944. What All 16 Teams in the AFC Need to Get Accomplished in the Draft

That's it, the Eremillionance Show! Yes, the Nottojek pot! Zee, ten million an oil! Zee, ten million an oil! Let's go to the Nymdang, look at Andy Hunt. We're going to be doing this with the Nottojek pot. And now, move the sticks with Daniel Jeremiah and Bucky Brooks. What's up, everybody? Welcome and move the sticks. DJ Bucky together as we're just over a week away from the draft. How you doing? Man, I'm great. You talk about a week, a week away from the madness and the chaos. As we get closer to it, the more you hear, the more conversations that you have. Man, it's just a crazy process. It's a crazy process in DJ. Sometimes you have to go back and look at your original notes so you don't get caught up in the group think that you hear so much because we do so much TV. We do so many shows. We recycle a lot of the same topics over and over again. You find yourself on autopilot. But sometimes things fall out of your mouth and be like, I don't know if I really feel that. Yeah, I don't know. It's really like that. But you have to be careful. So, going back and looking at those original notes because a lot of times, I found for me, whatever I thought on the first glance, is typically what I really, really feel. You can be persuaded. You can do little things that kind of change the opinion. But more times than not, I call it that blink scouting. Malcolm Gladwell, that first glance, that's kind of what you feel about it. And more time than not for me, it's been most successful when I just kind of stick to my original instinct. Yeah, no doubt. On the same way, I'll go back and look at what my first top 50 looked like and kind of see what guys have moved even either direction the most and make sure that I feel comfortable with that. Because I always talk about the fact that maybe get one pullback, maybe you had one where you just grow off that day and you're willing to concede it. Okay, I was off on that one. I'll pull that one back. And maybe there's one you were too hard on and you'll concede that as well. But you don't want to have too many of those where you're veering from where you initially had guys and that's when you get yourself in trouble. That is where you get yourself in trouble. And for me, the conversation was I just submitted a new top five. I think that's up. Like guys can kind of check that out. But the only major movement that I have were some little tweaks to number one and stuff like that. The conversation that we've had all pre-season or pre-draft season has been like Bryce Young, CJ Stroud. So I finally got to the point where I flipped them. And I went back and I looked through my notes. And just because it's so ingrained in me, I'm looking at my original scale, grading scale. And it's funny that I had CJ over top of him the whole time because when I look at the grade that I issued, I had CJ with a 7.0 with a plus on it. And so back in the day when I worked for the Seahawks, 7.0 was kind of like first round, starter, whatever. The plus is like eight on the rise. But then I look at the grade that I gave Bryce and I did him the same day. I had a 7.5, 7.0, which is like top 10 grade or whatever. And so if you go by what it is that you originally thought, my original thought was Bryce Young over CJ Stroud is just the reluctance that I had to do it. And I think some of that is because of the body type, like the skin and the skin and the frame. It's kind of those things where Ron, we'll talk about, if you start making exceptions, you have a team full of exceptions. And it's how long do you hold true to that before you say, hey, man, the guy based on how you played, the guy was a better player. Even though you can like both of them, you can say, A is 1A1B or the car is touched. At some point, you have to say like Bryce Young was the more consistent play. And I think we had a conversation on the pod maybe last week or whatever we talked about. You can't find a stinker game. There's just not a stinker game. Yeah, there's some moments, but there's not a game where you can say, oh, we got to put that one in the trash. Like that's his bad game that we need to go. It's just a high level of consistency and performance in those things. And over time, I mean, you have to give people credit for being able to beat what we call a 90% free throw shooter. Like they go to the line, they knock them down. There's something comforting about that. And so that ended up really being the deciding fact when it came down to what I think are two really good prospects. No doubt. And I'm with you on that in terms of going back and going through your notes and then crystallizing things. And you mentioned the fact that you have a team full of exceptions. And I think this is a draft full of exceptions. There aren't a lot of clean players in this draft. And some people say, well, that means it's not a good draft. And I would say, well, you know what? We have some exceptional exceptions though, like in order to be successful and you don't fit all the specs, you got to be exceptional. And I think we do have some of those guys that are really, really good players just don't happen to have the typical traits and size and speed combination that we normally prefer. This draft is just one of those that comes around every now and then we don't have a