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Guaranteed Human. It's a tough sport. It's not for everybody. You've got to be a little sick to love this game. And we've got some sickos. Welcome to NFL Daily, where I can promise you I will not tear up during this podcast. My name is Greg Rosenthal. I'm with Ali Connolly. It's not Saturday, but it's close.

And it's the time of year that Ali Connolly loves almost as much as the regular football season.

It's analyzing press conferences and assistant coach hiring season.

Welcome, Ali.

How's it going over there in Manchester?

I'm doing good.

When coaches get emotional about ball, it also gets me a little bit

teary. It really is a little bit of a trend with these introductory press conferences.

We don't have Todd Monkens press conference yet, but he is the new Browns coach.

We're going to talk about that. But we'll talk about Jesse Minner and Joe Brady meeting the media. We'll talk about different assistant coach hirings. We will talk about your

beloved and mine too, Ali. Who am I kidding? I got like four Belichick books behind me, including

one by Steve Belichick, football scouting methods. We'll talk about him getting snubbed from the Hall of Fame and just the reaction and everything

that's happening.

And if we even have time, I think I'll present my Hall of Fame vote if I had one.

Because a lot of people criticize, but I always say like if you say someone's a snub,

you have to say who you would take

out. So I will go through and make my picks. But it really is a crazy time of year before we

kind of get into it, Ali, like seeing the different coaching staffs come together and the battle

for all the assistant coaches. And you have a better knowledge about like the strengths and weaknesses of a lot of these guys than than most. When Mike McCarthy said

that it's more challenging than ever to fill a coaching staff and I'm watching what's going on

the last few days. Like I, I think I agree with him. But what do you think he he meant by that?

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