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Vandul. We got Bysol hold going on today and we have D-Troll Hunter keeping us chugging along

here. Following the NFL combine anecdotally, it appears non-participants are dropping. This is the

NFL's attempt to get star prospects to participate.

I don't think that's it.

Look, no NFL team is going to be part of some scheme to get guys to the combine,

and so they're going to let a player they would otherwise draft fall, right?

So when you say it's the NFL's attempt to get star prospects to participate,

what you're telling me is that you think there's some level of collusion that is resulting in guys who don't participate to fall in the draft.

Am I, am I, I mean, can I take that another way, Trev than that?

No team, in my opinion, is going to not take a player that they would have otherwise

taken and evaluated because they're trying to prove a point about the NFL

the combine.

What I think happens is, like, if guys are falling, it's that they're falling from a perception from the media

standpoint not so much that they're falling in the eyes of scouts and teams because of their

non-participation in the combine i think if a guy guy falls because of that, it has more to do with,

we really like this guy, but we had some question marks about him and five other guys.

Four of those five guys went to the combine and performed and performed well.

This guy didn't, so we're not as willing to take a chance on him because

we don't have as much data on this, you know, these five receivers that we really liked.

We had question marks of all of them. We graded them somewhat similar. This guy didn't participate

in the combine. These guys gave us more data. Three of them did really well. One underachieved. One didn't participate in the combine. These guys gave us more data. Three of them did really well.

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