rams fans that I know listen to this podcast, thank you. Guys. Just be ready, Just be prepared, because inevitably, as we've seen the pattern happen every year, a couple days before the draft or the morning of the first round of the draft, some insane scenario gets leaked where you can just literally see Sean McVay like holding a knife to less snead saying, see how much this will cost to trade up for this guy, or see how much it'll cause and I want you know, and Sean McVay typically has had a very significant influence on the first pick that the Rams pick, even though they mostly have not been in the first round. Only one of those players has ever been a defensive player, ironically, was their first round pick. I think that Sean McVay would want to go skill some position that touches the ball as often as possible. I would think that that's what Sean McVay would want to do. I think if they don't trade back, potentially cooler heads prevail. And I think in this case, if Spencer Fano is available at this position, understanding the massive gap they have at right tackle. I know Warren McClendon did fine last year. He is not to me their franchise right tackle, Spencer Fannel coming in and immediately being a long term cornerstone, maximizing out the rest of Matthew Stafford's career, helping boost their run game to the right side, not just through Kevin Dotson, and also really helping kind of continuing to replenish a position they never want to be without. Again, I will just say, though, just get ready for some crazy stuff. Just get ready for something. It always it just always happens every year, something will leak. That's just like, wait, what and who up for? No, I'm saying it at this pick problem at guess I'm not saying trade up specifically would be the crazy thing that happens. I'm saying in the past, because they've picked so low or not even the first round at all, it's always been they want to trade up for this or that or the other. Well, just I'm just saying I would. I would imagine some crazy match to this team will come out in the days before the draft. But we'll see what happens. I think that this is the pick they should make.

00:29:23
Speaker 1: Well, I got to you here, you know Ram's expert. Let's say Ty Simpson is sitting there on the board at pick sixty whatever they have this in the second round.

00:29:33
Speaker 2: Do you think they would take him there in the second Yeah?

00:29:35
Speaker 3: Wait second they did no trade up.

00:29:36
Speaker 2: I mean I could see it because Jimmy Garoppolo is still undecided, Like future is still undecided there. I'm curious. Actually, I know there's been some discussion on this pod about like, oh, is he going to go elsewhere?

00:29:45
Speaker 3: After?

00:29:46
Speaker 2: Like I actually wonder if he's considering retirement.

00:29:49
Speaker 3: I'm just saying, like reading the tea leaves what else is there?

00:29:52
Speaker 2: Yeah, it seems like that would be a feasible consideration for him. So Stetsan Bennett is not going to be the guy for them. So they do have to have a solution here, and they aren't really shy. If they like a player, they'll take him.

00:30:02
Speaker 1: Okay, uh, I was just curious, sir, why don't we put a pin in it. Let's take a little break and let's come back with a very special Baltimore Ravens pick. Great back on NFL Daily the Teas before the Break, a very special number fourteen overall selection.

00:30:24
Speaker 3: That's where the Baltimore Ravens are picking. Put a letdown last season.

00:30:30
Speaker 1: You know it's not a letdown the fact that I've calling in the big guns. I've tapped Patrick Claybond to come in and make this fourteenth pick.

00:30:40
Speaker 3: Take it away, Pat, Thanks Greg.

00:30:41
Speaker 4: I appreciate this opportunity to pick on behalf of the Baltimore Ravens on today's podcast. My participation is, of course, in coordination with all perceived rules and regulations. Wow, you guys have made some really great picks. I really enjoyed. Fernando Mendoza to the Raiders anyway. With the fourteenth pick in the twenty twenty six NFL Daily Mock Draft, the Baltimore Ravens select Jordan Tyson, wide receiver Arizona State. Wanted to feel a position of need here, and I'm glad you guys allowed this prospect, as talented as he is to make his way to Baltimore in this hypothetical exercise. I appreciate the opportunity to participate. Let's resume the twenty twenty six NFL Daily Mock Draft.

00:31:24
Speaker 3: Wow.

