# The Insiders Podcast: Team Draft Needs, Orlando Storm HC Anthony Becht, and Edge Prospect Romello Height Join the Insiders

An episode of [NFL: The Insiders](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1543090622), 17 Apr 2026, 41 min.

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NFL Network Insiders Tom Pelissero, Mike Garafolo, and Judy Battista review the Cardinals, Titans, and Browns draft needs. Then Brian Baldinger joins to discuss the Chiefs; Jane Slater shares updates on the Cowboys, Orlando Storm head coach Anthony Becht breaks down his journey to hte UFL, and Texas Tech edge prospect Romello Height joins the Insiders. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:08] Speaker 1: Quby one in the draft. Pretty sure who that's going
[0:10] Speaker 1: to be.
[0:10] Speaker 2: Tune in anyway, I want to see the official selection
[0:13] Speaker 2: from the Raiders.
[0:13] Speaker 3: How about you?
[0:14] Speaker 4: B two?
[0:14] Speaker 2: Could he go at three? We're talking about the Cardinals. Yes,
[0:18] Speaker 2: that is coming up early on in this program here.
[0:21] Speaker 2: Baldi's BOC big men on campus.
[0:27] Speaker 1: Baldi loves the big guys, you know that, and he's
[0:29] Speaker 1: going to break it down for.
[0:30] Speaker 2: Us ahead of next week's draft and Texas Tech Edge.
[0:34] Speaker 2: A guy likes to run around and maybe sometimes through
[0:37] Speaker 2: those big men.
[0:39] Speaker 1: Rebello Hike joining the program tonight.
[0:42] Speaker 2: He is one of our interviews here on The Insiders. Yeah,
[0:47] Speaker 2: welcome inside with us Ian Rappaport, Judy Batista, myself, Mike Garafolo.
[0:52] Speaker 2: We've got Baldi coming up very shortly. We've got Jane Slater.
[0:55] Speaker 2: We also have Anthony Beck, head coach of the ufls
[0:58] Speaker 2: Orlando's Storm, and Jets analyst.
[1:01] Speaker 1: We're going to talk Jets in the draft. We love
[1:02] Speaker 1: to talk Jets in the draft, so do their fans.
[1:05] Speaker 2: And right after the Jets pick next week, at least
[1:07] Speaker 2: says it's currently scheduled, the Arizona Cardinals will pick. They
[1:11] Speaker 2: hosted Ty Simpson for a visit Ty Simpson. Yeah, we're
[1:16] Speaker 2: expecting him to be QB too. The question is when
[1:18] Speaker 2: is he going to go in the draft? Well, let's
[1:22] Speaker 2: check in with GM of the Cardinals, Monteasin Fort and
[1:25] Speaker 2: the head coach, Micha Lafleur, two guys that are in
[1:27] Speaker 2: lockstep despite being on opposite ends of the hair spectrum.
[1:31] Speaker 5: Accuracy decision making, those are always at the forefront, you know,
[1:35] Speaker 5: And so every year we put a there's there's different
[1:38] Speaker 5: players the quarterbacks, different sizes, different styles, and so you know,
[1:43] Speaker 5: it looks different. The college game looks different than the
[1:45] Speaker 5: NFL game does, and so it's tough to us to
[1:48] Speaker 5: really look at those guys and project how they're going
[1:50] Speaker 5: to translate to our league. And so, you know, every
[1:53] Speaker 5: year is different, and we've certainly did our share of
[1:55] Speaker 5: evaluation on the quarterbacks in this year's draft.
[1:57] Speaker 6: You know, ultimately, you're going to play the best player
[1:59] Speaker 6: that you think is gonna give you the best chance
[2:01] Speaker 6: to win in period. If all things are equal, then yeah,
[2:04] Speaker 6: you'd rather have that veteran kind of show that guy.
[2:08] Speaker 6: But again, if we all believe as an organization that
[2:10] Speaker 6: the young guy is going to give you the best
[2:12] Speaker 6: chance during that sixty minute game to win, then you're
[2:15] Speaker 6: gonna throw them out there.
[2:16] Speaker 2: Ian, we are a one week and one hour away
[2:19] Speaker 2: from the Raiders being on the clock and to start
[2:21] Speaker 2: get some to get some answers here.
[2:23] Speaker 1: But I'll tell you, w why don't you just give
[2:24] Speaker 1: it to us? Now? What are the Cardinals going to
[2:25] Speaker 1: do when it comes to the quarterback position?
[2:28] Speaker 7: Well, the Cardinals do have the number three overall pick.
[2:31] Speaker 7: I would say this. I've been surprised during drafts before.
[2:33] Speaker 7: I still remember the Mitchell Trubisky pick by the Chicago
[2:36] Speaker 7: Bears traded up and took him that I think blew
[2:38] Speaker 7: everyone's heads apart a stunner. That is possible, but I
[2:43] Speaker 7: would be surprised based on what I know if the
[2:45] Speaker 7: Cardinals took good quarterback at three. It certainly seems like
[2:48] Speaker 7: several other position players there, including Jeremiah Love by the way,
[2:51] Speaker 7: his window I believe starts at number three. It's really
[2:54] Speaker 7: that next pick for the Cardinals where we say do
[2:57] Speaker 7: they end up taking a quarterback? And there are two
[2:59] Speaker 7: teams early on in the second round, the Jets and
[3:01] Speaker 7: the Cardinals who have done the quarterback work and still
[3:03] Speaker 7: do not have a franchise quarterback we don't believe on
[3:06] Speaker 7: their roster, you would imagine Ty Simpson would be that guy,
[3:10] Speaker 7: would be QB two. So for the Arizona Cardinals, who
[3:13] Speaker 7: again still do need a franchise quarterback, this is the question.
[3:16] Speaker 7: Do they wait it out for the New York Jets,
[3:18] Speaker 7: cross their fingers, hope the Jets don't take one, and
[3:21] Speaker 7: then at thirty four say, okay, we now select ty
[3:24] Speaker 7: ty Simpson or do they say, oh, I don't know,
[3:27] Speaker 7: swing a trade with someone that Monteaziboard has already traded
[3:30] Speaker 7: for traded with. During the NFL Draft, Texas general manager
[3:33] Speaker 7: Nick Cassio at twenty eight or something, hop up a
[3:36] Speaker 7: few picks and say all right, we're gonna just jump
[3:39] Speaker 7: up and make sure we get our quarterback. That really,
[3:41] Speaker 7: to me is the question, because if the Jets or
[3:44] Speaker 7: the Cardinals do not take ty Simpson Judy, then his
[3:48] Speaker 7: weight may be a long way. So all eyes are
[3:50] Speaker 7: on the back couple picks of the first round to
[3:53] Speaker 7: see if there's a quarterback trade right there.
[3:57] Speaker 4: I feel like the draft release starts at number three
[4:00] Speaker 4: with the Cardinals because I think we know what the
[4:02] Speaker 4: Raiders are going to do, and I think we know
[4:04] Speaker 4: what the Jets are going to do and are not
[4:06] Speaker 4: going to do at number two, So I do think
[4:08] Speaker 4: at three this is where things start to fall into
[4:11] Speaker 4: place for us. Don't forget, they don't have to take
[4:14] Speaker 4: a quarterback at number three. They could follow the model
[4:18] Speaker 4: that the New York Giants followed last year, which take
[4:20] Speaker 4: whoever they want. In that case it was a dual
[4:23] Speaker 4: carter and edge. They could do that here for the
[4:25] Speaker 4: Cardinals that is in need for them as well, and
[4:27] Speaker 4: then come back into the bottom of the first round
[4:31] Speaker 4: and get the quarterback. Ty Simpson visited with the Arizona
[4:34] Speaker 4: Cardinals yesterday, the final day that they could have visits.
