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NFL Now is a production of the NFL in partnership
with iHeartRadio. It is a good Friday, It is a
Master's Friday. It is a let's call it a football Friday.
Welcome to NFL Now on NFL Network from our newsroom
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in Los Angeles. My name is Andrew Ceciliano. We are
twenty days away from the NFL Draft, twenty days away
from finally figuring out who's going where. We'll get to
Chad Writer's mock draft. It's a big one, four rounds
coming up shortly. Let's get to the quarterbacks, though, because
you have c. J. Stroud and Bryce Scott, right, But
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what about Anthon and richards What about the guy that
Chad has going three overall to Indianapolis? What if I
told you he's visiting the team that currently has the
seventh overall pick. Is there a chance he gets to Vegas? Maybe?
But he's getting there himself right now. Let's bring him.
Mike Garafolo bringing Cam wolf Camp, start with you. The
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Raiders have done a lot of work at quarterback. They're
bringing them all in, including Anthony Richardson. Yeah, Anthony Richardson's
world tour begins and it starts in Las Vegas. He
actually got there yesterday, will also visit there today and
it's the first of six trips he has scheduled. He'll
also go to Carolina for two days Sunday and Monday,
and then Indianapolis a couple of days as well a
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little bit later, and then the week after he has
three trips set up with the Titans, the Falcons, and
the Ravens in that order to visit those teams. In
these top thirty visits, you get up to thirty visits
each team does to visit prospects to get more information
about these players and so you can get them on
the board, which Anthony Richardson did a great job with
during the combine, getting learning more about them and ask
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more questions about what one scout described to me as
maybe the most interesting prospect in the draft. Only thirteen starts.
Completion percentage isn't great, but he has an immense potential
to take a stab at. And so some of those
teams we mentioned, the Raiders done a lot of homework there,
the Colts, and then some of those teams in the
back end of that week, could they make a trade
up that number three spot in Arizona, which is what
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trad writer had the Colts trading into could be a
very intriguing spot going into draft week. Who falls in
love with Anthony Richardson and maybe trades up to get
their guy. Yeah, when a guy has a lot of
visits CAM, that tells me that there's intrigue there. Number one,
because you wouldn't waste your time if you didn't think
enough of him as a player. But two, you've got
a lot of questions or you maybe you want to
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get some more time and get a field for something.
And you talked about Anthony Richardson and his ability to
when he gets up on the board. That means when
they bring him into the facility, ask him to draw
stuff up, maybe give him something, and then test his
recall later on. These are the kind of things that
you want to see from a quarterback in the NFL,
and you want to know that he's got the ability
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to learn the finer points of the game, understand the
finer points of the game, and be able to do
that because look, we know the ability. You're seeing it
right now. His pro day, his work at the Combine spectacular.
From a physical standpoint, there are no questions about Anthony
Richardson and his ability to do things on the field.
It's more about does he understand the position the way
it needs to be played at the NFL level. Well,
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that's why these visits, which are not workouts, they are visits,
they are conversations, they are meetings, is a chance to
get to those finer points of the game and see
if you feel comfortable enough with Anthony Richardson in that regard.
Marry it with what you saw on the field during
the season and in his workouts and say, Okay, this
is a guy that we either take if he's there
when we're there, or maybe even go up to get him. Yeah,
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and I'm glad you pointed that out. It's not a workout.
You can't do that at a team facility. That is forbidden.
You can, as they say, put it on the board.
Not Hawk Harrelson, but you know, like the white board
like you do with moos. This is a board as well.
Thank you, Cam by the way, this is a board
of Daniel Jeremiah. Actually it's a social that we're making
into a board. But that's a little too inside. Bryce Young, C. J. Stroud,
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Anthony Richardson, Will Levis Hended Hooker, how DJ ranks his quarterbacks. Mike,
Let's go back to the Raiders here, because I said before,
they're doing a lot of work on the quarterbacks, including
bringing in CJ. Struck, who no one thinks is going
to be there at seven. This isn't like a bull
Callahan trade up to one and all of a sudden,
out of nowhere deal. This is just in case. It's
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in case, but it's also Look, you don't know how
things are gonna go. You don't know how things are
gonna go now. You don't know how they're going to
go a couple of years from now. You also, if
you're the Raiders, seemingly have committed to exploring all of
these quarterback options. So you worked out are you met
with Bryce Young at his pro day? You brought him
in as well. They're bringing in CJ. Strout next week.
They're also bringing in Hendon Hooker. They're talking to Anthony
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Richardson like they want to get a full picture of
this entire quarterback lass, and they've done so much work
here that to me, it would almost be a surprise
if they don't take a quarterback relatively early or really
early in this draft. Sitting there at number seven, and look,
they've got themselves Jimmy Garoppolo. They also have themselves Brian Hoyer. Now,
so they've got two veterans. So there's no rush necessarily
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to get a guy ready to play. So we may
say that those top two guys, Bryce Young, CJ. Stroud,
who again they have spent time with, those are the
guys that are ready to play right now. But potentially
if they take somebody else, they don't have to rush
that guy in there. So yeah, even if CJ. Stroud's
gone and Bryce Young's gone, you may say, well, look,
we took a look at the entire class and one
of these other guys matched up pretty well with them,
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so we feel comfortable taking him as well. So that
seems to be the path that the Raiders are on
here pre draft. Andrew, And another good point about using
these meetings. You file it away. You know, a couple
of years from now, this guy might become available and
you can go back, did we have a good impression
of that player then during the pre draft process. I
remember a couple of years ago at the Senior Bowl,
player was kind of shrugging her shoulders. Why would meet
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with this team. I'm going to be gone by the
time they pick. Yeah, right, but everyone knows everyone and
this information may come into handy a little bit later.
All right, thank you, Gerifolo. Let's get onto the shadow
Writer mock Draftier version two point zero, and it includes
four rounds, four rounds and seven trades. Five of those
trades in the first round. Anthony Richardson at three with
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the Colts and the Cardinals swapping picks, Will Levis at
ten with the Vikings trading up from twenty three. That
right now is Philadelphia's pick, as we bring in Judy
Batista and James Palmer. High guys, James. A lot of
things stand out here, like pick five. Yeah, pick five's
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interesting to me. Now, there's nothing wrong with three corners
going in the top fifteen, but it's interesting that you
don't see Devin Witherspoon's name there is DJ has him
as the sixth best prospect in this entire draft, and
you see Joey Porter Junior checks a lot of boxes
the size that it fits in Seattle. But what I
really look at, Andrew, is that this team was thirtieth
against the run this past season. They had a very
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difficult time getting off the field on third down is
because teams were in third and short so much. This
is a big concern in the front seven stopping the
run for general manager John Schneider. And I look that
in this mock you only have Will Anderson off that's it.
