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Chris Simms Unbuttoned

2021 Draft Offensive Line Rankings

Chris Simms Unbuttoned

Chris Simms

Sports, Football

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2021

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

Chris and Ahmed react to the Sam Darnold trade and take some QB draft questions before they dive into Simms' OL rankings. (4:20) Sam Darnold trade - Can the Panthers make the playoffs with him? What positions should Carolina target in the draft? Did the Jets get enough for him? (16:10) QB Questions - Did Chris see enough tape of Zach Wilson under pressure? How risky a pick is Justin Fields? Does Mac Jones have more upside than we think? (37:45) OL Scouting Process - How does Chris differentiate between a tackle, guard, and center? What did he learn about his miss on Tristan Wirfs? (46:10) OL #6 Teven Jenkins (Oklahoma State) - "Big country!" (51:10) OL #5 Rashawn Slater (Northwestern) - "One of the tougher evals I've had" (57:10) OL #4 Alijah Vera-Tucker (USC) - "One of the best pure pass protectors in the draft" (1:03:05) OL #3 Landon Dickerson (Alabama) - "This is a Pro Bowl center" (1:08:15) OL #2 Christian Darrisaw (Virginia Tech) - "His anchor is the best in the draft" (1:13:40) OL #1 Penei Sewell (Oregon) - "Rare to see a guy that big who can move the way he can" (1:24:00) Honorable mentions & missed the cut - Walker Little (Stanford), Alex Leatherwood (Alabama), Aaron Banks (Notre Dame), Liam Eichenberg (Notre Dame), Jackson Carman (Clemson), Rasheed Walker (Penn State), Jalen Mayfield (Michigan), Samuel Cosmi (Texas), Brady Christensen (BYU)

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're talking to a Detroit Lions fan and trying to convince him that if your team is 13 and three

0:11.2

with a quarterback, but you don't think is the future that that's a bad thing. You're not going to convince me of that.

0:17.6

Oh, yeah, he's back. The Detroit Lions fan is here. That's right. Have no fear. Ahmed Farid is here.

0:26.0

What's up? Oh, I know that was a really good running. That's really good.

0:29.5

I should write songs like you. What's up? Everybody. Chris Sims. Chris Sims on button today.

0:33.3

All right. We got a good one. Yes. We're going to be breaking down O-Liaman. I know we got some

0:36.8

recent news and stuff stuff to talk about. Things are happening. Yeah. Things are happening.

0:41.8

There is. There's trades and everything like that. And we're going to get to the big uglies.

0:45.2

We're going to rank the offense alignment, which I think is one of the better position groups

0:49.9

in the NFL draft issue. Harder for you to do, though. You say it's very difficult.

0:53.9

Well, you got to watch a lot to get a get a feel and get a good good observation.

0:58.6

There are some games where they got to stand up and goes like this.

1:00.9

Well, okay. I don't know what that was. You can. I mean, you go through certain teams,

1:06.7

the way they play football, things like that. They're in the spread offences where you go,

1:11.5

I just watched 70 Snaps of the game. And this guy literally blocked somebody like four times,

1:15.9

like at a 70s. Because it was it was screen. It was screen. It was reverse. It was read option.

1:21.1

And the guy just kind of took a little inside zone step and you're going, damn, can I see

1:25.6

some plays here to see what this guy is? Then you go, how much does he weigh? And you're like,

1:29.2

all right, number three. That's what I was good at. Good feed, big sounds. Yeah.

1:35.4

Okay, punch more importantly, more importantly. Did you watch Jeopardy last night?

1:41.1

I did not get out of here. I'm not a big. You're dead to me. You're supposed to be an air

1:46.7

in Roger's fan. You know what's funny is we had a tweet yellow that sent to us. You're that's

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