Good morning, and welcome to the week ahead video with me, David Madden. Today's date is Friday, the 26th of June, and the 2020, and the time has just gone 11.01 British summertime. And I'm looking ahead to next week, which is Monday, the 29th of June, until Friday, the 3rd of July. Now before we talk about what went on, what to look out for next week, let's have a quick recap of what happened this week. So more recently, last night, we heard from the Fed of Reserve in relation to the stress test of the US banking system, and by and large, it said the US Bank of State system was invulcated, and it said that it could open the 3rd of July to test it. It said a few of those, no names are mentioned, in a very extreme pandemic type scenario, a few of those came very close to the minimal capital requirements. On top of that, the Fed of Reserve said that US banking dividends are going to remain capped. If they do want to pay a dividend, they're going to have to actually have a format that that's connected to its earnings, and by looking at what's going on in the options market, it would suggest the traders are kind of factoring in, pricing in, that it's likely that some of the major banks could cut their dividends. So US banking markets rallied up to the close last night. The positive sentiment spilled over to Asia, even though China is a holiday, a positive threat to the European session today, but earlier in the week, we had some very impressive rebound in manufacturing and service figures. The flash reading of services in manufacturing for France, Germany, the UK, and the US all show decent rebounds from May into June. In fact, the French figures were probably the most standoff, because according to the reports, the readings for French manufacturing and services both came in north of 50.0. So each of them, that they're actually in expansion territory, which is incredible when you think about it, because it wasn't that long ago, it was only in April, we had record lows across those readings. Some of the readings were in the kind of mid to low teens, excuse me. So you saw a continuation of the kind of rebound. Many of the readings were kind of in the 40, so still in negative territory, in contraction territory, but negative growth territory, but there was certainly an improvement on the readings for May. So the flash readings for June were all much higher than the final readings for May. That's a direct result of the reopening of economies, but as we also found out this week, particularly in the US and a number of other countries, the reopening of economies has had quite a negative impact on the COVID-19 crisis in terms of the spike in cases. Cases like China have increased cases, Germany and the US in particular. Dr. Anthony Fauci, who's a specialist in infectious diseases and an advisor to the US government, he described the rate in which the COVID-19 crisis cases are increasing certain US states. Also, what's been going on is some states in the US have actually started to actually pause. You know, Florida and Texas have actually registered such high cases of COVID-19 cases. They're actually pausing the rate in which they're reopening their economy. So this is something that's going to be going back and forth. The health crisis is a major theme that's running through the strategy stock markets. Also, there's a bit of a slip of the tongue or maybe it wasn't. Peter Navarro, trade advisor to the US government, claimed that the US-China trade deal was off, and President Trump had to confirm that it was intact. So during the week, there was some positive news in that President Trump had to reaffirm that the US-China trade situation was on a stable ground. So that was being kind of lasted in the news of about 24 hours, but the real kind of story is we're having scenarios of increased cases of COVID-19 in a number of US states, and then we're seeing things, the fears of things being started actually paused in terms of the reopening of the economy, or in the case of, you know, some US states such as New York, New Jersey and Connecticut are now stating if you're a visitor, if you've flown in or if you've traveled in from some of the COVID-19 hotspots, you have to go to self-isolation for 14 days. So these are the major topics that have been going on in markets the last few days. The good news is that the wider upward trend in the FTSE 100, as you can see here, is still very much intact. Draw a line here, this trend line here, we're still just above that. So the market is still pushing higher. If you do look to press on higher from here, we could be looking at retesting the highs of the week, you know, in around 6,340 out of 42, and if you go beyond that, we could then be looking to test the highs of early June, and if you go beyond that, we could be targeting this red line here, the truly moving average, and that comes into play at 6,776. Take a look at what's going on over on the DAX and the general market. It's a fairly similar situation on the general market. You can see here, if you draw a line between the lows of March to the lows of mid-May, we get this trend line here, we're just above it. It's been on a few occasions, it's acted nicely as support. So while we hold above that line, and in fact, we're actually just about above the truly moving average, so things are looking, the DAX is still in its upward trend. If you can hold above the dirty moving average, kind of if you can hold above this trend line here, it's likely that the upward trend is going to continue. I should that be the case, we could be looking at heading back up towards the early June highs of north of 12,930, and if you go beyond that, we could then be looking at heading back down towards, if you go beyond that, we could be heading towards the big site of the number of 13,000, and even if you do have a decent break to the downside, support could come into play from this blue line here, the 50 moving average, it acted nicely as support back in the first half of May, so we could see it act as support yet again. Take a look at what's going on with the S&P 500. The S&P 500 is probably arguably the better shape than its European counterparts, but only just. Similar scenario here, it's been an upward trend for the last number of months, it's holding above this trend line here, it's holding above it, it's a 2D moving average just about. While it holds above both the trend line and the 2D moving average, it's likely that we could see further gains coming from here. I should that be the case, we could be looking at retesting the high scene in early June in around 3,233, and if you go beyond that, we could then be looking at heading towards 3,350. But even if you do move to the downside, support could come into play this yellow line here, which is the 1D moving average. It acted nicely as support in the middle of June, so the possibility it could act as support again, and that comes into play at 2,922. Parency markets haven't been as interesting, hasn't been as exciting as the stock markets have recently. One of the common themes is that more recently, the U.S. dollar index had been in view of the U.S. dollar, and I'd like to say the same thing in the language. I think that's something that's never happened before, because it's been a bit unusual recently in that regard. And so whenever we've seen stock markets tumble, we've often seen the U.S. dollar get stronger, and then vice versa, wherever we've seen traders take out a bit more risk, stock markets push higher or rebound from a sell-off, we then see it move to the downside recently in the green back. So if we take a look at U.S. dollar, we can see here that U.S. dollar had a nice upward trend after mid-May through into early-ish June, early to mid-June. We've moved to the downside here. We found support in around one spot, 1168. We bounced higher again. But notice how the highs of late June failed to take off the highs of early to mid-June. So we could be looking at turning lower. So let's see that again. If that is the case, and we do break below this area here, we could head back towards the turning where we average in around 110, spot 32. But if we kind of hold above this zone here, the wider upward trend might come back into play, and we could be heading towards 114. If you go beyond that, we could be looking at heading towards the high scene in early March in around 114, sorry, one spot, 1495. Let's take a look at pound dollar. Let's go to pound versus U.S. dollar. As you can see here, similar scenario, it was basically from the middle, from the mid to the middle of the 10th of June onwards, pounds would push you lower because of the stronger dollar. And that's tied in with the risk off sentiment. We have been moving lower for the last number of sessions. We're pretty much trading right on the fifth of the moving average here. If you do look to get a press on lower, I could take off the lows of this week in at one spot, 2335. You could then be opening up for heading back down towards the late, the late, the late, may know in this area here. In at, I wanna see if the cursor's gonna know. We could be heading back towards 121, spot 63. And if you go beyond that, we could be heading back down towards 120. But keep in mind, it's been in a relatively small range the last couple of days. Hasn't been, there's been no clear direction even though the last 10 days it's not been a clear direction, but it's the last couple of days have been a bit kind of back and forth. So we can't just count the fact that we had a decent run between mid to late, may and early June. So if you do look to press on higher from here, we could be looking at retesting the turning moving average in at one spot, 2684. And if you go beyond that, we could be heading towards the June highs in at one spot, 2813. And if you go beyond that, we could be heading up towards 130. What's interesting about the move in gold, what's interesting about the move in the US dollar is the move in gold. So traditionally, gold is benefited whenever the stock markets have been in risk off mode. And that is still the case to an extent. But the problem is gold is traded in US dollars. And if the dollar is getting stronger because traders are risk off sentiment, that's almost like capping or cancelling out the gains that we potentially see in gold. Nonetheless, at the beginning of the week, or sort of earlier in the week rather, gold went down to hit its highest level in over seven years, seven and a half year high was reached in gold. But what we can see the last number of sessions, it has been trading at a relatively small range. The upward trend is still very much in play. If you can hold above this blue line here, the fifth of the moving average at 1722, it's likely going to see further gains. If you take out the recent highs of just shy of 1780, that could put us on track for 1800 to be re-tested. Lastly, I'll take a look at what's going on in the oil market. As we talked about, the reopening of the economy has led to a rebound in manufacturing and services which is going to prompted, which has helped the oil market because it gives way to the idea that demand is going to pick up for oil. But with that, with the spike in cases and certainty, are we going to head back towards another second wave? As you're going to be opposed in the reopening of economies, that's been impacting oil as well. So, oil has been a nice open trend since April, rather, rather, so far so good for April. Only this week has made this nice level in since March. This, by the way, has breached the oil topology. So, I'll take a look at this topology. This is WTI, rather, WTI, the oldest contract. It's been a nice open trend between April and into middle June. In fact, this week hit its highest level since March. So, over three months' time was reached. It's been a solid open trend. If it was to press on higher from here, we could be looking at re-testing the loads of March in around $42.16. There are the kind of major markets to keep an eye on for. In terms of the big events next week, the biggest one is going to be non-farm payrolls, which falls on Thursday the 2nd of July because the U.S. is going to be having its dying holiday. Fourth of July celebrations will be held on Friday the 3rd of July. In relation to non-farm payrolls, that's going to be by far the biggest update of the entire week. Keep in mind, with last month's non-farm payroll update, they were expecting headline jobs reading to decline by about 7.7 million or 8 million jobs they were expected to decline by. We actually had a surprise rise of 2.5 million jobs. In relation to the unemployment rate, the unemployment rate came in at 13.3%. There's also stated there's a 3% margin of error. So it could be as high as a 16.3%. So the jobless rate in the U.S. is going to be in focus as well. Also next week, we're going to have the Fed minutes at the last Fed meeting, the Federal Reserve. They're quite clear the interest rate they're going to stay basically at zero or close to zero until probably about 2022. The Fed made it very clear that they're going to do what it takes in terms of getting the economy back on track. We also have the final reading of those June manufacturing reports. At the top of the video I mentioned the flash manufacturing numbers were very positive. We've got the final reading from all the major economies of the world. What else do we have next week? We have the final reading of the UK first quarter GDP, German employment, Sainsbury's first quarter numbers, FedEx fourth quarter numbers and finally, Constellation Brands. Thank you for listening. Stay safe. Have a good training week and good luck.