00:31:25
Speaker 1: You know what's crazy is he just had such individualized special analysis that just was piggybacking off of everything that happened previously in the draft.

00:31:36
Speaker 3: That was really great.

00:31:37
Speaker 2: It's like he was here, but he wasn't. Specifically he wasn't.

00:31:40
Speaker 1: Yeah, he look that was gonna be my pick. I wouldn't have I wouldn't have made that pick. I feel I feel like he's a little risky. Jordan Tyson, your guy Sun devil. You got any devil inside a Sun Devil? Scoop on Tyson? Good football player compliments.

00:31:54
Speaker 3: You know what they need? They certainly need a wide receiver.

00:31:56
Speaker 1: I just I don't know I think I would have taken a benga Ione. I think like a special maybe the top offensive lineman in this class at guard.

00:32:07
Speaker 3: They could certainly use it.

00:32:07
Speaker 1: It would have given Patrick a chance to talk about Daniel Filele, who's never on the team, to place him there. So this is actually maybe just about the only spot where I was going to take alignment, but not there. I love to pick Jordan Tyson, certainly a high ceiling player, played through a lot of injuries in college that affected him, but the great plays are great, and he definitely is a different sort of receiver.

00:32:31
Speaker 3: Does a Flowers? All right? You're up with the Bucks? Yeah?

00:32:33
Speaker 2: I wanted them to go edge here, and I think that there is a player left on the board in this edge class who has a really high ceiling and is tracy and TOOLSI and has a lot of potential. And we know Todd Bowles loves those types of players. Jason light has done well when drafting towards those types of players. I'm going with Keldric Falk out of Auburn. The thing about him is that he's still really young. He's only twenty years old, and I just think that that the Bucks like getting players in who they think they can mold and develop. We saw this happen with some of their defensive linemen in the past. We've certainly seen it happen along their offensive line. It would not surprise me at all to see the Bucks go for what I think is a position of need, but also a player that they specifically I.

00:33:17
Speaker 1: Think would like first first reach I think of the draft so far, Keldric, No, he's not a huge fan. I do like a key Messador better even cash just how like I We'll see, but he is the type of guy that you're right, not a lot of production, necessarily, not a lot of juice.

00:33:34
Speaker 2: I do have them both fast round still.

00:33:38
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, that's good.

00:33:40
Speaker 1: That left everything I want on the board, and what I want is Casey Concepcion is going to go to the Jets.

00:33:47
Speaker 2: Oh wow, I kind of.

00:33:50
Speaker 1: Forgot that this is supposed to be like what I want because it's what the team should do. Because I don't want Casey concept Young going to the Jets. I would love, you know, Geno thrown to him. Actually think it's a nice nation with him and Garrett Wilson certainly is going to be playing a little bit over the middle of the field where Gino excels like. I don't think it's a bad outcome for him, but obviously there's more stable organizations. But if it's not clear by now, if you've been listening daily, I think he has truly special trades. He's my wide receiver too. In this class. I think he could wind up being number one. A little riskier, I guess than some others, but to me, it's not that risky.

00:34:27
Speaker 3: I think he's going to get open.

00:34:28
Speaker 1: I think if I'm choosing between him and mackay Lemon, they're both really good picks. I think the Jets would be really happy if they had the board that they had get to them here.

00:34:37
Speaker 3: But I'm gonna go concept.

00:34:39
Speaker 2: You very very interesting. I like that pick. I like that you're doing what you think the team should do. I would be interested if they actually do do this. With so many needs on defense and some really good play.

00:34:51
Speaker 3: I think they're taking receiver left on the board, but I do.

00:34:54
Speaker 2: But yeah, they they want to be probably not him. They want to be creditable on offense. They've missed, they've missed being such a team, and they have the quarterback who could get the ball to him.

