Ranking Week 1 CFB Matchups, a 2023 NFL Re-Draft, QB Start-Bench-Cut, and Debuting First Tape

0:00Weak one of the college football season. It's a jam pack show. You ready for the Steve? First we're going to draft the week one games. Secondly, we're going to do start bench cut for three top prospects playing on Friday night. Thirdly, we're going to debut first tape. What are the scouts looking for? Weak one of college football the entire weekend going up in two and through Monday night. And finally, why not we'll just throw it in here. We're going to redraft the 2023 draft top 10 picks. 238 days until the NFL draft met you good. I'm good man. We're all that thing, Tuck. The McShay show was presented by Fandall. College football Saturdays are here. And it's your

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2:15looks sizzling. Week one has some good games. It's not quite as good. Let's just be honest, but there's some interesting games from a scouting perspective, certainly from the national college football perspective, just looking at the whole picture. So I'll throw it to you, Mensch. How are you today, brother? I'm doing well. How are you? But good energized. Some juice. That's great. Two of the two of the four kids are off to college. AJ drove a car. He got his license yesterday to high school. I should say not college. She's wishing I was doing. Marissa's on him is in tears this morning. First born drives drives the car to school. By the way, that's a problem. We got a buy. We got a buy in the car. I right now don't have a car sitting in it like when this is over. I got my golf car. So we get some stuff to do after the show. And Mia freshman in high school, first day in high school. So a lot of stuff going on. Tate and a lair had enough. They go Tuesday. They're after labor day. Okay. So here we go. A block. I want to draft the week one slate. I

3:19will let you kick things off. What's the first game you have? Like you cannot miss. You are going to be seated 15 minutes before watching the pregame. You got your spread going. You're ready. What is it? All eyes are on Baton Rouge. And I am here for it. But let's be honest. I mean, it's Louisville at Ole Miss. That's the best game week one. What do you mean? No. Two, the only two, the only game with two ranked teams. I am fascinated. Fascinated with what Jeff Brahms and Louisville that head coach is going to do with his new transfer quarterback from Ohio State Lincoln Kleinholes. I hope I said that right. He is a dynamic player. Got all kinds of arm talent, make plays with his feet. Louisville is completely rebuilt itself through the transfer portal. I don't think we really know what we have there, but they have a lot of talent. Then listen, I'm going to be honest. Any day you get to see Ole Miss running back he won, Lacey, run the ball is a good day. Add to that, turn to that, Shameless, all the buzz that's been going on

4:23about him and the offseason about them being able to get him another year of eligibility. We finally get to see him back on the field. Clemson, we'll get into a section in a second. Clemson else, you are sexy and I get it and I can't wait to talk about that game too, but I can't wait to see the talent from Ole Miss. I can't see what Jeff Brahms from Louisville does with his new quarterback. That to me is the best game week one. Yeah, I mean, not that this draft is going to wind up mattering and we're not going to keep tabs on it and no one's going to win or lose, but like fine, I'll take Miles Garrett at pick two. I'm taking Clemson Ellis, you. I'm going to outsmart myself with this one. I mean, massively. Here we go. Like criminally almost. Lane Kiffin is the face of college football this year, whether it's a masked moron or whether it's the hero of or you view him as the total villain. I think most people probably would go with C. It's loaded with prospects from our perspective, right? And I'll

5:30get to some of those later in the show. Sam Levitt, I like, and I'll get to this more, but like the fact that I actually get to sit down and watch Sam Levitt play in a football game with under Lane Kiffin when there's offseason and see the progress. I can't wait for it. I am here for it. Then you've got the fact that it's, I mean, you're in Death Valley, LSU's Death Valley, the only Death Valley if you're from Baton Rouge, if you're from Clemson. It's a little bit of different deal. And like even this past couple of weeks with NFL players coming back and they're not going to factor in and we'll catch up later this week with the ruling in Baton Rouge on Thursday. And what that what that means to a Bruce Feldman is going to join us and talk to us about what he's hearing. But there's just so much smoke around this game and oh, by the way, LSU's the top 10 team. Oh, by the way, Davos coming out and just like indirectly, be kind of directly shredding Lane Kiffin and his more his college football morals.

6:34His moral compass is distorted basically. I'm here for like, we got it. We have a potential handshake game. You know what I mean? Like James Franklin and Mike Loxley at that at 50-hour line. Harbock Pete Carroll like Alex Golisch in Tom Herman when Golisch gave him the quick handshake and then walked off. Those things don't usually come true, by the way. But you bet my ass is going to be sitting there after the game. Oh, yeah. And I will be so pissed if they don't have a camera on those two. Oh, they've done that before too. Where they miss it. It's a potential handshake game. It's a potential handshake game. All right. So pick number three. What's the third best game in your mind? What's the third best game in my mind? I'm going to go with Western Michigan versus Michigan. Jason Beck, the offensive coordinator coming over from Utah. I want to see how good this Michigan offense is going to be under him. He had last year he was with Utah. They were the second best rushing team in the country. The year before that, he was the offensive coordinator in New Mexico,

7:35second best rushing team in the country. They have two outstanding running backs and Jordan Marshall and Savion Heiter, the true freshman who's going to be an absolute stud. The question is how good his Bryce Underwood going to be and how much can he get out of him. But I'm here to see that. Western Michigan is also interesting is that they have the the Mac player of the year last year in Brock Lowry, the quarterback. And this is going to get interesting if this game is tight because Lowry's a rushing quarterback. He's a mobile quarterback who can scare the hell out of you late in the game if this gets tight by just extending drives, making plays and making this Michigan team sweat. They I think they need to get out early and take care of this or this could get interesting. I think you're having a disastrous draft. But I'm like, I'm here to watch your games. But I'll like I'll see your Western Michigan Michigan and I'll I'll raise it with Notre Dame Wisconsin. Okay. Let me let me keep this thing simple for you. Luke fickle has his job on the line essentially

8:39and that he's done some nice things and you can kind of sense that that NIL transfer portal recruiting things are on the uptick, but is it enough this year? They've got some dudes on defense. They always have a good offensive line. And I'm not saying that this is anywhere close to a game. I'm not even saying that. But what I am saying is like they've been preparing all offseason for an opportunity to play this Notre Dame team. This Notre Dame team that loses two first round running backs to the NFL. And now it's all on our third ranked QB prospect in this class ahead of archmaning C.J. Carr. C.J. Carr has become one of the darlings coming into the year. But now all the emphasis is on him in this passing game with a couple guys from from last year face on to good player. Great house is a big big tall receiver. Can you stay healthy? They brought in some transfer portal guys, right? And now it's about can C.J. Carr carry this team?