Hey guys welcome back to my youtube channel this is Daniel Rosal here so I just came back from a few days shooting video in the north of israel with my new femi pam 2 and I thought I'd put together this little montage of clips just to show some various features about the camera gimbal I hope this is representative of its capabilities roughly okay so first shot here is a video of a subject here walking down so I was just holding the femi and tracking the subject here and just to show the stability in that kind of setup you can see my silhouette there in the sun this is the same clip except it slowed down a little bit to 70 percent I've just done a little bit of color grading as well on that clip so a few clips here of what the stabilization looks like in fairly a little bit less challenging environments just doing some kind of panning shots across a piece of scenery so these are all taken again in the in the north of israel this is a castle just out just on the lebanese border I'm very impressed with the daytime performance of this camera the colors I think are lovely there is no post production here on this it's just as I came out of the camera some more views just across scenery here in the north of israel now I'll just save this later but I'll make this comment now the nighttime performance is drastically worse the low light performance gets really bad at a certain point or that's what I've encountered so far but we'll get to that later here is what it looks like just walking holding the camera in my hands as I'm walking up towards this mountain here looks fairly decent but you can see the up-down motion of my walking movement um now here's where the first time I put this thing up on a it's Yilanzee empty 34 which is a telescoping tripod so it's up a meter or so in the air now and I'm just doing a little bit of panning maneuvers here just to show what that looks like um and yeah I think it looks fairly okay obviously there's a bit of motion blur when you move too quickly on this I'm not using there are lens filters uh like UV filters I'm not using any of them so you got that kind of sunray here is uh what the selfie mode looks like just holding the femi at a normal distance so I'm just holding it with my hand here and speaking to the camera and now here's another clip of me using the Yilanzee empty 34 so I'm getting it out there now and now it's at extension so that's about a meter in front to me and I'm doing the same voiced camera stuff now I'm going to do a audio test later and I'll stop speaking when I do that camera on monopod okay so here's the Yilanzee empty 34 I've got it now at 90 degrees into the quarter inch now you can get a GoPro attachment uh that'll make this easier but this is just using this so this is kind of tracking along the ground and what it looks like I think it looks fairly decent some more panning across this sort of rocky territory on the top of a mountain essentially um here is me going up some uh pathway and you can see there is a coil of barbed wire and some grass you can see kind of pick up from feels different distances here and we're going to get now to the uh a view from the top of this this castle here and you can see again how it looks in terms of just panning going to do a bit of panning here across this landscape and then turning north um and you're going to see that as well okay I'm just going to start speaking about the next clip as I can see it coming up on the timeline I'm going to show just throwing a bit of indoor lighting uh while I am just kind of checking out this castle place uh so it's shooting indoors with artificial light from an LED panel so I have my panel here and you can see it throwing some light about this place not particularly strong but just to show kind of what that combo looks like of the Femme Pam 2 with a camera light I'm using this in kind of a L bracket configuration um and I was actually also just holding it in my hand so holding the Femme in my right hand and the camera light my left hand and seeing how those two performed together so you can see the light now throwing itself down on the ground here's a very very very small jump with the camera there you go so just to see what that looks like I thought would be interesting too okay a bit of footage from out of car windows so I think I had the window rolled down here um and so you can just see what it looks like when you're holding the Femme and trying to capture some scenery or something like that passing by looks relatively decent as I said a bit emotional blur sometimes was this shooting and fading light conditions okay this is when I was shooting some birds in this wildlife reserve I thought these clips turned out pretty nicely no post-production done here no color correction no lighting adjustment just how it came out of the camera again um and you can see the stabilization is really nice and you can kind of be a bit artistic and move across the sky and follow the birds this panics a little bit too quick um but yeah that is and you can see those colors are beautiful um the fade the sun it was just about after sundown and you can see the sun is catching off those clouds and the birds are slightly at towards the front of the frame and you can see the hills in the background so again for 180 bucks I think this is a great camera selfie mode voice-to-camera in low lighting conditions so here's me doing another voice-to-camera um I'm just holding it I think no I had it on my selfie stick but it's that it was almost nice at this point okay I had a Thanksgiving dinner um tracking a dog now you can see as it gets the lighting kind of gets lower in these clips the performances starting to fade a bit as the dog moves into the the this better lit room it starts to look a little bit better and I'm gonna just follow him now jumping up a staircase so that's it kind of track I haven't done I haven't done any sort of mounted action cam shots less here is some close-range footage so I just had the fimi right down next to a rock with some water flowing against it in a river and then I just waded out into the river a little bit and did some shots at various ranges which is why I thought this clip would be interesting so here's a kind of wide shot of the river this is the uh the Hasbani river also known as the upper Jordan River so you can see the greens again no post-processing no color correction here uh just as I came out of the SD card really nice green tones being being picked up from the foliage and then just panning down and getting some sort of close shots of my feet and the water here uh panning across food at a dinner table we got lunch at some point and as you can see I'm just bringing the camera across the table you can see the wine glass as you can see the food and then just a bit of footage of a of a palm tree okay that's it I'm gonna stop speaking now so it's pretty dark and it's pretty damp in the main room that you come off to just after you go into the main part of the castle and judging by the stuff around here it's a tiny bit of graffiti a couple of cans of red bull stuff like that but it's definitely not as visited as other castles I think this is one of the lesser known castles so it's pretty dark and it's pretty damp in the main room that you come off to just after you go into the main part of the castle and judging by the stuff around here I'm just gonna record now one more amazing view out from the castle in just as I said Marigalliot and this from this vantage point you can actually see into both Lebanon and Syria I'm just gonna record now one more amazing view out from the castle in just as I said Marigalliot and this from this vantage point you can actually see into both Lebanon and Syria so today's excitement I'm just here outside Kibbutz Marigalliot in the north of Israel my wife and I are on a staycation trip here so today's excitement I'm just here outside Kibbutz Marigalliot in the north of Israel my wife and I are on a staycation trip here so all the videos I've shot on on this clip and the other clips I've done on this trip to the north have been done using the Femi Pam 2 alongside the Yulanzi MT34 currently on my own term on here it's actually my first time I've ever been here and we're going to take the cable car going up to the peak


says, bump, bump, bump, Jonathan, how can I protect myself from getting hurt by another guy? How can I protect myself from getting hurt by another guy? First off, I want to thank that, the person who wrote that into me, because this is an important topic that I want to lean into today. Because here's what, listen, most everybody who's in, who's experienced at least a couple, three or four decades of life or more, has had one, if not several, relationship experiences that didn't go well. Okay? That's pretty much standard norm. In fact, it could be more than one or two. It could be multiple people. And what happens for so many people, they actually feel a level of hurt. And that hurt can turn into bitterness and jadedness. Let me repeat that. Hurt can turn into bitterness or jadedness. And I want you to imagine this. You desperately want a life partner. Let's not even say desperately.  You would like to have someone in your life to go to balance your life in partnership with them. Okay? But I want you to imagine that you're going out on a first date with a guy. And you're sitting, you're sitting across from one another chatting, and he literally can see every person. I'm going to do this. He can literally see every person who's ever sitting behind you or has hurt you sitting right behind you, because what's happened is if you're trying to protect your heart, if you're trying to protect your heart, you're blocking yourself from actually opening your heart to another human being. I'm going to repeat that. If you're trying to protect yourself, you're blocking your heart to open to another human being.  And let me just tell you something, ladies. I'm not making this up when I say I've sat across from women at dinner, at drinks, and I can literally energetically feel everyone that's hurt them. It's in their languaging. It's in their communication. It's in their fear. It's in their judgment. And that is no way to approach a relationship with a wall trying to protect yourself. In fact, it's quite the opposite. Because the most important thing, if you genuinely want to experience a healthy, happy relationship, it requires happening an open heart, an open heart, so you can actually receive the love of someone else. And yet many of you are suckling on the nipple of the man must climb to the highest room to the tallest tower. Ladies, it is not our job to break down your walls. It is not our job to tear down your defenses. It's not our job. Our job is to show up with honesty, integrity, and trust. That's, I mean, to show up with a level of integrity. That's our job. And your job is to do the same. And each person's job is to have an open heart. Now here's the real challenge. If you've been hurt in the past, the most important thing to do going forward is to heal, to heal those past hurts, to look at those past relationships, and ask yourself, what positive things did I learn about myself in each one of these relationships? What positive things did I learn about myself in each one of these relationships? Number one, number two, what was good about each relationship? What was good? When you can lean into the good, then you're not hyper focused on what was wrong. And lastly, what are you most grateful for from each relationship? What are you most grateful for? And I'm talking about those relationships you feel hurt. Now, I understand many of you are so deeply entrenched in your hurt. You're actually operating from a place of victim consciousness, a victim consciousness. And I'm here to say, if you're operating from a place of victim consciousness, you will only attract more and more bad experiences because God universe or spirit wants you to love on yourself.  