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Well, hello, I am Matt Williamson.

It is Thursday, the 17th.

We got championship weekend on the horizon.

It's been a great day here on the locked on NFL podcast.

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So if you have one of these smart speaker devices, make sure you tell it, play. Locked on NFL. That'll be something that,

you know, when you wake up in the morning, you're getting a shower, however it is you use it.

But Mr. Sando, how are you? Mike Sando joins as he does every Thursday. What is up?

Not too much. I am awake. I'm not in the shower, but I'm ready to go.

All right, all right. You published an article earlier this week,

reviewing offseason grades. Can you just kind of give us a rundown of your logic behind these?

Yeah. Well, this is the accountability index, right? Because we all do these things,

you know, grading the draft or whatever. And so every off season, when it gets deep enough in the off season, the draft's over,

you're kind of before training camp, we will all talk to a bunch of people in the league and say,

hey, you know what, I would give the, you know, the Chicago Bears a B minus, right?

And then the season happens, and we have a different view sometimes of those

off-season moves.

You know, I might have thought before the year that Eric Ebron was a good signing,

but ended up being a great signing at 14 touchdown catches or whatever.

So, and then other things will happen like Calil Mac will be acquired,

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