The third episode of Conor and Gary’s team-by-team, four-at-a-time season preview countdown is here, and they’re getting into the teams that should be entering 2022 with playoff aspirations (of varying degrees).

Once again, we will not reveal who the teams are in this episode description, but we will provide these clues from our conversations:

Team 24: A way to program the quarterback to carry out one of three tasks: Quick throw, throw away, or crumple like a deflated Christmas decoration.

Team 23: Is the ceiling ever going to get any higher?

Team 21: If your manager tells you to go away, would you go to their boss and tell them that you’re staying?

Also Team 21: The ballad of the re-cast offensive lineman. And who will advertise a netball sub?

Come back every Monday for the next four teams in the countdown and perhaps to hear what archaic technology Conor Orr is re-embracing next.

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