Welcome to the FMIA Mini Pod, my shorter podcast of the week.

My shorter podcast of the week. This is the preview podcast into the NFL scouting combine. I'm recording it Sunday night at my home in Brooklyn about 11.30 PM. We're trying to

get the column up a little bit early this evening and I'm trying to get to bed at a

reasonable hour this evening.

So let me tell you a little bit of what I got in the column this week

and a little bit of what this week is going to be like. I'll read you the very top of my column.

Too much happening for the last week of February. The new look primetime scouting combine kicks off in Indianapolis.

Will Joe throw? I won't be surprised if Mr Burrow doesn't.

While interview rooms are full of prime college quarterbacks and receivers,

and while most NFL coaches and GMs meet the press on Tuesday.

32 NFL player reps and union officials will be in

CBA study slash haggling mode.

The NFL players association will be in Indianapolis to meet with

NFL owners. There could be a 10-year deal struck or the deal could blow up or

something in between. The competition committee begins

meeting in Indianapolis this week actually they began meeting on Sunday

evening in 10 on trying to salvage the past interference review rule that was a train wreck in 2019.

I'm going to tell you how I think it can be salvaged.

Tom Brady, a veteran of 20 NFL seasons, nine Super Bowls,

and one month being a free man will be hundreds or maybe thousands of miles away from Indiana, but Brady

rumors will nip at the fringe of a big newsweek with his ability to hit the market just 23 days away.

So we'll start with real football or what passes forward in the hallways of the Indiana

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