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Welcome to another edition of the Around the NFL podcast presented by SiriusXM.

My name is Dan Ansis.

I'm joined in a room filled with heroes. Mark Sessler, Chris Wessling, and Greg Rosenthal. What is up, boys? Hey, Dan. The money drops are getting so inside baseball that we don't even get the joke anymore. I'm jogging through my memory and I have no idea. But that's okay. I'm totally at a loss. Someone else out there. It's a reference to you the other day, sort of waiting to talk because you hadn't thought about what you're going to say. Oh. And when your turn came up. Yeah. It's got to the point where someone would reference something that happened like on Monday's show. I don't remember five seconds of Monday's show. It's kind of like with a joke, if you have to explain the joke, the joke's already failed. If you have to explain the money dropped. But that's sort of on us because it was a recent reference. You're right. We can just move past. Well, I got it. Delete the last 40 seconds. Wes came up with it apparently. I did not come up. Dan, you did yell like, Mark, I can't stop thinking about your slot. I'm sure I did.

Yeah. 40 seconds. Wes came up with it, apparently. I did not come up. Dan, you did yell like, Mark, I can't stop thinking about your slot. And a lot of people were tweeting it and stuff. So I feel like they'll get it. Really at home. I don't blame you, Dan. I'm sure I did say that. I say that a lot to Mark, both on mic and off. All right. Here we go. Monday, we are, I believe,

29 days away from kickoff of the regular season.

On this upcoming Monday or?

You know it's Wednesday, right?

Is today Wednesday?

Yes.

The whole, I know you were in New York, but the whole world moved on.

Did it?

We had our Monday and Tuesday, but you were busy. Yes, I was in New York. A great weekend with the family. Went and saw the Yankees. I got to see the Rolling Stones with my dad. Keith Hansis, the biggest Stones fan alive. So that was all special. And then my plane gets delayed. So I get back to L.A. at 11 p.m. and then it's straight into Hard Knocks duties, which we're going to get to later. The old Zusser is not clocking in and hopping into the sack until about 4 a.m. Last night. Little rough. I mean, I do like, it's good to always fly home and have a weekend that you could have had in 1986. Yankees baseball and the Rolling Stones. It was.

It was a nice turn back of the clock.

Or 76.

Or 66.

Today's show, yes, Hard Knocks premiered on Tuesday night.

So I handled the write-up over on the dot com.

And we're going to discuss what we took out of the first episode, which of course features the Oakland Raiders.

Playoff predictions.

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