2026 Mock Draft #1 - Ep. 150

Justin and Ryan discuss the most recent Vikings and Packer news. They do the first Mock Draft of the season, a half-ppr, 12 team draft!

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:00

All right, and welcome back to another episode of the Purple Green Show. I am Justin here with Ryan. Uh Bobby is missing tonight. He is visiting with his brother. Yep. Golfing, right? At least at one point they were.

SPEAKER_00 0:10

I don't know if they are anymore, but uh they were golfing at one point. So they probably had too many and are just like they fell into the pond or something.

SPEAKER_01 0:16

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 0:17

Probably probably.

SPEAKER_01 0:18

That makes a lot of sense, actually. So we'll we'll dive into some Viking news. Um Ryan and I missed some Viking news last week. I I didn't see it, I just kind of forgot about it.

SPEAKER_00 0:27

I told you like I saw articles about their new GM and I was like, that's rude. He's been you being their GM for months now. Who was the interim GM?

SPEAKER_01 0:36

Did not realize they'd actually hired a guy. They they did hire a new GM. So the Vikings have officially hired their new GM, uh Nolan Teasley, um, who was the assistant GM for Seattle Seahawks for a long time, right? Yeah, so his claim to fame really is helping orchestrate the Russell Wilson trade out of Seattle to Denver. Yeah. Which, hey, turned out great for them. It led to a Super Bowl for them, honestly. Because all the draft picks they got out of that deal helped lead them to his other Super Bowl.

SPEAKER_00 1:04

They got pretty good value for him. They didn't really stumble, losing, leaving their quarterback. Yeah, I mean, he was their he was their he was with the team for 13 seasons. That's pretty good. Starting as a scouting.

SPEAKER_01 1:16

So their interim GM will move back to their salary cap guy. Yep. He's been with the Vikings for a long time, wants to stay there. Um, he was disappointed he didn't get the full-time GM job, apparently.

SPEAKER_00 1:26

Okay, so he was trying for it.

SPEAKER_01 1:28

So I wasn't even sure if he was trying. He did apply, and this is where Bob, this is Bobby filling me in, by the way. Uh, after that, I and apparently there was a bit of a snafu in the introductory press conference in in terms of how they said he was gonna be report, they were gonna be reporting. Um to clarify that later, he he will be having he the new GM will have final say on like this personnel in the city.

SPEAKER_00 1:50

He is the actual GM.

SPEAKER_01 1:51

Yeah, at one point they had kind of alluded to the fact that like him, Kevin O'Connell, and the salary cap guy would all kind of have a say. Like a three-way, three-headed monster in terms of Yeah. It gets a little messy. They they they the Vikings did have done that in the past. Uh Bobby could tell you when. I I don't recall. It was about 20 years ago almost now. Yeah. But um, they have done that in the past where they've they've split up those responsibilities. The responsibilities. And and and the current salary cap guy was part of that at the time. So no, makes sense. I mean would have made sense. It's it's happened. Um, but yeah, he he will have final say uh on the 53-man roster.

SPEAKER_00 2:34

Yep, and I already saw that we were they were talking about what does that mean for for JJ McCarthy now too.

SPEAKER_01 2:40

Well, that's a great segue. Yeah. So JJ McCarthy uh is back in the news with another quote uh we talked about last week. Um, said he feels really good. Nice. Best football um, you know, he's been playing. Okay. I'm like, all right, that doesn't really tell me much since it's OTAs, it's not even training him. Encouraging, at least though. It is. Um better than him saying, like, yeah, I've been terrible. Yeah, I he loves the organizations, love the coaching staffed, uh all that kind of stuff. Um basically, you know, he was asked about how how splitting reps was with Kyler Murray. Um basically, it's not in his control. Some way, which to be fair, is the is a fair response. Yeah. Um, but it's like, man, I just I feel like they keep coming up with these, like, it's quoting him and quoting him. And then um Justin Jefferson was getting interviewed the other day, and they asked him, you know, so what's it like with Kyler and you know all this kind of stuff? He goes, he really knows how to put it in a place to lead the guy open. Now, I don't know if that's a knock on JJ McCarthy. He didn't explicitly say J.J. McCarthy can't do that. Yeah, uh, but he said he he really likes how he could do that, and he could see how a player could be really good with him as his quarterback.

SPEAKER_00 3:58

Okay. So he seems to like him at least, which is encouraging.

SPEAKER_01 4:02

Yeah, and I guess I mean, and to be fair, Kyler does have the experience in the NFL, right? He has a number of fight you know, five or six seasons underneath his belt. So he's been in the league for a while. So I do get that. But it's just interesting. Uh so we'll we'll see. This is gonna be a constant thing because Justin Jefferson's gonna consistently have um yeah, I mean uh interviews and stuff and being asked about this.

SPEAKER_00 4:24

Yeah, oh yeah. I saw articles like this early this week that was like, yeah, Kyler Murray is for sure the he is for sure the number one guy. He he is going to start. It's really just they're they're battling for number two.

SPEAKER_01 4:37

Really?

SPEAKER_00 4:38

Yeah, which is Carson Wentz.

SPEAKER_01 4:40

Oh wow, okay. Right? Carson Wentz and JJ McCarthy. I mean, I suppose, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 4:45

I I guess I just I assumed JJ McCarthy would be competing with the number one job, but I mean that those articles that I read, which I mean like who knows who knows what what their sources are what they were quoting. I think they they said they were they were under the impression that he had that job locked down.

SPEAKER_01 4:58

The true I mean, I in my opinion, like the odds of Kyler Murray starting are like 75 to 80 percent at minimum.

SPEAKER_00 5:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 5:07

So I mean that uh you could probably say that's kind of locked down, and all honesty. I mean, barring something injury. Or Kyler Murray just absolutely looking terrible come training camp. Yeah, he's probably the starter. Like it's his job to lose, basically, right? Like JJ McCarthy did not look good enough last year to be like, yeah, you you've got an equal chance on this. It's like, no, you have to impress.

SPEAKER_00 5:32

Well, yeah, the fact that they went out and they got another experienced quarterback. Right. Mm-hmm. That that was a start, has been a starter his whole career. Yeah, I mean the the one article I read he was even like was even the I don't remember who wrote it or what site I found it on, but the guy the the art writer said that he's he figured there was a 50-50 chance that he's not even a Viking starting the year. JJ McCarthy? Yeah, that they trade him.

SPEAKER_01 5:52

I they're just not gonna get much for him. The problem is the problem if they trade him. So we'll see where I guess where JJ pans out, whether whether that's one, two or three.

SPEAKER_00 6:02

Yeah, it would be crazy if they did trade him, because there's no way they're getting anywhere near what his value what they got him for.

SPEAKER_01 6:07

I can't imagine you would get more than a third, maybe.

SPEAKER_00 6:10

I think that's what the article said was like a third.

SPEAKER_01 6:12

With I mean you could probably end up with some conditionals where like if he plays a lot or something. If he plays the whole season or if he takes him to the playoffs, then you get a second or a first or something, you know, like it ramps up with playing time.

SPEAKER_00 6:25

But even then, I can only I have to imagine any team that would be get him probably isn't starting him either. I mean, is there is there another team who would want him to run it run him on a st as a starter?

SPEAKER_01 6:37

I mean you could see the the Cardinals potentially. They need they need a new quarterback going forward at some point, the Jets, you know, all those quarterback needy teams, right, that need a quarterback. Which is probably just those two, right?

SPEAKER_00 6:49

Steelers. Well, the Steelers maybe. But again, he probably isn't starting there.