It is through healing. It is through forgiveness, both of yourself and everyone else that you can actually begin to invite a great relationship in your life. And there is nothing easy about leaning into forgiveness. And if you're not familiar with the Hawaiian forgiveness prayer, I'm going to share this with you. It's called the Haponoponoponopono, and it goes like this. I love you. I'm sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you. I love you. I'm sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you. I love you. I'm sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you. Like giving yourself a shot of B12, it's actually L12. What love does is give our self love. It starts, forgiveness means forgiving love, giving yourself love. And when you can operate from an open heart, you actually have a greater opportunity to invite love into your heart because if you're hyper focused on trying to protect yourself, folks, I'm sorry to say this, you'll be single for a very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very long time. And I don't want you to do that. I want you to invite a great relationship in your life. And so if you need some love and support on this, then check out a link to a free discovery call with me to see if working with a coach is right for you because I'm here to say, when you learn how to ask better questions right from the get go, and that's my area of expertise, how to pre-qualify your prospect, you're going to have a greater chance of attracting a more quality guy in your life instead of focusing on trying to protect your heart. Are you with me on this? Will you do this for me? Please let me know. Give me a thumbs up or hit amen because protecting your heart is just going to block you from attracting a great guy in your life. Okay. I want to thank that person for that question. I really appreciate it. All right. Let's see. We're going to take one or two more questions right now.


There was this video that was circulating the internet a few weeks ago about the dink community, the double income, no kids. There was a TikTok trend where people are describing what is life as a dink and why am I choosing not to have kids? Why am I choosing this child-free life? I thought that we could play a role that clip of this one that went viral because it's a good jumping off point to talk a little bit more about these trade-offs and why people are making these choices and how much these choices are actually grounded in the economic reality. So best, could you run the dinks clip for us? We go to Trader Joe's and workout classes on the weekends. We're dinks. We get into snobby hobbies like skiing and golfing. We're dinks. We can go to Florida on a whim. We're dinks. We're already planning our European vacation next year. Dinks. We get a full eight hours of sleep and sometimes more. We're dinks. We get desserts and appetizers at restaurants. We're dinks. We can play with other kids and give them back. We're dinks. We still do it three times a week. We're dinks. We spend our discretionary income on $8 latte. We're dinks. We max out our 401ks, Roth IRAs and HSAs. We're dinks. We don't use our kids or dog as an excuse to leave a party. We just leave.  But I felt like they were kind of overstating some of the material sacrifices. But what are your thoughts on the dink video, Tim? Well, first thing I would think is, so I'm in a different stage of life than you guys. My oldest is a high school junior. My youngest is seven years old. And my wife, our problem is that our social life is too crowded because of our kids, friends, and we have tons of parties. And we're again, we're renting now. And so we don't, you know, host, throw parties as much. And one of our kids, I overheard somebody said, Oh, do your parents entertain a lot? And one of my kids said, No, my parents are entertained a lot because we're going to other people's houses for parties.  And on the other hand, the idea that maxing out your HSA is like really something to celebrate and talk about while on your vacation in Florida, that struck me as sort of a very sad note right there. And this is one of the things that I encountered as I went around and I talked to people.  And the great thing about writing a book on parenting is that everybody has something to say, either they are parents or they want to be or they've chosen not to be. And one of the things was the sadness, the sort of banality of the explanations behind why I'm not going to become a parent. A lot of times it was one woman just said, I'd love to have kids. I love spending time with kids. I'd love to have my own. But it would it would weaken my career a little bit. And then if my husband divorced me, I'd be in a disadvantageous place. So basically, it was like unemployment insurance. It was this insurance policy, basically why she was not making this choice. And so just to see some of those things, it's it's, I mean, we've all had bad reasons for doing things. And some of those are are pretty sad $8 lattes is a pretty sad reason to not have kids. Yeah, and to your earlier point, you know, some of the I feel like there's there are a lot of economic myths out there. I mean, housing is one thing that's just that's a serious impediment, I think, to a lot of people having kids. And we can talk about housing a little bit later. But as you note in your book, millennials have as much wealth as prior generations.  So it's not so clear that it's just about economics. And, you know, could it be that some of that mythology just needs to be punctured, the idea that we're like more strapped than ever and kids are going to bankrupt you? No, absolutely. And Jeremy Horpdahl is the is the numbers guy who's who constantly does this. He just does an inflation adjusted wealth and income comparing boomers to Gen X. I'm always grateful that he remembers that we exist because most commentators don't but boomers to Gen X millennials at a given age and shows that the wealth is basically equal across those three and affordability of certain of goods that a family would buy. How does that compare to you know, hours of work and he shows that that is largely stable across the last few decades. And so the the affordability thing, I keep coming back to culture. I think part of it and Angela Rashidi, who's my colleague at AEI and Melissa Carney, who's at Brookings Institution and University of Maryland, they keep pointing out that part of the reason that it feels so much more unaffordable to raise kids. And to some extent is can be less affordable depending on your life is that fewer people have a culture that surrounds them that helps them raise their kids. Largely, I'm talking about extended family. When my kids were little, my wife's little sisters babysat them. Now that my wife's little sisters have babies. It's my oldest, that same one who they were babysitting. She's babysitting her cousins. And that's a sort of culture that's very pro family that's very supportive of in Israel. It's just very explicit because people are expected to have kids, people are expected to help other people take care of kids. There's not a mindset about your kids or your choice like buying a boat. So it's your problem. And I'm not really, I'm not talking about welfare state policies or that sort of thing. Let's talk about cultural expectations. You should help people raise their kids. You should have a community that's pro family that expects people to show up at whatever you're showing up with kids in tow. And that if you live in a culture or subculture that's not family friendly, you think, I have to pay for everything. And then life does start to become less affordable. Yeah, I haven't thinking about these themes so much because I wrote a piece for Barry Weiss's publication, The Free Press, about being a quote unquote young mom, which is a little bit of an absurd thing because I had my child at 26, right? That's not particularly young by global standards. That's not even particularly young by American standards. It's the median, a median age at first child in the United States for women is 26.3. So rightfully, very much the norm. However, in my milieu of journalists who live in New York City, upper middle class women, college educated, went to a pretty good school, that whole subset of American society, this is something where having a kid at 25 or 26 is very unheard of. And there's this cultural expectation that you'll push it off until later. So the thing that's been so interesting for me is I was in this Park Slope moms group and it was fascinating to me, the things that the 40 year old moms, because many of them were legitimately 15 years older than me, the things that they think you need to have in place before having a child and even physical goods that they think you need, it feels as though we almost have concocted a sort of absurd sense of how much having a kid actually costs. And surely, if you buy absolutely everything new, and expect to be shelling out $200,000 for your kid to go to an excellent elite college, and you're expecting to pay for daycare for every single year, so that you can maintain your job.  To me, it seems like there's like, if we look at things one way and if we assume that X, Y, and Z things must be in place before starting a family, of course it seems unattainable to an entire generation of women, but if we rethink what things are necessary precursors, it really changes. Absolutely, and so I ran focus groups, and actually it was the men in my focus groups who were more likely to say, look, the reason I'm not ready and won't be ready anytime soon to have kids is because I don't want to just give them the bare minimum. I want to give them the best of everything. I can promise you guys, we do not give our kids the best of everything. We found a used piano, and it's still out of tune, and they still love playing on it. Once we made the mistake of travel baseball, that's a whole discussion in the book, but basically we sent them to the local rec leagues and all of that, and they do the basic violin lessons at school. None of them has gotten good at violin, trumpet, trombone. One son is good at guitar because he's interested in girls now, but we haven't given them lessons or the best of everything, and that idea that you do have to give the kids the best of everything, that's again not just a cause, but a consequence of smaller families. This idea that I cite in the book of, well, it's good that we're choosing quality parenting over quantity. I argue it's not good because then it makes people think you have to give your kids these really expensive enrichment, et cetera, the best of everything, and then you have fewer kids, and then because you have fewer kids you invest more in each. That's not necessarily even good for the kids or the parents if everybody's constantly anxious that playing the piano goes from something fun to do around Christmas with Christmas carols to being basically a job that's going to get you your scholarship into college. Nobody's happy or the high quote quality parenting isn't high quality. It's just more expensive and more anxiety inducing. See you next week.


