Brugler & Zierlein: Smoke screens ahead of the 2022 NFL Draft + power ranking each positional group
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🗓️ 20 April 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Dane Brugler and NFL.com analyst Lance Zierlein examine smoke screens in the news leading up to the NFL Draft. Do front offices create these bluffs to mislead other teams? Or is it just a creation of guesswork? They weigh in on what’s deception vs. reality and discuss how much of an impact these rumors could have on the draft. They wrap by power ranking the position groups of this year’s class.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:15.7 | Welcome back. I'm Dane Bruegler. |
| 0:18.0 | Joined as always with NFL.com's Lance Zerline. |
| 0:21.1 | This is the athletic football show. |
| 0:23.1 | We're away from the draft. |
| 0:25.2 | And I think a lot of people are ready for the draft to be here, ready for it to start. |
| 0:30.4 | I think that's how Lance and I are thinking right now. |
| 0:33.3 | But we're almost there. |
| 0:34.2 | Today we want to hit on more of some philosophies when it comes to the draft, |
| 0:39.5 | especially with smokescreens. |
| 0:40.9 | I also want to talk a little bit about the best positions this year. |
| 0:44.1 | We can talk about power ranking those. |
| 0:46.7 | That should be a good conversation. |
| 0:48.2 | But let's start with the concept of smokescreens, Lance. |
| 0:52.3 | And I want to get your opinion on this basic question. |
| 0:57.3 | Do you think smokescreens are created by teams as they try to manipulate where others think |
| 1:04.6 | they will do? Or do you think that smokescreens happen more out of pure happenstance where everyone's guessing and you know a team's |
| 1:13.8 | doing their due diligence and all of a sudden you know rumors start so basically are smokes smokes |
| 1:19.2 | smokescreen is more on purpose or are they a creation of all the guesswork from fans media |
| 1:25.0 | other teams i think it's a combination of both. |
| 1:27.7 | And I think my guess is you think the same thing. |
| 1:31.2 | There are, you know, I think it gets thrown out there far too often by fans who every time |
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