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And we do this professionally. Like, I don't watch the Hall of Fame game. I drive a dog Stratis. We don't, I don't usually watch the Hall of Fame game. The only reason that I really turned it on, obviously Larry's going to the Hall of Fame, and Carson Beck was starting. And so I wanted to see it. Right. Oh, we saw it. But the thing is, is regardless of whether you care about Carson Beck or the Cardinals or, you know, the Colts who, or the Panthers, whoever, if you watched it, it was.

a wildly fun game like really fun back and forth crazy ending it was like it was good football i mean last second win yeah final play of the game like a walkoff i mean you don't you don't get that in football very often no because this was like and thank goodness and of course but it was you know they could have kicked a field goal to tie the end and go to overtime which would have been like the play you would have done probably in regular season but the you know you don't need more of the hall of fame game so they just it's like uh

timeless that was that was really fun it was great it really was football um cars and beck was awesome i mean that's what i hear four incompletions did you not watch it no i was not able to watch it wow well you missed out mike i was at mandatory parent meetings for football yeah oh that's this is like

A lot of you think Mike works here full-time. No, no, this is my side gig. This is Mike's side hustle. He's a full-time job. He's a football father. He's a dad to a son who's in high school football. The mandatory meeting thing for parents. Right. They make it, they lay that on thick, too. It's like, what are they going to do? Are they going to take your kid and kick them off the team if you don't show up? It's, it's.

Where's his father? It's funny to me. And I like, I understand all these things. I, you got to be informed, but it's funny. Oh, the mandatory meeting. And then we have, um, we got to donate to the snack bar this weekend, but it's a mandatory donation. And I'm like, I don't think that word means what you think it means. I think what you're looking for is a fee. There's a mandatory fee. These clubs are.

out of control. It's not just sports. We should start something. We really need to. My kids are in a theater where they're in an outreach group. They have to pay to join the group. But then if you're in the group that you pay for, you must participate in all these donation events, which is like, wait, we're paying so that we have to pay more? What are we doing?

It's wild. By the way, I want to say thank you to the 9,000 people who have DM me their golf tips for all the things I was doing wrong. The Falcon decided to put together a play nine holes with Andy. Then he's going to do a play nine holes with Jason. That'll be a longer video. But just so that, you know. Can you time lapse it? Yeah, we might have to skip a few holes. We'll see.

Yeah, it's been a humbling experience receiving all of your thoughts and comments. Most of you concerned with me chewing on a golf tea. Yeah, that was the number one tip because, and this is a good, there's a good piece of advice they care if you were taking the, if you were taking the tea out of the ground and putting it in your mouth, there's all sorts of- I'd be eating chemicals. Yeah, but that wasn't what you were doing, of course, because you're not a monster.

No, this was a regular unused golf tea. Yeah, like you're supposed to consume. And I realize the irony with my tooth problems. Yeah. You chew on things that you shouldn't chew on. Also, you did just purchase. Maybe they're related. You literally, after this, purchased flavored golf teas. Ridiculous. With dental grade plastic. Okay. They're safe to consume. But, yeah, that was as humbly. What a weird idea.

To do that? Yeah. It's because people chew on golf teas, whether they should or shouldn't. That happens enough to where there's now a market of me out there. Yeah, I mean, people sell cigarettes. It's like, you shouldn't, but if you do, there were some people that thought I was just lighten up that thought I smoked at the golf court. I'll have a cigar in my mouth for my...

Play nine. Just don't. And I don't dip it in the grass with the pesticide. Right. We have a great show today. We got wide receiver countdown. We got the news to talk about. We got the ultimate draft kit available right now. If you do not have it and you are prepping up for drafts, the end of all season starts one week later than it did last year. And we have a lot of drafts coming up the rest of this month and into early September because the kickoff is September 9th. Yeah.

So you're going to have drafts. I mean, we have ours on Labor Day for our League of Record, other drafts throughout the month. But you want to be prepared. We have put together the ultimate draft kit. Over 130,000 words of original content analysis, player analysis, rankings. All of our, you know, the draft analyzer is part of the UDK Plus. The mock draft tool is brand new. And I think we saw yesterday over 150,000 mock drafts have already taken place on the platform.

always updating and improving the UDK every single day. I'm talking about Cyrus Allen here, baby. Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of the unheralded rookies that are making waves. This is the time of year where we can make some notes on them, make sure you're aware of them in the draft kit. And we've got videos, individual videos on basically every single really relevant player. Those are worth a watch or a listen. You can do it either way. And yeah, it's all in the UDK.

And if you are sticking with us throughout the season, one of the things we do from February all the way through kickoff is allow you to take the full price that you paid for the UDK and just apply it to become an ultimate Foot Clan member, dollar for dollar. So it's a completely, you know, we don't take anything away from it. We prorate it fully. And that gets you the in season tools like the ultimate dashboard, all of our in season rankings, the trade analyzer, which is part of that, all the stream finder, the start set tool, all the end season stuff.

