Good morning, everybody. Welcome to another episode of HockBlogger Mornings. I'm Brian Nemhauser. You can find me and all that we do on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, at HockBlogger. You can also find our audio versions on Apple Podcast, Spotify, wherever you get your pods, and the ad-free version at patreon.com

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And it's a fun Sunday.

We have not done this for a while.

A crossover with one of our good pals, Rob Staten at the Seahawks draft blog.

As always, this episode is brought to you by prize picks.

And Rob, man, it's with the CX collective, we talk, you know, weekly, but we haven't had you just, you know, where you and I can just talk for a while. How are you doing, man? Yeah, really good. It's an interesting time of the year. I always get a little bit sad at this time of year, because although this has not been the most exciting draft season, Brian. Once the draft's finished,

there is a long period where not a lot happens so I'm kind of

trying to savor the last what is it now like 10 days so that we can it fills my mind so like

during the day when I'm doing my day job even I'll be thinking about the draft and who the Seahawks might take constantly throughout the day. And then once you have those answers, you've got nothing to fill your mind for a long time when it comes to the Seahawks for me. So yeah, so it's a bittersweet sort of period, this. It is, it is. And for folks that, I mean, I can't imagine anyone watching this show hasn't seen your stuff

or read your stuff.

But I mean, for folks that maybe haven't, you've just been cranking out, like thousands

and thousands of words and a lot of content about what's going on.

What's like this period of time like for you in terms of what you're prioritizing,

what you're trying to get done, where your head's at, what you're paying attention to?

Well, it was a slightly different year this year because of the Super Bowl.

So typically when the Seahawks have either got to the wild card and been eliminated or

have not even made the playoffs, you start writing about the draft quite early, like at the

start of January.

And basically we lost six weeks of draft stuff because of the Seahawks having the

tremendous runs to the Super Bowl.

So everything's kind of been a little bit different this year.

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