H1: NFL Draft Recap, Sonny Styles Pick, Biggest Takeaways

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And Jason Bishops here.

Yeah, what's up?

Run in the three man show.

EB had it out to Utah today for a volleyball tournament.

I just learned it a month ago.

I always wondered why he was traveling so much for volleyball that unlike a lot of other sports,

there's no league.

So they just do tournaments.

You know, so if you have a kid that plays soccer or a kid that plays lacrosse,

you're usually in a league in every Saturday or every Sunday you have a game.

Well, in at least the leap volleyball, I guess it's just tournaments.

It's got to travel over the place.

I told you travel softball the same way.

Travel football and you just do tournaments on the weekends.

And there's no league where they, you know, you have standings.

It's just tournaments.

Yeah.

So it's kind of similar.

So EB will try and get a hold of him later in the program.

He upset a lot of listeners and people that follow the show.

Because he tweeted that sunny styles as a project, okay.

All right.

He's rooting against him.

I'll tell you this.

He's like a stretch to me.

Even though he's even though he's a huge commander's fan.

Yeah.

All right.

Just because and I talked about this last night at the at honor.

You want to be right in your opinions.

So he's going to root against him.

He just is.

Well, I can.

If he's really a commander's fan, he should be.

You don't think he will the way he is.

I mean, deep down if he gave him truth, sir.

If he's written to you the year, you think he's going to be happy.

I don't think so.

Well, the weird part is if that holds true, then he's going to be rooting for Caleb

Downs.

Oh, yeah.

Who plays for the rival biggest rival in the Dallas Cowboys, 100%, which is bizarre.

Everyone in the room knows that would be bizarre.

But look, the commanders clearly had sunny styles above Caleb Downs on their

draft board.

I was why they selected him.

And number seven and Downs went to Dallas later.

I will say this.

You ended up leaving honor brewing before they made this selection left around 840.

So just before, yeah, because it wasn't, I mean, it was moving fast.

Last night, Jason left a couple of minutes after we got off the air.

Yeah, I left around 815.

I went outside and talked to some people, but I was out by 815.

I wanted to be in my bed, watching the fix.

I was there for the selection.

Yeah, there was a loud pop.

Yeah, the fan base likes the selection.

All the styles online from Grant Danny, who were obviously broadcasting after we were

done.

I grabbed his shirt was still there, I believe, when the pick was made and the crowded

honor brewing seemed to appreciate the pick.

Yeah, people seem to like it.

I said, Draft, were you there till 11 till the end of the broadcast?

You didn't state it.

No, not till 11.

I stayed till 9.30, so after the Alphans or Cowboys pick or so, like 13 or 14.

Okay.

So mid first draft, but you, you can attest to it.

There was a big pop when they took sunny styles.

Oh, it was exciting because we had the radio broadcast in our years, probably 30 seconds

beforehand.

So we knew.

And then so we were just waiting for the say sunny styles and crowd went crazy.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Mike Mar, Mike Mar, you're a commander's fan.

Are you listening, buddy?

How'd you feel about sunny styles?

He's fixing the stream.

Oh, okay.

Got it.

We should thank honor brewing.

It's a great spot.

We had talked about it that we'd been there before.

Really great to see a lot of our long time listeners there, like we saw our boy Wupac

and seen Wulferwile, my guy Allen, so many other guys that haven't seen in a long time.

So it was kind of good to be out there.

I told you guys, he was going to be packed and we got it, you know, I mean, that place

was popular anyway, but you rarely find the entire parking lot, Phil.

I mean, I literally did eight laps around the lot until I found a spot.

That's how I like, you had to wait until somebody just left.

Yeah.

Matt Myers and I got lucky.

I got butt lucky.

Matt.

Oh, yeah.

I basically had to circle the front lot like a vulture unless you're going to go park

at an office park and risk getting towed.

See that?

Yeah, yeah.

That was my issue.

I was like, I'm really going to park this place across the street where there are no

cars.

It's like some sort of like plumbing business, right?

But then you have predatory tow truck drivers.

I'm sure just scanning and like waiting to tow you.

So I was just like, you know what, you're early.

I'm just going to grasp and I got lucky with the spot right up front.

I was circling the lot like a vulture.

And then I finally found someone leaving and I immediately turned on my blinker and I saw

Jason cruise by.

