Here we are the new locked on NFL alongside the scout Matt Williamson. I'm Brian Peacock taking you around the league on the Locked-on on podcast network the number one daily sports podcast

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at williamson nfl and i'm excited to talk to Mike Sando today.

He is our guest.

We're going to get into the quarterback tiers that he dropped that sent shockwaves

throughout the NFL community.

And basically, Mike, my goal today is to not ruin the rapport Matt has built with you here

on the program and dating back to all your years together at ESPN.

So welcome to the show.

Hey, it's good to be here. Now, welcome to you. Oh, thank you. Yeah, it's awesome. I've had a lot

of fun with Matt and I'm excited to jump on here. Hopefully often and weekly we can keep this thing

going with you and Matt. And so I'm looking forward to it. And folks, we are planning on bringing Mike back every Thursday. It's been an

awesome contributor. So that's the plan going forward too. So now it's just three of us. It's an extra

voice and it's going to be good stuff. So pretty excited. Let's roll. Absolutely excited about it.

And first of all, congrats Mike on your new role, senior rider at the athletic. And I'm excited

to see where that goes and where you're able to

take this thing on the new platform there. The quarterback tiers of 2019 has dropped.

55 coaches and executives ranked all NFL starting quarterbacks into one of five tiers,

for those of you who have not read it, and if you haven't, you got to go to theathletic.com

and check that out. And my big takeaway from it,

or my initial takeaway, at least from it, was how large tier number one was with eight

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