‘In Veach’s Guys We Trust’ – NFL Draft Preview w/ Sr. Director of Player Personnel Mike Bradway | Defending The Kingdom

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Speaker 1: Oh, we’re getting closer. Yes, there’s the holidays on the

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Speaker 1: normal calendar, and then there’s the NFL Draft for NFL

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Speaker 1: freaky fans that just love it the best time of year.

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Speaker 1: And we continue on defending the kingdom looking at the

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Speaker 1: draft with in Veach’s Guys We Trust and of course

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Speaker 2: Let’s keep it on an.

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Speaker 1: He goes out of the ends on their side, touchdown Chunzas.

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Speaker 2: City, however you want.

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Speaker 1: I’m Mitchell’s voice of the Chiefs along with senior team

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Speaker 2: I think I still have mine somewhere.

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Speaker 1: In Beach We Trust and even ward around town a

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Speaker 1: little bit and people are like, yeah, that’s pretty cool.

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Speaker 1: But in this episode we’re going to go with in

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Speaker 1: Veach’s Guys We Trust and we will feature a senior

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Speaker 1: director UH Senior director player personnel. Mike Bradway is a

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Speaker 1: special guest and it’s just awesome to see the comprehensive

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Speaker 1: nature of Brett Veach’s entire staff and how they work together.

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Speaker 2: It’s not a coincidence.

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Speaker 1: A Chiefs pretty much have been hitting a lot of

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Speaker 1: home runs or if not extra base hits in these.

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Speaker 3: Drafts, particularly late in the draft, and that’s so hard

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Speaker 3: to do. It seems like an obvious thing that every

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Speaker 3: But the truth is, the Chiefs put in extra work

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Speaker 3: the food chain, Coach Reid. They’re watching guys that are

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Speaker 3: the extra time just to make sure we get an

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Speaker 3: impact player late in the draft. And you see the

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Speaker 3: fruits of that when Isaiah Pacheco is the leading rusher

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Speaker 3: in a Super Bowl that you win, or you get

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Speaker 3: a guy like Jalen Watson who’s picking off Trevor Lawrence

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Speaker 3: and causing incompletions against Joe Burrow, like these things happen

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Speaker 3: because of the work guys put in over the summer

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Speaker 3: during the season, even trying to find a few impact

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Speaker 3: players that maybe other teams are overlooking. We’re so fortunate

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Speaker 3: we have these guys on our side.

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Speaker 1: Coach Read, I just think if he wasn’t coaching, would

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Speaker 1: be like the biggest draft nerd of all time. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: for sure, because he loves He just loves it like

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Speaker 1: he loves football. He loves colleges, every college. He loves

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Speaker 1: the game so much that yes, he would have like

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Speaker 1: the giant book and he would know the undrafted free

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Speaker 3: But he’s what would Kelvin Sampson say during the Final

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Speaker 1: Coach, he would know it. So before we hear from

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Speaker 1: Mike Bradway, what do you have for around the world?

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Speaker 3: Just three today, because we’re we’re in a hurry. This

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Speaker 3: draft week is nearly upon us. So just three today,

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Speaker 3: we’ll get through this. Uh So, I went to a

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Speaker 3: that’s next to us, and his name was JP.

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Speaker 2: JP.

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Speaker 3: Checks out our stuff. Such a romantic meeting you, JP.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was very romantic, you know.

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Speaker 3: And and Ellie kind of knows this is going to happen,

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Speaker 1: She’s okay with it, like we’re gonna have a night

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Speaker 3: So anyway, shout out to you, JP. He was great

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Speaker 3: meeting you. Chris is listening from Saint George, Utah. Yeah

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Speaker 3: you ever been there?

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Speaker 1: But Dixie Utah Tech is down in there, also, Utah Tech,

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Speaker 3: Okay, very cool. More, you know, is near like all

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Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, that’s a National park vegational.

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Speaker 3: Park in some ways it might be. Then lastly, shout

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Speaker 3: Well, Oreo, let’s take a case dog Lola. Shout out

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Speaker 3: to Lola as well. Tied for first, but Oreo the Dog.

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Speaker 2: Thank you. We don’t know the breed of Oreo.

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Speaker 3: Don’t know much about Oreo except that they’re lucky.