Yeah.

And I saw another person walk out and I rolled my window down and said, hey, go stalk

that guy.

I did.

Yeah.

Nice move.

No, it was great.

There's some tons of people out there.

Yeah.

I had some good food.

It's, let me just say this about, excuse me, about going to these, you know, doing live

broadcasts out at bars or restaurants.

It's fun.

It is.

It's something added energy.

It is.

But it's just so awkward because so many people want to talk to you.

Yeah.

And so many people want to take pictures.

I can't tell you how many times someone would be talking to me and I'm in a conversation

with a listener.

And all of a sudden, someone comes up and just busts the conversation.

Yeah.

But yeah, they bum rush you.

They really do.

I mean, they don't wait.

They just come up and then talk because then you go to them and you stop talking to this

person.

Yeah.

And then it happens again.

It's just very awkward.

You don't want to feel like a jerk by it.

Right.

I'm not going to say, Hey, just engaging from the person you're talking to.

The last thing I'm going to say is, bro, hold on.

I'm talking.

Right.

But that's really what I'm thinking.

I understand.

But I mean, that's just the way it is.

Yeah.

Everyone wants to talk to you.

They really have limited time, but that happened probably 20 times last night.

No, but it was cool because we haven't been out and about that much in the recent years.

And it's actually an honor.

So many people came up to us because yesterday was the day that Mayor Bowser came here and

gave us the proclamation and we sports junkies day on Jason's birthday day on May 4th.

So so many people there were coming up saying, I've listened to you guys for 20 years,

25 years.

All time, 30 years and congratulating us.

So, you know, thank you for coming out.

It was a fun time and the draft.

There's always energy.

I mean, we, we talked about it.

We went to New York a couple times for draft shows.

There's, there's just something about it.

Like if you're a Jets fan, for example, all of a sudden, you're like, you haven't made

the playoffs in 15 years.

That's how bad it's been for the Jets.

But all of a sudden, you're thinking, Oh, we got a quarterback.

We had a tight end.

We got a receiver, right?

Yeah.

Or no, they got a, they got, they got a genome, yeah, my bad stuff.

They got Dave Bailey.

Right.

They got a password too.

Yes.

But they, you know, they filled like three holes right there in the first round.

It'll be interesting.

And then, of course, the, the big surprise was, was Ty Simpson going 13 to the Rams.

Yeah.

That was, that was a bit of a curveball because you heard a lot of chatter that teams might

trade back late into the first round, like 24 to 30, 30 range to get him.

Yeah.

He goes mid first round.

And look, he has the luxury of learning behind Matt Stafford, like Matt Stafford can call

his own shots at this point.

No, it's a great, it's a great situation for Ty Simpson, but it doesn't help the Rams

immediately.

And it seemed like it, it seemed like Sean McVeigh was not on board with the pick.

If you saw this, this quick presser, like he, it seems like, I guess the, the GMs, it

less need.

I believe so.

Yeah.

Might have, might have won the power struggle there, because Sean McVeigh did not seem

happy.

It's a big roll of the dice.

Well, the Steelers were better.

Oh, yeah.

Because of the McKay lemon situation.

Well, I think the Steelers were better because I'm sure they might have been targeted option

of drafting Ty Simpson.

Okay.

Yeah.

Yeah, but they were better because they thought they're going to draft McKay lemon.

How he rose, and meanwhiles on the phone with Dallas, he jumps a spot in front.

He gets to 20, McKay lemon was like, well, I'm on the phone with the Steelers.

I'm on the phone with the Eagles, like who's it going to be?

And it was the Eagles that got him one pick before it seemed like he was headed to Pittsburgh.

Yeah.

So he was going to stay in Pennsylvania either way.

Yeah, exactly.

He's a PA guy.

But I will say that it's a good situation for Ty Simpson because he can sit there behind

unless, you know, Matt Stafford gets hurt and he's out for the year and they forced, forced

Ty Simpson in there.

I don't even know if Simpson would be the two.

He might even be the three, but it's a good situation for him because he's going to learn

a great offensive mind with Vey and then of course obviously sitting behind Stafford.

So that's it's good for him.

But you know, who knows how long Stafford will be there.

I assume he's only going to be there one more year.

So he might be thrust into that starting role next year.

