Locked On Colts - Daily Podcast On The Indianapolis Colts - Indianapolis Colts Chris Ballard Era Draft Battle!
Episode Date: July 11, 2023The Indianapolis Colts offseason is dragging along slowly so we decided to mix it up and compete in a Chris Ballard-era draft battle to see which host could build the better team.Rules to follow: Each... host is limited to certain amounts at each position (ie. one quarterback, two wide receivers). When a player is selected, the host must select a particular season to go along with that player. When that player is selected, their name is off the board entirely for the other host (ie. 2018 TY Hilton is the only TY Hilton season that will be selected).Final Teams:Guest Host Destin Adams:QB: Andrew Luck (2018)RB: Jonathan Taylor (2021)WRs: Alec Pierce (2022), Zach Pascal (2019)TE: Eric Ebron (2018)OL Unit (2020)DT: DeForest Buckner (2020)DE: Denico Autry (2018)LB: Zaire Franklin (2022)CBs: Kenny Moore II (2021), Isaiah Rodgers Sr (2021)S: Rodney McLeod (2022)Zach Hicks:QB: Philip Rivers (2020)RB: Nyheim Hines (2020)WRs: TY Hilton (2018). Michael Pittman Jr (2021)TE: Jack Doyle (2017)OL Unit (2019)DT: Grover Stewart (2022)DE: Justin Houston (2019)LB: Shaquille Leonard (2018)CBs: Stephon Gilmore (2022), Rock Ya-Sin (2021)S: Malik Hooker (2017)Find and follow Locked On Colts on your favorite podcast platforms:🎧 https://link.chtbl.com/LOColts?sid=YouTube📺YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLdpxJspi1hMh5HL7ExpWOQLocked On NFL League-Wide: Every Team, Fantasy, Draft & More🎧 https://linktr.ee/LockedOnNFLFollow Jake and Zach's written work on HorseshoeHuddle.com, and give them a follow on Twitter @JakeArthurNFL, @ZachHicks2, @LockedOnColts, and @ColtsOnFN!Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!birddogsGo to birddogs.com/LOCKEDONNFL or enter promo code LOCKEDONNFL for a free Yeti-style tumbler with your order. You won’t want to take your birddogs off we promise you.eBay MotorsFor parts that fit, head to eBay Motors and look for the green check. Stay in the game with eBay Guaranteed Fit. eBay Motors dot com. Let’s ride. eBay Guaranteed Fit only available to US customers. Eligible items only. Exclusions apply.LinkedInLinkedIn Jobs helps you find the qualified candidates you want to talk to, faster. Post your job for free at LinkedIn.com/LOCKEDONNFL. Terms and conditions apply.FanDuelMake Every Moment More. Don’t miss the chance to get your No Sweat First Bet up to TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS in Bonus Bets when you go FanDuel.com/LOCKEDON.FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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It's time to have a little fun and draft some Chris Ballard era Colts players.
Let's get to it Colts fans.
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I am Zach Hicks, the most notorious film guy in all of Colts land,
according to my typical co-host there and Jake Arthur.
He is out today, but I'm replacing him with Destin Adams, my colleague over at HorseshoeHuddle.com.
The number one newsbreaker that we have over at that site, although our guy Sean also does some some some great things over there as well.
So, Destin, welcome to the show. We're going to have some fun today, guys.
You know, it's the offseason. We're trying to find some ideas for content.
And honestly, this idea for a show, it's kind of a goofy one.
It probably works more with three or four people doing it.
But since it's only the two of us, because we have the time constraints here on this show,
we're going to be drafting Chris Ballard-era Colts players.
Me and Destin go head-to-head and try to build a better team
among Chris Ballard-era Colts players, me and Destin go head to head and try to build a better team among Chris Ballard
era Colts players. So the way that we're doing this is has to be players that played from 2017
to 2022 on the Indianapolis Colts. So under the Chris Ballard era, you are drafting players for
that one season, you know, that one season they were so like, if I draft a 2018 TY Hilton, which
is a phenomenal TY Hilton season, TY Hilton is off the board, but I just get that 2018 T.Y. Hilton on my team
and stuff like that.
