WEBVTT - Would You Rather? 0:00:04.800 --> 0:00:07.680 Welcome to NFL Daily, where we're getting our clocks set 0:00:07.720 --> 0:00:09.120 to Greenwich Meantime. 0:00:09.240 --> 0:00:10.320 It's Greg Rosenthal. 0:00:10.440 --> 0:00:13.319 I'm here in the Chris Westling podcast studio, and I'm 0:00:13.320 --> 0:00:17.800 with my friends Colleen Wolf and Jordan Rodrigue of the Athletic. 0:00:17.840 --> 0:00:20.640 There's a lot of games over there in Europe this year. 0:00:20.920 --> 0:00:22.000 That's what you just had to google. 0:00:22.079 --> 0:00:24.640 They were announced. Yeah, what is the time zone in London? 0:00:24.720 --> 0:00:26.640 Because there's a lot of games there at the Dublin 0:00:26.760 --> 0:00:28.520 and London and we've got we've got. 0:00:28.360 --> 0:00:31.400 Six games over in Europe. What's it called Greenwich meantime? 0:00:31.480 --> 0:00:32.600 Is there Greenwich nice time? 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:37.919 British summertime is another fun one. And yeah, people will 0:00:37.920 --> 0:00:39.800 point out, well they're not all in London, yes, but 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:43.320 for us over here Stateside, they're all at the same time, 0:00:43.640 --> 0:00:47.479 which is six thirty am Pacific time, which means Colleen 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:49.960 will be hosting the pregame show and has to be 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:51.240 at work when I. 0:00:51.200 --> 0:00:54.680 Think that show starts at four am Pacific, so it's 0:00:54.720 --> 0:00:56.280 like a two am call time. 0:00:56.400 --> 0:00:56.840 That's right. 0:00:57.080 --> 0:01:00.640 That's for ZIL game. That's eight point fifteen Eastern. 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:04.040 Good call's so a little different. That is slash that 0:01:04.200 --> 0:01:05.880 is games all over the place. 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:07.399 That's the first weekend of the year. 0:01:07.400 --> 0:01:10.199 That was actually the one game that has not been 0:01:10.520 --> 0:01:13.679 announced as of this taping. We're taping Tuesday, although it's 0:01:13.680 --> 0:01:16.440 been reported pretty widely that it's going to be Chiefs Chargers. 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:19.880 So sometimes those reports are wrong, but usually they're right, 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:23.000 so we'll see. But yes, the International Games were announced, 0:01:23.000 --> 0:01:26.959 the kickoff game was announced. We have news we're going 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:29.160 to do a new segment, a little would you rather 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:32.200 type of segment, And we also had time before the 0:01:32.240 --> 0:01:35.200 show to catch up on our own lives and have 0:01:35.240 --> 0:01:38.280 a relationship that isn't just about talking on camera, which 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:40.320 I think is nourishing Jordan. 0:01:40.440 --> 0:01:44.200 Yes, as Colleen so eloquently put it, the whole greeting 0:01:44.280 --> 0:01:46.440 each other, doing the talking. 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:49.800 Thing, small talk, I said, it's not my thing. 0:01:50.280 --> 0:01:52.640 I don't really do it. So yeah, but it is 0:01:52.680 --> 0:01:54.400 great to see you guys, and you guys are friends. 0:01:54.520 --> 0:01:56.800 You guys, you were basically happy that you felt like 0:01:56.880 --> 0:02:00.600 you knocked it out before the show, didn't have to 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:03.720 after the show and have this awkward thing where Colleen 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:08.280 is literally standing in the doorway holding the door halfway 0:02:08.320 --> 0:02:12.280 out and thinking about catching is it safe for this 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:14.360 is it safe for me to leave this conversation now, 0:02:14.400 --> 0:02:15.840 and it's like it would have been safe the whole time. 0:02:15.880 --> 0:02:17.120 You can just go if you want to go. It's 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:17.560 all fine. 0:02:18.320 --> 0:02:19.720 We love you either way. 0:02:19.840 --> 0:02:22.359 Everything in my life is on a running clock, and 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:24.320 I wish it wasn't that way. But I'm like, ooh, 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:26.520 this is this is taking time time off the clock. 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:29.239 I'm insulating my ceiling right now. I gotta like get 0:02:29.280 --> 0:02:30.560 back there and do some stuff. 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:34.839 Your dog escaped from his keeper. Yes, so we'll get 0:02:34.840 --> 0:02:35.480 this show going. 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:39.280 Like I said, Dolos, if you think about it, sure are. 0:02:39.960 --> 0:02:41.240 And it's shorter than you think. 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:44.079 Take advantage yours is the shortest. 0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:47.440 I mean, I never you never know. 0:02:48.080 --> 0:02:50.600 I'm just kidding. I wasn't gonna say it that I did, 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:51.920 and now I feel bad that I did. 0:02:52.080 --> 0:02:55.880 Oh no, I mean I'm getting good care my body. 