All right, let's go right to the phones. We'll get some ticket texts.

Just kind of re-investigating what we did yesterday and doing it a different way.

And I kind of want to play off of what the morning show did, which is okay, let's put a number to what regression means.

No fog of war, no confusion. It's simple.

If you call up and tell me, Bill Barnwell's an idiot, they're not regressing,

then you believe they're going to win more than 12 games.

12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, okay?

If you believe regression is coming, it doesn't mean you're negative or a doomsday or

or any other lowbrow label that Kool-A drinking fans want to put

upon you. It just means you think they're an 11 and 6, 10, and 7, or if you go lower than that,

you will need to explain yourself. But you believe regression is natural because what I'm trying

to come to consensus on, look, let's let the people behind the curtain, Rico.

We talk about this all the time in our show meetings and in our text messages to each other, our emails, just the idea that you the lion fan, you don't seem to want to come out and play.

Something went down in January that really hurt you.

And whether you're scared, whether you're hurting,

whether you just desperately need the season to start to want to talk about your team,

there's been something going on here.

And it hasn't been this way, probably since the last year of Patricia.

There's a lack of vibe that's weird,

considering there's still a good football team. And it's just trying to figure out, is last year still what's holding you back from excitement? Because to me, the easiest way forward is let go of

last year. It's dead. It's gone.

Can't change it. If you won the Super Bowl, I'd still be telling you the same thing. It's dead.

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