Welcome to the Audible presented by Trader Joe's.

I'm Stuart Mandel.

Joined by Bruce Feldman.

Ralph has really become quite a slacker.

He just keeps missing episodes.

And I don't mean to throw him under the bus, but he was ready to go on this one,

and then his technology just failed him. So hopefully we see him again soon, maybe later in

this episode. We'll find out. We got some news and notes to get to today. Pete Golding,

the Ole Miss Coach, finally responded to Davos's very detailed tampering accusations. Obviously, we get to the mailbag

in this episode as well. First, Bruce, you put a lot of work as you always do into your mock draft

and that just went up on the athletic this week. Obviously, there's a million mock drafts

on the athletic, but you do a lot's a million mock drafts on the athletic,

but you do a lot of phone calls for this. I don't know how many people go to that length.

So, yeah, before I cue you up on my one big question, yeah, just tell us your process.

Okay, so as you said, there are tons of mock drafts and they come right till, right till the draft begins. I'll do this one. This one's basically a month out. I'm not going to pretend that I am talking

to GMs and burning up the phones on that part of it, you know, in terms of like, hey, I think

this is this is what they're going to do,

everything.

Where I feel like my mock draft differentiates itself from other ones, and I'm not saying

it's better than all the other ones, I'm just saying it's different, is in the context of the players.

I would suspect I'm the only one who's really talking to the college coaches who face these guys.

They scouted them and then they actually played them and they game plan for them.

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