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Speaker 1: Welcome back on Dale Ally here with Matt Williamson and

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Speaker 1: Matt I wanted to touch on this um because it

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Speaker 1: came up late last week and Steelers had a game

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Speaker 1: and we didn't really get a chance to talk about

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Speaker 1: it over the weekend at the Hall of Fame UM.

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Speaker 1: But there's some talk that c. J. Henderson may not

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Speaker 1: figure than the plans in Jacksonville. We're once we're on

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Speaker 1: a cornerback. We're on a cornerback, guys rant here or

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Speaker 1: just that's what we're talking about today. A lot. I

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Speaker 1: thought he was fine last year as rookie. It's tough

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Speaker 1: for rookie cornerbacks to h to make it a big

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Speaker 1: impact in the NFL. But a lot of Steeler fans, hey,

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Speaker 1: the steelershould trade for c J. Henderson. I don't know

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Speaker 1: that he's necessarily the kind of corner that they liked.

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Speaker 1: A good conversation, good player, but not a real physical cornerback,

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Speaker 1: not a big um. Every rookie corner last year really

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Speaker 1: had a hard time and rule a thumb. Rookie corner

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Speaker 1: the rules against you. It's different than college. And I

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Speaker 1: think the COVID situation hurt corners more than people realize,

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Speaker 1: you know, like I always go back to running backs.

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Speaker 1: We thought running backs, we find a week one. They

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Speaker 1: weren't as rookies last year. It took a while. So collectively, Akuda,

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Speaker 1: you know Henderson, they were the two top picks, they

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Speaker 1: were the top ten guys. They struggled, but so did

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Speaker 1: every other corner. Really, Snead for the Chiefs was probably

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Speaker 1: the best of the group. I think he was a

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Speaker 1: third or fourth round pick. But Henderson started the season

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Speaker 1: better than any of the other corners. And if you

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Speaker 1: bring up his combine numbers, they're incredible. I mean, he's

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Speaker 1: a real specimen um. The new defensive coordinator in Jacksonville

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Speaker 1: comes from Baltimore, and I've kind of left to the

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Speaker 1: conclusion that if you're going to higher Ravens guy, you're

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Speaker 1: probably going to blitz a lot and put a lot

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Speaker 1: of stress on your corners and play a lot of

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Speaker 1: man coverage. And Henderson is somebody that they adopted. You know,

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Speaker 1: this Cliss group did not draft him. The group before

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Speaker 1: them did correct and since then they used a very

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Speaker 1: very early pick on Campbell, the corner out of Georgia,

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Speaker 1: who's also very long and good tester, and they gave

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Speaker 1: Griffin big money from Seattle, who's also very long and

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Speaker 1: has a heavy Cover three background. But Seattle also played

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Speaker 1: a lot of Man last year, more than they have,

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Speaker 1: so I assumed they want to be big long press

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Speaker 1: man cover guys, maybe mixing some Cover three with three corners.

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Speaker 1: They have all the caps face in the world. Myso

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Speaker 1: had corners. But it might just be Henderson's not for them. Um,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, he's not the he's not

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Speaker 1: a glass eater, You're right, I mean he is. I

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Speaker 1: don't want to say he's a Dion like guy, but

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Speaker 1: he's happy on the edge, playing man coverage and not

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Speaker 1: tackling Jerome Battist coming around the edge type of guy,

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Speaker 1: you know. I mean, but he's two hundre pounds. I

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Speaker 1: mean he is a specimen. Side note. I find it

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Speaker 1: unbelievably odd and horrible from a team building standpoint, and

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Speaker 1: it's not necessarily this staff's fault. But every high pick

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Speaker 1: the Jags have had is on another team, Worts and

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Speaker 1: Ramsey and for Ned, and I don't know is gonna

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Speaker 1: work out long term. That's another whole story. I think

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Speaker 1: he might have too much power and is in over

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Speaker 1: his head and might be like the year from now,

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Speaker 1: this isn't really for me, you know, really won four

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Speaker 1: games and this isn't as easy as recruiting five star

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Speaker 1: dudes left and right, But it kind of reminds me

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Speaker 1: to make a deal, you know, like if teams are

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Speaker 1: going to give up on how many times in draft

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Speaker 1: season do we talk about there's fifteen guys that are

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Speaker 1: first round picks any any year, and Henderson to me

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Speaker 1: absolutely qualifies as one of those. He could come out

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Speaker 1: next year to be a top fifteen pick the year

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Speaker 1: and fifteen. So if some team's gonna pay his signing

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Speaker 1: bonus as a rookie and you can get him and

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Speaker 1: had a really good grade on him a year ago,

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Speaker 1: which I don't know if they did or not, the

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Speaker 1: stealers in a Minca type situation, that's really good business.

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Speaker 1: I know, I know they had a top five grade

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Speaker 1: on Minca. I don't know if Henderson, but I don't

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Speaker 1: know if they had that. I bet not. So what

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Speaker 1: are you giving up for him? That? That's always it

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Speaker 1: always sounds nice in a vacuum, right, like, oh he

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Speaker 1: did go get that guy? Okay, what do you got

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Speaker 1: to give up? It's Aaron Rodgers sits you Like, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I'm interested in Aaron Rodgers if the asking prices two

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Speaker 1: or three, but it's not going to be. I'm not

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Speaker 1: interested in giving up a couple of first round draft

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Speaker 1: I might be convinced to do that and try to

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Speaker 1: win Super Bowl. But the Steeler's first round pick next

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Speaker 1: year is off the table for any trade unless it

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Speaker 1: involves a quarterback, you know what I mean? Like that,

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Speaker 1: that pick doesn't have to be a quarterback, but it

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Speaker 1: has to be in my deck of cards to help

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Speaker 1: me get one if yeah, exactly away and be loaded

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Speaker 1: a corner. But I don't have resources to get a quarterback.

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Speaker 1: Like so that pick is not negotiable. You can't have

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Speaker 1: our one. I'd give you two. They can take it too.

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Speaker 1: I think the playoff you may need to for a quarterback. Maybe,

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Speaker 1: you know, let's let's say, you know, any time, let's

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Speaker 1: say that's such a discount, though I would make that trade.

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Speaker 1: You know, let's say you're drafting somewhere in the twenties

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Speaker 1: this year, eighteen or lower, whatever it is, eighteen or higher,

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Speaker 1: however you want to look at it midst and there's

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Speaker 1: to fifteen range somewhere you're gonna have to move up

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Speaker 1: to go get him. Yeah, you're gonna need that too. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, I mean trading future picks is scary corners

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Speaker 1: a premium position and could be a need though. And

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Speaker 1: if you had a first round grade on Henderson overall,

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Speaker 1: don't have any character concerns with him or anything like that,

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Speaker 1: I would buy him at the discount. I just don't

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Speaker 1: know that. You know, where does he fit into the

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Speaker 1: equation on this team? He would that would you gave

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Speaker 1: Cam Sutton money you like Joe Hayden, it would rock

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Speaker 1: like you like Pierre Um. You know you got Antwoin Brooks.

