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1:03

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1:05

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1:08

next week's festivities. Finally,

1:11

we're a week away.

1:13

Thank God! I think we all

1:15

can say the same thing. A couple of

1:17

programming notes. One, Bram Weinstein, the voice of

1:20

the commanders and I will do a live stream show at 7.30

1:22

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1:25

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1:27

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1:29

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1:31

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1:34

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1:36

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1:40

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1:51

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1:53

for sure. So that's one thing and

1:56

then also for ESPN,

1:58

our NFL Nation market. draft I believe

2:00

it is next Tuesday so I'm

2:05

going to pick oh man the

2:09

intrigue actually there is some intrigue there

2:12

so anyway I will say let's get

2:14

to some of the stuff I'm going

2:16

to talk today about kind of going

2:18

inside those top 30 visits and what

2:20

they mean just based on the guys

2:22

are bringing in maybe where their slot

2:24

or where were at the anticipated where

2:26

they're anticipated to go in the draft

2:29

and what it means for maybe what

2:31

the commanders are looking for and how

2:33

they're trying to build this roster so

2:36

before I get there want to talk just

2:38

a couple minute one or two minutes about

2:40

quarterbacks and one thing on the Bill Belichick

2:42

story that ran on espn.com today anyway

2:45

as far as the quarterback situation goes they

2:47

finished with top 30 visits and

2:49

they're still not finalized on who they're going to draft

2:51

a quarterback and they don't need again they don't need

2:54

to be nobody knows for

2:56

sure and nobody has known I've talked to people

2:58

who are close to Adam Peters who's who will

3:00

tell you he's not even telling them and then

3:02

Daniel Jeremiah had a media conference call with the

3:05

media earlier today and he said the same thing

3:07

he's close to Adam Peters as well and he

3:09

said the same thing that someone else close

3:11

to him told me which is he's not going

3:13

to tell you and nor should he it

3:16

doesn't make sense and I think people respect that

3:18

too and I think they respect that when they're

3:20

talking to him and so

3:23

there you go and I know

3:25

Adam Schefter said on

3:27

my guy Jamal's trap and dive podcast about

3:29

you know the jersey and all that Adam

3:32

doesn't know either and he knows that and

3:34

you know now I will say he's been

3:36

consistent in saying signals and signs and I

3:38

felt the same way that a lot of

3:41

signs and signals point to Jaden Daniels but

3:43

it doesn't mean it's going to be Jaden

3:45

Daniels. You know when I talk to

3:47

people and by the way I'm going to go back to Jamal

3:49

for one second here and I'm he's

3:52

a really good guy who works who does good

3:55

stuff and you know he's a guy that

3:57

I've known for a while when he was first trying to get in

3:59

this. talked to him a few times and

4:02

it's been nice to watch him rise and find

4:04

his niche in this business and you

4:06

know he's but he's done it a difficult way

4:08

but he's wedged his way in there so good

4:10

for Jamal and they've gotten some

4:12

run on that whole Adam Schefter thing but

4:14

again Adam still doesn't know so all the

4:17

the Jersey stuff he still doesn't know and

4:19

he knows that and because I've tended to

4:21

Adam too so because you know you you

4:23

everybody's trying to forget but again signals and

4:26

signs there you go because everybody when I

4:28

talked to him late they're going to say

4:30

I think it's Jayden Daniels so

4:32

that's the one that makes sense and this

4:34

is I talked to

4:36

somebody today who know who's you

4:38

know is in the league

4:40

been in the league and and no and knows this stuff

