00:00So they start drafting Georgia guys, and they were pumped up, man.
00:05They were pumped up.
00:06I said, damn, they've been watching the damn Eagles too much in Green Bay.
00:09I ran into Oscar Saturday night at the concert in Athens.
00:12I got a chance to talk to him.
00:14You're talking about the tight end.
00:15Oscar Dell, yeah.
00:16Ran into him Saturday night, and we talked for just a minute.
00:19He had an incredible combine, right?
00:20He had a hell of a weekend.
00:21Oh, he had a great combine.
00:22And he had an unbelievable pro day.
00:23Remember, he couldn't run because of the combine.
00:25They found that bone spur thing basically in his foot.
00:28I'm sorry.
00:29So it's the pro day.
00:29No, he comes back to the pro day, and I'll tell you.
00:31I was standing there.
00:32He ran his 40.
00:35He walked over to his agent.
00:36His agent was texting, obviously, people on the field.
00:40His agent showed him his phone.
00:42They hugged, and he took his cleats off.
00:45That was a wrap.
00:46He started hugging his mom and dad.
00:48I think he ran 4-4 something, like 4-4-8.
00:53He smoked it.
00:55So I talked to some teams the night before, and I said,
00:58tell me where Oscar Delp is.
01:01And they said Oscar Delp is a fourth-rounder to a late fifth.
01:06That pro day put him into the third round.
01:09Great, great.
01:10So was he showing him a text message?
01:12Oh, yeah.
01:13Do you think he was talking to people on the field?
01:15No question.
01:15He was showing his time.
01:17So all the coaches are on the field, all the scouts,
01:20and they're all standing there.
01:21And it's so funny because I'm smart enough to know you get close to those guys.
01:26But what's funny is the scouts get shoulder to shoulder,
01:29and I'll never forget.
01:31I'm staring at a guy, and he said – he looks at the guy beside me,
01:35and he goes, 4-7.
01:36And I thought, damn, he looked a lot faster than 4-7.
01:40But I put two and two together.
01:42It was basically 4-4-7.
01:45He told the guy – they look at each other's watches, and he goes, 4-7.
01:48And I thought, there's no way he just ran 4-7.
01:50So they both on 4-4.
01:52It just wasn't 4-4-9, 4-4-7, 4-4-3.
01:54Scouting terms.
01:55Scouting terms.
01:56Yeah.
01:56So they looked – and they didn't want it.
01:57They know people's watching, so they real care.
02:00They're like, 4-7.
02:01They couldn't be more optimistic with the way the year ended.
02:04How about his dog going viral?
02:05Everywhere.
02:05Barstow, everything he picked it up.
02:06His dog jumped up on the couch and got his seat.
02:08So talk about both of those kids from Georgia.
02:11Just great kids, man.
02:12Kristen Miller out of Cedar Grove.
02:14And, you know, it is what it is.
02:17But, like, a lifelong Falcon fan, a city kid, like, he was wanting to go play with the Falcons.
02:25Yeah.
02:25But, I mean, listen.
02:26There's no question.
02:27Here's the beauty of playing in New Orleans.
02:29Oh, they're going to be pumped.
02:30Is that you're the only show in town.
02:32Oh, yeah.
02:32You're in a city where – LSU football means a lot.
02:35But, I mean, there's also other teams.
02:37I'm not trying to say that anybody cares about Tulane.
02:40But, I mean, like, that's in Baton Rouge, and that's an hour and 20 minutes away.
02:43The New Orleans Saints, no disrespect to Graff, who's listening.
02:47Yeah.
02:48And who covers the Saints, and he's the voice of the Pelicans.
02:51You are at a place where football means everything.
02:54No question.
02:54For both those guys.
02:55No question.
02:55And it looks like they founded a quarterback, and it looks like they're putting the pieces together.
03:00So I give them as good a chance to win the division.
03:02They had a hell of a draft.
03:03You know who's going – and I know this person really well.
03:06You know the first person that's going to put his arm around them and say,
03:10I got you, is Alvin Kamara.
03:12City of Atlanta, Norcross kid.
03:13Yeah.
03:13I mean, he's like, I got you.
03:15And those guys are going –
03:17All right, what about the rest of the Georgia kids?
03:18So the Georgia guys, obviously, you could get Christian Miller at 42,
03:22the Saints, Monroe Freeling to the Panthers.
03:26Yeah.
03:26And then C.J. Allen second round to the coach.
03:29What number did Freeling go overall?
03:30He went 19.
03:31I mean, I had somebody at his house at his draft party.
03:3717 was Detroit.
03:39Everybody told him.