9:39National championship expectations for Notre Dame. Marcus Freeman is one of the most beloved coaches in all of college football, but it's time to go win one. And oh, by the way, we're playing in Lambo field. Get out of here, Western Michigan, Michigan. I'm taking Notre Dame in Lambo against Wisconsin. What's your fourth pick? I mean, you just you're like, first of all, great take big cat. And second of all, you're like the guy who loves. Why? Because pickles doing some good things. Yeah, I mean, like, come on, come on. Really? Like like all of sudden, come on. And you're like the guy who loves reality TV, right? You're here for like the lane. Don't mind. I watch more than I like to you know what? This is what you're you're such the TV guy still. You're like, what sells? We're on the football guy where I want to see like what's what's really going on here? The nuts and bolts of it all. What's this being long term? You're a fourth pick. You've missed a football guy. You had you had to be aggressive about coming after my pick. So I'm going to come right back at you.

10:41All right. I'm going to go a Boise State at Oregon. I like that. And I just I want to see what it looks like with the two coordinators. I want to see what this looks like. How are the operation is? Do they come out? Are they ready to go? Or are they going to come out a little sluggish? Is this going to take a little bit more of a acclamation period than I think it should? And Boise State look, they gave Oregon all kinds of problems two years ago. That was a 3734 game and granted Ash and Gentie was in the backfield for Boise State. But this Boise State team is exactly what you think of a Boise State team in good depth at running back and experience quarterback a solid defense. I think Oregon's going to handle them. And I think I'm not really overly concerned about losing the game. But what does this all look like? Do they come out and make a statement of that we should be the number one team in the country and really flex their muscle with all that talent? Or is this going to be more of a project than maybe I was anticipating coming in? Yeah, I'm here for that game. Like Dante Morris with coach apparently like in Asia or something

11:47this off season. Yeah. Will Stein. Like I want to I just want to see like where are we? Right. Is there anything different? Is there anything more advanced? I want to see that. I'm going to go I don't know I mean I do know why this one intrigues me. I feel like nobody in Tallahassee wants Mike Norvella's their head coach. What do you mean? He's done so well. And SMU like was the darling a couple of years ago and still has Kevin Jennings. And last year kind of like I don't know it. It feels like this could go one of two ways for SMU, right? I watched that FSU game last week in its New Mexico 3417 New Mexico hangs hangs around till like the fourth quarter. In consistent past pressure I thought some inconsistency on defense didn't look like a team in Florida state that is going to like maybe surprise all of us, right? And then I think back to last year with like Castellanos and

12:51Alabama that win and it dissipated. But it felt like maybe they they caught lightning in a bottle for another year, you know, after a miserable 2020 four season. So anyway, 419 total yards of offense 217 Russian right six for six in the red zone. There were some positive things in the offense for Florida state. I thought the running back Chroma. Ous, Ous main Chroma 115 yards on 14 carries impressive singleton. The other running back really impressive. Chris Jones defensive standout. So there's some players I want to watch. But then you got Kevin Jennings coming back. They would then name the stadium after him when he's already currently playing or something crazy like that. Which team's going to step up? I think there could be some fireworks in this game offensively. I just think it's going to be a fun game. And I think it's on. I don't want to say an elimination game, but we're going to find out real quickly with Florida state and SMU. Is there kind of a sneak like a sneaky sleeper team here? Or are they what we kind of think? Which SMU, I think it's a good football team. I think they're better than the FSU. But this this is kind of a

13:54telling one for me. Yeah, I'm with you. I it's good. I can't say we sneaky one. I think that's is at the end of the draft, but I got to sneak you one for you. Is it? Or is it one more? So we have one more. Give them one more. Keep an eye on Miami at Stanford. Again, not a game that I think Miami loses. That is a nine p.m. Friday start. I think it's just kind of a it's it's Miami didn't play last week. Stanford did. I for them, I think it's going to be interesting with dealing with that the time change, the travel. I think that games in all of the changes that they're going through and they're still jelling. I think Miami handles them. There is a massive talent cap between those two rosters, but it might be a little closer than some people think. Yeah, I don't disagree. And I want to see Mensa in that offense with those weapons in that system. You know, like all right, beblock. Let's switch it up here. I this was this one Connor Nevins through this one out. I think it was damn.

14:57Cut no start bench cut Friday night. It was Connor. This is dance concept. K from the newsletter, right? And the newsletter, but then we're going to retail. By the way, check out the newsletter. We're rolling one out every day. We're like I took some time off, summer, everyone needs a break, including the readers, but it's the McShay report, McShay report, Google it, subscribe. Also, you can go to the wringer.com slash McShay. We're getting ready to unveil in no time at all our top 50 prospects with all our evaluations. But you can get the newsletter there as well. Every day this week, we're rolling out new stuff from watching tape this summer, unveiling our top prospects by position. Eventually, we'll culminate it with top 50 prospects and get ready, get everyone ready for the season. And what is shaping up to be arguably the best draft in the history of the NFL? We'll see how it plays out. We're going to get some answers starting on really on Thursday, but this entire week one. But three quarterback prospects that we

15:58both think highly of are playing on Friday night to treat Friday night treat, you know? And we're going to play a little game as we did in the newsletter with start bench cut. Here are the three quarterbacks. You ready? Yeah. We've got John Matier from Oklahoma. We've got Jayden Mayava from USC playing in the second game now after the San Jose State one. And then Darian Mencis, you just mentioned in that Miami game. So let's start with who are you starting? And I think we're probably going to agree on this one. But if you had to start bench cut and it's kind of a shitty spot that that Connor puts us in here. But let's roll with it. Who are you going to start? Mensa, it's not even close. I just think he's the most accurate and the most consistent and that's what I want. Yeah, I agree. I mean 91 grade coming into the year. We both see him as a as a as a first rounder with the ability to elevate. Are you doing this for college

17:00or pro right now? I can do it for both quite honestly. It changes my rankings though. Does it change yours? Mensa would be top for both, by the way. Mensa's that's off the table. Mensa pro and college. I want Mensa first. All right. So let's let's finish that up. But he's the highest grade of the three. I just trust him throwing the football. Yeah. Like like yeah, if you put Mensa in any one of these situations, he would be my start for Oklahoma, for USC. You know, I just I'm itching as a college football fan and an evaluator to see him come out and play. So yeah, it would be to start there. So now let's go to bench. If you're viewing this from a scope of you want one player to play in a college football game, are you taking mater or you taking my out of? I'm you got a you got a benchum, but essentially you're saying you'd rather have right on your team the bottom. You're taking mater. Mater. Yes. I love my obva, but I think mater is ability to make

18:06plays with his feet makes him so freaking dangerous. And I also think he has and it's not that I'm knocking my obva here, but I do think that mater has his brains a little bit different and like he's a guy I could put the team on his back and we're going to go do this. My obva is more of a distributor and a point guard, which I really like, but mater is I could throw three picks and still find a way to win this football game for you. Yeah, I know I know it was San Jose State, but my obva went 86.2% last week, 286 yards. Russian touchdown to touch on passes like the bunch of kids running around out there for him. Yes, how about those freshmen? Yeah, they're I can't over. That's interesting. I spent a whole whole 2025 season looking ahead to the 2027 draft. I'm not doing it this year, but I'd be lying if my notes page on my on my iPhone doesn't have a couple names from a couple three names. Yeah, a couple three. A couple edge an edge, a wide receiver and a tight end,

