Lessons from the 2021 draft class and how they apply to this year
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🗓️ 6 April 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
What lessons can be learned from the 2021 draft class ahead of this years draft? Robert Mays and Lindsay Jones talk about QB infrastructure, the importance of a multi-year plan and a new era of pass catchers. They also discuss why chemistry matters, injury red flags, second-round tackles and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:15.8 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:18.1 | Today's Wednesday, April 6th. |
| 0:19.6 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:20.5 | Joining me today is my good friend, Lindsay Jones. How are you? I'm great. How are you doing, Robert? I'm doing wonderfully. We were doing this a little bit earlier than we would in a typical week. Dane and Lance are actually going to be recording for Friday this week because Dane's draft guide comes out on Thursday morning. So they're going to have some wonderful nuggets from. |
| 0:39.0 | I mean, it literally is the beast. |
| 0:40.5 | It is a beast of a production, and they are going to dive headfirst into that. |
| 0:44.0 | Today, we're going to do some looking back instead of looking forward at this year's drive. |
| 0:50.1 | We're going to look at what happened last year. |
| 0:53.0 | I have mixed feelings about the idea of redrafts and when they should take place. |
| 0:58.6 | I don't think we can properly redraft the 2021 draft class right now. |
| 1:03.6 | For instance, where would Trevor Lawrence go? |
| 1:06.7 | I don't know. |
| 1:07.5 | I don't know where Trevor Lawrence should go. |
| 1:09.5 | The one year of evidence we have in his terrible situation, which we'll get to as part of this discussion, |
| 1:14.9 | I don't think is enough to properly redraft that class. |
| 1:18.7 | So that's not what we're doing today. |
| 1:20.5 | But I do think even if we don't have enough information to redraft, I do think we have enough information to talk about some lessons we learned from the 2021 draft and the 2021 draft class. |
| 1:31.5 | So we are going to dig into some of those today. |
| 1:35.2 | Let's do it. |
| 1:36.3 | All right. |
| 1:37.2 | I'm going to start it off and we're going to get to Trevor Lawrence immediately here. |
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