April 25, 2025 • 26 mins
On today's episode, Jason reacts to the first round of the NFL Draft and dives into why the story of the draft is Shedeur Sanders falling out of the first round. Jason gives his thoughts on the biggest picks of the night and breaks down why he wasn't crazy about the Jaguars trading up for Travis Hunter and the Raiders taking Ashton Jeanty. Jason looks ahead to round 2 and gives his picks for Friday's NBA Playoff games!
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
This is straight Fire with Jason McIntyre.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
What is up, straight Fire fan, It's me Jason McIntyre.
Straight Fire for Friday, April twenty fifth. What a night
in sports, Holy Cow. You had the draft, which was
phenomenal and somewhat shocking, and then you had three NBA
playoff games. Two were good. One was a blowout Clippers.
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Paper If you're just waking up now, paper clips, roll Denver,
and I mean roll them to the point where you're like, oh,
Denver says some trouble. Clippers played really well in in Denver,
and now come home and win by let me count
seventy p seven to thirty four points. Yeah, it was
a bloodbath. Yokich had a triple double, but just too
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many three from the paper clips. Okay, see, was down
twenty nine. They stormed back after John Morant got injured.
He went down in the first half, didn't play in
the second half. Okay, see just blitzes the Grizzlies. Impressive
comeback on the road down twenty nine and they win,
and my Knicks win a war. I'm I just don't
have time to get into it. It was a great
win for the Knicks. Didn't like that was officiated like
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fifty eight free throws in the game. Can we just
not foul every friggin possession. So, but the NBA took
a back seat to the NFL Draft on Friday. The
NFL Draft. Nobody sells hope like the NFL Draft. And folks,
I mean, you got to start with the biggest story.
And it's not Cam Wore going one. It ain't the
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trade between the Browns moving up from five to two
to go get The Jags wanted Travis Hunter, so they
got him. The biggest story is the guy who wasn't drafted,
and that's Shadoor Sanders Dion Sun, who was one of
the best quarterbacks on the West Coast this past season.
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Put up insane numbers completion wise, he was good all around.
I mean Shouduur centers had a really good football season.
He turned around a program at Jackson State, transferred to Colorado,
turned that one around, and he did not get drafted.
This is a guy who his dad in February was
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on social media he gonna be a top five pick
all season. And I know some people will disagree and say,
I don't remember that. If you were watching college football,
it was well Shadur is gonna be probably the number
one pick, or maybe Travis Hunter. And then cam Ward
came on strong and be like, all right, it's gonna
be cam Ward. But Chaduur and Travis Hunter was still
there and it's like for him to fall completely out
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of the first round and this is insult to injury. So,
like you guys know, if you're drafted in the first round,
you get an extra year on your contract. So it
makes sense to draft quarterbacks in the first round. Why
because then you get that extra year to look at them.
So initially everybody passed on Lamar Jackson, and the Raven
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said there might be something here. Let's trade back in
at thirty two. Let's grab Lamar so we get him
for that extra year, an extra year to look develop.
Lamar Jackson was take drafted after Josh Rosen. Josh Rosen,
by the way, I made a joke on the herd
that he was Uber Eats delivery driver, and one of
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the producers texted me, Dude, I just looked up Josh Rosen.
He's getting his MBA from Wharton. I was like, oh no,
that's good. Happy for him. He's out of the league.
He was drafted before Lamar Jackson. Okay, Lamar Jackson's down
on two MVPs. You take a flyer on guys in
the first round, even if you're not certain. As we know,
nobody drafts quarterbacks in the second round. I think there's
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been one taken in like the last three or four years.
It's like they love you or you're a middle round guy. Okay.
The New York Giants traded back into the first round
at twenty five, and everybody's like, oh, there should do
And I was like, wait a minute. All we heard
all week was division in New York. The front office
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like Shaduur, the coach Brian Dable, like Jackson Dart from Mississippi,
and the Giants draft at Jackson Dart. This is a
Giants team with Jamis Winston and Russell Wilson at quarterback. Now,
Brian Dable has come out and squashed any carter back
quarterback controversy, saying, Russell Wilson's our guy. He's going to
be the starter. Okay, Sure, Russ Is gonna win you
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some games, and then he's gonna turn into a pumpkin
like he always does. And then maybe Jamis comes on
and I don't know Tommy Cutlets and then you got
Jackson Dart lingering somewhere down, So like, just riddle me
this the Giants who also got Abdul Carter, which is
a good get. I mean, obviously at the third overall pick.
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He teams with Cavon Thibodeau, Ryan Burns, Dexter Lawrence. They
have a really impressive front. Secondary's trash other than Milik Nighbors.
Like if my Melik Neighbors goes down for six games,
they got nothing on offense. Like Tracy the running back,
young guy, he had a good first year, but like,
let's say they win six games. Are you keeping your
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GM and your coach the two people who just drafted
Jackson Dart or do you say, WHOA, we didn't get
to see Jackson Dart, so let's give him another year.
Like I don't. I just don't get this at all.
It makes no sense A to trade it in the
first round for Jackson Dart and then B like thinking
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he's gonna be the guy that saves your job. So
I don't totally know what the Giants were doing there,
but to bring it back to Chadour, it's like, wow,
people must really not like him and don't And I
know people are listening. Oh dude, he's overrated. Guys, I
don't want to hear what you've read about him. You
go and use your eyes and watch colle football. Shador
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Sanders was a very good college football quarterback period. Did
his dad turn some people off? Certainly? Did his personality
probably turn some teams off, And that would be Shudor's personality,
of course. I mean, the guy shows up to the
draft with a necklace that's probably worth more than my
four oh one k It was like blinged out to
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the nth degree. And again, nothing wrong with that. All
these young guys, they're gonna want to style out like
what Jason, Come on, if you were getting drafted at
twenty two, what would you have looked like? Yeah? I know, guys,
there's a photo of me in college. I had I died,
I bleached my hair blonde, had that for like a
month or whatever. Yeah, like you do dumb stuff in college.
