April 22, 2026 • 32 mins
Ohio Treasurer Robert Sprague is running for SOS of Ohio. Thom chats with him. Also, Charles Davis talks on the draft.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And Jen This is the Bloomberg Money Minute on seven
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All right, welcome back June in the morning show here
on seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Coming up in just a minute, we'll have Robert Sprigge,
who's running for the Ohio Secretary of State. He has
been the state treasurer for the last four years, and
we're going to talk to him about election integrity. You know,
it's very interesting that this save Act in the Congress,
and of course they've been on recess forever that has
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not been passed, and it basically has to do with
having an ID to prove you are an American citizen
to vote. This is one of those eighty twenty issues.
Even among Democrats, seventy eight percent of Democrats believe you
should have a form of ID to vote in the
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United States of America. And we've talked about this on
this program many many many times before that. You know,
some on the left have come out and said, oh,
this is racist, it's all what it is is. It's
not racist at all. In fact, it's the counter to that.
It's racist if you believe that a person of color
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is incapable of going out and getting some kind of ID.
And some on the left have even compared it to
Jim Crow Laws. Now, for those just as a refresher,
Jim Crow Laws had to do with keeping somebody out
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because of the color of their skin or because of
their gender. This has nothing to do with any of that.
This is everybody that is in the exact same pool
American citizens. It doesn't say you're white, it doesn't say
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if you're brown or if you're black. It doesn't say
if you are gay or if you are straight. It
has nothing to do with anything except for being able
to prove that you are an American citizen and thus
can vote. And so the Department of Justice has gone
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to a number of states, and I mean there was
another lawsuit filed yesterday where they are asking state attorney
generals for different roles of voters to go ahead and
make them known to the federal government who's on your
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voter rolls? And these states are fighting against it. Why
would they fight against it? That's the only question I have.
Who would fight against this? Who's on your voter rolls?
The only people who don't want to give up voter
roles are those that have something to hide. We have
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learned about people that are dead that are still voting.
We have learned about people who have never lived in
a state, yet they are voting in that state. And
this is going on everywhere. It basically is fraud, and
lord knows, we're learning more and more about fraud all
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the time, whether it's Minnesota, whether it's California. And so look,
if you can commit fraud in one area, like you're
running a hospice in La right and getting tens of
millions of dollars and they're all like within the LA
city limit. So the same thing's going on with voting
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and voting rules and regulations belong to the state, not
the federal government. But the federal government is trying to
get involved because the states are running it. Depending on
which state you're in. California, anybody vote, you don't need
an ID, you don't need anything. State of Washington, Oregon.
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I mean, it's unbelievable. We're still waiting on Robert Sprague.
Apparently they're having some phone issues in trying to get
through here, so hopefully he'll be with us any minute now.
He is running for the Ohio Secretary of State, has
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a primary coming up on May the fifth. He is
expected to win that primary, has not a slam dunk,
but expected to win, and then he would advance on
to the November election, where if you read the paper today,
the enquire Bowling Green State University did a poll that says,
for the first time in longer than twenty years, the
Democrats might have a legitimate chance to take some major
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state offices. Do you believe that in Ohio are the
Democrats that motivated to vote in the state of Ohio
and in other places we're seeing signs that they are,
and it should be a red flag to those on
the right about getting their act together, because the Democrats
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seem very motivated, and of course they're motivated for one
reason and one reason only, and that's Donald J.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Trump. They don't like him.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
I mean, if you go to most Democratic voters and
you ask them a handful of questions, you'd be surprised
how many, just on policy that they would agree with
Trump on one. You want an open border, well, I
mean Biden was okay with an open border. But if
you go to most reasonably thinking people and you say, hey,
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you in favor in open border, they would tell you
not a chance. They say, okay, well agree with Trump
on that. If you went to them and said, do
you want Iran to have a nuclear missile? Eighty something
percent would say absolutely not. Well, that's Donald Trump's policy,
and a whole lot of other presidents, including Republican presidents,
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I might add, but whether it's George W. Bush, whether
it's Barack Obama, whether it's Joe Biden, even the Democrats
in the Senate, and there is video clip after video
clip after video clip of all of these Democrats saying
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Iran cannot have a nuclear missile, and now, all of
a sudden, one president because they don't like him, steps
in and wants to actually do something about it. Now,
all of a sudden, they're talking about war crimes and
things like this. If Iran got a nuclear missile, Israel
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would be blown off the face of the earth, and
there are a lot of areas in Europe that would
be targeted as well. All right, let's get to Robert
Sprague running for Ohio Secretary of State. He is the
Ohio State Treasurer and Robert Spragu, thank you so much
for your time.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Good morning to you. How's everything, Good morning, Thank you
for having me on.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
I'm apologized we had.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
A little delay there getting the call in, but things
are going great. It's a beautiful day in Ohio. We
have sunshine and it's getting warmer, so life is good.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
All right.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
I was just talking a minute ago before you came
on about this voter in integrity and as Ohio Secretary
of State. I don't know if that's the number one
thing that would be on your sort of to do
list or checkbox or other things that the Ohio Secretary
of State has to do. But in the environment that
we are in right now, and you are running in
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the May fifth Republican primary, and then expected to advance
onto the general election in November. Talk about election security?
Are we secure? Do we have secure elections here in
the state of Ohio.
Speaker 6 (09:32):
We do a good job here in the State of Ohio.
We do run secure elections. But the price of freedom
is eternal vigilance. And it is my goal to run
the most secure elections in the history of the State
of Ohio. It's not one of the things that is
on my mind. It is the only thing that's on
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my mind. We need to make sure that our elections
are secure, and it begins with the voter regis process.
