Cowboys, Giants, Eagles, Commanders: All NFC East Winners in NFL Draft Round 1?
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00:00 What we think we could say about round one of the 2024 NFL draft on Thursday night, as it regards the NFC East.
00:09 All four of these teams did what they wanted to do.
00:14 None of these four teams come away saying, "Oh no, I wish we would have had that. Oh no, too bad we got screwed out of that."
00:21 I'm Mike Fisher covering the Dallas Cowboys and the NFC East here on the channel.
00:26 And we start with the Cowboys, who made their trade, moved down from 24 to 29, picked up a bundle of picks.
00:36 So they end up owning four picks in the top 100.
00:40 And they get, in addition to the picks, a starting, in theory, left tackle.
00:45 They get to leave Tyron Smith, I'm sorry, Tyler Smith, at left guard and replace Tyron Smith, who's bound for the Jets, of course,
00:54 with the now rookie from OU, Tyler Guyton, 6'8", 322 pounds.
01:00 They get the picks, they get the player, and they do it at a position of need.
01:04 Let's go to New York, where so many people, including J.J. McCarthy, thought he was going to become the Giants' new quarterback.
01:12 Giants had other ideas. They had that option.
01:14 They certainly explored the idea of Drake May at quarterback.
01:18 But instead, they sit at number six, they've got themselves options, and it's the LSU standout receiver Malik Nabors who gets the call,
01:28 meaning Daniel Jones gets a little elbow room, at least until we get to Thursday and day two in the NFL draft.
01:36 To Philadelphia, where the general manager, Howie Roseman, was clearly trying to work the phones and work his way.
01:44 And this is what the Eagles do, and their assertiveness and their aggressiveness is the envy, certainly, of many fans of other teams.
01:52 In the end, though, they don't have to make a drastic move to get a drastic improvement on paper at cornerback with Quinion Mitchell at number 22.
02:02 By the way, cautionary note, when you're seeing somebody cover these moves journalistically and they write, "It's the perfect pick," they're wrong.
02:12 There is no perfect player. There is no perfect pick. You could maybe have Jim Brown at running back. Maybe that'd be perfect.
02:20 Michael Jordan, if he came to your basketball team, that might be perfect.
02:26 But Quinion Mitchell at cornerback fits, fits the need, fits the board.
02:31 The biggest one, though, in the NFC East, and I think the biggest one by far, it's been a long time since the Washington football team commanders
02:40 have had a long-term star quarterback.
02:45 And what they just did in Jaden Daniels is maybe get themselves Lamar Jackson 2.0.
02:52 And I say this with due respect to RG3 and some of his predecessors who had some limited success anyway.
03:00 Long-term star quality success. It's been since Joe Theismann, since that happened in Washington.
03:09 And the quickest way for Washington to turn things around is to have a stellar quarterback, and they might just have one now.
03:17 NFC East, in review. Fish, out.