Three, two, one. Oh my goodness. Good morning, good afternoon. Whatever it is for you, I hope you're having a fantastic day. My name is Zach Schamler. This is Strong

Opendience Sports episode 379. We are banging through these

episode tough numbers very, very quickly. I remember 300 earlier this year. I can't believe how many. It just

goes back so fast. Today we are doing NFL predictions for the

NFC East and the NFC West. Now I want to share a personal note before we get in today. I think today's the first day in quite a while where I've had a really hard time with YouTube comments and I normally like I like it's

sports it's not life or death and I think to some degree that actually makes people

a little bit meaner because they know they can

say whatever they want and it doesn't really matter I don't know I just I'm having a

hard time today it's I love my job very much I I love creating like my

favorite thing in the world is getting up at 4 a.m. sitting at my desk writing something I feel good about I'm excited to put out and or like I think so I think it's clever or thoughtful or and I love love watching sports that's like my passion and man it's crazy I people are so mean like so

angry and prediction season is always hard for me because

and I kind of get it like if you're a fan of a team

you invested something into this team and you're hopeful and you're

excited and you're looking forward to having a good year and then if you hear news

that your team isn't going to win in the Super Bowl or might have three losses

more than you think or whatever like you feel like I'm just

crapping all over something you're excited about and that that would suck right if I

I I love love the movie Star Trek and if someone just trashed in the movie Star Trek I would be very very

sad and so I get it but I've had this thought all day and I'm like I'm trying to

understand the mind of people who are really

really angry and mean on social media and then I'm like well what about the

people at the grocery store or this or that and I realize I think a lot of

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