NFL Draft Day! Does CJ Stroud's test score matter to teams? When do trades get made?; Titans getting new stadium! Jordan Walker demoted! (Episode 804)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Baseball, Sports, Business

4.5 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘on the clock’ as in the NFL Draft as in Kansas City as in who’s getting picked as in the event of the offseason. Let’s talk about big boards and trades and red flags and tanking. (17:45) The Tennessee Titans are getting a new stadium. The cycle continues. It will always continue. (32:10) Review: A Good Person. (35:20) St. Louis Cardinals have demoted its top prospect Jordan Walker. Why now? Performance? Service time manipulation? Both? (42:10) NPPOD. It's NFL Draft day people! I hope your team gets everyone you want! Except the Steelers! BOOOO! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm the clock. Good morning everybody. It is Thursday, April 27, 2023. I live by the clock
0:23.3	like Chuck Nolan and cast away every morning 8 a.m. We are live. Nothing personal with David
0:28.8	Samson. Let's get into it. On the clock is the expression that's used for the draft. It is
0:33.2	draft day. I'm not giving you a mock draft. Not my thing. I'm not going to tell you who I think
0:38.8	Caroline is going to take. Don't know. I'm not even sure I care. I'm not going to tell you whether or
0:43.8	not Arizona is going to trade Deandre Hopkins. They may, they may not. I'm not going to tell you whether
0:49.6	or not you should draft or not draft someone who had a crappy combine. Maybe, maybe not. I do want to
0:57.1	mention a few funny things that enter my mind on NFL draft day. First as an MLB executive, it's one of my
1:06.4	least favorite days on the calendar. It is another example being thrown in my face. How great the
1:15.0	National Football League is that they manage to make the draft the event of the off season.
1:24.4	Hundreds of thousands of people descend on Kansas City. Cities competing to host it like it's an
1:31.6	economic driver. Kids getting all ready to be drafted and entering the National Football League.
1:38.8	It's incredible, isn't it? How many of you are having draft parties? How many of you are going to
1:43.7	be sitting there watching the draft waiting to see who your team takes? NBA tries. They put it in
1:49.7	arena. People are screaming and booing. It's a whole thing. MLB brings it to
1:55.8	Sikakis brings in luminaries from all 30 teams. Pretend there's phones. Pretend there's
2:02.2	conversations going on. All of which are staged. Hey, Hawk, what do you think we should take? Well,
2:10.4	I'm looking around the room and I think we got this guy. Dopey. Let's take him. You have to do a
2:17.3	whole big thing. Our owner love this. Owners do good things. They want to be surrounded by goodness
2:25.2	and happiness. Our owner like all the other owners like to call the first round picks. You know,
2:30.8	it's it's how you doing? Yeah, we're we're taking you. You've been drafted. Welcome to the organization.
2:39.2	Let's get a deal done. Let's bring in. When a baseball player is drafted, you have to negotiate with
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