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is slightly better, and it has nothing to do with injuries. I would be just fine if I miss Greg Olsen, I come back around and get Jordan Read. I'm cool with it. Okay, all right, there you go. How about Melvin Gordon? He had microfracture surgery in January. How much concern is there for Melvin Gordon? Who look for folks when he came out of Wisconsin. Man, there was so much hype surrounding Melvin Gordon goes down to San Diego. You figure, okay, you're gonna pair him with Philip Rivers. They're gonna get gone. Didn't happen. Melvin Gordon looked absolutely terrible last year? What are his projections here for Wisconsin running backs? Man? Am I right? Am? I? Right? Am? I right? Am? I right? Can I can I give an analogy here place? Because I was all about ready to start driving the Melvin Gordon bandwagon for and it's sort of like you get in the car, you load up, you're on the freeway, and then somebody says, oh, I forgot to check the oil. Oh it's like something you got to stop and make sure everything's okay. Like, I still want to believe that Melvin Gordon is gonna be okay this year. He's done. No, he's not done. He's going to be better. He is going to be better. And I really feel like, I mean, you're so confident in that though, But I think he could be one of those kind of mid round bargains, like a guy you get in like the fifth round. No, just shaking his head at mirror. His knee is dangerous. I don't want to get an I don't want to get getting an Xbox one for Christmas and having a net work. You're so fired up. You're like, this is the greatest thing ever, Like why doesn't this thing work? And then that the bougie you know, Sears brand knockoff atari that I grew up with that ends up working, and that's Danny Woodhead. Okay, it still works, still works. Danny Woodhead is the trio I get that. I get to uh, noalogies falling apart quickly. I get to uh because I'm you know, cobbling together all the all the all the rankings and everything. Danny Woodhead just seems to be forgotten year in year out. He's one of those guys that I I love to wait on running backs and I will sit there and I'll take them super late, and I end up having to start him half the time at least as you're kind of streaming them and doing things like that. And he's a reliable player. And when you look at the way the Chargers, how their season is gonna unfold, I don't expect them to be very good. I expect them to be trailing in a lot of games, which means they won't be in a lot of obvious running situations, which means they're gonna have to throw the ball a lot. And in those packages, Danny Woodhead is the more valuable player. And I know a lot of people like to like that kind of like dip their toe in there, like PPR Like no, no no, no, I'm not saying Pete. I'm saying straight up, straight up, he's a valuable running back. Look at the guys, like every year he's amongst the best, especially when you look at his points a game. Yeah, I think that he's way undervalued. In Melvin Gordon,

it seems like a great idea, Like you think, like that's the twelfth round. I'll take Melvin Gordon. See what happened, Like what, You're just gonna end up cutting him. It's not working out. I don't think he'll get into the twelfth round. I think somebody will take a stab at him and at least by round nine. Yeah, I'm you know, It's it's so funny because I'm like, I'm way off on that. I'm so I have not put it into my mind like where I'm gonna put in um put these guys like the U C l A. The kid who played at U c l A. Here's with the Giants now. Um, not Farmer, but um the running back, Paul Perkins. Paul Perkins. Excuse me. Uh, I'm sitting there and I was doing a sleeper's column or something, and I'm like, you know what I'm gonna I'm gonna make Paul Perkins one of my last picks. I love it. I'm gonna laugh at all you guys for not staying up late to watch U c l A games. He's gonna go out there and he's gonna son a bunch of people and you're all gonna be pissed because I'm gonna have him on my team. And I'm like, I feel it pretty good about that. I'm feeling confident. And then Brad Evans is like, yeah, he'll be going in the night round. I'm like, damn it. And then I had to I had to reach out to him, like, hey, Brad, I go, um, you know, we don't have to give away the whole farm. Like, I get it. We're trying to help people here. I get that. I'm not. I'm like, hey, just just keep a couple to ourselves. Mind. I would agree that in Cleveland Hugh Jackson calls Duke and Crow quote as good of a duel as I've seen in a while. If by a while he means the last month, it's probably pretty accurate. I can't out of imagine what's it like? He doesn't mean them as running backs, right? I think, what if they're really good at horse or something? First of all, the whole, the whole, like Duke Crow. That's a pretty sweet sound, like a band, kind of an awesome superhero. I think I think it could be a band, right, like a like a folk band, like Old Crow Medicine. I would agree with that. I like it. I like it a lot um. And maybe that's what he was referencing, because I cannot imagine he's referencing them as a running back tandom uh, coming from Cincinnati where he just saw Geo Bernard and Jeremy Hill. I cannot imagine Duke and Crow being as good as that combination. I could be wrong, I don't know. I feel like we can just take these next two stories on our list and merge them together as examples of offseason smoke screen. Okay, the next story is why the Raiders GM. It's so weird though, because the thing with m Hugh Jackson, because you know, we've had Byron Scott as the coach of the Lakers for the last couple of years, who would go out and just rip his young talent. Yeah, these guys aren't good, so it's like, yeah, he doesn't deserve to play. Yeah, cancer coaches strike hit the middle, be like yeah, like we'd like to improve, but what are you gonna do? I love the one you're with, right, That's what we're gonna do. I'm gonna run. I mean, I guys, I gotta feel the team. I mean,

if I had to translate that into coach speak, I mean, couldn't you just be like, look, these guys got a lot to prove and and I and I believe in them. I think that's a solid middle ground and also coach speak. And but here's saying the Raiders GM said DeAndre Washington, Uh, the rookie out of Texas Tech and running back they drafted in the later rounds. He is a quote complete back for some reason, Alex Gelhar in this rundown asked us, is this sleeper potential? No? Watch DeAndre Washington play like I don't know, like ten plays. No, like DeAndre Washington is a good player. I'm not even saying he's not. He's not a good play. But he's a change of pace guy. That's it. That's what he is. He's five eight two oh five, good speed, not great speed, but good speed. Uh good pass catching guy. Came from a wide open system there in Texas tech. I don't know. I mean, yeah, I like to I like the pick by the Raiders. I think it's a smart pick to get a change of pace guy, you know, a complete back. Certain certain teams, certain franchises always have a problem filling certain position. I mean, the Dodgers haven't