And when I am the next Secretary of State of Ohio,
I will move to an up front citizenship check so
that only American citizens can vote in the State of Ohio,
in our state elections, our local elections, and in the
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federal elections.
Speaker 7 (10:18):
It's so critical to have.
Speaker 6 (10:20):
Only legal, only registered, only valid.
Speaker 7 (10:26):
American citizens voting in the.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
State of Ohio.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
How do you differentiate if at all? Let's start with
your opponent in the Republican primary. Do you guys differentiate
on this?
Speaker 8 (10:39):
You know?
Speaker 6 (10:39):
Look, I think that where my Republican opponent and I
differ is on two things. First, of all, I have
leadership experience. I'm a capable, improven leader for the people
of the state of Ohio statewide, be in state treasurer,
and also for the Republican Party, having one statewide twice,
which I can tell you is not easy.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
We have a very big state, a very diverse state.
Speaker 6 (11:05):
You have to win in a lot of areas and
a lot of neighborhoods that don't all look alike.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
But the second piece that perhaps.
Speaker 6 (11:12):
Is more important from a policy standpoint is I want
to make sure that we move to all paper ballots
in every county for every election, because that gives us
an immutable audit trail. I know how to audit. We
can go back. We will count the paper to make
sure that the machines are telling us the truth, and
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we will run that paper through these optical scan machines,
which gives us the vote instantaneously that night, and we
create two audit trails, one with the paper ballots and
the second.
Speaker 7 (11:45):
So that you know how many people voted.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
In that race, who won, and who lost.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
All of that information immediately available as soon as we're
right after the polls closed, as soon as possible. Is
that and important information for an audit. Now, my opponent
wants to allow counties to decide if they would like
to hand count the ballots. Now, you take a county
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like Cuyahoga, heavily, a very big county in northeast Ohio,
over a million votes cast. If you were to try
to hand count in that county they made that decision,
we would possibly be there for days, if not weeks,
with a handcount. And you can imagine that you would
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lose the chain of custody for a lot of paper
ballots that are sitting around a million paper ballots and
warehouses or other places where you're not sure if people
have fiddled with them, or they've been certain in their votes,
or if people are over marking the ballots. There's all
kinds of chicanery that you can do in that time period,
and we've seen it. Imagine what happened in Atlanta, Georgia.
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But put that in a big county in this state
of Ohio. I think it's going to be a disaster.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
All right, Before I let you go. Robert Sprague running
for Ohio Secretary of State. He's been the Ohio Treasurer
and when he talks about audit, he knows what he's
talking about. He's a former city auditor and treasurer in
the Finlay, Ohio area. This Save America Act. What is
the delay behind this? Because you know, Robert, when you
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ask even Democrats, they're in the upper seventies of agreeing
that there should be voter ID to vote. So if
that's the case, why are the people who represent this
pretty much eighty twenty issue? Why are they not passing
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this act?
Speaker 6 (13:45):
Listen, it is common sense we should return, in my opinion,
and when I'm Secretary of State, we should return to
in person voting. Maybe declare election Day a holiday in
return to in person voting here in the state of Ohio.
And the Save America Act does two things, both of
which I support.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
First of all, it does check for citizenship.
Speaker 7 (14:09):
That's incredibly important.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
And I believe and I know that we could do
that without creating an undue burden.
Speaker 5 (14:16):
On the rights of the electors.
Speaker 6 (14:19):
And the second thing the Save America Act does is
it requires photo ID. Why do we not have universal
photo ID? When I'm Secretary State, well'm universal photo ID.
We do a great job here in the state of Ohio.
Everybody should mail in a photo ID. Along with their
mail in ballot, and if it were up to me,
we'd go back to in person voting and we'd make
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sure that everybody has to show that photo ID to
be able to have a ballot cast. It's the only
way that you can run a secure and a fair election.
And you're right, the vast majority of Americans understand that,
and they want our elections to be secure.
Speaker 7 (14:57):
Vote both from the far right and the far.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
Left and everybody in between. An it's an.
Speaker 6 (15:03):
Absolutely common sense thing we should be showing photo ID.
And that's what I'll do as Secretary of State if
they can't get.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
It done in Congress.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Robert Spray, we thank you for your time this morning,
and the best of luck on May the fifth and beyond,
and we'll catch up again as we get close to
the election in November.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Thank you for your time.
Speaker 7 (15:22):
Thank you so much.
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Speaker 2 (17:20):
So excited for our next guest here on the Morning
Show seven hundred WLW. We don't do a lot of
sports on the morning show, but with a draft tomorrow night,
and we know the Bengals have made a trade already
to acquire Dexter Lawrence. They gave up their number ten
pick in the first round tomorrow night, so they will
not be picking tomorrow. They will be picking second round
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pick forty first overall on Friday, and the man who's
going to be there every single minute talking about every
single guy drafted. I'll tell you one of the greats
in broadcasting and one of the greats in humanity, my
old broadcast partner on the NFL and in the BC
yes days of college football.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Charles Davis joining us.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
You've got a big pow wow meeting Charles at nine
for the draft.
Speaker 8 (18:08):
There's a meeting all the time. You know how that goes.
Whether there needs to be a meeting or not, someone's
gonna call one. You've been involved in plenty of those
over the years.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Yeah, but you know I want to ask you though,
for a draft because I mean, there are so many guys, Charles.
Is it reasonable expect? And by the way, congratulations. I
know this coming year you're gonna take over for Gary
Danielson as a lead broadcast team on college football on CBS.
So very excited for you there. Does that mean you're
not gonna do the NFL anymore?
