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Welcome to another edition of the Around the NFL podcast.

My name is Greg Rosenthal, and I am here in a room overstuffed with heroes. Mark Sessler, Chris Wesseling,

and back in the studio, Patrick Claibon. Yes. It must be the all season, baby.

I didn't want to say it. I didn't want to say it because it's not really, it's not right. It's not fair that infers things that aren't true Patrick Claybond.

But Dan Hansis, our great host, is with his family near the coal mines right now.

And who would we ask first for the first to kick off the offseason, then Patrick Claybott.

Well, I mean, the joke would be that you would ask several people.

No.

But we didn't.

We didn't.

We haven't had you in the studio since you've been, you know, rocking a very thick, dark beard.

There's a lot of going on.

You have a new look, and it's going very well for you and

people seeing you on television can't help a comment when they observe yeah i think it's because

i was so boring probably before and that's why and that was the inspiration it was like wow

i'm nearly invisible and so um i didn't shave uh out of sheer laziness and just a, I was in a dark place.

Wow. Now you feel seen. Yeah, I feel seen. I see why people like do things and wear fancy

clothes and everything because people. Greg did not grow a beard because he thought he was boring.

That I can promise you. That reminds me of a theory.

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