SPEAKER_01 6:53

Maybe not this year, but yeah, you could you could take the chance, you know, that it stays a third-round draft pick then for you, and you could potentially Yeah, you can try try running him next year. You could try running it next year. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 7:04

No, it it it'll be interesting to see what a new GM thinks of him.

SPEAKER_01 7:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:08

Now that you know that he's got to run that decision decision on him.

SPEAKER_01 7:13

Yeah. All right.

SPEAKER_00 7:14

Uh, I don't have much else for the Vikings. Um no, I mean next time Bobby's on, we'll have to quiz him, see what he thinks. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 7:20

Um Packer news. Yeah. So the big news for the Packers is the Packers signed Christian Watson to a new contract.

SPEAKER_00 7:28

Yeah, pretty good one, too, right?

SPEAKER_01 7:29

Pretty big contract. Uh, four years, 110.5 million with 92.5 base up to 110.5 via incentives and escalators, um, and approximately 31 million dollars in guaranteed money, in other words, signing bonus. So, you know, kind of where you know the the real question is for you know, first thing right off the bat, people talk about well, that's 27.6 million dollars a year. Yep. Uh on average, right? So, okay, cool. Well, I mean, honestly, that's a rate where I was saying they would probably sign him. Yeah, because what's the what's the top for wide receivers right now? The top, top?

SPEAKER_00 8:07

Yeah. 45. Is that the is that the high right now?

SPEAKER_01 8:10

Uh I gotta I gotta pull that one up. I don't I don't have that one.

SPEAKER_00 8:13

Um, I mean, and nobody nobody figured he was gonna get that he was gonna reset the market or anything. I was just I was trying to remember if you remember what the what the top market was, just as a baseline. I don't even remember who reset who's who position.

SPEAKER_01 8:31

It's Jamar Chase, I'm pretty sure. No, no, uh JSN JSN just reset it. Did JSN do it? Yeah, he's got forty-two point one five. So it it so in in terms of a per annual, like you're you know, it puts him at like I think was it sixteenth? Fifteenth to sixteenth, you know, somewhere in that range.

SPEAKER_00 8:51

Which like I I don't think it's probably close to where he is in the wide receiver rankings.

SPEAKER_01 8:57

The guy the guys around him, so technically he's at twenty-three per year if you're averaging out like his current year on his deal that was left. Um, so that puts him a little bit lower. But so Jamison Williams with the Lions, he's at 26.6. Devonta Smith is at 25. I'll be honest, the Eagles got a steal with him at 25 in all reality. Like that's a that's a really good deal.

SPEAKER_00 9:18

I assume he's gonna be weight jump way up once his contract's up. I mean, he just signed a contract. Oh, did he? He just signed that?

SPEAKER_01 9:24

Uh yeah, he's he's good through 2029, so he's got a few years to go on that one. Um, I mean, Pat he's Christian Watson's right in line with Cortland Sutton. I mean, Devontae Adams is just below him. Obviously, he's 34 though. Um, you know, the other guys right above him is George Pickens on his franchise tag is at 27.2. Yeah. DJ Moore's at 27 and a half with the Bills.

SPEAKER_00 9:46

And I would I would put him right about at all at all those with all those guys. Alec Pierce is too many, too many problems.

SPEAKER_01 9:52

Alec Pierce is 28.5. So I mean, now the the big knock that people have been like, oh, they overpaid the Packers or the Packers played way too much is you know, well, he's he's never had more than I think 600 and some odd yards. Yeah, I don't know if he's broken 700. He's never broken 700. Now he's never played a full season, I don't believe. Um I mean, hold on, let me confirm that.

SPEAKER_00 10:14

But uh because even last year he was hurt for some of it, wasn't he?

SPEAKER_01 10:16

Well, he was coming off as the ACL from the year before. He didn't start until um like week seven or eight. Oh, yeah. So yeah, yeah, he no, he did not play a full year. Yeah, but he was really good last year when he was a good one.

SPEAKER_00 10:31

He didn't get hurt last year, but I couldn't remember if I can I didn't think he had a few.

SPEAKER_01 10:34

No, but he came into the season hurt and he didn't. So his rookie season he played 14 games, um, which was pretty good. He had 600 yards and he had seven touchdowns. Those seven touchdowns came, I believe, in a five or six game stretch. At the end of the year, right? Uh November to December, yeah. So to me that was a great year. Uh the next year he only played nine games. Only had 422 yards. Yeah. Five touchdowns. The next this the year after that, he had fifty he played 15 games out of 17. That was his most he had played. Only 620 yards and two touchdowns. He averaged 21 yards per catch, though, that year. So he was huge deep threat. Um, you know, and then this last year he played 10 games. Yeah. He had 611 yards. So arguably his best season so far was this last year. Averaging like 60 yards a game. Yeah, 60 yards a game. Um, and he had six touchdowns in those 10 games.

SPEAKER_00 11:32

Yeah, which is pretty good.

SPEAKER_01 11:33

I think he had a pretty decent year. Um, the real crazy thing, um you know, really comes into effect and in his his uh I'll I'll get into the guarantees here in a minute, but um I gotta see if I can find this Jordan Love stats um with Christian Watson versus without.

SPEAKER_00 11:54

Because he's a lot better with him, right?

SPEAKER_01 11:57

Yeah. That's really the um see if I can find actual stats.

SPEAKER_00 12:03

Um I know there are there are rumors now that Tucker Kraft's next on the list, right?

SPEAKER_01 12:07

Tucker Kraft and um Devontae Wyatt are supposedly the next two on the list, which I think makes perfect sense, honestly. Uh Tucker Kraft's one we've talked about. You know, those were the two. Um obviously Jaden Reed came earlier than we expected. Yep. Um, you know, basically the Packers' starting wide receivers the next three years are going to be Christian Watson, Jaden Reed, and Matthew Golden. Yeah. Uh there'll be other guys obviously on the team, but yeah, yeah, depending on what they're doing. The way the Packers have set themselves up, those are going to be their top three wide receivers. They're all very young still. Um is there some prove it to this yet?

SPEAKER_00 12:47

Yeah. Um yeah, I mean, even like you said, even Watson, who's been on the team the longest, he still needs to quite you know, show a little bit what he can do with the whole season and stuff.

SPEAKER_01 12:58

Right. Let's see here. I'm trying to find this. I'm it's not working as well as I'd hoped. I I've seen it like in past.

SPEAKER_00 13:06

I've seen it posted before that, you know, like his stats, he's always a lot better with him.

SPEAKER_01 13:11

Right. Um, let's just see if I can find quarterback rating. Quarterback rating with Watson versus without anything. It's getting awfully specific. So, I mean basic basically this last season in 2025, he with Christian Watson on the f on the field, he had 139.2 passer rating. Very good. Without Christian Watson on the field, it's 101. Good, but not not nearly as good, of course. And that feels a little high. They might be targeting certain plays with Watson. It might be it looks like it's saying like versus the blitz. So it might be a little bit more specific, so it might be a little bit lower than 130, probably a little lower than. But the general theme is his passer rating is significantly higher when Christian Watson is on the field. Even if he's not catching the ball, even he's not catching the ball because the Packers' offense can do things that it can't do otherwise. Christian Watson stretches the field and can be that X wide receiver that the Packers need.

SPEAKER_00 14:14

Yeah, and that's when he's there. It really opens up the their second, third, and fourth guys.