The biggest news around the NFL currently is the Aaron Rodgers situation. Has he played his last down in Green Bay? We're going to get into that as far as the NFL draft goes. It's officially over. We want to recap everything that went down. Which teams improved the most following the 2021 NFL draft? And who are some players that teams were able to draft at a very great value? We're going to have our buddy Jordan Thomas join us and give us his insight on which teams improved the most in the biggest draft steals. And speaking of the draft, the New Orleans Saints made some questionable decisions. Our buddy Sean Landry is a big Saints fan. He's going to be joining us later on in the show and giving us his insight on the Saints and their draft. All of that on a brand new episode of Time2Football. Glad you guys are joining us. My name is Hasan Khan, the host of the show. Wow, the NFL draft is amazing. 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And you can listen to us on the go, whether it be a car ride to work, a car ride back home from work, or listen to us at the gym, whatever it may be. Subscribe to us, listen to us on the go. Yeah, the NFL draft full of surprises. We're going to get into that. We're going to recap everything as far as that goes. But first we want to get into NFL news and notes going around the league for this week. I think the biggest news is Aaron Rodgers and the whole green bit packer situation. We're going to have a whole entire segment dedicated to Rodgers and talk about him more in depth. But as of right now, we just want to recap, it was reported by Adam Shepter last week during the NFL draft, the first round right before it, that he's unhappy with the whole situation. And we didn't record this part, but our buddy Sean Landry, who's going to be joining us later on in the show, we were talking to him off the record and he kind of said, like, yeah, that whole situation took away from the draft and those young guys and their moments. It did a little bit. We, as a matter of fact, as well, we were talking about it during the draft. But we're going to get into that much more later on. But as of right now, Rodgers is not happy with the Green Bay Packers. The Minnesota Vikings were interested, speaking of Justin Fields, they were interested in Justin Fields. There's a report that came out that the Vikings would have drafted Justin Fields if he fell to number 14. Obviously, they would not have traded up to get Justin Fields. They didn't have the draft capital or they didn't have a second round pick, part of the reason why they traded down. And he would have fallen to number 14. The Vikings would have grabbed him. Instead, the Bears beat into him three picks earlier, grabbed him at number 11. The New England Patriots were not trying to intentionally draft Mac Jones. Let me clarify. They submitted the pick for Mac Jones. That was on purpose. But at number 15, they had no idea that he was going to be available at number 15. They thought he would have been taken by now. But according to Albert Brewer of NFL.com, he came out and said that the Patriots had no intentions of drafting Mac Jones. But if he fell to him, they were going to take him, improve your quarterback room. And Nike went ahead and submitted that pick and said, hey, Mac Jones, you are now a New England Patriot. You're going to be competing with Cam Newton for that starting quarterback job. Casey Hayward, the former LA Charger, signed a one-year $4 million deal with the Las Vegas Raiders. So he's going to be playing his former team, the Chargers, twice a year. Juwan James, the newly acquired Denver Bronco, Taurus ACL.  That really does suck. So he's going to be out for the whole 2021 season. But the whole debate is whether or not the Broncos should pay him $10 million that he's owed in 2021. They're not obligated to, but people are saying, I can see both sides of it. People are saying, yeah, he's deserving of that because he was training and he was getting ready for his job. So he should get workers compensation. However, the other side of it is, okay, well, if you're in an accident outside of work, work is not obligated to pay you for that. And I know it's related to work as well, him training, but I don't know. Leave your comments down below. Do you feel like that he's deserving of at least getting paid in 2021? Or do you feel like that the Denver Broncos are on the right and they shouldn't pay him? I mean, it's a touchy subject. So let us know your thoughts and your opinions. Quinn and Williams speaking of more injuries on the other side of the trenches, Quinn and Williams defensive tackle of the New York Jets broke a small bone in his foot. Ouch. He is out for eight to 10 weeks. So it's not that significant. He's going to have to rest it up and let it heal for two to three months. But I think he'll be fine and he should be back by the start of the season and training camp on top of that as well. The biggest news as far as contracts and signings as far as that goes is everybody and all the teams picking up fifth year options for all these players that were drafted a few years ago. So we know some players that have obviously or some teams that have picked up the fifth year options, obviously for some players such as Josh Allen from the Buffalo Bills, Calvin Relay. Yeah, these guys, you're not going to let them go. Okay, so good guys that you can pretty much think of that are in that window of getting their fifth year option picked up. They got their fifth year option picked up, but we want to name some players that had their fifth year option declined. That is Mike Hughes of Minnesota Vikings, Taven Bryan of the Jacksonville Jaguars, Sonya Michelle of the New England Patriots, Tarot Edmonds of the Pittsburgh Steelers, Hayden and Hurst of the Falcons, Rashon Evans of the Tennessee Titans, and Layton Vandoresh of the Dallas Cowboys. All these players had their fifth year options declined, meaning that they're going to become unrestricted free agents very, very soon. You feel like all these players are deserving of getting their fifth year options picked up? I mean, just reading off the list, I could see why you would, I could make a case for all these players, why you would decline it, but let us know your thoughts and your opinions down below. Do you feel like these players should stay with their current teams or it's in their best interest to just move on and separate themselves from their current franchise and move on to a new team? Man, we are going to real quick turn the background lights to a solid Green Bay Packers colors. We've got some green and gold going on because we want to talk about Aaron Rodgers. That's right, ladies and gentlemen, the news has come out according to Adam Schefter that Rodgers is disgruntled with the situation with the Packers. Now a lot of that, it might have been a long time coming. It might have been because they drafted Jordan Love and instead of getting a wide receiver for the Packers for Aaron Rodgers, it could be a lot of things that we just don't know about. I don't know. But the Packers, what we know as of right now are trying their best to hold on to Aaron Rodgers, who is not happy and has come out and said not to the public, not to the media, he would never do that. But people close to Rodgers believe that he is done with the Packers. Shocking stuff. The reigning NFL MVP could be moving on to a different franchise, a lot to unpack here as far as what led to it and where's it going to go next if that were to happen? And is there a possibility that he could retire according to maybe Terry Bradshaw? Oh my gosh. The drama, the tea revolving Terry Bradshaw and Aaron Rodgers. Crazy stuff. Look it up if you're not familiar with what I'm talking about. But Rodgers, okay. What led to this? In our opinion, in our guess, what we know as of right now? Last year, Rodgers, the Packers were so close to making the Super Bowl, they lost and the NFC Championship game. Now they were blown out by the San Francisco 49ers, but a lot of that had to be attributed to, okay, you've only had Devonte Adams as a good target. Antonian has stepped up as well. But wide receiver one, who's your wide receiver two? It's not going to be Marquez Valdez scantling. This is going to be a solid wide receiver two. It's not going to be Alain Lazard, even though no matter how bad fantasy football enthusiasts want those two players to go off and they draft him in the late rounds thinking that they're going to be fantasy football draft steals. It's just not going to happen. You need a solid wide receiver two. Now they signed Devon Funches, who's going to be coming back after he opted out for the COVID-19 season, but is he still a solid wide receiver two? You still needed some wide receiver help. They went on to take Jordan Love, the heir apparent to Aaron Rodgers. So instead of saying, okay, we're going to get you help, Rodgers, so we can get over that hump and get into the NFC or get over the NFC Championship and into the Super Bowl because you got blown out by the San Francisco 49ers, you're going to move the ball down the field. Your offense was lacking and a lot of that has to be attributed to the lack of offensive weapons.  Why not just go ahead and get the pieces now to go in the Super Bowl while you have Aaron Rodgers for the next three, four, however long, however many years that you have them on your contract? It's time to go down a different direction. Thought about the future. Thought about Jordan Love. I have on this show come out and said that I am opposed to the sitting and waiting rule as far as development of quarterback goes, but that's their decision. If they like Jordan Love, so be it. Not a knock against Jordan Love. Okay. You denied him a wide receiver joined on the Pat McAfee show. Aaron Rodgers does. He comes on. He says, okay, it's okay. No big deal. You pass up on it. I mean, my job isn't to coach Jordan Love. That's not my job, but I'm going to be supportive of him. And I hope that he has the best career in the NFL. So he kind of brush it off, said, okay, whatever. 