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All right, hello

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everyone, and welcome to another edition of the

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NFL Draft Triple Take, presented

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by UPMC. I'm Mike Persuda,

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joined as always by Matt Williamson and Dale

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Lawy. We are your first line of NFL

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Draft speculation, and we're here today

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to take a look at round one in the upcoming

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NFL Draft. For those about to

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mock, we salute you, and

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we remind you as well that these

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are our opinions. What you're going to see

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expressed on this program is

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what we think, not necessarily what anybody else

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thinks, but hey, everybody's doing it,

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why not us? Right as well.

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Let's dive right in and take a look at Dale

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Lawley's first ten picks. If you're new

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to the show, this is kind of how we roll through

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it. We go by thirds

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one to ten, and then the middle portion and

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then the bottom third of the draft. So Dale

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wanted to lead us off, Well.

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We've already seen one trade with the Vice Kings

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making a deal to have two first

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round picks. Now, I think they did that with the idea

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that they're going to move up and get a quarterback. So

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I've got that trade involved here with them going

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up to number four to go get JJ

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McCarthy. I think that's not

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what I would give up for him. But you

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know, when you're when you're a quarterback needy team, you

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give what you need to do to get to get up there to get

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the quarterback. So I've got four consecutive quarterbacks

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going to start this draft, and then you

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start looking at some of the other stuff. Yeah,

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the Atlanta Falcons, to me, you are an interesting

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situation here. They could go a couple

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of different ways here. I've got them taking Byron

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Murphy, the defensive tackle out of Texas at

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eight as well. So you

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know, I think the rest of it's kind of chalky when

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you get down to you know, to the brass

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tacks here. But everything's

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going to hinge on what the Vikings do and

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who they make that trade with to get up into the into

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the top ten to get the quarterback.

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Yeah, it makes all the sense in the world. I did the

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same thing with McCarthy and the Vikes,

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but I had them go into five. Very

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similar though. I mean Harrison goes four or five. I

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mean that's pretty much the same. Giants

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and Titans just sit back and gladly

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take neighbors and all that works out well, And

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like you, I had Atlanta taking the first defensive

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player off the board, as well as

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brock Bauers going to the Jets after they I

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mean, they're older guys, but they.

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Just added into two tackles as supposed

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to go to tackle there.

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Now, I'll make it unanimous on the

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seventh overall selection, Joe Alt going

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to Tennessee's. Every once in a while, there are certain

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guys that just look like they belong with a certain

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team. Yeah, and there's no science to that, but

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I think Joe Alt and Tennessee is a

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match made in heaven. I didn't include

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any trades in my

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mach here mock two point zero for

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those of you who are scoring along at home, and

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I probably like Drake may better than the other

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two quarterbacks personally. But part

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of what I've done here is to sort of guess what

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the teams might do, and part of it

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is just to slot what I

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think a team should do. There's

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not a whole lot of science to it, but boy,

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a lot of good players to shoes from.

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To me, the really interesting one is going to be the Chargers

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at number five. New regime.

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No track record in terms of what might

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happen there, So stay tuned.

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Yeah, I mean they could go a lot of different ways. And you

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know, offensive tackles certainly need so he's

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wide receiver because well they don't

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have any right now.

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Yeah, more of those than tackles though,

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as this thing true enough, we'll play

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out though. Let's go back to Dale now and

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check out picks eleven through twenty.

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I have with the Cardinals sliding back to that eleven

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spot, with the Vikings taking Quinny and Mitchell

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as the first cornerback off the board, and

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then the Broncos go with another

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quarterback. That would be five in the

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first round and five in the top twelve. If

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you're a Steelers fan, you probably want to see

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that.

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Oh you love it.

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Yeah, and then some of the edge rushers

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starting to go there. At pick sixteen,

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you see a couple of edge rushers go off the board

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in a row there, and the Steelers sit back

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and they get an offensive tackle in

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the first round. I like Fatanu.

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I think there were some questions about whether he could be a

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guard or a tackle, or whether he was a guard or

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a tackle. The arm length at the combine

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of thirty four and a half inches plenty long

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enough for him to stick a tackle.

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Matt, what's your take on eleven through

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twenty.

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Yeah, so Dale and I spend too much time together, obviously.

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I mean, I have Fatan who also going to the Steelers.

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I would plug him in a tackle and if

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by chance he moves has to move to guard, so be

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it. But I thought I was being slick putting

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bow Nixt to Denver, you know. I mean, he's

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a lot like I'm not saying he's Drew Brees, but he's

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a quick process or he's very accurate. I

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think Sean Payton would love him. So I

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do like that fit quite a bit, although it seems

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a little bit early. And then I think Jacksonville

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and Cincinnati sitting there with those two tackles

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would be thrilled to get that kind of talent in the middle

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of the first round.

