Speaker 1: Eric.
Speaker 2: As we sit here in Houston at the moment they
Speaker 2: are set to pick twenty five. There are, you know,
Speaker 2: reports out there that they could move up. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's draft a anything can pretty much happen, But is
Speaker 2: offensive line pretty much where you're set with the Texans
Speaker 2: wherever they do decide to select tonight.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I think that's the position I'm most
Speaker 3: looking at. I mean, I could could see a receiver,
Speaker 3: you know, I could obviously see a defensive lineman or
Speaker 3: some sort, but that seems to be the position I
Speaker 3: kind of default to when I've done my mocks or
Speaker 3: when I've sort of projected that range a little bit.
Speaker 3: And you know, it's going to be interesting to see
Speaker 3: who's available and how the medical especially reports come back
Speaker 3: on some of the players, and also.
Speaker 4: You know who's going to be available.
Speaker 3: I mean, I thought maybe Gray's abel would be in
Speaker 3: that range for him.
Speaker 4: Tyler Booker.
Speaker 3: But you know, the thing that I've sort of figured
Speaker 3: out in the last forty eight seventy two hours is
Speaker 3: that teams have such different grades on on a lot
Speaker 3: of these guys. It's really hard to kind of plant
Speaker 3: people in the right area. You're trying to get him close,
Speaker 3: but it's hard to figure out who'll be available. I
Speaker 3: do think a good lineman will be there for him, though,
Speaker 3: so it could make the decision relatively easy.
Speaker 1: Hey, Eric, if they want to now with that big
Speaker 1: guy at that spot at twenty five, interior guy, can
Speaker 1: you get a Can you get a ten year starter
Speaker 1: with the twenty fifth pick? At least on the surface
Speaker 1: here with all the draft mock draft stuff, can you
Speaker 1: get a good tackle at twenty five that you can
Speaker 1: pencil in and play? Even though this team it feels
Speaker 1: like by getting Cam Robinson they're not looking for that yet.
Speaker 1: But apparently they got to go up and get a
Speaker 1: young stud because he may not be long for the position.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, you know, you can look at it
Speaker 4: two ways.
Speaker 3: You might be able to get the media in tiers
Speaker 3: starter with a guy like Tyler Booker is able, you
Speaker 3: might be able to get a tackle there.
Speaker 4: I don't you know.
Speaker 3: Kelvin Banks is an interesting player, obviously, grew up about
Speaker 3: twenty minutes down the road, yep from the Texas facility.
Speaker 4: Local kid.
Speaker 3: You know you handle your business against will and Anderson
Speaker 3: and your second college game, You've got some chops to you.
Speaker 3: I'm a little surprised there hasn't been more buzz for him.
Speaker 3: I think the issue has been guarter tackle teams sort
Speaker 3: of see it differently.
Speaker 4: I would at least try him out there.
Speaker 3: I think he's an option, especially for a team like
Speaker 3: that where maybe he's playing a different position next year.
Speaker 3: You know, you cross trade him at a couple of different
Speaker 3: spots and sort of see where they fit. I think
Speaker 3: that would be a, you know, a perfectly fine way
Speaker 3: to go about it. You know, Jonathan Ogden played left
Speaker 3: guard for a year if we remember all those years ago.
Speaker 3: But uh, it can happen, right, and so I would
Speaker 3: I would think that if that opportunity exists, they would
Speaker 3: certainly look into it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and Eric, I'm not out on I'm greedy as
Speaker 1: a quarterback. I want to protect the quarterback. Give me
Speaker 1: receivers it can go play. I'm if they had the
Speaker 1: fourth let's say that was the fourth lineman on their
Speaker 1: board available at twenty five, and the second receiver. Because
Speaker 1: I'm a big, like love guy. If I like you,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure I'm taking you. If I love you,
Speaker 1: I don't care what anybody else says. I'm taking you
Speaker 1: because I've done my due diligence. So I'm not convinced,
Speaker 1: nor should I be. If there's a good receiver like
Speaker 1: a Booka from Ohio State and the lineman, you're kind
Speaker 1: of wondering, why not take a receiver there as well?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that's the other position that I've that
Speaker 3: I've thought about there, and you know, getting somebody to
Speaker 3: replace what we saw the difference with and without digs,
Speaker 3: you know, and obviously with and without an ECO for
Speaker 3: that matter too when he was hurt. So you know,
Speaker 3: obviously that's that's something you can't overlook. The funny thing
Speaker 3: that seems to be you know, normally the second or
Speaker 3: third receiver in a draft would be somebody inside the
Speaker 3: top twenty receiver corner.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: We see a lot of that position typically in the
Speaker 3: top twenty picks.
Speaker 4: This year not so much.
