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🗓️ 10 April 2025
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0:00.0 | We are two weeks from the NFL draft. |
0:18.3 | That's pretty exciting. |
0:19.8 | Two weeks from today, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. |
0:22.8 | It's a fun few days. It certainly is. This is the Eagle Eye podcast presented by Nissan, Ruben Frank, |
0:28.2 | and Dave Zengaro. Rub, do you still get amazed that the draft is like as big a deal as it is? |
0:33.8 | Yeah, and I've probably told the story about the first draft I covered. We were in a basement room at the vet. |
0:41.3 | There was maybe, you know, 20 people there. |
0:43.2 | We had a giant board where an employee of the Eagles would write the picks on a, like in Sharpie on a giant piece of paper. |
0:54.1 | And just one through, wasn't 32 teams back |
0:57.1 | then, I don't know, 20, 28, 29 teams. |
1:00.1 | And, you know, there was no coverage. |
1:03.7 | There's no live coverage of it. |
1:05.6 | So you had like, you would have a, there was no internet yet. |
1:08.9 | So you'd have a stack of draft guides. |
1:10.7 | You'd have your, your Kiper, you'd have your Joel Bushbaum, pro football weekly guide. |
1:15.5 | You'd have your R-Lads guide and maybe a couple others. |
1:19.1 | You'd have like five guys. |
1:20.2 | I remember that first year in 88, it was the year the Eagles took Keith Jackson in first round. |
1:25.0 | Peter King shows up and he's got a's got a printer, a fax machine |
1:30.2 | and like a box of printer paper and he just he sets up and just like, you know, things have |
1:38.5 | certainly changed. And there were just weren't that many people covering it back then. It wasn't, |
1:43.0 | it wasn't a huge deal and they did |
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