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

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

my athletic, or my The Athletic colleague, Randy Miller. How you doing, Randy?

Doing great, Mike. This is supposed to be the offseason. I've never been busier the last few weeks,

and I actually love it. I think there is a million things that we're going to hit on today,

and probably a million more coming up in March. And as you know, when the season ends,

the batons get passed to the GM world from the coach. And so we should have plenty to talk about over the next few months. No doubt about it. Well, of course, you started up already with your free agency ranking. So we're going to get into some of that, which is going to be fun. But yeah, people used to always ask, you know, when they find out what you do for living, what do you do in the offseason? Used to always be the, that was probably the number one question I would get the most when you said you're, you know, covering the NFL around the NFL. What are you doing the off season? Well, let me explain. That's the funnest part sometimes, really. It really is. because the team performance sort of stand still. We don't

have to try to keep up with and make sense of what happened in the last game. We have a baseline

to work off of. And then when you have a whole offseason to do stuff and build your roster,

that's really some of the fun of stuff, isn't it?

Well, it definitely is in the GM world.

I think the facets that get off the radar for most fans are that these off-seasons of multitasking nowadays with what has to happen in a NFL front office between, really really the end of the season and March 17th

or whenever the new league starts.

It is crazy the amount of information and intake that these offices have to have and give

and communicate to each other just to get everybody sometimes in your own building on the same

page can be exhausting.

Absolutely.

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