Packers Drafting Jordan Love
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NFL Business
4.7 • 626 Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2020
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, boys and girls. |
| 0:01.8 | Time for an emergency podcast about the Green Bay Packers picking Jordan Love. |
| 0:06.9 | We're going to talk about that. |
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| 0:17.8 | All right, let's talk about it. |
| 0:20.1 | I'm getting bombarded. It's now Friday morning after the |
| 0:23.5 | Thursday night pick at 26. The Packers selecting Jordan Love. And yes, flashbacks to where I was 15 |
| 0:30.5 | years ago. It was to the day that the Packers selected Aaron Rogers. So to the day, 15 years ago, |
| 0:39.0 | the Packers used a first-round pick on a quarterback while having a future Hall of Famer franchise quarterback playing at a |
| 0:46.3 | superior level on the roster at age 35. The parallels are Erie. The similarities are there. There are a couple different points to it. The Packers traded up this year. They didn't trade up for Rogers, of course. Let's talk about it. First, a flashback. So I've told this story many times. I'll give it in a brief version so we can compare and contrast. In 2005, that fateful night of April 23rd, I'm sorry, it was a day then, |
| 1:15.8 | they didn't do night drafts then, and they had 15 minutes per pick, two things happened. Number one, |
| 1:23.1 | we had, I believe, 18 players rated in the first round, and 17 of them went like wildfire. |
| 1:31.1 | In other words, everyone we wanted that we had rated a first round grade, gone. |
| 1:36.0 | We wanted to Marcus Ware, bad, gone, cowboys. |
| 1:40.4 | We wanted Marcus Spears, bad, gone, cowboys. |
| 1:45.1 | We wanted Derek Johnson linebacker, bad, gone, chiefs. |
| 1:50.9 | And it was clear that everyone was being taken that had a first round grade from our board except one player. |
| 1:59.4 | And that leads to the second thing that happened that night. |
| 2:02.2 | After Alex Smith went first to the 49ers, no one was taking Aaron and even teams that told him, |
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