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21:02Diante Lee:Yeah, and it's even how are they planning on doing that? Is it definitely a wide receiver? Are they a sneaky Kenyon-Sadiq team? Do they look at their offensive line and say, you know, Akiya Kwan has got the injury and we signed Rasheed Walker to that low-level deal, but man, we really love one of these tackles. So I'm with you. It feels like that's going to be offense. They signed guys on defense to kind of help on that side of the ball in a free agency, but it feels like they probably need, you know, one of those areas they got to address on offense. And maybe it is Concepcion. That would be fun.

21:36Diante Lee:Nice match there with Ted McMillan. And do you get a better idea of who Bryce Young is? It feels like we've said that for, you know, several years, but it feels like, yeah, this really is that year where you want to get the evaluation there on Bryce Young. Let me see. What else did I have down for this one? I can cheat because I come up with the question so I can prepare for these. We mentioned Caleb Dallans earlier. I think him with the Bengals would be fun. Just they kind of need some, like who's the face of that Bengals defense? You know, they're trying to rebuild it there and just reach a level of competency.

22:08Diante Lee:And if he's the one directing everybody, setting the culture, being a playmaker on the back end, I think that would be a fun one. I even think, Deontay, if he went to the Cowboys at 12, that's pretty fun too. New defensive coordinator, you know, the Eagles, when they got Vic Fangio, Quinion Mitchell and Cooper DeGene, that was kind of a turning point for that defense. The Cowboys now have a Fangio disciple there in Christian Parker running the defense. Do they draft two defensive backs? Is it a defensive back and a pass rusher? Can Caleb Downs kind of be the guy that changes the fortunes of that defense?

22:40Diante Lee:So those were a couple other ones I wrote down as well. I like that. And I'll stick with receivers and offense. I like Makai Lemon as a potential stealer slot, right? Like somebody who can go win some contested catches. I think that the style of offense are going to want to run with Mike McCarthy. and we're assuming Aaron Rodgers in the final year of his career, or maybe they go out and get a young quarterback that they want to hand the reins off to. Either way, just knowing what McCarthy likes to do with the calling his offense, you want guys that are unafraid to work in the middle of the field in the quick game, can get you the ball, secure the ball, go win on fades if you are throwing the ball deep down the field.

23:15And I think that Lemon's the kind of guy, at least what we've seen over the last year, right? Being able to go up and win those passes and not necessarily needing to be a burner to get separation at times and somebody who is going to play tough and do all the small things that you need them to do as a slot receiver in a spread out West Coast offense. That's another fit that I think I've really, really come to like.

23:34Diante Lee:I like that one. Last two I had written down, Carnell Tate to the Commanders at seven with Jaden Daniels. I think that'll be fun. And the one you see in a lot of places, Benga Yohane to the Ravens. I had that one on my list as well. It just feels like he's going to get taken pretty high. You know, when you just look at all the players, you're like, who is a player you just feel the best about? There's going to be a team that says like, we don't want to take the risk on some of these other guys. And it doesn't mean it's a sure thing. It doesn't mean, you know, plug and play or high ceiling. We all know that those phrases don't always come to fruition.

24:09Diante Lee:But just in terms of like, oh, you know, scouts, scouts are good on him. Coaches are good on him. Analytics is good on him. Owner, GM, like everybody being like, yeah, no, we like him a lot. It feels like you'll want to be that type of player. Does he go 14? Is it possible he goes even earlier? We shall see. All right, we take a break. We come back. We get to more of these draft questions. This episode is brought to you by Warby Parker. You know, I used to wear glasses and it was so complicated and overwhelming trying to pick a new pair. So many styles to choose from and don't even get me started on the price.

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25:34Diante Lee:We already did your Defensive Rookie of the Year pick. You knew probably by now that Arnett Shields are just going to go. The Offensive Rookie of the Year pick is coming. However, you may not pick Fernando Mendoza or Jeremiah Love. I thought it was too easy. Those two. Those feel like the obvious favorites right there. Mendoza and Jeremiah Love. If you disagree or if you want to say anything about those two guys, you can. But let's say you got to take those two off the board. And I say, here's$100. You can put it down on who the offensive rookie of the year is going to be. Who would your choice be?

26:10Diante Lee:Not knowing what team these guys are going to land on. and that's really what makes it tricky. I think that's really what makes it tricky, but I am going to go with Kenyon Sadiq ultimately. I think that, and this is not necessarily, oh, we're going back and watching this college tape and seeing a bunch of production because that is kind of the knock on him, right? Is that for all of his athletic traits, we don't have that big breakout in terms of big yardage. We don't have a big, you know, 19 touchdown season or something like that, right? It's not like Tyler Warren coming into the draft where it's like, oh, you can just turn on the Penn State tape And every time Penn State needed a play, they were going to that guy.

26:45They were going to 44 and he was going to go make it happen. Right. But I do think just looking at the way that the league has been using young tight ends year over year. Right. Like I look at Kenya Tadiq and you say the best realized version of him is something like Sam Laporta right out the gate. Right. Where because he does have these great physical traits, we can get into formations where we're making him the number one receiver on the backside of a three by one set. and we're going to use him against corners to run slants and quick outs and, you know, see if we can try to, you know, kind of build a Travis Kelsey-esque package for this guy where he can just go make a catch out in space and make a play.

27:20You think about Brock Bowers, who was certainly much more refined, I would say, in terms of his full tight end skill set than what Sadiq is. But again, that was a team that was rebuilding, that needed a guy they could fill no targets to, who had the athletic profile to be able to go make guys miss in the middle of the field and go get you a few explosive plays here and there. I think that Sadiq can be that. But and then I mentioned Tyler Warren for a reason, right? Like I would say in the first half of the season, the Colts are just basically it seemed like every week they were just in front of a whiteboard and saying, hey, what's the most creative way that we can get Tyler Warren the ball here?

27:50Whether it's at fullback or as an off tight end, an inline tight end, split out as a receiver, et cetera, et cetera. Right. Like I think that wherever Sadiq lands, you're drafting him with that kind of offense in mind that we're going to have a package of, you know, six to eight plays each week that if we're in the right situation, we're going to manufacture this guy a touch and just go let that, you know, sub four, four speed, go get out in space and see what it can give us. So I would say if I can't pick Love, who would be my pick in this situation, it would be Sadiq. Cause I think he can just give you enough raw yardage and production to make it work.

