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It's the JR Sport Reshow here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. We're less than, well a little bit more than 24 hours away from the start of the NFL Draft. And right now we have someone joining us who is an 8 year veteran in the NFL.

Someone who had a career on radio, television, still doing it big, online, all over the place. Joining us right now is Mike Golick. Mike, how are you man?

I'm doing well, just getting ready to hear the names of the next batch of millionaires in the NFL. I went through this in 1985. But I was, for you youngsters out there, there were actually 12 rounds. Used to be 12 rounds in the draft. And I was in the 10th round.

So, I certainly wasn't called right away. Hey Mike, we're going to talk about some of the guys who are going to get drafted tomorrow. Also, we're going to find out some information about what you're doing with Dexcom and DexcomU. We'll get to that in a moment. Let's talk about someone that we heard is not going to be in Green Bay tomorrow. We've heard so much about Chidor, his rise, his fall. What are your thoughts on him? Now people are saying he might even fall out of the front.

Yeah, it's wild. There's that player every year, right? I mean, somebody falls and when it's a quarterback, you go back to Aaron Rodgers, when he fell in the draft.

Brady Quinn, when Brady Quinn was sitting in the green room at the draft and had to wait a long time and went into the Roger Goodell's suite so he wasn't on camera all the time. So, there's always that player that drops and when it's a quarterback, it gets magnified. So, with Chidor, it's anywhere from 3 to 21 to out of the first round. I don't think he's going to go 3 to the Giants. The next team up, barring trades obviously, we can't figure trades, is 9 with New Orleans that could use a quarterback. Especially if Derek Carr's shoulder injury is bad enough to where he is going to miss time. And then after that, you don't really have a team in need of a quarterback until 21 in Pittsburgh. So, I wouldn't blame Chidor for not being that guy that the camera is constantly on as pick after pick goes on.

Mike Golick is here with us on the JR sport re-show Coast to Coast. Do you think there's an ideal team where he might be a fit given what we saw at Colorado? Well, actually, I like Pittsburgh. Mike Tomlin is so well respected.

The talk of Chidori is a very confident person. Some people like that, some people hold it against them. I don't hold any of that against a player.

I just care what they do on the field. There are those that say basically he's only been coached by his dad. So, how is he going to take coaching from somebody else? Again, we have no idea what to believe there.

We shouldn't believe the negative. But, I'll say being coached by Mike Tomlin. Mike Tomlin is one of the most respected head coaches in the league for a while now. So, that would be someone, and the system with Arthur Smith, the offensive coordinator, he likes a running game. So, that doesn't put too much pressure on the quarterback. Even though they do have DK Metcalf and Pickens as well, good weapons to throw to.

But, it tries to lean on a running game, though they lost Najee Harris as well. The more pressure you can keep off any, really, not just Chidori, but any rookie quarterback, the better off you are. Mike Golick here with us on the JR Sport Brief Show. Mike, you played in the trenches.

How important is that? We know it's not sexy at the beginning of the draft. People look at the skill position, guys. But, when you think about the dudes on the defensive line, the offensive line, they get the job done. Well, I mean look at two guys that just retire from the Dallas Cowboys, right? Tyron Smith and Zach Martin.

Not sexy picks when they were picked, but both going to walk into the Hall of Fame. You know, you talk about, say, a team like the Raiders at 6, looking at Ashton Gente. Well, I mean, do you take an Ashton Gente before you help fix your offensive line? You know, a back is really not going to be able to flourish until you have a good offensive line. Look at what Saquon Barkley was not able to do in New York, and then was able to do in Philadelphia because you had a good offensive line in front of him. Not to say that Barkley needed it, but you know, when you see a running back running free, we tend to pack the running back on the back, which you should, but the O-line is the one opening the holes.