4:43

very well and scouts this stuff and he was telling

4:45

me that he thought that there was a the

4:47

gap he felt like the gap between

4:49

Caleb and Jaden was more narrow than

4:52

the gap between Jaden and then Drake

4:54

and or JJ McCarthy so

4:56

just FYI and that's you know I've heard that

4:58

consistently doesn't mean that that's going to be a

5:00

guy because again Drake may has his fans JJ

5:03

has his fans and we'll

5:05

find out soon enough but

5:07

my you know so we'll get into that

5:09

more as we get a little bit

5:11

closer about you know just some of the process and

5:13

all that so but I want to talk about

5:15

that for a minute and then the

5:17

other the other thing is I told

5:19

you about that Bill Belichick story that

5:22

came out on espn.com on Wednesday Don

5:25

Gannadis, that's Wickersham and Jeremy Fowler are

5:27

contributed to that there was a portion

5:29

on the commanders and Bell Belichick and

5:31

at the time in December when it

5:33

was first when there were the first

5:35

rumors that were put out there which

5:37

were wildly wrong and then

5:39

in January they were wrong again

5:41

because it just he was never a guy

5:43

that this team was going to was

5:46

going to interview for that job and I

5:48

know what the story said was that Magic

5:51

Johnson initially lobbied for him Josh Harris said

5:53

no and that really was it because it

5:55

wasn't like Magic was pushing hard for him

5:57

because my understanding at the time was that

6:00

this group was on board together and I

6:02

was talking to people today that after

6:05

that initial lobbying that magic was on board with

6:07

the process and where they're going. But if you're

6:09

Magic Johnson, you're here because you won all these

6:11

titles. Well, who's the guy that's won all the

6:13

titles in the NFL? Well, it's Bill Belichick. So

6:16

naturally, it's not surprising that he would have an

6:18

interest in wanting to talk to him, but

6:21

a lot of other people know a lot about

6:23

him and how it operates and it just wasn't

6:25

going to be conducive to how Josh Harris wanted

6:27

to set things up in Washington. And I do

6:29

know, because I heard this from people here as

6:32

well, that Belichick was telling people he didn't have

6:34

to have the GM title. I'm

6:36

not sure anybody really believed him on that or that he

6:38

may not have the title, but what kind

6:40

of power are you going to wield? And

6:42

so that's the thing. Josh Harris

6:44

is very clear all along how he wanted to

6:46

set up and it wasn't going to include a

6:49

guy who is in the coach-centric model

6:51

for so long as he was in

6:53

New England. Anyway, so just there you

6:55

go. Now, let's get into the top

6:57

30 stuff because that to me is like we're getting

6:59

close to draft. So obviously, all

7:01

four quarterbacks were in town at the same time.

7:04

A unique approach. Is

7:06

it a good one or a bad one? I don't know. We'll

7:09

find out. And I say that because

7:13

when we have a chance to talk to

7:15

them, and we're going to talk to Adam

7:17

Peters and Dan Quinn on Thursday, it's a

7:20

pre-draft news or pre-draft press conference. And

7:23

I'm sure that topic will come up. What

7:25

are you looking for out of that? And

7:27

we'll find out more about maybe what they

7:29

saw during that top golf trip with all

7:31

the group and when they were all here

7:33

together, what they saw from them during this

7:35

time that maybe stood out. And as someone

7:37

else pointed out too, that it

7:42

also – I can't remember which – some other

7:44

reporter, I don't know who it was, so I

7:46

apologize. I'm blanking out that it

7:48

also was a good chance for

7:50

Josh Harris to come in and meet with all

7:52

these guys at one time because he was sitting

7:54

in on those meetings too. I don't

7:56

think it was just for the quarterbacks, but

7:59

I think this – allowed him to kind of, when's

8:01

he going to be here, and when are they going to be here?

8:03

And it just made a lot more sense maybe to do it this

8:05

way. I don't think it's

8:08

something that was some issue at all.