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Speaker 1: I just don't know where he fits in in this

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Speaker 1: In this situation right, it rocks the Apple card for

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Speaker 1: now and kind of tells Hayden, we're not giving you

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Speaker 1: I looked at it as it hurts the long the

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Speaker 1: long term or the the the short term, the short

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Speaker 1: term of your team to do something like it and

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Speaker 1: be very on Steeler like like they made. They made

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Speaker 1: the trade for make of Fitzpatrick only after Sean Davis

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Speaker 1: was injured. Hm. They didn't say, you know, if they

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Speaker 1: I don't know that if Sean Davis doesn't get hurt,

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Speaker 1: Sean Davis is healthy, they probably don't make that trip.

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Speaker 1: We aren't even in the market. And maybe they are,

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Speaker 1: But they only made the deal after Sean Davis got

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Speaker 1: hurt because they always think about the big picture in

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Speaker 1: their locker room and they have a plan that's working.

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Speaker 1: So you don't get a Zavian Howard situation where hey,

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Speaker 1: you get Byron Jones more money than me. What the hell? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the timing is bad, Yeah, yeah, because I'm looking at

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Speaker 1: it like you can get a a premium talent to

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Speaker 1: be Hayden's replacement on a very cost controlled contract. But

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Speaker 1: it's messy for now, you know it basically will be

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Speaker 1: saying Sutton, you're moving back to the slot even though

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Speaker 1: we told you that's not what we wanted and this

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Speaker 1: Brooks experiments not worth it, and Pierre, we put you

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Speaker 1: on a a year later time frame, and all this

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Speaker 1: work we did kind of gets thrown away a little bit.

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Speaker 1: If in a bad year or is struggling and you

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Speaker 1: can make the deal with the trade deadline or in

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Speaker 1: the off season, that's different. That's different. That's different. That's

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Speaker 1: not doing it right now. It's not doing it right now.

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Speaker 1: If I'm the Jaguars, I'm not giving up on a

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Speaker 1: guy just spent a high first round pick. It makes

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Speaker 1: no sense. I don't care if I didn't pick him

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Speaker 1: or not, unless he's a bad human being. Nobody. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: nobody had that guy you mentioned Campbell. Campbell was not

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Speaker 1: like there was so much. He was not considered one

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Speaker 1: maybe he's a first round, late first round guy, second

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Speaker 1: or third round maybe you know, you don't, you didn't know.

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Speaker 1: Nobody said that about Henderson. Henderson was the first round

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Speaker 1: pick the whole way, I mean everyone had him. Is

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Speaker 1: probably the two behind the coat A Kuda Yeah you

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Speaker 1: know right, Um, Yeah, that's a good I actually thought

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Speaker 1: about that with a Kuda too, Like that's the whole

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Speaker 1: new staff in Detroit. Could somebody pry him away for

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Speaker 1: you know, seventy cents on the dollar. I just think

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Speaker 1: I think Dan Campbell, maybe, for despite his lack of

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Speaker 1: NFL long enough. I think he has a better understanding

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Speaker 1: I mean if a second year highly drafted two hundred

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Speaker 1: what that's Sometimes, I think the failure of some of

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Speaker 1: the pros, Well, it's my My system worked in college.

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Speaker 1: Your system works. You a great player, great players, You

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Speaker 1: you were at Florida. Now, he also wanted Utah. His

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Speaker 1: system was revolutionary, but it's not anymore. It's not anymore.

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Speaker 1: he quit Florida. I know, wonderful quick again, I think so,

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Speaker 1: I I wouldn't trust him for a long term. No,

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Speaker 1: I don't think but Lawrence or anything. I think you

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Speaker 1: see that with some of these college coaches when they

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Speaker 1: move around. When my system is my system, No good

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Speaker 1: coaches adjust to the talent that they have on their

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Speaker 1: available too. Yeah, you know it's different when you can

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Speaker 1: Miami and get five star guys too. That's what tmans,

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Speaker 1: you know, Thomas and seleboas um. If you have red paint,

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Speaker 1: you paint the barn green. That's what you do. That's

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Speaker 1: what coaching is. And he takes it easy. You know.

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Speaker 1: I get Trevor Lawrence right, and yeah, I'll come back

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Speaker 1: if if I were the first pick overall. I mean,

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Speaker 1: if the Jets would have the first pick overall. Doesn't

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Speaker 1: and he can get his guys, you know, like I

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Speaker 1: don't know if he comes back to work with Zach

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Speaker 1: Wilson or Fields or whoever they pick it to, you know. Um,

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Speaker 1: So he said team building very easy, which they had

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Speaker 1: a ton of cap space and they could do it.

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Speaker 1: And even then he complained about the free agent process,

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Speaker 1: like I don't like this free Like now you had

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Speaker 1: competition because before, yeah, only thing you got going for

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Speaker 1: mean it's not like you have a winning tradition there

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Speaker 1: at all um and even complained, strangely, we really wanted

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Speaker 1: to Darius Tony, but we took a a you know,

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Speaker 1: say that we were gonna take him, but he went

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Speaker 1: to pick before us or whatever before us, Like, why

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Speaker 1: would you even bring that out? He does that. I

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Speaker 1: just don't think he knows right what he got himself.

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Speaker 1: He also did some weird things with strength coaches and

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Speaker 1: make sure that he still remains a tradeable commodity. Doesn't

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Speaker 1: go out. Hey de Seawan, we don't want you here.

427
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Speaker 1: And he's off in Mexico riding, uh you know, jet

428
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Speaker 1: skis or something pulls a Kellen Winslow and he's riding

429
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Speaker 1: around on his motorcycle and shatters a leg or something. Right, Yeah,

430
00:22:54,480 --> 00:22:56,240
Speaker 1: I don't know. I just think it's an odd situation

431
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Speaker 1: in the in the the new cb A. But but

432
00:23:00,280 --> 00:23:02,760
Speaker 1: it does change things that aren't gonna be holdout holdouts.