ton of those clean guys. So you got to find out the guys that are exceptional. And I think Bryce Young, he fits that bill. We're going to have a fun episode today. What we're going to do is we're going to take the AFC and we're going to go over every single team in the AFC and kind of go over a draft plan for those teams. We've talked a lot about the individual players. We've talked about how you stack them, how you rank them. We've talked a lot about specifically the first round throughout this process. I thought this would be a healthy exercise. Let's go team by team and look at a little bit of the draft strategy that they could incorporate with the picks that they have, the needs they have, and what they need to get accomplished. So here we go. We're going to kick this thing off. We're going to jump right in here. This is the AFC, their draft strategy, their needs, all that kind of rolled up into one. We'll get this thing cranked up right now. Let's start in the AFC East and we'll just work here with the Buffalo Bills. Buffalo Bills are picking 27th in the first round. They also have pick 59 and 91. Those are first three picks. You look at a team that needs, these are the wide out. I think you look at the firepower you need in the AFC as good as they are as many points as they scored last year. I think you still want even more. You look at what they've added in the off season. They bring in Damian Harris. They bring in McGovern, Connor McGovern as a center. They bring over Taylor Rapp. They lost Tremaine Edmonds. They lost Singletary. They lost Crowder. They lost McKinsey. A couple of wide outs they lost as well as a running back. The big one was their starting linebacker. If you're looking at these needs, wide out. Another weapon to add to this offense here. You look at the linebacker position to replace Tremaine Edmonds. You look at maybe some defensive tackle as well. What do you prioritize here at 27? What makes the most sense based off how this draft lays out? The way this draft lays out, DJ, the Buffalo Bills should be the first team to take a line back. If you honestly look at it, you're more likely to find comparable value at wide receiver in the second round than you would to find a comparable linebacker in the second round because there's a huge drop off. If you're sitting there at 27 or even if you drop back into the second round or whatever, they would almost have their pick of the litter when it comes to those guys in whatever order. Jack Campbell, Drew Saunders, Trenton Simpson, whatever it is, they would get a better player at linebacker by taking one in the first round, one that is probably more likely to replace what they're losing in Tremaine Edmonds and find an upside wide receiver that could start and make things happen. The depth of wide receiver is better than the depth of the linebacker. I would advise them to take the linebacker in the first round and then come back and get the wide receiver in the second or third round because there are enough good guys that can come in and start at wide out. Yeah, I think it's interesting and I would add, it just depends on if you love the receiver. If they love the receiver, I think that the Mahomes Doctrine, we need to come over the name for this thing, whatever we're referring to this, of offense over defense. It is the Kansas City Chiefs. I mean, that's real. That's very real. I mean, that's the new reality that we live in. If you're going to win in the AFC and we've talked about it, we both work for teams where the first thing you do is you build a team to win a division. And then you've got to expand it out because at some point you've got to look at the teams that you're going to face to have to get to the Super Bowl. And so Kansas City is always going to be there with the quarterback. We can talk about the other teams with the quarterbacks. Cincinnati, you've got to look at them because you just lost to them and you've got to deal with what you have in division. So yes, you have to think about in an arms race, we have a quarterback in Josh Allen that we feel like can compete with those guys. Does he have enough? And you've got to get enough. So I can understand you making that point in terms of thinking about the team, even though I said, if you look at the value in the draft, it would make more sense to go linebacker or whatever. But you always had the caveat, hey, man, what can we do to help the quarterback put us in a better position to win again? So that's the Buffalo Bills there. I would just add if you're looking at Whiteouts, I've heard Quentin Johnston's name mentioned with Buffalo and with Kansas City. So I think he ends up going late in the first round. I wouldn't sleep on him there with the Bills. Let's get to the Dolphins Buck. Again, no first round pick. We pick 51, they pick 84. You could add a tight end. You could continue to add this offensive line. You look at the running back position as well when you pull up the Miami Dolphins and look at what they're playing with. In the backfield, they've got a lot of guys. I think most are Jeff Wilson. They can committee it, which has kind of been the way that they operate. It's kind of the 49ers way of doing business. But I would say when you look at the Niners last year and their ability to throw Christian McCaffrey in there, a big time back, if there's a back that