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Speaker 1: Is Oreo Mangie Mutt Rescue All American dog.

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Speaker 1: And Mike is closing in on twenty years in the

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Speaker 2: Came into the league.

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Speaker 1: the league for a long time, and you’ll hear it

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Speaker 1: and comprehensive nature of Brett Beach’s staff. Now last year,

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Speaker 1: how awesome they work together.

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Speaker 3: It’s so easy to take them for granted. I mean,

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Speaker 3: And it’s all about striving to get back to the

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Speaker 3: I mean, we’re just so fortunate to have these people

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Speaker 3: they do. And you can see why other teams want

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Speaker 2: Yeah, four teams in the league that our guys.

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Speaker 3: It’s a lot of teams coming to the chiefs and

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Speaker 3: It’s just really incredible and to have Brett kind of

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Speaker 3: comprehensive thing and it’s a really just an incredible team.

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Speaker 3: And obviously the football team’s success is a testament to

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Speaker 1: Out, and in the NFL calendar, and a coach is

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Speaker 1: working insane hours. They work insane hours. Yeah, it’s crazy,

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Speaker 1: Brett Veach’s guys because he sent me twice text me,

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Speaker 1: there early in the morning looking because they have to

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Speaker 1: get ready for the Combine. They’ve been to the Senior Bowl,

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Speaker 1: These dudes have had no time to exhale unless it’s

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Speaker 1: July and the only time where there’s a plant shutdown,

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Speaker 1: that’s the only time these guys get when we.

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Speaker 3: Go to Saint Joe. They basically have no time off

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Speaker 3: until Rookie Mini Camp the next year. It’s like rippling

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Speaker 3: evaluation process, you’re sent out all over the country. You’re

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Speaker 3: have to get all the udfas in here, you have

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Speaker 3: or two maybe, Like Brett talked about how a couple

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Speaker 1: Personnel for the Chiefs, and Mike, let me say this,

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Speaker 4: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, ten years with the Eagles, in eight years with us.

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Speaker 4: I appreciate the measure.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean that’s some of the finest memories grown up.

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Speaker 1: Well, your dad’s a savant and you are too. We’re

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Speaker 1: zeroing in on the twenty twenty five draft again. It’s eminent,

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Speaker 1: when you look at it from thirty thousand feet, what

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Speaker 4: Yeah? I think you’re right.

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Speaker 5: You know, every draft is different, has his strengths as weaknesses.

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Speaker 5: So I think the reality is that our scouts have

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Speaker 1: I just want to let everybody know our senior director,

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Speaker 3: Well, I just one to ask when it comes to

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Speaker 5: What do we see it? You know, we these guys

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Speaker 1: Room Matt and I talked about last week is kind

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Speaker 1: But I want to ask you about making a decision

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Speaker 5: Like I think Veach has proven that the only way

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Speaker 5: as opposed to maybe wait, you know, ten to twelve

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Speaker 4: We haven’t done it much here obviously, you know, with

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Speaker 5: And I think you know that’s why we use you know,

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Speaker 4: You know we all have kind of the same trade charts.

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Speaker 4: About what you give up.

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Speaker 5: because that was obviously a pleasant surprise. But you know,

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00:18:08,960 –> 00:18:10,720
Speaker 5: there’s there was a handful of guys where you’re like, well,

419
00:18:10,720 –> 00:18:12,760
Speaker 5: these guys are you know, they’re top fifteen, and then

420
00:18:12,840 –> 00:18:14,880
Speaker 5: they start to fall a little bit, and then if

421
00:18:14,880 –> 00:18:18,840
Speaker 5: they get into you know, particular range, that’s that’s where

422
00:18:18,880 –> 00:18:19,639
Speaker 5: you kind of pounce.

423
00:18:19,720 –> 00:18:21,200
Speaker 4: And those are the conversations.

424
00:18:20,680 –> 00:18:23,360
Speaker 5: That we will have, We’ve had that we will have,

425
00:18:23,640 –> 00:18:26,479
Speaker 5: like if this player falls to twenty two, twenty three,

426
00:18:26,560 –> 00:18:31,119
Speaker 5: twenty four, like, should we make a big move for him?

