If you want to make more money as a real estate agent when the market crashes watch this video Hey, what's up? It's Ricky Caruth. I'm headed to show a few condos to referral from a past client Okay, so I got in real estate in 2002. I was 20 years old. I made a million dollars by the time I'm 23 I lost every single dollar and some in the crash of the late 2000s and today I'm going to teach you everything that I learned through the crash and how you can make more money As a real estate agent when the market crashes by just doing a few simple things So sit back get comfortable click subscribe and let's ride It's absolutely true. 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You see home buyers and investors who buy when the market's going up They're not necessarily the ones buying when the market's going down The people that might buy when the market's going down aren't buying when the market's going up So it's two different kinds of clients right one is waiting for the market to crash The other is buying one is up and then they get in trouble as it's coming down And they're the ones that have to sell or get in trouble or have to foreclose or short sell so on and so forth Another interesting fact is that the percentage of agents in any kind of crash goes down further than the percentage of transactions that go down Which means there's more transactions per agent of the agents that stay in the business during the crash That means that you can make more money because you're closing more deals and you're acquiring more market share all at the same time So you cannot lose if the markets going up sideways down It doesn't matter if you pay attention to the shifts and you adjust your game plan accordingly Stay busy. 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Now, Ex-Presidential Candidate Adamu Galba edges the all-progressive Congress ABC to postpone the party's convention to avoid implosion. And again, Nigeria drops in latest transparency into national corruption, Ranken. This is plus politics, and I am Justin Agadone. An ABC shifted an Ex-Presidential Candidate in the 2019 General Elections, Adamu Galba II has asked the leadership of the party to postpone the party's convention scheduled to hold on February the 26th this year, saying going ahead with it could lead to implosion. He said the exercise should not take place until war infactions within the party resolve their differences. Now this costs him with me. Ex-Presidential Candidate and the CEO of IPI Solutions, Adamu Galba II. Many thanks for joining us on the show this evening. Thank you very much, Justin. Yeah, it is our pleasure. Let's just dive into the issue for the day, and specifically you're calling for the suspension of the APC's convention. What exactly are your reasons? Yeah, my reason has to do with the confusion that came about after state congresses was conducted. You know, we had last year from June airport, we had these state congresses where we produce state leaders in the party, in state leadership of the party in each step, and suddenly there are so many factions that emerge, each of them struggling to legitimize themselves as the authentic and duly elected members of APC in such a set, especially the executive leadership. In most of these states, about 14 of these states, we have parallel leadership. However, you have different chairmen, at least two, contesting for the same chairmanship position. And as I'm taking to you right now, the same situation still prevails where we have series of questions in different states of the federation asking about contesting for their legitimacy in the APC. So if you have this kind of situation, and you organize a national convention where you are expecting all these chunks to come into the convention ground, how are you going to legitimize what mechanism are you going to use to legitimize or to determine which of the factions is actually the legitimate one? And in a party politics, you don't want to lose a single member. If you legitimize chairman A, what do you think the feeling of chairman B will be? Maybe chairman B may decide to say he's leaving the party and we are losing a crisis within the party structure as a result of the last convention that convened, state congresses that was held. And therefore there is need for ample time for deep level and high level reconciliation meetings across all these state structures where we have issues to come on board, reconcile their differences so that each state we can understand this is the legitimate chairman so that when we come to the convention ground it will be an easy ride and a very unified convention. But as a current, if we decide to do that, it's going to be a very serious problem because in each one of these states, there are even legal cases that are registered between the two contestants. This guy will believe he's a legitimate person and you rush to the court to seek legitimacy and the other one rush to the court, that means you are pending court cases across most of these states and even the legitimacy of the CECPC itself, the Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee is contested by some agreed members. Even though we know that the CECPC was appointed by the president, commander-in-chief of the armed forces with the party leader, he nominated them after the disbandment of the previous executive committee of the party. Now some people are contrasting for their legitimacy so this contest is still hanging in courts. So imagine if perhaps maybe we did convention and one of the court cases came out and legitimized the CECPC, what is going to be the position of the hit-and-toe elected members of the party afterward? So that's a very serious problem. We have a lot of issues that have to do with politics, that have to do with legal, that have to do with so many issues that until we have ample time to move around and reconcile these differences, I don't see it very necessary for us to rush into convention when we know that we're having a divided party. In fact, even if we come into convention, who is going to be the party chairman in perhaps maybe Zanfarah state? Because it's Zanfarah state, we don't have a party chairman. There is no congress that was conducted there. We don't have congress that is conducted in Anambara state after producing Andy Hubert as party chairman. What came back later? No party chairman, simply because there is no executive committee within the state that nominated him as the legitimate candidate of the party to participate in the last convention. So imagine if he has won that election, but now we will have lost this, we have to Zanfarah state. So it's a serious issue and we believe that we have to postpone this convention until all these issues are sorted out properly. Let's talk about these issues from your opening and more that you have said so far. You have been able to identify that there are at least four, ten states that have factions brewing among themselves. If I may ask, if you would enter me, really, how did all of this wound this down? How come the APC, which have been adjudiced one of the most formidable parties in Nigeria, is now actually at this particular stage where they cannot actually hold themselves as one body? Yes, the problem is APC is a convergence of different political parties. If you could recall, we have AAPPC, CPC, ACN and ABGA that came together to form what we now see as APC. So now that we have a transiting president who was the central redefined figure that brought about this measure to produce this mega-particle APC, it's now transiting out or his tenure is going to expire in 2023. So there is need for a new leadership that is expected to substitute the president normally in democracy. But the problem is different camps between the CPC, the AMPP, the ACN and Co, all of them are struggling to be the president. You can see Ashura Gura declared who is from ACN bloc. You have Ojiuzo Kalu who declared who was from PDP bloc, the new PDP bloc. And we also had Okorocha today declaring who is from ABGA bloc. So different factions want to have the control of the party after the exit of President Mahmoud Mouhani. And that's where