Welcome everybody to Patriots Draft Countdown. That's right. It is the live edition. The draft is finally here, guys. The countdown, what is it, seven hours officially here? Pretty soon. Finally. Pretty soon. Getting closer to my favorite part of the draft, which is, of course, Sunday, when you know the picks, and then you can just kind of dive in. But in the meantime, we've done a ton of work here over the spring, and I think we're all excited just to put a cap on the Patriots draft countdown which is presented by Bud Light easy to drink easy to enjoy Bud Light the official beer sponsor the New England Patriots and we're gonna be with you guys for the next hour thanks for hanging with us we're all counting down to the big draft and I think we'll be counting down tonight too Ev I want to start off it feels like all the tea leaves I don't know why are we trading out of the first It does feel that way. It feels like all the tea leaves. I don't know why. Are we trading out of the first round the night of it does feel that way. It feels like there's a couple of, I could

like rank the possibilities, right? I think number one I would probably be trade out at this point

if I had to rank them. I don't, the one scenario I don't think they trade out is if one of these tackles falls to them at 31.

If Ionichore or Blake Miller slips through the cracks and ends up being on the board at 31,

I just find it hard to believe that they would pass either of those two players up.

But I think what we heard from Elliott Wolf on all access, actually, with Mike Reese,

this last couple days, is that they feel like prospects 25 through about 50 are kind of the same talent level.

So when you hear that from Elliott Wolf, like that tells you trade down, right?

I mean, if you feel like the guy you're going to get at 31 is basically the same prospect that you're going to get at 36 or 38 or whatever, then why wouldn't you take the extra draft capital and trade down? So I would say it's a pretty high probability right now that they're thinking about it or at least trying to entertain the idea of trading down. Let's talk about those tackles too, because I feel like have we got to a point this off season I feel like

where we were just protect Drake like he's a talented kid he's going to start to pick up this

offense more and more where he can be the conductor he can put guys in position to be successful

and maybe it's an oversimplification but I saw something on the Twitter this week that showed

kind of the devaluation of running backs and the

expanding value of the offensive line. So, I mean, it's not related to wide receiver, and that's,

you know, a direction we could kind of go because we spend so much time talking about getting

that number one wide receiver. But does it make sense to you, T's, that if a tackle is there,

even though you have Morgan Moses and they've expressed confidence in Will Campbell, that you take Tees, that if a tackle is there, even though you have Morgan Moses and

they've expressed confidence in Will Campbell, that you take this kid, even if he might not step in

and start. At 31? At 31. Let's just call it Blake Miller at right tackle. It's not fun. It sucks to

see you like draft a player that's not going to hit the ground running, but it makes sense.

It's a long-term investment. You got a young quarterback. I wouldn't be surprised also. If you pick at 31, you get the fifth year option, which I think that's easy. Like, it means a lot there. Yeah. I mean, is Ty Simpson the wild card? You know, as a quarterback, somebody wants to come up, have that fifth year of control on him? Yeah, I mean, I don't know.

I kind of want to talk about the tackles, if you don't mind. Go back in to the taggers. Chris comes in one minute before the show starts, and then he's just like, I want to talk about it. I don't know. I don't know. That's because if he didn't hurt his ankle in high school, you know. Oh high school You know no We don't have to say this every show That we're on You would be drafted as well this year Is that correct? Yeah, maybe No, I definitely wouldn't have But I think a big thing with the tag is You said it's not a pretty pick I think it is in a way a pretty pick. Again, maybe not the flashiest,

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