Billy, Mikey A and Andrew Hawkins are live at the Draft Kings Sports and Social in Nashville for the first round of the NFL Draft. The guys react to the big moves and picks in round one of the draft while trying to make "bold" predictions, deal with crowd producers and contain their excitement for each pick. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: Who are the hosts and what is the setting of the NFL Draft coverage?
Live from the DraftKings Sport and Social, this is the 2025 NFL Draft. watch along of the NFL draft that's in Green Bay, Wisconsin at Lambeau Field. This place is packed. I'm shocked to see all of these people here. It was a slow build today. We are here live in Nashville. They're engaged. They're ready to go, Billy.
I didn't think they were going to be able to hear me, so I thought I could talk a little crap about them, but instead we're going to be very friendly in the tight ends today.
The tight ends. We're joined by Andrew Hawkins. Mikey A is here. We're going to be taking you through two hours of this first round of the NFL Draft live again here at the DraftKings Sport & Social at Nashville, Tennessee. We were driving around the city today, and the energy was palpable. It was electric. Everywhere we looked, people were saying, we want Cam Ward. We want Cam Ward.
They were screaming Cam on every street corner that we saw. This place is on fire right now.
Well, there was that one guy screaming, we still want Will Levis. And frankly, he's wrong. Yeah, frankly, we don't care what Will Levis says. Yeah, he's wrong. And why was Will Levis sitting downtown was what we were wondering when we encountered him.
So that makes a lot of sense. One of the saddest things that I've seen in Nashville, which is an incredible city. It's my first time in the city. Everyone's been incredibly welcoming. One of the first things I saw when we came into Nashville was driving past the stadium. We saw a Will Levis banner that was probably 80 feet tall. And I saw it and I said, you know what?
this is not going to exist tomorrow because we don't know for sure, but it appears as though Will Levis will no longer be your starting quarterback. That'll be the question. Will the big mural of Will Levis still be there tomorrow? What do you do with a mural that size? Like, if you're Will Levis, do you ask for that? I do. For sure I ask for it. You put that in storage somewhere?
You put it somewhere. Like, when I eventually become a tech CEO and... have a space big enough to actually hang a banner like that. But you asked for it. Yeah. Most NFL players don't. Drape your house in it. I would be excited that I would have had a bureau at some point. Most guys that were like the guy and then it comes down don't feel that way.
They usually hold a grudge against the team for forever that you hear about 30 years later on podcasts. But for me, I'm asking for it. I need a keepsake. Will Levis doesn't think he's not going to be the guy after tonight. He just thinks he'll be the guy somewhere else, I assume. He will. No, he won't. You don't think so? No. No. Hold on a second. First off, scouting prowess.
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Chapter 2: What are the bold predictions and initial reactions to the number one pick?
I mean, it'd be crazy to trade up all the way to two from five, not to take the guy that was going to go at two or three. Yeah.
I mean, maybe it's Abdul Carter. It's got to be one of those two. I mean, we assume the Giants were going to take Abdul Carter, so if they trade up, maybe they're trying to get him. I don't know. Kind of rude of them, by the way, to not let Cam Ward have his moment. Yeah, because we already transitioned. We can't even see him celebrate this situation. Everybody's on to talking about the Jaguars.
Also, I don't know why it was weird for me to hear Roger Goodell call him Cameron Ward. Yeah, I don't know about that either. Because obviously his full name is Cameron. I don't know what I expected. Maybe Cambria. You know what?
A little bit of a pet peeve, Roger Goodell. You're going to be announcing these players' names. Maybe learn a few of them. I always hate when he comes up and he's got to announce somebody's name and he totally butchers it. Does he do that a lot? Oh, he's done it a bunch of times.
He could also just have like an earpiece in where someone says it right before. They just say, hey, Raj, this is how you say it. Well, they do.
At the draft, before you go on, they literally give you the card. Sometimes on the card, it's spelled phonetically so you can, like, they'll tell you right before you go on stage, as someone who announced the draft pick, humble brag. I don't know how he's doing in the league right now, but that's aside. But they tell you the pronunciation right before you go on stage. Who'd you announce?
Ah, that's a good question. Okay. Alex Wright. Very good. Defensive end, Cleveland Browns, 2022 draft. They couldn't have given you a hard one. They gave you Alex Wright? Yeah. Hmm. Did you guys know that the Cam Ward played the drums in his church band with his mom who played the piano? Oh, I like that. Did you know that Cam Ward's father is a fuel buyer for a nuclear power plant? Wow.
Which may explain his freakish athletic ability. Yeah, he's a mutant. He's a part of the Marvel Universe. He might be. Finally, I've been waiting for Marvel and the NFL to do a collab. By the way, thanks to everybody at Smirnoff. This is presented by Smirnoff, the world's number one vodka. If you're here tonight, why don't you try the home game punch, the Smirnoff Mule or the Pina Picante.
That sounds spicy. It does sound spicy. I've had enough spicy food being here. I have played it safe, Hawk. Okay, when you go to different cities around the country, the world, whatever, do you try their local delicacies? Do you go with comfort food? Do you go with what you like? What is your strategy on food? Yeah, I do my own thing, man. I stick to the basics.
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Chapter 3: How does Cam Ward’s college journey and draft outlook influence his NFL prospects?
We don't have to look at the Leroy sound bite here, but that would have been a good moment for it. But he also talked about the fact that Will Campbell had short arms, and he said it doesn't matter. Because the way that they measure offensive lineman arms, like from the shoulder blade to the middle finger. And he's like, well, what if you just have a really long middle finger, which happens.
And like a long arm to a short arm is like the difference of an inch or an inch and a half. And he's like, you don't block defensive lineman with your arms. You block them with your feet. Your arms just leverage them. And I said, look, man, I don't know what the hell you're talking about. But I believe you because...
You're a lot better at playing offensive tackle than I am at pretty much anything else in my life.
Yeah, I mean, do we think... Are the Patriots in win-now mode, considering all the money they spent? Now they have their quarterback on the rookie contract. They got him now a left-side protector.
What does win now mode mean?
As opposed to what?
You gotta win now. Yeah. Yeah. But I mean, like, how long have the Patriots been losing now?
In the organization, they're win now. As a fan, as football analysts, you know, me and you, total football analysts. Yeah. Do we think they can win now? Um, I think they can. I think Mike Brable... I think they could take that seven seed.
I think Mike Brable was a difference maker. I don't think Mike Brable knows anything other than win now. I think, like, he's the kind of person who is, you know... stick to his own convictions. Again, we're down here in Tennessee. They know better than anyone. I'm such a huge Mike Vrabel fan.
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