Draft Dreams, Future Disasters: NFL Draft in The Break Room (Ep. 24)

Welcome back to Misery Sports Co, the only podcast officially committed to reviewing the weekly performance of emotionally exhausted sports fan bases across America. I’m Zach, director of Unrealistic Expectations, and I’m Trevor, senior vice president of explaining why this year is different. Today, we’ll be conducting our weekly performance review of several departments, checking the mail room for correspondence from distressed stakeholders, issuing a few moral victories with employees of the week and later heading into the break room to talk about the twenty twenty six NFL draft. As a reminder, nothing said here should be considered actionable. Optimism really actionable at all. We want it on the record. None of this is actionable. We got one hundred percent breathing down our necks. Tons of lawyers. Before we begin the review process, though, let’s pause for a quick word from one of our valued corporate sponsors. 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It’s time for the weekly performance review, where we evaluate the fan bases that met expectations exceeded expectations are submitted another emotional expense report without receipts. This is the portion of the show where we check the standings injury reports. I don’t want to look at injury reports. We’ll get to that. And most importantly the morale levels in the building. So Zach what you got for us this week. Well Trevor I think we’ll go to the Columbus Blue Jackets first. I had mentioned in our last episode a couple weeks ago that the wheels had come off. We were screeching down the road and we are officially out of the playoffs. No. As mentioned, the CBJ made a coaching change and they they actually hired Rick Bowness who? Rick Bowness, I had no idea who he was, but he came. He literally came out of retirement. So someone pulled some strings. He came out of retirement, said, fine, I’ll do it. We went on a heater. We had one like eleven of twelve and it was like fifteen out of eighteen or nineteen. We looked good. We were second in division, and then all of a sudden at the end of the year, we just stopped winning completely. Um, so more to come from Mr. Bowness in our mailroom, but, uh, yeah, just a a rough ending, a heartbreaker. Uh, the team just didn’t have the gas left in the tank. Uh, really rough. Really rough. Um, but that’s why we’re at misery sports coach Trevor, because it is. That level of disappointment is just another day. It’s another Thursday. Yeah, it’s just another Thursday. Um, I would, uh, I would go to the NBA playoffs as well. So Cleveland Cavaliers are, are going to the playoffs. They’re going to be playing the Toronto Raptors. So an interesting matchup. Okay. Did they get the hopes alive. They got the four seed. So they’ll they’ll have home court. And uh if they were to advance they’ll play the Pistons which isn’t a terrible matchup. So we’ll take it. Yeah. Um wanted to shout out though uh, the Charlotte Hornets. So we’ve covered the Charlotte Hornets in uh some deep dive you know several weeks ago. And uh, they made it through their first game. So they have a game actually tonight to see if they’re going to be the eight seed, um, lamella. So I looked at the stat sheet because it went to overtime and eventually they won on like a last second shot. LaMelo shot two for sixteen from three. He just kept shooting. Yikes. Shooters shoot, I guess. Dang. Two for sixteen. Yeah. So. Hey. Yeah. Let him keep shooting. They’re winning. So, uh, yeah, that’s that’s the biggest updates. We’ll cover the the Cleveland Browns and our, uh, break room. We’re going to cover the NFL draft. So more to come on the Browns. No, uh, haircut debacles this week where our head coach misses a photo op. So, yeah. Trevor, what do you got? Well, like you said, we’ll get to NFL pretty quiet around Titan’s neighborhood, which has been nice. So we’ll get there. But Zach, it’s almost time for my favorite sports time of the year, which is the NHL playoffs. I get so excited. I think the hockey playoffs are the playoffs that we got going. I think college football is is really fun. That’s maybe a close second for me, but there’s nothing like hockey playoffs, especially overtime. Playoff hockey is, I think, the pinnacle of sports. It doesn’t get better than that for me. So the NHL has actually done something a little weird this year where the playoff games start, uh, on Saturday and we got all the way to like, I don’t know, today at eleven a m around noon without knowing the schedule. So teams had no idea where they were. I mean, they knew who they were playing and where they were going, but they didn’t know when they were playing. Uh, the stars finished with the third best record in the league. They finished on a five game winning streak, which was cool. They’re going to play Minnesota in the first round. Who is Minnesota’s famous for not