I don't know what my gear would have been if
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I was getting drafted and I was hosting a draft party.
I mean, this has to be the most humbling moment
in his career, and Schador hopefully can use this as fuel.
I've told a story many times, guys. I was a
good young soccer player, playing club soccer, all that fun stuff,
and fast, played up front, scored goals, you know, put
pressure on the defense. And then everybody started to get
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big and hit their growth spurt in like seventh eighth grade,
and I didn't hit mine. And it was so oh
so frustrating. And so we lose in the State Cup
in eighth grade, and I remember sitting there we lost
some pks, looking around the field, being like, damn, I
think it's over for me. You know, I had been
a starter then I wasn't a starter, and a guy
a grade below me, I still remember his name, I'm
not gonna say it. I mean he was a good player,
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obviously he took my starting spot. I was just freaking
pissed man, and I was like, well, I guess I
just got to throw it all into basketball now, you know,
Magic Johnson, here I come. And I thought that was it.
And getting cut from the freshman basketball team, not even
final cuts, I didn't make it that far was so
humbling to me because I was so hell bent on
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being an athlete and I was wounded, and I mean
you could remember when you get like stuff that actually hurt.
The first girl that I dated, you know, one of
these middle school relationships, and I got dumped because I
did something stupid and man, that hurt. Oh my gosh,
I can still remember to this day. You can still
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remember the injury. It was just like, oh my gosh,
I'm a legitimately wounded laying in bed, like, how will
I ever recover from this? You know, what do you
think Shador was feeling when he went to bed last night?
Holy cow? I met with all the teams at the
top of the draft. None of them wanted me. Damn,
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even teams that need a quarterback, they're not interested. Guys.
It's not his size, it's not the army that cannot
be it. There's gotta be something else to explain how
he doesn't even get drafted in the first round. This
isn't Aaron Rodgers tumbling to twenty. This is worse. Okay,
So now I don't think he's gonna end up being
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Aaron Rodgers. I mean, is he gonna win multiple MVPs?
Probably not. And he could still turn this into a positive.
He can use this for fuel. Tom Brady can recite
every quarterback taken ahead of him in the draft. He
remembers them, you know, to this day, and I'm sure
he was wounded. Shadure will probably remember every player that
was drafted in front of him. Now he might go
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at the top of the second and this is no
big deal, and he's gonna team up with Stefanski and
they're gonna be awesome, don't I don't necessarily know that
the Browns are taken. And now the Browns have two
of the first four picks in the second round as
a result of their trade with the Jacksonville Jags. But guys,
I just I watched this and I felt a little
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bad for Shador. I'm not hating on him. I'm not
a hater of Shador Sanders. As I said, for the
last two months, I would have taken him three Now.
I didn't get to interview. I don't know. Maybe he
came into the interview and put his feet up on
the desk and was just like dropping curse work. I
don't know what he was doing, but it's clearly irked
multiple teams for nobody to take him. It was just crazy.
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I was just stunt. I do have a bet still
in play that the quarterback order will be Cam Jackson, Chaduur, Milrow.
But this is where it gets tricky. If he doesn't
go early in the second round, it goes Browns. Uma,
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is that right? I thought it went Brown's Giants, but
it looks like it goes Brown's Texans. So it goes Browns, Texans, Titans,
Browns Raiders. Obviously, the Texans aren't taking Shadure. They're taking
an offensive lineman there. I think the Texans botched it
badly trading back. That was dumb. They two offensive linemen
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went when they could have taken like right after that
they made the trade Tennessee. They just drafted cam Or.
They're not taking him if Cleveland doesn't and the Raiders don't.
We know the Patriots aren't we know the Bears aren't.
The Saints at forty I don't. I don't think the
Jets are forty two. If Chaduur doesn't go early in
the second round, he's probably going in the third round.
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Now that would be absolutely studying. I mean, it's not
a big deal that he costs himself money because his
dad's got a ton of money, and I'm sure Shador
made like five billion in nil, maybe more. I don't know, guys,
just a stunning development for a really talented player, and
I'm sure he'll use it as fuel to become a superstar.
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And I'm hopeful for Shador because by all accounts, I mean,
he's not like he's getting in trouble off the field.
I don't recall any issues. He doesn't seem like a
bad kid. I just I don't know, or maybe people
are just that out on Dion wanting the job to
coach him, because as we've noted, he's never been away
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from his dad since like middle school football. His dad's
always been the coach or offensive coordinator in some capacity. Anyways,
I thought Schador was the biggest story, which is weird
because you know, usually guys who get drafted the biggest story.
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Let me quickly, I didn't love the Jags trade up
to get Travis Hunter. Yes, Travis Hunter and Brian Thomas
form one of the ten best receiving duos in the league.
That's obvious. Brian Thomas carried me in fantasy last year.
So good Trevor Lawrence, healthy, Travis etn offensive line is
they'll be okay. But giving up next year's number one
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to move up for a receiver, to me, this is
more about signaling to the fans, Hey, We're not this boring,
crappy franchise. We just got mister electric Travis Hunter, a
two way player. Remember, Jacksonville is like the franchise that
is jokingly called like the England Jaguars or whatever, you
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London Jaguars because they get sent overseas all the time.
And you know, Mason Graham would have been a solid
pick for them at five. By the way, that is
another bet that I hit the exact order of the
first five Ward Hunter, Carter Campbell, Graham that hit. I
couldn't bet top six, or I would have added genty
to that ad even Membo to the Jets at seven.
