With the 29th choice in the 2006 NFL draft, the New York Jets select Nick Mangold Center

from Ohio State.

What you're getting with Nick Mangold is a solid technician, understands the game.

I think he's a great fit.

How bad do you want it? How bad do you want to beat your man? How bad do you want that win?

We get here for one thing and one thing only to get a win.

Beech you man and we win. We get the opportunity tonight.

You're out there dominate. Dominate on three. One, two, three.

Dominate!

Welcome to the next episode of What's Next with Eric Wood, presented by Green Remedy.

This week's guest is Nick Mangold, formerly of the New York Jets, a guy who I played against.

Now, he played offense, and so did I.

So we didn't line up against each other.

But we played against each other 18 times.

My nine years throughout my career, he was with the Jets the entire time.

This is a guy who I've looked up to for a long time.

He was drafted a few years before me, 29th overall.

And when Nick went in the first round, that showed me, to me, that was the first

center I saw get drafted in the first round that it hit me like, I can do this. And not that I'm

as good as Nick or thought I was at the time, it just showed me, hey, an Ohio kid, a former

GCL, the Greater Catholic League in Ohio, he was a part of the same league. If I work hard enough,

maybe I can be a first round or two. But I think you guys will enjoy this podcast today. We talk

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