Speaker 3: You know, there might be one or two receivers one
Speaker 3: or two corners. You know, it's hard to kind of
Speaker 3: the real value of both those positions might be on
Speaker 3: day two. So you might be able to, I mean
Speaker 3: you might depending on who's there. Buca is so solid,
Speaker 3: so polished, I think he's going to end up being
Speaker 3: a really good slot in the NFL, but you could
Speaker 3: play him outside that, you know, do we like that
Speaker 3: or do we take eighty five ninety percent of that
Speaker 3: type of prospect in round two? And whereas the lineman
Speaker 3: drop off pretty precipitously after a certain point, Right, I
Speaker 3: think that's going to happen, maybe midway through day two.
Speaker 2: Eric head home again NFL media. You can find him
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Speaker 2: at home. And I mean, you know, we talked about
Speaker 2: the possibilities of Nick Assio and the Texans Eric being
Speaker 2: aggressive on day one, but with you know, the three
Speaker 2: other top one hundred picks they are going to have.
Speaker 2: I mean, do you feel like maybe it's more of
Speaker 2: a target of you trade back in the round two
Speaker 2: or you know, you try to move up even further
Speaker 2: in round three. I mean, do you think that maybe
Speaker 2: that's a more logical spot that Nick Cassio could go.
Speaker 4: Yeah, totally possible. Right.
Speaker 3: Obviously, this this feels like a draft that you know,
Speaker 3: maybe there are a ton of trades up top. Maybe
Speaker 3: there are, I don't know, but after a certain point,
Speaker 3: I could see the activity really ramping up. In fact,
Speaker 3: talk to somebody last night who said a lot of
Speaker 3: the calls that they were making were with those those
Speaker 3: day two scenarios, Right, what would it take to move
Speaker 3: up from you know, thirty something to twenty something, what
Speaker 3: would it take to move down from that spot midway
Speaker 3: to the round or whatever.
Speaker 4: So a lot of.
Speaker 3: The kind of the cross check calls last night seemed
Speaker 3: to be on that front. So yeah, absolutely could see
Speaker 3: that as a possibility. And again, this is a draft
Speaker 3: where it feels like the lack of blue players, the
Speaker 3: true top tier guys, is really kind of glaring. But
Speaker 3: the depth at certain spots is pretty nice. I think
Speaker 3: there are a lot of solid players in this draft.
Speaker 4: I mean, the longer I've gone, the more I've actually
Speaker 4: appreciated this draft class.
Speaker 3: And that day too could end up being a real,
Speaker 3: you know, kind of a heavy lifting day for certain
Speaker 3: teams that understand that value.
Speaker 1: Eric, you and I, let's let's go around the league.
Speaker 1: I'm the coach, but you're the GM, and you're making
Speaker 1: a final decision. We're sitting in a room and we
Speaker 1: got a top ten pick, and I say to you,
Speaker 1: all right, uh, Shadre Sanders, what do you say?
Speaker 4: I say, we can wait. That's what I have been
Speaker 4: able to gather. Now.
Speaker 3: I know I'm talking out of both sides of my mouth.
Speaker 3: I had them ninth in my mock draft that I
Speaker 3: turned in on Saturday, and Saturday feels like about nine
Speaker 3: weeks ago. And isn't it funny guys, when you you
Speaker 3: do your final mock or whatever, you turn it in,
Speaker 3: then you show a few people and they say, well,
Speaker 3: that's not happening.
Speaker 4: I can tell you right now that isn't gonna happen.
Speaker 3: One of the isn't gonna happen things is at least
Speaker 3: what someone told me.
Speaker 4: With Sar at nine.
Speaker 3: I put him there because I thought, boy, he's gonna
Speaker 3: go at some point. I don't know where, you know,
Speaker 3: just does Pittsburgh take him at twenty one? Of those
Speaker 3: two scenarios, that feels more likely that he would go
Speaker 3: somewhere in that range. I suspect it's not a trade
Speaker 3: up situation. I think there are enough people who like
Speaker 3: Shitar that he has a real good chance of being
Speaker 3: drafted tonight. But also that like love thing you were
Speaker 3: talking about, I don't know that there's a lot of
Speaker 3: love for the enters the prospect, and so I feel
Speaker 3: like it's gonna be the ladder half or the latter
Speaker 3: third of round one if it does happen tonight. So
Speaker 3: if I'm sitting at nine, let's say just to use
Speaker 3: that top ten spot, I'm saying we can wait, we
Speaker 3: can take a different football player here, try to swing
Speaker 3: up for round two if that option is still available,
Speaker 3: or sweat it out and see how far he falls.
Speaker 4: So that's gonna be an interesting one right there.
