Lessons learned during the 2021 NFL Draft process with Dane Brugler & Lance Zierlein
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🗓️ 27 April 2021
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
The Athletic's NFL Draft podcast 'Prospects to Pros' with Dane Brugler and Lance Zierlein join Robert Mays to discuss some big takeaways from the process of scouting the 2021 NFL Draft class, from no combine to lack of game tape, weird measurables, intangibles and more.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the athletic football show. |
| 0:15.8 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:18.3 | I'm Robert Mays, really excited about today's show. |
| 0:20.8 | Lance Zerline and Dane Bruegler are going to be joining me to talk about just some big |
| 0:24.4 | picture takeaways from this class. |
| 0:25.9 | I feel like we get bogged down in the specifics of the players and judging them as prospects |
| 0:30.4 | so often here in the final weeks and months before the draft. |
| 0:33.9 | I wanted to zoom out and talk about what we can learn from this entire class. |
| 0:38.1 | Those guys watch hundreds and hundreds of players. |
| 0:41.3 | I felt like it was worth the time to dig into that knowledge and dig into that experience. |
| 0:45.5 | Before we do that, though, I wanted to remind you guys about the live draft show we have |
| 0:50.3 | coming on The Athletic on Thursday night. |
| 0:52.6 | Me and Nate Tice, going to be coming to you guys live starting about 930 Eastern after the 15th pick. |
| 0:58.2 | It's going to be on Twitter, YouTube, the athletic app, look for a push notification. |
| 1:02.7 | Dane is going to be popping in and out every few picks to give his insights like no one else can. |
| 1:08.2 | Lindsay Jones is going to be joining us to talk about a couple big picture league specific |
| 1:12.1 | things. |
| 1:10.7 | So please come and stop by. I'm very, very excited about it. We're trying something. I hope it works. It would mean a lot if you guys would come spend the time with us. For now, though, I'm thrilled to welcome the co-hosts of the Prospects, the Prospects, the pros podcast, draft experts for both the athletic and for NFL.com. |
| 1:12.4 | Dane Bruegler and Lance Zerlein. Guys, thank you. co-hosts of the prospects, the pros podcast, draft experts for both the athletic and for |
| 1:28.6 | NFL.com. Dane Bruegler and Lance Lerline. Guys, thank you very much for doing this. I sincerely |
| 1:33.2 | appreciate it. It's draft week. This is exciting, right? Yeah, I'm pumped. I can't believe you |
| 1:38.8 | guys have time to do it. So thank you very much. I'm sure you have 10 million things going on. |
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