The Quadrilogy is complete, as Jenny rejoins Conor and Gary for the thrilling finale of the Mock Draft Series, running down the final eight picks of the first round as well as selections for the four teams that don't have picks in Round 1.
The suddenly rock-solid Browns shop the defensive options. Will the Ravens go offense twice after trading Orlando Brown Jr. or look to add an edge player? How do the stalled Antonio Brown negotiations affect the Bucs' draft-day strategy? Is there a tight end who fits in Buffalo or is it time to take a chance on a dynamic edge rusher? And do the Packers go receiver to appease Aaron Rodgers, or stick it to him by drafting a third-string quarterback?
Plus, what are the Chiefs looking at for receiver options in the late-second round, can the Rams find their answer at the pivot in Round 2, and will the Texans fix all their problems at Pick 67?
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Hello, and welcome to the mm QB Monday Morning NFL podcast. I am your host, Gary Gramley. I am joined by both Jenny Brentis. I'm Connor Or of the week Side podcast for the finale of the quadrilogy. Let that wash over you for a moment before we start the show. Wow, that's a word. It feels momentous. Quadrilogy is one of my favorite words. Uh, probably my second favorite word after a penultimate. Penultimate should be my second favorite word, though that would be more fitting. Are there any famous quadrilogies? Uh? Like the Godfather is a trilogy? Um who came out with like a that's the thing? Who came out with a fourth and then stopped. I mean, I'm in a severe disadvantage here because we all know my lack of pop culture knowledge, so I'm not really sure I have any to offer here, But I am googling four part series to see if I can quickly come up with something that would allow me to contribute. Would would Fast and Furious count as a double quadrilogy? Or it's the fact that they went to Fast and Furious x L mean that they have they're planning on just bypassing. I mean there's got to be more than eight of those. Is octology a word oogy for now? I mean, if you've been diesel, you get to make up words. So yeah, Elector has four parts apparently, Okay, I feel like, yeah, once you go past three, you just go to light, you know whatever, seventeen like, you just go to some random number until everyone involved has passed on or retired or whatever it might be. That's a parent. Trap has four parts one to three. And Hawaiian Honeymoon. Okay, that's all Lindsay Lohan, Um, good question. I don't know, Connor. I'm just really trying to keep up here, so I'm just offering what I can. Don't have all the information pretty much general, my general contribution for the podcast is at that level. So well, guys, we're doing a quadrilogy because this will be the last one, because they're doing the draft on Thursday, and we are. We're through the first twenty five picks in this series so far. We are starting with the Browns at six, and I'm going to ever so quickly run through the first in case, uh, any of your listeners out there are just rude enough to have missed the first three shows. So we have Jaguars taking Trevor Lawrence, Jets stake Zach Wilson, forty Niners Trey Lance, Falcons take Penny Sewell, Bengals take Rashawn Slater, Dolphins stake Jamaar Chase, Lions take Davante Smith, Panthers take Justin Fields. At nine, the Broncos take Mac Jones, Cowboys take Patrick Surtan, Johnns take Kyle Pitt's. Eagles take Jalen Wattle, Christian Dara Saw to the Chargers Jalen Phillips. So the Vikings, Patriots take Micah Parsons. Cardinals take Caleb Farley. Now this is part three coming on. We could have stopped there, but we kept going. Uh. J C. Horne to the Raiders, Elijah Vera Tucker to the Dolphins football team select Tevin Jenkins. Bears take greg Newsome, Colts take Quitty pay Titans take Eric Stokes, Jets take Gregory Rousseau, Steelers take Liam Eichenberg, and the Jaguars take Christian bar More. And now we have arrived at the Browns with number twenty six, and uh, they've I don't know, they're they're they're kind of solid on this roster. I mean, a lot of teams are gonna talk about in this portion of the show are solid on the roster because they all won a lot of games. But the Browns have done a nice job filling those few holes, at least theoretically in free agency here, Yeah, what a time to say that the Browns have a pretty solid roster. The biggest needs I think are on defense. D Dresser makes sense, although the signing of Jadaveon Clowney makes that need a little bit less acute. I could also see them going linebacker here. I agree with Jenny, and I like the fact that I think the Clowney signing really opened up some doors. Um In particular, it reminds me a little bit of the Giants before that first Super Bowl run, where they had two established players on the outside, and then they could kind of take a flyer on someone like a Jason Pierre Paul who is kind of experimental and ease him in, you know, kind of running him on obvious passing downs and then sort of increasing his workload from there. And it's almost perfect for Cleveland because that's sort of the class that you're going to get, right. It's high ceiling guys, who might not have a ton of production. There's a player on the board. Um, I'm you know, hint hint that went to Jenny's alma mater that a lot of people are kind of describing. Is that similar? But you know, didn't even have a sack last year. But the athletic ceiling is through the roof and might be able to fit in there. But I agree. I mean, I think they're in such a good spot to to bring in a guy to foster him and uh, you know, uh Clowney just is that anchor there and it really helps you kind of work some stuff around. Yeah. I really like the idea of Clowney kicking inside on some of these obvious passing downs here, and then that opens you up to uh you can take uh Jason Ohah or U Joe try On or someone like that. And he's sort of pure edge guy to just arow out there in certain packages. Uh. That said, I I do agree with Jenny. I think there's a linebacker spot right here. Uh. If you're Joe Woods, you know he was obviously he was the defensive backs coach in San Francisco, but I mean he saw in that defense what Robert Salo was able to do with that Fred Warner Kwan Alexander pairing. And I think they have some maybe interesting younger guys there, uh in that linebacking corps, but I don't know if they have anyone really banking on at this point. So uh, at this point in the draft, and they're they're gonna have options here, uh as far as linebackers go, And this point in our draft, you still have Jeremiah Ousu Coamoa on the board, You still have Namon Collins on the board, you still have Jamon Davis on the board. Those are probably your a uh, your your three guys after Michael Parsons here. So good times here for the Cleveland Browns. Yeah, no, no matter who was off the board at that point or rather there, there should still be a very good linebacker for them to take, is what I was going to say. And also it is interesting Gary you mentioned it's it's a good linebacker draft and this is a copycat league. And we saw the Super Bowl champions when in a large part because of their excellent defense, and that defense has two really strong inside linebackers. And so you know, when the Bucks drafted Devin White fifth overall, a couple of years ago. I think some heads return and like, that's really high for an off ball linebacker. But you saw the impact that a player like that can have on the defense, and so I think a lot of teams are looking to address that need a little bit more. I debated at the beginning of this podcast. Once I kind of caught on and and understood what was going on, it would be to not offer anything but just to say, we're going to take the best player available, and uh, you know we're gonna take the We're gonna take the top guy on our board. And uh, but in this case, I think you could probably match the best player available and the top guy on on everybody's board. There's some there's some good linebackers here. Yeah, Connor, that approach will get you a job at front office somewhere by the by the time the off season is up. Uh. Look, as far as our board goes, I like Jeremiah Owusukamoa here. I think he has a lot of similarities to to Fred Warner. Of course, a great linebacker out in San Francisco. Uh, if he wasn't off the world like I said, I look, I really like jam and David in the spot in a in a scenario where uh j Oka is not on the board anymore. But I think, for the sake of our mock, I think it's the Notre Dame dude going right