the problem is. Let me just put this in edgewise. Did the APC see all of this coming? Over time, people have described the APC as a marriage of different wives all living together in one house. But over time, if you have all of this divergent interest over the years, shouldn't the party have been able to reconcile all factions and the measure that they get some sort of interest that at the end of the day, the national interest of the party actually stays? You are completely right. You see, that is why my advocacy about the suspension of the Convention makes sense. Why? Because we need to have a very solid and strong reconciliation committee, a very serious conflict, internal conflict resolution mechanism that need to be established because when you have a merger, it's like talking about having different factions coming together. Prior to that coming together, they were all in opposition to one another. And suddenly they come together. Something was bound to them. Something was binding together. And that thing is continuous conflict resolution mechanism that will ensure and guarantee everybody's interest is properly protected. But that was not instituted because of the crisis that the party keep having. If you remember this chairman that we have the governor of the state, who is the chairman of the ordinary committee. He is the chairman of the party. We have, in fact, there is even a founding chairman of the party who is like, who this year can be. Then we now have Oegu, who is the first chairman of the party. We now have Adam Foshomole, and now we have him, that's my Malak. So there is different crisis, simply because the party had not established a very strong conflict mechanism, a resolution mechanism over time. But now that we are coming into convention, and we know the consequences of losing power, because we have seen what happened, what is happening currently to GDP, that has transformed from Africa largest party to Africa's Jamboree party, because we have nothing now. We should also take lessons from there. Now that we have chairman of the party, the ordinary convention committee that is able to provide some level of stability over a period of more than one year. It is important for us to leverage on this opportunity to create a solid conflict resolution mechanism that can move around and consolidate each and every member's base on the block that brought them into the APC so that we can have a very strong united party that we go into convention. In fact, it does not even make sense for us to go into convention to contest, because sometime contestation could bring about problem. It is important for us to get into convention on consensus ground. However, we know who is going to emerge in each of the party positions, because it was agreed, negotiated, and discussed about. But currently, with the constitution of the party where we have factions in each state, that used to belong to different political parties, fighting one another over the control of the party in both states, going into convention ground again, I think we are going to just explore the problem to a national level, and we shouldn't do that. And you look at what is happening in Kano, for instance. Mano Shekarao and Ganjujie belongs to different political parties. Mano Shekarao came from MPP block, and Ganjujie came from PDP block. Now that President Bahri is exiting, Mano Shekarao has spoiled six different from Ganjujie. Ganjujie is thinking of one person to succeed as the president to succeed President Mahmoud Buhari, while Mano Shekarao is suspecting somebody else to succeed President Mahmoud Buhari. And with these differences, you now have different factions to support their own emergent candidates. So that is the situation that is happening across the state. We have the same situation in Oyo State, we have the same situation in Oshin State, we have the same situation in Gombe State, we have the same situation in Oupara, we have the same situation in many states in Nadeed, where the MPC is the ruling party. So we need to really, really pay serious attention to make sure we resolve this problem before we get into convention. All right, now, but then again, Adam, have you been able to reach out to the leadership of the party so far to maybe convince them on the need to postpone this party and what are the feelings that you are getting? Yes, so far we have done a lot about advocacy, we have written to the party, we have written to pages of newspapers so that the general members of the party across the country can know. All of them are reading papers, they are leading national denies, I'm sure they are watching plus TV. So with all these things, they will be able to understand that there's a situation within the party, as I'm talking to you, there are so many members of the party that are also having the same feeling as I'm having now. So with this, especially us, that knows no any other party other than the APC. I always say that I jumped from PDB to join APC. So I don't know any ACN, CPC, MPP, whatever. All I know is APC. So with this, we have to protect the interests of the party first. So we are doing that, we are doing advocacy, we are creating awareness as much as possible, the dangers that we are facing if we go into convention as a divided house. Because we had similar problem with PDB during the run-up to 2015 election. When PDB decided to host convention and there are so many governors that decided to judge some PDB right on the convention ground and not brought about the failure of PDB. So we cannot give PDB the same opportunity they gave us that time. We should be more mature and more organized. So we continue to do this. We are even looking at organizing members nationally so that we can match to the party secretariat and notify the chairman of the Chiathika Astronomical Convention Committee, His Excellency my Malabuni and the National Executive Committee that has considered as Chiathika to kindly consider postponing this convention, this upcoming convention so that they have ample time to be able to resolve this problem. Maybe having additional three or four months to be able to consolidate these differences so that when we go into our convention we will match stronger and face the opposition and win power in 2023. Let's do talk about the reconciliation processes that have been going on so far in the APC. How would you say the Bonilla, the CCEPC have has gone so far in reconciling all of factions because right now we still have 14 in a state that you have mentioned so far. Would you really say they're actually making grounds or carving grounds as it were? I think it'd be extraordinary. The reconciliation committee that was constituted did not, it was a very good attempt under the distinguished leadership of Senator Abdullah Adamu of Nassara State. But unfortunately I think we didn't do a good job. Maybe we may have consulation in Lagos State because in Lagos you have the Muiz-Bani Re faction and they are sure a new faction. So I think that faction now is sorted. Maybe that's the only place I can count a positive. Golden State, there are still strong effort to see that the Nandjuma Goja faction and the current Govno Inuiiris Excellency Govno Inuiiris faction sorted the problem. But as I'm telling you in Govno Excellency we are losing members to PDP. So many people are just moving back to PDP simply because they don't see the possibility of that kind of resolution. And they are trying to go back to their traditional zone because Goja was coming from PDP to APC. So they are trying to move back to the previous party and this is a great loss to us. And Malan Ibrahim Shekharau and the Gandujia faction, I saw them I think yesterday to see my Malabuni and there were some good press statements. But I am not sure that this press statement is going to turn over because based on the information I have from the people that went there, there are still so many great areas that I have to address to be addressed. So if the Govno faction will have to come to see my Malabuni at the center, so it means that there is still a problem. So when you look at it, in fact, if you go to Delta State for instance, DSP