00:00Now, Jeremy Bernard is not on Dane Brugler's mock draft, but his seven rounds align closely with how we've been
00:06thinking the Falcons will maneuver through this draft.
00:09Defensive tackle, wide receiver, linebacker, O-line, tight end.
00:13In the second round, he has Christian Miller, third, Bryce Lance, fourth round, Jimmy Rolder, fifth round, Carver Willis, sixth
00:20round, Riley Nowakowski.
00:23Mike, you brought up a really good thought earlier that Dane Brugler is saying exactly what we're saying.
00:31Yep.
00:31Can it be that simple? Is this what Ian Cunningham is going to do? Or are we going to be
00:36thrown a curveball?
00:37Yeah, like we have so many times in this city.
00:40Yeah, like we have so many times in this city. I mean, look, it goes back before the Penix thing.
00:44It goes back to Bajon.
00:45I didn't think there was any chance that we were going to come off a thousand-yard season into Tyler
00:50Algier and drop a running back in the top ten, which felt insane at the time.
00:55But we did, and thank goodness we did, because obviously, you know, he's one of the best players on our
00:59team and in the NFL.
01:01I do think there's an outside shot to add in a couple other positions into this thought process.
01:08You mentioned it. Yesterday we went through it.
01:11We kind of had four positions, and I even added Oscar Delp in there because I was like, look, let's
01:15just throw this out there.
01:16If he's available past the second, I'm taking him.
01:20But if you go look at the, you know, combine meetings or pre-draft visits or top 30 visits, it's
01:27clear that there's a couple of other things on their mind.
01:30Cornerback being one of them.
01:32They have met, and there's been reported multiple, maybe four cornerbacks, maybe five, that have reportedly met with them throughout
01:39this entire process.
01:41There's been multiple running backs.
01:43The kid out of Arkansas.
01:45They've met with him.
01:47Mike Washington.
01:48And there's also been, now I think this is more of a post-draft free agency kind of thing.
01:54They've also met with a couple of quarterbacks.
01:56Haynes King being one of them.
01:57So I would say if there was going to be a curveball at all, and I'd be curious to get
02:02Bo's opinion, if there's going to be a curveball at all, I think it's corner.
02:05I think that would be something they'd look at and go, all right, let's find some value here and go
02:10out and get a guy.
02:12I just tend to think it's more pit.
02:15It'd be great to say cut and dry.
02:17This is where they're going.
02:18I just think they're going to find a way to get more picks.
02:22I'm going to take them at their word right now because why would you say over and over and over
02:31again that worst-case scenario is ending the draft with five picks and not do something else?
02:39And I don't know.
02:40Look, everybody does a mock draft differently.
02:42I read through Dane Brugler's seven-round mock.
02:48I didn't check to see if he did trades in it.
02:50Some people don't.
02:51Some people just go straight through.
02:52Some people are like, oh, I'm going to work in a trade.
02:54It's really hard to do a seven-round mock draft if you do trades because it really starts, you know,
03:01you really have to keep up.
03:04I liked what he did with the mock draft because we've talked about all of those are needs, but I
03:11think you could get a corner if you add draft picks, but I think you could get through this without
03:18getting a corner if you don't add draft picks.
03:20And in fact, I am not as much on the go-grab-a-corner train as a lot of people
03:26are in the draft.
03:28If this draft worked out this way, I'm not overly in love with Bryce Lance.
03:34We talked about that earlier, but I could live with the rest of it.
03:38The problem for a lot of people and the problem for this team is going to be a couple of
03:43these guys, and to me, including Bryce Lance, if you did this, are projects.
03:50To me, you've only got two guys in this draft of this Dane Brugler mock draft that Allie mentioned, or
03:56the names she told you, that could probably come in and contribute right away, and that is obviously Christian Miller,
04:07and I think Jimmy Rolder is the other one because Rolder is a special teams guy as well, so he
04:15can do a little bit of that.
04:16So he's a good special teams player. Those are the only two guys I think you could come in right
04:21away and contribute.
04:22Well, of this list, Christian Miller is the one that we keep hearing, and he's also made a visit with
04:28the Falcons as well.
04:29Their eye has to be on him, right?
04:31For sure. For sure. And let's be honest, it's on multiple people from the University of Georgia.
04:37We talked about the contingent that went up there, talked about the conversations with Zachariah Branch and some of the
04:42other things going on with this team.
04:45I just, I think that the conversation I keep having in my head, and you knew what I talked about,
04:50you and I talked about this this morning, it's like, obviously we have positions of need, and you just asked
04:56it, which one of the, you know, Bo brought it up, this, you know, he helps us immediately.
05:01I'm just not so sure when we talk about drafting a corner, drafting a quarterback, drafting a runner, I don't
05:06necessarily think that Ian Cunningham is talking about who can help us this season.
05:10And Bo and I have gone back and forth on this a number of times.
05:13I think they're very comfortable. If they feel like they can develop three third rounders in their starters by 2027,
05:19I think they'd trade back and get three third rounders.
05:22You know what I mean? So I think, I think what we need now, we have to, we have to
05:26stop taking our, look, keep your eye on the ball of what this team's all about.
05:32Because yesterday we did the whole thing and it caught steam on social media because we're talking about, oh, wide
05:37receiver or outside linebacker and all this other stuff.
05:39And it's like, well, it's not a position of need, dude. How, how many of these people on this roster
05:44right now, your roster might be cut in half in terms of what it is now, as opposed to what
05:49you'll have in 2027.
05:51How many, 15 free agents you brought in on one year deals, add Kyle Pitts to that, add, you know,
05:56add a number of other players whose contracts are expiring, Charlie Warner.