2020 comes along, goes to the NFC championship. You lose a close game. And I feel like that if they had a solid wide receiver, I know Kevin King was kind of responsible or did his part, as far as the defense goes, giving up that last second half or that first half touchdown to Scotty Miller, but people could debate if you had a solid wide receiver that you could have drafted in the previous year's draft. Maybe we could be talking about the Packers being in the Super Bowl and potentially winning the Super Bowl against the Chiefs. I don't know. It could have happened, but that didn't happen. So the lack of wide receiver caught up to them. Now this draft comes along. And before the draft even starts, Aaron Rodgers is disgruntled and already vocalizing his opinions. Okay. Well, at that point, you would expect the Packers, okay, this is so last minute. This is the day of the draft. We want to make everything work. We want Aaron Rodgers to be here. We got to take a wide receiver. We've got to make him happy. Okay. Rashad Bateman was taken a couple years or a couple of picks before that by the Baltimore Ravens. You've got Elijah Moore on the board. Okay. You could later on get maybe like Terris Marshall. They eventually settled with Amari Rodgers, but in the first round, you didn't make that pick to get a wide receiver for Aaron Rodgers. So I understand where the frustration is coming from for Rodgers. And again, this is all surface level. This is all that we know as NFL fans inside of the NFL community. But as far as the front office, the GMs, and within the organization, there could be many more underlying things that we just do not know about. And we've got to keep track of that. We've got to keep that in mind. So Rodgers is frustrated and we assume that it could be because of the lack of weapons that they have on offense. So what happens from here on? Does Rodgers continue to play with the Green Bay Packers? Does he continue to advocate for a trade to another NFL franchise? Or does he retire and just move on with his life? Let's look at all of these options. Continues to play with the Green Bay Packers. Likelihood of this happening? As of right now, I'm going to say not likely. I have to be kind of quiet because my roommate is a Packers fan. He could probably hear me. But I'm going to say likely not going to happen. I think the Packers and the Green Bay Packers relationship with Aaron Rodgers, I think it's not going to work out because the Packers are probably playing tough saying, hey, no one's going to dictate this organization. We're the people in charge. We make the decisions. We run things around here. You can sit if you want, but hey, we're going to stay on our ground. Okay, cool. Aaron Rodgers could say like, all right, I'm going to sit. Kind of like what the Cincinnati Bengals did with Carson Palmer, where he came out and said before the draft, hey, I don't like my chances here or playing with the Bengals. I don't like my opportunities here. I want to move on to another NFL franchise. And at that point, Palmer's play was starting to decline a little bit with the Cincinnati Bengals. He threw 20 interceptions that year. So they went ahead and drafted Andy Dalton and Palmer just continued to sit. They were thinking ahead to the future in that NFL draft. Palmer continued to sit and eventually he was traded like weeks into the 2011 season to the back then Oakland Raiders. But for Rodgers, this could happen. Same situation could happen. Could sit, could stay on his ground. Doesn't have to play. Might get fined. Okay. He's got a lot of money. Pay that up. So what? I want to get traded. I'm not playing. I'll pay the fine, whatever it is. I'm just not playing. Just trade me. It's going to be better for everybody. So I think likely that's what's going to happen with Aaron Rodgers. Now, the teams that could trade him could be the, or could trade for him to Denver Broncos have been in the discussion. I think we got a report during the NFL draft. I don't know how reliable this is, but people are saying that sources are saying that the Broncos and the Green Bay Packers are close to getting a pretty much done deal for Aaron Rodgers. And that could be like three first round picks. I don't know. But the Denver Broncos have been in the talks of being that option for Aaron Rodgers. And the San Francisco 49ers as well, Kyle Shanahan made a phone call to Matt LaFleur, said, Hey, before the NFL draft, we just want to know, is Aaron Rodgers available? They said, No, we're not trading him. So people thought like when the Broncos took Patrick Sartan at pick number nine instead of a quarterback, they were thinking to themselves, Oh, okay, that's probably because that pretty much tells us that Green Bay Packers and Denver Broncos trading Aaron Rodgers is a done deal. You're just getting a defensive player. The Packers are like, Hey, just trade or draft someone else. We'll get you Aaron Rodgers. You've got a quarterback. Don't worry about that. So far so yet hasn't happened. The Las Vegas Raiders are also in the conversation of getting Aaron Rodgers, which would be pretty freaking cool to see the New Orleans Saints as well have had ties Aaron Rodgers. So there's endless possibilities of where Aaron Rodgers could go. But I feel like at this point, it might be too far gone. Rodgers might just move on. And if people close to him are saying that he's done with the Green Bay Packers, he's not going to play another down. I believe it. I really do. And I think Rodgers is going to move on to another NFL team. I don't think he's going to retire at this point. This is according to multiple sources, including AJ Hawk, who comes out on the Pack McAfee show, who is a former Green Bay Packer, probably has some sort of connection with Aaron Rodgers. He says there's 0% chance that he's going to retire. So I believe that. So I think that the Green Bay Packers, Aaron Rodgers are done and he's going to get traded, which team? I don't know. Leave your comments, leave your thoughts. What do you think is going to happen with Aaron Rodgers and his future in the NFL? Crazy stuff, man. Crazy stuff. We're going to go ahead and let me go ahead and change these lights to white real quick. Man, the draft and Green Bay Packers and Aaron Rodgers and everything. We're now going to be transitioning into recapping the NFL draft that happened this past week. And to help us out with all of that, we've got time to football's own film analyst, Jordan Thomas. Jordan, how you doing, my man? Man, I'm doing great. Just had the draft, got to see all these great players come off the board that we've been looking at for the last two or three months here, really analyzing since last year's football, college football season ended. So just ready to jump into it. Yeah, this past draft, it was a lot of surprises that happened. A lot of players that were taken in later rounds and we expected a lot of teams overdrafted for some players as well. But we want to talk about those players that were the best values for those NFL teams. And we want to talk about those biggest draft steals that happened this past week. Who are some big draft steals from the NFL draft? I think first we have to start with Jeremiah of Wotun Koramoa. Went in the second round to the Browns with a 52nd pick. This guy was an All-American last year playing in the ACC against guys like Trevor Lawrence and playing against North Carolina in that high-powered offense as well. And he really dominated there. He was an ACC defensive player of the year, played sideline and sideline. We'll cover all positions whether that's tight end, slot receivers, running backs. I think it just doesn't make sense for how he was passed up on when in reality he's not that big of a difference in terms of skill set from Micah Parsons. Micah Parsons went number 12 to the Cowboys and Wotun Koramoa went 40 picks later. I don't think the talent gap is that large when it comes to these two linebackers. That's crazy to think. 40 picks later. Yeah, he definitely was a biggest steal, especially for someone that read a lot of mock drafts. You saw that a lot of people like Daniel Jeremiah and Mel Kuiper had them ranked in that 15 to 20 range as far as not just linebackers but best players overall. Do you know why he just fell so late to the Browns? It's a great question. One thing that jumped out to me is when we're talking about Micah Parsons, he's 6'3 around 245. When you look at Wotun Koramoa, he's more along 6'1, 220. So he's given up about 25 pounds and teams might see him as more of a tweener. And granted, he will come and hit you. He lays the wood in the running game, but it's a it's a robber position. I'm looking for that term. He fits between safety in a linebacker and more of the robber there, and they might not see him as a true linebacker for Wotun Koramoa. I think that's why a lot of teams passed up on him. Yeah, I mean, makes a lot of sense for some NFL teams and not really fitting the needs that they have. So Wotun Koramoa is your biggest draft steal, your first one, at least on your list. Who's another one? So I've got two safeties that I want to talk about. First is Andre Sisko. Went to Syracuse, had his season cut short last year due to a torn ACL, but this guy led the FPS interceptions during his freshman year with seven INTs. And let's just start here. Career wise, he had 24 games, 13 interceptions.  