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Welcome to another edition of the Around the NFL Emergency Podcast here in the Chris Wessling podcast studio.

I'm with my friend, a hero, Patrick Claibon.

And we're usually here on Fridays to tape game debut, a fun show.

Yeah.

Unfortunately, we're in the podcast studio for an unfun reason.

I wish we weren't.

The exact opposite of a fun Friday.

Because right when I got in, I'm looking up and I'm seeing Taylor on on with Ian. And it's like,

oh, what's what's the breaking burrows done for the year? And I was, you know, considering the way that

he reacted after the ball left his hand and,

and like you could see he was an obvious pain.

He was kind of dejected for the remainder of the game.

It's like, well, this is going to be significant.

But to have no Joe Burrow for the rest of it, like the league is better when not just

Joe is playing, but just when we're talking to Joe, when we're hearing Joe's thoughts about football, even the way he handled his season ending, now news conference,

just highlighted how great it is, how great of a communicator and in person and a football player

he is. And it's just, it sucks. It sucks. I was talking about it with Emica, my wife,

because I was just leaving the house when this

popped and we were saying the same sort of thing that you do forget that this whole league,

this studio, this building, everything. Like a lot of it is on the backs of like 10 quarterback.

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