Ryan Poles

I know there's a lot of questions like, yeah, Cole, why would you take Colston?

I think we found out that it helped us along the way.

So we'll continue to lean in that philosophy.

Something new is we created a draft simulator that has some analytics built in based on team needs.

You're a part of that.

You don't even know.

Thanks, man.

We dump in thousands of mock drafts into this.

It is scary on how accurate it gets as you get into April.

I can rep the draft 150 times in April before we get to it, and it's just like preparing for a game.

It's slow motion.

Nothing surprises you because you've worked some of those crazy, you know, someone picked someone right before you or a trade happened, and your ability to adapt and adjust along the way gets really, really high.

I don't want to get like two names involved.

Well, you don't have to, I will say this staffing wise, I would say, you know, like the, the theory of like the talented.

Yeah.

Yeah.

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There's been a situation where a really smart person that was doing some really good work, but maybe not the best teammate.

And I probably held on too long, and it created some harm in terms of just stress on other people.

So just the learning point there is if it goes against being a good teammate, which is one of our things,