28:23Diante Lee:There was a time there where it was just like, don't count on your rookie tight end to be productive at all. I mean, it was a long stretch where it was just really tough guys taking the first round. It's going to take a while. Like three years usually before they turn into something. Right. It was like, is this a good investment? Because by the time they get good, they might be on their third year of their rookie contract. And then Brock Bowers had that year a couple of years ago. And then last year, like you mentioned, Tyler Warren, Colston Loveland. Colston Loveland. Terrific seasons. And now I don't know in my head whether, hey, Sheel, it's recency bias in a small sample, or it's like, nope, maybe these guys are just more prepared to come into the NFL and be productive right away.

29:02Diante Lee:or maybe the teams, to your point with the Colts, have a better plan for them right away, how to integrate them. So yeah, I probably need a bigger sample. So I'm like open to it, but I'm also a little bit cautious. Like, you know, it wouldn't shock me if Sadiq went to a specific team and it's like, all right, they didn't have a great plan for him or they don't have a great offensive coach. And now all of a sudden we're looking at it going, oh man, I thought he was going to be a really exciting young player, but it's taking longer than maybe we expected. So I like the choice. We'll see with Kenyon Sadiq.

29:29Diante Lee:I feel like Deontay, he's the player that's on probably most group chats among NFL fan bases. 100%. Between like 13 and 27. Absolutely. Every fan base is just like, this should be amazing. Every subreddit is. Yeah, we need to make him number one on our board for sure. And I think that this exercise is really interesting when you take love off the board. Because you consider like the receivers that we're talking about. Most of them that we've mentioned has almost always been like, oh, we're adding him. to a team that already has a number one, right? Or a de facto number one. This guy is just going to slot into a certain kind of role.

30:06The only receiver that I think I would feel like could just go on his own and produce enough to be a rookie of the year is Jordan Tyson. And he's not walking into the year with any clarity or walking into the league with any clarity on what his health is going to be and whether or not he can handle the rigors of a 17 game and maybe someday in the future, an 18 game NFL slate, right? Like that, that to me, I think is the biggest hangup. So I went with Sadiq, and if I couldn't go with Sadiq, then the next best thing would be someone like a Jadarian Price or a Mike Washington Jr., a running back who's maybe just going to go get you the short yardage touchdowns that you need, right, and go maybe pop an explosive run or two as part of the rotation.

30:43And hey, maybe they've got eight touchdowns and 850 yards and ended up being one of the team's top two backs and ends up just kind of sneaking out with the offensive rookie of the year if it's not Mendoza or Love.

30:56Diante Lee:Yeah, I was looking at Cardinal Tate and thinking if he goes to Washington or the Chiefs, I think he's going to be those two. Because if it's Cleveland, you can chalk it down. No, I'm not picking him. Yeah, I'm not picking him if it's Cleveland. I thought for that reason, here will be my official pick, Omar Cooper Jr. Because I feel like if he goes in the first round, it will be towards the end there. And maybe it will be a team that has a good quarter. Now, to your point, he probably wouldn't be the number one target on a lot of those teams. But if he can go to a team that's good as a good quarterback, a good offensive coach, then maybe he can just come in, be, you know, like a Buka, the free, you know, the first half or whatever it was of last season where it was like, Oh, this is kind of what everyone thought it was going to be where he's come in, be productive right away.

31:43Diante Lee:I don't think Cooper jr. Is that level of wide receiver, but I think he has a chance based on where he might get drafted, his experience that he could come in and be productive right away. So I'll go Omar Cooper Jr. for my pick there. I won't go on the soapbox, but I think that we all need to expand our imaginations. And I think there might be some years of the best rookie is alignment. I know that they're never going to win the award. Okay, I like this. I know they're never going to win the award, but we've got a lot of tackles coming into the league and a lot of guys that I think will be asked to start and produce in pass protection right out of the gate.

32:16And I would say it's very possible that we look at someone like Spencer Fano or maybe Francis Maui Noah, or a Caleb Lomu ends up being the most impactful, you know, rookie to come into the league on offense, even though I know they're never going to get the votes that they'd need to win the award.

32:33Diante Lee:Has it ever happened? I'm looking now here. I'm looking it up now. If it did, it would be, it would have to be in an era where kickers would win an MVP because they would get the most points, right, in a season. That's the only time I could see something like that happening. No, I just pulled it up. Pro football reference, going back to 1967. 67, I guess, was the start of this award being candid out. And I'm seeing running backs. I'm seeing fullbacks. There you go. That's kind of close. Wide receivers. Quarterbacks, obviously. Actually, I don't believe a tight end. I don't think a tight end's ever won it.

33:08Diante Lee:I didn't know that. Wow, a tight end. Okay, it's a kind of what we were saying earlier. Brock Bowers probably had an argument his rookie year. But yeah, no, we haven't had a tight end win one yet. Okay. I mean, like, just think of the odds, okay, to your point, you know, that one of the offensive linemen would not be the best offensive rookie in any given year. Like, think if you did this on the defensive side of the ball, and you're like, no defensive lineman was the best player. It actually makes no sense. It's kind of crazy. I don't even think, you know, you know, as much as I would love to rip you and be like, hey, this is a hipster take.

33:46Diante Lee:I actually do. It probably is a hipster take, but I can get on board with some hipster takes. And it's true. What would it take? You know, let's be the change we want to see in the voting community. You know, what would I feel like? What would it take? Some sort of social media campaign. I almost feel like it would take these wide receivers, quarterbacks and running backs. They would have to be like kind of unimpressive more, you know, as much so as one of these offensive linemen being unbelievable. Although if it's ever going to happen, now's the time. Because now like we're more into offensive line play now than we've ever been, right?

34:21Diante Lee:As a football viewing public and you can produce clips very easily that, hey, don't worry about PFF grades. Let me show you what this guy's doing and how fun it is. and you can have an offensive lineman clip go viral if they're getting to the second level and just burying a safety or a linebacker there. Or you can show, hey, man, this guy blocked Jared Verse one-on-one on the biggest third down of the game. So I think those are the types of things we need. Let's remember this. Let's get to week six, seven, eight next year when we're getting ready to maybe do the mid-season awards and let's make sure we keep an eye on how the offensive linemen are performing.