or Deputy Senate President Omo Agege and the faction that is for the minister and great agor, I have a very serious problem. In fact, they don't even see I2I. So how do you say with this kind of outcome that we have a very strong resolution that can be able to convey what's in two successful conventions? I want us to talk about... Yes, I want us to talk about what you said in passing, you know, the meeting between Shekharau and Gandujia. That's the issues in our Canustin and you said there are still great areas to be addressed in that particular state. Can you bring us up specifically on these great areas that you just talked about? Yeah, the great areas is that we still have pending court cases that also the Warring Parties took to the court and we still don't know, even though there are some letters that are just flying online, that says that Panzergon Faction is a duly recognized faction of the party, you know, by the party, the Gandujia section is still contesting it under Alagea Bas. So when you look at this, the Alagea Bas faction did not come out and accept Panzergon as the duly elected Shekharau man of the APC and that faction now is the faction that is organized by the APC until there is a strong press statement from the Gandujia faction that has accepted the Panzergon faction, there are still very much great areas. So if there is a resolution, you shall have faction A supporting faction B or faction B supporting faction A, then you now know that you have reached a Mukabur resolution, but so far there are still issues. All right, at the sometime last year, specifically in December, we had here on Plus TV, we had some members of the APC use development and solidarity forum and they had talked about organizing a parallel convention come February 26th this year because they said they're not really happy with the way things are going on in the APC, specifically, you know, the young people that's the youth and being carried along in the decision-making process in the APC, I want you to react to that. Yes, actually, I am aware of the faction of the group of youth that felt disenfranchised by the party and that decided to form a committee as a pressure group to pressure the party to do the right thing. Very fantastic in democracy. And I think I'm a little bit in one of their two meetings, you know, when it started, personally. But again, creating a parallel faction now goes against the principles of establishment of the party and even the constitution of the party. The party must have one chairman and it must be established through legitimate angle. A situation whereby the president of the federal republic of Nigeria, President Muhammad Buhari's GCFR, who is the party leader, decided to appoint a chaotic extraordinary convention planning committee to steer the party to a successful convention. I do not think Nigerians or any party member should accept any person as a parallel member to be able to conduct anything called parallel convention. That's somewhat like a reasonable attempt to divide the party for that than to seek legitimacy to make it better. The best way, as we young people, I know that all of us young people are actually not getting the right attention in the party and that is why, personally, I'm even making this advocacy of shifting the convention so that even our own interests as young people can be properly negotiated in the party. The best solution that young people can do is to be a pressure group within the party. You don't have to go outside the party and begin to pressure the party by creating a parallel party structure, a situation whereby somebody decided to appoint himself chairman of APC, who now assumed constitutional responsibility according to that person to conduct parallel Congress outside the established party structure that, to me, is a destructive attempt at the party than even making it better. The best solution is to stay within the party and do the right thing. And obeying Mr. President because he is the leader of the country and God willing, he is the party leader because the party that brought him to power is the party that is having the problem and is the president attempt to solve the problem by appointing this caretaker committee. So it is our responsibility to support the caretaker committee to deliver the right thing. But at the same time, if we are not comfortable with what is happening, we should advocate until that thing that we want is done to the betterment of all party members, not to go from outside the window and begin to say, well, when to say to the parallel convention. If we do that, we are actually destroying the party much more than we united. So I don't buy into that idea. I think it's too shallow and that we should stop this kind of thing and pay attention to supporting the party to deliver a very united convention. I think now the party don't need more divisions. What we need is unity and strength so that when we go into convention, we will go strongly and win election. Party or election time is a warfare time. I'm glad you've mentioned election time. You are divided commanders to the war front. I'm glad you have mentioned it's election time because of course we are preparing for a general election to come next year and even though our elections are for this year and some primaries are going to be held, though it is one in mind. But let's talk about the chances of the APC growing by all of those that we are saying, the issues of postponement of convention over time, the issue of this unity and this enfranchisement of some young people. So do you think all of these may affect the chances of the APC ahead of the 2023 elections? That is actually why we are advocating for a very strong conflict resolution mechanism that will bring everybody on board, mainstream every member of the party so that if you get into that convention, we should be able to show that we are united and stronger together. But if you go this convention with immature planning, just because some people are preserving that the convention shall be held and we jumped into it and then you know how factions decided to judge some of the convention and pull out of the party, right on the convention ground, our chances of winning the 2023 election will be magical, will be a mystery. And it is not good for you to go to war front, imagine or hope it to win.  And the opposition is always supposed to be losing for a very strong draft rule that is united. But the situation wherever we get into convention and we have implosion, so many members are willing to leave the party, weakening the strength of the party, thereby giving advantage to the opposition. And most people that understand the value of hosting political power in the party, if they lose this election, if APC eventually lost this election in 2023, what we see PDP is facing today, APC's case is going to be very worse, very much worse. Because in APC case, everybody will go into their own individual hearts the way they used to be and begin to contest for power at the very small level, the regional level, if not altogether disappearing. So the best solution is to all bury our egos, come together as a united members of the party so that we can win this 2023 election, but if this convention implodes, if this convention implodes, I'm telling you that our chances of winning 2023-2023 election will be a mystery. And that should never happen if we truly are genuine and patriotic members of the party and want this success for the party. Thank you, Adamu. Indeed, we just hope that the APC as a party will be able to put its house in order and ensure that all members are actually carried along. Thank you so much yet again for your time and we do appreciate it. We were joined by Adamu Garba, former presidential candidate in the 2019 election and he is the CEO of IPI Solutions. Thank you again, Adamu Garba, for joining us on this particular discourse. Thank you very much for having me. Thank you. Otherwise, there's two plus politics and plus TV Africa will take a short break now and when we reach here, we'll look at Nigeria's ranking and the 2021 corruption perceptions index in a moment to join us again.