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But I think it was a splashy move in hopes
that it raises Jacksonville's profile, because right now Jacksonville just
does it. They lack an identity. It was supposed to
be Trevor Lawrence, but it hasn't been. Now you got
Lawrence Thomas Hunter, you probably will have some kind of
nickname for that receiver duo. And the arrow was pointing
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up that being said, if Trevor Lawrence gets hurt for
the third straight year. So two years ago he was injured,
can cussed, played through stuff, played badly, and they missed
the playoffs. Last year he was hurt and missed games.
So I don't know. If Lawrence goes down for like
eight games and Jacksonville wins like five games, then the
Cleveland Browns could be drafting in the top five again
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next year. That they're probably banking on that. That's part
of the reason they made the deal. I didn't love
genty to the Raiders, but it's not the worst pick
in the world. I think it could be good. I
think Pete Carroll wants to win. I think they'll probably
be in contention for a fringe wildcard spot in November.
I don't know about December, though. Let's see here t
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Mac to Carolina. I like T Mac. I think it's
gonna be fine. I'm mild surprised that Colston Loveland was
the first tight end off the board. He goes to
the Bears at ten before Tyler Warren Loveland a more
prototypical tight end, and Warren there's some mystery to him.
If you heard yesterday's pod, like why didn't he test
for anybody? We don't know any of his testing numbers.
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You can't come. Maybe he's just maybe he was just
great in the Penn State offense and he's not a
great I don't I don't know what's he hiding? If
you got nothing to hide. It's like you see in
China and Japan, there's like cameras at every intersection, everywhere,
there's cameras all over. For me, that's great, awesome, more cameras.
What do I care. I'm not doing anything bad, I'm
not stealing anybody, I'm not robbing, I'm not fighting, I'm
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not doing anything stupid thing, stupid? What's wrong with cameras?
They actually are protective in a way. And so if
I'm Tyler Warren and I'm great and I'm a good
athlete and I'm strong, what do I have nothing to
worry about. I'll do the testing. I don't get that. Anyways,
he goes to the Colts, which is a perfect fit
Cowboys with the offensive guard a little early for an
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interior alignment, but such as life for the Cowboys. They
needed it. They had issues on the O line. I
love what the Falcons did. Didn't love giving up a
one for their second edge rusher. They got Jaylon Walker
from Georgia, who I like a lot, and then they
got James Pierce from Tennessee. This is a franchise. In
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the last five years, nobody has had more than seven
sacks like they cannot get after the quarterback. So the
Falcons have decided we're all in. They did have to
give up next year's one to get Pierce, which in
hindsight not great, but I do love the all in aspect,
and they've got a young, kind of exciting team with
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Pennix Drake London cal Pitts if he ever shows up.
Bijon offensive line is good. I think the Falcons can
win the division and I'll probably pick them. I just
I got to see the schedule, of course, but I
do like that they can now throw multiple guys coming
off the edge. That's something they haven't been able to do.
Didn't totally get the Green Bay Packers taking Matthew Golden.
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This is a Packers team with are you ready for it,
a wide receiver room that already, and Golden I like
a lot, and he's so fast, he's gonna get on
the field. They already have Jayden Reed, they already have
Romeo Dobbs, they already have Christian Watson, and they already
have Dontavian Wicks. If Watson's hurt, obviously, and he's been
hurt a bunch, then then yet not great. You need
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Golden will have a chance. But I don't know that
he's playing in the first half of the season. Is
he cracking? I mean, Golden is kind of a Jaden Reed,
isn't he? Dobbs Moore their possession guy, Watson, the Berner
Wicks another possession guy. It's weird. You know, the Packers
fans were geeked about a wide receiver. Aaron Rodgers were
probably cursing under his breath. Now you take the first
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fing first round wide receiver in forever. Yeah, didn't totally
get that. Obviously, he's a good player and I'm sure
it's going to work out. I just you know, were
there other needs that they had. I like Campton, the
running back from North Carolina, go one of the Chargers.
That should be fun. I'm sorry, Pittsburgh, I don't totally
get defensive tackle at twenty one. Okay, last year you
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were held below twenty points nine times. Offense is the issue.
Your quarterback room is Mason Rudolph and Skyler Thompson, and
you took a defensive tackle. Now. I like Harmon from
Oregon a lot. I had him as a first rounder.
I had him I think higher in my mock draft.
But it's like, you don't have an offense. You already
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spend a lot of your salary cap on defense. What
are you doing? And if you tell me what, we
got Aaron Rodgers in the back pocket. Yeah, okay, good
luck with that. Aaron Rodgers and Arthur Smith oil and
water are gonna mix. I mean, how do you think
Pickens and Metcalf felt after tonight? Those are the receivers
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in Pittsburgh. I mean, if they don't have Rogers, or
maybe they're planning on take a Chador in the third
because guess what, the Steelers don't have a second round pick,
had to give it up for Metcalf. Would they trade
back in to get Schador? I don't know. I just
sometimes you got you scratch your head and you're like,
what is Pittsburgh doing? I don't totally get it. Well,
let's see what else went out. Oh, oh, this is interesting.
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So the Baltimore Ravens, as I take a glass a
sip of milk this morning, the Baltimore Ravens have two really,
really good defensive players. One everybody knows is the safety
from Notre Dame Hamilton. The other is Rokwan Smith. They're
a great linebacker. They went out and drafted Malachi Starks,
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the best safety in the draft, out of Georgia. So
two of their three best defensive players are safeties. Huh.