427
00:18:30,800 –> 00:18:33,560
Speaker 1: You three picks on the seventh round as it stands

428
00:18:33,640 –> 00:18:36,280
Speaker 1: right now. Now we have learned Matt and I over

429
00:18:36,280 –> 00:18:39,760
Speaker 1: the years, especially with Brett and you and the rest

430
00:18:39,760 –> 00:18:42,640
Speaker 1: of the crew, is the seventh round pay attention. That’s

431
00:18:42,640 –> 00:18:45,600
Speaker 1: where you get Isaiah picheck On, Azzie Johnson, Jalen Watson.

432
00:18:46,000 –> 00:18:50,520
Speaker 1: But then the undrafted free agent craziness. But I’m looking here,

433
00:18:50,720 –> 00:18:56,040
Speaker 1: I mean Carson Steele, Nico Rimihio, Jack Cochrane, Caleendo.

434
00:18:55,600 –> 00:18:57,800
Speaker 2: Kaylie Endo. Those guys are all right there.

435
00:18:57,840 –> 00:19:03,440
Speaker 1: What about that dynamic three attacking the seventh round? And

436
00:19:03,480 –> 00:19:06,920
Speaker 1: then the New York Stock Exchange opens when their draft ends,

437
00:19:07,000 –> 00:19:08,520
Speaker 1: and the phone start going crazy.

438
00:19:08,720 –> 00:19:11,520
Speaker 5: Yeah, it’s a I mean specifically about the you know,

439
00:19:11,560 –> 00:19:13,320
Speaker 5: late rounds. I mean, the good thing about the way

440
00:19:13,359 –> 00:19:15,359
Speaker 5: we do our process, like those guys we take it

441
00:19:15,359 –> 00:19:16,080
Speaker 5: in the seventh round.

442
00:19:16,119 –> 00:19:17,560
Speaker 4: Like we’ve done a lot of work on those guys.

443
00:19:17,560 –> 00:19:20,200
Speaker 5: We’ve watched even Brett, Like we’ve watched tape on those guys,

444
00:19:20,400 –> 00:19:21,640
Speaker 5: you know, extensively.

445
00:19:22,160 –> 00:19:25,040
Speaker 4: Our coaches are aware of them. We’ve had countless reports

446
00:19:25,080 –> 00:19:25,400
Speaker 4: on them.

447
00:19:25,480 –> 00:19:27,360
Speaker 5: So you know, those are guys that you know, we

448
00:19:28,040 –> 00:19:29,720
Speaker 5: are probably you know, we’re probably in the fifth, fourth,

449
00:19:29,760 –> 00:19:31,800
Speaker 5: fifth round that just you know fell for whatever reason,

450
00:19:31,840 –> 00:19:34,840
Speaker 5: and we kind of identify the kind of guys that

451
00:19:34,880 –> 00:19:36,960
Speaker 5: we want to take shots on. You know, I think

452
00:19:36,960 –> 00:19:40,000
Speaker 5: typically you try to take shots on guys that maybe

453
00:19:40,000 –> 00:19:42,080
Speaker 5: their careers didn’t go as you know where they’re production,

454
00:19:42,320 –> 00:19:44,159
Speaker 5: you know, injury, like you know, maybe there were a

455
00:19:44,200 –> 00:19:46,720
Speaker 5: couple of schools, but they have the traits, they have

456
00:19:46,760 –> 00:19:48,600
Speaker 5: the passion for the game. Like those are the kind

457
00:19:48,600 –> 00:19:52,520
Speaker 5: of guys you’d take a shot on. And specifically about freegency. Yeah,

458
00:19:52,600 –> 00:19:55,119
Speaker 5: it’s crazy, but we have we have a very you know,

459
00:19:55,359 –> 00:19:58,360
Speaker 5: detailed process to you know, like you know, each scout’s

460
00:19:58,359 –> 00:20:01,480
Speaker 5: gonna have a position. The communications great in the room,

461
00:20:01,560 –> 00:20:03,600
Speaker 5: you know, with with Crische you know, just kind of

462
00:20:03,600 –> 00:20:07,680
Speaker 5: managing everything and just constant dialogue. You know, it’s that’s

463
00:20:07,720 –> 00:20:10,440
Speaker 5: the one thing we stressed everybody like just over communicate,

464
00:20:10,520 –> 00:20:12,919
Speaker 5: you know, because everything’s there’s so much coming at you,

465
00:20:13,040 –> 00:20:15,600
Speaker 5: so many numbers, and you know there’s going to be

466
00:20:16,680 –> 00:20:19,679
Speaker 5: a handful of guys that go undrafted that we really like.

