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football you can go and read all of a reef's awesome work a reef you are the big star again of draft season with the consensus draft board which I've used in a lot of my coverage to analyze what the Vikings did and we won't get into all those debates of whether they paid too much for Dallas Turner or not but before we dive into our topic,

I did want to get your reaction

because we have not spoken since then

about how this ended up playing out

for the Minnesota Vikings.

What did you think just as a broad overall

how they did, how they set themselves up for the future

by getting J.J. McCarthy in Dallas Turner.

Yeah, I mean, I love the J.J McCarthy move. I mean, yeah, I think people who follow me know that I wasn't like the biggest J.J. McCarthy fan. But that was like, you know, in the context of like drafting him third or fourth, right? I think creating up one spot, grabbing him the 10 that's great.

Dallas Turner is a great player. You know, he's ninth on the consensus board. I think you noted that, which is good. But you know, obviously there's a whole process here that, I don't know, it's like it's a very top heavy approach to the draft for a team that I don't know has like justified a top heavy approach.

It seems like the process is a lot. justified a top heavy approach.

It seems like the process is a lot more interesting for UDFAs, and it is for six, seventh round picks, so if they can,

and no one can, but if they can consistently

replace underperforming mid and late rounders with undrafted free agents,

sure why not? Like that seems to be something that they're very good at which you know maybe I don't know but I think

that the players they grabbed are good I just wish they had grabbed more of them well

we all do everybody wants more cap space, more draft picks. Usually you have to tank to get all those wonderful things.

But I do agree with you when I looked at your consensus board versus some of the UDFAs and the total hall of players that they got.

It actually kind of looks more like they got them in the fourth, fifth, and sixth round because they got a lot of guys from UDFA who are much higher like Gabriel Murphy,

who's someone that will be tracking as we go along. But I only asked you the big picture question

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