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Hello everyone, excited to kind of do this quick draft primer because I really wanted to hit some of the

key talking points to kind of get across as a whole that I've seen in drafts leading up to the NFL

kickoff Thursday but I really wanted to kind of touch upon some of the big issues that I've seen in drafts in past years.

We'll continue to see in drafts because it's already started to promulgate throughout, you know,

what... gate throughout, you know, what's been going on.

But, you know, in terms of the aspect that you're going to see in drafts is, you know, people get caught up with,

I gotta have the number one pick, if I don't have the number one pick, I can't get there in other draft spots you know that's just

not true what it comes down to is having the balance in your roster in

setting up the game plan in advance.

You know, you know, when people talk about a zero running back strategy,

you're not doing that if you're top three pick more often than not unless it's a PPR league with heavily weighted bonuses on the

receiving side you're probably taking the running back up top because you've got

McCaffrey, Sequon, and Zeke at the top three right there.

You know, and even some folks throw an endowment cook, but you have to have the game plan in place as to how you're going to execute on your draft.

So that's where the focus needs to be on, not necessarily the draft position, but what are you

going to do with the draft pick that you have?

So one of the takeaways that I always leave with people is, you know, what draft prep

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