Ted Thompson Press Conference Transcript - April 23

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(What's gotten into you the last three years, trading up three years running?)
I know. I'm going to have to stop this. We were doing what we normally do, kind of fishing around and the board was kind of working against us, working later in that round and even in the fourth round. Not that there won't be good players going, but just for the things that we were kind of looking for, we felt like it was worth it to go ahead and make sure we could get the guy that we wanted to get.

(What do you like about Burnett?)
He's very athletic, he's got good size. He's a junior coming out early. He's got great ball skills. I think he's got 15 or 16 interceptions in his career. I did quite a bit of study over the last three or four weeks because juniors you have to go back and study again because you didn't see them in the fall and you didn't watch them in the fall. I think he's got all of the ingredients we look for to play safety. I think he has the a..

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