The Season with Peter Schrager is a production of the NFL in partnership with iHeartRadio. Welcome everybody to the What are we calling this, Aaron? I think we should call this the Draft Eve Barbecue Feast Extravaganza episode of the Peter Schrager Season with Peter Schrager Podcast. Does that sound right?
Yeah? Repeater for me one more time, just so I have it exactly.
Draft Eve Kansas City that I mentioned, can't see the first time. I don't Draft Eve Kansas City Barbecue Feast episode of the Season with Peter Schreeger. I don't think we need the two.
Yet.
I love that works. Should we talk to the listeners right now? But what we just experienced?
Yeah, tell us about the feast part of the feast episode?
All right, I know you guys all want draft stuff. And if you're listening to this, it's probably Thursday morning on your commute, or maybe you are at the gym and you're on a treadmill or an elliptical and you're listening, and I'm sorry to do this to you. So we just had a barbecue feast. And if I sound fatigued, I feel like I just went ten rounds with Tyson.
It was amazing. So there's a barbecue place in Kansas City. Okay, first of all, Kansas City, everyone's got the barbecue place, like, you gotta go to this one.
You gotta go to this one.
Go to Kansasity. Oh, you gotta try this. There is a place in Kansas City called Joe's at Joe's Case and they are known for this legendary sandwich called the z Man. Everybody has their barbecue place. Everyone says, you gotta go here, here, I go to the top. Paul Rudd told me, yep, name drop. Paul Rubb told me, when you get to Kansas City, wait in line at this gas station called Joe's Kansas City Barbecue. They have something called a z Man sandwich. I said done. Followed
them on Twitter, said we're coming. You can you set us up with the z Man. Sure enough, our guys Sean here, from iHeart, we got Chason English here, from iHeart, we got you. We all were given the amazing experience of the z Man sandwich. But we also got some mac and cheese. We also got some baked beans. We also got some pork ribs, some brands. This is all before we went to work today, Like, so this is just we went all right, So let's talk about the
z Man before we even get into the draft. Sorry, if you're listening again, fast forward, like Mark Marin, Just fast forward through all the crap I say in the monologue. No one cares. Here we go. It's a.
Wrong but like lightly buttered, yep, toasted, lightly buttered.
Lightly buttered. Onion rings piping hot onions.
Very crunchy, incredible texture.
Okay, trovolone cheese melted okay. And then the beautiful stuff.
Burnt and the brisket. The sandwich is the beef brisket and corrected beef brisket slices folded on top of each other.
It's it's a beautiful medley. I feel like Alison Roman here. I'm going to explain all of this.
Two pickles on the side. You put them in if you want to put them, of course, of course you put them in, yep.
And then there's a sauce called the Night of the Living Sauce, and it's a hot, spicy barbecue sauce and it's soaked in that had this in about thirteen seconds down it I'm staring at a second one right now, and I'm debating whether I should go for.
It, and this the hot sauce is surprisingly hot. I was expecting it to like have a little kick. It's got some kick, got some real kick. And the regular barbecue sauce just a good compliment. I had both of them on mine a little bit. I first put the regular on to see how that was, and then I dipped it in the spicy one and was like, yes, goes on the sandwich. It's incredible.
Beauty of this place is that it's it's a gas station and it's got two working pumps still, and you go and there's a line around the corner. Show went and picked it up for us and said, at you know, it's seven o'clock and line up the corner. Rudd has told me that he comes for Chiefs games. He'll fly in and on a Saturday afternoon they'll go. And he's Paul Ruddy. He's really famous. He was in such hits as twenty one Cigarettes and plenty of other movies that
you've heard of. And he said, it's like one hundred people deep and everyone's just festive and great, and then you get the z man. That's what you get there. So I put it on Twitter that we were having the z Man, and I would say the response. Sometimes I break NFL news, I'm like, hey, this guy's signing with this team, or this player is injured out for the game, and there's a tepid response. They're like, okay,
great retweet, Okay, let's go, everyone aggregate it. Fine. The response has been so passionate over a mere picture of the z Man that I feel like I've been missing something in the first forty years of my life.
Yeah, you should have been reviewing sandwiches this whole time.
It sounds like a job, sounds great. Maybe it's this, And I feel like everyone probably in the podcast world has pitched this, and you guys work for iHeart, and I can imagine someone walks in, like, all right, so it's hot ones, but instead of it being hot sauce, it's barbecue. And each different question gets a little bit more personal, a little deeper, and you also have to eat like a burnt end and then a rib and then pulled pork, and then you know, you go right down the list.
I haven't personally received that pitch. I do know that that pitch is not uncommon.
And they don't realize that Sean Evans himself is an incredible interviewer, and that a lot of these people that do his show. And I thought the Karen Kulkan one was great. This is now just a commercial for hot ones. And then I saw the Jake Jillenhl Died one. It was great. He's a great interviewer and the celebrities like being interviewed by him. It's not because they like the hot sauce.