being able to get out of the first round? Um, they’re a big bruising team that, uh, at times takes dumb penalties. But they did trade for Quinn Hughes this year and he is very good. He’s, I don’t know top definitely top three defensemen in the league. Uh, so dynamic. So that’s going to be tough because yet again, yet again I mentioned injury report earlier. The stars are without our top defenseman Miro Heiskanen because he got hurt again. And just like last year in the first round of the playoffs, we didn’t have him. And last year it was Jason Robertson who we were also missing. This year it’s Rope Hintz. So we are out our best defenseman. Second best player on the team and one of our top forwards. And so it’s going to be tough. But that all starts, uh, this Saturday. And I’m just super excited because I love hockey playoffs. And mercifully we can stick a fork in the Mavericks season because it’s finally over. Just what a nightmare of a season. It was fun watching Cooper flag ball out at times. He’s not gonna win the rookie of the year, which I think is asinine. Um, you mentioned that the Hornets won their game at the end of the game when they needed three pointers. Con nipple was not in the game. They were they didn’t even play him. And that’s like that’s what he does. So anyways I’m I’m going to keep it positive. It’s great. We love the the Hornets. They’re fun. I’m not going to get bitter about that. What I am going to get bitter about is getting out tanked at the end of the year because we dropped from sixth to tied for seventh. And guess what? The way they settled the tiebreaker between us and the New Orleans Pelicans for the seventh spot is flipping a coin on draft lottery night. That’s stupid. We have coin flips. Yeah, that’s absolutely wild, and I so this is something that popped in my mind. And I wonder if other fans do this. So during playoff time, you and I especially, we jump on the teams that we’re supporting when it’s play. Because yes, the Blue Jackets are typically not in the playoffs. So I am all aboard the stars all aboard the Mavericks. And I just I’m curious if other fans and friends right. You just jump on because it’s like I am like you said, NHL playoff hockey is awesome and I love the Dallas Stars. I’m here for it. You know with the Cavs you jump on the Cavs at the Mavericks were in it like I’m all aboard. It’s just a it’s a fun time of year. I think that’s especially true of folks who have a lot of stock at Misery Sports Co, because your team is not making it so frequently that you have to root for somebody. And as a lifelong, almost lifelong fan of the Tennessee Titans, I can tell you there are many years where I have to find an NFL team to root for because we’re not making it in. And, uh, I’m all in on the Cavs, man. I think this team’s fun. I think they’re going to mess around and do some stuff. Fingers crossed. Fingers crossed. But we’re going to step away briefly for a message from another one of our partners who continues to believe in this organization honestly more than we do. Yeah. I’m not going to do the music. We don’t have the budget for it this week. Um, have you ever been. Have you ever been automatic off the tee but unpredictable after midnight behind the wheel. Then you need Tiger Woods Vehicle Recovery and Reputation reset Clinic, specializing in getting athletes back to fairways instead of on front page covers. Tiger again. I forgot that that happened since we’ve talked last. It just seems pretty frequent. Yes it does. The first headline I saw was like, why am I getting an old story like this? This happened a while ago. He’s he’s gotta be somewhere between, I don’t know, half a billion and a billion dollars with a B, like. Yes. Find someone you trust to drive a car for you. Like, it’s absolutely wild to me that you can be in that situation like, four times at this point. Not once so bad. No, it happens over and over again. Yeah. And it just seems like it takes so much time for him to work his way back into, hey, I’m gonna play again. And then to have this, it’s just a real bummer. Maybe it’s the long game, Trevor. Maybe he doesn’t want to be back. But if this is what he wanted, what if. What if it was all set up with that? Was it a landscaping truck or whoever? Maybe. Allegedly. Oh, hey. Nothing actionable. Here is all a legend. We don’t know. This whole we take your money legend. We take your sponsorship money. All right, let’s head. Let’s head down to the mail room where the correspondence bin is full. And HR has asked us to stop reading comments out loud during meetings. Completely. They are like, you gotta stop. Uh. We’ll review the most notable submissions and determine whether they qualify as feedback, coping mechanisms, or official cries for help. Zach, you want to kick us off? Sure do. Uh, I have the very opposite ends of the spectrum with this. So, uh, I’m going to open with Rick Bowness, who I mentioned Blue