NFL Draft Analysis: Strategic Picks and Surprising Trades
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00:00 There were multiple instances in the first round, second round and third round of teams
00:10 trading up one pick, two picks.
00:12 The Chiefs traded up four picks with the Bills.
00:15 They traded up one pick with the 49ers.
00:17 It actually happened, I think it happened like seven times in the second round where
00:21 there were trades made within three spots of one another.
00:25 I mean, even if you wanted to move back, I think, I mean, no one else was going to take
00:29 them.
00:30 They were bidding against themselves because what became pretty clear was the Vikings had
00:34 no interest in Penix.
00:36 They raced to the clock to get McCarthy.
00:39 And then it also is abundantly clear that all the reporting about Sean Payton being
00:43 really interested in Bo Nix was, I mean, 100% true, right?
00:47 I mean, it's like, and which was the rumor all the way up, which means who was the team
00:51 you were scared of?
00:53 The rumor was that the Raiders were pretty in to Michael Penix Jr.
00:56 That was who was favored to select Penix in the first round.
01:01 And maybe they would, you know, I don't, I don't think the Raiders would have jumped
01:05 up either.
01:06 They seem kind of more like an old school organization.
01:08 Like we're just going to sit in the clock and kind of take who gets to us.
01:11 They took Brock Bowers.
01:13 Yeah, I just, I have no logic for the pick.
01:17 I think it's, it really is one of the worst picks and you know, maybe, maybe Cousins Achilles
01:22 is more damaged than we thought and he's not going to be ready.
01:25 And they just wanted to have, you know, some security at the quarterback position.
01:29 And they didn't, they, they weren't big on any of these guys who were going to go on
01:32 day three, you know, Spencer Rattler, Michael Pratt.
01:35 Why don't you just sign Ryan Tannehill to be your backup?
01:38 I don't, it's, it is completely blowing my mind.
01:41 I do not understand it.
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