Even you also mentioned before we leave the food portion. Oh my god, So I am particular like I think the z man is to force a football comparison here, the z Man is your quarterback. I thought the ribs were like the ribs were Bejon the ribs, the texture they have this sauce and when it's cooked it's a little crispy on the outside and a little sweetness too.
And I want to make the sweetest love basically we're talking about me too.
The ribs were so good, love ribs and this was a great set of ribs, great culinary experience.
Yes, Also, is this our first You and Me show on the road road. We're in Kansas City, folks, it's alive hotels bumping. I got here, check in. I see Susie Colber'm like, what's up, Sue's how you doing. I get on the elevator. Desmond Howard's there. He tells me he's a fan of the show. I said, guess what, love what you do? Love the Hivesman pos Also, what you guys have been doing on game day for the last one hundred years is kind of what we try
to embody on Good Morning Football. He was very complimentary. I was very complimentary. That's the draft. Everyone's in a good mood. No one said they didn't like our show, and nobody had anything nasty to say about the z Man. We all enjoy it.
Of course, of course, all.
Right now, if you're listening, as we said, I'd suggest either a putting this in like the archive for after the draft to see how well we did in talking about it. Or b use this as your before draft drive home, drive to work, whatever it is, your workout.
Even if this posts tonight and you wake up early in the morning and it's your commute on the subway in whatever it is, this is your ultimate primer before what I And this is not me copping out like I went on McAfee show and he's like, don't you dare start pulling one of these, and I'm like, this is the most unpredictable draft. It's not the best draft. I don't know if any of these guys are going to be all pros. It's not the best draft. It's
not the deepest draft. It's not the greatest draft. It's the most unpredictable draft because of exactly that point. There are so many teams up top who have so many needs. There are teams with multiple picks. It means they could be a little creative. There are a lot of teams who want to trade. I know there are a lot of teams that are not interested in any of these quarterbacks, and you'd have needs at quarterback. So I just think it's gonna be really interesting draft in that TV wise
like it. I would say it's going to be a lot of drama and there's going to be quite a bit of surprises, and I like that more than necessarily just a chalk draft, which has been several times in the last few years where it's like the top ten. I think I nailed the top ten pick right pick last year, except for one of them. Maybe I got wrong with like the wide receivers. I think I had Drake London and Garrett Wilson switched with the Jets, but like to go nine to ten on the first ten
picks is pretty good this year. I could tell you confidently I just clicked send on my mock draft, and I might have one or two that I feel confident about. And last night, if we could show the phone, I would I'd say I spoke to twenty general managers over the course of like a five hour span, and the rules of this with that, I don't want to know who you're picking. Let's gossip, Let's hear what you think.
I'll go through the players. Tell me your thoughts, and if hypothetically these five guys are on the board, who would you take? And then a lot of times it's you know, go go at yourself. I'm not telling you what I'm going to take. But here's that guy's too high. That guy should be gone. Actually Atlanta needs this, And if you know the history of what they do, it's all really interesting. I think that's a show in itself. Last night, me trying to get to the answers and
getting no conclusions. Let's go through ten points I want to make about this draft. Let's put some snazzy music like drum roll or something, or maybe maybe like a what was the show the Weakest Lang?
Yeah, big noise A Millionaire?
Is that a show who wants to be a Millionaire?
I think that's the name? Yes, yeah, yeah.
All right, so google that, get that going. We're going to get that sound chime going. And here are ten things I believe the day before the draft, after feasting on a Joe's from Joe's case in Kansas City, Joe's case in Kansas City, and feeling mildly drunk on barbecue right now, I've got that, like not meat sweats, but like that post Thanksgiving, Like all right, here we go. Number one. I think the top ten will break this way.
Three quarterbacks selected. Those quarterbacks being in no particular order, Bryce Young, c. J. Stroud, Will Levis, three defensive linemen being selected in no particular order, Will Anderson, Tyree Wilson, Jalen Carter, two cornerbacks selected in no particular order, Devin Weatherspoon and Christian Gonzales. And two offensive linemen selected in no particular order, Paris Johnson Junior and Peter Scornsky. Number
two two. Two running backs will go in the first round, but they will not be selected until the twenties, meaning v Jon Robinson, who is the number two overall player on just about every team's board, is going to fall into the twenties. I talked to everyone yesterday. Everyone loves Jon, everyone wants b Jeon Robinson. Everyone believes b Jeon Robinson is going to be a top running back in the league. To a man, I could not find a team in the top twenty who would say they would select him.
