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So this episode is brought to you by prize picks, and we have one of our favorite guests on today. This is fun. It's great to have Coach Cody Alexander from Matchquarters.com on with us. We got a lot to talk about with you, man. First of all, how's life? How are you doing? Doing great. No complaints here. Oh, that's great. That's great. You've been churning out the content. Is the offseason for you kind of the time where you're able to like dig in and really start to look at how the league's trending in different places? Yeah, I can get really granular with some things and I can take my time

really going back through kind of the evolution of schemes for these teams, especially like I

always start backwards. So I always start with the worst defenses and kind of work for us,

the best defenses. So I'm hitting the best ones right before the season starts. But intermittently, I'll go, like I just released the Seahawks deal on Monday because I was going through some, I was doing a project. And so I was like, I got to get this out too. So yeah, it's really fun in the offseason because I could take my time. I'm not trying to, you know, rush through and get some things out. Well, we're going to talk about that article. There's a lot of interesting things in there. We're also going to talk about some of the Seahawks draft picks as well as kind of the division and especially, I think, the spotlight on the Rams and the Seahawks and what's going on there. But I'm curious, so you start out with the worst defense and working with you, why?

Why?

What do you, what have you found that that benefits you to do?

It really sets the table for kind of what we're seeing.

I think also it sets the table for the off season for me because we have free agency in March and then the draft.

And then who are the teams that most people are talking at that point in time of the year?

I think it just frames the calendar a lot better for me because now everybody's pivoting to,

okay, roster building. And then here in the next couple weeks, it's going to be all about camps.

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