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Welcome to the athletic football show.

I'm Robert Mays, joining me today.

It's my good friend Nate Tyson.

Nate, how you doing, buddy?

I'm doing great. Mail time. It is mail time. It's awesome. I'm doing very well. This is, I like our mailbags. I love our fans, so it's a great combination that we get mailbagged from our fans. And we get to talk about it. You guys have great ideas, so ready to dive into this episode. Very excited to do these. We're going to do them weekly all the way through essentially training camp, I would assume. So I'm going on my honeymoon, which is part of the reason for that. So I'm going to be gone for a couple weeks, even though I'm going to be on the show while I'm gone. So we're going to do these essentially every single week, probably through the end of June. And we really, really appreciate the

thought you guys put into them. I mean, opening the inbox yesterday and going through these,

first of all, so many of you said so many very nice things, which I deeply appreciate. So thank you

for everyone that sent along a warm, kind note because it really does matter and mean a lot to us.

Second of all, they're great ideas. So everyone that sent in a question, everyone that took the time out of their day to do it, we sincerely appreciate it. I said thank you to some of you. I can't say thank you to all of you. I just didn't have time to do it. But just know that every single person who sent one in, we appreciate you taking the time to do that. So we're going to dig into our first one today, and we're going to kick it off with

a voicemail. Kent, lay it on us.

Hey, guys, Eric here.

So my question is related to the lifespan of running backs and how they're used nowadays.

And it's oftentimes seen as you just get one, use them on one contract, and it's generally

frowned upon a lot of times to give them a second contract.

It just strikes me as odd in the modern NFL when, in theory, you know, this is the best

that training and nutrition and health in general has been and guys tend to be playing longer

at some other positions.

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