[4:39] Speaker 4: They are in need of a quarterback. I thought, what
[4:41] Speaker 4: was so interesting about the press conferences. They wouldn't even
[4:44] Speaker 4: talk about a front runner as a quarterback. They forget
[4:47] Speaker 4: about naming a starter. They're not going to put the
[4:49] Speaker 4: horse race into play at all yet. I would be
[4:53] Speaker 4: surprised if the Jets took a quarterback, certainly in the
[4:57] Speaker 4: first round and even in the second round. So the
[4:59] Speaker 4: way maybe for them to wait until the second round anyway,
[5:02] Speaker 4: But they always have the option again of sneaking back
[5:05] Speaker 4: into the bottom of the first rount and getting Ty Simpson.
[5:08] Speaker 4: He is going to be in Pittsburgh for the draft,
[5:11] Speaker 4: the only quarterback in the green room. It would certainly
[5:14] Speaker 4: make for great television if they were to do that.
[5:17] Speaker 2: As we wait to see the Cardinals' long term plan
[5:19] Speaker 2: at the quarterback position, how about the guy that will
[5:21] Speaker 2: be protecting whoever it is his back blindside. They'll always
[5:26] Speaker 2: have Paris well, at least for the next two years.
[5:28] Speaker 2: I mean, they want to lock them up beyond that,
[5:30] Speaker 2: But I just wanted to make that Casablanca reference there.
[5:33] Speaker 2: Paris Johnson Junior, the fifth year option locked in for
[5:36] Speaker 2: nineteen million dollars, was earlier today, and again I'm expecting
[5:40] Speaker 2: a lot more money in more years for him from
[5:43] Speaker 2: the Cardinals at some point.
[5:44] Speaker 1: Just not there just yet.
[5:45] Speaker 2: Meanwhile, in Tennessee, another team in the top five here. Yeah,
[5:49] Speaker 2: they're getting some work in now as the Robert Sala
[5:52] Speaker 2: era begins. These guys are really working. Man in the
[5:54] Speaker 2: editing makes it look even that much more intense. Here
[5:58] Speaker 2: is Titan's row manager Mike Borganzi on what he's gonna
[6:02] Speaker 2: do with all nine picks.
[6:03] Speaker 8: Tell us, Mike, I certainly think there's a there's a
[6:07] Speaker 8: cluster of players up there that we that we really like,
[6:10] Speaker 8: but in particular Jehn Myers. You know, I think he's
[6:12] Speaker 8: a special player. You know, I've talked about this is
[6:15] Speaker 8: the combine before. You know, they can speed, you can
[6:18] Speaker 8: do things out of the backfield as a receiver. But
[6:21] Speaker 8: it's also a group of edge guys up there that
[6:23] Speaker 8: they're really good too. So I think we'll have some
[6:25] Speaker 8: really good options there at four.
[6:28] Speaker 2: Yeah, it seemed like he was setting the table for potentially.
[6:31] Speaker 2: I mean, there's a bunch of teams I think in
[6:32] Speaker 2: the top ten ball that are saying, come and get
[6:34] Speaker 2: us when it comes to potentially trading.
[6:36] Speaker 1: We've got a bunch of guys we like.
[6:37] Speaker 2: Don't go too far though, because we hear this thing
[6:39] Speaker 2: falls off a cliff in the middle of the first round.
[6:41] Speaker 2: So you're the Titans, you're Mike Borganzi. If you're saying
[6:43] Speaker 2: it for what are you doing there?
[6:46] Speaker 9: Well, first of all, if you just looked at free agency, Mike,
[6:49] Speaker 9: and you look at who they signed, I mean they
[6:50] Speaker 9: traded for Jermaine Johnson and signed John Franklin Myers. It
[6:54] Speaker 9: sure seems like Robert Sala has a lot of influence
[6:57] Speaker 9: on how they're building this roster. So with that in
[6:59] Speaker 9: my at four, I mean, if you follow Salo around
[7:03] Speaker 9: from Seattle where he had Bobby Wagner, San Francisco where
[7:06] Speaker 9: he had Fred Warner, New York where he had you know, CJ. Moseley,
[7:10] Speaker 9: He's always had a quarterback running his defense. So I
[7:14] Speaker 9: just think like, if Sonny Styles is there at four,
[7:17] Speaker 9: like you have to consider them because that would be
[7:19] Speaker 9: their quarterback on defense. They got their quarterback on offense.
[7:22] Speaker 9: And then it does look like if you want to
[7:24] Speaker 9: put Robert SLOs defense on the field week one, it
[7:27] Speaker 9: looks like if one of the edge rushers David Bailey
[7:30] Speaker 9: Ruben Bain Junior are there, that might complete the front four.
[7:34] Speaker 3: And I think they're looking to do that.
[7:36] Speaker 9: They can certainly look at Jeremiah Love and go and
[7:38] Speaker 9: see the talent, but I think they feel pretty good
[7:40] Speaker 9: about Tony Pollard and Todd Spears at least that's what
[7:43] Speaker 9: Mike Borgonzi and Robert Salo said much earlier in this offseason.
[7:47] Speaker 9: So I'm looking at Sonny Styles, I'm looking at edge rusher,
[7:50] Speaker 9: and then oh yeah, they lost their starting center and
[7:53] Speaker 9: starting right guard they've got to fill those positions as
[7:55] Speaker 9: well as the draft moves along, well, he.
[7:59] Speaker 2: Just broke it down perfect for the Team's really a three,
[8:01] Speaker 2: four or five and elsewhere in the top ten two
[8:03] Speaker 2: that you can draft Jeremiah Love and you can take him,
[8:07] Speaker 2: and he's an unbelievable player. But you've got like these
[8:10] Speaker 2: other caannalyizing players at these other key positions here. So
[8:13] Speaker 2: I just can't wait to see what GM and team
[8:16] Speaker 2: at some point goes. You know what, this guy's just
[8:17] Speaker 2: too good. We've got to grab him as one of
[8:19] Speaker 2: the pieces of drama to watch in the top ten. Baldi,
[8:22] Speaker 2: don't go anywhere big men on campus. We're gonna be
[8:24] Speaker 2: talking about them and just a bit and we know
[8:26] Speaker 2: how you love to break that down. Here's what the
[8:27] Speaker 2: Cleveland Browns are looking at when it comes to.
[8:30] Speaker 1: Their draft picks. Andrew Berry. You got the receiver position.
[8:35] Speaker 2: Could that be something they're potentially looking to address there
[8:38] Speaker 2: with their one of their two first round picks Andrew Berry.
[8:42] Speaker 10: They both have size, you know, they both can separate,
[8:46] Speaker 10: good hands. You know, obviously Carnell he's a you know,
[8:51] Speaker 10: if he's not a an NFL receiver, he probably could
[8:55] Speaker 10: be a trapiece artist with how acrobatic he is. And
[8:57] Speaker 10: you know Jordan's an excellent creator with the ball his hands.
[9:00] Speaker 10: So they're too excellent, excellent, excel excellent prospects.
[9:06] Speaker 2: That's Carnel Tait and Jordan Tyson. Your boy didn't do
[9:08] Speaker 2: a great job of setting that one up there. So
[9:10] Speaker 2: I'm going to tell you who those guys are. Okay,
[9:11] Speaker 2: names you're gonna hear early in the draft.
[9:13] Speaker 1: Ian.
[9:13] Speaker 2: Let's look at the Browns. They've done some maneuvering that
[9:16] Speaker 2: they said, did some maneuvering last year. They had Dravis
[9:18] Speaker 2: Hunter right in their laps, and they said we're going
[9:20] Speaker 2: to slide back a little bit and get some value.
[9:22] Speaker 2: Could potentially see that as they try to get ready
[9:25] Speaker 2: for next year's draft as well. Among the teams that
[9:27] Speaker 2: could be stockpiling some stuff. What are you expect it
[9:29] Speaker 2: from the Browns?
[9:30] Speaker 7: Yeah, first of all, last year then just gets the value.
[9:32] Speaker 7: They got some value and a really really good player,
[9:36] Speaker 7: someone who's gonna be one of the building blocks in
[9:37] Speaker 7: Mason Graham of their defense. But be right, you look
[9:39] Speaker 7: at this year and I think everyone thinks that Andrew
[9:42] Speaker 7: Berry is just going to move right like that's sort
[9:44] Speaker 7: of one of the draft storylines is all right, so
[9:46] Speaker 7: obviously they're six now and then they got to pick
[9:48] Speaker 7: later where they actually going to start picking. But there
[9:51] Speaker 7: are going to be some really really good players there.
