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Hello and welcome to my podcast. Do me a favor. Subscribe to the John Comreport,

wherever you get your podcast. If you're watching on YouTube, hit that like button. Hit that subscribe button. You can find us there as part of Empire Media, AMPI. Always much appreciated when you tune in. Don't forget, you can read my work on ESPN.com. We'll have a story up on Monday, kind of talking about, like, how did the commanders get to this place? And a lot of stuff, you guys probably already know.

But I just wanted to kind of like lay it out there for the country.

And to be honest, this was a story that was not planned because another story had planned involved

Jane Daniels.

He got hurt.

Story gets out for another week.

And that will be something that will be part of Sunday morning countdown whenever he returns. So shift out of gears a little bit, but it's still apropos. Like how did they get to this place? So that'll be up on ESPN.com. Also, you club members, I will be doing the private Zoom. It'll be three hours before kickoff. So five o'clock or about 5 o'clock Eastern time look for the link on the club you know you club members

look for the link sometime Sunday or Monday morning but I will be doing that for about 15 20 minutes

always enjoy doing that so listen folks it's three and four like they were in the NFC championship

game last year a lot of people seem to be understandably frustrated. I get it,

but it's still, there's still a long way to go, and so we'll see what happens. So I'm not trying to sell you a bill of goods that they're going to turn around. I don't know. Anyways, let's get to what's going on here because it does start with injuries and I'll get to my five thoughts in a couple minutes. going to play a little bit of sound from Jordan McGee, some from Bobby Wagner, some from

Jeremy Reeves, and just kind of go over what's happened this week, but also a little bit of a report on the chiefs to see what are they up against. I think we kind of know some stuff, but I just wanted to go over it anyway. So it starts with the injuries because they do get Terry McClellan and Debo Samuel back. That is good news. Now, we don't know yet about, as I tape this, I don't know about DeRan Payne. He's got the toe injury. And I don't have the injury report at this point. So as I record this, I need to get this out. So I'm not going to have the injury report just yet. I would assume that he will be listed as questionable. But just know that you can check.

I'll put that out there.

So if you're hearing this later, check on Twitter or social media, wherever,

and you'll find out what is up with Durant Payne.

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