they love, I wouldn't totally rule that out. But I would say priority wise, we probably slipped that down the board a little bit. And I would think continuing to throw resources at the offensive line and maybe the tight end position could be where they go. Yeah, tight end is interesting because for whatever reason, Mike Medellin couldn't make it work with Mike Gassicki. It wasn't a fit. It didn't job. But you have to think his experience is playing with George Kittle. He has a value for the tight end in this offense. So which side end would be the right guy to fit how he wants to play in Miami? Gassicki was really a jumbo slot receiver. And so if they're going to go that route when we think about like a flex tight end, I think there needs to be a flex tight end that can offer maybe a little more, a little more in the blocking game and those things. And so whether it's a sandaliporter who still needs to up the ante when it comes to the physicality, it has to be someone in my mind that can put the hand in the dirt and do some of the dirty work that Kittle did to fit because it's obvious that Mike Gassicki was not, it was not their flavor in terms of what they wanted to tie in. I wouldn't be totally shocked because the depth of the position in different flavors. If Darnell Washington made it to 51, I wouldn't be totally shocked. I wouldn't rule that out that he could get there. He would be the one. So now he's the one that is different. It's just F-51 does he work his way down there? But I mean, there's some scenarios and there's some things, some scut about how he could find his way to being in range. And maybe it does take them to move up just a little bit to get him like, hey, if he falls if he's in the 40s, let's make a move to get him because what he would do is he would give them, and I'm not saying this because I want to make sure in case the snippet comes out, he's not George Kittle. But what he can do is he can seal the edge in the running game like George Kittle has been able to do for the Niners for years. And when you think about a team that wants to run on the perimeter and on the edges, that tying in, being able to control the defensive end is a very important piece. And so when you bring up Washington, it makes sense that maybe they would have their eye on him to replace that tied in position where the war was created where Mike Gacicki-Leavin. Let's get over to the next team here and that's the New England Patriots. The Patriots are picking 14, 46, 76. You look at them last year bucked on offense. They were last in the league in Red Zone offense. They were 27th and 3rd downs. They were 26th in yards per game. They've added Juju Smith-Shuster. They've added Mike Gacicki who we were just talking about. So they've added some pieces here. But I still think with them trying to figure out the quarterback who had a really good first year and fell back a little bit last year and everything was made about the lack of support he had from the coaching side of things. They've got that squared away, Bill O'Brien's there now. It feels very offensive to me. They've got Riley Rief is the right tackle right now. That's a band aid. I could see them looking at right tackle. With that tick, I could also see them looking at the wide receiver position where you add Juju, you've got Kendrick Borne, you've got Devontay Parker, you've got Tyquan Thornton. There's still, is there a guy, those listed guys I just gave you, is there anybody when you're compiling the advanced scatter report that you circle and scares the crap out of you? No, this is getting a crap out of you at all. The thing about the Patriots for so long, they've been able to get away with it. Part of the reason they were able to get away with it because a quarterback, Tom Brady, was so good that he could kind of mass their flaws. DJ, even though we haven't talked about, we haven't listed Israeli kind of put in their thing as he needs. This is a team if Bijon Robinson is in range. He needs to be the guy. The reason why is he can kind of reset their offensive structure in terms of who you're worried about when you face them. This is a combination of Bijon Robinson and Ramundre Stevenson gives them something where now on defense, you got to play them differently. If you play them differently, it opens up the field for Mac Jones. As much as I would love, let's get off as a tackle, whatever. To me, only Bijon Robinson. If Bijon Robinson is there at 14, they seriously have to entertain it because it gives them the Corey Dillon that they've had in the past. It gives them the Antoine Smith that they've had in the past. It gives them the big back, the back that you can kind of make the centerpiece, the focal point that will allow the game to be easier for the quarterback and the wide-offs on the perimeter. Yeah, and I've got pushback from Patriot fans. I've talked about this and I said, I would not rule this out. It's over. Ramundre Stevenson had a great year last year. Ramundre Stevenson is a really good player. He's a different player though than Bijon Robinson. Bijon Robinson gives you so much more and I think they can coexist. I think you got to go back in the way back machine when the Patriots revolutionized 12 personnel and just said, oh, we're going to play with two tight ends. It's like, oh, they take a tight end. They've already got