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:57.760 There's a lot of randomness that comes into that. 0:02:58.320 --> 0:02:59.400 I'm a personal trainer. 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:02.200 I mean once a week you work out. Yeah, big 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:03.519 Raiders fan, let's talk about it. 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:05.880 Actually, let me tell Colleen the story. I just want 0:03:05.880 --> 0:03:08.079 to get your take on this. If is this something 0:03:08.160 --> 0:03:10.040 you would have done or maybe you would have not 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:13.639 done in this Okay. When we interviewed new Raiders Jim 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:16.880 John spy Tech, Greg led with the fact that his 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:20.480 personal trainer, Stephen, is a Raiders fan and so really 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:22.400 hopes that John spy Tech is a good GM. 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:24.320 Oh wow, that's an icebreaker. 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:26.440 Yeah, it was supposed to be about how important the 0:03:26.520 --> 0:03:28.960 quarterback position. It is a good icebreaker. Actually, it's a 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:31.480 way to like humanize it. We're all on the same level. 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:34.560 You're not higher than me, John spy Tech or my 0:03:34.960 --> 0:03:37.240 trainer Stephen. All right, let's get to the schedule stuff. 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:38.680 Greg's a big gym guy. 0:03:38.720 --> 0:03:40.440 Now, not at all. 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:42.720 I put time back on the clock for you. 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:46.040 Cowboys Eagles is the opener. 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:49.680 I was looking at the potential openers last week because 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:53.040 my son asked about it, and we went through the 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:54.960 ones that would be more exciting than others. He was 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:57.040 not excited about Cowboys Eagles, and I said, watch out 0:03:57.040 --> 0:04:00.320 for Cowboys Eagles because I just feel like that's something 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:02.040 the NFL would do and they would do. Are you 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:04.280 excited about it? As an Eagles fan? Who would you want? 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:04.800 Week one? 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:07.080 I love the Cowboys one. 0:04:07.160 --> 0:04:09.280 I mean sure it would be cool to have, like, 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:11.840 you know, a rematch, have the Chiefs come in, whatever 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:14.920 they already beat them once, have the Lions come in, 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:17.679 because like, I really did want to see Eagles Lions 0:04:17.720 --> 0:04:19.800 at some point I thought that's what we were going 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:22.800 to get last year, but we didn't. However, having the 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:27.040 Cowboys come in too Philadelphia to open the season and 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:31.280 have all of the banners and the pomp and circumstance 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:34.760 of the Eagles winning the Super Bowl, with the Cowboys 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:38.080 there to just watch it all and knowing that they 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:41.039 have had not the success anywhere near that they will 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:43.800 want in the last however many years. It feels like 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:46.680 it's been decades and decades, But yeah, I love that matchup. 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:49.520 That's a good point about the having to watch like, yeah, 0:04:49.600 --> 0:04:54.120 of your most hated rivals like literally hang championship banners, 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:56.719 captive audience and celebrate and all of that. You know, 0:04:56.920 --> 0:05:00.880 the Cowboys continue to fail upward in terms of broadcasting 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:06.280 situation because I mean, listen, people, they are they get, 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:09.120 they draw crowd, They're on these TV spots for a reason. 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:13.080 I understand that. But to have an opener of a 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:16.440 team that hasn't had a winning season coming off a 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:19.000 losing year. This is the sixth time in just in 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:22.960 twenty four years that a team has opened in this 0:05:23.080 --> 0:05:28.680 slot with despite coming off a losing season, And that's 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:31.360 just like, Okay, are we just gonna keep handing them 0:05:31.400 --> 0:05:32.880 these these key spots. 