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You can find us there as part of Empire Media, AMPIRE. Always much appreciated when you tune in. Don't forget, you can read my work on ESPN.com. Have some new stuff up there about Zach Ertz and what's going on with him, which of course I'm going to address right now,

but you can also read about it on ESPN.com.

So also a couple other things before I get into my second thoughts and the AAA game review, et cetera, or more of a AAA second thoughts review. But don't forget for on Tuesday night, the live stream, Bram Weinstein and I,, the Voice of the Commanders, at 7.30 Eastern Time.

I know it's going to be a lot of fun since they've won eight in a row, right? What isn't jolly about talking about a team that's lost eight games in a row? So maybe we'll try and talk about something else. I don't know because, you know, there are some big picture things to discuss with this team. I'm not going to rehash the Minnesota game because by that point, folks, whatever, right? Now, I'm going to talk a little bit about it here, but how it pertains to what's going on in this situation. So anyway, but that's 7.30 Eastern time. And then for you club members, I'll be doing a private Zoom on this week. I believe it's Thursday this week. So I'll stay tuned for that and there you go.

So let's get to the second thought.

So first, well, let's go to the injuries first because obviously the biggest thing is Zach

it's now done for the year.

And you have to wonder what this means for his career.

You just turned 35.

He tore his ACL.

You hope that it's only just the ACL and that there's not anything worse beyond that. All we know is it was the ACL. That was a tough hit. And, you know,

so it's very unfortunate for Ertz. Like I said, he turned 35 in November. It's a nine to, you know,

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