Speaker 8 (18:39):
Won't be doing NFL games? Okay?
Speaker 6 (18:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (18:42):
Yeah, definitely definitely out on NFL games. And we'll see
where things go with the draft and everything else, but
definitely out on the NFL game.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Well, very excited for you, and it's a great, great job,
and no one more deserving than you are. What I
was getting at when when it comes to these meetings, Charles,
is it reasonable that anyone would know everything about every
single one of these players?
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Do you guys kind of divvy it up? How does
it work?
Speaker 8 (19:05):
Yeah, that's a great question. And and and truthfully, you
know I shouldn't start that way because you know what
it's like, tom As soon as you start with truth player,
what have you been telling me honestly all the way through? Right?
Truthfully is like a crutch to get you somewhere else.
All right, So let's take it out of there. I
thought over the years when I've heard our brethren talk
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about different things that very few times are we really
doing exactly what sometimes are declarative sentences. I've seen every
throw he's made since kindergarten, right, I watched every play
of the season last year. Can it happened? Sure? Does
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it happen as often as maybe we declare it? I
doubt it? It's a lot. I mean our truck and
you've you've used a great, great phrase, divvied it up? Right,
So the people who are working on the draft in
the truck that are putting together highlight tapes, stats, facts
on people. They've divvied up that workload because I think
that when we go into this thing, our truck will
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have over a thousand people in the database in case
they get picked. Right, So we always do a little
game on on Saturday, the last day of the draft,
had called Stump the truck where we throw out names
of you know, so called the secure players obscure schools,
and more times than not, the truck will have something
on those players. So to your point, can all of
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us do it? Is it reasonable to expect it? I
think for us who are sitting up on the podium
and sitting up on stage over the course of seven rounds,
it's reasonable to expect us to know the vast majority
of kids that come through. Will there be a kid
that slides through that came out of Rhodes Holman that
you may not have had on your list? Yep, sure,
and it does happen from time to time. But I
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think it's reasonable to expect us to have that in
our base. Because there's three hundred and thirty something slots
right over seven rounds, give or take whatever that number is.
With three and thirty at the combine, and I forgot
how many actually get drafted at seven rounds? Thirty two teams?
Do the math right, give or take a few extra picks. Yep,
we should have in our database the vast majority of
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those people. So I think that's reasonable, and if it's not,
we probably shouldn't be sitting up there.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Well well, I mean, it really is amazing the amount
of work that a lot of people do, and most
of them we never even know their names. It's mind boggling. Okay,
let's zero in on the Bengals here. First of all,
what did you think about the Dexter Lawrence deal?
Speaker 8 (21:41):
I was. I was surprised two ways. One, I don't
think the Giants expected this to happen at all, Like, what,
you're gonna give us a one? I just you know,
I'm sure they'd probably throw it out there and never
once thought someone would say yes. And so when you
got to where the Giants are now going to pick
five and ten in the first round with a new
head coach, should kind of under new management again, how
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do you turn that down? You don't Exter Laards is
twenty nine, that's not ancient. But he didn't play as
well last year. Now, what were the circumstances. He was
upset about the contract, he reported late to camp, He
wasn't in as good a shape as he should have
been in. He didn't have the year he had the
year before where no one blocked him. But Cincinnati is
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betting on counting on feels reasonably, has a reasonable expectation
they'll see the extra launch of two years ago at
twenty nine. You don't think, oh, well, you know, we're
bordering on it could be gone. They still think he's
hitting the prime. That's why you make that move. The
second part, You know what it is, Tom, that Cincinnati
offense is so good, you've got to give him something
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to play with on defense. And in this year's drafts,
interior defensive lineman who could rush the passer a lot
of interior defensive linemen. Tom, we don't have any real
great pass rushing interior defensive lineman as we've seen come
out of college yet.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Uh okay, let's focus on what you think the the
Bengals might do by the time they pick in the
second round. And of course that'll be on Friday, and
we'll have all the coverage here on WLW on Thursday,
Friday and Saturday safe to say, you know, you look,
their pass rushing has been an issue. Trey Hendrickson has
gone an edge rusher. There's been talk about safety, and
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there was talk about Caleb downs and all that kind
of thing.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
Throw that out the window.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
There's been talk about cornerback, and then there's been talk
about linebackers. You know, they started the two rookies, as
you know Charles last year.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
Will the guys in front of them make them better?
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Now?
Speaker 4 (23:37):
In year two?
Speaker 2 (23:38):
If you're the Bengals, where would you be zeroed in
on for that pick in the second round?
Speaker 8 (23:45):
You know, Tom is funny how it's going through you
and I came up through the ranks, which conventional wisdom
was pass rusher, pass rusher.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
Pass rubber ball right yep.
Speaker 8 (23:54):
And then as you noticed that when you recall it games,
you probably have run into a good number of defensive
coordinators are like, you know, those guys who can cover
because them all's out of their hands so fast now
that it is hard for our pass rushers to get
home like they used to because we're not doing five
step and step drops. It's one two bone balls out
of your hands. So you try to take a look.
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If you say to yourself, let's just start with the corners,
because if we're getting into the second round and where
the Bengals are going to pick, I would expect Delane
and McCoy, Chris Johnson, Terrell Hood from Tennessee. I expect
them all to be gone. What are you looking for
out of that corner you're looking for the outside corner
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is a Brandon Ceesaye from South Carolina still available there?
Speaker 5 (24:39):
You know.
Speaker 8 (24:41):
Davis and Nigbinosen, who's a polarizing figure at Ohio State.
