In 20 minutes, you'll hear something that Joe Witt said at his press availability that has me very, very excited about what element of this defense.

Before we get there, though, it's welcome on a good friend of mine.

I haven't talked to this guy in a long time, so I'm excited to catch up.

Nick Ashu is on with us.

You'll hear Nick a lot more around here locally. I know he's doing

overtime this week on 106-7, the fan. Nick, what's up, my friend? How are you? You know, I didn't even have to promote myself. You did it for me. I appreciate that. You know, pros, pro over here. That's where I like to call myself. Yeah, you know, it's good to kind of get out of as you know know, I can say what I say this is best I can. Sometimes you've got to be on the sidelines for a little while. It's nice to kind of come out of that, come out of the shadows and be back with you guys somewhat. So it'll be more as time goes on for sure. Speaking of the sidelines, we're all watching this Terry situation unfold from the

sidelines.

We're not in the game.

We don't know how these negotiations are going outside of the random tidbits of information

that people will tell us.

What has been your perspective on where this is going and how it's gotten to where it's

gotten?

This is so expected.

Look, I understand that this, and I include myself

when I say this, this is a fan base that's scarred. It's scarred from a lot of trauma with this

organization for a long, long time. So you're going to see this situation. And, you know,

from, let's look at it from a surface level first, because you see so much of these reactions

from people all over social media. And I know it's dangerous to start like gauging everything with social

media but let's just look at it for a minute so many people are are frustrated and angry saying take

take care of terry look at what he's been through look at how important he's been to this organization

all of those sentiments

are true. They're all real. But at the same time, this is that business aspect of sports that people don't like, but it's a reality. It's going to be there. It's always going to exist. And I've called this sort of the contract negotiation checklist. I need a shorter name, but for now, that's the name that I've got for.

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