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This is the athletic football show.

Welcome everybody to the Football GM podcast, Mike Sando from the Athletic, along with the GM, Randy Mueller.

Randy, you are GMing.

How's your day going with the Seattle Sea Dragons based out of Texas, of course?

You're using that term loosely, but it feels like any particular day, Mike, might seem like about four in the lives of somebody in these shoes, in the

XFL. So every day's fun. It's been an awesome experience. As you know, we're five and two and riding a

five-game winning streak, but it really means nothing because we got to win a couple games to get in the

playoffs, and there's only three left. So it's kind of fun. It's it's great to see young men have reason at their at their professional level to kind of

crank it up, whether it's doing a podcast or doing whatever you do. There's certain parts in

everybody's daily job where you get to crank it up a little more. Well, that's kind of where we are in the XFL season is they get to crank it up a little bit and actually play for a playoff berth, which in our world is a big thing no matter what the level. So it's kind of fun. And we see that on these guys' faces this week. So it's, uh, it's been a long seven weeks to get here,

but we got three more to go. So it's interesting. I just love sports for all that stuff, Randy. And we're going to get a bunch of topics and we're going to revisit the quarterback rankings in the draft. And we got cornerback rankings. We got a lot of stuff. But just the, the thrill of sports and a locker room coming together, you know, is funny. After the NCAA tournament, Randy, I like went back and watched like three or four of those One Shining Moment videos. And I get a little misty-eyed watching them. But like to see the coach coming to the locker room and they're just, you know, what it's all about. And that's at any level that you're playing at, whether it's the XFL, a team can come together. Isn't that kind of high school, junior I or anything yeah yeah it's awesome so uh what's the deal then so you're playing at, whether it's the XFL. A team can come together. Isn't that kind of... It would be high school, junior, junior, I or anything, yeah.

Yeah, it's awesome.

So what's the deal then? So you're 5 and 2, and then when did a playoff start? Well, we have three weeks. It's a 10-game regular season. We happen to play the D.C. defenders, who are the best team in the league, have one loss.

They're six and one,

but we play them in Seattle this weekend,

hoping to get a decent crowd in Seattle

and actually have home field mean something. They beat us the first game of the year in D.C. We fumbled the ball on the one yard line on the last play of the game going in to win the game. So it'll be a fun rematch. And we have two more games after that league games. We are in the north, the South Division, we kind of wandered our way

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