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I'll have a story up in the next couple of days, within the next couple of days about the commanders

and the draft and just kind of a final lead-up into next

week's festivities finally were a week away. Thank God. I think we all can say the same thing.

A couple of programming notes. One, Bram Weinstein, the voice of commanders and I will do a live

stream show at 7.30 Eastern time Thursday night. So you're probably

listening to Thursday morning. So tonight, Thursday night, 7.30 Eastern time. Bring your questions.

Join us for the live stream show. And then for you, gold members, I'm going to do a private Zoom with

you on Monday at 730 Eastern time as well. And if you want to become a gold member, go to the

Empire Media YouTube page. You see the word join. Click on there. And you know, you'll find different

levels of membership, but you gold members get the private Zoom Q&A session for sure. So that's one thing.

And then also for ESPN, our NFL Nation mock draft,

I believe it is next Tuesday. So stay tuned for that and see who I'm going to pick. Oh, man,

the intrigue. Actually, there is some intrigue there. So anyway, I will say, let's get to some of the stuff.

I'm going to talk today about kind of going inside those top 30 visits and what they mean just based on the guys are bringing in, maybe where they're slotted, where they're anticipated, where they're anticipated to go in the draft and what it means for maybe what the commanders

are looking for and how they're trying to build this roster.

So before I get there, I want to talk to just a couple of minutes, one or two minutes about

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