Arizona Cardinals general manager Monti Ossenfort spoke with reporters on the 2024 NFL Draft.
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00:00 I don't, but if you guys do, I take all suggestions, you know, so that's one of the challenges
00:11 of the draft is trying to anticipate, you know, I don't, I don't think we're quite at
00:15 that point yet where we're going to try to figure out what's going to go up, go on in
00:18 front of us.
00:20 We're still in the evaluation of our own board and trying to get guys where we think and
00:24 the value and, and put them where we think for our team, you know, further down the line,
00:29 maybe once we get into middle of April, the last couple of weeks leading up to the draft,
00:33 then we'll start to try to predict what might happen in front of us, behind us, around us.
00:38 And that's part of the strategy of the draft.
00:40 So, you know, right now I don't, Mark, I don't have an idea of where that's going to go.
00:46 You know, that probably will come into light here in the next couple of months.
00:48 I have not.
00:49 I have not.
00:50 If you guys hear anything, come, come let me know.
00:52 So no, I'm not surprised.
00:54 No, we're sitting here at the end of February.
00:56 We got, we got a ways to go on that.
00:57 I think everybody's still in the middle of their evaluation process.
01:01 You know, I think there's a lot of unknowing right now about, again, somebody asked the
01:06 question earlier about what's going to happen in front of us.
01:08 I mean, we can sit here, somebody could say, Hey, I think I know what's going to happen
01:11 and nobody knows.
01:12 Nobody knows.
01:13 So, you know, I think those discussions, Josh, I think those happen more as we get closer
01:17 to the draft into April.
01:19 You know, and I think that's what happened last year.
01:22 We didn't have a lot of discussions over our pick last year at this time.
01:26 Like even if we did, like they would be so surface level that I don't think I would put
01:30 any credence into them anyway.
01:32 So I'm sure those calls will come and I mean, we're going to make our calls too.
01:36 I think last year we proved that we were more than willing to, to move up, to move back,
01:41 to stay put and pick.
01:42 So, you know, I think those discussions will come a little bit further down the road.
01:46 Like we're never going to pigeon ourselves, holes ourselves into, Hey, we need this position
01:50 at that spot.
01:51 You know, really we're going to take a look at the board and you know, we're going to
01:54 have a plan for guys that we like and guys that fit us.
01:58 But no, I don't see a situation where we would say, Hey, like we're going to target this
02:02 certain position later in the draft.
02:04 Yeah.
02:05 I think roster construction in general, it comes in various forms.
02:09 It comes in forms throughout the season.
02:11 And it so happens that two of the biggest times to add to our roster come back to back
02:15 here between free agency and the draft.
02:16 So, you know, I think whatever you're talking about, whether you're talking about spending
02:21 money in free agency, spending draft capital it's a commitment.
02:25 And once you commit to one area, whether it's financially or with a high draft pick, it
02:29 takes you out of doing that to another area.
02:31 And so, you know, I think anytime that we can add talented players, players that we
02:36 fit, that we think fit us both culturally and on the field, like we're going to investigate
02:40 every avenue to do that, no matter how that comes about.
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