# 40s and Free Agents: Texas' Comeback Win, "Bust-Proof" Rookies & What We Learned in NFL Week 1

An episode of [NFL Daily with Gregg Rosenthal](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/680904259), 15 Sep 2026, 35 min.

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On this episode of 40s and Free Agents, Bucky Brooks and Lance Zierlein recap Week 2 in the College Football season and takeaways from Texas' improbable comeback vs. Ohio State. Then, they talk about some surprise outcomes from Week 1 in the NFL, and discuss rookies that have outperformed expectations so far. NFL Daily YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/nflpodcasts See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:02] Speaker 1: What's up, football world? I'm Bucky Brooks. That's my man, LZ,
[0:05] Speaker 1: the one and only.
[0:07] Speaker 2: Welcome to 40 Cent Pre-Agents, and we are talking about
[0:10] Speaker 2: a little bit of everything today. My man, LZ, was
[0:12] Speaker 2: in the building. The great Arch Manning pulled off an
[0:16] Speaker 2: improbable comeback.
[0:18] Speaker 1: Look, this did a lot. You were in the building. First, one,
[0:20] Speaker 1: how you doing? And then let's talk about Arch. Good.
[0:24] Speaker 3: Yeah, we're good. I got some not great news on
[0:27] Speaker 3: a bunch of foundation work I have to have on
[0:28] Speaker 3: my house, but that's That's grown people life. Tell your daughter,
[0:32] Speaker 3: I know your daughter's at University of Texas. I know
[0:35] Speaker 3: she went to the game. Tell her to take her
[0:37] Speaker 3: time in college land. Take all the time she needs.
[0:41] Speaker 3: Spend Bucky's money as much as you can. Because when
[0:44] Speaker 3: you get out here in the grown folks world, it's
[0:46] Speaker 3: a whole lot different.
[0:47] Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a whole lot different. And man, she was
[0:49] Speaker 2: sending pictures and videos from the thing. It looked like
[0:51] Speaker 2: quite the atmosphere. And it certainly was. And I think, Lance,
[0:55] Speaker 2: you know this as a scout, like just being able
[0:58] Speaker 2: to see so many great players on one big field
[1:02] Speaker 2: in an environment that kind of had like a playoff atmosphere, man,
[1:05] Speaker 2: what was it like?
[1:08] Speaker 3: Well, I've gone to plenty of university of Texas games.
[1:10] Speaker 3: My wife went to school there. And so, you know,
[1:14] Speaker 3: dating back even prevents young times and the atmosphere is fantastic.
[1:20] Speaker 3: It was great before the game. I was on the
[1:21] Speaker 3: field looking at the players and there were Woody Harrelson.
[1:24] Speaker 3: Of course, Matthew McConaughey was there. Woody Harrelson was there.
[1:27] Speaker 3: And I was, I went over and talked to Mac
[1:29] Speaker 3: Brown for a little bit. Cause I've known Mac for
[1:31] Speaker 3: a little bit. Kevin Durant just comes over and actually
[1:34] Speaker 3: Greg Sankey comes over and interrupts us for a second
[1:38] Speaker 3: to say hi to Mac. I introduced myself to Greg.
[1:40] Speaker 3: Then Kevin Durant jumps in and interrupts them to dap
[1:43] Speaker 3: up Mac Brown and introduce himself to Greg Sankey. And meanwhile,
[1:48] Speaker 3: everyone's ignoring me, but I can't get anyone to say
[1:53] Speaker 3: hi to your boy. Um, no, it was, um, There
[1:57] Speaker 3: was a lot of people, Mo Bamba on the sidelines.
[2:00] Speaker 3: There was a lot of former Longhorn players were there.
[2:05] Speaker 3: I'm sure there were some Ohio State players there as well.
[2:08] Speaker 3: I didn't say C.J. Stroud. I thought he might show
[2:10] Speaker 3: up just because that's a drive, drive there, drive back.
[2:14] Speaker 3: But the day before his first game coming off the
[2:15] Speaker 3: playoffs from last year, I probably thought it was best
[2:19] Speaker 3: to keep it tight to the crib. But no, the
[2:22] Speaker 3: atmosphere was great. It felt like a game that that
[2:28] Speaker 3: could be a boat race if, if Ohio state just
[2:31] Speaker 3: stuck with the run game, if they just, you know,
[2:35] Speaker 3: handled their business. But honestly, I thought Texas did a
[2:38] Speaker 3: good job and Arch did do a good job of,
[2:40] Speaker 3: of managing the game, getting the checkdowns, maybe a few
[2:44] Speaker 3: too many checkdowns there in the third quarter, the fans
[2:46] Speaker 3: started to boo a little bit. They weren't real happy
[2:48] Speaker 3: with how things were going, but they stuck it out. Um,
[2:51] Speaker 3: that was a signature win for Arch main. It's a
[2:53] Speaker 3: signature win for, for, for, uh, for Steve Sarkeesian. I was, uh,
[2:59] Speaker 3: a Longhorn fan said that I spoke with said, you
[3:02] Speaker 3: think this is the, the biggest win for him? And
[3:05] Speaker 3: I thought, well, the win over Clemson elevated him to
[3:08] Speaker 3: the next step of the playoffs.
[3:10] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[3:10] Speaker 3: But really down like he was down 20 points to
[3:15] Speaker 3: Ohio state. Who's the number one team in the nation
[3:18] Speaker 3: and a highly anticipated night game on ESPN. It's probably
[3:22] Speaker 3: was his signature win. It probably was. And, um, You know,
[3:26] Speaker 3: there's a few things we could say about it. I
[3:28] Speaker 3: thought Arch, you know, like I said, did a nice job.
[3:32] Speaker 3: It didn't really move my needle in terms of an
[3:34] Speaker 3: evaluator so much. But, you know, it didn't move my–
[3:39] Speaker 3: Jeremiah Smith didn't move my needle either because like we
[3:41] Speaker 3: talked about last week, he just showed who he was.
[3:44] Speaker 3: I mean, we already knew who he was. That was
[3:46] Speaker 3: just a show and prove game. But Brandon Baker, I
[3:49] Speaker 3: think that's his name, the right guard for Texas 73,
[3:52] Speaker 3: I thought had a terrific game like This is the
[3:54] Speaker 3: kind of game when all the scouts are watching, you know, three, four,
[3:59] Speaker 3: five different players that if you put on a big performance,
[4:03] Speaker 3: if you look good on tape, you're elevated. Like this
[4:06] Speaker 3: is a great stage for offensive linemen, defensive tackles, linebackers
[4:11] Speaker 3: and safeties who are kind of off the radar a
[4:13] Speaker 3: little bit.
