All right, guys, we have entered the home stretch.
This is likely to be our last minisode on our first ffp.
See Main Event, slow draft and less.
The people demand, one on our kicker a defense election, in
which case, I'm going to tell you to fuck right off because
we're not doing that. But we have made A good amount
of pick since we last talked. I believe we last left you guys
in the 13th round where we through ATP to the wind.
We said, why don't we just live a little and selected Jerick
McKinnon? And since then guys, we've added
four running backs and maybe a controversial wide receiver to R
0 r. B build here.
Yeah, the wide receiver debate was fun.
Definitely a little bit of a detour reverse detour.
When we got this, lady was all running backs to close out the
tour for one will Fuller. Yeah, and Gretch I know you were
I think of us three. You were the one that we're kind
of most hesitant about the selection, just relative to our
needs with this bill. Why don't we just talk about
that there before? I mean we can talk about the
running backs but it was obvious.
We were always going to grab a bunch of running backs but not
so obvious that we would add one more wide receiver here.
Yeah, we so we took seven turnovers in the first 10
Rounds. When we were in sort of the 89
range, we took our first running back Singletary.
Part of our comfort doing that. Instead of just targeting to
rookie receivers of that point was we said, you know, maybe
there will be a receiver who falls at we'd like to grab Pete.
I think on one of the earlier minisodes you actually ask like
who are some of the receivers. We might like it was
interesting. Then in the 10th, we did get
access to that with Claypool and we took Claypool.
So when we wind up with a seventh receiver in the first
ten rounds, definitely like the strength of our receivers.
I don't hate the addition of Fuller, but the point that I was
making or kind of trying to make him, didn't know how much I
believe that our felt it at the end I was like let's just go
for, that's where my heart is because I definitely wanted to
just, add will Fuller but I might concern was like, some of
the upside of Fuller maybe was mitigated on this build in the
sense that if he does sign somewhere, really exciting.
There are scenarios where he's like a fourth-round ATP type
receiver and that's an incredible.
Those are really, you know, but pie-in-the-sky scenarios think
there are some as well where he becomes like an eighth or ninth
round type. Larry joins a team late is good.
We think he's very good. Say he adds you know, signs with
the Packers and is playing a decent amount but not a ton.
Maybe right away is making some plays, but we don't really feel
comfortable playing him. We wouldn't cut him because he's
on the Packers. And so some of those types of
scenarios where I felt like, then we wind up with these
eight. Basically uncuttable receivers
because I feel like our other seven, probably are close to
inaudible Pat, you made a good point that, you know, we can
thirst Was what we might be fighting.
Look at the chase Claypool, but Gary Wilson is going to be
locked in. Devon system is going to be
locked in long-term injuries happen, boss happened, things do
happen. But I did feel like this was a
build we're especially because we are in July as well.
A lot of these running backs are just scratch off tickets where
we're taking shots on guys. You know, we just took James
White. It was an interesting pick.
He's been really getting hammered in the news lately.
In terms of not necessarily being ready at the same time, we
got him in the 18th. There's no way he goes the 18th
round if he's ready Week 1, right.
And if he is ready, week one, it's probably a pretty key part
of this build. So we just took that shot will
probably cut him that turns into a churn roster spot.
We do have a 1, QB, one tight end build.
We're going to probably almost certainly given be looking for,
you know, a number two, tight end in the cesium in the early
part of the Season, get a little bit of depth that the premium
position. I would assume at some point be
looking at QV 2 s maybe not right away.
Kyle with the Late by we're just going to probably be writing
Kyler. A period but I was just sort of
doing some math on the roster and saying, okay if we have
eight sort of uncuttable receivers if we do start to turn
a little bit, some potential tight ends to try to hit
somebody, are we going to have enough space to turn as many
running backs as one we do end up here with an 8 running back
build. But my case was basically, let's
take nine in July. Let's take all of these upside
shots that we can all the way through, the rest of the draft
will cut some. And also, you can you Can catch
some receivers on waivers in season you'll get like the you
know the League's where Chauhan dachshund starts slow.
He gets cut you know and we're not going to be in a position
probably to add that type of a player but we could have thrown
someone like that onto the back of this roster in season.
Potentially, that was another thing.