here? Sounds good? Gary. Is j Okay a nickname that you have given him or is that something that has been percolating for some time? I saw Jess Metana called him j Okay on Twitter, the the wonderful video producer who actually just left sports all straight. So now we don't think she's wonderful, but um, I will go with that, all right, so she would know Notre Dame grab yes, and it's just easier. I I can't great. It's an enjoyable nickname. I mean, I have I have enough trouble speaking without having to run through that many syllables. Sounds good, all right. That brings us to the Ravens at seven. We're gonna have a very raven centric show. You might say, uh, that's so raven by the time this is this is over. That was pretty good. I legitimately laughed. That was legitimate laugh. Thank you, Thank you for your pity. The Ravens at twenty seven here, obviously they just moved on from Lano Brown. Or Orlando Brown wanted to play left tackle, they are not going to have him play left tackle with Ronnie Stanley there. Uh, so he is off to Kansas City. You have a big hole here at right tackle. Like we said, this is a this is a good draft if you need I I hate to keep throwing out, you know, left tackle types and right tackle types, because it's there's no difference in the NFL anymore. I mean, you need them both to be able to do a lot of the same things. But just if we are using the old stereotype of the left tackle being the athletic pass protector type and the right tackle being the big maler uh type of dude. Uh, there are a lot of those right tackle types in this draft, and that's certainly what the Ravens look for in this system. Yeah, losing Orlando Brown was you know, It's one of those interesting things is where I wondered how much they would at least try to pacify him, just because he does fit that downhill blocking style so well, and he's such a powerful player and gives them flexibility to you know, do a lot of the things that they do on both sides of the line. But you're right. I mean, you know, they have two picks here back to back, and while theoretically they've done a really good job in the past at utilizing that spot to maybe trade back and and and accumulate more assets, they're desperate for both the wide receiver and an offensive linemen and I think they can probably accomplish those pretty successfully here with twenty seven and thirty one. Yeah, and we know a big part of the Ravens draft strategy is just taking more chances, so accumulating picks so that understanding that you were going to miss on some that every team misses on some, and just basically taking more rights at the apple. So you see two picks in the late first round, and you think, well, could they you know, make some move up or you know, get creative in some way, but they could also just stay where they are because they have these these two chances to get too impact players. So and there are a lot of needs, you know, wide receiver, edge rusher, and and now offensive tackle. I mean, when I did my mock a couple of weeks ago, the Brown trade hadn't happened, although it was imminent, And now I'm feeling silly for for not giving them one of the offensive tackles um at that spot. So I think those are the three positions that make a lot of sense for the Ravens at the back end of the first round. So as far as the specific prospects, at this point, you're probably looking at Jalen Mayfield out of Michigan. Uh, just scrolling through a list here to see who else sort of pops up as as pure often tackles. I mean, you can go with an Alex Leatherwood out of Alabama. Lord knows the Ravens enjoy their Alabama prospects here. Um. Uh. Sam caused me out of Texas who I like, but no one else seems so like him that much. Uh yeah, let's let's let's narrow it down to those three. I would uh in in sort of vague terms here, I would call Mayfield kind of the high upside guy, but you're bringing a little more risk. I think Leatherwood is probably guy they'd be more comfortable with for a number of reasons. You played different spots on Alabama's line over the years, and granted Alabama's obviously stacked offensively, so I don't know if that worries evaluators overall, when you're just playing amongst a much of other NFL players against a much of you know, generally not NFL players, but uh, Leatherwood perform well at at tackle promo guard. I think he's a guy who uh fits in their system pretty well. And then you've got uh yeah cost me. I think is more going to appeal to teams looking to develop sort of the pure past protector type of guy um as opposed to a team like the Ravens, who are are They're just gonna they're gonna run the ball a whole lot every game. So that's ah, that's my two cents. Guys, Well, I have a question, Gary, So you would go for offensive tackle at dis pick and not wait till the pick thirty one and maybe get an edge here. I think the way the board plays out for us, I would probably go tackle here and trust that either. That's and that's the thing with the raven system. I never, uh, whenever I do their draft, neees, it's like, I never think of edge being a big need because it seems like they just always you know, they'll they'll get him at Jude on on you know, Day two or later or early day three and and developed these guys and they will, uh, they'll manufacture this pass rush with whoever they end up with. Whereas I think they got a little bit of rude awakening last year after Marshall Janda left and they kind of said, Okay, you know, we'll try Tyree Phillips. Uh. They tried a couple of other guys that right guard spot, and it just they didn't completely collapse. I think a lot of their struggles on offense ended up being related to a big downturn in red zone efficiency. But uh, they certainly did not dominate in the way that they did in twenty nineteen, and I think that sort of was a signal of them that they probably want offensive line, I mean, certainly will take offensive line with one of these two picks. Uh. I just I always feel like the Ravens will just wait on the on the edge guys and and they'll they'll you know, those overload fire zone blitzer they'll go with that, and and they'll just kind of say, you know, we want edge guys who aren't necessarily your classic edge burning dynamic guys. We just want guys who do a lot of things well, and we will will manufacture this pastors. When it's all said and done fair enough, can I raise my hand and ask do you think that um? Uh, you know, with the Saints coming up here at twenty eight, with the Aaron Rodgers, uh sassy Nous coming up at twenty nine, the weapon desperate Bills coming up at thirty, are you nervous at all about the last first round caliber wide receiver still sitting there on the board, just raising, just raising that possibility that Rashad Bateman is available. Um is a guy that I think will go in the first round of the draft, could fit in well with that, uh, you know, gives them another true outside guy. Um, well, probably they're only really true outside guy. So just just a suggestion. Can I be a mock draft jerk for a second? I always like mocking Bateman too the Packers because I think he fits what they do better, but he fits at the ratemn uh. And I was like putting a Teras Marshall Jr. The l s U guy with the with the Ravens, because I think he's a little more or at least he has a chance to be sort of a classic X receiver type of guy. Uh. And that is not how draft board to work. But if both teams call me and we're like, listen, we just want to make you happy with these receiver picks, so just let us know who we should pick in each spot, That's what I would tell them. That's why I would put Marshall here if we're getting a receiver and uh, and give Bateman to the Packers and two picks, totally eliminating all the suspense here for the listeners. Now, I would. I would love if Brian Gooda Kuntz was like, yeah, you know, you're right. He's a better player for you, guys. What what was I thinking trying to take him. It's about getting the right fit for everyone, so everyone leaves the draft happy. This is not a competition. This is so everyone gets the guy they want. It's about happiness. Uh, what what do you guys say? I I would. I would. If we're going off on a line, I would pencil in Leatherwood. If we are going receiver, we can give him Bateman here. It'll it'll shatter my heart to not give him to the Packers and two picks, but we can go ahead and do that. That's fine. We can stay with offensive line. Gary. My goal is for you to leave here feeling good. And so I say we do that. Yeah, I say, I say we we we stick him with with Leatherwood. Although I