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Like all my buddies who are working in this league in the executive suite, they're all excited. They're all fired up. Hope and optimism, baby. Yeah. And, and by the way, I, I tend to think my, the guys that I connect with are really smart and I, they all did really well. No, everybody did great. Everybody aced the first round. But, but I want to start with this. You know, it's hard for me to have sympathy for some of these losing franchises. There's a reason the same teams draft at the top every year. And then it always feel like the jets are up there, the Jaguars are up there. So think about Jacksonville. And I never talk Jacksonville. So this will be brief. They trade up in the draft. They have a first time head coach, a first time gm, a first time offensive coordinator, a first time defensive head coordinator. They've had one little brief three day camp. You don't even know your personnel good enough yet to make a massive trade. Not to mention Travis Hunter is unbelievably talented. But you got to deal with that offense defensive pivot thing. Like Jacksonville, you don't know your personnel well enough yet to make a massive trade. You got first time gm, coach coordinators. How about you go through a camp or two, huge swing over compensate. And Cleveland, Cleveland, which needs a future quarterback, I mean, can you just say Arch Manning. They now have two potential top 10 picks in next year's draft, which is a significantly better draft than this one. So Cleveland's like, yeah, we'll take picks for next year. This is a bad draft. I mean this was not a very good draft. So I mean to me, Cleveland, and Cleveland, by the way also now has two of the four first picks in round two. So Cleveland ends up getting a first round pick and then they get potentially today Travian Henderson, running back Will Johnson and they already got Mason Graham and they'll have Jacksonville's first round pick. Cleveland set themselves up beautifully. And listen, I, I like Andrew Barry. I have, I've said this. The ownership drives me nuts. I love the coach and I love the gm. I'm a Stefanski fan through and through and I like Andrew Barry. I love those guys. They've had to overcome some nonsense upstairs, but I love those guys. Cleveland ace the test. They got a first round pick in a better draft. They got Mason Graham. They're going to end up getting potentially two more. There's some really nice players in the top seven picks in this draft. And oh by the way, they're not the only ones. Atlanta, the hell are you doing? Atlanta gave the Rams again a first round pick as they look to draft Matt Stafford's replacement. The Rams had told me six months ago they weren't going to draft the quarterback in the first round. This was not the quarterback first round draft. So the Rams got a second round pick, a first round pick next year in the draft they'll have to draft a quarterback, a much better quarterback draft. And Atlanta, who already drafted an edge rusher, gave up a first round pick for another edge rusher who by the way was off at least eight to 10 teams boards because of character issues. What are you doing? You don't, you don't late in round one in a weak draft give up a first round pick for a much better draft for a position you drafted earlier on a player that was off many teams boards. Lord. And conversely, again, save your empathy for the people who deserve it. You know, I mean like burn victims and orphans. I mean savior ramp. I don't feel sorry for some of these teams who did well, shocking the Harbaughs. Jim Harbaugh gets Najee Harris and now he's got Hampton, the running back. Jim Harbaugh's got his classic Stanford, Michigan. He's got his backfield. He's ready to go. Two power runners with Joe, Alton, Slater. Now they're going to go get tight ends and wide receivers. By the way, who also did well. Baltimore, John Harbaugh on the Ravens once again, they go to the sec, they get the best safety in the draft. He's a Georgia guy. All those Georgia first round guys work. So it's like as much as stuff changes the much it stays the same. I'll give Cleveland a ton of credit, but I like their people anyway. Again, I think Barry and Stefanski are really smart guys. I know people that know him. I don't know him. I know people that know him. People really respect him. But I mean this is not a good draft and everybody knows it. This is not a great draft. You're drafting late like Atlanta. You're giving up a first round pick in a better draft. Now the Rams will not have a great first round pick next year because they're good, but Atlanta could be average. So they could get a top. They just got into the top 10 potentially of next year's draft in a much better draft. In a draft they need a quarterback. Cleveland, same thing. It's just crazy to me. And you know, yesterday Diana Rossini came on the show. It was funny. Remember when she came on the show, Diana Rossini said that she was told Jacksonville was going to do something exciting. How about just doing something smart? If you got first time coach GM coordinators, what are you doing taking massive swings on a player that it's going to be kind of hard to massage because he should be a receiver but he wants to be a corner and that, that's going to be a little tricky. Okay, let's get to the Shador Sanders thing. So you know, I'm going to tell you something. It's never a bad message to tell your kids. Be humble. Humility works in the summer, it works in the fall. Humility works in the spring. Humility works in the winter. Don't gas your kids up too much. It didn't really bother me when they retired. Shedeur Sanders number but he is a 500 quarterback who couldn't get drafted in the first round. It's a little much. Everything is something. Nothing is everything. Shador Sanders didn't get drafted. There's multiple reports. Oh, cocky whatevs. But I'm watching His draft room. And the word legendary is all over the draft room. I'm like, can we just. Can we just pull the temperature down a little? It's not the end of the world. If he had Caleb Williams talent, nobody would, I guess, care. But the whole thing is like, bro, you wore New York Giant cleats. Remember when he wore the New York Giant cleats? Like, like, like, can we just. Humility's not. I know in. In society, everybody loves the TikTok watch thing. You know who doesn't apparently love it? NFL executives. You're drafting employees. That's