I'm glad I learned through Stacy's chat with uh Mama Styles that there's no more style.
Coming for future Novembers. Um, all right, so let's, uh, let's put a bow on this thing here.
The, uh, the freakish athletes starting from night one to. Today that it, it, it, we,
they get bigger, stronger, faster every year, and this year more than ever. It's crazy, man.
And to me, it's the fact that they were some of the best football players who came into the
process already at the top of the draft board, and they did everything and showed out. I think
of Arvel Reese from Ohio State who entered this process. He's a top 5 pick, could have
just sat on his heels and not done anything. Instead, he goes out here, he rips an
incredible 40, goes. Of the field workout. We saw him as an off the ball linebacker and on
the ball, edge rusher. He got to show off all of that skill set throughout the workout here.
And if he was top 5 pick coming into this, he did nothing to hurt himself when you're running
the 4 4s and have as good of a field workout as he had. So, that's one top 5 player who
entered the process and stamped his status as a top tier player. And then you can go to the
opposite side of the ball to Jeremiah Love, who joined it as we see Reese. Look at that.
How cool is that shot right there. So all of the Arvelle Reese's finishing it up there, but
Jeremiah Love, another one, probably didn't need to do anything here. Instead, he comes out
and runs with the 4 3s, going through the bags at the field workout. You can see, look at his
foot quickness. Goodness gracious. We showed Bejon Robinson doing this exact same drill.
Exceptional, natural hands, you wanna run a little angle route. He can run routes like a
wide receiver, pluck the ball so easy, going the opposite side here. Just a complete
stud who Rich, we were talking about Kansas City at 9. Is this league gonna allow this
player to get all the way there? I, I don't know that that's gonna happen after you get to
see this show up close and in person. So big time. Performance from the Notre Dame running
back. Yeah, a little slip there at the end. Thankfully got up. He was OK. I mean, there's
your comp. I mean, it's, it's kind of crazy how we keep seeing the running backs get better
and better and then we see him get drafted in the top of the draft year and then. And you're
out. And another thing that I think has gone up in smoke is Sonny Styles maybe getting out
of the top 10. Don't you? Yeah, you can forget about that. He was my fifth player coming into
this process and literally almost jumped out of the stadium here with an 11-2 broad and then
43.5 on the vertical. This guy's 6'5. It's just unbelievable. And then you watch
him go through the drills, and I don't know there's anything on the football field he can't
do. He's so smooth and fluid to go along with a, a mid 4,
440 in those jumps that you saw. And I don't know that he broke a sweat the entire time,
Rich. Yeah, I do remember, you know, Stacy Dale's tracking him down after. running his 40,
um, and without being out of breath, he was complaining that his vertical leap of
43.5 inches wasn't 45. Uh, and then obviously, Nick Emanwori is last year's unicorn that
everybody keeps talking about to see who he could get in the draft this year to try and
mimic what the Seattle Seahawks have built in championship style. Um, Fernando Mendoza, your
thoughts coming out of this combine? Obviously , it was just him. Interviewing and being
interviewed, that's about it. But, uh, I'll just ask you to reiterate your two cents on the
de facto first overall pick. Yeah, I think he's the top player in this draft, and what he
did do, he showed up, he was big, which was nice to see. His interviews were outstanding.
And then even out here on the field, we got a chance to see him interacting with everybody.
He was a part of it. He was cheering on his receivers from Indiana. He was a part of the
group with the quarterback. So, look, Even though he didn't get out there and run or throw,
Fernando Mendoza still made an impression on the only team that he needed to make an
impression on, and that's the Las Vegas Raiders. So who's 2? Who, who's 2 now that we
actually saw who spun it? Uh, is it still Ty Simpson based on your estimate in terms of the
quarterbacks for me, I, yes, but I also think Carson Beck, Drew Aller, and Nussmeyer kind of
in that conversation. But to me, I think. There's a little bit of gap. I think Ty Simpson
and solidified that #2 spot, and then they're jostling for position to see who's gonna be
number 3. If you're gonna pin me down right now, I would say it would be Carson Beck. Just
the size, the experience. He threw the ball really well here, finished up with a solid year
at Miami. Uh, that would be my guess. Well, just, um, a delightful, a delightful kid.
On full display here and the loudest ovation we heard was when he first walked in, right?
Matt Ryan, huh? Yeah, we saw Matt Ryan in the stands here is, uh, now heading up the
operation with the Atlanta Falcons. So, looking down on the field, it, when I watched
him, Matty Ice, the competitor, the toughness, the grittiness that he had at Boston College,
that's what I saw there with Fernando.