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Come on, Rob! Go Birds!

Hey, hello.

It is the Gobirds podcast.

Elliot Church Park, James Seltzer, with you.

We got a newest eagle.

Got a new important member of our life.

This guy is going to be an important, great way to put it.

You know, I love to say that, but like, it is such a strange and fun thing about

draft night where it's, you know, two minutes before you've maybe watched a few highlights of the guy.

And a couple minutes later, it's like this guy matters to my happiness. It's such a wild thing. I'll probably think of him every day in my life for the next. You will get to know him. Like, there's a person who will know you on site. I'll be like, oh, that's Elliot. I'm excited to see him later, especially when we'll obviously get more into the size and everything, but just to get eyes on.

Yeah, in person.

Yeah. I'm excited to see him later, especially when we'll obviously get more into the size and everything, but just to get eyes on it. Yeah, in person. Yeah. And look, we'll get into the pick itself, what we think of it all. We'll look ahead to today's picks, the second and third round already. I'm sure Elliot's got a list of guys that he is thinking about. To come up with Noshka.

We'll get to that.

All right, let's dive in, though.

It's just, like, no reason to mess around right now, right? Let's just get into it because, like, I think we're on opposite side. Why you go first here? I'll go first because I'm the one who's super excited. And look, I didn't think McIallem was going to be there.

When I was doing my, you know, admittedly somewhat limited pre-draft prep, I just didn't really consider McIllum in an option. He was ranked 11th on Kuyper's board, 12th on Jeremiah's board, 13th on McShay's board. He was going anywhere from like 13 to 16 and most of them on. So it just felt like unlikely that they would be able to get him or trade up to where he was.

So I love that. And so obviously did my research spent last night dive in deep into the tape, Ellioture parks. And here's why I like to pick. And I can understand, look, I came in, I said yesterday, like, ideally I think they probably could use alignment. I think that's probably the smart move. I'm okay with that. But I am too. That's where I'm understand. Look, I came in, I said yesterday, like, ideally, I think they probably could use a lineman.

I think that's probably the smart move.

I'm okay with that. But I am, too.

That's where I'm going. It's like, it seems like people forget that Harry Roseman invest in the offensive line. Like, does Howie just not going to get lineman? Is how he just going, like, I think people are going way too overboard with this. Let's just, and I am, I am also to blame here.

And I'm not, like, I am also, I got tricked.

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