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NFL Schedule Release REACTION: Patriots Face Nightmare Schedule, Rams DOMINATE Primetime, Week 1 Primetime Lookaheads, TNF Bigger than MNF? · 3 and Out with John Middlekauff

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Speaker 1: The volume. What is going on everybody? John middlecoff three
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Speaker 1: and now podcast. Hopefully you are doing well getting ready
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Speaker 1: for the weekend. The schedule release came out. I will
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Speaker 1: break down every single game and make a prediction on
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Speaker 1: every single matchup. I'm kidding that will not happen, but
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Speaker 1: we will talk about some big picture stuff opening weekend,
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Speaker 1: the primetime games, Netflix now getting involved on Thanksgiving Eve,
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Speaker 1: the Black Friday game with Amazon, some themes that I
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Speaker 1: saw just on an initial glance. There's obviously a lot
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Speaker 1: going on. This is it's actually a This is probably
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Speaker 1: way more difficult of a podcast than anything during the
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Speaker 1: season because, like where to even start. You're not gonna
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Speaker 1: break down all the games, Matt. It's just too hard
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Speaker 1: to keep up with everyone's travel schedule. So we kind
1:02
Speaker 1: of had to keep it on a macro level. I
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Speaker 1: think over the course of the next couple of weeks
1:07
Speaker 1: we can dive in deeper, partly because I got to
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Speaker 1: get to my family because my wife was supposed to
1:12
Speaker 1: be on a bachelorette trip, but I'm playing it at
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Speaker 1: a golf tournaments our moms here, so I just try
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Speaker 1: to keep everything healthy here in the house. So yeah,
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Speaker 1: this will be a little schedule release big picture thoughts,
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Speaker 1: and that will be the game plan. So you guys
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Speaker 1: know the drill. Make sure you subscribe to the Three
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Speaker 1: Out podcasts if you listen on Collins Feed. We're also
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Speaker 1: up on Netflix. Check out Netflix and you can hit
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Speaker 1: an alert. I'm also doing some fourth down, which is
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Speaker 1: stuff that's off not on the podcast. We've put some
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Speaker 1: stuff up on YouTube, just some some takes that we
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Speaker 1: didn't hit on on the show and maybe I expand
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Speaker 1: on on the YouTube three and Out page, so you
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Speaker 1: can check that out as well. So let's just dive
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Speaker 1: right in. Let's start with week one, because we were
2:00
Speaker 1: waiting to see we already knew. Typically the team that
2:03
Speaker 1: wins the Super Bowl starts on Thursday Night Football, but
2:06
Speaker 1: because Roger wants the NFL and listen, I totally understand,
2:11
Speaker 1: you're either growing or dying. How much bigger can they
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Speaker 1: get domestically? Now you could argue they do pretty well
2:17
Speaker 1: here domestically, but they clearly want to become more worldwide.
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Speaker 1: If he asked me, I probably wouldn't say go to Australia.
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Speaker 1: But they're going to Australia, and because of that, the
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Speaker 1: Seattle has to play on Wednesday. Now, it's not as
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Speaker 1: big a deal like it is later in the season
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Speaker 1: because one, no one plays in the preseason and two,
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Speaker 1: like you have the entire month of August to manipulate
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Speaker 1: your practices and set up your guys for a rest.
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Speaker 1: It's not a big deal at all. You could play
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Speaker 1: a Monday night, Tuesday night, Wednesday night, Thursday night. It
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Speaker 1: doesn't matter week one. But we've been waiting to see
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Speaker 1: who they were gonna play. And because the NFC West
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Speaker 1: and the AFC West play each other. Once the game
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Speaker 1: leaked about the Monday night game, which is the Broncos
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Speaker 1: and the Chief kind of down to a couple teams,
3:01
Speaker 1: You're like, well, it's probably not gonna be the Raiders
3:03
Speaker 1: and it's the Patriots. So New England goes to Seattle
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Speaker 1: for a Super Bowl rematch where they got throttled. I'm
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Speaker 1: not gonna hit on individual schedules, but New England was
3:16
Speaker 1: just in the Super Bowl. Their head coach has been
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Speaker 1: like a Bravo reality television show a star because of
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Speaker 1: everything going on in his personal life. Their schedule is insane.
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Speaker 1: We knew it because again we knew who you were playing.
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Speaker 1: There is not a team today where someone found out,
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Speaker 1: like I didn't know we were playing them. We all
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Speaker 1: knew who everyone was playing, we just didn't know the dates.
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Speaker 1: So that's the NFL is incredible. This is before we
3:44
Speaker 1: dive into what they have in their back pocket, like
3:48
Speaker 1: they got a pitch, or if you're a golfer, they
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Speaker 1: got a shot that no one else has. You couldn't
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Speaker 1: even get me. You'd have to pay me a lot
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Speaker 1: of money to watch the equivalent or pay attention to
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Speaker 1: the equivalent of a baseball schedule. It's one hundred and
4:02
Speaker 1: six two games. No one ever discusses a basketball schedule
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Speaker 1: once the season's going, well, they got a back to
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Speaker 1: back coming up, but you just know you play everybody
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Speaker 1: at rotates, you travel here, you got the Texas road trip.
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Speaker 1: Like baseball, it's like, oh, getaway day, we got you know,
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Speaker 1: six games this week, seven games next week. In football's
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Speaker 1: extremely important, right are you playing night games? Are you
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Speaker 1: playing road games? When are your road games? When are
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Speaker 1: your long travels? When are your international games? And they've
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Speaker 1: created this spectacle, which is the schedule release again something
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Speaker 1: we already know. Right, It's like, what's a big moment
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Speaker 1: in my life when Maria told me she was pregnant.
