Draft Show: 2016 Wrap-Up & Draft Grades

and welcome everybody to the Trap Show. Brian brought us along with Dan Brugler from CBS Sports and Dallas Cowboys dot Com, David Hellman, Brian from Dallas Cowboys dot Com. First off, Chillman, I didn't get a chance to thank both of you together. Dane you were gone and uh are you were I was gone, you were gone, and Dames here. But thank you for all the weekend work. Thank you think that was fun. That was fifteen hours

of coverage on Dallas Cowboys dot Com. This might be ed Ka Hill's idea, but it has become your baby, and it's I mean, I think you're largely responsibi for what it has become. I'm really happy that you know that that Guys like Matt O'Neill and and uh and then Derek Eagleton and those guys. Let us do this. Yeah, you know, and I appreciate the fans. I mean, your your efforts and your initiative. Get them on. It's a lot of fun, a lot of fun. Fans go think

Derek and and those guys. Exactly, let us do this and exactly. I think the thing I was the most proud of was we got to mister irrelevant and you fired a you fired a full scouting report at them. It picked two player, and the first thing you said was this guy doesn't deserve to be mister irellan. He will be anything but exact promise you. I just I hate that tradition just by the way. That's it's rude, it's really you know, but they get something out of

it though. It's like a book. Yeah, and it's seriously it's like, you know, it's it's a big deal, a big parade telling them that they're irrelevant. Oh, it's just kind of a it's you know that you know how football players are too, Like every guy that gets drafted is hardwired to think that you know, these guys team Oh, I know, I know, but it's but it's okay, and it's funny that this normally that pick they know what team is going to be because they can't trade that pick.

But this year there were no seventh round comps. No comps, so I was traded and they had a Denver Broncos jersey for a Tennessee Titans pick. And uh, yeah, it was a little disconjointed there, but I'll tell you what was I'll tell you what's neat. Though I don't like the seventh round compensatory picks, I like the way it went. I like the fact that you could have you could have fired a pick next year's pick at one of those teams at the bottom and tried to get back

in that thing. I mean, maybe there's somebody you don't want to deal with, you know, on free agency and stuff like that. Yeah, but anyway, but uh, that's that was a lot of fun. And I thank you guys h for all your hard work on that. And again I thank everybody out there who followed along with us. Okay, um,

I want to talk about a little bit. We talked about what the Cowboys did, but I want to kind of go around and talk about maybe what some other teams did too, sure, you know, and I also want to at the end of this UM, we're gonna do a couple of things. I want to take some calls today eight eight eight eight five five two two ninety seven. I want to get some of you know, if you're a fan of another team, if you're a fan of the Cowboys, if you want to fire a question at us.

We've got Twitter, which Dave handled all all all the draft shows we've done. We got that opportunity. I do want to take some calls because I want to get your thoughts and to finish this thing. Dane has already done his twenty seventeen mock draft, which is going to be up. Is it up right now on CBS anyway? Okay, so we'll give you a little preview of Dane's two thousand and seventeen mock draft and uh and and go

through that. But I want to go through and just kind of talk about maybe some of the draft that you really really liked, you know, if you hey might have been the Cowboys, if you want to talk about what they did or some of the thoughts, you know, Peter King on Monday Morning Quarterback gave it's a really behind the curtain. Yeah, we got to get into that. Yeah, I got to get in a little behind the curtain scene on that. But you know, since I brought it up,

well let's talk about it a little bit. Though. Let's talk about what you know that maybe the thought process was with the Cowboys right there. Jerry had told us that they were trying very hard to uh to work their way back into that round, uh to uh to draft a quarterback. You also talked about the pick about Zeke, you know, over over Ramsey and what direction, which is surprising to me that if both those picks were gone, you know who they would have taken right there. So

it's to me it's really fascinating. With the packs the lynch angle, yeah, you know, and I think this is something we'll be looking back at for years to come, because if we believe everything in that article, boys were ready to give up a second and a fourth to go get packs the lynch, but they were not ready to give up a second and a third, right, And so basically what's that what that's is saying is that

they were not willing to lose MALIEK. Collins. Yeah, because they were ready to give up Ogba or Jalen Smith in the second round and plus a Dak Prescott to go get packs the Lynch, but they were not ready to give up Aga or Jalen Smith plus MALIEK. Collins, And that's very interesting to me. And not to put that pressure on Collins, right, but he was the player that the Cowboys were not ready to give up to go up and get that quarterback. So that's fascinating to me.

And then also mentioning in there about Leonard Floyd, how that was the player they really liked. And then if they moved back two spots and Ramsey and Elliott were both wiped out, that maybe that would have been the

next best option. But I wonder if you're gonna I know where you're going here, if Bosa does not go three, yeah, say Buckner, say one of the tackles goes three, right, and there's one more option for the Cowboys if maybe they make that deal because instead of only having two options with Zeke and Ramsey right three at Bosa to the mix, maybe they're more likely to take that chance moved back and at worst case they have Bosa. So

very interesting, and this is why the drafts fascinating. It the ripple effect from every single pick, it really shapes how the franchisees, you know, draft and so really interesting. We talked about San Diego though, being the team that maybe the draft. We thought initially we talked about every possibility but them draft. Yeah, even even going up and trying to trade. We traded for the wrong guy, and we took calls on Connor Cook. But you know, we

we we were thinking that. You know what surprises me though, is to the love for Paxston Lynch, because this is this is what happened to me during this draft. On Paxston Lynch. You know, he was my top quarterback. I felt overall, right, felt like there was love there on my top fifty. I heard on the Cowboys board he was number twelve, right, yeah, so it makes sense to go back up and then and try and get that.

But what what was what was interesting about it though, is to me, uh, you know, I'd heard that there was love, and then as we got closer to the draft and and this is this is on me because I felt like that, you know, maybe got some bad information and sold it a little soft, you know, could you do you when you trust guys and you know you're thinking, man, this guy's not gonna steer me the wrong way, you know, but then you get you know, you're kind of go soft on it, then you find

out whoa in fact that they're going. I mean, that just showed you a little bit, even this guy is as a dear friend of mine. It was it was one of those things where maybe we were getting a little close on what we were talking about on the draft shows and stuff like that, of hey, they're gonna go out and get a quarterback, this is the one they really like. And I think also well, and they did not execute the trade, which I have a point to make about that too. I'm sorry I stopped you there,

no no not ness. I mean, I don't know, I don't even know if you could call a bad information, but I mean they tried to trade for Connor Cook too. They wound up with Dak Prescott. And that's kind of what we said all along, is that they they did their homework on a lot of guys. They had a variety of game plans. They liked Paxiston Lynch enough to consider it. They obviously didn't like him enough to pull the trigger on it. So I think that's worth pointing out.

