The pick is in, and it's not exactly what most people expected or perhaps even wanted, but it still makes a ton of sense.

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What up, everybody?

It's J.P. Finley.

It is Beltway Football.

We're brought to you by MGM National Harbor. And the first round pick is in. The Washington commanders have selected Josh Connerley tackle out of Oregon. I got to talk to Adam Peters. He said this was an easy decision. The entire building was behind it. He said he was clearly at the top of their draft board

and that they got calls real calls about trading back and they just said no because they wanted

connerly i don't think anybody disputes the evaluation of the player um there's not a not a lot of

negative evaluations out there. Almost everybody speaks very

highly of the kid. Athletic, good feet was great at the senior bowl. He's only 21 years old.

There's a lot to like. I think you can question the decision to add a tackle after you just

traded for Laramie Tunsell. But in the end, man, Jaden Daniels is your most valuable asset,

and you're trying to protect them.

Now, we go to the big man who somehow is in Canada and in his mock draft

had no offensive linemen selected.

Mitch Tishler, they took a tackle at 29.

Yeah, live from Montreal, getting ready for a little

Caps, Canadians hockey, I guess probably tonight, if you're listening to this now. Listen, I didn't

expect that they were going to take an offensive lineman because of the Laramie Tunsel deal,

but I love that they did. I mean, everything that you look at at, Josh Connerley, you know, he was a really productive college football player. You look at him against some of the

top college defensive ends and he did a really good job against them. And ultimately, you know,

we talked about it leading into this. Sometimes the best defense is a good offense and

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