Welcome into the lounge, presented by Draft Kings.

We are excited today to be joined by Ravens gentle manager, Eric Dacosta, fresh off the draft.

It's been a busy few weeks here, no doubt about it.

So let's start with this, Eric, and this is what I heard.

So you guys are on the clock in the first round, and you're

considering who you're going to take a 22. And it came down to you pulling up the mock drafts

that were done in advance. You pulled up mine and minks. And you saw, laminated. They were laminated.

They were ready to go. He's official. And you saw that I had us taking Zay Flowers and he had us going with Deontay Banks.

You said, guys, we can't let make be right.

Garrett's pick has got to be the right one.

And that's how you ended up on Zay Flowers.

Correct?

Well, that definitely factored in.

No, but on a serious note, so there's this whole school of thought now that, you know, what people are doing, the analytics community, one of the ways that they're actually building out your models is to look at all the various, you know, mock drafts and basically collate all those mock drafts.

And that becomes a part of all the other you know parts of the recipe

that go into these predictive models is how kind of the wisdom of the crowd mentality how people

think about these players in a way as a way of looking at you know league value so when players

start to show up in the top 100 consistently, there's probably a pretty

good chance that those guys are going in the top three rounds of the draft.

And when guys don't show up at all in these mock drafts, if you have them as a team,

if you have a guy ranked in your top 120 and he's not showing up at all in any of these

mock drafts, there's a pretty good

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