And that kind of raised is a point for me too, is personally, I'm glad they did not execute that deal. I don't love Packiston Lynch. I think, you know, Collins can be somebody. Jalen Smith is like the great X Factor obviously, but it's interesting to me that if they had been that sold on him, isn't two and three a fair price for your franchise quarterback of the future. Yeah, I thinking back to two years ago, they gave up forty seven and seventy something for DeMarcus. They were willing

to make that deal for Lawrence without the option. They were not going to get the option on him. I mean, he's on a four year contract. They're not willing to do the same thing for Paxiston Lynch on a five year option. Well, it's it's funny though, I honestly, I think it's the same that they don't love him, and i'd everyone in the room at least. Yeah, John Snyder wouldn't tell me what they were trying to what he turned out. John John's like, He's like, man, I just

can't do that right now now. Maybe when John and I go down the road somewhere and you know, have dinner, he'll say, hey, lemonades. Yeah, he'll say hey, listen. You know you're you're your owner. GM made a fair offer. We just couldn't. We had to take the Denver deal. I need to find out too, because I kept bragging about and twenty twenty being a spot. Yeah, you know, I mean Mike mcagnan. You know, Mike sat in there and made a pick. You know, Mike made his pick.

He took Darren Lee, the linebacker from from Ohio State. And you're sitting there thinking, Okay, could he got a bunch of picks at twenty yeah, or just or and passed on Derek Lee? Or was Derekly that valuable too? And I do wonder that, and you know, thinking back to it. So Denver gave up their three, which is ninety something ninety six when I think ninety six ninety six, Yeah, obviously the Cowboys have a much more valuable third. But I have to assume that that fifth year option played

a big role for the Seahawks too. Oh, no, doubt, maybe they jo doubt. I think I'd rather have Denverse third and the five year option over the Cowboys third, which is, you know, granted, twenty five spots higher, but you're signing a guy to a four year deal was also the I don't think Seattle wanted to lose a Fetti. I think they felt that, yeah, you know, they make that move, then they they might lose a Fetti and

that's something they weren't ready to do. Yeah, that pick was let's see, that was pick ninety something ninety four actually, and they took a Nick Bennett the tied end from Ohio State, so that was a three ninety four. I think Dane's absolutely right. I mean, you know that that great thirty for thirty about the eighty three draft from Lay to Marino. They can make a documentary about this.

If Paxiston Lynch turns into an all pro, or if Jalen Smith turns into an all pro, or especially if one of them is great and the other one's not, what are deep Blue series at least? Yeah? I mean these I honestly like this. This draft is going to be remembered for Paxiston Lynch and Jalen Smith. Yeah. Well Jalen Ramsey though. I mean that's the comparison, because we've all talked about that they had a chance to draft. I don't say grades same grade, stack put, but put

him on top. I think it's a little bit different because it will be right now in the moment, the Zeke pick is generally regarded as as favorable, as good. There's nobody suggesting that this is a bad idea. So to go back three years from now and say idiots should have taken Ramsey and not Zeke, that's revisionist history. But you had a real chance to trade up for this quarterback that you believed in, right, didn't do it. Took a huge gamble on a great player who might

not ever be the same. And so that's where you start to kind of weigh these things. And you can sit here and say when Paxson Lynch is leading Denver back to the super Bowl, like, I mean that really realistically could have been our guy, or Jalen Smith is they were keekly in three years And you brought up something interesting about Jalen Smith because on the air we were as a group, I mean, this was this was I wasn't there you were second day, but Dane and

cabinall eighteen. I when that pick went in, it's I mean, it was like it was the Mike Tyson to the gut. Yeah. And I usually don't get that way in rooms, and I getting when I was a getting mad because somebody would go but that one would have taken the air out of me legitimate, that one would have been one of those Oh my god, what did they just do? I had a hard time. It took me a little while to kind of organize my thoughts on that because

we were trying to draft. I mean, we still were running through the draft and we just couldn't get off at two thirty four. What was just what just happened? Yeah, you know, from all the things, all the draft shows, all the medical information, everything about it, led to believe that there's only two teams. So I felt like, and I've said this a bunch, I've said on Twitter, I said it, in a draft, there's two teams that could have taken that player. This was one of them and Newland.

And it sounds like that New England and I'll get that information. It sounds like New England was going to be in the mix, whether that was at that two sixty or two sixty one where they had those picks, and yeah, they maybe they move up, but as it stands right now, that's a difference of twenty I think twenty six picks, right right, So yeah, I mean, yeah, exactly, So we always have to wonder, you know, with the yeah that sixty and sixty one with the two picks,

Ogba was, you know, was their guy? Right? And he goes off at thirty thirty two to Cleveland, right, And so as soon as that happened, you know, they're kind of scrambling and okay, do we take the linebacker now? I mean it's thirty four. Do we try and trade back? It sounds like they were trying to get back and and the and the spot appeared to be Indianapolis at forty eight. I want to say that pick was let's see where, Yeah, let's pick a pick forty eight. So

you know that was Jerry's a risk tater ticker. We know that, but he just was not ready to take a risk there and move back and potentially lose Smith. The fascinating thing to me is that that decision clearly spooked Jacksonville because they traded up to get jack right after that. And I wonder, I wonder if the Cowboys had taken somebody else, how much further to the linebacker slide or in an alternate universe, I mean I know

that they didn't. They were worried about his knee. But if the Cowboys had taken Jack, would that have prompted somebody to take Smith right after or would he have continued to fall. It's interesting, Well they feel like that Smith, you know, just and I need to get that intelligence and I can get that answer and maybe I'll get it out on Twitter one day or something. But yeah, there was some concern about that pick sixty with New England for Smith, and then also the pick sixty one

as well. Those were the two and it was impressive though the names that went off the board though, after Jalen Smith, after that pick was made, and you think about it, you know, Hunter Henry of course we thought. I thought it was the second round grade San Diego. You talk about Miles Jack, you know, Xavi how Xavian Howard was a guy Noah's Spence, Sterling Shepherd. I mean, there's some guys that was like a mini like they took Jalen Smith, which kind of stunned all of us.

