Hello, I'm Peter King. Welcome to the MMQB podcast with Peter King, where I take you inside the minds of the biggest influencers in the NFL.

This week, from the NFL scouting combine... in the Lightning interview with Matt Patricia, the head coach of the Detroit Lions, who went from

perhaps being a nuclear engineer or rocket scientist to coaching the venerable Detroit Lions.

Also this week, a conversation with Wyoming quarterback Josh Allen

who really lit it up at the scouting combine and also some thoughts from veteran Cleveland

plane dealer, Brown's beat writer Mary Kay Cabot on just what it's like to cover a team that quite often appears to be hopeless.

But first, I want to give you a few thoughts on what I see happening at this time of year.

You know, we exit the scouting combine every year

where 336 prospects go to Indianapolis and they are basically dissected by coaches general manager

scouts throughout the National Football League and at the end of it invariably we

always hear well boy

she came griffin he rose up the charts this week

uh... or or land oh brown boy he's gonna kill his draft status

and and and i just want to tell you that most often,

almost all the time, teams do not make massive changes

in what they do between the time that the combine ends and the time that the

draft begins, which is in about seven weeks.

And I say that because I notice every year coming out of the combine,

there's all kinds of stories about, well, here's the fastest riser,

here are the people, fastest ris people, here's who really plummeted and their

draft stock got killed at the scouting combine and I just have to tell you I just don't

think it's true. Connor Rohrer wrote a really enlightening story I think this

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