This is the athletic football show.

Welcome to the athletic football show.

I'm Robert Mays.

Joining me today.

It's my good friend Nate Tyson.

How you doing,

buddy?

I'm doing great. So you know what's funny? Because we were just talking about Vegas and stuff is we're getting some rain here at night. I was just in Phoenix. It was raining. I was not happy about it. That happens, though, there. They get the bassoons in July. that's what we got and I that's kind of kind of a new one for me. I don't think we've gotten it, a couple of summers I've been here. So it's like every night you'll look. It'll be like, perfect weather, perfect weather. And then you look at the map and there's purple clouds on the map coming like, bearing down. And I'm like, I'm from the Midwest. I know what purple clouds mean. That that green, you know, the green storms before it's a, yeah. Yeah, that's what it feels like a little bit. But that's been a new adventure for my, my desert living is like those monsoon clouds coming in. I'll be out there in early August for your wedding, which I'm very excited about, as part of my training camp travels. It's in the middle of me going all around the country.

I'm going on vacation.

When you guys are listening to this, I'll be on vacation.

So we're starting the travel stretch of the calendar.

This is our last show before training camp.

We're recording this on Friday just as an FYI. So something insane happens in the football world between now and Wednesday.

I'm gone. I'm in California on vacation. That's why I'm not doing this. But we wanted to have an

episode for you guys while I was gone. And this is it. And this is something that I'd wanted to do

for a while. I just think it's a really fun idea. One is a standalone episode and two,

this is a segment I want to bring back. If we're having a little back and forth about a guy,

I want to have a drop and I want to say it's time. And we're calling this Canton Court.

We're going to do this every single time we have a debate, a conversation, anything about the Hall of Fame. If we're talking about, let's say it's Matt Ryan, for example. And I say, is Matt Ryan a Hall of Famer? I want one of the producers to be like, and then the drop happens. I want us to do this all the time because I love these conversations. I love Hall of Fame conversations and they matter to me.

Sometimes they don't matter to some people. Some people don't give a shit about the Hall of Fame. I love the Hall of Fame.

And the premise of this show is going to be simple. You and I are each going to present three guys and we're going to make the case. You're going to state their case in Hall of Fame court for why they belong

in camp.

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