So it's a little fun way to kind of limit it a little bit
and kind of limit that scope.
We will be drafting offensive lines as in like the whole unit itself,
but defense, it's going to be player by player.
What other rules?
We have a position group thing we're going to reveal at the end
and stuff like that, like one quarterback, one running back, two receivers, one tight end,
stuff like that.
You guys will be able to catch along or you guys will be able to follow it here.
But Destin, since you are my guest on today's show,
I'm going to give you the first overall pick.
And we're going to do a fixed draft.
We're not going to do a serpentine or like a snake draft or anything like that.
So you can get the first overall pick.
I'll do a second.
You'll go third, like stuff like that.
So Destin, first overall pick. Are you going to the first overall pick. I'll do a second. You'll go third, like stuff like that. So, Destin, first overall pick,
are you going to make the obvious pick of taking the quarterback
or are you going to stray from that and go somewhere else?
I'm going to go quarterback just because the nostalgia is here.
The last season of Andrew Luck got played in the Chris Ballard era.
So I'm going to go ahead and take that 2017-2018 Andrew Luck season
where the Colts will go 10-6,
and they end up losing in the playoffs to the Kansas City Chiefs,
which I was in attendance at in Arrowhead that year.
Wasn't it 2018 2019 though
was it 2017 i thought it was 2017 2018 because then he ends up retiring in 2019 20 yeah but
maybe you're right maybe it's 2018 2019 i would say if you want to take
yeah if you want to take 2017 andrew luck where he wasn't playing like that's fine by me but
we'll give you 2018 andrew luck i'll make it easy on you there
injured andrew luck in 2017 would be a better option than taking some of the options we saw in 2017. But no, I'm going to go 2018-2019 Andrew Luck, his final season.
All right.
So since I'm locked in to taking a different quarterback than Andrew Luck,
I'm not going to take quarterback here with my first pick.
I'm going to go with a player at a very important position.
That's probably the best of all the guys at this spot.
I'm going to take 2018 T.Y with my uh first pick here uh destin you're back on the clock now i take in
the top receiver off the board oh you take you you go receiver and i mean it'll be interesting
to see where i go there eventually we're going to have to go receiver right now. Like Zach said, that's going to get to push that one off for me for a little bit here.
I'm going to stay on the offensive side of the ball.
And I'm going to go Jonathan Taylor for the 2021-2022 season where he was up for offensive player of the year. You could also call that season of
Jonathan Taylor the Indianapolis Colts offense because he just was. Yep, yep. I love that pick
there. Obviously, Jonathan Taylor is a phenomenal player. Getting to my second round selection,
though, and because we are taking two wide receivers each, I'm going to take the only
other decent wide receiver season we have in the last couple years and that's gonna
be 2021 Michael Pittman Jr. So I'm gonna be excited to see what wide receiver group you can build
after that but I'm gonna go 2021 Michael Pittman Jr. I have my top two receivers I don't have
anything else but I'm feeling pretty good about that. Yeah I mean hey I was assuming that could
happen but you know I'm just gonna trust Andrew Luck to make the best of whoever I get.
We saw what he did to Eric Ebron, so I can input whoever I want there, and we will be fine.
Looking at it here, what I want to go with.
I am going to go offensive line, i am gonna go with
between a couple here i'm gonna go the 2020 colts offensive line okay it was between it was between
2019 and 2020 i'm gonna go 2020 okay i will to be honest, they were not in my top two,
which is interesting.
I'll tell you my reasoning at the end when we actually talk
more about our picks. We're going to rush through them a little bit
here at the beginning. I'm actually going to go to
defense now with my next pick,
and I'm going to go with
rookie season Shaquille Leonard.
2018 Shaquille Leonard, where he
was forcing all those turnovers and took the
league by storm.
Broke the then Colts franchise record for tackles in a season.
Yeah, give me that playmaker on defense.
