Hello everybody. Welcome to another episode of Hock Blogger Mornings. I am Brian Nemhouser. You can find me on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, usually every morning at HockBlogger.

Took a little bit extra time today, played a little golf as I hope you guys understand and appreciate beautiful, beautiful day out here.

Probably going to do the same tomorrow, although I think I will be doing a later tea time. So I should do a morning show tomorrow. I'm going to hit the links with my wife. And we're going to get a cart and we're going to get our drink on. We're going to have some fun. So Friday should be fun. We get our audio versions on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, five-star reviews.

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brought to you by prize picks. And we have a little prize picks fun to talk about later, but we'll

save that for a little bit later. Now, today's episode, there's a lot of different ways this,

this could unravel. And I will explain, you know, kind of my ground rules for how I approach

this in just a bit. But it's going to be focused on Sam Darnold showing up as the 19th quarterback selected in the draft,

which will explain how this worked, for Mina Kimes and Ben Solac.

Two friends of the show, folks that have been on the show, folks who I respect a lot.

And I was genuinely surprised.

Maybe I shouldn't have been.

Maybe at some point, I am the person that is like, Brian, when are you going to learn?

Like, this is just how it's going to be.

But I don't.

I'm an old man and I still am set in my ways, I guess.

So we will listen to the sound of the reasons for why they made

that pick at that point. I will play a little bit from some of their other picks, not a lot

because you really should check out the show. Meena and Ben do a great job, even if I disagree.

And I'm then going to walk through why I see it differently than they do.

And a big part of this that I want to just say up front, because people have asked me about this

and, and, you know, look, there's a lot of folks that had some negative things to say about

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