had a third basement since Ron say Um. Adrian Beltre alright, but he wasn't that great with the Dodger. He left with the Seattle and got better anyway, that's actually true. The point is, I just have a feeling that the Raiders are going to struggle to fill that running back spot adequately. Mean, let's Savius Murray is good enough, but he's not he's not outstanding. He's not a Tier one running back and I don't know that he's going to be. And now if they're trying to you know, force feet as this idea that DeAndre Washington has complete back. Come on, man, stop, come on man. I don't Yeah, I just know I I do hate to play the old Hey he went to this college, so it's not going to translate except when it comes to tax and I'm like nothing, it's something about what's going on there now it I just thought when they were drafting, yeah, and I'll have to go back and look at some of the guys. Where'd they take him sixth round? They took him late fifth round. I thought it was still Yeah. I thought it was old reason like, I was like, yeah, you could go for a better running back there. I don't know, it just seemed a little I think they do. I think they want to make some men. I think they use. You saw Laddie Murray at any time last year, You're like, yeah, they need help. They really do need to running back. I wish they would have addressed it a little bit sooner in the draft. I kind of wish they had taken a page out of the Cowboys book and the Cowboys didn't necessarily have a need at running back, but they said, you know what, for our team to make that next step, we need to really solid running back. And we're gonna look back at the days of the Triplets with Aikman, Emmet Michael Irvin and try to replicate that a little bit here with Tony Romo, Death Bryant and we'll throw in Ezekiel Elliott and we'll see what happens. And I feel the Raiders are very close to uh to that as well. And where you got your franchise quarterback at Marie Cooper, I think is gonna be one of the breakout stars of the league in two thousand and sixteen. Why not have a running back that you think that you could kind of build your offense around. There was there was enough guys there in this draft that I think you could have tried to go in a little bit sooner than you did waiting until the fifth round. Any sleeper potential for DeAndre Washington? I mean he's an NFL player, so not a star. So yeah, okay, okay, uh what do you think? Um? I mean, he's not draft he's he's not He's not a draftable guy, not at all? Okay, not at all? Right. Sam Braffort returns to Eagles practice. Does it mean anything? Does that mean anything? It means he's back. That's opposite that is inaccurate. He just got punked so hard. I know, he just got like he just look terrible. He got crushed on social media. I hope he doesn't have Twitter, because man, it looks it looks mercized, oversized shoulder pads. He was the kid who threw a tantrum in the middle of the store and his mom just was like whatever whatever, bro walking away, and all the pagent just look at him and they they shaken the heads. They sympathize with the mother, not the kid. Your kid sucks, you know what I'm saying. I hear it happens. Doesn't mean I knew that with that Philly off Everybody used to shoot that look to my mom when I was a youngster. So for the Philly offense, they really do need. But they could go um with Chase Daniel like there's really and I don't think that there's much of a difference between the two. I think they don't want to rush. Here's the thing, they don't want to rush. Carson wentz out there. She says that week nine, he's starting like it just the way it goes like that's the time. I mean, in today's NFL, that's waiting every I know every time they're like, we're gonna give this guy a red shirt gear and it's like Blake Bortles is starting a week like it doesn't like that doesn't work out, Like Carson Wentz is playing at some point hopefully that the line is playing well enough so he's not being besieged by the pass rush. But he's gonna go out there and he's gonna play at some point this season, so it really doesn't matter. And how healthy. I mean, Sam Bradford would probably stay healthy for like what six games. Let him play those six games will get hurt. Put in Chase Daniel till it's like, all right, a little bridge season. Now we're gonna go out. We're gonna put in our guy, and you know what, and he's now he's not the guy I think it's gonna do. I think that Paxton Lynch really it bums me out that that Denver just was able to pull that move off. The guy. I think he's going to be the best one, I really do. I know you're a you're a GoF fan, but I don't see it. I like one too. I like one too. I just uh, the we're not gonna if he was a four year starter at a small school. Like I'm into that, but it's like, yeah, he was injury prone at North Tip. That's that's that's that's like

Steve McNair point. I might be romanticizing the past, but I think that like Steve McNair was like a legit college star. For he was a legit star. I mean, he was a guy that you saw highlights of on Sports Center. Like for like a couple of years, I didn't know who Carson Wentz was until like March Daniel Jeremiah pulled him out of the air. I mean, I don't know. Like Daniel, he's like the Paul Hayman of NFL Scouts, where he's like, I'm just gonna take somebody obscure and I'm gonna make him and then all of a sudden, I gotta I gotta here comes I gotta have a boy DJ's back, because I'm a production assist. He's he's he does his homework. Of course, absolutely just gave DJ a huge complex. I know, I'm just saying I'm not just scorching. I don't think it's great. I don't know, but you're saying pulling it out of the air, like, well, know what nobody was talking about him? Wentz Wentz had there was there was no draft expert talking about draft did it. I mean he won four everyone four titles. People were people knew who he was. People people knew who he was. It's like it's like going to the comic book store because it was free Comic book Day on Saturday and listening to Comic Book Day talking about talking about like obscure comic book characters and like really getting into it. Like those people knew who Carson Wentz. I'm talking about the people, even people who follow college football because he's not a Division one college, so it's not like somebody was playing, Like if there's a standout at San Diego State, you'll eventually see him or something like that. This guy nobody was seeing unless you watch. I mean, my birthday is in December, so I always love the one double a playoffscar well the first the first game too was when they went on the road to Montana. But that Montana game was great. I kind of get it, so I kind of But again, he was talking about him until DJ brought up, and I think what Rankings saying is that DJ is just a straight he is a trend sitter. Agree, I just I don't. I don't. I don't like you. Okay, let's talk about to hold on before you go on to answer your Sam Bradford Twitter question. Yes, I couldn't find one but uh an official one. But he has us at Sam Bradford Sleeves Bradford Sleeves, so you might be able to get ahold