On today's episode of the Seahawkers podcast, we're going back in time a couple of days to a conversation I had with E.J. Snyder of bootleg football. We had a chance to sit down. This was right after the DK Metcalfe trade. So this conversation happened before the Gino trade, before the D.K. trade, and before we got word that Ernest Jones and Jaron Reed were resigning

with the Seahawks. So as we talk about the draft, there may be some things that are a little

bit outdated, but I wanted to go back, bring you this conversation with E.J. I hope you enjoy it.

Hello and welcome to the Sea Hawkers podcast.

I'm your host, Brandon Schultz, and today we are talking NFL draft.

We're talking NFL Combine, and we are doing it with a good buddy of mine from bootleg football.

You can follow him out on X at football E.J.

He is E.J. Snyder.

How you doing, man?

I'm good. I'm recovering.

You know, turns out all I had to do is come home and go to sleep and Ryan Poles would fix the Bears offensive line.

So if I'd known, I would have gone to the

Combine three years ago and, and, you know, starved myself for sleep and come home and it magically

would have happened. But no, recovering nine days in Indy is a very long time. Learned a lot,

heard a lot, saw a lot. But I'm happy to be back in the Northwest and sleeping. Sleeping is a hell

of a drug. So are you saying that maybe if I had gone to the combine instead of you, that maybe

the Seahawks make that deal for Joe Tooney and give up a fifth next year to help fix their

guard problem that they've had consistently.

So this is on me?

You're putting this on me that I, it was me that didn't fix the Seahawks offensive line.

I'm not going to go that far, but I have had certain other Seahawks fans, whom you know,

reaching out and saying,

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