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:34.760 I'll push back and just say the Cowboys are not 0:05:34.800 --> 0:05:36.640 a normal sub five hundred team, not just because they're 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:39.840 the Cowboys, but because they had twelve wins, but what 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:42.880 three straight years before that? They have Dak Paskett, they 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:44.479 have people they know, they have Michael Parsons, they have 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:46.760 CD Limb. It is a compelling game, and they feel 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:48.320 like a little bit of a different version of a 0:05:48.400 --> 0:05:50.960 Cowboys because it's a new head coach, because they're coming 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:53.600 off the back not a compell's actually fine. 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:55.560 This is not This is not a playoff team, and 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:58.760 I'm tired of treating them like with all the fanfare 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:01.599 of the playoff team. That's all I'm saying here. This 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:03.680 is a compelling game for the reasons Colleen said. And 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:05.680 I think the Cowboys are actually going to be sneaky 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:08.800 good this year. But I also think that it's like, Okay, 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:12.120 for one second, can we just stop lumping these guys 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:14.920 together with the teams that do deserve the spotlight? And 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:15.760 a kickoff game like this. 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:17.560 They've done a little bit of everything on these opening games. 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:20.000 They've had division rivalries, they've had like the up and 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:22.880 coming team like the Texans. Sometimes they have pretty random teams. 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:24.840 I remember the Titans were in this game one year 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:28.680 where they were kind of almost served as food for 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:32.400 the Patriots, like they It depends like they've mixed it up. 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:36.280 But the Cowboys are different to me because no other 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:38.720 losing team in the NFL one to twelve games. 0:06:38.520 --> 0:06:39.200 Three years in a row. 0:06:39.400 --> 0:06:44.240 They have they okay, and what's their postseason record? Yeah, okay, 0:06:44.480 --> 0:06:46.720 here's the thing. Here's the thing every summer, Greg, and 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:49.599 it's we're creeping close to peak summer ranting about the 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:52.039 Cowboys hours that we always do because they're always in 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:54.480 some sort of contract situation deep into the summer. We 0:06:54.520 --> 0:06:56.800 stand on the tiny table, we advocate for trades, we 0:06:56.839 --> 0:06:59.800 do all these things. We're getting to the point where 0:06:59.839 --> 0:07:01.520 all we're almost there, and I just want you to 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:04.000 remember that you're saying, now, oh, we should we shouldn't 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:06.680 treat them like any The only way that this team 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:10.120 actually starts making decisions that make them a more competitive 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:13.480 team overall is if they are started to be relegated 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:15.760 on on the business side, as a normal team. 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:19.480 Relegation is what could happen here. We should be the 0:07:19.560 --> 0:07:20.800 only thing that will motivate them. 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:22.600 The cowboy should be relative. 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:25.320 It's fair. I don't care about the numbers of it all. 0:07:26.520 --> 0:07:29.920 Speaks up obviously, the NFL cares about the numbers of 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:32.040 it all. I don't care about that. Mine is more like, 0:07:32.160 --> 0:07:34.240 am I interested in it or not? And in this 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:37.000 particular personally I am. So that's all I really care. 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:38.760 Multiple things can be true at the same time. I'm 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:40.559 interested in it, even though I don't think it should 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:41.000 be happening. 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:44.080 Yeah, they're a compelling team because they weren't last year, right, 0:07:44.120 --> 0:07:45.200 they weren't at all at all. 