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Today is Tuesday, October 26th. I'm Robert Mays. I am thrilled to welcome for this week's mailbag. My good friend, Lindsay Jones, Lindsay, how are you? I am great. I am so excited to finally get the invite to the mailbag pod. Well, you're on once a week anyway. I know, I know. I know. I try to get other people on, but I just like doing this with people I enjoy having conversations with, and you're one of those people. So I knew that it would be easy breezy. And we've done these before on our kind of a regular midweek show. So it's always fun to see what sort of weird questions you guys bring to us. Unfortunately, this has been kind of a downer of a week. But you guys still brought it. So I'm really excited to get into this.

There was a dark energy to some of the questions that were asked.

I don't know whether it's the spooky season or whether it's been the weather around most of the country.

It's been disgusting here the last couple days, just rainy and cold and windy.

I don't know if it was yesterday's slate of games and some of the outcomes, but there

was a lot of deep, deep thoughts about what it all means in the mailbag this week.

We'll get to some of those.

The first one, I just had to acknowledge this, Casey McClellan asks, if you had to click,

the very average Adam Sandlin movie style remote, and you told it to fast

forward to when the Bears have a great quarterback and a great offense, do you think you just

fast forward to your funeral?

It's one of the first questions I saw in the mailbox this morning.

It's like, Jesus.

Getting started on a Monday morning and on the right note. Also, I appreciated Ben Bacqunatt, his question. I don't know if I got that right. It was a Menzinger's related Bears email. He said, Bears, I love you, but you're freaking me out, which I really appreciated. He knows exactly how to get my attention. So congratulations on that, Ben. Speaking of big, what does it all mean questions? Let's get to our first

voice bill. Hey, this is Darby from South Carolina, big bingles fan. Obviously, I'm coming

off the high of that amazing Ravens win. I just have to say our defense just has taken what just feels like such a monumental leap from

last year being one of the worst defenses in the league, honestly.

And now to hold the Braven's to 17 points and just Lamar Jackson, that offense to so many

just desperate fourth down calls.

I just feel like we've made such a leap there, and I feel like the media has been a little

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