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NFL: Move the Sticks with Daniel Jeremiah & Bucky Brooks

40s and Free Agents: March Sadness - Fixing The 5 teams Without a 1st Round Pick

NFL: Move the Sticks with Daniel Jeremiah & Bucky Brooks

NFL

Sports, Football

4.73.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of 40s and Free Agents, Daniel Jeremiah and Gregg Rosenthal dive into “March Sadness” by breaking down how five NFL teams can bounce back despite not having a first round draft pick. With limited top tier draft capital, the pressure is on, so how do these franchises stay competitive and build for the future?

The guys take a team by team approach, offering strategies, roster insights, and potential moves that could help each organization maximize value and avoid falling behind.

If you are curious how teams navigate the draft without a Day 1 pick, or just want sharp NFL insight, this is an episode you do not want to miss.

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.5

Guaranteed human.

0:07.2

Welcome to 40s and free agents presented by Toyota.

0:11.7

I'm Greg Rosenthal alongside my friend of me, Daniel Jeremiah, a.k.a.

0:16.2

Move the sticks, aka the best draft analyst in the business.

0:20.2

DJ, when we last taped, your mock draft 3.0 was about to come out.

0:25.5

What was the response?

0:26.9

What was the pick that the most people got mad at?

0:29.8

Without question, chiefs taking a tackle at nine.

0:34.1

They did not want that.

0:35.5

Why not?

0:36.1

They were upset because I think because they paid more in free agency last year.

0:41.3

And then, you know, Simmons is a rookie played well when he was out there,

0:45.5

wasn't out there the whole time. And my whole thing was I watched more play.

0:48.5

It was not not in love with what I saw from that video.

0:52.4

So this to me was a major upgrade at right tackle.

0:54.9

But inevitably, half the comments are, we are taking a pass rusher. What are you doing? And I'm like, I don't, I don't interact with these anymore. I used to, but that's the useless. But, well, when the top three guys are gone, so then you're going to take a Keem Mesidor with the ninth pick. So are you okay with taking the Key Mezzador because the other three guys are gone?

1:12.0

I'm not going to have those conversations on there.

1:14.6

And then I just, I also put in there that Andy, Andy Reid has a very close relationship with Kyle Whittingham. And Kyle Whittingham, you know, is going to give him a glowing endorsement of this player. And that'll matter. Kyle Winningham's son works for Andy. He's on the staff there.

1:28.8

And people, and then so the response was like, just because he's a Mormon doesn't mean that he's going to take only a month. I'm just like, okay. That's that's the, that's what you get in some of the comments there. Hey, being a Mormon doesn't hurt, though. Look, newsflash, Chiefs fans,

1:45.0

Andy Reid loves taking big guys up front,

1:46.9

and I hate to break it to you, Jalen Moore on the last year of his contract, might not be your long-term tackle. I think they'll take the best player. I like that. I saw the Patriots fans were a little upset. You went for a nose tackle. Well, maybe just because I follow them on Twitter what we're hold on real quick because I was gonna look that up real quick um okay I didn't have any glaring and there was no glaring in your face stat there that would have pointed me in that direction so fair fair criticism from the Patriot fans but I I to me he's a nice compliment to what they have there. You want Milton to get

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