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:47.920 Even like being at training camp last year, I was like, 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:49.880 I don't even know what to really talk about. 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:53.120 Even before the injuries, it does feel it does feel different. 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:57.600 Micah all that we got the International Games announced as 0:07:57.640 --> 0:07:59.640 well on Tuesday, and so yeah, there's there's more than 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:03.920 there's a I know for the listeners overseas, for our 0:08:03.960 --> 0:08:07.800 friends overseas that have been on NFL daily like Neil 0:08:07.800 --> 0:08:10.840 Reynolds and Will Gavin and Nat Coombs and everything It's 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:15.560 like it's very exciting for them to see seven international games. 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:17.360 Like we were used to having a bunch in London, 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:19.280 and there are three in London, but the new one 0:08:19.760 --> 0:08:22.240 in Dublin, and that it's being spread out all over 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:24.600 the place. You got the Friday night game, which we 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:26.800 think is Chiefs Chargers, but we don't know for sure 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:29.320 as of this taping. That's that's gonna be the day 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:33.720 after Cowboys Eagles. So that's fun. And then we start 0:08:33.760 --> 0:08:38.320 having won every week, starting in what is that Week four, 0:08:39.120 --> 0:08:43.440 Steelers Vikings. Vikings are staying overseas, first team ever to 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:45.320 do that and play in two different countries for two 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:47.319 straight weeks. So they play the Steelers in Week four 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:52.000 in Dublin, the Browns in Week five at Tottenham Hotspurs Stadium, 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:55.600 and then we have Broncos Jets. Week six, we have 0:08:56.320 --> 0:08:59.960 your Los Angeles Rams Jordan going and playing the jag 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:02.560 Ours at Wembley. The Jaguars always play at Wembley, although 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:04.599 they're only playing one London game this year that's a 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:07.199 little different. Then we have a three weeks off and 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:10.959 then we have the Berlin game. It's Colts Falcons, Little 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:14.200 Michael Pennox Action and then wrapping up with the first 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:16.880 ever game in Madrid. You can kind of tell they 0:09:16.880 --> 0:09:19.520 wanted to make sure Dublin in Madrid especially got like 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:22.040 really good games this year, and they did. And it's 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:26.160 Commanders with Jayden Daniels and the Dolphins are playing in 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:29.400 Madrid and all those games are yeah at the same time, 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:31.880 like I said, six thirty Pacific and except for that 0:09:31.920 --> 0:09:34.280 Friday night game. Yeah, they're on NFL networks. That's got 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:36.280 to be the most games NFL networks had in a while. 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:38.160 I'm just throwing this out there. What game, what game 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:39.920 stands out to you? How about how about your RAMS 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:43.079 going overseas? You keep saying my rag, well you kind 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:43.520 of you. 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:47.080 Cover that's yeah, I own part of the team actually, 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:52.000 conspiracy theories sight, Yeah, the that's gonna be fun. It's 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:55.120 like a family game really because they're the coaching the 0:09:55.120 --> 0:09:58.000 coaching staff, and the front office staff. They know each 0:09:58.000 --> 0:10:01.200 other so well at this point. Obviously, James Gladstone is 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:04.640 of the Rams worked under Les Sneed since twenty sixteen. 0:10:04.920 --> 0:10:07.959 Liam Cohen worked under Sean McVay several times over the 0:10:08.080 --> 0:10:12.640 last five years, and then also like recently James Gladstone 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:15.199 is hired out of the scouting staff in Los Angeles 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:16.679 for a couple veterans scouts that are going to be 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:19.520 joining him over there in Jacksonville to try to like 0:10:19.600 --> 0:10:22.320 build the first full year of that culture and of 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:24.520 that department. So it's going to be sort of a 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:27.480 reunion game. This It's been a while since the Rams 0:10:27.520 --> 0:10:32.280 have either A played overseas. I believe it was twenty nineteen, 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:36.120 and then b actually were scheduled to play overseas and 0:10:36.160 --> 0:10:38.920 then everything sort of fell through, but then led to 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:41.839 the one of the most historic offensive games that sort 0:10:41.840 --> 0:10:44.440 of ushered in the modern era of the NFL. So 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:47.120 there's always something exciting that happens at these overseas games, 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:50.240 regardless of who's playing. I just I'm excited about it. 