2018 Shaquille Leonard.
So technically you'd be getting Darius Leonard.
No, no.
Always Shaquille Leonard.
It's just we called him that because he didn't correct us yet.
So Shaquille Leonard. Hey. Shaquille Leonard. It's just we called him that because he didn't correct us yet. So Shaquille Leonard.
Hey, just putting it out there. Just putting it out there.
Ooh.
Which version of this player do I want to go?
The year stipulation makes it very interesting because we've just been going back and forth between a couple.
I just like end up between
like two or three between the same player over and over again i'm
sorry for the delay everybody i'm a very indecisive human being.
I think I want to go...
I'm going to go with DeForest Buckner either way.
So let's just say that right now.
I'm going to go DeForest Buckner.
The year part is just the one that gets a little tricky.
I feel like you got to go 2020.
I don't want another situation.
This first year.
I mean, 2020 is where I'm leaning.
I was going back and forth between a couple.
But, I mean, I think he was more healthy in 2020.
So I am going to go 2020 DeForest Buckner.
It was between 2020 and 2021.
I was just checking back and forth to kind of see where I wanted to go with it.
But I think DeForest Buckner is overall, his peak of that season play is just the best overall defender that the Colts have had during the Chris Bowen era.
Yeah, yeah.
No, I agree.
I agree.
And I'm going to go with another phenomenal performance by a former All-Pro, actually a former defensive player of the year.
I'm going to go 2022,
a 2022 player guys,
Stefan Gilmore as my corner with my next pick,
taking him there on the outside.
I'm shocked.
I'm shocked.
You didn't go at one of your man crushes on the outside,
but statistical,
I get it.
I get it.
I just thought the, the heart of Zach would win out on the DBs more on the outside. But statistical, I get it. I get it. I just thought the heart of Zach would win out on the
DBs more than the head.
But
you end up going with your head, and I
respect that
notion.
Looking at
the debate here,
I think
what I want to do is I'm going to stay in the corner world after you go Gilmore.
I'm going to go Kenny Moore, but I'm going to go hard knocks Kenny Moore, and I'm going to go with the 2021 season.
Yeah. I mean, that's the obvious one. After Gilmore goes off the board,
you got to take the playmaker that was Kenny or Kenny Moore in 2021. Now it gets a little
more interesting. You know, there's a lot of different ways we could go about it, but I think
I am going to go back to the defensive line, and I'm going to take 2019 Justin Houston.
2019 Justin Houston.
I believe he had 12 sacks that season for the Colts.
Very strong season off the edge, and especially in the Chris Ballard era
where there's not many strong seasons off the edge,
I feel like this is one guy I need to get here.
Yeah, it definitely limits a few different things.
I'm going to go back to the offensive side of the ball,
and I'm going to go tight end.
And I jokingly brought him up as somebody that Andrew Luck
made an important season out of,
but it's by far the best tight end season that we've seen in the Chris Ballard era.
So I'm going to go the 2018 Eric Ebron. Give me all 13 of those touchdowns.
Yes, yes. That's a good one. I was considering him my last pick because of that production.
But you know what? I'm going to take my tight end here just because I just want to have it
paired with yours. I'm going to go with 2017, 2017 Jack Doyle. Pro Bowl nod for Jack Doyle
that season. One of the best blocking tight ends in the league as well. Almost 700 yards receiving and six touchdowns. I think that was a phenomenal
season for Jack Doyle. But we're at the halfway point in this draft, guys. We're looking pretty
good with our teams. We're going to really jump into the rest of this draft and really break it
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And all you beautiful everydayers out there, we're going to be continuing with our AFC
South preview series next week.
We're going to have the host from Locked on Texans and the host from Locked on Titans
onto the show to talk all about their teams.
And if the Colts can really assert them as, you know, kind of move up in the division,
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All right, guys, so we're getting to the Titans again. We're going to talk about that all next week. All right, guys.
So we're getting to the last half of this draft.
You know, Destin has his quarterback in 2018, Andrew Luck.