467
00:20:19,880 –> 00:20:21,479
Speaker 5: You know, those guys were going to be aggressive going

468
00:20:21,520 –> 00:20:24,040
Speaker 5: after him, And I think it’s a credit to our

469
00:20:24,119 –> 00:20:27,080
Speaker 5: personnel staff, our scouts that we found guys, you know,

470
00:20:27,119 –> 00:20:29,360
Speaker 5: in a super Bowl caliber team. To have some undrafted

471
00:20:29,359 –> 00:20:31,159
Speaker 5: free and to make a team, it’s not easy, you know,

472
00:20:31,200 –> 00:20:33,520
Speaker 5: but it’s a credit to I think our staff and

473
00:20:33,680 –> 00:20:35,320
Speaker 5: also the players themselves.

474
00:20:35,560 –> 00:20:37,919
Speaker 3: And what’s it like when you have picks and multiple

475
00:20:37,960 –> 00:20:39,760
Speaker 3: picks in one round, like in the seventh round having

476
00:20:39,800 –> 00:20:43,679
Speaker 3: three picks, particularly the third round you’re picking at the

477
00:20:43,760 –> 00:20:46,400
Speaker 3: very beginning of the third round, and you know there’s

478
00:20:46,440 –> 00:20:49,120
Speaker 3: picks are close together. What’s the draft room like when

479
00:20:49,119 –> 00:20:50,919
Speaker 3: you have all right, here’s a selection and we’re on

480
00:20:50,960 –> 00:20:52,320
Speaker 3: the clock again in five minutes.

481
00:20:52,520 –> 00:20:54,320
Speaker 5: Yeah, So well, you know, after the draft, you know,

482
00:20:54,359 –> 00:20:57,000
Speaker 5: after round one, wild get together and we’ll basically reach

483
00:20:57,040 –> 00:20:58,440
Speaker 5: out the board, you know, and then I know we

484
00:20:58,520 –> 00:21:00,600
Speaker 5: got a long way to go in round two. But

485
00:21:00,920 –> 00:21:03,280
Speaker 5: you know, as those guys start getting you know, picked off.

486
00:21:03,359 –> 00:21:05,080
Speaker 5: Like as we’re close to the end of the second round,

487
00:21:05,119 –> 00:21:07,919
Speaker 5: we’ll have we’ll have a handful of names that you know,

488
00:21:07,960 –> 00:21:10,840
Speaker 5: we’re really interested in, and you know, I think we’ll

489
00:21:10,840 –> 00:21:13,080
Speaker 5: be hey, let’s you know, let’s let’s take this guy

490
00:21:13,119 –> 00:21:15,639
Speaker 5: first and based off our intel, based off our knowledge,

491
00:21:15,680 –> 00:21:17,920
Speaker 5: maybe this guy’s got a better chance of.

492
00:21:17,880 –> 00:21:19,359
Speaker 4: Being there, you know, top of three.

493
00:21:20,680 –> 00:21:23,879
Speaker 5: But yeah, it’s always you gotta be you gotta be ready.

494
00:21:23,920 –> 00:21:26,440
Speaker 1: You’re gonna have from one thirty three to two twenty six.

495
00:21:26,600 –> 00:21:29,200
Speaker 1: I could see Brett filling in that gap, but yeah,

496
00:21:29,280 –> 00:21:30,840
Speaker 1: what are you gonna do in that gap because there’s

497
00:21:30,840 –> 00:21:32,200
Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of asteroids flying.

498
00:21:32,800 –> 00:21:34,800
Speaker 5: Yeah, it’s it’s gonna it’s a little strange, you know

499
00:21:34,880 –> 00:21:36,919
Speaker 5: with the you know, not having you know, round you know,

500
00:21:36,960 –> 00:21:39,879
Speaker 5: picksing five and six. But you know, we he almost

501
00:21:39,880 –> 00:21:42,119
Speaker 5: got to be prepared that if we do, you know,

502
00:21:42,240 –> 00:21:43,280
Speaker 5: just to be able to you know, be.

