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You know one of the things I love about the NFL

Join our talk about there's a lot of young NBA coaches. I really like they're very clever. There's a lot of young general managers in the NFL

And these guys will make deals you know the old days the old NFL general managers. Here's your roster your standing pat the NFL's become very NBA like

You got a lot of young early 40 year old GM's I talked and texted many of them their deal makers and

Brett Veech fourth years only 42 years old and he's frankly he's got his Hall of Fame coach. He's got a Hall of Fame quarterback talent

If you can get that you just make everything else work and he is joining us

42 years old, which is really young to own the world

He is joining us via the Coward Global Sandlight Network. So let's go back to the very I want you to tell me a story

So you're out there and you get a piece of video

And there's this Patrick Maholmes kid on it in college

And you know, it's the big 12. There's probably it's probably 58 to 57 like all those big 12 games

Give me the moment you first saw him Brett and your first reaction to Patrick Maholmes as a college prospect

Well really calling it was it was an SEC game. I remember watching the bowl game

I guess the sophomore year where they played LSU and you know that the kid was was certainly under matched and he single handedly kept

His Texas Texas team in the game and and you know, the kid just went up and down the field made plays and and we're seeing him do the same thing on the NFL level

So then all of a sudden you start comprising scouts

And then you got to go to Andy Reed who knows a thing or two about football you've been with him since Philadelphia

And take me to your first conversation to Andy Reed about this kid named Patrick Maholmes from the big 12

Well as

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