NFL Camps Underway! The Overreaction Monday Podcast with Rich Eisen & Chris Brockman

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Well, we made it. When was the last time we did this? June, right? We did it in June. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It was... The smack dab middle of June, maybe? Something like that? Yeah, we were just kind of just kicking it.

Just kind of like, hey, there's this going on and this going on. OTA's. OTA's. You know what? That is so June.

Oh, OTA. It's so June. You know what's July and August? Training camp. Boo. Oh, training camp.

Booyah. It is Hall of Fame week. It is training camp.

Everybody, all 32 teams are up and at them. So it's time for an Overreaction Monday. Hit it. That was terrible. That was crap. That was garbage.

That's why it sucks. Overreaction Monday. Yeah, baby. All right, Christopher.

Oh, man. We're back. You good?

I'm great. Yeah, you're speech ready for Canton? Which is my speech for Canton is going to be very simple. It's going to be it's a big night. Football is back.

I love being in Canton, Ohio. And and then I just make it about the guys who are getting their jackets that night at the jacket dinner. No, I do. I do. That is my plan going in.

And usually as I'm going, that's my two foes laughing over there. Hey, cut down. No, this is truly my plan.

OK, this is truly my plan. OK, and and and and and then in the middle of me saying it, somebody be like, oh, and the other half the room and for like the first four or five, six, seven years of that, I would just have. Ah, that's funny. You know, you know, oh, HIO, we're in Ohio.

I'm glad you guys can still spell and that would be the end of it. But it's a different it's a different time now, sir. Yeah, it's a different time. I'm sad that I can't be there to be my witness.

I'm going to be hosting a jacket dinner in Canton, Ohio, coming off of a University of Michigan championship football. That's what I'm saying, man. You got some talk about an overreaction. Oh, just don't trifle.

It's all I'm doing. A heads up. Some of the, you know, like the Hall of Fame lineman there to kind of be security. It's Steve Hutchinson. He's on alert. Yeah. Charles Woodson's on alert. Ty Law's on alert. Good, good, good. The ghost of Benny Friedman, the who is a Michigan man, the creator of the modern forward, Dan Deardorff. Does he go?

He's going to be there and came in this year. OK, no, no, no. So there's enough of us. What do you got over there, Chris?

I want to start. Let's go. Let's go. I got I got eight.

I got eight right out of the gate. I'm coming hot. Justin Fields is going to start week one for the Steelers. Would you say that? Because Russell Wilson is not practicing. And Fields looks awesome.

That's why I'm saying that an overreaction, sir. Have you seen any of these camp videos? I this is the perfect I love. And everyone's got new phones and the videos are crisp at an eight K. And Fields looks awesome.

I don't care how far away the video is. I can see it. He's throwing dimes. I love it. That's terrific. Wonderful. And guess who's not there? I know.

Dangerous is not there. I'm I'm aware of that. So what are we doing? What we're doing is go with Fields. Well, you're not financially committed to number three. Now, that's the that is the only reason why this is a possibility in the realm of possibilities.

OK, is that is that there is no major financial commitment. That would put a thumb on the scale. The only thing that's a thumb on the scale is Russell Wilson's experience. And you go with that potentially over Justin Fields.

I can't say inexperience. I would say started 30 something fewer games of experience and that the way Fields gets out there. Is if Russ doesn't work. Not Fields out there. And then you go to Russ, because if Russ doesn't work, then now you got yourself an issue.

But if one guy's hurt and then you start with Field and I know when, you know, but here's and here's the reason why you've got somewhat of a leg to stand on is that Tomlin will do whatever he wants to do and has the full faith and credit and backing of his job. It's not on the line, right? Correct. Just got an extension. So I just I don't know. Is it possible?

Sure. I just think for you to say flat out, it's going to be Justin Fields in week one because of the, you know, non pads. Everyone's in shorts moment that Russ isn't participating in because, you know, they want to make sure he's not all.

He's got a tweak here or there. He's not. Yeah, I think it's too.

I think if you're like there, there's a quarterback competition in Pittsburgh. OK, then I would I would have bought. That's not fun. Of course, it's fun.