So, you wonder, will Vegas go with O-line? Try and secure that because it is a deep running back draft, even though Gente is the clear-cut number one. Hey Mike, we hear so much about the quarterbacks, and we just talked about the dudes in the trenches. Is there a player in particular that you've seen during the course of the draft process that you don't think is getting as much attention as they should get? Well, a guy that I'm really kind of interested in is Mike Green, the edge rusher from Marshall. Now, he put up some really good stats at Marshall, but he's a guy who, you know, because Marshall is obviously a big time school, but he's 6'4", he's 248, not the biggest edge rusher in the world. You know, that position kind of changed when I got out of the league. That used to be a tweener.

It used to be too small for a D-end and too big for an outside backer. Now, they're great edge rushers. The edge rushers come in all shapes and sizes, from a guy in the 240s to a Miles Garrett, you know, who's a bigger dude. But I'm looking forward to what he does. Now, he's getting a lot of, obviously, pub, but I'm really looking forward to what he does when he gets drafted. He'll obviously be a first rounder, but he's an intriguing one to me. Hey Mike, there's so much attention paid to the quarterbacks that'll get drafted tomorrow, but we still got guys like Kirk Cousins and then also Aaron Rodgers floating around here in the ether. Do you think Kirk is going to get moved over the next couple of days? Well, I tell you what, it seems like Atlanta's playing the game. You know it's a lying season. Nobody tells the truth about anything before the draft. Do they want to hang on to Kirk in case of an injury to Pennix or if Pennix doesn't play well?

I don't think that'll happen. In fact, I think Michael Pennix, now Jayden Daniels may be disproving that after his rookie year. I think Pennix is going to be one of the best quarterbacks in that class eventually. But do you want to hang on to a solid veteran should something happen to Pennix or is that all just BS talk and you're eventually going to trade him?

No, you're not going to get a lot for him, but there are teams that are looking for him. I could see him getting moved. Aaron Rodgers is the interesting one. Is he waiting to see if Minnesota decides J.J. McCarthy isn't ready?

Well, I mean, I don't know how the hell you're going to tell that in OTAs, you know, and before you even get to preseason. Aaron also may be waiting for a contending team to lose a quarterback to injury and sign him. He may not see Pittsburgh as a contending team, so he may try and hold out or I don't think he wants to retire. I think he wants to play, but I really think he wants to get a ring. So it's either Minnesota would probably have a good chance with the weapons he'd have to throw to or if he waited to see if there was an injury to a contending team's quarterback.

Mike Golik is here with us on the JR Sport Reef Show. We saw what a team like the Eagles did last year in the draft, correcting their defensive back room. The addition of that, Saquon, a few other tweaks helped get them over the hump to that championship.

Do you see a similar team that can make a tweak or two, add a good guy here in the draft and kind of move up? Well, I think the Buffalo Bills did one of the best offseason jobs of forgetting, you know, bringing in Joey Bosa and Palmer, the wide receiver from the Chargers, but re-signing their own. That's something in free agency that people can't overlook when you re-sign your top wide receiver, your top rusher, obviously your quarterback as well.

One of your top linebackers. We're keeping those guys in the fold. The Eagles have become very good at that, though they did lose a couple of players, usually lose a couple of players who get offered big money after you win a Super Bowl. But them holding onto their own, you know, between them and Baltimore with Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson, you're trying to overcome Kansas City while you have Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson in their prime. Lamar's winning MVPs, Josh Allen wins an MVP, but neither can get past Mahomes and Kansas City, so they keep trying to re-tinker and reload to do that.

It's a wild situation. It's going to be interesting to see what later on this year looks like, but let's talk about something coming up. Fill us in, Mike, about Dexcom and DexcomU and give us this information. Well, DexcomU has been going on for four years. Dexcom has an NIL with athletes. It's in its fourth year.

It's been doing that, but it's its first year of an open call. May 23rd is the deadline for it, and you can go to Dexcom.com slash DexcomU, and basically it's the only NIL for athletes with diabetes. And it's not just how great a player that they are, it's how they're involved in the community, their support group. You know, I've been diabetic since I was 42, 20 years ago, and the one thing I found in going around was people try and hide their diabetes, thinking it's a mark upon them when it's not. So what this is doing, and it's great to do for student athletes at a younger age, is to be open about their diabetes, to have support groups, to understand that there are players, that there is a Mark Andrews in the NFL, the tight end with Baltimore, A.D. Mitchell, wide receiver with the Colts, Blake Ferguson, a long snapper with, I believe, Miami, all playing professional ball with diabetes. So I love what Dexcom is doing, is opening this up to young athletes to, again, make, hey, I have diabetes. This is how I'm dealing with it. Be role models for those that are coming up, or even that are older than them, and may have been kind of keeping it hidden instead of finding that support group and finding that support. I think it's awesome, absolutely awesome what they're doing to really bring it to light.

