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Super insightful! Sounds like it took many years of fine sculpting to get that bridge “just right”! …BEAUTIFUL!!!! Thanks so much fellas! Looking forward to the next one!

Happy 4th Craig and Logan. Thanks!

Question for future mailbags: We've often had minicamps and OTAs that produced excitement only for it to not translate to the season. Last season being Exhibit A. As a fan who's not at the practices, what are the things you think we should look out for as signals that usually translate to the season? Positively or negatively. And this is both from a football perspective and from an us-listening-to-beat-reporters perspective. Because the beat reporters often seem to get caught up in the energy of the team, or certain negative stories don't translate because the beat reporter doesn't want to burn access or a source. But are there things that when we hear them as fans we can/should feel optimistic/pessimistic? Or is it just everything is too weak a signal to pay attention to?

Question for Logan. Does he think that the season is too long? I think a 16 game season and 1 or maybe 2 preseason games will be enough.

The players should negotiate for a higher level of vets that get the more time out of the building. It could be stages as well like starting 5th year players. That would mean they are all on their second contract by then. The you could add bones time like same team so a 5th year player on the same team gets even more weeks off then add extra weeks if it's under same coach as these players by that point should have the whole playbook down plus it might make it more enticing to stay with the same club as these perks start adding up and they could make more up to the individual players discretion as they become a 6/8 year vets rather then it up to the coach, front office or the league. Plus they need to get back to 4 preseason games. That last game really doesn't have very many starters participating anyway. I'm tiered of the first to weeks looking more the three stooges' are on the field when these are games that actually count whether your team makes the playoffs are not.