You could go Tyree Wilson, you could go Jalyn Carter.
You could get an edge to go rush the quarterback.
You could get Carter in the middle to stuff the run.
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And I mentioned edge because they haven't had a double
digit sack player in a season since twenty and eighteen
with Frank Clark, and their two highest sack total players
from this past season are both on expiring contracts. So
and there's some teams that I've talked to Edrew that
like Wilson more than Anderson. So it's interesting that you
don't go up front with Seattle there at five. The
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other point that sticks out of me, Judy, really is
Dalton Kincaide down there at twenty six. I think that
would be a steal for the Dallas Cowboys to replaces
Dalton Schultz put him in the middle of the field
with Seedee Lamb and newly acquired Brandon Cooks. I think
that's a slam dunk pick for the Dallas Cowboys down
there at number twenty six. Judy, what stands out to you?
Hear the quarterbacks certainly, you know are going to get
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the headlines. There's no question. I think the Colts moving
up to three to take Anthony Richardson. I am intrigued
by that, and I think that would be one of
the most interesting scenarios if it plays out. In part
because we were just talking about it. All of his
big play potential, right, the potential for dynamic plays with
his arm and his legs. But he's a raw talent
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and he needs work on that. They just hired Shane's
second for exactly this reason, to develop a young quarterback.
We saw what he did with Jalen Hurd. They have
Gardner Minshew on the roster. He can hold the fort
while they work on Anthony Richardson. Jim Mercy, the owner,
has talked about wanting to draft a quarterback and developing
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a young quarterback. They need to get off the veteran
quarterback merry go round, and I think this would be
the most interesting pick, maybe of the entire first round.
The other pick I'm really interested that Chad has is
the Bill's going with a pass rusher, Nolan Smith. We
saw them go after Von Miller last year. It looked
great while Von was healthy, and as soon as Von
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got hurt in the middle of the season last year,
you saw that pass rush with her, and you saw
it especially it really hit them in the playoffs when
they could not get to Joe Burrow and you thought, wow,
that Cincinnati offensive line looked really good. In Then the
next week the Cincinnati offensive line faced the Chiefs, and
you realize it wasn't so much the Cincinnati offensive line
that looked so good. It was the Bills pass rush
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that didn't look so good. They need to shore it up.
Von Miller is approaching what we think would be the
end of his career, so they need to get young
pass rushers in there. I like that pick for the Bills.
Curious von Miller's opinion here as well as he has
been in essence shadowing, if not interning for and with
Brandon Bean the Bills GM, who's actually at the combine
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kind of like you know GM for a day right
along there. So let's get Von on the phone. Thank you, Judy,
thank you, James Chad Writer's mock draft right now available
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everybody coming up next? The latest on Aaron Rodgers. He's
working out evidently with Alan Lazarre. What does it mean next?
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Presented to you by Ike. Let's look at the Aaron
Rodgers offseason timeline. Here he says, retirement decision after the
Super Bowl. Then he went into darkness, then he came
out of the darkness. Then he said he wanted to
be a Jet. That came after meeting with the Jets
and ownership. We are still waiting for some kind of
(10:53):
Aaron Rodgers movement, a trade, anything. But can I interest
you in this? Can I interest you in an Alan
Lazard Instagram story of the two of them running. Probably
know this is four years old, but it isn't. We
think it's like recently in California. Can't confirm it ane
other metadata, but Jeff Chidia, that's the kind of world
we live in now. We are Instagram sleuths trying to
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put together NFL storylines here in the off season other
than Aaron Rodgers. Is there a quarterback storyline that you
find here most interesting three weeks before the draft? So
Bock Party interests me because he was such a great
story at the end of last year before we got
banged up with that albow injury, had the albow surgery
in March, you know, a little bit later than they
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wanted to because of inflammation, and so now we're going
to see when he's going to be available. They're talking
about this being a six months process. But what's more
intriguing about this is the fact that general magner John
Lynch came out the owners meetings and said that this
is the guy who should be in the league to
be our starting quarterback next year. And so what does
that mean for Trey Lance. We don't know, but I
think it all out depends on how fast about Party recovers.
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Because we saw we went to that offense, we saw
he's one of the darlings of the postseason, and if
he's right, this team once again being content for the
NFC championship. A lot of people think that Sean Payton
can turn things around. Meantime, another storyline here in the
AFC and be in contention there, at least in the
AFC West. That's another storyline where you're like, man, I
don't know how this is going to turn out, but
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I'm interested. Yeah, And maybe I'm more optimistic than most
people are about this, But I believe Russell Wilson is
not the guy who saw last year that he can
be back somewhere closer to what he was in Seattle,
and Sean Payton will have a lot to do with that.
And what I love about what Sean Payton has done,
He's gotten to Denver, He's really tried to fortify the
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supporting cast around him. You saw him going to free agency,
get a couple of good lining with Mike McGlinchey and
been powers. You see the way he's running the football
in New Orleans that help Drew Breeze out. I think
that will be a big part of the offense here.
And mean, he's also getting some guys back like Garrett
Bowles and Tim Patrick and Devonte Williams. All these guys
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should help Russell Wilson play at a higher level. But
more than anything else. Sean Payton can show him the
magic formula, which is you don't have to be cooking
all the time. You just have to have a lot
of good people around you in the kitchen. So Aaron
Rodgers is a future Hall of Famer that could be
on the move. Russell Wilson, potentially future Hall of Famer
DeAndre Hopkins might make that same claim one day as well.
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He is still a cardinal for now, Jeff, but it's
a matter of time, it is. And look, I thought
Dallas made a lot of sense before they went and
got Brandon Cooks. But there's still going to be a
lot of intriguing options for him because he's willing to
work with that big contract. He's old, thirty three million dollars.
We know that's the huge number for a guy who's
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in his thirties. But again, he's been productive and he
wants to be a part of a winning team. I
know that. Within our own network, we voted the idea
of Buffalo being a player in this, and I love
the idea of that because they are still very much
a Super Bowl Championship contending team. And if you add
him to the mix with Stefine Diggs and gave Davis
and Josh Allen that offense goes to a different level.