SPEAKER_01 14:20

So, and then on on top of that, um, so the 31 million, right, that um I said is guaranteed money. So where that so where we said he puts him in like 15 to 16th on the average annual value for for the 27.6. However, if you look at the guaranteed money, he's he ranks 26th to 30th in wide receivers. So he's not getting the guaranteed money that a lot of the guys have.

SPEAKER_00 14:47

He went low on guaranteed.

SPEAKER_01 14:48

That's interesting. He's actually lower on guaranteed than like Rashid Shaheed for the Seahawks, who they just resigned. So, I mean, there's some guys like that where you're like, oh, okay. Um, they went lower guarantee with a higher average value. Which is kind of backwards from what players usually like to get. It is, but the Packers probably did it because of his injury history.

SPEAKER_00 15:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 15:09

So if there is an injury injury, if the injuries do continue to happen, they can get rid of him. Now, that being said, you know, looking at that, so when when could they get rid of him without it being a dead cap situation? Usually is what you want to look at, right? Yeah, how how front loaded is it? And and so this his cap number this year is 10.5 million. Really didn't change much. However, obviously the dead money is super high. It's 25 million. You couldn't cut him this year if you really wanted to. Um, next year, his cap number is 11 and a half. The dead, or I shouldn't say dead money, they wouldn't they would lose 16 point.

SPEAKER_00 15:43

Yeah, the penalty or whatever.

SPEAKER_01 15:44

Penalty, they would lose 16.9 million if they were to cut him.

SPEAKER_00 15:47

Okay, so still a lot, but better.

SPEAKER_01 15:50

Better. Um, in 2028, so his year 29 season, his cap number is 24 and a half million, which again isn't crazy for a wide receiver.

SPEAKER_00 15:58

No, but it does jump. So I assume that dead money is or the cut lost money is a lot lower.

SPEAKER_01 16:03

They would save $3.5 million if they cut him that year. Okay. So really his contract now is a two-year contract. Two-year almost guaranteed. Two probably three. With an off road after the case. So the the interesting thing is there's a roster bonus in 2028 of $13 million. So that's gonna be shifting. You can tell after the first, so after the next two seasons, that's when it will be determined if they're going to keep him or not.

SPEAKER_02 16:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 16:30

Longer term. So he's basically out the next two years to show what he can do. Yeah, prove that he's worth it. Prove that he's worth the contract, and then honestly, the contract's not that crazy. You know, it's 24 and a half million, and then it's 20 29 million, which is up there a little bit. Um, but that's 2029. That's in you know, that's four years from now.

SPEAKER_00 16:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 16:49

So honestly, that may not be that crazy. For for a number one wide receiver, a $29 million dollar cap hit's not not insane.

SPEAKER_00 16:57

No.

SPEAKER_01 16:58

Um, and then he's through he's in he's under contract through 2030, his age 31 season, which is 26.2 million. And they would save 20 million dollars by cutting him that year if they needed to. Yeah, so I mean, the majority of the money then is you can recoup if they needed to cut him. So I know a lot of people that you know, or a lot of people out there, and I've had a lot of people even ask me, like, oh, I can't believe they signed him for that much money, like that's crazy. It's so much money. He hasn't proven anything. And I'll be honest, in my mind, like he's proven that he's can be very dominant at times when he's not hurt. Yeah. So in my mind, the not being hurt, this last year, he didn't get hurt. He came into the season hurt, unfortunately, from the year before, but he didn't get hurt again, he didn't miss any games.

SPEAKER_00 17:47

Um, and honestly, like you're talking about where he's at in the pay scale. Yeah, you're not at that point, at that at that pay level, you are not expecting the top player in the NFL. Well, right, exactly.

SPEAKER_01 17:59

You know, you're just you're just not. And you're not to me to me it's a it's a risk reward contract for the Packers, and and I'll be honest, there's a lot of reward if it if it pans out. So they they get the high upside of potentially an X wide receiver if he stays healthy. Yep. He could be a top 15 wide receiver in the league. I believe it. If he's healthy. Um could has he ever pulled pulled put together a full season? No, he's never been over 700 yards, he's never had more than seven touchdowns, he's never had more than but Green Bay spreads the ball around too much to really feed one wide receiver that much anyway. He's never had more than 66 catches, which was a rookie season, honestly.

SPEAKER_00 18:34

Yeah, um, but they didn't which that was kind of why I'm afraid of Green Bay wide receivers in the in the draft for the fantasy draft. It is and they're a scary, they're scary a bunch because they like they spread the ball around so much. To me, this year is probably one of the least scary years for me. Tucker Kraft.

SPEAKER_01 18:51

I mean, I like I think Tucker Kraft would be good. I he'll be off to a slower start, probably coming off the ACL this year. Um, but really to me, the targets are down to four guys. Yeah. Christian wide receivers, Jaden Reed, Tucker Kraft, Matthew Golden, and Tucker Kraft. Yeah. In the past, I mean, you're like, well, there's Don David Wicks too. And then there's I mean, there's there was always Bo Melton. I mean, Bo Melton's still there, but like there were these other guys that Romeo Dobbs, like Romeo Dobbs was there too.

SPEAKER_00 19:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 19:18

So I mean, you were talking four or five guys, maybe six guys that were gonna get worked in.

SPEAKER_00 19:22

Yeah, but you didn't even know who was gonna be on the field at any given time.

SPEAKER_01 19:25

And that's exactly that was the problem, right? And so for me, I I think Christian Watson, I mean, if he is healthy all year this year, I think he's a top 20 at least fantasy wide receiver. Okay, so I I am very much in on him assuming he can stay healthy. So um, yeah. Any other thoughts uh from you on that?

SPEAKER_00 19:49

Uh on that, no. No. I think I think it was a solid deal, especially once you once you break it down, like you know, where the where their where their outs are. I think it makes a lot of sense.

SPEAKER_01 19:58

I think that's the important thing that that people just kind of forget about.

SPEAKER_00 20:02

Yeah, you look at the you look at the years, the number of events.

SPEAKER_01 20:07

It's like, well, they can get out after two years.

SPEAKER_00 20:10

Well, that and it's easy to lose track of just like, yes, that is a crazy amount of money.

SPEAKER_01 20:14

Right, but that's also what people are getting paid right now.

SPEAKER_00 20:17

That's it's not crazy for wide receivers.

SPEAKER_01 20:19

No, it's really not.

SPEAKER_00 20:20

It is a ridiculous amount of money, yeah, but it's it's what it is now. Yeah. As silly as that is.

SPEAKER_01 20:27

Yeah, we'll see. Um, all right. Any other news or things to cover?

SPEAKER_00 20:33

Um, the Bears Stadium deal. Oh, yes. Not that's like a that's like a huge thing, but they are they have com they have committed that their priority is moving to Indiana.

SPEAKER_01 20:42

Yeah, which is crazy.

SPEAKER_00 20:42

It's yeah, I I was just reading a little article that um there is like there's this state government of Illinois is still trying to fight to keep them keep them there.

SPEAKER_01 20:52

They are, but they don't really have much to go on unless they're gonna offer them tax breaks like they want.

SPEAKER_00 20:56

That which is what like this representative like Dan you gassed. So he's gonna file legislative legislation to try to keep them with you know, giving them more tax breaks and stuff.

SPEAKER_01 21:07

Yeah, I mean and and and so the crazy thing is um you know, a lot of people are you know, well, come on, you know, it's an NFL team, they've got tons of money, and you know, all this kind of stuff, right? You know, they should they should pay for their own. Okay, well, for one, a stadium why would they if they had to, if they don't have to? Right. Well, for one, and yeah, that and and two, a stadium nowadays is I don't know, in the low end, probably 1.5 billion.

