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read my work on ESPN.com. At some point soon, over the next week before the final cuts, we will be doing a 53-man roster

projection that will run on ESPN Plus.

So there you go, just a little programming note.

And I know I told you that the next time you'd hear from me would be Tuesday morning.

Well, I guess I kind of lied because I wanted to go over some roster battles and

position battles entering the second preseason game against the Baltimore Ravens. So the next

podcast of this will be wrapping up that game. That will come out Tuesday morning. I'll be doing

that with the voice of the commanders, Bram Weinstein. So that will be the next time you hear me

after this one. This one can get you ready for the game, but also not just the game, but it can

get you ready for the next week or so as these position battles unfold and get down to the end.

The final cuts will be made on August 29th. So let's take a look at those. Now, this morning, the, the commanders

basically made their kicker decision, but to me, this was where it was going to go all along.

They released Badgley. They're going to keep Joey Sly. During camp, you really didn't see much

of a difference when they would have, I guess, their little kicking competitions. It was more like, okay, you know, you take these three kicks from this distance,

this distance, and this distance, you know, between like 33, 43, 51 yards, whatever. They were pretty

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