What's up, everybody? Thanks for joining us today. My name's Ben Swanson. This is a special

edition of the AP Laboratory. We're going to be on the regular schedule this week. We're

going to have a mailbag Tuesday. We're going to have a game preview for you on Friday.

But we all kind of just felt with the long weekend away from cheese football with everything

that has happened since we last spoke to you. And since we didn't do a game preview

this week, obviously, because the game was on Thursday, we thought we thought we talked

a little bit about some of the big events that happened in the Thursday and at football

game and kind of where to go from there here to help me talk about this. Let's talk.

Let's go to Maddie. Maddie Lane. Find him on Twitter at chief and Carolina first, as

we do always. Hello, my friend. I don't get you don't need a lot of the people you just

missed seeing mine and Craig stouts smiling faces. So you just made us do this podcast.

Which is just fine. It's okay. We're just missing, you know, the typical Sunday night

NFC East battle that is the Cowboys and the Eagles, which I'm sure we will get also later

in the year because NFC East things. How you doing tonight, Craig?

I don't know about you guys, but I'm doing fantastic. The defense is fixed. It's fixed.

I love it. It's great. Everything's great. I am going to spend this entire week talking

about how awesome the defense is because I don't know when we're going to get another

one of these. So they're wonderful. They're great. I love it. Now let's talk about depressing

things, kid. Wait, wait. No, you heard it here first. Craig says the defense is fixed when

Chris Jones is gone. Yep. Hey, hey, don't you put that on me? No, I heard it heard it loud

and clear. Craig, I just think it's funny that, you know, the week that we're supposed

to be celebrating Steve Spagnolo and his wonderful defense. And then everything comes crashing

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