Many of you asked about green bonds. Green bonds are loans to projects that are beneficial for the environment or for the climate. Unfortunately, there's no harmonized standard yet. What is green and what is less so? That leads to the risk of what we call greenwashing. To pretend that something is greener than it actually is. And that is one of the reasons why the ECB has so actively supported initiatives by the EU to come up with a green bond standard.


What's up everybody and welcome to another edition of the Falcons final whistle podcast. I'm Scott Bayer alongside Tori McElaney and Chris Rimm and Loyal listeners. It's been too long. Yeah, it really has. We've missed you Have you missed us? That's the better question. I know. Have you missed us? I hope so at least a little bit There were some combines and owners meetings and big quarterback trade and a number of different things that kept us more focused on The website as opposed to the podcast, but we're back and we're bringing you On this speed train towards the NFL draft, which is less than two weeks away right now I'm just glad we made it here. I know there was a one point not like a couple I guess it was around the time that Matt Ryan was traded where I was just like we're not gonna get there We're not gonna get to the draft. We're all just gonna go to sleep for a couple weeks and then wake up And it'll be draft time. Yeah, that didn't happen. No, but instead it's been all mock drafts all the time Hopefully you guys have taken a look at the one that Chris rim and I put together which I've boldly predicted will get 32 out of 32 correct Nice insight. I'm mad not I am mad though that you didn't say the same thing about our mock draft from two weeks Yeah, because you intentionally sabotage it with Hey now I didn't it's not sabotage hold on and in the intro You specifically said that you wanted to do such a bad job. You would never get asked back again That is true. I hate for those of you Okay, so those of you who have been following me since I've been covering it like the Falcons This was even before I came here.  It's just people have no idea what they're doing They're just throwing darts at a wall just hoping one of them hits That's all mock drafts are and if anyone thinks any differently, they're lying to themselves as a minor programming note Stay tuned next Monday And then there's gonna be some seven round mocks which used to be the bane of everyone's existence because you'd have to like blindly just point to a Page in right the athletics beast draft guide which that is still what I do like I still just go through and I'm like Who works here and I just look at what Dane did no you just go through a Couple of pro football focus mock draft simulators. You wait till you get an a from the computer system and you're good Yeah, so there's gonna be lots more good draft Conversation coming up as we head towards the big weekend itself when the Falcons pick for the first time at number 8 overall So that brings us to our question of the week We've kind of danced around these points before and we all know that it's gonna be best player available That's that and the other thing, but we're gonna talk about two positions of I don't want to say weakness, but real uncertainty for the need Positions of need. Yes, that's a good term. Yeah for the Falcons. You all know what it is before we say it, right? It's edge rusher and wide receiver not only is there not a ton of talent there There aren't very many bodies no stuff to flesh out the depth chart and only one major Acquisition point left this offseason to do it and that is the NFL draft coming up. So we're going to break down not just What they should pick at number 8 we are going to talk about that We're also going to going to give you a lay of the land of both of those positions and how they can remedy these Situations both in the NFL draft and as we move forward. This is not going to be a single-year fix It's just not possible with the state of the Falcons roster and that's okay Not everything was built in one day. So we're gonna go over all those things before we do that We do need to give a big thank you to our sponsor Microsoft Windows 11 the official operating system of the NFL and the Atlanta Falcons The only Windows 11 is here to bring you closer to what you love like this Falcons final whistle podcast Learn all about that awesome the awesome new features of Windows 11 at windows.com so Thank you Microsoft. We're pumped about that I think Falcons fans are definitely pumped about the number eight overall They shouldn't be and the mailbag is full of and I know that all of our timelines are full of questions of which position Right which position Ed rusher wide receiver Ed rusher Cornerback, but I thought in our written round table of this Chris rim to my right brought up a Great point that the who is more important than the what position, right? Yeah, that it's not just let's go take an ed rusher We'll take that guy, right? It's got to be about who is there at the time that you're selecting and number eight is kind of an interesting spot because It's very unpredictable whether some of these top-level guys are even gonna be there Yeah, I think When you look at like the top guys as I wrote in our question of the week Like when you look at the the big four as we as they I think we should call them Trademark right final whistle podcast Chris. Just for you. I'm like Aiden Hutchinson. I'm cave-on Jermaine Johnson and and Trayvon Walker. I think I think they get between Whoever's the fourth in that group? I think it's in mock drafts and projections. It's been germane Whoever's the fourth in that group? I think there's a bigger gap between him and the next guy Then there is between the fourth receiver. Whoever you want to say as John Dodson or Maybe trailing Berks, whoever you want to say that is a bigger gap between that guy and say like George Pickens So I think if you if you're at And and pick is this might be multiple down the line because of the you know small sample size So I think whoever you pick at a like Scott was saying it matters more about who's there. Do you reach for?  