A Georgia & WR heavy NFL Draft 1st round + Isaiah Wong & NIL player value
Until Saturday: A show about college football
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🗓️ 29 April 2022
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
The Athletic's David Ubben joins Andy to discuss a Georgia defender and wide receiver heavy first round of the NFL draft. Why was only one quarterback taken? How different will the class at that position be next year? Meanwhile, a situation involving Miami basketball gets the guys talking about how something like this will inevitably happen in football. The Hurricanes just took a transfer from Kansas State and a donor signed the player to a $400,000-a-year NIL deal. Now Miami's current best player wants to renegotiate and he's threatening to hit the transfer portal before Sunday's deadline if that doesn't happen. How soon until this very situation comes to football, and are NIL collectives prioritizing shiny new things over old reliable things in a way that will come back to bite them?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Andy Staples show. It is our post first round spectacular. First round |
| 0:14.3 | still going on. The Green Bay Packers picket number 28 is in. As we speak, only one quarterback |
| 0:19.8 | has been taken. Kenny Pickett. |
| 0:21.8 | We will have the full measure of the first round by the time we finish this podcast. |
| 0:27.4 | David Ubin joins me. And David, it's been, you know, not a, it feels like there haven't been a lot of fireworks in this draft, really, because it was all defense at the beginning. |
| 0:39.7 | Again, the one quarterback thing, which probably shouldn't surprise this because nobody was all that fired up about this group of quarterbacks. |
| 0:46.4 | And then you had Kvon-Tibodil going five when people thought he might slide. |
| 0:52.2 | You had Jermaine Johnson maybe going a little later. |
| 0:55.8 | I feel like the Ravens kick some butt with Kyle Hamilton and Tyler Linderbaum. |
| 1:01.1 | Like the team that's usually good taking the players that are just good. |
| 1:06.4 | Yep. |
| 1:07.3 | Andy, here's, I got a lot of theories and a lot of takes that I'm sure we may get to |
| 1:12.3 | on this, on this glorious evening. But, you know, I had the Ravens written down. They |
| 1:20.4 | strike me as a team. Obviously, you saw Kyle Hamilton slide. Tyler Linderbaum kind of went |
| 1:26.1 | where we thought. But the teams that, yeah, but the teams that we see, you know, sort of having success, |
| 1:34.2 | you know, my hottest take is that in a lot of cases in the draft, you know, the players |
| 1:39.2 | matter, don't get me wrong, but they seem a lot less important than in many cases the organization. |
| 1:45.3 | I think that there are a lot of alternate universes out there where really good players went to really |
| 1:50.8 | inept organizations and their careers suffered. And maybe players that weren't as great as we thought |
| 1:56.7 | go to good organizations that allow them to flourish. |
| 2:01.2 | But ultimately, you see a team in the Ravens tonight, Kyle Hamilton, Tyler |
| 2:06.4 | Linderbaum, picking players who are good at football, whose workouts raise some questions. |
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