The Show: Comparing the 2026 Draft Class, Rookie Wide Receiver Comps, and More

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Speaker 2: It's perfect. It's a great game.

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Speaker 4: When I read the intro this morning to the the newsletter, I thought, I wonder what other people are thinking, because I know, JJ, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I know, I oh yeah, other people.

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Speaker 1: That's why I like to just throw stuff out there, like I am going to unapologetically be like who I am.

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Speaker 2: I don't care. I don't care if people.

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Speaker 1: Judge me for liking a Pokemon game. I haven't played Pokemon since I was little. But if you're gonna judge me for playing this, go look at any review of this game, and it's getting unbelievable reviews because it's.

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Speaker 2: An unbelievable game. Okay, I don't care. I'll go. You know what else I'm doing. I've been doing a lot recently.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that that that people can judge all day while while my daughter and son go for bike rides, I rollerblade with them.

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Speaker 2: Really, I rollerblade with them. Yeah, that was a fair reaction.

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Speaker 1: At first it was like, I'm gonna make fun of you, and then it was, oh, that's cute.

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Speaker 3: Yes, it's like I do you do you wear a helmet?

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Speaker 2: No, knee pads? No?

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Speaker 1: But my no, like the like literally, two weekends ago, my daughter, who's seven, uh we she's in second grade.

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Speaker 2: We we we went five miles. I was rollerblading.

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Speaker 1: I went I wrote a rollerblade for five miles while she was on the bike.

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Speaker 2: It was a great bonding time.

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Speaker 3: Bonding experience was five miles on rollerblades.

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Speaker 1: The real problem is I used to play this rollerblading game on Sega back in the day, just to bring it back to video games, and it was called skitching. Okay, maybe one person in Chad has ever heard of this. Skitching is when you're a rollerblader. I learned it's more than rollerblading. You can be a skateboarder or whatever the case may be.

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Speaker 2: And you you you.

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Speaker 1: Grab onto a car and you while you're on that device, and you're able to hitch a ride, you know, from that car. And so the video game was just all about grabbing onto cars and punching enemies while you were rollerblading.

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Speaker 2: But it was like Sega, so it was you know, two D and it was you know yeah.

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Speaker 1: So the problem is that every time I get on my rollerblades, I just want to go skitching and then start riding around the neighborhood.

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Speaker 4: They used to call me a snitching kitchen back in the day.

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Speaker 1: No, that's not surprising. All right, let's get into these news items. This is Look, it's the off season. I know we're talking about nothing right now, but let's talk some news.

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Speaker 4: Today's fantasy news. Wait till you see the news items.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about more important things like Elijah Moore going.

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Speaker 4: To the Eagles, So we don't know what's happening with aj Brown right now.

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Speaker 3: You know, apparently he's still staying with the Eagles.

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Speaker 4: However, the Eagles just decided to make all these moves this week when no one else was making moves. So last week we had a ton to talk about. This week not so much. Here's what we do have. Elijah Moore signed a one year deal with the Eagles, Damian Pierce signed a deal with the Eagles, and Andy Dalton I think he was traded to the Eagles. So those are all the Eagles stuff. Other than that, it's like Zach Wilson, like back up Joe Flacco resigning.

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Speaker 1: There is I mean, you didn't throw the most important news I'm here on here and that's Pokin Nakua biting somebody.

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Speaker 2: Evidently.

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Speaker 3: I didn't know if we wanted to put that up.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I know we shouldn't.

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Speaker 1: I mean, let's just I'm gonna leave it at like it's one of those offs off the field sit like personas now not just situation to monitor because he's been involved in a lot of different stuff and that is pertinent, Like it is something that we have to worry about in dynasty, you know, just like what I actually.

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Speaker 4: Thought about that as a pukin Akua owner, like it, like, is the asset becoming too like volatile? I don't like.

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Speaker 1: I mean, like, and there's a lot of rumors about them wanting to trade for a J. Brown, And I've seen some reporters even hint that like maybe there's a tie to this.

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Speaker 2: I don't think there is.

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Speaker 1: Like my personal opinion is, you know, hopefully he's not doing anything like egregious, like hopefully this is like not real or or you know, whatever the case may be. I don't want to say something that I don't know the the information enough about, but hopefully this is like the extent of where things go with Pukakua. But yeah, I mean like they they've been they've been linked to a lot of wide They need a young wide receiver on that team because they don't really have that much depth outside of Puka and so like long term depth. So yeah, I mean I thought he might be on this, but I understand the decision to not throw Pokin on this.

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Speaker 4: Yeah we're talking about I also left off Jsn's extension, Like I don't think we want to get into like extensions.

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Speaker 1: No, and it's like what else they gonna do? Yeah, let's just talk the Eagles. The The only interesting part of this because I don't even know if Damian Pierce is going to make the team, right, because they have they have Shipley, and they have Tank Bigsby. But the one interesting piece is is Elijah Moore. And I only say that because he's very good friends with A. J.

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Speaker 3: Brown.

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Speaker 1: Uh, you know, they're the there go back, it goes back to college days. Yeah, yeah, when they had that crazy you know, like the DK Metcalf there too, and they're I'm pretty sure I don't want to misspeak, but I'm I'm fairly certain that Elijah Moore was very helpful for A. J. Brown during a massive mental health crisis for him. And I'm not saying that like I'm just looking at this trying to connect the dots and saying, you know, are the Eagles doing this out of like trying to keep AJ Brown around by getting a good friend there and to to or or are they doing this because they actually want that depth because they did get Hollywood Brown too, and so you know, I've always been an Elijah Moore guy from the standpoint of like I thought that he was a pretty good prospect. I think in hindsight, I wouldn't have been as aggressive with the way that I felt about Elijah Moore the way that I prospect now and knowing what, like, you know, some of the deeper details of slot rates and stuff and how that correlates and the data that we've gotten over the last handful of years to kind of be able to dig into that more. With that being said, I think that's what I'm reading into this more from like a fantasy perspective, is like.

