Hello. Hello. Hello. You are to win the game. That's the great thing about sports. You are to win the game.

All right, welcome to you, Pod to win the game. I am Charles Robinson, senior NFL writer for Yahoo Sports. I'm here with Jory Epstein. Also, senior reporter, senior NFL reporter for Yahoo Sports.

An NFL reporter at large, Charles McDonald. We brought him back. We brought it back. This is great. We were able to keep it together for another week.

Hopefully we can keep doing this as long as possible before Charles busts out to his podcast. It's good to have you both in. However, sad news, the pro bowl that we all know and love that we all have so many fond memories of surely you can't even keep track of all your pro bowl memories.

Fading into the distance as the NFL says, this is it will now be the pro bowl sort of games instead of actually the pro bowl contest.

Jory, first and foremost, any pro bowl. I want to get both of your pro bowl memories. I actually covered two pro bowls and actually going back to the second pro bowl was when I realized how dumb I was because I was like, really all you get out of this is a white trip, which is nice, but I was single at the time.

So, you know, not quite the the boondoggle you think it is, but Jory, any any loss of sense of loss over this pro bowl.

I mean, massive sense of loss, best game of the year, right? No, but seriously, I mean, what was always great about the pro bowl is just the idea for players of that caliber to be able to be in the same place at once. And we still have that.

I mean, I've heard so many guys say through the years, whether it was drew breeze talking about getting to make that press. I mean, not just the number of people who threw the years and said, Oh, yeah, I remember we talked about this and this and this at the pro bowl has always really stuck with me because it looks a little silly.

It looks a little fun, but these guys really don't get this kind of time together during the year. I mean, think about how we as reporters get the combine and the senior bowl and owners meeting suppliers don't have anything like that for guys who are on other teams and I like that.

So I think that being able to keep that camaraderie alive is great and they're still going to have that.

What about you, Charles, any, any lingering feelings on this one? I mean, it's Jory seems to want the pool to stay, which is not how I expected us to come out of the box.

I want the week to stay, not the actual game.

Oh, okay. Oh, yeah, actually, that makes sense. So maybe the games will ultimately work in that sense, but Charles, what do you think?

Look, man, my time on the beat was covering the giants and the jets. I think when I was there, there was one pro bowlers to mall atoms.

I don't, I don't have a great affinity for the pro bowl. I don't really care. I haven't watched it in years.

Like the moments that I find cool are like the ones that make it to Twitter as the game's going on.

Like someone on their cell phone during the game or stuff on in turban digs kind of joking around earlier this year in the last one.

But as far as the actual game itself, look, I haven't sat down to watch a pro bowl since I was in like fifth grade probably.

So I don't I couldn't really care less.

I think Charles just passed the test. He has not sat down to watch the pro bowl from start to finish. That's good news.

You actually, yeah. So that's it. You, you, you actually get the award. I covered two of these things.

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