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What Nick Saban said about Burton on draft night: “He is a tremendous competitor,” Saban said on ABC’s NFL draft coverage. “He’s got great quickness. He’s got really good speed. He can come in and out of a break. He can beat man-to-man. “I really, really like this guy, (but) the No. 1 thing that he needs to do - and I think emotional maturity is the best way to say it - is do the right things all the time. He does the right things on the field. He knows the importance of what he has to do in the field. He wants to be a player. That’s all he thinks about. “But you’ve got to do the right things in your life all the time so that you can do the best things that you can do on the field and be the best you can do. … When you get emotional, you make bad decisions and lose your brain.”

Drafting Rakestraw JUST IN CASE Terrion is a bust?? Maybe they just saw the opportunity to add two good corners?!?

The Lions took 3 FREE AGENTS AT DEFENSIVE BACK in the same offseason plus drafted safety Brian Branch. Brian Branch was the only single one to pan out. 2 of the free agents are gone and the one they still had was recovering from an ACL and gets back into the rotation only to tear the other ACL. He’s still with us but….. I’m soooo glad they took 2 cb’s in this years draft!

Love Sam going at the clown who gave Detroit a C draft grade... way to go Sam!

So glad Brad Holmes is the GM not the yo yos. They would of loved Matt Millen

1. Brodrik Martin was "reach" in the 3rd last year (Planet Theory Big boy), Colby Sorsdal was in the 5th 2. With the additions in FA & Arnold/Rakestraw & Wingo in the Draft Lions will have have a Top5 Offense & Top5 Defense in 2024, I bet on that

A player the Bengals got that’s totally flying under the radar and will have a huge impact on the team is their second 6th round pick the Edge rusher out of Ole Miss Cedric Johnson. I can’t believe he was still available in round 6! Sort of like last year I could not believe that Myles Murphy was available at 29!! You want to talk about athletic. Johnson is 6’3’’ 260 ran 4.63 and has a vertical of 38 inches and pumped out 25 reps in the bench press.

Orlando Brown Jr as far as I can tell is the only guy in the NFL to make the Pro Bowl for 2 different positions. He made 2 Pro Bowls with the Ravens playing RT and 2 with the Cheifs playing LT.

The word is that when the Lions met with Vaki they sent their offensive staff. Will probably be a special teamer/3rd/4th RB

I love Matt Lee. I think he is the teams future starting center. But I’m still lamenting that the Bengals could have gotten the center/guard from Arkansas in round 6. Beaux Limmer. I think at worst Limmer will be a 10 year starter and at best is on a couple of Pro Bowls.

The Bears had a great draft! Between free agency and the draft, they have improved their roster significantly.

The JJ Watt jersey behind Steve 😂

Mckinlley Jackson was not a reach at 97. He was the 2nd best Nose Tackle in this class after Devondre Sweat. He was. He was good at Texas A&M and again you have to look at quality of the opponents you are playing. The SEC is the hardest conference in college football. Jackson can stop The run push the pocket and pressure the QB. What was you guys thoughts on DJ Reader when he came out in 2016? He was a 5th round pick. We used a 3rd round compensatory pick on Jackson. I actually loved the pick and he is who I wanted at 97. Do you know why? Because he would have been gone by the time we picked in round 4.

Everyone forget that the Bengals have a WR in their team that ran a 4.25 last year. The UDFA from Auburn. Bo Jackson’s great nephew. Shedrick Jackson. He plays WR and he is fast as lightning. And he isn’t small either. 6’1’’ 196 lbs. 4.25 4O yards dash.

The debate of measuring the draft from Thursday night through Saturday vs. how the assigned assets are used is interesting with regards to the Bears. If you look at how the assigned assets are used, you have to retroactively give them an A+ for last year's draft since the Caleb Williams and the Iowa punter picks came from the 2023 trade downs. 2024 assets yielded Odunze, Montez Sweat, the Yale OT, Keenan Allen, Ryan Bates, and some scraps. If you measure from Thursday to Saturday, Williams and Odunze is a great draft all by itself. But ultimately, it is about process since injury, fit, supporting cast, play calling, bad luck, etc. will impact the career outcome of the players picked. The process would need to account for where your roster is regarding QB or your ability to make a QB successful: Do you have a top 10 QB? If yes: Great Draft: You trade back for a current and future 1st rnd pick and draft 2 immediate starters at OT, WR, Edge, DT, or CB Good Draft: You pick 2 immediate starters at OT, WR, Edge, DT, or CB Bad Draft: Any other outcome. If no then do you have a good OL and WR group? If yes then is there a high level QB prospect in the draft? If yes: Great Draft: You pick the high level QB prospect with your own pick. Good Draft: You trade up to take the high level QB prospect. Bad Draft: Any other outcome. If no high level QB prospect: Great Draft: You trade back for a current and future 1st rnd pick and draft 2 immediate starters at OT, WR, Edge, DT, or CB Good Draft: You pick 2 immediate starters at OT, WR, Edge, DT, or CB Bad Draft: Any other outcome. If you don’t have a good OL or WR group: Great Draft: You trade back for a current and future 1st rnd pick and draft immediate starters at OT and WR, 2 WR’s, 2OT’s, OT or WR and Edge, DT, or CB Good Draft: You pick immediate starters at OT and WR, 2 WR’s, 2OT’s, OT or WR and Edge, DT, or CB Bad Draft: Any other outcome.

Me scrolling thru the podcast looking for the Raiders grade because I can’t read 😂

Omar Khan was not the GM when Kenny Pickett was drafted. that was Kevin Colbert’s last draft.

