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Panthers first round pick Xavier Legette speaks to the media for the first time as a Carolina Panther.

Guys again. Uh Go ahead and raise your hands for questions and introduce yourselves and we can go ahead and start with John Ellis. Bye by Nick Carboni. Hey Xavier. Uh Welcome back to the Carolinas again, man. Uh This is John Ellis Diehard Radio. Uh uh Congratulations. First of all, first round pick. Uh I spoke with your coach last week, Shane Beamer from South Carolina had a lot of something about your physicality, the element. You bring a physicality to the football field, what you brought there about 20 yards of catch, talk about that and being honored by the South Carolina Football Hall of Fame last week. How special is it to stay in the Carolinas? Oh, my name, my name. I know if you be able to get that award and I just, and then like falling back to what you see about Kobe man about the physicality for over here. It's, it's a grown man game man. And then II I feel as I'm a grown man, I'm gonna play against a whole lot of grown man man. So I'm gonna bring that fight. I'm gonna bring that fire to the side. Xavier. Nick Carbone from WCNC Charlotte. Uh Congratulations. I know you expected the Panthers to draft you. Uh Were you surprised that they traded up for you? What, what were those minutes like, uh wondering if they would be the one to pick you and if you would go in the first round? Oh, man, like I, I didn't know what to expect, man. I was just waiting to hear my name come and then once they call me and tell me that it was turning up for me, man, it was a whole lot of joy in the, say. All right, let's go to Cassidy Hill Club by Alex Zito. Hey Xavier. Congratulations. And I'm just, I'm wondering if you've gone back once you started meeting with the Panthers and thought that this might be a possibility. How much have you gone back and kind of watched what Bryce Young did last year, maybe what Dave Canalis did in Tampa Bay last year and, and thought about how you could be implemented. Oh, man. Well, really, man, I haven't really watched any of those guys game or any of those guys games, but I know what I feel like I could bring to the team. I just say, man, just being able to have the ability for them to move me around within the offense and then moving me around on special teams as well. And I feel like that could bring a whole lot to the team. Speaking of the special teams. Dan Morgan said tonight that especially with the new kickoff rules, that's somewhere he could see you possibly contributing. Where do you kind of see yourself fitting in there as well? Especially with the new rules? Oh man, just like you said, he see right now that new rule man is, I feel like it's more easier for the return as long as I get a crease by the hole, man. You know, my plan, my plan the, the gig and it, hey Xavier, Alex Zet Love of the Charlotte Observer here. Um You are going to join a couple game cocks on this team. Uh I'm curious what you think about joining some of your game cock uh brethren and specifically um Jadeveon Clowney, who I'm sure you grew up watching. What, what is that like joining your uh form of game cocks? Oh man, it's great, man. Hey, every, every time I go to show that stuff to Jamie Robinson, my man, Jamie tell just about every, every other week, man, he's gonna be blessed to be, to be able to get back and play with him. Even JCH. That was got, I was there with JC for two years. He, he, he, he, he part of the reason why I got better man. Like we work hard every day, man. It good on good man. What about Clowney specifically? Oh, man. Well, I know he a dog man. And I, and I, one thing I know when I'm gonna, I'm gonna be by his side just to pick your brain and see, man. What can I learn from him? Thank you. All right, let's go to Mike Lasette, followed by Matt Doo. Oh yeah. Congratulations sir on I'm getting drafted. Uh Dave Canalis just talked a couple of moments ago. We talked about your ability. He also said, you know, there's gonna be a learning curve, you know, what do you feel, uh, you know, you're gonna have to do to bring your skills to the next level and adjust to the Panthers style of play. Um, and also just, just lean on to the older guys in the room just to pick their brain as well just to see what, what, what, what they used to be able to get open in this, in this city. I mean, I'm just watching film and studying the dvs as well just to see what's their flaw, what things that they lack, you know, what's their weaknesses just so I can be able to know that. Ok, going in this game, if I hit them with a certain move, that'll be able