This is the athletic football show.

Welcome to the athletic football show.

Today's Monday, April 18th.

I'm Robert Mays.

Joining me today, the athletic zone.

DeAte Lee. Deante, how you doing, man? Feeling good. Feeling good. It sounds better the second time.

Listen, now it's, now you're here. Now it's real. It's not novel anymore. You are around. You

are an employee. You're writing all the time. How's your first couple weeks been? It's been great. It's been great. Obviously, you know, stepping in, having a piece like comparing the Eddrushers, A, I walk in knowing that it's probably going to perform well and then you get the dopamine hit of, you know, all the retweets in the comments and all that. So that was nice. And then just kind of spreading my wings into other things. You know, i was telling some of the other guys that worked up the company that invited me on to their podcast that i've sounded like a free agent you know going on like radio going on all the radio tour i'm like oh man i'm just glad to be a part of the team trying to provide a spark some energy you know be a part of the culture, all of those good things.

So it's been a lot of fun, man. It's been a lot of fun to kind of hit the ground running, especially what I'm working on, given the time of year that we're in. I was able to kind of hit the ground sprinting in a lot of ways. So it's been a lot of fun for me. It's an exciting time. We got a couple weeks until the draft.

Just so people know, we are doing a live draft show in Las Vegas this year.

Me, Nate, and Dane. We got a couple weeks until the draft. Just so people know, we are doing a live draft show in Las Vegas this year.

Me, Nate, and Dane are going to be live the entire two nights, rounds one and rounds two and three on Thursday and Friday.

We're going to have a podcast for rounds four and seven, but just going to come out in the feed like it typically would.

As part of that live

coverage, which you guys can watch on YouTube, on Twitter, wherever you'd watch our typical

live Sunday podcasts, you are also going to hop in during those two nights, talk about some of

your favorite guys when they get drafted, what you think of the fits. So we're very excited about

that, but just want to continue putting that on people's radars here as often as possible over the next two weeks as we get ready for the draft. A little bit later in the show, we're going to play a little game with the pass rushers. Nate brought this up when we're talking about receivers, the way to think about prospects, the idea of star, starter, bench, or bust. And we're going to do that with this year's pass rush group, the top seven players

at that position.

Before we do that, though, I wanted to have a conversation about linebackers.

And not just the linebackers in this draft specifically, but about the position in general.

Because so much oxygen has been spent and so much ink has been

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