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Speaker 1: H M. Welcome to another edition of the Around the

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Speaker 1: League Podcast. My name is Dan Hansas. I am joined

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Speaker 1: by the great Mark Sesler and also great Greg Rosenthal.

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Speaker 1: What's up, Fellas? He sort of hesitated about calling me great.

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Speaker 1: You weren't going to do it. I was gonna say

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Speaker 1: not quite as great, But then I didn't want to

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Speaker 1: hurt your feelings pleasure my boss would have gotten weird,

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Speaker 1: so I said, also great, we're all even in that sense.

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Speaker 1: But now you've told me that I'm not that great

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Speaker 1: and in a bit of a hole to start things off.

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Speaker 1: But I am great because this is the first time

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Speaker 1: the a t L Around the League Podcast, whatever it's

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Speaker 1: been called in the past, the A t L at

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Speaker 1: the Bate Club has gone for a second time in

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Speaker 1: one week. Isn't that true? I was fine with the introduction.

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Speaker 1: I knew you would be fine with it. You know.

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Speaker 1: Chris Westling, who is the fourth member of this podcast,

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Speaker 1: still missing an action. He's on any Land off the

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Speaker 1: coast of Georgia. We don't know if he'll be back,

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Speaker 1: but we're excited that he could be back next week.

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Speaker 1: We also may never see him again. He's catching up

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Speaker 1: with some locals down by the Bayou. Well, we're we're

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Speaker 1: Facebook friends with Wes and he's a character. I'll just

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Speaker 1: be honest, but he you know, he's a very rapid

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Speaker 1: Facebook or constantly posting photos, messages, updates about his whereabouts.

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Speaker 1: Total radio silence as of about what ago. Yeah, he

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Speaker 1: lives on some strange or he used to live on

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Speaker 1: some strange small island that we found him on in

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Speaker 1: Georgia where a bunch of alcoholics that don't really do anything.

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Speaker 1: So we don't know if he's gonna be back. Hopefully

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Speaker 1: he's back next week. I'm gonna be going to Hall

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Speaker 1: of Fame uh game next week in Canton, so I

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Speaker 1: won't be here after Wednesday. But training camp has already

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Speaker 1: been rolled. I mean, yesterday was about as busy a

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Speaker 1: July day as I can remember. Yeah, we are rolling again.

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Speaker 1: I mean there are a lot of so many subplots.

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Speaker 1: After weeks and weeks where thing was happening, it felt

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Speaker 1: like even though things were happening, it just wasn't happening

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Speaker 1: at a rapid pace, and then all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: this we could hit you in the face. And yesterday Thursday,

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Speaker 1: I should say, in particular, Uh, Greg, let's start with you, like,

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Speaker 1: what's jumping out at you right now? Friday, Well, I think,

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Speaker 1: to me, the biggest takeaway so far in campus Percy Harvin,

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Speaker 1: because I'm thinking about what story is gonna have the

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Speaker 1: most resonant for the rest of the two thousand and

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Speaker 1: thirteen season. And this is the key offseason acquisition, perhaps

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Speaker 1: the key to the entire offense of the Seattle Seahawks

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Speaker 1: for a team that we think could maybe go to

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Speaker 1: the super Bowl. And right off the bat, we're hearing

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Speaker 1: he might have hip surgery. If you have hip surgery,

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Speaker 1: who knows, You're probably not gonna be a factor this year.

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Speaker 1: We don't know what's going to happen with him, but

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Speaker 1: it just reminds you. I mean, doesn't it seem like

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Speaker 1: we've heard this story before with Percy Harvin? Yeah? We have,

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Speaker 1: And I think that was the caution. Although the idea

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Speaker 1: of plugging him into Seattle's offense was so sexy that

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Speaker 1: I think that ei there were no issues going in.

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Speaker 1: I was funny because last night I was watching the

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Speaker 1: opening of that Niners game where Seattle just romped them, Like,

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Speaker 1: as a quick backstory, I watched that at a local pub.