drunk. That doesn't make any sense. They have found ways to find advantages and to zig when others zag and maybe they've got ideas that what they can do with having those two guys on the field the same exact time because Bijon can throw them in the slot as well as you can throw them next to the quarterback. And let's be real, a lot of what you're doing when your team building is how can I get the max out of my quarterback? Well, let's go back to Alabama and look at what he had around him when he played at his best. What were the running backs like? How physical were they? What set the table for them? Those things kind of matter. So I want to give Mac Jones an opportunity to be at his best and I think adding a running back of Bijon Robinson's caliber certainly could be in play if he's around F 14. If not, then I think it's usual suspects. I think his offensive line is trying to find some pieces to make sure that he's protected in typical Patriots fashion. But Robinson is kind of like the wild card. Yeah, no doubt. They'll be interested to see what the Patriots end up doing. All right. Last team in that division, Jets. Jets are picking 13 for the moment, right? The Rogers thing has not happened. They've got those two second round picks next to each other. Pick 42, pick 43. This is a team that has already added Al Lazard and Mikole Hardman. So they've added firepower. They end up trading more, Elijah Moore, the Mike White, the back of quarterback has moved on. You look at this team offensively, Buck, and you imagine a lot of these numbers change with Aaron Rodgers even if he was 100 years old. This was 29th and points per game, 28th and third down, 31st and the Red Zone. I've got awful on offense, but they've added more firepower at the receiver position. The big thing's going to be with them, the offensive line can. They stay healthy. They've been battling injuries. You end up getting McKibech from back off injury, Elijah Moore, Tucker back off injury. They don't really have a center, I believe, that's going to be their starting center week one. They signed West Schweitzer. I don't think that's going to be the answer for them. So when you look at them offensive line center, continuing to add tackles, tackle depth here. Max Mitchell played pretty well, but he got hurt last year. You get back and back. You have Dwayne Brown back, but I wouldn't rule out a tackle. I wouldn't rule out a center. Wide receiver position, I know that's been mentioned. I feel like they're in pretty good shape though with what they've got. I would cross that one out. I would look on the defense. I would not sleep on defensive tackle with them. I know they're getting ready to pay Quinn and Williams and they've got Solomon Thomas back in there. They've got Quinn and Jefferson. I could see them saying, okay, we have built kind of a behemoth with our pass rush. Let's get another guy to go in there and play next to Quinn on sub inside. That's where I got a collage of Kansas. Never been mentioned with the Jets. That one's kind of fun to me. It is fun because collage of Kansas is a high energy player. The one thing you know about Robisala and their defense, they want to play with a lot of energy and they want to roll bodies through. We keep making references to the San Francisco 49ers, but all of those coaches that we're talking about enjoy their most success in San Francisco. So they want to recreate that in their new destinations. If you're the Jets, you can never have enough big bodies up front. And also because they were most successful when they only rushed four and dropped seven in the coverage, this is a team that doesn't like the blitz. They've been better when they don't blitz. You have to have eight, nine guys that you can roll through there because you got to keep them fresh. If you're not going to help them with the scheme, you got to help them by bringing the depth so they can always kind of play with the hair on fire. Yeah. And they've got guys that can kick in too. I mean, Carl Lawson could rush over a guard if you wanted to, but I don't know how long term he's going to be there. You look at other guys that they've got. They can slide inside. Obviously, John Franklin Myers can kick in there. So they've got some versatile pieces, but I think they believe in the line of scrimmage. I do think they have to come out of those first three picks. Now, whether or not one of those picks is gone for Rogers, we'll have to wait and see. One of those first three picks has got to be their starting center. And it's a good draft for centers. I think 13 is too early to take one, but maybe you trade back and take Tittman or maybe just sit there and say at 42 or 43, you know, John Michael Schmitz. One of those guys is going to be there. They're going to be able to get a center with one of those first three picks. Yeah. I mean, they have to get someone that controls the point of attack. The second round seems like the sweet spot for that being able to address whatever they need in the first round, but then coming back in the second round, getting one of those centers. This year, we've talked about it. The athleticism that we've seen in the center makes it where you can find the starter in the second or even the third round. I am okay with them getting the center, but I would think it wouldn't be day one. I think day two is probably