Of course, it's way more fun. A week ago on the flagship show, we were just saying NFL Network Research giving out the packet of information at the start of training camp identified six quarterback competitions. In training camp, and I said there's really only one. It's the one in Vegas where Aidan O'Connell is currently number one on the depth chart, even though you want to talk about a financial contractual from on the scale, it belongs to Minshew.

With his two year deal and seven figures to it, not not the rookie deal that Aidan O'Connell's on. Right. Other than that, I mean, I and I don't believe it's quarterback competition in Denver. And I don't know if this is one either. But the fact that Russ isn't out there leads one to believe there could be one.

But I'm not sitting here saying that's an overreaction that Justin Fields is starting week one in Atlanta. Oh, oh, oh, which would be amazing. I know that. OK, great. No, I'm just just piecing it all. Well done.

Just what else? All right, Rich, this has been the summer of the giant quarterback contract. All these guys are getting paid. All these guys recently. Jordan Love, 55 million, 53.1.

Exactly. To Trevor Lawrence, got his 55 million and Herbert and Burrow. Herbert was last year before. Two of the quarterbacks who signed contracts for big money this summer will miss the playoffs. So those guys are golf. Golf, sign, golf, sign big. OK, golf.

And to a to a love. Trevor Lawrence, two of them are going to miss the playoffs. Two of them, two of them are going to miss the playoffs.

Oh. I can't I can't. I mean, in this day and age where there's so much turnover, right, there's usually half the playoff field is new. I can't I can't sit here and say that you're way off.

I would think those four in particular. I don't see how the Lions are missing the playoffs. I just don't see it, obviously, you know, injuries take place and sure. I don't see how the Lions are missing the playoffs. I don't see how the Dolphins are missing the playoffs. I just don't. You don't know, like, so you think the AFC East gets three teams?

I don't know about that. The AFC might get one team, it could be the AFC East and the Dolphins get it. OK, OK, well, you don't see how the Lions miss it. What if the Packers have a cut, the Bears have a come up?

So they get three teams, maybe. Maybe. OK. I know you wanted the Bears in the playoffs in the worst way. You keep talking. I do. I'm speaking it into existence.

They're the most entertaining should be improved. I, I, I. I don't know how to do I go, do I, do I say this is an overreaction and then double down and say all four that I just mentioned? Now we're nasty over the top, over the top.

I push them over the top, top rope. Yeah, yeah. And so I don't call. I reraise. Yeah, I reraise. Yeah, I see your two. Yeah. And I'll raise, you know, raise your other two because I don't think we missed any other quarterbacks that that now those are the big guys who got 50 plus. Right.

And Dak will get his dad. Not this, not this, not as of this taping. So that's an overreaction. OK, hello. Oh, OK. Yeah.

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Yes. Mike Evans is going to regret that. He's going to regret not signing with the Chiefs or Texans during free agency. So this is your way of saying the Buccaneers, you're not going to have a good season.

Kind of without directly saying, boy. You know how I feel about the Bucks. I know, I know, I know. To play with Patrick, but I guess if his wife and his family say, Dad, let's not, you know, on dad, let's not leave from Houston. Well, I mean, yeah, I mean, he's a Texas A&M guy, too, you know, and it's.

The football season is not that long. I mean, I can get some temporary housing in one of these cities. Yeah, no. And whatever Missouri or Kansas state taxes are, depending on where he would have found a home. They would have offset that.

Yeah, they would have offset it because the non-existing one. I mean, you go from one tax free state to the other. And I get that he wants to play his whole career there.

But that's just not a thing anymore. I'm sitting here really a fan of Mayfield, as you know, and and what the Bucks did this year. I think Jason Light, you know, if the Bucks can go for it, let's say the Bucks go further. Let's say the Bucks make the NFC championship game this year. So they win that game in Detroit.

Let's say they do that. Jason Light has set himself up for being like GM of the year. Thanks for pulling off what he pulled off with all these veterans who are wanted theirs.

And we're all coming up at the same time. You know, it's like a whole bunch of Senate seats that you have to defend in one election. And he did.

And he and he maintained control of his Senate, you know. However, with that as my wind up, here's the pitch. I think Kansas City and Houston is set up to have a bigger season than the Bucks. So if you're removing all personal issues about why he wanted to maybe stay there or the fact that he gets to have his Hall of Fame bust resting on a plastic. You know. Holding his plastic shelf.

