The 2025-26 debut of Building the Beast with Dane Brugler
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
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🗓️ 18 August 2025
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
Dane Brugler is back on The Athletic Football Show year-round. Every week through the draft, Dane and Dave Helman will bring you Building the Beast, giving you a week-by-week look at how The Beast comes together. In this debut episode, Dane explains the process of building his initial top 50, and then he and Dave go through the top draft prospects and five key positions. They wrap things up with prospects to watch in Week 0 and Week 1 of the college football season.
Hosts: Dave Helman and Dane Brugler
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:00.0 | Two Titans of Silicon Valley, one prize, dominance in the world of artificial intelligence. |
| 0:07.0 | Supremacy is the real story behind the struggle to own our digital future and potentially the very nature of human experience. |
| 0:16.0 | Supremacy by Parmy Olson, described as a riveting tale by the new scientist, winner of the Financial |
| 0:22.6 | Times Business Book of the Year, and now the Waterstone's nonfiction book of the month. |
| 0:27.5 | Listen to the audiobook of Supremacy Now. |
| 0:35.4 | Welcome to the debut episode of what we are calling Building the Beast. |
| 0:40.9 | I am Dave Hellman, and when Robert brought me on to the athletic football show, we talked about this. |
| 0:46.1 | It is here. |
| 0:47.0 | We have not forsaken you, NFL draft fans. |
| 0:50.4 | We are back with an in-season NFL draft podcast. We are here to help you build the Beast. |
| 0:57.5 | Dane Bruegler's annual draft guide, our Bible, my Bible, at least. I use it religiously. |
| 1:03.5 | I have for about 10 years at this point. But what is the process of building that look like? |
| 1:08.4 | How does it start in the summer and how do we put it together as we |
| 1:12.5 | inch toward the 2026 NFL draft in Pittsburgh? That is the purpose of this show. We're going to |
| 1:18.5 | dive into everything, the major storylines, the quarterbacks, and on down the line. Every single |
| 1:24.4 | position, as many prospects as humanly possible. We're going to be with you |
| 1:27.9 | throughout the football season, Dane Bruegler and myself talking prospects, talking draft. We are |
| 1:34.4 | back and I am really looking forward to it. So enough with the intro. Let's jump into it with me |
| 1:40.1 | and Dane Bruegler, building the beast. |
| 1:55.3 | If you're listening to a draft podcast in August, let's be real, you probably don't need an introduction for my co-host. |
| 1:57.2 | But I'm going to go ahead and give him one anyway. |
| 2:03.8 | He is the lead draft writer at the athletic, long time draft analyst, good friend of mine, expert barbecue pit master, Dan Bruegler, my guy, what is going on, man? |
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