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So somebody's going to make a move on this guy
because he's too good still be sitting there on the
trade market. All right, you mentioned Buffalo. What's the deal
with von Millery mentioned he's interning as a GM if
you will. He's also trying to come back from a
big knee injury on Thanksgiving. Yeah, And the thing about
that knee injury, if it wasn't a guy who's well
in at his own thirties and a guy who got
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hurt so late in the tea, did to remember this
was Thanksgiving, I'd be a little more optimistic about this.
But you look at Trey Davious White, star corner for
the Bills. He got hurt around the same time of
year last year and didn't really start playing again until
this past November. So that's almost a year you're talking about.
Usually with acls eight or nine months. You know. I
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know it's a different position cornerback. You're a lot more,
you're moving around more. It'd be more agile. But again,
vom Miller's up there in age and they rely so
much on him. They were office a great start defensively,
when he got hurt, the pass rush went south. He's
got to be healthy for a good part of this
season for them to get to where they want to
get to. All Right, this one does not involve all
of the future Hall of Famer This tip off season
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storylines here, Well, maybe you never know. Justin Herbert Kellen Moore,
how are they going to work together here in LA
I love this higher and I think it's one of
the most underrated hires of the off season because Kellen Moore,
you know, I know Mike McCarthy wasn't a fan of
his on the way at the door in Dallas, but
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I love what he's going to bring to the Chargers,
and Justin Herbert specifically, because he's very aggressive offensively, wants
to the football down the field, and he's got a
nice mix to work with there. When you're talking about
the receivers that are in place there, guys like Mike
Williams and Keenan Allen, you're talking about the offensive line
being tacked again after losing Roshan Slater to injury last year.
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And then I mentioned Austin Equa earlier in the show.
A lot of pieces to work with there. But Justin
Herbert has got to start playing like Patrick Mahomes, like
Joe Burrow, like Josh Allen in the postseason, in the
big games, and Kellen Moore can get that out of him.
He's got all the talent in the world. A little
too much big and duct from me in that offense,
and I know injuries were a part of it, but
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ultimately he's a superstar quarterback who needs to be coached
like a superstar quarterback. We will give him that. As
the Churches right now are negotiating potential long term deal.
It's three years down already for Justin Herbert, so he
is in that new contract window. Might happen before Week one.
Thank you, Jeff. Jidia has some great offseason storyline speaking
of the quarterbacks, and the number one offseason storyline is
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usually where the quarterback's going to go in the draft.
We've talked Young, We've talked Stroud, how about Hendon Hooker?
Mark Ross loves him. Half to the draft crew, what
do we think first round pick? Hi Prince? Welcome back
inside the Path to the Draft studios. Brett Lewis and
Bucky Brooks here with you. You know and when we
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look at the top quarterbacks in this draft, all too
often Hindon Hooker's name has been left out of the mix.
But he's an absolute stud in this class, especially when
you look at this touchdown to interception ratio. See some
of the big names on there that have had some
of those great years in this category since twenty and eighteen,
and Hendon Hooker's name is on there twice. By the way,
the other four people on there, they were all first
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round picks in the year that they came out. Hendon
Hooker on the road to recovery after that knee injury
and talking about his mindset as a rookie, Yeah, I'm
just trying to get as healthy as possible and that
will help me no longevity wise, but you know, I
just want to come in and be a sponge and
learn as much as I can from me and everyone
in the building. You had an electrifying career here at
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Tennessee fifty eight touchdowns to just five interceptions. How did
you limit those mistakes while still making plays downfield? No
one want to take chances. It's always the time and
place of everything, so no one want to take those
chances and squeezes into tight windows or you know, just
take what they give me. And that all comes from
my preparation. I probably myself in preparation and that helped
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me in the long run. Narro marrowis there are chatting
with Hendon Hooker at the Tennessee Pro Day, in which
he was unable to physically participate. But man, I tell
you what, in me with teams, it sure sounds like
Hendon Hooker is impressing the teams and evaluators with what
he's able to show in showcase. So with that in mind,
should Ndon Hooker be a first round pick? Buck? Yes,
he should be a first round pick. You heard him
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right there. The maturity that he displays when he meets
with teams, he conveys a first round talent to go
with film that certainly suggested his first round worthy. This
is a guy who has put up big numbers at
Tennessee and back to back years fifty eight touchdowns, five interceptions.
You put up the board where everyone on that board
before end and Hooker was a top of the first
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round player. And so when I think about this guy,
outstand they experienced great leadership ability, outstanding armed talent, and
when you're watch him play against the best in the SEC.
Here's one of the more dominant players. To me, it's
an easy situation to look at Hindon Hooker even with
the injury, and say, somewhere in the first round, in
the bottom of the first round, Hendon Hooker should hear
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his name. Yeah, I'm kind of looking at some of
those teams with multiple first round picks as those that
could be in the Hindon Hooker. Hinder Hindon Hooker market,
looking at you know, maybe the Detroit Lions at eighteen,
maybe the Vikings at twenty three, maybe the Seahawks at
twenty with established veteran quarterbacks to give some time to
Hindon Hooker to get ready to play. So just a
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couple of thoughts there. We've got plenty more each and
every weekday here on path to the Draft joint US
at six pm Eastern. All right, Reett, thank you, Let's
continue the quarterback conversation. How about this guy? Why isn't
dtr getting more run? Is it because Pac twelve after
dark happenwall of you were sleeping. He is here in
the building, he is coming up. He's jumping out of
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the set after checking out the helmets outside. Dorian Thompson
Robinson next on NFL Now, all right, that was ridiculous.
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This guy can play NFL now presented to you by Ike.
He could also run. I mean, look, he's more than
just a guy that's really you know, a past quarterback.
He's a good quarterback. Dorian Thompson Robinson from UCLA was
the fastest quarterback of the combine, a four or five
six at the combine. Even though we tweeted that he
wasn't entirely happy with his combined performers. We've got to
that in a second. I'm sure he was happy to
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see this, which was the East West Shrine Bowl, which
was in his hometown of Vegas. Picture of that picture
him here on the set here, Dorian Thompson Robinson from UCLA.
Thanks for coming into NFL Network. Thank you for having me. Man,
It's awesome to be here. How cool was that though?
To be there in Vegas and play in your hometown.
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Family still live in Vegas at his home, and you
got to be there in a college All Star game. Yeah,
I actually had close to a hundred people come to that.