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It's your reaction to the selection of sunny styles at number seven, the linebacker

from Ohio State, the commanders get Dan Quinn's guy.

And this is guy, apparently, sunny styles, he had a feeders guy.

That's, I mean, he has a type of like four options.

Do you love it?

Do you like it?

Me?

Or do you hate it?

You can vote at Junk's radio.

I can't imagine too many besides Eric Bickle hates it.

But it came down to styles, Jordan Tyson and Caleb Downs.

Those are the three guys that we kind of talked about at seven, you know, I'm not a commander

fan, but I would have thought that Caleb Downs there at seven would have been a great

pick as well.

We thought Tate might have been available, but he wasn't.

He wasn't.

Correct.

That's another little bit of a surprise.

Take going forward to the Titans and Elaine getting picked one pick before Styles with

the Chiefs moving up, enabled Styles to fall into the man's lap.

Right.

Because if those two things don't happen, he might have made it down to seven.

He's probably gone.

So those two things really enabled the commanders to land the guy that I wish I saw what the

top of their draft board looked like, but I'm sure sunny, sunny styles.

If he wasn't a top it, he was two or three on their draft board.

Yeah.

Like, he was super high on their board and they seemed thrilled to be able to get him

with the seventh pick.

I will never know, but do you think it was Bayley Reese Styles or do you think love was

ahead of style?

I think styles could have been a top their draft board.

Yeah.

It could have been their number one overall player because we know how Peter's really favors

these guys who are freak athletes.

I mean, you're going to have a pairing now of Chanel and sunny styles.

It's the most, most freakish linebacker tandem in NFL history.

If you go, statistically on the, yeah, because sunny style scored a perfect 10, highest

ever for a linebacker and Leo Chanel scored a 9.9.

Right.

So they, they're athletic freaks, revamped this linebacker room in one off season.

Yeah.

I mean, just on paper, just think about how much better this defense is on paper seems

markedly better.

You got to go out and play and, and stop teams and, and win.

On paper, just on who they signed and drafting styles, they are just so much better on the

defensive side of the ball.

And I think this goes without saying this signals the end of the Bobby Wagner area in DC,

which is why he kind of reminded me, styles kind of reminds me of Wagner, kind of looks

like a younger version of him, very well spoken.

Seems like a good dude.

Oh, see, phrase is a great leader.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

A really good communicator.

No, he's, he's going to be really good in the locker room on the field.

It's going to be their leader if he stays healthy.

But I can't imagine a lot of JP, just in terms of your poll, I can't imagine a lot

are going to eat the pick.

Well, they're sick to hate it, unless they were all in on Caleb downs and didn't want to

touch styles.

Right.

I got to think that most fans love it.

This is where you entrust Peter's and his staff took to go by their board and their board

clearly had sunny styles ranked above Caleb downs.

Look, everything you say is, is accurate about his athletic score.

And clearly, if you look at where they were in terms of speed, at the linebacker position,

bringing in Chanel and then drafting sunny styles, it's going to be a fast linebacking

core now.

He's going to be the Mike linebacker.

He's going to call the plays.

He's going to wear the green dot.

He's going to, that's what sunny styles would be.

The questions that I had along with the B is, well, why not more production this past

season on the field?

Why only one sack?

Why didn't he have more tackles?

Why didn't he have more game changing plays?

I might have an answer.

This is from ESPN.

One of the questions to his linebacker's coach, Ado Hios State, James Laurenidas said,

basically they would have used styles similarly to our Bel Reese this year if they didn't have

Reese.

So Reese's skill set was more, get after the quarterback, sacks, pressure, and Patricia

had him just doing different things.

So it sounds like styles can do all those things, but they had a guy who was better at some

of that other skill set than he was.

Let's hear from Adam Peters, the general manager of the Washington commanders.

Let's hear what he said about sunny styles, even being available at number seven.

Good evening, everybody.

It's been smiling here for a while now, after all the high fives and everything kind of

settled in, but we've got sunny styles, and I can't tell you how many reasons why we

liked them, but you can go on and on about him.

And we're thrilled to have him.

And so to pick sunny styles with the seventh pick, didn't think he was going to be there.

I thought there was a low chance.

There was a chance, but it was an easy pick when he was there and we were on the clock.

So that's pretty telling.

He says it was an easy pick.

Yeah.

We can't believe he's here.

