Ladies and gentlemen, welcome once again to the Packernet podcast. I am your host and

resident panelist, as always, Ryan Schlipp. Check us out online, packernet.com. Find me on Twitter,

pack underscore dat. Well, today is kind of catch-up day.

We went over the last two days. Obviously, it was very time-consuming to go over every single

play. It took two days in full. The only really newsworthy thing that I mentioned is that

Jair did officially go to season-ending IR. He's going to get

season-ending knee surgery. And I do want to dive in on that subject, not so much the injury,

as what are we going to do? What are the repercussions? What are the ramifications?

Keeping and getting rid of. And it's definitely not, I mean, for some people, it's an easy decision.

For me, it's not an easy decision. But it's definitely a complicated situation.

Before we get to that, though, as I said, just tons and tons of things to get caught up on.

Let's zoom out and look at some NFL news. We're getting to that, though, as I said, just tons and tons of things to get caught up on. Let's

zoom out and look at some NFL news. We're getting to that point in the season where bad

teams are just releasing guys. You know, they're probably requesting it because they want an

opportunity to go play for playoff teams. A couple names that have come up, Ezekiel Elliott was

officially released by the Dallas Cowboys. Ezekiel Elliott was officially released by the Dallas

Cowboys. Zekele Elliott has not really been a big producer for them for quite a while. Very strange

situation. Zeke was a pretty good running back. And then you had other guys come in that were

equally as, I mean, it was like everybody that came in

was doing as good, and you start wondering, is it Ezekiel or is it the offensive line?

And I don't know, the last, he's a weird situation, weird dude, you know, the whole stomach

thing and a whole bunch of other random goofy things going out with him. But anyways, kind of a fixture or a

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