The NFL Draft
NFL: Move the Sticks with Daniel Jeremiah & Bucky Brooks
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🗓️ 12 April 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
The NFL heads to Las Vegas April 28-30 to set the stage for the 2022 season with the NFL Draft! On this episode of the NFL explained. podcast, Aditi and Mike give you the history of the draft from its freewheeling beginnings, to the calculated mega-event that it is today! Learn about milestones in draft history such as the ‘secret’ draft year, College Football factories that dominate the drat boards, why having top draft picks doesn’t always equate to success on the field and more!
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.5 | NFL Explained is a production of the NFL in partnership with IHeart Radio. |
| 0:15.1 | Hey, everyone, we're just a couple weeks away from one of the biggest events on the NFL |
| 0:19.2 | calendar, and no doubt a day a number of |
| 0:21.5 | young players are going to remember for the rest of their lives. Of course, I'm talking about the |
| 0:25.9 | NFL draft where stars from college will have a chance to embrace the commissioner with probably |
| 0:30.9 | a little more force than it is appreciated in front of millions of fans. It is the NFL Explained |
| 0:35.5 | podcast, the NFL draft. |
| 0:38.3 | I'm like I am. |
| 0:39.6 | Hey, Adi Kinkabwala. |
| 0:41.3 | Good morning, Mike. I'm laughing, thinking about intricate handshakes and bear hugs and the commissioner |
| 0:46.6 | being picked up on stage by one especially excited drafty. |
| 0:52.1 | Are you a bear hug person? |
| 0:53.9 | I feel like in that moment, I totally would be. Would you not? No, you got to, to me, I'd be a bear hug person. You kidding me, my life just changed. It's all the hard work, my entire life dedicating myself to trying to be the best I can be. And then it comes to fruition I get drafted by an NFL team. Yeah, I'm bear hug. I'm bear hug all the way. Would you be tears or just big smile? There might be. I'll embrace it. I'm, I can be that kind of guy. So yeah, there might be a tear or two shed. Tears of joy. Well, you know what? It's the raw emotion that is part of why the draft has exploded. It takes up a primetime TV slot. There's a red carpet now for players |
| 1:30.0 | and their moms sometimes. And it's changed venues in recent years. We are going to get to that |
| 1:37.6 | because it is one of my favorite parts of the draft coming up this year, the giant grown-up |
| 1:43.4 | playground that is Las Vegas. But to see just how |
| 1:47.1 | far we've come, Mike, we really should take our listeners back to a time when there was actually |
| 1:52.4 | no film to watch on potential prospects. And there were no mock drafts. There was no scouting |
| 1:58.1 | combine, none of that. And then there's actually, you know what, Mike, |
| 2:02.6 | before the draft, there was the pre-draft years. The pre-draft years, the bears, the Packers, |
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