He's also very physical in a run game, had 130 tackles during that time frame as well. So I think this is going to be a steal. You'll see the title boomer bust next to him, but I really think he's more boom than bust. And you were talking about Daniel Jeremiah, Bucky Brooks. I actually had Andre Sisko right behind the top two safeties in this draft. So he's right up there behind Mooregg and also the safety out of Oregon as well. So it's going to be good to see what Andre Sisko does. Not Holland. He's not Mooregg as well, but I think he's right there if you need a playmaker. Yeah, absolutely. So Sisko, definitely one of your biggest draft steals by the Jacksonville Jaguars. You've got one more on your list. Who is it? Yep. And thanks for the correction. So Sisko went in the third round to Jacksonville Jaguars. And I thought that was a little bit late for him when he was only behind Merrick and Holland, at least in terms of where I perceive him. Third on my list would be Jamar Johnson. So I said I had two safeties. Jamar Johnson is the second one. So he was a safety out of Indiana, the 20th pick in the fifth round to the Broncos. This guy had seven interceptions and a little bit over 400 coverage snaps. So what does that mean? Let's think if you play a college season and it's at least 10 games, every game you're going to have about 50 snaps that are going to take place on defense. If you play that, that's 500 snaps. This guy had seven picks and 400. So didn't have a lot of experience, didn't start his freshman year at Indiana. And I think that's why he dropped so far. Also, he played corner in 2019 for Indiana and then he played safety during 2020, had a great year, actually intercepted Justin Fields twice. And if you look at NFL.com ESPN, they both have Johnson rated in their top five amongst all safeties. I was even watching a video on pro football focus about Jamar and they had him possibly going in the first round. So for this guy to drop all the way to the fifth, I think it's going to be a great value pickup for the Broncos. And I look forward to seeing what he does in the pros. Absolutely. So we move from the biggest draft steals into teams that have improved the most. So this could be based off of the teams that got those biggest draft steals or just in general, following the 2021 NFL draft. In your opinion, which do you feel like or which NFL franchise do you feel like improved the most? I've got to start with this Chargers. So they obviously want to build around Justin Herbert. They have that young quarterback. First thing they did is they went out and they got a Mahler and Rashawn Slater. This guy sat out the 2020 season. A year before that didn't allow any sacks, only one hit on the QB.  He also is very versatile. You can play him at Tackle, Guard, Center. He can play every position on the offensive line. So you have to be excited about that. Also is very athletic. I think Ponaise Soule did a better job in getting to the second level, but Slater is right there.  Next up, they got Asante Samuel Jr, who I was just talking about. This is a pro's pro. His dad played in the pros, Patriots, Eagles, etc. He played very well at Florida State. Didn't give up more than 200 yards all of last season. That's unheard of and also had always was getting his hands on the ball, had more than 20 pass deflections there too. Great hip movement, great footwork. Just a very fundamental player. Chargers got Josh Palmer in the third round by receiver out of Tennessee. Didn't have huge production. So his best season last year had about 475 yards, four touchdowns. That doesn't sound like the numbers of a big time pro receiver. However, he's got the intangibles. When you look at how he adjusts the football, whether it's a sideline catch or it's in the end zone, he can do that. And if anyone can maximize his talent and get in the ball, it's going to be Justin Herbert. We saw what he did last year. I think he's going to get the most out of Palmer. Chris Rump the second. This guy fell to the middle of the fourth round, but once again, similar to when you're looking at Jamar Johnson, who should have went higher in a draft for the safety, the same was the case with Chris Rump. So he was top five as an outside linebacker on ESPN. He's been looked at as an edge rusher, so he's not always considered a linebacker. And even in that category, he's got to be at least in year top 10, constantly getting after the quarterback. Last two seasons, he had over 10 plus tackles for loss, had 14 and a half sacks over the last two seasons as well. This guy can get after the quarterback. He fell because it could be a tweener. Whenever scouts in NFL, aficionados cannot clearly define what you're going to be, that's when you tend to fall in a draft. And that happened with this case. Next up, in the sixth and seventh rounds, I think the Chargers did a great job of addressing special teams. They were one of the worst units, not just last year, but in NFL history when it comes to opposing field position for their opponent there. So got to do a better job there. They got Nick Neiman, a linebacker out of Iowa, and also Mark Webb, who played at Georgia. I think those can both be significant contributors for special teams for the Chargers. So that's my first team that I think did a great job. And they're going to be a lot better next year because of all the value they found throughout the draft. I like what the LA Chargers did a lot. And you talked about the first two picks, especially Ruchan Slater, the fact that he fell out of the top 10 with many mock drafts, had him going to maybe like number eight to the Carolina Panthers, or at least somewhere in that top 10, even some people saying that he's better than Panay Sule. And then Asante Samuel, some mock drafts was creeping into that first round, late first round territory, and for the Chargers to get him in the second round is a big steal as well. So the Chargers, your first team. Who's your next team? Jets, J-E-T-S, Jets, Jets, Jets, Jets. So we talked about Justin Herbert for the Chargers, and I'm getting her quarterback last year. Well, the Jets are getting her quarterback this year, and they did that with Zach Wilson. I think he can be someone that's very good at being mobile outside the pocket. So let me back up. A lot of folks want to know, how can Zach Wilson be successful, especially with the Jets, didn't look very good on offense. They haven't been a team that's been able to even protect the quarterback very well, whether that was Joe Flacco, or whether that was Sam Darnold. So I think Zach Wilson, being someone who can move outside of the pocket and make throws on a run, is going to be great. Him also getting the ball out of his hands very quickly is going to be an asset. And then him having anticipation. So many quarterbacks want to wait until a receiver gets open. Well, with an NFL, you don't have that time. You don't have that leeway with elite defenders. So Zach Wilson can do all those things. I like that for his intangibles. I compare him to Ryan Fitzpatrick, that fire, that edge, he plays with that. But from a skill set perspective, he has that Russell Wilson in him. He has anticipation. He has that great deep ball throw. He has that polish that you see in his game. Next up, the Jets got Elijah Veratucker. So you got to protect your asset. You got to protect the quarterback at all times. And so they get Veratucker at 14. Slater went one pick ahead with the Chargers. It's interesting to know or think about what the Jets have got Slater instead, if they could have. We'll never know for sure. But Veratucker, I think he's right up there. A notch behind both Penae Soule and Veratuck and also Slater, but Veratuck is right there. This guy, once he gets his hands on you, you're done. You're finished. He also is able to move from tackle to guard as well. So it shows that versatility. Next up, they got another Elijah and Elijah Moore went early in the second round there. I think that's going to be great for them. I talked about how Zach Wilson is going to need to get the ball out of his hands quickly. Well, Elijah Moore is someone who can make a lot happen. Even if he's catching out of the backfield, if that's going to be on a wheel route, if that's going to be a screen, he can make plays at the line of scrimmage and take it, take it 20, 25 yards. He can make plays going across the field on slants or drag routes. He also can run the go route as well because he's super fast. On top of that, he's got excellent hands. So a very, very good wide receiver, I think, is going to really do well there for the Jets. Michael Carter is a guy that they got in the fourth round. This dude had over 1,000 yards in his junior year, had over 1,200 yards in his senior year. And is someone that can play a role in a kick return game and a receiving game? He actually led the league, led the FBS last year for yards per rush with 7.98, almost eight yards per carry. That's crazy to think about. I think he'll be an asset out of the backfield, lining up with the thought receiver once again with special teams. They also were able to get Jason Pinock in the fifth round. This guy was a corner from Pittsburgh and led his team interceptions with three. That's good value when you're talking about the fifth round. So that's going to be an asset. And then last but not least, you get Hamza, Nazro Dean, safety out of FSU. So we talked about the safeties before getting value late or down later in what your list would be for safeties. I think you're going to get that with Nazro Dean, 6-3, 2-15, and someone that's going to be an impact in the run game and also can stick with receivers. He, well, he can use some help and coverage. I'll say that he's not, you can scratch out stick with the receivers per se. He's going to be someone that more so is going to be in that front