WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.200 --> 00:00:00.400 Eric. 2 00:00:00.480 --> 00:00:02.399 As we sit here in Houston at the moment they 3 00:00:02.439 --> 00:00:05.360 are set to pick twenty five. There are, you know, 4 00:00:05.480 --> 00:00:07.839 reports out there that they could move up. I mean, 5 00:00:07.879 --> 00:00:10.800 it's draft a anything can pretty much happen, But is 6 00:00:10.880 --> 00:00:13.759 offensive line pretty much where you're set with the Texans 7 00:00:13.759 --> 00:00:16.000 wherever they do decide to select tonight. 8 00:00:17.199 --> 00:00:20.079 Yeah, I think I think that's the position I'm most 9 00:00:20.160 --> 00:00:22.320 looking at. I mean, I could could see a receiver, 10 00:00:22.879 --> 00:00:25.399 you know, I could obviously see a defensive lineman or 11 00:00:25.399 --> 00:00:28.640 some sort, but that seems to be the position I 12 00:00:28.719 --> 00:00:30.879 kind of default to when I've done my mocks or 13 00:00:30.879 --> 00:00:33.039 when I've sort of projected that range a little bit. 14 00:00:33.119 --> 00:00:35.119 And you know, it's going to be interesting to see 15 00:00:35.119 --> 00:00:41.960 who's available and how the medical especially reports come back 16 00:00:42.119 --> 00:00:44.679 on some of the players, and also. 17 00:00:45.280 --> 00:00:46.640 You know who's going to be available. 18 00:00:46.679 --> 00:00:49.079 I mean, I thought maybe Gray's abel would be in 19 00:00:49.079 --> 00:00:50.159 that range for him. 20 00:00:50.000 --> 00:00:50.799 Tyler Booker. 21 00:00:52.159 --> 00:00:54.159 But you know, the thing that I've sort of figured 22 00:00:54.159 --> 00:00:56.960 out in the last forty eight seventy two hours is 23 00:00:56.960 --> 00:01:00.679 that teams have such different grades on on a lot 24 00:01:00.719 --> 00:01:03.320 of these guys. It's really hard to kind of plant 25 00:01:03.679 --> 00:01:06.519 people in the right area. You're trying to get him close, 26 00:01:06.640 --> 00:01:09.200 but it's hard to figure out who'll be available. I 27 00:01:09.239 --> 00:01:11.280 do think a good lineman will be there for him, though, 28 00:01:11.359 --> 00:01:14.280 so it could make the decision relatively easy. 29 00:01:14.359 --> 00:01:16.040 Hey, Eric, if they want to now with that big 30 00:01:16.079 --> 00:01:19.599 guy at that spot at twenty five, interior guy, can 31 00:01:19.640 --> 00:01:23.120 you get a Can you get a ten year starter 32 00:01:23.879 --> 00:01:26.359 with the twenty fifth pick? At least on the surface 33 00:01:26.400 --> 00:01:29.560 here with all the draft mock draft stuff, can you 34 00:01:29.599 --> 00:01:31.400 get a good tackle at twenty five that you can 35 00:01:31.439 --> 00:01:34.439 pencil in and play? Even though this team it feels 36 00:01:34.519 --> 00:01:37.319 like by getting Cam Robinson they're not looking for that yet. 37 00:01:37.359 --> 00:01:39.239 But apparently they got to go up and get a 38 00:01:39.280 --> 00:01:41.200 young stud because he may not be long for the position. 39 00:01:42.319 --> 00:01:43.879 Yeah, I mean, you know, you can look at it 40 00:01:43.879 --> 00:01:44.319 two ways. 41 00:01:44.359 --> 00:01:46.000 You might be able to get the media in tiers 42 00:01:46.040 --> 00:01:48.920 starter with a guy like Tyler Booker is able, you 43 00:01:49.040 --> 00:01:51.120 might be able to get a tackle there. 