Welcome to Inside the Huddle podcast.

I'm Darren Fletcher with Neil Reynolds.

It's the first one of 2012.

And I'm not sure, Neil, whether we're actually going to take a look at any of the games from the weekend

because there is just so much right now going on in the national football league.

Seems a long time ago already, doesn't it, Week 17?

Happy New Year to you and to all our listeners.

Yeah, there's so much already in just the last couple of days.

So I think this one will take on a more newsy feel.

Yes, we've had Black Monday, they call it, in the NFL where everybody seems to get fired.

Just to let you know that Internet Rich has got off to a cracking start.

I got a text just before the game started on Sunday, belittling, no, slaughtering Matt Flynn as a seventh round pick.

The conversation dried up as the night went on.

We'll get to Matt Flynn a little bit later on,

but internet rich,

after appearing semi-sensible during the Christmas special,

I'm pleased to say,

is reverted to type to kick off 2012

with some buffoonish suggestions and all that kind of thing.

I was beginning to wonder,

because when we had him on,

he sounded, like you say, semi-sensible,

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