This is the athletic football show.

Welcome to the athletic football show.

I'm Robert Mays.

Really excited about today's show.

Last week, if you guys missed it, we did a most valuable quarterback draft.

We picked the top 15 quarterbacks in the NFL, contracts included for the next five years.

So please, if you guys missed it, I know we've had some issues with Apple recently.

So that is available.

Go back and listen to it if you have not quite yet. Today, we are doing non-quarterbacks. We are calling this the most valuable player draft non-quarterback edition. We're doing 24 guys today because 25 is not divisible by three. The reason it needs to be divisible by three is joining me for this.

My friends, Nate Tyson, Lindsey Jones. Lindsay, how you doing? Are you as nervous as I am about this?

I am so nervous. This is going to be a complete disaster. But it's going to be really fun, but I am

very nervous. I've been texting you guys like nervous gifts for the last like two hours.

So Nate, what I wanted to

discuss a little bit is just the methodology behind this because I read something earlier this

year that Bill Belichick said. I want to say Tom Curran wrote it. And he talked about building a

draft board. And he said that building the draft board vertically is easy. I can tell you which tackle I like better than the next tackler, which

edge rusher I like better than the next.

Building it horizontally is difficult.

How do you compare which edge rusher you like more than which cornerback?

And when you throw contracts into the equation, it gets even naughtier. So that's what I had trouble with, Nate. I don't know where you stumbled in this process, but I assume it was difficult. No, that's exact same kind of hiccups I had. And that just, it's funny, you were saying with Belichick. And when I was working with the Falcons, you know, Scott Pioly and Thomas Demetroff were there. And we used a very similar grading system to what the Patriots have. Yeah. So what with theirs and what I always thought was brilliant with what they did was that they tried their best to make it. So all right, at 6.3 with this position is the same as a 6.3 with this position. So if it's a receiver at 6.3, that's just the grading scale they use. I'm just thrown out a number is that's a slot receiver, a starting slot receiver. But if that's a tackle at 6.3, that's a swing backup tackle. You know, and so I liked it. Was it always perfect? No, but it was like that was a way, a method to try and actually figure this out

and make it make it work because it is hard. I mean, shoot, we were just talking before. It's like, I, I'm happy I have the number one pick because I know where I'm going. But after that, I'm like, it is hard to decide, do I like this tackle better than this edge guy better than this, you know, corner. And that's going to be, that's why I always try personally, is that my

premium positions that go from there. But even. tackle better than this edge guy, better than this, you know, corner. And that's going to be,

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