[4:13] Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, it's funny because you talked about Jeremiah Smith.
[4:16] Speaker 2: I thought this game would have been huge for Cam Coleman, right?
[4:19] Speaker 2: So at a time where we like to manufacture debates
[4:22] Speaker 2: about who's number one, I wanted to see Cam Coleman
[4:25] Speaker 2: had a big game so we could have that discussion like, Hey,
[4:28] Speaker 2: maybe it's not just Jeremiah Smith. And then the game
[4:31] Speaker 2: is played and you're like, yeah, no, it's not going
[4:34] Speaker 2: to be a debate that we.
[4:35] Speaker 3: Can later on.
[4:37] Speaker 2: Like he's a good player, but there's a difference between
[4:39] Speaker 2: him and Jeremiah Smith. And it was, it was clear
[4:42] Speaker 2: and apparent, but what I love from Texas and talking
[4:46] Speaker 2: about the game for so long, going all the way
[4:48] Speaker 2: back to the Mack Brown era, there was always this,
[4:52] Speaker 2: hint of softness that scouts would talk about with the
[4:55] Speaker 2: team like hey if it got hard would they collapse
[4:58] Speaker 2: they always had really good players but you want to
[5:00] Speaker 2: know did they have like the grit and grind to
[5:03] Speaker 2: be able to get it and in this game i
[5:06] Speaker 2: saw some those two running backs i mean hollywood brothers
[5:10] Speaker 2: uh brown they kind of put it down in the
[5:13] Speaker 2: fourth quarter and that physicality that you saw from the
[5:16] Speaker 2: offensive line that showed up and so people are talking
[5:19] Speaker 2: about arch But to me, I was more impressed with
[5:23] Speaker 2: the way that they stuck with the running game in
[5:25] Speaker 2: the late stages of the game, as opposed to like, hey, Arch,
[5:28] Speaker 2: throw it all over the yard. We're going to need
[5:31] Speaker 2: you to throw for 300 yards to bring us back.
[5:33] Speaker 2: That's not really what happened in that game.
[5:36] Speaker 3: No, I'm glad you brought that up because that's been
[5:38] Speaker 3: a running theme for, you know, Matt Brown took over
[5:41] Speaker 3: in 98. This has been a running theme in the
[5:43] Speaker 3: scouting world because even before I started doing this job,
[5:47] Speaker 3: you know, I've been friends with NFL evaluators for a while.
[5:50] Speaker 3: And that has been a common theme and Longhorn fans
[5:54] Speaker 3: don't like it. They get mad when you bring it up,
[5:56] Speaker 3: but it really is behind the scenes. Texas is soft, right?
[6:00] Speaker 3: That's what it is. This coach coddles the players. It's
[6:04] Speaker 3: not as competitive. Like once you get the job, this
[6:07] Speaker 3: is back before all the transfer portal stuff, but once
[6:09] Speaker 3: you get the job, a lot of times they won't
[6:11] Speaker 3: recruit behind you because they don't, you know, they want
[6:14] Speaker 3: to make sure that you're comfortable in your job and
[6:16] Speaker 3: there's not as much competition and So that's been out
[6:19] Speaker 3: there for a while on Texas. And I totally agree
[6:22] Speaker 3: with you. I'm glad you brought this up because Texas,
[6:25] Speaker 3: the physicality up front is unlike anything I had seen.
[6:27] Speaker 3: And I was talking about this with the guys in
[6:30] Speaker 3: the Joe Moore Award texturing we have. I'm in the
[6:33] Speaker 3: selection committee. It's for the top offensive line in college football. And,
[6:38] Speaker 3: you know, we're on tape the very next day after
[6:40] Speaker 3: these college games. And I got to tell you, Aaron
[6:43] Speaker 3: Taylor saw it the way I did. Like this is
[6:44] Speaker 3: the most physical Texas has been since I've been studying them.
[6:48] Speaker 3: you know, as closely as I have, which has been
[6:50] Speaker 3: like 12, 13, 14 years. And I've watched them a
[6:53] Speaker 3: lot longer than that. This was as physical as they were.
[6:56] Speaker 3: Sark didn't get away from the run. And then you
[6:58] Speaker 3: had two running backs. You know, Indiana had two running
[7:00] Speaker 3: backs last year, Bucky, that were hammerheads and they were physical.
[7:03] Speaker 3: And Texas has that same kind of dual mentality where
[7:07] Speaker 3: we want both of these guys to be yards after contact,
[7:10] Speaker 3: physical guys, not slashers. We want guys who are going
[7:13] Speaker 3: to pound and wear teams down. And they finally have
[7:16] Speaker 3: an offensive line. that is built for something like that.
[7:19] Speaker 3: So that was my big takeaway, too, was the physicality
[7:23] Speaker 3: of Texas was something I wasn't used to up front.
[7:25] Speaker 1: No, not at all. And the way they've matured and
[7:28] Speaker 1: the way they've grown.
[7:29] Speaker 2: And I think everyone understood with Ohio State that they
[7:33] Speaker 2: had to plug a lot of new pieces into it,
[7:35] Speaker 2: but they're so talented that you expect them to continue
[7:37] Speaker 2: to operate at a high level. And look, you're up
[7:39] Speaker 2: 20 points or whatever they were up in the fourth quarter.
[7:42] Speaker 1: They got to close that out. Like that has to
[7:44] Speaker 1: be a thing where they're blame Ryan day. Blame me.
[7:48] Speaker 2: I don't know who you blame, but Ohio state needs
[7:50] Speaker 2: to win that game. What were your thoughts on the
[7:53] Speaker 2: Ohio state squad? What do you think about Julian saying,
[7:56] Speaker 2: what do you think about that?
