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Welcome to the athletic football show.

I'm Robert Mays.

I'm my good friend Nate Tyson.

How you doing, buddy?

I'm doing very well. We're on, we're onto defense. All pro teams. On to defense. This one, I, I want to say I'm disappointed. We were very, we had a lot of overlap with offense, but as I've thought about it, it's like, that's kind of, I think it's going to be a lot of people. And I think this defense is going to be awesome because it's going to be we're going to have some variance here

that I think it's going to be a lot of people. And I think this defense is going to be awesome because it's going to be,

I think we're going to have some variance here that I think is to be really interesting to talk about. I think that's what defense is because you can't just rely on like, oh, look at the top six receivers, you know. It's a lot of eye holder. It's a lot of what flavor do you like? It's a lot of what sort of stuff do you value?

It says a lot about you, I think, how you vote for some of these positions on an all pro team.

That's exactly. My all pro team has got a lot of, it's got a lot of Nate Flair on there. So if you've noticed my tweets over the last couple of years, you might recognize a couple of these guys. So if you have not listened to the offense show, that should be available in your feeds.

Just a quick disclaimer.

We're recording this on Friday, January 6th.

So the stats we're going to use are only through 17 games.

This is coming out the following week, but I did not say that on the offense show.

I should have, but just wanted to make that clear before we dug into it. So if you have not listened to the offense show, it should be available to you. We're going to do the defense today. A couple small quirks will get to it when we get to certain positions. I did two edges and two interior first team, second team, and now it's edge rusher and interior defensive linemen. At least it was last year. So I think that's important. They still have an outside linebacker distinction. I don't really understand that. I just have two linebackers. Every, yeah, two off ball linebackers. That's what I did as well. And then I personally did slot. And I know we just, we had like, we had a little, this was fun though. I liked our discussion last night trying to figure this out. I sort of did. I guess is where I landed on it.

So we can talk about it when we get there. We just, we had like, we had a little, this, this was fun, though. I liked our discussion last night trying to figure this out.

I sort of did.

I guess is where I landed on it. So we can talk about it when we get there. Yeah. So we can talk about it when we get there. But I started my list as I was going through this and I opened up a Google Doc. And I said, okay, all pro defense. I started with edge rushers because writing Nick Bosa into my first team was the easiest thing that I could do in a 2022 all pro team on defense.

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