This was a complete mid-round pivot from me. I literally decided when I was on the clock to completely change course. As the pick was coming up, I'd settled down to Mayfield, Michael Thomas and Kamara. And when it was time to click 'draft' I decided 'ah, **** it...' and did a 180.

I don't know that it was smart at all, but I simply didn't see a good path to trying to beat my division at its own game and make it a sustainable strategy. It might have worked here and there, but when 3 teams in the division looked to be building along the same lines, I figured I'd see if I couldn't go a different direction and try to end run all 3 of them.

Very much a balls or bust strategy. There's a chance all this capital thrown at the D was for naught. But hey, if so I'll have some nice draft picks to try to build around it.

I quite enjoyed that little ~10 pick run we just went on. All good things must come to an end, it would appear.

I’m live picking like a mad man.

No excuses.

Wheeler pissed Tamba off so he's running the clock out of spite...

I'm deciding who I want I'm here

We will easily get through 15 picks before midnight.

Nah that was Virus who said he would run clock out but he must have set it to auto draft cause 5 picks happened in less than 2 minutes it seemed. We done more picks in the last ten min than we have all day

My offense is going to be such shit lmao but whatever defense wins championships

Need to change your algorithm to not allow the really good returners to automatically be put on a team

If people could stop taking players off my board.....yeaaaaah uhhhh, that'd be great.

Fortunately there's only one other team in the league trying to do what I'm trying to do and for the most part we just take turns stealing each other's guys.

So cheers, Tamba, for keeping me company.

I think we're idiots but oh well.

Yeah, but we never used a 2nd round pick on Matthew Stafford, so we've got that going for us...

Or Andy Dalton

You guys should complete your Baltimore copycat scheme and fight over Lamar Jackson

Pft - I've got Fitzpatrick now to show up, throw deep bombs and arm punts.

Dude's gonna throw 25 interceptions (or more) but it should be fun watching him launch bombs to JuJu and then see if my defense can play 80 snaps/gm.

I'm irrationally giddy about the idea of trying to win games with that !@#$ing hobo at quarterback.

Shit I'm sticking with Cody Kessler. There is not a qb left worth a damn

We need pre-season games so I can have a genuine by God quarterback competition between Tannehill and Fitz.

What a friggen cripple fight that would be.

How do I make sure Kessler was on a roster all year

This absolutely needs to happen.

And if one of you doesn't take him, I'm going to troll with a late pick if he's still on the board and put him up to the highest bidder.

I'm not wasting a pick on Lamar Jackson

I'd support CD allowing me to start a defensive back at QB before putting Lamar back there.

I'm confident there are at least 5 position players in the league who could play QB no worse than Lamar Jackson. I'm not sure who they'd be, but if I had one game with my life on the line and Lamar Jackson or Tyreek Hill are the only 2 guys I could have at QB, I'm pretty positive I'd just stick Tyreek Back there.

And if my memory serves, Johnny Hekker has completed like 12 fake punt passes. So gimme Tyreek for 1 and 2nd downs, then put Hekker in there to chuck one deep on 3rd and then stay on the field for wonky ass fake punt plays on 4th.

Now watch him destroy creation in the Sim.

I’m hoping clay does a division by division preview when this is all set.

His writing is pretty entertaining.

I don't know why you guys are so down on him? I used to live close to Louisville, and he was treated like a God around there. Lets not forget he ran roughshod on the league until the Chargers playoff game.

Because he can't throw a football.

He was laughably inept at just throwing the ball where he wanted it to go against the Chiefs.

Set aside completion% because even it doesn't do enough justice to just how scattershot that guy's accuracy is. I won't go so far as to say he's Tebow because Tebow was so damn bad he couldn't throw it near enough to a receiver for a defensive back to be close enough to pick it off.

He's more of a taller Tyler Thigpen. He not good.

I'm definitely the only media member covering this league.

Follow me on twitter.

Lol

I don’t have Twitter.

Yea I never got the point of twitter

it's certainly not for dudes beholden to breast feeding schedules

He didnt even know who Denzel Ward is

Oh he will.

You aaaaaaall will...

jesus christ, what are you guys doing, playing with your ****ing kids?

aight

who wants 183?

I’ve been on this, working full time, 1 year old and family staying with us from Out of state.

#goals

Me.

I'm neglecting the shit out of my family and have 200 cases sitting with me in my office right now that I'm only half-heartedly reviewing.

