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The Around the NFL podcast.

Yay, football.

Maybe.

Indeed.

Welcome to another edition of the Around the NFL podcast.

My name is Dan Hans.

It's coming to you from a virtual room filled with heroes.

Mark Sessler, Greg Rosenthal, Ricky Hollywood.

What's up, boys and girl?

Hey, did you guys know that the NFL season is starting next week?

I can't believe it.

That's like now become a cliche.

I was saying it a week ago. I was the one making the cliche. But now I've just heard it. That's like now become a cliche. I was saying it a week ago. I was the one making the cliche, but now I've just heard so many times I'm sick of hearing that. I don't know what you're talking about, Greg. I can't wait until I open up my timeline on Sunday. And Scott Hanson's like, one week from today, we're watching football. I mean, the irony is I am, I am truly excited. I think we are. It's going to be fun. But I'm just, I'm sick of hearing the same things on this little ramp up. Like, let's just get there. Let's just get to Thursday night. I sent you the one, you know, last night. And this is like a billion dudes this, like, uh-oh, because, you know, college football was like, it's going to be the last Thursday without football until like December 29th.

I don't know if I'm, that just makes me feel anxiety, to be honest. Like, I don't need that calendar update at this point. I'm glad it's all back, but like,

don't tell me about, I don't know. Also, I don't need presumptive tweets about what's going to happen in the future in the year 2020. Like, here's exactly what's going to happen on every week for the next four months. Let's just leave it open and we'll play it by year. It's not get cocky here. Let's do the...

And Greg, if you already know, and who am I kidding? You definitely already know.

Let me know. But let's do the old cousin Sal, Bill Simmons thing.

Hey guys, what's the spread for Texans KC? I don't know at all, I promise.

All right.

What do you, what do you?

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