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The Around the NFL podcast.

Quit the small talk.

Indeed, quit it.

Don't eat it.

Don't want it.

Welcome to another edition of the Around the NFL podcast.

My name is Dan Hansis.

Come to you from a virtual room filled with some heroes, Mark Sessler, Greg Rosenthal.

We are T-minus seven days away from the 2021 NFL draft.

Greg, you a little bit of a sneaky humble brag right before we started,

mentioned that every year you like to do a hardcore cram sesh, just chewing up tape, like a true

tape dog. I, on the other hand, like to go the route of just see whoever's mock drafts I

respect and then base my analysis on where those guys put certain

players. And then once the NFL starts, then I can plug in in a real way. There's no way to fake it.

I mean, but I respect that you do it, Greg. But it's kind of like in school cramming for a chemistry

final that if you didn't pay attention all year, you're not really going to be able to soak in the information in a way that makes you successful.

Yay or nay?

Yay, because the difference between someone faking it and not is, yeah, almost indistinguishable.

Most of the people talking about the draft are faking it.

But it does, it gives you like a little bit of fire beneath your Joe Mixen tape.

For instance, I remember I watched Joe Mickens.

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