00:00Week out from the NFL draft, we have a Detroit athlete draft.
00:03Who can build the best team of current Detroit athletes?
00:06The order randomized before the show.
00:08Greg Hargrave with the number one pick.
00:10John's pick in second.
00:12I've got number three, and Tom's going to snake us with the fourth and fifth pick.
00:16We'll go four rounds.
00:17Greg, the floor is yours.
00:19And with the number one pick, I will take the present and future of Detroit sports.
00:25Cade Cunningham, 24 points per game.
00:28Five and a half rebounds and 10 assists this season.
00:33Established himself as one of the best players in the NBA.
00:38And he would still be in the MVP conversation if not for a technicality.
00:43One of the five best players in the game.
00:45I think this is the right pick number one.
00:48I do, too.
00:49Good job, Greg.
00:50Yeah.
00:51And so the complication begins, I think, at two and three in regards to...
00:56We're talking about the greatest athletes.
00:59Well, what makes up a great athlete?
01:01Not just the best at their position.
01:05Are we really doing who runs the fastest and jumps the highest?
01:08Well, you said we're making a team of the best athletes.
01:11So I'm going to take Jameer Gibbs, who I think is actually the best athlete of all of Detroit sports
01:17athletes.
01:19Like, I'm not mad because I think you're torpedoing your team.
01:21You gave me a guy who I think is in consideration for number one.
01:25This is here and now.
01:26This isn't he's going to leave us later and harbor any resentment.
01:29Right.
01:29Right now, you could argue Tarek Skubel is 1A, 1B, so I'll take him number three.
01:33Give me Tarek Skubel.
01:34Okay.
01:35I figure that's where you're going to go.
01:36And then that's my argument.
01:39What's his 40 time?
01:40Right.
01:41How fast can he get from home to first, even though he doesn't have to anymore?
01:44How fast can Jameer Gibbs throw a baseball?
01:48The reason Cade is number one is because there's future there, too.
01:52And Skubel, there's not.
01:53And I considered future in this.
01:55I was a little curious that you did that.
01:57Look, I'm not going to argue with Skubel.
01:59He's in the conversation for the right now as the first best athlete in Detroit.
02:05I'm going to just go with kind of, I guess, what I would call a house money pick.
02:09Best at his position in the game, Panay Sewell.
02:12This is who I thought I was going to get at three.
02:15It's a good pick at four.
02:17Now it gets a little more interesting here.
02:21I'm probably going to go right back to the Lions and I'm going to take St. Brown.
02:25Okay.
02:25I like that.
02:27Yep.
02:28I got the two best Lions, didn't I?
02:30I think you did.
02:31Multi all pros.
02:34Those guys are multiple first team all pros.
02:36John's look on his face.
02:38That's why I laughed.
02:40It's like a delayed half second reaction of.
02:43Yeah, and then wait.
02:46No, trust me, not wait.
02:47No, I'm taking Jameer Gibbs again.
02:49Go ahead.
02:51Is Sewell a better athlete than?
02:54Again, there's debate about all of that.
02:56Well, we're talking about great athletes.
02:59So this puts me back on the clock.
03:01Yeah.
03:03Hmm.
03:06Give me Aiden Hutchinson.
03:07Okay.
03:10John, a quick note on Aiden down year for Aiden, right?
03:1514 and a half sacks, fourth in the league down year.
03:19Well, it's his best year, so I don't know if you can call it a down year.
03:23So quickly, what's the better pick here?
03:25Because I thought about Hutch, too.
03:26Hutch or St. Brown?
03:29I prefer St. Brown.
03:30I would have liked to get St. Brown there.
03:31Yeah.
03:33So now I'm left with.
03:35All right.
03:35Oh, you already took.
03:36Okay.
03:36Best in his position.
03:38Penesul.
03:39I get that.
03:41I happen to think Jameer Gibbs best in his position.
03:44So I'm going to go another Detroit Lion.
03:48Best in his position.
03:50And it was clearly he got the award for best in his position.
03:53Jack Campbell.
03:53I considered him there.
03:56It puts Greg up back to back picks middle of the draft eight and nine.
03:59Doug is very happy right now.
04:02Yes.
04:03That's a good pick with Campbell.
04:05And we've got a run on Lions here.
04:07I will.
04:10I'll continue the run on Lions.
04:13Oh, and I will say Jared Goff.
04:15No, he can't run fast.
04:18Jared Goff didn't even make my list of possible candidates.
04:22But you know what he can do?
04:23He can throw the football and he can find guys.
04:25And he's a very productive player for this team.
04:27I don't disagree.
04:29I guess we were all looking at this a little bit differently.
04:31I'm talking about.
04:32I thought we were picking the greatest athletes.
04:35Relish and negativity over there.
04:37Wasn't on your board.
04:38Yeah.
04:39And with now coming back with the third round pick, I will go with my number one picks running
04:45mate.
04:46I'm going to go with Jalen Duren here.
04:47I like it.
04:49Pistons all star.
04:49And, you know, obviously, I think has been based on him being named to the all star team
04:57this year.
04:58I would think is clearly the second best player on the Pistons and that running mate for
05:03Cade.
05:03One can argue if it should be improved or not.
05:06He's clearly it right now.
05:08Mm-hmm.
05:09Look, they're the best team in Detroit.
05:10You're getting their second best player.
05:12Uh-huh.
05:13All right.
05:13So that puts me back on the board, right?
05:14Yep.
05:15All right.
05:15And I'm going to go with who may be.
05:18Okay.
05:18It doesn't rival the excitement level of Cade Cunningham in the postseason.