Talented is all get out penalties left and right because
he holds a lot. Where do you go? So if
you look at that, there'd be a bunch of players
that you're going to go and look. Indiana's Darling all right,
Ponds check of a player, D'Angelo you, I think if
you're gonna put oh my god, it's a great player.
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You just have to be convinced that you're gonna play
him outside if you're gonna take him for that spot.
But you got to be able to say, if he
can't hold up outside, I'm gonna put him in the nickel.
I think he's gonna be a heck of a player,
you know, and so so those are the things I
look at there. The safety spot is very interesting because
it's pretty deep safety draft, Tom, really deep safety draft.
This kid at LSU, aj Halsey looks like he's gonna
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win a powerlifting contest. And that has to be patrol
center field for you really well, and it will strike you
in a big way. But Clark from TCU is a
great centerfield ball hawk. It's a Key Wheatley from Penn State.
He'll he'll smack your round Genesis Smith Arizona. It is
a really really deep safety draft, so you've got players
that you can go for there. I don't think linebacker
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is gonna be quite as big of a deal for
the Bengals, just because, as you pointed out, they put
they put some stock in the guys last year. I
think they're gonna try and build up the other spots,
and that's where the edge is gonna be very interest because,
oh my god, Tom, we're gonna have a run on
them in the first round.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
I think, yep.
Speaker 8 (26:05):
And it may push some guys up into the first
round that people thought might go in the second. And
that's where it's gonna get interesting because this kid out
of UCF, Malaki Lawrence, is getting all this praise that
maybe he slides into the first. I still think he's
gonna go in the second, and he would be a
guy that'd be like right on top of the boards. Him. PJ.
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Parker at Clemson sits right on that line. The Zion
Young from Missouri sit on that line. Cash is Howel
with his short arms but his incredible motor from Texas
A and m our Mason Thomas Oklahoma gave Akis from Illinois.
I mean, it's just a bunch of guys that are
there and available. I wouldn't be surprised to see them
dip into that pool because you've got to start replacing
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some of those guys. You just can't help it. I mean,
the Trey Henderson thing is finally over. But okay, glad
it's over. Who's gonna run? Who's gonna rush? Quarterback? Thank?
Speaker 5 (26:59):
You know?
Speaker 4 (27:00):
Yeah, well, you know.
Speaker 8 (27:03):
The whole deal. But he hasn't really emerged yet.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
And that's the last thing I want to ask you
about is because you have covered the high the college
game at the highest level, pro game, at the highest level,
you are a great player at Tennessee Hall of Famer
all that kind of thing. You know, we've gotten so
involved in analytics in every sport. And you know you
mentioned and they said this about Reuben Bain Junior, right,
short arms. Okay, all I know is every time I
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did one of the guys games, he's moling people back there, right,
just ask Ohio State.
Speaker 8 (27:31):
Right.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
So, but what I'm asking you is, you know, it's
like the old thing about Okay, well, you know at
the combine they do a B, C and D athletic skills,
that kind of thing that are off the charts. And
you look at Jamar Stewart as an example, right off
the charts and everything you can imagine, but he only
had like three sacks in his career at Texas A
and M. Now is that all on him?
Speaker 4 (27:51):
Of course not.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
But what I'm asking you is, you know, where do
you think most teams at the end of the day,
when it comes to drafting a player in the NFL,
are they looking at what the guy does on a
game film or are they putting more stock on his
high jump and how long his arms are?
Speaker 8 (28:10):
They will tell you that it's a combo package. It
all depends on the team, Tom, As you've been through
your career and you've dealt with these guys, and nowadays
because the colleges have GMS and player of personnel groups, right,
we're getting a sense of that in the college level.
But each team, as we went through, remember we were
calling games, you kind of have to figure out where
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where the room tilted. You know, is this a GM
heavy team or does a coach have a lot of
influence They listen to their coaching staff when they do
things like the Bengals are very big on the coaching
staff being involved in the process. Okay, other teams not
so much. We'll find the players you coach them up.
So it just depends on how that tilts. I think
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with Ruben Bain it comes down to this very simply, Tom, Yes,
his arms are short. Yes, we can come up with
all the information it says, it's nine eighty seven, No
one warms this sure has ever had ten sacks in
a draft. We can do all of those things. I
finally said to someone the other day who was saying
I said, Okay, I said, that's fine. I get where
you're coming from. Tell me who you're picking ahead of
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him in the twenty twenty six NFL Draft, not the
twenty twenty five because that already heard, Not the theoretical
one in twenty seven because it hasn't happened. Not a hey,
where would he have gone in twenty twenty three with that?
That doesn't matter?
Speaker 5 (29:29):
Yep?
Speaker 8 (29:31):
Is he that guy right now? Because I'm with you.
Every time you turn on the tape, someone's getting beat
up and he's getting to the quarterback, or he's knocking
down a running back, or he's creating rubble and other
people make plays. He plays so hard. He's a tough guy.
He can do different things within kick him inside, rush
him over guards, and then the arm Like this isn't
as big as the deal as it is with tackles.
(29:51):
I just don't know. Like I say, I'm fine, give
me a guy with longer arms. We tell me, is
he a better player.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Than That's right? That's exactly right. End of story, Charles.
I know you got to get into him eating. I
can't thank you enough on short notice for joint as
you are the best. Good luck in the draft the
X three days man, and get a little rest, my friend,
because you're gonna be doing a lot of TV time.
Speaker 8 (30:10):
I will do my best. Thanks a lot of time,
great talking with you, continued success.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Thank you by the family, the best, Charles fid Davis.
