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From the Chris Wessling podcast studio, it's Around the NFL.

My name is Dan Hansis, joined by Heroes, Greg Greg Rosenthal and Mark Sessler and it is here

the best football weekend of the year divisional round playoffs.

Eight teams remain.

That means only eight teams.

One of them is going to hoist that lombo.

I keep hearing that it's the best

football weekend. And I don't disagree

in terms of the staging.

But there are also 24 fan bases whose teams have been like turned into dust.

So it's not always, you have to become just agnostic and be like, I'm just enjoying the sport at this point.

And that's, I shipped into that mode.

And I think you, I think you could probably relate to this.

But like I, I root for a bad team historically always.

So that's true.

I'm used to, you know, checking out emotionally on the team, like my team aspect.

So as a football fan by this time, even if it was a good season and he got picked off at the end of the regular season or earlier in the playoffs,

I could look at these games and be like, we're not going to get pound for pound a better week of games. Now, the championship Sunday, which is next week, is great too, Gregi. But this one, you get more variety, more spice. You get an underdog or two, which we certainly have here. And it's just going to be a lot of fun. To Mark's point, I think week one is a close second. If I had to choose, I do love me some week one. It's just like it's been so long of a buildup. But there is something where everyone's just watching the same game. It doesn't it feel weird for us, too? We're home on Saturdays just watching one game. I was like, man, there's a lot of commercial breaks. And, and, and I'm enjoying it because like every play, just you're rethinking it in a different way than you would in the, in the regular season. But I hope this one delivers. It's a lot of pressure, you know, seasons, sometimes they're, like the Packers season is so nice because there was no expectations, you know, we weren't expecting much. I hope we don't put too much expectations on this weekend after all those blowouts last week. Yeah, here's a... These spreads are big. Yeah, here's a big spread weekend. They are large. Good data point here. I reached out to the research team and... What a team. A person by the name of Cole Noble, which is a hell of a name let's start there uh quickly

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