[7:57] Speaker 3: So from the stands, I was a little, you know,
[8:01] Speaker 3: first half looked good. Then when Texas was really, they
[8:05] Speaker 3: were throwing a lot of double teams. I mean, everything
[8:07] Speaker 3: was shaded to Jeremiah Smith as it should be. And
[8:10] Speaker 3: it seemed like saying had a hard time getting away from,
[8:13] Speaker 3: from that read. And, When you do that in college football,
[8:17] Speaker 3: and it's easy. I remember watching Deshaun Watson do it
[8:21] Speaker 3: with DeAndre Hopkins, and you can still be successful. It
[8:24] Speaker 3: wouldn't be the first guy that's locked in on a
[8:26] Speaker 3: primary target a lot. Matthew Stafford did it with Megatron
[8:29] Speaker 3: all the time. But it concerns me in college because
[8:33] Speaker 3: I need to know that you can get through the
[8:35] Speaker 3: construct of the route designs, the route combinations, and you've
[8:41] Speaker 3: got to be able to read and take what the
[8:43] Speaker 3: defense gives you. And I didn't think Julian Sand did
[8:45] Speaker 3: a very good job and especially the second half of
[8:47] Speaker 3: taking what the defense gave him. There were other opportunities
[8:50] Speaker 3: on the field out there that I could see from
[8:52] Speaker 3: the stands, but he was so dialed into number four
[8:56] Speaker 3: that he had a hard time. Everything was about, okay,
[8:59] Speaker 3: if it goes off structure, I want to see if
[9:00] Speaker 3: number four can get open on a scramble play, and
[9:04] Speaker 3: I'm going to make something happen. Now, interestingly, he was
[9:06] Speaker 3: doing that when he got out of the pocket and
[9:09] Speaker 3: made that throw all the way across the field to
[9:11] Speaker 3: the tight end who had leaked out. Barely to quarterback
[9:14] Speaker 3: seat across the field like that. So I give him credit.
[9:17] Speaker 3: But after that happened, I thought, okay, this game's officially
[9:19] Speaker 3: over now. And they couldn't kill the game off after
[9:22] Speaker 3: they got that first down. But I thought saying, you know,
[9:25] Speaker 3: down on the field, he's a, I mean, he's a
[9:27] Speaker 3: true baby face. This guy looks like he's young.
[9:30] Speaker 1: He's from out this.
[9:30] Speaker 3: Maybe he looks like he's 18 years old, but he throws,
[9:34] Speaker 3: he throws a nice ball, you know, good tight spiral,
[9:38] Speaker 3: good catchable ball. But I didn't think he did a
[9:41] Speaker 3: very good job in the second half. of really feeling
[9:44] Speaker 3: the Texas defense and beating them where they were there
[9:47] Speaker 3: to be beat. He just wanted to let four win
[9:50] Speaker 3: the game and sometimes he will, but in this game
[9:54] Speaker 3: he didn't. And I thought saying really did a disservice
[9:58] Speaker 3: to his offense by not firing other options available.
[10:01] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[10:01] Speaker 2: You know, that's, that's, that's really interesting because going back
[10:04] Speaker 2: to the summertime, doing my work on him, I was
[10:07] Speaker 2: really impressed with the way that he looked.
[10:08] Speaker 1: I thought he threw the ball all over the yard.
[10:10] Speaker 2: Well, I thought he was one of those, I won't
[10:12] Speaker 2: say the Baker Mayfield tights, but an undersized gunslinger that
[10:15] Speaker 2: could have a lot of success that you could set
[10:16] Speaker 2: them up and go in.
[10:19] Speaker 1: In this game.
[10:20] Speaker 2: What you're hoping for is that you see those flashes
[10:23] Speaker 2: that kind of confirm some of the positive thoughts that
[10:26] Speaker 2: you have. And I think for both quarterbacks, Arch and Julian,
[10:29] Speaker 2: like we're still not quite getting that. And it speaks
[10:33] Speaker 2: to a larger thing. Like through two, three weeks of
[10:36] Speaker 2: the college football season, this Ballyhoo quarterback class has kind of.
[10:41] Speaker 1: Been wonk, wonk, wonk, wonk. It has not been what
[10:45] Speaker 1: we thought or what we build it to be.
[10:47] Speaker 3: No. We needed Dante Moore upset by a team who
[10:52] Speaker 3: got beat by Tulsa last week. Double-digit favorite. They lose
[10:56] Speaker 3: to Tulsa by double digits, Oklahoma State. Then they come
[10:58] Speaker 3: in and beat– I mean, they handle Oregon. That was– Hammered. Hammered.
[11:06] Speaker 3: And Dante Moore had a bad game.
[11:08] Speaker 1: Bad game.
[11:08] Speaker 2: Did you hear about the tale that came out about
[11:11] Speaker 2: him and his footwork?
[11:13] Speaker 3: No.
[11:13] Speaker 1: So Oklahoma State said they had a tale on Oregon.
[11:18] Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
[11:18] Speaker 1: How they knew it was run pass.
[11:19] Speaker 2: Now, they said the offensive lineman, but people dug a
[11:22] Speaker 2: little deeper, and they're looking at Dante Moore's stance.
[11:25] Speaker 1: He's staggered when it's a pass.
[11:26] Speaker 2: It's a little more level when it's a run. Those things,
[11:29] Speaker 2: and people are calling it out. Now, it's not 100% tail,
[11:32] Speaker 2: but it's something that people are beginning to look at.
[11:36] Speaker 2: And for a high-caliber quarterback prospect in a program that
[11:42] Speaker 2: is a top-five, top-ten program, man, to have a tail
[11:46] Speaker 2: that goes unnoticed like that, Man, it's really significant.
[11:51] Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a concern because you allow people to fire
[11:54] Speaker 3: up the field on you. I mean, that's the big
[11:56] Speaker 3: difference is when they feel like they have a tell
[11:59] Speaker 3: on your pass, you may think, well, they don't know
[12:01] Speaker 3: the routes. Well, it's about getting up the field. It's
[12:03] Speaker 3: about getting off the ball, and you're no longer read react.
[12:06] Speaker 3: You are literally attacking, and it's a completely different energy
[12:10] Speaker 3: in the first half snap. In the first one step,
[12:13] Speaker 3: in the first step, first two steps, it's different if
[12:16] Speaker 3: they know a pass. It's That's why you, you know,
[12:19] Speaker 3: that's why you want to keep things manageable. We talk
[12:21] Speaker 3: about being, you know, when you hear the phrase, you know,
[12:23] Speaker 3: stay in front of the chains, you don't want to
[12:25] Speaker 3: get behind the chains. That's because when you're predictable, you'll
[12:28] Speaker 3: pin their ears back phrase comes out. And that's, that
[12:31] Speaker 3: shows up. Yeah. The quarterback, the quarterback position, it is
[12:35] Speaker 3: not shown up yet. There's still a long way to go,
[12:38] Speaker 3: but we still have a lot of work that needs
[12:41] Speaker 3: to be done on the college level before I'm very
[12:45] Speaker 3: excited about, you know, I'm excited about who these quarterbacks
[12:49] Speaker 3: could be, but we're not seeing it just yet. Now,
[12:53] Speaker 3: Julian saying, I will say I liked, I liked his
[12:56] Speaker 3: field on the field. I liked his feet. Like he
[13:00] Speaker 3: doesn't strike me as a guy that's easily wrapped. I,
[13:03] Speaker 3: there's something about his composure and the way he handles
[13:07] Speaker 3: games and the way he handles his teams, his team,
[13:10] Speaker 3: the huddle, just every, I liked him on the sideline
[13:14] Speaker 3: when I was paying attention to him. Um, And that
[13:17] Speaker 3: is something. I mean, that is something. That is something
[13:20] Speaker 3: you want to look for because you can get better
[13:24] Speaker 3: in terms of, all right, I'm not going to lock
[13:26] Speaker 3: it on this receiver. I need to do a better
[13:28] Speaker 3: job of getting through my progressions, et cetera, et cetera.