seven in the box being help of there. And he's going to have to improve what this coverage goes, but still great pick when you're looking at the sixth round. I think that's going to play, pay dividends for the Jets and their depth. Yeah. Nazro Dean, a pretty cool story that I saw was he used to play basketball and he was very good at dunking in high school. So the fans, the students of the opposing team would actually go up to him and say, Hey, this player on my team, make sure you dunk on him. I don't know whether they hated that player or what. They just knew that he was amazing at dunking. So yeah, but the Jets, heavy offense, offensive picks pretty early on. You saw that Zach Wilson number two, that was pretty obvious from the start, what they were going to do once they traded Donald. And then you just make them into an investment and you add in weapons and free agency like Tevin Coleman and Corey Davis. Now you got Elijah Moore to pair up with Corey Davis and then Michael Carter, like he said, is going to be a dark horse in the running game to pair up with Tevin Coleman. So I like what they did and to protect Zach Wilson as well with Elijah Vera Tucker. So we talked about the Jets. Now you've got one more team that improved after the NFL draft. Who is it? Yes, it was the Miami Dolphins. And granted, there were tons of teams that thought they were well Vikings, the Falcons. There were some teams that really did a great job of staying where they were at and getting better on both sides of the ball. Speaking about both sides of the ball, I think the Dolphins did that because you've got a young quarterback and two at Tonga by Loa. You wanted to get them some weapons. I think you did that with Jalen Waddle. At the top of the draft, these receivers were all elites or at least that was our analysis coming out. I would believe so, whether you're talking to Vonte Smith, Jamar Chase or of course, Kyle Pitts. They get Waddle, a guy who averaged 21 yards per catch. His worst game outside of the national championship because of course, we all know he was hurt in that national championship. So his worst game outside of that was six catches for 120 yards against Ole Miss.  He's also someone that can be a threat in the return game, can be a threat coming out of the backfield all in and around. Very easy to get him to ball and just watch him go after that. Next up, they got Jalen Phillips on the defensive side of the ball. This guy came out of Miami. He first attended UCLA in 2017-2018, had some injuries, ankle, wrists, concussions and thought that he was not going to be able to continue his career, had the ability to transfer to Miami in 2019, set out that season and played in 2020, had a big time season there, and that's ultimately what got him picked 18th in the draft to the Dolphins. Eight sacks last year, 15 and a half tackles for loss. This guy is 6-6-2-60. I want to see what he can do at the next level and that should definitely aid their pass rush. Now, they moved on and got some help in the secondary. So go back two levels from the defensive line and you get Javon Holland. This guy, 27 career games, nine interceptions, can also play a returner. Very, very polished, someone that can cover slot receivers. The question might be, what separates the first two safeties from the rest of the pack? Because I talked about my guys who I think are going to be steals. Well, what really separates these guys like Trayvon Moreg and also Javon Holland from the rest is how good they are in coverage. Whether it's slot receivers running backs, they can run toe-to-toe with a lot of guys. Where they need help at is in tackling and the run game. And I think you'll want to see Javon Holland improve there, but definitely a playmaker and it would be great to see him play with the opportunistic defense like the Dolphins. We saw Mika Fitzpatrick was able to do and put up those huge numbers. Holland should fit in that same old. Next up, they get Liam Eikenberg in the second round, 10th pick. Some scouts, some analysts had this guy as top five, top six in their tackles. They also thought he might go in the first round, very early pick in the second round. He did not give up a sack after week five of 2018. So, yeah, he played in 2019. He wasn't like one of these guys that opted out in 2020. He played. He did not give up any sacks after week five in 2018. Also, Notre Dame played Clemson in a cotton ball in 2018. He did not give up a sack in that game against Clemson. Clemson had a very good front seven in 2018. So, it just goes to show how good this player was in the value that the Dolphins were able to get at this position. Hunter Long was my next guy who the Dolphins secured in the third round, went to Boston College, had more catches than Kyle Pitts last year, very shorthanded. Week spot was not a good blocker. And of course, we're starting to see the NFL value past catchers and tight ends that are able to do that more and more, right? They're not blocking. They don't have their, they're not always down on the line of scrimmage. Sometimes they're going to be lined out wide, right? Hunter Long is a guy that can do that. He can make catches in the red zone, great red zone threat there, and can get first downs. I think I saw a stat, like 60% of his catches last year resulted in first downs. So, this guy can move the sticks, he can score touchdowns, and is going to be, once again, somebody that can help out a young quarterback like Tua and be a safety net there. So, I like Hunter Long and overall, like with the Dolphins, we're doing the draft to improve their team. Yeah. It seems like ever since Brian Flores and this new regime came into town, they've done everything possible to help improve this team and turn this team around. We all know that whenever a team is under the reins of Adam Gase, it doesn't look great at all. But so, you can't improve that much, but, or you can't, you don't have to try enough to make it improve. But I love what Brian Flores is doing with changing the whole franchise around and really finessing trading down, but then trading back up and getting an extra first round pick in the future out of that as well. But those are your top three teams. From Jordan, Tom is courtesy of him that have improved the most in the NFL draft. Jordan, it's always a pleasure to have you on and I can't wait to have you on again for future episodes. That's all. Thank you. And I love being on time to football. Anything that I can do, I'm more than happy to come out help and lend my expertise. That is Jordan Thomas, ladies and gentlemen. Great conversation with Jordan Thomas. Glad to always have him on this episode of Time 2 Football. I'm actually going to change the background lights right now to a little bit of gold because we're going to bring on a very loyal Saints fan and that is Sean Landry making his debut on Time 2 Football. Sean, I appreciate you joining us for this episode of Time 2 Football. We got to talk about the NFL draft and preferably we got to be talking about the Saints before we get into the specifics as far as like the names and who you guys got. If you had to give just a grade right now for the Saints and their NFL draft, what would it be? Well, first of all, thank you for having me. Houdat represent very strong, very proud for all those loyal members of Houdat Nation. The great I'd give them honestly, and I'm going to be blunt, I'm going to give them a C minus. The reason why I'm giving them a C minus is just because we lost so much talent after the season and obviously with trying to get under the cap, granted, we were experiencing a pandemic like many teams were. We had a lot of good talent go, the cherry Hendrix of the world, the Genours Jenkins of the world, Manuel Sanders. So there were so many different holes that we could have filled. And I felt like based from when I was reading all the mock drafts leading up to last Thursday corner, I felt like was the top need. And actually the day of the draft, I was reading reports that we were going to try to work our way up into the top 10. And just very, very small whispers of it. And then lo and behold, draft night goes on, you see, we set, we sit at 28. So, you know, we didn't draft a corner to the third round, I believe. And so, you know, sometimes getting the guys in the later rounds actually pay bigger dividends than those you draft in the first round. And so I'd give us a D, just our C minus rather going into that D grading area, just because I felt like we could have done more, the Saints should have done more. It made bold moves just because a lot of the teams are making bold moves, you know, going into the offseason corner, the draft preparations, things of nature, because, you know, a lot of teams have this must win now mentality, not, you know, we can't just wait and rebuild three, four years and expect to achieve greatness. So the great I'd give them, it would be about a C minus, but I like some of the picks we got, you know, obviously the Pete Warner pick, you know, that goes back to Sean, like an Ohio State players. So, you know, there are, there are some ties to that, but I'd give them a C minus if I had to be honest with you. Wow. Very blunt.  