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Welcome to the athletic football show.

I'm Robert Mays.

Fun show for you guys today.

Seth Galena from PFF is going to be joining us a little bit later to talk about how some of the schematic trends in the NFL may impact the draft, how we value players, what types of players' teams might be looking for. Very excited to dig into all that. Before we do that, though, very happy to welcome my good friend, Lindsay Jones. Lindsay, how are you?

I am great, Robert. I am excited to join the draft discussion now. We've did so much free agency,

so now it's its draft season. Let's go. It's April. So I cheated with this. I wrote a very similar

piece for the athletic that's running today, and I figured we'd double-dip because I haven't had a lot of these discussions with you.

And they'd be fresh, and I also think that it's a natural extension of some of the stuff we've talked about over the last week.

And obviously, the Niners trade-up is the first quarterback domino to fall in what is going to be a historic quarterback draft.

Whatever you think of the prospects, we're going to have more quarterbacks drafted

in the top four, top five than we have in a very long time.

And I think the Niners move impacts pretty much the rest of the top 10 and how it could go

and everything else.

So now that that Domino has fallen, I wanted to explore the next ones to fall. What are the quarterback questions that still remain after that trade happened?

And because I haven't talked about it with you, I wanted to start with who you think the

Niners are drafting at number three. Because we talked about it in the last couple shows,

but as the information has started to trickle out, and as I've

done more reading into and conspiracy theorizing about everything Kyle Shanahan has ever

excited about the quarterback position, I have new thoughts on it. But I want to start with you.

Who do you think the Niners are drafting at number three? Okay. So when the trade first happened,

I mean, within the first 30 minutes, you know, before Chris Sims or whoever it was that first said the, the Mac Jones thing, Mac Jones wasn't even necessarily on the radar there, right? I mean, it was like, oh, this has to be for Justin Fields or Trey Lance, and he must know who the jets are taking. He must feel supremely confident. when I say he, I mean, Kyle Shanahan and also John Lynch, they must feel supremely confident in what the Jets are going to do at number two so that they know which quarterback they were going up to get. You don't necessarily move up there if you're not taking a court. Well, you definitely don't move up there if you're not taking a quarterback. Would it be hilarious if they just picked Kyle Pitts? Or like, I don't know, Micah Parsons or Pena Soule or whoever it is. But yeah, I mean, you don't give up that much as much as they did if you're not going to get a quarterback. I mean, there is a lot of smoke with the Mac Jones thing. I mean, this would be a tremendous ruse by like,

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