433
00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:05,119
Speaker 1: You know, like even Aaron Rodgers, he could be as

434
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Speaker 1: bold as he once all offseason, then he comes to

435
00:23:06,840 --> 00:23:09,959
Speaker 1: camp and I don't know. The teams have a lot

436
00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:12,359
Speaker 1: more power, they have more power. I don't know that

437
00:23:12,520 --> 00:23:17,080
Speaker 1: what would be holding out? See, I bet he would beginning,

438
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Speaker 1: I don't know that he would be skipping. I don't

439
00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:21,520
Speaker 1: think he'd be home by himself. No, I mean again,

440
00:23:21,560 --> 00:23:24,800
Speaker 1: it's not a holdout, right, He's in camp, he's working. Yeah,

441
00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:28,360
Speaker 1: I think there's a there's a there's a thought out

442
00:23:28,359 --> 00:23:31,879
Speaker 1: there that well, he's he's not practicing, he's not doing anything. No,

443
00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:36,080
Speaker 1: he's he's working on his conditioning, he's doing drills on

444
00:23:36,240 --> 00:23:39,080
Speaker 1: you know, true holdouts are detrimental to the progress of

445
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Speaker 1: the team. You know, they're not contributing, they're not being

446
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Speaker 1: part of the team. And I don't know, I mean

447
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Speaker 1: Stefanto it is doing a lot of the same things

448
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Speaker 1: the d J Watt is. He's working on the side

449
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Speaker 1: on his conditioning, he's going through drills, working on his

450
00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:54,919
Speaker 1: hand placement, things of that nature. Different circum just not

451
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Speaker 1: doing eleven on eleven work. See. I wonder and we'll

452
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Speaker 1: never probably know this answer or maybe something he'll tell

453
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Speaker 1: you someday. But I wonder if there's such an open,

454
00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:06,119
Speaker 1: you know, stream of communication between t J and the

455
00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:10,200
Speaker 1: team that he goes and sits down with Tomlin and says, hey,

456
00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:11,960
Speaker 1: we're gonna work on this contract. I'm not gonna do

457
00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:15,120
Speaker 1: a team And Tomlin's like, a good idea. We didn't

458
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Speaker 1: want you to. We weren't going to have you do

459
00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:18,760
Speaker 1: a lot of it anyway, right, and thought like we

460
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Speaker 1: wanted we're gonna dress you for a preseason game after

461
00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:23,480
Speaker 1: preseason game anyway. I mean, like this might be a

462
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Speaker 1: mutual decision. Like they've held Terrell Edmonds out of a

463
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Speaker 1: lot of the contact rules until this week. Um, Hayden

464
00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:31,919
Speaker 1: has been a you know, they've they've taken things slowly

465
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Speaker 1: with him and we're ramping things up into camp. Hey

466
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Speaker 1: where it gets days off, Roethlisberger gets days off, you

467
00:24:36,960 --> 00:24:39,959
Speaker 1: take that's not much different. You know, Devin Bush has

468
00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:42,080
Speaker 1: been you know in and not now he's coming off

469
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Speaker 1: a knee injury, but you know, so it's a little different.

470
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Speaker 1: But they've been very I wonder if it would be

471
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Speaker 1: about how they use guys. If he wasn't up this year,

472
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Speaker 1: if this was last year and did the exact same

473
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Speaker 1: thing every practice he does this year, would it even

474
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Speaker 1: be a story. It would just be like, Oh, Watson

475
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Speaker 1: camp and looks good, but he's not to in the

476
00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:04,680
Speaker 1: themes you need to see what? Right? Yeah, he doesn't

477
00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:07,080
Speaker 1: need it. I just think some people are making way

478
00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:10,200
Speaker 1: too much of this, and maybe it serves some of

479
00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:13,320
Speaker 1: I don't know what their purposes, but it's a quick

480
00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:16,359
Speaker 1: question for you and I I don't have this answer.

481
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Speaker 1: Do you see any other contracts happening besides what before

482
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Speaker 1: the season. There's potential for that, and Rooney did say

483
00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:26,639
Speaker 1: that we'll, you know, we'll certainly be open to, you know,

484
00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:29,199
Speaker 1: anything that makes sense for us. I mean, Hayden's the

485
00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:32,560
Speaker 1: newest news. Yeah. I still think Washington and somebody I

486
00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:35,960
Speaker 1: would pursue, but that's me out on a limb doing

487
00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:38,520
Speaker 1: my own thing. I don't know who else would be

488
00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:40,879
Speaker 1: in that conversation though, And I'm like, I might extending

489
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Speaker 1: juju or you know a lot of these guys are

490
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Speaker 1: on one year deals for a reason. Yeah, I don't

491
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Speaker 1: know who would be next. Maybe Edmonds potentially, I mean,

492
00:25:49,359 --> 00:25:52,879
Speaker 1: I think if you could do something long term with him. Um. Again,

493
00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:54,680
Speaker 1: they the only reason they didn't pick up the fifth

494
00:25:54,760 --> 00:25:56,800
Speaker 1: year option was because they didn't want to pay that.

495
00:25:57,320 --> 00:25:58,880
Speaker 1: You know. It's like I think it was like seven

496
00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:02,199
Speaker 1: or eight million, maybe more. Yeah, but so you then

497
00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:04,960
Speaker 1: had twenty million dollars tied up in your in your safeties.

498
00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:09,000
Speaker 1: You can get him. He seems like the perfect the

499
00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:11,600
Speaker 1: day of the season ends, you know, that window before

500
00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:14,080
Speaker 1: free agency. Yeah, because I think he likes it here.

501
00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:17,040
Speaker 1: It's you know, he's comfortable in the defense. It's someone

502
00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:18,639
Speaker 1: to give him a million for the year. He I

503
00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:22,000
Speaker 1: think he and edmar He and Makeing Fitzpatrick are a

504
00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:25,800
Speaker 1: good duo. Um, he's still young, I mean, second contract.

505
00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:29,840
Speaker 1: How would you ranked him in terms of overall in

506
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Speaker 1: the league as a duo? M hmm, I know you did.

507
00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:37,359
Speaker 1: I know you did rankings last year of the individual safeties,

508
00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:40,840
Speaker 1: and because my number one safety in the league, And

509
00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:42,919
Speaker 1: part of it's because he's a little unique. Is the

510
00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:44,840
Speaker 1: free which I think is harder to fine. I put

511
00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:48,160
Speaker 1: more value than that. But there's a lot of good ones. Um,

512
00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:51,480
Speaker 1: the Bill's pair comes to mind. They don't really have

513
00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:54,600
Speaker 1: a weakness. You know they're a really good group. I

514
00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:57,680
Speaker 1: think a really up and coming pair is the Packers.

515
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Speaker 1: I think Savage is a star and the King and

516
00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:08,080
Speaker 1: Amos is a very solid player. Um they get top five, well,

517
00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:12,000
Speaker 1: there might be one because weight it carries off. Again,

518
00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:17,440
Speaker 1: I don't think edmonds Is is bad. No, Denver's are good. Um.

