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All the tiers and all the other, you know, reception, lots of great breakdowns in there. I like to, here's a hot tip for reception perception perception. I like to find players I hate and then find a reception perception chart that backs up, that backs up my viewpoint. Yes, confirmation bias is one of the best things you can do as a fancy football owner.

Uh, you, you, you really want to make sure you confirm whatever you already believe. Well, as long as Matt Harmon confirms it for me. Right. You're not, you're just being confirmed. Thank you. Otherwise, you know, close your eyes. All right. You guys want to do a little mail bag? Sure. Mailbag. Yeah. Braden in California, the footballers. Oh, this is, he's doing one of those things where he kind of.

pats us on the head to start it. I see what you're doing. The footballers are obviously top-tier football analysts. Obviously. And experts. But would they successfully be able to coach a high school football team? If so, who is the head coach, the OC, and the DC? This is pretty incredible timing for Braden. Because I'm not even joking. I asked myself this question yesterday. Wow. You want to know why I did? No. Because I watched Remember the Titans with my eight-year-old.

And I watched, which is a great movie. It's very entertaining. But no, I don't think I could successfully coach a high school football team. I think I. Unless I could delegate all of the real play calling and just be the inspirational master. That's where you can't. Like I can take the kids to Gettysburg and give them a Gettysburg speech about team teamwork. That's where you pull up Madden.

You write down some notes. You just get a couple formations. There's your defensive formation. There are so many intricacies. So the answer is no. Well, no. And I would beat that coach. I would find my best player. And he'd be the wide receiver. And it would be throw it to that guy. Oh, you go to the well over and over and over and over and over again. Yeah. Like Sean Payton does. Like Andy Reid does. If you've got a play that works, just keep doing it until they stop you. Yes. There's really no.

reason not to. Like, there's no moral rules about doing the same play over and over. You should never, ever feel bad if the same play works. And I always do when I play Madden. I'm like, I want a well-balanced offense. And Mike's like, I'm going to throw it to Tyreek Hill every play and you're going to lose. So, but if you were going to break up the, the offense and defense, I'll give Mike the defense because we, you know.

He played linebacker on our flag team. I have at least a little bit of experience. And then, you know. Well, if that's the case, then I'm going to make you the offensive coordinator, Andy, not just to make myself the head coach. But because you're, you know, you are a quarterback for our championship flag football team. Yes. Never forget that. No, and I won't. I'm talking to the people. Right. And they won't.

But you know, you know offenses very well. As the head coach, I'm going to really rely on you two to do all of it, and I will be the motivational speaker. Yeah, no, that's not bad. That's not bad. They're the most John Gruden of the three of us. Thank you. Yeah. How do you like that? I'll take that. Hey, it's better than gays. All right. Joel has a question for us. He's a Seahawks fan in the heart of Niners territory. Oh, stay strong, Joel.

smooth routes in the fourth round. So you've got Kenny Galladay in the fourth or Mark Andrews in the 13th round. What would you do there? Mark Andrews for essentially free in a half-point redraft league or Kenny G in the fourth, which is a great value. I'm definitely in here on Mark Andrews. I see him as the third tight end. And if I can get him for free and forget that position, I think if I look at what.

wide receiver I could replace in the fourth round and the difference between that and Kenny Galladay versus what tight end I can get. Am I going to, if I want to get Mark Andrews like tight end, I'm probably going to have to pay up for George Kittle, you know, or or Kelsey and spend a second on those players or, you know, something like that. So I, I'm very much in on Mark. But wouldn't you?

think it's better then that you can get a wide receiver one in the fourth and then overspin for the and then and then get Travis Kelsey in the second even if you feel like you're overpaying no because you're you're discounting the fact that I get another player in the second yeah so I'm getting a great running back plus those two players yeah so I do wonder though if this is yet another instance where Kenny G is not getting the respect he deserves because if you replace Kenny Galladay in the fourth with

some of the other upper echel, you know, Julio Jones in the fourth round or Devante Adams or Chris Godwin, does your answer change? Well, yeah, I think, I mean, if you're talking about Julio where, you know, I've, I've pretty much got a lock for the most receiving yards in the league, close to the most targets and receptions. And I have Kenny Gallaudet one spot behind Julio Jones. That's what I mean is maybe in our heads we're not making that connection. Yeah, I'm taking, I'm taking Kenny Galladay.

I think part of this is what you believe about Mark Andrews as well. Do you see him as someone that is truly? I do. I do see that. If that's Kelsey in the 13th, that's my pick. But in this situation, I'll go Kenny G. Okay. I will definitely take Andrews. You and Andrews stand by that. I stand with my man. That's fine. I mean, that's why the question is there. Mark Andrews is great. Part of the Target share report, 42% of all targets in Baltimore went to the tight end. And Haydenhurst is gone.

