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"You have to bring in guys like Myles Garrett, David Njoku, and Jabrill Peppers in the same draft and so you start bringing in, because you're at that low point, you can bring in the right culture guys."
"I love the fact that they didn't have to give up any picks."
"A trade is going down that moves the team into the top three of the first round."
"I truly believe if Trey Lance and Mac Jones are both sitting there at number nine and they decide to go quarterback, they will go with Mac Jones over Trey Lance." - James Palmer
"These are the running backs that you're going to decide who to take in those all-important first picks of your draft."
"The disparity between where Jonathan Taylor gets drafted and where J.K. Dobbins, who fits that almost to a T, says Dobbins is probably a value."
"The average draft price of the top 12 quarterbacks... finished in the top 12."
"A running back that goes in the first round anyway not gonna happen with the saints unless Alvin Kamara never plays again."
"He's a beast. He's someone that like, you know, I'd be upset that he would go at 35 with the Giants at 36."
"One of my favorite parts about Underdog is the draft."
"Every single pick is important to this organization. It's the seventh rounder if you put a value of importance on the pick number you're doing it wrong every single pick."
"There's advantage to looking at Edge rusher and defense in this 10 to 15 20 range."
"If you're going to get your Edge rushers in the first and then get your receivers in the second basically you're talking about value positions."
"Dalton Redmond might be the best player in the draft."
"Sometimes you just have to take the best player available and figure out the rest."
"This is mental dude, these drafts are actually insane, they're crazy."
"Having five years of contract control over somebody this talented... makes him worth 19th overall."
"This is what the draft should be, let people play with icons."
"Tanking is driven by circumstances. Most commonly this means teams see an opportunity to go after a specific guy in the draft or more simply the opportunity to lose for some kind of benefit."
"Rashad Penny is an absolute must-draft target in the sixth round."
"Portland was in perfect position to take Lillard by the time he'd fallen to them."
"Wide receiver value in rounds three, four, even five is so deep, so good."
"Let's start trading away some players and getting as many draft picks as possible."
"I want to acquire as many draft picks as possible."
"A massive trade: Desean Hand in number nine to move all the way up to number one."
"This is just a player we have to draft. No way around it."
"I think we've crushed it in the draft so far."
"It confirms and validates what I knew, that they wasted a couple of draft picks early."
"I'll be completely fine drafting Terry McLaurin."
"Themed drafts work so well at the end of the year."
"He reminds me of Steve Smith Senior, why wouldn't I take a Steve Smith Senior in the first round? He could return kicks and punts, he could help my team be better."
"The real way to team build in the NBA is through the draft."
"There's a lot of talent outside of the top picks."
"Please don't go into drafts going okay I need this stack 100 of the time go in with a flexible mindset."
"At least think about it when it comes to your draft and use this thought process a little bit and then determine what is going to be the best for you."
"If I could start off Justin Jefferson and CD Lamb back to back in the first two rounds of a full PPR league, the league's over."
"People were taking [Devin Singletary] in the sixth round. That's what I would tell people personally to do."
"Damian Williams is still the primary guy. I'm still drafting him if I'm drafting right now."
"Deandre Hopkins is worth every single penny of the selection of the ADP draft."
"This is what I would do mock draft trying to make the best decision for all 32 teams based on my own evaluations."
"Tyler Boyd, Superstar Dev by the way. I can't believe I took a safety at number one. This might be the only time I've ever done this in franchise history because I don't agree with it."
"The Texans made this video because I think they did a really good job with their most recent draft class."
"Moved up two rounds for literally nothing. I think that's a pretty good move."
"Welcome to 'I traded for every draft pick in the 2003 NBA draft and re-simulated NBA history.'"
"We need all hands on deck between him, Rhodes, Nance, who we got in the draft, our third corner Bolden, who we got in the draft."
"I snagged him up in the third round. He is a four and a half red star potential center playmaker."
"Your season's wrecked, but this draft is very QB heavy at the top."
"I took Tucker in the fourth round of my friends and family Dynasty League. Nice, and everyone was like who and I'm like just, just you wait."
"Why not fourth round? We got the top-rated fullback."
"If Jordan loves the only first-round guy don't you think you should use your pick then?"
"Big Ben is the quarterback 27. He is in a super flex league, one of your last picks."
"Are you drafting them just in case? Yeah, I would be willing to draft Trey Lance just in case."
"Hover Nocturne in draft to encourage AP picks."
"The only way to make your roster sustainable and to have year-over-year success is to draft well."
"Brad Holmes showed last night that I ain't missing my guy, I'm getting them."
"Professional field... This is um not this ain't your mama's draft okay this is not a safe draft this is an upside trying to win a championship draft."
"That's my favorite pick also because getting him where we did, I'm like, 'That's true value.'"
"Is giving up a second-round draft pick for Jimmy G a bad deal? I don't think so."
"If you get them in the draft and figure out the rest after, it's a really good strategy."
"Same thing with Zeke Elliott, if Melvin Gordon is sitting at the time of your draft it's easy, cross his name off the list and just move on."
