a lot? Yeah, I guess I get a little excited about those
guys. You like your number three as well. So that must
mean you really like your number one safety in this
class.
And that is
its Hamilton. I mean, Kyle Hamilton Notre Dame. No, is he?
A generational
Talent? You don't throw that around. Don't just don't just
give that to someone because we want to make sure that you
can't just have a generational Talent safety every year.
Would you put them?
In that category.
Yes, I think I would
get some recent concerns about him. There is some recent
concerns. There is I get it the 40 time when here and we ran
for 59 at the combine, right?
MK e says do you think Kyle Hamilton's before we get into
your effusive praise? Let's just start with it. Yeah, fine.
MK e says, do you think Kyle Hamilton's, combine and pro
day? 40 are red flags. When I look at his tape compared to
scenes and Daxton Hills. He looks
quote-unquote slow.
Well, he's different than them,
right. You know, seen like we talked about his acceleration
is off the charts means 43, its Elite receiver Elite Corner,
type speed, so he's not that for sure.
Now, he's 30 pounds bigger than dachshund Hill to let's
remember that to 26 for exactly giant. So there's a different
man here. We're talking about a totally different guy,
right? And like the speed. Yeah. I'm a little disappointed
in it.
I'm I hear everybody
but like, have just In too much on film for me to go. I'm not
really worried about it. I mean,
how how many times you got to see him, run down a running
back or receiver or, you know, playing Centerfield and braking
on a ball and covering as much ground as anybody in this. So
like the acceleration all that? Yeah,
it's not top-notch,
but I didn't come away watching film going,
man. It's it is. It's 46. You slow.
I did not at all. I really didn't. You are surprised at
the time. It was surprised. It didn't confirm. I was deaf.
Only surprises this time. I thought he would have been mid
four, five. Maybe
four, four eight, four four nine, something like that.
But here's the other aspect of this first off. Tell me this
right here. Here's a slot receiver, right? First off out
of all the safeties
other than dachshund. He'll this is the guy that's probably
got he's got the best coverage skills. I mean, he could play
almost nickel corner. I mean it really
alright. So here we go. Does this guy does this right here?
Look like a guy that runs for
65 or 459. It doesn't to me again. I don't know. And
there's a lot of plays on film like this,
you know, and then you talk about. OK,
6 for each to 20.
He can do all of this.
He's phenomenal. At this stuff, Amin.
He can play second level, linebacker, strong, safety,
Nickel Free Safety. He can kind of do everything there and
because of that size and length,
you know, he's very good at like
kind of what we talked about with cook with Cincinnati.
I mean, there's just so many plays where
oh, oh, it's a toss sweep and the slot of the tight end or
trying to block him. And he kind of just what. No, you're
not going to block me. I'm gonna hold you out here. Okay.
Now the balls out in my area, get away from me.
I'm going to make the tackle too much of that,
you know,
feel instincts for the game. Just knowing like, you know,
hey, oh, oh, it's you know, it's a third and short. The
ball might go in the flat here. I've seen this on my film,
study blah, blah blah. And just seeing it recognizing it and
go.
I mean to me,
You know, those things were all really special. So that's
that's in a why I would make him number one. Is he
generational to me, like, you would like, was it like Jamal
Adams?
Okay, Jamal Adams, when he was coming out. I remember turning
the film going. Oh my freaking God. This guy is unreal.
I remember going. Is this the best player in the draft? Hmm,
like, that's where I was,
you know, I hadn't watched the whole draft at the time.
I didn't come away like that with Kyle Hamilton. I'm not gonna
lie,
but six-four two-twenty. Run hips
like boss kills.
Everything is actually
above average to Elite except for a 40 time in spandex.
When I just go. Okay, I get it. I like Fast guys. Everybody
knows that. But if the film doesn't concern me that way,
then then I'm not going to go
crazy over that 40 time and 459 at the combine is plenty fast
for me to with the tap. The tape that goes along with it.
There was a talk there for a while that my Detroit Lions
know, maybe
at number two. I canno should take a look at Kyle Hamilton.
Yeah,
you say no I say, no. No, to me. That's first of
two too high. I don't think he's that great.
All right.
Second thing is
the thing that I think hurts Kyle, Hamilton a little bit, is
there's a lot of good safeties that's going to hurt him.
I think, because I think if you're sitting there and going,
wait, we're a team at picked number seven or eight and we
need a safety.
Go. Well, there's gonna be a good one on the board at
the top of the second round. When you're picking the 39 there.
There's gonna be a good one,
right? Or you could go maybe you trade down if you need to
safety,
you know, again, I don't think the difference between Kyle
Hamilton was so much greater than the rest of the group that
you go. All. We have to have him right now and pick six or
five or seven.
All right, so p.m. We have to block Chris's
tab of generational Talent. We have to block it because that
doesn't sound it. It doesn't sound like yeah, right. We have
to block it. Pete agrees with me to we got take it away.
Yeah, so you like them a lot.
We're going to take away the generational,
but why what what I mean, you've mentioned it. All right, there,
if you're a team in the NFL,
You're now you're thinking about I am thinking about it
because it's a good, it's a good conversation. I never
really thought about it. That way. I think he's going to be
more made from the NFL that he has college football. Anyway,
that's probably why I think that's probably why I think it
to
I do, you know, and I just think it's very rare to be that
size and
to be consistently asked to cover, nickel receiver. I mean
slot receivers the way he does.