Cool was it was definitely a blessing. It was. It
was super cool. Also to be able to spend in
with teammates. I got to go back and show them
my old high school and how rich in tradition that
was UM, and get to be able to see my
little sister played. So it was it was super cool,
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super fun week. That's Bishop Gorman, as you said, a
long football tradition there, and the Raiders are looking at
a quarterback. We spent half our show today talking about
the Raiders potentially drafting a quarterback. When you were a kid,
though they weren't there. They were the old Clan Raiders,
so you weren't necessarily a Raiders fan. But the possibility
of playing at home. Have you thought about that? I
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definitely have. I definitely have, And like you said that
the Raiders were not there when I was in town
at first, so UM definitely didn't have an NFL team
really growing up. And I've obviously leaned more towards the
Raiders now that they've been in town for the past
um a few years. We got Raiders colors on here today,
so it's been it's been super cool just to be
able to go through the process, like I said, talked
coaches m and I'll be at their local day on
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the fourteenth, and so I'll be able to meet with
them and everything too. So each team is able to
have a local tryout guys that grew up in that area,
and it doesn't count against the top thirty visits. So,
for example, the forty Niners are doing one today. All
the Bay area players, Stanford Cal whatever can work out
for the Niners. So you'll do the Raiders one. So
I'm going through your Twitter last night, right, and your
Twitter has one theme. You know what the theme is?
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Do you know what it is? I don't know, but
I'm kind of scared now. No, it's good. It's praising
your teammates. Half of you, I'd say two thirds of
what you tweet is retweeting stuff about your teammates. You're
a good morning football. Last month they asked you, hey, Dorian,
look at the camera. All thirty two teams are watching.
Sell yourself to those thirty two teams. You know what
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he did? You talked about your teammates. Do you not
like talking about yourself? Oh it's not that. It's just
you know, everybody thinks the quarterback gets all the all
the praise and all the blame, but in reality, it's
it is the team sport and I love my teammates
to death, and that's part of the reason why I
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came back from my fifth year at UCLA because I
love those boys so much and so um. You know,
that's that's the type of teammate I am, Um, And
that's the type of quarterback. Hand for let's talk about you.
I said you're the fastest quarterback of the combine. You
also have the best arm. Um. This is not something
we've been doing for a while, honestly, Dorian. It kind
of reminds me of of like something you do at
a carnival and we'd give you a Teddy bear, But
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do we have the video of you throwing sixty two
miles an hour something like that? They they put up
like a wall and you're throw it sixty two miles
an hour? Like what's that worth? Um? You know, I
just think kind of all my hard work that I
put in with eight weeks with Jordan Palmer and staff
down in Orange County and being able to you know,
put that on display. Um. And you know, I'm not
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gonna come out and say I got the strongest arm
because uh, you know, it's the proof is in the
pudding and so for me, like I said, I'm just
trying to work hard and improve every day, um and
making sure that I'm growing every day. So not trying
to take away from the great stuff to do with
the combine. It does kind of feel like a carnival
game though, doesn't it? Just like throw it as hard
as you think it. Definitely does it, definitely does. It
brought me back from when I was trying to do
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that stuff, like I said, at the carnival, but there
was no Teddy there, No, definitely not didn't get a
prize for I also know you take a lot of
pride in what you guys have done at you see,
like collectively again back your teammates. The fact that the
last two years you guys have won seventeen games from
where you started there at the beginning to how you finished.
How important is that to you? Yeah? Super important And
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obviously I came in with the with the hopes of
doing that a lot sooner. But it's been super cool
just to be able to go through it with my
freshman class. We started out as playing as freshman and
was the youngest team in college football, and now you know,
we're all adults now and moving on and being able
to leave them with something with a bigger foundation than
what we what we had. So m you know, I'm
super proud and super bussed to even be able to
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be handed those keys to do that. So we always
asked the prospects as they get ready for the draft. Here,
who is it that you watched when you were a kid?
You not surprisingly watched a lot of Aaron Rodgers. You
recently ran into Aaron Rodgers. Tell me about that. Yes,
it was super cool. Um we met at my trender
Jordan Palmer's flag football event um in r X three
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and so h, like I said, just super cool. Just
be able to ask him for advice, um, and kind
of the things that he would he would go in
with throughout this process. And he said to stay present,
enjoy every moment. You know, he went through his retreat
and everything and he got a little reset himself. So, UM,
just give me advice he got from that and what
he learned from there and all that type of stuff. So,
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for the record, you have not gone into a four
day darkness to retreat yet. I have not no plans
to do that. Uh, there there may be plans in
the future. I don't know. I don't know. Aaron may
have convinced me really because I have said I said
it on the air, Dorian, that I would do that.
I think like turning all this off and going dark
for a little bit, like there might be some use
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to that. Yeah, you need some of that for sure.
For sure, I would say, all right, you tell me
how it goes. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna spell
the secrets too early. Okay. I know you're also doing
a lot of visits. You mentioned the Raiders here on
their local workout. I know last week you visited the
Browns and I was told that you like studying dinosaurs
at UCLA. Do you know that Miles Garrett His Twitter
(26:23):
handle is Jurassic Miles and he has shown up for
games in a dinosaurs suit. Yes, I've seen this video before. Okay,
the Browns are a good fit. Yes they are. Okay,
they definitely are. I was able to meet with that staff,
go through installs and be able to share them my
recall and how intelligent I am about the game, and
so I thought it was a really good meeting and
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a really good overall experience to be able to go
down there and meet with those guys last thing for
your Dorian. Again, I know you don't like talking about yourself,
and this is really about everybody. Chip Kelly said late
last year that you, Zach Charbone others maybe didn't get
the pub you deserve because of PAC twelve after Dark,
because you guys played so many late games where people
back east didn't watch. I'll be honest with that. There
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were times where I had to go to bed early
for Sunday shows for the NFL, and I woke up
five am check my phone and I'd begin all these texts,
Oh my god, did you see what DTR did? Do
you think that played any effect? I think it did.
I think it did. I was born in South Carolina,
so I have a lot of my external family back
on the East Coast, and so I definitely know the
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pain and struggles it is to be able to watch
me play late at night back on the East Coast,
and so I think it'll be it'll be good for
them to be able to join the Big Ten, and
a part of the reason why I think it'd be
beneficial for them to be able to get that type
of exposure and to get more eyes on him and
everything like that. So he is the star of Pac
twelve After Dark Dorian Thompson Robinson from UCLA. Good luck
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Welcome to NFL Now on NFL Network from our newsroom
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in Los Angeles. My name is Andrew Ceciliano. We are
twenty days away from the NFL Draft, twenty days away
from finally figuring out who's going where. We'll get to
Chad Writer's mock draft. It's a big one, four rounds
coming up shortly. Let's get to the quarterbacks, though, because
you have c. J. Stroud and Bryce Scott, right, But
(00:48):
what about Anthon and richards What about the guy that
Chad has going three overall to Indianapolis? What if I
told you he's visiting the team that currently has the
seventh overall pick. Is there a chance he gets to Vegas? Maybe?