I don't know why I spaced on the word shelf, but if he only wants to have one team etched on it. Right. Like you can't you can't trade that in. Yes. But.

So that's where you're talking about regrets, a very strong word. I can see he didn't already have a ring. I mean, maybe going to one of those teams, a kind of ring chasing. If your implication is that Kansas City and Houston is set up better than Tampa for him to get one more ring before he goes into the Hall of Fame. Right. That's what I'm saying. I mean, look, one of those, you know, take one of those teams out.

What team is a better Super Bowl? I don't think that's an overreaction. I don't think that's an overreaction, but regret is a significantly strong word. So, you know, I parse these things down the letter. What word could I have used otherwise?

Well, well, where she's where she's staying. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.

You do these things to be provocative. I'm just saying when I heard that, I was like, whoa, you were thinking about joining the Chiefs and you didn't or Stroud going with Stroud and the next young guy, maybe you play four more years. How about if he had done that?

Do you think they would have traded for Diggs? No. Why would you? Right. Yeah, I don't know. Collins and Evans and Tankdale.

I'm thinking those offenses look like Evans. I know. Regret's a strong word, but I'll buy this one now.

All right. I consumed a lot of back together weekend last night while I was catching up on what I missed being being kind of out of pocket over the weekend. Well, you went to the the nuptials of I did for your former colleague, Rachel Bonetta and Zach Schwartz. It was fantastic.

OK, very happy to be involved with that. And I saw speaking of love, I saw what Jordan had to say to training camp for us, too. But I'm in midseason form. I saw what Jordan Love had to say, talking about Aaron Rodgers said that his house is still for sale. And now that Love has his new contract also got paid last Friday, that maybe, you know, maybe he can take that off the market for Aaron. And Love was like, hey, cut me a deal. I was thinking about those two guys. And their shared history.

And I think Jordan Love is going to finish higher in the MVP voting this year than Aaron Rodgers. OK. Well, how do you want me to respond to this? I don't know.

How do we respond to this? What do you mean? What do you mean? What do you mean?

What is your initial reaction? We've seen that reaction is is is is Rogers going to last longer than five snaps? I think we all can. I mean, we saw him at the how many starts does Rogers get this year?

Talk to me. All 17. I think that's the best case scenario.

It's all 17. I'm saying neither guy gets injured and let's just play it out. So, OK, so we're not because again, I I don't know, man. I mean, we went down this road last year. We just the Jets went down and the media went down this road.

We have to take care of the first word. Right. So he was ready to play last year if the Jets were still in the mix. He looks strong and he looks absolutely the Jets. The Jets did the right thing. Tyron Smith, I'm hoping he stays healthy, too, for for for. That was the big thing. Rogers, you know, they were often exactly better off. He wasn't going to last behind, you know, that offensive line last year.

The correct way is notwithstanding. He was probably going to get banged up at some point. And they're in much better shape this year to protect him and see some of the you know, let him shine. I just don't know Wilson.

I'll push back on this. I'll say that if all things are being equal and both have the season equal and the both have the season that everyone expects. Right. Rogers is I don't know if he wouldn't receive MVP votes because two reasons. One, he's already gotten enough.

How many yachts can he water ski? The same way that Belichick never got coach coach of the year votes, you know, and Phil Jackson. If he's awesome, he'll win a comeback player of the year then. Right. Right. And I'll just push back on this and say, are they both top five? I don't know.

I don't think so, because I think they'll still be others who are in the mix. Who wins more games? Putting you on the spot, man, but it's just a total crapshoot. I know it's joy. We're having fun. It's not fun for me.

It's not fun for me. I want you to have fun. I want you to have fun. You want to have. I would really like to have fun. I want to have fun at the football guys. I would like you to enjoy your season. I would enjoy your season and kick the jets in the nards or put it in a spot where the fans get a broken off inside an orifice.

But they just let it play out this year. He looks so it's difficult. It's difficult for me to envision anything, man.

It's difficult for me to envision. All right. All right. All right.

Maybe I'll just push back and call that an over. All right. I tweaked you with that. All right. Good Lord. Sorry. That's that was for the Tatum comment today. Oh, yeah.