Reggie Ragland was another name on ten guys that I think generally liked. Well, hey, after no you're talking about you know, how do you help your defense? Yeah, how do you you know how do you help you do it? Clearly they didn't like Miles Jacknee. We talked about that, we did. That was But then think about that Howard at corner. You know Noah's Spencers as a Yeah, Spencer Raglin, Austin Johnson, ward A. Sean Robinson was right after after there. So Jaren Reid was another guy. I mean the name

like the sweet spot. Yeah, this draft, yeah, just a lot of really good players and you're sitting here thinking, Okay, do we help our day? I mean, they're they're taking a huge gamble. They know that. We can't overstate that. But man, if you look at the names behind, that's another thing that I'm gonna focus on down the road. Is okay, and you could play the game with any team, but look at the names and look at the defensive players that you thought that were first round potential players

that that go behind that pick. You're right because Dallas could have grabbed. You know, we're gonna get through these teams when we get back from the break. We very take a break, but I want to get back into these teams. And because there's some teams that grabbed on my board, at least grabbed like two first round players with their first round and second round pick. Remove the names out of it. I mean, I know you're great on Smith before he got hurt. It was very very high,

very high. You take a top five talent with a low percentage chance of being healthy or a bottom of the round type of guy. I mean, when he's healthy, he's clearly the better option. Obviously he's not, but I mean that's the gamble, right right. Yeah? That see that to me is you know, two general managers in this league can make that pick everyone else when they saw it. There's a bunch of the general managers in that league and owners sitting in that draft room and scouts going, man,

I wish we had the guts to do that. Well, I told you there was one team that said their doctors told them, yeah, twenty percent chance Jalen Smith plays again. That that is one intel that a team had from their team doctors. Now I know not you know, the team doctor that did the surgery. I mean, Cowboys had more information, right absolutely, And these doctors are you know,

it's not like they don't know what they're doing. So it's just it's it's fascinating, this will be This is one of those things whether you're a religious person or not that you know, we'll see you knowing forward. Yeah, breaking this down in twenty nineteen. Yeah exactly. I mean you could say, hey, this might be a higher being. A higher beings will that that knee refires, that that nerve refires, and that the kid in fact can play because they go to an under dame. Yeah yeah, maybe

so got touchdown Jesus. Okay, we're gonna We're gonna take our first break of the day when we get back. I do want to get into these other NFL teams. I want to know who you guys, don't. I don't need grades, just want hey, who had a night's draft, who didn't do so well? We'll do that. We come back to the Draft show from the s TOWBC Morgan Studios.

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Dave Hellman, Kit Garrison Executive producing. One more time as we kind of put a bow on this twenty sixteen NFL draft. It's the eighty first edition of the NFL Draft, which took a lot of twist and turns before again before we and Dani you Brough up a good point before we get into the other teams around the league

and maybe what we saw good and bad. Let's talk about though, what we saw in the with the with like say, those guys in three day three type of guys and where you how you saw that all play out for the Cowboys. Yeah, and Dak Prescott in the fourth. You know that's a player we talked about a lot. You know he's going to come in be a solid backup, might never be that long term starter. And the eventual air to the quarterback number one spot. But you know,

I'd like to pick again. I think I workshire getting a solid backup. And then in the sixth I really like what they did here. Anthony Brown's a player that we had graded much higher. Yeah. Absolutely, I had a third round grade on Anthony Brow. Yeah, I had a fourth round grade round So we thought similar on the player. I mean, good size, blur speed, always within arm's length of the of the receiver. So really like Anthony and Brown,

he would he could potentially be uh Covon Frazier. I think he's a guy that could push for starter reps sure, if not this year, by year two at safety. Uh it really liked him. Uh Rico Gathers. I thought, you know, he was a player that obviously we don't have tape on him from Baylor unless you want to put on the basketball tape. You know, that's the point of the draft when you take chances on these types of guys. Twenty six teams went to his workout. Yeah, that's what

I'm saying that that's why they did that. Absolutely. That was the one thing when I asked about Gathers, it was we just did not want to take a chance to have to fight for him at the end of the day. And the fact that they didn't have a seventh round pick made it made sense there. And uh, I'm I'm okay with that kind of stuff. I have no problem. How about the Derris Jackson though from Eastern Michigan, any thoughts. I sat down and watched a little tape at him. The thing I liked about him was the

fact how he finished. There's a lot of runs where you know, he burst through the hole and had six foot two hundred and twenty pounds. You know, four three two speed is what four three eight speed? Three protect? Yeah, so you know, and and you saw a guy when you know, when I watched the cut up that the scouts went through, you know, that opened up and he was through. And then there were times when he was finishing physical, protected the football. A couple of times they

threw him the ball in the swings and stuff. And by the way, I got the scouting reports up on Dallas Cowboys dot Com. Encourage you to encourage you to look at those. But you know, the thing about it is, though there were a couple of times where I felt like though there was some concentration, problems with drops, easy stuff underneath, stuff to the side. He seemed pretty good at there was a couple of times they ran him on some Texas stuff inside where he lost the concentration.

He's going to have to develop though, as a pass blocker because the efforts there, the head goes down a little bit. Technique that stuff Gary Brown will work on and on special teams. I think that's we're really mean. Jackson's gonna have to stand out. And absolutely he was drafted based on trades basically sixth rounds, right, and when you talk about a player that he didn't do much the first three years, you know, but as a senior of a thousand yards rush, I really kind of emerged

and so I was encouraged. But I think, yeah, what he did at his pro day is really the big reason he got drafted. And so you know, I wrote him up. I wrote Rico gathers up in the book, and so I was happy it was not cut off guard by a swim this year. Yeah, that was a way to go. Hey, victory, you got it as a victory, I'm no sorry, go ahead, Eastern Michigan. You you assume something about the level of talent not to mention the level of competition, right. I didn't think about this on

draft day because so much was going on. He played our LSU Tigers last year. They threw him into the line like twenty times, and he's grinding out yards and finishing against you know, much much better competition and what you would expect. So I was impressed when I I think he ran. I think he ran nineteen times for sixty five or seventy yards in a touchdown in tough yards against LSU. Yeah, that's that's pretty impressive. Okay, we're gonna focus in on some of the likes and dislikes

of this draft. When we went around, we were that was the one thing that our draft coverage I felt like that, you know, we it was we had the cowboy side of it here, but then we had let's make sure we cover this entire draft foot some of your takeaways, though, I mean, did you have somebody that you really really like? Did you have the top five? Did you have somebody that you know, Wow, these guys off my board, and that's really what you're basing this

off of. And and I hate throwing the draft grade out there. People asked me for the draft grade, and I reminded him of the story of John Gohler who told me I had the worst draft in the history of the National Football League and for the eight picks made the Pro Bowl. So draft grades, no, just ask me what happens to three years now. But is there somebody just looking at your board how it was drafted. Would you've drafted it this way or that? Yeah? And I don't think just like you. I don't I don't