of him there. I don't know. Maybe possibly we shall see. Uh that's good. I hope he's if he If he was on social media, A lot of folks probably like, bro, would you be the late your Twitter account? So if you were a uh an NFL quarterback, would you have a Twitter account? I would not? I think quarterback you can't. There's too much criticism and everybody goes like, people come after you way too much. Unless are like Aaron Rodgers. No like even his like it makes him look worse. He doesn't. He doesn't. I got the only quarterback who was hurt by his Twitter accounts? Well too, there's there's r G three and Colin Kaepernick because they're way yeah right, and then they start posting nonsensical stuff. Yeah, I don't like it. Inspirational quote. Can we talk about top one. Alright, let's talk about NFL NFL dot com. I have the whole list. Can we go into it? Yeah? Please of the NFL top one hundred, like the guy who's gonna win it all? Uh, how is nobody stopping me? I? First of all, I don't have I would. I would say, no, secret, very unlikely you had the topic. It's funny because you'll ask like, hey, we're we're doing something. Who's you just asked? No, no, no, no no. I thought, literally, I thought I was gonna be thrown in jail. They made me go out to the security office. Were all the sched Here's the people at home are very confused right now. They came in trying to listen to a fantasy podcast. Instead they got Adam Rank talking about nonsense. That's right? Did I not give a legitimate take about the Raiders? All right? Talk one. We're talking about the top one hundred, not the top one hundred players give the NFL today. That's a great show that you can find a great show. But that I mean, we're we could, we could, we could. We're talking about top one hundred fantasy players for six team, not at the top one. We're projecting ahead, giving you our top one hundred going into next year, and we'll start at the number one overall position. We've got a lot of different names here, So here's the here's the list. It's it's Fabs, it's Marcus, it's Adam Rank, it's at Alex Gelhar, who unfortunately is not here to defend his some of his more interesting picks. So we're gonna just trash him. We're gonna trash the crap out of him. Um, I'm in and uh, I just made a top on list yesterday as well, at the behest of Adam Rank. Thank you for getting on me to to make that list. I was very Uh it's funny because if anybody watches the danger Zone, Uh, this will come as no surprise. But our top three not necessarily in the same order, but the top three guys there you go. Alright, so the top three, let's talk about top number one overall. Fabs as Levi on Bell, Uh, Marcus Grant, talk about your pick number one overall. I got Todd Gurley because I know that it has become kind of passe to go running back at the top of the draft. But I feel like there are so few franchise running backs right now. Um that if there's a chance for you to grab one, I think you go out and you do it early. And I like Todd Gurley over Levian Bell or Adrian Peter Sinner, Jamal Charles. It's a combination of youth and upside and just flat out nastiness and ability, and I think he has all of that. I know he doesn't doesn't necessarily catch passes the way we've seen with Levian Bell, but I don't think it's a lack of ability. I just think it's kind of a lack of opportunity. And until Jared Goff kind of gets going and figures things out a little bit, I think that the Rams are going to lean very heavily on Girling. So I think that, uh, you know, there are no sure things. There's never a sure thing, but I feel like if there is something close to one, it's girly at the top. So Alex Gelhart and Adam Rank both have Antonio

Brown number one. But here's it's it's interesting to me right because I think Marcus, you've got Levian two. Alex has Levan two. Adam you and I are a little bit more aligned here with Levian Bills value. You've got him at six. I've got them all the way down at eight of the of us uh four or five, I've got him the lowest. I've got him at eight. Yeah, I actually was thinking about dropping him a little bit. UM, tell me why you've got Antonio Brown number one. I like the consistency, and I feel that he's the best receiver in the game. And I understand I don't want to give away who your pick was, but I really feel confident with him, and I think that this Steeler's offense, I think it goes to show like how great this is when the two guys that we're debating the most about it seems to be Levian Bell or Antonio Brown, just how prolific that offense is. Um, isn't that Todd Hailey has him playing well at Ben Roethlisberger. You know, he never gets into the conversation as elite quarterback unless you're talking to Dave Damage. But outside, like a lot of people don't talk about him as an elite quarterback. But we're talking about an offense that has the top receiver, the top running back in fantasy football. Now they they've they've added Laddie Green, which should help with them. They do miss a little bit because Martavis Bryant is a bigger part of that offense, and a lot of people think, but Marcus Wheaton should be able to come in there and step in and sleep provide definitely. And so I like Antonio Brown to just get They get so many targets in a great offense, and I think that it's feasible for him to approach twenty touchdowns. I actually I think he'll get about twenty touchdowns time number. Like he's gonna have one of those magical seasons and he's gonna go out there and dominate. And I know last year in all my leagues where I was able to nab Antonio Brown safe for one, I think I won all of them because it was such a great thing, uh to have somebody that you can count on, week week out. And even though the the the weeks with Michael Vick were straight up dukes, but even with Landry Jones, he was out there and he was able to do pretty well. And when you have the wide reason, when you have a wide reason, when your wide receivers are good, it makes your your fantasy season like so so much easier, and I know and I and I talked about this team that I play with my buddies in Chicago, where I had Antonio Brown, DeAndre Hopkins, Alan Robinson, I was benching A J. Green. Oh god, because like we started too and had one flex and was just crazy. So it's just a great cushion to have there. And I think the running backs are so interchangeable. Like Marcus said, there's really not a out of franchise running backs that you can count on weekend, week out. So I would rather have the wide receiver that I know is gonna be consistent and put up points each and every week. So my top one hundred, I actually have Odell Beckham Jr. Number one. Like it, And the reason and the reason for it is because again we're watching a guy who's already a superstar and he is still I think, figuring his way out into this league. I think he's still got potential to be even better. I think when the Giants, now you know, um, with their with their new headcup, I think that it's gonna be a more wide open system. I love the draft pick of Sterling Shepard opening up stuff for Odell Beckham Jr. As well, I'm really I'm all in on