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Hit it, Chris. What else? Man, you know, I just keep saying I'm a sucker for all these videos from training camp. I just I just love them so much. And the highlight plays. I don't care that they're not wearing pads and basically got defenses. And they're wearing pads this week. Now they are. Now they are. Xavier Worthy and Hollywood Brown are going to be the best wide receiver duo this season. Come on, man. That's insane.

How do you stop these guys? Well, they're the two fastest dudes out there. OK, fine.

Get Patrick Mahomes. Oh, by the way, best wide receiver duo in the NFL. Come on, man. Come on, man.

Are you saying this just just for the purposes here? I'm saying, let's go, let's go, let's go. I'm saying they're going to have what each guy is going to have, like five plus 50 yard touchdowns.

Hold on a second. They're going to have, I don't know, 3500 yards. Brown had Jamar. I mean, had Lamar Jackson, eight Mahomes. And he had I none of them are Mahomes.

That's what I'm saying. I understand. So we left this guy waiting for him to win a Super Bowl last year with you and me and Del twofold wide receiver. And now they had these two guys, two of the fastest dudes in the league. All right, let's do it this way. You take them over, you take them in their quarterback. Yeah, over. Plus, to keep that matter, OK, let's do it to a Tyreek and Jalen Waller. Yeah, because OK, Mahomes is better than Tua. Sorry, I'm getting aggressive.

No, I understand that. Let's see. Let's keep going here. Let's go, Burrow, T. Higgins, Jamar Chase.

I don't know if Burroughs can stay healthy. All right, let's go. Where else am I going here on this front? The Rams, Rams. Yeah, honors. Oh, yeah. Oh, Stafford Pooka, Stafford Pooka Cup. I got a cup question marks.

OK, what about Purdy? Are you Devo? Are you playing? You can be there playing.

You can be there. He's playing the Devo hurts. I get it. Devonta Brown Smith. I like that. I like those guys. Oh, OK. I like those guys.

All right. I like those guys. They fast as these guys.

50 hour bombs. It doesn't matter about fast. It doesn't matter. Doesn't matter. What an overreaction this is. What an overreaction it is.

OK. I hope for all of my Chiefs fans, friends sake. The touchdowns are those guys going to have against the Raiders? Them?

Just them? Just them two personally might have eight against the Raiders. Not if Max Crosby, come on, gets in the backfield. Come on. Come on now to Christian Wilkins and Max Crosby. It'll be handled when it gets handled because these guys.

Why is everybody trying to wind up the homes? Not that I don't know. The Kermit the Frog stuff was insane. All right. Maybe I went a little over. OK, what else?

C.D. Lamb, we know is holding out, right? Yeah, he's not getting it. He's not like he's not showing up till he gets paid.

That's correct. Neither should Dak. Both guys should play a single down without a new contract.

Both guys, both of them. You want to go all in, Jerry Jones? I'm holding out.

Pay me. So it's Cooper Rush to Brandon Cooks until until further notice. Yeah. Yeah. Uh huh. Yeah. Yeah. Enough of this.

Yes, Jerry. Enough of this. It's what are we doing? It's true. Are you serious about winning or not?

It's Trey Lance wheel routing to Rico Dowdle. That's what I'm saying. Until until this gets done. Neither should play a single down without new contracts. It's crazy. Dak's got all the leverage.

Just don't show up. OK. All right. So you're throwing Dak into this.

Yes, they both should do it together. Yeah, it's just it makes no sense. Which part? Not paying them?

Definitely not paying them. Yeah. And Dak, I mean, Dak not getting a new contract.

Here's the thing. Dak's already been paid his gajillions of dollars. Dak's too nice.

CD, CD. It's time for CD to get his. I know he's too nice to do this. He is. But he needs someone he should hold out to.

Jerry, are you serious? Because it's not like it's not like CD Lamb doesn't have a contract for this coming season. Right. He's got one. He just doesn't want to play under that number. Right. Same thing as Dak and Dak.

Dak's like, no, no, no. I want to be the Dallas Cowboy quarterback long term. And I want you to make that happen for me.

And this is what it's going to cost now. Since you're I mean, seriously, you took crazy pills before this for the for this pod. Just saying. I understand. You don't like it. I like that one. I know you like that one. I don't think Dak should hold out.

No, but what do you think? I don't think you should hold out. He's holding all the cards.

Right. He holds all the cards. And the cards are I'm not coming until I get a 300 million. But he's holding all the cards to get 300 million when his time's up next year.