Speaker 1: Okay, Now, And I don't usually as the coach, I
Speaker 1: don't usually subscribe to a first round running back, especially
Speaker 1: in the top ten. But some guys, some catchered just
Speaker 1: different and we saw the impact Barkley and Joe Mixon
Speaker 1: made here, Barkley Cook in Buffalo, Derek Henry with Lamar
Speaker 1: jacksonash You're running back emerged again. I mean they've been
Speaker 1: doing it, but they kind of revalued themselves. I think
Speaker 1: I think Ashton genty special now. So I bring him
Speaker 1: up to you and I say, can he change our
Speaker 1: program offensively? Do we draft him? What do you say?
Speaker 4: I think?
Speaker 3: At that point? Yeah, I'm a little ambivalent on this one.
Speaker 3: I'm the one man I say yes for.
Speaker 4: All the reasons you you just pointed out.
Speaker 3: I mean, I think He's as good a back as
Speaker 3: we've seen, or very close to as good a back
Speaker 3: as we've seen in the draft since Parkley, the one
Speaker 3: guy I think I would have had a slightly higher
Speaker 3: grade on him. You know, the way I do it
Speaker 3: is a little a little different than other people, but
Speaker 3: I would say Bijon was maybe just a tiny bit
Speaker 3: higher in my mind coming.
Speaker 4: Into the league.
Speaker 3: But again, I you know, look at Bucky Irving in Tampa,
Speaker 3: how he changed their run game too.
Speaker 4: I mean, Josh.
Speaker 3: Jacobs in Green Bay, all the guys you mentioned, Derrick Henry, whoever.
Speaker 3: You know, the run game has been kind of cycling
Speaker 3: back into the league for a few years now. As
Speaker 3: defense is it lighter and faster, they're going to load
Speaker 3: up on big guys. And you know, I think the
Speaker 3: value of the running back is has always been a
Speaker 3: little bit of an oversouled topic.
Speaker 4: But in this day and age, they can catch passes, block.
Speaker 3: Them on third downs, also run the ball twenty times
Speaker 3: a game to be that if they're special, if they
Speaker 3: can be worth that that high page.
Speaker 1: Yep, yeah, I think we're on the exact same page. Okay,
Speaker 1: the biggest Gary if we're sitting around too and I say,
Speaker 1: I need one that I pencil in now, I'll see
Speaker 1: you in a decade that I know he's going to
Speaker 1: be a hell of a player that if he's even
Speaker 1: isn't great, he's still going to start for us. He's
Speaker 1: that good. Who in this draft is your closest to
Speaker 1: can't miss in this draft?
Speaker 4: Running back?
Speaker 1: Anywhere? No, anywhere, any position, I don't care if it's
Speaker 1: guard or songid safety, the who's the guy that you
Speaker 1: say tonight, tomorrow? Any day?
Speaker 4: Do you say? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Any day can be today can be the first. I
Speaker 1: don't care who it is or what position? Did I say?
Speaker 4: Did?
Speaker 1: I know there's no gameuarantees? But this is about as
Speaker 1: close as he writes.
Speaker 4: Who is that? Look?
Speaker 3: I mean Travis Hunter? To me, he's one hundred and
Speaker 3: eighty three pounds. You got to point that out right.
Speaker 3: That's one big concern for me. Is like a guy
Speaker 3: trying to do it both ways full time. To me,
Speaker 3: I don't think it happens. I think it's going to
Speaker 3: be stronger on one side of the ball than it
Speaker 3: is on the other. But he's almost kind of bust proof.
Speaker 3: I mean, I know it sounds crazy, but when you
Speaker 3: have a guy who enters the draft, who is rated
Speaker 3: as I think very clearly the top corner and the
Speaker 3: top wide receiver granted both those classes we said earlier,
Speaker 3: not as top heavy as usual, but still come off.
Speaker 3: I mean, I just I don't, you know, I don't
Speaker 3: know how he fails in the NFL.
Speaker 4: Like he may not be the special.
Speaker 3: Transcendent, you know, otherworldly creature that we've made him out
Speaker 3: to be in some ways, but I would be shocked
Speaker 3: if he isn't. With that electric pic athleticism, the ball
Speaker 3: in his hands, he looks special, you know, his ability
Speaker 3: to take the football away on defense.
Speaker 4: I think he's gonna end it being a really good player.
Speaker 4: I think it's going to be a black to watch him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, his ball skills are off the charts man.
Speaker 4: For sure.
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Speaker 2: Underscore at home, Eric, get some rest before the nights,
Speaker 2: and we appreciate you squeezing us in today.
Speaker 1: My man, you always do such great and do such
Speaker 1: great work. We appreciate you.
Speaker 4: Thank you. Have a great night today and hope you
Speaker 4: get all the blockers and.
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