Good day everyone and welcome to the ESPN media conference call with Mel Piper, Jr. and Todd McShay.

Today's conference is being recorded.

At this time I'd like to show the conference to Ali Stonberg.

Please go ahead, man.

Thank you, Augusta. Special thanks to those media members joining us on a Sunday afternoon.

In addition to getting Todd and Melstalk on the draft during this call, You can also find more insights of theirs on

ESPM.com and throughout tonight's Sports Center special draft grades. The show begins

at 7 PM Eastern on ESPN2.

We're going to get started a little early here,

and like always, please skip those personal greetings

and start right away with your questions.

This call will be a bit shorter than most

and I want to get to as many of our RSVPs as we can.

We'll begin with a question from Joe Fan with the San Francisco 49ers,

followed by Josh, Captain Stein with the San Francisco 49ers, followed by Josh,

Captain Stein with the New Orleans Times-Sicune.

Awesome, thanks.

I guess you have two quick ones, just an overall assessment of what the four-year-nenders did in the draft, and then maybe what the sentiment is around the league of John Lynch.

I know a lot of speculation going in saying that maybe

so strapped with a sentiment is on him.

I let John Lynch killed it.

I mean, just starting with the first pick,

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