I think it makes sense in that situation But I was still prioritized edge as a position over. Yeah receiver, but in that situation. I like Garrett Wilson over Carl Aftis, but That's I'm just a guy. It's just my take Just a simple man very fine nuts to make these decisions We don't get paid the big bucks. No, I wish we did. No, I'm kidding. I wouldn't want to be in that position. Um, I So I actually think in our written portion I also kind of said what Chris did but in different terms where I was just kind of like I think we're going back to what you're saying about The top edge rushers and the next round of edge rushers There's a bigger gap than there are with receivers and because of that and because if you look at the lay of the land in Terms of who's picking in the top 10 a lot of those teams need edge rushers I think it's more of a possibility that we see good receivers fall Then we do see good edge rushers fall and so because of that I prioritized edge rushers at number eight I also cannot I mean you cannot look at this draft and not look at it as a complete hole And I think that's what a lot of people are forgetting forgetting is that you cannot overlook having those two second round picks and What you can do with that you can go after two second round receivers and they're gonna be some pretty good guys That are still on the board at that point or if there's a specific receiver that falls into the late round of the first the light picks of the first round You have two second round picks you have two third round picks You wanted to deal something to get back into the first round To get the receiver or whoever it is that you want to do it if that's what you want If you're in love with this guy do it. I mean, I think that's the thing is I can't just sit here and say oh Then with the number eight pick like they go after this person this person It's like you have to think about the way that the draft Especially those first three rounds are going to shake out and see kind of what happens in this first round to understand Okay, we have these two second round picks. What do we want to do with them? It's when you look at the top 50s and the the overall rankings By people smarter and more experienced in this field than us that you do see these top four Edge rushers pretty high and then you kind of generally speaking see the receivers in that next tier. Yeah, and then you start thinking about okay, so What's the difference?  Well Garrett Wilson sounds great at eight But Chris Olay if I'm pronouncing his last name a lot of a lot of a lot of a sounds really good at 15 right with an extra pig, right? But so that's how I feel about the receivers with the edge rushers if we're talking about that the top four I did kind of a who would you make the pick make the call and the in the last bare mail that I did and so many people came with PFF accepted trades saying that they can get Jermaine Johnson from Florida State an edge rusher with a trade-down right with that scare you if Johnson is your target. I'm not saying that he is but if Johnson is your target at eight Would you feel comfortable trying to make a play down and still get him or do you think that that's too risky? I I don't think I would feel comfortable making a trade-down to get them, but Yeah, I think that there are too many needy edge rusher needy teams. I mean, I think that if he's I don't think Kvon will be there for the Giants. Yeah, and I think the Giants Should take would take Jermaine with either five or seven They're probably gonna take offensive line at five him at seven I think if Kvon's there five they probably take him at five But I think they take an edge rusher at five or seven paired with An old lineman the guy from NC State or maybe someone else. Yeah, that's another thing is I think you can't talk about the edge rushers without also talking about the tackles that are in this like the top ten And that's another thing. I wouldn't be surprised at the fact I know we're talking about wide receivers and edge rushers in this question of the week because it's you know the Arguably the Falcons greatest needs are those two position groups, but they could use an offensive tackle and If someone's there it wouldn't I know that's not I've said this before and I know it's not a sexy pick But I don't hate that I don't hate them going after an offensive tackle either at number eight And you talk about the the the top four and somewhat of a drop-off. It seems with an offensive tackle It's Neil equano cross and Trevor Penning may be floating a little bit underneath that Right, and you talk about needing like a real a-hole Trevor Penning seems to wear that as a badge of honor Right and Arthur Smith loves those guys Love those guys. So so then if you're not gonna get a tackle high then how much of a drop-off is there? Then there's this the sauce gardener of it all although it seems like the at least the buzz of those talking to scouts and presenting You know mocks and some of these reports is that sauce gardener made Almost likely not be an option at number eight. It's like that. That's the way it's trending.  Yeah, then grab the I think what this conversation to is like what you were saying when trading down I think that the when you think about the Falcons They're gonna be likely the first team to take a receiver and then the team after them probably won't take a receiver in this in the Seahawks, right like the next team that will likely take a receiver would be the Jets And it's like you were saying if I can if the edge guys are going or if the whoever fuck was over the argo You can trade down and get a crystal lobby you get maybe you to get a Jameson Williams. Maybe get one of those kind of guys You know what why not? I you know, especially if you can get another big-time 2023 pick Out of it because because the the the Jets seem that at least the way it looked It the way it seems is like they would take the best defensive player at four the best offensive player at 10 I mean Robbisile is a defensive minded guy So maybe they maybe they don't dip but it seems you know, you'd want to get Zach Wilson some help Right, and you know, they kind of have a guy like Garrett in Elijah Moore with the same skill set So maybe they want a bigger guy or something like that But yeah, it it would seem like trading down if it works out that I'm not gonna take us down this route We weren't going there Did just seem like the team that Most likely in the before the Falcons who could take someone that could alter their plan, right? Yeah, yeah, so if you're looking for that big wide out that you feel a lot more comfortable Doing that for a la ve or somebody in that mid Not a mid tier but in that range then trading down and hoping you can get Johnson at 12 or Johnson at 13 Or what what have you that seems unlikely especially with the scenario that you were painting that I To him with you that this whole This all the shade being thrown At at K-bond. Yeah, I don't yeah, I don't know that's gonna show up on draft day. Sometimes you you get a lot of these It happens. I'm gonna say it for Arthur Smith. You get these false Arthur if you're listening you've converted Scott you have you get these false narratives out there I think that's one. I think he goes really high. Yeah, and maybe a tackle falls But anyway, so it's it's a very interesting thing about what they can do at eight and what then they could do later in the draft Right, but the one thing that we can universally agree upon is that these two positions need tons of help So let's just take a look at the edge rush your spot right now. Okay, right right now.  