do any I don't do draft grades. But what I do is a no down like my top five. You know the teams that I thought really got better with what they did. Cincinnati Bengals stand out first and foremost, and they didn't make a single trade. They stayed at pick at in every seven, in each of the seven rounds, and they stayed there. They took their guy, let the board fall into them, and that that's kind of what

they believe. In Dallas. Jerry Jones, in his tenure as the general manager owner general manager for the Dallas Cowboys, has made a trade with all teams. Cincinnati is the only team he has never made a trade with. And that's what they do. They just tried to this year. They just yeah, they get up into that late first round, but they weren't budget they picked. They just all they do. But and then they took William Jackson the first round, Tyler Boyd in the second, Nick Vigil and the third,

and then Andrew Billings and the fourth Christian Westerman. We got to figure out what happened Andrew Billings. Those five guys right there in the first five rounds. Yeah, I think those guys will start at some point in the next two years for Cincinnatis. I think that's a home run um Jacksonville to me, we talked about Miles jack in the second, Jalen Ramsey and the first like what they did with on defense, Sheldon Day, Tyron Holmes, Uh, Brandon and Allen can be a cel at number two.

So Jacksonville I thought killed it Minnesota with Laquon Treadwell, McKenzie, Alexander Uh, not the biggest Willie Beavers fan. But then they come back and then he said that during the draft. Come back in the fifth with Kenshall Brothers. Uh, you know he for eight, but the guy just the instincts are there, so it makes up for the speed. So I think the Vikings are in that conversation the Ravens. Uh, you know, I think I'm not I wasn't a big fan of Ronnie Stanley. Yeah, but uh, you know, I'll

tell you with the Ray. I'll tell you with in Ravens right where I thought I thought their picks were better from one thirty four to two oh nine because I think when they hit at one Kenneth, they get Kenneth Dixon. The my board is a two Matt Jerdawn Is was it was a third round pick. Uh, the quarterback from Navy. You know that's that's Azzi. You know, congratulations on that. Uh Marcus, you know candidate Maris cannidately Maurice Cannidate, that guy, you know, fourth round pick on

my board. So yeah, I felt like that the Ravens did a little bit better. Did you Buffalo do anything for you at all? Buffalo is my fifth team. You look at Shack Lawson in the first, Reggie Raglan in the second, two first round, two first round grades, a Dolphins Washington third round grade on my Cardell Jones, and the fourth future Hall of Famer. Yeah it's a Dolphin's Washington. Yeah he's okay, but no, with Cardell, he's going to a good situation, meaning he won't have to get on

the field this year. How about how about Jonathan Williams there? I mean that was your guy. Worry about the foot issue moving forward, you know, especially at the running back position. But in the fifth, take a chance on a guy like that Colby Listing being the six. Come on Seymour in the six. See Seymour, I had a third round grade on and you're getting that guy in the six. Buffalo did a nice job there as well. Uh, just kind of okay, anybody else you got there, Dame? Those

are my top five and you know who else? I know A couple of the teams stood off for you? Yeah, I mean I I was kind of thinking that green Bay. Green Bay was but I felt like on my board, and I know you weren't a huge fan of Floyd, but but but the Chicago Bears, Yeah, Chicago Bears went Hair. Yeah, they went Floyd and then they went white Hair and then Bullard. Yeah. On my board, those were three, all three second round picks. So you know that's not a

bad Uh. The linebacker from West Virginia, you know, you know, you can I can live without that one. But Jordan Howard I thought in the fifth round was at fourth round value. And then Braverman, the wider's here from Western Michigan, they got into seventh round. I thought he was a sixth round guy, so that was kind of Uh, let me look, I'm looking just kind of looking through the ones I'm marked down here, Dave, you have any thoughts on something? Yeah, I got y'all have touched on a

lot of ones. I like Jacksonville stands out to me specifically just because they basically did like the bizarro Cowboys draft. Right. They took Ramsey, who was probably the guy if Zeke wasn't, And then they took Miles jack who is like the exact opposite of Jalen Smith and right, top five talent. He can play now, he might not be able to play later, So I'm fascinated to see how that turns out.

I'm also fascinated at the thought of, you know, Jacksonville having three top ten type of talents joining their defense at the same time when you throw in Dante Dollar. Yeah, the one that I liked that you haven't mentioned. We give fans a lot of grief from time to time because they think and behave as though this were a game of Madden, and you have to that's not the way this works, you know. But the Houston Texans drafted like they were playing Madden, and I actually really loved it.

I mean, they spend seventy two million dollars on a quarterback they don't know if he's any good, and Bill Bill O'Brien just says, you know what, I'm gonna do everything I can to make this easy on you. And they go get Will Fuller. They get Nick Martin, who's probably the second best center in the draft. They go get Braxton Miller, right, he kind of faded down the stretch, but everybody was super high on him. They got him

in the third round. And then they get Tyler Irvin, who will go out the Senior Bowl shifty little you know. Um kind of reminds me of not I mean, maybe not the same type of player, but they had Steve Slayton there a few years back, and I think he feels a lot of the same type as that. And so you spent that kind of money on a quarterback, Well, he's lee, I mean, and all these guys are joining DeAndre Hopkins and Lamar Miller who were already down there.

So if brock Osweiler is not successful, it's gonna be on him. They've set him up to succeed. And I was told that Braxon Miller if they didn't get Will Fuller and round one, Braxon Miller was the guy they're looking at round two. And then the fact that he was still on the board for them in round three. They couldn't help themselves. Let's you know, five, Yeah, why not, Braxon? Come on, let's let's go make I have some fun on off the off, the the Brian broadest board. Will

Fuller the two. Martin was a three, Braxton Miller was a two. He talked about Urban he was a fit of five for me. And then but the guy like DJ Reader you talked about all the offensive readers. DJ Reader I had as a third rounder. Yeah, he might take you know when Vince Wolfoor, Yeah, get out of their readers. That's a big that's a big man with a nice grade inside. Right the other I just I

enjoy it. I'm not maybe it's not the best drafting strategy in the world, but I love it when teams are like, this is our problem and we're gonna fix it. Base Carolina drafted three cornerbacks this year. Yeah, and you know, they probably don't need that many, but they're gonna make sure they find Norman's replacement. At least that's the hope.

