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This is the athletic football show.

Welcome to the athletic football show.

This is not Robert May.

This is Zach Kiefer.

If you're wondering why you're hearing my voice and not Roberts, we're trying something a little bit different this season. I'll be hosting the show once a week, recording on Mondays, posting on Tuesday mornings, and we're going to do something really cool. What I think is going to be really informative, really insightful for the listener. We're going to have three of our athletic beat riders on every week, digging into the games that Robert and Nate don't really have a chance to get to during their Sunday night show. A lot of times, beat riders come with the best perspective. You know, maybe I'm a little biased. I was a beat writer for nine years covering the Indianapolis Colts. But beat riders are the ones that are at the stadium in the locker room, in the press game, in the press conferences after the game with the coaches and the quarterbacks. They're the ones that can take us where a lot of the TV cameras can't. They see what we don't. They hear what we don't. And these are the guys and the girls that know these teams the best. They've been with them every day from July 25th

or whatever training camp started until the end of the season in January.

So they know the players, they know the coaches,

they know these teams in and out,

and their perspectives are invaluable.

And so what we're gonna do is tap into those perspectives,

that insight, that information,

and get their take on the games that we all watched on Sundays.

If you recognize my voice from this feed, I've been on it a couple times before with Robert,

and I also hosted a six-part narrative podcast series on this feed about Andrew Luck's career,

which came out last July. So really pumped to be doing this. It's going to be a lot of fun.

I really believe that beat riders know teams the best. So that's what we're going to do. We're

going to focus on three beat riders every week talking about the games that maybe Robert or Nate

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