Ryan Poles
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Yeah.
Um,
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,
it's okay to move on maybe even quicker than you think because of the, the, the effect that it can have on others.
Philosophically, I feel the same.
It's going to be the best player available.
I know that may not be the most popular thing because people see kind of like on my board have yellow tags where
We need to fill in.
But at the same time, I do believe, especially in early rounds like one, you really got to stick the best player available.
We saw that last year.
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, you know, 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.
We dump in thousands of mock drafts into this.
It is scary on how accurate it gets as you get into April.