00:00Well, we've got the draft happening later this month,
00:03and Mel Kuyper, Field Yates, and Jordan Reed and Matt Miller
00:05did a three-round mock draft.
00:07Here's what they've got lined up for the Falcons at 48.
00:10Field Yates chose Florida defensive tackle Caleb Banks.
00:13Let's say this does happen, and we hear the Falcons draft.
00:17Caleb Banks.
00:18What's the reaction going to be?
00:20I would be shocked that he's there.
00:23It would be a lot like Jalen Walker when he fell to 15.
00:29We sat on this show like two weeks in advance.
00:31Not even worth talking about Jalen Walker.
00:33I said that morning that I would strip down nude
00:35and run through the Bay City's Bend Stadium if he was there at 15.
00:39Dude, shout-out to Mike Conte for getting that put
00:41on the actual draft broadcast that night as I joined them.
00:45That was crazy.
00:47Still haven't seen a payoff.
00:48That's because they won't let me.
00:50They pretty much told me that I can't.
00:52I've asked.
00:52I actually asked.
00:54I said, look, what if I – and I think I said my underwear
00:56for the record, and I said, look, what if I just like –
01:01no shirts, no shoes, and like some short basketball shorts
01:05or something, and they're like, nope.
01:06I'm trying to quickly come up with a flag of a country
01:08who doesn't pay its debts because he's talking about
01:11a communist flag being on my house.
01:13This man over here doesn't pay his debts off.
01:15Unbelievable.
01:15I can think of a couple, but it probably would be out of touch to say.
01:18I did the same thing.
01:19I did the same thing.
01:21But I was like, I'm not going to go there.
01:22But in reality, honestly, Ali, I would be shocked.
01:25If Caleb Banks is there at 48, I'd be shocked.
01:27Just for what you're going to – for what he is as a physical specimen,
01:34there would have to be something that came out,
01:36or teams would be – they would shy away from him
01:40just because of the injury bug that hit him last year.
01:44It's happened at times.
01:47I do think that that's worth stopping and talking about for a second.
01:51If the first pick you have in this draft is another guy coming off of an injury,
01:55I do think there is going to be that 20% of this fan base that's like,
02:00of course we drafted a guy coming off an injury.
02:02Of course we drafted somebody who has had surgery in the offseason
02:07or whatever else it may be, and that's going to be unsettling for some.
02:11Well, do you want to hear what an AFC scout said about him with the regard to the injury?
02:17Sure.
02:18It was like – they said he had tremendous respect for him
02:21because he hurt his foot in camp and tried to play through it.
02:24Love it.
02:25He couldn't and then had to have surgery and said,
02:28look, a lot of guys in his position that are a top 50 prospect
02:32would have shut it down immediately.
02:33So I get – at today's college football.
02:36So give him a lot of respect for that.
02:39But the reality is, did he do more damage than good by trying to play through it?
02:45That's the question, and hopefully surgery repaired that.
02:47But, look, I'm telling you, Duke can ball.
02:49He's good at defeating double teams.
02:53He does lack a little bit of closing speed from a pass rusher,
02:58but he can play all over the line.
03:00I don't know if you watched any film on him,
03:02but they moved him all over at Florida.
03:05So he's a guy, I think – I mean, he is – to me, if you got him or Christian
03:09Miller,
03:10you didn't go wrong.
03:11The only thing you worry about is can they maintain their weight,
03:15which we talked about earlier.
03:16Well, how confident are you that we're actually going to stay at 48, though,
03:20or is Ian Cunningham going to make a few deals?
03:23That is a question that I wish I had some heads up on what the answer actually is.
03:29He's always – and, look, he said the same thing in regards to Kyle Pitts, did he not?
03:33He's like, my job is to answer the phone.
03:34All right?
03:35And I think that no matter what, it's very clear to me,
03:38and we've talked about this for a number of weeks now since free agency started,
03:41what their goal is.
03:42It is to completely, other than, you know, five, six, seven, eight players,
03:48wipe the slate clean going into 2027 and gather as much money for free agency
03:52and as many draft picks as possible in the draft.
03:55And, yeah, I think if he gets a call and, you know, somebody wants to move around
03:59and he has the opportunity to move back, that he would absolutely do that.
04:02I don't see him moving up, though.
04:05Like, I don't foresee that happening just because of what they've already kind of
04:09shown us about their off-season philosophy.
04:11The only way they would move up is if they – if it was a trade for a player
04:16on the roster where I'll give you – let's just use Kyle Pitts.
04:21I'll give you Kyle Pitts for the 35th overall pick and the 91st or something.
04:27And so they picked up two draft picks for the said player.
04:30That's the only way I think that they would trade up
04:34or be picking before 48, I guess I should say.
04:39Yeah, I'd agree with that.
04:41Well, as far as – I mean, right now, we just talked about Kayla Banks at 48
04:44in this mock draft.
04:45Jordan Reed at 79 had Ohio State cornerback Davison, a big – Newsom?
04:52I was really leaning on you to get that right.
04:54No, I –
04:54Igbenuson.
04:55Igbenuson.
04:56Igbenuson.
04:57Yeah, I watched some film of him and I got to hear his name a couple of times.
05:01He's – he's physical.
05:05He's – I think he's like 6'2", 190.
05:08He's a physical player.
05:10He started a lot of games in his college career, like 53.