to put me open and put me in a better position. Hey Xavier Matt Dowell with Watch Fox in Columbia, South Carolina. Just how did your time with Shane Beamer and the Gamecocks here in Columbia? Prepare you for this moment that you've been waiting your whole life for? Oh man, iii, I think this, this year specifically really helped me for the lead the most. And the reason why I say that is this is the way how, how they implemented me within the office is being able to move me around and, and then being able to, to receive the information that they were really putting me for me, man, because I was really asked to do a lot, but it really wasn't a lot and, and, and, and that's how I see it. So like just being able to get that information from them and learn from them the way how they was coaching me. I feel like that helped me prepare me to be able to play in this way. Yeah. Oh, it's got a Joe person followed by Steve Reed. Hey Xavier Congrats. Uh where are you calling from? Where was your draft party? I'm in South. How many people were there? And uh who, who there, who, who was there? That was really special to you. I'm, I'm sure everybody but anybody we, we might know. Oh I, well, II I see anybody else. I know my but they most person over here my grandma, my grandma might. She took me like when my, both my people pass away, my aunt, she supposed to give me a w my kids still in my book, my, my Fruit, my first two cousins and they all will help Savior a lot of book. Why were you so confident that the painters were gonna take you. Um, just because of the meetings that you had, I, I could feel the love and the vibe from them might as well. I knew if it wasn't them. I, well, I, I knew if it wasn't them, I wasn't gonna be sure, but I, I had a, I had a good feeling about them. Xavier. Um, I, I believe you're, you, you crossed paths with another first round draft pick from South Carolina here, Jason Horn. Um uh How close are you with JC? Did, do you, did you go up against him in practice and uh tell me about that. Oh yeah. Oh yeah, man. JC, like I said with JC for the reason that I, I became a good player man because he hes very patient at the line man. You all right, but you can't just do anything on Jay Z man. Mhm. I'm sorry you went out on me that you there hold up, hold up the pen that this boy calling me. But yeah though, man, JC, man, like like I said, when JC a good player, man, he made me go, man. All right, we got time for a few more. Let's go to Jack Taylor followed by Vashti her Xavier Jack Taylor with WCCP. Congratulations and welcome back to the Carolinas. So you were the seventh wide receiver picked tonight. Talk a little bit about where that puts your head at going into this rookie season. What do you look to prove coming into this year. Oh, man, I, I was going out there to play my game and, and do my best and my ability, but I think I wanna go out there. I have to trust on the coaches to be able to play on the, get on, be able to get on the view that I'm worry about, man. I ain't worrying about what, where I got peak there as long as I got Pete, I'm happy to look. Hi Xavier Vashti, her with Carolina Blitz. Congrats. Um Obviously you're from Willens. Uh You went to South Carolina. Just how important was it for you or how good is it for you to stay in the Carolinas and play? And then what was the reaction from your family when you got selected? Blessed to be in this position to be with my whole family, my heart for me, man. I, I had to do this, man. I know my whole city got my bacon and I just wanna, I just wanna make them as all right. Let's finish up with Cassidy Hill. Hey Xavier. I, I just wanted to clarify. Did you say you're at your grandmother's house? Is that right? No, man. We, we at the town hall in uh in, in my city, but I'm saying my grandma, she, she was like the most pleasing person is I'm not OK. And then as you said, you, you've been kind of confident that it was gonna be the Panthers for a while. Now, when did you first start realizing like that their interest was legit and that this had a good chance of happening. Um And I said, so we, we had three days to where we had to meet with, with James and each day I had to meet with the Panthers. At least I, I, that, that's really when I realized like, OK, man, they, they, they, they really want them and they like me and then, man, they just, I just kept meeting with them, like at the uh at the combine, I met with them. And then like, they, they have about 45 folks on the staff at the uh pro day, man. So I'm like, ok, these guys serious about me and I also had to talk through to visit with them as well. All right, thanks Xavier. I presume.

