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Welcome to another edition of the Around the NFL podcast.

My name is Dan Hansis.

I come to you from a virtual room filled with some heroes.

Greg Rosenthal, Mark Sessler, and boys, we finally have reached the end of the yellow brick road.

Week 17.

I'm just hoping to stay relevant into next week.

Nothing is promised, Dan. But it does feel nice to get, you know, to the end of the regular season and get to the new year. It's going to cheer up the Sessler household, I know. Well, you know, I mean, it's, I think, look it, I think this year especially, aren't there a couple NFL teams that probably have that NBA bubble desire to escape all this and go off into the wilderness. We're ready to say

goodbye to some, but there's a whole bunch of intrigue, too. I'm not trying, I think that, listen,

this year's week 17 is packed with more enticing avenues and corners than I can remember in a long

time, and I'm a little bit nervous about what's going to happen. I was like, I don't know, for some reason, I was really hanging on every word from Mark there. I was figuring out I was going to land that sentence. You know, this is a celebration. It's kind of like it's Sessler Day in a lot of ways, V day for Sessler, because all these kind of annoying teams, the teams that are hard to watch, the teams that are

straight up bad, they all disappear after week 17. And what's left is, well, now, it used to be

12. Now 14 of the best teams remaining. So we're going to, listen, because it's week 17, we're

going to talk about all 32 teams, and they all play on Sunday.

It's the only week of the year where there is no Thursday night.

There is no Monday night.

There is just 16 games, a big skin to dive into, and that's what we're going to do.

So let's do it.

And instead of doing the draft format, because it's a different week,

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