8:10

Because if you're at this point in there,

8:12

you're just looking to kind of put

8:14

some punctuation on this whole process. So

8:18

you're so far along that even if you

8:21

haven't finalized on a

8:24

guy, you certainly know who you're

8:26

looking at pretty hard because you

8:29

have to. You're only human. And I

8:31

think it was interesting that Michael Pinnix

8:33

was here as well. Makes

8:36

sense because if you, what

8:38

if Minnesota comes to you

8:40

and says, we'll give you Justin Jefferson and three

8:42

first round picks to move up

8:44

to the number two spot? Well, what do

8:46

you say? I mean, and then, so let's

8:49

say there's some outlandish offer that causes you

8:51

to trade back. Well, then you want to

8:53

know, well, what would you be getting in

8:55

that quarterback? And that guy, whether it's JJ,

8:57

if he was still there, I don't know

8:59

that he would be, or Pinnix,

9:01

who would probably would be there in 11. So

9:04

it just helps you know and have

9:06

all the information possible. I'm

9:09

not looking for them to trade back. I don't

9:11

get the sense that others in the league think

9:13

they'll trade back either. So I

9:15

think they'll stick at two and draft. And

9:18

I know that some people want him to trade back because

9:22

you want all the picks. And

9:24

the more picks you have, the better. But

9:27

you run the risk of not getting and

9:30

there's no way you're going to like all four

9:32

guys equal. Then you have to look and say,

9:34

OK, how good can this guy be? How good

9:36

can this guy be? And what's going to matter

9:38

more? Getting a couple extra

9:40

picks in the future or

9:43

having this guy now plus whatever

9:45

you have this year. So anyway,

9:47

the expectation is that they'll stay at two. But you

9:49

have to be prepared for any scenario. That's why I

9:52

got like Pinnix is here. Anyway, let's take a look

9:54

at some of the positions and go over some of

9:56

the things. I thought it was interesting that among

9:58

the offensive linemen. There were, I have

10:01

four tackles that I know for sure

10:03

that were visits and you can look

10:06

at Karen Amagaghi from Yale, Roger

10:09

Rosengarten, and then Caden Wallace.

10:13

All three of those guys would be

10:15

projected mostly as right tackles. And

10:17

so I had, that would be my expectation

10:19

of going to the mess with a play in college. Amagaghi

10:23

was, he's the guy from Yale. He'd

10:25

have a big jump in competition

10:28

of course. Which

10:30

is why I think it's interesting because I've seen, I get

10:33

this, somebody inside

10:36

the league who puts together their draft

10:38

board based on their talks with

10:41

other teams throughout this process.

10:43

And he had Amagaghi as a sixth

10:45

round guy based on his

10:47

talking to these teams. I've seen some

10:49

analysts project him as maybe a third round guy. So

10:51

it's kind of, but it shows you the talent that

10:54

he may have in some eyes. But again,

10:56

right tackle. And Jordan Morgan was left tackle.

10:59

But what it tells me is, when you

11:01

look at like Rosengarten projected top of the

11:03

fourth, Caden Wallace, fourth round guy.

11:06

So what it tells me is they want

11:08

to get possibly two tackles out of this

11:10

draft. And I think that would be very, very smart. You're

11:13

gonna get a guy in the, Jordan

11:15

Morgan was the guy that would be the left

11:17

tackle. He's the guy that's

11:19

projected late first, early second. Now there's

11:21

some interesting guys that are also in

11:23

there in that late

11:25

first range. A guy like maybe Tyler

11:28

Guyton from Oklahoma. Is another guy that might be

11:31

there late. Would a Marius Mims be there late

11:33

where they could trade up? I

11:35

don't know. And I don't know if they're gonna want to trade

11:37

up or how high, how much you willing

11:39

to give up? Because they have a lot of capital in

11:41

this draft. And we're gonna get into that a little bit

11:43

more down the road when Bram and

11:45

I will talk about that. I'm sure on Thursday night,

11:47

and I'll talk about it again a little bit next

11:50

week. But I do find it interesting because they need

11:52

the left tackle. But I like that they're

11:54

looking at the right tackle too, because you gotta see

11:56

better play out of Andrew Wylie. And

11:58

we all know that. And it'd be nice. But

12:01

I think what Wiley gives you is,

12:04

or maybe somebody you find after the draft, much like they

12:06

did with Charles Rundle a couple years ago, is you

12:09

get that guy who can play the position for

12:11

a year, or

12:13

as this other guy develops, and whenever that guy

12:15

is ready to go in, whether it's this year

12:17

or next year, but you have

12:19

a chance to then have two young bookend tackles.

12:22

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13:51

also brought a guard in, Isaiah Adams. Sounds

13:54

like he's a late second, early third round guy. You know,

13:56

you can't have enough. Again, you can't

13:58

have enough. offensive linemen. I

14:00

think what they have focused on depth, it's

14:02

funny because I see things where people have

14:04

said they haven't done anything with offensive linemen.

14:06

Well, they have. They've signed a few guys.