03:41Everybody told his agent he was going 17.
03:44You are not getting past this one.
03:46Detroit.
03:47Detroit.
03:48When they picked the tackle from Clemson, I asked, I said,
03:53what was the reaction in that room?
03:55Interesting enough, when you're on TV and you see that pick live,
04:01you're like, damn.
04:04Maybe 30 seconds after that, Carolina called him and picked him.
04:09So there really wasn't – that pick didn't show until like 11 minutes later.
04:14That's how much delay on two picks.
04:16Wow.
04:16So they're sitting there.
04:18He's got all his hugs out of his way.
04:20He's doing all this.
04:21He's doing that.
04:22He's able to sit back down and then watch his pick as we're all watching it.
04:26Right.
04:27So he's new for a while.
04:28It wasn't like they were pacing the room going, oh, my God.
04:30There wasn't very long.
04:31They knew it was going to happen.
04:32But Carolina picked him two picks later.
04:33So good pick for him.
04:35He's from Mount Pleasant, South Carolina.
04:37Mom and dad can get there all the time.
04:39Great one.
04:40Christian Miller goes 42nd to the Saints, C.J. Allen of the Colts.
04:43I heard the Colts say, this was the most impressive practice player we saw all year.
04:48Their GM and the behind-the-scenes release yesterday, he goes,
04:51this is the most impressive practice player I saw all year.
04:54He's an immediate green dot.
04:55It means he can make the calls for us.
04:58Listen, I can't say enough about Zachariah Branch, period.
05:02When I say this, I don't give a damn if he played at Georgia.
05:05I don't give a damn if he played at Nebraska.
05:07Zachariah Branch is coming to our team, and he's going to make an immediate impact.
05:13We have big guys.
05:14We have Drake London.
05:16We have Kyle Pitts.
05:17We have those big guys.
05:18We don't have a guy to work underneath.
05:21We don't have a guy that's dangerous.
05:23Every single time he gets his hands on the ball, you hold your damn breath.
05:26And you think those jerseys aren't about to fly off the shelves?
05:29Zachariah Branch here?
05:30Great kid, man.
05:31The only thing, and if people say, well, why did he drop?
05:34I'm going to tell you why he dropped.
05:36Because when you see him, he is small.
05:39It shocked me how small he was the first time.
05:42So those NFL scouts get nervous.
05:45I talked to some people.
05:46I talked to some people Saturday.
05:47I said, did those arrest things affect him?
05:52And it was like, hell no.
05:53We didn't even get calls about that.
05:55Obstruction, sidewalk obstruction, $38 bail.
06:00A silly little incident.
06:02So no, that did not work in our favor.
06:04It just happened regardless.
06:06I think he, and listen, I heard you and Sandra talking about the draft experts.
06:12You know what I mean?
06:13And like Mel Copper got three.
06:15And I think Tom McShay got six.
06:19Yeah.
06:21Now, correctly.
06:22Now, as far as getting kids in the first round, most of them were right.
06:26Not to the right team, but they got a right grade on them.
06:28The group of 32 players was pretty close.
06:30What happens is everybody starts taking these top 50 players and going, he's going in the first.
06:34There's only 32 picks.
06:36You know what I mean?
06:37There were people, most people thought CJ Allen was going to be a first rounder.
06:40He winds up going 53.
06:42You know what I mean?
06:42So, Zachariah Branch, he probably was a late to early third rounder.
06:49In reality, on everybody's board, he just happened to be there when we picked early in the third round
06:54and we got him.
06:55I love that.
06:55I love that pick.
06:56Daylon Everett to the Steelers.
06:58I think here's the one that I agree with the most.
07:01And here's the one that I think is going to have some impact.
07:05And Bo's going to like this one probably because his boy Joe Burrow is going to be happy with this.
07:09Colby Young went in the fourth round.
07:10He had a sixth to seventh round grade by most people.
07:15He goes in the fourth round, a number 140, and everybody I talked to at Pro Day in Athens
07:22was like, I don't know why people don't think this kid because he got hurt and all that.
07:27He got hurt twice.
07:28But I'm telling you, this guy's six foot four, great kid.
07:32Georgia loved him.
07:33And I guarantee you, Kirby Smart and Mike Bobo and James Coley and all of those coaches
07:39that had a chance to talk, they got that kid from the sixth round to the fourth round.
07:44I think that was a hell of a pick for the Bengals.
07:47So what about the Falcons' first pick?
07:49It wasn't a first round.
07:50It was a second round.
07:51You know a lot about that kid.
07:52I've covered Avion and A.J., and I want to be real careful here because, you know.