00:35:04
Speaker 1: They want I think a team that will be creditable for the quarterback that takes over the team next year. Ultimately, yes, And so if you have if you have Garrett Wilson signed long term, you have Concepcion or Mackay Lemon or Omar Cooper, like they're all reasonable options here on a long term contract. And then then you got you got to start with uh with Taylor at Tida. All right, you're up with the Lions.

00:35:27
Speaker 2: This was tricky for me because I definitely think I definitely think they should go offensive lineman here, But I was I was going between I was like sort of like threading needles and parsing hair, splitting hairs about which guy I wanted them to take.

00:35:42
Speaker 1: I've had this conversation with a few people too, like who is the Lions guy?

00:35:46
Speaker 2: So I even't went so far as I'm like, I'm like reading about their personality profiles. And if I'm reading about their personality profiles, this guy Blake Miller out of Clemson.

00:35:55
Speaker 3: He's like, that's it.

00:35:56
Speaker 2: He's like the gnarly guy, right, Like he's the he is the gnarly guy. He's he's got the edge, and the scouting reports all say that he's got that sort of like grimy like ass, gonna really be a jerk on the field kind of guy, which they need, and they love that. In that room, I really wanted.

00:36:15
Speaker 3: To go out just calmly in the middle of the show.

00:36:18
Speaker 2: I just feel like you have to be one if you're gonna play offensive line at an elite level.

00:36:23
Speaker 1: This does air on what we call the Fast network, you know, NFL channel free over the air television. Now they're gonna have a chance to edit that out for you or beep it. But you're giving them extra work.

00:36:34
Speaker 2: Should I've said butthole like you.

00:36:37
Speaker 3: Or that's fine, that's a that's a human body part. I'm just being dirtiest.

00:36:40
Speaker 2: One molded in your image.

00:36:41
Speaker 3: Greg.

00:36:42
Speaker 1: So I'm a great pick. That would have been mine too, I mean should and Wood. I wouldn't be surprised if he is my lines pick when when I do my final sort of like here's what I think will happen, Mark and listen.

00:36:53
Speaker 2: I think that there's some real talent here because I did look at Caden Proctor, I did look at Monroe Freeling. They do need a guy who's gonna come in right away for them, though they absolutely need the help. They're trying to maximize out this window that they have protect Jared Goff and again he just the reports on it. I don't know him personally, but the reports on his personality, I'm like, Okay, that is a Lions player, I think.

00:37:16
Speaker 1: Freely, and it'll go higher than we have him getting taken. I think Blake Miller, though, will get taken higher than expected as well, so this would be a spot where that happens. Okay, I'm up with the Vikings and I'm gonna go with my guy, CJ. Allen, linebacker out of Georgia. I think they should just keep stocking up. I think these guys that would fit Brian Flores's defense a little extra special.

00:37:37
Speaker 3: Is such a value add that Flores has.

00:37:39
Speaker 1: I think he'll be able to minimize some of the risk taking ability that CJ. Allen has and really tap into the high ceiling. Just throw your body around, heat seeking missile, like tone setter of a defense better I think in zone coverage and people give him credit for. And a guy who has a chance to be one of the best linebackers in the league. I keep banging this drum that I think his ceilings just a little higher than people think. So I'm gonna go see j Allen there at linebackers.

00:38:10
Speaker 2: Throwing out a green jacket so far, you know, thrown out a best linebacker in the league so far.

00:38:15
Speaker 3: One of the best.

00:38:15
Speaker 2: You're excited, this is?

00:38:16
Speaker 3: This is why not?

00:38:18
Speaker 2: But you know what, I love CJ Allen. I'm I was interested in looking at where he falls on some of these big boards, and it was I think the position kind of hurts him a.

00:38:26
Speaker 3: Little bit, and the fact that he's in this class with sunny styles and.

00:38:29
Speaker 2: He's in He's thirty on Daniel Jeremiah's board, and he's in the mid forties on Dane Brugler's board of top fifty prospects, So of course this looks like he's going much higher. But he's such a fit. And that's the thing. If you have a guy who's perfect for your total unicorn scheme that you run and he can come in right away as a rookie and potentially green dot that defense like that, to me is absolutely worth picking, even if it quote unquote seems like got.

