Just over two weeks to go until the NFL draft and today we're talking about the offensive line. Let's do it.

With the 31st pick, the New England Patriots play.

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It's finally getting into it.

We got mock drafts. I think we're all getting a little bit of draft fatigue. A little bit of latest news, though, to discuss. Marty Mapu gets traded to Houston. Paul, why do they choose to make moves like this, a random two weeks before the draft? Now, it's a great question. I don't have a good answer for you.

But I will say just specifically with that position,

obviously they were not happy with the depth

because these guys are not making a tremendous amount of money.

So there's not a lot of cash savings involved.

But Jalani Tavai, Jack Gibbons, now Marty Marpooh,

and they only really signed KJ Britt as a replacement. So I would expect, as we move into, you know, you said it's two weeks out, I would expect off-ball linebacker at some point in the draft. You need some depth guys. Yeah, talk to me, I will give me some off-the-ball linebackers to look at here. Well, I would say that it depends on what you're trying to do. Are you trying

to get somebody that complements Robert Splane? Are you trying to get somebody that replaces

Robert Splane? Because I think a lot of the guys that they moved on from are debt players or

backups, but if you're drafting somebody with the top 100 pick, that's not what you're projecting

that player to be.

So I think that's question number one.

You know, I know that there's a lot of guys at top of the draft that people probably get excited about Anthony Hill, Jr., C.J. Allen, Rodriguez, of course.

I think that's a little bit high for what they are looking for.

I think this is a pipeline pick.

We keep talking about it at several different positions

where you're probably drafting somebody with the idea

maybe this year he's the third guy behind Ellis and Spillane

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