[13:30] Speaker 3: If you don't have poise or if you don't have
[13:32] Speaker 3: command or if you don't have the confidence of teammates
[13:35] Speaker 3: on the field, that's stuff that's really hard. A lot
[13:38] Speaker 3: of times, Bucky, I think that's innate. Like you're either
[13:40] Speaker 3: that guy or you're not that guy. Now, maybe you're
[13:43] Speaker 3: that guy and you just need to be pushed to
[13:44] Speaker 3: be more vocal. but I think it's in you or
[13:47] Speaker 3: it's not in you personally.
[13:49] Speaker 1: A hundred percent. Either you have it or you don't.
[13:52] Speaker 1: And there's a way to be able to do it.
[13:55] Speaker 2: Like, and I'll say this, like with Trevor Lawrence, like
[13:57] Speaker 2: watching his maturation as a player and the way that
[14:01] Speaker 2: he's descending, he is a guy that that's not his,
[14:04] Speaker 2: that's not his thing per se, but he's grown and
[14:07] Speaker 2: become more vocal, more demonstrative, more demanding of his teammates.
[14:12] Speaker 2: And so a lot of it is digging down deep,
[14:15] Speaker 2: And kind of trying to find out, do they have
[14:17] Speaker 2: that capacity to kind of bark when they need to
[14:20] Speaker 2: bark or to challenge their guys when they need to
[14:23] Speaker 2: challenge them?
[14:23] Speaker 1: Because that's really important.
[14:24] Speaker 2: And it's really important in this era when we're talking
[14:27] Speaker 2: about number one receivers being more vocal about wanting to
[14:31] Speaker 2: get the ball. Is he bold enough to shut that
[14:35] Speaker 2: down and be like, no, no, no, no, no. I'm
[14:37] Speaker 2: going to the open guy. Like you've got to have
[14:40] Speaker 2: some bark. And I hate to say this, but. The
[14:43] Speaker 2: best quarterbacks that I've seen, they got a little jerk
[14:45] Speaker 2: in them. You know what I mean? They got a
[14:48] Speaker 2: little jerk. They don't mind kind of being however they are.
[14:51] Speaker 3: They don't mind confrontation. Yeah. They don't mind confrontation. You
[14:55] Speaker 3: think about the best pitchers, the best quarterbacks, some of
[15:00] Speaker 3: the best basketball players. They got that a-hole gene, and
[15:04] Speaker 3: it's kind of in there. It's who they are. Now,
[15:07] Speaker 3: they may still be good personality and all that, but
[15:12] Speaker 3: when it comes nut-cutting time, there's a switch they can
[15:15] Speaker 3: hit where they get a little nasty, and I think
[15:17] Speaker 3: that is something that you have to have. You know,
[15:19] Speaker 3: I had somebody in Cleveland tell me that Baker kind
[15:22] Speaker 3: of had a hard time dealing with the– in Cleveland with,
[15:27] Speaker 3: you know, OBJ, Juice Landry. There was a lot of
[15:30] Speaker 3: energy in that locker room once OBJ came in, and
[15:35] Speaker 3: I think he had a hard time, you know, dealing
[15:38] Speaker 3: with that. Like he wasn't able to keep up with that,
[15:40] Speaker 3: and that is a big part of it too is
[15:42] Speaker 3: how do you handle– a wide receiver that's going to
[15:45] Speaker 3: have a big personality. You have to have some of that,
[15:48] Speaker 3: whether it's learning how to, I don't want to say manipulate,
[15:51] Speaker 3: but Buck, you know how it is. Like sometimes you
[15:53] Speaker 3: just have to know how to talk to a guy
[15:54] Speaker 3: to keep him under wraps. You know, you don't have
[15:57] Speaker 3: to necessarily be yelling at the guy, you know, something
[15:59] Speaker 3: like that, but you have to know he has to
[16:01] Speaker 3: respect you enough that when it's time to get down,
[16:04] Speaker 3: it's time to get down. And that's the way it is.
[16:05] Speaker 3: And you got to, you know, everyone has to, to, to,
[16:08] Speaker 3: to manage their role. Eventually, like with Hertz and AJ Brown,
[16:12] Speaker 3: eventually you, if it is what it is, it's going
[16:14] Speaker 3: to break up, you know, but they kept it together
[16:16] Speaker 3: long enough to win a Superbowl.
[16:17] Speaker 1: Yeah. And that's it. And that's one of the things.
[16:20] Speaker 2: And, uh, we talk about leadership and the quarterback position
[16:23] Speaker 2: being a relational position. You got to be relate to
[16:26] Speaker 2: all the people in the huddle, the people on the
[16:28] Speaker 2: other side of the ball, uh, the people in the building.
[16:30] Speaker 2: So communication skills, leadership skills are coveted at a premium
[16:35] Speaker 2: on top of the other stuff that you look for intelligence, toughness, uh,
[16:39] Speaker 2: and then the, the playing ability. Um, Look, we're going
[16:43] Speaker 2: to take a break right now, but when we come back, Lance,
[16:45] Speaker 2: I want to talk about some of these young rookies
[16:48] Speaker 2: that are popping.
[16:50] Speaker 1: I think we might quiet the consensus board crowd.
[16:52] Speaker 3: I think there's some people that might.
[16:54] Speaker 1: All right, OZ. Look, exciting weekend.
[17:02] Speaker 2: We love kickoff weekend, and I'm not saying that we
[17:05] Speaker 2: are sitting here keeping score on our draft grades or whatever,
[17:08] Speaker 2: but there were some young dudes that really showed up.
[17:10] Speaker 2: I got a chance to see Jacob Rodriguez. do what
[17:13] Speaker 2: he did at Texas Tech. He's all over the place.
[17:15] Speaker 1: And I'm like, oh, mind this.
[17:17] Speaker 2: Someone that has a lot of production in college, someone
[17:20] Speaker 2: who blows up the combine. Oh, he goes to the
[17:22] Speaker 2: pros and plays at a high level.