07:58You covered A.J. Terrell six years ahead of his kid.
08:01Sophomore high school.
08:01Yep.
08:02And I met his little brother quickly after that.
08:04So let me tell you this.
08:05A.J. Terrell is six foot one and a quarter, 195 pounds.
08:09He has a 32-inch arm and a nine-and-a-half hand.
08:11A.J. Terrell at the NFL Combine was 5'10", 186 with an eight-and-a-half hand.
08:18So be careful on saying this is A.J. Terrell because it's not, okay?
08:23Now, this kid is tough as hell.
08:26This dude is a football player.
08:29But I wish we'd have went D-line there, but I do know they're betting on his toughness,
08:36and we got to have some D.B.
08:37I do wish we'd have went D-line there over that.
08:41It doesn't sound like.
08:42People are saying this is A.J.
08:44These are two different players now.
08:46A.J. Terrell is a grown-ass six-foot one-and-a-half corner.
08:50There's not many of those.
08:51No.
08:51They're betting on the toughness and the instinctive ability of Avion Terrell there
08:57in that spot.
08:58I wish we'd have went D-line there.
08:59They're definitely projecting that he could be a star, not necessarily this year,
09:04but that he is the future.
09:05He better play.
09:06Well, he's going to play.
09:07Yeah, he better play.
09:08At that spot, he's got to produce.
09:10But, man, what a story for those two kids, and both of them great kids to cover
09:15out of Westlake High School.
09:17Yeah.
09:18I mean, if you think about what we've done in the secondary in the last three years
09:22in terms of two years drafting, so you got Bowman last year.
09:26You got Xavier Watts last year.
09:28Hit on both of those.
09:28Hit on both of them.
09:31Obviously, you know, it's a pretty impressive secondary room, right?
09:36You already got Jesse Bates there.
09:38You already have A.J.
09:39Troll, one of the best shutdown corners in the league.
09:41Mike Hughes, obviously, is a guy that you're starting to say, you know,
09:46what is his long-term role?
09:48Probably not.
09:49So Avion's going to have to come in.
09:50And probably that's the spot.
09:52If he's going to take somebody's spot, it's going to be Mike Hughes' spot.
09:54You know, the video of him hugging Matt Ryan got people were like, oh, my God,
09:58he's so little.
09:59And I was like, hold on now.
10:01This is not A.J.
10:02Okay?
10:02They're brothers, but they're a lot different in size.
10:05What did you think of Kendall Daniels' pick,
10:07and what did you think of the Harold Perkins' pick?
10:08So Harold Perkins.
10:09And Anterior Thompson.
10:10I loved all those.
10:11You love them all.
10:12I love them.
10:12But here's what I'll say about Harold Perkins, okay?
10:15And I think Bo would agree because he's an LSU guy.
10:18Harold Perkins had that coming-out game against Arkansas
10:21where he had like three sacks, like ten tackles.
10:24He was all over the place.
10:25The knock on Harold Perkins was basically after that SEC championship game
10:30when Georgia ran right at him, and they swallowed him up.
10:33Like, how much do you want to stick your face in there?
10:36Because they've tried to move him around different positions.
10:38He never quite was as good as his freshman year.
10:41Had a few injuries, no type of thing.
10:43Athletically, this dude can freaking flat out go now.
10:47But can he stick his face up in there and take on a Mike Johnson?
10:51Can he take on these grown-ass men?
10:54That's where – but you get him in the seventh round
10:56with a lot of ceiling left in him, a lot of ceiling.
10:58I mean, listen, what's the risk there?
11:00Seventh round.
11:00I agree.
11:01They don't even make the team half the time.
11:02But people are like, how did he fall there?
11:04I'm telling you why he fell.
11:05That's why he fell.
11:05Yeah, the physicality part of it.
11:07So which one do you like the most of that other group I just mentioned?
11:10Dude, I can't get past Zachariah Branch.
11:12Like, I'm –
11:13I mean, listen.
11:14Dude.
11:15That's the most obvious thing we were going to –
11:16But listen, you were talking about Zachariah Branch two months ago.
11:19I told you.
11:20And you said that Matt Ryan –
11:20I told you Ian Cunningham and Matt Ryan.
11:22You said you were at –
11:24Pro Day.
11:24Pro Day.
11:25They showed up.
11:26Everybody's chit-chatting, chit-chatting,
11:27and he said Zachariah Branch got out there and nobody said a word.
11:30All the Falcon coaches –
11:32I watched Matt Ryan walk away from people.
11:35Ian Cunningham on the other side of the room,
11:37and they watched him do all his workouts.