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Speaker 1: Did not know when I proposed to her, did not
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Speaker 1: know right when. Once upon a time, when Colin Coward
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Speaker 1: called me, he's like, hey, this is years ago. That's
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Speaker 1: probably twenty eighteen or nineteen. You interested in doing a podcast,
4:57
Speaker 1: think about it, come up with a name, and we'll
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Speaker 1: go from there. It's like, didn't know that was coming,
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Speaker 1: got a call out of the blue. This is not
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Speaker 1: out of the blue yet, it feels pretty cool. I'm
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Speaker 1: looking around, I'm looking at the Thanksgiving Eve game. I'm like,
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Speaker 1: when do those two teams play before? And they get
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Speaker 1: the mini buy and it becomes a huge talking point
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Speaker 1: for us all throughout the season, but it really starts
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Speaker 1: tonight when you start thinking about it. For those of
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Speaker 1: you that go to games, more power to you. Football
5:24
Speaker 1: by far as the best television sport. There's nothing better
5:27
Speaker 1: to sitting on your couch and watching the game on
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Speaker 1: a big screen TV. But if you want to go
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Speaker 1: to the games, I totally understand. Hopefully your team has
5:33
Speaker 1: a good tailgate situation. You enjoy it. Road trips it's fun.
5:37
Speaker 1: I've been to not a million, but I've been to
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Speaker 1: many many NFL games and if you get on the
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Speaker 1: right one a big game, just a great game that
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Speaker 1: you did, don't expect that. They are extremely extremely entertaining.
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Speaker 1: Hack for those of you that haven't been to that
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Speaker 1: many and that plan to go. This is not basketball,
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Speaker 1: So sitting closer to the field is not a better
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Speaker 1: view that typically, especially if it's a newer stadium, a
6:00
Speaker 1: second level they often call like the club level, but
6:03
Speaker 1: even the upper part of the lower bowl or the
6:07
Speaker 1: bottom part even sometimes of the third tier gives you
6:10
Speaker 1: the best view of the field. When you get too low,
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Speaker 1: it is much more difficult to see. We did it
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Speaker 1: when we went to the Red River Rivalry a couple
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Speaker 1: of years ago Texas, Oklahoma. We were just too close,
6:21
Speaker 1: and it was it was a mistake by me, and
6:24
Speaker 1: and that's a mistake I knew, but I was like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: it would be kind of cool, and then I regretted
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Speaker 1: it immediately and the game was terrible anyway, so it
6:30
Speaker 1: didn't necessarily matter. But New England at Seattle, which uh, listen,
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Speaker 1: Seattle's gonna be really good. A lot of hype to me.
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Speaker 1: They got right in the mix to be the number
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Speaker 1: one seed again. I mean, as they're gonna be loaded
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Speaker 1: their coaches elite. I think the only question mark is
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Speaker 1: clearly this new coordinator who had been with the forty
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Speaker 1: nine ers for a long time. It is like their
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Speaker 1: tight end coach, run game type guy. A lot of
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Speaker 1: question marks with New England though. There's a big opening
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Speaker 1: statement and there's, let's face it, the elephant in the room,
7:00
Speaker 1: even though it's six months away or however many months away,
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Speaker 1: Like they're gonna have to address it, like you're not
7:07
Speaker 1: just gonna be like, yeah, pretty normal off season for
7:09
Speaker 1: Mike Vrabel, just just going about his business. Had a
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Speaker 1: good summer vacation, he was telling us, just relaxed with
7:16
Speaker 1: his family. You'd like, uh, what else, Mike, Well, what else?
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Speaker 1: Let us know, Like what do you mean, what do
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Speaker 1: you do? It's gonna be the elephant in the room
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Speaker 1: every time they play. And we've talked that nausey about
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Speaker 1: the Australia game. Not much to say. The only thing
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Speaker 1: that interests me about that game beside the game, I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be it's a fantastic matchup Kyle versus Verse
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Speaker 1: Sean and hopefully everyone's healthy for the forty nine ers
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Speaker 1: and the substation doesn't take out half their team in
7:42
Speaker 1: training camp was what happens next week before I walked in,
7:46
Speaker 1: because I might have played a little golf today. Got
7:48
Speaker 1: home at about five thirty the schedules release, UHOK, took
7:51
Speaker 1: some notes, kind of got my bearings together, and then
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Speaker 1: hit record. Is one of the first things I right
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Speaker 1: before I walked into the office. Mick I turned on
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Speaker 1: the television to like ESPN with Schrager and that and
8:03
Speaker 1: Orlovsky and that crew and McVeigh was on, and he
8:06
Speaker 1: said the number one thing he was looking for is
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Speaker 1: his doctor told him the hard part is not getting there.
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Speaker 1: If you get there early enough, they'll be able to acclimate.
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Speaker 1: It won't be as difficult for the players or the
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Speaker 1: coaches to be fresh. It's the travel home that can
8:20
Speaker 1: really wear on you. When I was really young with
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Speaker 1: my dad in New Zealand, I it'd be hard for me.