503
00:21:43,240 –> 00:21:44,119
Speaker 4: Ready for those guys.

504
00:21:44,119 –> 00:21:46,760
Speaker 5: And yeah, I think this this first year we’ve had

505
00:21:46,800 –> 00:21:48,320
Speaker 5: mister relevant, that’s pretty cool.

506
00:21:48,680 –> 00:21:50,800
Speaker 3: Is Ryan suck up years and years ago? Yeah, in

507
00:21:50,920 –> 00:21:53,560
Speaker 3: like in two thousand and yeah, ten or nine or something,

508
00:21:53,600 –> 00:21:55,000
Speaker 3: I don’t know, but it been a long time.

509
00:21:55,119 –> 00:21:57,280
Speaker 5: Yeah, it’s we we we’ve gone through the board, you

510
00:21:57,320 –> 00:21:59,200
Speaker 5: know and be like, man, this guy, this guy would

511
00:21:59,200 –> 00:22:01,600
Speaker 5: be a good mystery of you know, there’s a handful

512
00:22:01,600 –> 00:22:03,440
Speaker 5: of these guys that we’ve you know, we’ve talked about that.

513
00:22:03,480 –> 00:22:05,879
Speaker 4: You know would fit that mold, you know.

514
00:22:06,720 –> 00:22:09,119
Speaker 5: But yeah, there’s it’s ah, the days are long, you know,

515
00:22:09,160 –> 00:22:11,960
Speaker 5: it’s you know, you the unfortunate thing is you love

516
00:22:12,000 –> 00:22:13,639
Speaker 5: some of these players. You do so much work on

517
00:22:13,680 –> 00:22:16,320
Speaker 5: these guys, and you know there’s just guys that you

518
00:22:16,480 –> 00:22:18,480
Speaker 5: love to have on your team, and you know there

519
00:22:18,520 –> 00:22:21,800
Speaker 5: is some luck involved, you know, and it’s uh, the

520
00:22:21,880 –> 00:22:24,000
Speaker 5: only on you know right now you might only get

521
00:22:24,000 –> 00:22:24,440
Speaker 5: eight of them.

522
00:22:24,640 –> 00:22:25,840
Speaker 4: You know, it’s just the reality of it.

523
00:22:26,119 –> 00:22:27,080
Speaker 2: Before we let you go.

524
00:22:27,160 –> 00:22:30,480
Speaker 1: Because Matt and are up above you on three the

525
00:22:30,560 –> 00:22:33,560
Speaker 1: third floor of the building. Well, the draft room is

526
00:22:33,640 –> 00:22:37,040
Speaker 1: like a flurry of activity. You’ve got somebody you want them,

527
00:22:37,440 –> 00:22:38,760
Speaker 1: you can’t go up and get them, and then they

528
00:22:38,760 –> 00:22:39,440
Speaker 1: fly off the board.

529
00:22:39,440 –> 00:22:40,080
Speaker 2: How do you handle that?

530
00:22:40,440 –> 00:22:43,239
Speaker 1: Because we don’t handle it great. We got a guy

531
00:22:43,240 –> 00:22:43,520
Speaker 1: who are.

532
00:22:43,480 –> 00:22:47,520
Speaker 5: Like, oh, there’s a collective groan you know for you know,

533
00:22:47,600 –> 00:22:49,080
Speaker 5: and then you know we might have to you know,

534
00:22:49,200 –> 00:22:50,800
Speaker 5: go pace in the Hallway a little bit, you know,

535
00:22:50,880 –> 00:22:53,600
Speaker 5: maybe get a quick stack or something, you know, but

536
00:22:53,640 –> 00:22:55,280
Speaker 5: then you got to you gotta repivot, you know, you

537
00:22:55,359 –> 00:22:57,800
Speaker 5: got to get back in it. And you know that’s

538
00:22:57,800 –> 00:23:01,119
Speaker 5: why with every selection it’s A and B plan C.

539
00:23:01,280 –> 00:23:02,280
Speaker 4: Expect the unexpected.

540
00:23:02,280 –> 00:23:04,960
Speaker 5: And you know there’s been times we’ve been on the

541
00:23:04,960 –> 00:23:06,439
Speaker 5: clock ready to make a pick and the guy goes

542
00:23:06,520 –> 00:23:07,080
Speaker 5: right before us.