[9:53] Speaker 7: And just taking kind of a look at this thing
[9:55] Speaker 7: that clip we saw right there was about the two receivers.
[9:58] Speaker 7: First of all, there is a possibilit that both of
[10:00] Speaker 7: those receivers are not there by the time the Cleveland
[10:04] Speaker 7: Browns pick. The Giants certainly could have a need of receiver.
[10:06] Speaker 7: You would wonder if they would at least take a
[10:08] Speaker 7: look at someone like Carnell Tate there at number five.
[10:11] Speaker 7: Obviously some other options as well, but I think most
[10:13] Speaker 7: people believe the Cleveland Browns will be looking at the
[10:16] Speaker 7: offensive line right They still need a starting tackle. They
[10:20] Speaker 7: might have their choice of all of the tackles in
[10:22] Speaker 7: the draft, whether it's Francis Mawley, Noo, whether it's Lomu,
[10:25] Speaker 7: whether it's Fanu. I mean, there are some options there
[10:28] Speaker 7: for the Cleveland Browns. They have focused so much on
[10:31] Speaker 7: their offensive line this offseason. That has been one of
[10:34] Speaker 7: the missions for Andrew Berry and for all of the
[10:37] Speaker 7: new coaches and the coaching staff there. Having the opportunity
[10:40] Speaker 7: to take the best offensive tackle was a pretty good
[10:43] Speaker 7: offensive tackle draft. Certainly, that is going to be something
[10:46] Speaker 7: that is going to dictate where the Cleveland Browns go
[10:49] Speaker 7: over here and really how much value they believe that
[10:52] Speaker 7: holds well.
[10:53] Speaker 4: They have turned over their entire offensive line this offseason.
[10:56] Speaker 4: I think part of the reason why it's so intriguing
[10:59] Speaker 4: the idea that Drew Berry could move back and get
[11:01] Speaker 4: more picks, certainly more picks for next draft, which is
[11:05] Speaker 4: perceived to be a stronger class. But even move back
[11:07] Speaker 4: now is he did such a good job drafting last season.
[11:11] Speaker 4: I mean, they got rock solid contributing players at so
[11:16] Speaker 4: many different spots last season that they have really put
[11:19] Speaker 4: in place a foundation of youth. And if he can
[11:22] Speaker 4: do that again this season, and that's a high bar.
[11:25] Speaker 4: It's hard to draft as well as they drafted last season.
[11:28] Speaker 4: But if you can hit on a few picks this
[11:31] Speaker 4: year the way you hit on so many last year,
[11:33] Speaker 4: you've really turned over a large chunk of your roster
[11:36] Speaker 4: to very young, productive players. You could see that being
[11:40] Speaker 4: the seeds of a true turnaround with the Browns. Of course,
[11:43] Speaker 4: we have to see if their quarterback situation is completely settled.
[11:47] Speaker 4: But as you pointed out, if they could get a
[11:49] Speaker 4: top tier offensive lineman with that first pick and then
[11:53] Speaker 4: load up again on really solid young players, you could
[11:57] Speaker 4: see that maybe the tide is finally going to turn
[12:00] Speaker 4: for the Cleveland Browns.
[12:01] Speaker 2: Quarterbacks still one of the needs there, according to ESPN
[12:04] Speaker 2: dot Com for the Browns, and next year supposedly is
[12:08] Speaker 2: a loaded quarterback class. Right now, only one team has
[12:12] Speaker 2: multiple picks in the first round. That's the Jets, and
[12:14] Speaker 2: they don't have just two, they have three. So let's
[12:16] Speaker 2: see who comes out of next week with an extra
[12:18] Speaker 2: first round pick to try to start to set up
[12:20] Speaker 2: set themselves up for twenty twenty seven. Speaking of ESPN
[12:23] Speaker 2: dot Com, our colleague Adam Schefter at ESPN reporting that
[12:27] Speaker 2: Devon a Chan, who is not present for the start
[12:30] Speaker 2: of the team's voluntary offseason program last week, spotted in
[12:33] Speaker 2: the Dolphins facility today a Chan showed up as a
[12:36] Speaker 2: sign of good faith as the two sides work toward
[12:41] Speaker 2: a solution.
[12:42] Speaker 1: That was the rest of that.
[12:42] Speaker 2: Right there, got two hundred and eighty characters, right, That's
[12:45] Speaker 2: all we allow here on NFL Network. We also allow
[12:48] Speaker 2: some cowboys talk from time to time. Believe it or not,
[12:50] Speaker 2: and Jane Slater is coming to tell us what that
[12:53] Speaker 2: gentleman right there might be thinking with his multiple first
[12:56] Speaker 2: round picks. But before that, oh Height, a young man
[13:01] Speaker 2: who was hoping to get too great Heights in the NFL,
[13:04] Speaker 2: the Texas Tech defensive end.
[13:05] Speaker 1: He joins us to talk about his journey. That is
[13:08] Speaker 1: up next. All the in times.
[13:20] Speaker 4: There you see Romelo Heights announcement that he was going
[13:23] Speaker 4: to enter the draft. And now here is Romelo Height
[13:28] Speaker 4: joining us on the Insiders. We are just one week
[13:32] Speaker 4: out from the draft. Rommelo, thanks so much for taking
[13:35] Speaker 4: a moment to join us here on the Insiders. I
[13:37] Speaker 4: am Gudi Batista. I know this can be a little
[13:39] Speaker 4: bit of a nerve wrecking time. How are you holding up?
[13:42] Speaker 4: What have you been doing?
[13:44] Speaker 11: Honestly, I've just been, you know, trying to throughout the
[13:46] Speaker 11: process recently, the past you know, a week or so,
[13:50] Speaker 11: I've been taking visits to, you know, a few different teams,
[13:54] Speaker 11: and honestly, I've just been stacking days, you know, and
[13:57] Speaker 11: just waiting toil that time come.
[13:58] Speaker 4: So you just had a birthday, first of all, congratulations,
[14:02] Speaker 4: happy birthday. It was just a few days ago. You're
[14:04] Speaker 4: twenty five years old. I know you've been talking to teams.
[14:07] Speaker 4: What kind of feedback do you get from teams about
[14:10] Speaker 4: you being twenty five years old?
[14:13] Speaker 11: The age haven't really been a concern, you know, shockingly,
[14:17] Speaker 11: because you know a lot of you know, on the media,
[14:20] Speaker 11: you see a lot about my age, but teams haven't
[14:22] Speaker 11: really been concerned about it.
[14:23] Speaker 4: You know, you spent six years in college, obviously the
[14:28] Speaker 4: most recent one at Texics Tech. What did you get
[14:31] Speaker 4: out of that experience? For six years?
[14:36] Speaker 11: You know, every year, you know, I just seen myself mature,
[14:40] Speaker 11: you know, year to year, whether it was in my
[14:43] Speaker 11: game or alter field habits, taking care of my body,
[14:46] Speaker 11: you know, just becoming a you know, one of those
[14:48] Speaker 11: vets uh in the building. That's what I was, you know,
[14:52] Speaker 11: mainly focusing on throughout the years, you know, just continuing
[14:55] Speaker 11: the progress year to year.
[14:57] Speaker 4: You obviously had a huge year for Texas Tech this
[15:01] Speaker 4: previous season. Ten sacks, eleven and a half tackles for lost,
[15:04] Speaker 4: thirteen quarterback hits, you were all big twelve first team.
[15:08] Speaker 4: What clicked for you last year?
[15:12] Speaker 11: Honestly, you know, just realizing the talent that I had,
[15:15] Speaker 11: and you know, just taking fully advantage of it, just
[15:18] Speaker 11: you know, continuing to stay in the lab, take care
[15:21] Speaker 11: of my body, you know, just a little things, you know,
[15:23] Speaker 11: continue to perform at a high level. So my main
[15:26] Speaker 11: focus was, you know, take care of my body as
[15:29] Speaker 11: much as I can this year, and you know, continue
[15:31] Speaker 11: to prevent my craft and live in the lub.
