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Welcome back to another Around the League podcast.

I'm Greg Rosenthal, and I am in a room filled with heroes.

Not as full as usual, but Mark Sessler is here.

Chris Wesleyan is here.

Kay Rich, behind the glass is here.

How are you all doing tonight?

We're good.

I think it's a glass half full of heroes.

Something like that.

Yeah, we're going to have fun.

This was kind of a crazy week.

It was very crazy.

A lot of road upsets, a lot of road wins in the early

game. Strange stuff. You know it's a crazy week when Riley Cooper's making plays after the catch

and Mike Shula for the Panthers is calling a creative game and Ron Rivera is going for it on

fourth down every day? I mean, that's when you know it's crazy.

This was the kind of Sunday where we sit the four of us, and today Dan is not with us, as listeners can already tell. A cube of four facing each other 24-7. And at one point, Greg just

got up out of his chair as he normally does in here, and just marched up and down the aisle.

I don't know what was going through your system at that point,

but you were more excited than I've seen at any point this season.

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