So let's go through the usual suspects that people have been attaching him to the Falcons. I think they're going defense, folks. I think they're going either the corner and that might be Weatherspoon or Gonzales, or they're gonna end up taking whatever defensive lineman is still on the board, and that could be Tyree Wilson, it could potentially be Jalen Carter,
it could potentially be Will Anderson if something happens. I also think Atlanta could trade up if one of those three defensive linemen starts turning down, and then I think Atlanta could trade back. I would be shocked if Atlanta took Jehn Robinson eighth overall. So then let's go through the rest of the teams. Texans have the twelfth pick. Why wouldn't the Texans taken well, they have Damian Pierce, who was basically a stud back. They have a million
other needs. One thing they don't need is running back. Jets have Breisee Hall, Packers have Aaron Jones and aj Dillon. Steelers drafted Naji Harris in the first round. I've seen Philly at ten. It would go really, really, really against what he's done in the past. I have them taking Peter Scarnsky, the most boring pick in the world for a team that everyone thinks is gonna take some huge swing.
I think they take an offensive lineman who could play guard tackle at a Northwestern and Jeff Stoutlind, who's the offensive line coach, just gets another big dog to keep that thing going where they just replenish and replenish and replenish. I don't think Howie takes Bjeon Robinson tenth. Overall, I've had it my mock the last you know, the first mock draft, and I did a live mock draft with Joel Klatt. I put him there. I did a live mock draft with Daniel Deremiya. I want him on Philly.
I think that'd be awesome, it'd be fun, it'd be great. They'd get him over the hump whole thing. But the more I dig into this thing, the more I think it's either going to be a defensive lineman. I know, like if if Jalen Carter's there a corner, if one of the two corners is there, Gonzales or Wetherspoon, And then if not, I think it's it's either Paris Johnson or Peter Skearnsky whichever tackles left. Gosh, if you're expecting Bjohn Robinson and you get Peter Scarronski, it's like two
totally different types of you know, decisions. But that's the beauty of it. So what about the Buccaneers at nineteen They just lost Leonard Fournette for Shot White. They like and they have a lot of needs. I don't have them taking running back. You start going through it. Twenty Seahawks, Well they took Kenneth Walker. If you have a couple of trades in be there and maybe it's not them anymore.
Whatever it is, I have the twenty third pick. The Minnesota Vikings with Dalvin Cook on the roster, taking Bjeon Robinson twenty third, and the thought being he's just too good. Let's just get another weapon. We would have an awesome offense. And this guy with Dalvin Cook and Dalvin's contract, he just signed a new extension, but like, all right, let's just get better. And then I've got an even crazier one.
Two picks later, I have the New York Giants ticking Jamiir Gibbs, which would cause an earthquake in New York because of the Saquon Barkley situation. In short, my theory is, as the Giants, I know some things about that organization. If you listen, you know I'm tied in with a lot of those guys. The Saquon thing is not in a great place right now. They offered him a nice, big contract extension before the season was over in the bye week. He said no, thank you. He said, let's
roll into the free agency. They offered him another one in fregency. He didn't accept, and then he got the franchise tag at ten million, and he's not happy with it, doesn't want to play on that. There trying to negotiate, but I don't think he's getting the same contract he was offered during the bye week, So with that in the background, and also the Giants being pretty good at wide receiver, maybe a tight end if Michael Mayer falls
to them or Kinkaid falls to them. But gosh, Gibbs is a lightning rod and would be an amazing addition to this team. And I'm just here for the chaos. So I've got twenty three and twenty five in my draft, Bijon Robinson falling, and then the shocker, the New York Giants going running back if he's on the board.
Do you think that Gibbs is going in the twenties because a team really wants Bijon can't get him and then pivot to Gibbs or are they looking because they're very different players. Gibbs is so much more of a pass catcher. Do you think they're looking specifically for his skill set?
Okay, I think he is not the Bijon backup. I think this guy is unique in his own right and does things completely different and might be even more valuable to a team than your traditional three down back and Bjon Robinson. Here are the comparisons. If you want, I asked a GM yesterday. I said, give it me give me the two days Edger and James is v Jon Robinson, which is like an awesome Hall of Fame running back,
and Jamal Charles is Jamiir Gibbs. So that's classic take, but like two basically tame, two different positions all together. And if the Giants added Jamiir Gibbs and got somehow Sequon to play this year under the con I mean that's fun. Those are my two running backs. I don't think a third is taken. I've seen a lot of people say that there will be one taken, and it'll be you know, and gives the reach. I think he goes in the first number three. I've heard from everyone
that there is no stud receiver in this draft. There is no Calvin Johnson, there's no Jamar Chase.
You know.