And uh, Seattle did the same thing. I mean, they took Effettie, they took Odeambo, and I think the third round the tackle let's see, they it was a relatively high pick. And then Thomas Rawls is obviously coming back off a broken leg. You lose Marshaw Lynch to retirement, so what do they do? They draft like two top one hundred type running backs because they'll pro Sits and Alex Collins. They'll be damned if they're gonna miss Marshawn Lynch basically, and they and they also here's another one

that we at nauseum. We were talking about Kenny Lawler, ya know, at the seventh round. Yeah, I forgot all about him. Yeah, we're trying to we're trying to take this draft to the finish line. At two forty three, they picked Kenny Lawler. Remember that another day, Bryan Bryan was Brian was talking to somebody after the draft about the picks and who they liked and who they didn't like, and he say He was like, just just remember me right now telling you that Kenny Lawler is gonna catch

about eighty balls for them, Yeah, very soon. Kenny Lawlers was not the two y third best player. He wasn't me. That's see. That's the thing about it is and and the fact that they got it. They got Jaron Reid. That's another one of those names that you know when you look, you know, I have fetty. I wasn't. I had him like as a fourth round guy, probably too low on him. But I will say this though, when you come back and you hit a on my board,

you go read procise. You know that right there you got my attention that all of a sudden, it's like, okay, you might have liked this offensive tackle light, but you know what you brought me back in with those two picks. Did you text John and tell him like, way to go? And he didn't. He didn't need to hear that from me. He didn't. I'll tell you what I like what Tampa did you know? We talked about hard Graves and potentially you know what the pitfalls of him up for a kicker.

But I didn't like that at all. That's not a big face, but I'll tell you what. Noah Spence Noah Spence at at two thirty nine, and then they got Ryan Smith at four one oh eight. Okay, here we go. Peter King actually blew me away with a stat in his story today, which I mean, Aguio has been a

great college kicker for basically his entire career. I think he's probably worth being drafted fairly high, given how successfully is He only hit on seventy two percent of his kicks over forty yards, which that's just not good to me. I mean, And in the NFL, any anybody, anybody good enough to make an NFL roster can hit his kicks

from insight forty What you're paying for is those long kicks. Yeah, So that's yeah, that's that's scary to me that they traded up to spend a second round pick on a guy who's shaky from long distance at the same time an accurate quarterback. You know, whether it's extra points or whatever. We've seen plenty of kickers miss within forty yards, you think,

I mean, there's something too that consistency. And uh from my Aguio report, he was perfect forty nine for forty nine within forty yards, So I think that consistency is a big reason. But no, you're right, because he doesn't have a power leg. His career best is a fifty. Everything's gonna be elevation. He's a chip, you know. It's just like a golfer, right exactly. He gets that that lift and it looks pretty. But in terms of a power leg, that's not him, that's not his game. Tell

me what you think about this draft. This was this is when I start because Conklin at one eight over tounsil, Kevin Dodd at two thirty three, Austin Johnson at three forty three, Derek Henry at three forty five. See, those are the picks we wanted. Remember we were five, yeah, two,

I'm sorry, two forty five. Remember we were trying, like heck and Dallas is gonna drop down if if they're gonna go get somebody like shack Loss and if they're gonna go remember when remember when initially tenant uh that that that those picks belong to the Rams who were trying, Like as soon as as soon as they picked Henry to go with Conklin and Johnson and Dodd, I mean as soon as you have just those guys, and they made more picks, but just those guys. I was like,

I see why they wanted to trade. I'd rather have that than Jared Goffs. I mean, especially if I already had Marke Mariota Good and and and then Kevin Ballard the safety. Yeah you know, I mean he was taken in the third at three sixty four. I had a fourth round grade Taja Sharpe from Massive from you Mask. You'd seen him in some All Star Game stuff. Yeah, yeah, Look, this film looked better at you Mass than it did at those All Star Games. I don't know if it

was maybe you know, he'd played in that competitional help. Yeah, but he's a good player. You remember, like five or six years ago when the Seahawks won the NFC West at seven and nine and beat the Saints, and yeah, but it was like a joke of a division. But Carol got there and Harbaugh got there, and you could kind of see like things were trending upwards. Now it's a really tough division. Yeah, I'm calling it now that the AFC South is about to be got to be

the Beast East mode. How about how does this when all those teams look like they have taken significant steps start getting does anyway, is just doing the for anybody? DeForest Buckner, Josh Garnett, those corners, Will Redman right there, Roson Robinson from Ella's Shoe, those corners run or something about Ronald Blair. I mean, we've talked about your guy. That's the one I'm gonna keep an eye on. That pick was made at five one forty two right there.

Do you like him in that defense? That's that's gonna be don't fit. But we'll see this should probably just too much, too much value. But then Kelvin Taylor also the running back at six two eleven. I mean, that's a physical guy right there as well. Okay, well let's do this. We're gonna take our I'm gonna get at

you real quick. Go And this is hard to do, I know, But I mean if you're just looking through a list like you're doing right now, and you pull out the Cowboys, nine guys, yeah, and how you feeling about it? Well, that's what I'm saying. I was we've talked so much about the Cowboys, but I'm looking at my board and how I had it, How I had it great? And now again the second round pick I had as a guy that I would because of the injury, you would say, well, maybe we consider it one eighty nine.

That wasn't gonna happen. Where'd you have Collins? Because this is my I had Collins in the fourth night. There's a good chance he would have been there for them in the forest. Yeah, and I have boysmans don't want to hear that, but yeah, well they're hearing it right now because it's true. And then I had Collins in the fourth, and then I had Tapper in the fifth, which they took in the fourth. You know again, that might be the scheme prom Dak Prescott I had in

the fourth. See the Anthony Brown one is the one that said which one do you like? I'll take Anthy Brown because I had it. I had him in the third round. Their entire sixth round, I thought that was Frazier was a five on my board. So yeah, we'll see Elliot. Of course, this is my second best player on the board, so give him some credit for that. But it's tough. Well see, let's see what it sounds like a cop out. It's just everything about it makes

it tough to great. I mean, if Collins turns out to be good nobody's gonna care that the hit that he went around early. That's the thing. And honestly, it's the first two picks. I think your first two round picks, which are expected to be starters in this day and age, are the only ones where you can really sit there and say, like, this was good, this was a mistake. This team has had some trouble in that second round though, I mean they've had a lot of trouble in the

second round. They've also had a lot of trouble in the later rounds. Absolutely, we'll see it. Maybe it'll turn around. Okay, we're gonna take our final break today and then we will come back. I want to take some calls. I maybe wanted two. Also hit a couple of teams that we didn't like. You know, I've got one in mind that I really didn't like them. We'll see, and she's a pretty good drafting team. So we'll be right back with the Draft Show from the SWBC Mortgage Studios in