will raise one last point, um the tackle. The other tackle that we're debating here went to Michigan. We know that John Harbaugh probably has some good information on all the players from there, and and you know that either means you could almost pencil him in to Baltimore or you would not pencil him in at all based on the brothers evaluation. But just just would that supersede their obsession with Alabama, is all I'm saying. That's a good point. Uh Mayfield. Mayfield does fit stylistically what they look for in their in their off as a lineman. So I don't know, we'll we'll find out a lot about Jalen Mayfield if he's sitting there at twenty seven and the Ravens either take or pass on him. Seriously, let's go Leatherwood. I was gonna say, I already started typing it, so really, no no going back. I broke my back space uh key years ago. So whatever I type the first time has to be right, all right. Alex Leatherwood, Alabama offensive tackle to the Ravens at seven, which brings us to the Saints at eight. And this is a team. I mean, look, quarterback is what everyone's going to kind of wonder about. Is there someone else who would sneak into round one? And Davis Mills type guy? Uh, if you are getting away from quarterback, you are. I mean they they had to change up a lot of things this offseason. They were in a very bad cap situation. Uh, they have that needed number two cornerback. They have a need at at linebacker. Uh do they try and develop? You know, they took Marcus Davenport, they jumped up and got him a couple of years ago. Do they do they pull a similar move and try and get someone like that at this spot? There's a lot of different ways the Saints can go. You have, cornerback is a major need. That one really popped out to me when I was doing my mock draft. Genorris Jenkins left in free agency. They're looking for a starter opposite Marshawn Lattimore. Um, depending on how first rounds play out, there could be a lot of good options left. I think I gave them a Sante Samuel Jr. Which maybe was a little high. So that's one option. But you mentioned quarterback, that's another consideration. Is Mac Jones still available carry He's not at nine? No, I'm just kidding. Um uh yeah, I agree with Jenny. I think cornerback is probably at the top of the at the of the wish list here, and I would say probably followed only slightly by wide receiver, but only the what right kind of wide receiver? If you're if you're trying to make this work, they'll they'll have to ask the packers who they're allowed to pick here exactly. I do wonder if you know they've had Trade Kwon Smith there for a couple of years. I guess you kind of wonder, are they gonna kind of shrug their shoulders and be like, all right, well we've you've been here. You don't the system you You've better be a bready to go at this point. Uh now that Emmanuel Sanders is out. But um boy, we we took a lot of cornerbacks in this draft so far, didn't we? Or did I just accidentally do we give someone Greg news and we did? We give the Bears Greg Newsom? That's right, Greg Newsom home coming to Chicago. How could I forget this is the storyline in the first round in our imaginary world. Uh, so we are digging down a little bit deeper on the corners. Uh, Farley is off the board. Uh this is good podcasting here, just me sort of mumbling to myself and grunting as I look at a list. Uh, Samuel makes sense. Molden is a I think Moulden is a little Elijah Molden out of Washington is probably a little too repetitive with a C. J. Gardner Johnson there. Um, I could go with the Sante Samuel here. I mean sounds good to me. I if you know, if I'm gonna miss in one mock draft, I might as well miss in both. Gary Connor any objections. Um, A Sante Samuel Jr. Seems great? Uh he it's interesting, like he's not like beloved by some of the mock draft Consigliari or whatever, but some of the advanced metrics on him are like phenomenal, Like he really does seem to be like a one hell of a player. And so I think that, you know, and all these cornerbacks are so strange in the way that they're stacked up, Like I think there's a lot of project picks early on um that that might jump ahead of him just based on measurables. There's some medical guys that might fall, but a Sante Samuel Jr. Is one of those guys that I feel like is is on the safe side if anything, and is a player who's sort of lived up to the expectations of him already. And so I like to pick all right as Sante Samuel will Jr. Florida State cornerback to the Saints, which brings us to the Packers, who there's just a great receiver fit on the board here. If you're the Packers, and I don't see how you can go in any other direction besides Rashad Bateman at at at this point, what a surprise, Gary, I would never guess you would have paired them. But that sounds like a really interesting combination. Maybe another really friendly GM let him slide. So that's good. That's why you network. If you're a GM and you get everyone on your side and they do you favors. That's that's why the Ravens always do so well in the draft. Everyone just sort of helps him out. Everyone likes Eric da Costa. You can have Lamar Jackson. We don't go ahead, No, I like Bateman as sort of a I would I would categorize Bateman as sort of a a savvy type of receiver. I don't think he's gonna blow anyone away with the um uh with with the the size speed measurables here, but I think he very much uh he's an on schedule route runner. I think he's a savvy rout runner. I think he's going to create separation. I think, like a lot of Packers receivers, it might be a rough transition. If you look over the years, guys in their first year or two and Aaron Rodgers tend to not fare very well, and then they sometimes tend to fair very well going forward. Davante Adams, Dante Adams was like his first two years in the league, he was terrible. He was like he was problematically bad for them, and then all of a sudden he just took off on this new trajectory and and now he's completely unstoppable. Well, the question is, Gary, will Aaron Rodgers still be the quarterback for the Packers when this wide receiver begins with supper trajectory. If I'm the GM of the Packers, I'm done, Like if I know you're gonna pout again anyway, Um, you know, hell draft Kyle Trask here, give me another quarterback. I'll do it again. You know, let's do let's who gives who cares? But yeah no, if I if I know, you're gonna pout and and and use the media as a tool to bring up the fact that he's never had a first round pick as a wide receiver. Like it's the same principle where if you have a kid and you know they're not treating their toys well, and you know, then you don't get the new toys from the store. You get the toys from Facebook marketplace and uh you know the ones with the scratches on them already. And uh so that's the thing. You know, maybe you don't deserve a linebacker here. Maybe we are a wide receiver. Maybe we help out the defense a little bit too, you know, but I can do agree with you stylistically, he does fit there, and you know you can see him. You watch that tape from Minnesota and it's like that receiver that you can just see winning that kind of that back shoulder fade, you know, kind of winning some of those fifty fifty balls that Rogers rolls his eyes at other people for not winning. You know, I mean, he is that that kind of caliber wide receiver. And if you're going off of twenty nineteen film, which a lot of teams seem to be doing at this point, you have to remember, like he had a downturn statistically in tw but played, you know, weeks after symptomatic really bad symptomatic case of COVID that forced him to use actually uses in Hailer for the first time he had asthma um never needed to use it before he had COVID, and said he just now is like feeling physically better after like months of u of feeling off for COVID. But he ran well at the pro day, So I I like it. I think it's a good pick here, all right, it's gonna be Rashod Bateman to the Packers. And uh, if you're a Packers fan, you have to wait till day two to find that Tim Boyle replacement in the QB room Number thirty Buffalo Bills And look, I'll I love what the Bills have done from roster building standpoint. I have been very annoyed, however, at the fact that they never go out and try to get that sort of dynamic edge rusher, like just take a risk on that athletics sort of you know, uh measurables type guy, high ceiling type of dude. You don't think, I mean ed Alver isn't an edge, but you know you don't think that ed Olver was a similar No, I want I want I want pure edge. I want an edge burner here. Uh it