SPEAKER_00 21:33

Probably so expensive.

SPEAKER_01 21:35

That's a crazy amount of money, for one, and two, on top of that, so Soldier Field is not owned by the Bears. No, it's owned by the Chicago Parks and Rec. Yeah, they're not taking it with them. So sh that stadium, but but like if you think about it currently, like if other events happen at Soldier Field, the Bears don't get the revenue for that. No, they don't like they don't get all the parking revenue and

SPEAKER_00 22:01

Well that and like the whole one of the big advantages of having the NFL team is that that it benefits the local economy of the city at the end. And that's the idea behind it, right? And which is why they're willing to offer all the tax breaks stuff.

SPEAKER_01 22:12

And and that's that's the general idea, right? They're gonna bring in hundreds of thousands of people. Yep.

SPEAKER_00 22:16

Every week.

SPEAKER_01 22:17

Every week or every yeah. You know, half or half the year almost. And so that's that's the idea behind it.

SPEAKER_00 22:23

Which I get between hotels, food, you know, right.

SPEAKER_01 22:26

Travel, all that stuff. Taxes you raise on sales tax, especially in Chicago. Cook County has got like 10% sales tax, so it's quite steep. Yeah, just go to McDonald's there and you'll see your bill go, whoa, what happened?

SPEAKER_00 22:40

I do that anyway at McDonald's. I was like, how did I do how'd this happen? Powered one sandwich.

SPEAKER_01 22:45

Oh, you you go to cook go to Cook County, then see what happens because you're like, with the 10% sales tax, you're like, oh my god, all I got was one meal. It's like $15. And that was uh, I think when I did that, it was boy, eight, nine, ten years ago. I can't imagine what it is now. Yeah. It was expensive back then, and it was like, man, how did this happen? So um, yeah, well, I'll be curious to see how that all ends up paying play uh playing out and stuff.

SPEAKER_00 23:14

Uh yeah, and I mean honestly, it's as as big of a deal as it is, it's also not that big of a deal. Yeah, I mean they're moving like what 15 miles or something. Like it's not very far. It's not like it's a travel issue for any for any of the other teams in the area division. The Jets and the Giants. They're not gonna have to switch up, you know, moving teams around at all.

SPEAKER_01 23:34

The Jets and the Giants are already out of state technically. They're not New York, they're New Jersey. Yeah. Dallas Cowboys don't play in Dallas. No. They play in Arlington, which is a 45 minute drive, by the way, from Dallas.

SPEAKER_00 23:47

It would be the interesting thing because like it is farther. That's true. Then do you think they still call themselves Chicago Bears? I think they will. Think so? Yeah. That'd be interesting. Um, like Dallas, like is it's they're not in Dallas, but it's the same state, so whatever.

SPEAKER_01 24:03

The Rams and the Chargers technically don't play in Los Angeles, they play in Inglewood. Yeah. Um the 49ers don't play in San Francisco anymore. They play in Santa Clara. I mean, there's there's loads of these teams that don't actually play where it says they play.

SPEAKER_00 24:16

Yeah, the Jets are like the very very comparable ones. Like you said, it's not the same state. That's the Giants, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 24:20

They're New Jersey.

SPEAKER_00 24:21

Yeah. No, it's across the river. But which is the still like the same kind of deal. They are very close.

SPEAKER_01 24:26

It's the yeah. Um, I mean, technically the Cowboys are further from Dallas than the Bears would be in Hammond. Yeah, but at least that you are in the same state. Well, there's this arbitrary line that divides things. Yeah. Um, but yeah, um, so if the Bears do move out of Chicago, though, it will be I I believe the first time in the history of the NFL that there has not been a NFL team in Chicago. Which is kind of crazy. Yeah. Being one of the oldest franchises in the NFL, right? You know, and then before that there was also the Chicago Cardinals and a number of other Chicago teams. But it's like the Rams there. Uh the Cardinals were. The Cardinals were. Yeah. It was the Cardinals. Yeah, the Cardinals. I I don't remember who else. I there's been there's been another some other odd named teams, but currently in the NFL.

SPEAKER_00 25:12

We did we've done trivia on it. We have, yes.

SPEAKER_01 25:14

Yeah, we have. So all right. We are going to go through a mock draft, Ryan and I will. Um so I'm gonna randomize our order here real quick, Ryan.

SPEAKER_00 25:25

All right, let me get loaded back in, make sure everything's good. Yep. Oh, fun.

SPEAKER_01 25:31

You get the turn, Ryan. Number 12. Okay, all right, all right, there we go. All right, you get number 12, Ryan. Oh, and you're 10. Okay, so I'm gonna I'm gonna So we're both at the end. You can you can snipe me, and I can snipe you. Yeah, so uh, we're gonna do 12 team. Uh, we're gonna just do 11 rounds, no defenses, no kickers. Um interesting. Uh what, something surprised you already? No, it's got a trade in there from like a long time. Like this is off our keeper league, so the 11th round has a trade that uh I did uh in it. So anyway, it doesn't matter. Um, it's fine. Um, but anyways, so half half point PPR. Um so we're gonna roll that. Yep. So all right, we will kick off the draft here. Uh so it starts off with Bajan, Jameer Gibbs, JSN, Jamar Chase, Puka, Jonathan Taylor, Christian McCaffrey, James Cook, and Devon Han. Anything that surprised you there? Um not really for the most part.

SPEAKER_00 26:38

I mean, most of that is kind of the where I've been expecting things to go. It is crazy. Like I know we we talked about it last week, I think, even how much the running backs are being valued. Running backs are a lot higher. And and honestly, I I was kind of hoping the first the first nine picks, only three wide receivers.

SPEAKER_01 26:54

Yeah, I was kind of hoping a wide well, a running back was gonna come to me because I've I've I've done a little research already, kind of on on running back, you know. Um well, top of the board right there. I know there is one there. Oh, did I not change the time on these? I thought oh my god, I thought I did. All right, well, we're gonna have to talk. We got two minutes each one. It's not the end of the world. No, um man, this kills me. Because I like the wide receivers that are available here.

SPEAKER_00 27:19

Uh so Kenneth Walker's top of the board right now.

SPEAKER_01 27:21

Kenneth Walker's top of the board. CeeDee Lamb, I'm on Ross St. Brown, Ashton Genty, Justin Jefferson. Um, Mario Hampton. So where I'm struggling is I really wanted to get a running back right away.

SPEAKER_00 27:32

But you don't like Kenneth Walker?

SPEAKER_01 27:34

I just I don't know how good the Chiefs are actually going to be this year. It is a walker, Kenneth has been historically banged up on his team, or historically in his career, been banged up all the time. So I wanted to go running back, and I would have settled for James Cook, Christian McCaffrey, like any of those guys would have been ha I would have been happy with. Um I think I'm I'm gonna go I'm on Ross St. Brown. Okay. He's been the wide receiver three the last two seasons, three seasons.

SPEAKER_00 28:04

So Okay. Um Kenneth Walker goes next. Kenneth Walker went 11, so I am up with the two picks in a row here. Yep. Um Justin Jefferson kind of scares me a little bit. I mean, like, since the wide receiver situation is still a little questionable. That's true. I'm I'm probably gonna go C D with one of the picks. Okay, so I'll go him in the first. And then uh the first pick in the second. Who do I want here? Um I kind of don't like going wide receiver, wide receiver right away. I will tell you, you will not like your running backs if you do that. I know. I know I was I'm actually looking down a little bit. Saquon is uh 17.

SPEAKER_01 28:45

Yeah, I really wish you wouldn't look there.

