Welcome to the Rotow World Football Podcast. I'm Josh Norris. We always start the show by saying thank you to those of you who

rated and reviewed the podcast over the last week, so special shout out to Schlitt E who

loves how our guests break things down. Schllett E, so do we.

And that's why we have Matt Waldman on the show this week.

He puts out the rookie scouting portfolio each year before the NFL draft.

It was just published on April 1stst and it's a piece of content that I

absolutely highly recommend. All right professor Waldman to open before we get into

any specific player from this year.

I just want to get into your head a little bit on just what it's like,

the feeling is like when you finish such a monstrous undertaking like you do every

single year like when you finally hit that finish button what goes on through

your head? Man usually I'm just pretty exhausted and it sounds weird, but when you've been working on a long project for an intense amount of hours you actually need to kind of take some time and relax and you

but while you're doing that you feel like that you should be doing something. So you end up in

the situation where you're it's almost like you're going through this like work withdrawal

as if like you're a work addict you know. like work

atic, you know, and you have to work a hollic and you have to work a hollic and you have to kind of just work with, you know, kind of make yourself sit still and kind of get over that feeling like I

should be watching more tape right now I should be you know there's something that I

need to be doing so you know I would say that kind of happened probably within the first 48 hours, but I would say, you know, the immediately after, the next day after I went to sleep, took a nap for the first time and like, oh, I don't know, about a year and it was glorious.

So yeah, that's how it felt. I wasn't expecting to go here, but what I have always, not always, but realize in the last few years is the draft and this business that we're in is a bit different than a lot of other careers because there's basically like nothing tangible at the end.

Like, you know NFL teams at the end of this whole process they add players to their roster.

Like for us if we just start immediately again this summer looking at prospects for the next year,

you know? For you for is this like the tangible thing that you attach your work to obviously?

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