But he's getting there himself right now. Let's bring him.
Mike Garafolo bringing Cam wolf Camp, start with you. The
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Raiders have done a lot of work at quarterback. They're
bringing them all in, including Anthony Richardson. Yeah, Anthony Richardson's
world tour begins and it starts in Las Vegas. He
actually got there yesterday, will also visit there today and
it's the first of six trips he has scheduled. He'll
also go to Carolina for two days Sunday and Monday,
and then Indianapolis a couple of days as well a
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little bit later, and then the week after he has
three trips set up with the Titans, the Falcons, and
the Ravens in that order to visit those teams. In
these top thirty visits, you get up to thirty visits
each team does to visit prospects to get more information
about these players and so you can get them on
the board, which Anthony Richardson did a great job with
during the combine, getting learning more about them and ask
(01:55):
more questions about what one scout described to me as
maybe the most interesting prospect in the draft. Only thirteen starts.
Completion percentage isn't great, but he has an immense potential
to take a stab at. And so some of those
teams we mentioned, the Raiders done a lot of homework there,
the Colts, and then some of those teams in the
back end of that week, could they make a trade
up that number three spot in Arizona, which is what
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trad writer had the Colts trading into could be a
very intriguing spot going into draft week. Who falls in
love with Anthony Richardson and maybe trades up to get
their guy. Yeah, when a guy has a lot of
visits CAM, that tells me that there's intrigue there. Number one,
because you wouldn't waste your time if you didn't think
enough of him as a player. But two, you've got
a lot of questions or you maybe you want to
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get some more time and get a field for something.
And you talked about Anthony Richardson and his ability to
when he gets up on the board. That means when
they bring him into the facility, ask him to draw
stuff up, maybe give him something, and then test his
recall later on. These are the kind of things that
you want to see from a quarterback in the NFL,
and you want to know that he's got the ability
(02:58):
to learn the finer points of the game, understand the
finer points of the game, and be able to do
that because look, we know the ability. You're seeing it
right now. His pro day, his work at the Combine spectacular.
From a physical standpoint, there are no questions about Anthony
Richardson and his ability to do things on the field.
It's more about does he understand the position the way
it needs to be played at the NFL level. Well,
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that's why these visits, which are not workouts, they are visits,
they are conversations, they are meetings, is a chance to
get to those finer points of the game and see
if you feel comfortable enough with Anthony Richardson in that regard.
Marry it with what you saw on the field during
the season and in his workouts and say, Okay, this
is a guy that we either take if he's there
when we're there, or maybe even go up to get him. Yeah,
(03:40):
and I'm glad you pointed that out. It's not a workout.
You can't do that at a team facility. That is forbidden.
You can, as they say, put it on the board.
Not Hawk Harrelson, but you know, like the white board
like you do with moos. This is a board as well.
Thank you, Cam by the way, this is a board
of Daniel Jeremiah. Actually it's a social that we're making
into a board. But that's a little too inside. Bryce Young, C. J. Stroud,
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Anthony Richardson, Will Levis Hended Hooker, how DJ ranks his quarterbacks. Mike,
Let's go back to the Raiders here, because I said before,
they're doing a lot of work on the quarterbacks, including
bringing in CJ. Struck, who no one thinks is going
to be there at seven. This isn't like a bull
Callahan trade up to one and all of a sudden,
out of nowhere deal. This is just in case. It's
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in case, but it's also Look, you don't know how
things are gonna go. You don't know how things are
gonna go now. You don't know how they're going to
go a couple of years from now. You also, if
you're the Raiders, seemingly have committed to exploring all of
these quarterback options. So you worked out are you met
with Bryce Young at his pro day? You brought him
in as well. They're bringing in CJ. Strout next week.
They're also bringing in Hendon Hooker. They're talking to Anthony
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Richardson like they want to get a full picture of
this entire quarterback lass, and they've done so much work
here that to me, it would almost be a surprise
if they don't take a quarterback relatively early or really
early in this draft. Sitting there at number seven, and look,
they've got themselves Jimmy Garoppolo. They also have themselves Brian Hoyer. Now,
so they've got two veterans. So there's no rush necessarily
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to get a guy ready to play. So we may
say that those top two guys, Bryce Young, CJ. Stroud,
who again they have spent time with, those are the
guys that are ready to play right now. But potentially
if they take somebody else, they don't have to rush
that guy in there. So yeah, even if CJ. Stroud's
gone and Bryce Young's gone, you may say, well, look,
we took a look at the entire class and one
of these other guys matched up pretty well with them,
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so we feel comfortable taking him as well. So that
seems to be the path that the Raiders are on
here pre draft. Andrew, And another good point about using
these meetings. You file it away. You know, a couple
of years from now, this guy might become available and
you can go back, did we have a good impression
of that player then during the pre draft process. I
remember a couple of years ago at the Senior Bowl,
player was kind of shrugging her shoulders. Why would meet
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with this team. I'm going to be gone by the
time they pick. Yeah, right, but everyone knows everyone and
this information may come into handy a little bit later.
All right, thank you, Gerifolo. Let's get onto the shadow
Writer mock Draftier version two point zero, and it includes
four rounds, four rounds and seven trades. Five of those
trades in the first round. Anthony Richardson at three with
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the Colts and the Cardinals swapping picks, Will Levis at
ten with the Vikings trading up from twenty three. That
right now is Philadelphia's pick, as we bring in Judy
Batista and James Palmer. High guys, James. A lot of
things stand out here, like pick five. Yeah, pick five's
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interesting to me. Now, there's nothing wrong with three corners
going in the top fifteen, but it's interesting that you
don't see Devin Witherspoon's name there is DJ has him
as the sixth best prospect in this entire draft, and
you see Joey Porter Junior checks a lot of boxes
the size that it fits in Seattle. But what I
really look at, Andrew, is that this team was thirtieth
against the run this past season. They had a very
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difficult time getting off the field on third down is
because teams were in third and short so much. This
is a big concern in the front seven stopping the
run for general manager John Schneider. And I look that
in this mock you only have Will Anderson off that's it.
