Let's start with the olive juice team from you and our
guy, Charles Robinson.
Who is your favorite player? When you did, you reporting
you, did your research and you, and you sift through
everything, and you narrowed it down to these 2023,
guys, because you also had a bonus priority free agent.
I believe when you got 2623 guys,
who is your favorite player? At the end of the day? All right,
I'm gonna give you a look. Yeah. I mean, like, you can
make a case Malik Willis
sudden the most exciting quarterback in this class, lot
of skills, a lot of question marks. Mark's, he's certainly
a candidate.
You know, Torres was a Detroit guy,
love the Michigan Wolverines. So Ayden Hutchinson. I had one
GM. Tell me if he's not your first pick, we got problems,
right? And he know he knew Torres knew about the all juice
team had probably helped him with it in the past. So
those are two obvious candidates. But as you alluded
to, we had a 23rd guy to Res in the past had used sort of a 12
man defense where I had a nickel position. He wanted to
work in. So I'll pick the 23rd guy because
it's sort of the essence of this and the
Work that Tara's did on Earth as many gems as he possibly could.
How about Daniel Hardy? A guy that probably nobody's really
talking about this time of year. May not even get, drafted
Montana State linebacker. In fact, his teammate could get
drafted around two or three Troy Anderson, but
I watched Daniel Hardy
saw him have a great FCS playoff. Game saw you at 16
sacks, and then also went to his pro day and blew it up and
you know, to me,
what makes the all Jews team. A little different from typical,
you know, other sort of preview. Redraft pieces and
everything Perez wasn't just picking all first round
choices. He wasn't taken all the guys from the big schools.
He was making sure that he had to or
no more than to form each strata. If you will, each tier
of the drafts 3 in round, one
to two in each of the first two, run to Third and second
and third rounds, but he wanted honor those guys that nobody
had really heard of or knew much about. And so, Daniel
Hardy, this year is kind of the
embodiment, if you will of the, the all juice experience.
Ian Hutchinson feels like kind of the embodiment of there's
a draft since it's lacking that Superstar quarterback will
quarterbacks like last year.
It seems to almost be this resignation. If you will that
it's going to be a meat-and-potatoes depth in
the trenches Edge. Lineman, you know Edge rusher Lyman type top
of the draft, right, which
maybe it takes a little
Sizzle if you will out of the anticipation. So but Aidan
Hutchinson in particular Heisman finalist dominant
player at And
but doesn't feel like
he's getting the
juice if you will, when it comes to the pre-draft hype.
That we've seen some other potential number one overall
picks get to. What would you attribute that if my sense is
correct that it's almost like
boys of sure thing.
So we'll set up for him at number one
versus him. Being
a franchisee changing perennial Pro Bowl gold jacket. Type guy
coming off the edge at number 1.
Yeah, I think it's absolutely the way you framed it as
the right way. And I haven't talked to a single evaluator
personally who said all right. This guy is going to be better
than Nick bosso or better than TJ W or
you know, even the other
W in both the brothers. They I think they see his ceiling as
being a little bit below that. And you're right in a typical
draft cycle. Maybe Aidan. Hutchinson is the
sixth pick or the eighth pick overall and you'd feel darn
good about it. There at one. It's a little different story.
Yeah, you know, the Jaguars got
QB last year, we assume
there isn't really a quarterback that you could
typically make a case for to be the number one or two overall
sex selection. I think Malik will assume probably be
the closest thing to it, but he needs work too. So it is
definitely a reflection of this class. I wouldn't say it's
quite, as,
you know, tough or unsexy address cycle as we had, and
I think it was 2013, where Eric Fischer was the first pick and
then, you know, Luke jokl. I mean,
we really had to crank up the hype machine to get People,
Pumped for that one. It was that was tough. Right? The top
selling. Yeah, this year is a little more sexy. We got sauce
Gardner. We got Aidan Hutchinson
and there's at least the possibility guys that Trevon
walkers in the mix. For the first pick. They hit, you know
that has not been ruled out that I'm aware of at least, you
know publicly. So, you know, for a guy with five sacks to go
first, I would be even bigger story than I than a Heisman
finalist. Not
being in that selection playing the same position and being
more productive,
you know, Eric. I know they're always surprised. And the draft
as we look at all the mocks and we all start. We see so many
machs, we start to believe it and the guy
doesn't go Fifth and he goes 25th with a oh man.
Oh, wow. This is a slide. Well, maybe the mock was wrong
all the way from the start.
But I'm wondering just based on what you think is going to
happen.
Who's somebody that really is
likely to go on a second half of the first round,
who will be looking back in two years saying, oh my goodness
can
You believe the guy lasted
till like number 18 or 19. What an incredible player is
who fits that bill.
It's a great question. I mean, obviously if the quarterback
slip, right, I mean you could see one of those guys whether
it's a Kenny Pickett and I even think Desmond Ritter from
Cincinnati and Matt Correll from Ole Miss have a chance to
go late round 1,
I can see a path if they land in the right system, with
the right coach the right Talent around him, you know all of
them succeeding do I feel as good?
About this group as I did last year's. No. And last year's
group. Largely struggled this rookie. So, if you want to go
with a non quarterback, I mean, there's a kid at UConn Travis
Jones, who may be a late first or an early second round pick
and he's never going to
be a 15 sack guys, not Aaron Donald, he's a defensive tackle who
for a bad football team at UConn. You guys aren't too far
down the road. I know you've at least seen some of the scores
that they are on the wrong side of. He was the attention of
every single opponent. They played.
