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Here's Mike Lupica and Bob Ryan. I'm Mike Lupica of the New York Daily News and MLB.com.

I heard of you. I'm Bob Ryan in the Boston Globe and ESPN,

and we welcome you to the Monday morning edition

of the Sports Reporter's podcast,

absent our great friend and colleague,

who has the number two book,

a nonfiction on the New York Times bestselling list,

Mitch Album, Finding Chica,

but we will get to that at some other point Mitch is

not with us today but Mike and I have been together oh for well we you know since I was in college

seven years in college and Ryan was nice to me and became my big brother and mentor and

and then we sat down next to each other one Sunday morning and that lasted about 28 years. Just 20 years.

And now we have put the band back together.

All right.

Mr. Ryan, your thoughts on what we witnessed last night in Santa Clara, California.

Well, if anyone wasn't a believer in the defense of the 49ers, or how great Nick Bosa is specifically, but not exclusively,

then that person is beyond help in terms of any football savvy or any hope of attaining

any football sophistication.

That was a demonstration of frightening might against one of the great

players of all time. Of all time. Aaron Rogers, ladies and gentlemen, if you don't know,

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