543
00:23:07,160 –> 00:23:09,480
Speaker 4: It’s for like, you might only have a few minutes

544
00:23:09,520 –> 00:23:09,800
Speaker 4: to pick.

545
00:23:09,880 –> 00:23:11,080
Speaker 5: But that’s why we set the board the way we

546
00:23:11,200 –> 00:23:13,040
Speaker 5: do and just kind of let it fall to us.

547
00:23:13,160 –> 00:23:15,639
Speaker 1: Man, that’s awesome, what a treat. Thanks for being with us.

548
00:23:15,680 –> 00:23:20,080
Speaker 1: Thanks busy time. But Mike Bradway our senior director player

549
00:23:20,119 –> 00:23:22,440
Speaker 1: personnel and just brilliant.

550
00:23:22,960 –> 00:23:24,040
Speaker 2: His dad was awesome.

551
00:23:24,880 –> 00:23:27,000
Speaker 1: Your kids are even involved in this if you want

552
00:23:27,000 –> 00:23:28,119
Speaker 1: to check their draft board.

553
00:23:29,440 –> 00:23:31,040
Speaker 2: But anyway, thanks for being with us MICROA.

554
00:23:31,280 –> 00:23:31,840
Speaker 4: It’s been great.

555
00:23:31,920 –> 00:23:36,639
Speaker 1: Thanks great stuff there from Mike Bradway and again a

556
00:23:36,720 –> 00:23:40,280
Speaker 1: great example of the brilliance of Brett Veitch’s guys.

557
00:23:40,800 –> 00:23:43,840
Speaker 3: Absolutely, and again those guys don’t get as much credit.

558
00:23:44,600 –> 00:23:46,639
Speaker 3: Brett is always the first one to say that he

559
00:23:46,720 –> 00:23:49,000
Speaker 3: wants like the people that work with him to get

560
00:23:49,040 –> 00:23:51,320
Speaker 3: as much credit as he does, and obviously he’s kind

561
00:23:51,320 –> 00:23:53,400
Speaker 3: of the figurehead. He’s the general manager and he’s making

562
00:23:53,480 –> 00:23:57,240
Speaker 3: ultimate decisions. But I just love the collaboration of that group.

563
00:23:57,280 –> 00:23:59,199
Speaker 3: And again, Brett would be the first to say that

564
00:23:59,240 –> 00:24:01,480
Speaker 3: they deserve so much much credit for all the success

565
00:24:01,520 –> 00:24:03,359
Speaker 3: that we’ve had. It’s not just one person, it’s the

566
00:24:03,400 –> 00:24:06,359
Speaker 3: whole team and the whole group. And again, we’re very

567
00:24:06,440 –> 00:24:08,240
Speaker 3: lucky to have them all here in Kansas City.

568
00:24:08,520 –> 00:24:12,119
Speaker 1: And the respect they have for each other is again dynamic.

569
00:24:12,680 –> 00:24:14,800
Speaker 1: We’ll close it out this way, but I’m really interested.

570
00:24:15,960 –> 00:24:18,920
Speaker 1: We know that Brett likes to move up, we’ve seen

571
00:24:19,000 –> 00:24:21,080
Speaker 1: him do it, but there’s a chance the Chiefs Kingdom

572
00:24:21,080 –> 00:24:22,640
Speaker 1: has to be ready to move down. And if there’s

573
00:24:22,680 –> 00:24:24,399
Speaker 1: a draft where people have said, hey, this is a

574
00:24:24,480 –> 00:24:26,280
Speaker 1: draft to move down or you’re thirty one, this would

575
00:24:26,280 –> 00:24:28,520
Speaker 1: be the one we just heard Mike talk about it.

576
00:24:28,840 –> 00:24:33,879
Speaker 1: There is a seemingly a sweet spot from late first

577
00:24:33,960 –> 00:24:37,639
Speaker 1: rounds to maybe the beginning of the fourth But with

578
00:24:37,720 –> 00:24:40,919
Speaker 1: the Chiefs have in those four picks between thirty one

579
00:24:41,000 –> 00:24:43,760
Speaker 1: and ninety five, seems to be a really good strategic

580
00:24:43,880 –> 00:24:48,400
Speaker 1: position to either build equity to move or to find starters.