Jackets head coach. He’s going to be on for another year. Um, so that’s exciting. They signed him to a new a new agreement. Mhm. Uh, but he was not happy at the end of the season. So here is Rick bonus going off on our team. Rick, you’ve been a part of a lot of games and a lot of seasons. Have you ever been a part of something that’s as frustrating as this has been down the stretch? This means about to cry. He’s so mad, you know. You know how you gotta just look at the stat sheet. Three hits, twenty three giveaways. Like, I don’t know if I’m back, but if I’m back, he’s back. I’m changing this culture. These guys, they don’t care. Losing is not important enough to them. They it doesn’t bother them. Like, how can you go out and play like that? Should have done this about a month ago, but this is why we are where we are. This is why we’re out of the playoffs. That kind of effort. Losing. You have to hate losing. I don’t care if it’s a meaningless game, I don’t care. Show up and compete. Three hits, twenty three giveaways. Preach. What else you want to know? You reach them for so long after you got here. Did it? How did it stop? Where did it stop? Because it got tough. Because it got hurt. Like we talked about after the the Olympic break, it’s going to get harder. So everything is good as long as it’s going their way and now it gets tough. We don’t want to battle back. And that’s why what that’s what’s happened over the last little week, a couple of weeks. That’s all that’s happened. We’re going to change that. If I’m back, I don’t know. I’m back. He’s back. We’ll get to that. But man, oh man. Some of those guys are so lucky. The season is over and there’s no practice tomorrow. It anyways, there’s no more. What else you want to know? I think even in the long history of this franchise, I don’t think they’ve ever lost six games in a row to end a season at home? No. Is that worse? It’s terrible. Inexcusable. If they’re not embarrassed by not only tonight, by that the. They’re on the wrong team. They are. They’ve got to be embarrassed with that. Uh, yeah. Hey, man, I you know what, though? I appreciate someone that is open and honest that’s pissed off. You know, it’s gotta be so difficult to reach multi million dollar athletes like they are set for life. Yep. You’ve gotta get to them. You gotta motivate them. So I appreciate a person that is transparent says this sucks. You guys didn’t give us the effort. What’s going on? Yeah, totally. And you know, he’s been working to like handle it internally. I mean, it was like the last eleven games they needed to win like four to be in the playoffs. So he’s been working behind the scenes to motivate him. And what else do you do? And especially going into a new season when you’re trying to adjust a culture. I mean, I love it and bones bones was great. So he was the, um, the stars head coach when we went to the Stanley Cup final in twenty twenty. In the bubble it was bones. Oh. And um, love him to death. He and the stars agreed that it was time to part ways, I think one year later. But, um, I think this is this could be huge for the jackets. Absolutely. And I mean, I went to a game, I think it was like three weeks ago, right against the, the hurricanes or the top in the, the east. Yeah. They’re great. Um, and I didn’t say this during the podcast, but when I saw them coming out after each period, there wasn’t that fire, there wasn’t the, we’re going to dump the puck and just hit you, hit you in the face And anytime the Blue Jackets have been good, it is straight goon squad like we. You might have a Panarin doing a little dancing here and there, but like we’re dumping the puck and then we’re going to hit you really hard and we’re going to wear you out. And if you got your Gucci bags, we’re going to knock them out of your hands because we’re the goon squad. Yeah. And so I hope that’s what happens next year. I hope they just bring in some tough blue collar people. That’s what Columbus is about. That’s what we support. So, um, I’m excited. We’ll see what next year holds. I have one more and, uh, it actually just restarted on me, so let me look it up. Barstool sports. This is on the total opposite end of the spectrum from serious if I can find it here. All right. This was posted two hours ago. Okay, we deleted a prior post of a viral video making light of a reporter seemingly using AI to come up with a question at a press conference. At the time of posting, we didn’t realize this reporter was recovering from a stroke. In light of that, we decided to delete it. Oh, no. I saw that video. Oh my gosh. I didn’t know that. Oh man. She’s like next to a dugout at a baseball game, right? I don’t know. I just saw that tweet. Dude, I saw that video. Yeah. She’s like typing into ChatGPT like good questions to ask for whatever. Yikes. Yeah. Minor detail. You know, but hey, Barstool Sports, we’re calling it like it is. We apologize. So I that is