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Yeah, Dale, you had a tackle going to the Steelers

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twentieth overall, Matt, you had a tackle going

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to the Steelers twenty tho overall, look at that about

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I have a tackle going to the Steelers twentieth

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overall, I'm going back to the Georgia Store. Marius

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Mims not the most experienced tackle

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of the you know, wide variety

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available this time around,

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but something very intriguing about

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him. I've got Bowers going to Indianapolis

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because I think Bowers is an Indianapolis

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Coult just strikes me that way.

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And Bengals, I've got them going

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tackle as well, but a different

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tackle. Some of these corners too, I

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think are just too good to pass up.

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Terry and Arnold and Quinn and Mitchell to me

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or slam dunks if

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you have a big need at death position.

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Both really good player, they'll.

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Probably slam dunks. If you don't have a need at death position,

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they're still very good.

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They have a lot of good landing spots for those guys.

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Yeah, again, a lot of the same names

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that you guys had, just kind of in a different order. Dale

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take us home with the bottom third of round

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number one.

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Yeah, I have the Cardinals Mike at twenty

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three with that second pick that they

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acquired, taking Brian Thomas, so they get the receiver

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that they kind of passed over in the first round

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and make that trade down. Then you start

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looking here, some of the cornerbacks start to go here a

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little run in this second half

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of this of the draft.

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Here, I just.

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Think you know, with so many good, big bodies

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early in this draft, I think that the cornerbacks

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might slip a little bit more than they typically would.

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And this is a really deep cornerback class.

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So I kept waiting

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to slide Terry and Arnold in there somewhere.

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He was my number one ranked cornerback

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in this draft. Detroit makes

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a ton of sense for him easy, a kneecap

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bier, I think, so he would

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fit him well there and so, you know, and

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then for Kansas City, why not go

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get another wide receiver as well.

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I really like your fit of Barton to the

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Packers, and you know, sticking with the interior

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oh line theme, there aren't that many teams

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that are really in the center market at this point. They

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got scooped up pretty quick in free agency. But I

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do think Dallas is one of them, and they end

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up getting the best one in the draft in my opinion. I

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also had a trade, you know, for the with

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the Vikes, and they get there, you know, much

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needed receiver.

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For the Chargers as well.

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Philadelphia always drafts big guys high

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lane Johnson's up in age, so that made

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a lot of.

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Sense to me too.

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And Snuff Darius Robson and at the

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end too, to the Super Bowl champs. He'll do something

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on that offense or defensive Yeah,

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a lot.

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I think maybe his the discussion

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about whether he's an interior guy or an edge

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might be taking away from the fact that he's

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really good.

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One.

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Yeah, looking at my bottom

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third, I'll look at that Vikings get their quarterback

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at twenty three, So why didn't have any

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trades? They didn't have to trade, and Denver

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you can get one later. Uh. Again,

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a lot of the same guys here.

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One of my favorite players in this

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draft, Keon Coleman, who spent his

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first couple of years at Michigan State, really

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broke out at Florida State. Better

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quarterback situation, better team,

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and a lot of touchdowns. You know, he had

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the slowest combine forty

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time of his receiver group, but

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he had the fastest gauntlet drill time.

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Yeah, he's one of those fast he plays

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fast times.

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Med DeAndre Hopkins a little bit that he's

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just going to go up and fight.

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For the football.

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Well, you know what, he used to do a little for

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the rebound when he was at Michigan

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State. He played football and basketball.

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Not a lot of guys have done that. I

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like the Cowboys to do something splashy just

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because that's what they do. And I think getting the

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new record holder into forty yard dash Davior

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Worthy is very apropos

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for Dallas, and I went with Kamari

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Lassiter to Detroit. I

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don't know if I'd necessarily think he's among

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the top quarterbacks available, but I think

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he's a Dan Campbell kind of guy, and his lines

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proved last year. They go on their evaluations,

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not what everybody else thinks.

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Yeah, one hundred percent.

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And one thing I think it's starting to show up with this draft

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is once you get past twenty five,

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twenty six, it starts to look

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like second rounders, you know, and that's a

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bigger number than usual. I mean, usually the first round

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has fifteen, sixteen, seventeen surefire

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first round picks.

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This year's a little deeper with those guys.

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Robinson another guy I think is just a

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Bald Ravens type of player

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that's going to do it for this edition. I want to

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remind everybody that these are, in

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fact our opinions. So if you're

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tuning in and joining this stuff, great,

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but don't read anything more into

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it. And that's what I think it's what Dale thinks, or

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that's what Matt thinks. We're gonna keep doing this a

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couple more times until we hit late

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April and it's time for the real NFL

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Draft. I don't want to mind everyone else so

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that you can find quality programming

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Steelers' social media platforms.

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Until next time. For Matt Williamson

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and Dal Lawley, I'm Mike Persuda.

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This has been the NFL Draft Triple

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Take, presented by UPMC