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Speaker 2: What if this is a move of some sort to keep AJ Brown around?

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Speaker 1: I think we should at least consider that, you know, because there are such strong rumors of AJ Brown no longer being an Eagle.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. I in the last year's DraftKings best ball stuff, I took a lot of Elijah Moore, like in the twentieth rounds, remember the case, just in case he was Josh.

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Speaker 3: Allen's guy and he did get on the field, so he just was not that valuable. Yeah, I mean did he get cut like during the season is I.

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Speaker 1: Can't remember his whole situation, but his his uh early career stuff, like his rookie season was phenomenal and he was really good on the outside and it was like, Wow, this is really going to translate for him, and then it just didn't.

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Speaker 4: Meanwhile, we still have this list, like I put this list up last week as far as fantasy relevant guys, dads have unsigned, and literally none of them have signed since last week.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean, like we said last week, you get veterans, they usually just kind of wait and find the right spot for themselves.

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Speaker 4: So it's interesting. You know, we have heard some rumors as far as like David and Joku to the Titans, Aaron Rodgers.

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Speaker 3: I think he's gonna resign, and then Kirk Cousins.

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Speaker 4: Someone said he might be a like a backup to Jordan Love. I think that that was a a piece from The Athletic that came out this week. So that's uh that that's what we have for today's news JJ. Are you happy?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's fun. You want to talk about Skitchen some.

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Speaker 4: More today's data that'll answer that we've got this draft class versus the twenty eleven through twenty twenty five draft class.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So what I did this is from the newsletter, and actually there was a question that I started that I wanted to get back to this from k crash five on here on YouTube. K crash five said, this year's rookie class people been saying it's a week class. I'm concerned that with the new grading system and the prospect, I might be double counting how bad this class is punt completely. So that's why I put together this in the newsletter today and I broke it down a little bit. I'll basically just kind of regurgitate some of the stuff that was in that newsletter because I think it's just an important thing to talk about. But what this looks at is each of the three positions that we have this zapp model for so running back, wide receiver, and tight end, and it looks at the average number of players in each category, so legendary performer all the way down to dart throw from twenty eleven to twenty twenty five, and it compares that to the twenty twenty six draft class. So let me give you an example. The legendary performer running back has a point.

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Speaker 2: Four in that cell.

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Speaker 1: What that's saying is that we know that in this class we have one legendary performer.

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Speaker 2: That's Jeremiah Love.

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Speaker 1: Right, So that's one, which means there's point six on average per class. There's not many legendary performer running backs, just because you know, I mean the category is just to be clear, the categories are just a quick way for me to speak about these guys and to give context to what the ZAP scores are actually saying the categories themselves. It's not like there's a giant like break from a guy who is in the Legendary Performer category at a score of ninety one to a guy in the Elite Producer category with a score of eighty nine, right, because because ninety is where that that transition occurs. It's just a general way to bucket these guys, to allow you, you know, people who are consuming this to kind of see what that ZAP score means.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 1: I have that mail bag answer from last week about publishing scores and talking about the changing of the way the system is generated and stuff, so this chart should help with that a little bit to contextualize some of this stuff. But also nothing, I just want to reiterate nothing in this a model. Even though the scaling changed, the way that I'm calculating things has not changed. So the scaling change for all previous draft classes too, and you can look at the categories from last year, for instance, to get a general idea of where those because the categories are generally generally still the same. You know, I'm iterating the models every year anyway, so the scores aren't going to be identical from one year to the next.

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Speaker 2: But what this is.

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Speaker 1: Showing is that running back has point four more legendary performers than usual, it has one fewer elite producer than usual, and then it has basically the same number of weekly starters. But then every other category is lower flex play, benchwarmer, waiver, wire at in dartthrow. Now, I do want to say that this is going to be influenced by the number of players that went to the combine. So only twenty running backs and really nineteen because one was considered a fullback, or twenty one running backs, one was a fullback. And then there's Eli heyden Wright, who's basically a slot receiver went to the combine, so that's a low number. Twenty is a low number at that position. So naturally that's why we see so many fewer dart throws because when you add on if they were to have twenty seven guys, and that dart through number would look the exact same as other seasons.

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Speaker 2: But I will.

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Speaker 1: Say if you have fewer players going to the combine, that's probably indicative of not a great class in general, right And so that's why I think you can look at this and say running back is probably weaker than usual. Wide receiver, we don't have the same top end talent as we typically do, but we have a lot of depth. And I talk about that in the newsletter, where you know, the wide receiver profiles this year are averaged to above average.

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Speaker 2: They're not elite by any means.

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Speaker 1: There's just so many of them, and I say so many of them because they're being boosted by draft capital right now, right now. According to NFL mock Draft database, we have a eleven wide receivers going Day two essentially, which is would be the highest that we've had since twenty eleven, so like tied for the highest. So what that tells you is that we're going to get a lot of these weekly starter, flex play benchwarmer type players you know in this class. So I think someone's going to emerge from Day two that we might not expect to emerge or someone's going to emerge who you know, has like a not amazing product age adjustin production profile, but it's probably gonna happen just by sheer number, right, And we had a decent number of guys forty six wide receivers at the combine and then tight end. We had a ton of tight ends at the combine, as we know, I think it was the highest number since two thousand and four. And so across the board we have more legendary performers. We have about the same number of elite producers, and then more flex plays, bench warmers, waiver wire adds.

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Speaker 2: Dart throws. Where we don't have is the weekly starter category.

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Speaker 1: So the way that Brandon and I have the model set up right now is that you get legendary performer in Kenyan Sidik spoiler alert. You know Eli Stowers if his eight I mean, look, Eli Stowers is only worse than Kenyon Sadik from a modeling perspective because of a difference in draft capital. If the draft capital was not like I think, Eli Stowers has a better production profile than Kenyon Sadik.

