Good morning, everybody.

Welcome to another episode of Hockblogger Mornings.

I'm Brian Mouser, and it is, yes, it's a Thursday.

I'm going to keep trying to remember the days as they blend together over the summer break.

Hopefully you all are enjoying this short period of time where the Northwest is the best place,

I think, on the planet to be.

You got 70s, 80s, you know, clear sky, no humidity.

It's time to be outside, time to enjoy yourself.

Hopefully you're getting a chance to do that

wherever you are hopefully you guys are enjoying your summer as much as i am and and we're heading

towards july 4th that would be uh tomorrow yeah in fact that means i'm just remembering my

best friend growing up uh sean beale how you doing out there sean he he turns 50 today

so uh got to go out there and make sure i wish him a happy birthday i'm going to head down to

portland in a few weeks and go golfing with some of my high school buddies and looking forward

to doing that and uh today on this episode of hawkbls, we're going to talk about inside linebackers.

We're going to continue our march through the NFC West, every position group, looking at

all the players that are going to matter for deciding this division this year.

And we're going to look specifically today at a group that used to be, I think, like a strength of the division.

It wasn't that long ago that you would look to the NFC West for the best linebackers in football.

You're talking Bobby Wagner and KJ. Wright and Fred Warner and,, you know, Dre Greenlaw and even further back,

you're talking about, you're talking about Patrick Willis and Navarro Bowman. And there's been some

great ones. There have been some great ones over the years. And when you look at it now, as we go through it today, I think

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