You know, I was trying to think through so just that that
balance of I want to hit zero or be in July with volume if
possible and knowing that we're going to cut three or four of
these guys in the first two weeks.
Anyway, Yet. I think that all makes a lot of
sense that think with Fuller, they kept drawing me to him was
like, I've always been kind of like, shocks, like continually
shocked every year, by how quickly we're bidding on wide
receivers, on waivers, on these types of bills were like, you
know, like will Fuller think of willful or where to hit like a
that eighth, ninth round scenario?
You know, I think we did pretty aggressively to get him onto
this team. Particularly if like, it's by,
like, week one, or two like that type of archetype, were like, oh
my God, like this guy's available.
We need him, just because we're wrong about so much more than we
think are going to be wrong about.
And there's so many injuries. So that's kind of one of the
things that I was trying to think through with adding the
luxury pick wide receiver is like, you know, like questions
in there good. The question I had with that was
Who's funny? I brought up like a faint
memory, I had of doing some drafts of the last your office.
You listen, Jeff with you guys the year before, you guys had a
lot of Reger and visca the year before and you had a lot of
these teams that we had a couple spots devoted the guys that you
weren't cutting and so that was an experience that I was in with
and so I felt like maybe we had slightly different opinions,
their injury, interestingly enough, but adding Fuller if he
does hit, what do we do then? If there's a player like Fuller,
Like you said or like Dotson gets cut, do you want to add a
ninth to this bill? Well, my thought on that would
be that once that decision comes up that there's going to be
multiple running backs, we're completely content moving on
from you because ultimately, we're just going to be churning,
a lot of these guys. Like even the the guys we like
Singletary, Carter gain. Well, McKinnon.
I would say, I mean, even a couple of those guys are
probably gonna fly. Op it in a big way.
So I do think it goes back to that thing of like we like the
guys we've drafted and so it's harder for us to Envision them
failing but like the reality is like, a lot of these guys are
going to be cuttable or at least more guys than we initially
think, definitely. But I'm also, okay, like bulking
up the number of roster spots that we have one wide receivers
29, it's some point, but that doesn't have to be like been
devoted permanently to a wide receiver, like I could see some
areas where we're like, you know, do we really want to hold
them out to Smith through his by week?
You know, if he's not really doing much, that would be really
disappointing scenario, but like wouldn't be the most
disappointing scenario I've ever run into.
So you know it's are just like that bad memories.
I'm not but you know, your kind of I think it's okay if we go to
9 then we then maybe at some point we only have six or seven,
you know what I mean? Like, we'll probably probably
kind of squiggle around in terms of the roster and I think that
makes more sense in the days following when we were chatting
about that in our chat, I've definitely come back around at.
I guess my concern was say, we're at nine receivers were up
to two tight ends. I think there's times work and
make some sense to have a second kicker or a second D, but you're
not going to be able to have it really do that.
There could be a potential quarterback that looks like
somebody we want to take a stab on maybe Kyle.
Picks up an Iggy injury or something, but we won't really
have the flexibility. I think without getting down to,
like, five or four running backs and what I was thinking through,
what this build was do we want to have as much roster
flexibility as possible to really take shots at running
back throughout the first month? You know, like seven spots
devoted to it. Well in a way that's an argument
that Fuller, I think, you know, Fuller is a much better pick.
I think for this build than Julio Jones and I've taken a
lot. Out of Julio in in Best Buy have
more Julio than Fuller. I think he's a way better pick
Fuller than Odell Beckham. Odell Beckham your be holding
for up, me Autobots. Yeah, Waiver Wires here.
I don't so because Fuller's a lot of the downside risk with
him is stuff that will know about before the first preseason
run. Like if he hasn't signed by then
he's the easiest cut ever. I mean, there's a chance he like
retire, so we don't know what the deal is with Fuller.
No one's heard from her in forever.
So I think like, He does. I agree with you that like there
are scenarios where he lands on like Baltimore and we're like
What do we do now? You know like I maybe we hold a
weak one but now we lost this roster spot you know do we cut
them? Do we lose this?
We kind of got a good outcome but we still lost a chance at
like a guy like Kenyan Drake or whatever so it's not going to be
like all super clean but I do think he gives us some really
nice upside super-clean scenarios and some really nice
clean downside scenarios where we just move on.
