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It is the end of the NFL season, but this is the NFL Players Squad Show.

I'm Anthony Armstrong, joined by Cadreus Mal, the professor, Lincoln Kennedy.

We got Bradford Banta and Jeff Skanina all here joining me. Mark Collins jumping in. He got to have the perfectly timed intro. So appreciate you making it in here. Yep. Super Bowl just ended, y'all. Super Bowl 60 is in the books. Another season is in the books. And the Seattle Seahawks, Sam Darnold and crew.

They're raising the Lombardi Trophy.

They won 29 to 13 over the New England Patriots over there in San Francisco.

I know one of the biggest news that I saw, at least, as of late, and y'all can chime in on it

because I heard that Sam Darn darnals like actually down 71k

after playing all these games in california this year uh and they then got after his pocketbooks

a little bit brad um no doubt look i was telling another group chat about like no my first year

in the league i got eight 8W-2s.

I didn't know what the heck was going on all this day. Everybody wanted in your pocketbook, but what did you got, Mark? Well, guys, you know, when you make the playoffs, you know your salary stops. Yeah. Right? Everybody takes a pay cut. Yeah. You take a pay cut. So, you know, you're playing for that ring now.

So you may be arbitrary number. Right? Everybody takes a pay cut. Yeah. You take a pay cut. So, you know, you're playing for that ring now.

So you may be arbitrary number.

You may be making, let's say, 30,000 a game.

But when the playoffs start, that drastic drastically drops to maybe 10 for the wild card,

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