581
00:24:48,640 –> 00:24:50,560
Speaker 3: And I really think just the way the Chiefs attacked

582
00:24:50,560 –> 00:24:52,920
Speaker 3: free agency this year. We’ve talked about this ad nauseum,

583
00:24:52,960 –> 00:24:55,520
Speaker 3: but I think this year, maybe more than many others,

584
00:24:55,760 –> 00:24:58,000
Speaker 3: we truly can just take the best players available. And

585
00:24:58,040 –> 00:25:00,080
Speaker 3: that’s the position that you want to be in. And

586
00:25:00,080 –> 00:25:03,000
Speaker 3: Brett Veach had his like pre draft press conference earlier

587
00:25:03,000 –> 00:25:06,480
Speaker 3: today actually, and he said that they have between twelve

588
00:25:06,520 –> 00:25:09,720
Speaker 3: the fourteen players that have like the hard fast first

589
00:25:09,800 –> 00:25:13,159
Speaker 3: round grades, and sure, if one of those guys falls

590
00:25:13,200 –> 00:25:15,960
Speaker 3: into the twenty range, they could be aggressive and move up.

591
00:25:16,000 –> 00:25:17,680
Speaker 3: And we’ve seen them do that before with players like

592
00:25:17,720 –> 00:25:21,640
Speaker 3: Trent McDuffie and Xavier Worthy last year. But he said

593
00:25:21,680 –> 00:25:24,439
Speaker 3: there’s also maybe more players than normal who are in

594
00:25:24,480 –> 00:25:27,840
Speaker 3: that secondary wave where it’s late first round, early second round.

595
00:25:27,880 –> 00:25:29,560
Speaker 3: They have a lot of players kind of with similar

596
00:25:29,560 –> 00:25:31,760
Speaker 3: grades in that area. That’s a good position to be

597
00:25:31,800 –> 00:25:33,800
Speaker 3: in if you’re the Chiefs because if someone else really

598
00:25:33,800 –> 00:25:36,800
Speaker 3: wants to trade into the first round and the guys

599
00:25:36,840 –> 00:25:38,879
Speaker 3: that you have high grades on are all gone, you

600
00:25:38,920 –> 00:25:40,959
Speaker 3: can just move back and acquire more picks and you’re

601
00:25:40,960 –> 00:25:43,080
Speaker 3: going to get a player that maybe you thought as

602
00:25:43,119 –> 00:25:45,080
Speaker 3: the same caliber as a player you would have taken

603
00:25:45,280 –> 00:25:47,359
Speaker 3: at thirty one or you stand pat and you’re going

604
00:25:47,400 –> 00:25:49,359
Speaker 3: to get a good player there anyway. So it’s a

605
00:25:49,400 –> 00:25:51,320
Speaker 3: really good spot for the Chiefs to be in. If

606
00:25:51,359 –> 00:25:53,320
Speaker 3: you’re more interested in all this stuff. Brett said, he

607
00:25:53,359 –> 00:25:55,040
Speaker 3: talked for like forty minutes. It’s going to be on

608
00:25:55,040 –> 00:25:58,960
Speaker 3: the Chiefs YouTube page here, really interesting stuff. Brett is

609
00:25:59,119 –> 00:26:01,240
Speaker 3: great because if you listen, he will tell you what

610
00:26:01,280 –> 00:26:04,480
Speaker 3: you’re curious about. He’s not playing games like he’ll tell you, Hey,

611
00:26:04,520 –> 00:26:09,040
Speaker 3: I think ol DL running back, corner, and receiver are

612
00:26:09,080 –> 00:26:11,560
Speaker 3: the strength of this draft, and we’ll probably take those positions.

613
00:26:11,600 –> 00:26:14,159
Speaker 3: And it’s like, Okay, we’ll pay attention to those spots.

614
00:26:14,160 –> 00:26:16,280
Speaker 2: Then one final thing before we close.

615
00:26:16,320 –> 00:26:19,240
Speaker 1: And I’m fascinated by this because of the changing landscape

616
00:26:19,840 –> 00:26:22,919
Speaker 1: in college sports. I think we’re going to do a

617
00:26:22,920 –> 00:26:27,120
Speaker 1: whole DTK on this subject, and that is with the

618
00:26:27,119 –> 00:26:32,560
Speaker 1: movement in college sports, all the transfers mostly moving up nil.

