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done with the salary cap, is they used to have all these rules where if you go over the

salary cap, your owner has to just pay extra money and these guys are really rich and

it doesn't matter. Now they've made it. If you go over the second apron, you lose

future draft picks, you lose ability to trade cash, you lose ability to, to like mid-level exception signs so they, they restrict you. They put you in prison. If they tell you, if a team is going into prison in free agency, I understand it a lot easier than the second apron. I think instead of jail and it should be jail and hell. Fine. I was second apron. And it's very confusing that they use the word apron. And it like teams getting under the second A Like it's kind of sexual it makes it makes me think that we're getting busy now It's I don't know if it's sexual. I never thought of it as sexual that might be a punk. I thought I found somebody's apron Yeah, I thought of it more as like you're just wearing an apron in the kitchen and you're getting splashed with oil. I want to get under the apron.

I want to see what's underneath there.

That's what we're two aprons, PFT.

Like, oh, they're getting under the second one.

Second apron. If you get under the first apron, that's okay. That's like first stage shit. If you get under the second apron, now we're talking like we're moving in. But what you just explain is jail in prison makes sense because then you can say your team got out of prison

Well jail in hell. I like jail in hell, but you put prison is more than jail But what you just explained, jail and prison makes sense because then you could say your team got out of prison.

Well, jail and hell, I like jail and hell. But prison is more than jail. It is, yeah, that's true. So it's like first, April and second, April and prison and jail. I mean, I also thought like you just do like a fire here in the fire storm or, you know, a volcano eruption. I don't care, they just need to get rid of the apron, Especially because it's hurting guys like my good friend PFT who's like getting rock hard every time he sees the word

Hey apron first guy ever Do not like you you and the theory no no no is getting getting under the apron is what gets me going I Don't care if there's I don't care if there's two aprons But if I'm getting under two aprons then I'm grinding man. I'm bump uh... but either way do you like my dear jail jail prison explain to us better

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