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Welcome back to 40s and free agents.

I'm Greg Rosenthal.

I'm here with Daniel Jeremiah.

And if you're new to the show, we are coming at you now every week in player acquisition season. It's not just about the draft this time of year, DJ. We're looking at free agency. We're looking at trades. And now you've got me as a part of your life every single week through the draft. Are you looking forward to it? I am. I don't know. I'm not smart because I went to Appalachian State, but I know like, you know, when you go to, when they send those rockets up to space and it's kind of just kind of going up nice and slow, then they drop all that stuff. And then it just really takes off. Like now is the time where we, we really take off. Okay. You went to Tulane. You explain that better. But that was my image. Oh, no, Tulane was a safety school for many people, but it is a college football

powerhouse now. And so that's what we stand on. Okay, this show, we're not going to get your

draft takes. That's kind of what I want, but you're warming up to that. The college football

playoffs are on. You can listen to move the sticks, obviously, for some of your takes there.

But for this show, this week, what we're going to do, we're going to look at some of the rookies

that are playing in these playoffs, just ones to keep an eye on, will pick our offensive and

defensive rookie of the years. I hope you have a ballot because they ask for a ballot. It's one, two, three. It's not just one guy. I've got a ballot. I want that AP vote. I found out who has the AP votes at the NFL media now that they're allowing that, and I'm not happy with it. And then we're going to go over some free agents of the teams playing in the playoffs for fans that are maybe knocked out to

look ahead and start scouting guys they could add to their team.

I'm so excited, man, to get this thing back going.

And I will give you one draft nugget before we get on to all these rookies.

But, you know, we're not.

We're NFL affiliated, obviously, currently.

And so we usually wait until we get past the deadline for everybody to declare before we jump in full boat with the draft stuff and talking about who could go where and get the underclassman aspect of it.

So I try to speak in code, which I think people are going to get, but our buddy Patrick Claibon, not catching what I was putting down on TV the other day because he was like, what do you think in the top 10? And I said, well, look, I can't really say who these guys would be. But, you know, the first overall pick, the Raiders, you know, who's your quarterback going to be? I don't know. And just right over his head. And then I said next up with the Jets, next up with the Jets. I mean, with the Jets, I would say more, you know, more work to be done. And then neither, oh for two struck out on both those. You know, in Patrick's defense, we had him in the studio to 11 p.m. the night before doing our live recap show for the first time. So I'm going to defend him. Let's go through some of the rookies that are playing this weekend. Then we'll give our awards and we'll get to the free agency stuff too. And I'm including possible trade candidates too and some of the guys to keep an eye on that are playing in the playoffs, that everything that happens in January could really affect that. But let's start with some of the rookies you're keeping an eye on as the playoff start. So this is kind of how I broke it up. And just guys, I think you're going to be that I have my eye on. I think you're going to be key factors in whether or not their teams advance. So let's start first of all with the past catchers. I wrote down a few names here. Let's start first of all.

I think the one who's going to have the most impact is, is Tederoa McMillan. Like they, they have got a tall task in front of them. I know they beat the Rams earlier this year. It was a game where they ran it twice as much as they threw it. They controlled time of possession by 10 minutes. They turned Stafford over three times. that's tough one to duplicate

you know across the board there

they're going to need more

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