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Brian Peacock here of Locked-on 49ers.

And if you are listener of Locked- on NFL, you will recognize this voice. Matt

Williamson, former NFL scout and ESPN analyst, host of numerous things, including host of

locked on NFL. Matt, how are you today? I am great, bud. How are you? I'm doing fantastic. Getting

excited for the draft. It's my favorite time of year. It's Christmas time.

Yeah, it really is.

It's a little bit of that calm before the storm because all the decision makers and movers and shakers are, trust me, they are bunker, hunkered down in their bunker.

They're staring at boards.

I went through that with my one year with the Browns. It was unbelievably cool, but they are long days.

I mean, you spend an entire day doing linebackers, and then the next day you do edge guys,

and then the next day you do safeties, and then you combine them all and, you know,

start building your board horizontally as well as vertically, and it's a lot of work.

There's a lot of battles behind the scenes and that's what's

going on right now to get their boards properly in line for, you know, when it matters most.

Yeah, that part of the process is super interesting to me and I want to get into some of that

and also what we can believe this time of year that's coming out of some reporters. And if the

board's not finalized,

how could we have even believed anything that was rumored about a singular player like a month

or two ago? So before we get into that, I do want to reference something that goes with what you

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