I the amount of time that your deal is Hayward is and Marcus Marriota Yeah, right that's the thing is we write these announcements that go up on the site in the amount of times that I have written So and so is coming from the Bears the Lions or the Titans on a one-year deal is I Don't even know how many times I've written that right. It's true But you get familiarity for a guy who's probably not gonna be around very long and that you preserve the financial flexibility that's so Coveted in 2023. So so you have Lorenzo Carter on one side. I'm looking at an rlads.com draft Depth chart is not mine. And then you have a day Ogan deji at the other James Votter's under contract Quentin Bell was a practice squad player. I think at this point. Yeah, also there They you know are probably gonna run more of a three-man front with Grady Marlin Davidson to Kwan Anthony Rush mixed in up front. So you've got all these these are the pieces that you have Yeah, this is not the group that you can go into 2022 with it just not I'm of the opinion Toy rank the a needs one through five I would even say that a second edge rusher or a second receiver is more valuable than some of these other Totally if you could do a 1a 1b 2a 2c, right? So we all seem to agree that that that was a little that was what does that would just over when I did I was gonna let it rock 2a 2b. I fixed it. We're back I Think it's better that way than somebody on the driving on their car They heard it. They're like what it doesn't this girl. It's not a math major. That don't make no sense But anyway, we don't do that here. They need a lot of help. Yes So and look we're not gonna say who the best option in the fifth round is right because we don't really know that But when you look at it, that's why I think ideally it seems to me and I may say this when we're talking about the Wide-outs, too. They need a premier talent to help here So if you could get a Jermaine Johnson type who I think is just like scheme fit city in terms of what they like to do A bigger guy who can play the run a strong player could still get after the quarterback, but then that's not it, right? So you've got Do you need more than one edge rusher in these in these five quote-unquote premium picks? We're talking the five picks in the first 82 and again, I know when it's the same thing It'll be who over what in the third round to but I'm just saying if we're thinking big picture perspective given the names I just listed do they have to come out of this draft with more than one person that can that can contribute? I Am not ready to pull the trigger on multiple edge rushers in this draft Just because I think you are still buying your time and I don't think that it's entirely necessary to fully reach for a guy in the fourth or fifth round and When you have another draft next year that you could potentially use a higher pick on another edge rusher that Here's the thing. I'm just really conflicted about what direction they're going in and I'm not a hundred percent sold on multiple edge rushers just yet so If I can just to repeat yeah, it sounds to me like you're saying don't think of the 2022 draft as a way to fix the 2022 product, right? You're wondering are they going to look at it as a one acquisition point in a multi acquisition point multi year process of rebuilding the roster right because that's Yes, because I'm saying how can they fix the the 2022 issues they have at this position? And you're saying I'm that's not a priority. Yeah, that's not a problem So I'm in the camp of 22 is a wash and I will say that I just don't I think you go Into 2020 2022 compete like heck for every single way. Yes, but but focus on the big picture You have to look at 23 and that's also why I just wrote a column that ran Today on Tuesday when we're recording this podcast about potentially drafting a quarterback this year I am team anti drafting a quarterback this year because I think you're in a better position next year to go after a quarterback That you want whether it's trading for him getting them on the free agency market or and or drafting him And I kind of feel the same way about multiple positions I don't think it's entirely necessary that you get these big-time guys in right now, especially when you have Projectively over a hundred million dollars in cap space next year I kind of look at I kind of look at everything the Falcons are doing right now as kind of what you were saying It's the law. It's a long haul help overall health of the organization in the franchise then it is Fixing what you have in 2022. I say just get through 2022. It seems like there's Go ahead. No, I was you know, I think if in terms of Rebuild somehow rebuilding the edge for this year. I think if ojabo was there in the second round and you got Jermaine in the first. Yeah, I would probably take that. Yeah on a guy who had you know a top 15 grade just a couple Months ago before his injury and obviously it depends on what the Falcons think about him but but yeah, I don't think you need to load up on This position and feel like you have to rebuild the the edge rusher and defensive line in in this draft I don't know if I don't think you want to put all your eggs in one basket in terms of Waiting until a year to get someone or waiting to make the move But I do agree that you don't you don't have to focus on this year to just transform that that room But if you have a shot an opportunity to take a guy who had a High super high grade before an injury and you can and you're a team who's not Probably not a title contender in 2022 and you can you can wait for that player to get back I feel like why not when you have to yeah second round picks But you might have to miss out on a receiver if you take right Oh job. Oh at 43 But if you're example, but if you're thinking about this as a longer term play I was actually gonna like gonna ask you guys if he would be Attractive to you at numbers 43 or if you had to Move up or whatever given the nature of his injury and the explosive list Explosiveness that can be robbed, but I'm in Chris's camp too I would definitely go for it and I'm just looking on the back end of this This wasn't part of the script, but also so if we're saying that look they need multiple ed rushers Well, I just took a look at what's who's available in terms of veteran ed rushers And there are a ton of names that we've all heard of who are gonna be available on the market who have Experience now Jason Pierre Paul ain't gonna come play for cheap There are certain guys that you aren't that you don't think even if it gets to July they're gonna be like all right I'm gonna take a two-year deal with the Falcons at this point in my career, right? So that's not realistic, but you look at a guy like Carlos Dunlap, right?  