00:00Mike Haas with draft analyst Mike Dettelier. It is over for the Saints. They got their eight picks.
00:06Not probably in the way that we thought with the trade, with the fifth round pick, but they do get
00:11eight.
00:12Five on offense, three on defense, three wide receivers, and a tight end.
00:17And so if you went into the draft thinking we're going to get some weapons around Tyler Shuck, check. Mission
00:23accomplished.
00:24You got it. And the guy that sticks out to me that I think can have a pretty quick impact
00:29is Bryce Lance from North Dakota State.
00:32Big, tall, rangy receiver, great speed. And you're looking for that in this lineup.
00:38And to have him and to think that if, man, if Jordan Tyson is what we think he'll be, to
00:43have those two one-two punch.
00:45And the other guy, his impact on special teams, Barry and Brown from LSU. Six touchdown returns in college.
00:54So those two guys, for me, stick out as the type of players that can come in real quick impact.
01:01With styles, you understand, in that transition from being a former wide receiver to the safety position, special teams, how
01:12that sort of works out too.
01:13And Jeremiah Wright, he's a big dude now. If he can get better in the pass protection part of the
01:20game, because he's a really good run blocker.
01:23But this was not, I think, if we talked about this Wednesday, we were talking about more, maybe get us
01:30an edge.
01:30Maybe get a corner much earlier. The edge you got is the potential guy.
01:36And Tyree Wilson in the trade, the seventh overall pick just a few years back.
01:42And so we'll see how that works out for them.
01:44And really, it didn't cost you much of anything to get him here to see if he works out and
01:50if Bo Davis can get him into playing like I think a lot of people thought he could.
01:54I don't know if the NFL is going to start doing DNA checks, but when you think about it, so
01:58Bryce Lance, Trey Lance's brother.
02:01And then you get Lorenzo Stiles, Ohio State, Sonny Stiles' brother.
02:07I mean, it's kind of, and his dad, the Terrells in Atlanta.
02:12I mean, DNA and genes.
02:15I mean, you got good talent and you know you got good upbringing.
02:17And like the Manning family, that's all they do is talk football.
02:21And you think about T.J. Hall, the reason he left the California high school ranks was an assistant coach
02:28at Iowa coached his dad, you know, when he was playing football.
02:33So that DNA part, when this is all over for me, there's a book in there for me.
02:38I'm telling you, I don't know, I already started it.
02:41I'm going to write that book on genetics.
02:43And I've already made a couple of connected dots on that already, but I think it is part of it,
02:48part of the character.
02:49And also, we talk about this all the time, team captains, guys that have been the team captains, you're the
02:56leader of a college team.
02:58We want you to be that type of leader in the NFL, too.
03:01And finally, you can't teach it, you can't buy it.
03:05You can teach it, but you can't buy it.
03:07And that's speed.
03:09Speed kills.
03:11Speed, he never had a bad day in his life.
03:13It's the only thing, never had a bad day in his life.
03:17And you see the addition.
03:19And I think we talked about the new toys kind of in the bag for Tyler Shook.
03:25But speed, that was something this football team did not have last year, the ability to hit big plays on
03:32a consistent basis.
03:34And we're not even talking about bringing in a guy like Travis Achan to help you at the running back
03:39position as a speed player.
03:42I'll close with this, because with Travis Achan, because he got in the league in 2022.
03:48Since that time, the Saints had 23 explosive runs.
03:5223.
03:53The Saints, as a team, and most of those were Taysom Hill.
03:57Travis Achan himself had 23 explosive runs.
04:00So, it's going to be a completely different offense.
04:03This team was lacking big plays.
04:05Lacking big plays.
04:07Hopefully, they took care of that in free agency with a draft from Mike Cotillier.
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