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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.

You know, 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

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