34:55I think the big thing is that we need the nerds' help. Now that we have all this player tracking data and we can do things like rush yards over expectations, you can start to look at, you know, pocket health. We've seen that with the Amazon Prime videos broadcast. If you're able to start to tie the analytics in where you can say, hey, this offense is only able to get certain passes off because of how well this guy is playing as pass protection. Or when a team is running behind this rookie right tackle, their rush yards over expected spike because they're just moving guys off of the interior. year.

35:28That would be, I think, the best bet to make that happen. So to my buddies that work at the NFL, you know, Kegan Abdu, some of my other guys that are working on the analytics side of things, next time we go to the big data bowl, I need that to be the project. Put together a data set that is going to help, you know, people realize how viable offensive linemen are when they come into the league.

35:46Diante Lee:Well, you make a good point. We can actually, you know, there are kind of three sets of people here that aren't always aligned, but we can actually align analytics, the film grinders, and then just the old heads. Like I think all those communities agree that like, you know, offensive line play, very important. Offensive linemen should be getting more credit, more, you know, more praise, that kind of thing. So we really just like all those little factions and the NFL analysis community just need to get to the mainstream people, or maybe just the people who have the votes in the media there, get to them and make the case.

36:24Diante Lee:All that, you know, everyone's got to be aligned though, between like, if we get into some situations, Deontay, where it's like Spencer Fano against Francis Maui Noah, now we're in a bad spot. They're splitting votes and I don't think, you know, there's not going to be enough there for it to happen. But I like that. I think we unearthed something there that maybe we can revisit once we get to October, November. And then once the awards are handed out at the end of the year. All right, there we go. Maybe an offensive. We should have chosen. All right, let's do it now. You have to choose an offensive lineman.

36:53Diante Lee:Which of these guys has the best chance? I feel like, you know, we can't go guard if we're trying to make this change, Deontay. No, so sorry, Vega. No, it's got to be premium position. I love you, Vega. It's not happening. No centers. I don't see it for you. Sorry, guys. I'm going to go with Monroe Freeling. Okay, I like that. That's been my favorite tackle. That's been my favorite tackle. The guy that I project the highest coming into the league out of this tackle class. I think that all the athletic traits are there. You watch him as a run blocker, to your point about needing those big highlights, you're going to get a couple clips where he gets an edge rusher and puts him on skates and he's escorting that guy to the sideline, right?

37:31You're going to get those clips. He doesn't lose to power very often. So you're going to have your Jared versus or your big, powerful, hulking defensive ends try to run through this guy's chest and he's going to anchor down and go nowhere. And you're going to get those, hey, NFL next-gen stats is saying that this guy rushed up against Monroe Freeling 22 times in a game and he only got one pressure, right? And the pressure came after three and a half seconds or whatever. So I would say that Freeling is probably my pick for that. I think the most realistic would just end up being whoever ends up drafted the highest, right?

38:03That would be the thing is, oh, this team drafted on top five overall. The Cardinals went and took, you know, whoever, Spencer Feneau or whatever, and he ended up being, you know, a high level, you know, maybe pro bowl level tackle. And maybe we can gin up a couple votes. But we are circling back to this. I am not going to allow myself to forget when we get to Christmas time and we're really starting to talk about reward awards and who's going to be winning what. And, you know, we're voting for all pro teams and all of those things. This is something I'm going to come back to and I'm going to make a campaign out of this if I can.

38:33Diante Lee:I got to say the example you use, if Cardinals tackle Spencer Feneau and wins offensive rookie of the year. That would be one of the greatest upsets in NFL history. Oh, by far. I like Freeling. All right. Freeling is the official pick of the Monroe Freeling, the offensive tackle from Georgia. We both like him. He's the official pick sight unseen in terms of where he's going to go for offensive rookie of the year next season. Let's see. Let's see how that take looks down the road there. But I like it. We got to a good place there. All right, Deontay, that was question number three. What do you got?

39:08Diante Lee:What's next? All right. Now we're going to go to one. Let's finish out the bottom, the first half of numbers here. We'll go with one. All right. Very simple. Give me one bold prediction that you want on the record before next week's draft. So this isn't your last ringer NFL show before the draft. We're going to do a fun group mock exercise that'll be in everyone's feed early next week. But I thought, you know what, let's just make sure Deontay, if he maybe he's been at something he's been sitting on, you know, sometimes you go to bed and you say, I'm thinking about it. Then you wake up, and you say, yeah, I feel good enough to go with that.

39:42Diante Lee:Deontay, give me one bold prediction you want on the record. I have multiple, but I think my spiciest one is that the Chiefs and Cowboys both end up making selections in the top five of this draft. Oh, okay. All right. So Chiefs are trading up and Cowboys trade up. Do we have, hey, I think they would want to target this player or we're just saying we think they're going to see someone they like and they have multiple first round picks and they're going to be aggressive? I think both will be in the search of an edge rusher. And I think that specifically with Dallas, I think there's already kind of those smokes and it goes out that like, oh, they're concerned that if they wait, that New York might end up taking a defensive player that they're really interested in.

40:26They're concerned that the edge rushers that they might be into or some of the DBs that they might be into at pick 12 just aren't going to be available if they sit back and wait. and I think if you're Kansas City again you've got to look at this and say we may never get another opportunity to go make a pick in the top 10 and we actually have two first round picks that we might be able to go leverage to get some control over who we select that was kind of my thinking for both I think that the Chiefs might be targeting someone like a David Bailey who we talked about who we've talked about multiple times being you know a really intriguing speed edge rush type that I think is kind of starting to pick up a little bit more in the process I I think that before he was kind of in that morass of, hey, where do you rank him against Darvell Reese?

41:08Where do you rank him against Reuben Bain? I think that as we get closer to it, people start to get a little bit more infatuated with just what his ceiling can be as an edge rusher, which is why I wouldn't be surprised if he ends up being the top edge rusher taken. So I have the Chiefs making a deal with the Cardinals. So the Cardinals are getting off that number three pick. We're not taking a quarterback. We're not in any rush. This is going to be a long rebuild. let's go get number nine and 29 from the chiefs and let's add some day three draft capital swaps to make the you know the trade calculator look good um and then for the cowboys i had them making a deal with tennessee another team that already has their quarterback they're in a rebuild if they do want jeremiah love you might be able to kick back and wait for a little bit and still have access to them in the teens right if you want to wait and i have tennessee taking 12 and 20 and a fourth round pick for Tennessee's number four and number 35.