519
00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:19,320
Speaker 1: I think if you were, if you were putting together

520
00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:23,280
Speaker 1: and it's so it's it's so difficult because free and

521
00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:26,120
Speaker 1: strong are so different, right, and every team uses them differently.

522
00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:28,080
Speaker 1: And you know, like I mentioned the Bills because those

523
00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:31,199
Speaker 1: two are very interesting, changeable. They have a corner background

524
00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:34,399
Speaker 1: and which works great for the way they play. You know,

525
00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:37,200
Speaker 1: they disguise their safeties extremely well. It's hard to tell

526
00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:40,159
Speaker 1: what both players intentions are. Where the Steelers are a

527
00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:43,040
Speaker 1: little more static, not everything that but make it's in

528
00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:45,480
Speaker 1: deep center and you know what he does. But I

529
00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:47,800
Speaker 1: think he's the best one since Earl Thomas and is

530
00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:51,240
Speaker 1: in that neighborhood as an elite free safety. And that's

531
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Speaker 1: like Earl Thomas had read neighborhood, you know what I mean.

532
00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:56,040
Speaker 1: I mean he doesn't have reads body of work or Thomas's,

533
00:27:56,119 --> 00:27:59,240
Speaker 1: but that's the path he's on. That's pretty darn strong.

534
00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:01,320
Speaker 1: Come if you're If we're putting together a list of

535
00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:05,160
Speaker 1: the top twenty five safeties, regardless of position, both will

536
00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:08,520
Speaker 1: be on that list and want to be one. One

537
00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:10,840
Speaker 1: might be in the twenties. There's a lot more safeties

538
00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:13,720
Speaker 1: in the league. When you start dealing the list. It's

539
00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:15,200
Speaker 1: not as hard to get to twenties as you think.

540
00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:17,480
Speaker 1: Because I did that list not too long. I'm thinking, boys,

541
00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:18,920
Speaker 1: safeties aren't gonna be any fun, you know, like I

542
00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:22,120
Speaker 1: did tight Ends. It's like I got bad guys on here,

543
00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:24,240
Speaker 1: you know. I mean, some guys starting tight ends are bad.

544
00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:26,800
Speaker 1: But there's there's twenty five really good safeties. I'm not

545
00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:29,159
Speaker 1: promising Edmunds would be on the list, but he'd be

546
00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:31,359
Speaker 1: right around there. He's not for AWE. He's certainly an

547
00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:34,240
Speaker 1: honorable mentioned if not, and I think he's an ascending player.

548
00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:38,160
Speaker 1: Like we talked about the last last hour, let's just

549
00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:41,000
Speaker 1: a little more. Does a few different type things. You know,

550
00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:43,800
Speaker 1: probably played through an injury to some degree last year.

551
00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:45,920
Speaker 1: I mean, I think the arrow is pointing up. I'm

552
00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:48,719
Speaker 1: not sure I trade that duo. What I trade him

553
00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:50,360
Speaker 1: for the bills? What I trade him for the packers.

554
00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:55,280
Speaker 1: I'd hate to give up. I mean, you don't like

555
00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:57,280
Speaker 1: giving up the biggest piece in the deal. Yeah, the

556
00:28:57,360 --> 00:28:58,800
Speaker 1: best player. You never want to give up the best

557
00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:02,760
Speaker 1: player in the deal. That's a little fantasy, uh recommendation,

558
00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:04,560
Speaker 1: where you never give up the best player in a deal.

559
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Speaker 1: We'll do more fantasy right after this. How about that segue? There?

560
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Speaker 1: He is Matt Williamson. I'm dale Ally. We'll be back

561
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Speaker 1: at the Fantasy Football Focus to finish up the show

562
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Speaker 1: right after this. Welcome back to the Drive. I'm dale

563
00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:22,960
Speaker 1: Ally here with Matt Williamson. Is time for the Fantasy

564
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Speaker 1: Football Focus and Matt, as we did yesterday, we're going

565
00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:33,200
Speaker 1: to draft oh yeah players, a quarterback, running back, wide receiver,

566
00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:36,320
Speaker 1: tight end. Um, you can only take one guy from

567
00:29:36,320 --> 00:29:38,520
Speaker 1: each team. We're gonna go to the a f C. East.

568
00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:45,720
Speaker 1: This one's tough. This one's real tough. Se get the Bills, Dolphins, Patriots.

569
00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:51,440
Speaker 1: So I think I'm going to start these exercises by

570
00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:55,080
Speaker 1: who has an acceptable tight end? You know, the ones,

571
00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:58,760
Speaker 1: the spots that are harder to find. I don't want Herndon.

572
00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:02,840
Speaker 1: I can live with Kaseki. The Bills situation ain't gonna

573
00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:05,479
Speaker 1: cut it. For me, and you want the bills for

574
00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:09,720
Speaker 1: so that doesn't break my heart. I'm definitely taking Alan

575
00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:12,720
Speaker 1: or Digs. That's the home run of the whole division

576
00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:15,240
Speaker 1: in my opinion. I can live with Johnny Smith, though,

577
00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:18,880
Speaker 1: And I don't know if I want any other Patriots

578
00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:24,400
Speaker 1: where I think I might look at Damien Harris, would

579
00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:26,680
Speaker 1: rather have Gaskin or Harris though. You know, like, if

580
00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:28,440
Speaker 1: you're gonna take, you trust Gaskin to stay. Hell, I

581
00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:30,520
Speaker 1: don't trust. I think Gaskin is going way too high

582
00:30:30,520 --> 00:30:33,040
Speaker 1: in a lot of fantasy drafts. I do too. I'm

583
00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:37,120
Speaker 1: not very impressed. I just don't. I mean, he he

584
00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:40,560
Speaker 1: produced last year, but he produced over like six games.

585
00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:43,560
Speaker 1: I don't trust him to It's a hard puzzle to

586
00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:50,920
Speaker 1: put together, this one, really is. I'm gonna go. I

587
00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:53,240
Speaker 1: think I'm gonna take. I mean, you gotta take a jet.

588
00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:57,560
Speaker 1: You gotta take a jet, you gotta take a Dolphin. Yeah,

589
00:30:57,680 --> 00:31:00,920
Speaker 1: and you gotta take a Patriot. The whole problem with

590
00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:04,040
Speaker 1: the whole exercise, there's only two good tight ends in

591
00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:07,120
Speaker 1: the division. It's really only two good running backs, and

592
00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:12,040
Speaker 1: they're not that good. So I guess I gotta take

593
00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:14,400
Speaker 1: one of those two running I'm gonna take Gasking. Okay,

594
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:17,600
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna take I'm gonna start with quarterback.

595
00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:23,920
Speaker 1: I am taking Josh Allen, I am too, Okay, Okay,

596
00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:28,440
Speaker 1: I'm going Alan Gasking is my running back. Who's your

597
00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:32,240
Speaker 1: running back? I'm gonna take Damien Harris. Okay, fair enough.

