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This is the Athletic Football Show.

Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. I'm Robert Mays.

Really fun show for you guys today.

Later in the show, we're going to be joined by Adam Johns from The Athletic to do our team visit with the Chicago Bears, who I'm not sure if you've heard, just made a somewhat significant quarterback change.

After that, Tad and Wynn is going to join us to break down the evolution of the Rams offense under Sean McVeigh, what it looked like when it was taken league by storm, what it looked like in its kind of dull middle period, and what they've done this year to kind of get back to the upper echelon of NFL teams. Before we do any of that, though, my good friend Sam Monson from Pro Football Focus is here to do a fun little exercise that I thought would be worth doing three weeks in. We'll talk about that in a second. First of all, Sam, how you doing? Doing good. That's why we bought PFF.com. So we don't have to stumble over Pro Football Focus the whole time. I probably should have said that. It probably would be made easier. But so we're going to break, we're going to do something that I was, you know, I had this idea before the season started where I was thinking about doing this about three weeks in where you take, I think three weeks is a good time to do this because week one, you can be suppressed. Week two is an overreaction to week one all the time? Week three tends to be a trend.

So I thought this would be the right time to go back in time a little bit.

If we had a time machine and you could go back to before the season started, let's say

August 15th before you made all of your preseason predictions, what are the two or three

things that you would tell yourself?

So we each picked a couple, and I want to start with you.

If you could go back, I just watched Back to the Future, which probably inspired this.

But if you could go back to just the middle of August and tell yourself one thing, what would it be?

Yeah, I like this because even just coming out of Monday night football this week,

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