really comes out here. I was annoyed when they signed Trent Murphy that one off season because it's just in tent. Murphy's fine, but like Trent Murphy's like, you know, you're you're, I don't know, ninth best starter on your team at the point when they started when they signed him, and he just didn't really seem to be what they needed at this point. And I'll say this, I don't have the stats on this, but I feel like the Bills lad the league in successfully called blitz is that didn't end up in like a good play for them because they like didn't finish sack or ran past the quarterback or grab the quarterback and the quarterback slipped away and made a play. And maybe I'm just uh maybe the just thing of the two games against Patrick Mahomes that uh sort of stick in my craw as a as not a Bills fan, but a a person who has a soft spot for the franchise in my heart. But yeah, I just want them to take that dominating potentially. You're not going to get dominated. You're not gonna find Chase Young at number thirty in this draft, but just take the guy who has a chance to become that essentially what Jerry Hughes is at this point. And Jerry Hughes probably will not play forever. I I don't know how many years he has left, but it's probably not an infinity at this point. So I really hope the Bills do that with one of these kind of high ceiling edge rushers. And we still do have a couple on the board in our exercise here. Yeah, the way that our board has fallen, there are a lot of options. I see o A from Penn State, as Connor mentioned earlier, a zz O Gelry from Georgia. We also have who else do we have here? There was another name that popped out to me that I just lost the tryon, right, So there are a lot of um good edge rushers. But yeah, this is an interesting addresser class overall, because there were a decent amount of players who are very productive in twenty nineteen and then opted out. You have Jail and Phillips, who went very high in our mock draft, but has some of the medical question marks after risk reconstruction and multiple concussions that actually led him to retiring from football temporarily before resuming his career in Miami. So I think with most of the edge rushers there are some questions you don't know exactly what you're getting, or maybe your evaluation isn't as clean as you thought it would be, which leaves the Bills I think, in a pretty good position to get a good drusher late in the first round. But you sort of have to pick right. You know, you don't want you want to get a guy that that that has the talent there that can be harnessed rather than one of the guys who has you know, some limitations that and then those ultimately don't work out. Yeah. I agree, Um, I you know, Buffalo is interesting, Like I think Buffalo is going to spend up. I still think Buffalo is gonna make a weird like trade here. I don't think they're done, like I wouldn't be surprised if they trade like a second round pick or like a combos and mid round picks for like zach Ertz for example. You know, like, I think they're gonna do something weird there, which makes sense then that you can kind of elevate your yourself defensively because it was it was pedestrian a little bit. I mean, you need a couple of things. You need to help at cornerback if you're the Bills, Um, you know you reinvested in that linebacker group in the off season, but and you need help on the edge to and you know, Sean McDermott and Leslie Frasier are good enough to cover up for a lot of that stuff. But I think we all saw the shortcomings when you're trying to elevate from a team that is now good enough to win the a f C East with regularity versus a team that now needs to be built to beat the Chiefs. Essentially. Yeah, they uh, I mean, look, they wanted a tight end in free agency this year, and they just they didn't get any other guys. They you know, they checked in on gronk Uh, they checked in on the dude to end up signing with the Patriots, and they just didn't land any of them, So, um, you know, how comfortable are you living with Dawson Knox at this point? I just look, I think it would be nice that they added a tight end. I don't know who it would be at this juncture of the draft. I I think there's just such a sharp drop off after Kyle Pitts, obviously, which there would be anyway, because everyone's much worse than Kyle Pitts at football. But I mean, I I think the other guys you're you're talking about, you're probably looking at in round two at this point, and I don't know if any of them are necessarily big upgrades over Dawson Knox. And not to mention and you just your offense is kind of fine. You just brought back the entire offensive line. You have plenty in the receiving corps. You just brought in Emmanuel Sanders to replace John Brown. They're they're gonna be fine offensively. I just I think you need some difference makers on defense, and uh, I think this is where you you you take the big swing. And uh, I personally I love as Ease Glari. I think I mentioned on the on the last segment. Uh, it's he's he's just so fast around the edge and he's a little bit undersized. But I don't think he plays that small. Uh. I think he's a been initial difference maker. And you know, I don't know Jason Ewah. I really like Jason Oah. I have no problem with the fact that he had the no sax season. It was one a seven game season and two I don't know if you have like two or three like garbage clean up sacks, but we all feel different about it. He was still disruptive and he's still a really good talent. So uh, just because he has a sort of weird stits his skill anomally, I don't think is that big deal at this point. But uh, those are the two guys I would circle there. I like Joe trying a lot to um, but out of the three, I would probably order it Ojilari than oh then try on. Yeah. I agree. I'm actually surprised Ogilary is still here on our board, and I would be a little surprised if he got to the bills on Thursday night. But since he is still here, he would be my pick as well. I agree here here what a wonderful moment in Western New York as they as they land a Zselari attick. If we if we were the Bills brain Trust, we'd all do that weird staged handshake that a lot of the drought the worms are doing now you know, um, can they can be in person now, right because everybody's vaxed. Yeah, vax to the max there because but the Rams, the Rams are getting a house together and they don't even have any picks. The Rams are getting a house that I noticed. I don't know why this bothered me so much. There's a there, there's a sponsor of the swimming pool. It looks like I know if I saw that, right you did. I noticed that as well. It's like projected onto the water. I don't want to do that. Yeah, we're not gonna say it because like why give you know, why give unnecessary publicity? But yeah, that that really bothered me as well. Gary. It was it's just weird, like like, yeah, we got this house and the pool is sponsored. Is the house sponsored? Is there gonna be like as the pool sponsored by something bad? No? I honestly don't even remember who it was. I just remember seeing there was I felt like we weren't going to say it because it was like never mind, no, just like why I get free publicity. But it was just like not something you'd associate with the swimming pool. Yeah, okay, yeah, it was not like, I don't know, will make spools. It wasn't inflatable pool toy, inc. It was it was just a random company at the bottom of the hers Cheese chocolate swimming pool. Well, that would that would be delicious. I'd love that big fun do Okay, yeah, I'm I'm I'm down. I think this is great. Um, but yeah, we'd all do that thing where we all, you know, uh we kind of like not like hold each other's hands and shake them. I think that the cowboys do that because like maybe Jerry Jones just a little bit older, but they all just like kind of shake each other's hands in the air. Well, we'll all do that because oil is tremendous value at this pick. You see it, It'll happen as soon as you see the pick is in, they will cut to us doing that, and then they'll cut to the pick and then you'll see why thirty one we are back to the Ravens, and I guess we're back to the conversation, do we go edge here or do we get them the receiver here? Interesting, Gary, it seems as though there as a receiver that someone has suggested recently would be an excellent fit for the Ravens offense. And while you know, I actually have to say that. As soon as Erica Costa said we don't have a needed receiver, I was like, oh, they're definitely taking a receiver. And of course this was after I did