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Forever. And looking at the way that the draft is going, like everyone else with a target share of 27% or higher is being drafted as a top 12 wide receiver besides Garrett Wilson and Zay Flowers. Those are the only two guys not in the top 12 who last year had at least a 27% target share or higher. You have Lamar Jackson. Yes, it was a down year for him. I'm throwing that in the garbage. Lamar Jackson still remains an elite.

quarterback in the NFL, in my opinion. Since 2010, 30 wide receivers were drafted in the first round that saw 300 or more targets through the first three years. They average a touchdown every 18.3. So Flowers touchdown expectation, he's more, he should be at 19 instead of 14. Like I'm saying, I think there is some touchdown regression that can happen for Lamar. It's not the same system.

Like if you said, hey, positive regression. Yeah, yes, in a positive direction. If everything were exactly the same, maybe I'd have less hope for Zay Flowers pulling in seven or more touchdowns on the season. Are they going to be, are they long ones? Look at just what I'm saying. If we don't know exactly what's going to, what will change, but we know there will be a big change. What won't is he's number one on the team. And.

The separation between him and the rest of everyone else on this squad as a skill position player, I think it is a massive, massive gap. I mean, we're talking about Jacoby Lane is the, like, the hotness of like a fourth round rookie. I was going to say, we know what Bateman is, so Bateman's not a threat to flowers. Right. We know what Andrews is at this stage of his career. They don't have another up-and-coming tight end. Correct. That's actually a concern for the Baltimore, like.

Like if you go beyond Andrews, it's a bit of a concern. Yeah, and they do have, and they lost some offensive line stuff as well. But like Jacoby Lane is the next possible contributor in the passing game, and you can't imagine Jacobi Lane threatening a $104 million man. No, which says to me, he might be a 30% target share player this year. That's not out of, like that, that's not a wild thing to project. I'm not going to go that high, but that would not be a shocking thing at the end of the year for.

for what they invested in him and what the rest of the team is. Look, the books still love Ravens. They're favorites in each of their first seven games. And yes, we do. I want the Ravens to be favorites. I want them to know that they're going to go out and they're going to score a bunch of points. So they are tied with the bills for second and Super Bowl odds. The Ravens are a solid squad. And it's just, it's Zay Flowers here. The targets are going to be there. And Flowers is sitting in a range that is,

Not with the top tier guys. The Ravens are currently the number one team in terms of odds to win the AFC title. There you go. That plus 470. Really? Oh, they passed the bills? Plus 510. Sometimes those numbers, Mike, when it's Super Bowl versus AFC title are somehow different, even though they're the same thing. Tomorrow we have a mock draft mayhem episode on the show. We're going to be talking through a lot of great stuff next week, including players.

We're embarrassed to love. Mike is not embarrassed of Zayflowers. He is proud of it. And then we'll get into some mailbag. We will do the My Guys next week. And like I said, I'm going to sneak three names into the UDK. Somebody over there remind me to do that right after the show so that you guys have a little teaser. Don't tell anybody about it. We got the show on Wednesday. And don't forget about... You're telling that. The Megalobole. Go get in there. Megalobole.com. The time is now.

drafts from September 4th through the 8th. The day before kickoff. A bunch of different times you can choose from. You'll get placed in a league. We have really refined the rules over the past few years. We've got double the amount of like admin commissioners this year to make sure that these leagues are run exceptionally well. And let me tell you the amount of hours and hours and hours that go into making sure these drafts go off correctly that there aren't

you know, tanking or collusion or problems in these leagues. And it's just a lot of work goes into them. They're very, very fun to play. They're very fun. Everybody who's in them loves them. And they play year after year after year. And I enjoy it. I enjoy meeting foot clan members in it. Yeah. So go there right now, megalibol.com. We will say goodbye for today. But we'll say hello again tomorrow because we have another episode coming your way. Some mock draft mayhem. We'll talk to you then.

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