44 00:01:51.319 --> 00:01:51.840 I don't you know. 45 00:01:51.920 --> 00:01:54.560 Kelvin Banks is an interesting player, obviously, grew up about 46 00:01:54.560 --> 00:01:57.640 twenty minutes down the road, yep from the Texas facility. 47 00:01:57.879 --> 00:01:59.760 Local kid. 48 00:02:00.120 --> 00:02:03.439 You know you handle your business against will and Anderson 49 00:02:03.480 --> 00:02:05.840 and your second college game, You've got some chops to you. 50 00:02:05.920 --> 00:02:08.400 I'm a little surprised there hasn't been more buzz for him. 51 00:02:08.800 --> 00:02:11.960 I think the issue has been guarter tackle teams sort 52 00:02:12.000 --> 00:02:12.800 of see it differently. 53 00:02:14.240 --> 00:02:15.680 I would at least try him out there. 54 00:02:15.680 --> 00:02:17.879 I think he's an option, especially for a team like 55 00:02:17.919 --> 00:02:21.280 that where maybe he's playing a different position next year. 56 00:02:21.360 --> 00:02:23.599 You know, you cross trade him at a couple of different 57 00:02:23.639 --> 00:02:25.719 spots and sort of see where they fit. I think 58 00:02:25.759 --> 00:02:28.520 that would be a, you know, a perfectly fine way 59 00:02:28.520 --> 00:02:31.039 to go about it. You know, Jonathan Ogden played left 60 00:02:31.080 --> 00:02:33.080 guard for a year if we remember all those years ago. 61 00:02:33.240 --> 00:02:36.120 But uh, it can happen, right, and so I would 62 00:02:36.280 --> 00:02:40.319 I would think that if that opportunity exists, they would 63 00:02:40.319 --> 00:02:41.360 certainly look into it. 64 00:02:41.439 --> 00:02:43.879 Yeah, and Eric, I'm not out on I'm greedy as 65 00:02:43.919 --> 00:02:47.759 a quarterback. I want to protect the quarterback. Give me 66 00:02:47.800 --> 00:02:50.840 receivers it can go play. I'm if they had the 67 00:02:50.879 --> 00:02:53.280 fourth let's say that was the fourth lineman on their 68 00:02:53.280 --> 00:02:57.080 board available at twenty five, and the second receiver. Because 69 00:02:57.080 --> 00:02:58.879 I'm a big, like love guy. If I like you, 70 00:02:58.919 --> 00:03:00.479 I'm not sure I'm taking you. If I love you, 71 00:03:00.560 --> 00:03:02.719 I don't care what anybody else says. I'm taking you 72 00:03:02.759 --> 00:03:05.840 because I've done my due diligence. So I'm not convinced, 73 00:03:05.879 --> 00:03:08.719 nor should I be. If there's a good receiver like 74 00:03:08.719 --> 00:03:11.800 a Booka from Ohio State and the lineman, you're kind 75 00:03:11.800 --> 00:03:15.680 of wondering, why not take a receiver there as well? 76 00:03:15.840 --> 00:03:18.120 Yeah, I mean that's the other position that I've that 77 00:03:18.159 --> 00:03:21.159 I've thought about there, and you know, getting somebody to 78 00:03:21.560 --> 00:03:24.840 replace what we saw the difference with and without digs, 79 00:03:25.000 --> 00:03:27.039 you know, and obviously with and without an ECO for 80 00:03:27.080 --> 00:03:29.360 that matter too when he was hurt. So you know, 81 00:03:29.439 --> 00:03:32.639 obviously that's that's something you can't overlook. The funny thing 82 00:03:32.680 --> 00:03:35.319 that seems to be you know, normally the second or 83 00:03:35.360 --> 00:03:38.719 third receiver in a draft would be somebody inside the 84 00:03:38.759 --> 00:03:40.479 top twenty receiver corner. 85 00:03:40.560 --> 00:03:40.759 You know. 86 00:03:40.800 --> 00:03:43.960 We see a lot of that position typically in the 87 00:03:43.960 --> 00:03:44.919 top twenty picks. 