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Speaker 1: Even a chime in. I don't remember it, and it
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Speaker 1: was I was twelve or thirteen years old, so it
8:30
Speaker 1: didn't FaZe me, but it clearly I remember as my
8:33
Speaker 1: dad got older. One year he went there fishing with
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Speaker 1: his dad and tore his knee and had to get
8:38
Speaker 1: helicoptered out. It was a bad deal, but it could
8:41
Speaker 1: wear on you. I mean, the jet LAG's real, especially,
8:43
Speaker 1: you know, not everyone just sits in first class, even
8:46
Speaker 1: on a team plane. You know, there's only so much
8:47
Speaker 1: space on the bird. So it's about what you're doing.
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Speaker 1: The next week, the forty nine ers get the Dolphins
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Speaker 1: at home on a Sunday afternoon. I think we all
8:56
Speaker 1: would agree the Dolphins are gonna be one of the
8:57
Speaker 1: worst teams in the league, probably a pretty wide margin. No,
9:01
Speaker 1: they just signed probably their best player, the running back
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Speaker 1: eight Chan to a really good contract. Actually, if someone
9:08
Speaker 1: asked me in the mail bag the other day about
9:11
Speaker 1: would you rather be a first round pick or a
9:13
Speaker 1: second round pick, Well, there's no difference between a second
9:15
Speaker 1: and third round pick in terms of where your contracts
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Speaker 1: set up. He's a great example. He got less money
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Speaker 1: because he wasn't a first round pick. If he would
9:24
Speaker 1: have been the thirty second pick instead, I think he
9:26
Speaker 1: was a third round pick. His he would have had
9:30
Speaker 1: the fifth year option hanging over the contract and they
9:33
Speaker 1: would have had to guarantee more than what I read
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Speaker 1: thirty two million dollars. He's a fantastic player. I think
9:39
Speaker 1: I get you have to have some players and I
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Speaker 1: would imagine Seattle's really excited about Price, the running back
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Speaker 1: from Notre Dame. But I think it's safe to say
9:48
Speaker 1: Seattle definitely would have traded the thirty second pick for
9:51
Speaker 1: a chan you know, if the financials lined up, especially
9:54
Speaker 1: that contract. It's pretty good deal. So they could have
9:57
Speaker 1: got a first round pick for him, but they you
10:00
Speaker 1: got to have some good players. He's clearly a dominant player.
10:02
Speaker 1: And I have no issue with ever drafting and signing
10:06
Speaker 1: and extending good players in your roster, even if you're
10:08
Speaker 1: gonna suck. I mean, what's the point of football just
10:10
Speaker 1: to have a bunch of me and us out there
10:12
Speaker 1: and get your teeth kicked in. That's like, so I
10:15
Speaker 1: props to the Dolphins for at least keeping him. Sunday
10:18
Speaker 1: Night football. We've talked about this. You know, Dallas Giants,
10:21
Speaker 1: this is this is this is Yankees Red Sox. Right,
10:25
Speaker 1: this is Niners or Giants Dodgers back when the Giants
10:28
Speaker 1: were decent, probably Padres Dodgers. Now you know, Cubs Brewers.
10:31
Speaker 1: This is a big time inter division matchup Cubs Berds.
10:35
Speaker 1: Bad example because the Birds aren't a big market. That
10:37
Speaker 1: was a terrible example. Actually, my bad. I'm an idiot.
10:40
Speaker 1: It's much more like Red Sox and the Yankees to
10:44
Speaker 1: massive markets. They desperately want the Giants to be good.
10:47
Speaker 1: They haven't been good except for the one year with
10:48
Speaker 1: day Ball, basically the whole time. The Jets have sucked too.
10:52
Speaker 1: I guess they had the one year with McAdoo where
10:55
Speaker 1: the love cocaine boat. But everyone wants the Giants to
10:59
Speaker 1: be relevant. A lot of hype, a lot of buzz,
11:02
Speaker 1: not ideal, like anytime. I don't pretend to be a doctor.
11:05
Speaker 1: Just got a couple of degrees that are pretty meaningless
11:07
Speaker 1: and got me nowhere because football got me places. But
11:11
Speaker 1: one thing you know is when a guy needs a
11:15
Speaker 1: clean up surgery, especially when you are an explosive elite
11:19
Speaker 1: talent like Molik neighbors a little scary. I saw some
11:23
Speaker 1: doctor online like it's not the end all be all,
11:25
Speaker 1: but it's somewhat of a red flag. Same thing with
11:27
Speaker 1: the bow Knicks thing. It's like, oh, my ankle's fine, Well,
11:30
Speaker 1: how many ankle surgeries do you need? You know? It's
11:32
Speaker 1: like everyone gets injured. It's football. It's a violent sport.
11:36
Speaker 1: But anytimes I gotta go back, I gotta go back remember McCarthy,
11:38
Speaker 1: it happened to him. You got the knee surgery in
11:40
Speaker 1: training camp, then you need to clean up. It's just
11:42
Speaker 1: one of those things, especially when you're such an explosive,
11:45
Speaker 1: speed down the field guy like him. It makes you
11:49
Speaker 1: a little nervous if you're a Giants fan, and then
11:52
Speaker 1: the Money Night game is just elite. I mean Denver,
11:54
Speaker 1: Kansas City. That is right in the wheelhouse of a
11:58
Speaker 1: fourteen year old John Middlecuff of twelve year old Dick
12:00
Speaker 1: for Meal Mike Shanahan Monday Night Football with probably in Davis, California,
12:08
Speaker 1: wed just probably are shitty forty inch huge box TV
12:12
Speaker 1: that probably if I'm on ten ADP right now, you're
12:15
Speaker 1: on four K watching games. That was probably like negative
12:19
Speaker 1: seventy five LP whatever it was, Darrow, but it was awesome,
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Speaker 1: you know, Derek Thomas, Terrell, Davis, John Elway. That that
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Speaker 1: game is something that still hits me, like gives me
12:31
Speaker 1: a little football nostalgia to my youth. That means something
12:35
Speaker 1: on Monday Night Football. I'm sure with Troy and Joe
12:38
Speaker 1: doing it, we'll have some glimpses of some of those
12:41
Speaker 1: Dick for Meal or not Dick for Meal, but Marty Schottenheimer.
