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

Welcome everybody to the Super Bowl 58 edition of the Football GM podcast.

Mike Sando here along with the GM, Randy Mueller.

And Randy, I'm in Vegas, and you can tell, right?

On our little video link up here, how am I doing? You're doing great. The only thing missing is the Elvis picture behind here or something like that because you look like you just came in

off the street and ran hard all night and you are, you're looking sharp, but you're ready to roll, man. I'm telling you, it looks like you're in Vegas. When in Rome, do as the Romans, baby. I got this shirt, everybody. It's a little bit out of my comfort zone. It was encouraged by my wife, who, you know, she has my best interest at heart. She knows, but it's a little outside my zone, but we're rolling with it. We're happy

to be. Yeah, go ahead. I was going to say that is the theme of the week, right? Everything's a little

different. It's Super Bowl week. We all can dress a little bit. Hey, I did a podcast yesterday from Ireland

with my new friends, Neil and Tomo, Chiefs, big Chiefs fans, giving them a shout out because I know he's riding a train this morning going somewhere from Dublin, but yeah, it was awesome. And all of our week is a little bit off because of this game and maybe we have two weeks to store it up. But it's a cool time, no doubt. It really is. So we're going to, of course, talk about the matchup in the beginning.

I think we'll hit our picks at the end.

We've got notes on the 49ers. We're going to talk Hall of Fame. Randy's got some good insights with some guys who made it. And we're going to talk, honestly, about some guys that, you know, did or didn't make it, and whether they should, you know, be in the mix based on Randy's e-vow,

because he was obviously in the middle of all those evals as a pro director and as a GM and other capacities over his nearly 40 years in the league. So that's going to be great. And as a Hall of Fame selector, I love that type of feedback. That's the type of research we need. Oh careful, Mikey. I don't know, man. You don't want me in the room. Trust me. You do not

want me in the room. And your compadres in there would throw me out for giving my opinion.

Well, we had, you know, polions in there and it gets a little tense sometimes. Bill, you know,

Bill can get a little edgy sometimes. There's some agendas at work, I can tell you that. Some big agendas in there. Yes. So we're also going to talk about, you know, coming into the season, the Athletic published a Football 100 book on the 100 greatest players, and we ended up throwing Patrick Holmes low on that list. I want to revisit that and see how high we would put him now, and especially if he wins this Super Bowl. Of course, we got the news of Mike Zimmer going to the Cowboys. We are loaded with good conversations. Let's just head right into the Super Bowl week, Randy. Let's talk a little bit about the game.

What do you got?

Well, I think that is the thing that gets pushed to the back burner, right?

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