SPEAKER_00 28:49

Yeah, because I might go there coming back if he makes it to me. Gente is the currently top of the board, but Vegas is still a little questionable. I had him last year. He was only all right. Well, yeah, they revamped their O-line this year, so yeah, there's potential there. Amarian Hampton with the Chargers is interesting. Okay, but I I think I will go the safe pick and reach down a little bit and get Barkley. Okay. It might not be too a little too early, but I think he's more the most the safest running back that was available.

SPEAKER_01 29:17

This kills me.

SPEAKER_00 29:18

And then Genty goes after me, and Justin, you're up again.

SPEAKER_01 29:21

I am uh so hard to pass on Justin Jefferson here in the second round.

SPEAKER_00 29:26

But you said as your wide receiver too. You almost have to go running back here, don't you? So many have left.

SPEAKER_01 29:31

Yeah, I'm looking at running backs and I'm just like, oh. Can I can I put together running backs I'm happy with later if I don't do a running back here?

SPEAKER_00 29:40

I can tell you I won't be going a onesie position. Um well, I mean Kyron is like 33. Maybe you could see if he falls to I could, I could. But there I assume he's gotta be about where you'd be in your next pick.

SPEAKER_01 29:53

My next pick's 34.

SPEAKER_00 29:55

Yeah, so that's right about the. Yeah, then you're in trouble.

SPEAKER_01 29:59

I'm in trouble. Uh this is this is where it kills me because I know the running backs fall off so fast without so many going so early.

SPEAKER_00 30:09

Yeah, I mean the stud running backs are gone. Have had their running backs drafted already. I'm gonna take Chase Brown.

SPEAKER_01 30:16

Okay. So I I just I really feel like I gotta get a running back here that's a starter.

SPEAKER_00 30:21

Yeah, you're your more forced too.

SPEAKER_01 30:23

Um, so Justin Jefferson goes next, then Drake London, Jeremiah Love, Amari and Hampton, Nico Collins, Trey McBride, Chris Olave, Josh Jacobs. Do you think he still he still goes this early? I think he'll slowly slide down depending on the news coming out.

SPEAKER_00 30:38

It's such a risky thing to draft him.

SPEAKER_01 30:40

It is, it is. Um, Bucky Irving, George Pickens, Malik Neighbors. I still can think he continues to slide down with the news on him. Brock Bowers, Josh Allen.

SPEAKER_00 30:50

First quarterback.

SPEAKER_01 30:51

Derrick Henry, AJ Brown, Brees Hall, Kyron Williams, and Tetterell McMillan. I am very glad I took my running back because I'm gonna be able to do that.

SPEAKER_00 30:57

I mean, team seven currently has three running backs. Jerks. A lot of teams have two.

SPEAKER_01 31:03

Yeah. Jerk. That's all I have to say to him is jerk.

SPEAKER_00 31:08

What are you thinking here?

SPEAKER_01 31:09

Um, so Rashi Rice is the top wide receiver. I will not be touching that. Um T. Higgins, though? He's back in jail. Well, Rashi Rice is back in jail. Is he back? Well, he's serving 30 days in jail. My my other concern with him is what will he do next? He had another knee injury. He he's still recovering. That's gonna reset his or set back his recovery a little bit, being in jail, because he's not gonna get the PT he normally would. Um, T. Higgins, I'm gonna pass on that just with Chase Brown. It's just so much reliance on the Bengals, and I just it scares me. I'm so reliant on them, and so he's already.

SPEAKER_00 31:41

I forgot you would draft Chase Brown already, too. I just I don't think I can do that. Um, yeah, they got ETN.

SPEAKER_01 31:47

Could go Garrett Wilson. Um, Travis Travis Wilson. A-chan is technically his how you pronounce that now, apparently. Um, I yes, it is. Oh, yep. Um, I am gonna take Javante Williams. Okay. I I think he is a so super solid running back, especially if you're going if you're gonna go wide receiver early to come back around and be able to get him instead of you know as a run as a wide running back two, I think that's pretty solid. Yeah. And and I know there's wide receivers I like later that I can stack up and still be happy with my wide receiver core.

SPEAKER_00 32:24

Yeah, so no, I mean wide receivers, like you can you're the that has more range to it than like running backs do, especially because it seems like so many teams currently are not running like committee backfields either. Not right now, no. No, I mean like it like it was so common like five, ten years ago.

SPEAKER_01 32:41

I feel like it ebbs and flows. It ebbs and flows. It comes and goes, depends on who's there with the talent that's there. Um so you got T. Higgins, Travis H and uh, Lamar Jackson, Garrett Wilson, Luther Burden, Jalen Waddell, Devontae Adams, Travion Henderson, Vlad McConkey, Drake May.

SPEAKER_00 32:57

Yeah. Um I think so I got CeeDee Laman, Saquon Barkley already. Okay. So I'm kind of thinking another wide receiver running back combo. Okay, makes sense. Here it's just not Lamar. No. I just early quarterbacks never seem like they're quite worth it. I mean, like the top ones are they usually they do score more points.

SPEAKER_01 33:18

Alan going in the third was interesting to me. Because that's a that's about a round later than he was going last year.

SPEAKER_00 33:23

Yeah, it's like there's always like that mid-group that still seems like they do pretty well. Like it's comparable. Yeah. So I think I think I'm I go uh Wilson for my first pick, Garrett Wilson. Wilson, okay. I know he's with the Jets, but he is a very talented player. He is. Um, despite them. Um, and then I I think I go Achan? Hravis Achan Jr. Each, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 33:47

Just like Devon H and Travis it's it's pronounced the same, but it's spelled completely different. It's way different. Completely different. Uh T. Higgins goes next. Uh good. Then I don't have to even think about that. Um were you gonna if he was there? No, but it starts to get tempting in the fourth round, you know. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 34:04

Um so what are you thinking here, Justin?

SPEAKER_01 34:07

So we got Lamar, Luther Burden, Jalen Waddell, uh, Devontae Adams, Trevion Henderson, Ladd McConkie.

SPEAKER_00 34:13

Um Adams is kind of tempting. I know he's I know he's very old, but I am. You know they're making a run for it.

SPEAKER_01 34:21

I know. I am I am very tempted by that.

SPEAKER_00 34:24

Um I was thinking has been a couple tight ends goes. You could reach down for one of them. The next one will be Colson Loveland or um uh Tyler Warren. Who's a ways a little bit after that?

SPEAKER_01 34:37

A little bit. Um I'm gonna I'm still feeling decent. You know what? I'm I'm I am gonna take no, do I want to do that or not? Thinking Devante, and I'm trying to debate if I want to do it or not. But I'll be honest, you know what? I'm gonna go Traveyon Henderson and pick up my third running back. Because him as my third running back, I feel really good.

SPEAKER_00 35:01

Yeah, you've got your guaranteed that you feel good about two of them.

SPEAKER_01 35:04

He's got upside. Um, so he could be dominant, but he also may not always be. So Lamar Jackson goes next, then Ladd McConkey, Drake May, Cam Scattabu, Colston Loveland. Oh, somebody reached for him, right? Yeah, a little bit RJ Harvey, Jalen Waddell, Luther Burden, Devontae Adams made it all the way to the end of the first round, that fourth round. Uh Devonta Smith, Jameson Williams, Zay Flowers, Baishu Tutin, Um, DeAndre Swift, DJ Moore, Amika Buka, Tyler Warren, and David Montgomery. I was really hoping Tyler Warren might come back.

