Welcome in, welcome, welcome, welcome to Friday of the Watcher Parkons podcast and Oregon Week.

Not your average episode that's going on right now.

I am going to do, I guess what I'm calling an organ primer.

The team, every Friday, would do their primer it was a

28 minute i believe was on the clock 28 minute primer that ran through every single

quick offensive defensive thing we'd go we'd put up looks against each other. The special teams would run out,

practice. No ball, right? There's no actual plays being ran, nobody being hit, but we'd run

around in our helmets and you'd put on the final preparations for the game. And we don't normally

do that around here in the podcast sense, but this week, with everything that's built up over really the last two weeks,

felt like it necessitated a culmination, at least in my mind. This is ultimately our podcast,

and so if I have more thoughts and I want to put them out into the ether, I can do that.

And I just so happen to have a little time today and a lot

of thoughts around this game, the magnitude of this game, rolling around in my head. And it just feels like for me,

I needed to put that out there. And I did outline some things here. This isn't a completely scripted show, but more than

my usual, you know, preview and recap episodes with the boys, I put down some notes to help us

guide me through the thoughts here. Because I really do think that we can lay this out in a way that sort of brings everything

about the last two weeks and all the outside opinions into one digestible format in a way

to process this game as we head into it on Saturday.

And I'm nervous.

I'm anxious.

And I rarely feel this way.

We've talked about it on the show how I don't normally feel those fan emotions.

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