John Middlecoff

Because the only reason you would trade up for a guy who wasn't an elite, elite prospect at either position is because he can do both things.

Which most of us, I think, agree, like that's probably not going to be possible in the NFL, is to kind of keep playing this game.

If you just make him like a pro bowl corner, that's a huge win.

No one will talk shit about your pick.

One thing I've noticed with the NBA is they signed this massive television deal, right?

Which has been, by all accounts, a disaster for NBC, who's losing money because they gave billions of dollars.

And the average NBA game, I mean, they knew what they were buying, but the price of live sports is really valuable.

They wanted in on the product.

And they obviously paid a lot to control the playoffs, right?

Well, from my recollection, and I lived doing this job, and when I had it in my other podcast, we did a lot of Warriors.

Playoff games were always staggered, right?

Once you got... In the first round, you got a lot of games.

But once you get to the second and third round, especially the second round, you get two, two, two, two, right?

You get two games a night.

And one game on the East Coast would start at 4 or 4.30, and the other game would start...

depending on the time zone, 6.30, 7, 7.30.

So one game would end, the other game would start.

Obviously, if the early game went to like triple overtime, maybe the other game would have to tip off.

But for the most part, one game ends, the other game starts.

That's how it's always worked.