41:57So I think that that was maybe my most ambitious trade because Dallas has given up two first round picks, but they're getting a second rounder back to consummate this deal as well as a number four pick. And yeah, like I said, I think this is going to be for two of the premier defensive players in this draft that they'll be making this move for.

42:14Diante Lee:All right. I like it. That would be exciting. That would be fun. Let's make it happen. Let's get some trades going here. I may have a little Cowboys hypothetical trade in a future question. So I'm not going to step on the toes there, but I like that. A couple teams, the Chiefs and the Cowboys making moves to get into the top five of the draft. I don't know if this one's bold or not, Deontay. We've talked a lot about Jeremiah Love and I'm going through the mock scenarios and I'm looking at it. Jeremiah Love, not a top 10 pick. I don't know. Is that a bold? How bold? Is that bold enough? Do you think like, no, I actually think that's realistic because I'm going through these teams.

42:51Diante Lee:And I just don't know that there's going to be a team in the top 10 that actually takes them. I think it's bold in the sense that we are having this conversation as people who analyze the league and are watching the trend lines and, hey, this is positional value X, Y, Z. I think it's a less bold take in that realm and maybe more bold in the sense of like the reality of it is these teams see these special athletes and they get infatuated and they feel like they've got to have them, right? And you look at the Commanders, you look at the Titans, you look at these teams that he might be linked to.

43:24I would say the Giants might be on that list as well. And I just have a hard time thinking for teams that might not have access to blue, blue chip talent that might immediately change your franchise. Maybe the next best thing they're most interested in is just an athlete that everybody gets excited by that you can just hand the ball off to and let him go. And I do think that Love is going to end up being a top 10 pick ultimately for that reason.

43:45Diante Lee:Man, the Titans at four. That would be very interesting if they just stick at four and take Jeremiah Love. The other one I had written down, and this one is not, well, maybe it is bold. I don't know. How about Garrett Nussmeyer goes before Ty Simpson? That I think is bold. That one I think is bold. Okay, all right. Let's go with it then. I think that we're in the, the people who like Nussmeyer more than Simpson are more in the minority these days. So whether it's you, whether it's me, whether it's our guy, Fran Duffy, who I think likes Nussmeyer a little bit more than Simpson. I think my buddy Nate Tice likes Nussmeier as much, if not more than Ty Simpson.

44:21I think that will probably be a bold one.

44:22Diante Lee:Okay, I like this company then. I'm in. Exactly. All right. You're right. If these guys are behind me, then I'm good. I'll face all the good stuff on me if they're behind. You know, if it doesn't work out. Yeah, I was just looking at what they said. All right, did you say you had some others there, Deontay? Some other bold predictions? I have one more for you. Okay. I don't know if it's bold because if you're just reading the reporting, it seems like maybe this is just kind of leaning in that direction of happening. I think that Dexter Lawrence is ultimately traded on day one of the draft. I think that is bold.

44:48My landing spot for him is Chicago. I think that Chicago deal is number 25.

44:54Diante Lee:Okay, so you're on board. All right, 25 for Dexter Lawrence. Now, when I had this fake prediction that the Giants are sending a fourth back to the Bears. So it's a fourth and Dexter Lawrence for 25 overall. I don't know if they would need to do that or not. But yeah, there's some reporting that talks to her at an impasse with Dexter Lawrence. I think if I still had to actually guess, I think he ends up staying with the Giants. But yeah, the closer this kind of gets to the draft and to new regime in New York, and it's a player that I think teams would be interested in, I think that would be a fun trade.

45:30Diante Lee:Let's get Dexter Lawrence to the Chicago Bears. I want to impact players on teams who are competing, man. This is what we're here for. And it's funny that it's playing out this way. and we talked about it the last time we were on, right? Like the Dexter Lawrence situation is actually a very simple one. It's give me guaranteed money because I'm a vet who has proven myself or send me somewhere that will pay me. And it seems like New York feels like, no, we're going to play, we want you to play out the string on this deal. And then in 2027, we can come back to the table and talk about an extension.

46:02And vets who have been watching, you know, what was going on with Trey Hendrickson and Cincinnati and other vets across the league when they get to the last year or two of their deal and they've run out of guaranteed money, they're not going to sit around and wait. Nobody is going to play on non-guaranteed deals, right? Because now you're telling me that I'm basically, I basically have half a foot out. If anything goes wrong in this year or I get hurt, that I am now risking my future value for that. So I think that ultimately the best way to resolve this would be to pay Dexter Lawrence. But if you're not going to give him the money that he's asking for, I pay him at market rate.

46:31Even if it's in the 29 million for two extra years type of category, then you might as well move them onto a team that is trying to compete and will be willing to pay him into his early 30s to try to maximize what's left of what's been a great career so far.

46:45Diante Lee:I want all your bold predictions to have. It would make for a much more fun draft, you know, a draft that maybe lacks a little juice. If we could get the Chiefs trading up to the top five, Cowboys trading up to the top five, and Dexter Lawrence being traded to the Chicago Bears, I'm on board with all of Deontay's bold predictions there. All right, let's take one more break. We come back, we'll get to the rest of these questions. Start your day with Quaker Protein Instant Oatmeal. The instant oatmeal ready to help you tackle whatever your day brings, like wrinkling your toddler into their car seat.

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47:59Diante Lee:We got some of these that can be more quick hitters. You have just been named the GM of an expansion team, Bionte. You don't know what scheme you're running. You don't know who else is going to be on your roster. Yet you are tasked with stacking your wide receiver prospects in the first round. So this is a tough one because a lot of them, you say, well, if we're doing this scheme, well, if we need this, well, who else do we have? But no, this is just, you got to say, who do I feel like are the best players and how would I rank them? So we're talking Ohio State's Carnell Tate, Arizona State's Jordan Tyson, USC's Makai Lemon, Indiana's Omar Cooper Jr., Texas A &M's Casey Concepcion, Washington's Denzel Boston.

48:42Diante Lee:I think those six guys, there's an expectation could all go or will all go in the first round. How does Deontay Lee rank them? It's tricky, man, because these guys are so different stylistically. They're all so different stylistically. And maybe this is going to be revelatory for just how I view the position and the things that I prioritize and the things that I don't. I think that Tate remains number one for me. So I'm sticking with consensus there. I've got Jordan Tyson as my two and Casey Concepcion as my three. I think that that might be a bit of a break. I think that a lot of people are a little bit warmer on Makai Lemon compared to the rest of the receivers in this class.