"To me, it's a can't-miss pick here for them."
"Lamar Jackson in the fifth round is someone who still to me has the ceiling of being a top three quarterback."
"Nine of the top tight ends in advance rates last year were drafted after pick 150."
"Every draft is profit no matter what in my opinion."
"I would be taking Barkley as the number one overall player in every single format in the world."
"Embrace it. If you take care of your offensive line and your interior defensive line, there's a path. I am okay taking the back in round one."
"Crystal Lobby has an ADP of 43 so you're getting Crystal Lobby in the middle of the fourth round instead of the middle of the second round."
"There are such few teams that should actually be able to compete for the number one pick."
"If you're looking for value gains from people avoiding him early in drafts, Cam Akers is a player to take advantage of."
"If we could just get this three times more often, you could hit on him as a day two draft pick and steal a superstar defensive tackle."
"For a heck of an athlete, for a guy that I think maybe it takes him a year to get there but a day three pick would be exactly the kind of value I'd be targeting in Luke McCaffrey."
"If you reach relative to the consensus board, the chances of you screwing up that pick are massive. But part of it I think is the league is catching up a little bit to position value as much as some people fight against it."
"...so I love that I mean my Pro Comp on Trey Benson on the high end was Jonathan Taylor on the low end I said Isaiah Pacho if you get anything in between those two players with a second pick in the third round that is a certified steal for me..."
"This made sense to me. You know, value checked out. I had a first to a second round grade on him. I didn't really put this together until after he went to the ners, but I was like, you know what, there is a lot of Brandon Auk in his game."
"Then you go day three, definitely from a value perspective, the best thing the Niners did in my opinion and one of my favorite picks as a whole."
"This was my favorite draft in terms of my board, my guys, taking guys that I genuinely would have drafted if I was in the GM chair. I loved this, especially because the GM there, John Schneider, went to my alma mater, University of St. Thomas."
"Take the value that falls to you."
"I'm telling you straight up, the Los Angeles Rams called the Las Vegas Raiders about pick 13."
"For who they'd take first overall, you'd have to think it would be someone who could contribute immediately but has some upside too."
"Washington currently has the luxury of being able to draft pretty much anything; they can gamble on lead ball handlers, swing on high upside wings, or even just draft elite role players who can help fill the cracks of their roster for the foreseeable future."
"They are in a very interesting position heading into this year's NFL Draft."
"No matter what picks you have in the draft, you have to know what you're doing."
"He's the best player available, how this mock is constructed."
"We want to be targeting running backs with league-winning upside in the first three rounds."
"In superflex, quarterbacks suddenly get pushed up the board."
"If you want safety, if you want risk aversion early on in the draft, you should be drafting wide receivers, quarterbacks, or tight ends in the early round."
"The Eagles have football's most complete roster, so it's definitely difficult to predict where they'll go here."
"Arizona's defense is a mess... but taking Alabama's Will Anderson Jr will quickly fill up several of their needs."
"You don't draft for need in the third round, you just take good players."
"I'm drafting him at his floor, I love him."
"The truth is that the reason why Kyle Shanahan drafted Trey Lance is because he needed something different than Jimmy Garoppolo."
"It's the most straightforward pick of the whole draft."
"High risk, high reward pick that I think is very well worth it at this point in the draft."
"We've built the foundation and excited to get a blue chip, a blue player at one and nine."
"When you talk about getting an edge, doing something that gets you over the hump, clearly looking at stuff that's available in the draft and picking pieces and putting it together as a team is something Sam Presti is pretty damn gifted at."
"Let's get it right, so let's get the top quarterback on our board."
"It's going to be hard for them to pass up on that."
"You want to be as trash as possible so you can land another high-level prospect."
"That's one of the best things about drafting older guys, they pretty much know who they are."
"NBA draft picks are forever underrated."
"If I hit on a running back and then enable to supplant RB2 production later in the draft, my team will have virtually no flaws."
"The reason why we run a hero RB is to follow the same basic principles about the zero RB draft strategy but try and get access to a running back profile that we think can have legendary upside."
"I think we're already to a point in this draft where it just doesn't even matter where the players ranked, what ADP is; just take the guy you want, get your guy."
"You should not be drafting scared, you should be going after those high ceiling options."
"You're better off having the first pick than the 10th pick in any draft."
"The entire purpose of today's video is to give you more confidence as you approach your 2023 Fantasy Football Draft."
"I'm not telling you not to draft Derrick Henry, I'm telling you to just be smart about where you take him."
"There's nothing better than having steals in the draft and developing that talent."
"Just draft two good running backs early because wide receiver is a deep position, quarterbacks deep, tight ends deep."
"The reason we are drafting these running backs early and doing a double hero RB build is because we're trying to take a lottery ticket shot on a legendary season."
"There's going to be a player in these later rounds that's going to end up being one of the better players in this draft; it happens every year."
"All dynasty fantasy football drafts rely around making the correct decisions on the board."
"Draft picks are just opportunity; you got to capture that, you got to be right with your draft picks."