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Speaker 3: He won the Mackie Award.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so, and he's he's you know, as we know, a pseudo friend of the show because he went to Vandy and so.

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Speaker 2: He's an elite producer right now.

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Speaker 1: I don't think he's going to be a legendary performer because I don't think we're going to see like top fifteen, top twenty draft capital from him.

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Speaker 2: But he's a good prospect, like I talked about this.

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Speaker 1: In the Mailbag episode last week, and I do think that there's a chance that he goes higher than what was being projected when we launched the prospect Guide. But tight end is again it's kind of like wide receiver where there's just like a lot of dudes who I'm not going to be surprised. They have decent athletic profiles and average production profiles.

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Speaker 2: So we're probably going to see a hit or two from that tight end class.

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Speaker 1: So when you look at this at a high level bird's eye view, which is what this really is, it's it's a below average class. You know, it's not it's not a great class. I think the running back class is pretty pretty brutal. The wide receiver one is at least like relatively deep when you factor in draft capital or projected draft capital.

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Speaker 2: If we don't get that draft Capital at wide.

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Speaker 1: Receiver, I'm gonna be concerned because the production profiles are not overly strong. And the other thing, too, is that a lot of the production profile, like the elite production profiles, are from the players that are being boosted up in the NFL draft from a projection standpoint, So Jordan Tyson, Carnell Tate, McKay Lemon, you know you have Casey Conceptsion, Like, those four have the four best production profiles in my opinion, in this class. And so we're not necessarily gonna get the incredible values in rookie drafts either were like, let's say I really like Casey Conceptsion because the rest of the class looks the way it is, and because draft capital is probably gonna play out the way that it will, chances are the only differences in rankings and ADP that we're gonna see is like I'm gonna be like, I'm almost definitely gonna have Conceptsion ahead of Denzel Boston, for instance, and like, but but the the there might be some people who don't. But those are just a small differences that we're gonna see in rookie drafts. It's not gonna be like conceptsion. I love him and he's great, and he got third round draft capital, but we're gonna boost him up because he's really good and we're gonna be able to get him in the second round of it's not happening. Like it's just there's not many players like that in this class. So I think, like Elijah surrat could be that guy, or could be one of those guys because draft capital is currently putting in round three. But the fantasy community loves Elijah Surratt because he has really good age justin production and so yeah, I mean, I think it's just a really it's an easy class to be chalky at the top, and then it's just gonna be a complete disaster after the mid to late first round of rookie drafts, where you're gonna really have to factor in I think a little bit more landing spot and stuff than we typically do.

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Speaker 4: Do you think, just from a zoomed out point of view, do you think that we've been I don't want to say spoiled, but like last year we had the running back class, the year before that, we had the wide receiver class. Like going into the draft, there was so much hype around these classes and this year there's just really not that much.

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Speaker 2: Maybe a little bit.

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Speaker 1: But at the same time, I think that we often overstated and understate what all of that means. You know, even I got caught up in the hype a little bit of the running back class last year. When I look back at the model now and I'm like, yeah, it was definitely good, but it was honestly like kind of in line with like twenty twenty, you know, or like twenty seventeen. Yes, for sure, like, but it's not the differences from class to class I think are often overstated because we are not nearly as good as we think we are predicting this stuff.

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Speaker 2: And there are some draft classes.

00:23:43
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure it's a twenty nineteen wide receiver class where we think it's horrible and it ends up being great, you know, like like I think that's when Terry McLaurin came out or something like around that time.

00:23:53
Speaker 2: But regardless, it's.

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Speaker 1: Like, like we we shouldn't be so confident in our ability to project this stuff. We should still project this stuff and understand. But I think what's more important is, instead of making the blanket statements, is really understanding where the flatness starts to occur and ADP and the flattness starts to occur in talent and such, because you know, sometimes that flatness, you know, sometimes there's different tiers where like the front half of the first round of a rookie draft is elite elite to elite, and then the next six guys are you know, just one tier below that, and then the next six you know, into the second round are tier below that. In this year's draft, I think it's like you have elite elite, e leite elite, and then that end of the first round and then that first part of the second round are all kind of the same at this point in time right now today, whereas you generally do still still see like some sort of drop off from that tier two to tier three, right now, it's just merged.

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Speaker 2: And I think that's.

00:24:50
Speaker 1: The game theory component that we should be taking away here Instead of just blanketing and saying, hey, this draft class sucks, I think it's more important to you know, approach it.

00:24:59
Speaker 2: With Okay, why does it suck? Like where where?

00:25:02
Speaker 1: Like why are we saying this? Why is there this flatness? Like what does it mean for my rookie picks? And to me It means that late first round rookie picks right now today are not that much different than mid second round rookie picks.

00:25:14
Speaker 2: And so if you can.

00:25:16
Speaker 1: Kind of dangle that like one to eleven out there to somebody and be like, hey, it's the first rounder, the first Yeah right, I mean, if you can do that today in a more casual dynasty league, I'm all for that because I really don't think it's I don't think you're gonna get a dramatically different player there than you will at like the two oh five or two of four in a super flex league.

00:25:35
Speaker 4: We talked about Eli Stowers. I almost mentioned this in the news segment, but he had a Top thirty visit with the Broncos yesterday.

00:25:43
Speaker 2: Hours with the Broncos would be fun.

00:25:45
Speaker 4: Also met with him at the combine. Can you just imagine soturs JJ in the joker role?

00:25:51
Speaker 2: Here we go, Here we go.

00:25:55
Speaker 4: That was an overblown narrative from last year.

00:25:57
Speaker 2: It's always overblown narrative.

00:25:58
Speaker 4: Yeah, little even anger I'm in the in the joker role didn't pan out. But if Stowers goes in the first round of the Broncos after they restructure Waddles contract and that.