14:08

So, but I like

14:11

that they'd be bringing in more competition

14:13

in that interior. So, I think you

14:15

have a chance to start building some

14:18

depth at an area that you haven't had and

14:20

get some young depth that you can develop into

14:23

some starters because you've got guys like Alec Reddy that

14:25

maybe you bring in a guy this year that

14:27

develops into a starter next year. So, and

14:29

you're going to have to pay Cosme in

14:32

a year. So, you know, maybe you get

14:34

a guy in here that maybe, you know,

14:36

depending on what you think of him, do

14:38

you bring in someone else who could play

14:40

guard as well? Or do you just

14:42

have another guy that's like, hey, this guy's a good

14:44

guy in a couple of years, he's going to be

14:46

a stagger. So, whatever at left side. So, you know,

14:48

you've got, he gives you options, but that's what he's

14:51

one of the guys coming here. Tied end is another

14:53

interesting one because, you know, Zachary, sign

14:55

him in the off season, it

14:57

certainly sounds like they'd like

15:00

to add another tight end. And

15:02

I think you can deduce that from who they're

15:04

looking at in this draft and then where these

15:06

guys, some of these guys might go, or at

15:08

least on the top 30 because just because,

15:10

listen, just because they don't visit doesn't mean

15:13

they wouldn't take them by any means. But

15:16

I think it shows the level of interest

15:18

they have in some of these guys for

15:20

sure. But I think

15:22

the other, the thing that's interesting is, and I had,

15:25

was it Matt Bowen on, was talking about

15:27

this in the amount of times that Kingsbury's

15:29

offense would be in 12 personnel. So, two

15:31

tight ends. Well, you need to have another

15:33

guy who's a threat. Zach Earth clearly is

15:35

a threat. John Bates is a blocker. You

15:37

cannot, you can't count Cole Turner as a

15:39

guy that can be that threat. And Armani

15:41

Rodgers is coming off an injury. These guys

15:43

haven't seen him and he caught

15:46

just a handful of passes rookie. I was

15:48

looking forward to his development last year. They

15:50

got hurt. So you cannot rely on him.

15:52

So you've got to go out and

15:54

get another guy. So the guys they're looking at

15:56

on these visits, Jatavian Sanders would be a mid

15:58

second round guy. Jared

16:01

Wiley, late second, maybe

16:03

a little bit higher, possibly

16:06

dropping a third. I think there's a range there,

16:08

I think, anywhere from that 47 range is probably

16:12

where he could go, maybe mid

16:14

40s to 67 range is where

16:16

he could go. But he's a guy

16:19

that I think would be very, very intriguing for

16:21

them to get. And again, I know

16:24

that they want to

16:26

get it tight end. So that's just, that's

16:28

the word on the street, folks. And so,

16:30

and again, I think it makes sense because

16:32

if you want to have the unique, it

16:34

also would be very good for a rookie

16:36

quarterback to have another tight end here just

16:38

to work that, work that middle to field

16:40

a little better, provide some a little bit

16:42

easier, I'd say easier, but some bigger targets

16:44

and also just a diversity of areas

16:47

you can throw the ball to, right? So

16:49

anyway, and so and then Eric All is

16:51

the other one. He's a guy from Iowa

16:53

towards ACL, so he's coming off an injury

16:55

and maybe you find

16:58

some value in him later in

17:00

the draft. And then he'd be like, his health

17:02

is the big issue, maybe a

17:04

sixth or seventh round guy. But

17:06

that's, that's, so that that's a guy that,

17:08

again, I'm really trying

17:12

to do something, I'm trying to

17:14

find one of those other tight ends earlier

17:17

in the draft. And that's why it's, when

17:19

you talk about trading back up into the first round for

17:21

a tackle, I think you have to, you know, it's

17:24

really curious to see what they do with that because how

17:26

much capital would you have to give up to move up?

17:29

Where would you have to get up to? And then,

17:31

you know, what would it require? And then

17:33

what does that not allow you

17:36

to do? You might get the tackle, but what

17:38

else do you want to get with

17:40

this? And what else can you get? It's funny because when

17:42

you talk to some people about like the gap between, you

17:45

know, certain players and positions, it's not

17:47

as vast as what sometimes

17:49

we think it is. If a guy

17:51

is like, oh, he's fifth on the board, but

17:53

he's ninth, well, there may not be a huge

17:55

gap between five and nine. So

17:57

that's what you have to weigh, especially a tackle, but.

18:00

You need to find a left tackle. And

18:02

if Jordan Morgan's a guy, you're going to,

18:04

you know, or somebody, whomever, you're going to

18:06

have to get that guy. And

18:08

there are other guys in this draft that would

18:10

be interesting. But if that's a guy you like

18:13

and you feel like he could come in and

18:15

start, then you're going to have to do something

18:17

possibly to get up there and get him. Then

18:19

it's how much and what do you know. But

18:21

here's the other thing too. You could always trade

18:23

back, you know, use some of those other capital

18:25

in this top 100 picks to maybe acquire another

18:27

pick to get one of these guys too. So

18:29

anyway, I'm starting to speak all over the place.

