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5.05 Sam LaPorta Under consideration: Jalen Hurts, Jameson Williams I almost never take tightends this early, but in my perspective, round 5 is a wasteland. I like Jameson Williams, and think he's super talented, but he's a bit too high variance for me. I almost pulled the trigger on Hurts, but felt like LaPorta was more impactful.

4.08 James Conner Under consideration: Omarion Hampton I was quite confident both Conner and Hampton would be available at this pick and I was also quite confident neither would be available in the 5th, so I took the boring old James Conner since he just puts up top 10 seasons every year and Hampton will likely take a month or so to wrestle the job from Najee.

3.05 Tee Higgins Under consideration: McLaurin, Mike Evans, Breece, and Kamara I really hated this spot. I usually don't take tightends this early, but I would've taken Bowers if he was around, and I knew Jonathan Taylor was going to go where he did, but I was holding out hope for him to drop a spot. In the end, I chose Higgins because I think the Bengals defense got even worse, and one thing I learned in the Colts Marvin Harrison Sr/Reggie Wayne days is that a great QB and bad defense equals two top fantasy receivers. In the end, it came down to one of my staple rules to take players on good offenses if given the choice. I don't think the Jets and Saints are going to score a lot of points, and I just had Higgins slightly higher than McLaurin and Evans.

2.08 Ladd McConkey On the board: AJ Brown, Tyreek, Josh Jacobs, Chase Brown, Nico Collins, Brian Thomas AJ Brown was likely the better value, but I was gun shy about putting all my eggs in the Eagles offense basket given the schedule is much tougher this year. Ladd feels a little reachy here even though I don't think he'd have been around at 3.05. It also broke into a tier, but I felt a little jammed up in that given the lineup requirements of 3 WRs and how the draft was unfolding, I felt like there was going to be RB value later, and minimum WR value. In the end, I could've picked AJ, Nico or Brian Thomas and felt the exact same way. Tyreek wasn't a strong consideration here because my opinion is that the Miami offense is broken and Tyreek is on the verge of falling off. I had Tua and Tyreek stacked last year, and even the first game left me feeling something was wrong, so now I'm spooked.

1.05 - Saquon The only other player I would have considered is Amon Ra. I have two concerns about Saquon. The first is the volume of touches and the injury history that goes with it, and the second is that I expect Barkley to come back to earth a bit. As for the volume, I had to get over it. Barkley obviously has season tilting talent and situation, so passing on the potential #1 overall player wasn't an option, and besides, injuries are analog. Even if he does get hurt, it could be on the shorter side and not season ending. However, there is the second part in that expect his numbers to regress. Yes the Eagles o-line took a hit with Kelce retiring, but also, there is this phenomenon when a player changes teams sometimes where they get the chip on their shoulder and you get A++ focus and determination the whole season as a bit of an F-you to the team that let them go. The issue with that, though, is once the player proves his point, the chip is gone, and instead of A++ focus and determination, maybe you get a range from A++ to C+ depending on the week, and I expect that to happen here as well.

7.05 - RB Tyrone Tracy, NYG

6.08 - WR George Pickens, DAL

5.05 - TE Sam LaPorta, DET

4.08 - RB James Conner, ARI

I'm predicting 6 game suspension. I wouldn't be surprised if it's as low as 4 though.

I've owned bitcoin since it was like 1200, dude. You thought bitcoin and maybe still think bitcoin is going to replace the dollar. I'm happy you've profited off bitcoin, but quite frankly, it was luck. You don't have a good handle on where the value of bitcoin comes from. The irony is that most bitcoin bros don't. That being said. I'd rather be dumb, lucky, and profitable than smart and unlucky.

Damn you guys are naive. They put on a dog and pony show so the mdc's of the world who would prefer to believe their leaders become multi-millionaires on 200k salaries off pure gumption and grit can point at the super awesome investigation and say, "see... Nothing happened". That's the same investigation that said the laptop was fake because files were copied. You don't believe shìt like that happens right? It happens everywhere. Hell I had a fraudster in my industry tell me the government "suggested" they should fake design reviews because they know the contract can't be cancelled once they're past the design review phase and they needed to lock up the money. Can I prove it? No. They obviously don't write an email saying, "hey hand wave your way through this so you can't get cancelled." They pull you aside at some dinner and say, "just get through it however you have to." So what you and the "investigators" were looking for was a video of Biden taking money from Hunter and hunter saying, "hi dad. Here is your cut of that money I got from the ukrainians to make sure you give them some considerations where possible." Obviously that isn't going to exist. So we have to use our common sense and when the crackhead son writes that he's getting paid and needs to kick up 10% to the big guy, we understand what that means instead of going out of our way to play gullible rubes. Make the investigation look credible. "Oh, there isn't explicit emails saying hunters fake job and money laundered through his art is for access? Ok. Case closed. The public will believe anything, and then we can call it old news." Covid... Biden's dementia... This laptop... You guys have no common sense.

No it's realistic.

Yes dummy. But files were copied so it was obviously a russian hoax since no one copies files on a laptop.

They didn't want to pick a fight with the president. Give me a break. So they "investigated," but god forbid we actually hold someone accountable.

Imagine being such a bootlicker, you ignore a child sex ring because your cult leader told you to. That's seafoam. And Frozenbeernuts thinks aliens built the pyramids, so I mean...

Hunter absolutely is relevant. Anyone with a brain can see hunter was trading money for access and giving the big guy a cut. I'm sure every politician does that, but Biden is unique in that he has a crackhead son that got him caught doing it, and we all just ignored it because everyone told you the laptop was fake when it clearly wasn't. So essentially, when it would've supposedly been relevant they lied and said the laptop was fake which of course you lemmings bought. And now that time has passed and the lie is eroded, we're supposed to ignore it? Nah.

Except seafoam, of course. He'll lick those boots until the very end.

Flip side of what you wokies do. The MAGA bootlickers all lineup to distract, deflect, and even defend and that offsets what would be the critical mass of outcry to embolden those in power to act. They supposedly don't like pedos just like you wokies didn't like jab mandates and lockdowns, etc. At least, unlike you wokies, it looks like they are figuring out to just stfu about it if they don't want to impugn their precious trump.

3.05 - WR Tee Higgins, CIN

Someone says something about Trump and seafoam has to come running.

I don't think I was ever lucky enough to have holmes in his prime.

2.08 WR Ladd McConkey, LAC

My bad on the round 1 timeout. I messed up and thought we were still on the first few picks. I would've taken Saquon for sure though.

In startups that don't make money employees often get compensated with stock options. Perhaps the league could issue options for future profit sharing. Then if the league continues to lose money, the options become worthless. If the players are truly owed additional compensation, then their labor should eventually lead to a profitable product and they can collect. otherwise, they're not "owed" additional compensation.