more likely this sweet spot. Makes sense. All right, Buck, let's kick it over to the AFC North here. Let's add a bangle for four. This is a team pick in 28, 60, 92. You look at what happened in the off season. They add Orlando Brown. They add Ford. So they've got a couple offensive linemen that they've added and Cody Ford, they had her smit to tie it in. They lose P-Rine. They lose Hayden Hurst to tie it in. They lose Jesse Bates big time safety and they lose von Bell. So there's a couple of safeties there. You look at the needs safety, tie it in, running back because we don't know what's going to go on there with Joe Mixon. There's a couple of different areas that this team could look to go. I think even at the tackle position, if Jonah Williams is a trade candidate, he asked, you know, I think he actually requested a trade. So I wouldn't rule out tackle as well. You look at them 29th and run game last year, rushing yards per game. So it's a couple of different areas they can go, but it seems to me you're probably looking offense there unless it's going to be Brian Branch. It's safe to have the only one I could think of with pick 28. Yeah, it has to be something on offense. I think you continue to throw pieces at the opposite. Jonah Williams wants to balance them. You may accommodate his wishes if you can find someone at the bottom of the first round to feel the spot. And there are plenty of guys that are those fringe candidates that we talk about at offensive tackle, even if you have Orlando Brown in those things. So you continue to do that. Once again, we'll talk about it. We can talk about enough is about making sure Joe Burrow has what he needs. He is on the verge of signing a blockbuster deal. So you kind of want to get on the front end of building your team, knowing that you're going to have to pay him big bucks. And sometimes DJ, that might mean a man, let's draft offensive tackle now because at least for the next four or five years, we have a cheaper option at a marquee position that we know we have to overspend for. I would love to see Dalton Kincaid though. Somehow he got there to where they're picking pick 28. That would be a home run of all home runs for me. Be fun to watch him play with Joe Burrow. All right, let's get it. Let's keep moving here. Let's go Ravens. This is a team pick in 22 and 86. This is a team that was offensively challenged last year, 28th in the arts per game defensively. Pressure rate percentage last year was 28th. So more pass rush. Again, more weaponry offensively. You look at the corner position, a place they could go defensively edge as well as continue to look at this wide receiver position with Odell Beckham. Maybe that gets removed from the table. Yeah, with Odell Beckham, Jr. We removed the wide receiver thing from the table. I think a lot of this DJ like two things. We have to remember the Ravens that we know are no longer the team that we remember them being in terms of like how they used to approach the draft and personnel. And so on defense, they become more of a zone oriented pressure based team as opposed to the way they used to play with Wink Martindale. So now does that mean they still prioritize cornerbacks the way that they used to because they're not playing as much man to man as they had in the past? Or it doesn't mean they kind of have to flip it and find dominant pass rush because they didn't really value the pass rush with Wink. Remember Wink Martindale would say, I can create it with schematics. Well, if they're not doing that, they're not blitzing like they were with him, then you got to find guys that can win on their own. And so this is kind of to me like an identity draft for the Baltimore Ravens. New offense coordinator Todd Monkin, what are you going to give them to allow them to be at their most successful? I don't know, man. I think I'm so off the radar with the Baltimore Ravens now because I have no idea what Todd Monkin wants to do if Lamar Jackson is a quarterback. What does this offense look like? There's not a point of reference based on how he called the game in college that would make you think like, oh, okay, this is what they're going to do with Lamar. Yeah, no, it's a fascinating team. I just keep coming back to the same name. I think Joey Porter Jr. gets there. He kind of fits them and their profile, what they look for in big, big, rangey corners would make some sense. So we'll see what the Ravens end up doing. Let's get it over to the Steelers. The Steelers have picked 17. They actually have picked 32, which is a second round pick this year because the Dolphins lost their first round pick, but an incredible trade that they made that was able to net them the 30-30 second overall pick for Chase Claypool. They also picked 49 and they picked 80. This is a team I think offensive line has been a focal point for them. If you're looking offensive line corner, it's kind of your two places do you want to look at? Like the order needs to be offensive line and then corner because the depth of the corner position, I feel like at 17, you get the offensive line that you like. Yeah, you get the offensive line that you like. And so you want to do that. You want to make sure you get back to playing the Steelers brand, the ball. This division is going to be tough because the Browns are going to be different than they've been in the