00:00Mock 1.0 from you, correct?
00:02That is correct, Greg. Chris Shimes, 2026 mock draft.
00:05Only one edition this year. We didn't do four.
00:07The Patriots don't have a top five pick.
00:09It wasn't quite as interesting as it has been in previous years.
00:13Especially because at 31, the New England Patriots decide
00:18to trade out of the 31st pick with the Arizona Cardinals.
00:21I don't know that it's...
00:22So the pick that they acquire in the trade, to me,
00:24isn't the pick that they would be sending to Philly.
00:26That's a pick to replenish their own stock that they would be sending.
00:29Oh, that makes more sense.
00:31Yeah, and so kind of that's where my head was at with this.
00:33But it's not much, though.
00:34No, if it's Arizona, they're only moving up four spots
00:38or whatever it is, three spots.
00:39So it is probably just a third-round pick.
00:41But if you coax a team like, I don't know, Cleveland or somebody
00:45to really kind of, or the Giants or something,
00:47somebody to move up a decent space,
00:50then you could probably get something good.
00:52I mean, look at last year.
00:53The Rams somehow were able to finagle a first-round pick
00:57out of the Atlanta Falcons to come up from the second to the first round.
01:00So I guess it depends who decides to trade up
01:03and where they're trading from.
01:04But in this case, I would say the Arizona Cardinals
01:07will send you a third-round pick,
01:08and then you get, I think it's pick 34 or something like that.
01:11Just to be clear, because we went over this yesterday,
01:14and there's a 603 text that says,
01:17it's already been reported that we are getting A.J. Brown.
01:20It is not.
01:22It's more of the same thing from Shefty.
01:25And so that's not a report.
01:29Let's be clear about that.
01:31It drives me nuts.
01:33Yeah, I don't really get the fact of it where he's saying that,
01:38oh, this is something that's going to happen.
01:40I think it's more of his opinion.
01:42He says it's more likely.
01:43It's likely that it might happen.
01:45I just don't.
01:46It's useless.
01:47Right, because we all believe if A.J. Brown gets traded,
01:51I think we all believe that the Patriots are the best spot
01:55because of the relationship that him and Vray will have.
01:59Maybe, but Philadelphia also has a say in the matter.
02:03Oh, yeah, for sure.
02:04And I worry about what if, because there's no other team
02:09that is mentioned when you hear these breathless reports
02:13about who's getting A.J. Brown,
02:15I worry that somebody's going to swoop in
02:19and give them what they want plus,
02:22and then you're going to be sitting here without a legit wide receiver
02:27minus Steph Diggs.
02:29Like, I guess, and maybe you can go back and do a deal with Steph Diggs
02:32if they want to do that or whatever.
02:33I don't know.
02:34That'd be awkward.
02:35Wouldn't it, Wiggy, from your perspective?
02:37I think, like, that whole Steph Diggs train has kind of left the station
02:42and, you know, he's probably going to be looking for an opportunity elsewhere.
02:45And I agree, and I've been giving Shyam a lot of credit for this,
02:48but I think a lot of these teams that might be interested in a wide receiver,
02:52whether it's Steph Diggs, whether it's A.J. Brown,
02:54some of these veteran guys that are out there,
02:56I think a lot of these teams are going to wait and see,
02:59all right, what's going to happen in the first round,
03:01what some of the wide receivers that might be available,
03:03and then they're going to start to make their decisions, all right,
03:06is it worth us trading for a guy like A.J. Brown because we didn't get our guy.
03:10And to Manko's point, if the price on what you're going to have to pay for A.J. Brown
03:16is going to come down to a second-round pick,
03:18maybe there might be a lot more teams that are willing to jump in there.
03:21Maybe the Eagles are trying to put that out there so that more teams will get in there.
03:26Right.
03:26And the other thing with Schefter is he stated as a fact over and over again
03:29that the Patriots would not trade Jimmy Garoppolo for five number one picks,
03:33and then a week later they traded him for a second-rounder, one.
03:36So, like, he's a guy that I'm certain that his NFL sources say
03:41that it's a fait accompli that A.J. Brown's coming here,
03:44but the reason it's not a report is that he's not actually coming here yet.
03:48Well, Shime's mock is out.
03:50You can see that on our social,
03:53and Shime is hoping that that will light an inferno in you
03:56that will burn for all of eternity.
03:59Darn right.
04:00Or I believe.
04:00That's why every time I write, Greg, that's my dream.
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