I'm telling you the best, not a better man on
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Speaker 2 (01:43):
Coming up in just a minute, we'll have Robert Sprigge,
who's running for the Ohio Secretary of State. He has
been the state treasurer for the last four years, and
we're going to talk to him about election integrity. You know,
it's very interesting that this save Act in the Congress,
and of course they've been on recess forever that has
(02:04):
not been passed, and it basically has to do with
having an ID to prove you are an American citizen
to vote. This is one of those eighty twenty issues.
Even among Democrats, seventy eight percent of Democrats believe you
should have a form of ID to vote in the
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United States of America. And we've talked about this on
this program many many many times before that. You know,
some on the left have come out and said, oh,
this is racist, it's all what it is is. It's
not racist at all. In fact, it's the counter to that.
It's racist if you believe that a person of color
(02:47):
is incapable of going out and getting some kind of ID.
And some on the left have even compared it to
Jim Crow Laws. Now, for those just as a refresher,
Jim Crow Laws had to do with keeping somebody out
(03:10):
because of the color of their skin or because of
their gender. This has nothing to do with any of that.
This is everybody that is in the exact same pool
American citizens. It doesn't say you're white, it doesn't say
(03:32):
if you're brown or if you're black. It doesn't say
if you are gay or if you are straight. It
has nothing to do with anything except for being able
to prove that you are an American citizen and thus
can vote. And so the Department of Justice has gone
(03:55):
to a number of states, and I mean there was
another lawsuit filed yesterday where they are asking state attorney
generals for different roles of voters to go ahead and
make them known to the federal government who's on your
(04:16):
voter rolls? And these states are fighting against it. Why
would they fight against it? That's the only question I have.
Who would fight against this? Who's on your voter rolls?
The only people who don't want to give up voter
roles are those that have something to hide. We have
(04:40):
learned about people that are dead that are still voting.
We have learned about people who have never lived in
a state, yet they are voting in that state. And
this is going on everywhere. It basically is fraud, and
lord knows, we're learning more and more about fraud all
(05:01):
the time, whether it's Minnesota, whether it's California. And so look,
if you can commit fraud in one area, like you're
running a hospice in La right and getting tens of
millions of dollars and they're all like within the LA
city limit. So the same thing's going on with voting
(05:23):
and voting rules and regulations belong to the state, not
the federal government. But the federal government is trying to
get involved because the states are running it. Depending on
which state you're in. California, anybody vote, you don't need
an ID, you don't need anything. State of Washington, Oregon.
(05:45):
I mean, it's unbelievable. We're still waiting on Robert Sprague.
Apparently they're having some phone issues in trying to get
through here, so hopefully he'll be with us any minute now.
He is running for the Ohio Secretary of State, has
(06:08):
a primary coming up on May the fifth. He is
expected to win that primary, has not a slam dunk,
but expected to win, and then he would advance on
to the November election, where if you read the paper today,
the enquire Bowling Green State University did a poll that says,
for the first time in longer than twenty years, the
Democrats might have a legitimate chance to take some major
(06:31):
state offices. Do you believe that in Ohio are the
Democrats that motivated to vote in the state of Ohio
and in other places we're seeing signs that they are,
and it should be a red flag to those on
the right about getting their act together, because the Democrats
(06:52):
seem very motivated, and of course they're motivated for one
reason and one reason only, and that's Donald J.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Trump. They don't like him.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
I mean, if you go to most Democratic voters and
you ask them a handful of questions, you'd be surprised
how many, just on policy that they would agree with
Trump on one. You want an open border, well, I
mean Biden was okay with an open border. But if
you go to most reasonably thinking people and you say, hey,
(07:21):
you in favor in open border, they would tell you
not a chance. They say, okay, well agree with Trump
on that. If you went to them and said, do
you want Iran to have a nuclear missile? Eighty something
percent would say absolutely not. Well, that's Donald Trump's policy,
and a whole lot of other presidents, including Republican presidents,
(07:42):
I might add, but whether it's George W. Bush, whether
it's Barack Obama, whether it's Joe Biden, even the Democrats
in the Senate, and there is video clip after video
clip after video clip of all of these Democrats saying
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Iran cannot have a nuclear missile, and now, all of
a sudden, one president because they don't like him, steps
in and wants to actually do something about it. Now,
all of a sudden, they're talking about war crimes and
things like this. If Iran got a nuclear missile, Israel
(08:24):
would be blown off the face of the earth, and
there are a lot of areas in Europe that would
be targeted as well. All right, let's get to Robert
Sprague running for Ohio Secretary of State. He is the
Ohio State Treasurer and Robert Spragu, thank you so much
for your time.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Good morning to you. How's everything, Good morning, Thank you
for having me on.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
I'm apologized we had.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
A little delay there getting the call in, but things
are going great. It's a beautiful day in Ohio. We
have sunshine and it's getting warmer, so life is good.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
All right.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
I was just talking a minute ago before you came
on about this voter in integrity and as Ohio Secretary
of State. I don't know if that's the number one
thing that would be on your sort of to do
list or checkbox or other things that the Ohio Secretary
of State has to do. But in the environment that
we are in right now, and you are running in
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the May fifth Republican primary, and then expected to advance
onto the general election in November. Talk about election security?
Are we secure? Do we have secure elections here in
the state of Ohio.
Speaker 6 (09:32):
We do a good job here in the State of Ohio.
We do run secure elections. But the price of freedom
is eternal vigilance. And it is my goal to run
the most secure elections in the history of the State
of Ohio. It's not one of the things that is
on my mind. It is the only thing that's on
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my mind. We need to make sure that our elections
are secure, and it begins with the voter regis process.
And when I am the next Secretary of State of Ohio,
I will move to an up front citizenship check so
that only American citizens can vote in the State of Ohio,
in our state elections, our local elections, and in the
(10:16):
federal elections.
