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Hello everyone, and welcome to another

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edition of the NFL Draft Triple

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Take, presented by up MC

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Mike Pursuda along with Dale Lawley and

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Matt Williamson. We're getting you ready for

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the upcoming NFL Draft, and we're gonna

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do things a little bit differently for

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this edition of the Triple Take. We've been

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throwing out some mocks of round

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one. I believe we're up to three of those

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so far. Yeah, if I haven't lost

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count. But today we're gonna do something

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a little bit different. Dale is

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at the controls of the Pro

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Football Focus mock simulator,

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and we're gonna try to recreate

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a draft room and we're gonna go through the first

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three rounds and put our heads together

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and come up with picks for the Steelers.

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Now, these are our picks.

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It's gonna be our consensus what we

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decide. It's not any

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more of.

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The war room.

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None of us are going to jump on the table. We

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might pound on them.

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Take my shoe off. There we go,

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Google of kids. You know what I'm talking about.

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Man, I'm sure you could agree having been in a draft

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room. This is very much oh the way it's

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gonna go down.

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Spot on yeah, exactly the process. I

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do think it's noteworthy.

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Folks.

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We got four picks, so we got twenty fifty, one,

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eighty four, and ninety eight. So after

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some trades and wheeling deal and they got you know, two

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third rounders, we might do a little bit more and who knows.

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Yeah, we'll open to trades and listening

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to offers and all that kod stuff.

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I'm eagerly anticipating how this

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plays out, so I want to get it started.

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Lead us off, all right, So I've already run the first

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nineteen picks. The three quarterbacks

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scale, William Shade and Daniels Drake may all

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go one, two, three, JJ

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McCarthy, your favorite player goes at

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six to the Giants. Uh so

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we do have four quarterbacks in those top

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six picks. That is

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good news for the Steelers. If you're sitting here playing

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along at home, you want those quarterbacks to

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go because the Steelers won't be in the quarterback markets

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no more quarterbacks though before our pick

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here for sure that I'm just saying.

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It's an interesting it has been

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that it has been that. So right before us

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at fifteen, Rock Bauers finally

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goes to the Colts.

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You have.

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Byron Murphy, the defensive lineman

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from Texas, goes at sixteen to

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the Seahawks. Quinyam Mitchell goes at seventeen,

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cornerback out of Toledo to Seattle.

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At eighteen, the Bengals take JC

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Latham. If I'm the Steelers

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and Latham starts to slide that that far, I

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might be on the phone with Seattle and saying, hey,

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can we do something here to go get this guy?

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Do we think he is the best

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right tackle? I do?

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I do. I mean, it depends what you're looking for.

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I mean, if you just want to run behind a guy on

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fourth and one and mash people that he

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is the guy. Yeah,

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I think he's I think he might be the best tackle, period.

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To be honest with you, I mean I think it's a debate.

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Yeah, I think that's certainly within reason.

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Then you look a lot of tackles.

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Yeah, you look at nineteen. Brian Thomas,

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the wide receiver out of LSU, goes

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to the Rams, putting the Steelers on the

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clock. Here some of those top players

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still available. Johnny Newton, defensive

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tackle from Illinois, doesn't really fit the

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Steelers defense. He's a little shorter, Cooper

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Dejene is still available there, Lady

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too. Latu is also available.

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Nate Wiggins, Amarius Mims, Cooley

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mckinstree, Jackson Powers, Johnson Graham

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Barton.

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Well, if you guys were with me for our mock

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three point zero and you were, you

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already know who's getting my vote here.

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Yeah, we do have three trade offers, Mike, So

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let's take a look at these and see whether we want

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to consider those or not. The Arizona

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Cardinals are on the phone with pick number twenty seven,

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that's where their next pick is at. Then you have Jacksonville

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pick forty eight, and the Rams

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at pick fifty two. I don't think we want to move out

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of the first round though.

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Guys, I don't think we're going to go that far back. Yeah, acquire

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future first and things like that. That doesn't make

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for the best video here.