00:38:56
Speaker 3: A little neg there on my avout. You're like, what, you think you're better than Dan Brugler in the Jeremiah. Yeah, in this.

00:39:02
Speaker 2: Case, I do think you think that in this case, Yeah, no, just kidding.

00:39:06
Speaker 1: It's sound like an hour of watching him. They've They've spent a lot of time, all right, go Jeordian.

00:39:10
Speaker 2: Okay. So I'm really excited that this pick falls to me because I was definitely listening in to Dan Morgan's press conference. I was listening into some of the press conferences previous to that that they did as an organization. I'm looking at what really worked for the Panthers last year, and what really worked for the Panthers last year was when Jalen Cocher got back into this offense after being injured for so long and became such a quarterback friendly target that also sprung loose what Tetuoa McMillan could do in all phases. I also think that they are a team, as Dan Morgan said, doesn't see anything wrong with drafting receiver another year in a row, and I went for a receiver who I think is not traits popular, I guess, but somebody who is extreme only quarterback friendly, and who in the middle of the field for Bryce Young could unlock everything else that they want to do on the perimeter. I'm going makay lemon.

00:40:08
Speaker 1: Ooh yeah, Actually that's the Cowboys draft room happy that you just left their guy for them.

00:40:14
Speaker 2: They really, I really do think that he makes so much sense in here. And yes, you know, Panther says, I know you have Dalen Coker and you guys love him. You even have a nickname for the fan base of Jalen Cocher, the koke Heads. But I also think that he can't He's not reliable unfortunately a sense that he hasn't been able to stay healthy.

00:40:31
Speaker 3: He also would look better as a three than a two.

00:40:34
Speaker 2: And so I love this. I love that you don't necessarily have to keep trying to make this exavier logette thing work.

00:40:39
Speaker 3: You can.

00:40:39
Speaker 2: You can actually build layers into your offense and try to maximize the quarterback in the year that you absolutely have to know if he's going to be your guy moving forward.

00:40:48
Speaker 1: If if Dylan Thieneman was not on the board for the Cowboys at number twenty, I would have been a little panicky. I didn't love my other picks, but I think the Oregon safety makes all the sense in the world for them.

00:41:00
Speaker 2: At that I almost thought you were going to go when I was putting on my Greg hat. I thought you were going to go him for Minnesota.

00:41:08
Speaker 3: Yeah, that I could see. I could see either way.

00:41:12
Speaker 1: And look, Christian Parker, he he loves a great, uh dynamic, versatile white safety. Look what he did with Cooper Dejine there in Philadelphia. He's the new defensive coordinator with the Cowboys. I don't think they have to go secondary back to back picks. I think they could take an edge here. For instance. I think they could look look at receiver. I actually don't think that's a crazy idea. But ultimately thenem and it's really his tape at Purdue, which I think rounds out his profile because he almost played a different position there than he did at Oregon when he was just kind of hanging back and not doing as much in this.

00:41:48
Speaker 3: Like three safety look.

00:41:49
Speaker 1: But there was more about that scheme there, and so I think he'd be a great addition for the Cowboys. They try to solve their secondary in one draft, kind of like what the Eagles did a couple of years ago with Quinon and Cooper Degene.

00:42:00
Speaker 3: Alright, you're up with the Steelers.

00:42:01
Speaker 2: I'm gonna break my own heart here with what I think the Steelers should do. Because what I think the Steelers should do is take Omar Cooper Junior, the receiver out of Indiana. I really wanted to see him in whatever this Sean mannion offense is gonna look like in Philadelphia, so I thought he would be a really nice compliment over there, depending on how that room shakes out after June. First, I also really wanted to see him in like a one of these like modern throwback Koubiak schemes that's now repopularized in the league because he is just such a player who is like the yards after the catch and the way that he can create space and all of these things. But I think he's a really really good compliment to DK Metcalf. I know Michael Pittman Junior is there. He's an older receiver obviously, and I just think they need another guy. They need another layer to this offense that is not Mount Washington, and I think that he would be a good fit there. He's also they're gonna be missing their yards after the catch guy, right, the running back Shoot gain Well.