SPEAKER_00 35:35

I'm surprised Cam Scadaboo went this early in a mock draft. I mean, I would not be shocked in a real one because people like him. Oh, I was tempted to take him in.

SPEAKER_01 35:43

What's that last one?

SPEAKER_00 35:44

Were you? Yeah, I love Cam Scadaboo. Yeah, it just I felt like he was not like usually the computer is pretty consistent with just going down the board. So it surprised me that they were they they jumped for him too.

SPEAKER_01 35:55

Yeah. Um I am gonna go Mike Evans here. So Terry McLaurin, so Terry McLaurin, Joe Burrow, Quinshawn Judkins, Mike Evans, Carnell Tate, Jaden Daniels, Tyler, Jalen Warren. Uh I Mike Evans on the San Francisco 49ers, I think is gonna be a massive red zone threat. And we'll he'll he'll be I think he'll be similar to Devontae Adams last year, where he's got 13 to 15 touchdowns.

SPEAKER_00 36:19

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 36:19

You know, could lead the league in touchdowns. Um, he's not gonna have a ton of catches, but I think he can absolutely light it up. Carnell Tate goes next. Wow.

unknown 36:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 36:29

I was surprised about that one.

SPEAKER_00 36:30

I was actually kind of a little eyeing him up myself. Yeah. Um, yeah, it's just, you know, he he he could do very well this year. Yeah. You know, he could. He's he's a rookie guy with Tennessee with a sophomore sophomore quarterback.

SPEAKER_02 36:43

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 36:44

All right, so I got two running backs, two wide receivers currently. So now I'm I can kind of go with whatever I feel like at this point. Um you know, I I kind of poo-pooed going quarterback. I think I might go Joe Burrow here. I thought about it too. My last pick.

SPEAKER_01 37:01

I was like thinking. Had I taken T. Higgins, I would have.

SPEAKER_00 37:05

Yeah. So then I got the next pick again. Yep. You know, I kind of Jaden Daniels back. I'm just kidding. I honestly thought about him for my quarterback pick. Yeah. But he was sat with Harry McLaurin. He was so bad last year. He was like, he was injured, he got injured like week two or three. Yeah, but I still he still scares me then, you know. Yeah. I think I'm gonna I'm gonna reach a little bit and go for like a later pick, and I'm gonna go Tucker Kraft.

SPEAKER_01 37:35

Oh wow, that is a bit of a reach. Over Harold Tannin, huh?

SPEAKER_00 37:38

I think so. Okay, okay. I think so. I I think he'll have a really good year once he comes in. Like this, it's always kind of the problem with drafting the year. No, he will not play right away. He probably stopped by the first week or so, but yeah.

SPEAKER_01 37:50

Um, Terry McLaurin goes next, um, which I'm excited about. So I I have two wide receivers and three running backs already. Um, I am gonna continue to pass on the tight ends and quarterbacks right now.

SPEAKER_00 38:04

Sure.

SPEAKER_01 38:04

I'm gonna go with Christian Watson. We just talked about him. Yep. I truly do think he has a really good year this year. Um, and as my wide receiver three, I think he's got the upside to be top 20 wide receiver. So I think it's a steal.

SPEAKER_00 38:15

Yeah. No, he's a great wide receiver three because you know he doesn't you don't need to have him in all the time. Right. Nothing feels better than that.

SPEAKER_01 38:21

So Quinson Judkins goes next. Jaden Daniels, Ramondre Stevenson, Harold Fannon, Jalen Warren, uh Brian Thomas Jr., Jackson Dart. Jackson Dart went before Jalen Hurts. That's crazy to me. Yeah. Makai Lemon, Jalen Hurts. Lemmon went before Hurts. That's also crazy to me. Uh Jordan Tyson, uh, Roma Dunze, Kyle Menungay, Michael Wilson, Rico Dowdle, Cortland Sutton, DK Metcalf, Tony Pollard. Did did Michael Pittman did I say Michael Pittman? No, he hasn't gone yet, has he? Um, I don't remember seeing him. Um DK Metcalf, uh, Tony Pollard, Kyle Pitts, and then I am back on the clock here um to try to decide what the heck I want to do here.

SPEAKER_00 39:05

Um you got three of each currently running backs and wide receivers. I do. Um you're gonna keep stacking them or you go running back, wide receiver, running back, quarterback now. So the way we have this set up.

SPEAKER_01 39:14

We also have two flexes. So I've got everything filled in terms of starters. So the question is, do I want it want to stack up a little more depth, or do I want to I'm gonna stack I'm gonna take another running back? Yeah, because there's Chuba Hubbard. Five picks left? Uh yeah, we've got we got an uh yeah, five picks left. I'm gonna take Chuba Hubbard.

SPEAKER_00 39:33

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 39:34

I really like him.

SPEAKER_00 39:35

Um starter. So okay. Um, so I'm up again, two picks in a row. I got two running backs, two wide receivers, quarterback, tight end. I see Sam Laporta is available, which is a little tempting. He's got a tight end. I know, but like we already said, like Tucker Craft for you know, he won't be starting right away. But it seems like it might be kind of a waste there. Um I like like Quorum there. I think I'm gonna grab him. Okay. I like him. Um, Marvin Harrison's available. Myers for Jacoby Myers for Jacksonville. Hmm. Ricky Pearsall for Wider for uh Sam Fran. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 40:20

A little bit of a little bit of a reach, but you you have to go all the way around again. So you have to go take the guys you like, though.

SPEAKER_00 40:27

Yeah, because there's no way I'm gonna be able to get them because they won't come back around for my next pick.

SPEAKER_01 40:31

Yeah, they will not come back around.

SPEAKER_00 40:36

Hmm. I don't know right now. I suppose when in doubt just take the best player. Let's just go go Jacoby Myers, I think. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 40:45

Then Orande Gadson goes, and I am back up again.

SPEAKER_00 40:48

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 40:49

Um trying to decide what I want to do here. I think I'm gonna go back when taking I just don't believe in him. Uh Marvin Harrison, all that much. Yeah. I just don't know.

SPEAKER_00 41:05

I know I looked at him too, and he's like you know he's talented, but yeah, I just they kind of f you know, their their team kind of got fire sold and stuff. Yeah, I just I just don't have a whole lot of belief in him, and so you go tight end here. Laporta and Kincaid are both up. They are, they are. Um Trevor Lawrence?

SPEAKER_01 41:25

I I don't know. I I I'm I could. Um I just gosh darn it. I don't like any of these options here.

SPEAKER_00 41:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 41:35

And I got a long way to go, come back around two. Um I will be honest, I'm gonna I'm trying to look for somebody here.

SPEAKER_00 41:42

You could go Pierce All and get multiple San Fran wide receivers.

SPEAKER_01 41:46

I could. I don't like all this falls at all. Son of a gun. Um I don't want those tight ends, but I'm I don't want to feel silly reaching, you know, absolutely reaching for another different one. Um could go another wide receiver.

SPEAKER_00 42:01

I mean, maybe Ferguson or like Andrews would fall to you.

SPEAKER_01 42:05

Yeah. You know, I'll be honest. I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna go kind of crazy here. I'm gonna go take um Parker Washington.

SPEAKER_00 42:13

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_01 42:15

Jacksonville. So you want to read those uh players off here?