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I missed him this, you know. I mean, I get scatterbrain on stuff. Hit my draft on the the NFC East, We've talked about the Cowboys, but kind of just kind of good thumbnail. Maybe a couple of ideas about each NFC East team, if you would. I think with the Giants, uh, the first round pick, I think they wanted Leonard Floyd. Then the Bears leap frogged him, so they went with their second best option. A little bit of a panic

move toke Eli Apple seems like a reach. It does, But I think, you know, two three years from now, we could be looking back at saying, you know what, he was worth a pick um. You know, he's more of a development guy, and that's fine. I think down the road it'll be worth the pick. Sure, Sterling Shepherd in the second that's as a darn good pick. It's it's going to be tough for defenses to cover both him and Beckham right. Uh and if Cruz ever gets back to what he used to be, Giants have something

something shaken there. Darian Thompson, B. J. Goodson. Maybe these guys pushed for starting roles start with the Giants. Paul Perkins not a huge fan of his run style, but I think he fits kind of what they want to do, and that's running back by committee. So Paul Perkins, I think it's a good landing spot for him. Big fan of the Darrell Adams pick too. Yes, also at tight end, he could be something down the road for them. The Redskins. Josh Dockson, Yeah, there you go, that's an excellent pick

up for them. Suet Cravens eager to see how he is used because he's just a darn good football player. Uh So, but if you draft him, you had to have a plan for him. Kendall Fuller I stealed in the third round. If he ever gets back too close to full health, and then then you like what they did on Day three with Matt Ianitas, Steven Daniels, some defensive guys, So I think that would make a lot of sense for them. And then who else are we

looking at? Philadelphia? Philadelphia obviously their draft hinges On. Yeah, you talk about the Cowboys draft hinging on smart, Right, how about that hinges on Carson Wentz. Uh, you know what when we might not see him at all this year? Right? So I think for the Eagles draft, we're talking down the road and how Carson Wentz ends up that. I like what they did in round three Isaac Samalo. To me, he was a top one hundred pick and they took

up with seventy nine. That's great value to me, center guard. He could play both some decent pickups on later in the draft in the seventh round. Two SEC players that stand out, Jalen Mills, Alex mccalliser. Two guys with some questionable off field character concerns, but put them on the field, they can play. They might be able to carve out a role with the Philadelphia Okay, well that's going around the NFC East. I'll kind of just real quick. I just wanted to talk about a team that I felt like,

you know, I was surprised about their draft and AFC North. Yeah, the AFC North. Then the Cowboys do face the Steelers and I and I have a ton of respect for Kevin Colbert and that scouting staff and your buddy, the head coach there. I mean, I he is my friend. But I thought that was a kind of a strange draft for them. You know, usually there were those teams that gets great value with their pick, and I thought that they were a little bit when they when they

went early, they weren't as good. I think there's gonna be some questions about the Already Burns pick. Yeah, you know, and I might be dead wrong about this, but Already Burns at one twenty five, Sean Davis at two fifty eight, you know, say what you want and maybe more about uh, I'm not gonna say measurables, but maybe about speed. But I mean, I'm not sure did gra him as a safety or a corner? Graham is a safety? I agree, and I think that's probably what they did too. Uh,

the Hardgraves kid. We've talked about him from uh, you know, from the our days of you helping him at the Senior Bowl and getting him on. You know, I didn't really feel like that he was a third round player. I don't know, maybe you thought differently right there. That was my favorite pick of the Steelers draft. Yeah, and then and then Gerald Hawkins Dave our Lsu buddy tackle goes four one twenty three. You know, so, I mean

I was a little I was. I thought if you look at the last day, getting men Cavid hit seventeen forty six was probably one of those things where you go, wow, Okay, you don't feel great about Harby Burns, but Tyler made Cavic is gonna be so you know, maybe maybe the Steelers, I you know, they they've proven me wrong before and so we'll see. All right, Kent Garrison, Hey, welcome to the show. Thank you, sir. Okay, we're gonna try and line up some calls if we could. Is that possible

right now? Are we that as possible? We have one holding as we speak. Okay, Well, guys, we're doing great. Everybody's happy. We got a little rest on Sunday, kind of got recharged, watched the little NASCAR, a little hockey. We're all good. Uh so we're all doing great, So we'll just take the calls. Kent, it's all yours. Yeah, Ron and Virginia has been holding Ron going, Ron, go ahead, Hey, how are you guys doing great? Hey, y'all touched on the subject a little bit. I just want to get

your opinion, Dave and Brian opinion. Who would you picked out of Jalen Smith and Miles Jack for somebody who wouldn't guarantee to play this season? Okay? Uh? I mean, and we know we've known how the Cowboys have felt, yeah for a while now. But I think I would take my chance on the guy who can play now. Yeah, me too. I think we all agree on that. I think Miles Jack, I mean next to me, And if both guys were healthy, that would be a great debate if both guys were healthy. But you know, to me,

Miles Jack was my number one player. I have a history of this. I have a history of taking linebackers that play a long time. I had a history of a Hall of Fame guard tackle that had a bad shoulder that played a long time. So you talk about, you know, maximizing the Romo window. Right, If Miles Jack can play thirty two games at his highest level and then he's done, that might help you win a Super Bowl here hypothetical, Okay, we would rather have Miles Jack.

If I tell you he will play four years in this league and then he'll be done, but he'll play those four years at the level that you scouted him on film, right, Or you could have Jalen Smith who will come back, but he won't be quite what he used to be. And you know, maybe he'll be a solid starter, but he won't be what years because I'm just gonna keep trying to draft. And we talked about this like back when we when we first started talking

about this, I mean linebacker. It reminds me a lot of running back in the way like it is a it is a physical How many years did Patrick Willis play? Seven? He was drafted? What in seven? Right? He was part of the Yeah, because he was part of the right I think it was it was six or seven something like that him in front of I didn't mean almost pausitive as o seven he was drafted, So, um, yeah that makes sense. Yeah. Seven, he's thirty one years old

and he's not playing football anymore. Yeah, I mean so four obviously seven years is almost double four. But still if you're giving me four years of Miles Jack at what he's supposed to be at one of the most physical positions in football, right, Hell yeah, you draft players for the rookie contracts you do if you're able to extend them that they must have done a heck of

a job. Great, but you draft players for the rookie conners, just like running back, linebackers, not a position rolling around, cornerback and tackle or like really the only positions where you want a guy to play more than seven or so years. Okay, kid, you got Sam and san Antonio and quarterback obviously Sam Hey. But as I want to say, I feel like, based on you know, what the Cowboys did in the first round, I would I would value evaluate,

