So I want to cut right to the chase here because this second episode that we're bringing you this week, our second encore presentation, while we're all off scattered across the planet, trying to not podcast for a week.

It's one of my all time favorites. It is an episode we did before the NFL drafts. It's an episode that I think is actually even more resident right now, as you begin to notice all of these new faces, all of these new names, all these new bodies that are comprising NFL rosters.

And it's an episode that we did with our guide Dave Fleming, who noticed that scouts happen to be obsessed with one big feature.

What it came to evaluating future pro football players. And ever since we have been obsessed to, so it is Tuesday, August 23rd, and this is ESPN Daily.

So in the interest of full journalistic transparency, I do want to explain how all of this happened.

I was grounding around for ways to cover the NFL draft this week. And so naturally, I googled Dave Fleming, your man with a particular set of skills.

Plus NFL draft, which is how I discovered, Fleb, that you once wrote and reported an entire story exhaustively about butts.

Honestly, I can just retire now because this is the highlight of my career.

So where does the glute gossip happen, Fleb? How does the butt figure into the story of the NFL draft?

This is one of the all time classics as far as like story generation story idea generation.

This is like a decade ago. I am in the darkened hall where they do the weigh-ins for the senior pool.

The players come out on stage, they get weighed, they get measured, and the scouts are all in attendance.

And I'm sitting amongst them each time a prospect specifically like interior alignment, especially.

They would come out on the stage, I could hear in the dark scouts around me holding up handheld recorders and whispering into them stuff like,

oh my god, look at his haunches. Oh beautiful bubble butt. Oh my god, this guy is stacked in the back. This is a five star.

Fleb, Fleb, Fleb, that is the creepiest thing we've ever aired on this podcast.

Well here's the thing, I dialed it down 40% for you. It was 40% more creepy. That's how I was like, what? I cannot believe I'm hearing this.

And that's how the whole investigation into this part of the draft and the part of athletics. That's how it started.

Once in a while you get glimpses into how scouts and football teams think.

And when you get normally the cramudgingly old school scout and you ask them about a prospect's butt,

they turn into just chatty, cathes, slash, surmix a lot.

Look at that big bubble butt. That's a power generator. Those that thighs, quads, and the bubble butt, offensive lineman love that.

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