Speaker 7 (10:18):
It's so critical to have.
Speaker 6 (10:20):
Only legal, only registered, only valid.
Speaker 7 (10:26):
American citizens voting in the.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
State of Ohio.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
How do you differentiate if at all? Let's start with
your opponent in the Republican primary. Do you guys differentiate
on this?
Speaker 8 (10:39):
You know?
Speaker 6 (10:39):
Look, I think that where my Republican opponent and I
differ is on two things. First, of all, I have
leadership experience. I'm a capable, improven leader for the people
of the state of Ohio statewide, be in state treasurer,
and also for the Republican Party, having one statewide twice,
which I can tell you is not easy.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
We have a very big state, a very diverse state.
Speaker 6 (11:05):
You have to win in a lot of areas and
a lot of neighborhoods that don't all look alike.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
But the second piece that perhaps.
Speaker 6 (11:12):
Is more important from a policy standpoint is I want
to make sure that we move to all paper ballots
in every county for every election, because that gives us
an immutable audit trail. I know how to audit. We
can go back. We will count the paper to make
sure that the machines are telling us the truth, and
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we will run that paper through these optical scan machines,
which gives us the vote instantaneously that night, and we
create two audit trails, one with the paper ballots and
the second.
Speaker 7 (11:45):
So that you know how many people voted.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
In that race, who won, and who lost.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
All of that information immediately available as soon as we're
right after the polls closed, as soon as possible. Is
that and important information for an audit. Now, my opponent
wants to allow counties to decide if they would like
to hand count the ballots. Now, you take a county
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like Cuyahoga, heavily, a very big county in northeast Ohio,
over a million votes cast. If you were to try
to hand count in that county they made that decision,
we would possibly be there for days, if not weeks,
with a handcount. And you can imagine that you would
(12:33):
lose the chain of custody for a lot of paper
ballots that are sitting around a million paper ballots and
warehouses or other places where you're not sure if people
have fiddled with them, or they've been certain in their votes,
or if people are over marking the ballots. There's all
kinds of chicanery that you can do in that time period,
and we've seen it. Imagine what happened in Atlanta, Georgia.
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But put that in a big county in this state
of Ohio. I think it's going to be a disaster.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
All right, Before I let you go. Robert Sprague running
for Ohio Secretary of State. He's been the Ohio Treasurer
and when he talks about audit, he knows what he's
talking about. He's a former city auditor and treasurer in
the Finlay, Ohio area. This Save America Act. What is
the delay behind this? Because you know, Robert, when you
(13:23):
ask even Democrats, they're in the upper seventies of agreeing
that there should be voter ID to vote. So if
that's the case, why are the people who represent this
pretty much eighty twenty issue? Why are they not passing
(13:43):
this act?
Speaker 6 (13:45):
Listen, it is common sense we should return, in my opinion,
and when I'm Secretary of State, we should return to
in person voting. Maybe declare election Day a holiday in
return to in person voting here in the state of Ohio.
And the Save America Act does two things, both of
which I support.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
First of all, it does check for citizenship.
Speaker 7 (14:09):
That's incredibly important.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
And I believe and I know that we could do
that without creating an undue burden.
Speaker 5 (14:16):
On the rights of the electors.
Speaker 6 (14:19):
And the second thing the Save America Act does is
it requires photo ID. Why do we not have universal
photo ID? When I'm Secretary State, well'm universal photo ID.
We do a great job here in the state of Ohio.
Everybody should mail in a photo ID. Along with their
mail in ballot, and if it were up to me,
we'd go back to in person voting and we'd make
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sure that everybody has to show that photo ID to
be able to have a ballot cast. It's the only
way that you can run a secure and a fair election.
And you're right, the vast majority of Americans understand that,
and they want our elections to be secure.
Speaker 7 (14:57):
Vote both from the far right and the far.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
Left and everybody in between. An it's an.
Speaker 6 (15:03):
Absolutely common sense thing we should be showing photo ID.
And that's what I'll do as Secretary of State if
they can't get.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
It done in Congress.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Robert Spray, we thank you for your time this morning,
and the best of luck on May the fifth and beyond,
and we'll catch up again as we get close to
the election in November.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Thank you for your time.
Speaker 7 (15:22):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
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So excited for our next guest here on the Morning
Show seven hundred WLW. We don't do a lot of
sports on the morning show, but with a draft tomorrow night,
and we know the Bengals have made a trade already
to acquire Dexter Lawrence. They gave up their number ten
pick in the first round tomorrow night, so they will
not be picking tomorrow. They will be picking second round
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pick forty first overall on Friday, and the man who's
going to be there every single minute talking about every
single guy drafted. I'll tell you one of the greats
in broadcasting and one of the greats in humanity, my
old broadcast partner on the NFL and in the BC
yes days of college football.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Charles Davis joining us.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
You've got a big pow wow meeting Charles at nine
for the draft.
Speaker 8 (18:08):
There's a meeting all the time. You know how that goes.
Whether there needs to be a meeting or not, someone's
gonna call one. You've been involved in plenty of those
over the years.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Yeah, but you know I want to ask you though,
for a draft because I mean, there are so many guys, Charles.
Is it reasonable expect? And by the way, congratulations. I
know this coming year you're gonna take over for Gary
Danielson as a lead broadcast team on college football on CBS.
So very excited for you there. Does that mean you're
not gonna do the NFL anymore?
Speaker 8 (18:39):
Won't be doing NFL games? Okay?