12:45
Speaker 1: Dick for Meil came a little after and then that's
12:47
Speaker 1: when the game kind of did quite have the same punch.
12:49
Speaker 1: But the Marty Schottenheimer Mike Shanahan, I mean, you're talking
12:52
Speaker 1: about lead defensive guy, old school, tough guy, gets his
12:55
Speaker 1: elite offensive coach with Kubiak always next to him. That's
12:59
Speaker 1: that's just special game. It really is. Some other games
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Speaker 1: Week one. I'm not gonna go week by week. I'm
13:04
Speaker 1: not gonna talk really much about any other weeks beside
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Speaker 1: the primetime games one Buffalo at Houston ten am for
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Speaker 1: US on the West coast, depending on where you live,
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Speaker 1: you do the math. That is an elite Week one game.
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Speaker 1: I mean, Joe Brady, welcome to the National Football League.
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Speaker 1: You're getting Demiko, Ryans, will Anderson, who's a certified ass kicker.
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Speaker 1: The rest of their defense, they got Hunter back, they
13:29
Speaker 1: got elite dbs. I'm pretty sure, if memory serves me
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Speaker 1: correct a lot going on. I got kid brain, didn't
13:37
Speaker 1: I watch Houston play Buffalo last year and beat the
13:38
Speaker 1: shit out of him. So like they've matched up against you,
13:41
Speaker 1: specifically as an offensive guy in Demiko and his defensive staff,
13:45
Speaker 1: and that defensive personnel took you to school. Remember was
13:49
Speaker 1: a Thursday night game or a Sunday night game. They
13:52
Speaker 1: just Buffalo had no shot to block them. Now, they
13:55
Speaker 1: might add some injuries, like it's hard to piece it
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Speaker 1: all together, but they got it. Felt like that's Josh
14:01
Speaker 1: Allen got sacked like ten times. It was an ass kicking.
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Speaker 1: So that that is a fantastic that's a If you
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Speaker 1: told me Buffalo at Houston was the Monday night game
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Speaker 1: it's in at Denver, Kansas City, I wouldn't have complained
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Speaker 1: at all. That that's that's a pretty unreal game. Some
14:17
Speaker 1: pretty good AFC matchups here. Baltimore at Indy, that's pretty
14:21
Speaker 1: freaking good. I mean, Indy was eight and two when
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Speaker 1: before the quarterback broke his leg in tours Achilles. They
14:26
Speaker 1: were playing well. They obviously have good players. I think
14:28
Speaker 1: Chris Baller does a good job. I think their coaching
14:30
Speaker 1: staff's good. You know, big test for Baltimore. If Lamar's
14:33
Speaker 1: right right and Jesse Mentor like Mike McDonald, transitions easily,
14:37
Speaker 1: they should be pretty good. Right, some unknowns with the
14:40
Speaker 1: play caller, some new personnel, but the Baltimore Ravens the
14:46
Speaker 1: only difference between them and like the Packers right has
14:50
Speaker 1: been you know, Green Bay's gone through some coaches now,
14:53
Speaker 1: Like I mean, I remember being a kid Mike Holmgren
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Speaker 1: to Mike Sherman to Mike McCarthy to like, It's not
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Speaker 1: like they've had the same guy for twenty plus years.
15:04
Speaker 1: The thing with the Ravens, I get some of you
15:06
Speaker 1: guys DM and me like middle cuff, you're talking so
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Speaker 1: much shit. I respect the hell out of that franchise.
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Speaker 1: They haven't just been a model in the NFL. They've
15:16
Speaker 1: been a model in professional sports. They've been a model business.
15:19
Speaker 1: They are consistently excellent. They have a defined culture, like
15:23
Speaker 1: they're a very very well run brand business with a
15:29
Speaker 1: very clear philosophy. Right, run the ball, beat the shit
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Speaker 1: out of you, and play defense. And then Lamar added
15:36
Speaker 1: this element unlike anything they've had in my lifetime of like,
15:40
Speaker 1: and we got a quarterback who's like a buttoned up
15:44
Speaker 1: better version of Michael Vick. Good fucking luck. And a
15:48
Speaker 1: couple of years ago, if I ever talked to Mike
15:50
Speaker 1: McDonald like long like, besides the Hello, that's one of
15:54
Speaker 1: the better teams I've ever seen. Like I thought they
15:57
Speaker 1: were gonna walk to the Super Bowl. I thought they
15:59
Speaker 1: were gonna dog walk the Chiefs. Then I thought they
16:01
Speaker 1: would dog walk the forty nine ers and they would
16:04
Speaker 1: be hoisting the Lombardi. And now a couple of years later,
16:08
Speaker 1: Harbaugh's gone, McDonald's gone, A lot of those players are gone,
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Speaker 1: and now you got some new and fuse staff, which listen,
16:13
Speaker 1: is good. Joe Brady in theory should be a positive thing.