598
00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:34,880
Speaker 1: So I don't know. You don't have any Patriots and

599
00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:38,520
Speaker 1: I don't, So I am then taking Gisiki as my

600
00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:42,000
Speaker 1: tight end, which means which means I gotta take one

601
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:45,160
Speaker 1: of the Jets receivers. Yeah, and I'm taking Elijah More

602
00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:47,360
Speaker 1: I think, I think that's who I want to write.

603
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:49,640
Speaker 1: I mean, just taking a Jet in general hurts you.

604
00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:52,960
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you're gonna go here. There will be a

605
00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:55,280
Speaker 1: lot of fantasy drafts this year where there will be

606
00:31:55,320 --> 00:31:59,400
Speaker 1: no Jets. Maybe Michael Carter. I like Elijah Moore a lot.

607
00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:04,240
Speaker 1: Davis will Factory, but they're way way down the list

608
00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:08,480
Speaker 1: right right. I considered taking Zack Wilson and Diggs. Yeah,

609
00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:10,960
Speaker 1: I mean Diggs is way better than the Jets receivers

610
00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:13,280
Speaker 1: and way better than any receiver in the division. To

611
00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:16,880
Speaker 1: be honest, I miss they're heading shoulders above. So I

612
00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:22,120
Speaker 1: ended up with Alan Gaskin more John Dow Yeah, I

613
00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:24,680
Speaker 1: had that has to be the worst division. It has

614
00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:26,880
Speaker 1: to be. I mean, I can't imagine anything. It's worse,

615
00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:29,680
Speaker 1: right right, Well, let's keep rolling here, let's do the

616
00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:33,480
Speaker 1: a f C. South. This one's like, who are you

617
00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:37,760
Speaker 1: taking off the Texans to get to start there? David?

618
00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:41,040
Speaker 1: But that means I can't have Julio or a Right,

619
00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:44,920
Speaker 1: that's the problem. Or but I'm still taking Cooks. I

620
00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:46,720
Speaker 1: can't live with anybody else on their team. And I I

621
00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:49,840
Speaker 1: think that's where you start. I think David Johnson's in play.

622
00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:52,400
Speaker 1: But then you can't take any of the running backs

623
00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:54,920
Speaker 1: off the other teams. And there's some good ones. There's

624
00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:58,800
Speaker 1: some good ones Henry and Taylor. I don't want any

625
00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:02,080
Speaker 1: of the culture receivers. Now, there's enough good receiver. Actually,

626
00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:03,960
Speaker 1: I don't know what I want. Any cults are than Taylor.

627
00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:06,240
Speaker 1: That's what I'm thinking too, is Taylor I think has

628
00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:11,160
Speaker 1: to be my running back. Tight Ends are bad, tight

629
00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:14,440
Speaker 1: ends are awful. I don't want anything. I mean, mo

630
00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:17,760
Speaker 1: Ali Cox might be the best tight ended. I think

631
00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:19,840
Speaker 1: I have to go with work. Yeah, but then you

632
00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:22,400
Speaker 1: don't get hit, and then I get Lawrence. See I

633
00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:30,280
Speaker 1: got that. I'm going Lawrence, Okay, Taylor, Lawrence Taylor. There,

634
00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:37,040
Speaker 1: Laurence Taylor. Um, who is my receiver? Though? You're taking

635
00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:41,480
Speaker 1: Cooks right, Taylor? Cooks correct works, sir. I think that's

636
00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:43,320
Speaker 1: the same that the same way I would go with that.

637
00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:45,680
Speaker 1: That's the way that puzzle comes together. But you leave

638
00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:47,640
Speaker 1: some good guys on the table. It's not quite the

639
00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:51,840
Speaker 1: way that the a f C East was, No, but

640
00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:54,560
Speaker 1: that one it almost has to be that way. It

641
00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:57,080
Speaker 1: almost has to be that way because Houston so bad,

642
00:33:57,320 --> 00:34:00,280
Speaker 1: Houston so bad, and Jacksonville's kind of I mean much

643
00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:03,080
Speaker 1: rather pick from the Jets than the Texans. Yeah, I

644
00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:05,640
Speaker 1: mean I can only live with one Texan. I can't

645
00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:07,120
Speaker 1: live with the other guys. They'll be I think there'll

646
00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:09,600
Speaker 1: be two guys drafted from the Johnson. Johnson is gonna

647
00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:11,680
Speaker 1: get drafted yet they have a hundred running backs. Yeah,

648
00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:16,560
Speaker 1: how about the a f C West. This one's interesting

649
00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:18,160
Speaker 1: because you want to save room for chief, but you

650
00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:19,880
Speaker 1: only get one. But off the top of my head,

651
00:34:19,920 --> 00:34:25,800
Speaker 1: I'm taking Waller. Okay, that makes easier. So now my

652
00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:30,160
Speaker 1: other three spots aren't so nasty. I kind of want

653
00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:34,640
Speaker 1: to take my homes. But Herbert ain't bad. Um, I

654
00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:36,760
Speaker 1: can't take the Denver. Who am I taking from Denver's

655
00:34:37,200 --> 00:34:39,399
Speaker 1: I guess is the stumbling block I even take maybe

656
00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:43,759
Speaker 1: Fans or Judy took Waller. Waller is an easy pick

657
00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:47,720
Speaker 1: because I'm getting a great tight end and the Kelsey

658
00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:49,600
Speaker 1: problem is not there. Then you still got to take

659
00:34:49,640 --> 00:34:54,120
Speaker 1: a Bronco. You don't want a quarterback, no, so you

660
00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:56,880
Speaker 1: gotta take a running back or a wide receiver. I

661
00:34:57,719 --> 00:34:59,279
Speaker 1: don't know what you want a running back off of

662
00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:02,040
Speaker 1: that team because there's two. I bet you could maybe

663
00:35:02,080 --> 00:35:03,960
Speaker 1: build a better team than this. But I think I'm

664
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:11,640
Speaker 1: going my homes Eckler Judy Waller. That's what I was

665
00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:14,680
Speaker 1: thinking myself. I thought Ekeler would be the guy that

666
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:19,320
Speaker 1: I might sneak my bye on you there. Um, I

667
00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:21,439
Speaker 1: guess you could go Fants but and but then you're

668
00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:25,560
Speaker 1: taking a Josh Jacobs or I'd rather Beckler than Jacobs. Yeah, um,

669
00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:27,520
Speaker 1: I'd like that. I have Tyreek you like to have,

670
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:30,040
Speaker 1: but you'd like to have my homes Homes is awfully nice.