Speaker 6 (18:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (18:42):
Yeah, definitely definitely out on NFL games. And we'll see
where things go with the draft and everything else, but
definitely out on the NFL game.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Well, very excited for you, and it's a great, great job,
and no one more deserving than you are. What I
was getting at when when it comes to these meetings, Charles,
is it reasonable that anyone would know everything about every
single one of these players?
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Do you guys kind of divvy it up? How does
it work?
Speaker 8 (19:05):
Yeah, that's a great question. And and and truthfully, you
know I shouldn't start that way because you know what
it's like, tom As soon as you start with truth player,
what have you been telling me honestly all the way through? Right?
Truthfully is like a crutch to get you somewhere else.
All right, So let's take it out of there. I
thought over the years when I've heard our brethren talk
(19:28):
about different things that very few times are we really
doing exactly what sometimes are declarative sentences. I've seen every
throw he's made since kindergarten, right, I watched every play
of the season last year. Can it happened? Sure? Does
(19:52):
it happen as often as maybe we declare it? I
doubt it? It's a lot. I mean our truck and
you've you've used a great, great phrase, divvied it up? Right,
So the people who are working on the draft in
the truck that are putting together highlight tapes, stats, facts
on people. They've divvied up that workload because I think
that when we go into this thing, our truck will
(20:13):
have over a thousand people in the database in case
they get picked. Right, So we always do a little
game on on Saturday, the last day of the draft,
had called Stump the truck where we throw out names
of you know, so called the secure players obscure schools,
and more times than not, the truck will have something
on those players. So to your point, can all of
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us do it? Is it reasonable to expect it? I
think for us who are sitting up on the podium
and sitting up on stage over the course of seven rounds,
it's reasonable to expect us to know the vast majority
of kids that come through. Will there be a kid
that slides through that came out of Rhodes Holman that
you may not have had on your list? Yep, sure,
and it does happen from time to time. But I
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think it's reasonable to expect us to have that in
our base. Because there's three hundred and thirty something slots
right over seven rounds, give or take whatever that number is.
With three and thirty at the combine, and I forgot
how many actually get drafted at seven rounds? Thirty two teams?
Do the math right, give or take a few extra picks. Yep,
we should have in our database the vast majority of
(21:19):
those people. So I think that's reasonable, and if it's not,
we probably shouldn't be sitting up there.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Well well, I mean, it really is amazing the amount
of work that a lot of people do, and most
of them we never even know their names. It's mind boggling. Okay,
let's zero in on the Bengals here. First of all,
what did you think about the Dexter Lawrence deal?
Speaker 8 (21:41):
I was. I was surprised two ways. One, I don't
think the Giants expected this to happen at all, Like, what,
you're gonna give us a one? I just you know,
I'm sure they'd probably throw it out there and never
once thought someone would say yes. And so when you
got to where the Giants are now going to pick
five and ten in the first round with a new
head coach, should kind of under new management again, how
(22:02):
do you turn that down? You don't Exter Laards is
twenty nine, that's not ancient. But he didn't play as
well last year. Now, what were the circumstances. He was
upset about the contract, he reported late to camp, He
wasn't in as good a shape as he should have
been in. He didn't have the year he had the
year before where no one blocked him. But Cincinnati is
(22:23):
betting on counting on feels reasonably, has a reasonable expectation
they'll see the extra launch of two years ago at
twenty nine. You don't think, oh, well, you know, we're
bordering on it could be gone. They still think he's
hitting the prime. That's why you make that move. The
second part, You know what it is, Tom, that Cincinnati
offense is so good, you've got to give him something
(22:44):
to play with on defense. And in this year's drafts,
interior defensive lineman who could rush the passer a lot
of interior defensive linemen. Tom, we don't have any real
great pass rushing interior defensive lineman as we've seen come
out of college yet.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Uh okay, let's focus on what you think the the
Bengals might do by the time they pick in the
second round. And of course that'll be on Friday, and
we'll have all the coverage here on WLW on Thursday,
Friday and Saturday safe to say, you know, you look,
their pass rushing has been an issue. Trey Hendrickson has
gone an edge rusher. There's been talk about safety, and
(23:23):
there was talk about Caleb downs and all that kind
of thing.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
Throw that out the window.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
There's been talk about cornerback, and then there's been talk
about linebackers. You know, they started the two rookies, as
you know Charles last year.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
Will the guys in front of them make them better?
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Now?
Speaker 4 (23:37):
In year two?
Speaker 2 (23:38):
If you're the Bengals, where would you be zeroed in
on for that pick in the second round?
Speaker 8 (23:45):
You know, Tom is funny how it's going through you
and I came up through the ranks, which conventional wisdom
was pass rusher, pass rusher.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
Pass rubber ball right yep.
Speaker 8 (23:54):
And then as you noticed that when you recall it games,
you probably have run into a good number of defensive
coordinators are like, you know, those guys who can cover
because them all's out of their hands so fast now
that it is hard for our pass rushers to get
home like they used to because we're not doing five
step and step drops. It's one two bone balls out
of your hands. So you try to take a look.
(24:15):
If you say to yourself, let's just start with the corners,
because if we're getting into the second round and where
the Bengals are going to pick, I would expect Delane
and McCoy, Chris Johnson, Terrell Hood from Tennessee. I expect
them all to be gone. What are you looking for
out of that corner you're looking for the outside corner
(24:35):
is a Brandon Ceesaye from South Carolina still available there?
Speaker 5 (24:39):
You know.
Speaker 8 (24:41):
Davis and Nigbinosen, who's a polarizing figure at Ohio State.
Talented is all get out penalties left and right because
he holds a lot. Where do you go? So if
you look at that, there'd be a bunch of players
that you're going to go and look. Indiana's Darling all right,
Ponds check of a player, D'Angelo you, I think if
you're gonna put oh my god, it's a great player.
