Good morning, everybody, the simple handicap for Friday, July 26th. Thank you for making me a part of your morning.

It is Friday morning. The end of the work week, hopefully, for everybody listening to the podcast. If you're on holidays, hey, you're doing it right. We've got football six days from now. Hall of Fame game kicks off. We're officially back to football. You get one more weekend to enjoy it. I'm going to enjoy this weekend as well.

The days are counting now.

Days are getting shorter two.

Football season just right around the corner.

Okay, here we go. Recap episode. I'll talk about the seven previews that have already been published.

I'll talk about my personal outlook for each team that we have already discussed here on the podcast feed.

I'll also reference what I thought was interesting from what the beat reporters that have

been featured here on the podcast have had to say.

I'll try to keep it like three to four minutes per team and maybe go a little bit longer

on a couple that I have stronger opinions on.

But we'll see how rusty I am.

This is my first solo podcast, as you know, during the regular season. It is me and by myself every single

day. I've had the benefit of guests kind of burdening the load a little bit here through

previews. I will make up for it today. Lots of opinions to share on these seven teams.

Let's go back to episode one. New England Patriots aired last Wednesday had Evan Lazar from

Patriots.com on the show to talk about the New England Patriots. My outlook for the

Pats in 24 is bleak. It's a pretty simple outlook. I think defensively, although there are

nice names and there's some great individual talent,

this team's not overcoming the loss of Bill Belichick.

I'm sorry, it's not happening.

That is losing the best defensive coach in NFL history.

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