88 00:03:45.000 --> 00:03:46.159 This year not so much. 89 00:03:46.360 --> 00:03:49.759 You know, there might be one or two receivers one 90 00:03:49.840 --> 00:03:51.960 or two corners. You know, it's hard to kind of 91 00:03:52.599 --> 00:03:55.280 the real value of both those positions might be on 92 00:03:55.360 --> 00:03:58.159 day two. So you might be able to, I mean 93 00:03:58.199 --> 00:04:01.199 you might depending on who's there. Buca is so solid, 94 00:04:01.360 --> 00:04:03.560 so polished, I think he's going to end up being 95 00:04:03.599 --> 00:04:05.560 a really good slot in the NFL, but you could 96 00:04:05.560 --> 00:04:09.919 play him outside that, you know, do we like that 97 00:04:10.560 --> 00:04:13.520 or do we take eighty five ninety percent of that 98 00:04:13.599 --> 00:04:17.560 type of prospect in round two? And whereas the lineman 99 00:04:18.519 --> 00:04:21.959 drop off pretty precipitously after a certain point, Right, I 100 00:04:21.959 --> 00:04:24.360 think that's going to happen, maybe midway through day two. 101 00:04:25.079 --> 00:04:27.800 Eric head home again NFL media. You can find him 102 00:04:27.839 --> 00:04:31.120 at NFL dot com on Twitter as well. Eric underscore 103 00:04:31.199 --> 00:04:33.720 at home. And I mean, you know, we talked about 104 00:04:33.759 --> 00:04:37.439 the possibilities of Nick Assio and the Texans Eric being 105 00:04:37.519 --> 00:04:40.279 aggressive on day one, but with you know, the three 106 00:04:40.319 --> 00:04:42.560 other top one hundred picks they are going to have. 107 00:04:42.680 --> 00:04:44.759 I mean, do you feel like maybe it's more of 108 00:04:44.800 --> 00:04:47.560 a target of you trade back in the round two 109 00:04:47.800 --> 00:04:49.519 or you know, you try to move up even further 110 00:04:49.600 --> 00:04:51.639 in round three. I mean, do you think that maybe 111 00:04:51.680 --> 00:04:54.480 that's a more logical spot that Nick Cassio could go. 112 00:04:55.839 --> 00:04:57.439 Yeah, totally possible. Right. 113 00:04:57.480 --> 00:05:01.000 Obviously, this this feels like a draft that you know, 114 00:05:01.199 --> 00:05:03.399 maybe there are a ton of trades up top. Maybe 115 00:05:03.399 --> 00:05:05.920 there are, I don't know, but after a certain point, 116 00:05:05.959 --> 00:05:08.639 I could see the activity really ramping up. In fact, 117 00:05:09.199 --> 00:05:11.600 talk to somebody last night who said a lot of 118 00:05:11.639 --> 00:05:15.000 the calls that they were making were with those those 119 00:05:15.079 --> 00:05:17.759 day two scenarios, Right, what would it take to move 120 00:05:17.839 --> 00:05:22.199 up from you know, thirty something to twenty something, what 121 00:05:22.199 --> 00:05:25.639 would it take to move down from that spot midway 122 00:05:25.680 --> 00:05:26.720 to the round or whatever. 123 00:05:27.439 --> 00:05:28.600 So a lot of. 124 00:05:28.560 --> 00:05:31.040 The kind of the cross check calls last night seemed 125 00:05:31.040 --> 00:05:34.600 to be on that front. So yeah, absolutely could see 126 00:05:34.600 --> 00:05:36.639 that as a possibility. And again, this is a draft 127 00:05:36.680 --> 00:05:40.199 where it feels like the lack of blue players, the 128 00:05:40.240 --> 00:05:45.199 true top tier guys, is really kind of glaring. But 129 00:05:45.240 --> 00:05:47.759 the depth at certain spots is pretty nice. I think 130 00:05:47.800 --> 00:05:49.879 there are a lot of solid players in this draft. 