671
00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:32,800
Speaker 1: Judy's your weak link, but he's end up on a

672
00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:35,960
Speaker 1: lot of my fantasy teams. You could go Courtland Sutton,

673
00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:38,239
Speaker 1: too there though he's been struggling in camp, has just

674
00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:41,000
Speaker 1: made borbs. I'm reading and coming back from the injury.

675
00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:44,719
Speaker 1: I think Bridgewater and Judy are a good connection. I

676
00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:48,720
Speaker 1: prefer Judy to Sutton. Yeah, you know, um Javantae Williams

677
00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:50,120
Speaker 1: is too much of a leap of faith. Yeah, you're

678
00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:52,359
Speaker 1: gonna You're gonna have some games, especially early in year,

679
00:35:52,440 --> 00:35:54,399
Speaker 1: or maybe he does very little, very little. I can't

680
00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:57,040
Speaker 1: live with that. From opening. That's not a bad team though,

681
00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:00,680
Speaker 1: Waller and my homes Ekeler and Jude use your week link.

682
00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:02,040
Speaker 1: That's a lot better than some of the other division.

683
00:36:02,080 --> 00:36:05,719
Speaker 1: Let's slide over to the NFC East. Who this one's tough.

684
00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:11,440
Speaker 1: You gotta take a giant, Yeah, you gotta take Yeah,

685
00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:14,279
Speaker 1: But I can live with Sakwan or Golliday. Can you

686
00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:17,000
Speaker 1: live with Sake one right now? Yeah? I mean's still

687
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:19,120
Speaker 1: going to first rounds of Fantasy drifts going late in

688
00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:23,880
Speaker 1: the first round and he just got activated yesterday. So

689
00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:27,839
Speaker 1: you want to take Cowboys, But you know I got

690
00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:38,160
Speaker 1: my team here. Okay, go ahead, Dak Barkley, McLaurin, Gottard, Okay,

691
00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:42,399
Speaker 1: Logan Thomas was in considerate. I was thinking Logan Thomas too.

692
00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:46,040
Speaker 1: From that from Washington and would be a big possibility.

693
00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:48,200
Speaker 1: There's actually a lot to pick from. I mean, Gibson's good,

694
00:36:48,680 --> 00:36:51,960
Speaker 1: Lauren's good, Thomas is good. I think I would go

695
00:36:53,520 --> 00:36:58,400
Speaker 1: Barkley scares me a little. I would go Dak, Gibson,

696
00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:03,080
Speaker 1: mm hm, Goddard. And that means I gotta take a

697
00:37:03,160 --> 00:37:07,760
Speaker 1: giant swiders solid. Yeah, Goliday, it's not awful, it's not awful.

698
00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:10,800
Speaker 1: I think you have to take Dak. I mean, I

699
00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:14,680
Speaker 1: guess Hurts would work, but I don't. I don't want Fitzpatrick, No,

700
00:37:14,920 --> 00:37:18,279
Speaker 1: and I don't want Jones. Yeah, I think that's an

701
00:37:18,280 --> 00:37:21,279
Speaker 1: easy one. But that you know, luckily, there's other backs

702
00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:23,760
Speaker 1: and receivers in that division. I think you know ce Ceedee,

703
00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:31,920
Speaker 1: Lamb z hurt it hurts, see Lamb hurts Ingram No, No,

704
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:36,880
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, uh, Barley, Barkley, and then Logan, Logan Thomas.

705
00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:39,560
Speaker 1: There's a lot of combinations, and that I think that's

706
00:37:39,560 --> 00:37:41,919
Speaker 1: the one I would put my first dround pick in, though,

707
00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:46,480
Speaker 1: NFC North, I gotta take a bear, Gotta take a bear.

708
00:37:46,719 --> 00:37:48,560
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna make that Allan Robinson right off the

709
00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:52,759
Speaker 1: bat with thought. Gotta take a line that means right,

710
00:37:55,640 --> 00:38:00,120
Speaker 1: who Parkinson? All right, there's all right, so and I

711
00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:06,719
Speaker 1: either get Rogers or Cousins, Rogers and Cook. Yeah, where

712
00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:09,840
Speaker 1: he could go Cousins and Jones Jones, Right, But I

713
00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:11,920
Speaker 1: didn't get the vont He didn't get the Vonte Adams

714
00:38:12,080 --> 00:38:15,440
Speaker 1: right right, Um, Davi get Jefferson didn't get you could go.

715
00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:17,799
Speaker 1: You could take David Montgomery off the Bears and it's

716
00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:20,759
Speaker 1: not bad, it's not horrible. Yeah, he was better last year,

717
00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:22,040
Speaker 1: and I think a lot of people gave him credit

718
00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:26,080
Speaker 1: for agreed. No, he's fine. Yeah, I think Hawkinson is

719
00:38:26,080 --> 00:38:28,279
Speaker 1: the guy you have to take. Montgomery might be going

720
00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:30,640
Speaker 1: a little bit later in drafts, and he probably should be.

721
00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:32,879
Speaker 1: I think people are too afraid of three Cohen, which

722
00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:36,319
Speaker 1: is kind of like Ray Ray mc is he gonna

723
00:38:36,320 --> 00:38:38,840
Speaker 1: stay healthy. He's such a Towell too, and he doesn't

724
00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:41,640
Speaker 1: pick up blitz is and he's not as dangerous in

725
00:38:41,719 --> 00:38:43,640
Speaker 1: the real world. People don't like three coh his I think,

726
00:38:43,719 --> 00:38:45,800
Speaker 1: like the last ten weeks of last year, Montgomery was

727
00:38:45,880 --> 00:38:48,919
Speaker 1: like RB six. Yeah, he catches them all a lot. Yeah,

728
00:38:49,040 --> 00:38:53,319
Speaker 1: and he's touchdowns. Yeah. I know, I'm not afraid of him. Yeah,

729
00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:57,960
Speaker 1: but if I can get cooked Jones. I mean, he's

730
00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:01,080
Speaker 1: clearly the third best option running back, and you might

731
00:39:01,120 --> 00:39:03,279
Speaker 1: even be able to talk swift swift into that conversation,

732
00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:06,800
Speaker 1: although they're talking about share time shares and yeah. But

733
00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:09,719
Speaker 1: I think if for our exercise, Rogers is easily the

734
00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:15,000
Speaker 1: number one quarterback and Hawkinson's the easy number one tight end,

735
00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:18,840
Speaker 1: So that gave me good options running back. You know,

736
00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:22,719
Speaker 1: you could live with Smith or you could live with yeah,

737
00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:24,960
Speaker 1: either one of those guys. But if I get the

738
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:27,400
Speaker 1: best quarterback, I don't know. I still think it's a

739
00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:31,040
Speaker 1: really solid team Rogers and Hawk, and then fill in

740
00:39:31,080 --> 00:39:37,000
Speaker 1: the blanks with either Montgomery, Robinson, Jefferson Cook pretty good.