16:16
Speaker 1: Jesse Minter in theory should be a positive thing. That's
16:20
Speaker 1: a that's a nice start on the road at Indy.
16:22
Speaker 1: A lot of pressure on the Colts sleeper game, Saints
16:26
Speaker 1: at Detroit. I don't know who's gonna win the South.
16:29
Speaker 1: My my pick's gonna be the Saints, but you could
16:32
Speaker 1: obviously Tampa and Carolina. I think it's one of those
16:35
Speaker 1: three teams. I would not include the Falcons with their
16:37
Speaker 1: quarterback situation, but I think't say it's gonna be pretty good.
16:40
Speaker 1: If Tyler Shuck is what we think, he's gonna be
16:43
Speaker 1: a good player, the guy we saw down the stretch. Obviously,
16:47
Speaker 1: some pressure on Jordan Tyson to step up. That's that's
16:51
Speaker 1: a nice little test on the road to Detroit. Tampa
16:54
Speaker 1: at Cincy I'm picking Cincy to win that division, and
16:57
Speaker 1: you know Tampa, it was pretty devastating for them to
16:59
Speaker 1: miss the pl I mean, these are solid Sunday sitting
17:03
Speaker 1: here watching football, just enjoying myself. And then Chicago at Carolina,
17:10
Speaker 1: you know, Carolina, like Tampa, like New Orleans. I think
17:13
Speaker 1: one of those three teams win the division, and I
17:15
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be better than it was last year,
17:17
Speaker 1: more like a ten or eleven win team, more than
17:20
Speaker 1: like what it was limping to the finish. So that's
17:23
Speaker 1: a good test. I mean, Ben Johnson Chicago obviously, Caleb Williams,
17:27
Speaker 1: what's he looked like? And You're too underband a little
17:29
Speaker 1: more fundamentally sound, still with the Josh Allen element to
17:32
Speaker 1: his game. I'm high in Chicago because I'm when you
17:36
Speaker 1: have an elite coach, I bet on you. It's pretty simple.
17:38
Speaker 1: It's like, what do you have? Do you have a
17:41
Speaker 1: talented quarterback and elite coach, like I'm betting on you?
17:44
Speaker 1: Do you have some question marks? At either we got
17:46
Speaker 1: we got problems And that's my one issue with Carolina
17:49
Speaker 1: is I think coach is solid, still some TBD and
17:53
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks just he had some moments and he's definitely
17:57
Speaker 1: mentally tough. And I listen, I'm not talking shit on
18:00
Speaker 1: them for picking him when I would have picked him too.
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18:43
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Speaker 1: hit on I think the NFL has been very cognizant
20:55
Speaker 1: of the fact that Amazon has just unlimited money. I
21:00
Speaker 1: mean that company. My mother in law's in town right now,
21:04
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, yeah, the Kleenexes should have arrived.
21:08
Speaker 1: She's like, do you guys ever go to the store.
21:11
Speaker 1: I'm like, why would I go to the store when
21:13
Speaker 1: I got Jeff Bezos? Because I just think of something.
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Speaker 1: I press a button, It's here. Do I need tooth
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Speaker 1: based Boom. Do I need laundry target? Boom? Do I
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Speaker 1: need some pens? Boom? Do I need golf balls? Boom?
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Speaker 1: What do you need? I don't need to go to
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Speaker 1: fifteen stores. I just press a button and it's here
21:29
Speaker 1: and they're crushing it. And Amazon's doing pretty well for
21:33
Speaker 1: a reason. And the Thursday Night game, which I think
21:36
Speaker 1: started as somewhat of a throwaway, which I think was
21:40
Speaker 1: ran by Brian Rolapp, who's now the PGA Tour Commissioner,
21:43
Speaker 1: I would say, has become every bit is of a
21:47
Speaker 1: marquee game as Sunday Night Football and Monday Night Football. Now,
21:50
Speaker 1: Sunday Night Football is a little different because it's a
21:53
Speaker 1: bleed in all day and Monday Night is just there's
21:56
Speaker 1: a brand recognition that goes back to before I was born.
22:00
Speaker 1: I forget the first year of Monday Night Football, but
22:02
Speaker 1: it's been it feels like it's been going on as
22:04
Speaker 1: long as I was alive. And Thursday Night Football, I think,
22:08
Speaker 1: in a short period of time, has stepped up to
22:11
Speaker 1: that level. Now I feel like I'm a hater. I
22:14
Speaker 1: respect the shit out of this guy as a college
22:17
Speaker 1: football analyst. I love it when he calls college football games.
22:21
Speaker 1: Who doesn't love college game Day. He's an all time
22:25
Speaker 1: staple when it comes to the sport of college football
22:29
Speaker 1: and has been an integral part in the explosion the interest.
