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I know everyone is not hungry.

When you feast at Thanksgiving, like, all you want to do is just sit back on the couch. You got some football going. And then, of course, you got the NFL Explained podcast. Yes, you got the NFL Explained podcast. And we call that thatitis, Mike. You know, when you eat and you fall asleep, that's thatitis. Yeah, you can feel the food coma in a big way. yes it is NFL explained explained. Yes, he is the Super Bowl champ. Michael Robinson, Mike Ann with you. This is the episode all about facts. You realize that, right? Absolutely. That's the reality that we live in. Facts. Facts. We are bringing the heat. I have been talking about this all season long. Yo, DM us, send your questions,

mailbag episode, as promised.

Yes.

We are delivering on this.

I often said this.

I get excited.

In fact, there's one question coming up in a little bit

where I said, man, that's a good question

because that affects me on Sundays.

So I was like, we're going to be talking about it. So you're ready to rock and roll? Let's dive deep into the field. All right, I'm going to start off with this one for this mailbag episode. What do punters do during practice? When I was a kid, I thought they just punted all practice, but now I realize your leg isn't capable of doing that all day every day. So what do they do all day?

That's a really good question.

Honestly, I've never really thought about what punters do.

But they punt, obviously, in most NFL practices, Wednesdays are the first days that

were on the field.

That's your base personnel day.

And the teams that I was on, Wednesdays was punt day, right? So special teams would go out there first. The punter will be out there first. Then the punt team will go out. Then the rest of the team will go out. Then we start practice. And in the middle of practice, we'd have another punt period. So Wednesdays would be the punt time where he would go punt. Fridays would also be a

big time punt time. So Wednesdays would be kind of punt and kickoff. Thursdays would be punt return

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