LAOJoe & RTTRUTH's 11th Annual Collaborative Mock Draft

Well I'm dead tired but we killed the morning timeslots so I can go rest not feeling like I need to get on right away.

 

Anyone wanting to move up to the current colts pick?

I’ll wait maybe 20 to 30 minutes before I make a pick

 

Nada so far.
Pick coming in 10

 

Its all good NFL dont care about weed anymore

 

The Colts select:
Brycen Hopkins
Tight End
Purdue

 

Buccs OTC

@SportsFanatic @Tim

 

just checking in... back from my morning foraging. (Got paper towels but no TP or antibacterial hand soap to be found. Did find Chili and Lime flavor Pringles though, so it was a good excursion as far as wrecking my diet goes.)

 

I messaged him.

 

Bears will consider moving down from 3.15....Don't want to drop out of the round though. Maybe 10 or 15 spots. Looking to add a 4th.

EDIT: We do have a player in mind though, and won't hold the draft up. PM me if interested in the pick.

 

Hmmm.... if I had realized we'd still be sitting around, I would have reposted that magic trick.

 

#### BREAKING NEWS ####

The Washington Redskins have placed Dr. Phillip McGraw on retainer to work with Trent Williams.

 

Fun fact along the lines of magic tricks... most new Bicycle decks come out of the box with the cards in order where the first two suits are ace, two, three and the next two suits are king, queen, jack. So two kings are back to back in the middle. If you cut the deck there, you have two sorted stacks that are sorted in reverse order.

The fun fact is Galbreath's second principle extended to the full deck.... take those two stacks and riffle shuffle one time. Then count off the top 26 cards into a pile, splitting the deck in half again. Each half will have exactly two of each value of card (two aces, two kings, two queens, etc).

 

Dr Phool? For the love of everything holy, why??

 

Why not? Nothing else has worked so far.

 

The useful trick is to apply this on a smaller scale. If you cut the deck and stack the piles so that one half has a 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 on top and the other half has 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 on top, then riffle shuffle once, the top five cards will be one each of 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. You don't what the suits or the order will be, but the top five cards will be one of each value.

 

TRADE APPROVED

ATL gets:

• 4-2 (108)
• 4-36 (142)
• 7-15 (229)

WAS gets:

• 3-14 (79)

 

Card tricks are on my mind at the moment because I just got an email from a magic shop that a Spanish magician named Woody Aragon is now selling one of his tricks for $15. I say it's not worth it, because the particular trick is based on simple math and is easy to work out for yourself. It's a crowd pleaser for large groups because it can be an audience participation thing, and the whole routine is designed to make it fun for the audience. That's actually the misdirection - you want everyone to get so goofy with it that no one even thinks about it actually being based on a math principle that a 7-year old could figure out.

Penn & Teller did it as the closing segment of an episode of "Fool Us". You can watch their performance (which I liked but think it could be improved) of it here:

 

The Bucs will take Cam Akers RB Florida State.

 

For anyone who wants to try the trick out... first note is that you don't have to tear up cards. Just use two sets of four matching cards, such as two aces, two sevens, two tens and two kings. Put them in order A, 7, 10, K, A, 7, 10, K. That's the same as if you had ripped them all in half and put one set of card halves on top of the other.

There are either two or three "secrets" involved, depending on whether one of them really counts as a secret. (Spoiler: the sneaky math comes from what you get when you divide seven by some other whole number up to seven.)