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

Welcome, everyone, to the Football GM podcast, Mike Sando here, along with the GM,

Randy Mueller. How are we doing, Mr. GM?

Doing great, Michael.

Always good to be back for another show. Our keys work again for another week, so I'm fired up. Yeah, no doubt about it. We can't say the same thing around the league. There's a lot of change this time of year. I've been that guy where your key doesn't work, you know. That's why I chuckled when I heard Mike Tomlin say my card my key card still works people think that's funny

but it's for real you know yeah yeah you go we always see that that little you know clip of the

guy going to the Jets member and it doesn't work you always see that as kind of yeah this guy on Monday

well how does that work though when you're you know when you're let go, is it all above board? Or have you

ever had the key card not work? Or, you know, you couldn't go pick up your stuff in the office? Or how does that stuff work for guys? It's only happened to me one time. And it was Black Monday when I left the Dolphins. But to be honest with you, in fact, I said this on a show a couple weeks ago. It might not have been our show, but I knew ahead of time. You have instincts. We talk about players having instincts for the game. You have instincts for your own job as well. And so Bill Parcells had been hired, and he had been around for two or three weeks, and he had never had a single conversation with me. And I would say we were friends, Really, my whole career, I used to talk to him all the time. So we had a really good line of communication. Yeah. So once he got there and never really ever. Yeah, ever. I knew that he wanted to be the GM. I figured that much out. That type of stuff so weird to me, though.

I mean, you guys are buddies.

And then all of a sudden, for that week, it's awkward, huh? Well, it was for two or three weeks that he was on board. I remember the staff locker room. His locker was too down from me. And it's like we didn't know each other. And I didn't press the issue. I just I knew knew, right? And so that Monday, I had all my boxes

packed. I was ready to roll. Probably within 30 minutes of our conversation, I was out the door.

So I knew I was, I knew what was going on. And it was just time. So it happens, but I don't think

anybody's ever not being able to get in their office because their key card doesn't work.

Now, you may have trouble sending an email after the conversation because that computer is the first thing nowadays people grab or shut down per se.

Well, I mean, in the real world, not the fantasy world of the NFL, people do get escorted out of the building, you know, all of a sudden they're done. And now sometimes there's circumstances around that, you know, of the NFL, people do get escorted out of the building, you know, all of a sudden they're done. And now, sometimes there's circumstances around that, you know, that are a little bit different. But, yeah, I just wondered how that, how that works when it goes. You hear about guys going to their office that week and pulling stuff out of there because they know it's coming, you know, and getting ready and all that. I think it happens a lot with coaches because you'll gather your files ahead of time if you know

things that you'll want to travel with that the club, frankly, doesn't care if you travel with

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