Nick Friedel

With Rahimi Harrison-Grody on 104.3 The Score.

It's my pleasure.

Thanks for having me today.

Honestly, you know, like, I thought Ryan Poles did a good job.

Most general managers will tell you that they draft the best players available.

I don't think that was anywhere near the case.

I think they drafted because of the needs of a lot of, you know, departures from free agency and whatnot.

And so you go through the list of all their picks, they all look like they replaced certain players.

Now, I don't know, Kevin Byard, Jaquan Brisker,

I mean, Dylan Thienemann, that's a pretty easy pick.

I mean, I didn't think he would get past Dallas at 20.

I didn't think he'd get past the Eagles, even when they traded up.

Honestly, when the Eagles traded with the Cowboys, I thought they were trading to get Thienemann.

It's not that I had inside information or anything like that.

I didn't.

But I just thought it made sense.

The Eagles have a very...

a very big need for safeties just the way the Bears did.

So when they got Thienemann, I thought that was great.

But, you know, they lost Drew Dallman.