I'm committing both familial and legal malpractice so I can have a spreadsheet full of guys, 90% of whom I won't be able to draft anyway.

I'm doing my part, goddammit...

Or Minkah Fitzpatrick!

I enjoy your posts very much. Thank you.

ROFL

You should try to have an all black team.

FYI we are past breastfeeding.

What's the next off-field distraction? Burping techniques?

So are we.

****ing things deflated more spectacularly than the Hindenburg. I can barely find so much as a nipple to grab onto these days. I suspect she needs to go home and see if her mom kept her old training bras or something.

!@#$ing sucks. Get here soon August. Daddy needs some bolt-ons...

You say that, but when you get served with summons because I absentmindedly typed "Lewdog" in the defendant line, you're gonna be pissed.

I need a Trust written up.

Cost?

No earthly idea. The problem with stuff like that is that nobody knows if it's screwed up until after you're dead and it's too late to do anything about it. So the attorneys that do them are damn thorough and it tends to be a little more expensive than you realize. And you can't do something like legalzoom and then ask an attorney to review it because they're not gonna trust an online template (and if they review it and sign off on it, they're just as legally liable as they'd be had they created it from whole cloth).

I'd imagine most estate planning atty's have a flat fee for basic asset protection or pour-over trusts, but they probably get pretty pricey if there are many complicating factors.

We appear to have reached the offensive line stage of our program.

Piss in my ass, my QB is gonna be running for his life. There is precisely dick left to choose from. I wonder if I can coax Gosder Cherilius out of retirement. He did a fine job for Clearwater back in the day...

“We” reached that part of the program many many rounds ago

PM sent

I'd move Malcom Brown to move up a couple of rounds; solid young starting DT.

Gonna be away for an hour or so; sent you the offer. Accept if interested.

Last call for 183.

Hey! Stafford is going to lead us to the promised land.

And if your starter was Matt Cassel, you'd draft Matthew Stafford in the second, too.

How many guys you have in your queue?

I’m at 80. I never stop researching. I’m used to fantasy football research but I don’t know some of these defensive players or o lineman. This has been quite enjoyable for me. Thank you for being able to click on a person and it taking you to Pro Football reference. I bet I’ve had 200 plus new tabs open in the past few days!

I see what you're doin DJ ****in nice

Holy shit Clay. I went outside but had I accepted.........I was taking Heyward with that next pick.

Well, **** you, then. ROFL

Hey guys remember him?

Well if you're gonna be a draft nerd, go with what you know...

UGHHHHHHHH I WAS GONNA TAKE XAVIEN

194 available

Me too.

samesies

My OL is going to be a force of nature.

Most of the best players are off the board now.

I have a feeling the next 100 picks are going to be painful for some.

I took my pick but 202 is on the table as well.

Uhhj what?

Unless you go against my Dline

I like that Kendall Fuller pick; was hoping he would keep sliding due to Chiefstink and I'd be able to put him where he really excels. Fuller as my NCB would've just been a damn monster...

I feel like I've got maybe 3 more rounds of players I like and depending on how that goes, I'm probably just whippin' darts from that point forward.

I may get lucky and sneak a 4th guy in there since my board seems completely dissimilar from most teams at this point, but that's as much as I can ask.

Gonna be a scouts draft from that point forward. Which is nice, because I'm just better at this than the rest of you...

Yeah I was gonna put him as my nickel paired with Ramsey and Slay that would have been beautiful

I have 67 on my board all I would love to have

I have 52 and probably only 15-20 that I'd be pretty stoked to get.

But I've also made my entire board based on getting 10 rounds covered and then re-evaluating so that's not terribly surprising.

God damnit you did it again...I was gonna take Barr.

SOAFB!!!! Half of Lawrence's team were guys I was going to take w/ the very next pick.

67 on mine

but only two that I really, really want

if I get them both my team is going to be L-E-T-H-A-L

Your team is shit, what is your team?

Got my stud thumper to concuss all of Clay's players

I still have over 70

Your linebackers won't touch my skill position players.

I'm putting together the best line in the league.

Your thumper is going to be an extreme liability against my 3 WR package anyway, especially with Kelce on the field.

lulz

my god, billy, you haven't drafted a single offensive lineman, and they are about to begin FLYING off the board

you may get russ sacked 60 times

Wait a minute.

I was told we would get a count to 3 Mississippi.

Was I misinformed?

I have 3 interior guys who are starters moron