49:18So that's my top three. I would say Mekhi Lemon is fourth, but you could probably go four and four A to me between Mekhi Lemon and Omar Cooper. And then last on that top, you know, consensus top six would be Denzel Boston.

49:31Diante Lee:Okay. I like it. I went Tate, Tyson, Lemon, Concepcion, Cooper, Boston, but I'm kind of with you with, you know, Lemon, Concepcion, Cooper. I don't have a big difference between those three. Tyson, it just, you just have to make a decision. Do we feel like we're going to be able to figure out the medicals or do we not feel like we're, you know, is it he was injured before, so he's going to be injured again? Or is it he was injured before, but none of these are like, you know, injuries that are going to impact the rest of his career. Let's get him with our medical staff, our training staff, and he's going to be a steal because of his talent.

50:06Diante Lee:And then Boston, I just, like, he could be great. I just, whenever I read that a guy in college is winning with sort of size, physicality, and not necessarily a great separator, and it's probably unfair of me because there's been guys like this who have turned into great prospects. I just get a little bit nervous when I read that type of thing and I think, all right, am I sure that's going to translate to the NFL? So I think we're mostly on the same page with that ranking. Yeah, I think that I'm glad you brought up Boston because he's the one who hangs me up the most when I'm talking about evaluating these first round receivers because in my heart of hearts, I want to believe that the big body, bully ball style of receiver is going to get into the league and you can just muscle guys up on third down.

50:49You can muscle guys up in the red zone. And I think that what we've seen borne out year over year is that it just doesn't always happen that way. And you do have to have an element of separation to your game. Now, I think that whether it's by data or by film, I think that Boston is a little underrated in that regard. I don't think it's because he has a full route tree. I think that that is a bigger hangup to me is that you don't have the most detailed route tree where you're just seeing him snap off these routes in the intermediate area and he looks explosive getting in and out of his breaks at all times.

51:19You're seeing things that are a lot more off the vertical tree, which is fine for a big bodied receiver. It's just not as detailed maybe as what you would like to see. And if it were, he'd be right there. 1A, 1B with Carnell Tate, ultimately, I would think. So I think that for him, he is a first round receiver because the ceiling, the possibilities are there. I know our own Danny Kelly Compton to Cortland Sutton. I think that that's an aspirational landing spot for him. But if he were to be that level of receiver, I think that that would merit being a late to mid to late first round pick. So yeah, I would have him at the bottom, but I still think he can be a good player.

51:53That cluster you were mentioning though, between Lemon, Concepcion and Cooper, like that is truly like a dealer's choice. You just kind of have to figure out what kind of role you're trying to fit these receivers into and what really matters most for you at that position.

52:08Diante Lee:All right, there you go. You know, I just realized Deontay mentioned we're behind schedule. The offensive lineman is rookie of the year. like we spent a good 20 minutes on. Maybe, you know, we got a little too carried away there, but that's okay, like Deontay said. We don't get enough time to talk about the trenches anyway, man. I got to give the big guys a little bit of love. There you go. We gave the big guys a little bit of love. All right, Deontay, what's your next number here? Let's see. Was that, if that was nine or 10, I don't remember, but we'll go with eight from here and then see what's left over when we get to the end.

52:40Diante Lee:Okay, eight. So I was thinking about, you know, I was thinking about draft memories. over the years. And I was thinking about 2021, Deontay, when Aaron Rodgers kind of hijacked the draft. You know, it's draft day. And all of a sudden, ESPN's Adam Schefter has a report that Aaron Rodgers is so disgruntled that he doesn't want to be back with the Packers. And it's this bombshell of a story and teams are calling Green Bay or had already called Green Bay. Let's say a similar story breaks out on draft day this year. You know, maybe we're trying to get a little walking on draft morning knowing we got a big three days, a little workout in, whatever.

53:19Diante Lee:And all of a sudden, the phone starts blowing up that a prominent quarterback in the NFL wants out. If I told you that was going to happen this draft day, on the next Thursday, which quarterback, if you had to choose one, would you say, hmm, the Aaron Rodgers, this is difficult. I did not give Deontay a heads up for this. This is a tough one. But if you said, hmm, I guess I would go with this quarterback to be the Aired Rodgers 2021 version in 2026. Who would it be, Deontay? And you could just, if you want to talk it out, walk us through. You're just going through probably like I do the ESPN standings page and just say, all right, this is this guy's quarterback.

54:08Diante Lee:Would this guy make sense? is there anyone that has gotten you to at least a maybe as i as i've tried to buy you some time here with this question maybe no but let's exist in the realm of fantasy for a little bit okay i like that it's gonna hurt we got some hypothetical yeah it's a fantasy world i hate that this is the first name that comes up because i'm just gonna get absolutely blitzed on social media for this but the first thought is that it would be jalen hurts so jalen hurts sees these reports about how people in the organization don't know how they feel about him as a leader. And, you know, they're blaming some of the things that go wrong in the offense on the fact that he's changing play calls and et cetera, et cetera.

54:47And the fact that Philadelphia didn't come to the table this offseason and said, Hey, let's tear up the last few years on your deal. And let's just give you a new one because you want a Superbowl for us. We know you're our franchise guy. And he says, you know what? I'm going to play the big joker here. Did you guys have so much to say publicly. This is how I feel. Pay me my contract, pay me a new contract or get me out of here. Since we're going to be blowing up this whole thing and A.J. Brown's probably going to get traded and we need to reset and get younger on offense anyways. Count me out of that.

55:15I want to be someplace that always wants to maximize its opportunity to win by having the best players on the roster at all times.

55:23Diante Lee:That's a good, honestly, that's a good, it's a good answer. Is it when he's not saying Jalen Hurts? I'm not saying it's likely. No. But we're trying to, because Jalen Hurts has not really done the thing where he gets his side of the story out there in the media with the other stuff that's being put out there. And yeah, maybe he says, I've won a lot of big games for you. We've won a lot of games together. I've won a lot of big games. And you guys aren't showing me the proper amount of respect here. Howie Roseman had a press conference this week where he just kind of gave a very clunky answer when asked about some of the reporting on Jalen Hurts.

55:58Diante Lee:I like that. Jalen Hurts is a good one. I wrote down some names. I didn't feel like I could, I nailed it with any of these, you know, but it's just the exercise you just did. I did. And I was like, what if Lamar Jackson, you know, it's just like, the other one that I thought about. Yeah. Cause it was, we've been to that weirdness between him and the team in the past. And they did the restructure this off season, but they didn't give the extension this off season. And maybe just like enough is enough. You wanted to move on with your head coach. You should move on with your quarterback too. I want a fresh start.