[15:34] Speaker 4: What have you been working on since since you got
[15:37] Speaker 4: finished with school? What have you been working on in
[15:39] Speaker 4: anticipation from the draft? Maybe? What have teams told you
[15:42] Speaker 4: they'd like you to work on?
[15:46] Speaker 11: Mainly teams talk about my run game, you know, just
[15:49] Speaker 11: anchoring down more.
[15:50] Speaker 12: I feel like I played pretty pretty well in the
[15:52] Speaker 12: run game, but.
[15:54] Speaker 11: You know they brought it up a lot, and that's
[15:57] Speaker 11: something they you know, focus on throughout this Prossys was me,
[16:00] Speaker 11: you know, continuing to work on my run game.
[16:04] Speaker 4: How have you been doing that in the last months
[16:07] Speaker 4: or so?
[16:08] Speaker 11: Honestly, I've just been you know, stacking pounds, trying to
[16:11] Speaker 11: stack pounds. I feel like, you know, me anchoring downore
[16:14] Speaker 11: in the run game.
[16:15] Speaker 12: Come with Wait all right?
[16:16] Speaker 4: You have said that your dad, Ronnie is your biggest inspiration.
[16:20] Speaker 4: He's a former marine. I know he had you doing
[16:22] Speaker 4: push ups as a kid. What did you learn from
[16:24] Speaker 4: your dad that maybe is helping you now?
[16:28] Speaker 11: Uh, you know, just I'll face, I've faced a lot
[16:32] Speaker 11: of adversity, you know, uh, throughout my college career and man,
[16:37] Speaker 11: just you know, growing up in the household with my dad.
[16:40] Speaker 11: Uh he just you know, some of his stories and
[16:43] Speaker 11: seeing what he went through. Just you know, it's a
[16:46] Speaker 11: it's a constanmer mind and whatever I'm facing adversity.
[16:49] Speaker 4: So you're obviously teammates with David Bailey, who is projected
[16:53] Speaker 4: to be one of the top guys off the board.
[16:56] Speaker 4: We've all read the scouting reports.
[16:58] Speaker 1: Uh, we know, we've seen the tape.
[17:01] Speaker 4: What should we know about David Bailey the player, the
[17:04] Speaker 4: guy that maybe we don't already know about him?
[17:07] Speaker 11: Man, Uh, you know, David come out quiet to a
[17:10] Speaker 11: lot of people, but he you know, he actually have
[17:12] Speaker 11: a personality. He's a great guy, great teammate, and man,
[17:15] Speaker 11: he's a he's a workaholic.
[17:17] Speaker 12: You know, he works, He works hard. He wanted he
[17:20] Speaker 12: was one of the.
[17:20] Speaker 11: Works artists working guys in the building, and man, he
[17:23] Speaker 11: deserved everything coming this way.
[17:25] Speaker 4: All right, Well, I've read that your favorite players. It's
[17:28] Speaker 4: like a who's who of past Rushing, Lawrence Taylor, DeMarcus,
[17:32] Speaker 4: where Von Miller. When you think about your game and
[17:35] Speaker 4: maybe where you want your game to go when you
[17:37] Speaker 4: get to the next level, who do you compare yourself to?
[17:42] Speaker 11: Recently, I, you know, been comparing myself to Knit Benino
[17:45] Speaker 11: because you know, he kind of had the same tool
[17:47] Speaker 11: bag as me.
[17:48] Speaker 12: Uh. He switches up his game, you know, whether it's power.
[17:51] Speaker 11: Speed, but man, he's a he's a he's a go
[17:54] Speaker 11: getter and I've kind of been you know, he kind
[17:56] Speaker 11: of reminds me of myself a little bit.
[18:00] Speaker 4: That is a pretty good guy to try to emulate
[18:04] Speaker 4: and aspire to be, like Romelo Height. Thank you so
[18:06] Speaker 4: much for joining us.
[18:07] Speaker 1: Lots of luck.
[18:08] Speaker 4: We can't wait to see where you get picked, and
[18:10] Speaker 4: we can't wait to watch you in the NFL.
[18:12] Speaker 12: Thanks, thank you so much, Thank you all for having me.
[18:14] Speaker 2: Here's what Adam Peters and the crew in Washington are
[18:18] Speaker 2: working with. Yeah, it made a lot of trades. So
[18:20] Speaker 2: you got one, three, five, six, six, and seven. Those
[18:24] Speaker 2: are the rounds that they will be picking in. You
[18:25] Speaker 2: can always accumulate more by making some other trades, so
[18:28] Speaker 2: we'll see what they wind up doing.
[18:30] Speaker 1: Ian Rappaport.
[18:31] Speaker 2: This is a commander's team that needed to make some
[18:33] Speaker 2: adjustments this offseason to get younger, to get faster in a.
[18:36] Speaker 1: Lot of places. You're obviously going to get younger in
[18:39] Speaker 1: the draft.
[18:41] Speaker 7: Yeah, I think there's a decent chance they get younger.
[18:43] Speaker 7: And I would also say this is a decent chance
[18:45] Speaker 7: they get better, at least their fans hoping so much. Mike,
[18:47] Speaker 7: of the focus of this offseason was doing all that
[18:50] Speaker 7: on defense. Last year's commander's defense was not what you
[18:55] Speaker 7: were looking for, ended up obviously making a ton of
[18:57] Speaker 7: staff changes. Obviously, this now for dan Quinn and his
[19:00] Speaker 7: union on defense becomes an unbelievably important situation. So I
[19:04] Speaker 7: would not be surprised. No predictions, but I would not
[19:07] Speaker 7: be surprised. As the commanders say, who is the best
[19:10] Speaker 7: defensive player on our board, we will just take him.
[19:13] Speaker 3: Now.
[19:13] Speaker 7: A couple potential options for them at number seven. Caleb Downs,
[19:18] Speaker 7: the really, really good safety from Ohio State. People talk
[19:21] Speaker 7: about his makeup like it is just crazy. I would say,
[19:23] Speaker 7: sunny styles off the ball. Linebacker here, Big Range, a dude,
[19:26] Speaker 7: also from Ohio State. They're another one where people love
[19:29] Speaker 7: their makeup. They just love the way they are wired
[19:32] Speaker 7: as they are looking for a new lynchpin of the defense.
[19:34] Speaker 7: You'd got to imagine both these guys would potentially be
[19:37] Speaker 7: in the conversation. And then Ruben Bain, the defensive end
[19:41] Speaker 7: from Miami likely to be on the board at this time.
[19:44] Speaker 7: These short arms have gotten a lot of conversation. But
[19:46] Speaker 7: he is a big, tough, burly, physical football player. Do
[19:51] Speaker 7: the Commanders go here? After adding so much of the
[19:53] Speaker 7: edgend free agency, They're going to have a lot of
[19:56] Speaker 7: options in a really, really good draft spot.
[20:00] Speaker 4: Adam Peters was asked a lot about the concept of
[20:03] Speaker 4: trading back because they don't have many picks, pick up
[20:06] Speaker 4: more picks. They only have three in the first five rounds,
[20:10] Speaker 4: three in the first four rounds, something like that, so
[20:12] Speaker 4: could they get more picks? He said, yeah, maybe you'd
[20:15] Speaker 4: like to do that if you were sure you could
[20:16] Speaker 4: still get your guy. But the most interesting point he
[20:19] Speaker 4: made is that the fact that the first round this
[20:21] Speaker 4: year is going from ten minutes to eight minutes, which
[20:24] Speaker 4: should be great for television, great to watch, is actually
[20:27] Speaker 4: going to make it harder to do trades when you
[20:29] Speaker 4: are on the clock. He can saying, if you're going
[20:31] Speaker 4: to do a trade while you're on the clock, You've
[20:34] Speaker 4: really got to have a lot of the pieces in
[20:36] Speaker 4: place already. You've got to have done a lot of
[20:38] Speaker 4: the legwork and have parameters in place before you're on
[20:41] Speaker 4: the clock. There's just not going to be enough time
[20:43] Speaker 4: to sit there, wait for the phone to ring, do
[20:46] Speaker 4: a trade, execute the trade, turn the card in. You're
[20:49] Speaker 4: going to have to have done a lot of prep
[20:51] Speaker 4: work before you do that. And he was suggesting at
[20:53] Speaker 4: least perhaps that might limit the number of trades we
[20:57] Speaker 4: see in the first round. And of course, guys, as
[20:59] Speaker 4: you know, if they're are not more than one quarterback
[21:01] Speaker 4: in the first round, that limits the trade possibilities too.