Let's just get the pick in.

Well, and it came in pretty quick.

Yeah.

It was.

They couldn't believe that that tape was drafted fourth by the Titans, because a lot of

Mox had styles going in the top five.

And then the chiefs bypassed him because they wanted the corner in the lane to the chiefs

believe the commanders were going to take Mansor.

They may have.

Yeah.

But why else would they move up, or maybe they thought the Saints were going to pick him

at eight.

There were a few teams in front of them.

So good.

Glad those things transpired.

Do you think if the commanders had to choose between styles and Mansor, they would have stuck

with styles?

Yes.

You do.

If I had to guess, I'm guessing styles is higher on their board than doing it.

I'm guessing it was styles.

Yeah.

Let's go to cut number two.

This is Peter's talking about sunny styles and what it'll bring to the table.

A little bit about sunny as a player.

I mean, he's huge.

He's really like.

I mean, it's just the main.

He's 21 years old.

He's a young guy.

He's just scratch in the surface, but he's elite athlete, elite size, elite length.

And he's just scratch in the surface as a linebacker and he's already really good and he's

only going to get better.

That's what gave me a lot of confidence, too, is that he's going to get better.

And we have the people in this building with our coaching staff and the support staff

to get him there.

And then himself, he's the type of person who will reach what

whatever potential he has, he will reach that potential.

He's humble, he's driven, he's just kind of checks every box.

And so it made it an easy pick.

We had a great visit with him.

On the 30 visit, super impressive, super impressive football intelligence, super impressive,

just presence and just everything about him, scream commander.

Yeah.

You can tell when they had the phone call with sunny styles before he was selected, like

Peter's was gushing, Dan Quinn couldn't have been happier.

Josh Harris seemed super pumped about the pick, like they were thrilled that they were

able to land him at number seven.

And it just, it's scream to you that they did not expect him to be there at seven.

Well, let me just counter this by saying, besides the Shawn McVeigh,

presser where people are saying he doesn't look thrilled.

Yeah.

Didn't every war room look thrilled at their selection?

Generally, yes, that seems to be the vibe.

Everyone's clapping.

Everyone stands up and clapping.

They high five and they hug.

25 guys hugging in every war room for every pick.

That's what they do.

So I wouldn't read too much into that.

You better like your pick, especially when you're at number seven.

So they take sunny styles, he talked about potential.

And you know, I think that the people, it's not that I don't like the pick.

I just like to see more production from from guys in college than just great combine stats.

I mean, the stats are ridiculous.

I'm sure we all saw kind of the same tweets that like his size isn't far from Derek Henry.

His speed isn't far from like these blazers.

Like athletically, this cake said he's got this perfect score on on on the athletic scores.

It's just at least this season.

It didn't translate as much in terms of I think you can caught up in the sacks more than

anything.

Like he was also like interceptions.

How about here's an important one force fumbles.

How many tackles he missed last year?

I don't.

I miss two tackles.

And for a team as bad defensively as the commanders were and it burned our retinas to watch

them last year, having a sound tackler in the middle of your defense is a huge upgrade

for them.

I think people get caught up in that because in two years at the last two years that I

have to hit 182 tackles, 17 for loss, he had eight sacks, he had eight past deflections,

one pick.

I mean, you caught talk about interceptions.

I mean, it's not easy to get interceptions.

Yeah.

Especially.

Like a lot of quarterbacks are going to throw at you sometime.

Well, especially do middle lineback usually come down with a ton of picks, and I think

a lot of those when you look at the sack numbers and interceptions, he played all kinds

of different positions.

He played off ball linebacker.

He played edge.

He dropped into coverage.

She was covering tight ends and running backs.

Sometimes receivers too.

He's just a versatile athletic guy about his skill set is that he's not just a guy who's

going to be a thumper as far as tackling and stopping the run.

He can do what Bobby Wagner clearly can't cover guys coming out of the backfield, cover

fast tight ends.

He hits like a back truck.

Yeah.

I mean, what's not to love about the guy?

Look, I was watching.

I think he's going to be really good.

I was watching some of the insiders talk about him.

And I'm just giving you part of the equation that some people have these doubts.

And I had some of it, but watching and we're going to play some of this audio later watching

some of these insiders talk about what he brings the table.

I'm a salt.

I mean, he's going to have to deliver.

I'm sold.

