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Please like, subscribe, and share as we try to grow this community and pump out daily bengals content just for you. What up Bengal, what are new year? Who do you're going to be dumb Bengals where they're going to be Bankingles? New Year, supposedly, Joe, will not be delayed, which means we have free agency to talk about

starting tomorrow when the tampering window opens and a new collective bargaining agreement,

which has led to some deals. So we're going to start the show by talking about the CBA news,

obviously that's big news, talking about the immediate outlook for the NFL, and then, in the

spirit of free agency opening on Wednesday, but the fact that we're going to be hearing about

deals tomorrow, we're going to go through a mock off season. We did this once earlier this year,

but now we have a much better idea of the players available in the draft, and we have a better

idea of where those players might be available. So we're going to go through a mock free agency and mock draft to finish off the show.

But let's get started with the biggest news and that is that the NFL is not closing down.

The NFL has a new collective bargaining agreement which will run through 2030.

That means 10 years of labor peace, despite a very contentious and very

tight vote. That vote passing has given NFL teams some peace of mind. They know how to conduct

business and we started to see a trickle of deals coming in late in the day on Sunday with

the tampering period opening on Monday.

But let's focus on the CBA because this is a very controversial agreement that the players

voted on.

It passed by what, one and a half percent, Joe?

That's right.

60 votes was the difference between 2,000 players that voted.

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