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Speaker 1: I think it was like Week sixteen. It was a

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Speaker 1: forty two to thirteen win, and I remember, you know,

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Speaker 1: we're in California. There was scattering of Niners fans that

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Speaker 1: were just shouting at the screen as Russell Wilson was

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Speaker 1: just rolling over them, like who is this guy? And

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Speaker 1: I was watching thinking, imagine plugging Wilson into what we

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Speaker 1: it's it's just it's a shame almost that we won't

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Speaker 1: don't know, We don't know, but we don't. But you know,

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Speaker 1: if it is a worst case scenario and he is

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Speaker 1: after the year, I do see some symmetry in this

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Speaker 1: with the Niners, who you brought up their biggest rival

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Speaker 1: there without crab Tree, their best receiver. But Harvin is

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Speaker 1: an even bigger blow than losing crab Tree is for

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Speaker 1: the Niners, because he had a chance to completely make

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Speaker 1: if Wilson continue to progress and Lynch stayed healthy and

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Speaker 1: much of what happened in Minnesota because you're already getting

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Speaker 1: a sense maybe there's a disagreement between Harvin and the

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Speaker 1: the Seahawks basically said that he doesn't need surgery. They

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Speaker 1: paid and it's like, okay, now it's all starting all

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Speaker 1: never good. So I mean for that to drop out

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Speaker 1: wonder what that's about. And then all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: it's like Ian Rappaport, our colleague on Twitter, he sends

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Speaker 1: out the tweet that we're dealing with the potential serious injury.

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Speaker 1: To me, that the biggest story of the week by far,

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Speaker 1: the Falcons and me don't click. I find them. Maybe

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Speaker 1: because they play in a dome. I don't know what

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Speaker 1: can't connect with my with Matt Ryan, you know, we've

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Speaker 1: And what they did here by giving him this extension

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Speaker 1: the Falcons that you yearned to see week after week?

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Speaker 1: America agrees with you? I mean America is bored by

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Speaker 1: Mike Mularkey out of there. I think that's the common

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Speaker 1: Matt Ryan doesn't feel like a real intriguing narrative or

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Speaker 1: It's fair to wonder if we've already seen the best

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Speaker 1: New York. He knows it, the coaches know, everyone knows it.

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Speaker 1: You want to give him a chance in his rookie year,

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Speaker 1: That's doing great right now? Shouldn't be. There's always a

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Speaker 1: Why does America care about this? Why is America so

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Speaker 1: he decided not to show up for training camp and

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Speaker 1: And this, this is the most popular story on NFL

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Speaker 1: disappointing former USC trojan. It's all right. I spent all

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Speaker 1: day at PACTULD Media Day hanging out with Marquise Lee.

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Speaker 1: My buddy, Marquise Lee have high hopes for him. Let me,

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Speaker 1: Why do you? Is it? Like? Are there are bots

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Speaker 1: people really like retirements, I feel like and and first

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Speaker 1: Those stories tend to do all. I guess because NFL

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Speaker 1: draft fan, I really, I really don't know. Well, I

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Speaker 1: guess we're talking about this because we don't have a

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Speaker 1: written three stories about Cheetahs this week, that the Cheetahs

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Speaker 1: would win the dumb metrics bomb of the Week. Sorry, Dan,

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Speaker 1: your animal narratives um have struggled At times. They've done

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Speaker 1: sitting next to the massive screens. Maybe it's the story

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Speaker 1: because those stories do well too. You can't like imagine

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Speaker 1: Do you really want to go through that all again?

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Speaker 1: You got your money, and some don't love football. Some

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Speaker 1: to me too. It's like, God, Seacrest out for Cedric Ellis,

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be me in a couple of years. Wow,

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Speaker 1: I've just gotta ignore that. That ever happened that. I

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Speaker 1: don't know that was Seacrest reference. I think he's dropped

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Speaker 1: off the scene. He's done. I think that's our cue.

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Speaker 1: That is you gotta get out on that um. Alright,

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Speaker 1: So we will be back on Monday. Correct, we will Monday,

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Speaker 1: Wednesday and Friday our first three podcast week coming up. Exciting.

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Speaker 1: Should we even tease the iTunes angle at this point?

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Speaker 1: Hopefully you will go to iTunes and you will find it,

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Speaker 1: and you will subscribe, and you will continue to support

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Speaker 1: me around the league. And a lot of this is

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Speaker 1: Wilke shoulders to get it done. iTunes is in progress.

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Speaker 1: Many of these, many of you listeners out there, will

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Speaker 1: be hearing this on iTunes. I promise you. That's a promise. Alright, Great,

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Speaker 1: until Monday. Over the next weekend,