Contracts, salary caps, why do our favorite teams make some of the moves they do?

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It's time for the Business of Sports with Andrew Brand.

Welcome back to another edition of the Business of Sports with Andrew Brand, trying to take you inside the curtain, and no better person to do that with.

Then the general manager of the Atlanta Falcons, this week's Super Bowl participant.

What a great season.

What great to have him.

Good friend with me.

Lots of mutual friends.

Glad to have you on the podcast, Thomas.

Thanks for having me.

I look forward to chatting about everything under the sun.

Indeed. I know it's a busy time, and I know there's a lot of Hosanna's being thrown

your way. I would imagine you're trying to keep level ahead and just focus on the goal,

which is this weekend against the Patriots. I think any time you're going into a big game like

this, I mean, there are so many potential distractions.

And mainly as a general manager, you're trying to eliminate as many distractions for your head coach, first of all,

because that's where my ultimate sort of focus is to make sure I'm supporting Dan properly and well.

It's also, you know, indirectly helping, you know, eliminate some of the distractions for the team.

And that's always a goal, of course.

I think this team, though young and though few participants in the Super Bowl, you know,

to this point, comparatively speaking to the Patriots who have, I don't know if it was 20 to 30,

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