22:34
Speaker 1: Like KIRKIRB Street, is a major, major cog in the
22:37
Speaker 1: business that is college football and has played a key
22:40
Speaker 1: role over the course of the last several decades. I
22:44
Speaker 1: just don't when I turn on an NFL game, I
22:46
Speaker 1: don't really want to watch him, so shot at him,
22:48
Speaker 1: and I think Amazon knew it. It's why they went
22:50
Speaker 1: after Sean McVay, It's why they went after John Lynch
22:52
Speaker 1: like they wanted to get an NFL guy. Mike Tomlin
22:56
Speaker 1: probably wouldn't have committed to it because I think it's
22:59
Speaker 1: pretty clear and be coaching next year. But when you
23:02
Speaker 1: just I just pulled up their schedule, it always pops,
23:05
Speaker 1: and that didn't used to be the case. It felt
23:07
Speaker 1: like there would be like a lot of Jags and
23:09
Speaker 1: Titans game. It's like the first Thursday night football game
23:13
Speaker 1: of the year is Detroit at Buffalo. I mean that's
23:16
Speaker 1: just like boom, We're off and running a Detroit team
23:20
Speaker 1: with several stars and Josh Allen the second one. Listen,
23:23
Speaker 1: I'm not high on Atlanta. This year they got Beejohn Robinson.
23:27
Speaker 1: But it's at lambeau Field that works. The one thing
23:30
Speaker 1: you can get away with a little bit is like
23:33
Speaker 1: the Browns aren't any good, but it's like division rivalries.
23:35
Speaker 1: If you tell me the Browns are playing the Ravens,
23:38
Speaker 1: the Bengals or the Steelers in a Thursday night game,
23:41
Speaker 1: we're in. Remember it happened last year where they got Flacco? Right,
23:44
Speaker 1: was that when he beat him? Or now am I
23:45
Speaker 1: getting confused? Was he on? The Bengals can't even keep
23:47
Speaker 1: up with the Flacco career arc? But like that works.
23:51
Speaker 1: Baker Dallas, Cowboys, Seattle, Denver, New England, Chicago, Lambell hosting
23:56
Speaker 1: another game Baltimore the Washington Giants. Not you know, we'll
24:02
Speaker 1: see Colts at Indy or excuse me, Colts at Houston.
24:06
Speaker 1: Black Friday is Denver at Pittsburgh, Kansas City at the Rams,
24:13
Speaker 1: Minnesota at the Patriots, Niners at the Chargers. Like these
24:17
Speaker 1: are excellent games. The Christmas Eve game is Texans at
24:21
Speaker 1: the Eagles. The New Year's Eve game is the Ravens
24:25
Speaker 1: at Joe Burrow. Like Amazon is getting taken care of,
24:29
Speaker 1: and I think that is somewhat of a foreshadow of
24:32
Speaker 1: like get Ready because Netflix, who I guess we could
24:36
Speaker 1: just jump right to them. I saw that. Joe Papliano
24:42
Speaker 1: said that Netflix is doubling down on a key element here,
24:46
Speaker 1: special events. Their sports strategy is not that they don't
24:50
Speaker 1: want to buy the Cardinals at the Minnesota Vikings, and
24:55
Speaker 1: that's listen to Minnesota, you had good teams. I don't
24:57
Speaker 1: think it'd be that good. It's not a shot at you.
24:58
Speaker 1: My point is just some random game, right the the
25:02
Speaker 1: Jags playing the Jets. They want a big event, and
25:07
Speaker 1: this year it's it's reported that they're spending about five
25:11
Speaker 1: hundred million dollars on the events they're getting, and that's
25:14
Speaker 1: like less than three percent of their annual content budget.
25:17
Speaker 1: They get the Niners in the Rams, they get the
25:20
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving Eve game, which what is that game? Oh? Packers
25:26
Speaker 1: at the Rams? Like that's so their two games both
25:31
Speaker 1: include McVeigh against the Packers and the forty nine ers.
25:35
Speaker 1: And they have the Christmas Day games, which always work
25:38
Speaker 1: because I don't know, we're all fucking at home. They
25:41
Speaker 1: have I guess a Saturday Week eighteen game, which again
25:44
Speaker 1: January ninth, weather terrible a lot of the country. Everyone's
25:48
Speaker 1: watching that game. And then one thing they did this
25:50
Speaker 1: year I don't think they've done in the past. I
25:53
Speaker 1: didn't watch the Kevin Hart roast, but like the part
25:56
Speaker 1: of the reason they the Brady Rose to Kevin Hart Rose,
25:59
Speaker 1: Like just a big event, Jake Paul fight. Just do
26:01
Speaker 1: some things live event that will draw people to you.
26:06
Speaker 1: The NFL Honors isn't really for me, Like I don't
26:09
Speaker 1: care one way or the other. Like I think it's
26:12
Speaker 1: cool when the guys go into the Hall of Fame
26:14
Speaker 1: or the MVP Award, but they're doing that. So I
26:19
Speaker 1: think the NFL just wants them to get more and
26:22
Speaker 1: more involved and will build special events for them. Because
26:26
Speaker 1: the first thing I did was like, well, if they're
26:29
Speaker 1: playing on Thanksgiving Eve, what are they doing before? Is
26:35
Speaker 1: there like a Saturday game, because you wouldn't give it.
26:37
Speaker 1: You wouldn't make a team play on Sunday and then
26:40
Speaker 1: play a couple of days later on Wednesday. Well, they
26:43
Speaker 1: basically get a mini bye, so the Rams and the
26:46
Speaker 1: Packers both play the previous Sunday, so they get the
26:50
Speaker 1: entire week off, and then they get three days and
26:52
Speaker 1: then you get another mini buy because you don't have
26:54
Speaker 1: to play that Sunday, so you don't have to play.
