What's up, everybody?

Welcome into the next past podcast.

I'm Phil Perry.

We are hearing from the legend.

Mel Kuiper Jr., the one, the only, did a conference call with reporters two weeks ahead of the draft

to talk about his two-round mock draft and answer a variety of draft-related questions.

He was phenomenal, as always.

So great to hear from him.

We're going to roll right into that conversation now because there were a handful of Patriot-specific,

quarterback-specific questions for Mel Kuyper.

You're going to hear Tom Karin ask questions.

Right off the top, you're going to hear a few more about the quarterbacks that could be

available to the Patriots at three overall, J.J. McCarthy specifically.

You're going to hear Ben Bowlin from the Boston Globe.

Ask a couple of questions as well.

We will come back.

And then we will lead into the next topic that interests me when it comes to Mel Kiper's opinion on some of these college prospects and it has to do with receivers.

But let's first get to our quarterback conversation with Mel Kiper and you're going to hear him be a Drake May guy.

Let's just put it that way.

He explains why, if the choices between May and McCarthy,

why he would go with the former as opposed to the latter.

Some great tidbits, as always, here for Mel Kuyper.

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