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I don't even know how to respond to all this.

New environment, new studio, no desk.

I'm like, should I have worn the gene? I don't even know what's going on here. But I do know it is a brand new edition of NFL Explain. We got the NFL draft, which is around the corner here. I know you were excited. Oh, yeah, by the way, Spruble Champ Michael Robinson. Mike, I'm with you. April 30th, 2006. That date should resonate for you. It should. It didn't until I read it a little bit of what was going on today about the show. And then I did not know that long ago. That's when I got drafted. It was April 30th. And you know what? I had a draft party too, Yam's. You did? I did. I thought, you know, so look,

let me tell you a little story.

Another network with four letters. I can't say that other network, but there's another four letter network, not the NFL network, but another network said, hey, Mike, we want to send some cameras to where you're going to be at for the draft. And in 2006, The first three rounds was on the first night. And then the second day was the next four rounds. And so I said, you know, I don't think I want a camera, man. Because what if I do not go where I think and all these teams are telling me I'm going to go. And everybody said, hey, Mike, you're going to be probably second, third round. That's like your ceiling. your floor is like, you bottom of the fourth or fifth and i'm like okay all right third round came around i had the pittsburg

steelers called me they said hey mike we got two picks in this round you're gonna be one of them

if the board falls the way we think it's gonna fall you're gonna're going to be one of them. I never forget, their first pick came up. I think they drafted at the time. It was a kick return specialist. I think his name was Willie Reed out of Florida State. We had just played Florida State in the Orange Bowl. That's why I resonated so much with me. Okay, so I knew exactly who the guy was. The second third round pick, I think was a quarterback maybe or something like that out of Bowling Green. I could be wrong about some of the players, but those two guys stood out of my mind. And I'm thinking, I didn't go in the third where they told me I would go and they picked two positions that I know how to play. I can return kicks and I can play quarterback. So I was a little upset on draft night, but it was all good. I ended up getting drafted. It ended up being, it worked out. So you just mentioned you got a phone call and I start to think about all the images when we watched the draft of guys getting the call. I always just kind of assumed once you got the call, then you knew, but you're telling me you got a call and it didn't play out that way. No, it didn't. Um, got the call. I always just kind of assumed once you got the call, then you knew, but you're telling me you got a call and it didn't play out that way.

No, it didn't. Got the call and Yam's, you got to understand, bro. I had just bought a 2007 because it was in 2006. So, you know, the next year is the one that comes out.

So I just bought a 2007 Chevy Tahoe, bro.

That's when they just changed the body styles.

So a little bit more aerial dynamic and yams. I'm telling you, bro. I drove it right off the car. Like I brought up to show one floor. They opened the big doors for me and I drove it off. I bought that truck the day before the first three rounds and I'm thinking, okay, I'm going. I'm going. I'm going to have had some money to pay for this and bro you when that third round ended and my name

wasn't called you can't get to the car and try to drive my dad I'm like yo I can't pay for

my car I'm going to get my car back I was so hurt I didn't really understand the business

of the national football league in that time but uh yeah I ended up going the next day

so it's all good so it is is all good. Typically speaking, though, that experience, because we always, even on NFL network on draft day, we're playing a lot of the videos of the guys actually getting the calls because the camera crews are obviously, uh, you know, in the team draft rooms. And then we have cameras around those players. Every time we get one of those,

see one of those calls, it's a guy, hey, how do you feel about being, you know, a New York giant or New York Jet or whatever the case may be? I didn't realize that those calls actually happen when it doesn't follow through. They call you, hey, say, hey, um, you know, we think about you, You know what I mean? We just want to get you ready.

And it just so happened from a television standpoint. you, hey, say, hey, um, you know, we think about you, you know what I mean? We just want to get you ready.

And it just so happened from a television standpoint.

What we see is what we're allowed to see.

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