19:10I think a tight end. Oh, yeah, 19. Yeah, grown ass man. Okay, I don't disagree. I would go the same. If we're going NFL prospect, I'm taking I'm taking my obva. I think my tears is one of the most fascinating players that no one's really talking about because we get so much to talk about all the off the field stuff, the lane kiffin stuff. We've got archmaning, Dante Moore, C.J. Car, we get all these big name transfers from Mensa to Levitt, all of this stuff, right? Matthias just kind of quietly back at Oklahoma. They lost a lot of good players, brought in a lot of good players. The expectation has kind of been it's been numbed a little bit or muted. And I just he you know he's worked his ass off. You know he's the first guy in the building by like two hours. You know that like the grind he's put it through watching the man in passing academy that like just just going in the lab tweaking his mechanics finally after a lifetime of being like all

20:16over the place jumping up in the air back foot up like he was a disaster but still was getting torque on the ball that I didn't even understand how he did it. And now he's doing it like a lot of the other guys do. Most of the other guys do solid base, hip rotation, arm slots a little different to protect that thumb. I'm fired up to see it. But yeah like draft prospect wise. I think my I think my job is probably the guy that's most overlooked in all this. I think he's a better peer pastor. You and I both walked away from the tape. Yeah. Because I look at him. He's this big tightly packed athlete does some mobility things. You see a lot of his highlight throws are kind of on the move creating extent. This dude will carve you man. Yeah. Don't carve you. So I'm fired up to see both of them. But if you gunned ahead prospect wise, I would go I would go Mensa, my Ava, Matier, gunned ahead college football game. I'm with you man. I wish we could disagree here. But my now just just got a little something. You know, he's just got a little something one of the great competitive. We overlook how great of a competitor this dude is.

21:21Oh my god. Yeah. Like I don't I'm not cutting any of them. Like I don't want to cut anyone. Like that. That's what it talks about the exercise. But yeah, you have to you have to make a call. That's why it's fun. I hope we continue to do it. I think we can do with other positions. It would be interesting. Yeah. I mean, Conor can you believe himself for putting us in the spot? If it was making love doing so. Yes. I mean, what if what if what a slate though on Friday night, you're used to like remember back in the day with Joe Tess. It was Joe Tess and and and Pollock and and Palmer. Yeah. Jesse Palmer. And and there was always like Boise State was pulling off massive upstate upsets and and and Tess was treating it like WWE and it was it was wild, right? And then all of a sudden like the high school game kind of took over. But it's not interfered with Friday night lights and we're going to play Saturdays and they would throw in a game on Friday night. Maybe three of them a year. You're excited to watch, but like it wasn't like back in the day,

22:23like early 2000s, you know. Yeah. Now I get a sense there's a little bit more of an emphasis on the Friday night game, which I'm here for and talk about kicking things off. And I know they're not the best matchups necessarily. Yeah. But anytime you can isolate and not have 55 games going on on a Saturday and you can sit back and watch three potential draft picks, three of the best at the most important position in one night. That's going to be a fun deal. The McShay show is brought to you by Fandall. College football can change in a single play and sometimes your bet changes right along with it. That's why Fandall is giving all customers a bet reset. Oh man, I love to have one of those. Here's how it works. Opt in, place an eligible college football bet. And if it doesn't win, you can get your bet back in bonus bets. Sign me up with a bet reset from Fandall. You can get bonus bets back and take another shot. Welcome to your most rewarding season ever only on Fandall 21 plus select states 18 plus DC or Wyoming refund issued as non withdrawable

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25:35Windbags. Yeah. It felt like an airbag deploying and breaking bones every time you have to sit through that. Gas bags. That gas bags. There we go. Yeah. Thank you Tucker. I don't know what you're talking about by the way. Do you have a name and even or no? So this is instead of being the initial take and getting out to the take, we're going to get first take. These are the things that we've watched and we've studied throughout the year, throughout the summer in this case, getting ready. Like, what are we most intrigued to watch based off the tape we've studied, what jumps out at us? And we've come up with four categories within this first tape segment, right? The first is, and I'm going to ask you, who's the top rate and by the way, we have not shared. So we might have a duplicate. I didn't even think about that. But who's the top rated prospect with the most to prove in week one? For you, not saying that this is going to change his draft stock or it's all on the line. I'm saying, you're going into this week and you're like, I need, I'm like, I'm curious. I'm eager to see.

26:35I want some, I want to like confirmation of or I want to be proven wrong. Whatever it is, a guy maybe in our top 50 or ideally in our top 20 or 30 that you that you have high expectations, low expectations, whatever it is, but they got to go out and start showing it week one. I listen, I've got two if you want to go first, but I think there are two names that are obvious. And I think the one that really the jumps out to me is Texas quarterback arts, Manning. It's got to be arch. And I know, listen, the opponent is not great week one, but that also sets you up for if you get off to a slow start, the noise in Austin is going to start getting loud very quickly. And then you turn around. I would, I agree with the premise. I would, I actually think the noise nationally will be louder than the noise in Austin. Really? The weird, yeah, I, I guess pull from, I mean, yeah, but it's like I honestly think in Austin, he's, he walks on water.

27:36I think nationally people are rooting for us. I told you, I'm sitting in the Manning passing Academy, the Manning passing Academy. 1400 high school kids are invited there. They're, they're guests of the Mannings. And there's like a section of kids are kind of booing arch. And I don't know if it's like the Netbow baby thing or just too much hype, you know, kids these days, like they don't, it's like the, the anti-Gedar Yankees, the anti, whatever the winner is or the big, it's like we're going against the grain, right? So I think nationally it might be, but anyway, sorry, I'm nitpicking, but I do want to give that perspective that I think nationally people kind of, there's always seen it. It seems like a lot of people would like to see him fail nationally when you get on social media and all that stuff. Whereas people who are in the know and people who like understand ball and people who are in Austin and see, see him for what his value is and what he is and the human being he is and the leadership he has and the work he puts in and

28:37the potentially has like I think that they're less eager to like, oh, I knew it, you know, versus the some kind of sometimes nationally, I feel like that's the, that's the agenda. Yeah, I hear you. If you got Cam Coleman in the building and you go out and you put on, put up 21 points against Texas State, I think even Matthew McConaughey's going to raise some my brows and like, hey, what are we doing? Like if he goes out and he dirt some balls and he just, he doesn't play up to the level that we think that he's going to play. And by the way, this is not my expectation. I think they're no role. I think they're going to come out ready to go. I think this, I think this Texas team is going to be very good and probably end up higher than what I had him in the prison, which was was seventh, but just felt like you had to put him there until we saw what they're actually going to be. That being said, if they put up 21 against Texas State, or it's a 20th 1014 game, I think there are going to be some people in Austin who are going

29:41to feel a lot like those kids at the camp and wonder what's going on here. Give me a second one, then. Go ahead. I do. I do. I hate to add it. That's my, that's my guy. Yeah. I know cars going to make like all the pretty throws and against this defensive Wisconsin. Like I think he's going to have some success. I want to see him win the mental game for four quarters. I want to see him come out and look razor sharp. I want to see a guy that is that that I saw at the Manning Passing Academy that is advanced in terms of his knowledge, his processing that does have robotic mechanics that we've seen with the elite quarterbacks that we saw even from a taller, longer levered Mendoza a year ago. I think his football intelligence, his decisiveness, I think it's off the charts. I think that his mechanics are outstanding. It's this compact lightning delivery repeatable. He's like a jugs machine, right? I think his best trait might be to touch timing, layering the ball as you as you talked about.

