00:00All right, so the draft is coming up soon,
00:01and Josh Kendall put out an article about wide receivers
00:04that the Falcons should be taking a look at, according to the Beast.
00:08So a guy we've talked about before, Jeremy Bernard came in number one on this.
00:12Dane Brugler has him ranked 41 overall and 7 at wide receiver.
00:18He's projected to go in the second round.
00:21Would you be good with him coming to the Falcons?
00:25Well, yeah, I would love Jeremy Bernard here.
00:28I think he's a very good player,
00:31and he was Alabama's most consistent best weapon all year
00:35at the wide receiver spot.
00:37I don't believe for the life of me that they're picking at 48,
00:41and if they are picking at 48,
00:42I don't believe that they're picking a wide receiver.
00:44I just have gotten it kind of stuck in my head that they're going to trade down.
00:47That's not the question.
00:48That's just my thought.
00:50But I don't know if I would be okay with Jeremy Bernard at 48
00:54because I think you have a true one,
00:55and you've brought in a two and a three,
00:58whether you think they are true twos and threes, if not.
01:03And I understand that you need to figure out the future of the position.
01:06I just don't know if I can pick a wide receiver at 48 overall.
01:10But I would be okay with Jeremy Bernard here.
01:12And it would be one of those moves where I would go on the air the next day
01:16and say I didn't like the pick at 48.
01:20But then I would tell you how much I love Jeremy Bernard,
01:23and then I would love it moving forward because I like him as a player.
01:28Yeah.
01:28I'm with you.
01:29And Dane Brugler does such a good job with the Beast.
01:32He brought it up.
01:34He said before, Dane Brugler says he didn't even watch college football.
01:37Which is insane.
01:39Yes.
01:39He's like, I just watch film.
01:40I don't watch college football on Saturdays.
01:42I just turn the tape on.
01:44And I like to see what these guys are putting out there.
01:46I was trying to kind of find a rhythm when it comes to these guys that Josh Kendall has selected
01:52because there are like, hey, I went to this guy's pro day or they had a pre-draft visit with
01:56this guy
01:57or they have this guy in Zachary Branch, all the above.
02:00And Jeremy Bernard actually surprised me on one of the things I looked up
02:05because I think the biggest kind of stat for me, if you will, or at least, you know, testing
02:12is going to be a 10-yard split for some of these guys.
02:14And when you look at Jeremy Bernard's 10-yard split, it's way better than I thought it was going to
02:20be.
02:20His 10-yard split at the combine was number five for wide receivers.
02:23It was a 1.52-second 10-yard split.
02:27Didn't expect that because he's a 4'5", 40.
02:30And so that means he can get up to speed very quickly, but the top speed's not great.
02:35And that's kind of the opposite of what I was imagining when I was looking at Jeremy Bernard.
02:40He doesn't seem to me to get up to speed very quickly.
02:42Now, can he play every single position?
02:44Yes.
02:45He's played every single wide receiver position.
02:47And he's even got, I think I saw the stat on there, maybe five rushing touchdowns in his career,
02:51which is crazy because they use him on end-of-rounds and things like that.
02:54But I just think so much for me when I look at it, short burst speed is going to be
02:58such a huge,
03:00integral part of what they're trying to do when they draft a wide receiver
03:03that I'm not sure that he's that guy.
03:06Although on paper, credit to him, it says that he is that guy according to combine.
03:09There's something, I said this the other day, and I think I'm going to double down on it
03:14because I'm just tired of reading about how great athletes guys are.
03:19We're going to get to a name later in Bryce Lance, who's Trey Lance's little brother,
03:23who's also a wide receiver in his draft, who's a really good athlete.
03:26But you see him do things, some good things.
03:30But what's the competition when you're playing at North Dakota State?
03:33And I know that they're a powerhouse into what, D2, or football bowl subdivision,
03:41or whatever the hell it's called.
03:43But I don't know.
03:44But when I read this write-up about Jeremy Bernard, I wanted to share this because I love it.
03:48This is what Dane Bruegel wrote.
03:50At the risk of sounding obtuse, Bernard is just a good football player.
03:54He's a good-sized athlete.
03:55He can gear up and get down, gear down with ease,
03:58and he plays as comfortably along the sideline as when attacking the middle of the field.
04:02Now, he talks about it might be a little hard to create separation for him,
04:06but he's a natural at competing and addressing the football
04:09and plays with toughness without contact.
04:12In other words, to sum it all up, go back to the first sentence.
04:15He's just a good football player.
04:18And that means more than anything to me when you're looking at these prospects.
04:26Can they play football?
04:28Are they good at it?
04:29Do they do it at a high level against high competition?
04:32Guess what?
04:32He checks all those boxes.
04:34Yeah.
04:35And I think that's fair.
04:36I really think – and I think it's a good point.
04:38I think Bo and I – I think we look at this draft differently.
04:42And I think that when I look at Jeremy Bernard, I think it's a good –
04:47I think that's exactly what he's saying.
04:48He's a good football player.
04:49But I also think there's other guys that are listed that you can get in the third,
04:52fourth, and fifth.
04:52And I think this is what Bo is trying to say, that maybe there is a higher ceiling.
04:56Maybe the floor is lower, right?
04:58But maybe you do have that just outstanding track speed that all of a sudden kind of opens things up.
05:03It's the Xavier Worthy conversation from a couple years ago with the Chiefs.
05:06You're like, of course he goes to the Chiefs.
05:07He's got four – you know, two speed.
05:09And they're going to be able to do incredible things.
05:11Now, has he been great for them?
05:12No.
05:12And so that's kind of the balance you have to find within some of these prospects
05:16and when you're going to take them.
05:17And that's the problem with guys when you just look at speed and stuff.
05:20Sometimes those guys aren't durable.
05:21I mean, Xavier Worthy – now, I'm not saying it was his fault
05:25because Travis Kelsey put him on the sideline for like six weeks, right?
05:29Yeah.
05:29But imagine if he was, I don't know, a little bit stronger, a little bit bigger,
05:34a little bit – you know, I don't –
05:37I agree.
05:38I feel – it just feels hateful saying I don't like talking like this.
05:41But he's a little fragile.
05:42And if you're on – if you run into another player and you're out for six weeks,
05:50that's tough for me to – especially with my roster here,
05:54that's tough for me to take in a second or third round
05:56where honestly I need guys to come in and contribute immediately.
06:00You are – and we're going to get to a lot of these guys,
06:02but you brought up Bryce Lance, and I'll just say this before we let it go.
06:07His numbers do reflect exactly what I think the Falcons would do.
06:11I didn't love his tape, but his numbers, 4-3, 4, 40-yard dash,
06:15and I think he has the number three split from the combine, 10-yard split, 149.
06:20He does have the numbers that I think that I would target if I were the Falcons
06:23and trying to get a receiver at 48.
06:25I just didn't like his tape.
06:26Well, let's talk – I know we'll talk about this again at seven, right?
06:30Chris Bell's the guy I'm interested in talking about as well from Louisville.
06:34Chris Bell is up next.
06:35We'll talk about him right at seven.
06:37Coming up, we're going to get into the Hawks-Knicks matchup.
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06:46Nothing is sacred, and you can't just trust anyone.
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