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Draft rumor BS meter + Xavier Worthy: does WR speed matter? | Inside Coverage

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🗓️ 11 April 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Jason Fitz is joined by Senior NFL Reporters Charles Robinson and Jori Epstein to dive into the how and why of the biggest news around the league this week. The trio start with the news of O.J. Simpson's passing and why it's hard to put a bow on his story and legacy. Rashee Rice has a warrant out for his arrest, and Charles thinks the league could be looking to issue a suspension. In other news, Jacksonville Jaguars pass rusher Josh Allen received a massive contract extension, as the Jaguars are betting Allen can be a perennial DPOY candidate. Jori is writing a piece on WR draft prospect Xavier Worthy, who broke the 40-yard dash record, so the trio discuss the how the value of speed has changed among evaluators over the past few decades. Many call for GPS data to replace 40 testing, but the technology is not standardized among all schools, which presents the question of how the NFL will go about enforcing standardization of GPS tracking. The hosts finish out the show by getting to the bottom of some rumors circling around the 2024 NFL Draft by determining which to believe, and which are bologna. They discuss Drake Maye, Malik Nabers, JJ McCarthy, Jayden Daniels and Jim Harbaugh.

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0:00.0

Sorting through the BS known as draft season, the latest arm of she rice and the impact speed has on

0:06.4

NFL evaluations and is it changing? We've got all that and more I'm Jason Fitz. It's time for inside coverage. Welcome to Inside Coverage part of the Zero Blitz family where we dive into the how and why of all things NFL

0:29.4

Jory Epstein Charles Robinson. I'm Jason Fitz with Yahoo Sports and guys we got a lot to get into a lot to talk about but it would be weird frankly if we didn't address the big breaking news as we tape here this morning and think everybody was a little jar to see the breaking news that

0:44.3

O.J Simpson has passed, lost his battle with cancer at the age of 76.

0:48.6

I just want to be real for a minute because we didn't really talk about how we want to talk about this, which I think is kind of key here because it's just complicated.

0:58.0

See Rob, like, as much as we talk about NFL Hall of Famers and their legacy when they passed.

1:03.0

There's also just this whole other conversation about OJ that has nothing to do with football.

1:08.6

I like I don't know the appropriate way to handle any of this on a day like today.

1:14.0

It's definitely something that is at the nexus of sports,

1:20.0

you know, culture, entertainment, police brutality, you know, I mean all the different things that were going on at the time of the OJ Simpson trial

1:28.7

the fallout from it it was interesting because when the news dropped it started a text message conversation

1:36.2

between myself and others about like the day that the verdict was read in the OJ Simpson trial

1:46.8

For a lot of us that is the sort of the height the pinnacle of OJ being a part of our life our lifetime if it's not the

1:51.1

Bronco chase right the thing that sticks out where we're like this

1:54.4

feels so surreal and eclipsed you know what the NFL's first 2,000 yard Russia a Hall of

2:01.2

Famer an iconic player at the running back position.

2:05.0

And, you know, so it just starts this conversation about like, where were you at?

2:08.9

What was the reaction?

2:10.0

We began to get thrust back into time when that verdict was read and sort of what it meant socially

2:16.3

from a racial perspective, you know, from an economic perspective, you go back to the

2:21.9

30 for 30 on ESPN that was so fantastic on sort of unfolding all the elements of OJ Simpson like you're like I don't know how to get into this

2:30.2

That's a good example that you kind of need six, seven, eight hours to really fully dive into what O.J. Simpson was, how his life and career unfolded, and then obviously the murder trial and verdict that became a

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