Why the NFL Draft Will Be Totally Different With Todd McShay, Plus: Seth Curry From the Dallas Mavericks

The Ryen Russillo Podcast

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🗓️ 18 August 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Russillo reacts to the start of the NBA playoffs, including Magic-Bucks, Celtics-76ers, Clippers-Mavericks, and more (1:32) before he is joined by ESPN's Todd McShay to discuss the uncertainty surrounding college football, the multiple reasons athletes might opt out, how the pandemic has affected NFL scouting, a potential solution for NFL teams looking to gather more information on 2021 draft prospects, and more (11:00). Then Ryen talks with Dallas Mavericks guard Seth Curry about being in the Orlando bubble, the Mavericks' playoff expectations, his basketball journey, and more (32:47). Finally Russillo answers some listener-submitted Life Advice questions (55:05). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's actually we're starting a podcast without mentioning
0:12.9	State Farm, but we're going to see them back in September.
0:15.4	So there you go.
0:16.9	That was a weird run because you didn't always have those unexpected outcomes because we had
0:20.0	no outcomes for a really long time.
0:22.1	But we've got basketball, we've got playoff basketball, day two of it, little later released
0:26.1	today because we have a good plan.
0:27.5	Seth Curry who we take with prior to their game on loss against the Clippers.
0:32.4	He joins us from the maps in the bubble and Todd McShay, who has a really interesting
0:36.8	piece out on ESPN where just the the the unintended, I don't even know if it's unintended, but
0:43.2	the things that could be happening could be in play for the NFL draft.
0:46.6	He has half of his first round that it was projected that he doesn't think is going
0:49.9	to play any games.
0:50.9	And then he even has some ideas on what you could possibly do to try to get this.
0:56.6	I don't know, taper or just any kind of showcase to have these guys out there.
1:00.4	But good luck with that.
1:01.4	The NBA has only asked really good players to play one on one or two and two in team facility
1:06.9	workouts and no one ever does that stuff.
1:09.0	So I don't know if it'll happen.
1:11.0	I don't know if the football mentality will kick in on that one.
1:13.1	So we got McShay, we got Seth Curry, we'll do a little life advice.
1:15.8	This one's a little bit more lighthearted at the end.
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