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Dane Brugler Joins Toucher & Hardy | The Email Bit | The Stack - 4/16 (Hour 4)

Toucher & Hardy

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4.3735 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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(00:00) The Athletic’s Dane Brugler, who is the writer of the NFL Draft 2025 “The Beast” Guide, joins the show.

(19:44) It’s that time! It might just be the show’s most popular segment! It’s The Email Bit!

(34:08) We’ll unpack the stories we didn’t get to with The Stack!

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0:00.0

B-Pod Studios

0:03.0

Hey, listen, if you've got to go, we understand, but make sure you bring the

0:11.3

Sports Hub app with you so you can hear more of Tudger and Hardy.

0:14.9

That's what I want on my tombstone.

0:16.4

On the Sports Hub.

0:19.3

Hey, with Tudger and Hardy.

0:21.4

Dane Brugler is a legend.

0:24.5

He does the NFL draft

0:26.3

Beast rundown, which is

0:28.6

so big you need to get a password

0:30.7

for it, and it's a big PDF thing.

0:33.9

And he joins us now.

0:35.7

His mock draft is now up at the athletic. That's what we're going to focus the most on. Dane, I know you're very busy, and we really do appreciate you coming on. Thank you so much. No, morning, guys. I appreciate you having me. No, no. And you've got to be one of the more sought-after guests in radio over the past week or so. I mean, this is, like Fred said,

0:56.3

we're lucky to have you because you are busy and everybody wants to talk about this,

1:00.1

as they do every year.

1:02.1

It's fun to talk about because, yeah, there's so much goes into the beast

1:05.8

and then doing a mock draft.

1:07.4

They're a round mock draft up to this morning.

1:09.7

A lot of interest in that.

1:11.5

Just try to play with different scenarios, what could happen, you know, try to connect

1:16.4

the dots in terms of the trends that certain teams show, the team needs, all of that.

1:23.3

So it's a good exercise for me as you kind of prepare for the draft, but also fun to hear the fan reaction. Not all of it glowing, which is, you know, which is great. That's what makes the draft. I like how they get mad at you for predicting the draft. You're playing four-dimensional chess with their lives. Yeah. Well, Dane, let me just, this ain't some AM station in Peoria, so bring your A game. I know if you're doing a lot of media, this is the big time, my friend, so buckle up. So the beast, you go into such great detail. Are you, you cannot be the only one who's researching in writing that, are you? I am. It's a full year project for me.

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