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Speaker 3: Offense would just would just be nice. All right, enough of this.

00:26:13
Speaker 4: The late round, main event. All right, these are your favorite twenty twenty six draft comps for wide receiver. You want you want to preface before you get into this.

00:26:27
Speaker 2: Of course I want to preface. Yeah, this is just fun. This is not how I feel.

00:26:32
Speaker 1: But you know, I'll give you guys takes about how I actually feel about each of these guys.

00:26:36
Speaker 2: But this is not the way that the ZAP model projections. It projects things.

00:26:41
Speaker 1: You know, like we back in the day at number five, for instance, Like part of our modeling that we did was similarity score based and we would take you know, similar games in the past, for instance, that projected a certain way, and we would match that and that's how we helped project how that particular game was going to go. The way the ZA model works, project comps are just for fun, that's it.

00:27:01
Speaker 2: It's just to give you an idea.

00:27:02
Speaker 1: And the way that I view comps honestly is like, are there a lot of great comps.

00:27:06
Speaker 2: For this player?

00:27:07
Speaker 1: Then we should maybe feel subjectively a little bit better about him, are there not? You know, I don't have this player on today's list, But like Jeremy Bernard, who has some red flags with his profile. Don't get me wrong, Like he's the arts pro out run isn't very strong and such, and he's not someone I'm higher low on necessarily, But his comps whenever I would run it through the model and the system were just it was just bad comp after bad comp after bad comp. Like it was just really not what you want to see from, you know, a wide receiver who might go round two and then at least gives me a little pause. You know, even if the ZAP model is gonna say, oh, he has a score of sixty or fifty eight or whatever it is, which is along the same lines of this guy or this guy, if that other guy has better comps, I'm gonna go with the better the guy with better comps, of all things being equal. So just just understand that as I talk through things. So I think I have seven wide receivers to talk about today. These are some of my favorite comps from the class, both good and bad. Denzel Boston, who's getting a lot of first round love. Some people have him as like like they think he's like part of the Big three. Others think that he's terrible, that he has separation issues. I've seen people throw Keyon Coleman out there as like this is a next the next key On Coleman. I don't think he's a key On Coleman type player at all, really, But if you look at him to Jaden Higgins in the model, just analytically all this is going to be analytical, there's a lot of similarities coming out with the exact same age or as the exact same age. They're both the same height, almost the exact same weight. Their breakout scores are both sixtieth and seventyeighth percentile career yards per out run. This is not part of the model yards per out run, but Boston was at two point oh two, which is a red flag. Jaden Higgins at two point two four first downs per route run. Boston actually had a pretty good first downs per out run rate, which is nice eleven point four percent, but Jaden Higgins at ten point eight percent. They both didn't play in the slot very much fifteen percent to seventeen percent.

00:28:57
Speaker 2: So there's a lot of similarities. And I think that, like.

00:28:59
Speaker 1: If you want to think about like people just get so crazy with comps and they're like, oh, he's Mike Evans or he's It's like.

00:29:06
Speaker 2: Calm down, Calm down.

00:29:09
Speaker 1: Mike Evans is a Hall of Fame talent who like has has done things that other wide receivers have not done in this league. You can't just make that a comp like, let's look at a reasonable outcome here. I think a reasonable outcome is Jaden Higgins. You know, Boston did get a later start production wise because of the teammate competition at Washington. But in my opinion, when you look at Denzel Boston, I think he's more of a second round profile analytical profile.

00:29:38
Speaker 2: Than a first round analytical profile.

00:29:41
Speaker 1: You know, I don't want to say I'm like fading him no matter what, but I don't think that he's like an elite elite talent.

00:29:46
Speaker 4: Okay, the next one is a guy that I don't know if this is a great comp for zach ry Branch. But you got Nicole Hardiman.

00:29:57
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean great comp in terms of like him being productive in the NFL. No, it's not a great comp for him to be productive from a fantasy perspective. Look, I have my issues with Zach Branch. I've been talking about it for a while. I actually did a little Vibe Vibe code Ye work with Claude yesterday to get some of the the Zap model stuff into something that could easily search. So I'm actually looking at it right now on the left side here. But his career behind the line of scrimmage rate forty five point five percent. That's a ninety nine percent TILE. It's across his career, that's a ninety nine percentile number. Screen yard share, so how many yards were coming on screens thirty six percent, that's a ninety nine percentile number.

00:30:38
Speaker 2: That's the kind of profile we're looking at.

00:30:40
Speaker 1: Was Zach Branch where he's gadgety, you know, was used in a non traditional way a wide receiver, And yeah, that sounds a little bit like Mikol Hardman, does it not. They're both early declares five foot nine versus five foot ten. Hardman had about ten pounds on him, so he's a little bit bigger. Breakout scores were both not great, you know, sub fiftieth percentile thirty fourth to forty third percent TILE. Their best season in yards per team pass attempt when adjusted for strength of schedule and age was two point one one versus one point seven to one.

00:31:10
Speaker 2: Hardman was worse.

00:31:11
Speaker 1: Within that metric, both were heavily used out of the slot and both were heavily used behind the line of scrimmage. Now I know I mentioned Zach Branch was forty five point five percent, Miko Hardman was about twenty seven percent in terms of his usage behind the line of scrimmage in college. But let me tell you, guys, forty five point five percent, like I said, as a ninety nine percent tile number, it's an outlier type number. So twenty seven percent is actually a lot. It's just that there's a big This is just such a big gap. But the way that Branch was used in college himself, so I don't think this is like a one to one per se because, like I said, Branch's usage was so extreme and Hardman also had that a better career yards per out run rate. But I do think that this comp which got spit out as the top comp for Branch, tells the story of the kind of player that Branches. I mean, is there a ceiling shore like is their best ball all upside? Sure, but I do worry about Branches of prospect.