past. The Bengals are sitting on top of the division. You would expect the Ravens to bounce back. And so the Steelers have to be able to play their style and their style to me is still a physical brand. You get invested in the office and line has to be a priority. They've added a couple of nice pieces in Samalo and Herbig, two guys that they're real, real physical football players along the interior, that offensive line. So I would not sleep on tackle at 17. Maybe come back at your corner at 32. The Browns, they are coming off a seven and 10 season buck. They don't pick till the third round. They've got a couple pick 74, pick 98. Defensive tackle, Edge rusher has been has been a little bit of the focus there for that team. But it's 74, 98. I think there's still be some good value there for them. Yeah, I mean, it still will be plenty of value there for them. But honestly, DJ, their draft picks, their first round picks, the Sean Watson, they went all in to get the Sean Watson. So he has to play at a level that makes them forget about those first round picks and those things. He has to be a franchise quarterback. He has to re-emerge as the top five player for them to realize the potential that they saw when they made them move to get them. And so a lot of it is, yeah, they got to pick some players in the draft. No, they got to get number four right. They get number four right. And all this other stuff is a move point. Yeah, keeping on Zach Pickens as a defensive tackle. That's kind of in that range where they're picking in the third round. He's out of South Carolina. I think he'd be a fun player to add to their front. It was a front that did not rush the passer as well as you would expect last year coming off of you where they were tied for 27th and sacks. All right, we're going to take a quick break. We're going to come back. We're going to jump over to the AFC South and the AFC West. That's just the era million shots. Yet, it's the not a jackpot. See 10 million an oil. See 10 million an oil. Not all by an nim dang look in the hand. What's the most important thing that's going to be the first time in the game? All right, Buck, let's get to your jags here. They are coming off in eight and nine season here, which was enough to get them into the postseason. They are picking 24, 56, and 88. I'll give you the floor here on what you think, the direction they could look to go here and the best way to combo these picks. The best way to evaluate the Jaguars and where they could go, they need someone to complete inside DB. They need a slot defending to have Darius Williams playing out wide. He was originally brought in to be the knuckle, but he's most comfortable for them outside. That means you need someone that can come in. Like a Brian Branch would be ideal if he's there 24 to me. It's a no-brainer that he's a pick. We've talked about Doug Peterson and in the past his affinity for tight ends. That could be another thing. We talked about going all in on the tight end position. Yes, you have Evan Ingram, well, he is tendered on the franchise. You would like to think he's going to sign a long-term deal. Well, you need to double up. You want to continue to give Trevor Lawrence multiple options and give him Doug Peterson history. I would just keep an eye on the tight end. Maybe in the first round. Highly likely maybe the second round. I think offensively, we talked about it's an arms race. I think there's a feeling in that building. Hey, let's put points on the board. We score a lot of, we score a lot. We have a defense that can play well enough to get us to the promise line. No doubt. Let's get it to the Titans. This is a team coming off a 7-10 year. They are picking 11-41-72. You look at their roster wide receiver, that offensive line, really kind of across the board. They could look and then linebacker hard needs. At pick 11, I know the quarterback situation has been brought up. If one of those guys or multiple guys are there, maybe they would consider it. But let's take quarterback off the table here. If you're having to make a decision between one of these offensive linemen at 11, or if you have the pick of the litter, if you are, you sit in there and whether that's Jackson, Smith, and Jigbo, Jordan Addison, Zayflowers, whoever that guy is, do you sit there and look at this offense and say we need some firepower to go along with what we hope Trailid Berks is going to be? I think if you're the Titans and Mike Vable, you don't think about the firepower on the outside. You've got to get back to being able to beat people up in the trenches. Last year, they didn't win because they got hurt in the trenches and they couldn't impose their will on opponents. Dear Kennery's still there and we would like to think he's going to be there for the next year or two. As long as he is there, that gives them a chance to control the game and get the game on their terms. The only way you can do it though, you have to be able to at least control the line of scrimmage. I think they invest in the bigs. Yeah, signing Andre Gillard kind of threw me for a loop a little bit because when they signed him, he is a pass protecting finesse left tackle. They drafted Petite Freer the year in the last draft. Obviously, Rand Karthon was there as a GM. He's kind of a pass protecting more finesse tackle. So I'm like, is this team trying to