I didn’t see Burton play much this year. Just against LSU because I watch all LSU game. At 80 on the clock if I’m the Bengals I would have drafted Javon Baker the WR out of UCF who led the Big 12 in receiving yards last year. But the more I hear about Burton the gladder I am that they took him. He has the potential to be WR3 this year and WR2 next year moving forward. After Higgins is gone we still have a big body receiver in Andrei Iosivas who is 6’3’’ 212. And I think Iosivas is going to go off this year too. He will push real hard for the WR3 spot. Next year moving forward it’s going to be Chase, Burton, and either Charlie Jones, Iosivas or Trenton Irwin as WR3.

On the getting McCarthy+Verse for value equal to the 4th pick convo… you’re ignoring the new info they got as the draft was going while Verse fell. Would you ignore a QB’s first 1-2 years in the NFL and maintain your predraft POV? No! Use the new info as you get it and adjust accordingly. They paid an arm and a leg for Verse, no ifs ands or buts

The value of Turner is even more questionable when you add in the Houston trade for 23.

Trent Brown is 6’9’’ 360. Orlando Brown Jr. is 6’8’’ 345. Amarius Mims is 6’8’’ 340. And Mims is fucking ROCKED UP!! There is not 1 pound of bad weight on that guy. Usually someone his size has some bad weight not Mims. I think his body fat is around 10-15 percent. The healthy range for men his age is from 9-19%. I believe Orlando and Trent’s body fat is closer to 20-25%. Orlando and Trent are very good athletes because they don’t have to be. They have good feet and are so god dam big with with such long arms that it makes up for whatever they lack athletically. Mims has the same size BUT is also a freak athlete. His RAS is 9.53!!

I look at the sections of the video and click on the smallest one without reading the title because I know that one is the Ravens section

Amarius mims is better version of andre smith who they drafted in 2009 another guy I wanted the Packers to take

The NFL Draft is the NFL grading “experts” predraft ranking. Steals are a myth, if dozens of teams pass on a player then that player isn’t as good as you thought. Reaches are real cuz it only takes 1 team. Kevin Cole explains this all beautifully.

Can we make it clear Khan did not draft Kenny Pickett, I’ve heard maybe 4 or more podcasts have this talk about Pittsburgh and say that. Khan came in after that draft

The only thing more painful than the Falcons locker room is Sam reading ad copy.

DJ Reader workout was no good either. Every Nose tackle not named Dexter Lawrence doesn’t have a good workout. All of Their RAS scores are low. ALL Of them not named Lawrence or Vita Vea have bad RAS numbers. Lawrence and Veas RAS numbers are misleading though BECAUSE neither Lawrence nor Vita Vea did the vertical leap, broad jump, 3 cone, or 20 yard shuttle. Their RAS was determined stricktly by size and speed and bench. They did no agility testing. Jackson’s RAS is 3.52 but he did ALL the tests. If he had skipped the agility drills like Lawrence and Vea did he would have had an RAS of 7 something. His broad jump was 70th percentile but his vertical was bad. He should not have done the agility and vertical. Again Lawrence and Vea have such high RAS because they did not do the agility drills nor the vertical and broad jump. DJ Reader did all the drills coming out to and he had an RAS of 2.01 lol. Jackson 3.58 Reader 2.01. Reader is dominant. It doesn’t really matter what your Nose tackles RAS is. Again if Jackson had skipped the agility and vertical his score would have been 7.20-7.50. And I for one love that he is 6’1 1/2’’ tall. 6’2’’ because I round up at a half inch or greater. I prefer DTs especially NTs to be 6’-6’3’’. They can get under the pads of these tall ass offensive lineman in the league. Just like how Geno Atkins at 6’1’’ 300 lbs used to get under guards and drive their asses back into the QB. I love that. Check out Michael Pierce. 6’ 350 lbs and it’s hard as a motherfucker to move him. That another reason I like Centers who are 6’1’’-6’4’’. 6’2’’ is the sweet spot for centers because those short stocky DT’s find it harder to get under the pads of a shorter center. Tyler Linderbaum is perfect size for a center. 6’2’’ 305-310.

Sam looking around on the laptop after knowingly butchering someones name is a staple 😅

Well Sam I think I’ve lost ALL respect for an anything you have to say. You said you would rather have Tex Walker at 22 or 23 instead of Brian Thomas Jr?! Why?? Those is a year younger than Tez. Thomas is 21 and will be 21 for most of this year. Tez turns 23 on June 6th. Thomas is a good 18 months younger. Tez is 6’2’’ 193 lbs with 33 inch arms ran 4.36 4O and a 10 yard split of 1.54 40 inch vertical and 11 foot broad. Pretty dam good huh. His last year in college he had 41 catches 699 yards and 7 TD’s. Now Brian Thomas Jr 6’4’’ 209 lbs with 33 inch arms 4.33 4O and 1.50 10 yard split, 39 inch vertical 10.5 inch Broad jump. His last year he had around 1100 yards and 17 tds.

1:10:50 Packers

Bears had a terrible draft!!! Williams is not a generational QB, and they take a punter in 4th with only 5 picks. Horrible

Listening to that 30 minutes Vikings recap was brutal.. how does Austin Gayle, Spielberger and Renner all leave yet you keep Sam?!???

Jermain burton has been at a different school since he started high school . Has moved all over country .Do some homework on character with these guys.

A team with 5 draft picks should never get an A grade. It's time to tweak the grading model.

A team with 5 picks and using one of them on a punter gets an A. Another reminder these grades that are given out is a joke and for entertainment only and not to be taken seriously lol

What a terrible episode. Long snapper bit ruined the Ravens segment and terrible way to start a show and was felt throughout episode. Don't be funny, just give me your football takes.