05:14He's pretty good at the, you know, like – at the line, at rerouting guys and stuff.
05:20Problem is, is I'm not sure – I'm not sure he's a number two.
05:27I think he might be a nickel because he's good against the run.
05:31He likes playing against the run.
05:32He likes coming up and throwing his head in there.
05:34The only problem with his tackling is he doesn't wrap up,
05:36and he likes to throw his – he likes to just kind of shoulder throw guys,
05:41and that's not going to work against a lot of running backs in this league
05:44and a lot of – a lot of players – most players in this league,
05:48you've got to wrap up.
05:48Would you – would you agree with that?
05:50So, that – he's going to have to just add that to him.
05:54But I don't – I don't know.
05:55This is a weird one to me because I don't think he's a CB2.
05:58I think he's a – I think he kind of translates to a nickel in the league.
06:02Yeah, I don't – I don't know.
06:05You've watched more of them than I have, and I agree with your assessment
06:07that you're at 6'2", 195.
06:10You can always – you can always usually count on guys getting in the NFL,
06:13eating good, and gaining 7'8", at that spot.
06:16And, yeah, if he wants to be physical, I can see them using him
06:19towards the line of scrimmage.
06:20I think Mike Hughes is an underrated tackler, in my opinion,
06:23and that's one of the reasons he's been able to stick around as long as he has.
06:27I just – I don't know because I think that they're –
06:31you take guys with upside at that spot.
06:32It's the reason we're talking about Caleb Banks is that the output is not what it is
06:36because of the injury.
06:37And when you look at a frame of a guy 6'2", 195, yeah,
06:40like why not take a shot in the third round?
06:43I think the secondary is definitely one of those things they're going to be looking at
06:46because we talked about it before.
06:47Until they made that trade for Sidney Brown,
06:49we just had not talked a ton about the secondary through free agency.
06:53Yeah, he gets a lot of penalties.
06:54He's just – Igbonison, or however you want to – if that's how you pronounce it,
07:00because he's really grabby.
07:02But he has a knack – like, the one thing that he does is he just has a knack for
07:06the ball.
07:08Like, it seems to me if the ball's on the ground, whether he calls it or not,
07:11it finds a way in his hands.
07:13It's like the Honey Badger.
07:14Remember how the Honey Badger was like that?
07:16Honey Badger don't care.
07:17Dude, he was always around the freaking ball.
07:19Well, it helped, too, because he was a – and he's a turn guy, too.
07:22I remember he would do the thing where he would wait until the quarterback would throw it
07:25and he'd rip the ball out from behind, not even touch the quarterback.
07:28It just had a knack for creating those fumbles.
07:30It was awesome.
07:30I remember watching him in the SEC Championship game in person that year
07:34when they played Georgia, and he changed the game on those two –
07:38well, the one punt return, he absolutely changed the game.
07:40He was electric, dude.
07:42What was that, 2011?
07:44Yeah, that was 2011 because –
07:50Georgia played Bama in 2012.
07:52Because Auburn won it in 2010.
07:53Yep.
07:54And that was the year that – that was what changed –
07:58that's how we got a playoff, really.
08:01That 2011 season because nobody wanted to see them in Alabama.
08:05I don't understand why nobody wanted to see that rematch,
08:08but that was the National Championship game that Jordan Jefferson
08:13was the quarterback for LSU, and then Bobby Hebert just went at Les Miles
08:19in the press conference after the game about why they didn't change
08:22their offensive philosophy, why they didn't change quarterbacks.
08:25Because didn't Alabama beat them like 21-0 in that game?
08:27In the national title game?
08:29Yeah.
08:29Yeah, and you know Bobby's son got benched for that game.
08:32Yeah, T-Bob, I know.
08:33I mean, that's the whole story.
08:35It's like, why did my son get benched?
08:37Oh, I get a press pass?
08:38Yeah, I'm about to roast this guy.
08:40Bobby's hilarious.
08:41If you've ever met him or I've gotten to know him a little bit,
08:45he is – dude, he's insane.
08:47But he's true.
08:50But, yeah, I would – look, I don't know about 79.
08:56This guy, he runs a 4-5, so he can run.
09:00And it just – it's just a guy with that many penalties
09:04and having issues in the vertical routes down the field.
09:09I wonder how he translates.
09:10But he is physical.
09:12He's a good – and the guy's an Ironman as far as playing.
09:14Well, and at 48, you know, they're projecting that we would get the –
09:22Kayla Banks, of course, and then also 79 defensive –
09:25sorry, 48 defensive tackle, 79 cornerback.
09:28Where else would you want to add depth?
09:32I've started to have coming around to the thought process
09:35that they would take an offensive tackle here.
09:38I've started coming around to it.
09:39It points – like, to me, it points towards everything
09:43that they've already told us that they are building towards
09:45is to say, you know what, let's think out ahead here.
09:47Let's not go with need, which you need a defensive tackle
09:50that stops a run.
09:52Let's go ahead and start getting prepared for either life after Jake
09:55or life after Caleb and Gary.
09:56I just think if Christian Miller or Caleb Banks were there at 48,
09:59you're not being true to best player available if you don't take those guys.
10:03If they're not there, though, which I don't honestly think they will be,
10:07then you could see old Maxie from Arizona State, a guy like that,
10:12who could be available there, and that could be the best player available.
10:16And in a position of need at the same time.
10:18See, it's – sometimes they go hand in hand.
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