In some way it feels to me like this is
zigging when the rest of the league is zagging. Everybody
needs to get edge rushers, everybody needs defensive tackles. You
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got to win the trenches. You know what, what if
we didn't spend a lot of money on those positions,
we just filled it with a bunch of you know,
mediocre guys are the best we could do. But our
back end is going to be awesome. And oh, by
the way, Malachi Starks can play center field and erase
a lot of stuff, and we can have Kyle Hamilton
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in in the box because guess what we've got to
face Joe Burrow, We've got to face Josh Allen in
the AFC, and if we want to get to the
super Bowl, not only those two, but we have to
face Patrick Mahomes. All three of those guys are great
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scrambling quarterbacks, and Hamilton not only can erase tight ends,
but he can also erase running quarterbacks, so it freezes
up the back end of the secondary to get much better.
This starts move is interesting. I think it's one of
the more fascinating moves in the first round that I
didn't Again, I didn't have the sound on when I
was watching the draft, so I don't know if they
broke that down. But that's a lot of money put
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into safety. Now, we did see a linebacker resurgence thanks
to the Eagles, although some of that was fluky stuff.
I don't know if you could duplicate that. And you know,
Eagles had another good pick the linebacker gi Hot Campbell,
who can play linebacker, come off the edge. He's kind
of fungible, you can put him in multiple places. Obviously,
that's a good pick. Lions go with the defensive tackle.
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Had to be defense. I'm sure five or six picks
will be defense for them. Kansas City had an interesting pick,
Josh Simmons, the offensive lineman from Ohio State, very talented tackle,
coming off a bad knee injury, and there are a
lot of immaturity questions. Maybe the Chiefs culture, you know,
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Andy Reid, Patrick Mahomes, who's going to goof around with
those guys were on the show. Maybe that can get
him a little more mature. News flash, I was im
unbelievably immature until I was like maybe even thirty. And
if Simmons is healthy, could he be your left tackle
the future. Patrick Mahomes obviously like the pick. Like the
pick on social media. It feels like there's some risk there,
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but you know, you're the Chiefs here in the Super
Bowl every year. Who cares? So that about covers? Oh
I forgot Agabuka, Ohio State receiver, goes to Tampa Mike Godwin,
who's heard probably the start of the season and Abuka
not a bad trio. Reminds me of what they had
in Seattle. They had Metcalf and Lockett and then drafted
JSN another Ohio State guy. Yeah, I think that beout
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covers the first round. Interestingly, Will Johnson, the really talented
All American from Michigan cornerback. There's some questions about health
and speed. He was not picked, and of course Shduor
Sanders also not picked. So I thought it was a
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great first round. I loved it. I was stunned at
the crowd in Green Bay. One hundred and twenty five
thousand people really to watch the draft? Were they giving
away free beer? I don't know. That's just not something
I would ever do in any circumstances. Like I love
the World Cup, I would not watch it in the
streets with one hundred thousand people. I just don't see
how that's fun. But a lot of people went, and
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it was a great setting in Green Bay. Look pretty cool.
The weather, they look like a good good weather night
and another successful draft. So the weekend Friday will be
today will be Round two, n three, and then I
think Saturday is four five sixty seven or however they
split it up. Bottom line, the.
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NBA playoffs are tonight. Let me just give you the
games and lines real quick. Have hit a couple in
a row after a rocky start. You know, first you
get off the trade flight from Japan and you're firing
dumb bets that you haven't really researched. Those aren't going
to hit. Now you're back after a couple of days,
and we have three straight winning days. So let's see
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what we got here tonight. I am seeing Lakers. No,
that can't be right. Wow, Lakers are three point dogs
in Minnesota. So zig zag theory would have the Timberwolves
winning this game. Now, the Timberwolves, after they won Game one,
were favored to win the series. I'm I haven't bet
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it yet, but I think the Lakers win this game.
Minnesota's gonna be juiced up, just like Detroit was. Obviously,
it's flipped with New York. The Knicks one game one,
then lost Game two, and then one game three. In
the Zigzag theory, how do I build the case that
the Lakers win this game. I don't know if I
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have time to do it here, but obviously Minnesota will
make adjustments. I still don't think Lebron has played a
phenomenal game yet. I don't think Austin Reeves has had
a great two games start to the series. Luca's been
cooking and I'm sure they'll look to slow him down.
But as soon as you look to slow him down,
it's gonna unlock lebron A Reeves. Unless that's their strategy. Hey,
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let's let Luca eat. But Luca went from one assist
to I believe nine in game two, so he's just
too smart. Guys. He will decipher any defense man. He's
gonna break it down. Now, the question is which Minnesota
three point shooters show up? The ones who hit twenty
one in the first in game one are the ones
who had like six in game two? And when things
are starting to go awry, well, Anthony Edwards just say
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this is my freaking game in my series and just
take over because I'm just telling you, he go into
the rim looks unstoppable. My gosh, that guy is freakishly
talented in the air around the rim. I think the
Lakers win. I don't know that I'm gonna bet it yet.
Pacers minus five and a half against the Bucks, I'm sorry.
Bucks minus five and a half against the Pacers, I
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don't think I can. I don't know what to do there.
Bucks probably they're not gonna I don't think you' honist
he's gonna get swept, and the Boston four and a
half point favorites. No word on Jay Jason Tatum yet.
I think I would look, if anything, for the Bucks
first at first quarter, first half, the way Memphis showed
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up tonight last night, whatever, and then I would probably
go Orlando first quarter, first half on the hope that
they show up with a juiced up crowd on a
Friday night at home, backs against the Wall, and then who,
I don't really care what happens in the second half.
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I'm at home with a win, so that's where I'll
probably look. To the dog, sorry to the dog magic
first half, to the favored Bucks first half, and then
I think I'll probably end up going Lakers' money line.
I see plus one thirty five, but I think they
would this game. All Right, that's a long podcast. The
draft was fun, the games were great. Enjoy the weekend.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Talk to you Monday.