honestly growth for Barstool. So we’ll take what we can get. All right. Trevor, what do you got? Um, I’ve got a couple things. Um, I’ve got I’ve got two entries this week. So I told you that the NHL playoffs were my favorite time of year. And previously it was the top eight seeds in both, uh, um, uh, both conferences. And then it was just a one through eight seeding like the NBA does it. So one plays eight, two plays seven. Uh, they have moved away from that into a really stupid format where now it’s division based. So the second and third teams in your division play each other. And then the winner of that potentially plays the first seed in your division. Stupid. So it’s so dumb because the Central Division where the stars are, have three of the top five teams in the league, I believe. Um, and so it’s just murderer’s row. So it’s really stupid. So uh, Tim, Timothy shout out Uh, says that Utah and Dallas are in the same division. Okay. Dallas will finish second, Utah in fourth. Dallas has twenty more points than Utah. And yet Utah has the easier path through the first two rounds of the playoffs. It’s so asinine. And I totally agree, Tim. It is absolutely ridiculous. And we are incentivizing not doing as well, which the Oilers manipulated last year at the end of the season to avoid, um, um, uh, playing the, the Jets in the first round, which was some, some good for viewers who don’t know, you know, in the NHL a win is, is two points. So twenty points is ten wins. That is a huge delta giant giant. Yeah. So yeah, uh, totally agree Tim. Shout out to you. And uh, did you know, did you know that former Maverick great Anthony Davis has a prank show on TV? Did you know that? I heard something about it. I haven’t seen it, but I had heard something about it. Yeah. Yeah. So he’s making the rounds promoting that and was on Draymond Green’s podcast, which makes me insane that that’s even a thing. But that’s something probably for a different day. But he was sharing what was happening the night of the, uh, trade, where he was traded from the Lakers to the Mavericks for Luka Doncic. That I will never recover from. And I’ll take that to my grave. Uh, obligatory. What are we at? Twenty one minutes? Obligatory. Nico Harrison, can I get one allowed? All right. Thank you. Uh, and so this is, um, Anthony Davis reenacting the phone call that he’s getting From Mavs GM Nico Harrison. I think while he’s on the phone with LA GM Rob Pelinka, Nico was calling me and I’m like, Rich, I’m gonna call you back. Like, hello? Yeah, I told you I was going to come get you one day, I wanted you. Huh. So he was on this phone with his agent, not the LA GM, but literally the trade was so confusing. That Adi himself was like, what are you talking about? And he goes on to say like, well, who would they trade for me? Like, it doesn’t make sense anywhere else. And they were like, Luka. And he’s like, why would they trade Luka? Like. Yeah, exactly. Like, that’s so wild, so maddening. So thanks. A d thanks for sharing that. Appreciate it. Mhm. Mhm. Mhm. Mhm. I feel for a D in this situation too, because, you know, he’s just a bystander. He got dumped for Luca at that point and he’s like, what the hell is this? Yes. And for let me tell you, for two and a half quarters, it was pretty magical. It was. I’m not saying like I forgot about Luca, but I, I briefly understood what we were potentially in for. But did you notice I said for two and a half quarters, because that’s how long it lasted before he got hurt? Yeah. He has nothing in his history that would suggest injuries either. Trevor. So I don’t know why that would have happened. Um, but let’s let’s distance ourselves from that. And before we escalate any further. I’m so miserable. Let’s take a moment. I’m so miserable for another message from our sponsors, Trevor. Who’s our next sponsor? It’s been a while since we had this, but we had a sponsor buy two ad spots money for us. The reviews are flying in for Verbenae with a whopping nineteen percent on Rotten Tomatoes. Critics are raving for the love story of the year. The Tennessee Titans say, yeah, we all knew this was happening. Why are people acting surprised? The New York Times calls it confusing that you would ask us to review this. You know, we employed her, right? And part time film critic Mark Stoops says, I was pretty confused because they said, do you want to see an early screening of Timothée Chalamet’s new movie? And I said, yes, because I was sure it was Dune three. I just I kept waiting for the sandworms to come out. But after forty five minutes of waiting, I was rooting for him to to wreck Vrabel’s home. Tickets are available now. It’s Roubini. Roubini. You know what I. I don’t know what your thoughts are on this whole situation. I just I think it’s total BS that Vrabel can just be like, oh, it’s, you know, not a big deal. What are you guys talking about? It’s nothing. Yes. And she loses her