Ladies and gentlemen, welcome once again to the Packernet podcast.

I am your host and resident fanalyst. As always, Ryan Schlipp. Check us out online,

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So I might be getting ahead of myself. Maybe we'll do one thing today, one thing tomorrow, another thing the next day. But here's what I'd like to get

accomplished. Let's just say in the near future. We've got to do the recap. And we're obviously not

going to do the, here's the Sunshine and Rainbows recap like last week, which maybe that's my fault. Maybe I cursed the freaking team by only highlighting the positive and the football gods are like, well, that's, then now you're going to lose because you shouldn't do that. I don't know. I don't really know the rules. To be honest, I don't have a rule book on all the curses. I just try to avoid them as best as I can.

We'll make sure we never do that again. Here's another thing. You may have noticed I tend to get

very, very, very, very, very annoyed when people make assertions and that's it. That's as far as it goes.

Assertions, I don't know if you know this, they don't have a lot of value. I make assertions sometimes, and I try to make it known that I'm just saying stuff. I don't know that it's true, but this is kind of how I'm feeling right now. It's a big difference between an assertion and actually doing hard work

to back up that assertion or to demonstrate how I came to a concrete conclusion. A conclusion

and an assertion being the same thing is a bad thing. When all you've done is make a claim

wildly out of the air based on how we're feeling, and that's also my concrete conclusion.

Not a good thing.

It's okay to have a theory, and then what should follow a theory is to actually do some work to decide whether or not that's true, or better than even forming a theory is to just generate a

question and then investigate the question. And then after thorough investigation, that's when

your conclusions come out. But since we don't want to do that, and since I'm seeing a lot of

whining and complaining and just making up crap, I want to actually go back and analyze a lot of these

things and decide what exactly happened and why. And I know I said I have no intention to

going back and looking at this game, but I tell you what, that's the exact opposite of what's

going to happen. We're going to look at, as far as I'm concerned, every single play, at least on

offense, every single one. So make sure that

you get all your claims in, make sure everything that you think, throw it in there,

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