This is the Athletic Football Show.

Welcome everybody to the Football GM podcast, Mike Sandow here from The Athletic, along with the GM, Mr.

Randy Mueller. How you doing, Randy? I'm doing great, Mike. It's been one of those days where,

as you know, we've had a few conversations. And for the listeners, they don't really need to know

how the sausage is made. But sometimes, I'm with you, I think we should record our pre-show conversations. They may have to go on cable or satellite or what is it called where language doesn't matter. That's probably where they should go. But they might get a kick out of some of the gibberish that we talk about. I know. I know. I always cut off our phone calls because like, hey, let's for the show it's so much i think marissa just did that she cut us off to say we got to start recording because she was afraid we're going to give up too much pre-show i guess that's right well we got a lot of great stuff it's funny how our little uh show comes together we start with a blank slate sometimes it's blank like a couple hours it's like my mind Yeah. But then by the time we get this thing ready, it's like we prepared for the whole week. So I don't know how it happened. We've got a lot of stuff here to talk about. We'll share a Mike Leach story, obviously, with his very sad passing this week at age 61. We're going to talk about Dak Prescott. I don't know if a lot of people are talking about Dak Prescott, but Randy's thinking about him. We're going to talk about Mike White, very interesting stuff from Randy on Mike White with the Jets. Always interesting quarterback situation. Of course, the Kyler-Murray news. The faking injury story, wow, we've going to, we got real history on this one with the Saints getting fined. We're going to go back to sort of the origins of this being a really big deal that Randy lived. Great stories there. I went to the archives, pulled out a good old newspaper story from back in the day. That'll be good. We'll follow up on John Robinson, the firing of the Titans. I'd written about that on monday the gm notebook you'll just have to wait to see what's in there it's always one of the highlights we've got three four things in there we got our picks i don't know hopefully we don't have time to get to the picks ran yeah we can skip that section most of our listeners want to skip it too i'm sure They're all broke. They're all broke after following our advice.

It wasn't that bad.

But yeah, there were a couple surprises.

That's why you talk about the NFL.

You don't bet on it, right?

Right.

I always told people for betting.

If you're a fan of football, just bet against your team every week.

You're insured.

Whatever price you were willing to pay for them to win, you get insurance on it.

They lose.

You get money.

That's exactly what I would do if I was a fan

it's crazy I have buddies and one in particular who always asked me about the spread

and the pics and this and I tell them you're crazy what are you doing I don't know

and I'm supposed to know and I have no. I might be the worst guy to ask.

But you know, no, you do know exactly what should happen. But in this game, there's a lot, there's so many different things that can happen. It is, it's fun. It's fun to go through. I think at least our reasoning going in is good. And sometimes they surprise us. And we're hard on ourself, and we're probably around 500 at the end of each season.

So that is... going in is good and sometimes they surprise us. And we're hard on ourselves and we're probably around 500 but at the end of each season.

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