Welcome to the Ring Around a Felt Show. My name is Robert Mayes. I'm a writer at the Ringer.

Join me into the line. It's Kevin Clark. Kevin, how are you?

I'm stewing from you thinking that juberies will be more valuable in the open market than Matt Ryan.

I've been in the studio for a week just staring at the wall.

Oh, that's fun. Did you bring a cotton there at least? No, you said a chair.

No, no, just staring at the wall. And the guy standing up every once in a while. No sleep. No.

That's impressive. I'm glad that you've gotten to come to this point. I assume you had some aids of some sort.

I'm not sure what you're taking, but no, just pure rage at your take.

Pure rage right to the vein. Pure rage at your take. The juberies is more valuable than that. Ryan in 2017.

All right. Well, we're going to move on from that. We're going to get a little less player specific this week and get into some more team-driven thoughts and conversations.

So one of the conversations the puck has we wanted to have is about just the plans different NFL teams have and not necessarily a ranking of them.

We didn't want to go straight into that. I want to talk more about the archetypes that NFL teams have kind of started to abide by when they're choosing the way in which they want to build their team.

And I think we settled on like four or five here, Kevin, just the different routes and the different categories that you can look at when you talk about team building in the NFL.

Yeah. So I tried to write this as a column last year and it didn't really work as a print thing because team plans are a very touchy thing because they always get screwed up and in a vacuum.

Are the Cleveland Browns geniuses already? I don't know, but their plan is sound.

And so it's a very nuanced thing. So it works in a podcast form. It works where we can debate it and figure out is this plan good? Is this plan bad?

I think the team strategy portion and the team building portion is to me the most fascinating part of the NFL. How how teams go about talent acquisition.

I think schemes and don't I don't want to get my mentions lit on fire here. I think I think schemes are slightly overrated.

And I think the ability to acquire talent in a cohesive way is underrated. And I know that that's changing a little bit just as we maybe study the patterns a little more and guys like deep a desk to get praised a lot.

And obviously John Schneider Ted Thompson, you know, the deal with departed John Dorsey. Those are guys who are being praised roundly for their talent acquisition.

And I think it's the most fascinating aspect of the game. Yeah, you reach a certain floor if you have good players, right?

Even with the chiefs wondering whether they were going to have Alex Smith, how good their office is going to be that defense is going to be good in large park as the guys they had over there.

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