Even last year those guys were guess what three receivers are going to go? And that will in a twenty range. Jackson Smith Njigba has gotten a lot of love. I've was on the phone with all these gms last night. They all say, to a man, these guys aren't gonna last past the twenties. And there's three of them. Jackson
Smithnjigba Jordan Addison. All right, if you're listening to this podcast tomorrow when something crazy happens and Jordan Addison is either taken like eleventh overall by the Titans or a team trades up and takes them twelfth overall, and you're googling, who the hell is Jordan Adison? I have not seen that name. I think no player has a delta of amount of teams that view this guy in a certain way, as opposed to how the national media has talked about
in the mock drafts and all the thing. I've see Addison falling out of the first round in some of these mock drafts, going late first, I think Addison doesn't doesn't leave the top twenty. And I also think Zay Flowers goes in the top twenty. So I think all three of those guys go in the top twenty. In my mock draft. I've got Smith Nijigba going thirteen to the Green Bay Packers, Zave Flowers fourteen to the Patriots.
Oh Patriots. I've gotten a lot of intel the Patriots like any points, and I don't think I'm the Belichick is considered the king in that building. Robert Craft wants an actually does not like being irrelevant and doesn't like being mediocre. So Zay Flowers local product. One of thirteen.
He has thirteen siblings. He is one of fourteen.
One of fourteen. I think he's the eleventh. I believe fourteen. Yes, Fort Lauderdale guy who played at BC had a chance to transfer state at BC, like was their entire offense. Awesome guy, great kid. We had him on the Good Morning Football Show. I think he goes fourteen to the Patriots, and then Addison's your wild card. I'm talking right after like ten. Addison could go anywhere from twelve to the Texans or I have him currently in a weird trade and I'll explain to my mock draft, but I've got
him actually going to the Houston Texans. But with the twentieth pick, I know, I kind of cheated a little bit, and I'm like, I don't know where to put Anthony rich but I want them on Seattle, so I'm gonna have them trade up to twelve from twenty and then just be like, well, that's a fake trade that I made up. It was kind of cheating, but I think the Texans might need a receiver as much as they need a quarterback in this draft, and Addison is going to go
somewhere in the top twenty. There's a bunch of teams from like twenty to thirty. I'd say twenty to fifty ars because he also the Dolphins in the rams, Like, there's all these teams that like Addison, not tying them to either one of those teams. It's kind of like the cutoff point. You've got these three receivers and there it might be a bit of a dip. And then it's guys like Jalen Hyatt and Quentin Johnson. So if a team wants a receiver, you might have to go
up and get them. So I would say this, Jordan Addison is an interesting prospect in tomorrow's draft. Keep an eye on him either A going really early or b one of the teams in the twenties. You know who needs a receiver, whether it's Kansas City or whether it's Buffalo moving up to go get Jordan Addison. Have we spoken enough about Jordan Addam.
I mean, you know, I'm as a Bills fan, I'm kind of hoping that you want that he winds up there. I know that I'm trying to be impartial about it. So we can move on from Jordan Adison if you want. But if they take them, we'll talk about them next week.
Yeah, absolutely, all right. Next thing I had as my fourth point, more about the Eagles, but just so I talked to folks in that building, and we've had Jamal Singleton, their running backs coach, on we'll get more. I just think they do things in a really unique way in that they don't just talk the talk, they walk the walk. They build from the inside out, and they really value
their offensive line and defensive line. And this draft the way it's trickling, I think one of those big offensive linemen is going to be there, and I'll put Broderick Jones in the same conversation with Paris Johnson and Scaronsky.
I gave him Scoronsky. Look, if it ends up being Bijon, great, If it ends up being one of the pass rushers and Jalen Carter still on the board, or they go and they get Nolan Smith, and so they get one of the corners like they've done all that in the past, they've done they draft I just with the age on that offensive line and with some movement going on, and
they didn't address it in free agency. I'm going offensive line for the Eagles, and then they have the thirtieth pick, and I have them going a corner with the thirtieth pick. I have him taken Joey Porter Junior, who's that's a little later than most people have him going. Oh, people have him going into teens in the early twenties. Again, it's semantics. Just the way my draft worked out. I
have nothing against him. I have Joey Porter Junior and Peter Scarnsky, two big ten players, one of them a corner, one of them a giant offensive tackle, are offensive guard going to the Eagles. So Eagles fans no running back but a corner and a big lineman, and they continue just to load up at positions of strength. Number five, I think the Lions are going Devin Witherspoon at six, and that's even if Tyree Wilson or Jalen Carter or
one of the quarterbacks is on the board. I the more I talk to people around the league, and again I have to preface it with this, teams don't tell me who they're taking, but they sort of have friends who work at those teams and they go on the Pro day visits and they're all there and there's like, it's not group think, but if a team really likes a player, it can get out. When you've got fifty people in a building and the draft room comes out, Now, do we know who they're going to take?
No.
