NFL Draft Recap: Aaron Rodgers, Trey Lance, Patriots and the Drafts We Loved | NFL Deep Dive
The MMQB NFL Podcast
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3.9 • 944 Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2021
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
The 2021 NFL Draft is in the books, and Jenny, Conor and Gary talk all things draft weekend, starting with—for a second straight year—Aaron Rodgers's unhappiness with the Packers. Is this the end? Is this another Rodgers power play? And who will he be playing for Week 1 of next season?
As far as the draft goes: Why Trey Lance was always the right move for the 49ers—and why he's the perfect fit for Kyle Shanahan—whether the Justin Fields trade up buys Matt Nagy and Ryan Pace more time in Chicago, the Jets' aggressive rebuild around Zach Wilson, and why there's a lot to like about the Patriots' draft.
Plus, Eagles awkwardness with Zach Ertz and otherwise, Dave Gettleman is cool, whether the JOK slide was a pushback on positionless football, a moderately needed Nickelodeon feed and a much-needed Adult Swim feed. And that covers literally everything about draft weekend.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and |
| 0:05.0 | welcome to the MMQB Monday morning and I'm to host Gary Gremlin. |
| 0:09.0 | I am joined by both Jenny Brentus and Connor Orr of the Weekside Podcast and we are all wearing our various |
| 0:16.1 | formal wear for this one because it is the specialist show of the month of May |
| 0:21.2 | at least when we recap the draft we are going to do all the biggest |
| 0:25.0 | storylines we're just starting I'm just I'm guessing doesn't go on for like three |
| 0:29.0 | hours so I hope you guys I hope you use the bathroom before the show started and and we'll see how this goes but I guess |
| 0:36.9 | each you I just want to hear how how did you survive draft weekend here because it's always a fun but also taxing a couple of days |
| 0:48.6 | for us. I got a mid-afternoon text from Greg Bishop on Saturday being like, hey, who was picked |
| 0:55.8 | number 199? |
| 0:57.2 | And I was like, oh, they're not at 199 yet, Greg. |
| 1:00.3 | Like it hasn't happened yet. |
| 1:02.3 | It was a Tom Brady pick. We had just done a story about it, so he was eager to see who it was. It ended up being a defensive linemen drafted by the Vikings, Jaylin Twyman, I believe, was the name. |
| 1:14.6 | But yeah, so that was just one representation |
| 1:17.6 | of how long the draft can drag on. |
| 1:21.8 | Gary, as you know, our draft. on 3 o'clock in the morning together on Thursday in an exercise that we always |
| 1:36.7 | say we're never going to do again and then we end up doing again and saying that oh |
| 1:40.8 | it's going to be easier this time. But the round two and three mock draft is among the worst things on the planet |
| 1:48.1 | for several reasons. |
| 1:49.1 | But it was good to talk of some Pete Warner with you deep into the night on |
| 1:55.1 | Thursday and the number of things we shuffle that at the time seemed at least to |
| 2:02.3 | me I think you were over it I was like I listen |
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