job. Yeah. Like what? It’s so dumb. And like for for listeners who might not be familiar. So, uh, the athletic writer for The Athletic, Dianna Russini resigned. Her contract was up soon, but she resigned because pictures came out on TMZ or page six or something, uh, like holding hands with Mike Vrabel. And, you know, I don’t know, it seemed like they were a little, but, like, not like friends. Trevor. Okay. They weren’t holding hands like they were in a hot tub together. It’s hot. So, Titans fans, we’ve known about this forever because she would break stuff. Yes. She would break stuff about like she was basically the mouth for Vrabel’s camp. And and we were like, the only way that she’s getting this is because Vrabel is feeding it to her. And then there would be like, they were real friendly and all this stuff. So we were all like, okay, they’re probably, you know, but like whatever. But nobody cared because it was the Titans. And then this comes out and everybody’s like, oh my God. Like, okay, I guess they’ve been doing this for a while. So I had no idea will all be covered in Verbenae. Yeah. Yeah. Tune in and we will accept your dollars. I mean, the check cleared. So thank you. Appreciate you. It’s time to visit the Office of Moral Victories where results are optional, but effort is permanently documented. This is where we recognize the individual’s fan bases and moments that didn’t technically win, but absolutely refused to lose hope responsibly. I am really digging deep in the barrel here, scraping it, scraping the employee of the week. I’m actually going to have two, though. I’m going to shout out, okay. Uh, you know, some some older NBA players who have paid their dues and had a little bit of success the last couple nights with the playing games. So I love that. Shout out to Paul George with the seventy six ers. Yo Paul. George. Okay sixteen points not a lot. But you know what. Let him live like I loved Paul George in his prime. Pre-injury Paul George was awesome for the Pacers. Yeah super entertaining. That’s true. That’s true. Yes. At that time loved him. Yeah. And the second person is none other than Mr. Stephen Curry. So at thirty eight years old, this man is still chucking threes, nailing them. He destroyed France in the Olympics this past year. That was if anyone hasn’t seen that go on YouTube. And I mean he just completely decimated France. So I don’t know why I’m on that. But look it up. He, uh, he went for thirty five points and they they won their first game. So congratulations to Steph Curry. He’s still got it. Still got it. Fun to watch when he’s not playing your team one hundred percent. So my favorite Steph Curry not my favorite. Can I revise that and say my least favorite real quick. Can I swing to the opposite end real quick. So early splash brother days like early. I think it was the year. Remember they had that Memphis series when Mike Conley was there and Zeebo. Yeah. Um, such a fun team. But I think that year I was living in Dallas and they came through town and we went and saw them and I was, I didn’t know what we were really going to see. And he hit a last second shot. And then, you know, with like there’s point four seconds. So like we lost. And he literally while Klay and Draymond are coming to like jump on him. I swear to goodness he looked up in the three hundreds. We locked eyes and he waved at me to have a good night. And like I was so upset. But now I look back on it and I was like, I’m so glad I got to see him. That was so cool. And what’s funny is last night he hit a three, a dagger three fell into the stands and started like dapping people up and they’re like, all right, dude, yeah, we’ll see you later. Yeah. Good night. Have a good night. Yeah, that was that was really cool. I’ll have to pull out, uh, some maybe next, uh, next show, I’ll pull out some audio from the Olympics. Like, uh, I don’t know. Iron Eagles son was calling it. Who is Brad? I don’t know his name. He’s great. Noah. Yep, yep. He did a great job. Um, he was just going bonkers. And Steph Curry was just hitting step backs. Ridiculous threes to beat France. It was incredible. And Rudy Gobert is on that team. And that felt so good. It was cathartic dude. Well I’m gonna keep it short. Uh my employee of the week is bones because I thought that press conference was amazing. And I think it’s exactly what the jackets need. And I love them. I love bones, so, bones, congrats. God bless bones. We’re going to wish him well for a year. He was supposed to be sipping, you know, rum and cola on the beach somewhere. And he’s like, you know what? I’m going to go out of retirement and I’m going to clean up the Blue Jackets. So that jacket, I mean, if, if anybody can do it, I think it’s kind of an a hole like bones is I think I think that’s what they need. Absolutely. Well, we’re going to take one final break before heading into the break room. Irony to discuss upcoming personnel decisions across the league. Trevor this sponsorship I actually ran it by legal and, uh. Oh God. We will have a we were shaking. We do. It’s it’s one person. They were shaking their head no on the Zoom call, but I assumed that they were saying yes. Yeah, I assumed yes. That’s right. So they didn’t verbally say it. Yup. So here it is. Are you a para athlete looking for a place where nothing interrupts your training schedule? 