Right. So so
when Isaiah Simmons was talked about me. Yeah,
it was the idea like we're gonna be able to do things with
him that maybe we haven't been able to do in the NFL right
before, it will open up this whole new world. Right? Is Kyle
Hamilton could teams. Look at him in the same way. They could
they could, that's where I'm, I'm almost want to backtrack on
my stuff here, a little bit to where I go,
you know, a little like
There's just no sir me where maybe I'm miss valuing, or
maybe I need to stick to my guns with the generational town
a little bit. More is like
it's just there's no weakness to his game. I guess is where
I looked at. I look at it, you know, do I wish we had we can
match them a little bit of a better number with the 40 and
all of that.
But yet to me he is it's generational in the fact that
the size, the length, the hips, you know,
the ability to play the ball.
He brings it hitting and Crackling. He's very good. Open
field tackler.
Yeah, that's a tough one. You're gonna You're Gonna Go,
you want to put it back on them. You want to do it? Like
I do. Like I do couple is certainly his size.
So you haven't seen a safety that go that mag, right? You
have not, no, we have not seen anybody that big. And then when
you look at that big and I think like, you talked about
those coverage skills, like I mean, just read some of the few
things because
this is the last thing and we're getting out of here soon.
Like has the ability to cover wide receivers at a very high
level. He is sudden and twitch Twitchy, right? And I mean that
again like hey, he's sitting there
at nickel. And okay,
like they throw a bubble screen, his ability to like
react to it right away and get in that position. We talked
about earlier with the wide base and being like, you're not
going to get around me. I'm ready to Twitch and go
anywhere. I want, he's great at that stuff.
He's great. You know, he moves really well in short areas.
He's made for that second level of an NFL defense, you know,
there's a little bit of a build up speed. Yes,
but it's not bad
and you know,
incredible range of free safety.
The very Good hips and man-to-man coverage or working
the middle of the field. As a free, safety has great
instincts and a feel for What offense is trying to do,
he can play the nickel.
I mean, he plays the German, he played the Jeremiah was
the Coeur Mo position this year, which is basically weakside
linebacker / nickel where they try to get away with. Like,
you know, here's a freaky guy who's not really a cover guy,
but he can cover good enough and we need them in the Run
game. So he's like, that's what he did. So I think that says
something to
like, oh, We just this guy who was really a top-20 pick that
had a heart murmur. We want you to fill in for him and
no problem. So, you know that to me says a lot to
really good tackler.
Really. Physical takes on blocks really? Well,
you know, and then I put the last thing and maybe this is
where
he's Elite everywhere. We got to go. It's generational.
He was put on Earth to cover the past, catching NFL tight
end to me. He's put on Earth to cover Travis Kelce and Evan
engrams and the Darren Walsh to the world. He is
so that's maybe where we can see him. Be generational
where you don't get to see that in college because nobody knows
how to feature anybody in college anymore. It's just, you
know, college, offenses have come down to this. Let me see.
The one guy can get the ball with
who has the least amount of people around them. And then
that's our Play-Doh,
that receiver way over by the sidelines. They're not double
cut. Let's just throw it out there and we'll just throw to
him. Yeah, he's behind the line of scrimmage, but we'll just
let him make a play.
I mean that's college football.
So it does guys like him an injustice at times because it's like
you don't get to see his specialized skill set. I think
that will translate big time in the NFL really good question.
With the generational thing though. You have no, really.
You might have things that you've look at. I think I want
to look game, right? Have not seen in, won't see any. That's
right. That's where I guess. I think God thanking is
generational. It's
a little bit more of a projection generational
and I think a lot like a lot of Notre Dame kids. They translate
to the NFL game more maybe than they do the the college game.
Take us back to when you saw him
a couple years. Years old. I mean
same practice is Jay. Okay. First time, you really kind of
social time. I saw him. I'm on the practice field. It's
mid-august. I'm out there Notre Dame. First thing I went is
I went
who's this number six kid
because and I was going who's number six kids and they're
like, oh, yeah, he's gonna be our linebacker and I was going
I was like, he covers better than every corner on another
issue Colonel. Yeah, I mean, so he was amazing and then I was
like, wait, who the freak is this tall Beanstalk in
the middle of the defense?
I n, you know, and they were all like, oh, that's our
freshman. That's Kyle.
Kyle Hamilton. He's a freak. Oh my gosh, blah, blah blah.
And unlike the next five minutes. He had like 200
options in practice. And then I was like, well, he's
tall. He's not gonna hit anybody
unlike a few minutes. After that. He had like
an unbelievable collision and I was just like, oh my gosh, and
they were like and I can't remember if it was Brian Kelly
or somebody else. They were like, yeah.
He's a three-year guy. He and gonna be here that long and it
was like, yeah. No, he's not. He's out of here. You going to
be out of here. Three years for sure. And that was my first
experience. Let alone first game on the field.
I'm on the sideline working for NBC. He gets a picker pick six,
like, on the first drive of the game, like, as a freshman as
I go. Hey guys, I'm the best player in the defense with Jay.
Okay, no problem, right? I'm a freshman.
I mean, so that was my first experience for him. He's made
for the NFL and unlike maybe a Stingley over at corner. He
kept it up. He continued to have a good call.
His career and kept getting, kept it up, passion. Everything
you want from him, right? You know, I mean, so we'll see.
I know again, I wrote top-20 pick. I did not write top 10
pick dance interesting. I know
Iris interested. Yes, right. This