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And, you know, we'll see what happens. But I think Boyd is probably the right pick here. And I haven't taken him in a mock yet. So Boyd and Pettus, they're both, I mean, they're almost identical in our personal rankings. Andy, you do have Boyd up at 20, which is the highest. But we've all got them 23 or 24 for Pettus and Boyd, the rest of them back to back. So personally, I would lean Pettis in the sense that I believe he can be the one for that team.

And so because we've already got three star solid wide receivers, take the gamble at the higher upside, which I think is pedicis. I do think the safer floor, because he's already broken out, is Tyler Boyd. They're both great picks. They're both wide receiver twos. I'm fine with either. Sure. And if this were my team and I was running it, I would have taken Robbie Anderson. Here. Over with those guys. Yes. Interesting. Robbie Anderson and Evan Ingram. So those would have been your picks, right? More than likely, yeah. Okay.

All right, Pettus went right after Boyd. I ended up taking Boyd. It's still a fine pick. Will Fuller, James Lloyd. Fine pick. Matt Ryan and Baker going in the seventh round, turning it around, Breeze and Wilson in the eighth round. Believe it or not, you know, at least in this draft, Eric Ebron ended up going ahead of Evan Ingram, Hunter Henry, and Ingram both went in the eighth round. Ingram almost came back around to us.

Alshon Jeffrey, Sammy Watkins, Alan Robinson, off the board ahead of us. You know, this is, you know, it obviously took us a lot more time to make the picks at the 6th round, but that's how drafts are. I mean, it's pretty easy. You put your draft board together. You get stuff together. You got your favorites at the top. You know the most about those players. When you get into those middle rounds, you need to play through a few scenarios in your head. You need to play through a few scenarios with the opposing teams and how their teams are forming.

So right now our roster at running back, we have Barkley, Cook, and Cohen. At wide receiver, we have Evans, Woods, Edelman, and Boyd. We're on the clock here at the 8, 10, and 901. Well, so a couple of things stand out to me. Obviously, Evan Ingraham. I see one of them. Evan Ingraham left. Vance McDonald is still there, which we're pretty high on. And Carson Wince, actually, you know, who would have been a.

okay-ish pick last round is is there so you know that's worth saying but Lamar Miller who we were deciding between sure last round over the course of a turn came back and it's rare to get that kind of depth are we all on board to take Lamar Miller then since he came back around to us or is that need still there yeah the need is still there that's good advice the need for running back it's always there it's always there it's always there

And guys, at least higher in the ADP left, Daryl Anderson, or Derell Anderson. Goodness. Keep trying. Keep trying. Henderson. There it is. Harry and the Henderson's. We got there. Here's a case. Miles Sanders is on the board as well. Yeah, that was the name I was going to bring up. We stabilized our running back a little bit since the Lamar Miller decision. Are you looking at upside now with a guy like Miles Sanders?

You know, you say Lamar Miller might lose the passing game work, half PPR league. Miles Sanders could get all the passing game work. Yes. Once Miles Sanders is acclimated, even though Jordan Howard is a fine player, he's a fine grinder. Miles Sanders was selected highly for a reason, I believe, for the Eagles to utilize him. But I think it will also take a couple weeks to gain some momentum. Might take more than that. Sure. It might take even longer. Yeah, it might take half a season.

Sure. But as you're running back four or five, I think that Miles Sanders is, he's very interesting. Which one do you like more there, Jason? I still like Lamar Miller because I know that he is the starting running back for a good offense. Mike, you brought up the stats a while ago. Top five in carries over the last few years. Top five in yards over the last few years. It's just the touchdowns that don't come when you're talking about bolstering depth. And they will not.

when you're talking about bolstering depth, I think it's a good pick. I do believe, ironically, that despite talking about Lamar Miller being close to grabbing him last round because he was our fourth running back, that you could pivot to Miles Sanders and go higher upside. I want somebody that can step in and be a superior flex player over the back half of the year. That's what I'm looking at at this point in time. And so I'm like, who's got the highest chance of doing that for me? Then I would say that might be Daryl Henderson.