transition? Are they trying to transition out of one thing and become more of a pass heavy team? That's almost what I wonder if they hit their head on the ceiling playing that way and now they're going to try and morph and change and maybe be a little bit more spread, maybe be a little bit more playmaker-centric. I know one thing, the trade of AJ Brown was not popular upstairs in that. The ownership level, I don't think that went over well. It certainly didn't go over well after you saw how well he played. I feel it's a few Eagles. To let a homegrown guy, a guy that you drafted in the second round, a guy who was played at a Pro Bowl level, a guy who dominated on catching around plays and play action plays to let him walk out the building and go to Philadelphia and help Philadelphia reach the Super Bowl. Yeah, it certainly didn't play well. So we'll see if they can kind of become maybe a little more finesse in their approach, but if they're going to do that, then quarterback has to be a top priority. No doubt. That's picking 4, 35, 79, obviously quarterback, the big need there. You can look at corner tackle wide receiver. This offense was 31st and sacks last year. 32nd and giveaways of defense was terrible. They were dead last in the red zone last year. But if we assume quarterback is to pick at 4, let's get to pick 35. You look at corner offensive tackle, wide out to me, Buck. I think this offensive line, which was not very good last year, seems to be the priority with that second pick. They were terrible at the line of scrimmage. They got to get back. They have a lot of money invested in the offense line, but you can't just count on those guys to just improve because you had a scheme change, a new voice. You want to invest in that. And so if you're Chris Ballad, man, you have your eyes on the prize. You're looking for one of those offense alignments to suddenly be there at the top of the second round. You want to make sure you upgrade this offense line. It's on them to get better. The returners, but you still want to add talent to their room. Pick 35, Cody Malk, North Dakota State. Let me get on board with that. All right, Texans, they are obviously picking two, 12, 33, 65, 73. They are loaded with resources offensively. They were terrible. 30th and points per game defense. They were last against the run. So you're looking at quarterback. You're looking at edge. You're looking at offensive line, defensive line. You continue to look at receiver. I would say if they, we've kicked around pick number two and all the options there, and that'll be a big talking point. But when we get to pick 12, if I'm going to tell you right now, pick 12, you've got a choice going along that offensive line or defensive line. Where would you prefer to build there with that team? With that team, because it's D'Amico Ryan's defensive-minded coach, I think defense. He's going to try and recreate what he had to dispose in San Francisco. They're going to try and get enough talent. They're going to try having a depth to be able to roll guys in. And so defensive line is to play. I wouldn't be surprised if they doubled up. DJ took one and two, came back and took another one at 12. He knows the defense is his baby. He wants to be able to play lockdown defense because they gave the Niners a chance when their offense, look, their offense was a little up and down, but the defense carried the water for a long time last season. Well, they've got a good spot here. They've got a left tackle. They've got a right tackle. They've got a left guard. You've got tonsil. You've got Titus Howard. You've got Kenyan green. You've got really, really uber-talented players. So the offensive line, they've got other guys they can line up and play with. I think you could look at them adding a center potentially, but I think they're good at tackle. So to me, I think defensive line is where they go with that 12-0 roll pick. It's just a matter of who it is. Keep an eye on it. To me, BNS makes a lot of sense if he gets there from Iowa. All right, let's get over to the AFC West. There are the time we have remaining here, Buck. I know we're up against it. Chiefs picking 31, 63, 95. You can look at the tackle position. Obviously, the receiver position, the edge position. Which way would you go at 31 knowing that those are your needs in this draft? Well, I got number 15, so it doesn't matter. We got to the Super Bowl before we even ready last year. So now I want to make sure you're in this table. I'm an ass-pat. What else do you think we need? We lost you, you Smith's Houston, which is a significant loss because you did some of the dirty work. You can count Cadairis Tony as it may be a draft because they got him for peanuts. It didn't cost him much to bring him over for my first round pick. You still can add a wide receiver. But I think you got to find somebody else to replace Frank Clark. I know you have Chris Jones in the building. You took George Kaloff this last year. You still need another one. You can't go wrong having multiple guys up front. If there's a pass rush or high energy pass rush or sitting there staring at him at 31, I think he put a trick on the pass rush. Yeah, I have a great fit for them. I would love to see Felix and Adita Yuzama. FAU is everybody who likes to call them out of Kansas state. That would be a popular pick there in that building. I think you look at them coming back for receiver later. Trying to add some speed at pick 63 or 95. Trae Palmer is the name I'm going to throw out there to you, Buck. Just keep that one in the back of your mind as a fit there for the Chiefs. All right, Chargers, 10 and 7. Wildcard lost last year to the Jags. We're both in the building for that one. They picked 21, 54, 85. 