There's gift I've ever received has to be a bike when I was younger, a pedal bike.

It was a sort of slick little road bike and I remember it was all like it was so it was all wrapped up

but it was so obvious what it was obviously because nothing shaped like a bike and I had a little ribbon on it and I was so

I guess. For that was a life changer and I'm still sort of big on cycling around my area now so for that one change me a little.

Enjoy in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks.

This is the Athletics football show.

Welcome everybody to the Football GM podcast heading in to 2022 week 9 I'm Mike Sando from the Athletics.

Along with the GM Randy Mueller Mr. Mueller how you doing?

Doing great Mike I survived a Halloween without having to dress up again so that was a good thing for me.

I don't know how you did at your house but no my I don't dress up for the I was working I don't dress up for the Halloween party.

My high school son had multiple costumes he had he went to a party that was called a rhyme no reason party.

So what it means is you and your dates cost you you're in your date whatever you are has to rhyme but for no reason so he was Kenny G and his girlfriend was Bumble Bee.

He dressed as Kenny G carrying around a section I get to give him credit for even knowing who Kenny G is but he plays the saxophone so he has.

I thought that was kind of fun and better him than me.

And we're a couple times you know that type of stuff but we've got tricks and treats here this week a treat to Washington Commander fans and really the league at at large and in general is that we could be seeing a sale of the former Washington football team now the Washington commanders will get into that Randy has a different angle on that.

Just from his experience in the GM chair we got tons of trade stuff we'll talk about the Packers and Cowboys and even make trades will go through all the big trades we've got Randy's GM notebook something on there for Caterius Tony giants to chiefs we've got a little bit more on Denver Christian McCaffrey couple other things in there we get to our pick segment which Randy reminded me of the one that I missed last week on Saturday I had to get excuse for that we actually had a pretty good week on the picks.

Before we get into all that Randy football GM podcast I know you never like to talk about yourself but you are the is it director of player personnel for the Seattle C dragons are you what's going on with the XFL you're you're you're you right now I mean what's up you know what it's been kind of ongoing and I appreciate you mentioning that I am going to run the Seattle team with coach Jim Haslet and we have a history together and yeah anxious to bring that version of what we think is a pretty good football vision to see.

So yeah we've been working on this team really for about six months and it's getting down to where we have a draft to populate our rosters in November so we're kind of winding that part down and but it's been fun it's we've got a great group of guys the coaches wise that all I've worked with in the past for the most part and hey when you get to be my age it's it's really about the people you're round and the process has been fun and I think it's yeah people see how people in particular will will enjoy watching this brand of football and I make just a little bit more fun.

I'm always have home games because as you know I'm a Seattleite too so when the opportunity came up it's hard to say no to Seattle and and some kind of a project that's within your own way also looking forward to it.

That'll be fun you get June Jones on the staff there right so it's familiar name so yeah June and I were together with the rough next back a couple years ago and XFL XFL 2.0 and got off to a five and no start before the pandemic shed everything down so yeah it'll be fun.

Wayne Johnson obviously is the main owner of this league and he's he's doing it the right way and obviously the TV deal is with ESPN and all their partners so it's going to be fun it's going to start in January and be kind of a cool deal we'll play our home games in

Lumen field and looking forward to to that I have spent very little time at Lumen field because that came after I was long gone from the Seahawks so I'm making just to kind of see what it's all about.

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