00:43:08
Speaker 3: Kenny Gate, Kenny g Team MVP.

00:43:10
Speaker 2: Yes, I always think Patrick's favorite player whatever, and they're gonna be missing, They're gonna be missing that. So I think that he's also gives them that element that they really will want.

00:43:19
Speaker 3: I got.

00:43:19
Speaker 1: On one hand, they just need more juice, yeah, And on the other he's just such a classic stealer, Like you could make the argument he's a little duplicative with Michael Pittman. But happy now maybe, but too many receivers is not going to be a problem. And yes, Pittman did get a contract extension. We'll see. This is the scenario I was a little worried about. Wait, I have lost a little track of who's on the board. Is Spencer Fanos still on the board? No, the Rams picked up that's right, He's long gone. So I tried to think about with the Chargers, like it's a tackle heavy class, but I think if they're taking an offensive lineman here, it's a guy that they're gonna convert to guard and is available to play attack. Where they have two guys coming off of an injury, and I don't think any of them right now are necessarily worth it.

00:44:07
Speaker 3: I'm gonna day.

00:44:08
Speaker 2: Hang on, you know that Aoni is still on the board, right?

00:44:12
Speaker 3: Oh wait, I totally did forget about that.

00:44:13
Speaker 2: Okay, now, Okay, okay, I just like I just wanted to make sure you I.

00:44:18
Speaker 1: Was so expecting to take him or get him get taken earlier that Yes, Venga Aoni with the Penn State, this would actually be a dream draft.

00:44:27
Speaker 3: I did not write him down on my head.

00:44:28
Speaker 2: That would be ideal for the Chargers.

00:44:30
Speaker 1: Yes, because otherwise, like I honestly was thinking of them essentially reaching for Rutledge, who might be like a second round candidate or someone that they trade back and then take who just seems like a John Harbaugh player. But Aoni is absolutely perfect. The draft falling this way would be awesome. Again, this is what we think they should do, just the way that it's fallen. Maybe offensive linemen are a tad more available than they might be in the real mock, but who knows. This is about when the the real run is gonna start going.

00:45:01
Speaker 3: Me and I love it.

00:45:02
Speaker 2: I've been picking lineman this whole time, Greg, I don't know where you've been.

00:45:05
Speaker 3: I was gonna at Baltimore here. I don't need to. It's what they should do.

00:45:09
Speaker 1: I think this class is getting pushed up a little because it's not a great class. After the top ten or twelve and so people are just like, let's just take the line.

00:45:17
Speaker 2: I just hate when people say that if you're big and you can get in the way and stay in the way, you're probably gonna play good football down the league. I think you could simplify it a little bit.

00:45:25
Speaker 1: People always like to say, oh, it's like he'll be a ten year starter. It's a safe it's like go through the list. People like to say some more bust that offensive line, and almost any.

00:45:32
Speaker 2: People like to say, oh, he'll be a ten year starter, just as much as they like to say I don't know if this is as great of a class as maybe it's being to be. So you know, maybe it's right in the middle and we could just sit there and everyone needs less.

00:45:43
Speaker 3: One in particular has gotten at.

00:45:47
Speaker 2: All.

00:45:47
Speaker 1: Right, let's go, let's go faster through the top ten. The final ten Eagles are up.

