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

Welcome everybody to the Football GM podcast.

Mike Sando here along with the GM, Randy Mueller.

Randy, we're only a couple of weeks away from the draft. We've got free agency

still percolating. I had a big free agency review that published on Wednesday. And shoot, we could

barely get the thing published and we got another major move with Stefan Diggs being traded. So it never

ends, does it? Yeah, you're right. Everything we say is fluid on here,

and by the time this runs, it may change for sure. By the way, if our listeners haven't looked up

your column from last week, it's outstanding. And I think I told you that there is a ton of great

information in there on every team in free agency. And I think fans around the NFL are doing themselves a disservice if they don't

dial into it. So that's a good job by you. I appreciate it. It's a fun thing to do.

And for me, like to wrap my head around things, you know, like for you, there's no substitute for

watching the film, right? That's sort of the gritty work that you have to do, and it's tedious,

but by the time you do it, you have the understanding that you need, and there's really no other

way for you to get that, right? No, that's research for me. It's all research. Yeah. So, yeah.

For me, what I do in free agency is I take all of the free agents, all of the moves, and I put them into a file, and I put all of

the salaries in there, and I've got the players ages and a couple of other things. And then I

start kind of creating some summaries and tables off of that, just to get a big picture

perspective of, okay, who spent the most, who lost the most,

who's getting older players, who's getting younger players.

And that kind of helps me, you know, just understand what's gone on, you know, and then start

having conversations with people in the league and kind of piece it all together, get some

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