30:46I think outside the numbers, even more so than kind of some of the, over the middle stuff. I want to see him come out. I want to see the little bit more consistency on those middle of the field throws. I want to see a little bit more consistency because I've seen greatness on throws on the move. I want to see a little bit more consistency in that regard. I want to see who are the guys stepping up for Notre Dame? Who's he, who's he developed the rapport with outside of the two returning guys, it's great house, right? I want to see what that receiver core looks like and who's he, how's he feeding those guys, right? And then Luke fickle. Mike Tressel's coordinating the defense. Fickle, I told you, you have, call me big cat, whatever, they were fifth, they were 15th nationally versus the run. 20th and sacks per game, 24th and total defense last year. That's, that's fickle's identity. So while it may not be the best team or opponent, they're, they're going up against the defense. It's going to be pretty,

31:49pretty comparable to what they're going to see. And quite frankly, might be a better defense than they see in the vast majority of games. And it's an opener. And it's in Lambo. I think there's opportunity here for CJ Carr to come out and make a statement. And I, I'm here to see it. Just want to point out really quickly that Western Michigan had the ninth best scoring defense in the country last year. I don't give a shit and no one literally no one watching on Netflix or Spotify or listening on Apple cares. Just saying, just say what's that Michigan gave? It's going to be good. Oh my gosh, when you tripled down on Western Michigan. All right. Next, next, next, category within first tape. Who's the new face that you can't wait to watch? There are so many. This is the hardest category by far. There were maybe 20 names I could go with. But I'm going, I'm going with a true freshman. I'm going with a house state receiver,

32:49Chris Henry Jr. And I'll tell you this right now. You lose car and I'll take this is what you lost. Carnaltate averaged 17.1 yards per catch. He had 4.6 catches per game last year. He was their deep threat. He was the guy that could go up and get the ball down field. It's going to cheer my Smithers. They worked him in different ways because you have to consider you're going to adjust the defense for it. Got it. Got it. I think Chris Henry Jr. as a freshman is capable of replacing that production. And let me tell you why. He is 6'5 and 211 pounds. This is not like one of those high school receivers who's going to have to get him in the wake room. He's going to get to the dining room and we're going to have to beef him up and like get him bigger so we can handle the physicality of play at this level. He is from a physical standpoint ready to go. And then you watch what he did in high school and his ability to track his sticky hands, his speed. He is, I think already ready to make an impact as a down field pass catcher right now. Add into that

33:49this running game I think is going to be outstanding. Arthur Smith, the new offense coordinator is going to feature play action. It's you got Jeremiah Smith drawing so much attention away from him. He's going to get some single coverage matchups. This kid is someone to keep an eye on. I'm interested to see if Smith and Ryan Day make it a priority to get him going against ball state and really get the ball rolling. But from a talent standpoint, I can't wait to see what he does. Yeah, me too. It's eagerly anticipating like everyone's waiting to see. Because if he's the guy that that people think he can be and even if it's not in week one, but it builds. Right. And he becomes that guy in November, December, January. We're going to have to re-wrap our best tandems in college football and then it absolutely will exceed that of Indiana. Texas is with Cam Coleman. Yeah. And Indiana with Charlie Becker and Nick Marsh. That leads me to perfect segue. My new face that I'm dying to see is this is Nick Marsh.

34:53I feel like I feel like because Josh Hoover transferred in and Mendoza's out. I feel like because so much else is going on in college football and you've got Cam Coleman with Arch. You know, for some reason it was like a big story right when it happened. But I haven't heard a lot of Nick Marsh stuff, right? And this for me, it's I'm not looking to find out if Nick Marsh belongs. He does. I'm looking to find out if Indiana can unlock Nick Marsh. Six three two hundred and ten pound Nick Marsh. I know he's a big physical presence. I know he's a playmaker. I know what he can do physically. I know last like career two seasons with with that offense with a passing game that's not was not up to a consistent level that you'd expect, right? Childs like dynamic athlete, but not a great passer at this point. He's transferred since. Hundred catches, 1300 yards. Nine touchdowns. But if you do quick math right there, that's 13 yards per catch for him last year is just 11.2. You get Charlie Becker on the opposite

36:00side. You get Hoover who they're going to they're hoping that Hoover's damn doesn't doesn't break. And that's that's the focus for Shanahan and Signeti. This offseason is to make sure he plays in the system zone read, mesh ball out quickly. No turnovers. We went on defense. We run the football. You can't be that guy. But we want you to sling it into all the things that you can do. When are when they take their chances, whether it's those back shoulder fades, vertical routes, deep posts we saw with Omar Cooper Jr. last year, right? I want to see Nick Marsh become an absolute freaking dog down the field because I think he can be. He's capable. And I want I wanted them to go like yeah, he's a day two wide receiver. He's got a lot of talent. I want him to be like I don't know like is it Becker or Charlie Becker or is it Marsh? They're both top 20 picks. I want it to be that level. That's what I'm excited to see in India. And yeah, they're playing.

37:01They're they're playing. It's a Saturday big noon kick against North Texas. That's what it is. So I'm excited to see that out of the. Real quick has not been my best show. I mean, maybe I didn't have the best draft at the beginning of the show. I've stumbled over some names. But at least I didn't make a Hoover Dam show. And I hope that's not something that you go back and like, that was pretty funny. I think I'm going to go back to it because I'm going to tell you right here right now in front of everyone. We could scrap the Hoover Dam jokes. Yeah, I could actually I could see like my son does a really good job of side eyeing me. Yeah, he's a grown in the kids. I'm growing up. I was the eye rolled guy. He for some reason is the side eye guy. Yeah, spending his report card a couple of times would be honest with you. We could do without a right by the way. That's all right. No, you don't want to do your report. I felt the side eye from from another point in this house. So yeah, you're right. That will be my last Hoover dam.

38:01Thank you. And yeah, you're right. You've kind of sucked in the show. I agree. Thank you. I'm sure you didn't have to say it. I'm just I'm getting spiteful. All right. Third. This is the third element I want to do in first tape. Underrated prospect that you're excited to see in week one. Who's the guy that maybe nationally isn't getting the love that he deserves? Maybe it's from a program he's in. Maybe there are the great players at that position. Whatever it is, who's a player that is that you're excited to sit down and really watch so that you would bet. Yep, I knew it. Yep. And now I can get on social now. I'll get on the show Saturday night. By the way, Saturday night shows back. I'll be on Netflix. It'll be on Spotify. You'll get it on Apple. We are taping it this year after. But and it will be out ASAP Tucker is the best in the freaking business. He's going to turn that thing around and have it for you shortly after the the the prime time game right after the prime time game. We're going to tape it. We're going to get it out as fast as we can. But the Saturday night show the reaction instant reaction show with all of our draft takes our college football.