both Odell Beckham and Eli Man. I'm all in on both of those guys. I really think they're gonna have a special season this year. Um, I've got them number one. Overall. It was very close because my number two guy is Antonio Brown. As I mentioned, I got Levian Bell all the way down at eight because you know, just so many concerns over injuries. But I think about injuries too. To Antonio Brown versus Odell Beckham. Antonio Brown, look, he got I mean just laid out in the playoffs. You're telling me that NFL dbs aren't taking notice of that and saying, you know what, man, bro he got he got hit in the head. I mean I would hit him like that. You can't club him in the head. I would say, if that's your concern, I would have more worries about Odell Beckham because I think the people are gotting for him. Well, the one thing we saw everybody saw that Josh Norman thing, right, I mean not so not so much that, but just the fact that the one thing people have said about him and that you can be physical with him and you can take him out of his game. A little bit and you can get in his head a little bit more. Yeah, the thing with Antonio Brown was just the flat out, you know, outside the balance of priety sort of thing. Um. I mean, if that's what it takes, the slow Antonio Brown down, then well, you know, sorry about your love. Look, there's a little bit of that for me, and a lot more of it has injury concerns due to to Ben Roethlisberg. I know he played okay with Jones, but um again, I still think there's a lot of concern there for me. Eli Manning, Who's who's Eli's back? I have no idea, but Eli Manning still Ryan Nassip, Yeah, I think you're right. But Eli Manning has been an absolute workhorse. He's been an iron man out there, which, okay, that's fair enough. It's like, look here here's my he's my here's my top three, and it's all wide receivers, Odell, Antonio Brown and DeAndre Hopkins. Look, I don't mean to to talk down Antonio, but I love him. I've got the number two overall, so I mean clearly, you know I see Antonio Brown as being an absolute beast. Um, I've got I've got four wide receivers in the top Fokay, we flip flop uh Antonio Brown and O B J. We both have DeAndre Hopkins three and Julio at four at number four. Yeah, that's interesting, that's but that's I mean, when you're sitting there that you want, I just think about consistency and and you know, again, when you're sitting on top of the draft, I'm just I'm so concerned about injuries. That's my number one thing, you know. And if you know, the one thing about

Levian Bell too, Yeah, and and a lot of people have told me this, who have questioned why I had him a little bit lower than most people is I'm I'm afraid that he will lose some time to the Angela Williams because he played so well last year. And and here's the thing, a lot of people will come back to it, like, well, you know, when he came off his suspension, d' angelo Williams went to the bench. You're right, but now you're talking about an injury. Now, They're like, because when I I would imagine that the Steelers coaching staff looks at this now and says, yeah, I kind of wish we would have eased him back in Rybe. We shouldn't have rushed him back in Maybe we should have used D'Angelo a little bit more, and they could start floating more towards a committee because they realized if we would have had Levian Bell playoffs, they probably win the a f C. There at least in the they would have beaten Denver for sure. I don't disagree with that. I really honestly don't disagree with that. It's it's interesting when I look at my running back rankings. I've got Todd Gurley as my number one running back. Then I've got Zeke Elliott, then David Johnson, then Levi on Bell. I know a lot of that, a lot of that is projecting, like I'm I'm thinking, okay here, well yeah, exactly. Uh And sometimes he's right, no, But I mean, because here's the things. Sometimes these rankings, um, I think they I think a lot of times rankings favor to heavily production. That's just my opinion. Um, And it's hard to get away from that, ye rookie. Yeah, but you know what, man, here's you're ranking the that sweet offensive lining gets thround. I am, yeah, And I'm also ranking the fact like that, and I'm ranking. The fact that Darren McFadden got fourteen hundred total yards last year. Darren McFadden got fourteen hundred total yards last yet and he wasn't even the starter going into the season. That's amazing. Here's what I say to that. And I'm sorry if I cut you off. No, no, um. When everybody questions how because Ezekiel Elliott is way, I have him at fifth overall. He's my number one running back and people like this is crazy, and I said, look at look at it this way. Think of the impact Todd Gurley had last year. Yes, not playing a full season, playing on a team with a head coach who really doesn't know what he's doing without a quarterback. No, I don't mean I can listen, he can't go. I don't mean that have bad but no no receivers around him. So now Ezekiel Elliott is walking into a team with probably the best offensive line in football, with a quarterback who is a upper echelon quarterback in the league, and des Bryant who is ready to come back and take over the league once again. This is the perfect situation for him. I think anybody any and again, and I know you're making a joke about overranking the offensive line or I really like any running back he goes if if if they wouldn't have drafted Ezekiel Elliott, I would have Freddy Morris on the top fifty. I would imagine I would I

would be into it. But he's the guy. They drafted him fourth overall. They're gonna play him. I know. It's like, I know they got other running backs there, but you don't draft somebody fourth overall the bench, not when you want to win a Super Bowl this year? Uh, where does Marcus Mark? Because where do you got Zeke? I got him a nine. I mean, he's so we all have him pretty down high. I don't. I mean, I just don't think he's getting out of the first round. And you know, I've seen kind of like I'm sure that you guys have putting people who think it's nuts to consider a rookie that highly in draft. But I just think the situation mixed with this, I mean, we talked about the guy who was far and away considered the number one running back prospect in the draft. I mean, it wasn't even close, and he's going to the team with the best offensive line in football. I just don't know how that as an it's a great production. I think a lot of folks, you know, the naysayers, I think will say Melvin Gordon bro you know, but I I you know again, I think it's a different But he wasn't going to a team of the great offensive line, the charge offensive line. Dumpster fire is not good. Ezekiel Elliott was dominant for a good team that really was kind of struggling at the quarterback position. Wisconsin has a system to where running backs will go and do well. And Jianna have that system now to pardon, does Indiana have a system now too? They kind of do as well. And that's and that's the thing. And I know, we'll start talking about Jeremy Langford and it's like, yeah, because everybody's gonna be super hyper on