741
00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:39,200
Speaker 1: It might be the best division. How about the NFC South,

742
00:39:39,560 --> 00:39:43,080
Speaker 1: This might be the best division. Actually, I'm taking Ridley

743
00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:45,840
Speaker 1: to start things I have to take. I got to

744
00:39:45,880 --> 00:39:51,600
Speaker 1: take a Falcon. Oh yeah, bucks are easy bucks. The bucks,

745
00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:54,080
Speaker 1: you you can put them last because you can fill in. Yeah,

746
00:39:54,120 --> 00:39:56,200
Speaker 1: but I don't really love their tight ends or running backs.

747
00:39:56,360 --> 00:39:58,479
Speaker 1: But I can get by with say Gronk or something

748
00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:01,520
Speaker 1: like that if I had to. I'm not taking Ridley.

749
00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:04,040
Speaker 1: I'm taking Pitts. I think there's only one that's a

750
00:40:04,120 --> 00:40:05,600
Speaker 1: that's a good that's a good call by you. I

751
00:40:05,640 --> 00:40:07,400
Speaker 1: think there's only one tight end I want. It's a

752
00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:09,759
Speaker 1: good call. There's a lot of Bucks receivers, there's a

753
00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:14,320
Speaker 1: lot of Carolina receivers. I want McCaffrey. Yeah, but you

754
00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:18,040
Speaker 1: gotta take a Saint. I think I'm taking Kamara. Oh yeah,

755
00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:25,520
Speaker 1: then you're stuck with I don't know right. The quarterback

756
00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:29,040
Speaker 1: then becomes bad. All right, here's my team. I'm going

757
00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:35,719
Speaker 1: Brady Kamara, d J. Moore, which is probably like the

758
00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:38,080
Speaker 1: fifth best receiver in that division, but he ain't bad

759
00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:46,560
Speaker 1: and Pitts. I might take Robby Anderson versus Moore's conversation

760
00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:51,040
Speaker 1: conversation just because just because of the connection that is

761
00:40:51,080 --> 00:40:55,000
Speaker 1: with Donald. But I can't put Donald or the Saints

762
00:40:55,120 --> 00:40:58,920
Speaker 1: quarterback conversation. And I don't want want with Ryan, you know,

763
00:40:59,080 --> 00:41:00,920
Speaker 1: So it has to be Brady. Yeah. I think I

764
00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:03,200
Speaker 1: think you got the right one there. Yeah. I think

765
00:41:03,239 --> 00:41:06,560
Speaker 1: it has to be Brady and it has to be Pitts. Yeah.

766
00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:09,399
Speaker 1: A good call by on Pits. Yeah, And that leaves

767
00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:18,239
Speaker 1: us with the NFC West Kittle. I always start with

768
00:41:18,360 --> 00:41:20,239
Speaker 1: tight ends because there's not made to pick from. A

769
00:41:20,320 --> 00:41:22,239
Speaker 1: good one I to start there, although I think he

770
00:41:22,280 --> 00:41:24,880
Speaker 1: could go Seattle at that, but I'd like to have

771
00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:27,879
Speaker 1: you'd like to have Metcalfine's not gonna break my heart

772
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:31,400
Speaker 1: or yeah, you know, Sermon or any of those dudes.

773
00:41:32,040 --> 00:41:37,880
Speaker 1: I think I take Stafford, Yeah, Bakers, Cardinal. Do you

774
00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:42,960
Speaker 1: want though, that's the Hopkins that is that leaves your Carson.

775
00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:46,480
Speaker 1: I don't want Carson. I don't want any of the

776
00:41:46,520 --> 00:41:49,440
Speaker 1: running backs. The running backs on division are terrible. C J.

777
00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:54,319
Speaker 1: Henderson or not Henderson, Darryl Henders, Harrell Henderson. And then

778
00:41:54,360 --> 00:42:03,440
Speaker 1: you get Wilson. Yeah, all right, I'm going Wilson, Okay, Henderson, Hopkins, Kittle.

779
00:42:04,080 --> 00:42:06,520
Speaker 1: That's not that's pretty good. That's a pretty good group. Yeah,

780
00:42:07,040 --> 00:42:10,120
Speaker 1: I feel a lot better about That's actually a really

781
00:42:10,120 --> 00:42:12,399
Speaker 1: good that might be the best group. That's pretty strong. Yeah.

782
00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:15,160
Speaker 1: I feel a lot better about Wilson Henderson than I

783
00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:19,960
Speaker 1: do Stafford Carson. Yes, it's been nice to have Kyler

784
00:42:20,080 --> 00:42:23,239
Speaker 1: in there, but I don't want any like then you

785
00:42:23,320 --> 00:42:28,080
Speaker 1: gotta go with like a Woods. Yeah, I think Woods

786
00:42:28,080 --> 00:42:29,600
Speaker 1: is gonna be good. I think what's gonna be good.

787
00:42:29,760 --> 00:42:31,480
Speaker 1: I think I think he's a guy that's being drafted

788
00:42:31,520 --> 00:42:36,600
Speaker 1: too late. Is this a better team Kyler, Carson, Woods, Kittle,

789
00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:42,080
Speaker 1: Kyle is pretty strong? Yeah, yeah, I mean there's there's

790
00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:45,560
Speaker 1: different there's better options in that division. I think I

791
00:42:45,600 --> 00:42:47,719
Speaker 1: don't love the running backs in that division. I mean

792
00:42:47,800 --> 00:42:50,600
Speaker 1: that's the weakness. But you almost have to take Carson

793
00:42:50,760 --> 00:42:54,360
Speaker 1: or Henderson to make it work, and then you you

794
00:42:54,800 --> 00:42:57,120
Speaker 1: really want to have, Well, you got three quarterbacks to

795
00:42:57,160 --> 00:43:00,080
Speaker 1: pick from in that division that are this is as

796
00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:08,040
Speaker 1: a team Tyler, Henderson, Metcalf, Kiddle. That's pretty good too.

797
00:43:08,120 --> 00:43:11,040
Speaker 1: That's a strong division. That's pretty strong. There's a lot

798
00:43:11,040 --> 00:43:14,239
Speaker 1: of puzzle pieces there that all fit nicely together. Some

799
00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:18,640
Speaker 1: of the divisions like that one. If you're picking, I think,

800
00:43:18,719 --> 00:43:20,880
Speaker 1: I think whatever combination you come out of in that

801
00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:25,000
Speaker 1: division of those three you just mentioned might pretty good. Yeah,

802
00:43:25,239 --> 00:43:28,439
Speaker 1: it might be the strong Tyler Kiddle Metcalf is awfully nice.