He's 33 Benson may always another guy that could come in I'm just throwing names out here Carl Nassib is another guy with some experience maybe get your four or five sacks and he can fill out your depth chart So then because I came in saying and I feel like every mock draft that I do on PFF or one of them I'm hitting ed rusher twice three times I've fallen in love with this guy Cameron Thomas from San Diego State Nick Benito from Oklahoma But you know, I can throw all these names out there and we can evaluate them But we don't know who's gonna be sitting there at 82 or 58, right? It's just that I think there are some intriguing names in the draft But when you look back at it, I think this room needs and needs a veteran presence really bad Yeah, and they could add one later on even if when you go to spot Spottrack or have you say it that you're not picking from the biggest name in the group I still think there's enough out there and I think those guys are counting on that second free agency wave post draft To be able to clean some of those things up But they do need one and if they're not gonna get one to eight if the who doesn't match what you the value that like that you need Then then I think the math changes. Yeah, then they gotta get a second round type of talent Oh, yeah, if you don't go edge in the first round, you have to go edge in the next three picks period in my opinion You like I would say I would say that too. Yeah, like you have to go like you just I don't understand How you wouldn't go those first three picks and not take an edge rusher in either the first or the two in the second And I feel pretty confident thinking that they would just because even if we're looking big picture They need somebody even if he's a bit more Developmental than these top four at least get him going right and that's another thing like if you get a guy in the second Round third round even that needs to develop at least you have the time to do it Right you have the time to develop them, right? That's the thing is I've been saying this a lot I think the Falcons where they are in the organization right now like they have an opportunity to be patient I know that's not something that fans want to hear I know it's not a fun thing to think about the fact that your team can be patient in their decision-making But I do think in a way the Falcons are in this position that I don't know if a lot of teams have been in in a Few years. I know the Falcons haven't you know, yeah, and they're not They're not kind of like chasing the dragon like they're not trying to press to get something that they're not really talented enough to reach But they're still striving for it. It's more of it's not acceptance, but it's an understanding that hey We're gonna be competitive, but we're also gonna keep our eye on the big picture Right, and I think that that is an important thing So let's take all these kind of philosophical things that like that We're talking about and apply it to the wide receiver spot. Just like I said before Talk about Tori saying one-year deal one-year deal. Well one-year deal for Auden Tate and a Demir bird and Kader al-Hajj and Every wide wrist. Yeah. Well and and OZ, right? Who just signed his restricted free agent contract tender on Tuesday? So you've got all those people yet Frank Darby coming back. This is another one of those things where you got to As somebody but you don't have to add it at eight and the beauty of the receiver class, right? Is that when you get to the There's so many Options when you look at mocks or you hear people talk about it You're like, oh came is Christian Watson a first-round pick is is Johan Dotson a second round pick, you know There's a lot of these guys that are in this cluster and you think oh, he's pretty good Yeah, and then they may move down Towards 43 or towards a Spot in the draft you could maybe go up and grab one that you love But my point is they have got to infuse talent in this wide receiver room. Yes, no choice. Yeah Choices maybe finding ways to do it, right and it's really nice With looking at kind of the big contracts that receivers are signing recently being able to get a young guy on a rookie deal That's a great point. That's a really big deal. I think I think the wide receiver spot is Kind of fascinating too because Calvin Ridley still is kind of just there there. Yeah So it's like okay are is he gonna be here in 2023 you have to consider that with The the moves that you make in this year's draft based on the skill set of a guy like There Wilson plays a lot like Calvin. Do you want to be talking about AJ Brown? And guys like that big physical receivers who've Arthur Smith have had in the past if if Calvin is back for example, do you want two guys who kind of play similarly in terms of finesse, you know quick You know shifty receivers or do you want a big physical guy? To pair with Calvin or maybe another guy that you that you get that is shifting that way and also receivers are Maybe second-to-quarter back in terms of the most disgruntled position in the NFL Whenever you whenever you turn AJ Brown just took Tennessee out as bio He's not showing up the OTAs I don't know it's not crazy, you know the new CBA players are incentivized to go But you know who knows maybe he's on the market you turn around Someone is gonna be out there.  There's gonna be a Right. There's gonna be a disgruntled.  