00:45:52
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm putting another lineman, Caden Proctor here. This is Howie Roseman hearing that maybe the Browns we're gonna try to sneak in and grab another they're one of these following offensive linemen here. This is also the Bears kind of being sneaky and having their eye on another offensive linement because of some of the injuries that they're facing an uncertainty along their front. So this is Howie Roseman saying, Okay, I think Cayden Proctor, Monroe Freeling I think could have gone here, except I think they're gonna need help quicker than they expect along that offensive line, and with a new offensive line coach there, you don't necessarily have the predictability of Stoutland University developing a prospect like Monroe Freeling. So Caden Proctor to me just seems like somebody who it would be a reliable fit for them. However, it's the Eagles, so they're going to do something that we don't expect and then at the end of the draft we'll be like, damn, how'd they do that? How'd they get that guy?

00:46:43
Speaker 3: Yeah?

00:46:43
Speaker 1: I could see Miller going here, I could see Freelin as you mentioned, and I'll just keep keep the tackle run going. I do think the Browns are in a pretty good spot at twenty four, especially if the board falls like this. They have their choice between Monroe Freeling or Max Ayanatra, who I think is going to go in the first round. Ultimately, I will take Monro Freeling. Get excited, like you're saying, I mean it. Like with the Chargers, the board could not fall more perfectly for them because I think there is a feeling with Reeling out of Georgia that he'll be able to play right away. Obviously it had a lot of big time snaps there in the sec they have a massive need, so kind of perfect.

00:47:27
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's nice. So we're just giving everyone what they want and it's what they should do.

00:47:31
Speaker 3: Also, all right, the Bears are up next.

00:47:33
Speaker 2: Okay, the Bears, they're tackles that they liked are off the board in this scenario, right, and they're looking at once again at their defense. I looked at the possibilities between the safety out of Toledo, Emmanuel McNeil Warren, I looked at the possibility of in a key Messador out of Miami. Ultimately, I just really I think join Bears fans and being frustrated by how often they had to blitz and send that type of pressure where they couldn't get enough pressure up front, I think they need to add to their front. A key messador is the pick for the Bears at number twenty five.

00:48:08
Speaker 1: Like that pick and a little bit of an older prospect I just think they have such a need there and I think the strength of this class, like because so many tackles might get taken earlier, that like, that's a good value. Here a keey mesador who has a lot of moves. I like these guys that have like it. There's more than one, you know, bat like he has a lot in his bag, which sometimes it takes those players a little longer to develop, like a layout to lat to. But he's an older prospect and so maybe he'll hit the ground running that leaves the Bills to take cashus howel, and it's not perfect. You're you're at number twenty six. Can Is he gonna play every down as a rookie?

00:48:51
Speaker 3: Probably not.

00:48:51
Speaker 1: I don't know if Eric behind the glass is excited about a situational pass rusher with your first round pick, you will be when he gets like ten sacks as a rookie. He's a pretty special pass rushing talent. We talked about him at length this week, so I won't repeat it, but if you were just talking who's the best pass rusher in this class? Like his pass rush moves everything. There are questions about like everything, the run stopping, the consistency but if you're saying that there's a decent chance that he's the best pure pass rusher in this class, maybe a little Hassan Reddick to him, like later period Hassan Reddick. I think that's a good pick for the Bills at that position that they absolutely need. McNeil Warren would have been an interesting one, now that I think about it. Didn't think he'd be on the board, so I kind of forgot about him.

00:49:41
Speaker 2: To be honest, you know what. This was the other This was the other place that I had CJ. Allen going actually because Jim Leonard. You just know he would be a total Jim Leonard guy. But he's already gone in this draft.

00:49:51
Speaker 1: See, I wrote him down as one of my most likely picks, and I'm the one that took him away from me. I should have known not to write him down when I had him first with the vik He was never getting past the vikings.

00:50:02
Speaker 3: You're up with the forty nine.

