And the Ladies and

gentlemen welcome back to another episode of the

the Royal Football Podcast, the most important in the universe, and this is a special edition.

This episode, all are important, this one just a little bit more.

Before I get to today's guest, and really the topic of the day, I do want to urge you to go check out my team needs mock draft series with Evan Silva,

prospect rankings up on Ritterworld, and also the draft room episode that I did with Ted Nguyen, Ben Finnell,

Joe Goodberry, and Dane Brugler. It's in the episode right before this one so go and

listen to that if you haven't. It's a really really fun episode that I enjoyed and I think you will too.

Today is probably one of my favorite episodes we do all year and it is not just your

average Joe that I'm talking to it's the reigning defending

mock draft king of the mountain his name is Evan Silva I have to bring you back down

to earth Evan from your win last year but I'm so glad that you're here with me just really a couple days before the draft.

How are you?

Just so excited for you know these next couple of days to be here this is one of the best

times a year on the football calendar you know I think that everyone can agree it's a

time of hope it's a time of passion I mean a lot of people have just passion for

learning about the draft prospects, you know,

reading mock drafts and, you know, that's frowned upon by some people. It's not frowned upon by me.

I think that, you know, the mock draft kind of community is a genuine community. I think that learning, like watching players and learning about players and learning what like aspects of their game that are predictive all that means a lot to me you know I have a serious passion for football. I love to

You know study this sport so much, watch players, learn

about metrics that are predictive. And I think that that's why people come to Rhoda World,

man. I really do, because we put it all together and it's a very exciting time and you know over the last two plus months I've been spending so much of my time watching players and putting together

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