SPEAKER_00 42:19

Yeah, uh Marvin Harrison goes then, Alec Alec Pierce for the Indianapolis, Chris Godwin, Tampa Bay, Caleb Williams, Trevor Lawrence, J.K. Dobbins, Brian Robinson for Atlanta, Sam Laporta, Dalton Kade. So they made it all the way to the end of the round. Oh, and then Aaron Jones goes. I'm kind of surprised at that. Dak Prescott, Ricky Pearsall, Hunter Henry, George Kittle, Brenton Strange. So a lot of tight ends just left. Uh Patrick Mahomes, Dallas Cutter, Jake Ferguson. Ooh, Justin, you that was uh that was a major run on tight ends you just missed out. Holy cow, yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 42:59

Dang it. All right. I was kind of hoping some of those. Well, actually, you know what? I'm okay with that. Um now I have to decide what I want to do here. You guys all have tight ends at the at the turn, though. Yeah. Well, a lot of these people doubled up on tight ends. That doesn't happen like that normally. And I feel like in real drafts.

SPEAKER_00 43:14

Uh not commonly, at least.

SPEAKER_01 43:16

Um, I'm I'm actually gonna go Brock Purdy. Okay. Get my quarterback. Um, Jordan Addison went next. That's unfortunate.

SPEAKER_00 43:25

I was using one of him, but Brock Purdy makes sense too, because you already have Mike Evans. I do, yeah. Okay, then he said at Jordan Addison goes. Okay, so then I'm up again. Again, two picks in a row. Um, this is an option I could take a second tight end tier myself, like you said, because I know Techcraft will not play at least to start the year. Ooh, Travis Kelsey's down there yet. You know he's gonna get the targets, especially early in the year. Yep. Yep. Um let's see. I got three wide receivers, two three running backs, so I don't have to really. Take a preference over anyone. Maybe running backs. I don't feel great about what do you have at running back so far? You only have three running backs.

SPEAKER_01 44:09

Yeah, Saquon. Saquon True HN Jr. and Blake Lauren. Kenny Gainwell is always interesting to me. I was like, Irving was hurt a lot last year. Um outside of that, I mean you could go ski merit and take the chance. Or you got Jadarian Price down a bit lower for Seattle, the rookie. Um obviously Zach Charbonnet is gonna be out early in the year. Um he's a he's attempting one.

SPEAKER_00 44:39

Yeah, yeah, that is that is in that is enticing. I mean we're we're treating this as like a redraft, right? It is a redraft, yes. Yeah. Um gosh, I don't feel great about this. It's kind of funny, there's multiple Arizona running backs in a row.

SPEAKER_01 44:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 44:58

No, but they don't know who the backup is, so yeah, which is it still feels weird. Okay, so I'll go Travis Kelsey here for my first pick. Makes sense. I like that as a as a backup tight end. He's very safe. Yep. Even if he's not with the player he used to be. And then gosh, who do I want after that? I think I will go um Jadarian Price for Seattle. Okay. I was like taking a couple rookies. They usually oh, son of a gun. Oh, Mark Andrews. Was he your guy?

SPEAKER_01 45:26

Mark Andrews went to team 11. Uh stacked up again. Uh they just picked a tight end two picks ago. Gosh darn it, that's who I wanted at tight end. Son of a gun. Now I'm like, I just don't care.

SPEAKER_00 45:36

Yeah, top pick is uh Schultz for the tight end for uh Houston.

SPEAKER_01 45:42

Yeah, who I don't want. Um good lord. Uh this this fell apart quickly, I mean. Um that run was crazy with five tight ends going. Like, I thought I was gonna be able to come back around and easily snag one. Um gosh darn it. Um you know what?

SPEAKER_00 46:03

Uh this is gonna seem really I mean you gotta get a tight end in one of these last two picks, right? I'm gonna take Kenyon Sadiq.

SPEAKER_01 46:10

Okay. It's good. I it's I it's not I don't love it, but I should have probably gone Jawan Johnson. But Kenny Gainwell goes next, Tyler L. Gier, Jawan Johnson, Wandale Robinson, James Connor, Matt Stafford, Jakori Krosky, Merritt, uh, Quinton Johnston, Dalton Schultz, Michael Pittman, Bo Nicks, Isaiah Likely, Stefan Diggs, uh, who's not on a team. Zach Charbonnet.

SPEAKER_00 46:33

Just a free agent pickup. Yep. Interesting.

SPEAKER_01 46:35

Zach Charbonnet, Romeo Dobbs, Jaden Reed, Woody Marks, Jordan Love. Um, and mine was on mine got auto-drafted because it was uh it was a traded.

SPEAKER_00 46:47

It was set that it was already traded.

SPEAKER_01 46:48

Based on the league we were in. Uh so Cleal Shakir got taken from me, which I'll be honest, I would be fine with. Um, and then Juwan Jennings went next. So Ryan, you got your last pick here.

SPEAKER_00 46:57

Yep, I have the last pick of the draft. Um, I think I think I'm gonna I'm gonna go down the list a little bit.

SPEAKER_02 47:06

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00 47:06

I'm gonna take Matthew Golden. I like it. Last player. I like it. I think I think that's a fine pick.

SPEAKER_01 47:12

So I ended up with Amon Ross Brown, Chase Brown, uh Javante Williams, Trevion Henderson, Mike Evans, Christian Watson, Chuba Hubbard, Parker Washington, Brock Purdy, Kenyon Sadiq, and Cleo Shakir. How do you feel about that? I loved the beginning. The first six picks I loved. First seven picks, actually, I liked. Um, Parker Washington was a little bit of it got a little messy come the eighth round, and I was just like, Yeah, I didn't know what I've been doing.

SPEAKER_00 47:38

Those last four last like four picks it was a little kind of.

SPEAKER_01 47:41

Yeah, it did not go the way I wanted.

SPEAKER_00 47:43

Well, Titan, especially, because like you said, there's so many of them went in a row there.

SPEAKER_01 47:46

Yeah, I I would have been happy with Hunter Henry, Brenton Strange, Jake Ferguson. Any of those would have been fine. And of course, they all went right before me. Uh, I was happy with Brock Purdy because I wanted to stack him with Mike Evans. I would I would have fallen back to um Jared Goff, if need be. Sure. To stack with Amon A. St. Brown. Um, so I was good either way on that.

SPEAKER_00 48:07

I really were you tempted to say Wade and go Jordan Love to stack with uh Christian Watson?

SPEAKER_01 48:12

Christian Watson. That too. Um, I'll be honest, there are so many quarterbacks this year. I don't feel any need to take one early.

SPEAKER_00 48:18

Yeah, I just don't. I mentioned that too, and then I I went back on it and drafted Joe Burrow.

SPEAKER_01 48:23

I mean, there are there are just so many that are there are a lot of very good.

SPEAKER_00 48:26

Bo Nick went in the 11th middle picks.

SPEAKER_01 48:29

Matt Stafford went in the 10th, Drack Prescott went in the ninth, Patrick Mahomes went in the ninth. Like all those guys I'm fine with. Any one of them could be a top 10 quarterback on the year, or better. So um, no, I I like mine a lot.

SPEAKER_00 48:42

I like I like your I like yours too.

SPEAKER_01 48:44

Just didn't like tight end, but uh yeah, I got sniped a couple times on it.

SPEAKER_00 48:47

Yeah. No, so then I went, I got uh CeeDee Lamb, Saquon Barkley, Garrett Wilson, Travis H HN. That still just breaks my brain. Uh Joe Burrow, Tucker Kraft, Blake Coram, Jacoby Myers, Travis Kelsey, Jadarian Price, and Matthew Golden. Now I'm I feel a little a little questionable about my picks. I mean, like, I'm I'm happy with a lot of them, but like Garrett Wilson, while he's a very skilled player, he is also a wide receiver for the Jets, which does not feel great. Uh Travis HN, like he's a pretty skilled player, but again, he's on a pretty bad team.

