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Welcome to the athletic football show.

I'm Robert Mays, joining me today.

It's my good friend Nate Tyson.

How you doing, buddy?

Doing very well. Put the fours up. Put the fours up fourth quarter. Here we are. Free agency day four. Put those fours up. But I'm doing very well. Some interesting. Some news every night, it seems like, that we get to marinate on throughout the day and then get to talk about a few hours how are you doing? How are you doing in the, is it the big easy? I'm in the big easy. I'm in New Orleans. It's been great so far.

My friends rolling in. We had a wonderful afternoon as I was eating a po-boy and keeping track of

what was going on in the free agency world. What? Shrimp po-boy?

Shrimp and oyster is what I went with. Oh, you went half and half. Yeah, it was very, very good. So I'm starting it off right. We had a fantastic meal yesterday. I'll do a full New Orleans food recap next week after I'm done. We don't want to do it halfway. So just a quick heads up. Not a ton to get to today. So we'll get through some of these fairly quickly. We're not going to do any kind of big picture wrap-up stuff yet just because I'm going to save that for early next week into maybe the middle of next week. So kind of some winners and losers, big-picture thoughts about free agency. We're going to have plenty of time for that as some more of these signings roll in and the dust clears a little. So today we're just going to kind of pick off

six, eight signings and maybe some conversations about teams and how those signings fit into some

plans today. But we've already knocked out most of this. Things are starting to die down.

I think that's kind of the big picture takeaway here is that most of the big dominoes have fallen. And we're going to talk

about physically the biggest domino of them all to fall in free agency. And that is Orlando

Brown signing with the Cincinnati Bengals. Okay. Tom Pelliserro had it first Metafal Network four

years, $64 million, a $31 million signing bonus.

Interaport reports that it's $43 million guaranteed.

Seems shockingly low, right?

Yeah.

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