I mocked off, but that was like a classic redirection, Like I just felt like it was so obvious I would be now. Of course I was saying this again after I did my mock draft without giving the Ravens a receiver. I would now be stunned if they did not take a receiver in the first round. They didn't even ask him about receiver. He just like walked up to the mic. They're like, how how's it going, Eric, and like, we do not need a receiver. We will not be addressing that position high in this draft. Definitely not. That's funny. Yeah, No, I I think that there's there's no way. I mean, this team has been unquietly, unsecretly desperate at the position for years. I mean Lamar Jackson was pounding the table for Antonio Brown at this time last year. I mean, that's how kind of desperate everybody got um at some point or another to bring him in. Um, and you ended up with Dez Bryant at that position for for some time this that they were, you know, down to the wire with GJ. Smith Schuster, like this team badly needs help at that position. And uh, you know, I know that was a for a long time, Ozzy Newsome's kind of one white whale position. I remember year after year at the combine him talking about that difficulty in hitting at that spot. You know, he took a lot of swings and missus ended up having to bring in someone like Steve Smith, which was was good for them for a while. But yeah, no, this is um. They need to hit on this. I don't think there's any other way. It's the only way to open up their offense because the tight end class isn't good enough to maybe grab an additional wrinkle guy here. Yeah, it's uh, it's so strange to think anyone's struggling to find receivers in the in the modern NFL, where I mean the league is just so oversaturated with incredibly good receivers, and uh, the Ravens just seem to have not been able to find. I mean, hollywe Brown has been fine. I think holliwe Brown is ultimately more of a a very good complimentary peace in your in your passing game. But you look at you know, Miles Boykin just hasn't quite worked out. Brashad Pairman didn't work out as a first round pick in although he's had some nice moments in other cities. But yeah, it's just when we see on Thursday night, I think ultimately some of these receivers who we expect to go around one might slip out of the first round. And if they do, it's just because it's an important position. But there's just so much talent uh at the position in the league in this draft, and is also projecting to be an obscenely uh talented and deep receiver class coming in. So a lot of teams just saying, well, you know, we'll wait until Day two and we'll get our A. J. Brown and hopefully that doesn't become our J. J Arthaica Whiteside. But uh, that's that's how a lot of teams end up approaching it. Uh, I'd rather look, Terris Marshall Jr. Out of L s U is the guy I like here. The one thing that gives me pause. I think he was more effective. It's sort of a big slot at L s U. But I think he has the tools to be sort of that classic ex orceiver in this offense, which is what you're looking for. If you already have Marky's brown and frog, you can take Mark Andrews and and sort of play him uh flexed out and do some of the things you might do with uh uh. You know, it's sort of a classic move receiver. But uh, I like Marshall here a lot, which I have said repeatedly over the last forty five minutes to you guys, So I'm just gonna write it in now sounds great. Gary, I'm falling into the typical trap of like every fan on mock draft night, where like, there's some really good players that are left here, and you know, and I'm just like, God, I can't believe all these players are left. But like, the only reason that we all think they're good players, well, I guess we do call people and talk to people, but it's like the idea that like they're on all these big boards and we just haven't drafted them yet. But I think it's cool that we're not doing that. We're not following the uh the norm. You know, we're shaking things up a little bit, which I'm very excited about. We don't just go ahead, Gary, I would just say just quicker. Mind. Are also not allowed to trade, so we can't really uh change this up to have someone jumping up and getting a I don't know, Zavin Collins or a can Aius Tony or something like that. Anyway. Yeah, it's also a weird year in that it really does feel like without the combine, there's just like much greater lack of anchor points for what teams might do or consensus building on players, Like I'm sure those conversations go on around the league with scouts out on the road, but you are missing that kind of central convention hub where you get a sense for what different people think about different prospects. We are at the last pick of the first round, and of course we have four teams we're still going to address here because they don't have first round picks, but they're still teams and they still deserve our love and they deserve to have us say what they've done wrong with the rosters and what they need now. But we're at the bucks at thirty two. Who they won the Super Bowl in February. If if you didn't see that, uh, if you're looking at the roster, I don't know what you necessarily necessarily say is a weakness on this roster. But there's certainly they're advanced in age in a lot of spots, and that includes quarterbacks. So you do wonder if they you know, if they love a Davis Mills, Kyle Trask, Kellen mon type, do they do they take it here because then you uh, you take them with the first round pick and then you get the fifth round option on them and uh, or do they basically just fortify another spot on the roster here. Yeah, it's rare to see a Super Bowl champion return twenty two starters, so it is kind of a luxury pick to build depth in the future or potentially add something. You know, running back I kind of think is an option here. And Connor and I talked about this on the Week's Side podcast last week. It's sort of be Super Bowl champion memorial like running back pick, Like, Hey, roster is so good, We're just gonna take a running back. But I do think that is an option here. Um, but you know, is there a quarterback that you like enough? I'm not so sure, but I have a sense, I have a feeling that there is one that Gary likes enough. So there is, Uh, there's so much Kyle Trash heat of late. I'm wondering if that's where Gary's going. But I don't like Kyle Tact. I like Davis Mills. I don't like Kyle Trash. Yeah, I I don't know. I think you I don't think you're you go quarterback here because if you're Jason Light, any time that you've tried to be cute and ahead of the curve and somewhat pragmatic, it's blown up in your face. And the only thing that seems to be working is like this blindfolded foot on the gas pedal um roster build strategy. And so I think you assume and you you know, whether it's wide receiver, you know, like someone like Rondel Moore is available, you know, and from Purdue, and just like somebody to fill in Antonio brown Roll so you don't have to go back to that well and you have the affordable contract on him, and you know, you can let some of these other guys go after a little while, and you don't, you know, maybe replenish that position once tom Brady's gone. I don't know that that's kind of a direction I'm going. I think I'm going because you know, again, you're so married to Tom Brady at this point that pivoting, even in the slightest probably risks irking the ire of him in an Aaron Rodgers sort of way that you're probably not prepared to deal with. Because he is feeling a little froggy down there, and I think he'd weigh in on the quarterback situation if you drafted one. I was also going to say that I think defensive tackle is potentially a need where you can get some depth. I mean, the last of the twenty two starters to resign was and Kunzue on a one year deal. Um. But I see that you guys already have Christian Barmore off the board, um, And I'm not sure that there's another defensive tackle that warrants going in the first round. That's a great point. You asked and Dominican Sue to play seventy five of your snaps last year. At age thirty five or thirty four maybe, um, and it looks like I mean, you know without you know, when you resigned, Steve mcclennon, you know, some of those moves that you made and everything like that. But I agree with Jenny too, that's that's a that's kind of a glaring hole too. And you know as good as in Dominican Sue is Ben. I'm not saying he's he's getting older, blah blah blah. I mean he hasn't missed a game since two thousand eleven, if I'm not mistaken. However, if