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He keeps his cards close to his chest but I sensed he is a lot more excited about Deakin Smith than Kobe Farmer or the young White boy.

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    1 hour ago, 640MD said:

    Yes iPhone, will try and follow your instructions. Thanks

    my fingers are like thumbs and press the wrong spot occasionally, also when I use a keypad !!

    If you follow my instructions and click on the Draft Wrap Up (Jason Taylor) link the episode should start playing. There will be an cloud icon with a downward arrow next to the episode title and clicking that icon will download the show. 

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    Ok I think I have it down loaded

    thanks

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    On 12/5/2019 at 10:55 PM, Demonland said:

    Jason said that Jackson was the first player they interviewed back in February. Safe to say they have been into him for a long time.

    In February I doubt Taylor would have foreseen a likely scenario where Melbourne had pick three.

    Given that, Taylor probably thought Jackson was more likely to be available in the 10-20 range at that time which is where Melbourne’s “natural” pick was likely to fall.

    So I wouldn’t read it to mean Taylor thought Jackson was at the very pointy end of the draft for a long time, but the interest was clearly there.

    As has been stated a few times Jackson’s development through 2019 was rapid.

    The pessimist in me says Taylor got obsessed with Jackson early and wanted him even though pick three was too soon for a 10-20 talent.

    The optimist says Taylor has an advantage over other recruiters as he has watched Jackson longer and more closely than others, and was still happy to use pick three.

    Was the deal for pick eight and 28 originally to get Jackson and Pickett with three going on one of the consensus early picks, but then everything changed once it was apparent Jackson was not going to last to eight and Pickett unlikely at 28? Hopefully Taylor does a memoir one day.

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