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Welcome.

The athletic football show.

I'm Robert Mays.

Join me today.

It's my good friend Nate Tyson.

How you doing, buddy?

Doing very well. I went with my blue light glasses for this show, not that anyone could see it as we are recording this podcast with a live show. But yeah, we decided to rock these. I've been staring at a lot of Google Docs and staring at you. And blue light glasses, they might be a placebo. I don't know. I'm not advertising. I'm not sponsored by any particular brand. But I like them. I really do like them, but I'm rocking them for this show because I realize when I look at these bright lights afterwards, I'm like, have like a headache and everything. But maybe that's just because we talk about restrictive free agent potential signings and like some random stats that we throw out there a rock

hill facility reference yesterday so maybe that's why I end the shows with a little bit of a strain

I've got a t-shirt and a hat on today because we're on day four or four so day four and five

we're deep in the week podcasting wise I'm working Atlanta Legends starter sweatshirt right now.

We're both killing it right now.

But we're deep into this week.

So I think we're both feeling it a little bit.

But there's just so much stuff to get into.

You know, yesterday we talked about the veteran trade candidates.

We spent so much time talking about the Daniel Jones news, the Lamar Jackson news, everything happening on the quarterback front.

And we still haven't really gotten into kind of the top free agents available in this class or kind of the meat of the free agent class that's going to kick off on Monday.

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