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Alan Braggs. Crystal's in the chat. We've missed her. So happy that she's back, even though she

turned down my Northwestern tickets for tomorrow night. That's okay, Crystal. As we,

smart. Terrible move by Crystal. But we've got royalty to join the show today here, Adam Hogan, start off.

We do. It is the offseason and the senior bowl is going on. The Shrine Bowl just got over.

And that means it is that time of year for us to bring in our guy, Fran Duffy, who is, look at the view. He's in Mobile.

He's fantastic. It's deceptively sunny out because I know it's not actually that warm. But Fran, what's going on, man? Let's get into this draft season. Let's do it, guys. Yeah, where I'm, I am like elbow deep in this class at this point. So I'm excited to share all of my insights with you guys and talk through this class. It's excited to like talk about these players now with you because I've been thinking about them for months and I've been like chopping at the bit. Obviously you guys have been pretty busy over these last few months. Well, it's it's obviously a big one, right? Fran. I mean, we're going to we're going to be leaning on you heavily. We don't have two top 10 picks

anymore. We're not picking number one in the draft. And so this is where championships are won when you

when you hit big. I mean, obviously the Bears hit big on their draft last year. And so now

we're hoping from an offensive standpoint, they were able to do that through the draft.

And now if the Bears can do that on the defensive end, we might have something cooking here in Chicago.

Yeah, it's one of those things where when you're on the precipice, the way the bears were, you know,

things, there's there's a fragility there.

And you want to be able to keep that momentum rolling.

And so this draft absolutely is going to be critical for Ryan Poles, Ben Johnson, and the

entire Chicago Bears.

All right.

Well, Fran, before we get into some of the senior ball stuff, I know the Shrine game just

ended.

And you were over there before you went to Mobile.

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