26:56
Speaker 1: It's a huge whoever wins that game. If if you
27:00
Speaker 1: were able to win the game before Thanksgiving Eve and
27:03
Speaker 1: the Thanksgiving Eve game and go two to zero in
27:05
Speaker 1: those games, that is a huge bonus for either one
27:08
Speaker 1: of those teams. Obviously, the Rams, a lot of people
27:10
Speaker 1: are gonna pick to, you know, I don't know, win
27:13
Speaker 1: the super Bowl, be in the super Bowl, be in
27:15
Speaker 1: the super Bowl. Mix in the Packers every year in
27:17
Speaker 1: the mix. So that's that's fantastic, And like they're taking care.
27:24
Speaker 1: And they did this with Thursday Night Football with Amazon,
27:26
Speaker 1: like Bears, Cowboys, Packers, Josh Allen, Packers again, Lamar Jackson,
27:33
Speaker 1: John Harbaugh, Aaron Rodgers McVeigh, Patriots, who are just in
27:38
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl forty nine Ers, Chargers Jim Harbaugh against
27:41
Speaker 1: the fucking Kyle Shanahan Eagles. Like they give big brands
27:46
Speaker 1: to Amazon and Netflix. They want their money, and I
27:50
Speaker 1: don't blame I would too. And this is why someone
27:52
Speaker 1: asked me recently about the DOJ and the streaming thing.
27:56
Speaker 1: These networks are they know at any more? If Netflix
28:00
Speaker 1: ever changes their tune, I'd be like we love big events,
28:04
Speaker 1: but hey, we'll take We'll take some more games, Like
28:08
Speaker 1: any more games they want, they will get because paying
28:12
Speaker 1: for those it's like pocket change for me and you. Uh, well,
28:18
Speaker 1: what else did I want to look at? Here? Sunday
28:21
Speaker 1: night football, which has a little flexibility. I guess we got.
28:27
Speaker 1: They got two games the first week, right, because one
28:30
Speaker 1: is the Wednesday night game. We got a lot of
28:32
Speaker 1: Wednesday night football. I love football and it has financially
28:37
Speaker 1: changed my life. That if you would have told my
28:40
Speaker 1: dad this twenty five, like when I was in junior
28:43
Speaker 1: high in high school, what I could do for a
28:44
Speaker 1: living at forty, I don't even think he would have comprehended.
28:48
Speaker 1: One podcast didn't even exists then. But like the reason
28:52
Speaker 1: this works, regardless how good or not you think I am,
28:57
Speaker 1: it's because football matters. If I have had the same
29:00
Speaker 1: talent and the same passion talking about other sports, it
29:04
Speaker 1: would not be the same. I'll be the first to
29:07
Speaker 1: tell you I've benefited greatly from the explosion of football.
29:11
Speaker 1: I cannot tip my hat enough to the players, the coaches, roge,
29:15
Speaker 1: everyone involved with the fucking sport college football too, sabing
29:19
Speaker 1: that has taken this sport from an interest level to
29:22
Speaker 1: a different stratosphere. Football has always been big. It like,
29:26
Speaker 1: I don't even think it's possible to get any bigger domestically,
29:28
Speaker 1: But these games Wednesday, Like I'm good with just Thursday, Sunday, Monday.
29:36
Speaker 1: But I've always pushed back one day. You think we'll
29:39
Speaker 1: have Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday Fridays Like, I don't know, I
29:43
Speaker 1: don't know. We're definitely creeping that way. So like drip, drip, drip,
29:47
Speaker 1: eventually you're gonna get a flood. I think the more
29:49
Speaker 1: this happens, the less I think it's unrealistic. Now, the
29:53
Speaker 1: Friday thing with high school football, you would think that.
29:57
Speaker 1: I think there's a there's a legality there in the
30:00
Speaker 1: federal government or some law that doesn't enable the NFL
30:05
Speaker 1: to do that Tuesday. It's just hard with the schedule.
30:09
Speaker 1: This isn't baseball. So I think we're safe. But I
30:13
Speaker 1: could see the Wednesday game creeping in more and more.
30:18
Speaker 1: Some Sunday games that stick out Chiefs Colts Week two Rams.
30:22
Speaker 1: I mean it feels like the Rams every single week
30:25
Speaker 1: they are gonna ride McVeigh like he is a movie star.
30:29
Speaker 1: Lions Carolina, a lot of Falcons here bijon better be good.
30:35
Speaker 1: Chiefs at Seattle Week seven, Cowboys at Green Bay Week six.
30:39
Speaker 1: Those are good games. Pittsburgh at Cincy, Vikings at Niners
30:45
Speaker 1: in Mexico City. One of the best games in the
30:48
Speaker 1: last five six years. Chiefs have Bills, that's fantastic. First
30:52
Speaker 1: year of the Bill Stadium, right, Patriots at Chargers some
30:57
Speaker 1: good games. One initial takeaway when I pulled up one
31:00
Speaker 1: of night football, has it kind of been passed, not
31:04
Speaker 1: in terms of like it's relevance, but like the games
31:08
Speaker 1: they're good, but it's like I wouldn't is Thursday night
31:12
Speaker 1: football creeping up on it? Obviously? Broncos Chiefs is fantastic.
31:16
Speaker 1: Next week Giants Rams. We're hoping on the Giants. I
31:20
Speaker 1: hope the Giants are good, but there's no gear. They
31:22
Speaker 1: could easily be six or seven wins. Eagles at Bears,
31:26
Speaker 1: fantastic Falcon Saints Matt Ryan and Drew Brees. You know
31:31
Speaker 1: this isn't twenty twelve again. Could be a good game,
31:35
Speaker 1: but it's like a little risky. Bill's Rams fantastic, Washington
31:39
Speaker 1: forty nine ers? Are we sure why it's gonna be good?
