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Welcome to the athletic football show.

I'm Robert Mays.

Joining me today, the athletics draft expert guru. This is the king of this time of year. Dan Bruegler. Dan, how you doing, buddy? I'm doing great. It's been a long week, right? It's more so than like any other week during the year, the Combine Week, just, there's so much info that comes at you. You're going from morning to night every single day.

It's just a long week.

There's so much to take from it.

But then we have to kind of sit back, dissect it all, figure out what it all means.

And hey, I guess that's what we're going to do on this show.

I was up until at least two every night from Monday through Thursday night.

They're long, long days.

They're great.

It's one of my favorite weeks of the year.

I just, I love seeing everyone.

I love seeing all the media friends that you have, catching up with people you wouldn't

otherwise running into people you've never met.

That part is great. It's just good conversations that way. The football conversations are fantastic. There's nothing like it. You know, I go to training camps every single year where I'm going

to 20 teams and that's fun, but there's an urgency even to those conversations because

guys are running to and from meetings or, you know, three other guys are there that day. And there's a decent amount of downtime at the combine. I mean, I think that's the reality of it, especially now that they've flipped the workouts to the evening, there's a decent amount of idle time. So it's really a good time in the calendar to just kind of sit, catch up, pick people's brains. And I don't think I knew that when I was 27. Now I do know that. So my combine time is a little bit different. But when I got home on Friday, I was in bed asleep by 10. And I slept for like 10 and a half hours. My fiance is like, are you okay? I was like, is there something wrong with you? I was like, I'm absolutely fine. I'm just on a sleep deficit, the likes of which I am not used to at this stage of my life.

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