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Panthers trade into the first round and choose Xavier Legette. Chris Lea & Dennis Cox react.

All right, Chris, we weren't anticipating making one of these today, but when you trade up into the first round, you get a special podcast for those who don't know, you might be waking up to the Ds because you thought, you know what, I'm going to go to bed, early night, Carolina Panthers aren't picking, guess what? They moved up from pick 33 to 32 with the Buffalo. Bills have moved down from 28 to 32 on the previous trade and they get their guys. You have your leg at the wide receiver, Chris, I'm not gonna lie. I dig it. I'm for it. Your guy was there, you went up and you win it, you went up there and you got him. I absolutely love it, man. I can't wait to talk about this. Well, ok, and, and the details of the trade, the Panthers went from pick 33 up to pick 32. They also gave up 1/5 round pick this year, but they also got 1/6 round pick in return. So the total number of picks that the Panthers have this year doesn't change, it doesn't change. So you basically, you swapped 5th and 6th and you moved up one spot. That's it. That's all it was. That's the reason why I like it. That's really the reason why I like it. I am 100% with you. Um It was one of those things where you come into this draft without a first, you come into this draft without 1/6 you have 2/5 you have two seconds and so you, you essentially just kind of spread those things out and end up. Now you will pick in every round, but you don't lose a pick. That's one of the reasons why I like it. Another reason why I like this is because it shows just how smart Dan Morgan is and what he's thinking about and what he's considering here's something I was thinking about. So I was driving home from work, right? As this was happening, I, I literally connect uh my youtube TV to my Bluetooth. I'm not looking, I'm just listening, hearing what's happening, hearing what they're saying on ESPN and all that good stuff. And I happened to look down at my phone after the last pick and then all of a sudden I said, wait a minute, why, why is the Panthers logo in the back? They hadn't announced it on television yet. And so I go look at my other phone and I see that the Panthers, I get, you know, Twitter updates on, on my work phone, Panthers traded up into the first round. Wait a second. I was heated. At first, I was like, don't tell me you got rid of a pick. So I had, I had to wait till I got to a stoplight to look and see what happened. But then I started thinking about just kind of like the, the order of kind of how things ended up happening today. The Buffalo Bills initially had the 28th pick and then uh the, the, the Kansas City chiefs had 32. They moved up to 28. So the chiefs did uh to switch to Buffalo so they could get Xavier worthy. Why? From Texas? And then, you know, you have the Bills go back down to 32. And now Dan Morgan, who's familiar with the Bills, who worked with Brandon Bean, who understands what they may be looking for, who knows they lost Stefan Diggs who saw all the different uh wide receivers come off the board said, ok, let me call up my homeboy and see what's gonna go on really quick because I don't want to lose out on my guy. We have already like said that this is our guy. We've already spotlighted him and said this is what we want. So let me just call him up really quick. What, what can we work out? I don't want to lose a pick. All right, let's do this. Bet we got it. It's the, just the maneuvering Dan Morgan this off-season with what he's done in free agency. The maneuvering right here just watching the board understanding what Buffalo may do because he's been there and he's worked with that guy and how do two teams trick Buffalo off their spot? You need a wide receiver homie. Exactly. Exactly. Well, they honestly, they might be like, well, we can accumulate a bunch, you know, much more picks and still get a really good wide receiver because there's still quite a few of them left right there for Buffalo to take, but nonetheless, they didn't necessarily add a pick themselves. It was just two pick swaps. Yeah. Well, I mean, I guess you're moving up the board, I guess in theory that really what you're doing, you're moving up the board and maybe still the guy that you want, depending on who they wanted. But nonetheless, for Carolina, I was actually thinking when Buffalo made their move, I was like, man, there's a lot of really good defensive players that have fallen. I was like, Cooper De Gene from Iowa. I was like, never thought he would fall into the second round. Kool Aid mckinstry, the cornerback from