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Good news for the five or six people who have asked me about our Inside Slant podcast over the past few months: It's back! Mike Sando and I recorded a post-combine/pre-free agency show that happened to take place on the day the story broke that the ...

NFC West colleague Mike Sando is an avid reader of the NFC North blog, and so naturally he noticed last week's post on two 1998 Minnesota Vikings draft picks -- receiver Randy Moss and center Matt Birk -- who will appear for opposite teams in Super B...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Good morning on a beautifully sunny day here. I'm rushing to the hotel lobby to meet our frantic NFC West blogger, Mike Sando, and dash over to Candlestick Park. You never know what pregame traffic is going to be like. Only seven hou...

It's about time to take this show out west. The San Francisco 49ers will be at Candlestick Park on Saturday evening, awaiting the Green Bay Packers for a divisional-round playoff matchup. My guess is that NFC West blogger Mike Sando is already wai...

As predicted, NFC West blogger Mike Sando consumed a good portion of this week's Inside Slant podcast advocating for Colin Kaepernick's immediate induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Sigh. Seriously, our discussion centered around Kaeper...

As we get inch closer to Saturday night's divisional playoff game at Candlestick Park, it's become quite clear that NFC West blogger Mike Sando is on a mission to equate San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick with the Green Bay Packers' Aar...

Based on our SportsNation poll earlier this month, about half of you want to see the Minnesota Vikings replace quarterback Christian Ponder next season. If you're one of them, be sure to take part in this week's Inside Slant podcast. Mike Sando an...

The Inside Slant podcast this week was a tie-in to NFC West colleague Mike Sando's MVP Watch post, which features three quarterbacks ahead of Minnesota Vikings tailback Adrian Peterson in the rankings. Thirty years after Washington Redskins place...

I took the role of Tom Coughlin in this week's Inside Slant podcast, while partner Mike Sando got all revolutionary in the Greg Schiano sense of the word. Our wide-ranging discussion not only hit the concept of NFL protocol, but it also included how...

SAN FRANCISCO -- After wrapping up coverage of another NFC North team losing to the San Francisco 49ers, I sat down with NFC West colleague and Inside Slant podcast partner Mike Sando to admit defeat. At least, that's what I think I was saying. It wa...

The Green Bay Packers are 0-1. So are the New Orleans Saints. So who has a better chance to land USC quarterback Matt Barkley at the top of the 2013 draft? That question highlighted the discussion Mike Sando and I had about post-Week 1 overreactio...

Kudos to NFC West colleague Mike Sando for eliciting a rare admission from the NFL regarding a call we discussed in our earlier Dirty Laundry post. As you recall, referee Mike Carey's crew spotted the ball five yards away from where the San Franci...

As you know, I'm headed to Detroit this evening so I can be in place for Sunday's game between the Detroit Lions and San Francisco 49ers. I'll be joined by NFC West colleague Mike Sando, who I hope can drag himself out of bed in time for what is a 10...