Welcome to NFL Daily where we could use a little distraction on this wild card weekend.

I'm Greg Rosenthal in the garage talking to Patrick Claibon, my friend in his backyard with a great little view there of his kids house and yes

you might have noticed we did not have our preview show at the regularly scheduled

time we ended up not going in on Wednesday to the studios because of the

wildfires going on here in Southern California.

And yeah, as I was getting ready for this show late last night, Patrick, I thought about

the word distraction.

It's always a negative thing when you're talking about football teams and players and coaches.

Are they distracted?

And I was thinking, as I was writing these notes

on like Cooper DeGine versus Jaden Rito, this is a good distraction because like a lot of people here,

we've just been focused on everything going on. And yeah, it's been a difficult week here in

Southern California. Yeah, just because the word makes you think of, you know, outside things that are taking

you away from what you should be focused on.

But in this instance, right, with the literal danger, especially with you guys in your

proximity to the Palisades Fire, it's like everything else felt like a distraction from it, right? It was impossible to look

away from and get away from. We're fortunate to be down here now miles away on the other side of

town. And the most we got was some ash falling on our cars and, you know, just the continued

constant rage that's always boiling in my head about how we distribute resources

on our planet and seeing what everybody's dealing with. It's been a lot and it's been,

it's been a, you know, the focus and everything else has been the distraction. Yeah, I appreciate

everyone who has reached out and some listeners we're asking about it too. You know, we evacuated

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