Welcome into tailgate Austin Gale here by my freaking self in the studio here in Cincinnati.

Mike Renner officially on the COVID reserve list will get to him.

He's coming in remote, but today's show going to preview all of the games, of course,

especially dive into which ones have legitimate playoff expectations.

And then at the back end of the show, listener mailbag, listener voice

mails trivia and an interview with Washington offensive tackle Jackson Kirkland.

Let's get it.

You got COVID, you don't care about your teammates, you don't care about this podcast.

You're no longer getting an MVP vote in anything you're a piece of shit.

I know that's that's the hardest part is not being able to win the MVP now, because I got COVID.

But no, I got I got the booster less than a month ago.

And now I have it.

That's why it's relied to me.

It's it's not been that bad.

I said, I saw those I if you're a long time listener of the pod, you know, I had it last,

not this past fall.

So you've had it twice now.

I had it on October, the OG COVID alpha.

Before it was, I had alpha.

You were one of the first to get to yeah, you're like original, I was getting it before it was cool.

Yeah, I made that joke, but that was pretty bad.

I was out like a week.

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