56:29Diante Lee:somewhere else. So that was one I had down. Um, you know, Bo Nix probably isn't at the same level of prominence, but if there's at some point just a report that like Bo Nix and Sean Payne, just, this isn't working out, man. Nix is just like sick of this guy and he wants to go somewhere else. Again, I don't think that's going to happen, but I was like, all right, that's worth at least writing down. If he's just like, I'm just annoyed with my head coach and you know what, I'm going to get something out there. That was another one I had down. CJ Stroud, I just wrote down. He's like, man, you know, this is going great after my rookie year, but you haven't paid me yet.

57:08Diante Lee:And I feel like my play has declined and maybe I'm starting to feel some of that heat, but I think it's some of the stuff around me and the decisions you guys have made. I would like to go elsewhere. Again, I don't think it's going to happen, but that was another one I wrote down as well there, Deontay. And then I think some people would probably mention Joe Burrow just because of the, you know, some of the press conference stuff. I always felt, I never felt like that was due to him. Now I could be wrong. I didn't feel like he wanted to leave Cincinnati. None of that to me came across like a prelude to a trade request.

57:39That very much felt to me like a quarterback realizing his power and trying to exert as much of it as possible on the organization to make sure that it's building a contender around him. But I mean, he's an Ohio guy, right? He's an Ohio guy. He's close to home. The entire franchise has basically worked itself to make itself in his image because he does have all the offensive firepower that he needs to have a top five offense year over year when those guys are healthy. I couldn't imagine him being the guy to ask out. I have maybe two more names that could be explosive. All right, go ahead. This one is absolutely not going to happen because his new money just kicked in.

58:18But it would be Justin Herbert. If Justin Herbert was like, Like, hey, man, I am tired. I'm tired of you guys talking about these comp picks and the money you're saving. Yeah, exactly. You know, like you guys got me Mike McDaniel. That's awesome. But every free agency, I'm waiting for you guys to add a little bit more at receiver or along our offensive line to help keep me upright and give me better players to throw to. And you keep telling me about this mythical day out in the future where your cap sheet is going to be clean enough to be able to go be aggressive for the exact perfect player. And it never happens.

58:49I'm tired of it. So that's one guy I thought about. And then the last one that again, wouldn't happen because he just would never find a landing spot better than where he is right now is Jared Goff. If that would just be a, Hey, at random, I want to go, I want to compete or, you know, I feel like I don't get my just do here or we missed our window to win a championship and I want to be someplace where I can try to make the most out of my last few prime years. That would be the only other guy I could imagine. But none of these are things I think would happen.

59:19Diante Lee:I feel like if I had to rank quarterbacks who are happiest with their situation, I would have Goff very high. Like he's probably like, man, McVay was kind of a jerk to me. You know, Campbell gives me hugs. The O-line's pretty good. The crowd is cheering my name. Yeah, they're cheering my name. Yeah. I mean, man, the problem is it's hard to find the quarterback who has the personality, honestly, too, or is at the stage of his career where he would pull something like that off. That was the hardest part about this exercise. Honestly, yeah, I just kind of couldn't get there with a lot of these players.

59:55Diante Lee:But it is a fun exercise. It's kind of like an NBA podcast segment on an NFL show with those quarterbacks. Maybe if we miss someone obvious, let us know. All right, Deontay, that was fun. I like that you were squirming a little bit, but yeah, Jim Hurts might be the right answer for that one or Lamar Jackson, I think. Those are probably the two that maybe come to mind. All right, what do we got? What's next? We are going to go with number six here. All right, six is a quick hitter. Here's where we can make up some time. I just want your favorite day three guy. Give me a day three pick that we're going to look back five years from now and we're going to go, man, teams are really, how did teams let him fall to day three of the draft?

1:00:35Diante Lee:Who's your guy? So I have one on the fringe. He's a hometown guy for me and Grayson Halton from Oklahoma, right? This is somebody I actually had the opportunity to coach against when he was in high school. Okay, give us the background. I don't know much about him. So, you know, before he became this, you know, kind of game-wrecking defensive tackle, like he played out on the edge. They would move him around. I had, there were some refs where he was in the backfield going like Vita Vance style as your lead blocker, the guy you're handing the ball off to in short yardage when he was in high school.

1:01:04But yeah, I mean, a very disruptive guy, great first step. I think that you've seen over the years at Oklahoma, he started to really develop his hand usage, his ability to play the run. And I think for me, that's a guy that you look up, you know, two or three years down the line when he's getting close to the end of the rookie deal. The same way in Philadelphia, you're talking about, you know, your Milton Williams is or your moral. I was like, hey, like we kind of waited. This guy actually developed into exactly the player that we thought he was going to be. And oh, crap, he's about to go make 20 million dollars on the open market because of how valuable he is as a disruptor, getting TFLs, you know, making plays in the backfield, affecting the quarterback.

1:01:38So that's one that I have is kind of like a fringe could be around for, you know, type of pick. Another one in that kind of vein would be Oscar Delt, tight end, who kind of does it all. I feel like he checks all the boxes, but he's not going to wow you in any one particular way. Great athlete, but that athleticism hasn't turned into big time production. And I think that for him, it's going to be a matter of he's probably not your lead tight end, and he's definitely going to have to continue to grow as a blocker, I think, to maximize his value. but you see what he can do athletically when he does get the ball out in space vertically every once in a while.

1:02:12And you can kind of see the outline of a guy who can be a major impact tight in later on in his career.

1:02:19Diante Lee:I love it. There you go. Two day, three potential day, three picks. We never know where they're actually going to go, but two potential day, three picks that Deontay likes. All right, Deontay, I think we have seven and 10 remaining. If, uh, if I'm doing this correctly, what do you got? There you go. Your accounting is right on point. That's what we got left over. So I'll go with 10 and then we'll wrap up with seven. All right, 10. Let me see. All right. Rank these draft takes based on which you're most on board with to least on board with, Deontay. Okay, so I've got three here. Number one, you can't grade a draft until three to five years after the fact.

