00:00The Falcons are reportedly bringing in Bear Scout Keith Earl. He worked with Ian Cunningham
00:04in Philadelphia and Chicago and been with the Bears since 2022. And sticking with the Falcons,
00:09we've got our new rookies, the new undrafted free agents. So we are ranking position groups on
00:15offense today. Earlier, you guys placed the quarterbacks in fifth place. Where are you going
00:22for fourth? Fourth to me was kind of clear cut as well. I went with the tight ends at four.
00:31While I think almost every other position has a clear cut pro bowl, all pro caliber player,
00:39I don't see Kyle Pitts in that light. And so I fell with the tight ends down to number four.
00:45I think that, look, Charlie Warner's fine. I think he's at a very high risk of being replaced.
00:52At this point in his tenure with the Falcons, you didn't go out and draft anybody. You signed the
00:59kid out of Auburn as an undrafted free agent. And then Hooper, that's fine. That's an average
01:06to below average starting tight end in the NFL. So kind of without an anchor point,
01:13which I know a lot of people will say is Kyle Pitts, but you guys know how I feel about
01:17that.
01:17I don't need to go on a tangent. Without that anchor point, I just didn't see this as a group
01:22that really stood out. I think that if you get the receiving yards from Kyle Pitts this year,
01:28great. But finding blocking, inline blocking, attached blocking to be able to run Kevin's
01:34fancy's offense, I feel like is going to be very hard this year. And so I had the tight ends
01:39all
01:39the way down at four, just right in front of the quarterbacks. Well, we're going to disagree.
01:42I agree. I had running backs in fourth place. While I believe that Bajon Robinson is clear
01:49cut the best player on the team, maybe the best player in football, depending on how you want
01:55to view him. I don't love anything after that. Brian Robinson is, huh? Huh? I mean,
02:03I would say he's Austin Hooper. Um, no, well, we'll get, I'll get to Hooper. Um, I'm, I think
02:12you've, you're, I think you're worst off this year in the running back room than you were
02:17last year. I believe that Tyler Algier is a much better player. Um, I, I think he is
02:25the perfect yang to the yin and yang, you know, the yin of Bajon, the yang is Algier.
02:33He ran with a Bajon Robinson, make no mistake about it. He runs with the controlled aggression,
02:41um, because of the way he brought, he's not, you know, he'll cut, he's, he's going to make
02:45you miss, but he'll hit you too. Sometimes Tyler Algier just runs over you. I think Byron
02:50Robinson has that in him, but I need it sustained. And, and, and he went to, uh, off the top
02:57of my head. I don't know. I'm going to pull it real quick because I can do it because I
03:00got it right here in front of me with Tyler Algier, his complimentary last year and going
03:05into the last game of the year, he had 500 yards for the season. So he, 498. So he got
03:11over 500. Brian Robinson in a Kyle Shanahan system with, with a Bajon Robinson type player
03:19in front of him only had 400 last year and a couple of touchdowns. I think Algier had
03:24like six or seven last year. He had eight going into the Saints game. So I just don't, I don't
03:29think he is. So I think that room has dropped down. Tyler Goodson's eh. Um, you, you, you,
03:36you made some picks where you, I mean, you still have Nathan Carter and Carlos Washington,
03:40but Cash Jones, I do, I do think has a chance to make this roster, but I feel like that
03:45room
03:46is, is, is considerably dropped since last year. And I, I actually have more faith in
03:53the tight end room than I do the running back room. And it's not a not look, Bajon is, Bajon
03:58is the man, but behind him, I feel like there's a little bit to be desired. Yeah. I think, I
04:05think everything you said was fair. I think the way that I lined up and looked at it though
04:08was I think Austin Hooper and it could, because Charlie Warner to me is almost a non-factor
04:14here. We don't even realize, really know how much he'll be utilized in this offense. And
04:17I think that'll be interesting to see. So when you look at Austin Hooper, I think of
04:21him in the same light as I do, Brian Robinson. Like, I don't know if that's really the level
04:24of backup or number two that you're going to want, but I think Bajon is so much better
04:30in my mind than Kyle pits, that that's kind of what outweighed it. Like he anchored down this
04:34room and put them like if Kyle, if Kyle pits is a four on my list and Bajon's a hundred
04:39percent of five, if not a five plus, that was enough for the, for me to pull that group
04:44a little bit ahead of the title. You just hate Kyle pits. I mean, like you just a hater,
04:48you know, you just, you just hate, hate, hate. Don't, don't, uh, don't come at me like Twitter
04:52comes at you. All right. I don't need that. Where would you guys, uh, rank third? What would
04:58you put in there? Tight ends. I went tight ends with three and it was, it was look it, here's
05:03why I think the tight end room is better off right now than they were last year. Uh, and
05:10that's why, that's why there was the flip there for me. Um, and the, and the reason
05:15is last year, let's go, let's talk about this last year going into your last game of the
05:18season. That's what your tight end room looked like pits, Felipe Franks, Charlie Warner and
05:26uh, Tegan, uh, Catoriano, um, a pass catcher. And for the most part, three, two blockers
05:36and Felipe, a special teamer. Yeah. Who could take us, who could do a quarterback sneak every
05:42once in a while. Sure. Now you have Kyle pits who receiving wise is on the cusp of being an
05:52elite receiving tight end after last year. I think he, he has a chance. If he can back
05:59up last year with this year, he's going to be somewhere, not here probably next year, making
06:05a plethora of money. Um, then you have Austin Hooper who is average at everything, which you
06:16need behind Kyle pits. He is a, I would say he's slightly above average as a inline blocker.
