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“I kind of look at it both ways. I think there is some benefit because all I am doing is taking what I see on film, which is how the game’s played,” Milanovich said from his Florida home. “You’re not reading too much into a 40 (yard sprint) time or some drill that they did when you can see, ‘Hey, these guys can play football.’ So that part of it is probably a benefit.

“Now, I do like the interview process, so I miss out on that. Just kind of getting to know a guy and see if you can push their buttons a little bit and seeing what kind of charisma they have. So that part of it I miss. But once again, everybody is in the same boat so you just do what you can, find as much background as you can and talk to people you trust and make an informed decision.”

The danger, of course, is having talent get overlooked in an ultra-competitive field where it is difficult enough for a player to get himself noticed at the best of times.

“That’s the thing, it’s going to hurt guys, I’m guessing. Guys like Jermaine Gabriel. We found him from the Calgary Colts when I was in Toronto,” Milanovich said. “He tested really well somewhere, that’s what I remember about Jermaine, and we kind of fell in love with him and ended up with him. So a guy that maybe is flying under the radar that has the ability to test well but people don’t know about, I could see where that might hurt a guy like that.”

The same doesn’t hold true at the top end of the prospects list.

“Now, like your lineman from down the street from you,” Milanovich said of high-ranked University of Alberta Golden Bears left tackle Carter O’Donnell, who just signed as an undrafted free agent with the NFL’s Indianapolis Colts, “that guy’s a well-known commodity. So there’s going to be those guys who are already well known and I doubt it’s going to bother them that much.

“It’s kind of the guys that are flying below the radar, I think, that it may hurt.”

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