[17:24] Speaker 3: And he's just like Carson Schlesinger. I mean, he's very instinctive,
[17:29] Speaker 3: smart in coverage. Like there's so many comparisons with Schlesinger.
[17:34] Speaker 3: I think Schlesinger is a better, a little better athlete. Actually,
[17:37] Speaker 3: he tested better. Jacob Rodriguez tested better than a lot
[17:39] Speaker 3: of us expected.
[17:40] Speaker 1: But he's a.
[17:41] Speaker 3: Green dot linebacker already as a rookie. And here he
[17:44] Speaker 3: was with 14 tackles. Now, five of them were solo,
[17:47] Speaker 3: but he's 14 tackles. There's a good chance that he's
[17:50] Speaker 3: going to be right there in the mix for defensive
[17:52] Speaker 3: rookie of the year. I mean, like Carson Schlesinger, and
[17:55] Speaker 3: I think that may have been my comp on him
[17:57] Speaker 3: because he's smart and he's all over everything. Like wherever
[18:01] Speaker 3: the ball gets to, he's going to get to. And
[18:03] Speaker 3: it's going to be like that all year as long
[18:05] Speaker 3: as he stays healthy. And let's face it, on that team,
[18:08] Speaker 3: he's going to have a lot of work to do.
[18:10] Speaker 3: So he's going to get a lot of tackle opportunities
[18:13] Speaker 3: unless that defense really, you know, bucks up and gets
[18:17] Speaker 3: really stout because the offense, I think, is going to
[18:20] Speaker 3: struggle to maintain possession of the ball. So same thing
[18:23] Speaker 3: with Carson Schlesinger last year. He had a lot of
[18:25] Speaker 3: opportunities because the offense didn't do much in Cleveland.
[18:28] Speaker 1: No, offense didn't do much in Cleveland. But yeah, like
[18:31] Speaker 1: he was showing improvement.
[18:32] Speaker 2: And, you know, Jacob Rodriguez is interesting because like everyone
[18:35] Speaker 2: loved the instincts, the awareness, the ball skills.
[18:39] Speaker 1: He made a ton of splash plays. You see that.
[18:41] Speaker 2: And sometimes as an evaluator, you got to trust the
[18:44] Speaker 2: tape more than you trust the tape measure. And he
[18:47] Speaker 2: certainly had all that, even though he did have the
[18:49] Speaker 2: tape measure skills. But let's go to running backs. And
[18:53] Speaker 2: so there were three guys that stood out. Kalen Black,
[18:55] Speaker 2: Jadarian Price, and Jeremiah Love. None of them went over
[18:58] Speaker 2: 100 yards, but they certainly flashed in week one.
[19:01] Speaker 1: Who was the most impressed? Who caught your eye?
[19:04] Speaker 3: I thought Jadarian Price caught my eye. I felt like
[19:07] Speaker 3: in that game, Seattle was giving New England a pass
[19:11] Speaker 3: every time they rushed with George Helani. There's nothing wrong
[19:14] Speaker 3: with George Helani, but Price could feel, and even when
[19:17] Speaker 3: they were kind of mugged up to the front, Price
[19:24] Speaker 3: felt it. I thought Seattle did a good job up front.
[19:26] Speaker 3: He had 10 carries for 52 yards. Yeah, there were
[19:29] Speaker 3: some where he got stopped when they got real tight
[19:32] Speaker 3: to the front with Sam Darnold out. But I felt
[19:34] Speaker 3: like you could have given him 14, 15 carries, and
[19:37] Speaker 3: he was going to keep hitting yards. It just felt
[19:40] Speaker 3: like whether they were running inside, whether they were running outside,
[19:42] Speaker 3: I thought he had a good feel for the blocking
[19:45] Speaker 3: schemes and did a nice job to elude or break
[19:49] Speaker 3: initial tackles. Jeremiah Love looked good in the first half
[19:53] Speaker 3: of that game. Didn't do a whole lot in the
[19:54] Speaker 3: second half. Had 11 carries for 41 yards. Got the
[19:56] Speaker 3: first touchdown of the game in a super impressive upset win.
[20:02] Speaker 3: I never saw Arizona coming in and punking the Chargers
[20:06] Speaker 3: like that. I mean, they punked the Chargers offense out. Yeah.
[20:10] Speaker 3: The Chargers offense did nothing under Mike McDaniel, not relative
[20:13] Speaker 3: to expectations.
[20:14] Speaker 1: No, that was not on my bingo card.
[20:20] Speaker 2: Not the Cardinals winning the battle of physicality and toughness
[20:23] Speaker 2: and violence and all that. I did not see that.
[20:26] Speaker 2: I thought what was interesting is their ability to squat
[20:28] Speaker 2: on the ball. They control the ball, control the game,
[20:30] Speaker 2: time of possession and those things. I think that is
[20:32] Speaker 2: a thing that showed up over the course of the weekend.
[20:35] Speaker 2: Teams able to run the ball, teams going back to
[20:37] Speaker 2: the physical approach, more under center work. more emphasis on
[20:41] Speaker 2: the bigs being on the field, the offensive line and
[20:43] Speaker 2: that stuff. Speaking of offensive line play, anybody that kind
[20:48] Speaker 2: of caught your eye that stood out to you when
[20:50] Speaker 2: you had a chance to check out some of the games?
[20:52] Speaker 3: No. Well, I mean, I thought Vanga Iwani was really good.
[20:59] Speaker 3: I liked what he did. I can tell you from
[21:01] Speaker 3: watching closely, because I still got to go back and
[21:03] Speaker 3: see Blake Miller and Caden Proctor. Keelan Rutledge was in
[21:07] Speaker 3: there just he's a pig pen, man. This guy is
[21:10] Speaker 3: a dirt diver, dirt dog. Everything about him is he
[21:14] Speaker 3: wants to make it, he wants to make it a
[21:16] Speaker 3: fist fight every single time. He's got some of the,
[21:19] Speaker 3: the Clinton Nelson mentality where he wants to dominate every time.
[21:24] Speaker 3: And what was interesting is that Texans have been very
[21:26] Speaker 3: bad in short yardage carries over the last few years.
[21:29] Speaker 3: And it starts with upfront and they actually converted three
[21:32] Speaker 3: different times on short yardage, including fourth and one. and
[21:36] Speaker 3: he was a big part of two out of those three.