Say, hey, I have diabetes, I'm learning to deal with it through the help of Dexcom, and I can be a role model to others. Hey, Mike, I love the fact that you're here sharing this information. You even dropped the news I knew about Mark Andrews, didn't know about A.D. Mitchell. This is news to me, and I think it lets everybody know that it doesn't matter. You could be a prime athlete or you could just be Joe Schmo.

Hey, you got to absolutely take care of your health. Mike Goluck is here with us on the JR Sport Reshow. As we start to wrap up, you talk about NIL. Things are very different from back when you were at Notre Dame.

What are your thoughts on this current college system that's just kind of haphazard? Well, I think the adults in the room let the players down, let the student athletes down. The NCAA ran from this when NIL started. They wanted no part of it. They left it up to the commissioners, and there were no guardrails.

So it was literally like the wild, wild west. And I don't blame players for trying to sign and get money from anywhere. I mean, hey, do it. You're allowed to do it. The biggest difference is there used to be a bag that was handed underneath the table that was illegal. Now it's right on top of the table. So while instead of those looking at NIL and the portal and complaining about it, first, the adults need to get some guardrails. That's on the adults. Second, it's not going back. You know, you could use whatever adage you want. The horse is out of the barn, the toothpaste is out of the tube. It's not going back.

So how do you deal with it? You're seeing colleges hire GMs to run programs. It's more like professional programs. And there's going to be revenue sharing from colleges to student athletes and then also NIL as well.

The big thing is there need to be some guardrails. And men and women, the student athletes are looking to get their money, and that's fine by them. That is the one cool thing with Dexcom and what they're doing. It's kind of NIL with a purpose, right? It's NIL, but it's making aware that you can be a student athlete with diabetes.

So I think there's a little more to this, which I really love. But as far as NIL overall, it's not going anywhere. But it needs guardrails. It needs some kind of road to go down. Right now, players can do whatever they want. And again, I don't blame them. I blame the adults in the room, not putting up guardrails. Hey, Mike, I'm going to put you on the spot.

You're an adult in the room tomorrow. You select Travis Hunter. What do you do with him? So I play him both ways, but I play him mainly on defense. I think he can play more on defense and supplement on offense.

Now, he said he wants to play every play. I don't care what kind of a great athlete you are. There's one thing to play 120 plays in college and playing 120, 130 plays in the NFL where the talent level. Everybody is talented. Everybody is fast.

Everybody is physical. And I would worry about him. You know, at wide receiver in Colorado, he had a lot of routes where he was wide open. That doesn't happen much in the NFL.

Those windows are tighter. The aggression is closer. Now, you can't hit a receiver like you used to hit in my day.

But still, there's a lot more hitting, hard hitting that goes on. So I would play him both ways. But, you know, the more you have him on the field, the more the chance that he can get hurt as well. But I absolutely use his athletic ability.

But I mainly have him on defense. Hey, Mike. I appreciate the time.

Mike Golick, great on the football field, great media pro, great sharing information to help people out. Drop that info about how we can follow you as well as Dexcom. So, yeah. So, again, it's an open call where coaches, families can nominate these athletes for Dexcom U. It's until May 23rd.

It's at Dexcom.com slash Dexcom U. So, like I said, it's a great program. As far as me, my son and I will be doing a show again starting up very soon.

Not much. Every now and then I think about retiring and my wife's like, what are you going to do? You know, you sit there and you love talking about sports. Plus, she doesn't want me in the house with her all the time. So, I'm going to keep going with a while, especially if I can talk about great things like Dexcom.