00:32:03
Speaker 4: Okay, that might not have been a fun profile for fantasy enthusiast, but this one kind of is Omar Cooper you got the comp to Deebo Samuel.

00:32:13
Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of people have made this comp too.

00:32:16
Speaker 1: It was Rashi Rice was one that also popped up in the model. But then in Omar Cooper's rite up, I talked about Deebo Samuel, So I want to talk about this one a little bit more so when you look at their numbers, the biggest difference is that Deebo Samuel is a thicker build, right, He's about fifteen pounds heavier. And the way that these comps work I mentioned this last week, is that it's looking at the distance between all these different variables and it's saying, Okay, I'm going to calculate this distance and weight, and then this distance and this metric, and then it adds all that together and says, what is the lowest distance? Right, And that's the tightest comp if you will, And so I'll weigh things like height and weight more. And despite that, Omar Cooper versus Deebo Samuel was the second highest.

00:32:59
Speaker 2: Comp for Omar Cooper. Deebo Samuel was and.

00:33:02
Speaker 1: So and the reason for that is their breakout scores are very similar. Fifty fourth to sixty fifth percentile. It's forty two to forty seven ish. Breakout scores yards per out run and their career point oh four apart from one another. First downs per out run very similar. Their best season in adjusted yards per team pass attempt almost identical.

00:33:21
Speaker 2: And then the way they were deployed.

00:33:23
Speaker 1: Now, Deebo saw a slot rate of only sixteen percent in college, whereas Omar Cooper is at forty seven percent.

00:33:30
Speaker 2: But when you look at the.

00:33:31
Speaker 1: Depth in which they were seeing their targets, their deep ball rate wasn't that far from one another.

00:33:36
Speaker 2: Their shorter area targets were.

00:33:38
Speaker 1: Very very similar. And then the big thing here too, they're avoided tackles per catch. That's where obviously Deebo has won in the NFL. He's a tackle breaker. That's what Omar Cooper does as well. Omar Cooper at a point three to one misstackles force per catch, which is crazy. It's a great number. Deebo Samuels is also very high in college. So I do think that's the kind of player we're working with with with Omar Cooper, very interesting prospect. He's getting round one love right now. He's not gonna like I will not like Casey Conceptsione. Even though Conceptio might go after Cooper in the draft, I still think Conceptsion is a better player and better prospect, so I'll have him ranked the head. But I think Cooper is an okay player, like an okay prospect in this kind of environment in class where there's a there's a non zero chance that I would rank Cooper over Boston post draft, depending on how draft capital falls.

00:34:30
Speaker 4: Okay, I'm assuming this next comp JJ is just on the field and not off the field.

00:34:39
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I don't know anything about.

00:34:41
Speaker 1: Malachi Fields off the field, so yeah, sure, well I I and all I know about mc collins off the field is that he likes to get to games in a wild and crazy way, and he's you know, just an interest foot.

00:34:54
Speaker 2: Yeah.

00:34:54
Speaker 3: Interesting, probably the most interesting person in the NFL.

00:34:57
Speaker 2: Yeah.

00:34:58
Speaker 1: But Malachi Fields, who I think has a pretty crummy age adjusted production profile.

00:35:04
Speaker 2: He comes to mac Hollins.

00:35:05
Speaker 1: They were both pretty old coming out twenty three point eight for for Malachi Fields, twenty three point six for maccollins. Both pretty similar, size six five to eighteen for Fields, six four to two twenty one for Hollins. Breakout scores were both low not surprising for guys who stick who were older coming out, and then their best adjusted yards perteen pass atten numbers were were pretty on point with one another as well. So those numbers like because adjusted yards between pass ten feeds into breakout score, those numbers are all all of those right there are in the ZAP model to some degree, which is why maccollins was a top com for Fields and Fields also, by the way, I don't have mc collins yards perrowle run numbers because it was a while ago and and data doesn't go back that far. But Fields had a very poor yards perou run profile. I actually said a tweet out today about how Fields saw a spike where like his on NFL mock draft database, he was going like forty third overall at one point on the Consensus big boards, and now he's down to sixty four. And so I said that as if I said forty four, but I said forty three.

00:36:11
Speaker 2: Didn't I.

00:36:12
Speaker 1: But now he's on the sixty four, So he's like a fringe round two, round three player.

00:36:16
Speaker 2: Even that to me is too high.

00:36:18
Speaker 1: And what happened, I think was that he had a good senior Bowl and people started to mock him higher, but the analytical profile is not strong enough in my opinion for Malechi Fields.

00:36:30
Speaker 2: Could he be a third rounder or should he be a third rounder?

00:36:34
Speaker 1: I can see someone taking a chance on the size, but to me, he's more of a Day three player.

00:36:39
Speaker 2: Like, I'm just not going to be in on field.

00:36:41
Speaker 1: If Fields gets round two capital and that correlates to where his dynasty ADP will be, I'm gonna be out because his his production profile is just not very strong.

00:36:51
Speaker 4: Okay, I feel like this next Comfy did for me.

00:36:55
Speaker 1: Maybe I did for all the all of the people who were burned by just Hunter back in the day.

00:37:02
Speaker 4: So there might be some some younger folks out there that they don't really remember the Justin Hunter days or Justin Hunter hype even a lot of like he had so much potential. Man, were you a big Justin Hunter guy?

00:37:17
Speaker 2: I think?

00:37:18
Speaker 1: Because But the thing is back then, if you look in like that twenty fifteen to twenty eighteen time frame, twenty seventeen time frame, yeah, I wasn't prospecting really and I didn't have Like the evolution for me with my analysis has very much been grounded with how that player was viewed coming out of college, you know, like especially early on in their careers and stuff where I think it's important where if a player shows us something after being a good prospect, then he's probably a good player, right Whereas you know, like Luther Burden, I'm so intrigued by because I thought he was a really good prospect and he had really good peripherals last year, and so I'm like, oh man, this is exciting, right.

