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The Peter King Podcast

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4.4 • 872 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2018

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Veteran NFL reporter Dan Pompei on the latest Monster of the Midway middle linebacker in Chicago, on the best offseason of any team in the league, on why the Colts stuck at six and picked a guard, and on his new book due in August--Doug Pederson’s memoir “Fearless”--about the everyman Eagles coach ... Former NFL center LeCharles Bentley, an adviser to the NFL’s committee on taking the helmet out of the game, on whether it’s possible to create a reasonable game of football with the new rule, on Jets coach Todd Bowles’ biggest concern (and the concern of several coaches) with the rule about preventing both defensive and offensive players from lowering their heads and using the helmet to strike the opponent, and on what is at stake with the parents of America with this new and revolutionary restriction to the game.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Peter King. Welcome to the MMQB podcast with Peter King, where I take you inside the minds of the biggest influencers in the NFL.
0:12.0	This week, a draft review conversation with Dan Pompeii, long time NFL scribe,
0:19.9	very, very well respected by me and also Charles Bentley former NFL center who is in
0:27.2	New York this week to talk about changes immense changes to the rules in the NFL that are taking the helmet out of the game.
0:37.0	So I wanted to start by talking to you a little bit about what happened to me during the draft and where I was
0:47.0	and what I saw and just talking about one team in particular and that's the Cleveland Browns. So you know I I think it has
0:56.4	become pretty fashionable. The Browns are the butt of a lot of jokes. One in 31 the last two years, in the last 53 games, last three and a half years.
1:07.7	The Cleveland Browns are 4 and 49. And I think it just has become fashionable and I was in Cleveland for for four days
1:18.3	during the draft to almost knee jerk immediately be skeptical about anything that the Browns do.
1:28.1	And so I thought I would just explain a couple of things that I saw when I was in Cleveland and also say that there's
1:36.5	absolutely no way you're going to make any judgment on anything that they did for
1:42.0	another two and a half to three years.
1:45.0	I always think that draft grades very much,
1:49.9	I know I draft grades are done in the internet world. It's click bait. Oh, how did my team do?
1:55.2	Let's click on it and see what the MMQB, what ESPN, what Kuiper, what Benoit,
2:00.6	whatever, what they believe my team did. So I understand it, but I think it is worth the
2:09.1	equivalent of the role of a But I want to just talk for a minute about how the Cleveland Browns arrived at the decision to take Baker Mayfield, number one, a decision that was largely panned in the draft Nick world, Mike Mayock on NFL network,
2:36.6	said that Baker Mayfield was the number four out of four top quarterbacks on his draft board and I think a lot of people agree with Mayock.
2:46.2	They were skeptical.
2:47.2	A lot of people like Donald better, Sam Donald of USC, a lot of people like
2:51.3	Josh Allen of Wyoming better. And so I just want to
2:55.8	explain a couple of things about how they arrived at this decision. So when John Dorsey got this job five months ago as the general manager of the Cleveland
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