He has his running back in 2021, Jonathan Taylor.
He's got his 2020 Colts offensive line.
He's got DeForest Buckner from 2020, Kenny Moore in 2021.
And then he went back to old faithful and Eric Ebron in 2018.
Destin, what's your next pick here?
Who you got?
I'm going to go back to the defensive side of the ball. This guy is a little bit of a tweener,
plays multiple positions, but a guy who plays in the same division still and now wrecks the
Colts a little bit. I'm going to go 2018 Danico Autry. Took Buckner on the inside on the line.
I'm going to use Autry as my outside nine-and-a-half sack season.
Really love the production we were able to get here.
Sadly, the Colts have to face him twice a year now.
Yeah, I feel like pretty much every other pick now,
we're getting close to where we're going to be locked in
to positions that we have to take.
But I think one of the few we have left here is cornerbacks still
because we each have one corner left that we can take. And I'm going to pick with my heart Destin I'm picking 2021
2021 Rakia Sin uh he had a phenomenal season a very underrated year uh despite not really having
many turnovers for us that's what I got Gilmore for on the other side he's going to force the
turnovers I got Rakia Sin to lock it up on the backside. So 2021 rock yes. I was waiting for it. I was, um, I w we're,
we're pretty much at the area where we're going to be taking repeating
positions. Um, so even though I could wait on this guy,
I think the season he had last year in the absence of Shaquille Leonard
warrants him being the selection here.
So I'm going to go Zaire Franklin in 2022.
I think he just kind of took over that leadership role inside,
and we just got to see the best year of Zaire Franklin and really excited to
see what year two of that confidence looks like.
All right.
So here comes my hottest take,
my craziest one here.
And I want to hear you guys in the comments with this one, this player only played I think like five games this season but I want to play
maker at safety I'm going 2017 Malik Hooker at safety he had what three or four picks in those
like five games that he played before tearing his ACL at a really horrible cheap shot even if I only
get the six games out of him,
I think it's going to be some good games that I'm going to get out of him.
So 2017 Malik Hooker, the one time we saw him live up to that billing as a first-round pick with the Indianapolis Colts.
So I'm going to put him down as my safety.
Hey, I can respect it.
I can respect it.
It'll be interesting to see who you input in the games where he doesn't play.
And if you need a tackle in the backfield, he may not be the guy for you. But ball hawk for sure
in Malik Hooker. I'm looking around here at what I want to do.
I think I'm going to stay at safety. And I think people may think this is not the right pick but I think just production
wise and just overall play even though this guy is going to go down as a one-year cult I think
Rodney McLeod in 2022 at safety was just such a all-around great player on the inside had to
move around a little bit because of injuries and the special role that Gus Bradley's defense allows. But I was really pumped by what Rodney McLeod was able to do here
in one year. Yeah, yeah, he was my second option and probably the safer option. I just wanted to
go a little bit risky. Now I'm going to leave my quarterback to the end because I just need
the funniness of that. Just leaving the quarterback to my very last pick just so we have a nice
sandwich between our quarterback picks. But looking at some other positions I can take here I think I just need to go with my boy on the
defensive line now that you took the only other defensive tackle that was viable I'm gonna go
2022 Grover Stewart hit his career high in tackles his career high in sacks maybe you know maybe that
career high in sacks means he can be a legit pass rusher for my team so yeah 2022 Grover Stewart on my defensive tackle spot
no yeah I think he had to be picked there I think he deserved to be a selection on the inside
and once Danico Autry's season's taken out which again a tweener you could have put it either spot
I think Grover Stewart makes a lot of sense I'm gonna go to the other corner spot um this guy has been in the news
for the wrong reasons as of late and no longer cold i think he won isaiah rogers and his three
interception season um and i i really like the ability that he showed on the outside that season
so i'm gonna go isaiah rogers there two smaller corners on my unit though and kenny and isaiah rogers yeah i will say i think you missed out on 2019 pierre
here 2019 pierre to sear was a good one that was a good one right there but i i get where you're
going with that i i loved i loved isaiah rogers here in indy so i get it uh so your last two
picks are gonna have to be wide receiver picks that's what you got left yeah i mean i felt like
that was only the right way to go about it yeah i have quarterback offensive line and running back so i'm going to
take offensive line here and again a hot take it's crazy the offensive line that allowed the least
amount of sacks in the chris ballard era is not going to be selected by us i'm going with the
2019 colts offensive line and i'll explain in our last segment why I went with the 2019 instead of 2018 or 2020
but I went with the 2019 Colts offensive line I think it was the best offensive line the Colts had
despite how many sacks they gave up but there's a reason why they gave up so many sacks
back then as well but yeah 2019 Colts offensive line I'm locking them in right there. Man, receiver in the Chris Ballard era, a position that has escaped the man.
