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Fun wild card preview for you guys today. Nate Tice is going to be joining us a little bit later to dig into the X's and O's of all six games. When I decided to do this, I did not think about the fact that there were six games and how much prep that would entail. But that's okay. It's going to be great. Before we do that, though, I'm pleased to welcome the Athletic Zone, Lindsay Jones. Lindsay, how are you?

I am great. I mean, all things considering, but football-wise, I am great.

Full disclosure to everyone, it is 9-10 a.m. on Thursday. We do not typically record our show at 9-10 a.m. on Thursday. We decided not to record yesterday for a myriad

reasons. I think that, you know, everyone was distracted. I don't feel like we could have done that

proper prep to do the show well with everything that was happening. And all of us were kind of

glued to the TV. So we're going to try to do the best show we can today, you know, obviously

with everything that's going on. So this will hopefully be to you guys in relatively short order. So we're going to do the best show we can today, you know, obviously with everything that's going on. So this will hopefully be to you guys in relatively short order.

So we're going to do a little bit of a different setup, obviously, that we would typically do on Thursday because Nate's going to come on to do some team-specific stuff. So me and you are going to go through a few different things. We're going to hit some news. we're going to play matchmaker with some of the head coaching openings that are there right now.

Obviously there's been some. hit some news. We're going to play matchmaker with some of the head coaching openings that are there

right now. Obviously, there's been some things that have been filled with the Texans GM job, which

will get to, but the head coach jobs are all still open. We're going to discuss just the best candidates

that we think for those, the guys that fit the best in those spots. And that's all. So let's get to the news first.

I think obviously the biggest thing that happened this week is what's going on with the

Cleveland Browns.

The Browns have 18 years without a playoff berth.

They finally get in.

And congratulations.

Your reward is not getting to play with your head coach.

Kevin Stefansky tested positive for COVID-19.

They've had a couple other things going on with that. Lindsay, why don't you just walk us through kind of the most important bullet points to take away from what's happening in Cleveland right now? Sure, yeah. I mean, and in the effort of full disclosure, as you just mentioned, we are recording this early on Thursday morning. It is 7.10 a.m. here in Denver, where I live.

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