Hello, everybody. Welcome to another episode of Hock blogger mornings in the evening.

I'm Brian Mouser. I'm back for a double pod Thursday. It's a celebratory day as the NFL

schedule has been released across the league. And if you tuned in earlier to hear Real Hawk Talk

with Evan Hill and Jeff Simmons, some of this is going to be a little anti-climactic because we nailed it. We nailed it at 1230 hours before the schedule was released.

You can check that episode everywhere. And sorry for the audio version problems I had. I think we

corrected the audio problems that should be addressed. This episode is brought to you by prize picks.

And folks, we've got to some fun tonight.

So much to go through.

Apologies, I'm a little late.

Normally I would have been, you know I would have been here right at five or maybe a little early before the whole thing gets announced.

I'm single parenting this week.

My wife gets back tonight.

Glad she's having a great time.

I'm running around making dinner, you know, getting pets fed. Like, and honestly, one of the

other things I'm going to do tonight, finally, I've been teasing it. I'm going to launch HB.

Ticks, the new version. I was literally doing some code stuff right beforehand. We might crash the server tonight.

We'll see how many people visit it.

This will give you a good idea of whether or not I need to upgrade some things.

We'll find out.

But that was part of why I took a little bit extra time to get to you.

And I've been so busy.

I have not seen the Seahawks release

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