Can't lie to you, but I'm going to go this first one because we never got to see him play with
Andrew Luck being a rookie last season. And I just feel like his skill set with an Andrew
Luck style of quarterback would just be a match made in heaven. So people could say I'm crazy,
but I'm going to go rookie season Alec Pierce 2022. All right. All right. Yeah, that was on
my short list if I didn't get my top two guys, but obviously I got both them. Now again, I'm
going to go with a little hotter take here too too because of the quarterback I'm going to end up taking with my last selection.
You know, I don't think 2019 Marlon Mack fits me as well.
I want a running back that's going to accentuate my quarterback,
so I'm going to go with 2020 Naheem Hines
with the 60-plus catches, over 400 yards rushing.
I think he's going to go well with the 2020 quarterback
I'm going to take as well.
My last spot.
So 2020 Naheem Hines as my running back.
Yeah.
Throwback to Frank Reich telling us that 2022 is going to be the best version of Naheem Hines.
Did not come to fruition.
Did not.
Did not.
So this last receiver is a fun one.
It's just fun to try to think who you want to go here.
So I'm going to go Old Faithful in Zach Paschal.
And I'm going to go 2019 Zach Paschal, 600 yards, five touchdown year.
And if anything, I'm getting an excellent run blocker on the outside.
I know that for a fact.
I love how it stops right there, though.
It stops right there.
That's why I took those top two receivers so early,
because I wanted you to be stuck in this situation.
I wanted poor Andrew Luck to still not get much help at wide receiver.
So I just had to ruin it.
Alec Pierce is going to be a 1,600-yard guy with Andrew Luck.
I don't know what you're talking about.
And my final pick, I'm going quarterback.
I know I kind of cheated by leaving quarterback to the end.
We probably should have – to be fair, we should have taken the top.
But the disparity was so big, I think, even between our two quarterbacks,
that I felt like this is the only way I could even it out.
I'm going with 2020 old man Phillip Rivers.
We love Phillip Rivers. Obviously,
there's nobody else that was even somewhat close to this season outside of 2018.
Brian Hoyer snubbed.
The Sam Ellinger preseason seasons are really snubbed right there, but that's what we have,
guys. We'll read off the drafts here in a second, following, you know, talking about
a couple other things. Yeah, no, no, we're going
to, yeah, we're going to jump into it right now, guys. Jumping into our selections here coming up
in a second. All right, so that was a really clunky outro there, but we're going to go into
our selections. We're going to talk about which players we took. Destin took 2018 Andrew Luck at
quarterback. I took 2020 Phillip Rivers. Destin took 2021 Jonathan Taylor at at quarterback. I took 2020, Phillip Rivers. Destin took 2021, Jonathan Taylor at running back.
I took 2020, Naeem Hines at wide receiver.
Destin got, obviously, 2022, Alec Pierce.
In 2019, Zach Paschal.
I got 2018, T.Y. Hilton.
In 2021, Michael Pittman Jr.
I also got 2017, Jack Doyle at tight end.
While he got 2018, Eric ebron and then for offensive
lines he got 2020 colts offensive line i got uh the 2019 colts offensive line so i think
offensively our teams are pretty even across it's just like i have better skill position players
and you have i think i mean you have the running back of the quarterback you're the running back
of the quarterback i think it's only fair that that Phillip Rivers gets the better weapons than Andrew Luck.