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I’m not going to go down that. Look up Dayton Webber everybody. Quite a story. Look up Oscar Pistorius. Dude shot somebody through a door. Trevor. Come on. Oh my gosh. Yeah. Do some googling. Have some fun. Holly, thanks for your sponsorship dollars. That check cleared quick. We’re gonna we’re catching that all the way to the bank, baby. Yeah. But anyways, welcome to the break room, where speculation is encouraged and long term planning briefly becomes everyone’s personality. This week we are getting into the draft because Zach, it is only one week away. Can you believe it? It’s almost draft time. Also one of my favorite times of the year because hope is never higher than draft night. It’s our Super Bowl. It’s misery sports co Super Bowl. Everybody in here. Yep. Come on, come on. Well I’ll kick things off because the Titans are picking fourth. Um I think the absolutely write it in stone. Pick ahead of us obviously Fernando Mendoza to the Raiders. That’s a that’s a given. Mhm. Um, I was, I was looking at some composite, um, like where they take all the mock drafts and put it together. Right. So the database said that the two likely picks ahead of us are linebacker from Ohio State linebacker Arvell Reese to the Jets at two, uh, with a little over half of the mocks, fifty one percent going. The Cardinals are a wild card, no pun intended, but they are like the, the largest, uh, get for or the largest percentage mock to the Cardinals was twenty seven percent the Texas Tech edge. David Bailey, who’s great. If we drafted him. David Bailey I would be super excited. But like that’s only a quarter of the mocks, like a little over a quarter. So like, we really don’t know what the Cardinals are doing. Mhm. Um, they could do any number of things, but sixty three percent. So we’re talking like basically two thirds of the mocks out there have the Titans taking running back Jeremiah Love from Notre Dame. So here’s the thing. You know me as a Titans fan I love a good running back. That is our bread and butter right. That is what I’ve grown up on since Eddie George. Literally the reason that I’m a Titans fan. Yeah, I. I don’t know about this. I could I could be talked into it and get excited because the tape is great. Jeremiah love seems like a totally normal person who’s kind of like a football robot and is just going to go home and like, watch anime and chill, and you’re never gonna have to worry about him. But I don’t know that that’s what we need right now is spending the fourth pick on a running back. What are your thoughts on that? So Field Yates, one of the ESPN reporters, has Jeremiah Love as his number two overall player. I I yeah behind Mendoza. I love Jeremiah love. I am all about it. He’s a playmaker. You get the ball in his hands. He’s going to score touchdowns. Yeah. Um he’s one of those those few running backs that I think could make a difference. I’m not going to say he’s Saquon Barkley. But yeah it seems like he’s similar to that. Yeah. Um and both the Titans and the Browns need playmakers. So if either team no doubt about that. It doesn’t matter where you’re at. If you can score a touchdown come on board. What if I told you that our offensive line is twelve kinds of Well, you know, does that change things? We have I’ll tell you this. We have one and a half good players out of five. I don’t you guys have a ton of like free agency money or something. Just toss some cash at people. Yeah. We we just kept waiting for like us to we let our center walk and we just kept waiting to sign another one. And it really didn’t happen. And like we’ve spent the past two drafts, you go over here. Um, so obviously last year was cam Ward, but like the two before that, our first round picks were JC Latham, uh, a tackle who has been okay again, I’m over Alabama lineman. Just can we be done. I just want to be done. And before that was Peter Skowronski who is great. So he’s the one out of the one and a half. He is fantastic. But he’s a guard. So like. I, I don’t know, I, I could be convinced that like having that dynamic of a playmaker at running back is going to open things up for cam in the passing game. I could be convinced of that. And I think if we take Jeremiah love bye bye. I don’t know mid May. I’m going to be stoked and like we’re going to the playoffs. This is going to be amazing. I will talk myself into it. Mhm. I just think that with Salah being a defensive coach if we had a dynamic edge rusher. Like