39:06You know, analysis not takes we don't do takes we do first tape. It'll all be there. But on Saturday night, who's the guy you're hoping that you get to talk about that's kind of been overlooked? I love early in the year when you get these smaller programs playing up against the bigger programs because it gives an opportunity to some of these players to show what they can do. And young stands going to Kentucky this weekend and they have an offensive tackle name Desmeel Lee. And I'll be honest with you, he is a early round talent with mid to late round tape. And what I mean by this is he six foot six he three hundred twenty four pounds. He moves really well. I'm sure I mean some of his past sets are gorgeous. I think he was he went against Michigan State last year. I think physically he really held his own on that game. The issue I have with his tape is that as the play evolves as each snap evolves, his technique tends to fall apart and he starts to lose. He's got to be cleaner with his technique. What's concerning about that is that he's a four year starter. Okay. So you're hoping that at this point

40:10after being a four this is your fourth year as a starter. There's some of those things are a little more developed a little more refined. But he also only played one year of high school football. So let's keep that. I like that. I like that. He was able to cross in basketball guy. And you thought maybe that you had heard the end of this name for a while. But I think the talent in the background is going to draw some comps to Maxi and Acher from Arizona State. And I think he's that he's it's that volatile stock with this kid. He could be someone who they who gets you know a campaign fighter gets drafted late. If he doesn't play well this year or he could be someone that generates a lot of buzz because again three hundred twenty four pounds guys don't move like he does. So he could he could really move up with a strong season. I I like that. And I like you're you're going with your you're staying in your lane. Like you're going to identify the best offensive. No seriously I think that's great. I'm actually going to go a

41:11little more mainstream for week one because I do feel like this year there's a lot of prospects that aren't getting love that deserves some love because we've got so many damn quarterbacks. And we've got edges like Dylan Stewart and Colin Simmons and and and Yannes AP Air and we've got we've got wide receivers like Jeremiah Smith and and Cam Coleman like it's just and even the running back positions like I'm not hardy we're going to put the plug in that for a little bit we'll we'll see you know what the injury stuff is with the off the field incident but we still have Q1 Lacey and we've got we got bought Florida so but why why is no one talking about Isaac Brown the Louisville running back this guy is a dynamo man he is so damn explosive I mean I get it he's he's he's under size but he's also what is he's like five nine one ninety I think is what he's he's listed at but he's also like he's one of those guys that can catch the football he can take like one one play all it takes is being out of position I'm excited to see him for Louisville

42:15you talked about the new quarterback coming in talked about the brum you talk about Jeff Brown and throwing Brian Brahm like the Brahms and what they do with with offenses when they get one off season to kind of transform to their new quarterback but I want to see now with Isaac Brown who's considered I would say third round probably if you consensus pulled all the skills like somewhere in that I think that's fair maybe topple and hundred maybe slightly out I want to see him become the guy this year I mean Pete Golding runs a defense that attack in your face disrupt and he kind of will be like it's okay if you're not gap sound and all of that up front so yeah there may be some negative plays for Brown but it also creates some opportunity for Isaac Brown to to come out and if there's one guy out of out of place and he gets a little crease to go you know watch out and Pete Golding likes him Golding called Brown one of the best backs we'll see all season and they're playing in the SEC and and I don't know if they're playing ball and but I don't have

43:18the schedule in front of me but they're going to be faced in pretty good backs his explosiveness his ability in space his initial like that initial burst and then finishing speed so also get some contact balance and body controlling 8.8 yards per carry for I knew it was high I just looked it up I knew it was 8.8 yards per carry and yeah there's the the sun Terreen Perkins there's Will Eccles who's one of your favorite prospects in the entire class came Franklin at edge just Keaton Thomas but there's seven guys that they're lost from last year's defense so Golding now as the head coach but the defensive specialist is going to try to reconstruct that defense and there's some opportunity early with some new faces for him to have a monster game and maybe keep this thing close for Louisville you know I it's almost like you think that might be the best game of the weekend I hear you second best last last one I want to get to here first tape buyers remorse anxiety is what I'm going to call it who's the prospect or player in college football

44:23that you have thought maybe fell in love with maybe you you gave a grade and you're like I know he's capable of but maybe he's not there now who's the player that you're going to watch in week one you're kind of going in like I know he can I believe in this guy I gave him that grade but you're like I don't want to face McShea if this guy comes out and is average to below average and lays an egg in week one to say that doesn't and that doesn't make a player you still get the rest of the season right but I don't want to start off in a bad foot after I kind of stamped this guy so we'll call it buyers remorse anxiety going into week one who is it I'm going to go LSU left tackle Jordan's seat and that's that's him to a team and I mean you're just explaining to really well talent for days and when the tape is good I am in love and I thought that he could be in the running as you know a the first you like a top five pick if not a first the overall pick if it's not a quarterback and all that yada yada when we're going into the evaluation process and he

45:28ended up being the fourth offensive tackle in my board once I got through and the reason is he's just inconsistent and now you're taking a kid who was playing a Colorado and that's that's great and you're putting him in the SEC and now you're going against Clemson and a guy and will help the edge from Clemson who I think got better over look he's gotten significantly better over the last two years and might get after him a little bit in this game I'm worried about this matchup from a seat and standpoint I think seeing is going to be really good but this could be a tough one for him because I think will help is that good too so it's going to be interesting to see I think you know I look at will help by the way I'm a little higher on him than you are he's a taller leaner guy he's got some a hidden Hutchinson to him the way he moves in that train and yeah listen man I really like him so this is a matchup that I've got my eye on yeah I gave hell I think at 90 and put him in a version our top 30 yeah yeah yeah that's awesome but but you I also kept in consideration I probably would have given him like an 88 but like I know how much you like him so

46:33I kind of met you in the middle on that again our top 50 prospects will we'll unveil that shortly as we get through this week in the newsletter then make sure you report Google subscribe please I'm sticking with LSU weirdly enough we didn't pre-plan this I'm I know I believe in him I believe in the guy coaching him I believe like you have no idea how much I believe in his ability but I'd be lying to you if I told you I'm not nervous about Sam Levin and I wish they had a warm-up came against Texas State or Western Michigan I have gone all in on Sam Levin and you and and stand for Steve have pushed me on Levin to Mon Williams where I'm probably going in even more than I than I want to but I'm cool before you in a corner I love it but on Monday night what is it

47:34Monday night 7 30 I think it is no when's it when's the LSU comes in game it's Saturday night a Saturday night sorry I'm thinking there was another game Monday night Saturday night 7 30 whenever yeah the prime time game I am going to be quietly sitting there with sweaty palms here's my deal on unleavened okay my entire projection hangs on one question how quickly and effectively can lane kiffin get this beautiful rock and turn it into a diamond right how quickly can you get him to play on schedule get his mechanics right playing within play within a system it took Pat my homes a year of sitting as a backup and watching Alex Smith and Andy read around him and then finally in the starting job to kind of be in place to do that Levin doesn't have that Levin get you know gets plucked late in the transfer portal after a whole lot of stuff was going on comes in there's all