Right? I mean, I mean, did he become Dorell on this show all of a sudden? Yeah, I don't know. You notice in this Brooks? Yeah, I did. Why did he become Derell on this podcast only? Because Mike called him 42 names. Yes. It's Daryl Henderson. Because I've infected Jason. Oh my gosh. Where I was trying to read his name and but I was also trying to read ahead at the exact same time. Darnel Anderson. I would say Darnel Anderson would be such a good pick here because look.

If you're just talking upside, like Lamar Miller, much safer is, his role is known. Henderson's upside is only there with injury. But Darnell Anderson's. Darnel Anderson's upside. If Todd Gurley goes down or if he ends up even, I mean, look how good CJ Anderson was in the playoff run, even when Todd Gurley came back. Oh.

Yep. So you're off. No, you guys pick between Sanders and Miller. Don't give me Daryl Henderson. I'm still looking at filling out this roster right here. I want a super flex. And I would take Lamar Miller. Oh, great. It's going to be up to Brooks. I'm not taking this. I like that. Brooks, your pick between Lamar Miller and Miles Sanders. I'm taking Darnell Anderson off the board. Miles Sanders or Lamar Miller. He's not even on the board. What do you got, Brooks? Where do you lean? Lamar Miller.

Gosh, hear that excitement. Be so enthusiastic, Judge. At wide receiver, there are, so we can obviously do the Vance dance, take a tight end here, go Carson wins, take quarterback. It's Vance or Carson for me. There's so many guys in the same tier at wide receiver. To me, Carson is not in the running, even though I love him because there's so many guys. If I end up with Kyler Murray, Cam Newton, Jared Gough, I'm ecstatic. And I think there's a chance. It's also a 10-team league. One of those. You were notable.

quarterbacks off the board, you can take them even later. Yeah, I think one of those guys realistically could end up back with us, and I would be ecstatic. All right, let's speed it up. Mike, your mid-round madness guy, Marvin Jones, still on the clock, Larry Fitzgerald, M-VS. M-VS. Sterling Shepard, who deceptively, still going to be probably a top guy in that offense, but we've got Barclay, Christian Kirk on the board. Do you go with your mid-round guy, or do you go with Vance McDonald here, Mike, or do you have another idea in mine? Oh, man. Epic.

Give me the abridged analysis. The abridged analysis is it would be Marvin Jones. It would be at the top of the list unless I wanted to take Vance McDonald and not worry about it. Give me the pick. I'm not going to give you the pick. I'm going to take Marvin Jones. Marvin Jones is gone. Dang it. Upside play Darnell Anderson right next. So Darnell Anderson.

My favorite nickname we've ever had for a player. It's just really, it's a different name. My favorite nickname for this guy is a completely different human name. Dr. Nelson, a totally different name. Mr. Henderson, we apologize. It was just great because you, you snafooed the name in a huge fashion. Then you passed it on to Jason. He became Dorell for a reason.

Yeah, no reason. He caught the virus. Darnell Anderson. Look, what I would have done, and the reason I wanted you to pass a pick to me is because I think Andy was right. There's a lot of wide receivers in the same tier. A lot of guys that I really liked. MVS, I was sure could make it back to us. And I would have taken a quarterback in MVS.

this coming turn, and I would have therefore taken Vance McDonald's with that last pick. So Vance McDonald, and then here I would have taken quarterback and MBS. What if I told you? Yeah, we got Vance anyway. That Vance McDonald dropped to us. I would be very happy. And that's going to happen because Jared Cuck's going to go ahead of Vance in a lot of drafts. So Vance dropped. In Joku.

Went ahead of Vance and we got Vance at 1010. And always pay attention to your draft. It's Mike's fault. He took Marvin Jones and it let Vance pass. You are welcome. Always pay attention to who has selected a tight end because if most teams have already taken one, it's very unlikely in these types of leagues that a player is going to select two tight ends. They may end up taking a backup quarterback because a lot of fantasy players like to do that.

