I don’t see it, canales has been special when it’s come to scheming open big body x wrs who aren’t greatest route runners or separators in DK. Mingo was a way worse prospect than legette. DK (incredibly similar to legette he’s not a great route runner either) and evans having great career years w canales. I do think coleman would’ve been a better pick. Mingo had worse hands and an overall is a worse athlete.
I agree. The point of the draft is to help bad teams get better. A team that finishes 11th should have no shot at the number 1 pick. If the NHL wants to keep the the lottery to prevent tanking, they should go back to where 1 team moves up three spots and everyone else moves back one. It isn't hard. The NHL keeps it the way it is now because it is "exciting". The purpose of the draft is to help bad teams, not add excitement.
hawks were the 3rd worse team in the nhl that year they weren't thrown a bone it wasn't like they were the middle of the road team honestly if your going to make an example of the lottery being bs use the 2007 nhl draft lottery as a better example where the hawks a young team having almost all the pieces for a future cup run a team might I add who already gotten lucky with Jonathan Toews in the draft gets gifted the number 1 PATRICK KANE with only the 6th best odds at 7.5% where as in the Bedard lottery they had 11.5%. Now note I do agree with majority of the things you said in this video I just wanted to point that out real quick
The panthers need a tank in the field we don’t need another skinny wr who can get open. We got Theilen and diontae Johnson (#1 wr in creating separation) and a steal in the draft of jatavion sanders. Panthers got their guy and bro gets to play at home.👍
XL route running isn’t raw, he needs work on comebacks and outs and he is doing that. His slants and everything else are sharp and ANGLES compared to sloppy and curved. What’s impressive is he is working on it. You say shiftier WR and dink and dunk. Worthy is to DAMN small, Troy Franklin pro day and combine was sloppy and horrible route running( I love Oregon and glad we didn’t get him) XL size and speed allows him to catch those dunk and dunk plays and actually get positive yard because of his size. He can ALSO CATCH. His productivity also had a lot to do with the coaching and QB issues at SC. It was a great pick. You need to really sit back and watch last years tape and see how they moved him.
Route running is all this man has been working on since college, he's heard all the criticism and is grinding. I like the pick, but I'll admit a bit of bias as a gamecock and panthers fan. I agree he looks a lot like mingo coming out of college and mingo didn't produce. Athletically Legette is special, but for those short routes and underneath stuff we have DJ and Theilen, but Xavier's game speed is quick( had the fastest homerun td in the sec last year) I'm excited to see him against nfl level competition. I disagree with the Ladd pick only because his skill set and size is too similar to multiple other receivers on the roster(DJ,Theilen, heck i'll toss in smith-marsette too). Been hearing good things out of camp about Jalen Coker out of Holy Cross as well, but mark it here I think Legette has the most yards of rookie WRs this year
With all due respect, this video was a bit of a nothingburger with no real evidence to support your claim and just repeating the same talking points of "it doesn't discourage tanking" and "there's no reason for the lottery to exist". The NHL literally shows videos of them doing the draw, and before they even start the draw they showcase the time of day when the draw is being done (The commissioner holds up his phone to showcase the time) and they also prove what day of the week it is (showcasing the front page of 2 different newspapers.). It happens in a 12x24 room an hour prior to the TV broadcast, and no one (except the commissioner and the NHL's CCO) is allowed to leave the room until after the broadcast is over. There are 20 people in the room where they do the lottery pull, no phones are allowed in the room outside of Bettman's (for the purpose listed above), and they invite 3 journalists from vastly different markets to attend the pull process, each media member getting a printed out packet that showcases the exact sequences that can potentially be drawn and who possesses what sequences; said packet has 1,001 potential sequences. Rangers never won twice in a row to draft first overall, they won the lottery in 2020 to draft 1OA and won the second drawing in 2019 that got them the 2OA pick. Chicago moved from 3OA to 1OA to draft Bedard The only time the lottery was really "suspicious" was between 2011-2015 when Edmonton won it 3 times; even then, they were still a pretty bad team and nowhere near the playoffs; sense then, they changed the rules to you can only win the lottery twice every 5 years. Even a team that "barely misses the playoffs" like you said, they can only move up at maximum 10 spots; so a team that finishes 16th (literally the closest you can get to missing the playoffs) hypothetically wins the lottery (a 0.5% chance for that team), they only can draft 6OA at best... and such an occurrence automatically guarantees the worst statistical team in the league will draft 1OA. Additionally, the statistical worst team in the league can draft no lower than 3OA. Then on top of that, you have to still draft the right player (we've seen plenty of duds or disappointments). If the lottery was rigged, Arizona would have won lotteries because that was the most struggling market in the league that Bettman refused to give up on for decades... now the team had to move because they finally realized it was a lost cause. If the lottery was rigged, they would pull strings to give expansion teams that pay up to a billion dollars to join the league special treatment in the lottery. Yes, the lottery sometimes gives us less than favorable results (no one wanted Bedard to go to Chicago merely because of the recent org wide sexual assault case)... but that doesn't mean its rigged; suggesting so is just insane amounts of copium.
