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

Welcome everybody to the Football GM podcast, 2003, NFL regular season edition.

Mike Sando here from The Athletic along with the GM, the athletics GM, Randy Mueller.

Randy, we're one game in, Detroit Lions 1-0, Kansas City Chiefs, O and 1.

Tons of stuff to talk about as the season gets going this weekend.

Glad to be back, aren't we?

Yeah, very glad, like I say all the time, the key still works, and they've had us back for another season. Now, this is season three for us, right? I think it is, yeah. I think it really is. And we're in a new slot here recording this to go live on Saturdays, which is different for us, but good for, really, I like it. I like having a little more time to digest and think about things. How about you?

Yeah, I'm good with it. I think that during the week, a lot of things happen. And I don't think the folks will be surprised to know. We do record on Friday, depending on when and where the time fits. But then it comes out on Saturday. So it's a pretty good download of a week's worth of information that I think people will find, you know, interesting and a little different than what they get around the dial. Absolutely. And some different perspectives, a little bit of time to marinate. We're really close to the games too, so we can look ahead to a couple of those. We will bring back the picks segment. People can hardly wait for that, Mike.

Well, they're not going to be able to, they're probably fast forwarding to the end of the show right now.

No, I think what's happened is a lot of our, a lot of our listeners have done so well gambling off of our

recommendations that they are now retired and have a lot of time to listen to podcasts. So we are,

we should probably even have more people coming on board.

I should go back and look and see just how many games above 500 we were against the spread.

I mean, it had to be dozens and dozens of games.

I'll tell you what, we make fun of ourselves, but we've been on roles a time or two,

maybe individually or like any other, you know, gaming prediction. They're not going to all be right. But we've had our days. That's for sure. I always tell Randy, like, you know, Randy's a humble guy. When he writes his columns, he's got this self-deprecating way where he's like, yeah, you know, this and such and such will get you a Starbucks at the corner. And I like, Randy, the pennies that fall out of your pocket are gold

to the rest of us, okay? Just remember that. All the little insights into the league, how it actually

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