31:43
Speaker 1: I love sunny styles, love their quarterback when he's healthy,
31:46
Speaker 1: can he stay healthy? How talented is their defense? There's
31:50
Speaker 1: a question marks of Washington, Cowboys, Eagles. No one will
31:53
Speaker 1: ever complain. That's just that's a Yankee red sock game.
31:57
Speaker 1: Bear Seattle, Okay, that's that's that's elite. That's Seattle. Monday
32:01
Speaker 1: night games are fucking unreal. Uh that there's some there's
32:05
Speaker 1: a couple of environments, the Chiefs, the Bills, Seattle primetime games.
32:10
Speaker 1: It's just it's just hard to beat Buffalo at Minnesota.
32:13
Speaker 1: Like it's this is November nine. What if Minnesota isn't good? Like,
32:18
Speaker 1: what if they're not good? And that's that's November ninth.
32:21
Speaker 1: I mean we're pretty far into the season. Chargers Bills,
32:24
Speaker 1: I'm in. That's or excuse me, Chargers Ravens. That's a
32:27
Speaker 1: fantastic game. I'm seeing a lot of Washington. I just
32:31
Speaker 1: think Washington's a pretty risky that there there is. We
32:34
Speaker 1: have two data points. One, they pulled off some crazy
32:38
Speaker 1: games last year. They were unwatchable. It's just it's just
32:43
Speaker 1: something to keep an eye on. I'm rooting for them.
32:46
Speaker 1: The more good teams, the more I watch football anyway.
32:49
Speaker 1: So it's like I'd rather watch good quarterbacks. Steelers Jags
32:54
Speaker 1: like in theory, like on paper. Got a couple of
32:56
Speaker 1: playoff teams I don't know, Patriot, Chiefs, Giants again, I
33:01
Speaker 1: mean they're they're really riding these. The Jags get a
33:05
Speaker 1: couple of Monday night football games. I guess you gotta
33:07
Speaker 1: take care of them because they're going over to London. God,
33:09
Speaker 1: how many Washington the Oh never mind, I'm reading the Jags.
33:15
Speaker 1: Let me repeat that those are the NFL Network games
33:18
Speaker 1: that are over in in London. The Jags have back
33:22
Speaker 1: to back games. Jags have a tough little stretch in Europe.
33:25
Speaker 1: They get the Eagles and then the Texans. Jesus, So yeah,
33:30
Speaker 1: I mean we got I just think Monday Night I
33:34
Speaker 1: love Monday Night football, but it doesn't feel quite as
33:39
Speaker 1: guaranteed to be the best game of the week. That's
33:41
Speaker 1: that's not what it feels like. Well maybe it was
33:43
Speaker 1: just that's what I thought when I was thirteen years old.
33:46
Speaker 1: They still get good packages, but I do think that
33:49
Speaker 1: Amazon has somewhat passed them. Before I get out of here,
33:53
Speaker 1: I just want to end on this because this team
33:55
Speaker 1: was in the Super Bowl last year, and you know
33:58
Speaker 1: the veraybel question with his confidence and just how will
34:02
Speaker 1: handle himself as just We'll just have to see, especially
34:05
Speaker 1: once training camp starts or more stories gonna come out.
34:08
Speaker 1: Time will tell their schedule. On first glance, the New
34:11
Speaker 1: England Patriots is pretty insane. They got to go to
34:14
Speaker 1: Seattle loss, then fly across. Now they get kind of
34:19
Speaker 1: a mini buy Pittsburgh. Okay, Then they go at Jacksonville,
34:24
Speaker 1: who was just, i mean, a pretty fucking good team
34:27
Speaker 1: last year at Buffalo. Then they gotta fly back across
34:31
Speaker 1: the country to play the Uh, nevermind, I'm screwing this up.
34:37
Speaker 1: When there's Nat in front of you, that's when you
34:40
Speaker 1: were on the road. I'm a fucking idiot. Let me
34:42
Speaker 1: repeat JAG's bills on the road. Get the Raiders at home,
34:47
Speaker 1: who granted beat them last year with Gino Smith, weird game.
34:50
Speaker 1: Jets okay, at the Bears, the Packers, the Lions, at
34:56
Speaker 1: the Chargers, the Bills again at Kansas City, Enver. It's
35:01
Speaker 1: just a lot of hard games. Now, you do get
35:03
Speaker 1: the Dolphins, you do get the Jets, but there's a
35:07
Speaker 1: lot of potential playoff teams here. Broncos, Chiefs, Bills, Chargers, Lions, Packers, Bears, Bills, Jags,
35:16
Speaker 1: Steelers just a weird team, even if they're just that
35:19
Speaker 1: random seven seed always. And the Jets, like anytime you
35:24
Speaker 1: have a team in your division who everyone thinks gonna
35:26
Speaker 1: suck but actually has. Like the one thing with the
35:29
Speaker 1: Dolphins and the Jets, I think we all agree that
35:31
Speaker 1: Jets have a much better roster on paper. You just
35:36
Speaker 1: it's gonna be hard for the Jets to be as
35:37
Speaker 1: shitty as they were last year. I'd say the same
35:39
Speaker 1: thing for the Raiders. They might be a year away
35:42
Speaker 1: from being like wild card competitive, but yeah, exciting stuff.
35:50
Speaker 1: The volume