[21:38] Speaker 3: So I think Keelan Rutledge is going to– the Texans
[21:42] Speaker 3: have already hinted, not even hinted, Nick Casario even admitted,
[21:46] Speaker 3: he thinks Rutledge is their best offensive lineman. This is
[21:49] Speaker 3: a rookie who had never played, and before he even played,
[21:52] Speaker 3: Nick Casario, the GM, is saying he's the best offensive
[21:55] Speaker 3: lineman we have right now. And that was with Braden Smith,
[21:57] Speaker 3: Wyatt Teller, Ed Ingram, Arianti Ursery, Trenton Brown. You had
[22:02] Speaker 3: all those guys there, and he liked Rutledge the best.
[22:06] Speaker 3: Venga Iwane, I think, boy, they blasted. I mean, just
[22:11] Speaker 3: blasted the Colts. And they ran the ball well. You
[22:14] Speaker 3: had a great game by Lamar Jackson. I felt like
[22:19] Speaker 3: Declan Doyle was in his bag there against Indianapolis. But
[22:24] Speaker 3: he did what they do well. He didn't try to
[22:27] Speaker 3: get too tricky with it. He said, I'm going to
[22:29] Speaker 3: step in here, and they already do what they do well.
[22:31] Speaker 3: Let me just kind of supercharge it. And that's what
[22:34] Speaker 3: they did with that offensive line and And he is
[22:38] Speaker 3: going to be, Iwane is going to be a multi-time
[22:42] Speaker 3: pro bowler. I mean, he's just so rock solid. I
[22:45] Speaker 3: think he's going to have a really good year.
[22:47] Speaker 1: You know what's so funny about that, right?
[22:48] Speaker 2: Like I felt like he was unheralded in the draft process,
[22:52] Speaker 2: even though everybody loved what you saw on tape.
[22:55] Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
[22:56] Speaker 2: I feel like sometimes when we get to this point
[22:59] Speaker 2: of the process, like we're looking for something and, oh,
[23:02] Speaker 2: we can't rate him as a top 10 guy and
[23:04] Speaker 2: this and that. But to me, it was kind of
[23:06] Speaker 2: clear and apparent that he was, man, the best, if not,
[23:09] Speaker 2: he was one of the best, if not the best
[23:10] Speaker 2: guy that was.
[23:11] Speaker 1: On the board.
[23:11] Speaker 2: And then you put him in a situation where he
[23:13] Speaker 2: goes to a team that fits his personality. And then
[23:17] Speaker 2: you see the Baltimore Ravens do what the Baltimore Ravens do,
[23:20] Speaker 2: which is bludgeoning people at the point of attack. Derrick
[23:22] Speaker 2: Henry having a hundred yard game, putting the ball in
[23:25] Speaker 2: the paint, Lamar Jackson throwing it all over the yard.
[23:27] Speaker 2: All of those things show up. And I'm like, man,
[23:31] Speaker 2: this dude is exactly that. who we thought he was.
[23:34] Speaker 2: And I knew this early. He is exactly who we
[23:36] Speaker 2: thought he would be in a system that was going
[23:38] Speaker 2: to showcase his skills.
[23:40] Speaker 3: And we had him in the draft. All of our
[23:41] Speaker 3: mock drafts is like the only way you change is
[23:44] Speaker 3: if you just want to come up with something different
[23:45] Speaker 3: because it was almost too perfect. It's just like, well,
[23:47] Speaker 3: I'm going to plug him in here. OK, I can't
[23:50] Speaker 3: just give them this team. I got to do something different.
[23:52] Speaker 3: It was. And as soon as he was drafted, the
[23:55] Speaker 3: first thing I think is he won't bust like he
[23:59] Speaker 3: can't bust. And if you go into a draft knowing
[24:01] Speaker 3: a guy can't bust because, of course, anyone can bust.
[24:04] Speaker 3: I get it. But it felt so confident saying he's
[24:08] Speaker 3: not going to bust. Then you're right, Bucky. Maybe maybe
[24:11] Speaker 3: the draft grade is not high enough on him. I
[24:13] Speaker 3: know there's a certain value for a guard and blah, blah, blah.
[24:15] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[24:17] Speaker 3: What about a guy who's going to play for you
[24:18] Speaker 3: for three contracts and who's going to, you know. who's
[24:21] Speaker 3: going to get multiple Pro Bowls. If that's the guy,
[24:24] Speaker 3: what's that worth? The top five pick? Not that you'd
[24:26] Speaker 3: take him there, but that's the value of a player
[24:29] Speaker 3: like that. Top three, top four pick, multi-time Pro Bowler,
[24:32] Speaker 3: three contracts in the trenches. I mean, that's tremendous value.
[24:37] Speaker 2: Yeah, tremendous value. And we saw it time and time again.
[24:41] Speaker 2: Just really stood out. Some guys that stood out to me,
[24:44] Speaker 2: the wide receiver position, we got a chance to see
[24:47] Speaker 2: those guys. They didn't go crazy. But you've got to say,
[24:50] Speaker 2: I loved Antonio Williams. I had wide receiver coaches go
[24:52] Speaker 2: crazy about him. I'm sorry I didn't have a chance
[24:54] Speaker 2: to put the ball in the paint. We saw some
[24:56] Speaker 2: other guys kind of step up and make some plays.
[24:59] Speaker 2: Any pass catchers? Anybody kind of tickle your fancy a
[25:01] Speaker 2: little bit?
[25:02] Speaker 3: Oh, man, Caleb Douglas. He had 94 yards by the
[25:07] Speaker 3: third quarter, I think, out of Texas Tech. And he
[25:10] Speaker 3: had some heat in the preseason. There was some real
[25:13] Speaker 3: heat coming out of Miami, the people who followed the team.
[25:18] Speaker 3: some of the national people who went in and visited
[25:20] Speaker 3: Miami said Caleb Douglas was a big conversation point. You
[25:24] Speaker 3: still have Chris Bell, who's going to make it back
[25:26] Speaker 3: to that team. Yeah, that's Chris over there, right? So,
[25:29] Speaker 3: you know, Caleb Douglas was one of those guys that
[25:33] Speaker 3: I know in the fantasy football world, a lot of
[25:35] Speaker 3: people were excited about his prospects and right out of
[25:38] Speaker 3: the gate, really, really impressive. And that's not a great
[25:41] Speaker 3: Raider defense. So you can take it with, if you
[25:44] Speaker 3: want with a, with a grain of salt. But anytime
[25:48] Speaker 3: a rookie goes five for 94, I'm paying attention, especially
[25:51] Speaker 3: after he had hype in the preseason for how he
[25:54] Speaker 3: was playing. You know, a guy who, in case he concepts,
[25:58] Speaker 3: he only had four catches, 43 yards. But if the
[26:00] Speaker 3: quarterback is better there, he's going to really have a
[26:03] Speaker 3: strong year. He's just so hard to cover. He's so slippery.