This is straight Fire with Jason McIntyre.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
What is up, straight Fire fan, It's me Jason McIntyre.
Straight Fire for Friday, April twenty fifth. What a night
in sports, Holy Cow. You had the draft, which was
phenomenal and somewhat shocking, and then you had three NBA
playoff games. Two were good. One was a blowout Clippers.
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Paper If you're just waking up now, paper clips, roll Denver,
and I mean roll them to the point where you're like, oh,
Denver says some trouble. Clippers played really well in in Denver,
and now come home and win by let me count
seventy p seven to thirty four points. Yeah, it was
a bloodbath. Yokich had a triple double, but just too
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many three from the paper clips. Okay, see, was down
twenty nine. They stormed back after John Morant got injured.
He went down in the first half, didn't play in
the second half. Okay, see just blitzes the Grizzlies. Impressive
comeback on the road down twenty nine and they win,
and my Knicks win a war. I'm I just don't
have time to get into it. It was a great
win for the Knicks. Didn't like that was officiated like
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fifty eight free throws in the game. Can we just
not foul every friggin possession. So, but the NBA took
a back seat to the NFL Draft on Friday. The
NFL Draft. Nobody sells hope like the NFL Draft. And folks,
I mean, you got to start with the biggest story.
And it's not Cam Wore going one. It ain't the
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trade between the Browns moving up from five to two
to go get The Jags wanted Travis Hunter, so they
got him. The biggest story is the guy who wasn't drafted,
and that's Shadoor Sanders Dion Sun, who was one of
the best quarterbacks on the West Coast this past season.
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Put up insane numbers completion wise, he was good all around.
I mean Shouduur centers had a really good football season.
He turned around a program at Jackson State, transferred to Colorado,
turned that one around, and he did not get drafted.
This is a guy who his dad in February was
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on social media he gonna be a top five pick
all season. And I know some people will disagree and say,
I don't remember that. If you were watching college football,
it was well Shadur is gonna be probably the number
one pick, or maybe Travis Hunter. And then cam Ward
came on strong and be like, all right, it's gonna
be cam Ward. But Chaduur and Travis Hunter was still
there and it's like for him to fall completely out
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of the first round and this is insult to injury. So,
like you guys know, if you're drafted in the first round,
you get an extra year on your contract. So it
makes sense to draft quarterbacks in the first round. Why
because then you get that extra year to look at them.
So initially everybody passed on Lamar Jackson, and the Raven
(03:05):
said there might be something here. Let's trade back in
at thirty two. Let's grab Lamar so we get him
for that extra year, an extra year to look develop.
Lamar Jackson was take drafted after Josh Rosen. Josh Rosen,
by the way, I made a joke on the herd
that he was Uber Eats delivery driver, and one of
(03:25):
the producers texted me, Dude, I just looked up Josh Rosen.
He's getting his MBA from Wharton. I was like, oh no,
that's good. Happy for him. He's out of the league.
He was drafted before Lamar Jackson. Okay, Lamar Jackson's down
on two MVPs. You take a flyer on guys in
the first round, even if you're not certain. As we know,
nobody drafts quarterbacks in the second round. I think there's
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been one taken in like the last three or four years.
It's like they love you or you're a middle round guy. Okay.
The New York Giants traded back into the first round
at twenty five, and everybody's like, oh, there should do
And I was like, wait a minute. All we heard
all week was division in New York. The front office
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like Shaduur, the coach Brian Dable, like Jackson Dart from Mississippi,
and the Giants draft at Jackson Dart. This is a
Giants team with Jamis Winston and Russell Wilson at quarterback. Now,
Brian Dable has come out and squashed any carter back
quarterback controversy, saying, Russell Wilson's our guy. He's going to
be the starter. Okay, Sure, Russ Is gonna win you
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some games, and then he's gonna turn into a pumpkin
like he always does. And then maybe Jamis comes on
and I don't know Tommy Cutlets and then you got
Jackson Dart lingering somewhere down, So like, just riddle me
this the Giants who also got Abdul Carter, which is
a good get. I mean, obviously at the third overall pick.
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He teams with Cavon Thibodeau, Ryan Burns, Dexter Lawrence. They
have a really impressive front. Secondary's trash other than Milik Nighbors.
Like if my Melik Neighbors goes down for six games,
they got nothing on offense. Like Tracy the running back,
young guy, he had a good first year, but like,
let's say they win six games. Are you keeping your
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GM and your coach the two people who just drafted
Jackson Dart or do you say, WHOA, we didn't get
to see Jackson Dart, so let's give him another year.
Like I don't. I just don't get this at all.
It makes no sense A to trade it in the
first round for Jackson Dart and then B like thinking
(05:38):
he's gonna be the guy that saves your job. So
I don't totally know what the Giants were doing there,
but to bring it back to Chadour, it's like, wow,
people must really not like him and don't And I
know people are listening. Oh dude, he's overrated. Guys, I
don't want to hear what you've read about him. You
go and use your eyes and watch colle football. Shador
(06:01):
Sanders was a very good college football quarterback period. Did
his dad turn some people off? Certainly? Did his personality
probably turn some teams off, And that would be Shudor's personality,
of course. I mean, the guy shows up to the
draft with a necklace that's probably worth more than my
four oh one k It was like blinged out to
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the nth degree. And again, nothing wrong with that. All
these young guys, they're gonna want to style out like
what Jason, Come on, if you were getting drafted at
twenty two, what would you have looked like? Yeah? I know, guys,
there's a photo of me in college. I had I died,
I bleached my hair blonde, had that for like a
month or whatever. Yeah, like you do dumb stuff in college.
