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Secrets, Rumors, and Takeaways From the NFL Combine | The Ringer NFL Show (Ep. 241)

The Ringer NFL Show

The Ringer

Sports

4.04.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2018

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

The Ringer's Robert Mays and Kevin Clark team up in Indianapolis to discuss the dirty little secret of the NFL combine (02:00), what they most anticipated heading into it (05:00), rumor-mongering from scouts (09:00), the draft value of Saquon Barkley (14:30), Jon Gruden's comments regarding data (25:15), the new confidence of the 49ers (33:15), the brash remarks regarding the QB situation in Minnesota from Mike Zimmer (40:15), and the upcoming on-field workouts for the quarterbacks (48:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey guys, Robert Mates here.

0:02.2

On today's Ringer NFL show, we talk about what we're looking for and have already learned

0:06.2

at this year's NFL Combine.

0:08.1

As always, we're brought to you by the Ringer Podcast Network where you can hear a ton

0:11.9

of great Oscars conversations right now, including Sean Fennesy and Wesley Morris revisiting

0:16.8

the 2013 Oscar race on the Bill Simmons podcast and Miss Sean and Wesley talking about movies

0:22.4

together.

0:23.4

It's always a blast.

0:24.4

Also, please go to theringer.com, check out the piece our good friend, Danny Kelly wrote

0:29.1

about some of the prospects that could wow us at this week's Combine.

0:32.7

That's a fun one and should get you ready for all the testing here over the next few days.

0:36.3

Alright, with that, let's get to the show.

0:39.1

Welcome to the Ringer NFL show.

0:46.4

Part of the Ringer Podcast Network, I'm Robert Mates, joined as always by Kevin Clark.

0:51.4

Kevin, you're sitting three feet away from me, hotel room, Indianapolis.

0:55.2

There's a piece of furniture between us.

0:56.8

Yeah, there's like a weird ottoman, two ottomans, a dual ottoman.

1:01.1

They're not that weird.

1:02.5

It's a strange color orange.

1:05.6

Yeah.

1:06.6

And I don't know whether or two, maybe for each person on this weird couch, I don't know

1:11.2

what to tell you.

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