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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's a long time NFL quarterback, Chase. Daniel, Chase, how you doing, man?

Good, good. Just being busy, like everyone else during the holidays.

And I feel like because I've been playing for so long and it just spent the holidays at work

and worried about my wife doing everything, now it's like everything falls on me too. So it's a little bit different. We just got done with a kids party. You know, it's just like we're going to another kid's party. We got a Christmas show going up for pressing our oldest. We got like family coming in town in two days. We're leaving. We're going to the Cotton Bowl. We're going to New York. So it's just a lot of stuff going on. But it's good, though. It's good. Are these kids' birthday parties or kids' holiday parties? Holiday parties, dude. Wait, just you wait, man. It's like we had a holiday party for a three and a half year old. My wife was up to like midnight, like, because she's a room mom doing a bunch of stuff to get it there.

This is school oriented. School. It's all school. Okay. I'm just making sure these aren't parents throwing

holiday parties at their houses for their children. This is all foreign to me. So everything that goes on with

what you do for small kids, I'm watching this very much from afar. I dominate as Uncle Robert, but that's where I'm most comfortable right now. It's the best thing. Like uncle and aunt, man, you can like hang out with the kids. You're the fun uncle. I have a niece. But then you can give them back. Like here, take the kids back. You know, I don't want to have to do with anything else.

So you can have fun, sugar them up, get them on a sugar hide, give them back to their parents and they don't sleep at night. But yeah, that's like, man, this time of year is just, is wild and crazy. It's just different in this sort of job. My wife is working from home these two weeks. She's like, I got two emails today.

It's like, yeah, that's how it is for most people, I think, in this stretch of the calendar.

For us, not the case.

We're barreling toward

the most important part of our year. 15 weeks into the season, I thought that today would be a

good opportunity to zoom out a little bit and have some big picture discussions, both about

the quarterbacks in the NFL at large, but also about

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