This is the athletic football show.

Welcome to the athletic football show.

Today's Tuesday, March 19th.

I'm Robert Mays.

Joining me today,

the athletics zone, Dame Bruegler. Dan, how you doing? Doing great. It's hard to believe we're

less than a month now from the draft, so it's coming. So funny that you mentioned that,

because this is the time in the calendar, late March as we get into April, the first wave of

free agency is done, that I personally turn the page to the draft. And I think a lot of other people do too, right? I mean, there's a lot of free agency coverage. The news has been incessant over the last two weeks. There's been so much stuff that we've had to dig through. We haven't really touched on the draft at all. And now, with the owner's meetings kicking up, that kind of is the unofficial turning point to the draft every single year, where free agency starts to die down and now here we are.

Last year, to kick this off, we had you on to do what I refer to as an idiot's guide to the 20-21 draft.

Because in this case, I am the idiot. I know so little about the draft class at this stage every single year.

And I try to lean on you and other very smart people who do this full time to get a sense of what the class looks like as we hit this point in the calendar.

And because I am not a creative person and you're the only person I want to talk to about this, I figured we would do the same thing for the 2022 class. It's perfect. Yeah. I mean, this is, each class has its own identity, you know? Exactly. Yeah, it's like this class is different than what we've seen from other classes. And so it's, there's plenty to touch on today. So, you know, we'll have plenty of topics to hit here so just so people know you have been on the feed with lancinner line pretty much every single week throughout the off season to do draft coverage this is going to be your appearance on the show this week lance is going to take the week off you guys will be back the following week. So on Wednesday, we're actually

going to do a mailbag with me and Nate. So please come back and check that out. So if you're

a little concerned that Dana is not on your feed later this week, that is the reason. All right,

let's get going with this. Okay. I want to ask you first and foremost, how would you classify

this 2022 class? If you're comparing it to previous years,

if you're trying to find a class that it reminds you of, if you're just giving me the broad

strokes about what this group looks like, where would you start? It's a class where it's getting,

it's been beat up pretty good in terms of the lack of high-end talent the blue chippers

but at the same time it's unique because we've we have more like top testers at the top of

this draft than we usually do so it's kind of uh it's it's it's kind of an obvious give me some examples

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