**Weekend Draft Special** -- Middlekauff's Value Philosophy by Position, Player, Round
3 and Out with John Middlekauff
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
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🗓️ 3 April 2021
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, John is coming in hot on a Saturday talking NFL Draft. He explains his scouting philosophy when it comes to defining value, the positions where he sees the most first round value, the positions where it pays to wait, why the 2nd and 3rd rounds are where to find max value, and why future picks aren't equal to current ones. Follow John on Twitter and SUBSCRIBE now to get all the latest content!!
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| 0:00.0 | Well, I did an emergency podcast last weekend after the trade. |
| 0:15.2 | And I thought to myself, why don't we just keep doing some draft weekend podcasts leading |
| 0:21.0 | up to, I don't know, the NFL draft. |
| 0:24.3 | Everyone has opinions, everyone's fired up about this thing. |
| 0:27.2 | We've already had a ton of trades, we already got a ton of unknown. |
| 0:30.4 | And as someone who worked in scouting, who the reason he got into scouting and really |
| 0:35.4 | even college football was because at my core as much as I loved the sport, I love the draft. |
| 0:41.8 | I would say I'm a draft addict. |
| 0:44.5 | And I would say I'm not even close to as big of an addict as some of the people my best |
| 0:50.8 | friends when I worked in the NFL with the Eagles who are now kind of all over the league. |
| 0:55.1 | Those guys, I mean literally, couldn't be any more addicted to the draft. |
| 0:59.5 | They do it for a living, they talk about it 365, they watch these guys 365, it's literally |
| 1:06.4 | their life's work as an executive in the NFL. |
| 1:10.4 | And I'm not even just talking about the how he rosemans, the Brett Viches, I'm talking |
| 1:13.8 | about the assistants, the college directors, the college scouts. |
| 1:17.8 | It's just, it's a passionate time of year for those guys, for as much as we love it on |
| 1:21.6 | the outside, they dedicate their life and their time to just evaluating these guys and |
| 1:28.9 | stacking the board. |
| 1:30.8 | And to me, the most fascinating thing about the draft and it's something that I've really |
| 1:35.7 | developed over the last decade. |
| 1:38.4 | And if you've listened to my show, you know, I love the stock market, I love business, |
| 1:43.1 | I love money. |
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