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Welcome to the athletic football show.

I'm Robert Mays.

Joining me today, it's our Washington Commander's writer at The Athletic and a man who has been

extremely busy over the last week or so.

It's Ben Standick.

Ben, thank you very much for doing this, man.

I wish it was only the last week I was busy.

But yes, I appreciate the time, Robert.

We wanted to kind of take a step back from all of the draft coverage and really let this have

its own moment within the feed and have an actual conversation about it because it's a huge

moment. And this feels different than sales that have happened recently. Even something like

the Carolina Panther sale, which area Richardson that was kind of pushed forward because

of his own actions and some of the controversy surrounding

that this is different because this is a multi-decade reign of terror that is now coming to an end.

And I don't even say that as a joke.

You know, my first thought when I saw the news that the commanders had not been sold,

but the process has kind of been kicked into high gear and probably

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