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If you're watching on YouTube, hit that like button, hit that subscribe button. You can find us there as part of Empire Media, AMPIRE. Always much appreciated when you tune in. Don't forget, you can read my work on ESPN.com. So I'm going to talk today about, I'm taking a look at a lot of the mock drafts so far, right? and just kind of, I want to go over them, not because I've done a lot of scouting on all

these players and all that.

Anybody doing these mock drafts have been studying and scouting these players longer.

Some of them I know as a fan, of course.

However, but I wanted to bring you some of these moks to give you an idea of what people

are thinking, but also to kind of highlight that it's all over the place. Like where some of these guys, you know, everybody was afraid of, oh, you pick seventh, are you going to get anybody. Some of these guys that want that are being slotted or projected to Washington at seven, some people have the same player going fifth or fourth or twelfth. So it's all over the place. So that's why, you know, you don't know.

It's going to be not a beauty in the eye of the beholder because it always kind of is,

but it just shows you that there are some guys, there's a glutton guys that maybe you can trade

back a few spots and still good, a really good player that you like if you want to do that.

Or it just also highlights that just because you're drafting seventh, you know, and you fell

to seventh that you're somehow going to end up with a bad player.

That's not the case.

There's some impact, I shouldn't say impact, we don't know the impact, potential impact guys

that will be available at

seven and it's all over the board where people are. So I wanted to highlight those for you. So I'm

going to get to that in the minute. But first, like I said, I will be back on Thursday night slash Friday

morning with the five thoughts. One of the things I will be looking at is the under the center stuff.

How is, how pivotal is it? And is it just, to be honest, like to me, it kind of became almost a crutch for everybody to say, like, James got to do this more because they're not as good, right? But I think there is a way it can help. And it's, you know, some of the explosive plays. We'll take a look, a little bit of that among the five thoughts and also kind of going over some more of what I've heard about both Durante Jones and David Lau if they're talking to them, talking to others, et cetera. So a lot of stuff for that will be out on Friday. And for you gold members, I will be doing a private Zoom for you on Thursday night, 730 Eastern time. Join me there. If you want to become a club member, go to the Empire Media YouTube page. See the word join. Do it on your laptop. See the word join. Click on that and go from there. And also, I am going to be getting starting a little bit more to the draft. Just bringing on other people. We're going to have Jordan Reed on next week. So stay tuned for that. Not sure yet which day, but I will be talking to them early in the week, and I have other stuff lined up with other people just to kind of like, there's a lot of stuff to talk about right now, and there will be a lot of free agency stuff coming up as well. So, but both Washington's free agents and potential guys to discuss. So anyway, but let's get into,

oh, also I, you know, I will have a story up on ESPN.com about the person who bought the John

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