NFL Draft check-in with Dane Brugler, Jourdan Rodrigue joins for a LA Rams Team Visit
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
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🗓️ 25 November 2020
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
First up, Robert welcomes The Athletic’s Dane Brugler to the show to talk all-things NFL Draft, including a crowded quarterback class, headlined by Trevor Lawrence, potentially transcendent non-QBs like Penei Sewell, whether loaded wide receiver classes are going to become the norm going forward or not, how the unprecedented COVID pandemic has affected this year’s draft, and much more.
Plus, The Athletic’s Jourdan Rodrigue stops by in this week’s Team Visit to break down the Las Angeles Rams, including what it’s like to cover the avant-garde franchise, moving on from Wade Phillips to Brandon Staley as Defensive Coordinator, how the Aaron Donald-centric defense is evolving game by game, Jordan Fuller’s play being emblematic of the team’s longterm plans, potential weaknesses that could keep the Rams from another Super Bowl berth, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the athletic football show. |
| 0:14.4 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:16.6 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:17.5 | Great show for you guys today. |
| 0:18.7 | Jordan Rodriguez is going to be joining us a little bit later to break down the Rams. We had a fantastic conversation. Can't wait for you guys to hear it. Before that, though, I am very pleased to welcome the athletics NFL draft expert, Dane Bruego, to the show. Dane, how are you? I'm doing well, Robert. I tell you what, it's been awesome adding the football show to my podcast routine. So it's awesome to be on with you. |
| 0:40.0 | Oh, I sincerely appreciate that. Every year, it feels like this is around the time where the draft becomes meaningful to people who are primarily NFL fans. And the reason for that, I think, is because there are teams that are just completely out of it. And now it's time to start caring about next year. Sadly, my team is one of those this year. So I have had |
| 1:00.0 | some stoked draft interest over the last couple weeks. So I always had this time of year |
| 1:05.2 | in mind to bring you on. And I will admit, I'm coming into this with very little draft knowledge. We talked about it a |
| 1:11.5 | little bit on the show with Nate on Sunday night. I typically don't dig into the draft at all until the spring. I've done a little bit of watching a little bit of research for this, but for the most part, I am 25 steps behind of where you are. I'll never catch up, but I'm even more behind on this topic than I would be with others. |
| 1:07.9 | So let's just wade into this. |
| 1:10.0 | And let's start with the quarterbacks. |
| 1:11.4 | Obviously, I'll never catch up, but I'm even more behind on this topic than I would be with others. |
| 1:29.8 | So let's just wade into this. |
| 1:31.1 | And let's start with the quarterbacks. |
| 1:34.8 | Obviously, it's a notable quarterback class for a few different reasons. |
| 1:39.8 | Trevor Lawrence is the latest best quarterback prospect since Peyton Manning. |
| 1:43.8 | Like it seems to happen every two years that we have one of these guys that takes up the mantle. |
| 1:45.8 | Lawrence is that guy now. But there are several other names right behind him that are in play for some of these teams that absolutely could be looking for a quarterback. |
| 1:53.1 | So if you're trying to unpack the quarterback class behind Lawrence, how would you just stack these guys up and just give me a broad overview and then we can dig into it a little bit? |
| 2:03.5 | Yeah, I mean, I think you you hit it with Trevor Lawrence. I mean, he's probably that first quarterback since Andrew Luck where it was just evident from his freshman year that, look, this is going to be a future number one pick, you know, for many different reasons. |
| 2:18.5 | But after that- Great hair. That's the number one reason. Yeah, don't go Justin Herbert and do something about that. |
| 2:24.7 | Look, the quarterback's two through four. That's going to be the interesting conversation this year. |
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