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00:03 Why would the Atlanta Falcons, with one of the worst wide receiver depth charts
00:07 in the NFL behind Drake London, why would they not take Roma Dunzey and
00:11 just say, you know what, we signed Kirk Cousins to this contract,
00:15 let's just score 28 points a game and see what happens?
00:18 >> Well, there's some logic to it, and I'll say this much.
00:22 One, here's the amount of stock you put in those mock drafts.
00:26 Falcons need a pass rusher, Falcons always need a pass rusher.
00:28 The first one available, just get him to Atlanta.
00:30 That's the reason those mock drafts go that way, not because Dallas Turner's
00:33 mocked to be the sixth or seventh or eighth best player in this draft by any
00:37 stretch of the imagination, not a knock on the young man,
00:39 it's just the reality of the situation.
00:41 It's not a very deep defensive end draft.
00:42 So beyond that, there is merit to what you're saying.
00:45 And I'll do you one better here, Davis, because I have legitimately proposed this.
00:49 That if quarterbacks end up going one, two, three, and four, if I am the Falcons,
00:55 I pick up the phone and trade up to number five and grab Marvin Harrison Jr.
00:59 Because he is the player at his respective position in this draft.
01:04 That's what I would do.
01:05 Now, I sat in the press conference yesterday with Terry Fontenot,
01:08 the Falcons GM, and even asked him about this very question.
01:12 Because the Falcons have selected at eight now, three years in a row, and
01:17 they would have taken a pass catcher in three of the last four years
01:22 with their first round pick, and the optics of that do not look good.
01:26 The last time I remember that happening,
01:28 I think you gotta go back to Charles Rogers with the Detroit Lions.
01:32 Can we go back to those three picks?
01:33 You guys remember that?
01:34 When they were in the top five and they selected wide receivers, three of them,
01:37 I think Mike Williams at USC was the other one, if I remember, Donnie, right?
01:41 So I'm old, I'm eight, I'm old.
01:44 So the optics of taking pass catchers three years and
01:47 three of the last four years is not what really looks good as a strategy.
01:53 Now, again, I'm saying if you're gonna get a pass catcher here,
01:58 go get the very best one, move heaven and earth and go get Marvin Harrison Jr.
02:02 If that's really what you want, I don't really know that Malik Nabors and
02:05 Romain Dunes are of that same level.
02:08 I think we know that Marvin Harrison feels like the most sure thing in
02:11 the first round.
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