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Let's take a look and see what the Cardinals might be offering

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us here, though.

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Can we come up with five to seven names

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that were comfortable with at twenty seven? I

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think I can.

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I think we can.

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Uh.

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So they have Arizona's Houston's

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number twenty seven pick. Obviously

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they want to come up and get twenty. If we want

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to do that, they're gonna have to kick in

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some stuff. They do have pick thirty five. They're probably

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not going to.

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Give us that.

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Uh, but if they they would give us sixty

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six.

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For sure.

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If we move back to those seven spots, you

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can get more than that. I think we can get more than that.

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There's a sixty seven percent perchance, a

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percent chance that if we made that move we could

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do that. Can

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we get maybe ninety out of them as well?

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Probably?

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No, it doesn't look like about to do.

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Thinkure third from a team that might not have a lot

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of wins next year. I like my future picks.

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He's a big future guy. Yeah, that's what he

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likes to do.

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I'm in the win now mentellity.

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I hear I say picked the center.

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You guys figure out he might still be there though he

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could still him. I got

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you, I got you. I like the roll the dice.

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If we go for the future round four pick,

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we can get twenty seven sixty six

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in Arizona's fourth round pick next

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year. For twenty there's

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a fifty percent chance that gets accepted.

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Off for trade.

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They accepted it.

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There we go.

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We're

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all right. So I mean, we got a lot of draft capital.

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I like having draft capital,

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additional draft capital next year because

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if you've paid attention to the

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mock drafts and stuff, next

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year's draft is supposedly much deeper because

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all those kids that stayed in college because

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of the the COVID rules are all going to

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flood into next year's drafts. And next year's draft could

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be ridiculously deep, but.

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It's not deeper a tackle or wide receivers probably

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not take that bet.

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All right, thosees

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fell, So the six guys that went

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ahead of our picture before in between our picks

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there, So Arizona came up to get.

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Lost late too.

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Okay, it doesn't hurt us.

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Tyler Geiiton went at twenty one, Nate

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Wiggans goes at twenty two, bow Knicks at

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twenty three to Minnesota, Amarius

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Mims goes at twenty four to the Cowboys,

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Graham Barton twenty five to

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the Packers, Chop Robinson

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at twenty six to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

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And there's a center from War there

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guys as as Cooper Degen.

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Though let's take the center for War.

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I understand that's with it. Yeah, I'm I with

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that, but we we've.

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Now had that extra pick floating around that could be

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a tackle or something fringe benefit there.

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Yeah, so do it official Jackson

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Powers Johnson is the pick at twenty seven. Now

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we're back up at fifty one, and it's

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this is why that you know you might want

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to do a move like that, because you know you start looking

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at some of those guys. Zach Frasier, the other

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top center in this traft, goes at thirty

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nine to Carolina. There's kind of like

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a no man's land there between the Steelers first

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pick and that second round pick. Another

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guy at Kingsley, Sue Mattia at forty one.

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Mike Sandastril at forty two. Who's

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a really good nickel corner that

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you might be interested in there if you're the Steelers. Jordan

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Morgan, another one of the offensive tackles, goes

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as well in that in that no man's

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land, that pick forty five, you're guy. Peyton

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Wilson goes to the Bengals at forty nine. I

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know he's your guy, Troy Franklin.

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There are guys every draft you

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got your sure, yeah, there's one or

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two that jump out at you. You just met that Bake

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Wilson's that guy for me.

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So we're back up here now at fifty one.

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I'm not thrilled to Troy Franklin went to pick ahead

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of us. No, all the draft capital we had, I

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would have loved to get to forty eight or forty nine and

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snagged him.

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So the guy's still available here, Braden

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Fisk, Michael Pennix.

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It's an interesting players roll. Javon

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Bullard, Ricky Piarsow, the wide receiver

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out of Florida.

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Tackles were basically gone at this point.