And I I mean Force to see him fight through double-teams,
clog Lanes, still make plays in the backfield be a productive
player. You know, really? I think one of the best that his
position
he's one that I don't think he's got enough hype.
Another would be Andrew Booth the corner out of Clemson.
Maybe he's a year away, but boy, you see somebody that you
can get excited about and in some time. So I really do think
that's going to happen guys that the top 15
may end up not being as productive as the next 15
picks. It wouldn't shock me? Because I think there are a lot
of players. In this in this draft that are all
kind of lumped together graded similarly, and it wouldn't it
wouldn't stop me at all.
Let's go to another all juice team member and he's a favorite
of our show
because we just had him about, you know, half hour ago or so.
And that's Nicole be Dean out of Georgia.
What are you hearing about him? Because it feels like
if but for the size,
what's not to love about him? And even then the kid can run
like the wind, he can. Yeah, he's a favorite of mine. I love
watching him play, you know, on and on
historically, great College defense,
you know, In all of them would point in the, Kobe Dean is one
of the group's leaders, the inspirational leader,
the emotional leader, you know, and also the physical ones who he
was in on so many different tackles. He's got the speed,
I think to play
the position in the modern NFL. Third, you know, three Downs,
you got to cover, you know, if you can Blitz that's great. And
also stop the run. He does.
Yeah, that's exactly it.
I don't think he's a fit and every single system
and, you know, that that seems wild that you can't find
a place to play this guy, considering everything. He
Did but think of like a Dan Quinn style defense. I'm not
saying he's necessarily go to the Cowboys but that type of
Defense where you have
people kind of protecting you up front and you can roam free.
You know, Dion Jones had a couple of great years in
Atlanta, you know, we've obviously seen,
you know, the some other smaller Playmakers, a David
long for the Rams in the Super Bowl run.
Those type of players have a role in this league and there
is a scenario where he doesn't get picked and round one, which
is kind of crazy to me and I assume you You but
I'm with you. I think he's a fantastic football player and
they swear by him is football IQ leadership. All
the intangibles you want for that spot.
Are you as
are you as high on the wide receivers
and this class has others are, or do you think maybe we're
pushing wide receivers? Like we sometimes push quarterbacks
because the leaves
is going so far in that direction. Yeah, that's a great
question. I'm glad you framed it that way, too, because I do
think there will be a run on wide receivers in round one.
And a lot of it has to do
with, you know, the Tyree killed trade,
the Davante Adams trade, the contracts that were do.
Doubt that that position,
we're almost at the point like quarterback where, you know,
you consider taking one on the first round, simply to get
the fifth year option and have
a much cheaper salary over a longer period of time at you
know, as one evaluator to put it. Maybe you're getting 85% of
the player in the first round that you would from keeping
your veteran,
but you get a 25% of the cost so economically speaking. It
makes sense, but I don't know that there is a Jamar chasing
this class. I don't think there is maybe Jameson Williams.
If he's healthy, he's got the ACL.
I don't think there's a Justin Jefferson there. May not be
a Debo. A DK Medcalf, you know, Terry McLaren. All the guys in
the great 2019 class, but I think we're the wide receiver
group. Really stands out to me is really good depth. I think
you'll be able to get
you know, some starting caliber players will leak into day
three, you know, we don't know who they are now, but they'll
eventually work into those roles and
you know, it's a very solid respectable players. You may
even have some undrafted guys who are really good but I see
a lot of number two, sore lower end. Number ones. I don't see
those true game-changing difference makers. The alpha
dogs of the alphas, you know, so
I like the class, but I'm more on the B plus side than I am,
you know, anything close to a day.
So, I just think that the lacks the little bit of that juice at
the top.
Like what you did there.
That's why back
eight teams have two first round picks. Yep, which team
given
either? What they have already and house
/. What they've done this offseason
and now where they pick
which of those 18 s. Do you look at and get the most
excited about what they're able to do on day one or two draft?
Great question. Obviously the whole society. Oh, yeah, I mean
Two New York teams, right? We got to start with New York, New
York, I guess. But you know, this is a sense around
the league. Just having a few conversations with people that
the Giants really under achieved the last couple years
under Joe judge. And I
don't know if it was all him or what, but the feeling that
a new coaching staff might be able to pump some energy. If
Daniel Jones is any good. They've got two picks in
the top seven. Certainly think about them.
Joe Shane came from Buffalo. Look with the, you know,
the bills did and they're rebuild. It was just, you know, kept
incrementally getting better every single year. Year, so
that may be the long-term payoff,
you know, for a short-term payoff. I'm fascinated to see
what the Green Bay Packers do. Obviously, you know, the whole
Aaron Rodgers, receiver situation, Devonte going to
Vegas,
you know, they're a Super Bowl Contender and you don't
normally see teams like that trading away their top players,
but
they now have two first round picks their head of the Kansas
City Chiefs in terms of draft capital
for another team that wants to get a receiver. So do they move
up to they stand? Pat? They always seem to leave their fans
a little bit frustrated on draft day. So I don't know if
this is like a big build-up or Water Aaron Rodgers, going to
be slamming tequila after some of the pics,
but
I expect something very, very interesting from Green Bay on
Thursday night.
They don't take a wide receiver in the first round this year.
They never will. If it's not, it's now, it's now or never
Eric and I'll be all sports.
And we appreciate you, man. Thank you so much and
wonderful job again.
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Thank you. We'll be right. Looking forward to it. Thank
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