Dak should want 300 million all guaranteed, to be honest. What if he's sitting around saying these people that I'm trying to get the money from as much as I love them and then the only, you know, business family I've known professionally and in a front office. What if he's like, I don't know if I want to be here. How about I don't know if I want to go all in on Dallas. How about that is a possibility. So why is he holding out to stay in a spot that might not be best for him?

Could that be the first one to pull the NBA move, sign the monster contract and then say, I want to be I want to be traded? I doubt that. I don't think we'll ever see that in the NFL. I don't know ever. So I don't know. Well, C.D., you know, again, Dak has got a ton of money in the bank.

C.D. doesn't have anything close to that just yet in terms of money in the bank. So. I understand why he doesn't want to, you know, plus receivers can really get hit. There's you know, there's there's no such thing as a defenseless quarterback, you know? Right.

So I understand why he's doing what he's doing. But that can't be traded. He can't be franchise tagged. So if they don't sign him now, he has every opportunity to hit it even bigger than what he's signing for right now. But what if he sticks this year and then all of a sudden his number goes down?

Oh, please. His numbers, his numbers. You just saw a bunch of guys that have hardly any playoff experience. I know, because they make two hundred million dollars collectively. His teams have lost in a single year. Teams have lost their mind. Like, what are the contracts of some of these guys together who have never had multiple playoffs? Nothing.

It's like over a billion dollars worth of contracts. Of course, his numbers not going down. Another overreaction seems to try to give you one. Then I talked myself into not giving. All right. You're going to agree with me on this. All right. You're going to stay.

That's an overreaction. That's that's great. That's great.

That's thank you. Bill Sheehan, Brandon Bead, responding to the article saying that the Josh Allen was overrated in the anonymous GM, that there's morons out there, moron. Everyone's an idiot. Guess what? Josh Allen is the most underrated quarterback in the NFL.

Sorry, I didn't have mine. Should I get Tony Khan's neck brace off of most off of my bust over the rated what this guy has done in the town that he's done it with? He makes everyone better. Stefan Diggs should be thanking his lucky stars. He got the brand. Josh, are you punking me right now? Josh Allen is the most underrated and he's on the best contract. Speaking of a guy who should hold out. Have you seen his number for this year?

It's like 30 something million dollars. So let me see what let me see who was the most underrated, underrated than him. The most underrated quarterback, underrated. Like where are you going to be underrated?

I don't know. I'm telling you, I'm asking you beyond that list of people who think he's not, you know, I finally showed up like on a Hall of Fame path, despite being a two time MVP award winner at this point. And Mark Jackson underrated, you know, so it's pretty underrated, actually. That's that's where I'm trying to find other guys who are potentially underrated more than this guy, because there's a lot of people who do give Josh Allen his appropriate staff is kind of underrated. Yeah, Stafford might be more underrated than than Josh Allen. I think anybody who calls him overrated is, in fact, a moron. Josh Allen.

Yeah, yeah. OK, totally agree with that, because. What you're looking for, I think the skill set that this guy has and the way he's developed from what he was as a prospect when he got drafted and what he's turned himself into. Do you remember when player he hasn't had much help question, has that a lot of help coaching? I think we need to be honest there and how far he's taken the bills each year.

He's super underrated. Do you remember? When Russell Wilson was at his height of his height of his Seattle in this. And he would roll out, extend plays and to the point where and then beat you like you couldn't. You couldn't track him down. You couldn't you couldn't tackle him.

You couldn't sack him. And it landed. There was an air of invincibility. Elway had it as well.

Agreed. You know, the number of times that you wouldn't you couldn't catch up to him and and then he would run on you as well. When Elway's prime, obviously I'm referring to.

Yep. Rogers. In his MVP seasons, where it just was relentless, every snap of the football was a way for you to not be able to stop him or defend him. Allen has all of those guys has qualities into one. He has that and he had that against the Chiefs in the playoffs this year until that. Until that moment where Deon Dawkins got thrown into his lap.

Yep. And then they I felt they were going to win that game. So did I, because he was as good as they get. He's as good as they get. So I don't know about he's underrated.

I like the way that you flip the script. I think Stafford is more underrated than he's pretty underrated. Here's another one. Purdy.

