National Championship draft stock watch with Dane Brugler
Until Saturday: A show about college football
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🗓️ 8 January 2021
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Andy welcomes The Athletic's NFL draft savant Dane Brugler to the program to assess the talent taking the field at the 2021 College Football Playoff National Championship game. Justin Fields is set to take center stage yet again following his outstanding performance against Clemson, but will he walk across the stage on the first night of the draft in Cleveland (:30)? Which Alabama defender has impressed Dane the most this year, has the best chance to be drafted highest (5:00)? Dane analyzes the skillset of one of college football's most dynamic talents, DeVonta Smith (6:45). How does Dane view Mac Jones (9:45)? Does his stock stand to rise depending on his performance Monday night? How does the QB draft class project after this season, and where could Kyle Trask land in the draft (12:30)? Plus, Dane notes the players he'll be keeping his eyes on in the National Championship game (21:30).
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Andy Staples show on a pre-national championship Friday. |
| 0:14.9 | This show actually was the one you were going to hear on Wednesday. |
| 0:18.3 | I had a very nice conversation with Dane Bruegler, our draft guru at the athletic, and we were going to talk about all of the |
| 0:26.2 | great players in the Alabama Ohio State game, which, by the way, goes perfectly with my story |
| 0:31.9 | that is running in the athletic today about how these two teams have been the best producers of NFL talent over the past five |
| 0:40.2 | drafts, most draft picks and most first rounders. |
| 0:43.6 | This is the matchup we've wanted to see, and we haven't gotten it since the first playoff. |
| 0:48.8 | So today you're going to get to hear me and Dane talk about all of the great players you're |
| 0:54.1 | going to see where they fit into |
| 0:56.4 | the draft and then some of the other folks that are going to be in the draft next year. |
| 1:01.2 | Dane knows this stuff inside and out. |
| 1:03.5 | It is truly amazing his recall for all of these players and where they fall and what their |
| 1:09.7 | traits are. |
| 1:12.5 | And so it's a great conversation. You're going to love it. Little bit of news. The reason we didn't run this on Wednesday |
| 1:18.0 | is because on Tuesday, you had the reports that Ohio State might be having issues with COVID-19, |
| 1:25.2 | that there might be a potential postponement of the game. It looks like they are on |
| 1:29.6 | track to have the game on Monday night, which is a good thing. I know everybody involved in |
| 1:35.6 | putting on the season would like to get this season over with as excited about it the game as |
| 1:39.9 | they are. They would like the season to be done. So Ryan Day, Ohio State's coach said on Thursday that |
| 1:45.5 | they should have, quote, plenty of players. He did not get specific, but plenty of players, |
| 1:50.3 | a plethora of players, if you will, for the Buckeyes. Crimson Tide seemed to be right on schedule. |
| 1:56.5 | So looks like we are on schedule for that game. Other news in college football, Mark Slabaw from |
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