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Hey, everybody. Welcome to what is a special bonus edition of the NFL fantasy football podcast.

I'm Marcus Grant, joined by Michael F.

Florio, and we've been very excited as we get closer to the NFL draft to have on some draft

analysts, and we can dive into their insights on this draft class as the league gets ready for

its latest edition of its new hire onboarding process. We had Emory Hunt on last week.

This week, we're excited to get on a friend of the show

and a man who you have seen,

probably regularly on NFL network this time of year.

And also, if you go to NFL.com and read the draft prospect profiles,

he's the guy who writes pretty much all of them.

It's Lance Zerline, Lance, man. How are things?

Good, good. Good to talk to you guys. Absolutely. I want to start because, again, NFL.com,

you're the guy who kind of writes all these profiles and does a lot of the scouting. Also, you have a

grading system. And I was going through some of your tweets, and it seems like the thing that confuses people is sort of how the grading system works and you completely and can continually tell people it's not a stacking system.

It is kind of a high, low, boom or bust system.

So for the uninitiated, kind of go through how exactly you grade prospects.

So Daniel Jeremiah, there was a scouting scale that was already in place when I got here. And then DJ said, you know, I'd like to be able to, because Daniel Jeremiah and I talk about these prospects.

And so we like to talk the same language. Like I see this guy as a 61.

I see him as a 62.

And that means something to us because he brought in his scouting

scale from, I believe there's some different teams who use it

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