[21:05] Speaker 2: Yeah, and while they're making these trades, could they stockpile
[21:08] Speaker 2: picks for twenty twenty seven? Could they be this year's Steelers?
[21:10] Speaker 2: Remember the Steelers last year started the stockpile picks because
[21:14] Speaker 2: the draft was in Pittsburgh. Because that wasn't the primary reason,
[21:16] Speaker 2: but it was a secondary reason. Could Washington do that
[21:19] Speaker 2: they host the draft next year? We shall see what
[21:21] Speaker 2: Adam Peters and company wind up doing.
[21:24] Speaker 4: Judy, all right, this is a draft class we're going
[21:28] Speaker 4: to be watching closely. Here are the Kansas City Chiefs
[21:31] Speaker 4: draft picks. And this is wild. They pick in the
[21:34] Speaker 4: top ten, and they picked twice in the first round,
[21:37] Speaker 4: then they have a second rounder. These are huge picks.
[21:40] Speaker 4: It's kind of crazy. It feels a bit like a
[21:43] Speaker 4: reset year for the Kansas City Chiefs. Let's bring Baldy
[21:45] Speaker 4: back in to talk about the Chiefs. Baldy, we were saying,
[21:51] Speaker 4: they have lots of needs at the Chiefs. Unusual. They
[21:56] Speaker 4: have a lot of needs. What direction do you think
[21:58] Speaker 4: they need to go in?
[22:00] Speaker 9: You know, four years ago, Judy, they really struck go
[22:03] Speaker 9: Brett Veach, Andy Reid.
[22:04] Speaker 3: They went out. They had two picks in the first round.
[22:06] Speaker 9: Four years ago, they got Trent McDuffie, and they've got
[22:09] Speaker 9: George carl Loftis. They also in that draft got Jalen Watson,
[22:13] Speaker 9: Joshua Williams, Leo Chanel, Brian Cook, and those guys are
[22:16] Speaker 9: all gone outside of Carl Loftis. So they got to
[22:18] Speaker 9: restock their defensive shells here. And just knowing Steve Spagnola
[22:23] Speaker 9: as long as I've known him, he needs corners that
[22:25] Speaker 9: can lock you up on the outside. With that ninth pick,
[22:29] Speaker 9: you know, a corner if Monsieur Delayan is there, Like,
[22:32] Speaker 9: I got to believe that the conversation is being had
[22:35] Speaker 9: if he's there, to go get Steve Spagnola a corner
[22:38] Speaker 9: because he just lost three of them. And then you know,
[22:41] Speaker 9: last year they lost Charles de Menehu and Mike Dana, guys.
[22:44] Speaker 9: They gave him a lot of snaps off the edge.
[22:46] Speaker 9: They have to replace those guys and so and edge
[22:48] Speaker 9: rusher is also in play, and we haven't even begun
[22:52] Speaker 9: to talk about, you know, the quarterback Patrick Mahomes coming
[22:56] Speaker 9: back and what can you do for him outside of
[22:58] Speaker 9: bringing back to Super Bowl and v At running back,
[23:01] Speaker 9: Jalen Moore looks like he's going to be penciled at
[23:03] Speaker 9: right tackle, certainly a position they can look at. And
[23:06] Speaker 9: certainly with the injuries at receiver last year Rashid Rice
[23:10] Speaker 9: Xavier Worthy, they should be looking at receiver to help
[23:12] Speaker 9: out Patrick Mahomes as well.
[23:15] Speaker 4: When I sat down with Andy Reid at the annual meeting,
[23:18] Speaker 4: I asked him, do you have to come out of
[23:19] Speaker 4: this draft with an impact wide receiver? And he said,
[23:22] Speaker 4: we need to come out of this draft with good
[23:24] Speaker 4: players at multiple positions. Going to be very interesting to
[23:28] Speaker 4: watch it Baldi, don't go too far. You will be
[23:30] Speaker 4: back later in the show.
[23:31] Speaker 7: Ian twelve and twenty, that's where it starts for the
[23:35] Speaker 7: Dallas Cowboys really one of the more intriguing teams, thanks
[23:38] Speaker 7: in parts of those big trades they made this past
[23:42] Speaker 7: season and of course obviously this past offseason. What are
[23:45] Speaker 7: the Cowboys going to do? Are they going to trade up?
[23:47] Speaker 7: Are they going to trade down? Are they going to
[23:49] Speaker 7: do both? Our good friend Jane Slater is just going
[23:52] Speaker 7: to tell you the names that the Cowboys considering, are considering,
[23:56] Speaker 7: and why they're going to take him. That's not true, Jane.
[23:58] Speaker 7: Here's what I want to get into with you, right
[24:00] Speaker 7: because the Dallas Cowboys, I think everyone thinks that they
[24:03] Speaker 7: are trading up. They may not. We'll get to that
[24:05] Speaker 7: in a second. But tell me why the Cowboys would
[24:08] Speaker 7: consider trading up, or maybe just why they're going to
[24:11] Speaker 7: do it.
[24:12] Speaker 13: We'll put it this way, if you'll get all of
[24:14] Speaker 13: the Mott drafts right now.
[24:15] Speaker 4: Ian, it's all over the place.
[24:17] Speaker 13: I'm seeing corners, I'm seeing offensive tackles, I'm seeing this
[24:21] Speaker 13: notion of them trading up.
[24:22] Speaker 4: If I get this.
[24:23] Speaker 13: Nail on the head for you in I'm going out
[24:25] Speaker 13: and buying a lottery ticket because it's just all over
[24:28] Speaker 13: the place. Given the fact that the Cowboys have so
[24:31] Speaker 13: many needs on defense, but they also have two first
[24:35] Speaker 13: round picks. So let's get into some scenarios. There has
[24:38] Speaker 13: been a lot of chatter about the potential of the
[24:41] Speaker 13: Cowboys trading up to six. Look, the last time they
[24:45] Speaker 13: actually did that, you'd have to go back to twenty twelve.
[24:48] Speaker 13: So I think unless there was a situation where maybe
[24:51] Speaker 13: Rvel Reese is there and they could find themselves potentially
[24:55] Speaker 13: even having the Giants pass on sunny styles, I could
[24:59] Speaker 13: see them maybe picking up the phone calling Cleveland, they
[25:03] Speaker 13: would get six, and then maybe they would use those
[25:06] Speaker 13: twelve and twenty so that they would end up getting six,
[25:09] Speaker 13: seventy and maybe ninety.
[25:10] Speaker 4: Two across the first two days. That's a big if.
[25:14] Speaker 13: So let's go with why. I think that it's more
[25:16] Speaker 13: likely they'll stay put in Dallas could be just as
[25:20] Speaker 13: content letting the board fold them and taking the best
[25:22] Speaker 13: offiter available two picks the top twenty to fix this defense.
[25:26] Speaker 4: That would be real value.
[25:28] Speaker 13: Now, why give up just for one solution, especially when
[25:31] Speaker 13: they were multiple issues on that side of the ball.
[25:33] Speaker 4: So at twelve year.
[25:34] Speaker 13: Well, you're looking for names like Ohio State safety Kleb Downs,
[25:38] Speaker 13: Lsu corner mansor Delane, maybe Ohio State linebackers Sonny Styles
[25:43] Speaker 13: at these there and another corner Tennessee Tremad McCoy. And look,
[25:46] Speaker 13: a lot of people might hear me say Sonny Styles
[25:49] Speaker 13: at twelve, that's not going to happen. Well, back in
[25:51] Speaker 13: twenty twenty, people didn't think that Ceed Lamb was going
[25:54] Speaker 13: to be there, and he fell to them at seventeen.