Yeah. And the other thing that kind of
really compelled me with this will Fuller thing is almost from
a portfolio, standpoint and a drafting window standpoint.
And just knowing that the will Fuller stuff is like fairly
binary where if he signs with the Packers or the Ravens
tomorrow like this discount slam shut and maybe he does get
pushed up to a point where we feel there's too much
opportunity cost like. Hey, we'd rather have Garrett
Wilson then will Fuller. And so like this is our One
chance to get a cheap share of him whereas I understand what
you're saying about like the visca the rhaegar and the guys
we like Hammer over and over but it does seem less likely that
we'll be in that spot this year. Just based on when we finally
kind of get news on him that were getting a really unique
moment in time with his current value and that was something we
talked to as well and I put it that way like is should we be
targeting Fuller and basically every draft that we Get him at a
good price and Pat your argument was was like yeah.
And so that's what I was like. All right, well I mean maybe I
guess I don't necessarily disagree because if we weren't
then this is from a portfolio perspective.
This is the team that I think I wouldn't want him on but almost
any other team where we take any kind of early running back and
take, you know, two before round 10 you're right, we only had one
before onset on this one, is that's that would be a scenario
where I would be very comfortable.
Adding Fuller, even as the eighth receiver When, you know,
say our seventh isn't Claypool, it's whoever you know, Tim
Patrick, I don't know. I, hopefully, it's like if
Patrick but somebody like that in.
I do think it. I do think it's closed.
And I certainly see the, the Merit for ripping another
running back here. I do think like four other
drafts. Like we're doing a slow draft
right now with some of our ship chasing VIPs.
We ended up going with an anchor, our be billed where we
took DeAndre Swift in the early second, that kind of opened us
up. Or you know, targeting some more
of these you know, wide receivers a little later because
we're just not going to be as strong because we use one of
those early picks on a running back.
So I do think kind of like the texture of our builds to will
put us in different spots. And I mean comparing Fuller to
like someone like wandel who we could have also selected in this
range. I find it more unlikely that he
could jump up as much as will Fuller could jump up?
And so that's why it just Fuller just seems such like a unique
spot right here. Here.
Yeah, and I do kind of feel like if Will Fuller is going to go at
this price in a managed League where we get a preseason waiver
wire run and most of the running backs are gone.
I mean, I like Kenyan Drake where he went, but after we took
Fuller Kenyan, Drake and snuke honor.
Go grab Birkhead mapper a to goes Dante, Lyle Hillyard goes
and we grab James White. So it's like not even a ton of
running backs. Went off the board We grabbed
Fuller's, like, on it done. So, you know, with that
opportunity cost and ffp. See a lot of these running backs
are gone by the time. You even start to consider?
Yeah, wider simpler is better than all of those backs to me,
it was just a question of do. We want another scratch off
ticket? One of the guys, we talked about
at White, and I don't know if we want to talk about sort of
somewhere into the pin dependent running back decisions but P
brought up so much of perine. We talked about some of the San
Fran guys. Tracey Thurman hasn't gone yet.
Jeff Wilson hasn't gone yet. Adding one of those guys to this
build. I don't think any of those guys
are like great pics, that probably going to go undrafted.
But if Joe Mixon as a preseason injury or if you know tearing
Davis price gets really bad reports all through camp and
we're like okay Jeff Wilson's actually going to be this number
2, alongside Elijah Mitchell. That felt like tearing Davis
price would be Yeah it was basically just volume at running
back right? So yeah I don't yeah I don't.
Fuller is better than all of those players though.
That's why it's sort of like kind of a hard case to make.
I totally get I do I as we were kind of going back and forth on
on this chord you would I kind of felt like we're kind of going
back and forth and then once the question started to go to like
okay but then who do we take it was like fuck it.
Let's take full of that's where it's like on on.
Underdog. You know, you're having to
debate whether to take Fuller and like, literally your
favorite of the scratch off, running backs your McKinnon,
your Darkness Johnson, your, you know, Benjamin like any of those
guys were all long gone in this draft to where you just didn't
feel the opportunities were three rounds earlier.
Yeah, it was. There was literally just another
running back. That won't even get drafted.
Right? Somebody right here, right?
Or Jeff Wilson or something that was right?
That was a we might still be able to bid on those guys if
those outcomes. Occur.