18:31

So let's look at defensive ends. And this is

18:33

another one where I think it's interesting. Why

18:36

would they look at edge rushes? Because

18:38

they sign guys. Well, because you always need

18:40

them. And because you always want

18:42

to have them. And also Dante

18:45

Fowler is on a one-year deal. And

18:47

so like there's Doran Armstrong is

18:50

a couple of years. And

18:52

Cleveland Farrell is a one-year deal. So

18:54

you don't really have guys beyond that. And you

18:57

would like, you would, I think it'd be very

18:59

smart to bring in some young guys who

19:02

have some bigger upside

19:04

than what they have there now.

19:06

KJ Henry and Andre Jones. So

19:08

that's not what, you're not looking

19:10

at future top end guys, most

19:12

likely. Jones has some talent, but he's still

19:14

very raw. So you look at a guy

19:16

like they brought in Chop Robinson. Bottom

19:19

of the second early, bottom of the first, early

19:21

second round type of guy. And he's a very

19:24

good athlete. In fact, I can't remember if I

19:26

mentioned this earlier, but I caught

19:28

up with John Jansen, former

19:31

Red Skinned John Jansen, about

19:33

what I just wanted to catch up with him. I

19:36

love talking to him. We talked to

19:38

him about Jill Gibbs. We talked a lot

19:40

about offensive line play. And yeah, we talked

19:42

about JJ McCarthy because Jansen is in as

19:44

a Michigan analyst. So we

19:46

want to talk to him just in case, but

19:48

there's only a few minutes on JJ a lot

19:51

and everything else. We also talked about Chop Robinson

19:53

because he had a great game against Michigan this

19:55

year and good athlete. And he's, you know, I

19:57

think that's just, it's telling to me that they're.

20:00

looking at some of those guys that you

20:02

also had in Marshawn Neeland for a visit

20:04

last week. He's a

20:06

very intriguing guy, second round possibility.

20:09

Javante Jean-Baptiste, he came in for

20:11

a top 30, more of a

20:13

priority free agent or late round

20:16

selection. Austin Booker, more of

20:18

a third round type guy. Now, one of

20:20

the questions on Booker was, does

20:23

he weigh enough? He was only, I think, played

20:25

at 240 in college. He's long,

20:27

though a good athlete, has some

20:29

length. My understanding is he's put on 15 pounds

20:33

since the season ended. So he's now at around

20:35

255, so he certainly is training there. But all

20:37

those guys, if you look at what I talked

20:39

to him, all those guys are third round in

20:42

higher types. So if

20:44

they're looking for a defensive end, you

20:46

would expect them to probably get a guy

20:48

in those areas. And I think

20:50

it's interesting that they did sign three, but they still

20:53

want to get one, which I think is smart. Get

20:55

another guy in here who can add to that mix. And

20:59

I think we've seen in the past, you can never

21:01

have enough. But it also gives you a guy, the

21:04

beauty of what they did this year is you

21:06

don't have to just target a couple positions. You

21:08

can go get a guy that you like a

21:10

lot and develop. And if you're gonna get guys

21:12

that you like to develop, get guys

21:15

who play premium positions. That's

21:17

defensive end, that's tackle, that's

21:20

quarterback, that's cornerback. So

21:22

let's get to cornerback. Of

21:25

the guys that came in for some of

21:27

these top 30s, none of them

21:29

were in that first round range that I know

21:31

of. So if there's, but

21:34

with the top 30s, Rod Gaddison is

21:36

a corner, has some good length, I

21:39

think he's like six foot, buck 95.