Alabama falling into the second round. I was thinking, hey, pick 33 they might go with a defensive player and then they can, you never know Leggett may still be there at 39 or at least, you know, Latt mcconkie, one of these guys is still gonna be there like, they might be able to get a top defensive player. Now, I'm looking at the board and looking at who's left. I was like, well, crap, they can get one of these really good defensive players at 39 Chris. That's what I'm thinking. I was like, wait, this actually might fall perfectly into what the Carolina Panthers are looking for. Things might work out perfectly. Yeah. And pick 39 33 34 35 36 37 3839. It's only the seventh pick in the second round, right? So, like, you know, you, you're talking about like now you have an opportunity to still get a really good player who, if you're picking seventh pick in the second round, that's still somebody who is a fringe first rounder and all of we talked about all of the, the offensive players that were taken. I don't know, the final count off the top of my head right now because again, I was driving, uh, but 66 quarterbacks taken in the first round, wide receivers of offensive tackles. It was mostly mostly offense. You can get a top defensive player and you named off a few that, uh, could potentially fall right now and, and man, like the Panthers are in, are in good shape and I, I didn't think I was going to be excited on Thursday night. Uh, well, now it's a Friday morning that we're recording this, uh, but good job for Dan Morgan being alert and, you know, going after his guy, but still like keeping the Panthers in play with, uh, all of their seven picks. I love it. I love it. I love it, you know. Yeah, just outstanding. And again, the fact that this isn't what we saw last year with DJ Johnson words, hey, let's use two picks to move up to get one guy that, that, that was a waste to pick. This isn't, let's give a future along with the current pick to move up to draft Matt Corral. This isn't that move. This was, I'm still gonna keep my same total number of picks, but I'm gonna move up one spot to get my guy and I don't lose again, that total number. They still got seven and they got into the first round and you know what? Walt is one of those things where I felt like Scott Fitterer, you know, he, he got Panthers fans excited because, you know, we didn't really have like, you know, with, um Gettleman and with Marty Hearney, like those guys weren't like, they weren't like big trade guys, you know, they, they weren't gonna like move up and down the board and, and so it was kind of sometimes like the Panthers drafts were kind of boring from the sense that there wasn't a lot of extra excitement. They came in with the picks, they had, maybe they'd move down to get a couple but it wasn't like anything crazy Scott Federer came in and was like, I'm gonna be on, in on every deal and the movement was exciting and it was like, oh snap, what is he doing? And, you know, you put out the, the, the meme with the little blue eyes and stuff like that. But at the end of the day, he wasn't doing anything. It's almost like that guy who's on the basketball court who can like do all the great, you know, handles and everything, but he's not really doing anything. He's not scoring. He's gonna end up turning the ball over because he's just, he's dribbling too much. That's perfect. He's dribbling all that way. He's got the Kyrie handles but he ain't got the Kyrie layup package. He's gonna miss the layup. That was Scott Fitterer while my man, Dan Morgan says, no, I only need a bink, bink bink and I'm past you. Boom. Lay in. That's all I need. I ain't gotta sit here and dance on you. I'm gonna pop, pop, pop, get to my move. Get to my spot. I'm gonna make the shot and we're gonna come back on defense. It's a lot of Hamilton midrange baby just sinking them. That's what it is. It's what it is. Dan Morgan might already be my favorite. Panthers. Gm. Hey, there you go. Hey, Sam started, started. All right. Well, that's a quick instant reaction from Chris and I, I know it's late guys. We're already into Friday, but leave your thoughts on the comments down below you like it. You love it. Who do you want to see them taken at pick 39? Let us know we're gonna have a recap at the end of the draft. Just kind of going over all the selections of the Carolina Panthers have made. But nonetheless, they got into the pick pick 32 got into the first round Chris. I love it. I've enjoyed this quickie with you. Hope you have a good night. Hey, always here for a quick one with you, Chris. The rest of y'all. We'll see you next time.

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