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You can find us there. It's part of Empire Media, AMP, IRE. Always much appreciated when you tune in. Don't forget, you can read my work on ESPN.com. Obviously, stories up now, but I'll have a story up. I think it's going up on Thursday about just, and this is actually an NFL story, just about players playing in cold weather games. So nothing to do with the commanders, but it's a fun quote unquote NFL story, getting ready for the playoffs and just what it's like to play in certain conditions for sure. So talk to a bunch of commanders, but they're not about the games they played here because there's only been a couple of playoff games they've played here in in a while right so anyways that would be up there um i want to get

into the coaching search right away because why i actually recorded this podcast earlier in about

a half after i did it then they went out and hired dj williams as a quarterbacks coach he of course

is a son of doug will Williams, who is a senior advisor to

general manager, Adam Peters, and obviously it's a very good story because of their relationship.

The question is, what kind of coach will he be? So I know anytime there's any sort of a hire of a guy

who's got relationships with somebody or related to somebody that it always raises some eyebrows.

I don't know in that case.

Like, I'll be honest, like, Doug Williams did not even know that they were interviewing him.

Like, that's how out of the loop he was in that regard.

So he didn't know that they were interviewing him.

I would just say that.

I know that very well.

So it wasn't like he was

involved in that process. And I would say if you're in this critical year, you better hire good

coaches. He has, excuse me, he has experience as a quarterback's coach. He was a quarterback's coach last

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