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Welcome to the athletic football show.

I'm Robert Mayas, join me today.

It's my good friend Nate Tyson.

How you doing, buddy?

Doing very well. This is, I feel rejuvenated. You know, another week closer to the draft. Got a video up on YouTube. You know, just checking a lot of boxes. Tax is done. Just like everything. Just, yeah. Everything's going very, very well. Got updated some claims for my flex spending account. I am an adult. I'm an adult fully my 30s right now, but I am doing very, very well. We are rambling toward the draft here. Rumbling toward the draft here. We got a couple weeks. We are rumbling. We are rumbling collectively. A couple weeks until the draft. We're going to do another kind of pullback to look at NFL teams today.

Not specific prospects or not what we expect from this class of players entering the draft.

But where some of these teams sit on the eve of the draft, we've already done the teams that we feel like have the most at stake in this year's draft.

Naturally, it was a lot of teams at the top of the draft and a lot of teams with a ton of picks. I will venture a guess and say that at some point before the draft, we'll talk about some of the contenders and maybe what they need to do to finish off some of these championship caliber rosters, potentially in a way that the Chiefs did last year. That might be a show that we will do here over the next couple weeks. But today we're going to spend some time talking about, I don't know how to frame this. And that's a problem. Maybe we'll get to that by the end of the show. The team's in the middle. The teams that maybe we just can't really figure out, They're either at a crossroads in their team building

plan. You know, they're kind of stuck in no man's land. And they've got some needs, but not a ton.

Some teams that we really just can't quite get a handle on. And we're going to land on about

eight to ten of those teams and just try to untangle where they're at at this stage of their process today.

Yeah, each one, two, and that's what it's hard to title this because each one, I like when we

presented to or presented to each other on our Slack chat was vibes.

What are the vibes of each team and just checking it on that. You know, just a little oil check. You know, some are going to be beat the crap with 180,000 miles on that. A team based in Los Angeles might be like that. And some teams are just fresh, you know, like new tires. And they're also just trying to, you know, spruce up the rest of their interior of their car. So I'm interested to see where we go with each of these teams' discussions because it's fun.

I think all of them, I kind of have one central question that I'll use to kind of get us kicked off

and then we'll just explore things from there.

Before we dig into this list of teams, though, one piece of news that we wanted to hit coming

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