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Dice, Isaac, I think the

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guys that you would consider at this at this

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spot are probably gone. Yale offensive

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tackle, the DJ I

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did never get that one. Blake Fisher still there,

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Patrick Paul More third round.

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Just guys, it.

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Works out this way as pro football focuses,

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MOUK simulators suggest it will, I'm

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gonna go with the receiver from Florida.

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Well, let's take it. Look at the receivers are pretty heavy.

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You got Ricky Pierre, Saw, Jermaine Burton, Jalen

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Polk, Jalen McMillan, Donte

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Devontees Walkers On Baker.

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Right after we draft him. I'm gonna give him the

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phone number of the traveling secretary,

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and then I'm gonna say, Ricky, don't lose that

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number.

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Yeah, I mean Roman. Roman Wilson is

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another guy that would have been interesting there. Out

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of Michigan he went, He

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went at forty eight to Jacksonville. Pennix

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would be at this point interesting.

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But not. I don't know that's

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going to contribute to win.

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Now, true quickly, true, But neither

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one of your quarterbacks are under contract for

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twenty twenty five.

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I mean, frankly, I think he's gonna go earlier than this.

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I do too.

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I think that's kind of cheating.

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Yeah, And I also think you want to get

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Justin Fields and the new guys as many reps as

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you possibly can in camp, and you don't want

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to spread that, you know, labor around,

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So I think we pass on Pennix. Yeah.

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I think the receiver is

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probably the guy who's just throwing that.

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I like Burton from Alabama quite a bit too. Stuff.

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Oh yeah, yeah, I had back, can't down

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the scene. Yeah, yeah, let's not

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overthink it.

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No, Okay, Ricky Pearsall

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is the pick. Look back up again now at sixty six,

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because we made that trade earlier and

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Uh, Well, there's some interesting guys here available

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at this pick, including Ruke Aro

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Hero, the lineman you

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can say from Clemson.

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I think he would fit right into the Yeah.

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I think he's a fantastic fit to be.

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Jaden Hicks is still there, the safety out of Washington

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State. Christian Haynes's guard at of Connecticut. We don't

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really need a guard at this point. Junior Colson,

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the linebacker out of Michigan. Kyrie

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Jackson the another long corner

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six foot three cornerback out of Oregon. Spencer

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Rattler is there if we want to go quarterback again

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there Jalen Wright, uh

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the running back out of Tennessee. I.

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You know, I don't know if we overthink this guys. I

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think Aurora ro Is.

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He's jumping off a screen to be. But can you just do

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a quick corner search?

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Yep.

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If I don't want to neglect

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the defensive.

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Backfield, don't either. Yeah,

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So you got Kyrie Jackson, Max.

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Max Mountain was a name I was interesting. Yeah,

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I'm a big fan.

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ANDREI we got we

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got to pick at eighty four coming up here. We're not

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going to get a chance at that defensive tackle. There's

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other cornerbacks there on the board. Phillips out

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of Kentucky, Bernardo Green out of

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Florida State, Jerry and John's at.

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A slot capable guys which they

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need, and they tend to fall a little. I would take Aurora

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ro though I never try

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to say that name, but he's long. He'd

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learn from Cam. He kind of fits that three

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four D N mold and there's not many of them.

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I'm happy to address the D line. Yeah, that's

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your guy, that's.

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Your good Auror Hero.

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It is okay.

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We're back up now here at eighty four. We have no trade

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offers for this eighty fourth pick. Some

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of the top guys available. Johnny Wilson, the big

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wide receiver out of Florida State.

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He's a lot different than the receiver like six.

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Seven power forward Jamari

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Thrash, the wide receiver out of Louisville. Malachai

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Corley another one of those shorter type,

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but power.

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I would take receiver Wilson if we were

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do a second receiver, which seems a little ambitions.

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I think at this point we want to definitely take a

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look at tackles, and we want to take

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a look at the cornerbacks. So

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Ernardo Green is there cornerback

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out of Florida State Dominic Pooney, Jerry and Jones

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DJ.

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James Uh corner pretty

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hard.

