Football GM: Player rankings on the defensive side in the 2024 draft
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🗓️ 20 April 2024
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Mike and Randy go over their top 10 defensive players in this year's draft. The guys discuss the reasons why they chose the players they did and how they fit. From there, Randy explains some of the things that go on in a draft room and how teams come up with their clusters of players on their board. And then we wrap things up with the GM notebook.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Athletic Football Show's Football GM podcast. |
| 0:12.5 | Welcome everybody to the Football GM podcast. |
| 0:15.2 | Mike Sando here from The Athletic, along with my colleague at the Athletic, the GM, Randy Mueller. |
| 0:20.8 | How you doing, Randy? |
| 0:21.7 | I'm outstanding, Mike. |
| 0:22.9 | Looking forward to a little draft talk today. |
| 0:25.6 | I love this time of year. |
| 0:27.5 | It kind of gets my juices pumped and it's easy to get up in the morning. |
| 0:31.3 | I love the process that these teams are going through. |
| 0:34.0 | So it's always something new. |
| 0:36.8 | Every year presents different dynamics about it. |
| 0:39.6 | And I love the draft talk. Yeah. No, it really does get to be fun as we kind of can measure. |
| 0:45.1 | And we're going to do that today. We're going to measure what some of the public perceptions are versus maybe with the way Randy sees things going or the way teams might see things going. |
| 1:27.6 | Next week, just programming note, we would normally record on Friday for our Saturday podcast next week, but with the draft, we're actually going to record on Sunday, and we will have our podcast next week. The football GM will run on Monday after the draft. I think that's perfect because we'll get a little chance to digest it. It won't be at the middle of the draft. It won't be obsolete by the time the thing runs. Who knows what could happen on the second or third days? We'll be able to kind of take a bigger picture look at the whole draft. So that will be what you can look for next week. As for this week, Randy, big week around here. I didn't even tell you this. Yesterday, my oldest son got engaged. |
| 1:30.9 | Oh, wow. |
| 1:31.9 | Yeah, engaged. |
| 1:32.5 | We got lots of stuff moving up, moving on the family front on my birthday. |
| 1:38.3 | How about that? |
| 1:38.8 | My birthday was yesterday. |
| 1:41.2 | So lots of things going on here beyond the draft. |
| 1:43.9 | I was going to say, though, Randy, do you get good birthday gifts? |
| 1:48.0 | I'm going somewhere with this, just trust me. |
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