00:38:01
Speaker 2: But it's when you get this combination of.

00:38:03
Speaker 1: Like okay prospect or like decent enough prospect and then they kind of fall flat on their face. Then you kind of be like, I don't know if this guy's going to be it or not right or you know, there's just all these like different iterations you can look at.

00:38:15
Speaker 2: So I don't know how I would have viewed Justin Hunter.

00:38:17
Speaker 1: To be honest with you, I think back then I was probably drafting him because like I fell more victim to hype and to group think back then, you know, just to be honest, but yeah, you know, if.

00:38:30
Speaker 2: I look back now at what the model says about him, it's.

00:38:32
Speaker 1: Not like he was like this phenomenal prospect necessary because he was part of it was his athleticism. He was a freak athlete, right, That's why that's why he looked as good as he did to some people.

00:38:40
Speaker 4: And six four, I mean, yeah, people love people love six or four wide receivers.

00:38:45
Speaker 2: Yeah.

00:38:45
Speaker 1: And so Jacoby Lane is the Justin Hunter comp that I'm making, or Justin Hunter's the comp for Jacoby Lane.

00:38:51
Speaker 2: They're both early to clare receivers.

00:38:53
Speaker 1: Both almost identically ages coming out, they're sub twenty two years old, very similar frames six four two hundre in one ninety six, so you get this like leaner perimeter type frame. Their breakout scores almost identical thirty five for both of them. Their best year in adjusted yards per team pass attempt almost identical two point three five to two point four nine. Laine also at a sub two point zero yards pro out run rate. So it's not great that's twenty six in the class. And the other thing with Lane is it's good that he's in early declare. You know, it's good that that he's younger, and that's something that's factored in by the model. But we've seen this kind of profile before, and the problem with it is that the other two comps that spit out as this top three that are in the prospect guide are Terras Marshall.

00:39:42
Speaker 2: And Ady Mitchell.

00:39:43
Speaker 1: Now I fell victim to Terist Marshall because again that was earlier in my prospecting career. In life, I wouldn't have viewed him necessarily the same way. Now Ady Mitchell. I corrected the mistake, and I was off of Ady Mitchell. The model did not like Ady Mitchell, and so I'm glad for that right that I'm learning. Okay, guys getting better, ye, And I do think that Jacoby Lane kind of fits the mold here.

00:40:08
Speaker 2: I don't think though, that he's going.

00:40:09
Speaker 1: To see the same draft capital as these guys, So that could be, you know, if if Jacoby Lane's like a late second round rookie pick or something, or like third I don't I have no idea where his ADP would be. I'm not going to really care if you want to take a chance, because I don't think there's gonna be a lot of studs or obvious players to go to in that range anyway.

00:40:25
Speaker 2: But I do think that there's a lot of red flags to his profile.

00:40:29
Speaker 4: All right, speaking of studs, we might have one in the next one. So CARNL Tait, you've got his comp as George Pickens.

00:40:38
Speaker 2: Yes, yes.

00:40:39
Speaker 3: Oh.

00:40:40
Speaker 1: By the way, someone says this guy sounds like a down spoiler in Indianapolis, so Josh Dollen spoiler. Jacoby Lane is definitely a Chris Ballard type wide receiver for sure.

00:40:50
Speaker 2: For sure.

00:40:51
Speaker 1: Like I don't know if the athleticism is as elite, you know, for Ballard to kind of go after, but I do think that he could be sort of that like perimeter guy that they're they're missing to a degree, But you know, I don't know if if they'll go that route. But the fact that Ady Mitchell was a was a comp is kind of funny, all right. Carnel Tate to George Pickens. This is one that other people have made too, but breakout scores very similar. They're six two and six. Career yards per out, run rates are most identical. Tait, though, is the better prospect overall. I think that needs to be stated. His best season in the yards per team pass attempts is two point seventy three, Pickens two point one zero, And when you adjust those numbers they get even better for both players because of the programs they played at and such. But I do think Tate is the better prospect. Than George Pickens. And the other thing that I did find interesting that is not as comparable is that Tit's a dot was roughly three yards lower than George.

00:41:46
Speaker 2: Pickens a dot in college.

00:41:48
Speaker 1: And I know that Tit is viewed as this deep threat and such, and so I think that's at least interesting when you're making that comp to George Pickens. If you look at their deep ball target rate, Tate was about eleven percentage points lower than George Pickens across their collegiate careers. So, like, I think the comp makes sense stylistically, analytically all of that, but I do think that there are some differences here with with Tate the other the other comp just so people were aware with Tate that the higher end.

00:42:19
Speaker 2: One was, uh was Calvin Ridley.

00:42:21
Speaker 1: And then I think will Fuller was the third one, which you know, will Fuller had his moments in the in the league. It's just he he no one, no one still knows where will Fuller is.

00:42:32
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't.

00:42:32
Speaker 2: I have no idea what happened to will full He.

00:42:35
Speaker 4: Kind of just fell off, yeah, yeah, the face of the earth. Yeah yeah.

00:42:39
Speaker 2: It was bizarre.

00:42:40
Speaker 1: I remember like teams were like ready to sign him seemingly and then he just never played again.

00:42:45
Speaker 4: All Right, this next one kind of hurts a little bit because or not not this next one. Sorry, Going back to George Pickens, it kind of hurts a little bit because as a Titans fan, he was in that twenty twenty two NFL Draft and the Titans that's when they notoriously like fell off the cliff traded AJ Brown got Trailing Burke's and I'm screaming for George Pickens. But people also like thought that his attitude was like the issue, which I mean.

00:43:18
Speaker 1: I mean, I I mean it's it kind of has come to a head, like at least with Pittsburgh and stuff. But I remember that draft thinking that it wasn't a Chicago that was like a lock to get Pickens.