00:50:03
Speaker 2: Okay, this was This was tough for me because I was looking again, I was I was probably overthinking this when I as one does, but I was gaming out like all the different things that could happen, and then they just they could pick pretty much any almost any position, and I would think probably that would be the right thing, because they're so top heavy with the age of a lot of their guys on their roster right now, and then they do have some some clear needs as well, especially on defense. So I looked at some of the edge guys I looked at. I looked at a guy like Chase Pisantis out of Texas A and M, who has been mocked to them a few times and certainly could be somebody who could play for them quickly. I even looked at I already put Blake Miller somewhere else. But I looked some of the tackle guys, Caleb Loomu, developmental guy who could play behind Trent Williams and then slot in pretty much wherever they need him to. But I just kept thinking, history tells us something about these forty nine ers, and Kyle Shanahan is usually gonna get his way in the first round or the early rounds, and so I also, and I'll get to it the pick in a second. I know you gotta move. So I also looked at like a Denzel Boston for them to kind of replace that power slot guy that they're gonna need, you know, with Juwan Jennings being away and all of that. Ultimately, I did go Caleb Blomu because I think that they are gonna need Trent Williams insurance at some point, and it's just the thing that I think they should do. Do I think they will.

00:51:33
Speaker 3: No, No, but okay.

00:51:34
Speaker 2: I do think this is the pick or the position or the type of pick that they should make.

00:51:38
Speaker 3: Yeah.

00:51:39
Speaker 1: I think they could look offensive line certainly. I think they could look in the secondary, especially if yeah, Neil Warren is there.

00:51:45
Speaker 3: That's not a crazy but.

00:51:46
Speaker 2: I wanted to give my guy that they that I think they would also pick. I wanted to give him to another team.

00:51:51
Speaker 1: Denzil Boston makes it. Oh, now you're going against your own teams. You know that they could go in the secondary. I think we might have some players fall out of this second because with the Texans, I'm pretty excited that that Max Einatcher from Arizona State is on the board. He's another guy I've been talking about this all week that if you're looking at the over under of where he gets taken, I think he's going to get taken higher than people expect. I don't know if this is the floor for him, because it matters who goes ahead of him. But I think if he is on the board, he has a great choice to continue to try to rebuild this offensive land. I don't think they're offensive line or bust at all, which I feel like a lot of Texans fans feel that way. But I do think if the right player, and this is it for me, falls.

00:52:34
Speaker 2: Take him, I am setting I think both of us up for success with this next pick, or at least I hope I am, But I know I'm setting a player that I really like up for success with Steve Spagnolo because at number twenty nine, I think the Chiefs with the pick that they got from the Rams with that trade for Trent McDuffie, I picked Chris Johnson, the cornerback of San Diego State.

00:52:57
Speaker 3: Love it.

00:52:57
Speaker 2: He is ranked number forty on DJ's board and in the early twenties on Dane Brugler's board. But I look at his scouting reports and his fit, good tackler, smart player, aggressive, going to compete early, and really I think has some potential as a blitzer as well, which hello Steve Spagnolo. So I just think he just fits what Steve Spagnola likes to do.

00:53:18
Speaker 3: I love that pick.

00:53:19
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised if DJ moves him up in his final Top one fifty, just because he seems like one of DJ's favorite players. Mina talked about him a lot this week too. I really love that pick in the fit and the need, and that is a great replacement for Trent McDuffie, who was taken in a similar slot. That leaves the Dolphins on the board. And now I gotta do it in conjunction with your first Dolphins pick. Who did you take? You took mansor Delayane, So I think then I do look to the offensive line to see if there's the right value there, and I go Caleb Lomo.

00:53:54
Speaker 2: He's already gone.

00:53:55
Speaker 3: Wait, he's gone too. I knew I would lose it.

00:53:58
Speaker 1: I was like, you just said you thought about him for one of your previous picks.

00:54:02
Speaker 2: I said, I'm picking I said, I'm picking him for the forty nine ers. Ultimately, oh oh, I messed that. But I set you up for a pick that I think the Dolphins should pick.

00:54:13
Speaker 3: I don't know about that.

00:54:14
Speaker 2: Who Denzel Boston, No, I'm not a fan.

00:54:19
Speaker 1: I think I'll go MM because I was thinking, uh, secondary.

