here we are locked on NFL taking you around the National Football League alongside my co-host

former NFL scout Matt Williamson I am Brian Peacock this Thursday edition of the show.

As always, we're bringing on our friend from The Athletic, Mr. Mike Sando.

We've got strength of schedule as it pertains to opposing quarterbacks,

which I think is really interesting, and it's the latest from Mike at the Athletic.

And, of course, we've got to talk about Andrew Luck.

And Mike checks in with some execs in how they feel around the National Football League

about the stunning retirement of Andrew Luck.

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NFL. And with that, let's get it going. Mike, Matt, how are you, fellas, today? Great. Yep,

good to be here. So the title of your latest at the Athletic, or one of your last two articles, is

this is courageous, this is what defines him. League execs react to Andrew Lux

retirement. What was the number one takeaway when you talk to people around the league

about this stunning development? Okay, so like initially, I think people react from a team

standpoint of what does this mean for the team? What the heck is he doing? I mean, I think you really wonder, we didn't have information initially.

Then when he spoke, I think we had a sense of sort of the humanity of this and just what he was going through.

And so the people that I spoke with, I thought, made a good point that, look, you look at how luck played the game.

The toughness,

very team-oriented, and him making this move to do this, as opposed to doing what would be

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