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Yeah, they got hit pretty pretty darn hard. Tackles

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are also drying up there. Matt Gonclave's

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uh is there from Pitt.

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I'd consider Elijah Jones. I'd be

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Yeah, I think he fits in well, they'll

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know a ton about him. He'd

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be there slot from day one. He also could play

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outside a little bit. Yeah, I think

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that works well.

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Should we take a look at safety just as have

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a.

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Little uh

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yeah, so he gets I got a couple of safeties

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there that have slot capabilities

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as well, including Dadrian Taylor Demerson

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who was Ke Smith.

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Yeah, just an extreme athlete.

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Cool. Bishop is intriguing.

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I just don't think it's a

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need compared to the I

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mean, if he's there two picks from or twelve

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picks from now, I would consider him.

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Shall we roll the dice?

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I think you take the BC corner

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and.

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Then hope for the Utah

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safety.

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Yeah. I'm not thrilled with the tackle situation.

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Yeah, it's it's dried up quickly, all right.

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And again, in a different world, we had

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so many picks. We could have maybe trade up five spots

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to have to tackle Seem Mataia went

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like ten picks ahead.

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So Elijah Jones is the pick, takes the ball away.

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That's what you want to do there, to play inside it.

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We're out.

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We're up here at ninety eight. Now we

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do have a trade back offer. But let's let's take

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a look here. Cold Bishop

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still there.

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Well, he's intriguing.

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You still have super athletes some of those safeties

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are, you know, Dadrien, Tom Taylor, Demerson, see

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Ony Backy Tyke Smith, Cold Bishop.

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I'd have been okay with Bishop last pick, though, I'm

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certainly okay with him here.

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I mean he helps on special teams a ton. You

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could play him with the two starters and big Nickel

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a lot early in his career.

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I mean, he's are you guys, did you

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tell guys you pretty much know what you're getting?

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Yeah, I yes, Yeah, it's been like a really good

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from that program on defense. It's a great point.

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Yeah, And I think there's

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still one tackle out there that I would have my

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eye on here. When the Steelers roll around the pick

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with their next pick, that will be Jones

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from Texas.

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Yeah, there's a couple of projects too. Yeah,

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they're interested in probably a year.

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Away, all right.

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Cole Bishop is the pick. So

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we came out of this then heavy

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on the defensive side of things after

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the young Rose couple of Yeah, after the first

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we got Jackson Powers Johnson at pick twenty

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seven. Remember we traded down, giving

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up twenty twenty for pick

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twenty seven, pick sixty six and

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next year's fourth round pick from the Cardinals,

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which could be pretty good.

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You would think Powers Johnson's a plug and play

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starter from first daycamp. Yeah.

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You got Ricky Piersoll secid receiver.

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Second day camp.

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Yeah,

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yeah, wide receiver Ricky

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Pearsall out of Florida at pick fifty

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one. Then we picked at

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sixty six Rooke Aro Hero at

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a Clemson the defensive lineman.

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You have to get used to spelling that one, Mike. If we do that,

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Elijah Jones at pick eighty

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four, the cornerback out of Boston

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College, and then came back with another defensive

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back at picked ninety eight in Cole Bishop

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out of Utah.

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I think that just completes your secondary. Yeah,

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and same with the deal a number of years. Yeah, yeah, you

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could be set there for a while.

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Yeah, I like the way that worked out. That's

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a nice start. Yeah.

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Absolutely, get some plug and play guys, get some guys

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on some premium picks on offense

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and then defensive depth, and guys

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who maybe help you out at some point

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this year as well.

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And this time next year. I'd be pretty happy with that fourth round

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pick from Arizona too.

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Sounds like we got to figure it out. Well,

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see what happens when we get to the

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real thing in a couple of weeks.

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But that is going to do it for us

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for now. I want to remind everybody the opinions

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expressed on this program onere of the opinions of

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Matt Williamson, Dale Lawley and Mike

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Pursuit It nobody else. But that's

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