Good morning. Welcome to another episode of Hock blogger Mornings. I am Brian Mhouser. It is a beautiful Monday here in the PNW. I hope you are all getting ready for the week ahead, whether that's work, vacation, whatever you have going on this time of year.

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picks as always uh which has been a pretty fun ride lately we'll talk about that in a little bit

today's episode is a mishmash a collage if you will of topics where we are going to start

with a conversation about what June 1st

means in the NFL calendar and why Miles Garrett's name is going to come up now more now

than it has before and why there is a specific little window that we're in where it actually is a

valid conversation to have whether the Browns will trade Miles Garrett. Then at 9 a.m.

Pacific time we will welcome in Aref Hassan from wide left to continue our series on the way that

people can make a business, make a living, a full-time living, covering the

NFL. And in this case, after we talked to the bootleg guys last week, which is a lot of fun,

more on the video side, obviously, Areef has built his business on the writing side of things.

And so we'll talk about substack.

We'll talk about some of that stuff and the staff that he started to bring together

and his approach.

So excited to welcome in,

friend of the show, Arif Hassan, at 9 a.m.

But let's get right into it with the June 1st significance. And, uh, you're going to hear about

this, but I figured maybe it would be helpful to kind of get the, the concept a little bit more

clearly for people that do not follow all the details of the cap. I would recommend, obviously, Evan Hill and our crew is really

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