Jodan Howard, including me. Okay, I get it. I mean I'm gonna be that person. But but Wisconsin sets their running backs up to look really well. And I guess, you know, in some respects, you can say in the NFL, the Cowboys are kind of doing that with their running backs too, but they've got an elite talent, uh somebody. It's hard to imagine outside of Todd Gurley and Adrian Peterson, guys who were coming into the league who are this ready to play as Ezekiel elliots. We speaking of Jeremy like, can we? Can we talk about Jeremy Leese? Can't we? Here's the thing, Jeremy Like, there's not I don't know if there was a bigger discrepancy in ranking a guy than jere Me Lankford because Fabs and Marcus have Jeremy Lankford in the high forties, Adam Like you've got him in the mid sixties, alex Galhar has him in the mid eighties. I was wondering. I was wondering, um that is that's a big time discrepancy. I'm actually the most hyper on him. I've got them at thirty one overall. Wow, that's high. I get it. But I'll stick to my guns. I'll stick to my guns. Mane plays out for you. I mean the way the way I look at it is, I know that the Bears don't seem all that sold on him. Although the last thing I've read is that Jordan Howard seems to be more of a compliment rather than somebody who's going to challenge with the starting job. When it's all said and done, Jeremy Lankford is still a starting running back in the National Football League, and just that alone, I think puts him somewhere in the first four to five round, just because they're you know, there aren't a lot of situations that are increasingly more situations where you don't know how the pecking order goes. And as long as you at least know that Jeremy Lankford is going to start and in theory get the bulk of the touches, and I think that that gives him some sort of value. To me, somebody's gonna prove that Jeremy Lankford doesn't deserve the rock. That's the thing. Like Codeem Carey, He's gonna come in and vulture t D work. That's what people are saying. People are saying, No, Jordan, how they're gonna mix it. You know what, these guys gotta prove it to me first. So like for me, I'm I'm working. I'm I'm operating under the umbrella that Jeremy Lankford is not just the starter, but he's the prohibitive starter, and that he will get work everywhere on the football field until somebody can prove me otherwise. That's that's the I guess the kind of the m O that I'm that I'm working with right now. Adam Rank disagrees you've got him in the sixties. I do. I remember in the moment really enjoying Jeremy Langford and thought that the work that he was doing as at four days backup was pretty good. And I'm like, Okay, look this guy. And I mean, the writing was on the wall. You knew this was gonna be for or you knew last year was gonna be four final season with the Bears, and you're like, I feel pretty comfortable with this. And so next year you just figure like, oh, this is gonna be a third round running back. He's gonna do come out and do great. And then he went back and kind of watched the games again and you're just like, there's just there's something about it. This is not striking me as somebody who's gonna come in and just take over, take over that position and run with it. And if you look at if you look at uh John Fox's history as a head coach, he's really favored a multiple running back system to running back. I mean de'angelo Williams and Jonathan Stewart for the longest time in Carolina and even back when he had to Sean Foster when they made their run to the Super Bowl's a great pool. I love it. Yeah, it's great pol the pride of Testing high. He he was a college, he was a high school. I think Kim and Doug gottlie Brett high school at the same time. What are they, Yeah, I'm trying to think, because they were. If not, they were really close. Tustin and like Tustin is not like, no, it's not some powerhouse program. It's a fine place. Anybody listening. I enjoy the Tustin brewing. Carson Palmer played one of the greatest high school playoff games against another Tustin versus Rancho Santa Margarita. That was huge. That always is one of the cool things, like when a public high school has someone mixed it up faster. Yeah, and then it's just like it's just so cool to watch him because you know, you know, Rancho Santa Margarita is recruiting people and Carson Palmer is probably

being a free car from them. I'm not saying I didn't probably probably probably getting paid about the same you got paid he can you? It's like, Wow, can you just explain your six in that's at Adam Rank. It's in a really good defluent part of Orange County, like even like for Orange County, that's a little Orange mg. Uh, your boys with with Alex Gale are here? Oh, any any explanation as to why he's got uh Lankford eight six? Over all? I know where is he vacationing? Right now? Wisconsin? There it is Mike drop Boom. I do think a lot of it has to do with the bears seeming insistence on trying to find somebody as a compliment. I also think it's because I know that you know, Alex has made a big deal of the fact that Lankford has not been great catching the football, and everybody remembers was at the Monday night game against the Chargers when he had that ridiculous diving catch and he made a couple of nice plays, but generally speaking, he struggled when he came to catching the football. I don't disagree with that, and I think that's one of the big things. I don't disagree with that one of the big takeaways for Alex there, but but that I don't think that. I don't think John to me, I don't I don't remember John Fox offense really relying on a lot of running back checkdowns. That's that's just off the top of my head. I haven't done research on that. But um, and again, when you look at when you look at what's out there, Okay, Uh, they've got zack of the tight end position eating up some targets underneath. It's not like, you know, uh, the Kevin White kid is gonna be asked to do some things as well. Um, alshon Jeffrey obviously they're gonna be eating a ton of targets as well. So, uh, the reason I have him, you know, at thirty one and not even higher, is the fact that I'm kind of already building that into that argument, which is I don't think he's gonna get a lot of passing down work anyways. But he is a starter. He you know, he can catch. He actually isn't like that was one of his things coming He's not Alfred Morris Helays said, no, but he's a decent receiver out of the bat. Although one of the first games he came in was against Minnesota and he dropped a crucial it was either them or Detroit where he just dropped a crucial pass. It was Minnesota dropped a crucial pass, and you're like, that cost them the game and cost the season that in the Detroit game, not that the season was gonna work out to be that well. Anyways, we're like, looking what eight and eight? So Jeremy Lankford is a guy that has some wide discrepancies. There's I don't think there's any question he's volatile. But listen, they always say this in the regular NFL draft. It just takes one one person to say, you know what, I'm gonna draft him in the fourth round or whatever. I