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Welcome.

It's the athletic football show.

I'm Robert Mays.

Joining me today.

It's the athletic zone, Mike, how you doing, man? I am doing well. We got one game left. We got one game left. We got a couple weeks before we get to the Super Bowl. Are you going to Phoenix? I figured you would. When are you getting in? I will get into Phoenix on the Monday of that week. So looking forward to it. I love, of course, love going to the Super Bowl. It'll be great to see you. I'm very, very excited about all of us getting together on there. It seems like it's been a long time. You got some dining spots set up? I know you're the expert. I do. I'm not inviting myself. I mean, don't feel pressured. I know you have a very exclusive group, high-end people.

That's not the case at all. For the most part, I'm trying to keep it like there are some nights where I think it's just going to be me because there are places that don't take reservations and I'm trying to make my group as sleek as possible, which a group of one, you can kind of sneak your way into places. I do have a plan, though. I have been doing a lot of research. That's kind of what I spend most of my time doing at this point, at this point, whenever I go somewhere. I need to cheat on your research with no obligation that we're not, we don't have to go anywhere together or any of that. I would love to see. I would love to have a meal. You're acting like I would just be way too good to eat with you.

I know, no, no, but I'm not going to try to go to all your meals with you. That would suck for you. So I'm just saying, but if you shared your list on the down low, you know, I would then maybe have a couple that I could go to too. I am more than happy to share it with you. If you're a Phoenix local and you have any

recommendations, I am also all ears. So my DMs. If you're a Phoenix local and you have any recommendations,

I am also all ears. So my DMs are open, send them along. I'm very excited about some of the

meals we have coming, though. I'm going to eat my body weight and tacos over that six-day stretch.

I'll be in Mexico City this weekend. So it's going to be like 10 straight days of just me eating

nothing but tacos. I'm going to weigh 500 pounds by time this is over. But that's what the offseason is for. All right. We have a lot to get into

today. It was kind of a wild couple days in coaching news. I didn't hear anything about the Vic Fangio

stuff yesterday. I was so knee deep in conference championship games that I saw none of that until this

morning.

So we're going to talk about that.

We're going to do a little bit of a check-in on the head coaching searches in the NFL

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