I think that's only fair.
Yeah.
Now, I will say this, though.
I want to see if you guys can follow my logic here.
I wanted the 2019 Colts offensive line over 2020 or 2018 for one reason, actually,
but the main reason right here.
They were healthy.
They did not miss.
None of those starters missed a single snap throughout that whole year.
So I got Costanzo, Glowinski, Brayden Smith, Ryan Kelly, and Quentin Nelson all playing really well.
Did not miss a snap the whole year. Destin taking the 2021. He's got that dude who got suspended
for steroids late in the year, playing left tackle.'s got jamarcus webb that came in for a couple games uh chas green got some snaps out there because costanza was injured you know
i think it was a little risky taking that one desk i'm a little scared for you
i took the peak of 2020s offensive line is really where i'm looking at it um i mean for example
zach has a safety who's only going to play five games. Those five games are going to be good.
Those five games are good.
But then you're going to have an empty man in the back on those other now 13 games.
But in general, I just think that the peak of 2020's offensive line
with a more mobile quarterback than what they had in Phillip Rivers
I think is going to also add to that offensive line playing well but I think the
top tier peak of that group is just arguably the biggest peak of any of these years yeah yeah for
sure I was just so scared by how they finished that year with who they were starting at left
who was that left tackle they brought in uh the start in the playoff game I can't remember his
name right now that really old guy who got suspended for steroids.
Valdir?
Jared Valdir?
Was that who it was?
Yes.
Yeah, it was Valdir.
And then he ended up after the Colts lost,
because of like the rules,
he was able to sign with the Packers
and played with the Packers
in that same off that playoff season.
Yep, yep.
And then they had Will Holden starting games
left tackle Jamarcus Webb had some snaps Chaz Green LaRaven Clark had some snaps for I think
he tore his ACL like it was we don't we don't we don't need to talk Chaz Green though like he
doesn't exist uh going over to the defense side of the ball though uh on the interior you got 2020
DeForest Buckner I got 2022 Grover Stewart.
Off the edge, you got Danico Autry in 2018.
I got 2019 Justin Houston.
At linebacker, you took Zyra Franklin from 2022.
And I took Shaquille Leonard from 2018.
At corner, I've got – who did I got?
I got Rockison and Stephon Gilmore.
Rockison from 2021, Stephon Gilmore from 2022.
You got 2021 Kenny and 2021 Isaiah.
We have a lot of 2021 defense here.
Like 2021 defense was good.
I'd like to imply, though, that it's 2021 hard knocks, Kenny Moore.
Hard knocks is included.
I win.
That's fair.
And then at safety, you got 2022 Rodney McLeod, and got 2017 Malik Cooker I got two 2017 players on here
man I'm I'm I'm have faith in that team right there but defensive wise my defense a little
more risky with I mean Shaquille Leonard got the turnovers and you know some some hiccups as a
rookie but you got a ton of turnovers and some big plays and then you obviously got Malik Cooker
on the back end which was my
riskiest pick there but i'm loving it i'm loving it uh but yeah yours is kind of like your edge
rush is going to be interesting with we saw when tanika altree moved to defensive end late in his
colts tenure the colts didn't really generate that much pass rush but like it's not like he was bad
it's just when you have a 280 pound guy out there there at defensive end, you're not going to bend the corner too much, you know?
Yeah, no, it was all about – I feel like the theme on my defense in general
was production.
You go DeForest Buckner, Danico Autry.
Once you go Justin Houston, I think Danico Autry is just the obvious next guy
that you can put as production on the outside.
Would have loved to have a Quidipe breakout last year to make it to where he is
the pick there, but haven't been able to see that yet. Sire Franklin being super productive last
year, Rodney McLeod being super productive last year, and then Kenny Moore and Isaiah Rogers
getting those two both individual most productive seasons. That was just the route I had to go on
defense once the star power of Shaquille Leonard was off the board. Yeah, my defense outside of corner is about forcing turnovers.
