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Presented by dognation.com. This is Dog Nation Daily, the daily podcast for Georgia Bulldogs fame. Here's your host, Brandon Adam.

Let me do a brief amount of housekeeping run off the top here and then we'll dive into the show. Today, we're slightly different than sometimes. Our buddy Mike Griffith typically joins us on Wednesdays is going to join us today, but a little earlier in the program than normal because, as I'm speaking, the kind of first moments of the NFL scouting combine are taking place, not the actual workouts themselves, but some of the media availability. Zion Loeg, the former Georgia defensive lineman, set to speak today. Mike's going to be a part of that. So we're going to get him on and get him out of the way so he can get settled in and enjoy that here coming up around 1030 live. We'll have that for you on the Dog Nation YouTube page and everything else. We also have a couple of very special guests a part of the program today. I'm going to tell you

more about that here coming up in just a moment there as well. So we're busy doing a lot of different

things today and a lot of fun stuff on our program. But let me begin, though, this way by going back

to something I briefly said yesterday, that if you go back to the

2022 season, 23 NFL scouting combine, Georgia was a massive part of that discussion.

You know, Nolan Smith got so much hype, got so much, you know, talk.

And the idea, you know, the Georgia guys themselves were just massively highlighted as a part of the NFL

scouting combine, much the same way they'd been the previous year, too. And what we kind of

wondering on yesterday's show is, you know, is this destined to happen again? There's 11 guys

that combine from Georgia. That's one less than a year ago. There are probably a smaller number

of Georgia players currently projected to be in the first round of this year's draft than have been in the past, although the Camarie Lasters, perhaps the Ladd McConkies have a chance to change that and join what we believe will be a Marius Mims.

And obviously, Brock Bowers in the first round.

So we've been kind of left to wonder, okay, how big of a topic of conversation will Georgia be this week? And we got a

really strong indication yesterday. Some of the NFL coaches who show up in Indianapolis, they're

there to watch and see what's going on, at least in terms of the conversation they are a part of,

Georgia is going to be just as much the talk of this year's combine as it perhaps was a year ago.

No better example of that to kick things off than Nick Siriani.

He is the Philadelphia Eagles coach.

Of course, the Eagles have been famous the last couple of years with their GM,

Howie Roseman, of drafting seemingly as many Georgia players as they can get,

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