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First round of the NFL draft is in the books.

2026 NFL drafts in the books.

I am Bucky Brooks.

This is Moons and Stix.

And I got my guy making his debut to the program, Mike Yammer.

Yammer is a little uncomfortable because he's used to being a ball dominant guard, but I got to move off the ball so we can have the podcast

going. Yammer. How was it? Look, it was a ton of fun. You're right. Thrill to be with you. I'm used to

playing the one and just setting people up here a little bit. So I'll flip the tables at some point and let you do the tosses of break and the intro's here. But this is kind of your time to shine, man. I know it's months and months you and I working on mock draft live throughout the course of the pre-draft process. We were in Dallas for the East West Triumph. And you're analyzing the tape doing Mach 15.0. And yet, and now it's a wrap, man. It is a wrap. And it's funny, we can do all of this work. And then the first round really flies by. I think about how fast it was. I mean, it was just a little over three hours. We go through all the picks and just overview because

you were running point guard over our broadcast draft center that was on everything. Just overview.

It's so weird to see those 32 picks fly by. What are your thoughts?

So by the way, can we just talk about for a second here how fast that went with the drop down

to eight minutes between each picks? So sign me up. I knew that was coming and certainly was excited for us but you're right like there was so much there wasn't drama at one and we all kind of felt like hey at number two that's when things would kick up with that jet's pick and the jets i think in a lot of ways buck probably making the most noise of any team i know the chiefs obviously moved up they felt good and we'll talk about their selection in just a minute here, but it's hard not to look at what gangrene did. It was a horrific season a year ago. It felt like they really were able to focus in on a couple of those needs. And the fact that they were aggressive, trading back into the first round, to me, I think that was sort of the home run here. But the speed of the draft definitely felt fast for me as we were going through some of these picks and all these trades that we kept seeing. I thought it was a pretty remarkable night. Yeah, it was a remarkable night. And the thing about it, because you talked about the Jets and we'll jump right into the Jets, Fernando Mendoza going one. That was to be expected. But then when you look at the Jets, first and two, they take David Bailey, the edge rusher

from Texas Tech.

Then they come back at 16, take Kenyon Sadeep.

And then they finish by going, trading up to number 30 and taking Omar Cooper.

It's a really interesting haul to think about what they did with those three picks. So you get the edge rush that you need to help a defense that was, look, it was awful. They couldn't stop anybody. They couldn't get turnover. So you get David Bailey. You then turn around and try and figure out like, hey, how can we fix this offense? We got some pieces, but how did we complete it? Kenyon Sadeek being your tight-in to match up with Mason Taylor.

And then you go and get Omar Cooper, who joins Isaiah Bond and Garrett Wilson on the outside.

I look on paper, the Jets offense looks rocking and ready to go when you think about Rees Hall and Brayland Allen being able to go.

So I think what's sort of interesting here, and when we were doing Draft Center, I asked you this question about when you are so deficient and you have so many issues and a lot of holes to fill, do you start thinking to yourself, all right, number two, we have a pretty good sense of where we're going here. And then after, you would say to me, it depends on where the draft ends up falling. And I'm looking at what some of these selections could have been. I thought there was going to be an opportunity for two defensive players for the Jets to be taken in round number one. But when the best tight end is available and there's such a massive drop-off, and it is a need. It made sense for them to go there. There's a part of me that's surprised that it was two offensive players and not two defensive players that they went and selected in round

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