Usually the GM and the head coach will keep that close to the vest. The owner usually has an input. But I keep on hearing Weatherspoon at six to the Lions, which would be interesting. He's one hundred and eighty pounds, didn't play a ton of football as a kid. I think he started playing when he was a junior in high school. But he tackles, he's tough, and someone said he's like, he's Aaron Glenn two point oh. Aaron Glen's our defensive coordinator. And Dan Campbell like those guys. They
want tough, hard nosed. They just traded away Jeff Akuda, who is a former third overall pick from a previous regime. I think there's a chance that Tyree Wilson or Jalen Carter is there. I think there's a chance one of the top quarterbacks is there. And I still think they'll just kind of say, let's go with Weatherspoon. So tomorrow if they don't go Wetherspoon, consider me surprised. That's just
the read I get from everyone around the league. Number six, I think we definitely have two tight ends going in this first round, and they're very different. Dalton Kincaid has a lot of fans in this league. He's not a big blocking tight end. He is a receiving tight end, but like an athletic freak. If you're giving like the
greatest compliments to guys, he's your Kelsey, all right. And the other guy's Michael Mayer at a Notre Dame and oh if you're giving a conduct comp to him, like I know, this isn't as great as that, but he's your Heath Miller where it's like great blocker catches reliable, you know exactly where's me. He's from Notre Dame. You could plug him right away. Those two guys are definitely gonna go. I don't think Darnell Washington, the tight end from Georgia, is gonna go in the first round. I've
seen him go in a lot of places. I do think there's a guy out of Iowa named Sam Laporta, and I've heard he's got a lot of fans at the end of the first round. So if Dallas or New Orleans are two teams to watch. Again, this is deep cut NFL draft stuff. If you are running on a treadmill right now and you're like, uh, okay, I think I'm drafted out. When we're talking about Sam Laporta draft stock, but don't be shocked if he goes in
the first round or very early in the second. I'd say there's a seventy percent chance he has taken at the end of the first round. Sam Laporta, who Aaron comes out of Iowa and those guys. It's George Kittle, it's obviously daw White Clark, it's Noah Fan, It's Hockinson. Like there's just one after another, after another after another, and he's the next one.
This is a great tight end class.
It's a great tight end.
Lots of weapons, lots of good blocking options. And I think that's the fun thing about Kinkaid and Mayor. Kincaid is like such a pass catching option and so he's not the as Michael Mayor for whoever is this Yeah, which is a fun thing.
I've got. If you're listening at home and you're looking like Okay, well, where Washington going with Kinkaid. I thought Washington could be in the market for a quarterback, especially if Hendon Hooker like started slipping. I was told that they are all in on Sam Howell, who was a fifth round pick last year, but like, they're not looking at it, and I thought, okay, well, new owner probably
coming in. Maybe you buy yourself some time you draft a quarterback, you say, well, we've got this quarterback, we're groom and give us a chance. No, I heard they like Howell, so give him another weapon. Dal Kin Kid at sixteen. Then Mayor. I know the it is true that the Giants like Mayor. I know it's very true the Cowboys like Mayor. If he's there for either one of those teams, I think he might be the pick.
But I think he's gone by then. I've got the Los Angeles Chargers taking Michael Mayer at twenty one, justin Herbert gets another guy, so tight end those two names. Enjoy that. I think I think they'll both go in the first round, and they both will go in the top twenty five.
It would be really fun if if the Commanders took Kincaid yep with Eric the enemy. Yeah, from Kelse. I mean, like that would just be a fun thing to start thinking about Dick.
I like that. That's good. Number seven Miles Murphy out of Clemson. I have not seen him in many top twenties. He was a guy that I think everyone was excited to see at the Combine and kind of faded off a little bit. I've heard now Miles Murphy's got a ton of buzz. This is how the NFL draft goes.
You finished a college season, everyone's like Miles Murphy, Miles Murphy, Miles Murphy, Clemson studies in these huge games, and then everyone else hypes up everyone else, and then we all get into a tissy about these guys we didn't watch in college who are at smaller schools, and then by the end of time the draft comes in, It's like, oh, Miles Murphy's gonna go higher than everyone's talking about. So I have him going in the top twenty in my mock draft. I've heard he can go as high as
thirteen to Green Bay. I think he ends up going around eighteen to Detroit if they keep their pick. Detroit could be a trade back team. In my mock draft, I have Miles Murphy going eighteen. I think he's a first round pick. I think he might be a top twenty pick. I think he might go before Nolan Smith, who everyone fell in love with, but is at the end of the day, it's two hundred and thirty pounds and it's hard to look at a pass rusher or
twitter and thirty pounds. Even if some of these guys like a Son Reddick were having such great success, I think your more traditional pass rusher is Miles Murphy, and I think he might get taken before the New York Jets. I have spoken to people that I trusted the New York Jets. They are over the moon right now about Aaron Rodgers. Today was the press conference, and I talked to all those guys and it's, you know, draft unrelated.
It's so secondary right now. When I was texting him, but spoke to Hackett, spoke to Sala, texted both of those guys. Didn't get him on the phone. They're like, it was just awesome. Today was awesome, Like everyone was excited and it's maybe the best day they're going to have as now you have to actually do something and go in But like the press conference amazing, And I thought Rogers absolutely won the press conference. I wanted to get in the stuff they weren't looking to text about that.
