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The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football

4/29: What Was The Biggest Surprise Of The NFL Draft?

The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football

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4.41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Stew and Bruce start this week's episode of The Audible talking about the Giants surprising selection of Duke QB, Daniel Jones, with the 6th pick (1:42); they follow that with a discussion about several prominent Notre Dame players that went lower than expected (16:12); they talk about a few of the picks that surprised them the most (20:59); and they wrap up the show discussing Dabo Swinney's contract extension at Clemson (33:35).

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Audible presented by Trader Joe's. I'm Stuart Mandel, joined as always by Bruce Feldman.

0:22.4

In the last episode, we said we were going to wait and do this when we were together in Phoenix later this week,

0:26.9

but decided to speed things up a little bit in large part because we've got a lot of thoughts coming off the NFL draft that we want to share while they're still somewhat fresh.

0:36.8

Before we get to that, Sue, I have a question for you. I found out something tonight. We're taping Sunday, and usually I will sit in my kids' room, wait for them to get to sleep. And while I do that in the dark, I'll kind of glance at my phone. It's come to my attention that I might be the only person in the United States who does not watch Game of Thrones. Oh, no, no, no. You're not alone on that. This has been an... I might be the only person in the United States who does not watch Game of Thrones.

0:54.8

Oh, no, no, no, you're not alone on that. This has been a... I might be. There's been kind of a weird

0:59.6

weekend for me. It's been a weird weekend to be on Twitter because I've never watched any of the

1:04.8

Avengers movies and that seems to be all anybody's talking about and I've never watched Game of Thrones.

1:10.8

And on Sunday night it was like a sporting event was going on.

1:14.2

It was live play-by-play of some sort of battle going on on on Game of Thrones.

1:18.4

I'm sure most people listening to this watch it and think that we're a couple idiots, but I got nothing to add on that.

1:24.4

Yeah, I just like, I'm looking at and going, oh my God, everybody I know not only follows

1:29.1

this show, but they are like, they are so invested in it, which is, you know, that's great.

1:35.0

Let's talk about the draft. So I spent a ton of time watching it, you know, all three days,

1:42.0

but I know one issue became very, very polarized. I don't even know if it's fair to call it polarizing because I'm not sure I felt like anybody was supportive of it, which was the Giants taking Duke's Daniel Jones with the sixth overall pick. You liked it, though, didn't you? No, who liked that? Is there anybody other than David Cuckcliffe who thought, oh, yeah, that's a smart move?

2:01.9

Probably not, unless somebody's connected to the Manning Cutcliffe kind of connection there. I don't think there was a ton of people who liked it.

2:09.0

Well, if you go back to last year's draft, the one that really confounded me was Josh Allen. I felt like you would take in this kind of completely unproven middle of the pack quarterback from the

2:20.4

mountain west and the NFL kind of draft who really who kind of did not play well when the only

2:26.4

games that he had when they played power five teams I mean his numbers were pretty horrible

2:30.5

and he also like two years ago when he was in his second to last season, he actually

2:37.1

had a bunch of guys on his offense who ended up playing in the NFL. Now, this final year there,

2:41.1

he did not. But I think people fell in love with a huge arm. And he was pretty athletic. And

2:46.0

my crew did a Bill's game last year. And all things being equal, meaning his best receiver was,

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