I'm Pete Sampson and welcome to the latest episode of the Shamrack.

As always, joined by my co-host Matt Fortuna in Chicago.

And today, with the NFL draft approaching it, it really sneaks up on you.

There's just not enough coverage of it.

We have Dan Bruegeler, our draft guru from the athletic, who, God knows how many words

you've written about this in the last three or four months.

What would you estimate, Dane, the amount, the word count of your

pre-draft, beast-included work for us? The draft guide alone was $320,000. So I don't, I don't even know.

It's funny because, yeah, our marketing people asked me, like, okay, well, how many, you know, how many players, how many reports, that kind of thing? And they're like, well, how many hours do you think you've watched on tape? I'm like, I have, I have no idea how to possibly equate that or, you know, it's just, because it's a, it's a year-round process for me where, you know,

it's going to start, as soon as this drafts over, it'll start preparing for next year.

And it's constant from from now until next April.

So it's a process, definitely a process.

It reminds me of National Signing Day where we're interviewing coaches in February,

and they're already talking about the offers.

They're given out for the class of 2023 and 2024 that day and the day later.

Dane, how much, I wouldn't say easier, maybe refreshing was this year for you in terms of the

world was somewhat back to normal.

You were able to get out on the road.

Information was probably easier to obtain and acquire when talking about these prospects.

That had to be incredibly difficult the two years prior to this. What was this year like?

Yes and no. I think this year definitely there was more sense of normalcy with a full season.

And then, you know, we had a combine.

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