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Spiegel & Holmes Show

Big Ant explains the intricacies of the NFL Combine process

Spiegel & Holmes Show

Audacy

Sports

4.2652 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2026

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Laurence Holmes and Anthony Herron discussed the NFL Combine process.

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0:00.0

Freddie Gibbs, thank you so much for coming on speaking on homes on the score. What a pleasure. Thank you, sir. Yes, sir. Hey, man, I love the score, man. I've been rocking with his to the sports radio 820 back in the 90s. That's how you cut a promo, so. Afternoons on the score. We got a vision. Ryan does a great job of stacking that board, him and his crew, and was able to sit in with some of the scouts earlier.

0:22.3

And I think they do a great job bringing the information

0:25.3

at the table and we'll proceed business as usual.

0:31.1

Everyone is down in Indianapolis

0:34.0

and they are watching workouts

0:36.9

and they're having meetings and they're trying to play mind

0:40.8

games with players and there's not a chair in the room so do you stand for the whole meeting

0:48.2

or do you ask for a chair and if you don't ask for a chair does that mean that you're more malleable

0:54.0

and maybe you're not a leader of men?

0:56.9

They're making that job so much harder to evaluate.

0:59.6

It was always really hard to evaluate players.

1:02.2

And now they're making the combine very comfy for these guys.

1:05.6

And when they're comfy, yes, they're more likely to perform at their peak.

1:09.6

But part of the process of the NFL

1:12.1

Kahnman was always intended to see how fast can they run, how high can they jump, can

1:16.8

they complete a sentence in the midst of an interview, but also having it be this stressful

1:22.5

job interview, the most intense job interview that any of them have ever gone through and

1:28.5

plausibly will ever go through and see how they handle it, how they manage it under duress,

1:34.5

because you can't really put them under physical duress, so put them under some mental

1:38.6

and emotional duress.

1:40.0

Okay, for someone who played big time college football, who made it to the NFL, who's watched high school football at an extremely high level, if you were advising a guy that you knew was going to be a first round pick because of what the tape says about that player, what would your advice be for that player for the combine?

2:02.3

Now, the evaluation of certain players will still differ. Even guys like, you know,

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