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Welcome to the athletic football show.

I'm Robert Mays.

Joining me for this week's edition of In the Pocket.

It is a long time NFL quarterback, Chase Daniel. Chase, how you doing, man? What's up? Good. Good, really good. It's been sort of crappy weather here in San Diego. So I've actually enjoyed feeling like it's actually fall in winter here because that's about as low as it gets. It literally rained for all day yesterday, which is wild for San Diego residents.

And they were putting out signs like road is flooded and I'm in my big SUV.

Like, no, it's not. Like we've been in way worse than just like driving through things.

So weather's looking a little bit better today. But yeah, it's it, dude, last weekend was the best weekend of the year,

I thought, because look, four games, eight teams, and then now it's Championship Sunday,

and quite honestly, all four quarterbacks and championship Sunday are awesome. And we're in for a treat,

and it's, uh, it's going to be a good one. I'm excited to dive into some of these topics, man. It's pretty cool. We got a lot of stuff to chew on here. We'll talk about the quarterbacks from one of the games specifically. I think really dig into the AFC matchup. We haven't talked about Patrick Mahomes much on the show at all. It's funny because when you're so good, when you're the chiefs, it's almost like just wake me up in January.

You know, there's the ups and downs of the season, but he's done so much that there's nothing he can do during the regular season that would top a lot of the years he's already had. So most of the time, most of the year for the Chiefs, it was what's going on with the Chiefs offense, independent of just accepting that their quarterback is the best player in the NFL. But now that it's all coming together for them and things are starting to click a little bit, we're reminded of what he is in these moments and on this stage. So we'll talk about that. We'll talk about what that performance means for Buffalo and how it's prevented them from

getting over the hump here multiple different times. But before we dig into that, there's a lot of

news that I wanted to sift through. And we just haven't talked about at all on the show and some

that you are well positioned to provide some insight on here. So let's start with the front office news

with the Raiders. And that is Tom Telesco, the recently

fired GM of the Chargers, is now immediately getting hired to be the general manager of the Raiders,

which we just don't typically see.

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