00:43:28
Speaker 2: And then they didn't.

00:43:29
Speaker 4: Yeah, is that what happened.

00:43:31
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the draft right now to make sure that. Yeah, the Bears got y Kyler Gordon in that draft and then Pickens went.

00:43:40
Speaker 4: Pickens went fifty second over.

00:43:42
Speaker 2: Second to Pittsburgh.

00:43:44
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean, like he slipped, and I think the off the field stuff was definitely a problem. And I also will go to the grave I talked about this last year on Twitter and kind of got roasted for it by by mostly Steeler fans. But like, George Pickens is better than DK Metcalf. Yeah, and the Steelers traded a second from Calf. They traded Pickens for a third, and they paid DK Metcalf. And imagine if they were to just get it to work with George Pickens, then they'd be in a way better spot than they are right now.

00:44:11
Speaker 3: Yeah. George Pickens, followed immediately by Alec Pearce sky Moore and then Trey McBride. Is interesting. Four picks in the draft.

00:44:20
Speaker 4: All right, Next we've got Skyler Bell and the comp is Ricky Pearsall who.

00:44:27
Speaker 3: As we know, JJ got shot shot.

00:44:33
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, as that was one of the first late Round shows and it was one of my biggest regrets that I've ever had on on YouTube. Uh speaking of Brian Robinson signed with with Atlanta. Yeah yeah, who got he got?

00:44:44
Speaker 2: He got shot?

00:44:45
Speaker 3: Yeah, he just got shot, not shot.

00:44:47
Speaker 1: Uh. But yeah, So Skyler Bell had a pretty prolific, like like end of his career from a production standpoint. But a couple things about that number. One, when you adjust from mark share, it still looks good. But doesn't look as good.

00:45:02
Speaker 2: Number two. You have to remember that he's older and he's playing a not major major.

00:45:08
Speaker 1: Program is at Yukon. But the Ricky Piersoll comp makes sense to me. I mean, the the ages are pretty similar, coming out almost identical, the height six foot six. The breakout score is better for Pearsall. It's not great. I mean it's thirty five. That's like a less than fiftieth percentile breakout score. Skyler Bell it's twenty two because of the adjustins made for the program that he was playing at. They both had some rushing production, which gets signal within the ZAP model, career arts per out run is pretty similar. First downs per out run is pretty similar. It's just so you got to remember to adjust things for Skyler Bell based on where he played.

00:45:46
Speaker 2: And the other thing too.

00:45:46
Speaker 1: When you look at these comps like I I remember when I was going through the prospecting process of that draft class with Ricky Pearsall a couple of years ago. I liked Pearsaw and then he got surprisingly high draft capital, Like people were not ready for him to be a first round, end of the first round kind of player. It was like I was more in him when he was like a late second early, you know, date like somewhere in Day two kind of player. He was an interesting name because he had this versatile profile, and then he landed in a place in San Francisco that I thought, and we still don't know, could could use sort of that versatile skill set, you know, because Kyle Shanahan likes to use wide receivers in those yak ways, and so I thought, like the landing spot was good, all that sort of thing. But Piersall's profile was not close to like squeaky clean, like it was very much red flags all over the place. Like I said, he's older, his breakout score is not great, and actually in the model right now, I think he has a high risk profile, like it's it's.

00:46:49
Speaker 2: Not the cleanest thing in the world.

00:46:51
Speaker 1: And I don't think Skyler Bell has the cleanest profile in the world either despite people really liking him or you know, I don't mind him as like a Day two guy. But again, and if the hype gets out of control, then we got to bring it in a little bit and just be grounded with with our takes about these players.

00:47:06
Speaker 2: So I do think the comp makes sense and what he can bring to the table.

00:47:09
Speaker 1: He's like an inside out player, can can line up everywhere, you know, and had you know, a longer career because he was you know, he's older coming out as well, just like Pier saw and was versatile. But I don't want this to be taken as like necessarily an awesome thing because Ricky Piersall, in my opinion, wasn't a can't miss type prospect, you know, in general.

00:47:33
Speaker 4: Yeah, I enjoy on these comps seeing when the player incoming players older than the.

00:47:41
Speaker 3: Comp that has been in the league for a few years.

00:47:45
Speaker 1: Yeah, well no, no, no, so that's that's the age when they were coming out.

00:47:48
Speaker 4: Oh okay, I thought that. I was like, Ricky pierceof is only twenty four years old, Like yeah, no.

00:47:52
Speaker 2: No, no, he's like he's already early. Yeah, he's already like twenty six.

00:47:55
Speaker 4: Okay, so this is when, all right, So that makes sense because I looked at him like, I don't know that Pearsaul.

00:48:03
Speaker 1: Is that I didn't know the comp is the comp is looking at age. I should have I should have shouted that out. But the comp is looking at their age coming out, Like Jayden Higgins was twenty two point four coming out last year.

00:48:14
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I probably should have noticed on the Justin Hunter comp to be honest, Yeah, that's true.

00:48:19
Speaker 2: You should have picked that up.

00:48:20
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's like forty. He's like, he's like unk status.

00:48:23
Speaker 2: Justin Hunter is like doing real estate or something right now.

00:48:26
Speaker 3: I don't know. He went to college at UT.

00:48:30
Speaker 4: I think he was a Titan. Then he ended up at the with the Steelers too.

00:48:35
Speaker 1: Yeah, he might have towards the end. He's you know, he's only thirty four right now.

00:48:41
Speaker 4: It seemed like it seems like a long time ago, like fifteen twenty sixteen, Like you said, that seems like that's just such a.

00:48:49
Speaker 2: He's a coach right now.

00:48:50
Speaker 1: He's he's the offensive quality control coach for the University of Memphis.

00:48:54
Speaker 3: There you go, Yeah, what is.

00:48:55
Speaker 4: The What does the quality control coach do? I've always wondered this, Probably.