Now he's somebody who also improved in college.

Here's what Adam Peters talked about it because he wasn't playing linebacker at first.

When you talk about the improving later as a linebacker, where were there some moments

that can that you saw maybe some really big improvements that kind of convinced you like

he's really taken off.

This is a guy that can keep doing this.

Yeah.

I think it really in every, every kind of portion of the game, John, I think, you know,

you see him playing in the box and using his hands and shedding blocks and reading blocks

and then getting to the, getting to the ball and, and playing like physical, like taking

on guards and it got better and better.

And then as a blitzer, you got better.

And I think he's just scratching the surface there and he's going to be a great blitzer.

And so all those things that, you know, come with changing positions, you saw it kind of

come to life and you saw it in the playoffs.

I mean, he played against Indiana, his game against Indiana was incredible.

And he just made some big time plays in the Miami game as well.

Indiana wasn't playoffs, but, you know, you know, everything about them.

So, I mean, Matt Miller, who does analysis for ESPN, cops into Fred Warner.

If you get a cop to Fred Warner, that's a pretty solid cop.

And we know Adam Peters has experience with Warner from his San Francisco day.

So I'm sure he saw some of that in sunny styles, hence why he made the pick.

Well, what they lacked on defense last year, the most was speed and youth.

Yep.

They've infused the team defensively for their new defense coordinator with speed and youth.

By the way, Frankie Louvre.

Frankie Louvre is getting RAS score shamed by his new linebacker crew because sunny styles

scored a 10 Leo Chanel scored a 9.9.

Frankie Louvre, he's got to do do RAS at 3.91, 3.91.

He may not be in the long term plans.

That's another reason we talked about the last night.

It's another reason why they probably went to that position because who knows how long

Louvre will be here.

So when they got to the seventh pick, yeah.

And you were a priority in your bed.

I was.

I stayed up until after the Cowboys took downs.

How did you think they were going to do because as you mentioned, they're at seven.

I thought it was carnaltated, been drafted, but Tyson was available.

The next best receiver.

You had Caleb Downs, the safety available, and you had sunny styles.

Did you think it was going to be styles?

No, I knew it was going to be sunny styles.

Once he was there at seven, once the chiefs picked the lane, I mean, I just, I do that

Roger Gidell was going to step to the podium and say sunny style.

I was.

Fifty-fifty on styles and downs.

I didn't know.

It's kind of a coin flip.

Again, styles one out just because of his, his, his combine performance, his combine

performance mixed with the tape, sealed it for Adam Peters and his staff.

And we talked about, we talked about the secondary last night and we talked about the secondary

throughout.

I mean, they added cross at safety.

Yeah.

I'm not saying that that means they couldn't have drafted another safety they certainly

could have, but maybe they felt decent about that.

Whereas they feel like there was a greater need at linebacker and you'd have a bigger

impact.

Here's what Peter said about how they plan to use sunny styles on defense.

Given his versatility, how do you guys envision using him?

Yeah, I think that's one of the cool things because we have a really talented room, I think,

and guys that are all very versatile.

And so, and we have a coaching staff that is really good about deploying those guys.

And so, I mean, sunny as a guy, you can play off the ball, you can play on the ball,

you can, you can mug up and blitz.

There's so many different things you can do.

You can play Mike, play Will, play Sam, you know, all those different things.

He's got the size to play on the edge.

And so, he's really versatile.

And so, we can kind of mix and match and deploy those guys and play, you know, as many linebackers

we can on the field.

And I'm excited to see what the guys will do with Doronta and DQ and, and, and Ken and,

those guys, like, they're going to, they're going to be able to get really creative.

Yeah, it will be interesting because most of the time last year, they were seemingly

just playing two linebackers.

Yeah.

And they do have edge rushers, but yeah, now you can use some of those guys to basically

rush on the edge.

I was going to say, because styles can do a bunch of different things.

You know what I mean?

He's, he's not just a linebacker.

He's a versatile guy.

He's going to cover guys.

He's not done the edge and go after the quarterback.

I love it.

I love the versatility he brings to the defense.

Yeah.

They're going to use them all over the place.

Yeah.

I think you're, I think commanders fans are going to be very happy and excited, including

Mr. Bickle.

Yeah.

He might need some winning over.

Yeah.

Eventually, he's probably going to come around.