You could go Tyree Wilson, you could go Jalyn Carter.
You could get an edge to go rush the quarterback.
You could get Carter in the middle to stuff the run.
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And I mentioned edge because they haven't had a double
digit sack player in a season since twenty and eighteen
with Frank Clark, and their two highest sack total players
from this past season are both on expiring contracts. So
and there's some teams that I've talked to Edrew that
like Wilson more than Anderson. So it's interesting that you
don't go up front with Seattle there at five. The
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other point that sticks out of me, Judy, really is
Dalton Kincaide down there at twenty six. I think that
would be a steal for the Dallas Cowboys to replaces
Dalton Schultz put him in the middle of the field
with Seedee Lamb and newly acquired Brandon Cooks. I think
that's a slam dunk pick for the Dallas Cowboys down
there at number twenty six. Judy, what stands out to you?
Hear the quarterbacks certainly, you know are going to get
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the headlines. There's no question. I think the Colts moving
up to three to take Anthony Richardson. I am intrigued
by that, and I think that would be one of
the most interesting scenarios if it plays out. In part
because we were just talking about it. All of his
big play potential, right, the potential for dynamic plays with
his arm and his legs. But he's a raw talent
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and he needs work on that. They just hired Shane's
second for exactly this reason, to develop a young quarterback.
We saw what he did with Jalen Hurd. They have
Gardner Minshew on the roster. He can hold the fort
while they work on Anthony Richardson. Jim Mercy, the owner,
has talked about wanting to draft a quarterback and developing
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a young quarterback. They need to get off the veteran
quarterback merry go round, and I think this would be
the most interesting pick, maybe of the entire first round.
The other pick I'm really interested that Chad has is
the Bill's going with a pass rusher, Nolan Smith. We
saw them go after Von Miller last year. It looked
great while Von was healthy, and as soon as Von
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got hurt in the middle of the season last year,
you saw that pass rush with her, and you saw
it especially it really hit them in the playoffs when
they could not get to Joe Burrow and you thought, wow,
that Cincinnati offensive line looked really good. In Then the
next week the Cincinnati offensive line faced the Chiefs, and
you realize it wasn't so much the Cincinnati offensive line
that looked so good. It was the Bills pass rush
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that didn't look so good. They need to shore it up.
Von Miller is approaching what we think would be the
end of his career, so they need to get young
pass rushers in there. I like that pick for the Bills.
Curious von Miller's opinion here as well as he has
been in essence shadowing, if not interning for and with
Brandon Bean the Bills GM, who's actually at the combine
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kind of like you know GM for a day right
along there. So let's get Von on the phone. Thank you, Judy,
thank you, James Chad Writer's mock draft right now available
on NFL dot Com, all four rounds of it. We're
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everybody coming up next? The latest on Aaron Rodgers. He's
working out evidently with Alan Lazarre. What does it mean next?
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Presented to you by Ike. Let's look at the Aaron
Rodgers offseason timeline. Here he says, retirement decision after the
Super Bowl. Then he went into darkness, then he came
out of the darkness. Then he said he wanted to
be a Jet. That came after meeting with the Jets
and ownership. We are still waiting for some kind of
(10:53):
Aaron Rodgers movement, a trade, anything. But can I interest
you in this? Can I interest you in an Alan
Lazard Instagram story of the two of them running. Probably
know this is four years old, but it isn't. We
think it's like recently in California. Can't confirm it ane
other metadata, but Jeff Chidia, that's the kind of world
we live in now. We are Instagram sleuths trying to
(11:15):
put together NFL storylines here in the off season other
than Aaron Rodgers. Is there a quarterback storyline that you
find here most interesting three weeks before the draft? So
Bock Party interests me because he was such a great
story at the end of last year before we got
banged up with that albow injury, had the albow surgery
in March, you know, a little bit later than they
(11:36):
wanted to because of inflammation, and so now we're going
to see when he's going to be available. They're talking
about this being a six months process. But what's more
intriguing about this is the fact that general magner John
Lynch came out the owners meetings and said that this
is the guy who should be in the league to
be our starting quarterback next year. And so what does
that mean for Trey Lance. We don't know, but I
think it all out depends on how fast about Party recovers.
(11:57):
Because we saw we went to that offense, we saw
he's one of the darlings of the postseason, and if
he's right, this team once again being content for the
NFC championship. A lot of people think that Sean Payton
can turn things around. Meantime, another storyline here in the
AFC and be in contention there, at least in the
AFC West. That's another storyline where you're like, man, I
don't know how this is going to turn out, but
(12:19):
I'm interested. Yeah, And maybe I'm more optimistic than most
people are about this, But I believe Russell Wilson is
not the guy who saw last year that he can
be back somewhere closer to what he was in Seattle,
and Sean Payton will have a lot to do with that.
And what I love about what Sean Payton has done,
He's gotten to Denver, He's really tried to fortify the
(12:40):
supporting cast around him. You saw him going to free agency,
get a couple of good lining with Mike McGlinchey and
been powers. You see the way he's running the football
in New Orleans that help Drew Breeze out. I think
that will be a big part of the offense here.
And mean, he's also getting some guys back like Garrett
Bowles and Tim Patrick and Devonte Williams. All these guys
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should help Russell Wilson play at a higher level. But
more than anything else. Sean Payton can show him the
magic formula, which is you don't have to be cooking
all the time. You just have to have a lot
of good people around you in the kitchen. So Aaron
Rodgers is a future Hall of Famer that could be
on the move. Russell Wilson, potentially future Hall of Famer
DeAndre Hopkins might make that same claim one day as well.
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He is still a cardinal for now, Jeff, but it's
a matter of time, it is. And look, I thought
Dallas made a lot of sense before they went and
got Brandon Cooks. But there's still going to be a
lot of intriguing options for him because he's willing to
work with that big contract. He's old, thirty three million dollars.
We know that's the huge number for a guy who's
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in his thirties. But again, he's been productive and he
wants to be a part of a winning team. I
know that. Within our own network, we voted the idea
of Buffalo being a player in this, and I love
the idea of that because they are still very much
a Super Bowl Championship contending team. And if you add
him to the mix with Stefine Diggs and gave Davis
and Josh Allen that offense goes to a different level.
