BONUS: Could The NFL Combine Go Away? | 'Necessary Roughness with Lang & Jansen'
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🗓️ 27 February 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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From 'Necessary Roughness' (subscribe here): Could the NFL Combine eventually go away? It sounds like the NFLPA wants it to dissolve. Download the latest episode of 'Necessary Roughness' today.
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| 0:00.0 | We've got some NFL news happening this week. Obviously the NFL combine players are |
| 0:07.6 | start reporting on I believe it's Tuesday, Tuesday night into into Wednesday, but |
| 0:13.2 | nothing on field until Thursday. That's when all the action starts happening. The NFL |
| 0:19.6 | network's going to cover everything. You'll get a chance to see guys 40, the 225 bench press, |
| 0:24.5 | their drills on the field, all of that stuff, position-specific drills. We're finally going to |
| 0:31.0 | get a look at a few individuals that maybe we've got our eye on for next year in terms of the |
| 0:40.5 | draft. I want to bring this up because actually you wanted to bring it up because I did go to the |
| 0:45.5 | combine you didn't. I think this is interesting a few weeks ago at the beginning of February. |
| 0:51.9 | NFL executive director DeMarie Smith had said these comments regarding the combine. Think |
| 1:02.9 | about it. The NCAA and the NFL structure a combine during what should be every football players |
| 1:08.6 | what? Last semester in college. Who decided it was a good idea to take your son and have him |
| 1:14.2 | exclusively try out for the NFL's exclusive way of getting into the league for the most part |
| 1:19.2 | unless you're a free agent player. You have to be invited to the combine. He continues. As soon as |
| 1:24.7 | you show up you have to wave all of your medical rights and you not only have to sit there |
| 1:29.6 | and endure embarrassing questions and I think that's horrible and I don't want to poop who any of |
| 1:34.5 | that. But would you want your son to spend hours inside an MRI machine and then be evaluated |
| 1:41.0 | by 32 separate team doctors who are by the way are only going to are only doing it for one reason. |
| 1:47.9 | What's that reason to decrease your draft value. He clearly would like to get rid of the NFL |
| 1:55.1 | combine. I think there are some tweaks they could make to it but I remember when I got my invite |
| 2:03.1 | to the combine it was like all right like it validates what is about to happen and that is the |
| 2:09.8 | possibility doesn't mean you're going to get drafted right but the possibility of continuing that |
| 2:15.4 | dream of being an NFL player. Your thoughts before we get into what the combine is and I think maybe |
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