Who’s Rising in Todd’s Updated Top 100 Prospects? Plus: Talking Team Building and Scouting Lamar Jackson With Ravens GM Eric DeCosta.

The McShay Show

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Football, Sports

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🗓️ 4 February 2025

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Welcome back to ‘The McShay Show’! The guys open by reflecting on the Senior Bowl and how their past few weeks of scouting and reporting have affected the ranking of Todd’s top 100 prospects. Then, they go through their favorite risers from the group, including Texas WR Matthew Golden, Miami tight end Elijah Arroyo, and more. To close the show, Todd and Steve interview Ravens GM Eric DeCosta in a wide-ranging conversation that covers the behind-the-scenes story of drafting Lamar Jackson and what DeCosta’s learned from Ozzie Newsome. (0:00) Welcome to The McShay Show! (0:45) Recapping the Senior Bowl (4:52) Evaluating The Top 100 NFL Draft Prospects (9:57) Quinn Ewers has Fallen Out of the Top 100 Prospects (15:55) Evaluating the Top RB Prospects (17:38) Why TreVeyon Henderson's Draft Stock is Rising (RB #2) (24:58) Matthew Golden's Draft Stock (WR #3) (28:04) Evaluating the Top WR Prospects (30:05) Elijah Arroyo's Rising Draft Stock (TE #4) (34:30) Evaluating the Top TE Prospects (35:56) Shemar Stewart's Senior Bowl Reactions (Edge #3) (43:42) CHECK OUT THE DECISION MAKERS SERIES PLAYLIST (45:57) Darius Alexander's Rising Draft Stock (IDL #7) (50:22) Shemar Turner's Status (IDL #11) (51:45) Evaluating the Top CB Prospects (56:05) Coming Up on The McShay Show (1:00:26) Eric DeCosta: Baltimore Ravens, EVP & GM (1:00:39) What Did you See in Lamar Jackson During the Draft? (1:01:08) How to Build your Team Around Lamar Jackson (1:06:42) How do you Know that the Right Player is a Raven? (1:09:57) Which Players Stood Out the Most During the Draft Process? (1:11:19) How to Gain a Competitive Advantage in the AFC? (1:13:39) Draft Evaluations: Nerds vs. Meatheads (1:16:24) Synergy Between Coaching Staff and Front Office (1:19:33) The Toughest Lesson Learned from Ozzie Newsome (1:21:32) What Advice Would you Give to a Younger Eric Decosta? (1:24:35) What’s your Favorite Part of the Job? (1:28:48) Thanks for Watching! The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit www.rg-help.com to learn more about the resources and helplines available. Host: Todd McShay Guest: Steve Muench Producers: Tucker Tashjian, Mark Panik, Conor Nevins, and Daniel Comer Social: Eduardo Ocampo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Senior Bowl Week is in the books, and it's time to unveil my updated top 100.
0:08.1	We're going to deep dive into what makes some of the biggest movers such coveted prospects.
0:13.2	And as usual, I can't wait to tell you where you're right and where you're wrong.
0:16.3	By all means, Stevie Boy, it's Super Bowl Week in just 79 days, man, until the NFL draft.
0:23.7	Ment should good?
0:24.9	I'm good, man.
0:26.0	I wake up the club, DJ.
0:27.8	Okay. This is an exciting time around here, Mitch.
0:47.1	We just finished up the Senior Bowl, fresh off of Mobile, Alabama.
0:50.3	Great week there.
0:51.7	Just hats off to our entire support staff and group.
0:56.2	Everyone that was, you know, boots on the ground.
0:59.4	Just from the camera folks to the production team, Dan being there,
1:05.0	Marissa helping out, you know, everyone back home from T to Connor to Tucker,
1:12.9	Eduardo with all of the clips, i i love our crew i love our crew could have been better yeah really couldn't have been
1:18.0	so i think for the first time taking the show on the road very enjoyable but also very productive
1:25.3	so um it was it was an important week for us and I feel really good about it.
1:29.9	Part of what made it a lot of fun, our audience has yet to even see, right?
1:35.6	We sat down with a couple general managers of playoff teams, Eric Dacosta from the,
1:43.1	from the Baltimore Ravens, Nick Casario of the Houston
1:45.8	Texans. And we started, honestly God, we started a GM series and we kind of knew we wanted to
1:52.9	talk to a lot of GMs. We wanted to just work on a couple of them while we were in Mobile.
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