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The Open University, the future is open. This is the Athletic Football Show's football GM podcast welcome everybody to the football GM

podcast Mike Sando here with Randy Mueller of the athletic Mr. GM you've been busy a lot of cuts

around the league I mean we're going to talk a little bit about that. It's a huge day

day in a league and a huge week in a league. One thing I thought about, though, Randy, was like,

if you were the GM of a team, you probably could have nailed your initial 53 man roster a month

ago, right? I don't know about 53, but maybe 50 of the 53 for sure a while ago, you know.

I mean, you know what's going on.

You follow these.

You track everybody.

The problem is you can't wait until the last minute to really make this roster work.

Because as we're going to find out, and then most people know that the cap counting mechanisms include everybody all the time

starting next week. And so you've had to have this 53 man exercise in place internally for a long

time. So, you know, we'll see. Well, a lot of it's fluids still, as we sit here today. In fact,

if you could see my desk, Mike, you'd laugh.

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