They kind of clammed up. But I would say for the Jets, if Jackson Smith Najigba is there at fifteen, that's a real possibility. If one of these three players is there, if they Scaransky somehow falls, if Broderick Jones from Georgia somehow falls, or if Paris Johnson somehow falls, I think that would be the pick. I don't think they go Darnell right from Tennessee. I don't think they
reach on another offensive lineman. So the name that I'm putting down with them, and it doesn't obviously come straight from them, but just knowing what they're trying to build there, I gave them Lucas van Ness, who's like this like thor of a pass rusher out of Iowa. We talked about him with Joel Klatt. He's a big ten guy, didn't start a single game at Iowa, but was kind of like the sixth man. I would almost say, like just would always get in and then play the rest
of the game. I've got him going fifteenth over all of the Jets, adding to a really good defense. If he goes later than that. He goes later than that. But I think van Ness is a really intriguing prospect and he could go to the Patriots at fourteen also, So that's about his area right there. Jets fans don't freak out if they don't take a tackle. There might not be a tackle worthy of the fifteenth overall pick. Oh yeah, by the way, Jets get trade back to
Jets get trade back. That could be a boring night for Jets fans where they get all excited and it's like they Jets have traded the pick. I could see that if none of their top guys are on the board, they got a pretty good player. On Thursday, they're pretty excited about number nine. I think one of the cool things if you're watching at home, a lot of young new gms are at the Helm here. So we've got a guy in Arizona, Monty astin Ford has the third
overall pick. And I don't know if this is fact or fiction or whatever, but you're probably not supposed to tell the world that you want to trade the pick, and Arizona has done that, and they've told everybody in the league like we're open for business. What do you want for the third overall pick. I don't know if they lost their leverage with it, but they just need players, players and players. And you know everyone is laughing because it's like, all right, well, who's trading up for that
third pick? Does anyone really want c J. Stroud? Does anyone really want Will Levis? Does anyone really want Anthony Richardson so badly that they would trade up? In my mock, I have another young, first year GM trading up, and that's Ran Carthon from the Tennessee Titans. But Aaron, I'll be honest. I know Ran. I've known him when he was with the Niners. We've texted a bunch. I have no idea what his tendency is as a general manager.
I also know Mike Rabel's got a really loud voice in that building, and I don't know if Ran Carthon has the They only have six picks, so I don't know if they can actually go up there, what they can offer and whether that makes sense for a team that has so many needs. But I have the Tennessee Titans moving up to three, giving up their eleventh pick, their forty first pick, and a Day two pick or a day three pick to go get c J. Stroud
and the connection there is a Manti. Austin Fort worked in Tennessee with the Titans and Verbel so there's a familiarity there. Tannehill has basically one year left on that contract and then he'll know he'll be done and let's hand it over. Malik Willis was not the answer. If you remember Week eighteen last year, they had to go sign Josh Dobbs off the street to play in the biggest game of the season almost one and then the last part of it is Mike Rabel's an Ohio State guy.
Ryan Day, the head coach of Ohio State, and Mike Rabel are very tight. Ryan Day, as Joe Klatt told us last week, Ryan Day has been talking up CJ. Stroud and it's been his biggest champion. Look, I don't know if this is going to happen, but I find it interesting that you have young gms who have not done it many times before. So the other team that needs a quarterback eventually is Minnesota. Quesci Adolpho Mensa is the GM. It's his second year. Last year he traded back.
This year, does he trade up and get one of these quarterbacks, Does he trade back? Does he We don't know. There's not a long track record. And Kirk Cousins is a similar deal as Tannehill, which means he's got basically one year left and then it's what's going on in the future? Are we giving you another contract? So I find out really cool. There's young new Ish gms and some real pressure points in this draft, and I think they're gonna end up being the key players in this draft.
And I'm curious if anyone moves up to three. If not, you get a really good player and Will Anderson or Tyree Wilson, whoever's sitting there, and you could also take the offensive tackle. I don't think anyone would have a problem if they took Paris Johnson and you're like, what do you mean you took Paris Johnson. Guess what, He's a top rated tackle in the draft. And Kyler Murray's been running around with his head cut off, all right, So that's another point. Young gms holding the keys and
could be really interesting. And number ten, we will not know who the Houston Texans are taking, if they are trading, they are going quarterback, if they are going defense, until the final whistle. Can I should have started this thing with a PSA. Can I tell you what I like to do draft night? Now? I'm on the phones all day leading up to it, and I've been kind of what's the word with you about drafting? I'm like, not a draft. I can't. I can't be doing a pot
during the draft. I won't to do a live pod. I want advantage. I go into airplane mode during the draft. I turn my phone off, I turn Twitter off, and I enjoy it like a fan, and I take my own notes because the next morning I gotta talk about it, and I'm good Morning football. I love the draft. It's the greatest reality TV show in the world. Why would anyone want to check Twitter and have Albert Breer or Jason lockin for a spoil a pick for it's announced.