I don't know what my gear would have been if
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I was getting drafted and I was hosting a draft party.
I mean, this has to be the most humbling moment
in his career, and Schador hopefully can use this as fuel.
I've told a story many times, guys. I was a
good young soccer player, playing club soccer, all that fun stuff,
and fast, played up front, scored goals, you know, put
pressure on the defense. And then everybody started to get
(07:10):
big and hit their growth spurt in like seventh eighth grade,
and I didn't hit mine. And it was so oh
so frustrating. And so we lose in the State Cup
in eighth grade, and I remember sitting there we lost
some pks, looking around the field, being like, damn, I
think it's over for me. You know, I had been
a starter then I wasn't a starter, and a guy
a grade below me, I still remember his name, I'm
not gonna say it. I mean he was a good player,
(07:30):
obviously he took my starting spot. I was just freaking
pissed man, and I was like, well, I guess I
just got to throw it all into basketball now, you know,
Magic Johnson, here I come. And I thought that was it.
And getting cut from the freshman basketball team, not even
final cuts, I didn't make it that far was so
humbling to me because I was so hell bent on
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being an athlete and I was wounded, and I mean
you could remember when you get like stuff that actually hurt.
The first girl that I dated, you know, one of
these middle school relationships, and I got dumped because I
did something stupid and man, that hurt. Oh my gosh,
I can still remember to this day. You can still
(08:12):
remember the injury. It was just like, oh my gosh,
I'm a legitimately wounded laying in bed, like, how will
I ever recover from this? You know, what do you
think Shador was feeling when he went to bed last night?
Holy cow? I met with all the teams at the
top of the draft. None of them wanted me. Damn,
(08:34):
even teams that need a quarterback, they're not interested. Guys.
It's not his size, it's not the army that cannot
be it. There's gotta be something else to explain how
he doesn't even get drafted in the first round. This
isn't Aaron Rodgers tumbling to twenty. This is worse. Okay,
So now I don't think he's gonna end up being
(08:56):
Aaron Rodgers. I mean, is he gonna win multiple MVPs?
Probably not. And he could still turn this into a positive.
He can use this for fuel. Tom Brady can recite
every quarterback taken ahead of him in the draft. He
remembers them, you know, to this day, and I'm sure
he was wounded. Shadure will probably remember every player that
was drafted in front of him. Now he might go
(09:16):
at the top of the second and this is no
big deal, and he's gonna team up with Stefanski and
they're gonna be awesome, don't I don't necessarily know that
the Browns are taken. And now the Browns have two
of the first four picks in the second round as
a result of their trade with the Jacksonville Jags. But guys,
I just I watched this and I felt a little
(09:38):
bad for Shador. I'm not hating on him. I'm not
a hater of Shador Sanders. As I said, for the
last two months, I would have taken him three Now.
I didn't get to interview. I don't know. Maybe he
came into the interview and put his feet up on
the desk and was just like dropping curse work. I
don't know what he was doing, but it's clearly irked
multiple teams for nobody to take him. It was just crazy.
(09:59):
I was just stunt. I do have a bet still
in play that the quarterback order will be Cam Jackson, Chaduur, Milrow.
But this is where it gets tricky. If he doesn't
go early in the second round, it goes Browns. Uma,
(10:22):
is that right? I thought it went Brown's Giants, but
it looks like it goes Brown's Texans. So it goes Browns, Texans, Titans,
Browns Raiders. Obviously, the Texans aren't taking Shadure. They're taking
an offensive lineman there. I think the Texans botched it
badly trading back. That was dumb. They two offensive linemen
(10:43):
went when they could have taken like right after that
they made the trade Tennessee. They just drafted cam Or.
They're not taking him if Cleveland doesn't and the Raiders don't.
We know the Patriots aren't we know the Bears aren't.
The Saints at forty I don't. I don't think the
Jets are forty two. If Chaduur doesn't go early in
the second round, he's probably going in the third round.
(11:05):
Now that would be absolutely studying. I mean, it's not
a big deal that he costs himself money because his
dad's got a ton of money, and I'm sure Shador
made like five billion in nil, maybe more. I don't know, guys,
just a stunning development for a really talented player, and
I'm sure he'll use it as fuel to become a superstar.
(11:25):
And I'm hopeful for Shador because by all accounts, I mean,
he's not like he's getting in trouble off the field.
I don't recall any issues. He doesn't seem like a
bad kid. I just I don't know, or maybe people
are just that out on Dion wanting the job to
coach him, because as we've noted, he's never been away
(11:48):
from his dad since like middle school football. His dad's
always been the coach or offensive coordinator in some capacity. Anyways,
I thought Schador was the biggest story, which is weird
because you know, usually guys who get drafted the biggest story.
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Let me quickly, I didn't love the Jags trade up
to get Travis Hunter. Yes, Travis Hunter and Brian Thomas
form one of the ten best receiving duos in the league.
That's obvious. Brian Thomas carried me in fantasy last year.
So good Trevor Lawrence, healthy, Travis etn offensive line is
they'll be okay. But giving up next year's number one
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to move up for a receiver, to me, this is
more about signaling to the fans, Hey, We're not this boring,
crappy franchise. We just got mister electric Travis Hunter, a
two way player. Remember, Jacksonville is like the franchise that
is jokingly called like the England Jaguars or whatever, you
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London Jaguars because they get sent overseas all the time.
And you know, Mason Graham would have been a solid
pick for them at five. By the way, that is
another bet that I hit the exact order of the
first five Ward Hunter, Carter Campbell, Graham that hit. I
couldn't bet top six, or I would have added genty
to that ad even Membo to the Jets at seven.