So I mean that's they haven't been taken yet.
It would bid on them, right? We'd probably be pretty
aggressively if those outcomes occur and you can tell by the
you know the running backs. We did end up selecting like
they're kind of was a bit of a thematic thing to the groupings
of to hear Deonte Foreman Jamaal Williams two running backs that
we thought had really nice contingent upside in the event.
That something happened to Christian McCaffrey or DeAndre
Swift that those guys would massively jump in value.
And then our last two picks, you know, Rex Burkhead and James
White. White two guys that we think are
kind of undervalued relative to the Past catching floor that
they might be able to give us and just kind of getting
different texture of running backs.
I think you could also argue that Jamal Williams has a bit of
a past catching floor as well and could still have, you know,
some role alongside Swift there. But any other thoughts on kind
of how we rounded out our 0r B room here?
Well, I mean, the McKinnon pick was like a bit off the wall in
some ways because we were thinking, I think we were
talking about Foreman in Jamaal Williams is two of the other
guys in the group that we may have taken instead of McKinnon
Marlin, Mac was a guy we discussed very seriously there
as well, but to get Foreman in the 14th and then Williams in
the 15th was pretty sweet, like kind of like we got with Carter
and then getting game while back.
And getting to from that tear. It was pretty nice, too.
I felt like we got three from the following tear McKinnon,
foreman and Williams. Yeah, and then basically, by the
time he got back to us with for, I felt like we were kind of a
sort of the next tier down. So pretty sweet to get three of
those guys. Yeah yeah I think with the
values we got on the Singletary, Carter gained while and then
even those three as you just described, this is a really good
0r B room in terms of the balance of Floor and ceiling.
I think both Carter and gain. Well, sort of the unsexy
outcomes are that they are probably still catching, at
least some passes that we can start.
Then we kind of have three guys, Singletary, Carter and game with
it, I'd be pretty comfortable. Just throwing in week, one
McKinnon Foreman Williams. Maybe have too much in front of
them, to where we really feel comfortable week one but
certainly a lot of contingent value and are in good spots.
And then even like to get Birkin whitens, two more guys that we
might actually feel comfortable. Starting, we go on frankly,
depending on how they're they're rocking my fair week.
One started, we are weak ones. Who knows, but sort of my case
in counter to that is, despite this being a really good 0r be
running back room. It's still a 0.
RB running back room, right? And we're still looking for the
breakout, yes, and sometimes you just need, you know, volume and
we're going to do that still. We're still gonna, I mean, we're
still playing that way. We have a running backs on this
roster, it's not like we did anything different than what I'm
saying, we're still going to churn still going to be trying
to hit on, you know, this year's whoever, you know, James Conner,
and Leonard fournette where the 8th to 10th round players, maybe
Singletary. Maybe Carter again, well, has
some type of upside like that, maybe this year's Cordarrelle
Patterson who was basically free off waivers after week one.
And then was the big waiver bids and week to where the League's
were. He eat State, you know, on
waivers and some leaks through week two and then people really
been been on a pretty aggressively.
Maybe we can find that guy or maybe we already have that kind,
maybe that's a Rex Burkhead this year, who knows?
But We're still going to approach it that way, obviously.
But that, this just this idea that this, the running back
room, is where we got to find answers to support these
receivers and a little bit of like, I totally agree that these
top seven receivers, were not going to be right on all of
them. But if we're going to win a
million dollars in a massive tournament, we did there's an
element of drafting like you're right to.
We have to hope that this group of receivers Does hit to a
pretty strong degree, right? Yeah.
And it my biggest thing that I think and I brought this up on a
few shows that I think our mistakes was here are be builds.
Previously was pulling out too early, you know, panicking.
I remember the year Pat that drafted Arian Foster.
I want to say in the fifth or sixth round and then he retired
before the season and even in previous years, that might have
been taking Kareem hunt in the the fifth or sixth round or
something like that, where it's like, it gets scary.
But what we're really looking at is like, we look at these wide
receivers Bateman tavant and Garrett Wilson specifically in
like, none of us would dispute. Kind of The Upside scenarios
that these guys have, even though you can poke holes and we
did poke holes while we were discussing them, but you can't
really question the upside scenarios and just knowing that
we're now giving ourselves our chance to hit one of these guys
who could finish as a top 15 receiver with these pics on.