you are looking down the near future, there, that's a position to that you might want to fortify. I think that's a great point. I do like the Iowa dude, David Nixon here. If you're if I had him as a first round guy in my mom draft. Yeah, I like him. Uh And I do like uh the Washington guy uh LEVI on Lozurique. I believe is how it's pronounced. I don't. I think stylistically he's not exactly what the Bucks have sort of built that defensive line around that. I think he's more of a pure upfield three technique type guy. Whereas Nixon can maybe do a few more things for you. Um, I think that makes sense if you're not going, uh with with quarter and I don't think they're going quarterback by the way, you know, I just did have to absolutely love one of those guys. Uh. The receiver thing is really interesting though, because you feel like they're having this stair down with Antonio Brown right now, where you know, kind of like they just expected him to come back on another uh you know, next to nothing deal because he has no other market, and it looks like Antonio Brown is trying to drum up. All it takes is one other team. And we we you know, Seahawks were a little bit vocal about it. We've we've heard Lamar Jackson bring it up. So can he generate a market and then ultimately get out of there and perhaps what happens on Draft night sort of uh guides what ends up happening there. But uh, it feels like they really expected Antonio Brown back on basically uh veterans minimum plus incentive type of deal and I didn't, you know, looks like that's not gonna work out. Yeah, I really like that direction. I think that's smart. I agree, and there's still some really good receivers left. I mean, you know, we have Rondel Moore, you have Cadarius Tony, nobody's uh kind of taking him. Elijah Moore who you know? Uh, you know that old Missed team. There's a lot of talent that's come from there. Uh So I don't know. I I like, there's a lot of there's a lot of tasty options here. Why don't we do I I love Rondale Moore, but I do kind of throw Rondale Moore quite rudely into more of a gadget weapon type of role at this point. I think he's going to be more. But I also think if you're the Bucks, you're probably not thinking, you know, let's let's take a guy and you know, develop them over two or three years. Uh. To me, Canarius Tony is? And look, I don't think Tony gets here. But by the same token, I think you're gonna see receivers fall in this draft. And I think you're gonna cease one of these guys at thirty two who we've talked about on these shows basically sitting there for the Bucks. So, uh, Canarius Tony if he is the guy who ends up falling. I mean he is. He just blows people away out of the swat the The amount of separation he creates is uh just obscene. And we've we've seen what Tom Brady does with guys like that over the years. Yeah, I really like it. Let's slot it in to Darius Tony Florida wide receiver to the Tampa Bay Bucks, which brings us the end of round one, and we will go on to four teams without first round picks. Weirdly enough, three of them pick right in a row, Seahawks at fifty six, Rams at fifty seven, Chiefs of fifty eight, and then the Texans at sixty seven. We're gonna fix everything that's wrong with the Texans with that sixty seven pick right there. But um, I did enjoy. In our little pre show chat, Jenny was very nervous that she had not researched these picks correctly. But these these picks are not meant to be researched. This is meant to be just throwing a random name at a team. It's very difficult to project that far down the line. You put it out there. It's no risk because no one should be expected to be correct on these picks and then if you are correct, you get to pat yourself on the bat. That's Uh, that's the way it goes. I like it. We'll give it a shot. So we're starting on the Seahawks. Here. They look they signed Alton Smith, Allan Smith then had Uh he is a he has a I'm quickly pulling up the latest on this. Uh he has a worn out right now. Uh uh in uh in Louisiana, and I don't know. I don't know if this is gonna work out with him in Seattle. So you're probably looking at the edge rushers again. You're also looking at the cornerbacks after losing Shakill Griffin and losing Quentin Dunbar uh this pass off season, So uh, you have some defensive needs. And then it seems like this is always the debate I have, uh with myself because no one else in my house wants to talk about football with me. But uh, when you're looking at this Seahawks team, we always say offensive line is a need. They haven't They've they've tried offensive lineman. They they've drafted offensive line, and they haven't worked out. I think it's just incredibly difficult to play the offensive line in front of Russell Wilson, who I mean, his game is just built around this otherworldly improvisational ability, and that is tough for an offensive lineman who you know, might have to block for two seconds, might have block for five seconds. You're not sure where Wilson is within the pocket on each play. It's it's kind of like the complete opposite of the guys who you see thrive with Tom Brady, who uh you know, just everything is completely expected and on schedule with him. Uh So, offensive line I would put as a need, but maybe not as desperate a need as we sort of say on an annual basis. It kind of if I could, if I could circle back to further, uh dig myself into this hole that I've already started blocking for Russell Wilson right now feels like what blocking for Ben Roethlisberg like the late two thousands was, where uh, he's just gonna hold the ball for a while and you're gonna give up sacks and people are gonna be like, oh, why do you give so many sacks? And it's like, well, it's it's hard to block for this long sometimes. No, that's a good explanation, Gary, I would say, yeah, I was going to say cornerback, offensive line, defensive line would be the three knees. I mean, I think it depends on which offensive alignemen are there. You know, there are some that you could pair better with that unique skill set necessary to block for Wilson, but there's also a real need at corner that that's a little bit glaring. So I think that could be a possibility here as well. I agree, I think there there could be some fun you know, there could be some fun guys here. I mean, you know, your guy Sam Cosmy could could sink this far, you know, you know, and that could be a guy. But like now, again my apologies to everybody here because I'm about to butcher like thirty five names here, But like Dylan Ratden's from North Dakota State, um, you know, probably falls within that range. And even like someone like oh gosh, now I'm gonna sound like super unprepared, but Quinn uh Quinn Miners from oh the D two guy, the u W Whitewater guy. Um, that's just been like crushing it. You know. That's that's another guy that's around Um that's probably around there. I mean, you know, I don't know how they have them stacked here. But similarly, you know, you look at the the edge group there and there's you know, I think that there's probably um some some value there too. Um Jenny mentioned corner, which again I think that that's certainly got to be a consideration too. I mean, if you're if you're at the point where you let some of these guys walk and you're running this system you're running, I mean, at some point that's got to be replenished. And I know that they do it better in the middle rounds than anybody else in the NFL, but you know, you do have to probably sniff around there too. Quinn Miners, is is really uh interesting to me at this spot. I don't know why. I'm Brandon John Schneider's just but this just feels like a spot where he's going to take one of those small school guys that the reports of immediately afterwards will be like, oh, you know, two other gms called him to say that was the guy they were targeting and and they can't believe they took him. And that happens anytime someone from like a non FBS school ever gets picked. On Day two, Robert Rochelle, the Central Arkansas cornerback is another guy who I who I very much. He's just he's just super interesting. Uh, he's just you know, the athletic testing was just something from another planet. And then on top of that, Uh, he's a guy who played a lot of offensive football in in uh in high school. He's sort of still learning the position of cornerback at this point. Those are the two guys I kind of had circled as possibilities in the spot. So uh, you know, the Seahawks get that that nice bump of everyone's saying, like that was my guy. Also, the similar to the Patriots pick last