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It is a brand new edition of NFL Explan.

Mikey Am, along with my Super Bowl champ, MROB in the house. You feeling good today? I'm feeling excellent yams. I'm breathing. My family is okay. And I get to share a podcast with the man the myth to legend himself. Mike Yams. What's up? I got to learn my lesson of asking. You are always in a good mood. It's kind of amazing. Well, because that's one thing that we have control over. We can have control over how we respond to everything. So, yeah. Yeah, no, it's a good life philosophy and mantra that I will try to implement in my own life. But, you know, one thing, not only could I say you're a Super Bowl champ and the most positive person that I know, can I use another word to describe you? It's not offensive either. Okay. It's a good thing. Trailblazer. Okay. Have you heard that before in your past? Well, not really. Okay. Please explain. I actually think it is an appropriate title for you. Because I think the one that you have heard is dual threat. Oh, okay. Now I know where you're going with it. You've been called that a couple times. Dual threat quarterback. All right. I want you to rewind for a second because when you're at Penn State, you know, the reality is back in 2006, we heard that phrase before. Like that's not something that we heard, but, like, you were legit dual threat. Like, not just a guy who could play quarterback and run a little bit or a runner who was playing quarterback. Like, you could thrive in both of those scenarios. So is that a cool title for you? I call you a tremendous room. It's cool, but to me, I think dual threat turned into a negative thing.

You get what I'm saying?

I know it's good. You know, they say the more that you can do, you can run, you can do this. But what happened was when you show a lot of these teams that you can run the football, and you are a great runner, oftentimes they say, oh, no, let's just hand them the ball and not allow them to play quarterback. All right. So you and I are going to go through this whole identity of the dual threat quarterback,

who can do what, the numbers, the whole thing.

But the modernization of NFL offenses, that is our topic today here on the NFL

Explain podcast.

There's a ton of analysis to get to.

But what do you think the biggest influence is on what we're seeing offensively and

these philosophies that have evolved over time? Man, where do I start? Yams? It's so much here.

It's so much here. When I was, when I knew we were talking about this, man, my brain just got

going because obviously everybody sees the spread system, which is in the national football league, right?

You know, when I say spread, I mean you have your five offensive alignment.

Oftentimes you have a quarterback in the shotgun with a running back, possibly the running

back is split out somewhere, and you have four wide receivers or five wide receivers,

all your eligible is just out and wide, right?

And what's happening is the defense has to adjust.

The defense has to cover guys.

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