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Larry Fitzgerald. I know all the media right now is about Christian Kirk because Kyler Murray and Cliff Kingsbury, it's all about what's new, what's flashy. It's about the future in Arizona, not the past, clearly, and Larry Fitzgerald is not the future. So Christian Kirk is going way ahead of Larry Fitzgerald. And if I'm being honest, and I say, hey, one of these two guys finishes the year at wide receiver 14.

It's going to be Christian Kirk, not Larry. I don't think that's in his range of outcomes at 36 to be a top-end wide receiver. But I also think it's not in his range of outcomes to just be a bust, not be a very productive NFL wide receiver because he always does. The Cardinals were terrible last year. Their quarterback play was not accurate. Their quarterback play was horrific. And Larry Fitzgerald finished as the wide receiver 27.

He was just outside of the wide receiver too. In fact, if you remember starting the year with Sam Bradford and then getting acclimated to, you know, Josh Rosen, it was even worse than they finally kind of got it going a little bit, and I mean a little bit, over the rest of the season. But from week seven through the end of the season, Larry Fitzgerald, I know it's hard to remember because of how bad the Cardinals were. He was the wide receiver 17.

He's a first ballot Hall of Fame for a reason, and he's got a much better quarterback, a faster pace of play. So the question you have to ask yourself, because he's being drafted as the wide receiver 38 this season is, do you think that one year older Larry and the up-and-coming nature of Christian Kirk are worth more in the equation than the changeover of a fast pace?

pass friendly offense with an accurate quarterback. Which one's more important? If they wash each other out, then Larry finishes around wide receiver 27. You drafted them as the wide receiver 38. That's just a good bet, a good move. If it turns out that the more important thing is that they're scoring more touchdowns going down the field, passing a lot, I think Larry Fitzgerald is the odds on favorite to lead the team in targets. They might not be the most valuable targets. I think Christian...

Kirk is going to be working downfield more than Larry will, but the slot is extremely, extremely important in an air raid system. And I don't think Larry has the potential to be a top 15 wide receiver, but if you're telling me he's going to be the wide receiver 50 or 40 where he's being drafted, I don't buy it. And if you watch some of the videos coming out of camp, he hadn't lost nothing. I mean, he's making miraculous one-handed catches.

We're out here in Arizona, and Larry just kind of gets his in the offense from a target-share perspective. It's just kind of built into what he's – none of his skills have degraded since he moved to the slot to necessitate anything else, and you've got unproven rookies. You've got Christian Kirk coming back from injury. I understand you're tempering this wisely. You're not saying Larry's going to go out there and be the Larry of old, but that's not – you know, you don't need him to be.

When you draft him at wide receiver 38. He's going to outproduce where he's being drafted. And if you're in a half point or full point PPR, he's still going to soak up a lot of targets. And if, I mean, look, Kyler Murray has skyrocketed. He was undrafted for a while. Now he's in the eighth round with Larry Fitzgerald. If he's going to do what a lot of people think he's going to do, then Larry will be a beneficiary, as will Christian Kirk. But Christian Kirk is the only one whose ADP is actually going up.

Larry's is not because he's old. If Kyler Murray, and this is speaking completely biased as a Arizona Cardinal Finn, if he does what people think he's going to do, our next year of podcasts will take place from the surface of the moon. That is correct. Because I will be able to fly there. The only problem with that is I don't think it is safe to be on the surface of the moon with no pants.

I think you need that suit and we won't be able to wear those pants. So there are worries that might be the end of the show. Listen, before we close this show, I do want to let people know. Honey, honey, on reentry, the atmosphere. Look, that did the pants. The pants. That's what happened. They burned up. We have a huge update that we just released for the ultimate draft kit. This year we've been so excited. Look, the last few years, the ultimate draft kit, it's our baby. We work on it from the...

the entire offseason getting this thing ready, keeping it up to date. This year we added the app. Now we've upgraded the app. We listened to your request. We added a bunch of new features. You can now use the app to actually mark players as drafted, to hide drafted players, to star and mark players. I use it with our league of record to, you know, I've got my keepers marked. I've got all the drafted keepers gone off the list. I've got my favorite player starred. It is a...

perfect kind of ancillary sit with you on draft day tool and there are a ton of features that you get inside of the ultimate draft kit now you can use it on the go with the mobile app we're very excited about it uh i encourage you to go check it out at ultimate draft kit dot com we're into august the big the draft days are coming and they're coming quickly so i encourage you check it out and again we got a show tomorrow guys

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