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Welcome back to another edition of the Around the NFL podcast.

Presented by Head and Shoulders.

My name is Dan Hansis and I am joined by a room filled with some heroes.

Mark Sassler to my left and Greg Rosenthal, to my right.

Gentlemen, this is the Week 3 flagship edition of the podcast.

Are you excited?

Of course we're excited.

What other emotion would be, would be, you know, permissible at this point. Permissible? That's fair. Must be excited about pro football at all time. I mean, it was a very memorable day, not just because of, you know, the off-the-field stuff, which we're going to talk about soon, but this was by far the best day of football all season. There were great games. Not much to compare to, but it absolutely was twice as good as any other week so far. The Thursday night game was great. And then at the end of the early games, I was standing up at my desk with three TVs around me. All games hanging in the balance, a lot of fun. of this is a good week i'd say literally the like

the five best games of the year were this week rams 49ers the falcons lions giants eagles was a

lot of fun patriots Texans and desperately need it and it's interesting that this this great

week of action uh finally hit and this morning before kick, the NFL was the biggest story in the country,

but it had nothing to do with the games that were going to be played.

It was about the president, Donald Trump.

And let's hit this before we get into the games because it is such a massive story

that the president of the United States is essentially taking on the NFL.

And at a rally in Huntsville, Alabama on Friday night, Trump urged team owners to cut players

who kneel during the national anthem actually using, which I would say this would go down

in infamy for Trump, but there's so many of these things. You lose track what actually is going to stick.

But he said, get that son of a bit off the field in reference to players that didn't kneel.

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