00:49:01
Speaker 1: Just like make sure that they're like that, that the offenses is quality and controlled.

00:49:08
Speaker 4: That's as much of a clue as I do about the quality. It just seems like we talked about the name in title only.

00:49:16
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean they're like, oh, we can get an x nfler.

00:49:18
Speaker 4: Yeah right, it's get a guy. It seems like you know that it's like, at least with the video assistant, you know, you know kind.

00:49:25
Speaker 3: Of what they're doing. But the quality of control.

00:49:27
Speaker 1: I'm sure, Look, I'm sure he's doing something to help their like at least they're wide receivers.

00:49:31
Speaker 4: And someone in the comments let us know what a what quality control coach is and what the next step step up is from a quality control coach. Please, all right, let's wrap this up. I am a top of this bracket and this picture JJ for the audio listeners that's after.

00:49:58
Speaker 2: What is this?

00:50:00
Speaker 4: Okay?

00:50:00
Speaker 2: Just right now? Yeah, Oh, you're the top because you're it's your entry.

00:50:05
Speaker 4: It's my screenshot.

00:50:06
Speaker 2: J Drews is number two.

00:50:07
Speaker 1: Aaron Todd by the way, Aaron Thomas in the discord, who is part of this. Yeah, as a like ninety nine point fifth percentile bracket right now. Yeah, yeah, mine's in the ninety eighth percentile, man, ninety eight point four.

00:50:21
Speaker 4: Mine was doing so good until the Vandy upsets.

00:50:24
Speaker 2: I had Vandy also in the Elite eight. Yeah, I have my my big thing.

00:50:29
Speaker 1: My big thing is that I have Tennessee in the final four and if that hits, yeah, I'm in the money.

00:50:36
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm good.

00:50:38
Speaker 4: There was I saw on Reddit there was a guy that predicted like forty four or forty eight picks correctly.

00:50:45
Speaker 3: In one of these big contests.

00:50:47
Speaker 2: Yeah, then a method and then.

00:50:49
Speaker 3: Didn't fill out the rest of the bracket.

00:50:52
Speaker 4: Oh really, Yes, that's got a stake to get forty four or forty eight and then not fill out the rest of your bracket.

00:51:00
Speaker 1: I do a better max score than you two, though Brandon Brand's got ten points better max score. Brandon has a better max than both of us.

00:51:06
Speaker 4: Yeah, this is this is in the top I just pulled the top ten in the screen show.

00:51:11
Speaker 2: It is crazy and funny.

00:51:12
Speaker 1: How like, obviously the demographic of us is not like the people that are in the discord are not called like necessarily college basketball fans.

00:51:20
Speaker 2: But look how many like nine of the how many are in there?

00:51:23
Speaker 1: This like sixteen Because we did this very late in the process, there's not like like eighteen I think. Yeah, and half of them are in the ninetieth percent. Tyler better right now. Yeah, that just goes to show we got we got some sharp, chocky listeners and supporters.

00:51:39
Speaker 4: Yeah, I thought there are most people. I think I think like Duke was the most popular pick, and everyone's going game theory. As you see, no one's picking Duke like Duke in the late rounders. Discord was like the because everyone's like, oh everyone's picking Duke, I need to pick someone else.

00:51:58
Speaker 2: Yeah, the first big duke's going.

00:52:01
Speaker 4: Yeah.

00:52:02
Speaker 1: I mean, but they've been they've been not looking great so far to start the uh attorney, Hey, I mean they so to be fair, I was at a dance competition last weekend and I was keeping track of the scores and I saw that TCU was like ahead by a.

00:52:15
Speaker 2: Point or something in the second half.

00:52:17
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then what did they go in like a forty to three run or something that ridiculous? Yeah, crazy, That's classic Jamie Dixon.

00:52:24
Speaker 2: I know that as a as a pit alum.

00:52:27
Speaker 3: So what happened in that game?

00:52:29
Speaker 4: I know we've we've already talked about all the football stuff, But what happened in that game is that they missed a goaltending call. Uh so they lost by thirty because no, it was like a four to six point game.

00:52:40
Speaker 3: They missed the goaltending call. Dixon goes irate.

00:52:44
Speaker 4: Yeah, the ref that missed the goaltending call, tease him up. Oh and so at two points then they get two points and they score three. Ever since that goaltending call, they scored like they went on the that just insane.

00:52:58
Speaker 1: Jamie Dixon could be a villain and in like about like he looks like the Iceland coach from a Mighty He has slick back hair and stuff and.

00:53:06
Speaker 4: I could I could see it.

00:53:08
Speaker 2: Yeah.

00:53:09
Speaker 4: Speaking of movies, JJ, we watched The Goat last night with Steph Curry. Yeah. The movie sports. Uh you know movie with your kids that you can watch.

00:53:19
Speaker 1: Yeah.

00:53:19
Speaker 3: So yeah, that's all that's all I got JJ. As far as sports.

00:53:24
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00:53:53
Speaker 3: Any closing thoughts.

00:53:55
Speaker 1: Uh No, Perspectives comes out on Friday and it's a guest that's never.

00:53:58
Speaker 2: Been on that night.

00:54:01
Speaker 1: I'm super super pumped to talk to him. To him, I've known him for years, but never I've never done a show with him. I have talked to him and known him for a really long time, but this will be the first show that we do together, so I'm excited for that.

00:54:14
Speaker 2: That'll drop on Friday.

00:54:15
Speaker 3: Awesome.

00:54:17
Speaker 4: Well, JJ, appreciate you being on the show, appreciate everyone that tuned in, and as you're COO.

00:54:25
Speaker 3: JJ, let me just say you're doing a great job as CEO.

00:54:29
Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you.

00:54:30
Speaker 4: Well, that being said, we'll see you next time here in the Late Round Fantasy Football show. Peace