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So somebody's going to make a move on this guy
because he's too good still be sitting there on the
trade market. All right, you mentioned Buffalo. What's the deal
with von Millery mentioned he's interning as a GM if
you will. He's also trying to come back from a
big knee injury on Thanksgiving. Yeah, And the thing about
that knee injury, if it wasn't a guy who's well
in at his own thirties and a guy who got
(14:25):
hurt so late in the tea, did to remember this
was Thanksgiving, I'd be a little more optimistic about this.
But you look at Trey Davious White, star corner for
the Bills. He got hurt around the same time of
year last year and didn't really start playing again until
this past November. So that's almost a year you're talking about.
Usually with acls eight or nine months. You know. I
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know it's a different position cornerback. You're a lot more,
you're moving around more. It'd be more agile. But again,
vom Miller's up there in age and they rely so
much on him. They were office a great start defensively,
when he got hurt, the pass rush went south. He's
got to be healthy for a good part of this
season for them to get to where they want to
get to. All Right, this one does not involve all
of the future Hall of Famer This tip off season
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storylines here, Well, maybe you never know. Justin Herbert Kellen Moore,
how are they going to work together here in LA
I love this higher and I think it's one of
the most underrated hires of the off season because Kellen Moore,
you know, I know Mike McCarthy wasn't a fan of
his on the way at the door in Dallas, but
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I love what he's going to bring to the Chargers,
and Justin Herbert specifically, because he's very aggressive offensively, wants
to the football down the field, and he's got a
nice mix to work with there. When you're talking about
the receivers that are in place there, guys like Mike
Williams and Keenan Allen, you're talking about the offensive line
being tacked again after losing Roshan Slater to injury last year.
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And then I mentioned Austin Equa earlier in the show.
A lot of pieces to work with there. But Justin
Herbert has got to start playing like Patrick Mahomes, like
Joe Burrow, like Josh Allen in the postseason, in the
big games, and Kellen Moore can get that out of him.
He's got all the talent in the world. A little
too much big and duct from me in that offense,
and I know injuries were a part of it, but
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ultimately he's a superstar quarterback who needs to be coached
like a superstar quarterback. We will give him that. As
the Churches right now are negotiating potential long term deal.
It's three years down already for Justin Herbert, so he
is in that new contract window. Might happen before Week one.
Thank you, Jeff. Jidia has some great offseason storyline speaking
of the quarterbacks, and the number one offseason storyline is
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usually where the quarterback's going to go in the draft.
We've talked Young, We've talked Stroud, how about Hendon Hooker?
Mark Ross loves him. Half to the draft crew, what
do we think first round pick? Hi Prince? Welcome back
inside the Path to the Draft studios. Brett Lewis and
Bucky Brooks here with you. You know and when we
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look at the top quarterbacks in this draft, all too
often Hindon Hooker's name has been left out of the mix.
But he's an absolute stud in this class, especially when
you look at this touchdown to interception ratio. See some
of the big names on there that have had some
of those great years in this category since twenty and eighteen,
and Hendon Hooker's name is on there twice. By the way,
the other four people on there, they were all first
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round picks in the year that they came out. Hendon
Hooker on the road to recovery after that knee injury
and talking about his mindset as a rookie, Yeah, I'm
just trying to get as healthy as possible and that
will help me no longevity wise, but you know, I
just want to come in and be a sponge and
learn as much as I can from me and everyone
in the building. You had an electrifying career here at
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Tennessee fifty eight touchdowns to just five interceptions. How did
you limit those mistakes while still making plays downfield? No
one want to take chances. It's always the time and
place of everything, so no one want to take those
chances and squeezes into tight windows or you know, just
take what they give me. And that all comes from
my preparation. I probably myself in preparation and that helped
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me in the long run. Narro marrowis there are chatting
with Hendon Hooker at the Tennessee Pro Day, in which
he was unable to physically participate. But man, I tell
you what, in me with teams, it sure sounds like
Hendon Hooker is impressing the teams and evaluators with what
he's able to show in showcase. So with that in mind,
should Ndon Hooker be a first round pick? Buck? Yes,
he should be a first round pick. You heard him
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right there. The maturity that he displays when he meets
with teams, he conveys a first round talent to go
with film that certainly suggested his first round worthy. This
is a guy who has put up big numbers at
Tennessee and back to back years fifty eight touchdowns, five interceptions.
You put up the board where everyone on that board
before end and Hooker was a top of the first
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round player. And so when I think about this guy,
outstand they experienced great leadership ability, outstanding armed talent, and
when you're watch him play against the best in the SEC.
Here's one of the more dominant players. To me, it's
an easy situation to look at Hindon Hooker even with
the injury, and say, somewhere in the first round, in
the bottom of the first round, Hendon Hooker should hear
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his name. Yeah, I'm kind of looking at some of
those teams with multiple first round picks as those that
could be in the Hindon Hooker. Hinder Hindon Hooker market,
looking at you know, maybe the Detroit Lions at eighteen,
maybe the Vikings at twenty three, maybe the Seahawks at
twenty with established veteran quarterbacks to give some time to
Hindon Hooker to get ready to play. So just a
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couple of thoughts there. We've got plenty more each and
every weekday here on path to the Draft joint US
at six pm Eastern. All right, Reett, thank you, Let's
continue the quarterback conversation. How about this guy? Why isn't
dtr getting more run? Is it because Pac twelve after
dark happenwall of you were sleeping. He is here in
the building, he is coming up. He's jumping out of
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the set after checking out the helmets outside. Dorian Thompson
Robinson next on NFL Now, all right, that was ridiculous.
(20:12):
This guy can play NFL now presented to you by Ike.
He could also run. I mean, look, he's more than
just a guy that's really you know, a past quarterback.
He's a good quarterback. Dorian Thompson Robinson from UCLA was
the fastest quarterback of the combine, a four or five
six at the combine. Even though we tweeted that he
wasn't entirely happy with his combined performers. We've got to
that in a second. I'm sure he was happy to
(20:34):
see this, which was the East West Shrine Bowl, which
was in his hometown of Vegas. Picture of that picture
him here on the set here, Dorian Thompson Robinson from UCLA.
Thanks for coming into NFL Network. Thank you for having me. Man,
It's awesome to be here. How cool was that though?
To be there in Vegas and play in your hometown.
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Family still live in Vegas at his home, and you
got to be there in a college All Star game. Yeah,
I actually had close to a hundred people come to that.