803
00:43:28,640 --> 00:43:31,600
Speaker 1: If Henderson's your weak link and good offense, Yeah, I

804
00:43:31,600 --> 00:43:33,719
Speaker 1: didn't really want Carson. I mean I could live with Stafford,

805
00:43:33,719 --> 00:43:35,719
Speaker 1: I could live with with Kyler, I could live with

806
00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:38,000
Speaker 1: with with Wilson. Those that, I mean, those are three

807
00:43:38,080 --> 00:43:40,719
Speaker 1: solid quarterbacks. Have been nice to have Hopkins that was

808
00:43:40,760 --> 00:43:45,840
Speaker 1: our first was it? Wilson? Henderson Hopkins Kiddle, Yeah, we

809
00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:50,960
Speaker 1: go with Trey Lance put on the bench. Could have

810
00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:54,759
Speaker 1: done a flex too for all those Yeah, or feel

811
00:43:54,760 --> 00:43:56,480
Speaker 1: a whole team like that. That kind of ruins it

812
00:43:56,480 --> 00:43:58,640
Speaker 1: because you can only pick one guy from each team.

813
00:43:58,719 --> 00:44:01,200
Speaker 1: It really makes thing is interesting when you're look at

814
00:44:01,200 --> 00:44:03,040
Speaker 1: it that way. That kind of gives you an idea.

815
00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:06,480
Speaker 1: You might even like when you're getting sitting down to

816
00:44:06,520 --> 00:44:10,880
Speaker 1: do your fantasy draft, look at things that way. How

817
00:44:10,920 --> 00:44:13,840
Speaker 1: would you value certain guys or other guys. I know

818
00:44:13,960 --> 00:44:15,880
Speaker 1: this isn't fantasy related, but when I'm asked to do

819
00:44:15,920 --> 00:44:18,799
Speaker 1: a power rank, I take every division and I rank

820
00:44:18,920 --> 00:44:21,680
Speaker 1: them one before because that's very easy, and then I

821
00:44:22,160 --> 00:44:24,360
Speaker 1: whoever's you know, I skim one off the top and

822
00:44:24,440 --> 00:44:26,279
Speaker 1: I'm and I'm like, is this guy maybe the third

823
00:44:26,320 --> 00:44:27,680
Speaker 1: one in this division is better than the first one

824
00:44:27,760 --> 00:44:30,359
Speaker 1: this division? But I'm only looking at eight teams at once,

825
00:44:30,480 --> 00:44:33,160
Speaker 1: you know, I just try to narrow things down. If

826
00:44:33,200 --> 00:44:34,680
Speaker 1: I know this four is going to go in this

827
00:44:34,880 --> 00:44:36,600
Speaker 1: order and this flour is gonna go in this order,

828
00:44:37,040 --> 00:44:39,320
Speaker 1: I'm just looking at the top team of each You know,

829
00:44:40,360 --> 00:44:42,320
Speaker 1: one thing that I don't like to do, especially in

830
00:44:42,400 --> 00:44:44,520
Speaker 1: a re draft league, we're going to head to head.

831
00:44:44,560 --> 00:44:47,000
Speaker 1: I don't like to put too many eggs in one basket.

832
00:44:47,440 --> 00:44:50,200
Speaker 1: Like I understand the Chiefs are really good, right, but

833
00:44:50,280 --> 00:44:53,080
Speaker 1: what happens if they have a weather game, especially late

834
00:44:53,120 --> 00:44:55,200
Speaker 1: in the year, they're playing out there, playing in Kansas

835
00:44:55,239 --> 00:44:59,560
Speaker 1: City outdoors, and you know it's just sleading and they

836
00:44:59,600 --> 00:45:01,920
Speaker 1: can't throw of the football. Then what happens to your

837
00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:04,320
Speaker 1: team in the playoffs? It's it's it's it's funny because

838
00:45:04,400 --> 00:45:07,160
Speaker 1: I'm shocking you brought that up because I was thinking

839
00:45:07,280 --> 00:45:10,279
Speaker 1: just the other day, what if I drafted. There's a

840
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Speaker 1: couple of teams that you can really get stacks of

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Speaker 1: Lamar and Andrews. It doesn't cost you. I mean the

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Speaker 1: kidding my homes is hard. I mean, you really gotta

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Speaker 1: sell out and you're not gonna have any running and

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Speaker 1: people are doing that this year, and I hate playing

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Speaker 1: against those teams. Don't get wrong, you don't want to

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Speaker 1: see that guy in your schedule, but you have no

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Speaker 1: running backs. But I was thinking, what about like you

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Speaker 1: could get Wilson Metcalf and lock it. Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: I mean there's some of those that aren't that expensive

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Speaker 1: that you could land that are pretty strong. You know,

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Speaker 1: Ceedee Lamb and Dad. Like, I think, I don't mind

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Speaker 1: doing that for dfs, but I don't want to do

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Speaker 1: it for season long because you're gonna have some you're

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Speaker 1: gonna have. Yeah, you better of good backups and trust

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Speaker 1: because they're gonna play the Rams twice and they're gonna

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Speaker 1: know they're gonna play the forty nine. Some teams that

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Speaker 1: are gonna slog them up a little bit, and maybe

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Speaker 1: they don't have the big passing day and all of

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Speaker 1: a sudden, you know, Wilson throws for two and you

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Speaker 1: end up with sixty points. We always call that the

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Speaker 1: hook up. You know, if you've met Caffne and Wilson

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Speaker 1: in our league, and I wonder some smart fantasy analysts

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Speaker 1: that's very analytically driven should look back and think the

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Speaker 1: hook up teams have a better or worst chance of winning.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of like the the handcuff argument. Like it

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Speaker 1: used to be handcuff your number one running back, but

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Speaker 1: those bench bots are valuable, right, Yeah, I mean he

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Speaker 1: needs your best guy to get hurt to have value, right,

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Speaker 1: so you're he's for It's not really good logic a

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Speaker 1: lot of the time. A lot of times, Yeah, unless

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Speaker 1: that bench, unless that the handcuff is that has some

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Speaker 1: single standalone value, right, that's the only way, you know.

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Speaker 1: Yeah so, I know we up against yeah so, but

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Speaker 1: that's that was an interesting little uh thing that we

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Speaker 1: did there. We'll be back on Saturday. The Steelers play

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Speaker 1: Thursday night in Philadelphia. But that's gonna do it for

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Speaker 1: today's show. For so, for Matt Williamson, for Brian len

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Speaker 1: Martina here on site keeping us on the air. I'm

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Speaker 1: Dale Lally. We thank you for listening to this edition

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Speaker 1: of the Drive on Steelers Nation Radio.