And kind of talking about the draft picks and who you specifically pick, the New Orleans Saints organization, I think first off, we have to talk about the first round pick because that caught a lot of people off guard. Peyton Turner, what was up with that? So that surprised me too, but then again, it didn't surprise me. You know, if I had to choose at the end of the off season this year who to keep and who to cut, I really was hoping we would keep Trey Hendricks in just because he was an unnatural talent that nobody knew when he was coming out of the 2017 draft, you know, when we had that great draft class of him and Kamara to name a few. And so I feel like, again, we didn't move up in the top 10. I was hoping we would draft the corner. When I learned that J.C. Horn's dad is former St. Great Joe Horn, I was like, cool, that'd be awesome to have his kid come home and play for his dad's old club. So I was really hoping we'd get a corner. But when we drafted Peyton Turner, the same thing we touched on earlier in the week was what was up with that. And I felt like for two reasons, you know, the first thing is corner was our biggest need. But the second reason is you extended Marcus Davenport's fifth year option, which I hate to say that kind of feel like he's leaning more a little towards that bust title just because he can't stay healthy. And he really hasn't been able to push off the line, so to speak. So hopefully Peyton is a rotational player. That's probably what he'll end up doing to start the year or start his career, rather is be that rotational player. But then I'm hearing whispers that they're going to try to build him long term, you know, because eventually Kam Jordan's greatness is going to have to come to an end as well. So I'm a little surprised by the pick, but then again, you know, only time will tell whether or not he's going to be a really great Saint for many years to come or he's going to be one of those guys that's going to be out of the door in two to three years. Yeah. So it makes a lot of sense when you put in perspective as far as Trey Hendrickson, they lost to the Bengals. Kam Jordan obviously, like you said, can't be great forever. Marcus Davenport as well is, you know, like you said, could be leaning towards that bus category, which is kind of unfortunate because they traded up for him. So do you feel like that they chose a defensive end like Peyton Turner because they were leaning towards like the defensive line was going in that direction? And if so, why would you choose Peyton Turner over maybe someone like Greg Rue-Rousseau who was highly touted as a better defensive end or a better edge rusher and many mock drafts? Yeah. Well, I know you had Penn States, which is, I can't remember his first name, his last name is like Away. Jason Oway is our first pick just because, I mean, Sean likes drafting guys, him and Mickey both like drafting guys you can get after the quarterback. You've seen it in years past with David on Yamada, you've seen it with Kam Jordan, you've seen it with Sheldon Rankins, especially when we like Knack and Matt Ryan on his on his Keister every now and then. But, you know, I don't know what persuaded him, persuaded them rather to draft him. I mean, he was the, I think going into the draft, he was a 106th best player on the board. And so maybe they felt like other teams would go up there and snag him before they did. And maybe that's why they got him with the first overall pick as opposed to waiting in the later rounds and getting him then.  But then I also know that he's had, he's had injury concerns at Houston in his college career. So again, only time will tell whether or not he's going to be a great for a long time. Or again, he's going to be out in a couple of years like most, most players are. And a player that we may have to see that could also be a great or maybe out of the league in a few years would be Ian Book, taken by the Saints. Now a lot of people were talking about, okay, Drew Brees retired, bringing a quarterback, draft a quarterback. Sean talking about Ian Book. Well, I kind of feel like he may end up being the steel in the in the second tier of quarterbacks. I know, I know he's kind of considered maybe the third tier, you know, third and fourth tier, but I really felt like he should maybe should have gone earlier. I don't have a whole lot of faith in Kellan Mon. I don't have a whole lot of faith in Kyle Trask. I mean, they had they linked us to drafting Kyle Trask in the later rounds. And I think he's going to be a glorified backup. I really don't think he'll, he'll be a starter out there in Tampa. But going back to Ian Book, so I actually, right before you had me on, I actually did a little bit compare and contrast because you know, Ian Book is the all time winning his quarterback in Notre Dame history. And I compared him to another Notre Dame great Brady Quinn, who, you know, back in 07 Brady was supposed to be the top five pick.  So with Ian, you know, I compared his stats to Brady's and he had both of both Brady and Ian had similar stats their junior year of college at Notre Dame. But Ian, on the other hand, had an overall best percentage than Brady Brady had a 134 quarterback rating through four years at Notre Dame, whereas Ian had 147 quarterback rating at all four years in Notre Dame. He's got a, he's got flashy feet. He can make plays out of the outside of the pocket, which if you've known now that's a trend in the NFL, a lot of quarterbacks are able to make more plays out of the pocket than in.  So, but we've shown time and time again, you know, with Teddy and with Taysem that Sean can make something out of nothing. And he can really help bring out the full potential in quarterbacks that a lot of teams may or may not be familiar with. So again, only time will tell. I think he'll, he'll be a third string going this year. You know, obviously it's going to be Jameis and Taysem in the off season competing for the starting role. Whoever loses that battle will be the backup, but we all know that Sean likes to incorporate Taysem in various packages. So Ian may move up to a backup role at that point, but again, only time will tell whether or not he can be great. I mean, look at Tom, for example, Tom went in the sixth round and 20 years later and seven Super Bowls, you know, is now one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time. So again, it goes back to the draft. You know, you find, you find a lot of rarity in the later rounds and those oftentimes pay huge dividends than quarterback should draft in the first round. I mean, you've seen it so far with Kyler and with Lamar and Deshaun, but you look at the guys like the Sam Donalds of the world, the Josh Rosens of the world, the Mr. Biscay's of the world, you know, they, they haven't panned out as great as quarterbacks in the later rounds, you know, like Garoppolo, for example, when he's healthy to really show you what you have going forward in the long run. And if Ian book is their guy, that's their guy, that's a prerogative that they feel like, like I said, is going to be a third string. Is he going to move up in the back of role of Jason Hill is going to work in different packages. But it's an interesting decision from Sean Payton in the whole sense of organization that at the second round pick that they had, they took Pete Werner, which good player. But then later on you had Kyle Traskin taken by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at the end of that round. Then you had Kellan Mann, you had Davis Mills and all of these other quarterbacks were being taken. Do you feel like that the Saints at that point were like, Oh man, we regret not taking Kyle Trask, who there was rumors out there that he was very well liked by the New Orleans Saints, maybe even Davis Mills and Kellan Mann that many other analysts ranked higher than Ian book. Yeah. Well, you know, in truth, it's full. All three of those guys were on our mock drafts leading up to last week. But I just kind of feel, you know, Kyle had one good year in Florida and that's no knock on him as a professional athlete. You know, he's I'm sure he'll do well in the NFL.  He did really well throughout his full year. And granted, it was a weird 2020 was a weird year for all college teams. And Florida had a really good year last year. And that's why he was able to statistically speaking do very well.  And what are you, he really couldn't make the other guys around him better. He couldn't elevate the other guys around him better. And just that's just for an example. I really didn't expect us to take a quarterback. You know, honestly, Sean has said ever ever since Drew announced he was he wasn't coming back that he felt good with with Taysum and James going forward. He felt like both guys had a conviction about them to really take the reins and really elevate the Saints to the next level that we've been missing the last four years in the postseason. But then again, maybe Ian, maybe there was something about Ian that cost him to not go earlier than, you know, the fourth round. But I really hope he does well. I really, I'd really like to see what he does. You know, I definitely will tell you want to make the quarterback competition interesting next year because Taysum and James were on one year proven deals this year. So if both guys don't really spark an excitement within the fan base within the organization, and James ends up going elsewhere next year and Taysum does the same, I mean, you could be looking at Ian book being the starter moving forward. But again, only time will tell. It's really too early to crown crown him in his success without seeing how he's going to how he's going to do when the lights are bright and especially in preseason as well, how he's going to react when he's got bigger, stronger, faster guys coming after him as opposed to those in college. Well, only time will tell. Maybe Sean Payton pulls something together and gets that whole rostered back to back to glory in the in the playoffs again. But Sean, appreciate your insight and thank you so much for joining us for the show. And we hope to have you for many more episodes in the future. Yeah, absolutely. Thank you so much for having me. And, you know, like I said, I look forward to being on here if given another shot at it. 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