God bless football, Billy Gill.

God bless football.

Billy Gill.

Hey, it's Billy.

Welcome.

I know what you're thinking. Today is not the day that we normally listen to God Bless football. Well, here's the thing. I'm going to have a little mini God Bless Football episode that we're putting out right now for a specific reason. So we caught up with our friends, Austin Echler. I say that because like I have this thing where I don't know if people consider me their friends. We've gone over

this. It's a weird thing that I have. So like I don't want to say, hey, I'm friends with this person

and then this person doesn't think that they're friends with me. It's like, anyway, so we caught up with Austin Echler, who as you may or may not know,

is now a Washington commander. He signed last week with them in like a free agent frenzy.

We were going to talk to him last week, but he was on his bachelor party. So we said, you know what, let's leave him

alone and not bother him while he's on his bachelor party, which we're going to talk to him

about in this episode. And we're also going to talk to him about going to Washington.

And he's pretty candid about that and what went into that.

And we're going to talk to him about his March Madness Bracket tournament for a cause.

So if you go to EcklerFoundation.org, you can sign up and donate to his foundation

and participate in a March Madness bracket, which is why you're getting this today,

because obviously March Madness starts before Friday. So Austin wanted to promote this. We wanted to kind of do right by him since he's been good to us over the years and get this out before your typical Friday episode. So hopefully you can go to ecclifffoundation.org and register there and kind of help him out and all the good stuff that he does.

So you're also probably wondering, Billy, why are you talking to yourself? It's a great question.

So Stugats had to go to like a sales call and Mike Yeh, you know, has a family and it's a little bit late. So I said, you know what? I got this. Anyways, here's our friend, Austin Echler, talking about changes in his life, his bachelor

party, his new team, how free agency played out, who was interested in him, who was not

interested in him, what went down with the Chargers, and more.

So enjoy.

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