I don't get it. I understand why those guys do it. It's their job as reporters, and they don't work for the NFL. I truly as a PSA. I am begging everyone at home who's listening to this as we head towards the draft in a couple hours, turn off Twitter tonight. Don't text your friends until after your team's picking. Enjoy this like it's a reality TV show. I work on the draft. I do it on Thursday in the morning, and then on Friday I will be on and on
Saturday mon all day. Here's how it works. The league has the picks and they get funneled through and the players know about probably about four or five minutes before it's announced a lot of times, and then they have to give the envelope and the album. In that time, work can leak, the agent can sail a reporter. I could text the team who you take in. They'll say, okay, we just put the card in. We're taking Jalen Hyatt go.
You know, like, what is the joy if you're a consumer of this event to find it out before the pick is announced. I am begging you just try it. Go back ten years, go back fifteen years. Try to live life before there was a second screen. Before you sat on your phone while you're talking to someone at dinner, and I'm begging you put the phone away, hang out with your friends, do everything in person, whatever, or just watch it alone. I watch a loone. I love it.
I think it's great, and I beg of you to do it, at least for the second pick in the draft. Don't it's great at suspense. This is a billion dollar industry with a lot of people who are paid a lot of money to crack the code of who the Houston Texans are taking at two overall and we are twenty four hours out right now from the selection and no one knows. I think that's awesome. I think that's great.
So why spoil it? Why a minute beforehand? Find it out from some random guy on Twitter who just found it out because he texted an agent, And no, don't put your phone away. Enjoy it. I do it for the entire first round. I'm not taking any great pride in this. It sounds ridiculous that I would do that as an NFL insider and not respond to text or anything. Is my one night. I like to enjoy it. And then Friday and Saturday I'm hardcore and I'm texting everyone
and I'm tweeting everything, and I get it. But my big point number ten, no one knows what Houston's doing. If they tell you they know what Houston's doing, they're lying to you. And then twelve overall is Houston also, and no one knows what Houston's doing there. If I tell you they know what they're doing. They're lying to you. I had to go back and forth thirty times on this. Here's how I netted out two. At the end of the day, they end up taking Will Anderson, who is like,
you're O. The sound so insulting. It's like if Tyree Wilson is a home run. I was told this guy's like a standing double. Like, you got to this guy. He'll get you eight to ten sacks. He's solid, a plus human off the field, no health concerns. Nick Saban's favorite player, Like Houston Texans, if they don't love a quarterback at two, don't reach, don't take one, don't convince yourselves, go take that player. So I got Will Anderson. Then I'm like, I gotta give an a quarterback. I gotta get
him a quarterback. And then I'm like, I don't know if they want to settle for the third or fourth quarterback on the board. When they take a quarterback, that means that's their guy for the next few years. If they're passing on him on two, are they're really going
to take him at twelve? So I have him trading back in Seattle, jumping up from twenty to twelve to get Anthony Richardson, because I know Seattle really likes Anthony Richardson and Shane Waldron's offense would be a dream for a guy like Anthony Richardson, and he can wait a year in or Gino. It's a perfect situation if they took If Seattle took Anthony Richardson at five, I wouldn't. I wouldn blank. Yeah, that makes sense. But they get
Jalen Carter and Anthony Richardson. They trade a bunch of crap to get up to twelve, and then at twenty, I have the Textans taking Jordan Addison, a wide receiver, and it's like, all right, we got a defensive end and a wide receiver. That's our number one wide out and our number one defensive end, and we'll attack the draft from here. But I do not have the Texans taking a quarterback tomorrow, and I have no idea if that's right. I'm telling you everyone, I'm begging you. I'm
telling you it's just so great. Don't go on Twitter during the draft. Just watch it. I'm telling you, it's such a fun experience if you just watch it without knowing the answers. I don't do you, how do you watch?
I love that, but how do you watch the past two three years? I guess, especially with pandemic. I have some friends and we will stream it and we'll be on a zoom call talk about that's cool, and I'm texting one of my dad one of them. For whatever reason, I always have the slowest stream So even like when my dad and I will watch Bills games and he's watching on.
TV, what happened to yeah?
And he's like nice, nice catch good, And I'm like, I'm three plays behind you. I have no idea what you're talking about. And now I know that they score a touchdown on this drive, or I know there's an interception or something. So yeah, but I have I do a lot because a lot of my friends that our big football fans are not in New York with me. Yep, I watch and we're texting throughout or we're face timing throughout all. Yeah. I love all that.
Just shut down Twitter.
I love that.