1:03:00Diante Lee:That's draft take number one. Number two, the NFL made a smart move in cutting the time between picks from 10 minutes to eight minutes, just eight minutes in the first round this year. That's number two. And then number three, some team should draft solely off of a consensus board for five years and see how they do. So those three takes, number one, can't create a draft until three to five years after the fact. Number two, NFL made a smart move in cutting time between picks from 10 minutes to eight minutes in the first round. And take number three, some teams should draft solely off of a consensus board for five years and see how they do.

1:03:46Diante Lee:And if you don't know what a consensus board is, all right, remember how to talk there. We talked about it with Billy Gill on the last show. It's these, you know, you take kind of, it's a law of numbers thing. You just take a bunch of different draft boards that are out there. You throw them into a spreadsheet. You come up with a consensus board. And the idea is, you know, what one person might see something that another doesn't see. It accounts for some variance. There are NFL teams that include this in their modeling, in their rankings, where they say, hey, maybe there's something out there that we missed.

1:04:19Diante Lee:All right, Deontay, which of those takes are you most on board with? Which are you least on board with? the one I'm most on board with is that it was a good idea to cut the time from 10 minutes to 8 in between picks. And this might be for selfish reasons. A, the draft broadcast is always too long. It's always too long. We're just writing down names and negotiating trades at the end of the day. I get it. ESPN, NFL Network, all these places that broadcast the draft, you've got to fill in your ad time. You can build these very robust broadcasts off of it. And I'm not saying that I don't enjoy it.

1:04:54I'm one of the sickos. I will watch the same clips that I've been watching for the last three months, you know, on the broadcast, you know, when a guy gets picked and you're telling me all the reasons why he's going to end up being a superstar for the team he just landed with. But ultimately, like, I don't think you need 10 minutes to sort out who you're going to draft, especially like on day one, right? Like you don't need that much time. Your boards have been set for a long time. You probably know what the trade market is already outside of like the teams maybe in the back quartile because you're waiting to see how the board is going to fall and maybe get an opportunity to jump back in.

1:05:26If you're in the second round, maybe you get a chance to trade out or make a big leap up towards the middle of the first round. If there are players you're targeting and you feel like they're not going to be available to you, but yeah, we don't need 10 minutes. And again, selfishly, I want to have a 2003 situation again. I want to see a team like the Vikings, you know, miss a pick and now everybody's scrambling and oh my God, I don't know what's going on. And I love the fact that like the rules, a lot basically say like, it's like, we'll call from there. that as long as you get your pick in time, or if you don't get your pick in time, you just continue to get skipped until you ultimately make your pick.

1:05:59I think that that would be great for the content machine if we had a week where everybody is freaking out because some NFL franchise was trying to be too precious about negotiating a trade or hemming and hawing over, do we want Kenyon Tadiq versus this player? Do we want to get this running back in positional value versus this edge rusher? And you look up and it's like, oh crap, we've been waiting, we've been basing this off of 10 minutes worth of time We've only got 40 seconds left and nobody could come to a consensus. I think that that would make for great, great drama and great theater during the draft.

1:06:29Diante Lee:I'm going to make a prediction, Deontay, that there will be at least one GM that complains or says we couldn't finalize a trade because they moved it from 10 minutes to eight minutes. I think that's going to, I don't know what the, I don't know what the right amount of time is because I'm with you. Like it doesn't seem like they need 10 at the same time. I do like trades. So I want there to be enough time. Now, a lot of times those trades are agreed to before the day even begins. The frameworks are set. But still, you know, we've seen the draft videos. They're on the phone. They're yelling. The analytics guy's putting it on the board.

1:07:04Diante Lee:Is this fair? Is it not fair? So some of it does happen here at the moment. But yeah, if that feels like that was the right move. So I'm with you there. All right. What about the other two takes here? Next one, the one that I'm most interested in, I can't say bought into, but the one I'm most interested in would be drafting only off of a consensus board for a few years time and just seeing where you land. That would be interesting. I mean, you, you kind of spoke to the wisdom of crowds theory with following consensus boards. I think that for the most part, the way that people are drafted and how effective they are once they get to the league and how productive, et cetera, et cetera, is typically borne out right on the whole with consensus boards, which is the whole reason why you might lean on them is because, you know, over the widest breadth of information gathering, These are just the guys that are most likely to end up being the best.

1:07:49They end up kind of bising themselves or climbing up closer to the top. So I would say that that's number two for me. And then number three is the idea that you can't grade a draft. I forgot how to speak for a second for three to five years. Why would I have to wait until these guys are signing their second contracts for me to grade how effective a GM was at their job? That's a GM propaganda that I'm not going for.

1:08:11Diante Lee:I'll be honest. I was nervous because I didn't know how you felt about it. I figured you were with me on that one with the draft grades because that one annoys me to no end. This is going to happen on Saturday night, Sunday, Monday, next week, where some media types going to get on their high horse and say, you can't draft a great, you can't create a draft until three to five years down the road. No, you're wrong. I disagree with you for two reasons. One is teams don't get that benefit. They like, it's very, of course, Anyone can look back five years ago and identify the top players. What are we actually accomplishing with that exercise?

1:08:47Diante Lee:Nothing. Anybody can do that. The entire point of the draft and why it is very interesting is because you are making decisions under uncertainty. You don't know and you have to try to piece it together and solve the puzzle and decide how much risk do I want to take on? Do I want to swing for a home run? Am I okay? This is a safer player, but man, he's never going to be an all pro. You have to make all those decisions on the fly. That's why the draft is very interesting. And no one is like, this is the exact way you should draft because it's hard. There is no precise way where this is how you should draft.

1:09:20Diante Lee:So we should evaluate them based on how we think they did with the process. Did they trade multiple first round picks for James Pierce Jr.? I think it's okay to rip a team for doing that. And if you come back at me and like we did last year and say, well, what if he's a hall of famer? Okay. That can be your response to literally any draft, any draft critique possible. So that's not what we're talking about here. And we can be wrong when we evaluate them. We can say they shouldn't have done this. And then three years later, it's like, nope, they actually nailed that. And here's why I was wrong in the analysis.

1:09:50Diante Lee:So that's one reason why. And the other reason why, Deontay, maybe more importantly, it's only football, people. It's going to be okay. Right. We're not trading futures in the stock market right now. No, it's okay. where we can say this team gets a C - because I think they did a bad job here. No one's going to like, it's all right. We're all going to survive if we hand out some draft grades. I mean, you know, we don't say, you can't decide whether a team is good or not until after the Super Bowl. Like we don't just wait to do content and opinions the entire NFL season because we can't do it until we find out who actually is the best team.

