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I'm great. Good to be with you. Ready to run through the North.

Yeah. I feel like there's a raptors or a game of thrones joke here, right? Maybe.

Absolutely. Actually, no.

Are you a, are you a, are you a, are you a thrones guy? Did you watch that?

I'm actually not. So I don't know if this is a, I'm sure it puts me in the minority, but I actually have not, you know, I know that probably puts you in.

I would guess that if you took the entire world, it would put you to the majority. You know what I mean? Like, we tend to think it's like, look at all the people that watch the Super Bowl.

That's actually like a small percentage of the pop. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's, you know, pop culture, Twitter, but I feel like I'm probably healthier because I'm out of the discourse there.

I don't know. Maybe I can. Yeah. I mean, you're definitely like, you're definitely a better person for not watch, for not watching games from a, from a, from a violence and, and, and various other things.

Perspective any, let's get to the North, the Bears, we will start in Chicago, where the Bears added this off season Andy Dalton, Damian Williams, Desmond Truffont, Jeremiah, a tattoo of note.

They also retained Alan Robinson on the franchise tag. It doesn't seem like he's really happy to play there. Mario Edwards and a Germain Fettie lost Mitchell, Trabisky, who went to the bills, Kyle Fuller, who signed with them 35 seconds with the Broncos.

And Roy Robertson Harris, what grade, Cody, would you give the Bears for their off season? Yeah, I gave it a D. I know it's, I know it's popular to kind of pile on the Bears, but it's just that's because it's the smart thing to do. I mean, people see what it is. And honestly, I'm not really thrilled with what any of the NFC North teams did, but I look at Detroit Green Bay and Minnesota and we'll get to them, but I look at them as kind of, you know, treading water and the Bears are sinking. I mean, that's, that's just how I look at it.

There was one team that didn't hit the mark this off season. I think it was Chicago. And look, I get that Andy Dalton has a chance to be an upgrade on Nick Foles. I know we've just conversation has been beaten to death.

He's got a chance. He's got the staff connections. But I mean, I think this off season should have been about taking a big swing at quarterback. And you can swing big and miss big, but I think the one thing that you shouldn't have done is settle for basically the most.

I guess Luke warm option on the market. And that's, to me, that's Andy Dalton. I know that, you know, Mitchell Trubisky departing. You're losing more upside in this exchange for Andy Dalton.

So yeah, I just, I didn't love it. I think they downgraded that corner, downgraded.

You know, Alan Robinson, like you said, he probably doesn't want to be there unless they get a big money extension done. That really doesn't do much for me.

Just not a whole lot of inspiring moves there Chicago. I agree with you. I mean, look, the problem. It's settled. That's the perfect, it's a perfect word for it. And it's not even like Ryan Pace and Matt Niggie got scared and we're like, oh, it's just settle for Andy Dalton. We don't, you know, they didn't really have a choice. I mean, that was sort of the man. And that's not a, you know, that's, that's not like giving them a pass. It's giving them more blame. I mean, they put themselves in the position not to have the ability via draft assets via

you know, roster maneuverability, salary cap flexibility, you know, quite quality, you know, tradable assets on your team. They were unable to go out and try to make a move in the trademark. And just the way that things shook out with James Winston going back to, you know, New Orleans and, you know, the reality of not being able to roll with Mitchell Trabisky again, even though I did agree with you. Like, what does Andy Dalton give you? Like, what? I mean, I'm not saying you should try.

Trabisky out there again, but I mean, guy, you got so much invested in him like, is Andy Dalton that? I mean, is it like, you think you're going to win 14 games with Andy Dalton?

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