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You know, we start rolling, and I wish we started rolling like four seconds earlier. I was like, you got a beer over there? I was like, what is up? It is a canned water. And I know my wife always listens to our podcast. Hey, beautiful. Hey, baby. How you doing me, Rob? When he said thirsty, he wasn't talking about it in my DMs, okay?

He was talking about this water right here. Yeah, yeah. I got to preface that. Yeah, the DMs are coming my way. And we keep getting some of those questions. Which, by the way, we got a mailbag episode right around the corner. Keep them coming. I got another one right before.

Did you check your cell phone?

I did not check the cell phone.

So right before I was having lunch, I got another one right before. Did you check your cell phone? I did not check the cell phone.

So right before I was having lunch, I came downstairs, I checked, and I got another question, and I put it on our text thread. I got to look at it. I need you to double tap that before we finish up this episode. And I know what you're thinking. All right, like, are we talking about hydration for players? Is that today's edition? important. It is really important. Did I just come up with a new idea for us? Yes, you did. Okay.

Yes, you did. At some point, we're going to talk about hydration. Our producer's like, what are you doing, dude? No, we're not. All right, we have gone through the evolution of offenses. We've talked about quarterbacks and wide receivers. I've been saying this for a long time. can we please love up the defense? Can we talk about as much, if not more?

I'm tying to an offensive guy. I was about to say nobody care about that damn defense, man. Nobody, we want points, points, points, points, saying a guy who was on a team with the Legion of boom and we gave up like only 13 points a game. So, yeah. You know it's important. It is. I mean, is that old adage, right? Like defense wins championships and the whole thing. By the way, we did do another episode of the podcast last season on does defense truly win championships. If you miss that one, highly encourage you to go back. But as we've been talking about all these offenses,

Emrod, we realize like, hey, defenses have to go and keep up with some of the evolution that we're seeing on that side of the football.

So for today's episode, we're talking about defensive schemes,

and more specifically, what's effective,

how teams utilize different personnel.

We got you completely covered.

But I think it's probably important. We go through a little bit of the history of defenses. All right. Buddy Ryan, it's a name that gets thrown out there. A lot of times you're watching games. Maybe you're listening to them on the radio. Buddy Ryan is the guy that developed the 46 defense, which was used by the 1985 bears. Now, we got some younger audience,

and I hate feeling like I'm old every single damn episode.

It's okay. It's what you have wisdom. All right, I like that. The gray hair. David Carr said this to me. He's like, oh, it's the wisdom crown. You know, like, man, you're my guy, dude. I'm going to use that all the time. But I always think when I think 85 bears, I think of the SNL skit.

The bears, you know what I'm saying?

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