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Welcome to another edition of the Around the NFL podcast.

I'm Greg Rosenthal.

Alongside me here in a virtual room, not quite filled with heroes,

is Mark Sessler. I'm still in Japan. You're back in L.A. We're making this happen, Mark.

Yeah, you know, this show has been a little bit different than others, I'd say right out of the

gate, because we're starting a little bit later, because what time is it there? It is 7.30 in the morning just had to kick my daughter, Alice, out of our shared bedroom for the vacation. Yeah, I like that. I'm in the in-laws house. Yeah, we try to, typically, like, we don't over-plan shows days in advance. It's kind of like in these six or seven hours before you start, you'd be a bunch of texting.

And so I realized, you know, I had some pressing questions for Greg. And I realized like, wait a minute. It's like 2.12 a.m. and I'm probably blowing up his phone. And like, we never really communicated until about 10 minutes before we kick off here. We did some plans. We got a nice show here considering. I think actually the fact we had to plan a little bit, you're right.

I think it's a 16 hour difference, which is very confusing. I'm all the way into Friday morning. You're Thursday afternoon. But we're pretty chunky here. We got news, some news. We haven't done a show in, I think 10 days, something crazy. I was on the last show. It was a while ago, a week and a half ago. Longest, we're quiet all year. And yet, there isn't that much news. We've got Jordan Rodrigue, who's coming in from the Athletic very shortly, who's going to talk about her great series, play callers, great podcast series, but she's going to stick around for our

QB rankings. So this is a big show. Like the two QB index writers of the last two years,

they've come together and we've combined and made a QB rankings. And then Jordan will just

like tell us where we're wrong. Just tear it apart, I hope. Yeah, she's cruel.

Let's just bring her in instead of just talking about her.

We've had her on many times before.

She famously told us, and we all agree that Alan Robinson was going to have a monster year last year.

You shouldn't have brought that up right before the show.

But she also did a great job on some Monday night. Football recaps, and more importantly, you just did a bang-up job on this

podcast series about the Kyle Shanahan coaching tree, which you can check out on all your podcast

distributors, the play callers. Welcome, Jordan.

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