Matt LaFleur
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That's a pretty good crew. I'll take that all day.
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Yeah, I don't worry about that. You know, I do take a lot of –
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i love watching your write-ups on all of us so i think that's very entertaining yes yes but i i mean you definitely we know sean definitely takes he thinks about his looks takes a lot of pride in that yeah he had the prp injections to grow the beard out a little bit so yeah so what you're he does a lot of things he's hollywood though yeah that's true he's right there can you blame him
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Well, yeah, technically since it's here, but I'll be in the same draft room that I've been in the last... Well, I guess it was our first year in our new portion of our building. So I'll be up there in the draft room on the second floor, but it... Goody's office is right around the corner, so you can overlook and see what's going on outside.
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Honestly, it's just kind of a waiting game, especially we're picking 23rd this year, and there's a lot of unknowns, I would say, in this draft in particular, probably more so in this one than there is in previous years, just in terms of there's not, I would say, a clear consensus in terms of how some of these guys are going to fall.
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And it's always a little bit of a crapshoot, but it's a lot of waiting around. But you can feel it starts to get tense. the closer you are to making your selection.
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You know, we got a lot of scouts that like to eat. And so I'd say there's some pretty good snacks floating around.
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That's a hell of a question. Who do you think we should pick?
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It's not always the case, but... You want to be successful through the draft, and thankfully our guys have done a pretty good job.
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Oh, yeah, absolutely. I think the I mean, I'm sitting right next to Goody and the rest of our scouting department. And, you know, sometimes there's there's more conversation than others. But, yeah, I absolutely weigh in, especially as we're getting close. And usually there's a couple of guys within the range that you're kind of targeting and you kind of weigh in and give your thoughts and then.
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You know, just wait to see who we pick.
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Oh, yeah, there's there's a couple of them out there. That is one of them that, you know, we have all this stuff up on the screen on your computer screen. And especially when you start talking about trades and you hear the phones ring and, you know, each I would say there's a lot of scouts in the room and most of the scouts have a team that they're in communication with.
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So as those trades get thrown around, you start comparing and see where it falls and Those draft charts, they're all a little bit different. We have our own draft chart, as a matter of fact. But we always use all those to compare in terms of where the value is.
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Yeah. I mean, it hasn't happened in my experience here, but... Yeah, usually you always have a plan B. If something doesn't go through the way you want it, you always have something down just so that doesn't happen.
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I would say you usually just compliment when they pick somebody that you like, and then there's some laughter within the draft room sometimes. I can't believe they just took whoever it may be, but typically we kind of keep that in-house.
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I think I'm going to try that approach this year. Yeah. Just to see how they react.
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Yeah, but I usually try not to look at any mock drafts or any draft evaluations until the very end of it. Because sometimes you're like, well, maybe I'm missing something. You just don't want that to really factor into the work that you do watching the players and getting to know them.
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Yeah. Well, you guys are so entertaining, you know? I mean... I don't know about that.
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Yeah.
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Right. Well, that's part of it, too. Right. There's no doubt about it.
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I don't think you guys are that dumb.
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Yeah, you can throw them a mile.
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A Big J?
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Okay.
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Well, I don't want to get into how I really feel about it. So, like, I'm good with whatever they want to decide and do. I'm going to adapt. But it has been a pretty damn successful play. Ironically enough, we actually do better when we don't do the tush push.
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No, I don't. I mean, I'm indifferent, to be honest with you.
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Well, yeah, you know, I mean, they're in a favorable situation because it's still like, you know, almost 90% effective. So it's a tough play to stop, that's for sure. And especially with how Philly's done it and Jalen does a great job. But I really think it all starts up front. Those guys do a really good job of getting low and allowing Jalen to use his –
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Herculean leg strength to push the pile forward.
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Well, see, I think that's what we're trying to avoid, right?
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You're probably right because I never played baseball. I was not a baseball guy.
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Well, it's funny because a lot of people reached out to me and they're like, how well do you know Ben? And I was like, I don't. But, you know.
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Anytime I'm just lacking a little motivation, I just think about that. You know, it usually gets me over the hump.
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Yeah, last time I checked, I thought it was Packers, Bears.
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Packers, Lions.
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I mean, you haven't beaten the— That's pretty impressive. He can squat 400 pounds. Yep. I think it's 405.
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We have not. We haven't played. Actually, we did play.
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Well, I got to give our staff a ton of credit. Guys like Adam Stinovich, I mean, he's really the mastermind behind our run game. And so a lot of times we'll build off our run game. We'll build our passing game off that. So, yeah, he definitely – we have a saying around here. The only thing that limits you is your imagination. And he's – He's a pretty creative guy.
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Yeah, and he went out there. What was so impressive about what he did, he'd been here for three weeks before he started his first game. And I don't know too many guys that could handle that type of situation. And it's a credit to him and the guys around him being able to go out there and execute the plan.
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What happened? Did you feel yourself getting angrier this year? Just in certain situations, you know, like when you call a timeout three times and they don't recognize it. You know, I think you kind of... earned that right to get a little angry, right?
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Yeah. I did not. I was unaware of that.
