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The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL

Daniel Jeremiah talks Mac Jones rumors, his favorite prospects, going from scout to broadcaster & more

The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL

The Athletic

Robert Mays, Sports, Football,, Football, Nfl, Nfl Draft

4.63.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

NFL Network draft analyst Daniel Jeremiah joins Robert Mays to react to the stunning 49ers trade up and their rumored interest in Alabama QB Mac Jones, plus DJ brings his list of favorite prospects, discusses his journey from scout to broadcaster, the insane depth of the 2021 draft class and much exclusively on The Athletic Football Show.

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0:00.0

This is the Athletic Football Show.

0:05.3

Welcome to the Athletic Football Show.

0:17.6

I'm Robert Mays and I am very excited about our next guest, a man that you

0:21.9

have to talk to around draft season. NFL Network draft analyst, Daniel Jeremiah. DJ, how you doing,

0:27.0

buddy? I'm doing great, man. I was thinking about this when we were putting this together.

0:32.1

The first time I think we ever spoke was at the combine, right? Yeah. We did an interview like in the second

0:39.3

second floor like lobby area of the Weston. I want to say. That's exactly right. Yep. It's so

0:45.7

funny. And now look at where we are now. You're on television 46 hours a day. I, so we were

0:52.0

originally going to do this. So full disclosure for people, just in case there's

0:54.9

news that breaks. It's 1135 central time on Saturday because your schedule is very packed. We

0:59.0

were going to do this yesterday. I'm very glad we didn't because if we had, it would be

1:04.4

completely irrelevant the day later because of what happened. And it was really funny. You were on

1:09.6

TV as the news broke about the trade. So you

1:13.0

broke it to me and I got to watch you synthesize it in real time. So now we're going to have to talk about it again, if that's okay with you. Dude, it was a gift. I'll tell you what, I wish I could tell you that I thought all this through and that's why we had to reschedule other than the fact but I'm an idiot and like triple book to myself.

1:09.1

But I'm glad.

1:10.0

I'm glad the timing of it worked out because we,

1:13.0

we, That's why we had to reschedule other than the fact that I'm an idiot and like triple book myself. But I'm glad. I'm glad the timing of it worked out because I had gotten wind of this, that this was, that there was a big trade coming. And so we're getting ready to go on the air at 10 o'clock. And so I'm sitting here going like, man, I hope that it doesn't break until we get on air so that we can just

1:45.9

you know because i love pro days we have a blast with them when you have a quarterback especially

1:49.7

with what zach wilson did which we'll get into that's fun but there can be lulls and some downtime

1:54.4

of course two or three hours with a pro day coverage you get one trade uh much less two um it spices it up a little bit i was very

2:04.1

impressed with ret's nimbleness kind of getting all the with all the planes in the air because with all

2:09.1

that stuff happening it's really hard to shift between them as a host he did a fantastic job

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