Hello and welcome to group chat. I am Justin Verrier and joining me, Rob Mahoney and Combine J. Kyle, man. Kyle, back from Chicago.

How's it going? Combein, Kyle. Oh, yeah, man. Love going up there. It always lives up to its name.

It was windy and really chilly there. I was not ready for that. It was like a walk like this down the street kind of thing.

Love Chicago, though. It's got a nice charm to it. The waterfront down there, beautiful, the bridge there. I don't know how much time you guys have spent in Chicago. Have you? At night? This isn't the early, yeah. This isn't for Chicago tourism. That's going to come in a couple minutes. It's actually for the bean itself, you know, we're just, we're going to really get in the weeds

on it.

I was walking by myself at night and I walked across and I just looked up and I was like, damn it, this place is just, it's, I'm a little smitten with it right now. It is, it's lovely, like Chicago. They got you at the right time of year for sure. But how's your schmoozing doing?

I mean, you're coming out of the mingle of all mingles at the combine.

Do you feel sufficiently small-talked? the right time of year for sure. But how's your schmoozing doing? I mean, you're coming out of the

mingle of all mingles at the combine. Do you feel sufficiently small-talked? It is. If you look across the combine, you know, because the event itself, I mean, you can absorb a lot of it on TV. I mean, there are things that go on that are a little subtle between the, you know, between the the events between the jump.

But you'll see somebody like Sam Presti is sitting there on the front road. that are a little subtle between the events, between the jump.

But you'll see somebody like Sam Presti is sitting there on the front row, wired earbuds,

I just want to say, wired earbuds and a nice sweater, hair looking great, just intently

staring.

And I had moments where I would get just so distracted by what is he staring at, you know, because I'm in the

same room and I'm looking and I'm like, these are just drills. I just would, you really wonder

what goes on in that guy's head and what makes him tick because he was looking at something.

He wasn't, he was the only guy in the room not having a conversation. All the other execs

absolutely were. I think he was doing like seven,

eight jazz drum time signatures in his head just like running beats. Or there was that story

today that came out that he's like envisioning the players actually being alongside each other.

Someone called it method, but I don't think that's actually what that is. I think he was just

looking forward.

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