Biggest takeaways from the 2020 NFL Virtual Draft (4/24)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Baseball, Sports, Business

4.7 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Today's word of the day is 'lemonade' as the NFL was able to make the draft something special and it was important. I was wrong. Here are some of my biggest takeaways from the draft. This isn't a prospect breakdown, it's about the draft itself (0:06). Review -Top 5 Gene Hackman movies (27:24). SO You Wanna Talk To Samson!? Someone asked me if you were the Red Sox, would you offer hush money to JT Watkins in return for a NDA (34:45). MLBeard Challenge Day 40: NFL Relief gets $1K (41:10). Tanking for Tua worked for the Dolphins, but will he be better than Justin Herbert? #waittosee --------------------------- 'Nothing Personal with David Samson' is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Castbox, Bullhorn and wherever else you listen to podcasts. Follow David on Twitter: @DavidPSamson To watch David on CBS Sports HQ visit https://www.cbssports.com/live/ To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Let's go.
0:03.4	Let me know.
0:06.8	Lemonade has to nothing personal word of the day.
0:10.5	Lemonade.
0:11.5	Now, that's sort of an ordinary word.
0:13.2	It's not a SAT word, not a big vocabulary word.
0:16.4	Why would that be?
0:17.4	Because the National Football League last night found a way to make lemonade out of lemons.
0:25.0	I was the first one to critique the NFL for holding the draft.
0:28.9	I didn't think they should have.
0:30.4	I thought that it was irresponsible to take resources and time away where they could be better
0:34.4	spent.
0:35.4	And I was 100% wrong.
0:37.5	The draft was absolutely important to have.
0:40.2	They did it in a very responsible way with social distancing for the most part.
0:44.5	If not almost completely, they tried to find a way to bring some sort of live sport back
0:50.5	into our televisions, back into our homes, back into our places of quarantine.
0:56.4	And they spent a lot of time on it.
0:57.7	They had a lot of, what's the best way to say it?
1:01.5	A lot of collateral material during the draft.
1:04.0	People were watching who actually may not have an interest in the NFL draft who had never
1:07.4	heard of any of the players.
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