We got combine going on next week, what are the thoughts going into this time...
Yeah, man. So I'm super excited, you know NFL combine 2026. A lot of guys that, you know,
“everyone's going to be excited to see. I think the biggest thing is, you know,”
I'm looking at quarterbacks, right? Guys like Fernando Mendoza, you know, you can't, you're not going to have a bad combine. Who talked about it? Like, you know, quarterbacks
never have a bad pro day. You never have a bad combine, right? It's routes on airs. Be efficient.
But now it's who's going to be the risers of the combine? Who's going to stand out, stats wise? Who's going to run good times? You know, I do think it's super overrated, right? The 40 yard dash. You know, that's something we brought up. You know, guys who run a 4, 3 to 4, 4, right? It's quick, liquidy spit, right? It's quick time and that's the different sometimes and one of the drafts you at one of these higher picks. But I really, really do think
there's going to be some guys that rise and some guys that fall. So I think it's going to be interesting, exciting. All the NFL GMs and agents are meeting. So there's a lot of things are going to go on next week and, you know, I'm excited to see you don't come out. Wingo, what's your 40 time? So let's, uh, current danger, current danger. I actually think I think I'm faster than what I ran. I ended up running a 4, 7 at Pro Day. It was testing a little bit
“faster, but you know, that's what everybody says. Yeah. Yeah, everyone. The cool thing about the”
calm blind, that's what I ran around out to. That's crazy. Maybe it's for a chili dog.
The cool thing about the calm bond to me is always like, uh, like Wingo says,
why the most overrated weekend or week in the world, but it's also like, dude, these kids come in there and like go two rounds or down two rounds, based off one week of work. So it's like, isn't peckable for a lot of people, like like ponds. Everybody has the questions about a size or whatever, but he goes out there and runs a 4 or 3, jumps 44 inches. Now we're like, okay, we really don't give a shit that he's 5 10. Like the kid obviously is a freak. He's going
to be able to stack up with these guys. So always look forward more than anything. Not seeing the guys that you know are great, but seeing who's going to step up, uh, who's going to stand out and separate themselves and show those traits that, you know, escalate and throw them up the board. Yeah, I definitely want to talk such more on draft stuff, but Bobby made an interesting statement. Draft week is the most overrated week of all the weeks in the world combat. Yeah.
Yeah, well, well, well, draft the draft is the greatest week of the world. The combine is overrated. The draft electric. What did I say? Did I say draft? I said draft. I meant combine. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, combine is the most overrated week of the weeks. Now I'm curious, like what other weeks might be very overrated. Hmm. It doesn't have to be sports related overrated weeks.
Overrated weeks, uh, I don't know comments. Let us know if you guys got any, uh, overrated week or events, uh, let me try to come over something here. All right. Who's you got anything over there? Overrated weeks? I don't know. I still can. Listen, I'm, I'm a big tragedy. I'm a big birthday guy, but a lot of people aren't
“birthday people, so I'm sure they'll be like my birthdays overrated day. I think you know, no,”
no, that's never just a day. Yeah, that's not what there's on Wednesday. It's like,
you haven't dinner Wednesday. Yeah, that it's Thursday. We're going out Friday and then Saturday, they're going out together. It's like a whole week thing, so that's never, that's never just a day. Let me see. I'm Chad GBTing. Some of the, oh, our bezel, our bezel here in Miami. I could, I could get behind that being an overrated week. Uh, traffic's crazy. At least that's. Anything like that, there's like really not that great, but there's nothing else going on. So everybody
tries to flood into one area and just makes it miserable for everybody. Anything like that is overrated. Yes. I mean, I don't know if Chad GBT knows that. I'm in Miami, but everything is listed here is Miami. They're trying. They're trying. They're trying. They're all. All right, we're enough of that tangent. Um, right here. So I want to, I want to ask you guys a question, right? Uh, one of, one of the notes that we have here, um, like how important are interviews in this process. Obviously,
we talk about like the physical component and, you know, all the statistics, 40 are dash, a verb, you know, strength test, things like that, but how important are these interviews? Like seeing these guys, personalities and, and kind of how they are? Yes. So I would say interview processes, the number one important out of everything, right? When you look at college football, you got guys who can get away with, you know, not being a smart, not knowing the scheme because they built it up to be something around
that specific player. You can get away with playing against guys that are a little under your size. Let's say you see a SEC team playing a lower level team and, you know, at FBS and you never know. So I think the interview process is what separates everybody when you look at a guy who can go on the board and write both 22 players on both offense and defense and explain that and not just their positions, but other positions. So I think it's super important for these guys to be able not only
Just explain what they're doing it, but how they're doing it and why they're ...
the other obviously positions around them and then it just goes back to, you know, what type of
person are you? Are you confident in what you're saying? Do you understand what you're saying? And then it's just, you know, if you can, if you can teach something, you know it, right?
“And that's what everybody says and I think that interview process is the key factor when GMs and coaches”
look at some of these guys. You know, this is a guy I want to my team because not only is he can understand and digress the playbook, he's going to be able to teach others, which makes everyone around him better. So I think at the end of the day, if you're able to kill the interview process, you know, your draft stock is going to rise no matter what. Well, there's also like, I remember last year a big thing with Shidorah, right, was like that his interviews. I don't know how much truth there
is, but a big story point was that in his interviews, he didn't necessarily kill them or and honestly, some said that they went very poorly. Yeah. And clearly it, you know, could have had a massive effect on why he dropped as far as he did because he'd going into that. He was like supposed to go right after came over, you know, he goes through the whole process, come by, interviews and then he does have a drop. So it's got to do it. That is true.