48:38sorts of distractions at LSU he's got to learn all this stuff and come in week one against Clemson but I'm here for it Levin's a dynamic athlete is explosive quickness as he is speed he's got this live loose arm he fits the ball into some tight windows where you're like yeah that's my guy that's my guy right there clip that one tuck clip that play right he's got this competitiveness about him that like harkens the the day of Brett Farve but he also makes some mistakes and make some decisions where you're like fuck man you hurt you're killing me I'm trying I'm trying to like I'm in your corner and then he makes some throws where that like should be easy some layups that he just he kind of misses because his feet aren't right or his eyes weren't there and everything's rushed so now I've got this off season it's been chaotic and all this and Lane Kiffin's got it was doing a thousand different things he still recruiting NFL players to come back

49:38and I'm like if we had the time to properly get him kind of channeled in the right you know hmm lane lane thinks he has can tell you that much and now you going up against Tom Allen's defense in the second year of this defense it didn't go well last year I get it but a lot of guys kind of met eye in the NFL and maybe maybe that kind of held them back now year two 15 points per game Clemson allowed in their final four they started to click a little bit now year two and you get Sammy Brown back phenomenal linebacker Astin Hampton one of the potential shutdown corners will help you talked about the edge rush of position um this is a test man is the test and I'm going to be I'm going to be white knuckle in this motherfucker for four hours on Saturday night because I put I believe in love it but this is scary I've watched some talented corners in this class man yeah none of them backpedal quite as well as you do great backpedal I mean you were

50:39backpedal I'm not a little bit of a backpedal I'm not back I mean this is this has been your guy I have a terrible backpedal I'm not balanced I feel aren't quick enough I'm upright I get no I'm not backpedaling I'm just saying if I'm being honest this is a truth serum moment so if I believe in everything I said but but I but I'm also like I have enough self awareness to know that it's what I saw it's not there but I believe it's going to be there but is it going to be there fast enough or in week one he doesn't come out and all of a sudden we get a situation where it's like LSU just got got upset by dabo Clemson you know yeah look and now now I get to go on the show it's a lie that's going to be on Netflix and Spotify that night and you come in with that big-ass grin white be shining and 11 15 for 33 with two picks and LSU just got upset is the number 19 in the country that like you know look I could say you're doing the mature thing and I respect the

51:43honesty and yada yada yada or I could just bust your balls and I'd rather just bust your balls that was going to be the end of our show and then Connor jumped in with something like literally at the end of our production call yesterday and as he initially was saying it I was like love the idea we we're not squeezing this in and then the more we started talking about it with Will Lev is getting cut and with some of the the fourth year options on quarterback the fifth year option not being picked up and fourth year quarterbacks like stride and she and and brace young she gets proud and brace young we started looking at the 2023 draft class where let's definitely do a 2023 redraft because that that class is fascinating but maybe we'll do it another time now let's do it tomorrow let's go so here we are I'm here for it man it's a total like take talk about like a detour sharp left here we go all week one college football like leading up to all of our tape study out pro prospects let's go back to 2023 but let's go Tucker throw up

52:47the graphic of what we had in that in that first round okay brace young CJ stride right off the board remember the drama Nick Cassario this is the GM of the Houston Texans and move up they take CJ stride let's let's show our quarterback he's the guy but we all kind of knew that will will Anderson wanted to be the pick for some people in that building and maybe ownership or some other people got involved and said well we need to quarterback to all right fine I'll go trade I'll go mortgage off these picks I'll move up to two and I will go get both guys so it was brace young and then the Texans got CJ stride and will Anderson then the cults came in and I was surprised I didn't see it I saw the talent everyone could see the town I didn't think the cults were gonna take Anthony Richardson it for but they did I loved having with with a spoon we both yeah what a football player yeah but not the biggest you know not the biggest cat not a former five star he what they did you talk about you talk about John Schneider having convictions I don't care the position the size what I think that dude is is among the top five players in this

53:52in this class and it's paid off Paris Johnson's been really good for the Arizona Cardinals Tyree Wilson with the Raiders B. John Robinson goes eight is a too high for a running back we all know he's talented Jalen Carter goes nine as chefter's phone is blowing up and I'm in the I'm in the neighborhood and there had to be talks between the agent the shark down in South Florida and and how he roseman parameters in place because this guy's got some character stuff and some off the field issues and we've seen some stuff since he's been in the league but my gosh he might be the most talented physically gifted player in this entire draft and it's kind of how it's played out and then Darnell right the right tackle coming out of Tennessee right she kind of bears pick a 10 so now we have an opportunity bench to redraft this thing knowing what we know on by the way um will levis was the 33rd overall pick we had the the girlfriend at the time who remains the social media darling yeah that's oh no she remains some she remains something on social media oh okay

55:02but but does not remain will levis's girlfriend I believe she's dating another athlete as far as I know but my point is it was a big story on draft night jaja jaja daddy that is her name the young lady I'm referring to you can you can check that out on social media uh but he's a second second pick of the second round yeah you don't want to you what's let's keep on good let's keep our four u page clean so when Stella gets on your phone or Iris can sneak around now check it all right here we go but will levis gets cut and we have those two those two quarterbacks were picked two and uh picked one and two I was just on with Bill Simmons yesterday had fun hour with him talked about it rich it was four and rich it's in four yeah and so you get two guys it's like yeah didn't work didn't work gone uh gone from Tennessee is will levis and gone from the starting job and honestly if I think if the cold's got a decent offer to trade him he'd be gone from indianapolis um

56:03and then you got you got Bryce Young and CJ Stroud you're looking at like what do we do with them now we've seen like right proud was brilliant as a as a first year player last two years we've seen a massive regression it's hard to pinpoint then we got Bryce Young who it was the opposite arc where it was miserable in the beginning what a bust off the bat but regained his confidence got an opportunity he came got in the starting line up started to play better last year I thought he played well later there's the season went on I thought he played really well in that playoff loss I was impressed I saw some things but neither organization Dan Morgan for Carolina Nick Kiserio for Houston neither organization was willing to commit understandably show so they shouldn't have but they've also been very um confident in their support of those players and they they both want these quarterbacks to succeed but they don't have enough belief to pay him so where are we now if we're going to redraft and I want to start with Carolina right now right off the bat I'm giving you the first pick and put the pressure on you bench

57:06who you're taking with that first pick if you're the Panthers it's Will Anderson it is I don't like it's just it's Will Anderson he's he's a dominant edge rusher in this league he just got paid it is a no-brainer for me that's Will Anderson I don't disagree okay well and that would have given you four years to figure out a different quarterback and quite frankly like the 15th ranked quarter back last year however you would rank him like I think that they got a much better shot and you were going to run beating the Patriots in the playoffs go ahead what you're not factoring like roster and need into this like redraft right because and this is what's fascinating about this to me is when you go back and you look you should have just taken the damn the best damn player like why not take the best player like that's and it's funny when you look back at it that way and when you're going through the process you're like this is what we need and this is like going back I'm just taking the best guy that I could have gotten because the the 10 players that I have my top 10 in this list are all really by the way I should have started with this this is