[26:08] Speaker 3: The guy, and you referenced it before we went to break,
[26:11] Speaker 3: and you got to watch it up close in person.
[26:13] Speaker 3: I studied it, obviously wrote his scouting profile up. Nate
[26:19] Speaker 3: Borkature from Jacksonville. The talk on Jacksonville's draft, and it
[26:24] Speaker 3: started with Nate in the second round, was what are
[26:29] Speaker 3: they doing? And what they did was they triggered a
[26:32] Speaker 3: run on tight ends. Marlon Klein with the Texans in
[26:34] Speaker 3: the second round. Everyone went early in the second round
[26:37] Speaker 3: once Borkature went off the board. But the thought was,
[26:40] Speaker 3: what are the Jaguars doing? They're nowhere near the consensus point. Now,
[26:43] Speaker 3: this is one game in, but it's really not going
[26:45] Speaker 3: to change. Nate Berkutcher, he was a really good run
[26:49] Speaker 3: blocker coming into the NFL draft. He was a good
[26:52] Speaker 3: one when he was drafted. He was a good one
[26:54] Speaker 3: in preseason. He is a good one right now. And
[26:57] Speaker 3: that's not going to change. He is a dog. He
[27:00] Speaker 3: plays with good hands, inside hands. He plays with technique, strain,
[27:05] Speaker 3: and finish, Bucky. I get that he's not where the
[27:08] Speaker 3: consensus board was, and we've had this conversation. that's one
[27:12] Speaker 3: of those things where Jacksonville said, we, we need somebody
[27:15] Speaker 3: nasty because we're going to start running more 12 and 13.
[27:18] Speaker 3: And this is our guy. This is what a Jaguar
[27:20] Speaker 3: looks like. They circled them. And then in game one
[27:23] Speaker 3: and week one, granted, I mean, he was up against
[27:25] Speaker 3: Jared verse. He was going against Jared verse who is
[27:29] Speaker 3: strong and, and tough at the point of attack. And
[27:33] Speaker 3: he was getting wins. He was getting dubs against Jared,
[27:35] Speaker 3: Jared verse.
[27:36] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[27:36] Speaker 2: They were dog walking them and they said they were
[27:38] Speaker 2: going to run right at verse. And, They felt really
[27:40] Speaker 2: good about Berkutcher. And I think this is why it's
[27:44] Speaker 2: so hard to do some of the things that we're
[27:46] Speaker 2: asked to do on this side when it comes to
[27:48] Speaker 2: like mock drafting and those things. Because the one thing
[27:50] Speaker 2: that you don't have privy to is the plan. What
[27:55] Speaker 2: is the plan for the player? And for the Jaguars,
[27:58] Speaker 2: the reason they rated him so high is because they
[28:00] Speaker 2: had a plan that he was going to be their
[28:01] Speaker 2: traditional wide tight end. He was going to free up
[28:04] Speaker 2: Brenton Strange to be the mover. And it was going
[28:06] Speaker 2: to allow them to do more 12 personnel, run the
[28:09] Speaker 2: ball on the edges and do those things. And even
[28:12] Speaker 2: there was another guy who had a lot of heat
[28:14] Speaker 2: coming out of the preseason where all that noise quieted down.
[28:17] Speaker 2: Deshaun's dribbling. Like one was talking about, oh, what are
[28:20] Speaker 2: the Niners doing? And then you get into the preseason.
[28:22] Speaker 2: You're like, oh, oh, he's really a dude. And so
[28:26] Speaker 2: I say this just from the scouting perspective, because so
[28:30] Speaker 2: many scouts can't say it.
[28:32] Speaker 1: Amen. Sometimes.
[28:34] Speaker 2: You've got to wait and see how the pieces of
[28:36] Speaker 2: the puzzle come together when the real ball starts to
[28:39] Speaker 2: be able to have an appreciation. Those instant reactions and
[28:42] Speaker 2: those things, sometimes we just don't know. And I'm saying
[28:44] Speaker 2: that as someone who sometimes has to put grades on
[28:47] Speaker 2: guys or whatever, you never really know what the plan is.
[28:51] Speaker 2: And so sometimes you have to wait until the plan
[28:53] Speaker 2: is revealed. And then at that point, you can criticize
[28:55] Speaker 2: and chastise people for what it is.
[28:57] Speaker 1: But certainly.
[28:58] Speaker 3: But even then, it takes time. Like, you know, there
[29:01] Speaker 3: was so much heat. during draft season with Reuben Bain.
[29:06] Speaker 3: We talked about arm length and all this stuff. They're
[29:09] Speaker 3: on them right now. Look, I got to visit with
[29:12] Speaker 3: Jamarco Jones, former tackle. It was kind of weird showing
[29:15] Speaker 3: Jamarco Jones my scouting profile of him when he came out,
[29:18] Speaker 3: and now he's scouting with the Detroit Lions. But he
[29:21] Speaker 3: was a good dude, and we talked for a little while.
[29:22] Speaker 3: I asked him, I said, what do you think about
[29:24] Speaker 3: arm length? He said, really important. Really important if you've
[29:28] Speaker 3: got length advantage, which a lot of us believe it's
[29:32] Speaker 3: really important. And I bring that up because Amarius Mims
[29:36] Speaker 3: went up against Reuben Bain, and it was a show.
[29:40] Speaker 3: like no pressures. Mims is really good. I think Mims
[29:43] Speaker 3: is one of the ascending tackles in pro football, but
[29:47] Speaker 3: it was a great learning experience for Reuben Bain. And
[29:49] Speaker 3: that's how I look at this. This shouldn't be some
[29:51] Speaker 3: referendum on, see you guys on Twitter were wrong about
[29:54] Speaker 3: Reuben Bain when you got all excited. That's not what
[29:56] Speaker 3: this is. It's a great learning experience that Reuben Bain
[29:59] Speaker 3: is like, okay, I got to get on top of
[30:02] Speaker 3: guys a lot quicker. These long guys, they probably need
[30:05] Speaker 3: to play them tighter in alignment so he can explode
[30:07] Speaker 3: and get into the– it's like Mike Tyson. You don't
[30:11] Speaker 3: want smaller fighters with shorter arms fighting from distance.
[30:14] Speaker 1: You got to get them in close. You know what
[30:16] Speaker 1: Mike can give you?
[30:18] Speaker 3: Boom, boom, boom, boom.
[30:21] Speaker 2: That's what Reuben's got to do.