(13:19):
But I think it was a splashy move in hopes
that it raises Jacksonville's profile, because right now Jacksonville just
does it. They lack an identity. It was supposed to
be Trevor Lawrence, but it hasn't been. Now you got
Lawrence Thomas Hunter, you probably will have some kind of
nickname for that receiver duo. And the arrow was pointing
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up that being said, if Trevor Lawrence gets hurt for
the third straight year. So two years ago he was injured,
can cussed, played through stuff, played badly, and they missed
the playoffs. Last year he was hurt and missed games.
So I don't know. If Lawrence goes down for like
eight games and Jacksonville wins like five games, then the
Cleveland Browns could be drafting in the top five again
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next year. That they're probably banking on that. That's part
of the reason they made the deal. I didn't love
genty to the Raiders, but it's not the worst pick
in the world. I think it could be good. I
think Pete Carroll wants to win. I think they'll probably
be in contention for a fringe wildcard spot in November.
I don't know about December, though. Let's see here t
(14:28):
Mac to Carolina. I like T Mac. I think it's
gonna be fine. I'm mild surprised that Colston Loveland was
the first tight end off the board. He goes to
the Bears at ten before Tyler Warren Loveland a more
prototypical tight end, and Warren there's some mystery to him.
If you heard yesterday's pod, like why didn't he test
for anybody? We don't know any of his testing numbers.
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You can't come. Maybe he's just maybe he was just
great in the Penn State offense and he's not a
great I don't I don't know what's he hiding? If
you got nothing to hide. It's like you see in
China and Japan, there's like cameras at every intersection, everywhere,
there's cameras all over. For me, that's great, awesome, more cameras.
What do I care. I'm not doing anything bad, I'm
not stealing anybody, I'm not robbing, I'm not fighting, I'm
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not doing anything stupid thing, stupid? What's wrong with cameras?
They actually are protective in a way. And so if
I'm Tyler Warren and I'm great and I'm a good
athlete and I'm strong, what do I have nothing to
worry about. I'll do the testing. I don't get that. Anyways,
he goes to the Colts, which is a perfect fit
Cowboys with the offensive guard a little early for an
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interior alignment, but such as life for the Cowboys. They
needed it. They had issues on the O line. I
love what the Falcons did. Didn't love giving up a
one for their second edge rusher. They got Jaylon Walker
from Georgia, who I like a lot, and then they
got James Pierce from Tennessee. This is a franchise. In
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the last five years, nobody has had more than seven
sacks like they cannot get after the quarterback. So the
Falcons have decided we're all in. They did have to
give up next year's one to get Pierce, which in
hindsight not great, but I do love the all in aspect,
and they've got a young, kind of exciting team with
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Pennix Drake London cal Pitts if he ever shows up.
Bijon offensive line is good. I think the Falcons can
win the division and I'll probably pick them. I just
I got to see the schedule, of course, but I
do like that they can now throw multiple guys coming
off the edge. That's something they haven't been able to do.
Didn't totally get the Green Bay Packers taking Matthew Golden.
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This is a Packers team with are you ready for it,
a wide receiver room that already, and Golden I like
a lot, and he's so fast, he's gonna get on
the field. They already have Jayden Reed, they already have
Romeo Dobbs, they already have Christian Watson, and they already
have Dontavian Wicks. If Watson's hurt, obviously, and he's been
hurt a bunch, then then yet not great. You need
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Golden will have a chance. But I don't know that
he's playing in the first half of the season. Is
he cracking? I mean, Golden is kind of a Jaden Reed,
isn't he? Dobbs Moore their possession guy, Watson, the Berner
Wicks another possession guy. It's weird. You know, the Packers
fans were geeked about a wide receiver. Aaron Rodgers were
probably cursing under his breath. Now you take the first
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fing first round wide receiver in forever. Yeah, didn't totally
get that. Obviously, he's a good player and I'm sure
it's going to work out. I just you know, were
there other needs that they had. I like Campton, the
running back from North Carolina, go one of the Chargers.
That should be fun. I'm sorry, Pittsburgh, I don't totally
get defensive tackle at twenty one. Okay, last year you
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were held below twenty points nine times. Offense is the issue.
Your quarterback room is Mason Rudolph and Skyler Thompson, and
you took a defensive tackle. Now. I like Harmon from
Oregon a lot. I had him as a first rounder.
I had him I think higher in my mock draft.
But it's like, you don't have an offense. You already
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spend a lot of your salary cap on defense. What
are you doing? And if you tell me what, we
got Aaron Rodgers in the back pocket. Yeah, okay, good
luck with that. Aaron Rodgers and Arthur Smith oil and
water are gonna mix. I mean, how do you think
Pickens and Metcalf felt after tonight? Those are the receivers
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in Pittsburgh. I mean, if they don't have Rogers, or
maybe they're planning on take a Chador in the third
because guess what, the Steelers don't have a second round pick,
had to give it up for Metcalf. Would they trade
back in to get Schador? I don't know. I just
sometimes you got you scratch your head and you're like,
what is Pittsburgh doing? I don't totally get it. Well,
let's see what else went out. Oh, oh, this is interesting.
(18:52):
So the Baltimore Ravens, as I take a glass a
sip of milk this morning, the Baltimore Ravens have two really,
really good defensive players. One everybody knows is the safety
from Notre Dame Hamilton. The other is Rokwan Smith. They're
a great linebacker. They went out and drafted Malachi Starks,
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the best safety in the draft, out of Georgia. So
two of their three best defensive players are safeties. Huh.