05:24We don't know what that excitement level will be when they finally make the postseason.
05:28But I'm going to go with Kevin McGonigal.
05:31Yeah.
05:32Damn it.
05:33Every time he's at the plate.
05:35Hey, you just you're on your seat.
05:37Wait, what's going to happen this time?
05:39I'm even excited when to walk.
05:40Hey, let's see what he does when he gets on base.
05:42John, this is a sneaky good pick.
05:43If we were doing this for just future and from this point forward.
05:48Oh, he might be the number one pick.
05:49Yeah.
05:50I would have put him number two.
05:51I still actually would have put Cade.
05:53Yeah.
05:53But I would have drafted him number two on my board.
05:55He was the number one guy left on my board.
05:56I thought you were going to go with a different tiger because he's your tiger.
05:59But I'll take him here.
06:01Give me gold glover.
06:03Dylan Dingler.
06:04Wow.
06:05I didn't expect him to go.
06:07Yeah.
06:07He wasn't on my list, even though he's my guy.
06:09Yeah.
06:10He's your number one dude.
06:11Oh, this guy.
06:12Interesting.
06:13Quick.
06:13I wanted a McGonigal to let's see here.
06:16I'm going to go with, I think, arguably, again, one of the better lines.
06:20And I think he's a better player than Jack Campbell.
06:22And that's Brian Branch.
06:24He's coming off an ACL.
06:25People heal from ACLs.
06:26He was fourth in tackles.
06:28Or Achilles, excuse me.
06:29He'll still, he'll be fine.
06:31I think he was fourth in tackles on the team last year, despite missing the last five games.
06:38I think Branch is a potential and has been Pro Bowl player.
06:41So I'm going to go with him.
06:44And then this is where it gets really tough because I have a hard time.
06:48The argument for Riley Green is that he was an all-star.
06:51Two-time all-star.
06:52Yeah.
06:52And the argument against this, I don't, his athleticism sometimes is...
06:57It's painful to watch him run.
06:58Yeah.
06:59But if you're using the Jared Goff factor there, gosh, I'm torn here.
07:03I'm going to just say who I'm torn between.
07:05I'm torn between Green and Cider.
07:09I'm going to go Cider.
07:10I hate you.
07:12I'm so glad you did because I kept looking at the draft going, is there any chance I
07:16can get Mo Cider before Mr. Red Wing here can pick him?
07:19I figured no one would take a player from this team and I'd sneak him in as my last
07:23pick.
07:24So you take Cider.
07:26Yep.
07:27Tom's team is set.
07:28Yours?
07:29Oh man, I got the best player on two of the teams with Sewell and Cider.
07:33Yeah, I'm really in this.
07:36I'm going to take Alex Dabrinkit.
07:3840 goal scorer.
07:39Does back check.
07:41Okay.
07:42I'm going to take him.
07:43Mr. Red Wing.
07:44All right, so I've got a lot of options here and it doesn't matter who I bring up now because
07:49Greg will have the final pick.
07:51So I didn't necessarily think Brian Branch would be taken simply because of the Achilles
07:58injury and the fact that he simply can't play right now.
08:01So you're taking the field with three players.
08:04However, what sport we're going to play with these athletes.
08:06I'm not sure what that means.
08:07I factored in future.
08:09Um, and so I'm in between a guy coming off an ACL and I think is, is going to have
08:15a
08:15hell of a year.
08:16I know people are down on him right now in a Lee McNeil.
08:19You got Jamo, um, who, when we're just talking about, you know, flat out athletic ability is
08:26unbelievable.
08:28Valdez, the, the, the number two arm for the tigers.
08:32I'm going to go with, or, or possibly sneaky pick Javier, not hobby, but Javier.
08:38He's playing really good right now.
08:40I'm going to go with Jamo.
08:41Okay.
08:42Respect.
08:43I had him in my top 16.
08:45Did not have Jamo on the board.
08:47And honestly, I, I kind of whiffed on to bring it not being on my board.
08:50Uh, so here are the three I'm really considering here.
08:54Uh, Dylan and warrior Oak Riley green.
08:57Yes.
08:57He's a two time all-star, but I'm going to take Carrie Carpenter here.
09:01I just think he means so much to their lineup when he's going.
09:06We saw last year, they started a swoon when he was injured middle of the season.
09:13Then he got back into the lineup.
09:15Then they started to pick it up a little bit, get back to their high watermark of 20 games
09:19or so above 500.
09:20I'm going to take Carp here.
09:22Oh yeah.
09:22Well, at least he leads the tigers and strikeouts.
09:24I mean, it does lead in something.
09:26So what's it say about Dylan Larkin and Lucas Raymond, not getting selected.
09:32Oh, Larkin and Raymond weren't even on my list.
09:34And honestly, I didn't have the brinket on my list either.
09:36I did have most cider.
09:38I'm looking at the top undrafted players.
09:40It's probably Riley green, a SAR Thompson from or Valdez.
09:46Valdez is the best player.
09:48And I think on the board still, I thought about him actually go through your four picks.
09:52My four Sewell, St.
09:54Brown branch and cider.
09:56Damn.
09:56Rock solid.
09:57I don't like your branch pick, but I like the rest of it.
09:59Yeah, I've got Jameer Gibbs, Jack Campbell, Kevin McGonigal, and J-Mo.
10:05I've got Cade Cunningham, Jared Goff, Jalen Dern, and Kerry Carpenter.
10:09My picks, Tarek Skubel, Aiden Hutchinson, Dylan Dingler, and Alex Debrinket.
10:15Who drafted the best group of Detroit athletes?
10:18It's 97-1.
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