[25:56] Speaker 13: So the other scenario that I could see, maybe they
[25:59] Speaker 13: move on just a little bit. You know, they have
[26:02] Speaker 13: the twelve, Maybe they call up Kansas City. I think
[26:04] Speaker 13: Kansas City has nine and twenty nine. Maybe they package
[26:07] Speaker 13: the twelve and twenty and then that way they can
[26:09] Speaker 13: go up.
[26:10] Speaker 4: But I think anyone's.
[26:11] Speaker 13: Saying that the Cowboys are heading into this draft and
[26:13] Speaker 13: they fully made up their mind that they're going to
[26:15] Speaker 13: trade up at six. I don't know about that. It's
[26:19] Speaker 13: certainly not going to be five and seven. Those are
[26:22] Speaker 13: teams in your division and they're certainly going to want
[26:24] Speaker 13: a lot. Cleveland makes the most sense, but there could
[26:27] Speaker 13: be a lot of value. They're still at twelve and
[26:29] Speaker 13: twenty and maybe a little bit easier if you picked
[26:31] Speaker 13: up the phone and called Kansas City.
[26:34] Speaker 3: Man.
[26:34] Speaker 7: I wonder, Jane, if RV. Reese is there at five,
[26:37] Speaker 7: you know that the cowboys will be tempted. Do they
[26:40] Speaker 7: call their good friends the Giants and try to swing
[26:42] Speaker 7: a trade. We have seen an mcast trade inside the
[26:46] Speaker 7: top ten. That was the Devonte smithe We'll see we
[26:49] Speaker 7: see something like that again. By the way, I should
[26:50] Speaker 7: mention the comp for RVO Reese that a lot of
[26:53] Speaker 7: evaluators have is a guy you may have heard of
[26:56] Speaker 7: named Micah Parsons. Not apples to apples, but that is
[26:59] Speaker 7: what they think of.
[27:00] Speaker 1: Jane.
[27:00] Speaker 7: Thank you very much, great stuff, thank you for joining us.
[27:03] Speaker 7: And if you wanted to know where Jane is going
[27:05] Speaker 7: to be during the draft, well there she is with
[27:09] Speaker 7: Kimberly Martin, our new colleague at ESPN in Dallas, Buddy
[27:13] Speaker 7: Jeff Darlington's with Dale's in Kansas City, Judy Byer Luncheon
[27:16] Speaker 7: with the Giants, Camon Saal with the Jets, Omar and
[27:20] Speaker 7: Lindsay with the Raiders.
[27:21] Speaker 1: Man.
[27:21] Speaker 7: There is synergy all over the place on this graphic,
[27:25] Speaker 7: and I love it. Spiging of synergy. A lot of
[27:28] Speaker 7: that going on in Pittsburgh. One week from literally now,
[27:43] Speaker 7: one of the.
[27:43] Speaker 2: UFL's expansion franchises travels to Houston looking for their first
[27:47] Speaker 2: ever win. It's the Louisville Kings and the Houston Gamblers
[27:50] Speaker 2: coming up next eight pm Eastern, immediately after The Insiders
[27:54] Speaker 2: right here on NFL Network. And then on Saturday, there
[27:57] Speaker 2: will be a battle of two and one teams facing
[28:00] Speaker 2: off in the nation's capital. The Saint Louis BattleHawks take
[28:03] Speaker 2: on the DC Defenders at twelve thirty Eastern on ABC
[28:07] Speaker 2: and ESPN. The UFL plays on the Disney Families family
[28:12] Speaker 2: of networks. They also play on Fox, where this gentleman
[28:16] Speaker 2: right here to my left.
[28:19] Speaker 1: His team, the Orlandos League of Three and Oero Orlandos Storm,
[28:22] Speaker 1: will take on the Birmingham Stallions at four pm on Fox.
[28:26] Speaker 2: Haven't said his name yet because he's got a long resume.
[28:27] Speaker 2: I got a layout first. He's the head coach of
[28:29] Speaker 2: the Orlando story Storm, his fourth year as the head
[28:32] Speaker 2: coach for the organization.
[28:35] Speaker 1: He is also a Jets color analyst.
[28:38] Speaker 2: We're gonna get to the Jets in just a little
[28:40] Speaker 2: bit here, because it's always fun to talk about the Jets.
[28:43] Speaker 2: He is a former Philadelphia Catholic League star. The Catholic
[28:47] Speaker 2: League has produced countless NFL players and one co host
[28:52] Speaker 2: of The Insiders. Here Anthony Beck, head coach of the
[28:54] Speaker 2: Orlando Storm joining us.
[28:56] Speaker 1: What's up, dude?
[28:57] Speaker 14: Oh fantastic, Mike, Thanks for having me on.
[29:01] Speaker 2: Appreciate you joining us. Give us the rundown of the
[29:04] Speaker 2: Storm three and zero. You know, I'm seeing the hype
[29:07] Speaker 2: videos before the games, I'm seeing the reactions after getting
[29:09] Speaker 2: there's incredible energy for the Storm right now.
[29:12] Speaker 1: What's been the story of the season so far for you?
[29:15] Speaker 14: First off, you know we're undefeated, and I think for us, man,
[29:18] Speaker 14: a winning culture is something that I've continued to try
[29:20] Speaker 14: to grow over going into my fourth season of playing
[29:23] Speaker 14: and coaching or excuse me, coaching in this league. We
[29:26] Speaker 14: got some excellent players, man, a lot of you know,
[29:28] Speaker 14: big name guys. You know kJ Hamler, a former NFL receiver,
[29:31] Speaker 14: second round pick who's done a fantastic job for us
[29:34] Speaker 14: getting a chance. Jack Plumber, a quarterback who I got
[29:37] Speaker 14: a lot of visual of him the last two years
[29:38] Speaker 14: as they played against the Jets in the preseason. Joined practice.
[29:42] Speaker 14: Has got to really study and learn his game. So
[29:44] Speaker 14: brought him on board, and he's been awesome.
[29:46] Speaker 2: Man.
[29:46] Speaker 14: Just if he's not a backup or a third guy
[29:49] Speaker 14: in the league, then you know I'm crazy because he's
[29:52] Speaker 14: been an awesome pro for us. But man, we got
[29:54] Speaker 14: a lot of young, talented players that were on NFL
[29:58] Speaker 14: training camp rosters and just trying to give him a chance. Man, Mike,
[30:01] Speaker 14: this is an opportunity league and we're just trying to
[30:04] Speaker 14: make them grow and give him a shot. And we
[30:06] Speaker 14: got some talented players that are going to give a
[30:08] Speaker 14: run for it, and we're going to continue to win
[30:10] Speaker 14: and get their shot to the league after the season.
[30:12] Speaker 3: Probably.
[30:14] Speaker 1: Yeah, kJ Hamler, you mentioned him. That's one of the
[30:16] Speaker 1: more interesting ones to me.
[30:18] Speaker 2: Incredibly talented second round pick you talked about he had
[30:20] Speaker 2: a little health issue at one point when I think
[30:23] Speaker 2: he was with Denver at the time, but the ability
[30:25] Speaker 2: has gotten him multiple looks in the NFL. How do
[30:28] Speaker 2: you kind of talk him up and say, hey, show
[30:30] Speaker 2: out here. This is almost like your rookie mini camp invite.
[30:34] Speaker 2: You see veterans sometimes doing that, and you can show
[30:36] Speaker 2: out for NFL teams.
[30:38] Speaker 14: Yeah, there's a lot of teams that wanted him. I
[30:40] Speaker 14: had to actually recruit him to come to us, and
[30:42] Speaker 14: we sold a lot of things. The way we run
[30:44] Speaker 14: our offense and our styles very pro. You know, you
[30:47] Speaker 14: think about Rams, Packers, Bengals, that's what we do, you know.
