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So the combine kicked off yesterday, again, not the running, jumping portion of it.

But as I said, anytime you get a group of people together in one place, like Indianapolis,

you're going to start to get an explosion of news and rumors and all that stuff because you got media people talking to scouts

and to GMs and the coaches and all that good stuff. So today I just want to get caught up on

some of the news. Again, if you listen to the Packernet podcast this morning, some of this

will be duplicated, but it's going to be much more in depth. I skipped

a couple things because, you know, it's not all, I don't want to spend the entire Packernet

show talking about prospects we can't even get. But I'm going to just kind of start ripping

through some of this stuff in no particular order. And again, rather than looking at it from a

Packer standpoint, it's obviously going to be more of an NFL draft standpoint. So, first of all,

and we all kind of knew this was going to happen. In fact, we've been speculating he's going to go

to Minnesota for a while now, but Falcons GME and Cunningham confirmed that Kirk Cousins will

be released in March on the first day of the new league year, making him a free agent.

Now, when I, uh, if you remember yesterday when we did the mock draft, the Atlanta Falcons do not have a first round pick.

We were doing third round, and so the second

round pick from the person that did it, had them taking Trinidad Chamblis. Now, obviously,

Michael Pennix is still the quarterback there, but in terms of could they possibly go in a direction, let's, let's, let's even,

remember, remember, they don't have a first round pick, so there's, there's no major investment they

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