Choosing Keon over XL is interesting given your distaste for lack of separation. As a Panthers fan, I was also hoping for Ladd, but I do think he interacts with Thielen and Johnson’s skill sets.
Hot take: the lottery should be completely random but still exist. Chaos giving a winning team another dominating superstar is preferrable to teams tanking for top talent.
Clearly a Ducks fan. Before the lottery teams would go for last to win the lottery. This gives other teams a chance to win it or at least move up in draft pick.
The NBA would be absolutely horrible without a lottery. The #1 and 2 picks in the NBA are SOOOOOOOOOO much more valuable than 8-10, your team has almost zero chance to win a championship without getting a superstar or 2, and most superstars are top 3 picks. Tanking would be 1000x worse in the NBA if the lottery wasn't a thing. There's more parity in the NHL and it might be OK without a lottery but you still don't want a team picking #1 3-4 years in a row.
The NHL didn't throw Chicago a bone. They were terrible in 2022-23 and were actively tanking (tear down/rebuild). They had the 3rd best odds at the #1 pick and got the #1 pick. No bone throw. No rigging. Just good old fashioned tanking and luck.
Chicago should’ve never had that pick in the first place. They should’ve had it (along with probably others) stripped for blatantly covering up a SA scandal. Bedard becoming a Blackhawk just proves that Karma isn’t real
@@Kodiakk Look at Ottawa when they got their first round pick taken from them. They get to pick which year they lose it over the next 3 years. Same thing would have happened to Chicago and they still would have got Bedard. Cry some more about it.
The lottery in the NHL and NBA discourages tanking but teams still tank. If there wasn't a lottery and its just the team with the worst record or lowest winning percentage gets the #1 pick, there would probably be 7-10 teams per year actively trying to lose games.
i mean for at least the nhl it is done buy a private company and is composed of like 4 drawings that decided who gets first and is not rigged like if it rigged Arizona would have gotten a 1st pick and they never did Chicago jump up two spots and rangers just got lucky to say the nhl wouldn't want the ducks to get the 1st pick is just not true and if you dont have a draft lottery then teams will make there teams not nhl level to get prospects like McDavid Matthews berdard like the bad teams have much higher odds then anyone out of the bottom 5
Bo Nix is going to be a great player for denver baring injury. Nix will out perform Caleb Williams , I happen to think that CW is a bust. JJ will do well for the Vikings. Jayden Daniels is going to suck for Washington.