And Mark Andrews was dealing with injury. Nick Boyle's going to be a baller. Yeah. Someone else will. Number one overall. Tight in. Nick Boyle. All right. Here's a dynasty trade question from Alex in the United Kingdom. Bonchior. Oh, bonjour. The United Kingdom that does not include. Northern Ireland, but definitely not all of Ireland. Everybody knows that. That's going to come up every time we say the UK now. As it should. Much, much respect. Yes. The world must know.

I'm still getting DMs about it. I'm still getting messages about it. People are passionate out there. They're never like, they're never very nice. They're never like, you know, just so you know, it's always like, learn to read a book or something. It's like, you guys need to go back to school. I mean, this is one of the most important things to us. We could go back to school and we still wouldn't know this because they don't teach that here. And we were still kind of right.

Yes, thank you. I mean, not that I want to, like, mostly wrong. But Northern Ireland is in the UK. That's, according to my sources, that's true. Does this mean that, like, Irish people? Alex might be living in Northern Ireland right now. Do Irish people then hate the Northern Islanders? That's what I. Yeah, that's the part we probably don't want to talk about. Yeah, never mind, never mind, never mind. Moving on. Fantasy football. What's your question? But what I learned from that is our international audience is actually pretty strong. Yeah.

Thank you. Bonjour. And incredible. Very passionate. Amazing. About the UK. All right. Alex in the UK says, is Michael Thomas for a Kyler Murray trade a sensible thing to do? This is a two-quarterback dynasty, not one quarterback. Okay. I think Murray can be huge, but is it worth giving up Michael Thomas? Michael Thomas in a league like that. No. No. I wouldn't.

No. Is there a quarterback's name that I could have said that would have changed your opinion? If I had said Patrick Mahomes or Lamar Jackson. Pat Mahomes is the only one that I think is, you know, and Lamar Jackson, those two guys are in consideration. But if I was in a Super Flex league and I've, you know, got the 101 and let's just for this argument, say, say Chris McCaffrey's off the board. And I would draft Michael Thomas ahead of either of those quarterbacks. All right.

Michael in Dublin, don't worry, Dublin, Ohio. Oh, thank goodness. Don't say that, Jason. I'm just saying I don't have to get trapped with geography. Michael in Dublin, Ohio, when do you guys bump the show up to more than twice a week? Great question. It's right around the corner. In July, we go to three. And then in August, we are every single day five times.

A week. And that runs all the way through December. Or if you have the draft kit, like I said. It's instantaneous. Six a week. All right. Last one. Joshua in White Lake, Michigan. Do you know where that is, Brooks? I don't offhand, actually. No. Brooks is from Michigan. I figured he knew his. Read a book.

James Connor or Christian Kirk in a PPR dynasty league. Oh, man. So this says a lot about, you know, Christian Kirk, what do you believe about his dynasty prospects? You know, I'm not super jazzed about them, but I'm not super excited about James Connor long term in a dynasty either. So I think it's Kirk. This is not close. This is not close at all to me. It's Christian Kirk by 10 miles. Christian Kirk over the next six, seven years is going to have a fine enough.

career. He's going to have fantasy relevance. He's not a superstar player. But James Connor over the next five years probably has this year of being relevant. You agree with that, Mike? Because I seem to think that the shelf life is very short for college. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I'm taking Christian Kirk here. I just was trying to formulate in my head. Like, is there a way where it's possibly James Connor? Because if James Connor has a really good year, I think that the Steelers would re-up him because he wouldn't.

demand a lot or he could try and get a huge contract, but I think that James Connor would understand the market out there is going to be low. He's a huge injury risk. Why not just re-up in Pittsburgh? I'm just saying it's possible. I'm not trying to just say that's not going to happen. It's just once you make the lower financial commitment to a player, you are staying under the lower obligation of using that player. So Connor, they might like him. If he has a big season, he's going to want more money.

And if he has a smaller season and takes less money, they have less obligation to him or, you know, McFarland. It could be more of that situation. It just seems like there's a tough pathway. I'll take Christian Kirk. That's all. Especially in PPR. Yeah. I've always seen Christian Kirk as a comp to like Sterling Shepherd. Not a guy that, you know, is going to win you a league. But he's, he's solid. And I'll take that type of a career over an injury prone running back with a very short shelf life ahead of him.

All right. Well, that does it for today's episode of the podcast. One final reminder after the Ultimate Draft Tips on today's show. Head over to Ultimate DraftKit.com. Get in on the pre-order. It releases on Monday. We're so excited about this. I mean, it really has been a 9-to-5 thing, UDK-centric for a very long time here since the NFL draft. And we're excited to bring it to you. And, you know, we're going to keep updating it constantly.

It's always going to, you know, opinions, depth charts, all those things change, and you're going to be able to log in and see those changes reflected in the system and stay one step ahead of your league mate. So that is it for today's episode of the show. Appreciate you. We'll be back next week. Oh, man. Jason, we need to get some sleep. I see you. Seriously. See you next week. Goodbye.

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