06:23He's pretty average with his pass catching. Um, but he, he's the perfect to me. Do I think there
06:31could be better? Yeah, but he is as good as you're going to get as a number two to me
06:36behind a guy
06:37like Kyle pits where he, and you do two tight end sets just became much better because there's
06:43actually a threat of both tight ends receiving now. And maybe that they can, and, and I'm
06:50not, look, Kyle pits blocking is what it is. It's not getting any better. It's not improved.
06:54It is what it is. You're going to ask him to do it. You're going to bite your, you know,
06:58you're just going to be like, kind of, kind of like biting down. Like, Oh, can you get it
07:03done? Please get it done. Can you get the block? Hold it, hold it, hold it. You know,
07:06like, but that's what it is. And then behind him, you have a, you still have Charlie Warner
07:11who, who is in a, an elite blocker. Uh, I don't believe he had near the bad year that
07:16everyone else did. I think the problem where Mike named him, where he, he, his contract
07:21could be coming. That's more about money than anything to me. And can you find the Charlie
07:26Warner is to me what a long snapper is. He does something really well. And the moment
07:35where you can find someone that does it even close to the level he does for cheaper, you
07:40go to the cheaper thing. That's Charlie Warner to me in this and, and, and today's league
07:45kind of like fullbacks review that way. Unless you were the creme de la creme of fullbacks,
07:50unless you were Patrick DeMarco or, uh, uh, Kyle use check out in San Francisco, unless
07:57you do it elite, you can block elite and receive elite. You're, you're, you're kind of a dime
08:03a dozen. I think that, well, first of all, I'd run backs three. And I, I think one of the
08:09reasons you just flipped them just flipped from what he had. And I'll meet your point
08:13about Tyler Algier and Brian Robinson. Here's the thing. I'm not a huge like Brian Robinson
08:18guy at all. And I think I actually said that last year when he got traded to San Francisco
08:22was like, dude, he's a Bama guy. And like, I want to, want to think the world of him.
08:27I just don't know that he's that dude. Um, but you brought up the amount of rushing yards
08:32he and Tyler Algier had last year. I don't have it in front of me. I'm sure you probably
08:36do. As you pointed out, I looked this up before the show started and Brian Robinson actually
08:41had only like two thirds of the carries of Tyler Algier. Not only that, but I think Brian
08:46Robinson was brought in for a very specific reason. Brian Robinson can run gap scheme
08:49plays. Tyler Algier can't right. And Brian Robinson is going to be able to run because I think
08:54that Austin Hooper and Brian Robinson were brought out very specifically for the same reason
08:58to run gap scheme plays. You'll see Austin Hooper blocked down, run trade blocks with
09:02the tackles with Juwan Taylor, whoever else. And Brian Robinson will be asked to run those
09:06style of plays, the power plays, the off tackle plays. And I think that that's what his skill
09:10set is. I'm not saying it's a massive gap, but for me, the running back sit there simply
09:16like I said a minute ago, I am a such a massive believer in Bajon as is the NFL world
09:21that I
09:22just felt like he buoyed a group that otherwise could have been very, very average to say
09:26the least. And look, I don't think that it's it's not a huge gap between the position groups
09:34for me. I just believe that Austin Hooper and what I and look, I've I have not watched
09:41him week in and week out since he left Atlanta. I think you guys know why kind of busy, but
09:47I watched him when when he I watched him as much as I can when he's in games that, you
09:51know, that are on then. But the reality situation is, is that I just think you upgraded that
09:56room so much in the way Kyle finished the season that I believe you have good and very,
10:05very good to in the tight end room and the first two guys where the running back room
10:10it's elite and average.
10:13So you guys flip flopped on that one, but for two and one, it's going to be adorable if
10:18you match.
10:18Well, I don't think we are, but I still can't figure out if I like the way I ranked him.
10:22Is that, you know what I mean?
10:24Like, I'm still like the biggest groups and they're the hardest groups because of
10:27that.
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