They like to waste a roster spot with that second quarterback. No, your league. But they're generally not going to take a second tight end. Give me the pick. Well, your pick's going to be Marquez Valdez, Scan. It is not. No, at this point, there's no way I can pass up Cam Newton. I do think that the likelihood of people taking a second quarterback versus that second tight in would happen. Cam Newton over Jared Goff here in the 11th round. Yes, Cam Newton to me is a top five fantasy quarterback. He.

almost always is. In fact, he is always, if he plays 16 games, he's a top six fantasy quarterback. 60% of the time works every time. Almost always always is. Last year was a top three quarterback before his shoulder got injured. He's healthy. He's back. We're on fire. Oh, this is the best. His wide receiver core is amazing. You know, we're big fans of Curtis Samuel, big fans.

DJ Moore. Hey, I'm shocked you passed on MVS there when you probably could have come back around. I'll bet I still can. The truth of the matter is, is if you didn't take Cam there, which I gave you the pick, you took Cam Newton. Kyler, Goff, Winston, and Rivers all went in the next turn. We only had three picks left in general. So I'm pretty happy with that decision, Jason. We got our final two picks right here. Last three were Jones, Vance, Dance, and Cam Newton. I'll give him his due.

So go ahead. With the last two picks looking at our roster, right, we've got four. Andy likes someone. We've got four running backs, Sequin, Dalvo, Cook. That was borderline inappropriate. I just, yeah, give me the pick. And Lamar Miller. We've got one more wide receiver with Mike Evans, Robert Woods, Julian Edelman, Tyler Boyd and Marvin Jones. We've got a tight end. We've got a quarterback. We need another wide out. I would say we grab one wide out, one running back to bolster the roster.

I don't know if you're, that's what I thought. I want Deshawn Jackson in every league. And I might draft him twice in some leagues. I might, I might give it a shot. Does you take them over? Has anyone ever done that? Like, every year, it's, you just, you count down to the moment that someone drafts a player that's already been drafted. Has anyone ever drafted a player that's already on their team? Well, I'll tell you what, this year I'm planning on drafting Daryl Henderson and Darnell Anderson back to back.

Good picks. So, no, that is always fun when you're at the draft and somebody takes somebody that's already been taken. But in a never the same team, that would be incredible. A way that it is unironic and they didn't mean to do it. So they're the ones that took them earlier in the draft. Then they're the ones that draft them later. Hold on. Hold on. Is Marvin Jones still on the board? I will take Marvin. No, you took him three rounds ago. That would be.

I think I have our two picks. All time moment. I think I have our two picks, and here's why I think that. Because I have two picks that I want that I know are Andy's guys. So I've already got a two-thirds vote. Because Deshaun Jackson, I think is a great pick here. We're super late. He's got a huge upside. Oh, I know your other one, too. And my other one is Mr. Chipotle Burrito himself, Matt Burrito.

Matt Barita is a great value. We're taking Matt Barita here. Look, Jerich McKinnon, he had his knee swell up and had problems. Matt Barita was a really efficient running back in Kyle Shanahan's system last year to be able to grab a guy who could be the starting running back for the San Francisco 49ers and a Kyle Shanahan offense who's proven he could do it. I mean, you'll know week one if Burita has value or not so we can cut him easily.

Or he's got value. We can trade him or start him. So I, that's where I would go. But Mike, do you see someone you think you could convince me off of the rookies, Justice Hill, Devin Singletary? Well, Caleb Belage is there. But I would take Barreto over Belange because of the, the offensive system being a better situation for Berita. But I mean, I think it's a split situation for both guys. Yeah. We know Burita had huge success last year, but it was also a V.

opportunistic of him. And I don't think the situation will be nearly the same. Kalen Blage is there. Speaking of opportunistic, Justin Jackson is still there. If Melvin Gordon is going to hold out, Justin Jackson will be a great pick here. No, because you're going to cut him. If he holds out, you're 100% right. At least you could decide you can cut that before the season, maybe sign Mabarita. And speaking of knowing who.