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

Welcome everybody to the Football GM podcast.

Mike Sanda here along with the GM.

Randy Mueller, how you doing, Randy?

Doing great, Mike.

Looking forward to chatting a little ball.

A lot of people think we have nothing to talk about this time of the year. I think I find it very

interesting time and sometimes it's some fun things, but I know we got a lot of interesting things to

talk about today. I'm waiting for you and your social team to put out your schedule release

video. Do you got the, the Mueller one coming,

or your guys is a little busy or what? Yeah, I think we got a lot of things going on right now, and the schedule has not crept to the top of it. I can appreciate and respect everybody that makes such a huge thing out of this, but I hate to ruin it for a lot of people. We've known who we're going to play for six months, okay?

I know. That part hasn't changed.

And I get it. It is fun to have content to talk about. But I think the social media teams that NFL offices employ now, they go above and beyond. So they are kind of cute and kind of fun to watch. I tell you, though, I don't have, I'm not going to watch four minutes straight for every team. Sorry, I didn't watch that many this year. I was joking about it with somebody from a team, like, okay, you know, is this just because I'm a little older and been around a while? Like, it doesn't excite me. Now, it used to when I was doing, when I traveled every week, you know, want to see where I'm going and all of that. That's a really cool thing. I also kind of like one thing I do like about the schedule.

I don't even,

this isn't really necessarily even on our slate of things. What we can talk about a little bit is, is just, I like to see the first month because, like, one of the things that really stood out to me was, you know, all of the expectations around Chicago, right? I mean,

it's super exciting time with Caleb Williams, and you, you think of it in terms of this long

runway with a big future, but you have this staff that took over, or staff that's been there,

and there, you know, there's some pressure on Iber Fluss and these guys, and they open with what looks like a cupcake. Your home against Tennessee, Will Levis coming in? I mean, you know, there's some pressure on Iber flus in these guys. And they open with what looks like a

cupcake. Your home against Tennessee will love us coming in. I mean, but where my mind goes is,

you know, if the bears lose that game or right, or how does your first month go, right? You have all

these expectations coming in. You lose. Suddenly you're playing a quote unquote easy team or something.

You lose the narrative shifts, right? And you're suddenly dealing with different things just based on how

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