This is Jerry Jones, and you're listening to Roster Watch. The

The The Ladies and gentlemen, Roster Watch Nation, welcome back to the epic Roster Watch podcast, brought to you by roster watch.com.

My name is Alex Dunlap here for a very special edition of the pod with one of the great friends of roster watch, an OG roster watch family.

His name is Mike Band.

You can find him on Twitter at M Band NFL.

You can find his content over at next gen stats, NFL.com. He's got some

awesome articles up right now. You should not miss his can't miss prospects and his high

risk prospects based on their analytic profiles. Mike has a background in scouting where he was

Mike, why don't you tell him about your background? Because I don't know what I'm allowed to say when I'm not it it used to all be such a secret

yeah yeah it's good to be back with you I remember we met years ago back on the the senior

bowl and combine circuit a decade ago it's a decade ago. It's incredible how far.

You were fresh out of, you were fresh out of undergrad.

Fresh out of undergrad right before I joined the Viking scouting department.

And God, remember those days, made up at the combine every year, having a drink at Highline or whatever that bar was.

It's just, you know, it was a good time to always connect with you guys.

And, you know, especially now this time of year, it's the week of.

It's draft week.

This is a guy friend Michael Yeager, man, in the chat saying to let you out of your underground cell.

That's where that's we talked we used to

we used to talk to those viking scouts at pro days and we'd be like what are you guys doing with

mike ban man go easy on me they're like no man we just we just stick him down underground and

haven't pound out these scouting reports for us but yeah got a bunch of great education there

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