And then that the difference between the cream hunt or in
this case, the Eli Mitchell's the Tony Pollard's in the Rashad
pennies isn't that different from the singletary's Carter's
and gained Wells. I think is where we've really
been able to build a strong team that I think is going to be able
to compete right out of the gate while still giving us just
massive massive upside. For sure.
I agree. Yeah.
I mean it is fun to have because you'll see some of the wide
receiver. Heavy builds will be like a lot
of Veteran, guys. You know, I'm looking at six
others not super wide, receiver heavy but he picked five wide
receivers in a row in the middle rounds.
When Judy thielen Drake London Renfro Alaba, he kind of got
like a mix of like kind of solid veteran starters and upside
shots, but like when you're taking as many as we did we just
took up side shot. It's like, I guess Claypool is
like, sort of a veteran but like, I think, you know, we're
kind of looking for him to be a breakout in potentially somewhat
of a new role and then like a couple Superstars hopefully in
Jamar Chase and see Higgins. So, I think that's like another
fun thing about this team is that we all, we just swung for
the fences with all the wide receiver picks.
We weren't worrying about, you know, how do we plug in
production? And I, I really am in the last
couple days. I've gotten a lot more since our
Initial talk a lot, more comfortable and totally on board
with the Fuller pick. I'm totally fine with it, but
just to Circle back to that. I think the or like to put a bow
on sort of what I was thinking. I think, the way that I was
thinking through that was these upside scenarios where we took
these big swings, but for this team to be good, obviously, we
need Marquis brown, or Bateman to be this year's cup or chase
in the fourth fifth rounds, like the we have to have the hit
right from this wide receiver room.
If Brown Bateman Devante if Garrett, Wilson, we need him to
be this year's. You know, Justin Jefferson from
two years ago. If those guys all aren't hitting
in a way that we're then, you know, seriously considered
playing will Fuller is in every week.
Starter teams probably just hoping to win its League which
is not like a horrible thing, right?
But we to a certain degree need to assume that Marquis Brown, is
this year's Cooper cup. You know what?
He's got the new quarterback and everything goes awesome for him,
right? And he's a superstar.
Get Wilson. Is this yours just in general?
Jefferson whatever it is. We have a lot of big swings
there and I kind of want to just be like yeah, we're gonna play
Chase every week. He's already going to have to be
a hit, you know, maybe both chasing Higgins, don't hit and
there were some, you know, some stuff that we talked about with
them when we took both the guys from the same team, but one of
brown, or Bateman or devant or Garrett Wilson, at least, one
probably hold on. To ya.
Have to be every week starters for us.
But, I mean, you, you know, I agree with you, but also like,
we could this team could hit on. Chase pits.
Brown Cuyler, Garrett, Wilson, and Fuller and be incredible.
I mean, I mean we could we could whiff on a bunch of the early
Higgins like Singletary, right? Singletary, could be a star
right? Seal over tables, air
conditioner. Yeah, yeah.
This team would be incredible. You're absolutely right.
There's there are scenarios where I was maybe a little bit
too. Thinking like I was right with
wide receiver. It's really interesting to think
about that like all the contingency basis.
I'm actually working on article stealing signals.
It's going to be out eventually that is like about how
contingency based fantasy football has become.
I think it really has become a lot more contingency.
Basis, always been contingency basis, but I think you're right
that there are still scenarios that that we were really happy
that we have Fuller there and like to even just to make like a
subtle distinction of like not necessarily needing Garrett
Wilson to be this year's, Justin Jefferson but like could He be
this year's Jalen waddle who was a guy that it wasn't like Jalen
Waddles putting up 40-point weeks.
But he had such a massive Target floor in just consistent
production that we're that, the edge really compounds to is when
we hit the by weeks and when other teams have injured and
were sliding in a 15-point floor at wide receiver because we hit
on this year's Jaylen waddle, I mean, it's so hard for the leak
to kind of keep up with that, you know, just Relentless
assault of production from our wide receivers I love that.
Yeah this was a fun first draft it got me.
And this is a good discussion on the Fuller pick to because it, I
think I needed a little, a little bit of a refresher,
little bit of a reminder for both you guys about The value of
that. Like, I'm, I mean, I'm stoked
about. This receiver room.