[30:51] Speaker 14: So we want to try to not only you know,
[30:53] Speaker 14: help develop players, but implement what the league is doing
[30:55] Speaker 14: so that they can really give their best. I would
[30:58] Speaker 14: say this kJ has been awesome, you know, a former
[31:00] Speaker 14: second round pick. Sometimes when guys come from the NFL,
[31:03] Speaker 14: you know, they feel like this is a step down,
[31:05] Speaker 14: like this isn't This is a great platform for players
[31:08] Speaker 14: to get their chance and get their shot. We love
[31:10] Speaker 14: featuring him. He's a phenomenal talent and he is where
[31:13] Speaker 14: his feet are. He loves it. He plays hard, he's
[31:15] Speaker 14: a great leader, and he's been all in of where
[31:18] Speaker 14: he's at and what he's doing. And he's been a
[31:20] Speaker 14: tremendous pick up for us.
[31:22] Speaker 1: I'm watching these shots of you.
[31:23] Speaker 2: You've got great head coach posture and demeanor there, and
[31:27] Speaker 2: I'll give you some numbers. Twenty five and eight as
[31:29] Speaker 2: a head coach, pretty darn good record. They're thirty one
[31:32] Speaker 2: of your players in the training camps over the last
[31:33] Speaker 2: three years.
[31:34] Speaker 1: Four active players.
[31:36] Speaker 2: Last season, you interviewed for the West Virginia head coaching
[31:39] Speaker 2: job your alma mater.
[31:40] Speaker 1: There is this, you know, college or NFL coaching. Is
[31:42] Speaker 1: that in your future?
[31:44] Speaker 14: Yeah, listen, I'm just growing and learning every year, Mike.
[31:48] Speaker 14: You know, I love being a head coach. I was
[31:49] Speaker 14: thrust it into a role that many people don't get.
[31:51] Speaker 14: When I first came into this league, I wasn't on
[31:54] Speaker 14: the top one hundred list of the XFL. But I
[31:56] Speaker 14: worked my way and I sold a vision and I
[31:58] Speaker 14: had a great plan and I've been able to implement
[32:00] Speaker 14: it now. And you know, the one thing that's been
[32:02] Speaker 14: the standard is the personnel side. I have to help,
[32:05] Speaker 14: you know, basically have to grow the team. I have
[32:07] Speaker 14: to pick the players I had help with with a GM,
[32:09] Speaker 14: and now this year I don't have a GM, so
[32:11] Speaker 14: I hand picked my team from scratch, and you know,
[32:14] Speaker 14: we've been able to put together a great culture. You know,
[32:17] Speaker 14: you'd think, hey, you come to this league, get yours,
[32:19] Speaker 14: you know, just put me in the game. Like I
[32:20] Speaker 14: try to give them more than that, develop them, help
[32:22] Speaker 14: them on and off the field, and help them grow.
[32:25] Speaker 3: They got a lot of holes.
[32:25] Speaker 14: Sometimes it's not just the x's and o's, there's other
[32:28] Speaker 14: things to help the aspect of this. So I love it, man. Yeah,
[32:32] Speaker 14: college of course. I mean, I'd love to be a
[32:33] Speaker 14: college head coach. You know, if someone gives me a
[32:35] Speaker 14: chance to sit down and let me sell a vision
[32:37] Speaker 14: and a plan, you know, I'd be prepared and ready
[32:41] Speaker 14: for that.
[32:41] Speaker 12: But I love where my feed art.
[32:42] Speaker 11: Man.
[32:42] Speaker 14: If the NFL is the next stop for me, we'll
[32:44] Speaker 14: see the best part about this, obviously, Mike, is I
[32:47] Speaker 14: coach in the spring. Filled my coaching, you know, juices
[32:50] Speaker 14: in the springtime, and I get to see my son
[32:52] Speaker 14: play in the fall. So it's been a nice dynamic
[32:56] Speaker 14: for me at least the last three seasons.
[32:59] Speaker 1: We'll go right there.
[33:00] Speaker 2: I was going to save it for last, but you know,
[33:02] Speaker 2: we're going to talk about some draft prospects with regard
[33:05] Speaker 2: to the Jets. At some point in the future. You're
[33:07] Speaker 2: gonna have to recuse yourself from talking about one draft
[33:09] Speaker 2: prospect in particular, and that is your son, roc Obeck,
[33:12] Speaker 2: the quarterback of Iowa State the last couple of years
[33:15] Speaker 2: now at Penn State.
[33:16] Speaker 1: How juice are you to see him in that stadium?
[33:19] Speaker 14: Man, I'm so proud of him. First off, what a
[33:21] Speaker 14: run at Iowa State. I mean, just a tremendous three
[33:24] Speaker 14: years in his journey there. You know, you pick the
[33:26] Speaker 14: school and you pick it for the coach, and Matt
[33:28] Speaker 14: Campbell's the guy and the reason why he went to
[33:30] Speaker 14: Iowa State. And you know he followed him to Penn
[33:32] Speaker 14: State to play in front of the crowds and play
[33:35] Speaker 14: in front of the big ten atmosphere for his last year.
[33:39] Speaker 12: I can't wait.
[33:39] Speaker 14: You know, he's coming in with the most wins in
[33:41] Speaker 14: college football of any quarterback in the FBS level. He's
[33:44] Speaker 14: got more experience than any player coming back at the
[33:47] Speaker 14: FBS level and that's what matters at the quarterback position.
[33:50] Speaker 14: And he's a great human being. I mean, he works
[33:53] Speaker 14: his process. Everything he's done to this point, he does
[33:56] Speaker 14: it in the dark and no one knows, and he
[33:59] Speaker 14: works as often. I just love it.
[34:01] Speaker 2: Man.
[34:01] Speaker 14: It's his journey, it's his time, and I'm just glad
[34:04] Speaker 14: to be a part of it from the outside looking in.
[34:05] Speaker 14: And it's stressful now. I mean, I've been a player
[34:07] Speaker 14: and a coach and there's nothing worse since fans watching
[34:10] Speaker 14: your son play quarterback. So but man, he's he stood
[34:13] Speaker 14: out and done a great job, and his career has
[34:16] Speaker 14: been awesome the watch.
[34:17] Speaker 2: Of course, he's a wonderful human being. He's got a
[34:20] Speaker 2: great mom man, he's got a great restime. Let's transition
[34:28] Speaker 2: to the Jets here. I mentioned you Jets radio analyst,
[34:30] Speaker 2: a former Jets player, yourself.
[34:32] Speaker 1: I know you've got a lot of lines in the organization.
[34:34] Speaker 2: Give me some juice on the Jets because listen, two
[34:37] Speaker 2: and sixteen, two picks in the.
[34:38] Speaker 1: First round three next year. I mean, it's unbelievable. The
[34:41] Speaker 1: riches right now, draft wisee four in the top forty four.
[34:44] Speaker 1: What are you expecting from the Jets next week?
[34:46] Speaker 14: Well, you know, the one thing I can tell you
[34:48] Speaker 14: is Darren Moosey did a phenomenal job in his draft
[34:51] Speaker 14: last year. A lot of those players got significant amount
[34:53] Speaker 14: of time on the offense and defensive side, and that
[34:56] Speaker 14: pays wonders as far as moving forward and getting value
[34:58] Speaker 14: for what you picked. And those guys really stood out.
[35:01] Speaker 14: And that's what's got me excited about this draft. You
[35:03] Speaker 14: have a lot of draft capital, you have a lot
[35:04] Speaker 14: of money and free agency. Obviously, some really good players
[35:08] Speaker 14: were picked up. Osai and Bara. You know, these are
[35:11] Speaker 14: two guys on the edge guys that they can, you know,
[35:13] Speaker 14: really be good pass rushers. They can help with the
[35:14] Speaker 14: run as well. He got right coming in and secondary.