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:55.000 When I covered the Panthers, I got to go to London. 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:57.720 I loved it. It was amazing. Can't wait to go back. 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:03.120 Was that the seven interceptions between the two teams game 0:11:03.320 --> 0:11:05.280 with Kyle Allen and Jamison. 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:07.400 Oh, that was fantastic because we were at that game. 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:09.120 The Around the NFL podcast was at the game. 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:11.080 Yes, I know, and I remember you guys got a 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:12.920 really big chair when you were doing like a lap 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:16.079 around the there we go around the pitch. 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:17.720 Does anything stand out to you college? 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:20.240 I am so excited for the Dublin game and I 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:23.120 am angling to hopefully go to that game. I know 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:25.520 that I will probably be in studio hosting most of 0:11:25.559 --> 0:11:27.880 the coverage, but if there was one game that I 0:11:28.040 --> 0:11:30.600 really wanted to go to, it would be Dublin. I'm 0:11:30.800 --> 0:11:35.680 obviously named Colleen, which means girl click, so come on now. 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:39.960 And it's like I did go to Dublin when I 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:42.680 was like in high school so many many years ago. 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:46.880 I just can't imagine an NFL game there, knowing what 0:11:46.960 --> 0:11:49.600 it was like there without an NFL game. And then 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:54.120 also it's Steelers, right, Steelers Vikings. Yes, Pittsburgh I think 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:59.680 has a huge population of people that identify with Irish heritage, 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:02.199 so I could imagine a lot of Steelers fans. 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:04.760 I'm sure Minnesota too. Maybe I'm not. 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:07.640 Maybe the Steelers are the home team. They they're the 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:11.880 ones who have staked the international rights. Obviously, the Rooneys 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:16.440 have an Irish background. Was an ambassador for Barack Obama 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:18.880 back in the day to Ireland. 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:20.720 So is a huge Irish town. 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:22.720 It's going to be a whole thing, and it's it's 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:25.000 a great matchup. You you kind of knew they were 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:28.400 going to give a real contender to them in Week four. 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:31.400 But I'm looking forward to all of them, That's what 0:12:31.400 --> 0:12:31.959 I'm going to say. 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:32.480 Oh, all of that. 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:36.319 There's like no stinkers there. They make sure to send 0:12:36.640 --> 0:12:39.320 good teams. Like every every game at least has a 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:41.000 team with a winning record. The Browns and the Jets 0:12:41.000 --> 0:12:43.920 play a lot of home games now over in the UK, 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:44.720 which is interesting. 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:45.680 Have you ever been to Berlin? 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:47.000 I have never been to Berlin. 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:50.199 I'd like to be. That's where my father was born. Really, 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:53.760 you know my grandparents, you know, they live there their 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:56.640 first what thirty five forty years of their life. So 0:12:56.679 --> 0:12:58.800 my brother has been a lot. He's actually a German citizen. 