and Hey everybody welcome to another episode of Purple Insider Matthew Collar here and

join the show for I believe the second time is Max Chadwick. He is the PFF

College Football analyst also co-host of the PFF College Football Show. college football

show on PFF there and it's great to have you back. We talked for the first time at the

NFL combine and I believe that a big part of our discussion was,

hey, is this J.J McCarthy guy actually a top 10 prospect?

Boy, that feels like a million years ago, doesn't it Max?

It absolutely does, man mean I was telling you

then at the combine I was down bad I was feeling you long nights of the combine long

nights the NFL drive was telling you right before I caught a cold right after the

draft is over I'm I'm pretty sure it's my body telling me

hey you got it this has got to be it now you got to you got take some time off now so

yeah it felt like a million years ago but it really was only a couple months ago

it just shows you how long draft season is and how many late nights you and I have

put again. That's for sure, although I got to chill on Friday and next year I will as well. So I did feel a little

bit guilty about that. The rest of the football world was grinding hard on Friday, but part of the Vikings giving away all of their draft picks was to move from 10 or 11 to 10 to take J.J. McCarthy and I want to go back with you to his college football season because we've been spending so much time on the draft rumors going back and trying to look at the old tape and everything else, but you as PFF's college football

analyst would have followed his ascension from day one of the college football season.

So take me back to the beginning of last season with J.J McCarthy.

Did you view him as a possible first round draft pick at the beginning of the

season? I did.

I thought he was a no day burglar was actually on top of him I think first before anyone else was and obviously

days were the best of the business would come to value in players for NFL potential. But yeah I thought there was a chance. I thought there's a chance to change McCarthy could become a first

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