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I've been waiting to do this one for a while.

The NFL draft is now complete.

And it was an exciting draft.

I mean, it lived up to the hype with all the quarterbacks at the top. We said in previous

podcast programs that the draft would begin at number three. San Francisco at one point was

rumored to have to be after pretty much every quarterback except Trevor Lawrence, but they

ended up going with Trey Lance, who is now, I mean, he's a project, but he may be, may turn out to be,

you know, the future of San Francisco football. Shanahan is definitely on the line with this

pick. Meanwhile, some interesting stuff with the other two quarterbacks in that Chicago chased

Justin Fields and got him by trading up, And the New England Patriots didn't have

to do anything and still ended up with Mack Jones. So of all these five quarterbacks that

everybody at one point or another had kind of rated pretty close to one another,

who do you think made the best move? Well, I think the Patriots made the best

move by not having to make a move, as you just pointed out, Mitch. I mean, everybody thought

that, you know, there was that time when we thought Mack Jones was going to go three and that,

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