*BONUS EPISODE* NFL Draft Analysis with Joe DeLeone
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🗓️ 2 April 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We're back here on the lunch hour NFL draft show. I'm Joe DeLeon on the Believe channel. |
| 0:05.0 | Noon every Tuesday and Thursday, we're talking with different experts across the Believe |
| 0:09.7 | network to prepare you for the 2025 NFL draft. Today we've got on good friend of mine, |
| 0:16.0 | Ryan Driscoll, former boss of mine for a brief period of time when I was working over at Irish |
| 0:20.7 | Breakdown. It feels like very brief. It feels like it was forever ago when I was doing a little |
| 0:24.9 | bit of recruiting coverage. Quickly moved on to bigger and better things. I wish I stuck |
| 0:29.7 | on. Ironically, the thing I moved on to was working as a producer for Believe. And here we are |
| 0:35.6 | chatting about this, this Notre Dame draft class. Brian, I'm really excited though to talk about this this notre name draft class brian i'm really |
| 0:39.4 | excited though to talk about this team and i think that the excitement comes from the level of |
| 0:44.0 | talent that marcus freeman has put together with this roster i feel like that this draft class |
| 0:49.4 | is very different than many that we have seen from notre dame in the past few years it doesn't have that premier notre dame lineman many that we have seen from Notre Dame in the past few years. |
| 0:55.1 | It doesn't have that premier Notre Dame linemen that we always talk about, but it's got guys |
| 1:00.2 | who I think are going to go on to be really impactful starters. |
| 1:03.4 | I want to open our discussion here just talking about how Marcus Freeman has had this |
| 1:08.6 | completely different recruiting approach. |
| 1:11.4 | He's recruiting a lot of guys that are sons of former NFL athletes. |
| 1:15.6 | And overall, you're seeing just impactful players that have a high floor |
| 1:21.3 | and also have very unheralded traits that end up making them important for their success this season, |
| 1:27.9 | and then also could help them in the success that they have in their NFL careers. |
| 1:32.5 | What's interesting, and you look at the change in strategy since Marcus Freeman arrived, |
| 1:36.5 | then it really goes back to when he arrived as the defensive coordinator in 2021, |
| 1:39.8 | because you saw that class have a big impact on the season two is a lot of times you can |
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