Bobby, any time you, any time you, you know, you go through that process and you act like the team need you and they don't need them and then you get out of the compound and then you tell, you know, teams, I'm only meeting with this team or that team because I believe I'm a talk-free lock while I meet with this team. You know, it's going to rub people the wrong way. I think there's probably a lot more to it than we know. So I'm, you know, I'll leave it at that, but the compound's
interesting because it goes both ways. Like we can go said, you can have a kid behind a scheme and from the world so long. You put them in that room, you put a whiteboard in front of them and you tell him the draw cover to drop nickel. You tell them to do all these things. You can't hide from that no more. You're right there. We know what you know. We know what you don't know. It takes five seconds. Also, I like the little storylines that come out of the compound. Like we gave this guy a
playbook, told him to look at it and tell us what it was and we asked him about the last page and we had a $10 bill. He didn't see the $10 bill. So we know he didn't look at the playbook or like you'll hear like players like I remember Des Brian and that was the dolphins back in the day and they asked him if his mom was a prostitute or something and he was like, I don't want to be a dolphin. Now these guys are crazy. Like the hero cards are crazy stuff that comes from the
compound and I look forward to that stuff too. Yeah. I'll say another thing too is it's your first impression
right from the most part when you look at one thing that always I look back is Pete Carroll taking
his shirt off with DK Meck Apple. Yes. Like something like that like this guy like it has energies fired up right he's getting in there and and that just starts the meeting off great. So I think you know to have a good impression right to rub these coaches the right way and just you know understand
“that you know these guys are going to be obviously your coaches but you need to find a way to”
make them like you and and obviously doing something crazy can be negative or positive but hey I mean DK Meck Apple and Pete Carroll to take you shirt off I think was definitely something that fired him up to get him drafted. Yeah that's electric. Do you think there's teams that I guess have better processes right I feel like there's there's definitely pretty standard operating procedures when it comes to going through these processes with the draft but
are there teams that just do this better right when it comes to scouting when it comes to asking the right questions really getting to learn a lot about these guys right because you can watch all the tape in the world you could do all the things that pretty much every other team was but what do you think is that other teams that you know have been very successful like the Patriots you know now Seattle and you know long list of other teams that have done well in the draft
versus teams that for whatever reason just cannot figure out the draft well. Yeah so I'll tell you this look all every single 32 teams is different right there is an outline of what it's supposed to look like but every single organization does things slightly a different way right you
have those that have a group of people that you know make ultimately make the end decisions
right they go to the film breakdowns they go to the interviews they go you know what is 40 time all these different things then you have some organizations that go through that same process but one of the guys higher up the GM or head coach whoever might be like someone a little bit
“more just to draft them so I think that's what separates sometimes having a good draft you know”
and what you're doing is obviously upstairs the guys who are upstairs make in the ultimate decision you know is it just one or two specific guys or is that panel of people that are really putting all their inputs available to make the right decision. Yeah yeah yeah yeah I'm thinking back off go ahead no no go go go pick it back off of Wingo said I think that 80% of the work has already done if you're hoping to make a decision based on the combine like sure most of the work's already been
done all year you've watched these guys you've been you got all your scouts go on regional west coast east coast northeast central they're going all over the place you got a good board in place the combine is the make your decision so like your 80% made up like Wingo said now we go to the combine I love this dude even more maybe maybe Wingo agrees with me now after we meet him maybe I'm like you know what you write there's a red flags there I'm off and and I think that's mostly like
there were the 20% of the work comes in 80% of the work's probably already done you you know
They always say go back to the film if you're in doubt go to the tape you kno...
the tape so I think 80% of the situation's already established you just got to meet these guys and see if there's a bond there see if you could take each other shirts off and flags and you gummy bears you know that stuff matters but it's not at the end of the day the teams that
draft good are always going to they were already that was already decided long before the combine
I mean they've got the right people in place they're doing the work year around they got the right
“people in the building I mean that's just and honestly you can have a plan in place but it's got”
to go right right you have the same let's say you have the same layout for every meeting at the combine but Wingo walks in and he might hit you with a curve ball now this meeting is a totally different meeting so you can have the right stuff in place but you don't really know each player
is going to bring and how each conversation is going to go as long as we're not using PFF to ultimately
me that seems to be a a fan only thing right we feel like we're the smartest guys in the rooms when we read these PFFs every every single weekend want to rip every player that's not not highly ranked on that PFF but I mean how much weight does that even carry at all is there is
“their value to it yeah I think PFF has a lot of value because at the end of the day it shows how”
consistent you are right compared to other guys you know you see if you're playing a lower level team and then a high caliber team you know are you battle tested PFF can show you know how consistent you were throughout the entire season you know up ranked against you know different guys you know what was your strength of schedule who were you playing so I think it's definitely value but it's something that can also be skewed very well because if you know if you have someone who
let's say a quarterback for example throws for five six hundred yards a game and has some crazy game but then is consistently throwing for a hundred yards there averages is statistically going to be higher so those are things you got to look at but no PFF can be very useful and valuable but that definitely can't be the all say right so you're making your decision in the draft for sure yeah it'll
“be it'll be interesting week I think we'll have a lot of storylines that'll come out out of this week”
so excited uh it's a kind of keep this dialogue going next week and see who you know who one kind of
in the combine who didn't win in the combine because you always have those guys I feel like every year