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Yeah, but it's never about us. It's always the players.
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Well, I saw what Mike Leach said the other day. Yeah. Yeah.
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Don't make us explain who the Rizzler is because we probably would have the FBI at our door. I promise you, I don't know who the Rizzler is.
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I don't know who the Rizzler is. Big Justice? I don't know who that is either.
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What do you guys do? Spend all day on social media or something? No. Literally, yes.
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You know, I try not to, I'm not going to say I never do because, but I do not have a burner, but I try not to because, you know, I learned this lesson one time, um, Back when I was the coordinator for Tennessee, we had a game versus Philly. We won in overtime. And, you know, I was feeling good about myself. Had like a 20-minute ride into work. And they were saying great things on the radio.
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And then the next week we went out and got smoked. And so I just thought it was karma.
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bad juju i don't want any part of it both good or bad so i try to stay off of it as much as possible which i think is impossible in today's world but for the most part i try to stay away from it we probably pretty smart we might have just relapsed you because you're going to walk away from this being like who the hell is the I can't. Wallers, you know who the Rizzler is? Okay, he knows.
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Yeah, of course he does.
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I wonder if my kids know who the Rizzler is. They definitely do. How old are your kids? Okay. My kids are 13 and 11.
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They're probably going to make fun of me that I don't know who the Rizzler is.
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Yeah, I think it would be great. We usually get together in other settings, you know?
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Absolutely not.
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Ooh, we've got some pretty strong personalities between Sean and Kyle, so I don't know.
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I don't know if they could coexist, you know, be in the same division all these years.
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I hope that's possible.
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No, I didn't know he said that.
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I don't. You're such a liar.
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That does make me grin. That makes me happy.
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Yeah, I've heard some of those crazy stories from the Jets. My brother was the coordinator there.
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A lot of them, yes.
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Unfortunately, just between Sala and my brother, there's some interesting stories.
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Not really. I feel like most people don't even reach out to me. So I kind of I don't I don't mess with that too much.
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I think every situation is a little bit different because I know there's been some guys that we've gotten that you think this guy is going to be a player and he fizzles out. So but, you know, everybody learns at a little different rate. And I hate to be just a blah answer, but I feel like that's really how it is. You got to get them in and, you know.
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a lot of these guys just haven't been exposed to what they're going to be asked to do at this level or the type of system that we may have. So I think you've got to give these guys at least a year to figure it out.
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I'd say both.
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I mean, I would probably say the mental side because you're probably not drafting them if they physically can't do what you want them to do anyway. So I think in just, although the landscape of college has changed in terms of the length of these seasons now with, I mean, some of these guys are playing 14, 14 games, 15 games. So, um, It's just the season has gotten longer in college football.
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And that's usually a big adjustment for guys coming to this level is, you know, you can the rookie wall. That's a real thing. Yeah. Just the energy that these guys have. So, yeah, but I think definitely the mental.
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Again, it depends on the situation. You know, I would try to spend a little bit of time with each guy as they're onboarding and getting a chance to know him throughout the course of the offseason. But you're right. I mean, we've got a big roster size. We've got 90 guys in the offseason. So it's impossible to spend as much time as you'd like with each guy.
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No, I don't believe so. I think it just shows up that the area code shows up and it shows up as Green Bay. But no, they definitely don't have our numbers.
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Well, I mean, we've got a computer system. You just read the number and dial in the digits.
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I don't have all these guys' numbers on my cell phone.
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We've got a guy for that.
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No, yeah. Maybe.
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Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of downtime. You're talking about hours for a quick selection and then you're just waiting. And the most brutal part of the draft process is watching all these players that you kind of fall in love with get picked by other teams. I mean, it's kind of painful to sit there and watch all these guys fly off the board and then
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Inevitably, it happens almost every year where you're in a position where you got your target set on a guy, and right before you picked, he gets picked. So you got to pivot and go to another guy.
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Please do. I do actually have a lot of downtime where I can figure out who the Rizzler is.
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No, I'm going to listen to part of my take. Oh, okay.
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I'm going to send you a Rizzler. It'll actually make me feel good going into the draft process, right? That's true. That's what you guys told me.
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Two hours of the Rizzler. I'm excited about the Rizzler. The other thing I'm excited about, I got to see this first pitch.
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You guys have really talked this up.
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Have you thrown a first pitch? I have never done that.
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I've never thrown the first pitch. We were just talking about this the other day. Is it because you're scared? I've never thrown out an opening. You're scared to do it? Well, now I'm going to have to do it, right?
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Do you think I'd get booed if I came to a Cubs game and threw out the first pitch?
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Maybe he can catch.
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That's a lot of pressure.
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It's a lot of pressure.
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Yeah, of course.
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No, I'm throwing from the mound.
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That's a great question. I can't wait to find out. Oh, you don't know? Yeah. Yeah, you are. I promise you. I promise you. I do not know. I promise you.
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Well, we knew last year we had a pretty good indication that we were playing Philly and Brazil. But on this one, we're kind of in the dark right now and just kind of waiting. I know it's a possibility.
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I'm sure they're waiting on Aaron Rodgers, whether or not. That's true.