We're going to try and catch up with EB, who's, uh, and route to Utah for his daughter's

volleyball tournament.

But what he tweeted last night, definitely upset the fan base.

So he first tweeted, we drafted a project.

Then this is an old school name.

He tweeted Mike Mimola, Jr. who was an Eagles draft choice that was a combine freak.

Right.

And he got drafted high because he was, had these ridiculous athletic scores and then

he didn't do anything in the process.

He is going to get the last laugh.

If Caleb Downs goes to Dallas and he's an eight time pro baller and turns around a

future defense.

And he's really good.

And if sunny styles face plants here in DC, I just don't think that's going to happen.

I don't think.

I think they're both going to be really good.

Yeah.

I don't think sunny styles is Jamon Davis part two.

No, I don't either.

I don't think that's going to be the way it plays out for him, the way his story ends here

in Washington.

But I'm willing to give him a chance and see actually how good he is in this defense led

by Dan Quinn and Doranta Jones.

Yeah.

And when Eric says he watches, when he was watching the highlights of styles and he said

nothing really jumped out, I don't, I just think that's preconceived because you're already

don't like him.

When I was watching highlights from this past year, he's just making plays all over the

field.

Right.

I mean, he is.

He's making tackles.

He's behind a lot of scrimmage getting pressure on the quarterback.

He's deflecting balls.

Yeah.

He's covering tight ends and running backs and he's doing a ton.

More importantly, people that know way more about football and are paid way more to know

more about football than everybody in this room.

Right.

They don't believe the project determined that sunny styles is a better player at least

for them and for their system than Caleb downs was.

Correct.

Both of those players were readily available to be selected, but that doesn't mean that's

the right pick.

Because every guy who made a draft choice last night, right, from every team knows more

than us.

Yeah.

And yet they make mistakes all the time.

It's not perfect signs.

I've never said it is.

So just to use the argument that they know more than us.

That doesn't mean they're right.

Doesn't mean they're right, but that brain trust they spent months and months and millions

of dollars researching these guys and they determined that styles is a better fit for them

and a better player than Caleb downs.

So you have like, you just have to beat us.

You trust Adam.

Well, some people, some people don't.

If you don't, if you trust Adam Peters, then you have to trust in him, making this

selection.

Should we go to the phones real quick?

Let's go out to line two.

Yeah.

I think it's Ben.

Ben, you're on with the junkies.

What's up?

Yeah.

I think it's a good pick.

And I think the biggest reason is we're seeing a big change in the NFL.

You're taking a lot of blurring between edges and linebackers and blurring between line

backers and secondary and diverse players, or I should say, versatile players are a must.

And it's like some stuff I just heard a little while ago that you said that he may have

changed the style a little bit because at Ohio State, he's a big fish and a big pond.

And when he comes here, he'll be a big fish and I'm not so big pond.

So I think you'll see his numbers actually grow up and he shows he can learn.

And I got one other thing to say real quick, but yesterday, you do not want to talk to

a private jet to O.C., I've flown private jet for work between, um, well, it wouldn't be

a private jet.

So Langley, and you don't, you don't ever get the speed.

It's going to be still going to be a 40 minute trip because you never get up to speed

in altitude.

Get a tour button and live in luxury for the, for the 120 miles.

All right.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Appreciate that.

It's not going to be a private jet with 10 seats.

This is going to be a legit jet with, uh, playing with 150 seats.

Right.

Big boy.

And like Draps said last night or yesterday on the show, it's probably not going to happen.

Yeah.

It could be a pipe tree.

Yeah, yeah.

1-800-636-1067 is the number talking about the commanders, taking sunny styles with

the number seven, pick the linebacker from Ohio State.

You can vote on our poll of the day or Surfside poll of the day at Junk's Radio.

When we come back, we'll go through the top 10 picks and react to who did really well

and who surprised us here on the junkies.

Jason paid me my $1 because I bet the under 821 and 30 seconds for the first pick.

Kudos to Roger Gidell and the NFL.

There was a little pause at the beginning when they brought out every stealer known to

me.

Okay.

Well, they brought out Lin Swan and, and Betis.

That was later.

Okay.

I'm sorry.

They're not going to bring anything next year here in DC.

I'm sure.

They're going to try to.

I can't remember who he brought out to start.

Well, it was to start.