You know, I have a Matt Ibraflu style.
Yeah, you know, outside of corner, like my two corners can lock it down.
But outside of that, my whole defense is about forcing turnovers.
Yours is about keeping everything in front outside of corner.
Corner is all about the turnovers with your corners.
Your corners want the turnovers.
Everybody else wants to, you know, be safe and and get you know the get the tackles and get the
get the sacks and stuff like that my defense is going to turnovers except my corners are
saving our butts on the outside hey opposites opposites attract we love it um they're on the
outside to draft like a matt eberflus style defense in that mind and not use the word loaf
at all during this episode though i mean look at mean yeah i wasn't even trying to go maddie reflux but i guess when i touched
kill leonard from 2018 i kind of had to go a matt eberfluss style defense like that started it the
domino effect you just need it there i should have got kenny to go with that if i was going
matt eberfluss defense but the heart the heart wants with the heart once i understood what you
had to go rock i did right right right uh but no i think we should make a graphic of this what do you think you know your you know graphic design is your understood why you had to go rock. I did. Right, right, right. But no, I think we should make a graphic of this. Destin, what do you think? You know, graphic design is your passion.
Do you want to? My passion? Yeah, I'll definitely come up with something and let everybody vote for
it on Twitter. In my past experience of these little votes on Twitter, it starts and ends with
the quarterback. So if that, if that stays true,
I should win like 80% to nothing. I was hoping that you were going to overthink the quarterback
position and be like, you know what? It's all about whoever has the biggest gap in talent here.
So you want to take the biggest gap first. And is Andrew Luck to Phillip Rivers, the biggest gap
when you have like a Shaquille Leonard to anybody else, you know, or you have a DeForest Buckner to Grover, which Grover is awesome,
but DeForest Buckner is a pass rusher, you know,
like I was hoping you were going to overthink it.
So I started leading on that.
That's why I took the receivers.
Cause I was like, okay,
those are the biggest gaps are wide receiver to the,
those two wide receivers to everybody else.
So I was really hoping that second receiver,
you were going to wait on it a little bit.
And then once you did it, I just penciled myself in and my last, you were going to wait on it a little bit. And then once you did it,
I just penciled myself in that my last two picks were going to be receivers.
I was hoping you were going to like throw a change up and not take a Zach
Paschal.
I was hoping like a Mike Strong was going to be thrown in there or
something, you know, like something fun.
Michael Strong training camp, Deion Kane.
Hey, Deion Kane, is it the USFL that he just won the championship MVP for?
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Deion Cain, man.
Colts legend.
Colts legend right there.
But if you guys want to join in and do something like this,
we're going to post kind of the rules that we went by
and kind of everything that we did with our draft.
And we're going to post the results of the draft in the show notes here on YouTube
and on the audio form as well.
So it's a little easier to follow than just me reading off the names.
You guys can actually look at the teams that we end up selecting.
But yeah,
I think this is something where if you guys have three or four people,
it could be really fun doing something like this.
Cause someone's going to get stuck with like 2022 Colts offensive line.
So they really have to build their team around the quick passing game.
So maybe you want to get Phillip Rivers if you get that line.
But yeah, no, we've, we had more time to do this.
We would have grabbed more people and it would have been like a really cool
round table.
We might do like a longer version of this on one of our YouTube channels,
but yeah, that's not feeling good about this.
I think this is the team we should roll out. You know,
I think these are the teams we should roll out this next.
Yeah. We, we are better general managers than Chris Bauer by using his years.
I think the only way to play this game and make it even more entertaining
is you have to have six people exactly for the six seasons that there are.
So then somebody is getting 2022 Colts offensive players,
and that's what we want to see.
Yeah.
Someone would get Zach Moss if you're good, though.
You get Zach Moss.
Yeah.
I mean, dude runs hard.
Dude runs hard.
Dude runs hard.
Well, guys, that's what we have for today's episode,
the super fun, just kind of goofy Friday episode.
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