06:00You might not even have, like, don't worry about what the positions of need are right now because they are
06:05clearly focused on two years from now.
06:09Yeah. Yeah, no, I think there's a lot. That's why they, they gave themselves financial flexibility for next year when
06:19they can sign some guys and they got to send some guys.
06:22But I think you can look at position of need to an extent, but the wide receiver thing is, it
06:31is a need though, because you might assign two guys on two year deals to come in and help, but
06:37you don't have the depth that you think, they've said all the right things.
06:40But after Lameda Zaccheaus, where's your depth at at wide receiver?
06:46You're, you're gonna, you're gonna bank on some guys who you went ahead and told us, like the fans, not
06:55just the people, you're talking about social media.
06:58Social media told us that everything after Drake last year wasn't good enough, right?
07:03At wide receiver?
07:04Well, just because you had brought in Dodson and Zaccheaus, who are, Dodson's gone off two down years in Philly,
07:11and I think he got lost in a fray.
07:13And then Lameda, who's, look, Lameda is what he is. He's a guy that's gonna catch 35 to 40 balls
07:17a year.
07:18He's gonna be good. He's gonna be average. Average to good, but not great.
07:23But after those guys, there's nothing.
07:25You're, you're, David Blair's, or Chris Blair's, excuse me, not David Blair.
07:28Chris Blair's, look, we love the guys, but they still haven't done anything.
07:32And Casey Washington, my dude, workout warrior, still hasn't done anything.
07:36Don't forget, David Seals is in Tampa.
07:38I didn't.
07:39I mean, it's, it's, it's, it's David Seals is in Tampa.
07:42So you were talking about the fall off.
07:44It's real.
07:45I think that we thought, okay, you had a top three going into last year.
07:50And then I think we all were like, okay, there's a little bit of fall off to, you know, whoever
07:54you want to put in, in, you know, that slot with four and five wide receiver.
07:58But then Darno Mooney's off and Ray, Ray McLeod's gone.
08:01And now all of a sudden you're like, oh, David Seals will slide up.
08:06He's not even there.
08:07Like we don't even have that next level right now.
08:09So I'm with you.
08:10Even if you said, okay, the Dotson and Zaccheaus version we'll get, we'll be just as good as anything we
08:16got from Mooney and McLeod two years ago.
08:18You know, you're still in a much worse position because there's not, there's, there's some guys.
08:24Well, and look, so you just mentioned how injury and attitude got in the way.
08:28What if, what if injury and injury get in the way?
08:31So you're cool.
08:32We're easily, you could run with cool and run in Drake, Casey Washington again.
08:36That's the, that's why when you tell me it's not a need, I think you're being obtuse with that.
08:41I think you're getting stuck and I'm not saying you are saying that my, but like when people tell us
08:46that I'm like, well, really?
08:49Who's their fourth wide receiver then?
08:51And, and, and that's where you get to get people.
08:53Well, and Mike, you mentioned the other day, you don't want to draft a wide receiver past the third round.
08:58No, because I think you're getting into the same situation, right?
09:01If, if we need a number two wide receiver, if a number two is not available, a clear cut number
09:07two, then what are we doing?
09:08You know?
09:08So then would you put defensive tackle ahead of wide receiver in second or third round?
09:13I think defensive tackle has got to be the move in my opinion, when you get to 48, if you
09:18sit, if you stay with 48, I think, I think defensive tackle has to be the move.
09:21But again, I don't necessarily know that he thinks that because I don't think he's thinking about 20, 26.
09:27It's like, oh, obviously you need that guy to plug them in, but you could easily see if you look
09:34at what the bears did, just think of Drew Dahlman, for instance, right?
09:37You waited for a guy to come on the market, you had a bunch of money to spend, you had
09:41a bunch of draft picks, and you were like, let's go sign Drew Dahlman to be one of the top
09:44paid centers in the league.
09:45You could easily see them trying to do that with a defensive tackle in 2027 if they don't draft one
09:50in the second round this year.
09:50I think you and I are on the same page, but we got there different ways because the reason I
09:56think defensive tackle is probably the go at 48 is because of the depth of the position this year.
10:02And if you're going to hold yourself true to the best player available, then you might be hard pressed to
10:10find a defensive tackle not being the best player available based on your needs there.
10:14Now, then again, if a Jacob Rodriguez is there, you might go there if you're still there.
10:20Like, I'm not saying that they won't go.
10:22I think it's going to be front seven.
10:23That's why, that's how I, the way I think it.
10:29But again, you don't know how the draft's going to play out.
10:32There might be a run on linebackers, and we might, Jacob Rodriguez would go in like the top 40, top
10:4035, something like that.
10:42The hell, there might be a run on defensive tackles, and Lee Hunter could be off the board before 40,
10:48and so could Christian.
10:49And Christian Miller and Caleb Banks, to me, Hunter, Miller, and Banks are all fringe first-round draft picks, where
10:56they could be in the first round, or they could be, they could fall.
11:00It just depends on the run of the players, a position that happens, which every draft has.
11:06Is there any chance we find out about some kind of trade that Ian Cunningham has worked out for different
11:11draft picks that involves a player before we get to the draft?
11:14Or are we going to wait until it gets to 48, and then we'll find out?
11:16I don't think there's, I think if we were trying to trade a first-rounder and trade back, maybe.
11:21But I think, given it's the 48, and given where we're at, we're a week out, I don't think you'll
11:26hear anything until that pick is on the clock.
11:28And I don't know how many players you have on your roster right now that could get you into the
11:31first round.
11:31I know a few, but I don't, I don't, it's, it's, it's not, it's not like you think in the
11:38NFL.
11:38Well, you got two, and we'll talk about that later.
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