let’s say let’s say Bailey still on the board right. Let’s say Bailey’s on the board. Cardinals go a different way. If we had if it’s Bailey versus love, if you’re telling me that we could pair damn near the two best defensive tackles in the game, like two of the top five for sure. And then you add an edge like David Bailey to that line. I, I don’t know at least one side of the ball would be like really good and I wouldn’t have to worry about that. And then you’re asking your offense, can you score seventeen points a game? Mhm. And I honestly, I’ll say this too. Um, the dude from Miami, Ruben Bain. Yeah. I don’t hate him either. Like he was dominating Ohio State. We saw a lot of Ruben Bain and it was great tape at the biggest moments. Yeah. So I wouldn’t hate him either. No, I, I mean if if you need an edge rusher there’s a lot of good edge rushers. I will preface this by saying, and I, I think I can speak for both of us. We are not like player experts. We’re not going to. We even watch tape on every single player. But from what I’m hearing and from what I’ve seen, the tackles in this draft aren’t as strong, so there’s not like a Joe Thomas coming out that you can draft and be like, oh yeah, he’s going to be a Hall of Famer. Yes. So I mean the other thing would be trading down, right? I mean you could trade down for some picks. Yes. And I don’t I don’t hate it there. It’s been floated that um the Cowboys could trade twelve and twenty to move up to four. And I think I think you jump on that. I think that sounds. Yeah fine. We need bodies. We’re one of those teams where it’s like there’s so many holes in this team. Like one player is not going to make that big of a difference at four. Um, yeah. And before we kick it over to the Browns I will just say, um. In this, it pains me to say this. It really does because I, I’m such an Ohio State homer and I love all of our players. I think I would have the hardest time talking myself into getting excited if we draft Carnell Tate, and I think he’s going to be good. I just think at four it’s not. I think we would both agree Carnell Tate is not Jeremiah Smith, right? Correct. He’s a clear cut number two. Yes. He’s not a number one. And I would have a hard time talking. But this is coming from a team that drafted Corey Davis at was it four a five at pick five. We drafted a wide receiver out of Western Michigan. And if you’re asking yourself who is Corey Davis? Yeah, that’s the point. So like, I, I would have the hardest time talking myself into that being a good idea versus any of these other guys. I would take Sonny Styles. Sonny styles would be great. You wouldn’t have to worry about like somebody, a linebacker running your defense. I would take him, but sorry I’m rambling. Kick it over to the Browns. The Browns pick at six. Zach tell us what you’re thinking there. So at six if we stay there uh it’s split. So it’s split between one of those tackles like you mentioned, uh, the Utah guy. Um, the Georgia guy. Uh, I think it is Fano. Um, and then also Carnell Tate, as you mentioned. Now the reason why I would be happy with Carnell Tate on the Browns is because we have no one. Trevor. We have Jerry, Judy and a bunch of scrubs and Jerry. Judy led the league in drops at one point last season. So I just need a dude that can get open and catch the ball. Yeah, and Carnell Tate can do that. Do you agree? I want your thoughts. When I see Carnell Tate I think of Tee Higgins from the Bengals. That’s a good one. Yeah. Like, yeah, they have Jamaar Chase, right? They have Tee Higgins. And Tee Higgins is really good. Yep. Really good. You want them on your team. But he’s not like the guy. Yes. Yeah that’s a great comparison. And I and I think that like anything that you can do to give that offense options is is good. And one thing that we never had to worry about with Carnell Tate was dropping the ball correct. One hundred percent. He gets open, he catches the ball. I will take it all day. Now it’s funny that you mentioned the Cowboys because Mel Kiper in his latest mock draft, actually had the Browns trading with the Cowboys and doing that same deal. Right. So getting what was it twelve and twenty. And we would trade him six and thirty nine in the second round. So yeah if that happened we would have three first round picks in the draft because we have the Jaguars pick. That’s what I want to say. It’s twenty twenty four. Yeah or something like that. Um so if he well Mel Kiper in his mock draft. If we did that to to number twelve he projected us with Kaden Proctor, the Alabama tackle buddy. That’s there to tell you dude I don’t want I don’t want here to tell you that’s a bad idea. Both of our teams have done the tackles from Alabama. Jedrick Wills at Cleveland. He was our left tackle. He just stopped playing football. He’s done. Yeah, he said it was a business decision when he brought himself out of a game like that’s. I’m done with