year with Kyle Duggar from Lenore Rhine. Right, it's like where is the school and everyone's googling it and then talking about out how only Belichick could find this guy. So kind of similar Gary Perfect and everybody's got Ali marpet fever after the Super Bowl. So let's just say let's do it. Let's let's do Quinn minors to the Seahawks here. Uh and uh and and and yeah we can we can enjoy all the D two tape that gets thrown up on NFL Network or whatever channel you end up watching. Uh. That brings us to the Rams at fifty seven. When I think Rams, they lost some pieces in the defensive backfield. The thing that I've just found incredibly strange with the Rams of the the last couple of years is, and you've heard me they mentioned this a couple of times. He really wants stability at center. He wants uh, he wants that guy who can you know, sort of be that steadying force in the middle of that line. John Sullivan retired and they had drafted Brian Allen on Day three a couple years ago, and Brian Allen was gonna be the guy to step in and and replace, uh, replace Sullivan, and it just didn't work out. And then he was uh he was banged up last year and ended up not doing anything in They had Austin Blythe moved to center, and Blythe had a pretty good season. Now Blythe gets away and signs with the Chiefs, so you have this whole at center again. And obviously this is a spot in the draft since the Rams will never again have a first round pick, this is the kind of spot in the draft where you can maybe find a center uh, you know, like Josh Meyer's the the Ohio State guy is uh is someone who sort of jumps out here. Drew Dalman from from Stanford might be around in this uh, in this approximate area here, I don't think. I don't think a Landed Dickerson or a Creed Humphrey is still on the board at this point. Yeah, I think interior offensive line makes a lot of sense. I mean, heck, it seems like there's a run on this position because we just have the Seahawks King Quinn Miners, and maybe there's some post draft story about how they scooped up the Brams guy before the Rams could get him. That even better, the most talked about pick of the draft, Queen Miners to the Seahawks at fifty six, changed everything we thought we knew about the twenty undraft. Uh, let's I want to do Josh Myers. I've rudely started typing it before I confirmed it with you guys. I want to do Josh Meyers here to the to the Rams as sort of the guy who would be around at this spot, who they can maybe maybe that's the answer, Maybe that's the answer for the next five years at that spot, like Sean McVeigh has been looking for. You've got my sign off. You're the Sean McVeigh in this scenario, and I'm the least need I'm floating around in the Jiff Peanut butterpool um and I'm enjoying the pick. But if I had to raise one objection, I would say that if Jabril Cox from LSU was there, you are still in desperate need of off ball coverage, off ball linebackers with coverage ability, and he's tremendous at that and he could be around there. But I'm not gonna bring that up to you during the draft. I'm going to anonymously complain about it to the media when I'm looking for my own GM job. And Cox ends up being kind of a Darius Leonard breakout star kind of guy. So I will do that on my own time. I will float in the pool and enjoy myself in the meantime. So, Jeff Peanut butter pool, Now that would have been good. Yeah, that pool is getting more delicious with the with each pick. Here we have the Chiefs at fifty eight. They just they just found the answer at left tackle. I guess I shouldn't say. I guess Orlando Brown's a good left tackle. So that was very rude to me to put that kind of inflection on I guess there, So I take that back, but right tackle is still a question to me. I Mike Grammer's I guess is going to be the guy going to the year. I don't know how great they feel about that other than that. I mean, it's like we're talking offense with this team. Sammy Watkins got away. You have that X receiver type to to put out there. It's nice to have, but it just seems like anything to do offensively is a luxury. But by the same token, I don't know if you look at this defense and say, like, boy, here's a uh, here's a desperate need here. I mean, they needed to get more athletic in the linebacker spot. They they might have a William Gay was a guy they took Day two last year. He was sort of a um, you know, a guy who was not on everyone's draft board for various reasons, but they sort of took the chance on him on day two, and I would assume they're still going to try and develop him as sort of the uh, you know, the guy who's going to fill that need for an athletic linebacker. And you know, when you're looking at the rest of the Roger. Uh, you know, Sneed had a really nice season kind of out of nowhere. I think to various ward Is is another solid quality corner there. I don't know if there's a desperate need on defense here. I thought, I agree, like going through their d defense for the Team Needs series that we did last week, Uh, there's a lot to like, and there's a lot of developing guys on like mid round contracts, Like this defense is kind of healthy. Um, you know, I don't know if you're going to find the edge presence that you're probably hoping for at some point in this in this place in the draft, and I think if you read, the focus is to continue to outscore everybody like you have been. And maybe there's a dynamic weapon here at some point to kind of replace Sammy Watkins and and keep them in overdrive, because at this point, why would you you know, I don't think anything else really helps you as much, and and and you're trying to just get yourself better at what you're already the best at. Yeah, I agree, somebody that could could play on the outside receiver position. You know, I do still think an offensive linement is on the table. My first reaction when they made the Brown trade was like, Okay, they're done. But as you laid out, Gary, I mean, they still do have a need there, and you know, I could see them taking another guy there, but I do think that that receiver would would help him the most right now, all right, if we are looking at the receiver at this point, I think you want a big bodied guy. I mean they have a Mikole Hardman is kind of like the I guess Tyreek Hill duplicate is how you kind of classify him. So I don't know if they you know, if ron Dale Moore, uh Tinami Brown were excuse me, Dammy Brown were sitting there at this point, I don't know if that's the kind of guy you go with. Uh. Boy, they really wish they had kept that thirty first pick and could have taken terrorist Marshall Jr. That would have just, uh made everyone go wild here. Um, I'm just looking through the receivers at timar Ryan Terry out of Florida states a guy I like, he's sort of a a little bit raw, but he certainly can get down field. I think he I think he fits here just as a guy who, like you don't need him to catch ninety passes last year. You just need him to sort of provide that threat, uh that he's maybe going to have one or two forty plus yard catches. Uh, I should shouldn't say every week, but maybe every month. And that just sort of has that enough of a threat to keep a little bit of the heat off of of Tyreek Hill and and Travis Kelsey at this point. Yeah, that sounds like a good pick. And as we were discussing earlier, because this is a deep receiver class and because a lot of teams think they can get a receiver in the second round, I do think some guys are going to be pushed down because teams will prioritize other positions that might be of equal need in the first round. And so there should be a lot of guys available. I think that can be difference makers in the second round. And also part of you know, pay it into their decision, I'm sure. I mean, of course, if you have a chance to get Orlando Brown and can make a deal there, that's of course you're going to make that move. But also then you know, you know, we can get a good guy in the second round. I don't have to get Terris Marshall, Gary, and they're just gonna be weeping in that draft room day two when they realize what's gotten away from them. All Right, I want to I want a pencil and Tamara and Terry. I I think he might be a little bit of a reach in round two, but I I believe in him, and I can say that and know that if it doesn't work out, I am protected enough to not look completely foolish. And if it does work out, I'll play back this clip for years, just uh, just flying it in the face of one too, to at Well or Cornell Powell or Marie Rogers or Daz Newsome, where you're all special