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having talked to former washington coach ron river whom you're going to hear from in a minute.

And I talked to Rivera about his coaching future. Wasn't sure if he'd want to retire? Well, he does not.

Why he wants to continue, what he thinks of Josh Harris as an owner. Remember, this is a guy who just

fired him a week ago and what he thinks of him. So I think I don't know that you'd be surprised,

but I think you'd probably be pleased. The coach-centric model, what he thinks about it now,

how that came about, his regret of how he handled the Sam Howl situation initially. So we get into

all that. Yes, there are going to be some questions that you say, why didn't you ask this?

Well, because I had 35 minutes and there's some things you're not going to get to.

And there are some things I wish I'd been able to get to if I had 35 more minutes because we could have gone down a lot more roads.

But I appreciate him joining me because it's never easy to talk about a week later about, hey, why did it not work when you were a coach here in the end?

He also talks about the public reception he's had when he's gone out to dinner a couple

times. And I think, you know, I think that's made him probably feel a little bit better.

So get to get it to all that. And so stay tuned in a minute for my interview with Ron Rivera.

Before that, not a whole lot new on the coaching front. We know that they're,

we know who they're interested in and keep repeating that. We know that they're going to have

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