all these teams are doing. They're drafting employees. Did you notice the two players in the first round that moved up about 10 spots? What a shock to a character. Guys, the receiver from Ohio State, we talked about this all week. A plus, plus, plus character, humble, hardworking. Everybody that I have as a source loved that kid. Not just a player, they loved that kid. Shocking. He went from middle of the second round to middle of the first over the last month and a half. What a shock. Great player, but checks all the boxes. You know, the other kid that moved up about half around was Tyler Booker, the guard the Dallas Cowboys got. Team captain. Unbelievable passion. How do you not love that kid? I mean, how do you not want that kid on your team? I'm never going to criticize any player who cares that much about being drafted. I want to buy that guy's jersey. I wish he wasn't a guard. It would be. I mean, but who are the guys that moved up in the draft? Team captains. I mean, there was Joel Klatz talking about a story yesterday about Igbuka. He could have gone to the NFL last year. He would have been a fourth round pick, but he could have gone. But he wanted to stay. He wanted to be part of the great Ohio State receiver lineage. He wanted to help the new kid from Alabama, Jeremiah Smith, the great receiver. They have like. Like work his way into the Buckeyes. Like, that stuff matters. You are drafting employees. Can we just go back in society where hard work matters and humility's not uncool? I know you're gonna race to TikTok and you got all your stuff on TikTok. It's not the end of the world. I don't really care if you have great talent. I'm drafting you. But, like, something has happened in America. Where can we just have. Is humility the worst thing? You gotta put legendary everywhere. How about you play a game one? Just give me one game and then you can put Legendary all over your house. I don't care. It's just I'm not rooting against the kid. I like Sandur Sandwich. I think he's good. I like him more than Jackson Dart. I may be in the minority. I'll get to the Giants pick. Maybe not. I like him. I would have drafted him. I needed a quarterback. I think he's bigger than people think. I think he's got good mechanics. I think he's super accurate. You know, I mean I think he's pretty good. I think accuracy really matters. But I, as I watch the thing, look who got drafted higher than you thought and look at some of the guys who fall. And I, and I do think there is something to be said. This nil thing is going to be tricky because guys come in now and they can throw their own parties and buy their own stuff and that's fine. I don't resent any of that stuff. I'm not anti anybody. But listen, the Pittsburgh Steelers are desperate for a quarterback and they moved, they said not interested. I mean that and Mike Tomlin's about as player friendly as anybody in the league. So it's just. Let me just say this again. Everything with a quarterback is something. Nothing's everything. But don't listen to the young media. That's always pro player. Everything with quarterbacks, on all the texts I get for my entire career. Everything with quarterbacks you are judged differently. It's all something. May not be everything, it's something. And so I think shitter is going to go very early today. Jackson dart. I'll get to that in a second but it's wildly fun. My lead today though was these teams that draft at the top every year. I cannot believe Jacksonville took that swing with all first time people in the building. I don't. I mean I had a soup. I had a NFL executive that sent me a laugh emoji after that pick and, and texted me and said he is not on at least five boards I know of. And again, James Pierce could end up being a good player. He's a very good player. But. But you give it up a first round pick in a better draft. What are we doing here? I actually like what Atlanta did. Getting two pass rushers shopping in the SEC where they have the best pass rushers. But Colin, let me make a quick point about this Travis Hunter trade. So you know how sometimes we as guys like to signal to women like, like hey, I've got a Porsche or I've got a big, big truck that I'm signaling to you what kind of guy I am. I think Jacksonville was signaling to everybody else. Hey, we're going to be cool. We're going to go get Travis Hunter. Everybody loves this generation. What a great player. We're not the International Jags Jaguars, the team that's got to play in London every year. We're cool, we're relevant. I don't care that we're giving up a 2026 first, but we are, we're a cool team now that we've got Travis Hunter. And I think I don't love that strategy. No, no, I, I, I'm, I'm not hating on the player. Travis Hunter's a good player, but you are a franchise that coach GM coordinators. You don't even know your personnel that well. Is he going to be Justin Jefferson or Jamar Chase? I don't think so, but. Well, I think he's going to be an excellent NFL player and I am rooting for him and I can't wait to watch him. But I mean, everybody wanted, hey, we're going to make the draft exciting. Just make it smart. The team's drafting at the top. Top. They need players. They don't need fun and exciting. They need more players. I mean, you look at Philadelphia's roster, Detroit's roster, Baltimore's roster, the Rams roster. I mean, the Rams, by the way, why do they move back? Well, they wanted Colston Loveland. They wanted the tight end for the Raiders Bowers last year. McVeigh is looking to upgrade at tight end. I wouldn't be surprised if the Rams first pick today is a tight end or a corner fan in from Bowling Green. Yeah, I mean, they want a tight end. They want to do so. They thought about it, but, but they move down. Why? Because they want, they, they, they, the teams at the bottom of the draft, too, have very few needs. What does Philadelphia need? What does Kansas City, Buffalo, Baltimore need? Baltimore already has an all pro safety. They're like, oh, let's go get another one. Yeah. So it's, it's just, it try. It's, I just, I'm going to save in life empathy for those that deserve it. And some of you, teams that keep doing dumb stuff, stuff. I don't, I don't, I don't feel bad. I thought Pittsburgh was going to be in consideration for a lead for you today, drafting a, a defensive player. No, you know what? I, I, I'll, I'll defend Pittsburgh later. I just, I will. I, I want to talk about what the Bears did.