1:10:28Diante Lee:So listen, don't get your undies in a bunch, some of you out there, okay? And if you're listening, feel free to rip any media member on our behalf. If they get on their high horse about this, tell them the Ringer NFL show sent you because I can't stand when those takes come out after the draft. All right. Was that a necessary rant? Probably not. But you know what? Sometimes you got to get some stuff off your chest. You got a friend in me on this one. I'm 100 % there with you. All right. There you go. Last one, Dion. This is a juicy one to end on. Okay. We've actually hit on some of these topics, but now we're putting them in order here.

1:11:04Diante Lee:Rank these three outcomes from most surprising to least surprising if these things happen. Number one, the New York Jets take Cardinal Tate at number two. They look around and say, we got questions about Arvel Reese. We got questions about David Bailey. No one wants to trade up. You know what? We're taking Cardinal Tate at number two. So that's the first outcome. Second outcome, this is the one I was referencing earlier. The Cowboys trade up to three. Kind of what you said. They give up 12 and 20. But Deontay, they're not going edge rusher. They're adding Jeremiah Love to an offense with Dak Prescott and George Pickens and CeeDee Lamb and a good offensive line.

1:11:51Diante Lee:And Jerry's going, I'm back, baby. Let's go. Jeremiah Love on the Dallas Cowboys. And then three, the Philadelphia Eagles select Ty Simpson in the first round of the NFL draft. Those three outcomes, all unbelievable for content. Jets take Cardinal Tate at number two. Cowboys trade up to three to select Jeremiah Love. Eagles select Ty Simpson in the first round. Rank those if they actually happened from most surprising to least surprising, Deontay. most surprising or least surprising. I would say most surprising. Honestly, I mean, you could have set up the rubric anyway, and it would have changed the ranking for me, right?

1:12:35Because these are all very juicy potential storylines. I think that most surprising would be the Eagles drafting Ty Simpson, right? Like, especially in the first round, knowing that Lane Johnson probably only has a year or two left in his career to play, right? At least if we're basing it off of the fact that Jeff Stoutland is gone as his offensive line coach, that he's getting up there in age, that he struggled with injuries over the last couple of seasons. And I would say last season, the fact that for a guy who is typically able to just kind of tie the shoelaces tighter, so to speak, and get back out on the field and just gut it out, the fact that he genuinely had to miss time, tried to come back, wasn't exactly the same player and ended up missing time again.

1:13:16I think that the Eagles are pretty aware of the fact that they either need to go find an offensive lineman that can play some sort of major role for them in the future after Lane Johnson retires, or they need to just go get the most valuable player they can on the board. That's not to say that getting a quarterback is not valuable, but specifically in the context of where this team is at, I would be shocked if it were Ty Simpson as the pick. And I mean, you want to talk about, I am setting up notifications for every single radio show, podcast, live stream that there is in the Philadelphia area.

1:13:53And on and all things Eagles, I would just be absolutely drinking the content out of a fire hose. But yeah, I would say that that is, that will be the most surprising to me. Second most might actually be the Cowboys trading up specifically for Jeremiah Love. That was something I considered when I was putting together bold predictions. Like if you're Jerry Jones, people have been giving you credit for smart process this offseason. But have they been calling you cool, right? That to me is what kind of strikes me as what Jerry Jones is most concerned with is, are people fawning over the Cowboys? Are people making the Cowboys A1 in terms of storylines?

1:14:30Trading up gets you there, especially into the top three. And if you were to do it to say, hey, we've got an even better version of what Ezekiel Elliott was when we did this a decade ago, that to me, I think would grab all the headlines coming out of day one of the draft. barring something wild happening with the Raiders at number one overall. That would be hypothetically the biggest storyline I could imagine coming out for that. So I will be, that would be my number two. And then the one that would be least surprising of the three that do have me would be the Jets taking Cardinal Tate number two.

1:15:00Not because I think that he's the second best player on the board. This would be a reach for me. Even if there weren't so many interesting edge rushers or, you know, premium defensive talents that the Jets could take, I just don't view Carnell Tate in the same ballpark as, you know, as he would be getting drafted ahead of where Julio Jones and AJ Green were drafted. And like, to me, that is always going to be the bar. If you want to talk about a guy being a top three pick, you better be telling me that his tape coming out of college was at the level of Julio Jones or AJ Green. I don't think you're going to get that out of Tate.

1:15:31I think that Tate projects best as a high, high end, right? A B plus, A minus level, number two wide receiver, not necessarily your number one with the bullet. we're going to get this guy 130 targets from the moment that he steps into the league. That's not what I see in him as a player. So I would probably, I would be least surprised of the three that you threw at me, but this is the one to me that just, it just does not pass a smell test. If they don't go Arvo or Resetsu, I would think it has to be for a player like David Bailey.

1:16:00Diante Lee:You know, I got to a point where I'm like, huh, should they take Carnell Tate? If they can trade out, I would be, I would be all for it. Well, I was thinking, all right, so let's say they just can't get on the same page with these edge rushers. At least you're taking a premium position. You're trying to build an infrastructure for the quarterback in 2027. It's hard to find great wide receivers and free agency. And now you have someone paired with Garrett Wilson. So again, I'm with you. I don't think I would do it. I think it would be a reach. I think everyone would think it would be a reach. But I had that as my least surprising along with you in these top three.

1:16:38Diante Lee:I actually had the Cowboys, if the Cowboys traded up to three to take a running back, I mean, I had that as actually more surprising than the Eagles taking Ty Simpson in the first round. So I flipped those two. I had the Cowboys scenario as most surprising, Ty Simpson, Eagles take Ty Simpson as second most, and then the Jets taking Cardinal Tate at number two. This was basically my attempt at like, let me try to come up with bold predictions that might have like not even a 1 % chance, but at least, you know, like higher than 0 % chance. And let me see what Deontay thinks about some of these. So yes, that was a great one to end on.

1:17:15Diante Lee:All right, that was a lot of fun. We went in a bunch of different directions. Again, next week, we will have a little group mock draft for all of you. And then of course, draft coverage as the festivities begin on Thursday night. Thank you to Deontay Lee. Thanks to Christopher Sutton for producing. Stefano Sanchez on video and additional production supervision by Conor Nevins and Arjuna Ramgopal. I'm Shil Kapadia. We will talk to you next time on The Ringer NFL Show.

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