Don't let the answers be still. Now if they text you and say, oh I heard it, ignore it. I'm checking my at mentions because I asked if anyone has any questions.
Oh, draft questions?
Yeah, yeah, but all they're doing.
Is talking about the man.
Yeah, because I put I put a photo of the Z Man. So here we go. Wow, we've got to take I'm gonna read some tweets.
Okay, awesome.
This is from andrew S crick Enjoy and welcome. Don't let Joe kc monopolize your barbecue time, though many would argue that Joe's is great, but who is the best or even in the top five barbecue joints is always debated in Kansas City. Also, there are many restaurants in other genres too, so very formless is like Rick Steves wrote this one Good Eats in Kansas City Galore Q thirty nine would be my suggestion.
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Here's one from Kansas Man fifty five, which has an egg avatar burnt and Z Man best sandwich on Earth. Who's a player the Bengals would consider trading up for in round one? Don't see it. Don't see the Bengals wind to trade up all right? Here's last one. It's from Jimmy Crickets. Yo, you got the goat Kansas City the Z Man. Well, thank you, Jimminy crickets on that note early wake up for me tomorrow. I'll be up. You know, when I go on these remote shows, usually
I've got my own routine at home. I like to get my big ice coffee. Like NFL Network has me up like four hours before the show. I'm like, for what what am I doing? You're like, I just want to make sure you're okay. And because I'm so nervous that one day when I like lash out and I'm like, I'm not waking up four hours early because you guys are, I'm gonna end up being late. So I'll I got to get up early early, and then I'm telling you
I'm done. I do a couple things. I think I'm doing McAfee show tomorrow, and then I will go to my hotel room and I will turn on that TV NFL network coverage and I'll tell you one of the coolest things is when the Niners drafted Trey Lance. I found out when they announced the pick Trey Lance and it was over Mac Jones and I was ninety nine percent sure they were taking Mac Jones when it all came down and I was like genuinely surprised. It's a
great feeling to be genuinely surprised about something. There's a million things that have happened the last few draft is how I do it. I am encouraging everyone to do it. And then you will wake up on Friday morning, put on Good Morning Football NFL Network. We're also on ESPN two. Their silly asking us this is like a crossover event. I'll be live here with all my reactions, and then
Friday night I'll be on NFL Network. Mean, Ian Rappaporter are like something there, call him like the insider stage, which is very very cool. And then Saturday all day and the beating sun, I'll be wearing a suit and sweating this z man out literally for like eight hours. And it's myself, Rich Eyes and Charles Davis and the legend Daniel Jeremiah. And then if you recall, we had Daniel Jeremiah on a few days last week and we talked about our annual steak dinner. This is what we
do again. I sound like an entitled prick. I just you know, here's what I do. I eat and I get to go and be on TV and all these things. Daniel and I have a tradition. First of all, Daniel does not drink. I don't think he drinks soda, and I don't think he curses. So there's me who's like this New Jersey trash, you know, like here's what I'm hearing on the streets. Daniel's got like he's on my age. I think he's got kids in college. I don't understand
how that works. That's like, he's a West Coast guy. He's like just a whole different world that we come from, totally different backgrounds, and yet we merge. He's like a devout, great Christian father, and I'm like this Jewish guy from New York, and the two of us just completely we blend. And we have this steak dinner every year after the draft. We started it in Nashville. We did it, then in Cleveland,
did it last year. As I said, over the Blaggio fountains at five point thirty, while the fountains were going up and people were coming by taking photos of us as if we were an engaged couple. I made the reservation.
We just want to eat our steak in peace. But we're having it after the draft, and the two of us are going to dine like gentlemen, and then we are going to go home and we are going to take a long nap, and of course we will all recap the draft and we'll do a podcast on Monday, and then I think during the off season, I'm excited. We're going to view a bunch of gms, a bunch of coaches, bunch of celebrities. We've got a couple in
the in the back pocket. I'm ready to get to but we had to devote the last few weeks to the draft. And if you're listening, thank you Aaron. Before we sign off. Do we dive into a second Z Man or are we good?
Maybe a slow dive? I that all right? Well, you know, then I'll have two let's let's I might we'll see Thank you again. To Joe's Kansas City. You can follow them on Twitter at Joe's KC and if you are on Facebook, you can use uh facebook dot com slash Joe's k C BBQ. They're also on Instagram Joe's KC. And get the Ribs, get the Burneens, get the Z Man.
Make sure you somehow get this clip on the podcast to them, can you cut it off and us just promoting this whole thing.
Also, get the Mac and cheese. I don't even like mac and cheese, and that was good mac and cheese.
Yeah, you know, I wasn't a huge mac and cheese fan. My son, I think primarily eats mac and cheese and it's like velveta, you know, craft whatever, and it's delicious.
I just am not a positive.
Person, the Aposta person, don't.
That's a take in general, just not a posta person.
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