0:12:58.840 --> 0:13:00.160 I would love to get over there. I would have 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:03.480 to get over it to to all of them. I 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:07.320 would accept anyone. You're Madrid, I'd love to go back 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:09.320 one then, like, I'll take what i can get, and 0:13:09.360 --> 0:13:10.040 so I'll. 0:13:09.840 --> 0:13:10.320 Work on that. 0:13:10.840 --> 0:13:13.439 Vikings are four and oh and they're international games there 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:15.640 we go are this point. So it's interesting because they've 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:17.760 got the back to backs here than to open this 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:21.760 slate and this or this like chunky slate that not 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:24.120 the Brazil game, which I guess hasn't been announced yet. 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:25.480 I don't know when that's gonna be. 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:27.600 Yeah, that's the day after opening, Yeah. 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:30.360 So I but that's the thing is is like they're 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:32.000 flying a little close to the sun. Like they have 0:13:32.040 --> 0:13:34.719 a very good track record overseas obviously, but this is 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:36.240 flying a little close to the sun because I'll probably 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:39.600 have to stay there for a week. Tyler Williams, who 0:13:39.679 --> 0:13:43.280 runs their sports science department over in Minnesota, They have 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:45.880 done a lot of really interesting things with sleep study 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:49.040 and travel, so I am actually fascinated by that element 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:51.199 of it. This is an experiment that the league is 0:13:51.240 --> 0:13:55.200 running to see if a team can feasibly feasibly do this, yeah, 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:58.800 and still have the output necessary to actually be competitive 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:00.720 in one of these really physical games that they have 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:03.480 against both of these opponents, and also do the back 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:05.120 to back because you could you just know the league 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:06.720 wants to put teams out there more, right. 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:09.080 And the Jacks have played back to back a handful 0:14:09.280 --> 0:14:12.760 of times, and teams have they've done this. You know, 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:15.720 data of like if you come early or you come late, 0:14:15.960 --> 0:14:17.280 and it all has kind of come out in the 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:19.840 wash and people feel strongly one way or another, but 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:22.720 it hasn't been as consistent. This will be different because 0:14:22.720 --> 0:14:24.560 they're going to be playing in two different countries but 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:25.520 obviously not far apart. 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:27.560 There's gonna be so much travel talk, first of all, 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:30.760 because anytime the International Games are up, all we hear 0:14:30.800 --> 0:14:33.400 about is like who's arriving when and what they decided 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:37.040 to do and why. However, twenty twenty six, we're gonna 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:40.200 have Brisbane, so there's gonna be a game in Australia, 0:14:40.240 --> 0:14:43.920 which will be I think so wild because when you're 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:45.840 talking about all the different stats a lot how they 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:49.720 figure out just like the body and how you recover 0:14:49.840 --> 0:14:50.800 and all of the travel. 0:14:50.920 --> 0:14:53.320 That's significant, and it is significant. 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:55.320 But the Vikings also get a little bit of an 0:14:55.320 --> 0:14:58.160 advantage that they have two quote unquote road games that 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:01.080 aren't really yes road games. They'll have the extra rest 0:15:01.160 --> 0:15:03.840 and like early come down like NBA teams sometimes arrive 0:15:03.880 --> 0:15:06.320 at like three p thirty am to play the next day. 0:15:06.360 --> 0:15:09.080 To me, that's much more significant, even when you're only 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:10.960 traveling in like two hours. 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:11.240 To a gain. 