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So without further ado, what's going on today?

Dave, are you ready to talk preseason football and joint practices?

Jacob, you won.

It hit the over.

I'm definitely ready, but I do feel like we need to begin by saying that watching preseason games, it shouldn't influence anybody

in a major way. At minimum, it can confirm priors. Jacob, Dan, you guys have watched a ton of

draft prospects. You guys know who these guys are. I've watched my fair share. When we see the guy that we saw in college play

and he's doing good things, that makes us feel better about the player. I don't know if it means

we should overreact and start chasing them in drafts and all that other stuff. Similarly,

if a player stinks, I don't know if we should slide him down the board that much. There's one guy that did

slide down the board quite a bit for me because I just, I couldn't stand some of the things he was doing. Is it correctable? Yeah. Doesn't mean he's going to correct it. I don't know. But most of all, you're not going to say R.J. Harvey, are you? You're not going to come on here and slander, R.G. Harvey, you are going to have to wait to find out what I saw from R.J. Harvey. I don't know if you're

going to like it or not. But the point is simply, these are small sample sizes. I do bring some

knowledge from a couple of joint practices that I've been to. I will spill my guts on them as much as I can. And I think we should just get started because now I've been talking as long as Dan has. I want to get your tape before. I do want one 30,000 foot view question for you, Dave. As someone who has been to these joint practices and you can talk about them on the show today, I'm very excited to hear about that. But as someone who's also watched a lot of preseason tape, I've heard from a lot in the community analysts, whoever it may be, that they can glean more from the joint practices versus the preseason tape at this stage of the game and where the NFL is at. Would you agree with that? Yes, because when the starters are practicing against another team, and even

when they're practicing against their own team, they're running their offense as they intend

to run it during an NFL season. What we watch in the preseason is a toned down version of

those offenses. Now effort and execution will obviously be big things. And that's the thing to look for.

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