want a running back. I think like after people, depending on who I would, I would imagine most people draft with a combination of folks who there's gonna be that your receiver heavy first going right off the bat, and there's to be your running back people. So when you get into the third round and you're like, if you went receiver receiver, you're like, I need a running back. You're like, I would normally never take Jeremy Langford here, but he's probably one of the best options. I think you gotta adjust your Mike Pal You're cutting in and out. I listen, I'm not control of that. How am I doing that? Maybe I'm talking? No, No, you're not, Hey, listen. Can we also talk about Davanta Parker, because again, Alex Gilhart unimpressed uh with Devontae Parker. He's got uh you've Adam Rank fabs In Marcus kind of all in line. Uh, seventy five through you know, sixty ish, late sixties, mid seventies ish in terms of ranking Devanta Parker, where do I got him? I got him at seventy three as well, So there you go. Uh. Meanwhile, Alex Galehard doesn't even have him in the top one hundred. Yeah, all right, I think, But I think I think I think a lot of that goes back to the fact that I know Alex liked Leon I'm just sitting here just putting words in out. Um. I know he like Leonte Carew, and I think he feels like the receiver position has gotten a little crowded there Miami. I still think Vonta Parker. I just I just can't imagine after one year they're ready to quit on this guy. You know what's so interesting about this, though, is the fact that I actually think what's more interesting is that we're all so in line with Devonte Parker, because you know, once you get this late in your rankings, in the top one hundred, there's wide variants on players, like super wide variants. The fact that we all have him within like ten picks of each other, I think is is pretty interesting. How about t Y Hilton, what is he going to do? Adam like, you've got thirty five overall? You like him? Yeah, I think that the Colts did a pretty decent job in the draft of addressing their offensive line needs. Andrew Luck is not going to be as terrible as he was last year, and god, I hope not. I believe that t Y is gonna be able to bounce back. And of course, when you say, when you look at my rankings, it's it's different. I feel because I I'm so heavier with wide receivers up front, that I might not necessarily believe that t Y Hilton is one of the top forty. But I mean, when you're drafting wide receiver heavy. But but as for comparisons, sake, like I would take somebody like Keenan Allen or Julian Edelman over him, but I would definitely draft him in front of Emmanuel Sanders, Jeremy Macklin, maybe even Doug Baldwin too. I still want to see a little bit more of that. That's one I think over the coming months, because I think Seattle is going to be doing some different things and uh yeah, so Seattle is gonna be doing some different things with c J pro site and um so, I I don't know, it's it's a weird thing, but right I but I do believe that t Y is gonna bounce back a little bit a little bit better. I do think. You know, obviously, Andrew Luck coming back changes a lot of things in that offense. I mean,

that's gonna be a big deal. But I also feel like we have pretty much approached the ceiling for t Y Hilton. I don't know that he's going to be much better than he was a couple of years ago. I mean, I think he's a he's a nice option. He's not I think once upon a time, the Colts and a lot of people looked at t Y Hilton as the guy who would take over when Reggie Wayne stepped away and would be that. I don't I don't think he's not. He's not gonna be. He's not that guy. He's two one dimensional. You know, was it last or two years ago? Uh? Yards, seven touchdowns. I mean, I think that's that's not bad. Those are bad numbers at all, But I think that's about what you can expect from t Y Hilton in any given year, which makes him a nice you know, wide receiver to wide receiver three option for you. You have him at number forty four, which is cool because it's like, it's interesting to watch the way the rankings were unfolding because Alex has him at fifty nine. Uh. Our good friend the franchise had him at seventy and so it's interesting because obviously I'm a little bit more bullish on him than the most people. It's good for me to know I'm really not you know that when you're well, when I'm in my draft and I'm sitting there and I'm looking like, oh, I could take t Y Hilton. There's somebody else or even Jeremy Macklin for instance, Like I could get both of them. It's like people hate t Y for whatever reason. Again, and it's something that you were talking about about people put too much emphasis on last year's production. We are we drafting based on last year's number of what you think this team could do this year? And I think the Cults are gonna be better, although their division is gonna be tougher. I mean, if you think about it, because Jags that these no joke anymore. Houston still gotta do with twice a year. But Andrew Lucky has not struggled uh terribly against the Texas, has he? I think he's played pretty well. As a matter of fact. If last year was just a weird like yeah, wrong out last year man? Last year over? Yeah, yeah, last year was crazy, people act like what the what the cults with the Colts not everybody? Yeah, I mean because I think people you people put emphasis on last year because they get burnt all the time. Yeah you know, so, I mean you got you gotta put some weight on, you know, you know what. You know. What was interesting it was like where do I put Eddie Lacey right because just getting roasted, Oh my god, I absolutely I couldn't handle it. I could not handle Eddie Lacey last year. I'm gonna start photos sending out photoshops of fat Eddie Lacey again just to kind of like just to like train down the whole things down a little bit. It's ridiculous. It's getting out of dudes taking pictures with Tony Horton. I mean, you know he's drinking his Herbal Life shakes or whatever. Like this is not is not going to work out for me drafting from the mid third round and having him be my RB one all year. Um. Funny though, like people who lose weight that quickly, like they're the ones who have the most trouble keeping it off. And I say this as a former fat guy. It's like, you gotta do the slow burn, and it's got to take a year, and you really got to make some sort of lifestyle choices. And it's cool, you know, it's cool for a month like to show up. When he showed up as ripped as he was, it actually made me feel worse. It's like, all right, well, it's cool. Good you tried for a month. Like what's gonna happen in June when nobody's watching you and you show up to camp? Be like, because but here's the big they'll get into the contract. Your brother. But again, like he's let himself go in the past and now he's gonna be sitting there in June playing mad and and he's gonna be like, I'm gonna be going to training camp soon. Maybe I'll go to Del Taco and get a couple of burritos, Like it's I don't disagree with you. For there's I'm not touching Eddie Lacey seen but in sixteen