This is a draft that's fairly unpredictable, more so than other years.

It's not like some drafts where I would say to you right now I know who we're going to draft.

I just, I don't know that yet.

I kind of subscribe to the notion of if you're happy, stay happy. And I like it here and I feel a part of this culture.

My wife tells me all the time, you know, you're too intense.

And my children, even like, Dad, you know, you look like a freak at times. Welcome into the lounge for a very special episode of the lounge.

They're all A's.

This one's an A-plus.

It is an A-plus.

Today we convinced our assistant general manager, Eric DeCosta, to stop by the lounge.

And we want to pick his brain a little bit about which direction the Ravens are leaning in this draft.

If he's going to share that with us, we also want to ask him about his background.

Because Eric's got just an interesting story of somebody that really rose up the ranks.

And from the time he was five, six years old. He knew that he wanted to

work in football and he basically spent his life working to get to this point and he's

climbed all the way to the top of the profession. Yeah, so really interesting stuff. So we'll

welcome in Eric DeCosta. So Eric, I know recently you guys just had all your big draft meetings.

All the scouts were here in the building and you guys kind of duked it out in the draft room in terms of setting the board so where are we right now in the process is the board set what's the story right now well we met last week it was the first time for the coaches to actually give their opinions on these guys and we came out of it with about 165 ranked players that we think are draftable players for the Ravens at some point.

Now typically our draft picks will come from our top 120 or so, but we've got an additional 45 players that we think are draftable just in case.

We do have some meetings on Monday and Tuesday of next week where we have some clumps of players that are very close together that we've asked people to do more work on.

We've also assigned some players that we think might be a possibility for us in the first round.

And we do that. We give the scouts a chance to look at all the guys that we would be considering so that they have a frame of reference.

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