There was TJ Watt and there was Hayward and then they started bringing in like some old

schoolers like Terry Bradshaw, Big Ben showed up on stage.

Yeah, there was about seven or eight guys that showed up on stage at that point.

And then boom, they started the draft and thankfully a lot of teams didn't use their

full eight minutes.

So we knew Fernando Mendoza was going to go number one.

So the Raiders have their quarterback.

They've got Kirk Cousins.

They've got Fernando Mendoza.

We'll see how long it takes for Mendoza to become the starter.

I kind of suspect it's going to be a little bit later in the season like it could be, you

know, the Kansas chief's model Patrick Mahomes sat behind Alex Smith most of the year.

Yeah.

If I'm the Raiders and I feel like he's ready.

I'm throwing him out there week one.

I'm throwing him right into the fire.

I'm usually like that, but I'm just, you gave Kirk Cousins, you think he's not even

close to ready?

You gave Kirk Cousins a lot of money.

He's the placeholder.

So they draft Mendoza.

I look, if he clearly beats out Cousins in training camp, I agree with you, but the chances

of him of Cousins just looking awful in training camp is probably zero.

Right.

I mean, he's going to look good.

He's going to end up be the week one starter.

So the Jets had the number two pick and they took David Bailey, not R. Vell Reese.

A lot of mock drafts had the Jets taking R. Vell Reese.

Bailey maybe had more production, sack numbers than R. Vell Reese.

So they got a pass rusher.

And then maybe the first surprise, like the first pop at honor brewing was that third

pick when Jeremiah love goes to the card.

Right.

Because a lot of people thought that he might fall to seven for the commanders to possibly

select.

And most mox had him going forward of the Titans.

Right.

And what I was watching ESPN NFL live during the day doing pre draft coverage.

All of their hosts were out there in a Peter Schrager was out there or Lofsky was out

there.

I can't remember the Ryan Clark was out there.

I don't know the girl's name.

I think she's kind of Asian that she's one of their NFL.

And mean of times.

Yeah.

And mean of times when they were talking about the Arizona Cardinals at three.

Yeah.

Probably against drafting love because she said they need to go out and approve their

offensive line first because the offense line was so bad.

And Schrager and we're asking is you got to go after the best player to get me to make

your team better.

So they were so pro love, but they were going at it because she was anti love at three.

And they were pro.

I feel like the Cardinals need some offensive identity and the love brings that to them.

I've also heard an argument against draft in the run and make there based on salary.

Yeah.

Right.

You're slotted a certain amount of money like he's already going to be making like

Saequan Barclay money.

Yeah.

But that's what happens when you get picked that high in the draft and it's it's infrequent

that you see a running back.

Go that high.

Yeah.

So he goes number three.

And then another kind of maybe mild surprise because a lot of people thought the Titans

they want to give a cam ward who they drafted last year and are going over all some weapons.

And most people thought, well, that's the team that's going to select Jeremiah

love.

Yeah.

He wasn't available.

They go wide receiver and go carnal tape.

I actually like that a lot because you want a good ecosystem for your young quarterback

and look what they did in the off season.

They signed Juan Dale Robinson and some people might be like, he's okay.

But he catches like 80 some balls every year like in the last two years.

I think about it be higher than that.

So that's another like security blanket guy.

You add carnal tape Calvin Ridley still there.

You wonder about his health at this point.

They need more young productive players and carnal tape.

Fits that mold.

I mean, it was a little surprising, but it's not a shocking pick.

If love was available and had dropped to four, I'm guessing it would have taken love

over tape.

I would think.

Yeah.

So at number five, I think it's a good pick.

The giants who also had the 10th pick.

They look at the board and all of a sudden, Arvel Reese, who a lot of people had as potential

number two pick, he's available.

They go with Arvel Reese at five.

Are you surprised?

I was so they could have gone with any of the Ohio State defensive players.

They could have gone down.

It's going to go on sunny styles.

I just feel like that's tremendous value for the giants for a guy who was widely mocked

to be the second or third pick.

He falls to you at five and you add him to a defense that already has tibido and carder

and burns.

I mean, think about all the edge guys studs that they have and that's like a terrifying

defense.

It really is.

I think it's a good pick.

I get it right on offense.

That defense should be a really good compliment.

He's young.

He's 20 years old.

