Post-Senior Bowl breakdown with Jim Nagy
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🗓️ 3 February 2021
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Executive Director of the Reese's Senior Bowl Jim Nagy joins Andy as the two discuss Senior Bowl practices and Saturday's game (1:15). Nagy shares how he and his team managed the number of Covid-19 cases during the week. He also discusses the importance of players being seen in front of scouts and talent evaluators. Who was Nagy's favorite player at the Senior Bowl? *cough* Quinn Meinerz *cough* (4:45). How did Mac Jones fair during the week, and which of his skills stood out to coaches (12:00)? How were participants put in the best situation to succeed by Nagy and other personnel, and how were their skills assessed? (15:45)? Who should we be on the lookout for in 2022, and which player(s) stand to gain the most from their bowl appearance (19:45)?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Andy Staples Show. |
| 0:11.6 | It is National Signing Day, but not really national signing day. |
| 0:17.2 | Since they instituted the early signing period four years ago, this is not the national holiday at once was. This is where a few prospects who are very highly rated, who just wanted to wait |
| 0:28.1 | and sign, sign. And then some stragglers for various other reasons did not sign in December. |
| 0:34.5 | They signed too, but it's not nearly the Christmas day. Every coach comes in and |
| 0:39.4 | talks about how they filled all their needs, and then we find out over the next three to four years |
| 0:43.2 | that most of them did not. We don't have that anymore. So we're going to take a little bit |
| 0:48.0 | different direction on this national signing day. We're going to go out of college and toward |
| 0:52.1 | the NFL. We're going to have our post-senior bowl breakdown with the |
| 0:56.9 | director of the senior bowl, Jim Nagy. Really interesting conversation. There were some really good |
| 1:02.4 | players in the senior bowl this year, and in fact, this year could be very different for these |
| 1:06.3 | players, and playing in the senior bowl could have been a huge advantage because there's no |
| 1:09.8 | combine. We don't know what the pro days are going to look like. |
| 1:12.6 | So pretty big deal for these guys who are playing. |
| 1:16.5 | And Jim Nagy will explain to you why it's just as important for the quarterback of the |
| 1:20.8 | national champions as it is for the D3 guy who needs to prove he can play with these dudes. |
| 1:27.1 | Here's me and Jim Nagy. |
| 1:28.4 | So how's everything going? |
| 1:29.8 | It's great, man. |
| 1:31.6 | This is always a great week to be done. |
| 1:34.1 | I was going to say, this is the victory lap, right? |
| 1:37.2 | Yeah. |
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