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NFL: Good Morning Football

Falcons GM Thomas Dimitroff on Scouting During Uncertain Times

NFL: Good Morning Football

iHeartPodcasts and NFL

Football, Sports

4.3 • 655 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Daniel Jeremiah and Bucky Brooks are back with a new episode. To start off, the guys have a conversation about players staying in shape before reporting to camp (4:07). Next, the duo react to the new name of the Washington Football Team (7:50). After that, Atlanta Falcons general manager Thomas Dimitroff joins to talk about scouting during these uncertain times and adapting to virtual environments and interactions (12:37). Then, DJ evaluates college players he's been watching and Bucky gives his analysis also (20:38). To wrap up the show, DJ and Bucky look at the potential impact of certain college prospects playing for a team that may not have a season (30:08).

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:04.0

Who are the 25 greatest football players to grace the gridiron since the year 2000,

0:10.3

introducing NFL Daily's top 25 players of the last 25 years?

0:16.1

Join me, Greg Rosenthal, and an all-star cast of media personalities,

0:20.6

including Mina Kime, Steve Weish,

0:22.8

Kevin Harlan, and more for a look at football's best since the turn of the century.

0:28.4

Listen to NFL Daily's top 25 players of the last 25 years, starting on June 30th on the

0:34.1

IHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

0:39.8

And now, Move the Sticks with Daniel Jeremiah and Bucky Brooks.

0:46.2

What's up, everybody? Welcome to Move the Sticks.

0:48.5

DJ and Bucky here. Buck, how you doing, man?

0:51.3

Man, I'm good. I'm good because football is right around the corner, DJ, and I don't know what it looks like in college. And I've seen what it's looking like in high

0:58.8

school in terms of moving to the spring or the calendar year 2021. But the NFL looks like it's ready to go.

1:05.4

And I'm excited to have any form of football that we can get this season. Yeah, I feel confident. I feel I feel good about the fact

1:11.5

we're going to be able to get to the starting line. You know, that's the first thing. You can't have a

1:14.6

season if you don't start the season. So I feel, I'm feeling better about things. We're going to be

1:19.0

able to get this season kicked off. I think the protocols that are in place, even the elimination

1:23.8

of preseason games. I think everything is, every precaution is being taken the daily

1:29.1

testing, all these different measures to get us to the start of the season. Now, there's going to be

1:33.1

some things that are going to be challenging as we start the season, but I feel good at least

1:37.3

at this point time we're going to get to the start of the season. Yeah, I feel really good about

1:40.9

that. I feel good about the progress that has been made. I feel good about the protocols that they're putting in place and the slow run-up to the season. All of those things I'm excited about. I do wonder what it's going to look like from an economic stance, even though that's not necessarily in my realm, in my expertise in terms of that. But I'm curious what that looks like and how that's going to impact the team building process going forward if there's a salary cap reduction or if it stays flat and how teams will have to build around those challenges.

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