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00:00There are some things associated with the NFL draft that are always just sort of mind-numbing in how much we overanalyze them.
00:08This concept of it's got to be one or the other, best player available, or you're drafting for a position of need,
00:15typically relies on the idea that your draft board is correct.
00:20And it's one of the craziest things in all of sports is that, oh, the board told us to do this.
00:24When we have historical proof every single year that the board is always wrong, right?
00:28No one has ever had a correct board.
00:31And so for me, it's always, listen, you put your guys in tiers.
00:36I've never liked ranking players 12, 13, 14.
00:39No, it's tier one, tier two, tier three.
00:41And when you get in those various tiers, you're trying to find guys that fit what you need on your football team.
00:48And so if you've got a tier that's got an offensive lineman here and an edge rusher here, you say, which one do we need more?
00:53Because we think that these guys on the same tier are very similarly graded.
00:57Let's go with the one that's going to help us more immediately.
01:01As for the trust factor, I don't know what to do.
01:04Ryan Poles' draft classes over the first three years as general manager have been less than inspiring.
01:08We've never seen Ben Johnson have this big of a role inside of a draft.
01:12I don't know if I should trust them to get this right.
01:15What I do know is that at number 10, the menu is so plentiful that it's going to be really difficult for them to get that wrong.
01:22But as we've talked about previously for the last month, this is about 10.
01:26It's about 39, 41, 72.
01:28Yes.
01:28And having those first four picks amount to something.