players, even if Gary doesn't think so. That brings us two Round three, and the the final team that is coming on the board here is the Houston Texans at sixty seven. And I was playing around of metaphors in my head, and I want to make clear in this metaphor, uh, Nick Kissario's family and his pets and all of his important cherish possessions have gotten out of the house. But it's kind of like he's just looking at this towering inferno, uh that his home has become and he's just staying there with a glass of water and being like, Huh, how do I figure this out? How are we going to solve this problem here? I they need everything. I'm running back, no wide receiver. You're probably satisfied enough with what you have there and you have left tackle. I think they kind of need a completely revamped defense. Zack Cunningham. I guess, as a guy, you would say is something of a corner stone there. It's the fact that they had Romeo Cornell there last year. Who you know, again, these patriot style guys you want to be able to, uh to man off actually pass rush that you don't have to spend big money on these edge rushers. But you know they have that system. They also have J. J. Watt, who is still you know, not classic JD. Wapp, It's still a really good, really good passwords and they still had just no pass rush last year. Uh. And I don't know what the answer is at this point. They just need they need everything. Yeah, it's a lot easier to name the things that the Texans don't need than the things that they do need, which you pointed out. So it is impossible to guess what their pick would be. Not just because it's impossible to pick a mid round, Uh, not impossible, difficult to pick a third round pick accurately, but there's just so many directions they could go because they have so many holes to fill. Yeah, in a way, if you're Casserio, it's a little bit liberating and that you could probably close your eyes and spin around a bunch of times and then remove your blindfold and just hurl a dart at the board and like anything is going to be fine, right, Like it's it's a person that can't leave. Uh, And if you're in Houston, that's probably very hard to come by at this point, so you know, you just you get to keep them. You know, I was looking at the I was looking at the edge. Guys. This is probably a range for like Ronnie Perkins from Oklahoma, who again it's probably guy who he's a little more of like a four inside technique guy on passing downs and and maybe that kind of fits what they're going to do defensively. I'm not even sure exactly what there you're gonna do defensively with Lovey Smith as a new defensive coordinator there at this point, Yeah, is this gonna be a classic cover two type of thing I cover two is kind of back in vogue, but not the not the Tampa two they played all those years in Chicago. But but is that a thing where you know, you look at someone like Jabril Cox who can cover, like are you gonna are you trying to get like a linebacker who can drop who can drop back and screw things up? Like you know you're not going to find a Brian or Lacker anywhere and I'm not comping those, so please, don't you know, say that I'm doing that. But like you know it, you know, it seems like every indication is that. Levey Smith has said multiple times like I'm just mad that I couldn't run my defense in college and I'm gonna start running my defense again in the pros and you know too much to the horrified look at all of our faces. That's like, probably shouldn't run Tampa two again. But um, if they do, I mean you're gonna need You're gonna need coverage, linebackers, You're gonna need I mean, you're gonna need everything. But you know, it's uh, you know, I sound as dejected as I had to be. You know, it's like when you're making a shopping list for your daughter's party at Costco and you're just like, we're just not prepared for any of this, Like we're just we're gonna have to start from the beginning, you know, I'm looking at this. I mean, if it's so, let's let's say theoretically they're going with some variation of the old Tampa two. Uh. I mean, Zack Cunningham is a guy. You you've signed him, He's he's there. Uh. He he kind of fits what you want to do here. You you brought in a Kimu Grugier Hill, who I don't know, like good special team er. I guess you're gonna play him a linebacker here. And I don't know if you're doing that Whitney Merciless. I like Whitney Merciless a lot. He's not quite what he was in the heyday of of what and uh uh and clowney and merciless sort of in that that diamond front they used to run. Uh. They just don't really have anyone else on the edge. Shack Lawson is not an edge guy. I mean he plays the edge, but he's not like a dynamic. Uh. It's just none of this personnel fits what theoretically they're going to do. I do like Charles olmnahu by the way, but not that much. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, maybe just passed with this pick. Maybe just we'll figure it out. If you're the if you're the Texans, you've got to complete the sweep and wait long enough so that the team behind you gets to run a pick ahead, you know, and then just look completely uncapable, um, which you know is just kind of par for the course at this point. So I guess edge makes sense. I mean, in theory, any team can use an edge rusher. Or if you're Cassario, do try to get your Tom Brady, do you get Ian book here? You know, really try to freak everybody out, or you know, uh felipe a Frank's or something like that. You know, lots of lots of I mean, this is a really intriguing pick. I have to say, I think we should we should go with some of the people that Gary said that sounded sensible, and I'll stop trying to make this about me. So Connor, what about a running back? If you're gonna use that wishbone offense, I mean, you need a third running back. Uh, Ronnie Ronnie Again, I don't even think Ronnie Perkins. I'm looking at the edge guys who are in this range. None really fit what you would do with the tambatoo. Anyway, Rashad Weaver, maybe that's who I gave him my mock draft. I was gonna say, Weaver kind of works there a little bit. Uh. Patrick Jones too, you know, is another one of similar size. Um, you know, maybe one of those guys you know, your your favorite pit guy is who they will end up taking here, which uh Weaver seems to seems to be slightly preferred by by most people. They're they're fairly similar players though. Um let's see Rashad Weaver. I will duplicate my own mock draft, and when it's right, I will get double the celebration. We'll make sure to credit you. Gary. Hey, you and I. The last time we combote on a day two and three mock draft, we hit on a couple we did that was super Chase Vinovich when off bitch Yep, we got that one. I remember that one that felt good. Uh, you know, it always feels good. It feels like it feels like a pack break or something. We're like, you know, it's like a common common crap crap and like, oh look at this one. We got it. So yeah, we're doing that again this year. By the way, I don't know if anyone told you that, but we're doing the day to mock that will I don't know, Well, let's try to get three. I think three and a half. No, yeah, three and a half is an over under. We should shoot four. Let's get the over Let's get the over all. Right, guys, this does it for me for for draft centric podcasts, or at least pre draft centric podcast But you guys have another one coming up on the week Side podcast coming out Tuesday, So I don't know, get to work. I guess that's how we finish this up. Yeah that sounds good. Gary Connors a minute ago. More to come. Uh yeah, no, well, Jenny and Night we treated you guys with my mock draft the week before Jenny's mock draft last week. Um maybe uh, you know, who knows. Maybe it'll just be like I'm gonna go to the grocery store and find somebody to give us another mock draft to do. Uh and and we'll just do that. You know, it would be great, great Connor mock Draft. The mm QB Monday Morning NFL podcast is Jenny Brentis connor Or and me Gary Gramling. We are produced by Shelby Royson s Eys. Executive producer of podcast is Scott Brody. Mark Ravick is Emeritus editor of the MMQB and Evennoit is the founder of the MMQB NFL podcast. Be sure to subscribe to this feed, as well as the feeds for The week Side Podcast and the Albert Rear Show. They're all for free on Apple Podcasts, and once you do subscribe, leave a rating and review for all of them. It really does help other people find the shows, which are also available on Spotify Radio dot com, Stitcher, si dot com, and wherever else you listen to podcasts into