Rewind: 2014 NFL Combine with Sam Monson - Remember That Game

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🗓️ 1 February 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Originally aired March 2024. Sam Monson (PFF NFL Show) and host Thomas Emerick trace the evolution of the pre-draft process from the 2014 NFL Combine. Will Aaron Donald check off those boxes? Is Mike Evans fast enough? And we re-run that year's draft, while extricating player-specific hindsight, to see if the Top 4 remains Jadeveon Clowney-Greg Robinson-Blake-Bortles-Sammy Watkins — holding off the ensuing parade of hits in this first round. This is Remember That Game, the podcast about sporting events that take you on a journey and chart the path of the zeitgeist. I'm your host Thomas Emerick, enjoy the show. Follow Remember That Game for the full archive: Apple Spotify YouTube "Remember That Game" in search wherever you get your podcasts More from Sam Monson: Author Archive at Pro Football Focus (PFF) PFF NFL Show (YouTube) 2024 NFL Draft: Why Florida State's Keon Coleman will be one of the most polarizing WR prospects (PFF) PFF 101: The top 101 players from the 2023 NFL season (PFF) More on the 2014 NFL Combine: RotoViz Prospect Workout Explorer (RotoViz) Pittsburgh’s Aaron Donald Was Your Combine MVP (Football Perspective) Aaron Donald Combine Highlights (NFL on YouTube) Mike Evans Combine Highlights (NFL on YouTube) 2014 NFL Draft First Round (NFL Throwback on YouTube) HOST RotoViz Contributor Thomas Emerick (@ThomasEmerick) Guest PFF Lead NFL Analyst and PFF NFL Show co-host Sam Monson (@PFF_Sam) SPONSORS BetterHelp - This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/ROTOVIZ and get on your way to being your best self. Gametime - Download the Gametime app, create an account, and use code ROTOVIZ for $20 off your first purchase. Underdog Fantasy – Get a 100% deposit match on your first deposit up to $100 when you sign up at Underdogfantasy.com using this link or the promo code ROTOVIZ. Listeners of RotoViz Radio can save 10% on a one-year RotoViz subscription by visiting RotoViz.com/podcast or by using the promotional code "rvradio2025" at the time of purchase. SHOW NOTES RotoViz Radio provides the power for Remember That Game: Subscribe to the RotoViz Radio on YouTube Follow and direct message: @ThomasEmerick Email: emericktc@gmail.com Subscribe: Remember That Game on YouTube Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	everybody associates 40 times with being a deep threat, right?
0:04.0	But Mike Evans has been one of the best deep threats in the NFL for his entire career
0:07.7	for a guy that hasn't ever, you know, had blazing straight line speed.
0:12.5	There are plenty of receivers in the NFL faster than Mike Evans, but he's got size.
0:16.5	He's got the ability to run and open up with that long stride and still take the top off any
0:21.9	defense in the NFL.
0:26.9	It's February 2014 at the NFL Combine.
0:30.8	This is Remember That Game, the podcast about sporting events that take you on a journey
0:34.7	and maybe chart the path of the zeitgeist.
0:38.2	I'm your host Thomas Emerick and my guest is Sam Monson, lead NFL analyst at Pro Football Focus and co-host of the
0:44.1	PFF NFL show. Sam, I know you recently got back from the combine in Indianapolis. What strikes
0:50.5	you most when thinking about the conventional wisdom at the 14 combine and how it's changed from 10 years ago?
0:57.8	Yeah, I mean, it's evolved and it's become a kind of different event from what it was 10 years ago.
1:03.0	Certainly, the combine has now, I think, become almost a couple of different events in one.
1:10.9	It's always been a little bit like that, but it was in a much shorter time scale.
1:16.2	You know, there's the team behind the scenes element of the combine, which is a big part of it
1:21.8	and tends to happen earlier in the week.
1:23.6	And then there's obviously the thing that everybody knows the combine for, the workouts and the media stuff, but all that kind of thing. And that happens later in the week. And then there's obviously the thing that everybody knows the combine for, the workouts and
1:28.1	the media stuff, but all that kind of thing. And that happens later in the week. So for PFF,
1:33.4	it's always been we got there early because the combine is where we have our basic feedback
1:40.9	sessions from all 32 teams that are now team customers. So we have a whole collection of guys that are set up at the JW Marriott there, which is one of the big hotels where half the people in India are staying with a kind of conference room there. And it's just a constant revolving door of meetings for all 32 NFL teams. You know, what did you like? What didn't you like?
2:01.4	What would you like to see at it?
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