that. That’s tough. I will say that like Chance Warmack was fine, but he was a guard and we spent the tenth pick on a guard, which seems stupid, but he was fine like he was. He was fine, but we played. We did pick a Georgia I. I would submit Isaiah Wilson as the worst first round pick in the since two thousand. Like absolutely awful. So I, I get it, I you better be sure it’s like Joel or something, which we missed by like, uh, yeah, I will tell you. Zach. So I was looking at this, um, the database that kind of, uh, consolidates all of the mock drafts out there and puts them all together. And they have at forty one percent with the six pick is Carnell Tate is the most popular pick for the Browns. Interestingly, at twenty four, the most popular pick with only fifteen percent. So a lot of variability. Here is another wide receiver. Uh, Cooper Junior out of Indiana. Oh okay. So stocking up on on weapons for that offense I don’t hate. We need all offense at this point. It’s wide receivers, it’s tackles. Our defense is going to be pretty good. Um yeah. Mel Kiper in that three pick scenario actually had on our twenty fourth pick from the Jaguars. German McCoy a cornerback from Tennessee. Mhm. No idea who he is. Sounds like he’s good. Um, I’ll take his word for it. Yeah, but we need all the offensive help. Our defense is totally fine. Um, Myles Garrett, Denzel Ward. I mean, there’s just studs everywhere, so. Yeah, let me hit you with this. Yeah. Say you do the Cowboys trade. Right. So your first picks at twelve. Mhm. If for whatever reason. And I think I’m only hitting you with this hypothetical because full disclosure I listen to a lot of Dallas sports radio because I live there for a while. And I still like the station. And they have talked themselves into this being a possibility. I don’t see it happening. Say, in a fantasy world, you’re at twelve and Jeremiah Love falls to twelve. Mhm. Are you taking him at twelve? One hundred percent. If it’s the Browns. Yeah. All day. Yeah, yeah. No doubt. Slam dunk. I’m getting Carnell Tate. I’m getting Jeremiah Love. And then I’ll find an offensive tackle at twenty four. MM. Yeah. We just need people that score touchdowns. We don’t have that. It’s it’s been an epidemic. The the last question I’ll leave you with is Fernando Mendoza. If you were the Titans right. And you didn’t have cam Ward. And this is a question for all the viewers and listeners. Um, at Misery Sports Co, if you were in like the top five, would you trade to go up to number one and get. Fernando if you had a need at quarterback. Yes I would, yes. I think it would take I’m trying to remember the Rams haul that we got the year after Marcus was it. two first rounds or three? I would whatever they wanted, I would go up and get it. I believe in him that much. I think the most convincing thing for me was that as the moment got bigger, the throws got better. And like I’m like you said, I’m not an expert in the tape. I can’t break down. I don’t know ball. Okay. I’m a self-admitted, I don’t know ball. But from a fan perspective, I watched a lot of those Indiana games. And as the need got greater, I just felt like he got better and better. I would sell the farm for Fernando Mendoza. Now, do I think the Raiders are going to do well with them? I don’t know, they might run them into the ground. That franchise belongs at Missouri Sports Co. But what would you do? Yeah um I’m torn I completely agree. He seems like he processes you know the field really well. Yeah. He got freaking smoked in the Big Ten title game and came back and just hit was that reeled his team to victory I think. Yeah it was it was Reese or it was Caden Curry just just crushed him man. He got hit. Um and he came back. He he shook it off. He played a great game against probably the best defense in college football. So you know I think he’s got a bright future. I don’t know what his ceiling is. That’s my question. Yeah. Um I get Kirk Cousins vibes a little bit. I think he’s a little bit more elevated than Kirk Cousins maybe. Yeah. And it’s ironic because cousins is on the Raiders. So it’ll be funny to see how they interact. I totally see that too. Yes they are very maybe personality more than like performance. They’re both goofy. They are really goofy. Um, I think Mendoza was a better college quarterback, but I’m interested. I’ll be rooting for him. He seems like a good dude, for sure. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Well, that concludes our weekly review here at Misery Sports Co, where accountability exists. But results definitely vary. Be sure to submit your weekly reports, emotional reactions, and completely rational predictions for next week’s evaluation cycle. Follow us at Misery Sports Co on Twitter. Find us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, Pocketcasts wherever you listen to your podcasts. We are there. We are there. And guess what? We’ll see you at the next meeting.