I would grade them. If I was gonna give him a grade, i'd give him a D. Only because not because I don't think that the running back is a great player. I think he's a great player. But I think we went in, we invested the top top five picks in the most expendable position that there is in all of sports. It's a running back. You know you talked, you touched on it earlier when you talked about the kid from Rollynch from UH Seattle. He was their best

back by far. They did not miss Marshall Lynch while he was out there, and he was out there help now he got hurt, and obviously that's that's attributed to the positions that he plays. In and obviously we can see the same thing you know transpire with Elliott. We hope he doesn't. But also I say, I'll give him a reason why I gave him a deed is because the same thing that Jerry done regrets about about not actually getting the deal done with pact the lych Okay,

thank you very much. Sam. Appreciate that we've talked about the value of the running back position. And you know, to me, my trump card to that because I get it. I understand that argument absolutely. My trump card to that is, who else are you drafting a four who will translate to more wins over the next three years? You're Tony Roman Window and more production. To me, that's Ezekie Elliott. If you're if the goal out of the draft is the fine players who will help you win games, Ezekiel

Elliot will do that more than Jalen Ramsey will. He will do that more than Leonard Floyd will. And so for me, that's the trump card. Zeke will translate to more wins than any other player you take up a number four. I also I love Jalen Ramsey a lot. I think he would have been good here too. I don't trust that this team would use him to maximize his ability. Jalen rams You already have a guy like that, Jalen Ramsey has your first round pick loss. Jalen Ramsey

as a quarter true. Do you feel better about Jamie as a corner or Zeke is a running back? Zeke is run close? Yeah, that's the argument. But I mean, if you get I do get what he's trying to say. I understand. No no, I'm saying no no. I Hey, we appreciate Sam always. I wouldn't. I would argue, and

he's He's right. Rawls was great last year. Marshawn Lynch is at the tail end of his career after a very productive career in Seattle and Buffalo too, but mainly Seattle, where I would argue he was the second most important part of that offense, being super Bowl caliber behind Russell Wilson. Right, he was their identity and you talk, I mean DeMarco

Murray was their identity for about two years here. And if you can get Ali, if you can get five years and people want again, people want the extra contract, whatever.

If you can get five years of Zeke at what he's supposed to be, I think it'd make a far bigger difference than a lot of guys that got picked up in five years from now, the rookie five years now, the running back number will be lower for that if you have to get that fifth year no, because we remember we were talking about because guys are starting to get less and less second contract exactly. So maybe that number will be lower, you know, in five years from now,

if you when you when you have to make that option. Yeah, maybe the number isn't eleven million dollars dollars. I think I think the option for a running back right now is like nine. Yeah, and maybe it won't. Maybe it won't. Just go back to last year. Todd Gurley, he was taking tenth overall, right, if we could redo that draft to guarantee he goes higher than tenth, yeah, no, no, if you can find a special running back that impacts your offense, helps everyone, yeah, he's worth the pick. And

so I loved Alfred Morris's comment last night. We got to talk to him at this event and he was like, first, well, first of all, he was like, I embraced the competition whatever, but he was like, I was excited for my position. They've been trying to devalue us for years and these guys are showing what a good running back can do for a team. All right, Ken, who do you got? Do you want to touch on his Lynch question at all? Sam's what what about that? He felt like they that?

I mean he's got I say, he's got a point. I mean you can find value at running back. Way later in the draft, Rawls filled in for Lynch. Alfred, Oh, Paxon Lynch, what was the question? I'm sorry, Well, he's talking about men, right, Kent. He's talking about that. He's marking Jerry down for the lack of execution for making that happen. Yeah, right, Yeah, it's something that Jerry will

be tied to. Oh. Absolutely know we know the facts, or you know what we think are the facts reported facts of what went on in that war room, how they almost went up to go get them. But kind of what what they was saying earlier about, maybe not everyone in the room was gung ho for Paxson Lynch, like everyone was gung ho for Zeke. Yeah, because the

trade did not happen. They did not give up a third round pick to go get I think it's very telling that they weren't willing to make that when they I mean they literally just did it for Lawrence a couple of years ago. But if if Jerry, and I mean, if there was a decent number of people that were convinced he's really the guy to handle the job after Romo and they didn't give up a two and a three, shame on them. I mean, And there's no way to

know right now. But if that's all at cost and they were that sure that he's the guy, that's a using steak on their part. And we'll have to wait a few years to find out how that plays out. Okay, Lee in Atlanta, Lee, go ahead, Hey guys, A couple of things real quick. I love to pick a zeke Um. Some things that a lot of people don't mention is that the guy can run the route tree. I equate his skill set to Marshall folks just in the bigger body. Okay,

but I love the pick. The second round pick. I also love because if you're gonna go risk reward, the reward of Jalen Smith's getting back to where he was is phenomenal. The guy is easily a top three talent in the draft, So if the reward is that high, then I like it. More than even the Bruce Carter pick, you know that was a couple of years ago. So great with that as well. I love the overall speed

that we're bringing to our special teams. I mean, we got guys with size running four threes with Brown and Purdue, so I love the overall talent. And then the way our defensive scheme works with a D line rotation. We added four guys tow in free agency to in that draft that have a real chance to see the field next year. In that rotation, fresh guys bring pass rush, especially the fact that I like our D tackles now. So I'm extremely happy with our draft. One tip for Dane.