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:13.320 It is early in the season too, so their bye 0:15:13.320 --> 0:15:15.320 week will also come early, which to some you could 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:16.760 look at that on paper and say, oh, they have 0:15:16.800 --> 0:15:18.800 an older roster. I don't know if it's that great 0:15:18.840 --> 0:15:21.880 that their bye week is that early. But actually, more 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:24.880 and more as the season has lengthened to the extent 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:27.880 that it has, and we'll keep doing that, especially this 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:30.920 sort of modern wave of coaches who are planning out 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:34.520 the structure of the regular season itself are more so 0:15:34.840 --> 0:15:37.520 resting starters in the preseason. More and more teams are 0:15:37.560 --> 0:15:40.720 doing that, and they're actually considering like November as the 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:43.200 start of when they really need to start ramping up 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:46.800 the workload and Thanksgiving trying to trying to like max 0:15:46.880 --> 0:15:48.560 into Yeah, and. 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:50.600 Some seams and take the bye week when they come 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:54.440 back from London. It's usually they get to, not exactly choose, 0:15:54.480 --> 0:15:57.000 but have a preference for it. The Jaguars haven't been 0:15:57.000 --> 0:15:58.800 taking it after they get back from London. They've just 0:15:58.800 --> 0:15:59.200 been playing. 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:01.560 The next thought was last year the first time that 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:02.800 they didn't take a buye. 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:05.920 Different teams have approached it differently the last few years now, 0:16:05.960 --> 0:16:09.920 sometimes don't really want it. Some other games were announced. 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:12.600 We got Broncos Chiefs on Christmas. Chiefs want to play 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:14.720 on Christmas. That's going to be Christmas Night. We got 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:18.160 the Eagles Bears on Black Friday. They announced like the 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:22.560 week sixteen Saturday games, which are the games that will 0:16:22.560 --> 0:16:24.960 go opposite the college football playoffs. I kind of hate 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:28.480 that that's happening, but that's Eagles, Commanders, Packers Bears in Brimpton. 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:31.560 That's also I know the day after my family will 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:33.640 leave me for the holiday. So a very sad day 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:35.880 at my house. But I can watch some football to 0:16:35.920 --> 0:16:38.160 feel better. All right, Let's do a little news quickly 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:42.440 before we move on to the segment. Trey Hendrickson is 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:46.440 in the news. He is not thrilled. We've learned this 0:16:47.080 --> 0:16:47.800 in two parts. 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:48.760 Number one. 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:54.080 He released a statement through Adam Schefter on Monday, which 0:16:54.120 --> 0:16:57.840 I thought was really interesting, just pointing out that no 0:16:57.960 --> 0:17:01.280 communication has taken place between him camp in the organization 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:05.320 after the draft, that essentially he was promised last offseason 0:17:05.359 --> 0:17:07.120 if he was continued to play at a high level, 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:09.879 it would happen, and that coaches are aware. And then, 0:17:10.440 --> 0:17:12.760 in his words, rather than using collaborations to get us 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:15.359 to a point to bring me home, they are no 0:17:15.440 --> 0:17:19.320 longer communicating capital they in the statement, which makes me 0:17:19.359 --> 0:17:20.840 think he like literally wrote it. 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:22.280 I like that. 0:17:22.480 --> 0:17:26.679 And then he also spoke on Tuesday to the media 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:28.800 for twenty minutes about it not being happy. He is 0:17:28.840 --> 0:17:30.959 showing up to ots, but he's not in a uniform. 0:17:31.040 --> 0:17:32.960 Let's listen to Trey Hendrickson. 0:17:33.160 --> 0:17:35.560 A little bit transpired between me and Zach. We've tried 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:40.440 to keep it as less at least amount personal as possible, 0:17:40.880 --> 0:17:43.880 but at some point in this process it becomes personal. 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:51.760 You know. Being sent thirty days before mandatory camp or 0:17:51.800 --> 0:17:54.480 however do any days it is that if I don't 0:17:54.480 --> 0:17:57.320 show up, I will be fined alludes to the fact 0:17:57.320 --> 0:18:00.520 that something won't get done in that time and that 0:18:01.960 --> 0:18:05.720 with the lack of communication post draft, made it evidently 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:09.760 clear from my party, meaning my wife, my son, my agent, 0:18:09.880 --> 0:18:12.040 right like, we're talking to a small group of people 0:18:13.520 --> 0:18:15.640 that I had to inform that this might not work out. 0:18:15.880 --> 0:18:17.399 Yeah, that is tough. 0:18:17.560 --> 0:18:21.000 He also said he does not envision, when he got 0:18:21.000 --> 0:18:24.040