Hello and welcome to the MMQB Monday morning NFL

podcast I am Gary Grahamling your host the the NFL combine is is underway right

now it is going on as we speak and I have a very special

guest to join me we are not going to talk a whole bunch of combine even

though as we all know it's incredibly important these tests that they do out there. I am

personally putting together a playbook that involves a lot of guys in Spandex

running in straight lines for 40 yards and not touching the ball in any way.

And once I can incorporate that into an offense,

I think I really got something going,

but we're going to talk about some other stuff.

And my very special guest is once again

Andy Benoit. Andy, combine fever, have you have you contracted it and if so do you have the

antidote? I love the combine not for the workouts at all. the anyone in the league except for maybe a couple coaches this year Denver and LA Rams

they're all there within about a 12 block radius at any given time so it's it's a

great opportunity it's where I get a lot of my football learning done every year.

It's just running around meeting to meeting.

It's a blur and it's the best kind of blur you can imagine.

The thing is, I don't want to be a party pooper because obviously everyone should read our breathless

combine coverage of the workouts that will be on SI.com all week, but it just, I get a kick out of the fact that they move the workouts to prime time and then you know it's this big deal

everyone watch the workouts and it's like that's the only part of the combine that like really doesn't matter

it's the it's the behind the scenes stuff, but it's also as far as the

prospects go, it's the interviews and it's the medical exams, the stuff that you will not

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