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Are you ready, DJ?

Yeah, I think so. so i mean you never know

until we get there but it's uh man i'm just glad it's here it takes i i think i've said this before

but like the the the crunch to the combine feels like it shrinks every year and then like the

the literally path to the draft from the combine to the draft it feels like it just longer. I think you're just getting older and you guys got to work harder to repeat the same, you know, productivity, which is why I'm going to put you on the spot. Did I tell you my cheat code, by the way, this year? Sure. Oh, man. Not actually watching the film, just reading everyone else. Yeah, just survey everybody. Survey the landscape, see what it got, what everybody has.

No, no, this is my cheat code this year. Unintentional. But I was like, you know what?

I've been having too much coffee. I'm off. I'm going to get off caffeine. So I did it for two

months. Two months, nothing. Well, then the crunch of the draft and it's just, it doesn't

stop. So I started taking it back up. Oh, yeah. It hits different. When you've taken a little bit of a

break, I mean, I feel like I could scale a skyscraper right now, which is one cup of coffee.

I mean, I know you're, you're a clean living type of guy, DJ, so this is about as crazy as you get. But yeah, you know, everyone who's had a little weed here, it's legal here in California, knows, you know, if you take off a couple months, the next time you have, it's going to pop a little extra. There's something you were expecting to talk about. I'll take your word for it. I'll take your word for it. Look, in this show, we're bringing back a segment people love last year. I'm putting you on the clock for five minutes, just hitting you with rapid fire question. We're also going to kind of look at a couple teams at the end that we think maybe just one draft away from being closer than you think and maybe some teams to pump the

brakes on. But let's just start off just generally. Now we're that we're kind of at the end of the

process, some general impressions of the 2026 draft class. You have a better view, I think, than

almost anyone of like how each draft class is different. What stands out to you about this 26th class? Yeah, I will say kind of the good and the bad here. I think as you've gone through the whole process, I think the, you know, we talked about the edge rushers a lot, and it's a good group of edge rushers. I think the corner group being pretty deep is a significant you know part of this draft and and kind of

seeing those guys go all the way throughout and I and on the opposite side of it it's just the

running back this is one of the worst running back classes you know just in terms of the number

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