Mm hmm. Who else is underrated? Yeah, I mean, anybody who calls him overrated is a moron. But I, I, I, I like the cut of your jib right here, just because I love Josh Allen and I want to give you one.

I do. Josh, I'll throw there. But I think I think we found a couple more quarterbacks that are more underrated than him. So last one. And I saw this headline and it just like made. I got scared for the rest of the league. Deebo Samuel has been practicing on kickoff return.

OK, that's all right. If Debo Samuel starts returning kicks kickoffs this year, he's going to set the record for return touchdowns in a season. It is currently for, by the way, I'll go 50 something years ago. Some guy named Cecil Turner in 1970.

Travis Williams, 1967. I think what you're touching upon here is the complete unknown. Of what the new kickoff rules are going to be and what the ramifications are for the sport writ large. Yep. And, you know, you talk about stealing possessions, right?

This is stealing six points. Yeah, potentially that if you find the right crease. And all you got to do is find the crease and you're suddenly one on one with the kicker. It's game over, over, man. And so it's it's how do you cover a kick when. You know, sort of the. The action area is the size of a red zone.

You know how things it's difficult to score in a red zone because there's so many things. Right. But what if everybody is lined up? Right. Above everybody else, right over everybody else, right across from everybody else field behind. Right. Wide open. Yeah. Oh, what happens then? I saw that to have somebody like Samuel Samuel. What? Be able to find the crease, be difficult to tackle.

And what kicker is taking him down in the open field? There isn't one. But there's also a bunch of other. So if you're if you're also saying the record's going to go down. I'm saying someone's going to break it.

I'm saying the record's going down anyway. You've identified his could be the guy. I don't think you're off on this at all. Like you're spot on here. I don't think this is an overreaction because we have no idea what we're reacting to. We have no idea what it's going to look like, no earthly idea. And that's going to be 100 percent.

The most fascinating part of preseason football in a long time. Agree. Is what does it look like? We have no idea what it looks like.

I mean, anybody who's seen it in other forms of the right. Right. We can have an idea. Exactly.

But most everybody does not know what it's going to look like and how to defend it and how to scheme it, how to prevent it. And and and how one particularly. Special teamer. With a special skill set that already separates him from the rest of the league, being somebody who is going to be. Tough to take down fast enough to find the crease and hit it and then be impossible to stop in a one on one kicker v. Right.

Returner situation. Yeah, I think you both could be that guy. I think it's pretty cool that this kickoff rule is happening. We have all these questions and possibilities on the year that Devin Hester goes into the Hall of Fame. I think that's super cool. How about this for me to you to finish up this overreaction Monday pot?

I've got this one for you. At some point during the season. A large portion of the fan base, if not punditry, will be saying there's too much to me on the kickoff, on the kickoff. That's funny that the new rules have gone to the headline on Thursday.

Should we go back to the old kickoff rule? Yes, sir. That we'll see that at some point this season. I totally am with that. That's coming. Like that's how before or after Thanksgiving.

Ah, over, under, over, under, over, under, on the way before. Because I think, I think if, if what we're, we're talking about right now occurs, it's going to blitzkrieg a lot of people. Yeah. And there's going to be some teams that will not be equipped. And suddenly a team that's not that good, but has this stuff like, like a Philly, you know, um, really special kick off. No, like the, the, the, um, the tush play. Oh, right. Right. Right. Like somebody has this area of specialty down pat, and it's not stoppable that they have the horses and the horse sense and the personnel to beat you with this play, that this becomes the brotherly shove of special teams. I like it. And suddenly everybody's like, it's not fair.

Like these, these are the way these things can go. Now we may be overreacting right now. Maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe not. I saw a headline on Monday that someone threw an interception on a kickoff return. So these coaches are really expanding their minds and like, nothing is off the table on what they could be doing out there on, on kickoff return.

I think it's going to be wild. Yeah. So I'll buy that last one.

Love it. Well done. Yeah. All right.

That wraps it up for this edition of overreaction Monday. Uh, we're, we're going to be ramping up in August as a matter of, as a matter of fact, we are doing this podcast in August from New York City at the Fanatics Fest. We're announcing that right here. Yes. Come see us. As a matter of fact, as soon as I'm done, I'm docu signing that paperwork. Oh, fantastic. Not overreacting.

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