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NFL: Move the Sticks with Daniel Jeremiah & Bucky Brooks

174: Previewing the draft with Charles Davis, James Conner interview

NFL: Move the Sticks with Daniel Jeremiah & Bucky Brooks

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Football, Sports

4.73.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2017

⏱️ 45 minutes

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NFL Media’s Charles Davis joins Daniel Jeremiah and Bucky Brooks to discuss the 2017 NFL Draft and the top quarterback prospects available. Pittsburgh running back James Conner also joins the show to talk about how he’s preparing for the NFL Draft and his biggest highlight, hardship and hero in his life.

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0:00.0

And now move the sticks with Daniel Jeremiah and Bucky Brooks.

0:07.0

What's going on everybody? DJ Bucky here, move the sticks presented by US Marine Corps and Bucky, we've finally got our good friend here to join us on the podcast.

0:16.0

We've we've suckered him in and we've pulled him in.

0:19.0

Yeah Charles Davis. Charles Davis in the house. CD, what's going on?

0:23.0

Hey, how you guys doing? You must have hit the bottom of the barrel on this one, fellas.

0:26.0

No, we like to ramp up our coverage. We like to save the all stars for the final home stretch here. How you doing, man?

0:33.0

I'm doing great. I trust you to trust both of you are as well.

0:36.0

We're doing well, man. I want to I want to get your sense just big picture right now. We've been going through all these guys, you know, and plowing through them and talking about different positional strengths and what we think could happen in the draft.

0:48.0

Just kind of your big picture take on this draft class from from where you are right now, CD.

0:54.0

You know, I'd probably about the same is what I say about the same. I think there's probably a consensus out there that there are plenty of skill guys as always.

1:04.0

More runners than normal. The quarterback situation depends on how you want to look at it. Some people see it halfway decent. Other people say, and not as good as years before offensive lineman.

1:15.0

Not nearly the numbers we've had in the past. Remember what year was it we had roll the sudden like every guard we knew the country was going to the top 10.

1:22.0

We had like five five of the top 12 picks were all lineman.

1:26.0

You remember that year we're all over the world.

1:28.0

Jonathan Cooper 2014, you know, you guys both did it for a living.

1:33.0

And I'm willing to bet that in every draft room or meetings that you had, we're not taking cards that early. Getting me no one does that.

1:41.0

And that year it was like, well, they're the best players. So you got to take them. And then you flipped over defensive side. And for me, it's is the one thing that I've locked in on and probably are going to hold hold on to throughout the draft.

1:53.0

For so many years now, we've always had wide receivers.

1:57.0

And we got plenty of them again this year. But we never had cover people to keep up with them. Right. I mean, you guys, I don't know what it was like on your boards, but I'd sit there and look and I tell people.

2:10.0

Any round pick a receipt or I can find the guy for you. But I ran out of cover guys around round three.

2:17.0

I don't think we have that this year. I think we finally have a year where we have plenty of people can cover it's like the college game.

2:25.0

Finally is catching up to itself because all those years you put all the best players on offense and you didn't worry about it.

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