131 00:05:49.920 --> 00:05:52.279 I mean, the longer I've gone, the more I've actually 132 00:05:52.360 --> 00:05:53.800 appreciated this draft class. 133 00:05:54.439 --> 00:05:56.199 And that day too could end up being a real, 134 00:05:56.959 --> 00:05:59.279 you know, kind of a heavy lifting day for certain 135 00:05:59.279 --> 00:06:01.079 teams that understand that value. 136 00:06:01.319 --> 00:06:03.000 Eric, you and I, let's let's go around the league. 137 00:06:03.439 --> 00:06:05.959 I'm the coach, but you're the GM, and you're making 138 00:06:05.959 --> 00:06:08.519 a final decision. We're sitting in a room and we 139 00:06:08.600 --> 00:06:11.360 got a top ten pick, and I say to you, 140 00:06:11.480 --> 00:06:17.160 all right, uh, Shadre Sanders, what do you say? 141 00:06:18.399 --> 00:06:20.959 I say, we can wait. That's what I have been 142 00:06:20.959 --> 00:06:21.920 able to gather. Now. 143 00:06:22.480 --> 00:06:24.360 I know I'm talking out of both sides of my mouth. 144 00:06:24.399 --> 00:06:26.000 I had them ninth in my mock draft that I 145 00:06:26.040 --> 00:06:28.959 turned in on Saturday, and Saturday feels like about nine 146 00:06:29.000 --> 00:06:35.519 weeks ago. And isn't it funny guys, when you you 147 00:06:35.600 --> 00:06:37.560 do your final mock or whatever, you turn it in, 148 00:06:37.639 --> 00:06:39.199 then you show a few people and they say, well, 149 00:06:39.240 --> 00:06:40.000 that's not happening. 150 00:06:40.319 --> 00:06:42.120 I can tell you right now that isn't gonna happen. 151 00:06:42.600 --> 00:06:45.839 One of the isn't gonna happen things is at least 152 00:06:45.920 --> 00:06:46.800 what someone told me. 153 00:06:47.639 --> 00:06:48.639 With Sar at nine. 154 00:06:48.839 --> 00:06:50.720 I put him there because I thought, boy, he's gonna 155 00:06:50.720 --> 00:06:52.800 go at some point. I don't know where, you know, 156 00:06:53.000 --> 00:06:56.240 just does Pittsburgh take him at twenty one? Of those 157 00:06:56.279 --> 00:06:59.040 two scenarios, that feels more likely that he would go 158 00:06:59.120 --> 00:07:02.319 somewhere in that range. I suspect it's not a trade 159 00:07:02.399 --> 00:07:06.360 up situation. I think there are enough people who like 160 00:07:06.439 --> 00:07:08.199 Shitar that he has a real good chance of being 161 00:07:08.279 --> 00:07:12.199 drafted tonight. But also that like love thing you were 162 00:07:12.240 --> 00:07:14.199 talking about, I don't know that there's a lot of 163 00:07:14.360 --> 00:07:19.839 love for the enters the prospect, and so I feel 164 00:07:19.839 --> 00:07:22.639 like it's gonna be the ladder half or the latter 165 00:07:22.800 --> 00:07:25.720 third of round one if it does happen tonight. So 166 00:07:25.759 --> 00:07:28.920 if I'm sitting at nine, let's say just to use 167 00:07:28.959 --> 00:07:32.720 that top ten spot, I'm saying we can wait, we 168 00:07:32.759 --> 00:07:35.720 can take a different football player here, try to swing 169 00:07:35.839 --> 00:07:38.120 up for round two if that option is still available, 170 00:07:38.839 --> 00:07:41.399 or sweat it out and see how far he falls. 171 00:07:41.439 --> 00:07:44.439 So that's gonna be an interesting one right there. 