What is up everybody? It's me, your boy, just a dude, in order to California, places on fire, but I'm okay.

John Middell cop three and out podcast, how's everyone doing?

Hopefully everyone's getting ready for the weekend. If you're listening to this, it might be the weekend.

I'm just sitting here chilling, watching a little golf on in the background, taking some NFL notes, putting a little podcast and you know, I think we're ready to roll.

I'm going to touch on some things that I've seen in camp and just some early on buzz and not to be a Debbie down or anything, but just we got to be realistic about some of this stuff.

Some thoughts on some of these college conferences, canceling football and the impact that it's going to have on the draft. I've heard different people talk about it and it kind of just sometimes my mind gets racing.

And then I was watching an interview, Groank did on the NFL network and he looks like a pretty happy guy. It's amazing when certain individuals, when you've been beaten down and you've been in the ultimate grind, sometimes a year off can really do.

Wonders for any human, right? I mean, I mean, we're huge on when anyone works to take some time off, whether it's a couple of weeks, just to clear your head.

But I think him when you factor in the injuries and the grind that comes into England and just his level of fame, I wonder if we actually might see a really good Rob Gorkowski and then of course, middle cop male bag at John middle cop is my is my Instagram handle.

And it's the easiest way to get a hold of me. It's how we interact with people to show. So fire my DM's wide open at John middle cop and leave a question.

Also, I know a lot of you guys have done this and I greatly appreciate it. If you could leave a review, five stars on the three and out podcast on Apple iTunes.

And yeah, it's very easy. If you could just take a little time out of your day and do it, I'd be very, very grateful.

But let's start with this. Because this year is a weird time for training camp. I'm not attending training camp and I haven't missed a training camp.

Hell college or pro in over a decade. It's a little weird. But at the same time, I'm not complaining because if you're listening to this on Friday, I'm probably on the golf course.

It's been it's been I have no complaints. I've seen enough football in my life to take a training camp off. If it's going to be a little different and not battle the limited amount of media credentials, not the end of the world.

But there is limited access. And if you've seen reports, there is a lot of these teams are limiting what the reporters can tweet and the videos that typically go viral.

And we've been talking about now this for a couple of weeks is the way when I worked as a pro scout, your market is the leak.

So you have you get assigned a certain amount of teams. Let's say anywhere between five to 10, you know, if you're a director or a high level scout, they might put a lot more on your plate.

When I first got in the league, I think I had three or four and by my second year, I think I had seven or eight. And it's just your workload doubles. It's an intense time of year.

But a lot of your time once the preseason game start are evaluating the bubble guys, but another huge part of training camp are, you know, for any individual and any individual team is just scouring Twitter, the the athletic, whatever the local papers are,

the local bar, the road of world information on your teams good and bad and just jotting it all down information is power in the NFL, just like it is in any business.

If you're, I got friends in the construction world, if you're bidding a job, you like to know give or take, you know, where you should be for the bid high or low.

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