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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Ringer NFL show.

I am Stephen Ruiz.

I'm joined by DeAante Lee.

And Deante, we actually have real-life football games to talk about.

It's only preseason.

I know we joked last week about not like pouring into the film and watching this, but I got a confession to make, I couldn't resist. I didn't really watch any action

live, but once that film dropped on NFL Pro, I was all over it. I mean, it is real life in the

sense that the people on the field do have heartbeats. They are real human beings, playing football,

doing very football-esque maneuvers and

strategies. I don't know if it necessarily rises to the level of the football that will be

shouting at each other about in the regular season. But it was there. I'm just like you. I started

watching Colts Ravens on Thursday. And at first I was like,

what the fuck am I doing, man? This is Colts Ravens preseason ball. And then they actually walk out on the field. And I'm like, oh, shit, dude, I'm back in. I'm locked in on everything that's happening on the field. So I'm just as much as sicko as our fans. I think you were the one that said like every Anthony Richardson throw and dropback is going to be the most important one like the last one and you were totally right I think you were the one that said like every Anthony Richardson throw and dropback is going to be the most important one, like the last one. And you were totally right. I feel like that sack that he took that ultimately knocked him out of the game and dislocated his pinky launched like a thousand breakdown videos from every analyst across the NFL landscape. It was amazing to be back. I just love living and dying with every dropback. And that's basically what we're going to do today. Like a lot of young quarterbacks had notable performances over the weekend. And we're going to just check in on those guys. I'm going to get your thoughts on what you saw out of those guys, including JJ McCarthy played. We got Cam Ward, the first overall pitch. Shoulder Sanders played. I believe you're writing about that. We got a lot to dig into. And then later on in the show, we have a cool feature going on on the ringer.com. We're doing a bracket of the best teams of the last quarter century. We have a 32 team bracket. I know we kind of put together our ballots and that's how they formed the bracket.

We're going to run through that.

We're going to make our picks. You can vote on that on the ringers.com. There's some tough matchups in there, man. I don't think that everybody got a fair draw in this bracket. Some of that was kind of rough. No, some of those were like made for TV matchups. The 2015 Panthers and the 2024 Eagles, like, that one hurt me.

Because, like, I can't even make the argument for that one.

But we're going to get to that later.

Specifically. like made for TV matchups. The 2015 Panthers and the 2024 Eagles, like, that one hurt me.

Because like I can't even make the argument for that one. But we're going to get to that later. Specifically despite me as a Camden fan. Yes, but we're going to get to that later on in the show. But first, we're going to talk about the rookie quarterback that everybody's talking about. No, I'm not talking about the first overall pick. Of course not. We're not talking about him at all.

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