In some way it feels to me like this is
zigging when the rest of the league is zagging. Everybody
needs to get edge rushers, everybody needs defensive tackles. You
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got to win the trenches. You know what, what if
we didn't spend a lot of money on those positions,
we just filled it with a bunch of you know,
mediocre guys are the best we could do. But our
back end is going to be awesome. And oh, by
the way, Malachi Starks can play center field and erase
a lot of stuff, and we can have Kyle Hamilton
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in in the box because guess what we've got to
face Joe Burrow, We've got to face Josh Allen in
the AFC, and if we want to get to the
super Bowl, not only those two, but we have to
face Patrick Mahomes. All three of those guys are great
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scrambling quarterbacks, and Hamilton not only can erase tight ends,
but he can also erase running quarterbacks, so it freezes
up the back end of the secondary to get much better.
This starts move is interesting. I think it's one of
the more fascinating moves in the first round that I
didn't Again, I didn't have the sound on when I
was watching the draft, so I don't know if they
broke that down. But that's a lot of money put
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into safety. Now, we did see a linebacker resurgence thanks
to the Eagles, although some of that was fluky stuff.
I don't know if you could duplicate that. And you know,
Eagles had another good pick the linebacker gi Hot Campbell,
who can play linebacker, come off the edge. He's kind
of fungible, you can put him in multiple places. Obviously,
that's a good pick. Lions go with the defensive tackle.
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Had to be defense. I'm sure five or six picks
will be defense for them. Kansas City had an interesting pick,
Josh Simmons, the offensive lineman from Ohio State, very talented tackle,
coming off a bad knee injury, and there are a
lot of immaturity questions. Maybe the Chiefs culture, you know,
(21:24):
Andy Reid, Patrick Mahomes, who's going to goof around with
those guys were on the show. Maybe that can get
him a little more mature. News flash, I was im
unbelievably immature until I was like maybe even thirty. And
if Simmons is healthy, could he be your left tackle
the future. Patrick Mahomes obviously like the pick. Like the
pick on social media. It feels like there's some risk there,
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but you know, you're the Chiefs here in the Super
Bowl every year. Who cares? So that about covers? Oh
I forgot Agabuka, Ohio State receiver, goes to Tampa Mike Godwin,
who's heard probably the start of the season and Abuka
not a bad trio. Reminds me of what they had
in Seattle. They had Metcalf and Lockett and then drafted
JSN another Ohio State guy. Yeah, I think that beout
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covers the first round. Interestingly, Will Johnson, the really talented
All American from Michigan cornerback. There's some questions about health
and speed. He was not picked, and of course Shduor
Sanders also not picked. So I thought it was a
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great first round. I loved it. I was stunned at
the crowd in Green Bay. One hundred and twenty five
thousand people really to watch the draft? Were they giving
away free beer? I don't know. That's just not something
I would ever do in any circumstances. Like I love
the World Cup, I would not watch it in the
streets with one hundred thousand people. I just don't see
how that's fun. But a lot of people went, and
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it was a great setting in Green Bay. Look pretty cool.
The weather, they look like a good good weather night
and another successful draft. So the weekend Friday will be
today will be Round two, n three, and then I
think Saturday is four five sixty seven or however they
split it up. Bottom line, the.
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NBA playoffs are tonight. Let me just give you the
games and lines real quick. Have hit a couple in
a row after a rocky start. You know, first you
get off the trade flight from Japan and you're firing
dumb bets that you haven't really researched. Those aren't going
to hit. Now you're back after a couple of days,
and we have three straight winning days. So let's see
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what we got here tonight. I am seeing Lakers. No,
that can't be right. Wow, Lakers are three point dogs
in Minnesota. So zig zag theory would have the Timberwolves
winning this game. Now, the Timberwolves, after they won Game one,
were favored to win the series. I'm I haven't bet
(24:16):
it yet, but I think the Lakers win this game.
Minnesota's gonna be juiced up, just like Detroit was. Obviously,
it's flipped with New York. The Knicks one game one,
then lost Game two, and then one game three. In
the Zigzag theory, how do I build the case that
the Lakers win this game. I don't know if I
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have time to do it here, but obviously Minnesota will
make adjustments. I still don't think Lebron has played a
phenomenal game yet. I don't think Austin Reeves has had
a great two games start to the series. Luca's been
cooking and I'm sure they'll look to slow him down.
But as soon as you look to slow him down,
it's gonna unlock lebron A Reeves. Unless that's their strategy. Hey,
(25:01):
let's let Luca eat. But Luca went from one assist
to I believe nine in game two, so he's just
too smart. Guys. He will decipher any defense man. He's
gonna break it down. Now, the question is which Minnesota
three point shooters show up? The ones who hit twenty
one in the first in game one are the ones
who had like six in game two? And when things
are starting to go awry, well, Anthony Edwards just say
(25:23):
this is my freaking game in my series and just
take over because I'm just telling you, he go into
the rim looks unstoppable. My gosh, that guy is freakishly
talented in the air around the rim. I think the
Lakers win. I don't know that I'm gonna bet it yet.
Pacers minus five and a half against the Bucks, I'm sorry.
Bucks minus five and a half against the Pacers, I
(25:45):
don't think I can. I don't know what to do there.
Bucks probably they're not gonna I don't think you' honist
he's gonna get swept, and the Boston four and a
half point favorites. No word on Jay Jason Tatum yet.
I think I would look, if anything, for the Bucks
first at first quarter, first half, the way Memphis showed
(26:07):
up tonight last night, whatever, and then I would probably
go Orlando first quarter, first half on the hope that
they show up with a juiced up crowd on a
Friday night at home, backs against the Wall, and then who,
I don't really care what happens in the second half.
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I'm at home with a win, so that's where I'll
probably look. To the dog, sorry to the dog magic
first half, to the favored Bucks first half, and then
I think I'll probably end up going Lakers' money line.
I see plus one thirty five, but I think they
would this game. All Right, that's a long podcast. The
draft was fun, the games were great. Enjoy the weekend.
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