Lessons from past NFL Draft mistakes with Nate Tice + evaluating the edge rushers with Benjamin Solak
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🗓️ 16 April 2021
⏱️ 94 minutes
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What can we learn from previous NFL Draft mistakes? Robert Mays and Nate Tice look back on past misses and the lessons teams can learn as the approach this year’s draft. Plus, The Draft Network’s Benjamin Solak joins the show to discuss the complicated edge rusher class and the misguided narratives around Justin Fields.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the athletic football show. |
| 0:15.8 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:18.2 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:19.0 | Fun show for you guys today. |
| 0:20.1 | Ben Solac from the Draft Network and a few other places. |
| 0:23.1 | He's going to be joining us a little bit later to talk about it's kind of strange edge rusher class and also the discrepancy in the depth of edge rushing and offensive tackle classes over the last couple of years. |
| 0:33.6 | We alluded to it yesterday a little bit or earlier this week with Brandon Thorne a little bit. |
| 0:37.7 | Those have flipped and it's kind of hard to understand as to why it might be happening. So we're going to dig into that with Ben a little bit later. Before we do that, though, I'm very excited to welcome my good friend, Nate Tice. Nate, how you doing, buddy? I'm doing good. I wore a hat today, And then also, I look and the video came live and I saw you, I like your Nordiquezat. |
| 0:37.8 | Thank you. |
| 0:38.5 | Thank you. |
| 0:39.0 | Yeah, I really liked it. I wore a hat today and then also I look and the video came live and I saw you. |
| 0:54.2 | I like your Nordiquezat. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. I really like it. I was not you because it's up. It's tilted up. And then when you look down, also I was like, oh, that's nice. I know I wore a hat for the first time in ages. I've like tried to grow my hair back after wearing a hat for the last 15 years. I was talking about it with Jordan a little bit earlier this week when we were doing our show together. The last time her and I potted together, we both had beanies on. And yet this week we were both wearing baseball hats, which is a sign that the seasons have changed. It reminds me of, oh, hello, and the guy has a mustache. She's like, to show the time has passed. That's exactly what it's like. I have a hat my hat like to show the time has passed that's exactly what it's like |
| 1:28.4 | my hat has changed to show the time has passed so i have a hat at all times it's just a different |
| 1:34.0 | kind of hat i only can wear one kind of hat so the 47 brand captain hats fit my head perfectly |
| 1:40.8 | so i just have a bunch of different kinds of this exact hat in the |
| 1:45.5 | snapback version. That's how I am with like a lot of clothes. Like I'll find because I have really |
| 1:50.1 | long arms. So like anything with with like a play off into tackle the league. How long are your arms? |
| 1:55.0 | 34 and a half. Wow. Oh no. I'm a freak. But that's the thing. I played the one position where |
| 2:00.7 | that shit did not matter. It's like I know, I'm a freak. But that's the thing. I played the one position where that shit did not matter. |
| 2:03.1 | I know I think when I went to UCF my freshman year at George O'Leary who also coached my dad in high school and he I was 200 pounds leaving high school a freshman year and he was a recruit me to play quarterback he was like he's just like I'm just going to wait a couple of years and let you get a little bigger and then it just happened when I got to |
| 2:18.1 | the Wisconsin and I maybe discovered beer with the offense alignment also the way the way |
| 2:22.0 | it started happening but yeah I played the one position where 34 and a half inch arms does not matter |
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