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This is the athletic football show.

Welcome to Prospects to Prospects to Pros, where we talk about the guys who are about to enter the NFL, the guys who just got

into the NFL, and everything in between.

I'm Andy Staples.

We have the athletics draft guru Dane Brugler here, but even more importantly than either

of us, we have one of the most important guys in the draft industrial complex.

Senior Bowl executive director Jim Naguette. Jim, how are we doing? I'm great. Andy, that's quite an intro, man. Thank you.

Oh, well, listen, you wield a lot of power. You're the one who introduces us to the guys

that sometimes we don't know a whole lot about and then after they spend a week with

you in mobile a lot of a lot of teams want to throw a lot of money at them yeah well we hope that's

the case we hope we hope so so what what has this been this year been like scout and i've

i love when you when you go and you've got eyes on the ground at various sites and you'll tag us every once in a while and I think you tagged me on an Osiris towards tweet. You're like, this is what a this is what an early round offensive lineman looks like. And I was like, wow, there haven't been many of those in Gainesville lately. So that's, that's pretty nice. Yeah, it's been it's been a fun year. I mean, we're really kind of wrapping up the scouting process. And you guys know, I mean, it's a year-round for you guys. Dana, I know how hard you work at it. So, you know, we started really like last February, a couple weeks after our game, kind of give the staff some time off, a couple weeks to recharge the batteries. And then we get right back at it. And then we had a lot of turnover in the offseason.

We had three scouting assistants move on and get jobs at the college level. And our DFO left

to get a job in the NFL. And we had four scouts off last year's area scout staff get jobs in

the NFL. So we're always restocking the deck

of scout. So just getting everyone back on board and out on the road is a process. But man,

it was a lot of fun. And the one layer that we kind of added to it this year, we've been doing

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