Check out that Michigan roster next year. It won't quite be Ohio States Draft this year, but there could be four to five first rounders on that on that team. Thanks a lot, appreciate it ly, Thanks for the call. Okay, Peppers come out next year. Peppers and I you know this might be a segue, but yeah, we're gonna We're take one more call and then I want to get here and then and we'll talk about seventeen seventy. We

can go, can go a little long ago. No, I want to take one more call here, then we're gonna do Dane's twenty seventeen mock draft. Can't What do you got? One of our favorite callers, Mark and Staten Island. Hey, how you doing great? All right? Listen dialogue cowboy fan. I love this team good to bad. The only negative to this draft um that I see is already fifty percent of our draft picks we know are not going to help the team this year. A two pick, a

quarterback pick, and this and this tight end project. So fifty percent. That's three three out of nine thirty three percent, and that's on the assumption that Gabon, Frazier and Brown will make an impact this year, whether it be special teams or not. So I don't like the fact that almost half our picks are not going to help us this year. All right, Mark, thanks for the call. Well, and that's I think. The only guy we know for

a fact will not make an impact is Jalen Smith. Yeah, there's a chance that Tony Romo can go down, and then Kellen Moore maybe is not effective and Dak prescioll I guess a cheat. So ideally you don't want some of these guys making an insure but we talked about the rotation though too with those defensive linemen. Yeah, those guys are gonna get an opportunity. People don't want to hear this, maybe, but I don't even look at the sixth round guys as draft picks really, I mean their

priority free agents. That's basically how I view them. If they can do something, they got a third round guy on my on my board. If they can do something great, I mean, Fraser intrigues me. Especially with Barry Church and entering a contract year. Gathers is obviously intriguing. I'm not going to look back at whether or not this draft was successful based on what they do. Okay, Um, that's just me, all right, thanks for the call. Thanks to

everybody that Oh well, I I wanted to play Devil's advocate. Yeah, and we do this every year. It's not necessarily fair. Uh. You know, everybody loves like Levion Bell went to pick after Jovian Escobar. I mean, I I'm rooting like hell for Jalen Smith to get everything that he deserves and come back stronger. But in a couple of years, you know, one of these, you know, Miles Jack, Chris Jones, Avian Howard, Spence.

There's no doubt. If Noah Spence is a twelve sack guy in Tampa Bay and Jalen Smith is sitting on injured reserve in two years, no doubt, people are not gonna be happy. No. I mean, hey, what do we do investigating educa we've talked about. Hey, I love the fact that every single guy on that run that we talked about is a guy that we talked extensively about being here. And there's some guys Andson Johnson was one of my first initial exactly. Uh so it's gonna be interesting.

All right. Well, here here's the part of the show that I'm gonna really look forward to, is uh Dame Burglar is going to go through his uh two thousand and seventeen mock draft that he's putting up today on uh yeah CBS. We'll hit a few highlights here, and just for everyone, the order is the reverse order of the Super Bowl odds, So don't complain to me about your team's too lower, too high, you know. And see where we have the Cowboys taken. We have the Cowboy

seven damn way up at twenty four. So just just going by Super Bowl ods, not trying to predict the order here. But number one pick Cleveland Brown's Cody Cusser is not going to stop them from taking a quarterback. Uh. Deshaun Watson from Clemson again's top quarterback. He still has some room to grow if he stays healthy, He's got a chance. Number two Miles Garrett, I mean the von Miller comparisons are coming. Not only the A and M connection, but he could be special pass rusher. Got a few

LSU guys coming up here. Jamal Adams the safety all right, could be the next Eric Weddle, Dallas native. And then at number eight, Leonard Fournette to the Lions. Oh, the Lions could be him and boys? Writer who would be pumped about that? Yeah? Doulah former one two duo. There Desmond Kings in my top ten? Six? Where do you got Desmond King going six to the Bucks? Six to the Bucks? Ye? Player, I think he could be in that? Is he the best? Is he gonna be the best

corner in the draft? You have him as the highest is the highest corner? I think he'll could be. There's a couple other corners. Jalen Tabor from Florida, He's he's in the Universation. You're trying to tell me the Browns are gonna turn their trade with the Eagles into Deshaun Watson and Dalvin Cook. Yeah, that's nasty the Browns. And according to this scenario, the Eagles will be picking ninth, which go to the Browns, and I have him taken

Dalvin Cook from Florida States. So I'm talking about revamping that offense. Your new big three in Cleveland, Deshaun Watson, Dalvin Cook and Coleman. Wow, that's a lot of speed, a lot of a lot of talent, which will be really interesting to watch there. Our color talked about Michigan. I've got two Michigan guys in my first round, mock job brill Pepper's safety, have him going to the Redskins, and then I've got Jake Butt the tight end going

to Green Bay. Oh no, yeah, So down there at twenty nine, they've got a couple of Michigan has a few other guys that might sniff the first round. Jordan and Lewis. He's five to nine. I think that might hurt him in the long run about making the first round. And then ju Chessen he's got a chance to make the first round. There a couple other highlights here. Let's see we have Bright Kaya, the quarterback from Miami Chicago pick fourteen, Oj Howard, a tight end. We thought it

would be a first round. How many how many quarterbacks do you have in this? Uh? Three? Okay, right? Kaya going for Watson won Kaya fourteen. And then the third is u Chad Kelly, the old miss quarterball. Yeah. I watched the little tape on him this morning, going twenty five to Arizona and Carson Palmer a replacement eventually. So for all the running backs, we talked about four Nett at eight, a lot of running Dalvin's took at nine,

and then got Christian McCaffrey going to Oakland. Oh wow, seventeen. I think that would be. Okay, here's my here's my old scout on McCaffrey. Okay, he reminds me of Eric medcalf when he came out from the Cleveland Browns back in the day. That your buddy Lombardi love. Yeah, old, I mean, that's an old, that's an old old. But that he that same type of the ability, that open field, purpose, all purpose, open field. He might be better than that cap,

but that was my that's my comparison to him. If Indie put Indie puts some O lineman in place this year. So if p Ryan actually were to go to the Colts, yeah, p Ryan's the fourth running back off the board to Indianapolis. He'd be the first time since oh eight we'd have four running backs first. Imagine that. And I don't have Nick Chubb coming off the al Yeah, yeah, you know he has a chance. And also the Royce Freeman Oregon running back he's got a chance as well. I have

six Alabama players uh in the first round. They this year, only one this year. I have six. Yeah. Tim Williams simblames game last year that name, but as a pass rusher he can be something. Let's see what other highlights do we have here? Who did you have Dallas? Take Dallas cow was picked number twenty four, like Williams, the or the wide receiver from Clemson almost paralyzed. Tell what you did last year this time last year, my way

too early mock draft, a year ahead of time. I had one pick right out of thirty two, and as Dallas Cowboys pick in Ezekie Elliott. Okay, but give yourself some credit, Dane. You had fourteen of thirty two names I did. Yeah, and I guarantee you a decent number of the names he just said are going to be first round picks next year. That's awesome, right and crazy the guy he's got Dallas taking a first round talent at wide receiver who did not play for them last

year because he heard himself in Week one. Yeah, so that's crazy. It's far for the course for us. How good Clemson could have been? Oh yeah, no, that is that is true? All right, Well listen, that's the music for one last time. Once again. I just want to thank I just want to thank everybody out there for falling along. I just it's so nice that we can have the interaction that we do with the fans, whether it's on Twitter, whether it's on the things that calls

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