58:08one of the best fucking drafts of all time it's really really good this group you can create a list of top of 30 guys where you're like wow they're all from this one class I'm not saying this is impossible but it's like if I went back and studied the draft like it's got to be in the top 10 maybe like top five seven of all the draft classes yeah when you look at the top of this class I don't disagree I don't disagree number two Houston now will Anderson's gone honestly knowing what we know now is a redraft I'm taking a cool I'm taking a hook in Nukuah over Jackson Smith and Jigba I take either of them I'll take either of them I love them both yeah you know it's not that crazy it's not it's not that crazy he's got 313 catches 4,191 yards 19 touchdowns through three seasons he had 129 for 17 15 and 10 last year

59:12he had an immediate record setting rookie impact now is he the same guy in that system that he is with you can argue that quite frankly Jackson Smith and Jigba is more it translates more to where you go so I could live with that I could live with that but but Pug if you're if you're going off the player that they have been yeah production consists like but now we get the off the field issue I haven't translated there are some things there I'm taking you're right I'm you know I'm gonna swap I'm gonna swap because it's not as transferable and more importantly where is he is an off the field and and where like where is he in a personal life and all that stuff I was just going off of like the product like who who's been the best players and you have to put Puka ahead of JSN but knowing what we know now and we're allowed that this is all about hindsight

1:00:16I think it's more transferable and I think I mean JSN is the most humble non-shelon star that this league has had in a long time I don't think people even realize how good he is because he's so non-shelon and so humble so yeah all right I'll take JSN thank you now pick three who yeah I know I'm getting a great player I know I'm getting a great player I I'm gonna go Jalen Carter and I and there's a part of me that like this is really difficult to do it but I think he is such a game record when he's right and I and it's and you're you're asking for trouble with a lot of the other stuff and I get it and I and and and one thing I will remember about the straps is how much shit you took for the reporting you done in Jalen Carter now angry it made me but that being said there's just not a lot of Jalen Carter is in the world oh I agree some I'm going Jalen Carter here but they're like four other guys are making this real difficult

1:01:22that's the beauty all right so the Texans would walk away with Jackson Smith and Jigba and Jalen Carter and the Indianapolis Colts would be would be on the board I'm gonna hold off on the running back here or the Indianapolis had one then they got one now so put it still on the board now because I'm taking Puka here I like that I'm taking Puka Nuku here I am I think that feels fair all right so then Seattle's up at number five you got an opportunity to bring back the same guy totally happy but there's this other corner that just got paid a little bit of money did he get paid I didn't know he has he has he's he's getting sex he's gonna get paid yeah he's waiting to get paid more is what I should have said yes yes he did not get paid yet that's the whole deal um he's waiting to get paid a little bit more than Devon with her spoon who just got paid or you can go totally the direction I'm going to be

1:02:26John Robinson here man I just think he's that good I and it's an early for running back I think there you could make an argument for two running backs in this class in the top 10 and as good as this group is and I think B. John's the top five gambit in this class I think he's that freaking good I'm taking B. John Robinson all right so I'm writing this down so B. John Robinson goes five cross him off the list now I'm sitting at a list it has two of those elite corners it's got another elite running back it's got some other really good players and I am I'm drafting for the Arizona Cardinals who by the way nailed that pick I don't think people really care shots is a damn good football player at a more position to nail but I I got to take Christian Gonzalez really I just think he's that good and it's hard it's hard to get a shut down corner of his yeah I'm

1:03:28taking Christian Gonzalez. He's one of the massive impact players in the league. Oh no question I love God he's a top player here I would argue you could put him in the top top five. You could I wouldn't hate it. All right so so yeah so Gonzalez goes six. Yep. Who's there you got who's picking now picking seven is Las Vegas you don't have to worry about about taking the guy that they got the first time around because you ain't going to do that Tyree Wilson. I this might surprise him. Go with Darnell right. All pro offensive tackle Darnell right the player that he is developed into is I just think he's one of the best offensive tackles in the league and I'm not passing up at that at seven. Really over Paris Johnson. Yes yes over wither spoon. Yes those guys aren't going to last

1:04:37long by the way they're coming off soon. Okay all right cross them off. It's just fun. Now number eight I've got Atlanta and B. John's gone sorry Falcons fans it's about the only thing you can hang your hat on these days not only the pretty damn close right. Let's take it shots dance pists. Atlanta needs a lot. I can't help it I get I'm taking I'm taking your marigaps. Really yeah all right why wouldn't I I love him I think he's I have him in my top 10 I just think that when you have a Devon whether spoon out there that you're like we've got it's we go through this exercise we do mock draft sometimes and we're just like we have a player that we like so much that somehow is falling it's always a good exercise to do this feels like weather spoon look how how you know it how is someone going to get him at eight he went five initially and he has

1:05:42been everything you've wanted in more. It is a good exercise to look too like how much we do push up these quarterbacks and I love Bryce Young but had concerns and I love CJ Straub it had some concerns but they were so good in that class and they had to come off of crazy like you know take the best damn football player sorted out later. Good so so right now we've got Will Anderson going number one to Carolina Houston has two back-to-back picks we got JSN Jackson Smith and Jigbo wide receiver and Jalen Carter going number three so they got they an elite star wide receiver elite star on the defensive side and Carter then Pukin Nukuwe goes four set of Anthony Richardson Indianapolis. Beijan Robinson comes off the board even earlier in number five to Seattle they pass on witherspoon. Gonzo cornerback is Mention Causum Gonzalez winds up going at at number six to Arizona instead of Paris Johnson. Las Vegas is

1:06:48thrilled to have a redraft they get rid of Tyree Wilson's that pick and they take to Arnell right they get an all pro right tackle. Jamir Gibbs goes number eight so Atlanta still gets a running back or I mean you love both of them they get Gibbs they can't be yes. And now we're at nine where the Eagles took Jalen Carter defensive tackle from Georgia he's off the board what are the Eagles do it pick number nine. Kevin Weatherspoon. No wait we took wait no Weatherspoon is still available right yeah yeah I took I cannot wrap my my head around it I cannot wrap my head around it it's Weatherspoon like we're we're sprinting how he does it again we are sprinting to get that name it. Good congratulations how are you feeling about it I mean you're acting as if you weren't you didn't pass on them four times too like I know I know you're that's that's a fair point you're right

1:07:51but it's it's I'm not giving you a hard time for it I'm actually saying is look at the talent that has come out of this draft that somehow Kevin Weatherspoon is going to get pushed down the board this one becomes tough at number 10 I think they've all been tough to be honest with you I mean they have all been tough because I'm looking at 10 and you're like shit man when the port is right he's one of the best items in the league I got CJ Stroud and that's not going to be the direction we go but I've got Brian Branch is a great player I've got Devon H and there's who's become absolutely dine in sneaky sneaky good I get Jack Campbell if we want a linebacker I get all these dudes man I get all these dudes I'm going I'm gonna surprise you a little bit though I'm taking Zay flowers you pair of Johnson too I'm taking Zay flowers Yeah I I love Zay flowers and and I I hear you I mean I don't like small receivers and Zay flowers