00:54:25
Speaker 2: We finally get you an offensive lineman, and this is what happens.

00:54:29
Speaker 3: The Santis is there.

00:54:31
Speaker 1: You could go Kaylin Rutledge, who I think is a guy a lot of people are ultimately going to be interested in. Do they double up in the secondary because they think it's the best value.

00:54:42
Speaker 3: What should they do?

00:54:45
Speaker 1: I like Gaban Threll. I thought Chris Johnson would be on the board. But of the players that I like the best that are still available, yeah, I don't think any of the receivers are worthy of being taken, and or the offensive tackles that aren't like my favorite one. So yeah, I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go with Avion Terrell from Clemson. I know he's more of like a solid than spectacular type of pick. I think he's gonna be a guy who starts a lot in the NFL. There might be a little position flexibility, but probably a guy who's got to be played on the outside. But ultimately that's a position which I expect them to take multiple picks in their first seven picks at cornerback because they have you know, Devin in the top of an hundred.

00:55:26
Speaker 3: In this In this scenario, they just get them back to back.

00:55:29
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't mind doubling up on a position group that way. You've seen it work in the past. I really the reason I liked Denzel Boston there was because they are facing the very quick escalation of a world without Travis Kelcey, and certainly that the amount of volume in the middle of the field is something that Andy Reid will still want to have. I don't necessarily trust other players on their roster right now to be able to develop into that sort of middle of the field like power, sort of physical like target for Patrick Mahomes. That's why I liked the fit there. If he was available. I think there are better players who could fill a similar role like that. But I really, I just really liked the possibility that they go defense offense, defense offense.

00:56:14
Speaker 3: You got the Patriots wrapping up here.

00:56:16
Speaker 2: Yes, Actually, I'm curious what you think about this, because I was gonna put Casius Howel here, but he's gone.

00:56:22
Speaker 3: You know.

00:56:23
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I also I still went edge. I went with TJ. Parker. I just think that scouting reports say he's just kind of like all around, can do a variety of things. He can defend the run and rush the passer. He's also still developing. I just think that he helps level set a group that really needs help, and certainly could have seen them going offensive line here. But at the same time, I thought, okay, and there's there's also not really a tight end that I could see them targeting here. I think that's a big notion to need for them as well, but it's just not really this whole area right now. It's kind of like, I think you got to almost go with need if you're sticking in picking here.

00:57:00
Speaker 1: I mean, they need almost everything. Yeah, they need offensive line. It wouldn't be surprised. Keep an eye if, like there's a little shake up there during the draft. Potentially. I'm glad you took him because I did want Malachi Lawrence as sort of a hipster pick to wrap up this draft for the Seahawks. He just seems like such a Seahawks He feels like he would be a really good part of a pass rush plan that in four years time or maybe five years, since he'll have the fifth year option now. As a first round pick, the Central Florida kid, who has a pretty high ceiling and can do a lot of stuff, is very rugged and you can just see him having five hundred to six hundred really quality snaps, and maybe he's a little more exciting than some of the other edge prospects out there. When you see him out there, he's about the same size as David Bailey. You could just see a really good player, and so I think that would be a perfect landing spot for any defensive lineman. So I'm gonna go Malachi Lawrence from ECF going thirty two.

00:57:58
Speaker 3: We did it.

00:57:59
Speaker 2: We did it, and I'm sure we forgot somebody who's very good at football that we will hear about.

00:58:03
Speaker 3: You need to pause.

00:58:04
Speaker 1: I was the only one that lost track of who's available and started scrambling.

00:58:08
Speaker 3: That Dolphins pick was tough, that's right.

00:58:11
Speaker 2: I forgot Gainwell's name and Clayton Adam's name.

00:58:14
Speaker 3: But so that's fair. That's You're just you're getting older.

00:58:17
Speaker 2: You know, it's true. I feel it every day.

00:58:19
Speaker 3: Just wait, just wait till your forties.

00:58:21
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