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Welcome to the athletic football show.

I'm Robert Mays.

I'm my good friend Nate Tyson.

How you doing, buddy?

I'm doing great. I watched the, Won't You Be My Neighbor documentary on Mr. Rogers last night? I don't know if you've seen that. I have seen it, yes. I want to get your heart tugged out a little bit. Goodness gracious. That was, yeah, I'm glad I did it. It's been on my list for a while. I have a Google Doc of everything I want to watch, and it's dozens and dozens of movies, TV shows, docs, and I finally knocked that one off after about four or five years after it came out. But that one, it was great. I'm glad I watched it. It's fantastic if anyone's not seen it. But if you want to tear up a little bit, that got me a couple times in an hour and a half. Speaking of film length running times, this is the second of our division previews. If you have not listened to the AFC South, which clocks in at an obnoxious length, you can go back and do that. We really enjoy that. We're going to try to be a little bit more breezy with the rest of these. But we're doing every single division here over the next few weeks. We're going to do a couple of them a week, slowly roll them out. Like I mentioned when we did the AFC South, there will be individual YouTube videos for all of these teams. If you want to go watch these, those are available on our YouTube channel. So that is around if anybody is interested. But today, we are doing the division we were going to start with before we had to kind reorganize a little bit. And that is the NFC West. And there is actually a method to the madness. When we did the ASC South first, why are we doing this? These are the teams I visited already. So it was kind of in line with what my

travels are is that these are the teams I've either visited or talked to. So that is why we're

structuring some of it this way. And we are kicking off our second one here with the NFC

West. A lot to dig into. And let's start with the favorite in the NFC West and one of the

favorites in the NFC. And that is the San Francisco 49ers. It's such a strange offseason because oftentimes

when you lose in the playoffs, usually when you lose in the playoffs, it exposes some underlying

flaw about what your team is and the way that your season ended points to how things need to be shifted the following

offseason for you to achieve your goals.

The Niners season ended because they ran out of quarterbacks.

I'm not saying they would have beaten the Eagles, but they didn't have a shot because they ran out of

quarterbacks in the NFC championship game.

It's funny that losing Mr. Irrelevant and the seventh round pick and a seventh round rookie is enough to do that to you, but it did. And then Josh Johnson gets hurt in that game. And we really never get to see or hear the end of the story for the 2020-49ers. So now they head into this year, theoretically, with more healthy quarterbacks.

I wouldn't be surprised if they kept three in order to avoid this problem again.

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