172 00:07:44.600 --> 00:07:47.319 Okay, Now, And I don't usually as the coach, I 173 00:07:47.319 --> 00:07:49.920 don't usually subscribe to a first round running back, especially 174 00:07:49.959 --> 00:07:52.879 in the top ten. But some guys, some catchered just 175 00:07:52.920 --> 00:07:55.439 different and we saw the impact Barkley and Joe Mixon 176 00:07:55.480 --> 00:07:58.839 made here, Barkley Cook in Buffalo, Derek Henry with Lamar 177 00:07:58.920 --> 00:08:02.279 jacksonash You're running back emerged again. I mean they've been 178 00:08:02.319 --> 00:08:05.879 doing it, but they kind of revalued themselves. I think 179 00:08:06.040 --> 00:08:09.639 I think Ashton genty special now. So I bring him 180 00:08:09.720 --> 00:08:11.879 up to you and I say, can he change our 181 00:08:11.920 --> 00:08:15.839 program offensively? Do we draft him? What do you say? 182 00:08:16.319 --> 00:08:16.639 I think? 183 00:08:16.680 --> 00:08:20.639 At that point? Yeah, I'm a little ambivalent on this one. 184 00:08:20.639 --> 00:08:22.120 I'm the one man I say yes for. 185 00:08:22.079 --> 00:08:24.480 All the reasons you you just pointed out. 186 00:08:24.519 --> 00:08:26.199 I mean, I think He's as good a back as 187 00:08:26.199 --> 00:08:28.120 we've seen, or very close to as good a back 188 00:08:28.160 --> 00:08:31.120 as we've seen in the draft since Parkley, the one 189 00:08:31.160 --> 00:08:33.000 guy I think I would have had a slightly higher 190 00:08:33.000 --> 00:08:35.519 grade on him. You know, the way I do it 191 00:08:35.559 --> 00:08:37.840 is a little a little different than other people, but 192 00:08:38.720 --> 00:08:41.320 I would say Bijon was maybe just a tiny bit 193 00:08:41.480 --> 00:08:43.519 higher in my mind coming. 194 00:08:43.279 --> 00:08:43.919 Into the league. 195 00:08:44.840 --> 00:08:47.879 But again, I you know, look at Bucky Irving in Tampa, 196 00:08:47.919 --> 00:08:49.600 how he changed their run game too. 197 00:08:49.679 --> 00:08:50.960 I mean, Josh. 198 00:08:50.840 --> 00:08:53.759 Jacobs in Green Bay, all the guys you mentioned, Derrick Henry, whoever. 199 00:08:54.480 --> 00:08:56.399 You know, the run game has been kind of cycling 200 00:08:56.480 --> 00:08:59.240 back into the league for a few years now. As 201 00:08:59.360 --> 00:09:02.039 defense is it lighter and faster, they're going to load 202 00:09:02.120 --> 00:09:05.080 up on big guys. And you know, I think the 203 00:09:05.200 --> 00:09:07.960 value of the running back is has always been a 204 00:09:07.960 --> 00:09:09.720 little bit of an oversouled topic. 205 00:09:09.919 --> 00:09:14.519 But in this day and age, they can catch passes, block. 206 00:09:14.360 --> 00:09:17.799 Them on third downs, also run the ball twenty times 207 00:09:17.840 --> 00:09:20.840 a game to be that if they're special, if they 208 00:09:20.879 --> 00:09:22.320 can be worth that that high page. 209 00:09:22.360 --> 00:09:24.799 Yep, yeah, I think we're on the exact same page. Okay, 210 00:09:25.240 --> 00:09:27.559 the biggest Gary if we're sitting around too and I say, 211 00:09:27.600 --> 00:09:30.600 I need one that I pencil in now, I'll see 212 00:09:30.639 --> 00:09:32.840 you in a decade that I know he's going to 213 00:09:32.919 --> 00:09:34.600 be a hell of a player that if he's even 214 00:09:35.039 --> 00:09:38.120 isn't great, he's still going to start for us. He's 215 00:09:38.159 --> 00:09:41.000 that good. Who in this draft is your closest to 216 00:09:41.080 --> 00:09:42.960 can't miss in this draft? 