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🗓️ 29 April 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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NFL Network analysts Gregg Rosenthal and Daniel Jeremiah reconnect following the 2025 NFL Draft for the season finale of "40s and Free Agents." The duo shares their most surprising draft moments, as well as what prospects they think fit best with their new teams. Later, Gregg leads a conversation about what current NFL quarterbacks benefitted most from the draft, including Drake Maye, Geno Smith and CJ Stroud. Then, DJ goes on the clock with a few reflections from working the draft for NFL Network.
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0:00.0 | Welcome to 40s and Free Agents. |
0:08.5 | We have reached the end of the draft road free agency. |
0:12.0 | It's way back there. |
0:13.1 | Daniel Jeremiah is with us. |
0:15.5 | And at the end of every draft, I'd like send you a text. |
0:17.5 | You probably get a million of them. |
0:18.6 | Just what an awesome job. |
0:19.7 | But I knew I would see you before we said goodbye to you. So great job on the draft. Congrats on doing it. |
0:25.5 | Well, I appreciate you, buddy. And by the way, I can't tell you the number of people that came up to me |
0:29.3 | and said how much they enjoyed your work on this podcast. The reason I can like to think that they're out there, and I just haven't met them yet. So that's what I'm holding on to. |
0:39.0 | I know they're out there. I've heard from them. Adam Shine is one of them. We'll get to that |
0:43.8 | later in the show. Let's just start, just some things, maybe big picture that surprise you. |
0:49.0 | Later in the show, we're going to get to some great fits and what teams were excited to watch and kind of how the free agency |
0:54.3 | portion of the off season married up with this draft. But just what big picture surprised you |
0:58.9 | most when you were on the set there in Green Bay. Yeah, I mean, just the rumors day of that this |
1:05.0 | Travis Hunter Jacksonville thing might happen, that they might trade up with Cleveland. And it's like |
1:10.1 | every year, Greg, |
1:10.9 | I could write a book on the rumors you hear within 24 hours of the draft. And they're all some of |
1:15.0 | the craziest things you've ever heard. And so it never happened. So I was somewhat reluctant to |
1:19.8 | buy in on this. And then it just kept, the drumbeat kept getting louder and louder. And here |
1:23.6 | it is. It's done. And it sounds like something that had been agreed to for quite some time. |
1:28.3 | So they did a great job of keeping that under their lid, but that one kind of just changed the, |
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