[30:23] Speaker 3: Reuben's got to get in on guys. But it is
[30:25] Speaker 3: a learning experience for a lot of these guys. Pre-seasons,
[30:29] Speaker 3: that's fine when you're in pre-season, but when the bullets
[30:31] Speaker 3: start flying in real game action, like you said, things change.
[30:37] Speaker 3: Things change, especially depending on that matchup you have. And
[30:40] Speaker 3: Reuben Bain will learn. This will be a great learning
[30:42] Speaker 3: experience for him. But when you see people like Nate
[30:45] Speaker 3: Berkutcher get after people, that's not going to change. That's not,
[30:49] Speaker 3: you know, well, he caught a bunch of balls because
[30:50] Speaker 3: he went up against a soft defense. No, he went
[30:54] Speaker 3: up against a physical defense. explosive player on the edge,
[30:59] Speaker 3: a couple of them, and he did his job. Shout
[31:03] Speaker 3: out to Josh Cameron, another rookie, caught a touchdown from
[31:08] Speaker 3: Trevor Lawrence, one of the best throws I've ever seen.
[31:11] Speaker 3: I don't know how he fit that in, to be
[31:14] Speaker 3: honest with you.
[31:15] Speaker 2: Look, I'm in the end zone, and I'm looking at it,
[31:19] Speaker 2: but you don't even get an appreciation for it until
[31:21] Speaker 2: you see the replay NFL put on their social media channel,
[31:26] Speaker 2: and I'm like, one, what led Trevor to throw it?
[31:30] Speaker 1: So Liam talked to me after the game. So what
[31:34] Speaker 1: they had, it's like a pole concept, right?
[31:37] Speaker 2: Like you run the fake. It's a cover four beater, right?
[31:41] Speaker 2: You run the play action. You bring that safety down,
[31:43] Speaker 2: and you're going to throw it right behind his head.
[31:45] Speaker 2: That's what it should be. They did it on both sides.
[31:47] Speaker 2: Jacoby Myers on the left, and then Trevor has Cameron
[31:51] Speaker 2: on the right. And he can go either way. Now,
[31:54] Speaker 2: Liam said he peeked left and went whatever. He turned
[31:56] Speaker 2: his back and he just fired a dart. And even
[32:00] Speaker 2: though I'm like, man, that's an impressive throw to get
[32:03] Speaker 2: it all through that. I am trying to figure out
[32:05] Speaker 2: how Josh Cameron saw it and caught it with his hand.
[32:07] Speaker 3: I don't know how he saw it. I don't know
[32:09] Speaker 3: how he saw it.
[32:11] Speaker 2: Like it's one of the best catches that I've seen
[32:14] Speaker 2: because there is no way he could have saw that
[32:16] Speaker 2: all the way to his hands.
[32:18] Speaker 3: You had hands here. You had a body here. And
[32:22] Speaker 3: he's going into that little tunnel without being able to
[32:26] Speaker 3: see the ball. I have no idea how Trevor got
[32:29] Speaker 3: it through there or how Josh saw it to make
[32:31] Speaker 3: the catch. I have no idea. So shout out to
[32:34] Speaker 3: the rookie, Josh Cameron, for making that catch. And that
[32:39] Speaker 3: was one of the most bananas throws that I've seen
[32:42] Speaker 3: in a long time. Defensively, my guy, Anthony Hill.
[32:45] Speaker 1: So.
[32:46] Speaker 3: I saw you had 16 tackles, right? I'm like, I
[32:48] Speaker 3: told y'all. I told y'all.
[32:50] Speaker 4: Everyone's sleeping on Anthony Hill. Everyone was sleeping on Anthony Hill.
[32:54] Speaker 4: I got him in the first. And then I went
[33:00] Speaker 4: to the stat sheet. Two solos, 14 assists.
[33:04] Speaker 3: I'm like, damn.
[33:05] Speaker 1: J-O-P.
[33:07] Speaker 3: Two solos out of 16. Hold on. We had two
[33:10] Speaker 3: solos and 14 assists. Like, no, we can't have that
[33:14] Speaker 3: kind of ratio going on. We got to get some
[33:17] Speaker 3: more solos in here, Anthony. You can't just jump on
[33:20] Speaker 3: piles and pad the stats. But Hill is a guy
[33:25] Speaker 3: that I like, but only two solo tackles out of
[33:27] Speaker 3: 16 is like, I'm not used to seeing that stat.
[33:30] Speaker 3: Mansoor Delane, ball hawking corner, ended up with an interception
[33:35] Speaker 3: in the Monday night game before he left with a
[33:37] Speaker 3: shoulder injury. Treydon Stukes, another absolute ball hawk, one of
[33:41] Speaker 3: the really– instinctive nickel, big nickel corners in this draft.
[33:45] Speaker 3: Had an interception there for Las Vegas. That's worth noting.
[33:49] Speaker 3: Sonny Stiles came in and just ran smooth over. Who
[33:52] Speaker 3: was that running back he ran over? Is that Saquon?
[33:55] Speaker 1: I don't know.
[33:56] Speaker 3: He ran over somebody for a second.
[33:58] Speaker 1: It was nasty. Yeah. Yeah.
[34:03] Speaker 2: Man, this is the fun part. Even got a chance
[34:05] Speaker 2: to see Arbel Reese play a little bit with the Giants.
[34:08] Speaker 2: How about Deontay Banks showing back up? Under the new
[34:12] Speaker 2: regime and those things. I think this is fascinating, Lance. Like,
[34:16] Speaker 2: one man's trash is another man's treasure. He couldn't play
[34:19] Speaker 2: for the previous staff, but now he gets with a
[34:21] Speaker 2: new staff. Denard Wilson, I think, knows Deontay Banks from
[34:24] Speaker 2: their Maryland connection. Kind of pours into him a little bit.
[34:27] Speaker 2: And lo and behold, a guy that was a– like,
[34:29] Speaker 2: Banks was a first-round pick, right? Yeah. Like, I mean– Yeah,
[34:33] Speaker 2: he was a first. Yeah, first-round pick at the bottom
[34:35] Speaker 2: of it. And so, man, we always talk about fit
[34:38] Speaker 2: and scheme. And when I mean fit and scheme, it's
[34:40] Speaker 2: not just a scheme. It's the coaching environment. Man, some
[34:43] Speaker 2: players play really well when they got the right coach
[34:45] Speaker 2: that knows how to unlock them.
[34:47] Speaker 1: And sometimes it's schematic. Sometimes it might just be temperament.
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[35:06] Speaker 3: Whatever you're supposed to do.
[35:07] Speaker 1: Let's do it.

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