From an old Broncos Fan ( since 1965) As history shows us it really doesn't matter what round they go in . Your either going to be a total loser, or a high caliber player. example ,,,, # 1 pick over all ''Ryan Leaf''. The worst #1 pick ever vs 6th round pick Tom Brady. No need to list his accomplishments . Everyone knows what he did. He may or may not have been a whiner idk or care ( i wasn't a fan because he played for New England ) ( who was the Broncos first ever game and our arch rival ) he won a lot of games & championships. And that's the bottom line. P.S. Bo Nix Reminds me of one of my favorite players growing up Johnny Unitas . Kodiak Kid, I give you a ''Mile High Salute''
As a guy who primarily watches football and basketball I personally don’t think the lottery is a bad idea. Experiencing the NBA for 10 plus years I’ve never seen a team outside of a bottom five record get close to the top two picks. After the top two picks the chance of that player being franchise changing crashes drastically. Also there are many famous examples of tanking in the nfl. I remember week 17 in 2015 it was my saints vs the bucs and they sat all there starters out 90% of the game to get the number one overall pick. The same thing happened week 17 next year with browns vs steelers. And i know for certain the texans tanked for jedaveon Clowney because that team wasnt bad enough to get the number one overall pick. But those are just my thoughts have a good day
Appreciate you & appreciate your comment 😎👊 it’s not necessarily a bad idea in practice but I think the execution of it completely fails in how it screws over the teams who genuinely are bad and could utilize talent. The problem with the NBA is there’s only 5 guys on the court at any given time and 12-16 guys on a roster so the draft and luck weighs so heavily into construction, whereas in the NFL there’s 53 guys on a team and premier prospects at pretty much every position and the #1 overall player on most team’s big boards may not be the same throughout the league. The idea of a Caleb Williams or MHJ esque prospect going to a team that just barely missed the playoffs is absolute appalling to me and why I never think the NFL should implement a draft lottery.
Not better than Aiyuk or Deebo yet but I trust Shanahan’s development. Pearsall at UF was a guy who consistently lost out on 5-10 yards of YAC because his QB was horrendous. Will be very exciting to see what he does with a good QB
Had you been paying close attention, MANY teams around the league said the Denver Broncos were in fact trying every possible scenario to move up to the #3 slot to get one of the top three. Once they realized in no universe where they going to be able to move up high enough, they pulled the trigger on Zac Wilson. So, I'm sorry I do not believe the horse manure that Bo Nix was their #1 guy.
#1? Absolutely not, and I literally said in the video that there was no realistic shot that they were going to get the Top 3 of Daniels, Maye, or Williams, never tried to imply Nix was their #1 but I do 100% think he was out of the next crop of McCarthy, Nix, and Penix. Zach Wilson was not going to deter us from our draft plans whether QB or other position
The problem with that is it doesn’t look like any QBs from next year’s draft are going to be taken that high. Obviously we could be wrong because there’s still another CFB season and monumental rises haven’t been uncommon the past few years but still
Picking Baker makes the jets look dumb trading up for a wr. I was confident MC was gonna fall to us at .72 bc he was ALREADY falling. I tip my hat to NE good draft I’m rooting for Baker
The defensive line has talent in the pass rush but fell short in defending the run. That same talent needs to be disciplined to do BOTH. This will be Mike's fundamental challenge at first, adding Murphy should help here. Good presentation, Kodiak.
I think the success of Bo Nix in his first season is going to heavily rely on the running game. The Bronco's need to ensure that they can get him those crucial third and shorts, plus I'm sure Sean can write up some good play actions in. I'm not sure how good that new running back they drafted is, but IMHO they need a top 10 rushing attack to make sure Njx transitions well.
NOT going to happen TB fan. Jim Harbaugh wanted to clean out this John Elway / Joe Ellis (trust) front office that IS STILL intact. Sean Payton said he would play in their sandbox. As soon as they put in Stinham (sp?), the Broncos went into 4 - 5 receiver 'air raid' sets. NOT Sean Payton football. The Broncos themselves are already 'highlighting' Bo Nix throwing deep balls. This front office can NOT help themselves and will want to go 'air raid' more than they should. Count on it.
Even Mel Kiper said live - the jets are taking nix and tbh I didn’t mind it but HELL NO was I taking JJM. Overall good trade thanks for the free money as Coach Saleh said 😂
I feel like this Bo Nix pick is either gonna end up being another Drew Lock, Paxton Lynch, etc or the next Drew Brees for the Broncos. There’s no in between 😂
Yeah he’s horrible, Pacheco is a DAWG and runs super hard, I’m surprised he didn’t go higher than the 7th but that’s the cruel nature of being a RB these days