30th in the league in the run game. They were terrible against the run once again, 28th there. You look at defensive line. Look at wide receiver corner, tight end. Those are the different positions you're looking at. On this one, Buck, calling these games, I think if they keep those wide outs healthy, as much as you'd love to have the speed element, I think you could find the speed element a little bit later on as we're talking about with the Chiefs, find that Pierce's speed guy because we're going to take off the field between Keenan, Mike, and Josh Palmer. Josh Palmer had almost 1,000 yards last year. I think that's a fourth receiver complimentary piece that you can find in the middle rounds. I like the idea of them going with the tight end. I love the fit of Kincaid there. I'm a big, dull, Kincaid guy. I love that opportunity with him. Then I also look at corner and I look at our Maryland corner as somebody that's kind of interesting for them as well. Yeah, the Lante Banks is special. He's special because of the length, he's special because of what he brings. He's just scratching the surface of his potential. I'm kind of like you though, DJ. Tight end position is one. They haven't really been right at tight end since 100 Henry left. You go and get someone that can control the middle of the field that will help. I also think big back. I'm talking about a banger, a 220 plus back to compliment Austin Echler. Yeah, I know Austin Echler is disgruntled, but he's coming back at least four years. If you can find a big back to do some of the dirty work, I think you can preserve him and keep him fresh for the postseason. Yep, I like that. Raiders, six and 11, quarterback, D-line corner. They picked seven, 38, 70, 100. We've talked a lot about seven with them. Let's take seven off the board. Let me give you a pick 38 and tell you, you've got your choice there at 38 of one of these corners or one of these edge-rushers. Who would you look at there? I would say corner. The edge-rushers, I know they want to get more from Chandler Jones. They haven't had McRosby there, but they need to be able to cover in this division with all these wide receivers and play mix. You got to be able to cover. You got to be able to hold up. You're not going to be able to just put them in a rolled zone and have them squat and play the flats and those things. You got to have someone that can legitimately cover. If I'm the Raiders, I'm looking to add a cover corner. Someone that can handle man-to-man and zone responsibilities, but he has to be able to play one-on-one. He can't have a lot of assistance because of the destruction of the defense that they want to play. Lasting the league in takeaways last year, so preferably somebody who can go get the football. Let's see a manual Forbes. If he somehow got to pick 38, even though he's 166 pounds, would be a heck of a pick. Broncos, Broncos 5 and 12. Russell Wilson's trading up, picking a lot there. They're picking 67, 68. Interior offensive line, you got D-line linebacker, a couple areas. They could look there. Third round buck. You know, linebacker is not a great class this year, but I think that's somebody you can find in 67, 68. You got a chance to find somebody who can maybe come in and play for you. Oh, yeah. I mean, 67, 68. You're trying to find someone who has been dinged for some reason but has the ability to play and outplay his draft status. And so look for them to really investigate like someone who maybe is kind of flying under the radar, but they need a line back. I mean, they need those guys like the guys that have Alex Singleton is fine. Josie Jewell is fine, but you would certainly like to have better. But if you can't find that, then I think it's back to Sean Payton trying to look at this offense. And the one thing that stands out to me is last year, I think everyone was raving about the Broncos wide receiver court talking about, oh, they got a kid, Hamler, Sutton and this. But we've heard that, I mean, Sutton and Judy, both have been dangled on the market. So to me, if they're trying to get Russell back on track, you can see a little more of the Seattle Russell, a little more controlled passing anymore running game. And so I'm thinking big bodies up front to allow them to run the football because Russ's at his best when the pitch count is low, 25 to 27, led him work within those parameters. That's when you see the best of Russell Wilson. Yeah, and I just think, you know, the thing about Sean Payton is I don't think you can rule out them. Just going back to the line of scrimmage, he's always invested in big guys offense defensive line. So I would rule out defensive line there at 67 or 68 as well. All right, that was it. We jammed through the AFC. We will have another episode with the NFC that's going to be coming your way shortly. I hope you guys have enjoyed this one and we will catch you next time right here on Move the Styx. And I'm going to do it again. I'm going to do it again.