Hello, I'm Peter King.

Welcome to the MMQB podcast with Peter King,

where I take you inside the minds of the biggest influencers in the NFL.

This week, an unusual podcast. in the NFL.

This week an unusual podcast at the recent NFL meetings I asked 10 NFL coaches about

why a mom in middle America and I used Dubuque Iowa, I just have always liked Dubuque Iowa,

why she should allow her son to play football.

Got some very good answers from 10 thoughtful NFL coaches.

And then a conversation with Mike Vravel, the rookie head coach of the Tennessee Titans.

But first, you know, in this job as the draft approaches, one of the most interesting things

that I do is I try to predict behavior of men in the NFL who do not

want anyone to have any idea what they're going to be doing on Draft Night.

And I could come up with scores of examples and have on this podcast.

But I can just tell you that most of the people who are going to decide

their teams pick, especially near the top of this draft, are keeping it hidden from everybody who

works in their organization, from families, from friends, just because it doesn't do them any good if people in the outside

world get a whiff of what they're going to do. Now we look at the top of this draft this year and usually you can say here's where the real

confusing point will be and you can pick a team or two that you really don't have any idea what they're going to do.

They haven't, there's been no white smoke signals coming out of their chimney in their facility. And that spot this year as I talked to people around the league is number two with the New York Giants.

So the Cleveland Browns pick one and look I just will tell you I

will be very very surprised that number one if the Browns don't pick a

quarterback. Now I don't know who it's going to be. I think it's probably either Sam

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