NFL Combine Confidential with Domonique Foxworth (ENCORE)

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🗓️ 27 February 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

The NFL combine: an annual spectacle that is part job interview, part gym class, and part reality TV show. It is also a critical moment in deciding the future of a new class of NFL draft prospects. An exceptionally good or bad performance in the combine will make a prospect’s draft stock rise or fall, meaning millions in potential salary is on the table. But just how useful is the combine in actually predicting a player’s NFL career? And what is it like for the players to run the gauntlet of medical evaluations, physical tests, and character evaluations? ESPN’s Domonique Foxworth went through the process in 2005. He shares all the secrets from inside the scouting combine, and why it may not be as important as we think. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	So if you're a certain kind of sports sicko, this week is wildly exciting.
0:09.7	It's basically a holiday in and of itself, because the NFL combine is about to begin tomorrow.
0:17.5	And it is a meat market that I believe must be understood from the inside out.
0:24.7	And so what we're bringing you today is one of our favorite episodes.
0:28.0	This stars my good friend and occasional nemesis, Dominique Foxworth, who tells us what it was
0:34.4	like to go through it and to benefit from it and how to game the system.
0:41.0	And so yes, it is Monday, February 27th.
0:46.6	This is Dominique and me, hi, I'm Pablo.
0:50.2	And yeah, this is ESPN Daily.
0:58.0	So Dominique, what was your A well screen name again?
1:03.0	NFL bound 36.
1:06.0	It's a miracle.
1:07.3	Honestly, that were friends because my screen name was Yoda followed by six numbers.
1:12.4	And those numbers were like reference to X-Men comic books.
1:16.5	I love X-Men growing up.
1:18.2	So I mean, I just also had a goal and that was it.
1:21.8	No, you didn't just have a goal and that was it.
1:24.0	You're one of these maniacs who had a dream and then lived that dream.
1:29.0	And so I have this time machine that I need you to jump into with me.
1:33.4	And I'm setting the date to February 2005.
1:37.3	Be careful.
1:37.8	Don't go back too far because we might not be safe.
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