(25:04):
You just have to be convinced that you're gonna play
him outside if you're gonna take him for that spot.
But you got to be able to say, if he
can't hold up outside, I'm gonna put him in the nickel.
I think he's gonna be a heck of a player,
you know, and so so those are the things I
look at there. The safety spot is very interesting because
it's pretty deep safety draft, Tom, really deep safety draft.
This kid at LSU, aj Halsey looks like he's gonna
(25:26):
win a powerlifting contest. And that has to be patrol
center field for you really well, and it will strike you
in a big way. But Clark from TCU is a
great centerfield ball hawk. It's a Key Wheatley from Penn State.
He'll he'll smack your round Genesis Smith Arizona. It is
a really really deep safety draft, so you've got players
that you can go for there. I don't think linebacker
(25:48):
is gonna be quite as big of a deal for
the Bengals, just because, as you pointed out, they put
they put some stock in the guys last year. I
think they're gonna try and build up the other spots,
and that's where the edge is gonna be very interest because,
oh my god, Tom, we're gonna have a run on
them in the first round.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
I think, yep.
Speaker 8 (26:05):
And it may push some guys up into the first
round that people thought might go in the second. And
that's where it's gonna get interesting because this kid out
of UCF, Malaki Lawrence, is getting all this praise that
maybe he slides into the first. I still think he's
gonna go in the second, and he would be a
guy that'd be like right on top of the boards. Him. PJ.
(26:26):
Parker at Clemson sits right on that line. The Zion
Young from Missouri sit on that line. Cash is Howel
with his short arms but his incredible motor from Texas
A and m our Mason Thomas Oklahoma gave Akis from Illinois.
I mean, it's just a bunch of guys that are
there and available. I wouldn't be surprised to see them
dip into that pool because you've got to start replacing
(26:48):
some of those guys. You just can't help it. I mean,
the Trey Henderson thing is finally over. But okay, glad
it's over. Who's gonna run? Who's gonna rush? Quarterback? Thank?
Speaker 5 (26:59):
You know?
Speaker 4 (27:00):
Yeah, well, you know.
Speaker 8 (27:03):
The whole deal. But he hasn't really emerged yet.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
And that's the last thing I want to ask you
about is because you have covered the high the college
game at the highest level, pro game, at the highest level,
you are a great player at Tennessee Hall of Famer
all that kind of thing. You know, we've gotten so
involved in analytics in every sport. And you know you
mentioned and they said this about Reuben Bain Junior, right,
short arms. Okay, all I know is every time I
(27:26):
did one of the guys games, he's moling people back there, right,
just ask Ohio State.
Speaker 8 (27:31):
Right.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
So, but what I'm asking you is, you know, it's
like the old thing about Okay, well, you know at
the combine they do a B, C and D athletic skills,
that kind of thing that are off the charts. And
you look at Jamar Stewart as an example, right off
the charts and everything you can imagine, but he only
had like three sacks in his career at Texas A
and M. Now is that all on him?
Speaker 4 (27:51):
Of course not.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
But what I'm asking you is, you know, where do
you think most teams at the end of the day,
when it comes to drafting a player in the NFL,
are they looking at what the guy does on a
game film or are they putting more stock on his
high jump and how long his arms are?
Speaker 8 (28:10):
They will tell you that it's a combo package. It
all depends on the team, Tom, As you've been through
your career and you've dealt with these guys, and nowadays
because the colleges have GMS and player of personnel groups, right,
we're getting a sense of that in the college level.
But each team, as we went through, remember we were
calling games, you kind of have to figure out where
(28:30):
where the room tilted. You know, is this a GM
heavy team or does a coach have a lot of
influence They listen to their coaching staff when they do
things like the Bengals are very big on the coaching
staff being involved in the process. Okay, other teams not
so much. We'll find the players you coach them up.
So it just depends on how that tilts. I think
(28:51):
with Ruben Bain it comes down to this very simply, Tom, Yes,
his arms are short. Yes, we can come up with
all the information it says, it's nine eighty seven, No
one warms this sure has ever had ten sacks in
a draft. We can do all of those things. I
finally said to someone the other day who was saying
I said, Okay, I said, that's fine. I get where
you're coming from. Tell me who you're picking ahead of
(29:15):
him in the twenty twenty six NFL Draft, not the
twenty twenty five because that already heard, Not the theoretical
one in twenty seven because it hasn't happened. Not a hey,
where would he have gone in twenty twenty three with that?
That doesn't matter?
Speaker 5 (29:29):
Yep?
Speaker 8 (29:31):
Is he that guy right now? Because I'm with you.
Every time you turn on the tape, someone's getting beat
up and he's getting to the quarterback, or he's knocking
down a running back, or he's creating rubble and other
people make plays. He plays so hard. He's a tough guy.
He can do different things within kick him inside, rush
him over guards, and then the arm Like this isn't
as big as the deal as it is with tackles.
(29:51):
I just don't know. Like I say, I'm fine, give
me a guy with longer arms. We tell me, is
he a better player.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Than That's right? That's exactly right. End of story, Charles.
I know you got to get into him eating. I
can't thank you enough on short notice for joint as
you are the best. Good luck in the draft the
X three days man, and get a little rest, my friend,
because you're gonna be doing a lot of TV time.
Speaker 8 (30:10):
I will do my best. Thanks a lot of time,
great talking with you, continued success.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Thank you by the family, the best, Charles fid Davis.
I'm telling you the best, not a better man on
the planet. All right, Chuck, what's happening out there, my friend?
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