I'm glad we added Fuller. I'm glad that we have all eight
guys. Rather rather than just started
stopping at 7 and having another scratch off running back, I
really am. Yeah and I do think it this if
anything to me like and I mentioned this to Davis earlier
that it does just feel everywhere.
Whether it's got Fishbowl, obviously Underdog FPC.
These rooms are just that the nails and the screws are just
getting turned a little tighter, they're just getting a little
harder to navigate these. You're not able to get all of
your targets and so what does that say to me?
Like we really have to lean into structure even more and I would
Say this is like my ideal quintessential structure, where
it's a true zero are be billed, we are dominating people
obviously at wide receiver, but also at the ones he's getting
that Elite tied in and that Elite quarterback and I do
really feel like this is how you execute a build like this.
And I think we did, we did well here for a first draft, even if
we didn't get every single specific player that we wanted,
One thing I'll know is you know, the Fuller pick I think was kind
of our luxury pick. Which includes a tight end to
which includes like an upside shot on like, DeShaun Watson or
something like we. So we finish this with one
quarterback one tight end. I think if we hadn't taken full
or I would have been someone interested, although I don't
think we would have had to. But someone interested in taking
like, you know, a brother Jordan Watson upside swing.
Probably pretty smart although it's not the most appealing
thing you can do. But that'll probably not being a
smart move, for this guy who took Watson to Daniel Jones to
close it out. But yeah, it just felt like with
where we were with running back pushing it so far and like a
true zero running back build that we didn't really have
another luxury pick besides Fuller, to go to get away from
running back late. and that was another, you know, ultimately
point that we got around to in our discussion was when we start
talking about a tenant or whatever I was that made me more
comfortable Fuller because I think for me it was not about
not taking Fuller's, it was about taking all running backs
the rest of the way it would have been a pretty aggressive
line to take it running back but Fuller was clearly the pick for
me when we started saying okay well what about taking a A
second tight end or what I was like.
Well, if we're going to take one, One detour should be
Fuller, which yeah, he's a piece of big pick their, we talk about
breath and Jordan when you're talking about Kate and Drake,
when you're talking about those options like Fuller could be,
could be a big addition. For sure.
Yeah. I mean was there any other thing
like just more Trends with the draft room, anything you guys
noticed? It did feel like there are kind
of certain Trends with a lot of the drafters of course, liking
to get their tied into, you can kind of see on the board here
between, you know, rounds 10 to 14, most drafters got their
second tight end, we know we've already hit on the trend that
kind of the premium 0r B, guys, you know, all come off the board
in the sixth and seventh round. Drafter still really like those
guys kind of any other macro trends that you guys think might
inform how we think about our drafts going forward.
Something's sucking on a little bit, but when Chris Evans went
and then we went McKinnon sort of as a result that when
especially in July, when you get into the 12th 13th, round year,
especially if you're doing a 0 RB or anchor, our be or
whatever, you're certain to hit and running backs.
ATP kind of went out the window in this draft more than I've
seen anywhere else. We talked about some of them
being preferred bright when you brought up, you know, Benjamin,
you know, And we were excited about potentially taking him.
I think I said, how do we ensure we do that?
Do we get him in the 15th? When he comes back around his
ATP was after the 16th and then it goes at the 1415 turn before
we even get a shot to discuss. Whether we would reach a full
round to take him in the 15th and he's Rising a little bit
right now and he went pretty high.
It's got fish bowl drafts just today as well, which I was
annoyed about but some of those types of guys, you know,
McKinnon Chris Evans. Some of them are going to go a
lot higher in Rooms. And so you have to think through
that. Do you want to get specific guys
with your build? You might have to pay up for
them. And then are you willing to sort
of just let the room, dictate some of yours?
You are be targets as well. I think to a degree you should
be but also that there are some that are not good targets.
Frankly, I think we did a good job of still getting pretty good
targets. Despite mostly letting the room
dictate, you know, Pat you talked about, even with Jamal
Williams falling later, but obviously, in the earlier show,
Singletary card or gain. While we're all, once it fell,
we got it kind of played out well.
For us because those are guys that we do like then we did take
a couple of the reaches as well, make an informant, but you're
going to kind of have to balance, whether you're putting
your stamp down. Hey, there's no real value here
that I like, okay, I'm gonna put my stamp down on a guy.
