Hi, everybody. Welcome to the best podcast available sponsored by our great friends at cross country mortgage on Jason Gibbs alongside with Andrew

Gribble and special guest NFL draft analyst, Bucky Brooks here on the program and we come to you live from Indianapolis in the

2022 NFL scouting combined Bucky appreciate a few minutes of your time and when you come to Indy, what is your plan?

What do you do in the week other than make your rounds here at media row? What all do they have you doing in the week that is the NFL

Well, the week of the combine is great because it's kind of it serves a couple of different purposes. We'll talk about all the players and the workouts and all that stuff, but really it's to catch up session.

It is having the opportunity to talk to all the coaches to kind of get a sense of what everyone is feeling about this class, what people are feeling about the new way of building teams coming on the heels of how the team won the Super Bowl and all of that.

And so because it is kind of like the convention, the annual convention of all football people, it is a great experience because you get a chance to take all this information and you're able to use it as you begin to project how the league is going to look going forward.

How do you think the league handled not having one last year and how just talking to people, how do you think how excited do you see people to be back here?

Yeah, like it's funny because it's a blur because I'm sitting and trying to remember what was the last time we had a combine because there's so much going on. Yeah, look, I think everyone is excited back to have the opportunity to have all the prospects in one spot where you can see him, you can talk to him, you can kind of get a feel and sense for who they are not only as athletes, but as people, you can do all of that done and you can kind of better navigate how to have the pro day circuit and the workouts.

And so people to talk about it is kind of become a made for TV event, but it's still a lot of necessary work that has to be done.

I know that on NFL.com you've put out your top five at each position. What are you looking for this week as we get rolling here, especially with the workout set to start on Thursday.

Is it something with the interviews? Is it something that they do on the field? Is there something specific that you're looking for?

Well, in the interview things, you just want to listen and hear the whispers, like did anybody bomb the interview process? Did any information come out that maybe you need to rethink where someone stacks based on a they may have something in the background is probably going to lead to a fall.

When you get to the field, it's really about trying to figure out can you confirm some of the things that you believe that you saw on tape. If a guy is an explosive athlete, does he show explosion when you're watching and work out?

He doesn't play as fast, but then he tests faster here. Was there an injury or something that we didn't know about that wasn't reported that impacted his play.

And so a lot of what this is, it's a fact-finding mission is being able to match up what you believe you saw on tape with what the player displays on the field.

And even though the tape always supersedes the workout, the workout can give you some answers to maybe what you may not have seen during the tape discovery.

It's a big day here for wide receivers. And I know you put out your top five wide receivers list. What do you like about this group and kind of the talent and the differences between some of these guys?

I mean, that's a lot of talent. I mean, I feel like we're going to say this for the next five years. There are a lot of talent that wide receivers.

And it's not necessarily a requirement that you have to take a receiver in the first round and get big time production.

These guys are coming into this game into the National Football League, trained and skilled because they've had so many years to work on their craft before they get to college.

They've been playing 707 up into and through high school. And so these guys have called a ton of balls. They understand how to get open.

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