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Welcome to the athletic football show.

I'm Robert Mays.

Joining me today.

It's my good friend Nate Tyson.

How you doing, buddy?

I'm doing great. This is a fun discussion today that I'm excited Mayas. Joining me today. It's my good friend Nate Tyson. How you doing, buddy? I'm doing great.

This is a fun discussion today that I'm excited to dive right into.

But overall, even before the discussion, I am doing very, very well. On a great workout kick, by the way, you'd be very proud of me. Yeah, when you see yourself on camera for nine straight hours and you start looking at your jowls from the side angle. You start really, that workout cardio streak really gets an uptick. And that's what happened to me after checking myself out on YouTube for a couple hours. Well, you'll be happy to know that I pushed my final wedding suit fitting back a week. I was like, you know, I was like, you know, I need a little bit more of a buffer between the Kansas City trip and fitting back into that thing. That's the actual reason is that I forgot our final, uh, then you walk through was last Friday. I like the other one booked, but I, I'm still taking the extra week. So I feel pretty good about that. What? What? Did you do a weight gain check after kansas city

mine was seven pounds yeah mine was probably in that range yeah i think it was like 180 when we

left i was probably like 187 when we got home that sounds right yeah yeah i was 231 when i left 238 when i got

back and i yeah my goal is 225 so's, we got a long way to go.

My first checkpoint's your wedding. Then the second checkpoints in our first week of July, my cousin's wedding. And then the third checkpoint will be like, okay, after, you know, paternity leave, ends in July. Then we'll, then we'll see where we're at because I have no excuses to not get in shape this summer. It's just a constant battle against the barbecue. that's where we're at right now.

All right, here's what we're doing today.

Okay, we've alluded to this, I don't know, 100 times on the show over the last couple months. It's this idea of where the NFC hierarchy sits right now. We thought about a few different ways to tackle this, and I think the most illustrative way, is to look at the quarterback outlooks for all the NFC teams and loosely rank them as a way to kind of think

about where the conference is as a whole. A few ground rules, because the moment I threw a little

bit of red meat out onto the Twitter world, people

are just already being like, well, what about this guy?

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