1:09:00is one of those guys is like you're gonna fall but now I'm in a vision and I don't care him with the burden and flowers with Caleb and the time I hear you man I know I hear you that's why I love the player I don't think you could you could take that kind of receiver over a franchise left tackle and Paris Johnson and I do think and this was your guy correct me if I'm wrong but Jack Campbell is turned into an absolute dude I mean yeah he is a linebacker and I get no Williams I know you're right I I have that's a tough recall especially with their offensive line you can easily go Paris Johnson I'm like yeah fine coin flip for me yep in fact it might be a smarquer call because it's presented like that positional value but there's something about Zay with Ben Johnson's offense I love that you're throwing his hat there's name it in in the mix because he's he's turned out to be that kind of a player and again I just thought he was too small

1:10:00to do what he does at this level and he's been outstanding all right so throw up the graphic here we go will Anderson goes number one if you're watching you can see the graphic here by Tuck and Dan if you were listening on Apple or anywhere else I'll rip through him Carolina Panthers in the 2023 redraft top 10 will Anderson best player from the class goes number one overall Jackson Smith and Jigba after a little bit of a discussion and mench showing me the way some off the field stuff is a translatable transferable to one scheme to the next Jackson Smith and Jigba goes number two to Houston and then Houston with that third pick gets another elite defensive star Jalen Carter who comes with a little bit of baggage but my go there's no there's nobody it doesn't what he can do then you got Pukin to Kua going number four the Colts fans would be thrilled them we got Daniel Jones now we just signed a big play outside receiver now we got Puka as well let's roll Beeson Robinson goes three spots earlier running back Seattle Seahawks how that would have changed kind of the the fortunes or it's interesting to go back and look at like how would things be

1:11:07so the Seahawks get Beeson Robinson Christian Gonzalez the cornerback from from Oregon goes to Arizona at pick number six Darnell Wright offensive tackle interesting move by Matt she's solidifying this offensive line from Mendoza the Raiders take Darnell Wright right tackle at seven Atlanta Falcons they don't get the running back that they wanted but my gosh it's not that big drop off when you talk about Jameer Gibbs at number eight Eagles take Devon witherspoon because Jalen Carter's off the board and the Bears and a controversial pick by yours truly goes Zay flowers who just got paid in Baltimore over maybe a Paris Johnson or some of those other great players that we mentioned this is fun it's great other than me calling witherspoon weather spoon over and over again but you know that's just that's part of the course of this guy you knew we had to do it fandall keeps the lights on for us fandall is now everywhere so let's share some of our favorite picks this week matches we going to week one of the season we'll do this it's a segment we're

1:12:09going to do every single week lead up to the college football weekend at hand I want to know your three favorite picks it's at fandall by the way on social media and get the fandall app please I love the tool but go ahead who are your three three favorite picks for week one I have done no analytic research to back this up but I always feel like offices get off to a slow start in the season especially when there might be some changes or some question marks and I'm expecting some low scoring games in a few of these and I think I look at Tennessee Tennessee state of Georgia Georgia has some questions at the wide receiver position I think they're going to pound the rock I think they're going to play great defense that's going to be a low scoring game I think Marshall at Penn State I think Matt Campbell's first game at Penn State they might play it a little bit safe they're going to keep that defense is going to smell their Marshall again I see another low scoring game and then the last one be Northern Illinois at Iowa I know Northern Illinois just got Taren Dickens from Western Carolina and he was lights out last year that transition makes might take some time I think Iowa at home is just going to play

1:13:10smothering defense again run the ball they might play two quarterbacks in this game I just think when you're getting off to the at the beginning of the year maybe offices aren't clicking on all cylinders and that they might not put up as many points as people expect. I'm sorry my three picks I feel I feel great about them that in a whole off season to get ready I think I think my you don't buy a Ferrari and decide you're just going to take it out and drive in the in the right lane like mench going 63 on cruise control down I 95 you say that's reliable where you where you can unlock that baby I get menza I got Malachi Tony I got an offensive that's going to be even better than what cam ward had a couple years ago in my mind right I get another nugget for you as Miami gets ready to take on Stanford who looked a lot better than we expected we took the Andrew Luck right before that opening game they go to Hawaii and they or they played Hawaii and it was yeah it was a grind for a while but

1:14:11they look good they look like a program that believes in what they're doing there's a fun game they had to make a play later on that my my why came back on it was a good game here's here's here's what I here's a nugget I got for you last 10 years mench opponents coming off a week one teams against opponents coming off a week zero who have not played in week zero so the fresh team versus the team coming off of any game winner loss in week for in week zero 149 109 and six against whatever numbers out there so to me you add that to just the talent disparity and the fact that you want to drive this for R-E 120 miles an hour I think that this could be this could be a lopsided event another lopsided event I remember Nick Sabin that wasn't great like terms of having to score 30 you know I I'll I'll duel the opponent by 30 more 30 or more points or whatever it is I think Alabama is going to absolutely annihilate Eastern East Carolina I think Alabama has heard enough I think they got

1:15:16a stud quarterback in in a and Keelan Russell I think that they're going to wind up I think we're going to want to wind up being like wait wait a second why didn't we see the writing on the wall with this team I think now you got with the board they've got more players in that fit their mold and had another offseason like I don't know I think I'm not saying Alabama is going to wind up winning the national championship I think they're a little bit better than people think and I think everyone nationally's had fun with I believe of course it's who's replacing Nick Sabin and I think they want to make a statement in week one I think East Carolina is going to be on the on the unfortunate side of what could be Alabama kind of been like yeah get out of here finally a little flex a little finally Georgia tech I know there's going to make Dan happy I think Colorado has leveled off a little bit let's put it I love just hands I think I think the mismatch in this game is going to be in the trenches I really think Georgia tech is going to grind Colorado wear them down Colorado's offensive lines

1:16:22rebuild I think they're getting I think he's going to be a mess I think Justin Haynes is going to have an awesome awesome day what I think after Georgia tech by the way that running back just as Haynes is when he's been healthy he's unreal that was a great pick up by them great pickup and I would say this I think Georgia tech is going to win that by a couple of touchdowns all right we'll see on the other side enjoy football this weekend but we got one more coming up for you between now and then and we're excited to have a special guest joining us in Bruce Feldman and Subin Tells Move I don't think it's going to be surprising news out of Baton Rouge but I think there's going to be a lot of intel that he can share that is very telling of what's going on in college football so we'll we'll be back in probably 24 24 hours from when we tape this to to talk to Bruce and get the rolling out of Baton Rouge when he comes to the pro players playing in college specifically with LSU but mentioned yes five stars for you brother thanks man must be 21 plus and present in select states for Kansas in affiliation with Kansas star casino or 18 plus and present in DC

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