[RunKC]

Veach was on the MMQB pod. Very interesting that he thinks he’s a hybrid of John Dorsey and Chris Ballard. I never thought of that, but I can actually see that in Brett.

It’s funny because I think that I’m maybe a little bit of a hybrid of both of those.”

On Dorsey: “John is old school. I mean, he is tape, tape, tape, tape, tape. Watching all the tape. Just close the door in the draft room. Prior to coming to Kansas City, working with the Eagles... spring meetings were more of overview and intellectual debate over guys. When I got to Kansas City, it was my introduction to the 17 days with your scouts prior to the combine...every single scout, college and pro, is locked in a room, and you start watching tape at 5 a.m. and you’re watching the tape until 6, 7 o’clock at night for 17 straight days — like training camp for scouts. But John was wired in the old school — we’re just going to exhaust the tape... we’re going to exhaust the tape on every level, and we’re going to stick to certain principles in regard to — we’re not watching 5-9 corners or 5-8 corners. No. This is a big man’s game. Size wins, size matters. Tape... and we’re going to make our decisions primarily on tape.”

On Ballard: “Chris was wired the same way in regards to tape — Chris had little bit of more of an analytics mind to him...[Chris] wanted to talk about how analytics could play a role in this and discuss athletic scores. Chris was involved in a little bit more of a new age of football where we’re going to watch tape, but let’s go back and let’s review some of these guys. Maybe their tape wasn’t great, but these scores suggest they’re going to be really good.”

“Both guys were extremely hard workers and both guys I learned a ton from. John was a firm believer in, ‘If I don’t see it on tape, I’m really not going to be there.’ Chris was a little bit open-minded to bringing in guys from an analytics standpoint. But it was cool because both guys had a love and passion for the game that I certainly had and I got to see how they worked. Again, John — the amount of meeting time and the amount of time spent in the room watching tape was something that I was just a natural connection with, because that’s what I love to do and being in this environment where I got to — I loved those 16-day meetings.”