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I'll have a story up later this week about the commanders' offseason where things stand now.

In a minute, I'll be joined by Mike Jones from the athletic as we discuss the commanders from a national perspective,

but also kind of looking at some of the other NFC teams.

Also, a story that Mike wrote a week or so ago about the owners, not just Josh Harris,

but all the owners in the NFL, where Josh Harris stands as far as his desire to win.

We kind of go down that road, Jayton Daniels, and why Mike likes what they've done this

offseason.

So stay tuned for that.

And also, I will be back on Thursday with another episode.

So join me there.

Anyway, that's it for me, folks.

Here's my conversation with the athletics, Mike Jones.

All right, Mike, first of all, always good to see you.

Secondly, and, you know, just talking before you got out here, I forgot to ask if you smoked anything.

It's been a couple weeks since I have.

I had done some ribs.

Shoot, maybe like three, four weeks ago.

My weekends have gotten busy because baseball season everything.

But I did smoke some ribs.

Yeah, I think it was like the week after the Super Bowl when I got back and it was like a quiet

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