contract here dudes already getting ripped up. I'm in I'm all you know about the Benjamin's Eddie Lacey for Alex Gelhart, Alex Gallarg's got him at eighteen overall, Um, that sounds pretty high until you look at my list and I've got him at fourteen. A talk about I've got on my fourteen overall. That's how much I'm investing. I've got him over Lamar Miller, over Doug Martin. That's how much I believe. I know we don't have Doug Martin in P nine t X and the and the and the contracts a side. I'm really sort of torn on how to feel about Doug Martin this year because last year I was I was a big Doug Martin cheerleader. I also was a big Doug Martin cheerleaders in RB two, he kind of by default ended up as an RB one because everyone else died. Um so now like it was a scorse Casey Scorsese end. It was. It was like Game of Thrones with like running backs dropping left and right. So I don't know how to feel about him this year because I think he can be hey again, but you know, like he's certainly not an RB one. I think he's back to a running back two again this year, But I don't know that people are going to draft him, and I think you gonna look. I think show of running backs the John Snow, he might be the John Snow of running backs. Like he had a great he had a great future, he had high I mean, he's a guy who kind of came, you know, from a less respected program. He had he had, but he came out the box strong. Suddenly they were high hopes for him, and then he died and then he was resurrected last So I think he is the John Snow there it is. What the hell are you talking about? What is John Snow? You don't come on, jeez, I don't like that make believe crap, says Mr d C Comics here. Yeah, but that's the wrestling fan. Yeah, what I don't understand what you mean by any of that. Okay, wait, d C, like that's they're on Earth, Like Earth exists? Are you so arrogant that you don't think that there's life on other planets? You don't know? Okay, you don't know. You're lucky. We are. We are shut up. We are approaching the end of the pu there

somebody else. The Game of Thrones. People just gets so crazy. It's the greatest, like like, this is the thing. It's like it's like listening to people talk about fantasy football and trying to talk up Eddie Lacy. You gotta have people in the room to go, oh, this is the greatest show ever. It's fine. Yeah, it's a it's a John Snow's contract here. Where when does Doug Barnes contract coming up? But you know what that's not also like and it's so funny because Game of Thrones comes on I think it comes on the same time every week. I'm guessing people don't watch it now, but yeah, but people get so bent, like how dare you your tweet about this? You know, us here on the West Coast we don't like how about this? How about you put down put down Twitter for three hours then and shut up? Like I don't, and you and if you have HBO, you get the East Coast feed, so it's like it's it's a real HBO. You have it on HBO goes. Yeah, so you want the entire world not to talk about something because you can. Let's like if somebody walked up during the draft, it was like, hey, you know what, but I can't watch the draft? And you guys like, how is this different than not giving Star Wars spoilers? I? How was that different? Okay? First of all, I went the first night, and when I knew people started going to the movies, I was not on social media, okay until I saw the movie. You know, there's also a filter feature where you can there's filters. Similarly, you guys, and you're taking there's too much work. Just just don't give away spoilers. Why can't we Why can't talk about it? Why can't we can't I talk about something that I want to talk about? Can we talk about the rest of this list? Though I don't even know who else is on this list? We've we've gone so far off the path. I have no idea what we're talking. Golden Tape, Golden Tate. We all like them. It's fine. Come on, I like Marvin Jones, but I like Golden Tate. Who else is on this list? I got no one else. That's it. I think we're done. We need to stop making Marcus. Is there somebody else you really want to get into? Uh No, I think I think we're good. Should we just do daily taps to get all out of it? I think we were so lost in today's podcast, it's amazing. Let's let's have daily taps. Get the hell out here? Does depth depth? You know how we start every show by saying it's gonna be a great show, right? Today was not a great show. No, it's been a great show. The day was a meandering show. What do you mean this little it's been a great show. Don't immediately throw this show and are searching the show. It was a little good one. I'm looking right at rank. Thanks a lot, pal, it was a little scattered scatter brain, But that you should You should tune into an episode of d d FP and see scatterbrain as someone who was you know, voted that's non football guest on DDFP. That's right, that's right, it's a very good point. That's a very diday. Did you get like an award for that checking. No, I got to come with him. No, I got I got to, you know, be delayed in doing work for an hour. I came on the dds pig that was they're punishing you, Fay alright, Uh, Marks Grant, We'll start with you, Okay. Um, first daily that goes out to Steph Curry. Um, oh my god, because one first off, he just made another three as we were sitting here talking. Also, as we were sitting here talking, he's not human. It was announced just moments ago. Maybe that Uh, he's the first unanimous winner of the MVP Award, the first the first unanimous winner of the m v P Award in history. That just happened. Uh. The fact that he's the first unit that that's kind of a more to the voters being. I mean it's sort of like, you know, Hall of Baseball, Hall of Fame, how no one's ever unanimous whatever? But how was Jordan's not a unanimous? I was shock not a unanimous? Don't Oh? No that the Oh who was the guy he was? I think he was a former c ann guy. I can picture his face. No, No, Um, he voted for Alan iverson that year. Friend, Hickman or something. I don't know what it is, Fred Hickman or uh Nick Charles, Fred Hickman somebody and and and so he well, the whole thing was he was the only one who voted for Alan Iverson to hear the chof Yeah, so he got to go around and do all the car washes everywhere and try try to explain like, oh, this is why I went Iverson, and like it was so stupid, like everybody fell for it was should chase the game. It was ridiculous. Um So Steph Curry is my first daily that. My other daily DAP though is uh to the Kentucky Derby. Man I went. I went last weekend, my first ever trip to to the Derby. It was they I went to the actual that it was really good, right to know. It's funny though, because my friend, some friends and I we all we get together every year and this was our trip for the year was to go to the Derby. And man, I've been wanting to go. My buddy kept telling people he was going to Kentucky Derbyourea the Fedora was looking look, I appreciate that, but everybody we'd say we were into the derby. People just assumed that that meant we were going to some local track to like watch it right on TV. Right. No, we're actually going to Kentuckucky. But it's a phenomenal experience. I mean, if you're a sports fan at all, it is. It's something that should be on the bucket list. Would absolutely do it again, and things worked out well. From one of my buddies, Yeah, actually hit on three races, one about seven hundred bucks. So beautiful, including the trifecta on the derby itself beautiful. It was. It was absolutely love it. Good weekend Adam Rank daily DApps. My first one was also going to be Steph Curry because I legitimately woke up this morning listened to a couple of guys talking about Steph curR on the radio and oh my god, that actually did happen. That really just seems so unbelievable. And it was one of those things where I was watching Gotham, so I'm like, I'm gonna tape the end of this game because they're probably gonna go to overtime or something. I'm gonna tape it, and um and

