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Welcome to NFL Daily, where we'd also boo if we paid money to go to a preseason game in

the rain and they took out Drake May after

one series. Give me a break. I'm Greg Rosenthal and I'm beyond lucky today to be joined later in the

show by Ali Connolly, a talented writer about football podcaster from over in the UK who's going to talk to me about what if Kirk Cousins

really isn't the guy we think he is, especially this season with the Falcons, little thought

experiment, but that's going to come up after the break.

To start the show, I'm going to go over news really quickly in the two preseason games

that we had on Thursday night.

And before I do that, I just want to ask our producer here, Eric Roberts,

how annoyed he is at me that I'm asking him to produce on a Thursday night in the preseason.

Well, he's got his baby, Austin James, making his NFL daily debut.

If you check us out on YouTube, you can see this beautiful boy. Nice had a hair, just like his dad. Yeah, dude, nice hair. Maybe look at the mustache gene, but yes, spit bubbles in all right now. Not doing it all. I'm glad we can do this at home and stuff. Just to get some time with the kid. You know, I was off for a little bit of time. But anytime with this guy, a little bit of football too on the TV forum. No bills games yet for him. So he hasn't got the misery. But watching a lot of Dodgers games with me. And yeah, maybe he'll be a little podcaster. Who knows? That is beautiful. And yeah, that is something beautiful about it. it's not like we're in the studio, but we are putting you back to work.

You can hand them off now if you want, if he's feeling uncomfortable. But it is cool. These preseason nights, we're going to try to take you, especially on the Thursday nights and get you covered with all the games. So yeah, I'm making Austin, James, and Eric do a little overtime. So why do we, why

do we not waste any more time? We'll get to the news.

Oh, Eric's showing versatility, hitting the buttons with Austin on the lap. Let's go back to

Brandon Ayuk. I can't believe this thing hasn't happened yet.

It's still hanging out there days now after a report in Pittsburgh that the deal was happening from a radio station there.

And I did want to just update you on what Kyle Shanahan said on a KNBR radio appearance on Thursday night.

Very interesting.

He said, quote, if it doesn't work out, and he's talking

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