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The Bill Barnwell Show

Most Optimistic Time of Year: NFL Draft Season

The Bill Barnwell Show

ESPN

Sports

4.4647 Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of the Bill Barnwell Show, co-host of First Draft and The Fantasy Focus Football Show Field Yates joins the show to discuss his first mock draft of the season, why he is projecting Jayden Daniels as the second overall pick above Drake Maye, and how he evaluates players who have a tremendous spike their final season. Then, they discuss if the Patriots should draft a quarterback with their current infrastructure, why J.J. McCarthy will be a top-10 pick, and if the Giants will stick with Daniel Jones or draft a quarterback. Plus, they discuss what positions are the most undervalued. Later, Field shares his surprising first-round mock picks.  8:07 Jayden Daniels as the second overall pick? 22:05 Should the Patriots draft a quarterback? 29:20 Will J.J. McCarthy be a top 10 pick? 34:00 Should the Giants draft a quarterback? 41:17 Undervalued positions 55:05 Surprising first round pick Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey guys, welcome to the Bill Barnwell Show. I am Bill Barnwell. Today, it is an absolute delight

0:14.1

to have this man joining us, not just the host of fantasy focus, not just a man who contributes regularly to our NFL programming

0:24.4

and does it in incredible fashion. But joining me today to break down his first, I believe,

0:32.2

this cycle, mock draft. Is that correct, Field Deitz? My first, since I was a child, Bill, I mean,

0:39.1

I've been doing mock drafts just sort of casually, yes, but I tell Mel Kuyper Jr. all the time,

0:43.9

I was criticizing his mock drafts when I was about 12 years old and saying, there's absolutely

0:50.0

no way you could have that guy going this high in the draft. It's a matter of fact, Bill,

0:56.5

one of the players that I distinctly remember having in one of my mock drafts, and this would go

1:01.0

all the way back to, I believe, 2011 or 2012, I should know this better. But I remember, and again,

1:07.6

I wasn't like studying the tape of these guys, but Brian Anger, of course, still punting in the NFL and doing so at a high level bill.

1:14.4

I remember being the sicker that was like, you know what?

1:17.4

I might use a fourth round pick on him.

1:19.1

He ends up going in the third round, and perhaps the joke is on all the draft analysts, myself included, that thought, really, you're going to take Brian Anger in the third round when

1:28.2

there are all the other players available. But it's a deep cut right there. And as you know, Bill,

1:32.7

I mean, the draft is just the best because it is the one event during the year, the one

1:38.5

where every team is afforded some level of hope, right? Because not everybody has a ton of

1:43.6

picks, not everybody has a bunch of premium picks,

1:46.0

but as the RAM showed us last year, you don't need a lot of picks or a lot of premium

1:50.8

picks to totally change the complexion of your roster.

1:55.6

Absolutely.

1:56.5

Great, great example to bring up field, not just Brian Enger, who, hey, never wrong, just early,

2:03.2

I think is the attitude we're going to adopt here. I think you nailed it 12 years ago.

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