I don't know if he was the youngest guy in the draft, but he's very young.

They say he's much much more mature for his age.

He's athletic.

He's going to be really good for them.

I mean, when he, when he got past the Titans at four, I was like, are the commander is

going to get Arvel Reese at seven?

Like I started, I started thinking about that.

Would you prefer him over sunny styles?

I think I think it would be close.

I would have just trusted Adam Peterson, who we had on either one.

I like you'd be happy with either one of those studs if they fall to seven.

Just turns out that it was sunny styles, but I never realistically expected Arvel Reese

to make it to the seven hole.

So Arvel Reese goes number five, then you have the first trade and there were a bunch

of trades.

I think there was eight in the first round.

The Kansas City Chiefs moved up, traded with the Cleveland Browns, and they took who,

at that point, you're thinking maybe the commanders are going to go Mansour D'Alene, but the

Chiefs said, no, no, no, we're taking Mansour D'Alene.

Well, they traded McDuffie in the off season to the Rams, so they had a glaring need

at corner, and they felt D'Alene was the best guy.

They only had to move up three spots to secure him.

So I thought that made a lot of sense for, it made sense for both the Chiefs and the Browns

because the Browns were clearly in the market for a tackle, and they're watching the first

round unfold.

They're like, well, there's no offensive lineman going.

We don't need to stick at six to get our guy, get some extra draft capital, let the Chiefs

move up, and the Browns still get their guy at nine.

It would have been interesting to see if they did take the trade up to take styles.

Right.

If the commanders would have taken Mansour there, or they would have taken down, or Tyson,

I don't know, one of those guys, but it would have been interesting to see if they would

have jumped on D'Alene if he was available.

So the commanders take sunny styles at eight drabs guy from Arizona State, Jordan Tyson

goes to the Saints.

You know what?

D'Alene said, drab loves, he loves the city of New Orleans, and now his guy, Jordan Tyson,

playing for the Saints with, you know what, Tyler Schuck, he's got some good receivers.

Kind of a surprising, you know, emergence last year, and now you add another weapon to

Chris Alave.

Yeah.

I kind of like it.

Last year.

The Raiders were my number two team.

Yeah.

That's what I'm saying.

Yeah.

Because also their head coach is Kellyn Moore from that's true.

That's a very good point.

I forgot about that connection, too.

He's from Spokane.

He's from Prostor, Washington, right outside Richland, Washington, which is my hometown.

Oh, very good.

And Tyson was very emotional.

Did you see when he was driving, we got picked, I didn't see his, his, his boss.

All right.

So he dropped to his knees, walking down that, that corridor the hallway, right?

He was on the hat.

And then when he came out on the stage before he hugs Roger Goudelle, he was crying.

And there was the big thing of snott or something came out of his nose or his mouth.

The big snott bubble.

I don't know if it was snott, but he was crying.

So he was just, you know, you know, when you, when you get real emotion, everything rushes

to your head.

Yeah.

And did you, did you notice that, Travis?

He had a big thing, big glob of something came out of his nose and I think, oh, I just

thought of it here.

But yeah, yeah.

The terrifying guy.

I'm thinking he's going to get that all over Goudelle suit.

I'm skipping some picks here.

When Ruben Bain got selected, he looked like he wanted to murder everyone.

Like his, his demeanor, and maybe that's unfair, but like he was just like business like

intimidating guy.

Well, he's hugging everybody his family and his family, they, they did a bit where they're

all wearing like the same outfit.

I don't know if you guys noticed.

Like all the same sort of, there was another player later where everybody wore white and

it just, it just shouted like us against a world mentality, like you saw, and you saw

how business like he was, like when the guys would, would get their hats, they would,

they would do this with their hats and look in the camera.

Bain just walked by, swiped the hat off of the little stand that it was sitting on and

then he went out and hugged Roger Goudelle, like he looked pissed that he fell all the

15, down to 15 to Tampa.

Like he expected, expected to go top 10.

He looks like he's going to be a game record.

He looked super pissed and intense.

I was surprised he slipped to 15, I would, I would, I would have bet that he would have

gone inside the top.

Yeah, I would have thought Dallas might have taken him where, where downs went.

Yeah.

Coming up later in the program, we're going to check in with Steve Zaven.

We'll talk to Zave at 725, get his taken what the commanders did.

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