Into Out of 3. Welcome back. I'm Jim Rome. A tremendous Monday to you. That was a great call segment.

Been a minute since we had a call segment. That great. Back to back. All right, telephone numbers toll free. Can you keep it going? 1-800-636-86. If you're on hold, stay there. If not, jump up in there. Keep it going. But as promised, we are joined right now by a Yahoo sports football analyst. He is host of the Football 301 podcast, which can be seen on the Yahoo Sports Network Fast channel, Yahoo!Sports.TV, and YouTube. He, of course, played quarterback at Wisconsin. I'm always going to get that in. I'm talking about Nate Tice. Nate, always good to have you on the show. How you doing, Nate? I'm doing great. How about yourself? Good, Nate. Really good. Thanks for spending time. I appreciate you making time for it. Listen, before we talk NFL draft, there was a major trade with the Giants sending Dexter Lawrence to the Bengals for the 10th overall pick. I know you've been talking about this, but can I get your thoughts right here? How do you see that deal for both teams?

I actually liked it more for the Bengals as I marinated on it, not only because they got an all-pro caliber defensive tackle, but also because,

yes, you're trading way the number 10 overall pick, but not everyone's team situation is exactly

the same when we kind of do these

exercises. And if you look at the bangles, their window right now, whether you consider Burroughs

contract with the receivers, Burroughs health, Burroughs happiness, bro, Joe Burrow, of course.

This is the window right now to push. The AFC is wide open. Like even if you're trying to

handicap the races, or the racists right now, sorry, Oak Lawn's on my mind. If you're trying to handicap the field right now with the AFC, it's again wide open. The Patriots just made the run to the Super Bowl with a pretty incomplete team, very good quarterback. But I think that's why this is, I understand this push in the middle, I would say. And also Lawrence is different than, you know, I see the argument going, oh, getting rid of Trey Hendrickson and now bringing in Dexter Lawrence, what's the difference? Lawrence is going to help them against the run. This Bengals defense was pretty awful for the first half of the season, but improved in the second half of the season, where they were just pretty bad as opposed to like historically bad. But there was improvement.

So they can now, I think the number 10 pick would have not helped them as much as

Dexter Lawrence will when healthy, who is truly one of the needle moving defensive

players.

Now for the Giants, I also understand it.

Not only because Lawrence is unhappy and probably wasn't going to sign there or

do any extension anyways,

but also because they're trying to build back up.

The Giants are pretty far away from being where I think they want to be at.

Even Harbaugh is going to get them right, but they are going to need as much of this draft

capital and to hit them and on timelines that makes sense for whatever quarterback it is.

If it's Dart, if they buy into that,

or whoever in the future.

So I do think that I understand this from both sides and I actually like it for the Bengals a little bit more because they are trying to push it.

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