619
00:26:33,440 –> 00:26:37,600
Speaker 1: But I’m just curious what the fifth, eh the sixth,

620
00:26:37,720 –> 00:26:40,600
Speaker 1: seventh rounds look like, and what undrafted free agency will

621
00:26:40,600 –> 00:26:43,000
Speaker 1: look like, not just for the Chiefs but all thirty

622
00:26:43,000 –> 00:26:46,199
Speaker 1: two teams, because I get the sense we’re in a

623
00:26:47,119 –> 00:26:51,040
Speaker 1: kind of a revolutionary time of the NFL and the

624
00:26:51,080 –> 00:26:52,440
Speaker 1: personnel coming into this league.

625
00:26:52,600 –> 00:26:55,000
Speaker 3: The landscape’s totally different now, and it’s different for a

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Speaker 3: couple of reasons. If you look at some players that

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Speaker 3: will be taken later in the draft, some guys taken

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Speaker 3: high in the draft, what’s really strange is they will

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Speaker 3: have like five years of college experience and they’ve played

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Speaker 3: at three or four different schools, And I think that

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Speaker 3: kind of makes things difficult on evaluators because if a

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Speaker 3: guy wasn’t in the same place the entire time, how

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Speaker 3: did he grow? How did he improve from year to year?

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Speaker 3: And some players can’t do it even though they’ve moved around.

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Speaker 3: But it’s definitely harder, I think if you’re not in

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Speaker 3: the same place and with the same coaching staff. Also,

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Speaker 3: the ages of players are going to be different, So

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Speaker 3: you’re not going to find many juniors who are coming

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Speaker 3: out and going to be taken in the fifth or

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Speaker 3: sixth round because they can likely make more money just

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Speaker 3: staying in college or by transferring. So I think what

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Speaker 3: you’re going to see over the years with your later

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Speaker 3: on picks in your udfas is prospects who are twenty four,

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Speaker 3: twenty five years old with a lot of experience, which

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Speaker 3: is a benefit has me thinking of guys like Swayze Boseman.

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Speaker 3: They can come in right away and play on special

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Speaker 3: teams and they have experience playing a lot of football.

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Speaker 3: But there’s also less time to develop. And that’s the

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Speaker 3: benefit of having guys like Xavier Worthy and Kingsley Suamataia

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Speaker 3: early in the draft last year year. Those guys are

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Speaker 3: both twenty twenty one years old. Their runway is very long.

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Speaker 3: But if you’re already twenty four to twenty five years old,

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Speaker 3: less time to develop. So put some stress in the

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Speaker 3: coaching staff and put some stress in the front office

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Speaker 3: to find the players who might be older and you

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Speaker 3: think can help you right away.

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Speaker 1: But the top end of that is the window to

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Speaker 1: play in this league. Everybody talks about then thirty years old,

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Speaker 1: things start to get weird. And I mean bo Nix

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Speaker 1: is a twenty six year old rookie quarterback.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, Mahomes won the Super Bowl at twenty four.

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Speaker 3: Think about that.

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Speaker 1: Think about that, and then and then the receiver, who’s

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Speaker 1: the Broncos receiver, who’s the kid at Utah who’s twenty

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Speaker 1: seven years old as a rookie. So that was some

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Speaker 1: of COVID, but this now becomes non COVID and it

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Speaker 1: becomes a dynamic. We’re going to do a whole episode

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Speaker 1: on this, maybe a couple we’ll let the draft kind

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Speaker 1: of smoke out here, then we’ll look at our picks

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Speaker 1: and evaluate our roster. But soon after that, I think

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Speaker 1: we’re going to jump into this because I think fans

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Speaker 1: don’t think about it, and I think it’s going to

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Speaker 1: change this league dramatically. So all right, we’re headed for

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Speaker 1: the draft, and of course you can follow us on

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Speaker 1: our platforms. We’re going to keep you updated. Matt and

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Speaker 1: I are digging in, baby. But one of the things

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Speaker 1: we have confidence in is not only in Brett Veach.

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Speaker 1: Do we trust in Veach’s guys.

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Speaker 2: We trust