[35:17] Speaker 14: Gino Smith is from the value standpoint, we all know
[35:19] Speaker 14: if he can get back to where he was just
[35:21] Speaker 14: two years ago. You know, think about the weapons they
[35:23] Speaker 14: already have and then what they're going to get in
[35:25] Speaker 14: the draft. I mean listen, defensively obviously is a place
[35:28] Speaker 14: where they want to get better. You think about edge rushers, obviously,
[35:31] Speaker 14: the linebacker position. Those are two big names with Bailey
[35:35] Speaker 14: and Reese that everybody's really talking about. You know, from
[35:37] Speaker 14: a receiver standpoint, Hey can you get another weapon out there?
[35:41] Speaker 14: You know the Jordan Tyson kid who's in the Big twelve.
[35:43] Speaker 14: I saw him the last two years. I saw him
[35:46] Speaker 14: on the sidelines. He didn't play in a lot of games,
[35:48] Speaker 14: so you got to really do your homework with him.
[35:50] Speaker 14: But he is a phenomenal talent. The kid I really
[35:52] Speaker 14: like is the conception you own kid you know from
[35:54] Speaker 14: Texas A and I like just a playmaker. You get
[35:58] Speaker 14: get the ball in his foot, in his hands, he
[35:59] Speaker 14: can make plays Like you need playmakers. That Jets need
[36:02] Speaker 14: more playmakers. They got the guys up front, the offensive lineman.
[36:06] Speaker 14: So if you piece it together right with the capital
[36:08] Speaker 14: that they have, I feel confident Deren Moodie is going
[36:11] Speaker 14: to have a great draft. I mean just you can
[36:12] Speaker 14: only go off what he's done, and I give him
[36:14] Speaker 14: an a for what he did last year in the draft.
[36:17] Speaker 2: It's Moujie season, it's Anthony Beck season. It's Storm season
[36:21] Speaker 2: down there in Orlando. Dude, we wish you all the best,
[36:24] Speaker 2: continued success.
[36:26] Speaker 1: We'll see where it goes in the future for you,
[36:28] Speaker 1: the multi talented Anthony Beck.
[36:31] Speaker 2: Check out the Orlando Storm this weekend by like Aj mccarrn,
[36:34] Speaker 2: the head coach of Birmingham, your former quarterback.
[36:37] Speaker 1: So I got a little bit of a rivalry going
[36:39] Speaker 1: on here. Huh.
[36:40] Speaker 14: Well, it's not a rival until you beat somebody. So
[36:42] Speaker 14: we'll see what happens. He hasn't beat me yet. I
[36:44] Speaker 14: won a lot of games, so we'll see. It's his
[36:46] Speaker 14: first one, it's coming off two losses. You know, we'll
[36:48] Speaker 14: see how he reacts to adversity. But we're gonna be
[36:51] Speaker 14: ready for him.
[36:51] Speaker 3: There's no quote.
[36:53] Speaker 1: I can hear the mind games being played right now.
[36:55] Speaker 1: Appreciate you, dude. Continued success and we'll see you down
[36:58] Speaker 1: the line.
[36:58] Speaker 7: All right, appreciate my go storm Ian Rappaport GDBT saan
[37:03] Speaker 7: our big man on campus, Brian Baldinger, who is gonna
[37:06] Speaker 7: dig a little deeper with his big men on campus. Baldy,
[37:10] Speaker 7: I will have you start. Give us some of your
[37:13] Speaker 7: unheralded large humans, please.
[37:17] Speaker 9: Gladly, Ian, I'm going to go straight to Annapolis, Maryland,
[37:21] Speaker 9: the United States Naval Academy their defensive tackle Landed Robinson,
[37:25] Speaker 9: Because you know, Ian, it's not easy to go from
[37:28] Speaker 9: a three technique to a one technique on one step.
[37:31] Speaker 9: Maybe you can do it with your rare athletic ability.
[37:33] Speaker 9: You don't see it very often. This guy's got pass
[37:36] Speaker 9: rush ability to him. You watch him against an elite
[37:39] Speaker 9: program like Notre Dame. He dominated the line of scrimmage.
[37:42] Speaker 9: He's almost unblockable at times. And oh, by the way,
[37:45] Speaker 9: he is absolutely relentless does it, stay blocked, gets off blocks,
[37:50] Speaker 9: and chases everything down no matter how far the ball
[37:53] Speaker 9: carrier is away. Landon Robinson is a guy that in
[37:56] Speaker 9: the right system he can be very, very successful. Then
[37:59] Speaker 9: let's go to Columbia, Missouri, University of Missouri and Josiah Trotter.
[38:03] Speaker 9: That's right trot and Jeremiah Trotter's youngest son, all SEC linebacker.
[38:09] Speaker 9: He's way more than just a blind dog and a
[38:12] Speaker 9: meathhouse he in. This guy knows how to defeat blocks,
[38:15] Speaker 9: he knows how to chase things down.
[38:17] Speaker 3: He's got and he can thump. I mean when he brings.
[38:20] Speaker 9: The acts, it's the family acts. He's ready to chop
[38:22] Speaker 9: it right. Made a lot of big plays at the
[38:24] Speaker 9: University of Missouri. I've talked to a general manager today.
[38:28] Speaker 9: I think he's going to go somewhere in the second round.
[38:30] Speaker 9: And it's a deep draft for inside middle linebackers, and
[38:33] Speaker 9: he's gonna be one of those names called agreed.
[38:37] Speaker 4: Okay, Baldy, this is like asking about jumbo shrimp. Give
[38:41] Speaker 4: us some of your smaller statued big men on campus.
[38:45] Speaker 3: Yeah, let's go.
[38:47] Speaker 9: Chip Trey anam from Toledo the Rockets, and this guy
[38:50] Speaker 9: bounced around college all right. He was at Arizona State.
[38:53] Speaker 9: He was at Ohio State for two years. But he's
[38:55] Speaker 9: five to eleven. He's two hundred and thirty pounds. He's a tank, Judy,
[39:00] Speaker 9: the tank. Protection off the charge good, but breakaway speed.
[39:04] Speaker 3: I mean he's five to eleven. He's two hundred and
[39:06] Speaker 3: thirty pounds.
[39:07] Speaker 9: He's got good speed and he makes people miss, and
[39:09] Speaker 9: he's got rare agility like you think about, you know,
[39:12] Speaker 9: Kyle man Ungai in the seventh round Nut of Ruggers
[39:14] Speaker 9: last year, Like this guy reminds me of that, but
[39:17] Speaker 9: even bigger.
[39:18] Speaker 3: So I think he's got a chance.
[39:19] Speaker 9: And then finally let's go to South Carolina, where Jalen
[39:22] Speaker 9: Kilgore has basically been a Swiss Army knife.
[39:25] Speaker 3: But he's got rare trade study.
[39:27] Speaker 9: I mean he's almost he's over six to one, he's
[39:29] Speaker 9: two hundred ten pounds right of four four forty. You
[39:32] Speaker 9: can see him covering wide receivers in the slot out wide,
[39:36] Speaker 9: you can see him in the deep path of the
[39:37] Speaker 9: field playing safety. I think he's got some position flexibility.
[39:42] Speaker 9: But man, you know, he's got eight interceptions over his
[39:45] Speaker 9: three years at South Carolina. He gets his hands on
[39:47] Speaker 9: a lot of footballs. You know, he's got a thirty
[39:49] Speaker 9: seven inch vertical leap on a six to one frame.
[39:53] Speaker 3: He gets in the passing lanes.
[39:54] Speaker 9: I think Jalen kilgre in a draft where we need
[39:57] Speaker 9: more safeties in this league to come in, he's got
[40:00] Speaker 9: to come in and compete right away.
[40:03] Speaker 7: The last kind of hybrid safety from South Carolina. Who
[40:06] Speaker 7: people wondered what position you played. I think worked out
[40:08] Speaker 7: pretty good for the champs. Baldy, thank you very much,
[40:11] Speaker 7: great stuff. As always, seven days away, I cannot wait.
[40:16] Speaker 7: That is Pittsburgh. If you look closely, you can't find me.
[40:20] Speaker 4: But you will.
[40:21] Speaker 7: In seven days I'll be sitting ready to hit send
[40:23] Speaker 7: on a trade.
[40:24] Speaker 5: Anyway, we'll be exactly

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