Yeah, so how do you? Make this spot attractive That's that's also the issue is making a spot attractive for those guys to come in or else You're gonna have to pay a boatload of money to get someone to come here But again, I think with the receiver that the fascinating part is how you build that and I think how you build it Determines whether or not you think Calvin is back and how you build around him and Kyle and and the skill set that you want that Arthur Smith wants to have it It's receiving room. Yeah, and I think in the receiving room. It has to be More than what they saw last year because the the counter argument is well Kyle plays a lot of X and Y and Z and everywhere else and they got Patterson So the receivers are gonna be no Not a real argument no that I if anyone comes at me and says anything about Kyle and anything about CP I'm like, no, we can't have the conversation about the state of the wide receiver room when you're talking about a running back in A tight end it just and it doesn't matter how the scheme is set up You're still talking about a running back and you're still talking about a tight end Yeah, I think you're tight end and in addition to all that let's just kill the notion right now I keep getting Julio Jones back to the Falcon questions It's just cuz that's that's who they know they want the jersey to come out of the closet. Yeah, that is not happening It's not gonna happen. So that's over And I know we're almost against time here I don't want to go way down a rabbit hole here because what Chris said is there's always gonna be a Receiver or a skill player is like upset with their situation or their contractor Christian Kurt got X much and it's just ruin the market for everyone Everybody's mad, but I just think when I saw this AJ Brown stuff, right? I immediately thought That's a guy. I'm gonna sell the farm for because he already knows Arthur. He's a big powerful dude I know he's been hurt, but he's always around a thousand yards It's not like he's Devonte Adams or something like that, but it depends on how much he wants But that's one of those things where I'd be like, okay, man, like let's go play out the deal We'll set you up from here on out. We won't draft a wide receiver. That's our play, right? Yeah, that's our Number 43 pick if that's what it takes that that's fine with me now I'm not saying that that's gonna happen, but that There's always gonna be those options Tyree kill leaves the best quarterback on planet Earth, right? Like that somehow happens So anything can happen to go to Miami and play with Tua, but that's what I just think What? Question mark exclamation point Minds here, but I'm just saying well, let's just take I didn't know his name was Arthur Juan Brown But let's just take AJ. That's his name. Yeah, I guess and then just wham I I think that'd be a good way to spend your money It's a guy who knows Arthur and understands how he plays and understands the mindset And I think he is the like ever said, oh, let's go find an AJ Brown or a Debo Samfield to fit in they're out there Yeah, he's right there. He's a bit more expensive than trail on right right and not but maybe better player But I'm just saying that when we talk about these positions, right? We're looking at the draft We're looking at free agency, right? There's nothing to say that we can't look at these methods of acquisition Which are very common. Yeah, it's proving. I think it's more the Rams messed everything up. They surely did I love it. I think a fourth of the teams don't have a first-round pick or close to a fourth of the teams I have a first-round pick this year. It's like it's proven that Teams are willing to sacrifice draft picks for Proving guys right now to win to win to win. Well, yeah, the Falcons aren't exactly The Falcons are not exactly at that point But your point still remains. Yeah, so for a better shot at winning teams are willing to and I think In the focus situation, AJ Brown is what 25 24. He is 24. Yeah. Wow So it's not like you're you're selling the farm for Matt Stafford, right? You're investing in a guy who could be here for you know, who could still, you know Be in prime for five to seven more seasons when you get to like 2024 And ideally you have a pretty solid roster put together that could go out and win more games He's still in his prime. Yeah, there are guys in the draft who are 24 right now Who are going to be drafted? I think Kenny Pickett is About that about that. So, you know I just think all those things are on the table even though when you look at What the Falcons are going through regaining financial flexibility and you hear so much about Doing it the old-fashioned way through the draft through the draft through the draft Cheap talent and then reward your own right that that's the like the the ideal Utopian view of how to build a team But I like that we're kind of getting real here that it's that it's okay Titans are a very good team by They they tried the drafting with Marcus Mariota It didn't out did not work out for them But a trade for a seemingly washed up quarterback From miami paid enough divot well that in drafting Derek Henry in the second round paid enough dividends to make it work Or aj brown another second round guy That's also proof and then we'll cut out of here When you when when you talk about wide receivers You think about divante and debo and aj Yeah, there's a lot of examples of good second round people or good second round talents that have come in and made quick contributions So there's lots of options to fix these two what I would consider major issues There's ways to do it now I think the moral of the story here and what we hope everybody kind of thinks about when they go through this draft Right everybody wants to like win week one and then every week after and it's a it's But we have to stop thinking in a short-sighted way And join Arthur and Terry and looking Okay down at the present product but at the horizon right because I came in thinking They got a draft two receivers and two edge rushers I don't care about anything else because I was thinking Maybe incorrectly too much about the 2022 product and you brought up to worry that no man Bring it back. Yeah, I've had my second cup of coffee But hey bring it back and look at this thing from a grander view So hopefully that's what everybody else does.  Um, we we have another one pre draft Then we got Steve. Why should a special guest coming up after the draft? Um, so yeah guys keep it locked on the website For a bunch of good content coming out rate review subscribe all that fun stuff and we'll talk to you Wait, no tell us you miss us first. Oh, yeah, please. Please Because we could all use the ego Every day. I mean, it'd be really nice to have a confidence boost every now and again Just every morning every morning. You're a great guy. That's not how it works. Or Chris. You're looking tall today Short kinks ring. I love it on that note. We're out of here


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