Cool was it was definitely a blessing. It was. It
was super cool. Also to be able to spend in
with teammates. I got to go back and show them
my old high school and how rich in tradition that
was UM, and get to be able to see my
little sister played. So it was it was super cool,
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super fun week. That's Bishop Gorman, as you said, a
long football tradition there, and the Raiders are looking at
a quarterback. We spent half our show today talking about
the Raiders potentially drafting a quarterback. When you were a kid,
though they weren't there. They were the old Clan Raiders,
so you weren't necessarily a Raiders fan. But the possibility
of playing at home. Have you thought about that? I
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definitely have. I definitely have, And like you said that
the Raiders were not there when I was in town
at first, so UM definitely didn't have an NFL team
really growing up. And I've obviously leaned more towards the
Raiders now that they've been in town for the past
um a few years. We got Raiders colors on here today,
so it's been it's been super cool just to be
able to go through the process, like I said, talked
coaches m and I'll be at their local day on
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the fourteenth, and so I'll be able to meet with
them and everything too. So each team is able to
have a local tryout guys that grew up in that area,
and it doesn't count against the top thirty visits. So,
for example, the forty Niners are doing one today. All
the Bay area players, Stanford Cal whatever can work out
for the Niners. So you'll do the Raiders one. So
I'm going through your Twitter last night, right, and your
Twitter has one theme. You know what the theme is?
(22:23):
Do you know what it is? I don't know, but
I'm kind of scared now. No, it's good. It's praising
your teammates. Half of you, I'd say two thirds of
what you tweet is retweeting stuff about your teammates. You're
a good morning football. Last month they asked you, hey, Dorian,
look at the camera. All thirty two teams are watching.
Sell yourself to those thirty two teams. You know what
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he did? You talked about your teammates. Do you not
like talking about yourself? Oh it's not that. It's just
you know, everybody thinks the quarterback gets all the all
the praise and all the blame, but in reality, it's
it is the team sport and I love my teammates
to death, and that's part of the reason why I
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came back from my fifth year at UCLA because I
love those boys so much and so um. You know,
that's that's the type of teammate I am, Um, And
that's the type of quarterback. Hand for let's talk about you.
I said you're the fastest quarterback of the combine. You
also have the best arm. Um. This is not something
we've been doing for a while, honestly, Dorian. It kind
of reminds me of of like something you do at
a carnival and we'd give you a Teddy bear, But
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do we have the video of you throwing sixty two
miles an hour something like that? They they put up
like a wall and you're throw it sixty two miles
an hour? Like what's that worth? Um? You know, I
just think kind of all my hard work that I
put in with eight weeks with Jordan Palmer and staff
down in Orange County and being able to you know,
put that on display. Um. And you know, I'm not
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gonna come out and say I got the strongest arm
because uh, you know, it's the proof is in the
pudding and so for me, like I said, I'm just
trying to work hard and improve every day, um and
making sure that I'm growing every day. So not trying
to take away from the great stuff to do with
the combine. It does kind of feel like a carnival
game though, doesn't it? Just like throw it as hard
as you think it. Definitely does it, definitely does. It
brought me back from when I was trying to do
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that stuff, like I said, at the carnival, but there
was no Teddy there, No, definitely not didn't get a
prize for I also know you take a lot of
pride in what you guys have done at you see,
like collectively again back your teammates. The fact that the
last two years you guys have won seventeen games from
where you started there at the beginning to how you finished.
How important is that to you? Yeah? Super important And
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obviously I came in with the with the hopes of
doing that a lot sooner. But it's been super cool
just to be able to go through it with my
freshman class. We started out as playing as freshman and
was the youngest team in college football, and now you know,
we're all adults now and moving on and being able
to leave them with something with a bigger foundation than
what we what we had. So m you know, I'm
super proud and super bussed to even be able to
(24:54):
be handed those keys to do that. So we always
asked the prospects as they get ready for the draft. Here,
who is it that you watched when you were a kid?
You not surprisingly watched a lot of Aaron Rodgers. You
recently ran into Aaron Rodgers. Tell me about that. Yes,
it was super cool. Um we met at my trender
Jordan Palmer's flag football event um in r X three
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and so h, like I said, just super cool. Just
be able to ask him for advice, um, and kind
of the things that he would he would go in
with throughout this process. And he said to stay present,
enjoy every moment. You know, he went through his retreat
and everything and he got a little reset himself. So, UM,
just give me advice he got from that and what
he learned from there and all that type of stuff. So,
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for the record, you have not gone into a four
day darkness to retreat yet. I have not no plans
to do that. Uh, there there may be plans in
the future. I don't know. I don't know. Aaron may
have convinced me really because I have said I said
it on the air, Dorian, that I would do that.
I think like turning all this off and going dark
for a little bit, like there might be some use
(25:59):
to that. Yeah, you need some of that for sure.
For sure, I would say, all right, you tell me
how it goes. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna spell
the secrets too early. Okay. I know you're also doing
a lot of visits. You mentioned the Raiders here on
their local workout. I know last week you visited the
Browns and I was told that you like studying dinosaurs
at UCLA. Do you know that Miles Garrett His Twitter
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handle is Jurassic Miles and he has shown up for
games in a dinosaurs suit. Yes, I've seen this video before. Okay,
the Browns are a good fit. Yes they are. Okay,
they definitely are. I was able to meet with that staff,
go through installs and be able to share them my
recall and how intelligent I am about the game, and
so I thought it was a really good meeting and
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a really good overall experience to be able to go
down there and meet with those guys last thing for
your Dorian. Again, I know you don't like talking about yourself,
and this is really about everybody. Chip Kelly said late
last year that you, Zach Charbone others maybe didn't get
the pub you deserve because of PAC twelve after Dark,
because you guys played so many late games where people
back east didn't watch. I'll be honest with that. There
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were times where I had to go to bed early
for Sunday shows for the NFL, and I woke up
five am check my phone and I'd begin all these texts,
Oh my god, did you see what DTR did? Do
you think that played any effect? I think it did.
I think it did. I was born in South Carolina,
so I have a lot of my external family back
on the East Coast, and so I definitely know the
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pain and struggles it is to be able to watch
me play late at night back on the East Coast,
and so I think it'll be it'll be good for
them to be able to join the Big Ten, and
a part of the reason why I think it'd be
beneficial for them to be able to get that type
of exposure and to get more eyes on him and
everything like that. So he is the star of Pac
twelve After Dark Dorian Thompson Robinson from UCLA. Good luck
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to you, sir, thank you, thanks for coming in, DTR
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