217 00:09:44.039 --> 00:09:44.519 Running back? 218 00:09:44.799 --> 00:09:47.480 Anywhere? No, anywhere, any position, I don't care if it's 219 00:09:47.519 --> 00:09:50.559 guard or songid safety, the who's the guy that you 220 00:09:50.679 --> 00:09:52.559 say tonight, tomorrow? Any day? 221 00:09:53.240 --> 00:09:54.200 Do you say? Yeah? 222 00:09:54.240 --> 00:09:55.639 Any day can be today can be the first. I 223 00:09:55.679 --> 00:09:58.360 don't care who it is or what position? Did I say? 224 00:09:59.080 --> 00:09:59.240 Did? 225 00:09:59.240 --> 00:10:01.320 I know there's no gameuarantees? But this is about as 226 00:10:01.399 --> 00:10:02.279 close as he writes. 227 00:10:02.320 --> 00:10:04.279 Who is that? Look? 228 00:10:04.840 --> 00:10:07.559 I mean Travis Hunter? To me, he's one hundred and 229 00:10:07.600 --> 00:10:09.480 eighty three pounds. You got to point that out right. 230 00:10:09.519 --> 00:10:12.519 That's one big concern for me. Is like a guy 231 00:10:12.559 --> 00:10:15.360 trying to do it both ways full time. To me, 232 00:10:15.519 --> 00:10:17.159 I don't think it happens. I think it's going to 233 00:10:17.159 --> 00:10:18.840 be stronger on one side of the ball than it 234 00:10:18.879 --> 00:10:22.000 is on the other. But he's almost kind of bust proof. 235 00:10:22.120 --> 00:10:23.840 I mean, I know it sounds crazy, but when you 236 00:10:23.879 --> 00:10:26.000 have a guy who enters the draft, who is rated 237 00:10:26.039 --> 00:10:29.240 as I think very clearly the top corner and the 238 00:10:29.279 --> 00:10:33.159 top wide receiver granted both those classes we said earlier, 239 00:10:33.639 --> 00:10:36.879 not as top heavy as usual, but still come off. 240 00:10:37.159 --> 00:10:41.480 I mean, I just I don't, you know, I don't 241 00:10:41.519 --> 00:10:42.919 know how he fails in the NFL. 242 00:10:42.960 --> 00:10:44.919 Like he may not be the special. 243 00:10:44.559 --> 00:10:47.960 Transcendent, you know, otherworldly creature that we've made him out 244 00:10:47.960 --> 00:10:50.600 to be in some ways, but I would be shocked 245 00:10:50.600 --> 00:10:54.120 if he isn't. With that electric pic athleticism, the ball 246 00:10:54.159 --> 00:10:56.559 in his hands, he looks special, you know, his ability 247 00:10:56.600 --> 00:10:58.159 to take the football away on defense. 248 00:10:59.159 --> 00:11:01.000 I think he's gonna end it being a really good player. 249 00:11:01.360 --> 00:11:02.960 I think it's going to be a black to watch him. 250 00:11:03.000 --> 00:11:05.000 Yeah, his ball skills are off the charts man. 251 00:11:06.440 --> 00:11:06.840 For sure. 252 00:11:07.480 --> 00:11:10.159 Eric at home again NFL media joining us here on 253 00:11:10.200 --> 00:11:12.759 the Seawan Salisbury Show. Find him on Twitter at Eric 254 00:11:12.879 --> 00:11:16.080 Underscore at home, Eric, get some rest before the nights, 255 00:11:16.080 --> 00:11:18.000 and we appreciate you squeezing us in today. 256 00:11:18.039 --> 00:11:20.279 My man, you always do such great and do such 257 00:11:20.279 --> 00:11:21.639 great work. We appreciate you. 258 00:11:22.600 --> 00:11:24.360 Thank you. Have a great night today and hope you 259 00:11:24.399 --> 00:11:25.279 get all the blockers and. 260 00:11:28.120 --> 00:11:30.519 Greedy give us all give them all to us Christmas 261 00:11:30.600 --> 00:11:31.240 Day for football. 262 00:11:31.799 --> 00:11:32.240 Thanks Y.