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Quite a few things I wanted to touch on today.

Not quite getting into the opponent yet. I'm going to save that for tomorrow.

It seems weird to go this long without even mentioning the upcoming thing, but the problem is when I do that,

when I start grabbing little bits here and there, when I do the full breakdown, you know all the

good stuff. So I'm just going to wait. Plus, you haven't even made fun of the Cowboys yet, man,

and that's not okay.

All right, so we got some news and notes.

We got some Packer stuff to cover.

We got the injury report to talk about.

I do want to talk relatively extensively about the NFC North.

I'm going to do my best to talk down to our opponents.

But at the end of the day,

I think it's not as easy as I wish it was. So I'll probably spend more time talking up how historic and amazing the NFC North is right now to kind of pivot to a little bit of pride.

It's going to be a couple weeks before the NFC North just starts smashing into, well, I guess it starts, is it this week? I think it is. That's how

disconnected I am from the upcoming Sunday matchups here. Yes, Detroit in Minnesota. So we're kind of

getting to that point. I know the Bears have their gauntlet coming up in like four weeks or something

with just nothing but NFC North opponents.

It's kind of weird that it's all backloaded for the NFC North.

So there's going to be a lot of just things sorting themselves out.

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