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We switched entire networks. What's up, our ESPN family? And we had a fantastic free agent signing yesterday that broke in the middle of the show. Kirk Cousins now with the Las Vegas Raiders. That is just under three weeks away from another new quarterback that we're going to find out the Raiders are going to have. Yeah, well, technically that news broke a little earlier in the show by my man, Zay, maybe a little prediction, you know what I'm saying? I don't know. We kind of know what we're talking about. I mean, I told you so, and you can only hear it on your favorite show. It's GMFB. Roll it. Let's go.

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If you are watching us this week now, because we are a part of the ESPN family, maybe you guys didn't know. Good reminder, Melissa Etheridge, the singer who sings that friendly little tune that welcomes again to GMFB. A Grammy winner, friend of the show, Chiefs fan. We always wish for the best for the Chiefs, honestly, because we love Melissa Etheridge so much. So would you look at that? We've already cheered for the Chiefs once this morning. And you know who hates to hear that? The Raiders. We have to talk about the Las Vegas Raiders, their division rival and everything that's gone on in Las Vegas this off season. When the Raiders traded Max Crosby away, the feeling was that this has become a rebuild season for them. They have a new

head coach. They have the number one overall pick. You have to create the bones of the franchise in

order to become championship caliber. However, Max Crosby didn't get traded away. He did not end up

going to Baltimore. He's back in Las Vegas. Now they have a veteran quarterback and Kirk Cousins,

a Super Bowl winning first time head coach,, but Kliq Kubek just came from the Seahawks and the number one overall pick.

So if you're a Raiders fan and you're feeling like this Raiders team can all of a sudden

have a winning season, consider all of these additions that they have done over the last month.

The Kobe Dean is Super Bowl champion on that team.

Tyler Linderbaum knows a thing or two about winning football and making sure he ushers

the quarterback into excellent play.

Mantai, all of this considered and knowing they have perhaps Fernando Mendoza on the docket,

you think the Raiders can have a winning season after all? Well, first of all, one thing that I do like about the 17 game season is now you can't end 50, right? You can't end 8 and 8, which it was before with 16 game season. You either have a winning season or you have a losing one. I'll start by saying this when I look at the Raiders, especially all the moves that they've made this year, the moves that I, we assume they're going to make, they are going to be a dramatically.

And I say dramatically better team. They got younger and faster specifically on the defense, especially with those two fast athletic young linebackers.

They got better in leadership at key positions at center like Tyler Lyndonbaum and then obviously Tom Brady being there. It seems like he's being more active in what is going on in the day-to-day process over there for the Raiders. Now with all that being said, they do play in the AFC West. Yeah. Right. The AFC West is a gauntlet in itself. I mean, three out of the four teams usually make it to the playoffs last year,

the only two, but, you know, the chiefs were that had had some bumps and bruises along the way.

Next year, they also play the NFC West. Now, the NFC West is the best division in the NFC.

So if you look at these are their opponents, right? Five out of the eight home opponents, guys,

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