Combine recap with Dane Brugler
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🗓️ 3 March 2025
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
Dane Brugler, The Athletic's NFL Draft expert, spent a long month in Indianapolis last week, and we are all the beneficiaries of his dedication. Dane sits down with Robert Mays on this episode of The Athletic Football Show to share his big takeaways from the 2025 NFL Scouting Combine.
Host: Robert Mays
Co-Host: Derrik Klassen
With: Dane Brugler
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:06.3 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:07.4 | It is the Combine Recap Show with our guy, Dane Bruegler. |
| 0:12.5 | Dane just spent a very long time in Indianapolis talking to just an unfathomable amount of people, |
| 0:18.7 | looking at watching all the workouts. |
| 0:20.3 | He was there until |
| 0:20.9 | sunday so this is dane's full post combine download we started talking about the matthew |
| 0:27.0 | stafford news debo samuel that had happened since the last time that we recorded then started |
| 0:31.5 | digging into just the buzz around the top of the draft what we're potentially hearing with |
| 0:36.7 | the titans of one the browns of two're potentially hearing with the Titans at 1, the Browns of 2, how that could affect |
| 0:39.6 | the Giants at 3. |
| 0:41.4 | So just how the top of the draft might shake out. |
| 0:43.9 | And then got into Dane's most impressive performers in Indy, the guys that we thought would |
| 0:48.4 | test well that ended up testing well, you guys who really owned the combine from a measurable's |
| 0:53.0 | perspective. |
| 0:53.9 | Talked about some guys who maybe didn't live up to expectations, some of the bigger |
| 0:57.2 | questions that maybe arose from Indy with the workouts. |
| 1:01.3 | And then just did a rapid fire breakdown every single position, the guys that were |
| 1:06.3 | top of mind from Dane, who performed well or maybe disappointed a little bit in Indianapolis. |
| 1:12.0 | So this is Dane's full breakdown about what he saw in Indy, what mattered, what didn't. |
| 1:17.0 | Let's get to that conversation with Dane Bruegler right now. |
| 1:25.5 | All right, Dane, we're in full-scale combine recap mode now. |
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