went off, Gotham is the best, so good, and so I was so you. Usually when you do that, you still end up like I'm just gonna watch it live. I don't want to, I don't care. But this was the one you had to go back like, I'm watching all of this, and I went back and watch everything and I missed it was amazing. He is the best player. I'm surprised that he couldn't find at least one hater trying to be a contrarian, to try to be the media star that Fred Hickman. I pulled his name out of the ear. That was the jerk. I said it earlier, I said, did I not say Fred Hickman? Oh, you said Hickman? And then and then Marcus Marcus, all right, whatever. Well, you can see what it did for his career very well. Um, so great for him, so great for Steff Curry. I'm glad that he won the m v P and UM because obviously it was all Luke Walton's coaching. Right. It also gets another daily DAP and I know, I listen, I what a terrible I applaud the Lakers on this great higher. I know that he's a former Laker player, but it's just one of those things where they actually went outside the family and went for a younger guy who's gonna do things a little bit differently, gonna bring a different message and try to do things un lak er like. And so I applaud them for finally realizing that it's two thousand six. Are your friends with Luke? Do you know he's going to bring a different You can't just roll out sixteen trophies and be like, hey, look you want to come play for us. So it's a kind of a new world order. So I'm happy that they're doing that. Speaking of the new World Order, big DAPs to the club, which is of course the Bullet Club, which was the Balor Club and now it's the club in the w w E for right now, and they were doing the two sweet to Sweet. Yeah, they were really referencing. I think it was a little bit of an homage. So and of course Finn Balor's got one more n x T appearance. But should be up with a big club hopefull pun intended, uh, should be up with a big show that's not the big show. Gosh, there so many things he should be up on. Raw. I like it. I I really like the way that w w E has kind of moved forward they lost so many great superstars are guys who draw a lot of money, guys like John Cena and Randy Orton, and they've actually not skipped to be because they've gotten so many young talent in n x T coming up. Guys like one of those guys they got they left the company, or they just John Cena got hurt, Randy Orton got hurt, like Cesarro got hurt, Like a lot of these guys came down with injuries and they're like, oh, we've got to kind of bring up these other guys. But thankfully they had been having their own minor league system called an XT, so these guys seamlessly come in and and fulfill a row. And like when the first time Enzo A. Moore showed up, it was the Monday night after WrestleMania, which is always a huge smart crowd, which is always the most ardent of wrestling fans. So of course everybody knows his catchphrases and they're singing along with him and everything. So it's been great. Uh, he's hopefully recovering from his injury because the one that he suffered the latest paper view that was awful to watch, so props to him. DAPs to him, DAPs to Roger Lodge for having me on the show last week they had a Halo night. Listen, here's the thing about Roger Lodge. Did you know that in the nineties he was a roommate with John Stamos And even think that I'm looking at Kent like he would know, like what the nineties were. Uh, there was a huge dating show of sorry Ken Brown, Yes, one of our productions assistants. Um fabulous blind date was like a huge show in the nineties. Might not even what launched Roger Lodge, It's what launched him, so it was cool. And uh, big props, DAPs whatever to Bryce Harper for keeping baseball fund getting thrown out and they're dropping f fonds on an umpire way. You're making baseball so fun, pal, congratulations to you. And then poor little boring old Mike Trout's been hitting five hundred for the last month with like eighty home runs, like having a good nobody nobody wants, Nobody wants to talk about him. He's stop making the game fun by just going out there and being the best player. Maybe he should wear a clever hat. Hey, if if he had hair like Bryce Harper, and made it fun. Maybe that would be something I gotta da please Sully, I gotta do it. Gotta dapt the uh, the city of Nashville and the Preds that I don't know if you guys watched it Vegas, nash Vegas was electric for the Preds pulled out the win and over time it was quite the atmosphere. So that's pretty dump. Yeah, they got that. I'm rooting for them. No, I am too. I mean that they're that. Like Kent was talking walking in here, he still doesn't see Nashville as a hockey hockey stopping Yeah, oh you know what. You know what, who's a big fan is my guy Eric Young, who used to wrestle in t n A and then made his n x T debut last week. Um, Nashville loves her hockey. Yeah. I think it's a great I think it's a great town for hockey. So that's my daily dab. All right, there you go, I'll keep mind short. Mind's my daily DAPs. To all the moms out there. We did a big time Mother's Day celebration this weekend. What do we do? We did a brunch for my mom. Uh, we did a dinner from my wife, and then we turned around the next day on Sunday, and then we did a big time family thing uh with my wife's side of the family that had like I don't know, like six or seven ants there. So it was like a crazy, crazy, crazy Mother's Day extravaganza. My daughter had no idea what was going on, but she was having a lot of fun. So that was good to see. Anyways. Um So yeah, to all the moms out there, I know you guys do very uh tough work. Uh it's a very very difficult for Shure, no doubt about it. And daily DAPs to all the mom's hard working moms out there, especially once I gotta work that seems kind of sucky honestly, which is in in today's America pretty much every mom out there. Uh to to the top one percent or you're not listening to this podcast anyway, So who hey, hey Rosie McGee, that's her full time john uh home with the baby. There you go, Yasoka, Well you're the top one percent, so I don't care about you. That's the show for today for Adam Raank, MG, my guy, Marcus Grant and Sally behind the Glass James co. We're out don't