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This is the Athletic Football Show's Football GM podcast.

Welcome everybody to the Football GM podcast, Mike Sando here along with the GM,

Randy Mueller.

Randy, happy belated Thanksgiving.

How was your Thanksgiving? We missed last week.

Yeah, thank you very much. Thanksgiving is always a great time for me. It's probably my favorite holiday.

But growing up as a, you know, hunter and a fisherman, there's always a lot going on around Thanksgiving.

So I love to be in Idaho and the weather turns to wintertime and, and yeah, usually hits around

Thanksgiving. So last week was no exception. Well, not only that, you grew up a cowboy fan,

so Thanksgiving and Cowboys, you had it all. Yeah, that was a good thing. We got a lot of games,

and I enjoyed a lot of Saturday, a lot of Turkey over Thanksgiving and then Cowboy wins as a kid, that's for sure. And then when you start working in the league, all that fandom stuff goes by the side. So Randy, when I first started covering the league, I'd been a Raiders season ticket holder, and then I started covering the Seahawks, and all my friends said, how could you cover the rival? And within like a year, you're like, oh, this is so weird, I'm not a fan anymore in the same way. You end up covering the team. So you're not obviously a Cowboys fan now, but we got to be a fan of a game with 76 points scored Thursday night with the Cowboys. And I think these are a couple of interesting teams to talk about. Sometimes the Thursday night game, we don't want to recap it that much, but I thought

this was certainly better than the Thursday night, some of the other Thursday night games we've seen in

terms of compelling theater from the officiating to the lack of defense, not even being a punt,

to some of the decision making late in the game. And these are just two teams that are kind of interesting. You know, if Seattle had won that game, they would only be one game behind the Cowboys. It just feels like they've been miles behind them, and now they are for losing that game. But there's kind of a lot to unpack here. No doubt. And I agree. I think it was an interesting matchup. I don't think

it was a statement game like some in the media have portrayed it. I thought it was more of a step

for the Cowboys. They did, you know, let's face it, the Seahawks now are 500 teams. So it is what

it is. But you're right, it was a very unique matchup, a very kind of odd game. Maybe this is

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