21:43

He's a guy that they've talked to, I think it's three

21:45

or four times. So but

21:47

he'd be more of a priority type, priority

21:50

free agent or a low round pick. Elijah

21:53

Jones, 6'2", 185, more of a fifth

21:55

round type guy. and

22:00

then you have Cam Hart 6 3 2 0

22:03

2 fourth round guy. It's the fourth time I think they've

22:05

met with him. So that tells you

22:07

that you again shows you the range of where

22:10

they're looking at guys that we

22:12

know of right that of the visit of the

22:14

visits. So again sometimes with these visits like you

22:16

may you may meet with a guy at the

22:18

pro day you might meet with him at the

22:20

combine and have enough information on them and just

22:23

say like okay we're good so you don't you

22:25

may not bring him in for a visit but

22:27

it might be a guy you're highly interested in

22:29

because you don't maybe you feel like we

22:32

got this guy down. So just don't

22:34

we I'm reading a lot into it

22:36

so but I don't want you to think this is the

22:38

only thing that to go by because

22:40

it's not and I think you're smart enough to

22:42

know that but I'm just I'm intrigued by who

22:44

they did bring in and what it means and

22:46

these guys are first of all they're all bare

22:48

corners so you're playing that pressman you want some

22:51

guys with some length some size and

22:53

it's why I wonder about like a

22:55

guy like Forbes Emmanuel Forbes

22:57

and how he fits in or how he's going

22:59

to fit in with this defense it's not as

23:02

matter of just like oh coach him up well

23:04

can he play this style for for Dan

23:06

Quinn and Joe Witt so that'll be the

23:08

question but if I'm them I'm looking at

23:10

more corners and getting as many as you

23:12

can and maybe if you're getting those middle

23:15

rounds you know if you have

23:17

a high-end guy you're looking at but I still you

23:19

know I always look to bring in more so because

23:21

again it's like pitching in baseball you

23:23

can never have enough corners but

23:25

that's where the looking at and then

23:27

also at linebacker they did bring in

23:30

Trevyn Wallace who's I

23:32

would say a late third he's

23:34

got really he has really good

23:37

traits considered explosive so you know

23:39

again you have Wagner who's on

23:41

a one-year deal Louvou signed for

23:43

multiple you know three years and then you have

23:45

Jamie Davis who you have to decide on do

23:47

you pick up his fifth year option honestly

23:50

I don't know why you would because you haven't seen

23:53

him you haven't been around him enough to know you

23:55

you know you just got here it's kind of like

23:57

when Ron Rivera came he wasn't going to

23:59

give extensions to anybody now, you know,

24:01

the Trent Williams situation aside, like you can understand

24:03

why like well you want to get to know

24:06

a guy, especially a guy in Trent's different, but

24:08

that even that was the health thing, but even with Damon

24:11

like you need to see more. So

24:13

I don't know that they

24:15

haven't said they're not picking up this fifth

24:17

year option, but I don't know

24:19

why you would. So if that's the case,

24:21

maybe bring another guy in here that you

24:23

like that you scouted in college and that

24:26

could be the guy Tyreese Knight is another

24:28

one, the guy where he's projected is sixth

24:30

or seventh round or so. So those are

24:32

linebackers that we know of

24:34

that came into visit. And so

24:36

that tells you a little bit about what they might

24:38

look for there. So it looks like, you know, when

24:40

you're looking at this list, I mean, obviously

24:42

quarterback be the first pick, then you're

24:44

looking at tackle, looking at

24:47

edge rushers and tight ends, maybe

24:49

a corner in those first couple of rounds.

24:52

And then and then day three, the

24:54

higher day three, maybe another tackle. So

24:56

again, that's, these are just, this is

24:59

just a guest based off the visits.

25:02

But, you know, I think it all makes sense

25:04

when you're looking at how they want to build

25:06

out this roster because they did, they have a

25:08

good interior. I think they've improved the interior of

25:10

their defense with tackles

25:13

or they already had and pain

25:15

and Allen, the linebacker, and then bringing

25:17

in chin, I think helps solidify that

25:19

safety. And I think between here and

25:21

Quan Martin, and then who can also

25:23

double a slot, but also good safety,

25:25

I think. And then Derek Forest, I

25:27

think in Percy Butler, see how he

25:29

develops. So I think you're better there.

25:31

And you're going to, you took care

25:33

of center and you're going to take care of quarterback.

25:35

But I think, you know, again, tight ends, you want

25:37

to get more of it. I would, receiver is not

25:39

one that I talked about, but I would

25:41

look for another one. And I think they will as well.

25:44

That's where I say, I think, you know, it'd be curious

25:46

to see who they like from

25:48

their earlier visits. But anyway, I'm

25:50

rambling on now. So let's cut it off now.

25:53

And so I don't bore you to tears. Anyway,

25:55

I'll be back on Thursday night with Ram Weinstein,

25:57

the voice commander, 730 Eastern time. Join for

26:00

the livestream chat and again,

26:02

I mean at John Jansen on probably that's

26:04

gonna come out on Sunday and And

26:07

I think you'll enjoy that one very much. So

26:10

some fun Joe Gibson. I'll talk to

26:12

you next time