Prospects to Pros: How teams prepare for the NFL Combine
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🗓️ 22 February 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
The countdown to the combine is on! Andy Staples, Dane Brugler and NFL.com analyst Lance Zierlein get you ready by discussing how team’s prepare for the important week scouting prospects. They talk about the questions team’s are looking to have answered, the medicals and much more.
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1:15 Should the Bears trade Justin Fields and draft Bryce Young?
5:35 Potential QB movement this offseason & impact on the draft
13:31 What are teams doing the week before the combine?
25:27 Medical checks at the combine
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| 0:48.2 | Welcome to Prospects to Prospects to Pros, the show that talks about the guys that just got drafted in the NFL. the guys that are about to get drafted in the NFL, everything in between. |
| 0:58.2 | This is the athletic football show feed. |
| 1:00.4 | You're used to a very relaxing intro, you know, especially when it's a Robert Mays show, it's a very kind of smooth jazz deal. |
| 1:08.5 | But we're going to ratchet up the intensity today. |
| 1:11.4 | We are going morning debate show on prospects to pros because I've been doing a little |
| 1:18.5 | market research. |
| 1:20.0 | So every day I go into the gym and they have ESPN on the TV with the sound off, of course. |
| 1:27.8 | And we're listening to the GZ. |
| 1:29.5 | Lance, we've been listening to a lot of Houston stuff, a lot of slim thug, a lot of |
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| 1:32.8 | Nice. |
| 1:33.6 | And so we don't know what anybody's actually saying, but I see the questions that |
| 1:38.1 | they're asking on the debate shows. |
| 1:39.9 | And the last two days, the question has been this. |
| 1:43.8 | Should the Bears trade Justin Fields and draft Bryce Young? |
| 1:47.7 | Same question. |
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