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Welcome into another episode of the Lockdown Raiders podcast on this Thursday, January 16th, 2020.

Your boy, Q, here with you.

And today's episode is going to be a little bit different than every episode I usually normally do. I'm going to kind of go with the throwback Thursday type of theme.

I know my guy T3 Raider Fax has suggested that to me before, basically saying I should talk

to some of the older cat, some of the older Raider players from the past and have them on the show

for a throwback Thursday. So I'm kind of using that theme, but it's not exactly going to be that style. And I'm going to tell you why. First of all,

we all know by now that not only did Tom Flores not make the Hall of Fame this year for

the Centennial Class, but neither did the great Y receiver Cliff Branch, which I think is criminal.

And at first I was going to come on this show and I was really just going to rail and rant and really be angry about it because I am. I think it's just criminal.

Again, that's a guy that should definitely be in the Hall of Fame. And look, that's just a

raider that should be in Drew Pearson, the great wide receiver from the Dallas Cowboys,

who's very similar in stats and very similar in styles as a cliff branch and unfortunately for both of those guys

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