I do like that's what we do when we took McKinnon versus okay.
There is a guy at Value that I could see out into this build
and hoping that some of the other ones come back around.
Yeah. And we also were in a spot like
that, like in the ninth, you know, after we take Singletary,
Patterson Row, Joe James Cook. Alexander Madison reminder,
Stephenson all go off. So, we take Garrett Wilson,
which I think was a great pick. And then after that only Rashad,
white and Melvin Gordon, go off and we kind of we took Claypool
ended up getting one of the last of the, the following tear and
in Carter, but yeah, I think kind of being flexible.
Water to Those runs and just like like positioning yourself.
Like okay, I'm in the end of a pocket.
The beginning of pocket, but we also, you know, push this pretty
far in terms of the 0 running back structure, probably further
than we will in most of the drafts later this year.
I think one of the reasons to do that is that like we'll probably
get some clarity on demonstrate military versus James Cook in
the next few weeks to a month. So, my guess is that one of
those two will Move up by around and a half and the other will
fall, but not like a ton. And then like, so someone like
basically million situations like that where like these
uncertain back fields, where like, you could see MacKinnon
being like a tenth round, pick pretty easily, you know, gain,
welcome any of these guys and in general, I think the whole
running back cohort will probably move up a bit.
Yeah, this is something we've seen time and time again, is
like once there starts to be a little bit more certain to you
about, Some of these running backs situations and who the
upside shots really are? Then there gets to a lot of
steam behind those guys. So, you need to be able to hit.
You need to be able to get two of the guys from The Carter
gained while. T0t are ideally three of the
guys, from the following tear, you know, a follower like
Singletary. Like, that's how this build
actually does still have a ton of upside at the running back
position. It's a lot tougher when all
those dudes are going like you know, 10 picks earlier.
Yeah. Yeah, in the other thing that I
think I've gotten better about just now doing way more drafts
than I ever have is really internalizing this idea of
humility based Drafting and one thing that happens when you end
up with the same guys over and over and your kind of reaching
slightly to ensure you get your guys is you're not acknowledging
that they probably exist in a tear and there's comparable
players there and by just being a little bit more of a value
Hound. It's like yes we want to Gabriel
Davis over Rashad Bateman but we both have those guys in a Or
tear, and there's gonna be spots where gave Davis Falls to us.
And so, I just think this leads us to really natural
diversification by being patient in our drafts and being really
price-sensitive and we're still getting guys within that
two-year, did we prefer Henderson to Michael Carter?
Yes, but can any of us really make a super strong case that
he's in a different tier as like a contingent based running back?
Probably not. And so that's why I just kind of
like how this has really played out And I do think we caught
like the tail end of Tears, like, really well at multiple
spots in this draft and it's going to lead us to different
players that were not necessarily always on but that
are likely the same probabilistic bet as some of our
favorites in those same ranges. Yeah. 2020 Pat would have been
pounding the table for Rashad white at the 905 because I'm
like he's not gonna come back and it's like guess what?
He didn't come back but we got Chase Claypool which is a sweet.
Are you in the 10th round? And we got Gary Wilson who has a
ton of upside. I think it's completely Miss
price at the moment and then we ended up getting really really
nice contingency and you know, some Standalone value.
Just a nice group of running backs later on to close it out.
So like this team will probably be totally fine with our shot
white and also shot a white, might be a nothing Burger.
I'm not gonna do anything, I'll push back and it worked out very
well. It's probably this To do it when
you're drafting a lot of teams. But Richard white might also be
the player you needed, and I think this is going to be
Wilson. Could be too.
I, you said 2020 Pat. Like I 2022, beds.
Still wants to make those reaches every very frequently so
I'm okay, I'm okay with make it. Like, if it wasn't, let's say
olave was there not Wilson got taken and, you know, I don't
know. It was like, Cristian Kirk, or
we can take Cristian Kirk Then 2022 Pat's probably pounding the
table still for ya for shot white.
Like let's get that upside swing, you know.
Yeah, we still got two person line pick.
But yeah, we still got a really nice pic would get Wilson there.
That there wasn't really a need to pound table for widen that
spot. Yeah and it's gonna be
interesting just so you guys know we are.
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