Mailbag! Comparing the NFL Draft QB class of 2021 to 1983 (04/23)
Cover 3 College Football
CBS Sports
4.5 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
The Cover 3 crew answers listener questions on recruiting, the NFL Draft, playoff and more. First, reacting to the reports of changes to fall camp contact rules, including the elimination of the Oklahoma drill (8:00). Then it's on to an explanation of how the top programs make contact, establish relationships and ultimately sign top talent on the recruiting trail (19:39), a comparison of the legendary 1983 NFL Draft quarterbacks to the 2021 group (40:30) and a College Football Playoff proposal that might help the Group of Five conferences (48:30).
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| 0:29.9 | Welcome back to the Cover 3 podcast with your host, Chip Patterson, Tom Fernelli, Danny |
| 0:38.9 | Cannell, and Bob Elliott. It's your call for the best college football coverage from National |
| 0:45.3 | Signing Day to the National Championship and everything in between. CBS Sports presents |
| 0:52.1 | the Cover 3 podcast. And welcome back to the Cover 3 podcast here on CBS Sports. That's |
| 0:59.9 | Danny Cannell. That's Bud Elliott. I'm Chip Patterson. It's time to get your weekend started |
| 1:05.0 | right with the big old bag of mail. Before we get into some of your questions, which again, |
| 1:10.5 | you can submit to the big old bag of mail by going and leaving us a five-star review. |
| 1:15.1 | Within that review, put your question. We will add it to a future mail bag episode real |
| 1:20.8 | quickly if you items of business and a little bit of news. We've gotten a lot of super league |
| 1:26.1 | questions. We are not ignoring them. I feel like it's a conversation that we can continue |
| 1:32.3 | and maybe revisit. And then, of course, the story has changed. Perhaps even a sign of |
| 1:39.5 | how difficult it would be for this fantasy super league to happen in college football |
| 1:43.7 | with the fact that it collapsed so rapidly. I know some of those questions came in Monday |
| 1:48.9 | and Tuesday. The news, of course, being that the super league is suspended with what |
| 1:54.7 | is 9, pretty much all but 3 of those 12 clubs backing out and stepping back away from it. |
| 2:02.0 | Thank you for those. We'll continue to consider for more off-season big picture stuff. We |
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