If you just want one thing to worry about and you want to support the show, you can do that just by going to join the foot.com and you'll see if you're logged in under your UDK account, you can just apply that and pick it up. So ultimate draft kit.com for the draft kit, join the foot.com for the ultimate membership. And we do have that giveaway going on right now. Completely free to enter. Footclang giveaway.com for a sign. There's so much going on right now. Bejan Robinson, Jersey. You can go do that. Quick question of the day comes in from Brandon in Nebraska.

He says in my 12th team PPR league, we do not know the draft order until one hour before draft time. I just want to hear your input on how I should prepare myself best for this draft. Yeah, we do this for our listener league, which thank you all who have submitted. And you get a morbid satisfaction out of it. I do. I really love that you can't truly fully prepare, but you can prepare. Yeah, people get desperate though. They're like, Jason, come on. Come on. Tell us. What I really want to do is like.

I want to give them the order so that they prepare, and then last second change it, so that they prepared wrong. In fact, I'm doing that this year. Can I get agreement? Wait, what do you want to do? We can, but you're telling everyone. I know, but they might not be listening to this episode right now. But I'm saying, if they're in the listener league, they better be listening to this episode. Yeah, that's true. They better be listening to all of them. I was saying I should set a draft order now and then completely change it right before the draft. I mean, but they'll know.

If they're listening, that's, you know, it's an advantage. Here's the answer to the question. Because the real trick is through the draft order and then surprise them like 30 seconds later, but don't tell them on this show. Well, sure, but I've already told them. When you have a draft like this coming up, mock drafts are incredibly important. That's why we just built a mock draft tool. What you do is you do a handful of drafts from the two, the seven, and the 11, assuming it's a 12-person team. All you really need to know.

is what is it like at the beginning, the middle, or the end of drafts? You don't have to know your exact draft spot. You just need to know, like, when I'm near the back end of the first round, you know, and I'm near the one, two, and the three, four turn, what players, what positions, really, do I like better or worse in the next time I'm on the clock, the next time I'm on the clock? That's pretty much all you have to do, I think. That's how I would like to prepare.

Yeah, I mean, I think it's the essence of what we do in our rankings as well. It's the tier-based drafting strategy puts you in a position where you are able to react to whatever happens. Just because you know your draft spot, okay, maybe you can project your first round situation perfectly or you know kind of where things are falling, you're going to get surprised no matter whether you know it or not throughout the second, third, fourth, fifth round and beyond. We...

use tiers to define player groupings so that you can make decisions down the line. And we did a mock draft show yesterday, there were oftentimes who are looking at the situation saying, look, I, you know, this player is the final one of a group of relevant running backs I like, and there's still five or six wide receivers in that tier I like. So I'm going to move to the running back position. I think tier-based drafting is another key to that. And I agree with the mock draft analysis as well.

Yeah, we have a tips and tricks episode coming up soon. There might be more info on that to come. All right. We can move on. Talk some news. News and notes from around the league. I mean, it is news that Carson Beck completed 14 of 18 passes. Two of the misses were drops. One was an intentional throwaway. He was excellent. And these weren't just, you know, dump offs. This was down the field. This was across the middle.

It's relevant because we're all sitting here saying, you know, when is Mendoza going to play? When is Carson Beck going to take the field? How is this going to impact Bowers and McBride? If I'm the Arizona Cardinals, and their ex-GM even came out last night and said what we're all thinking, which is you know you're going to be one of the worst teams in the league. The Cardinals are favored in zero games. So, okay, maybe you outkick your coverage a little bit and you win five.

You win, because what, they're projected for three and a half? Is it three? I thought it was four and a half. It might be four and a half. Whoa, whoa, buddy. Oh, it is three and a half. The point is, is your goal this season. And this is where you've got a rookie head coach. You want to win games. Everybody wants to win games. You want to show your team that you're playing the best players. I get it. But your true agenda this year will be at some point to understand if you have anything in Carson Beck, who was the third quarterback drafted in the NFL draft?

you will want to know if you need to use a high pick on a quarterback or not, which means, look, we'll see what the rest of the preseason looks like. It's one game. Let me ask you this. But he started in Canton. He's ending in Canton, baby. Yeah. Max Hall also looked great in preseason once for the Cardinals. Let me ask you this. If this actually moves the needle of Carson Beck to start more games, which I believe it has or will, if you knew that Carson Beck was starting.

75% of the season. Or let's just say all, the entire season. You just said recently that you are Trey McBride over Brock Bowers. Would that flip it for you? Would that be a negative for Trey McBride that the rookie will start the whole season? Because he won't be as good as. It would flip it for me. Yeah, because I just don't think the touchdown totals are going to be anywhere near what Jacoby Reset was able to do. And we just talked about McBride. One of the keys to his dominance was 11 touchdowns, double-digit touchdowns with a rookie.

I find to be somewhat unrealistic. Bauer still is going to have his challenges at some point in time, but at least it's the number one overall pick. It's exciting, but it was the Hall of Fame game. Yeah. Where this is just, this is an audition for guys who may not even get more chances in preseason. I love one of the- We are burying the lead on the Hall of Fame game, by the way. Are we? I can't believe it. Hings King? Nope. Oh. Why don't you tell me what the lead is? Yeah.