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Well, hello, hello, hello.

I am Matt Williamson.

It is Thursday.

And as this is the case every Thursday here on the Lockdown NFL podcast, the flagship of the

Lockdown Network, I talk with my old friend Mike Sando. Mike, how are you?

I'm doing well. Happy New Year to you, man. Happy New Year to you. I'm going to dig right

into it. It's playoff week, enough of the chit-chat. You have two articles. I think you write

these every year, correct? I do, yeah. Okay, I thought so.

The first one is you rank the open head coaching jobs, and in this case it goes from one to eight.

And then later in the show, you rank all the playoff teams in certain categories, and we'll get to that in a minute.

But let's talk coaching vacancies. And on Tuesday,

I talked to you guys about brief thoughts myself, but I'd rather bounce them off Michael here.

So you have a tie at the top. Can you explain that, please? Because I sort of disagree.

Yeah. So what I did, well, people do disagree with it. That's why there's a divide at the top.

Basically, I talked to four people in the league, a couple executives, a guy who's more in the coaching realm.

You know, one of them was in, I think, more of a salary cap.

There's somebody in there who's been a general manager before, those types of guys.

So they were split. A couple of them were pretty strong.

They thought Green Bay was the best opening.

A couple of them were pretty strong and thought Cleveland was the best opening.

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