SPEAKER_01 49:29

So I like their offense. That's a question mark there, too. I like their offense. My bigger concern with him is Alvin Kamara and how much will he steal of work that's true from him.

SPEAKER_00 49:38

Because he's still on that team, right?

SPEAKER_01 49:40

Still on that team and he's still gonna.

SPEAKER_00 49:41

There have been talks of him leaving, but he hasn't happened yet.

SPEAKER_01 49:43

He will still have a pass catching role. Um just it's so it's hard to know how much Travis HN Jr. will get.

SPEAKER_00 49:50

Yep. Um, but otherwise, I I feel pretty good about my team. I like getting uh Target Kraft, Blake Coram. Uh Joe Burrow's uh, again, a bit of a question mark, but like you said, there's so many quarterbacks that like if he gets hurt, I can always have I can always grab somebody new different.

SPEAKER_01 50:05

I mean, I think I mean Joe Burrow. I mean, there aren't very many pocket passing quarterbacks that have the potential to be score as many points as he can a top three quarterback. He he does. Um, there's a reason he's the only pocket passing quarterback really. I mean, Drake May's a runner a bit, that's why he's up there as the third quarterback that went to the city.

SPEAKER_00 50:23

Jackson Dart, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 50:24

Yeah, they're all running quarterback. Jalen Hurts, they're all running quarterbacks. Um, there's a reason those guys are all in the top, whatever. Joe Bro is not, so uh he's the one guy that's not. Um I I like your team. I Cd Lamb, Gert Wilson's good. I I I still think he's a solid, solid wide receiver.

SPEAKER_00 50:40

Yeah, I just being in the Jets always scares me a little bit more than it probably should. I know he's a very good player who always does very well. He's consistently like right in the top 10.

SPEAKER_01 50:49

You know, um Saquon Barkley, I think, is gonna be a steal this year. I really wanted him to come back around to me the 203. Yep. So that's what I wanted there. Um I think Tucker Tucker.

SPEAKER_00 51:00

Is like when do they start falling off? Is it this year? I I think he will do better under Sean Manion's um offense. Do you do you like him over Ashton Genty? Because I had the option for for one of those two. I would take Saquon over Ashton Genty. I picked Saquon.

SPEAKER_01 51:16

The the Eagles are a better team.

SPEAKER_00 51:17

I think I even reached past Genty to get Saquon at that point.

SPEAKER_01 51:20

You want to have uh a running back on a good team because they tend to run the ball more.

SPEAKER_00 51:24

Yeah, they're usually ahead. They're they are willing to run the ball.

SPEAKER_01 51:28

Uh Genty, he's gonna see a lot of carries. I just I mean and he did last year too, but they just weren't that good. So you're not gonna see good carries. Now they had one of the worst offensive lines last year, Genty. It has improved. They got the high-priced free agent center and all that kind of stuff. So we'll see where that goes. Um, I did like your picks though. Uh Tucker Kraft, that's a little early for me on him, just with the injury. Yep. I would have gone Harold Fannon. Um he was a stud last year. Um, but I don't have a problem with it. I mean, for me, Tucker Kraft's probably in the seventh. But so some semantics kind of you weren't gonna pick again until 7-12.

SPEAKER_00 52:04

No, if I wanted to tie it again there, I I had I didn't, you know, just pretty much yeah. Travis Kelsey, I'm a little questionable on that. Like Mark Andrews went two picks later, that probably would have been the better pick.

SPEAKER_01 52:13

I like Mark Andrews, but I think Travis Kelsey's uh he's now on the decline of his career massively. Yeah, it like I mean he could end up with three, four hundred yards and like I picked him just to as a carryover until Kraft was back.

SPEAKER_00 52:26

Yeah, I mean so like I felt all right with it, but I think I think Mark Andrews or like you got Kenyon Sadiq, I think both of those would have been a better option. And those were just a couple picks later.

SPEAKER_01 52:34

I'll be honest, you know, Travis Kelsey, he'll he'll probably end up playing well early on in the year, and then it will get worse as the year goes on as it you know it wears on his body. Sure. Um, Kenyon Sadiq will probably not start the year super strong. I wanted Mark Andrews when it started coming back around, and of course I got sniped yet again. Um there were a number of guys I would I mean, my ideal tight end if you don't get one of the top four, Trey McBride, Brock Bowers, Colson Loveland, Tyler Warren, I want to try to get Tucker Kraft in probably the late sixth or early seventh. Yeah. That that because I think he I think he will have that spot, and then pair him with a guy like Dalton Schultz or Isaiah Likely or Hunter Henry or Jake Ferguson, um, because they're gonna they're gonna see the ball. Yeah. Um so yeah. I I did like the Matthew Golden pick though as well.

SPEAKER_00 53:29

I do think he will see back, so it's what kind of kind of whatever in this in the draft that we just did. Yep. But I do like taking him there. Yeah, I know I totally agree. Yeah, no, I I feel pretty good about this. I think I think we did probably think we did all right.

SPEAKER_01 53:42

Yeah, I it it was good, especially for the first one. Um, I I felt like I got sniped the first round because I wanted to go running back in the first round.

SPEAKER_00 53:51

Yeah, but I mean just felt like I'm on Rock Clay Brown. Like that's a that's a very good pick.

SPEAKER_01 53:56

I mean, it's not the end of the world for sure. And I and and I ended.

SPEAKER_00 53:59

Do you think he will be a top five wide receiver?

SPEAKER_01 54:02

I mean, he has been the last three years. He's been a top three the last three years. Has he been top three?

SPEAKER_00 54:06

Okay, okay. So for me, I'm I wasn't sure if he made if he was last year, because I know they they struggled a little bit, especially towards the end.

SPEAKER_01 54:14

Uh let's here, let's put me pull it up just uh see here for sure. He has been the number three in full point PPR um the last three seasons.

SPEAKER_00 54:23

Half point two, he was number three. Yeah. So I mean he was eight, and then his rookie season he was twelve.

SPEAKER_01 54:27

So you're talking 117 catches, 1400 yards, 115 catches, 1200 yards, 119 catches, 1500 yards, 11, 12, and 10 for touchdowns. It doesn't get much more consistent than that. And the year before that, he was the number seven. He had a few, he had four less touchdowns. If you get to the double-digit touchdowns, he's probably top five again.

SPEAKER_00 54:46

So yeah, I mean he's been more consistent than Jamar Chase. Yeah, oh, for sure. Who was fourth last year, first the year before, and then thirteenth.

SPEAKER_01 54:55

I don't think Alan Ross St. Brown has the upside to be the number one guy. Yeah. Like he he's not gonna be the number one wide receiver, but I think he has the highest probability of being a top five wide receiver out of all of them. Sure. I mean, if you're looking at just the hey, the but the boom bust plays, he he is just so ultra consistent and they use him so much. If you're in the late first round, it's really hard to pass on him. Yeah, because you're gonna get a solid, consistent number one player. So uh yeah. Um I'm excited on that, though. Uh it was a good draft. It was fun to see where things are at, and we'll probably do another one here in the next couple weeks and kind of see where things keep going.

SPEAKER_00 55:34

We'll get Bobby thrown into one, see up, see what he does, how badly he messes it up for us. Oh, he'll screw it up. Guaranteed he'll screw it up. Harold Fannon will go much earlier. So all right.

SPEAKER_01 55:44

Well, thanks everybody for listening, and we will talk to you again next week.

SPEAKER_00 55:48

All right, bye.