and Hello welcome to another episode of Purple Insider Matthew Collar here along the CBS Sports Draft analyst Chris Rapasso and we are only

nine, eight sleeps away from the NFL draft, Chris, we are almost there. We are two shows away for you and I before we have the,

I guess the Super Bowl of the NFL off season. How you feeling? You're feeling feeling we talked about confidence last time more

confident less confident feel like you know everything feel like you know nothing

how are you I feel like I know nothing that's for sure even though I've watched over 300 prospects it's kind of a weird it's kind of like a paradox like I've watched all these guys but I'm like I don't know where they're going to go I don't know if they're going to necessarily be good or not I haven't educated, maybe more than the public, hopefully. But actually today, even though I just told you off air that I'm in the camp of the draft should be like the first or second week of April instead of like the third or fourth week. I felt good today. I think because

we're zeroing in on one week away we're starting to get those maybe not final mock drafts but

second to last mocks some more substantial rumors that seem to have more legs than just kind of

throwing stuff at the wall right after the combine. So I felt good. I felt that

reinvigorated feeling like holy crap the draft is almost here finally.

I feel the fatigue from our listeners of hey are they to take a quarterback?

Like you could kind of tell, like,

all right, we can really need something to happen here

and I am with all those people.

And I've always been with you on that take

that, again, it's probably time two weeks ago.

Now the NFL, they know how to do everything.

They get the draft type and then they're like,

hey, you want the schedule?

I bet you do.

And then like, let me just throw in the little mini camp just to spruce things up for you a little rookie mini camp all those things and then they give you six weeks off in the summer and it is training camp pedal to the metals the NFL knows how to never take its foot off the gas, but I do wish that we had a little less speculation like leading up to it two three weeks earlier. I think every team is probably ready to go by now. Although I did see these, I never pay any attention to who visits who, because I've never found there's any correlation.

But I did think it was kind of interesting that Hendon Hooker this man has racked up so many frequent flyer miles

He's going and visiting all these teams and he was visiting the New York Giants that it's like who is Hendon Hooker not visited but it did make me think and I've got a bunch of mocks I want to talk about in the most absurd fashion we possibly can but it did make me think about how many teams in the league that even we think have quarterback situations that are fairly settled that still don't.

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