WEBVTT - The NFL's Mike North Discusses How the 2022 Jets Schedule Was Made (5/17) 0:00:00.400 --> 0:00:02.800 We're presented by wind Beat. Betty is a team sport 0:00:02.880 --> 0:00:07.920 put together at win bet. NFL Vice President of Broadcast Planning, 0:00:08.320 --> 0:00:12.000 Mike North, what was your weekend like after you finally 0:00:12.080 --> 0:00:16.840 put this thing to bet Oh, was a little relaxing, 0:00:16.880 --> 0:00:20.040 but also still a little tense when this schedule comes out. 0:00:20.640 --> 0:00:24.480 Teams got their schedules on Wednesday. The networks got their 0:00:24.520 --> 0:00:28.320 schedules on Thursday, but they only got their own. So 0:00:28.400 --> 0:00:31.240 the initial reaction was, you know, in a vacuum in 0:00:31.280 --> 0:00:34.040 a vertical, this is what I got. Okay, I get it, 0:00:34.080 --> 0:00:39.319 I see, thank you, goodbye. But now seventy two hours later, 0:00:39.320 --> 0:00:41.680 everybody's had a chance to see what everybody else got, 0:00:42.080 --> 0:00:43.760 and in some ways it might make you feel a 0:00:43.800 --> 0:00:46.120 little bit better about what you got. In other ways 0:00:46.120 --> 0:00:48.240 it might make you feel a little worse. So still 0:00:48.240 --> 0:00:52.120 a couple of texts and emails, nothing to um, you know, 0:00:52.840 --> 0:00:56.959 ornery or or disastrous um, but definitely still some questions. 0:00:57.000 --> 0:00:58.720 And I think as everybody gets into it a little 0:00:58.720 --> 0:01:00.960 bit more over the next couple of week days and weeks, 0:01:01.640 --> 0:01:04.360 we'll field a couple more questions. But you know, as 0:01:04.360 --> 0:01:06.280 I think I've said to you guys before this thing 0:01:06.360 --> 0:01:10.640 isn't really about making everybody happy. It's about disappointing everybody equally. 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:13.200 And I feel like that's kind of where we landed. 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:17.920 Nobody's uh, nobody's too high and nobody's too low. Did 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:21.160 you feel any questions or comments from the Jets over 0:01:21.160 --> 0:01:25.640 the weekend. Um, No, they've been good so far. I 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:30.120 have not heard from Homie or Brian Mulligan or from coach. Um. Look, 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:32.880 they're they're obviously in our backyards. We talked to them regularly, 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:35.240 and I think we had a pretty good sense of 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:37.000 the kinds of things that they were looking for in 0:01:37.000 --> 0:01:41.039 this season. Um. You know, obviously your record dictates most 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:43.840 of your television. So it comes down to travel, It 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:45.840 comes down to a home opener, It comes down to 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:48.400 a Thursday home game. You know, Like most teams in 0:01:48.440 --> 0:01:49.760 the league, I think two of the things that they 0:01:49.760 --> 0:01:53.760 were focused on, we're opening at home and catching that 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:57.600 Thursday game. Everybody's got one on a short week. I 0:01:57.640 --> 0:01:59.600 think most teams, if you asked them, would prefer to 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:02.080 have it at home. So, you know, of the things 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:04.680 the teams were looking for this year, the Jets checked 0:02:04.680 --> 0:02:06.559 a couple of boxes, you know, with the home opener 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:09.080 in the Home Thursday. All right, we're gonna dive into 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:11.320 the deep on with the jets here in a second. 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:13.560 But can you talk about the making to the schedule 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:17.560 being a combination of both art and science. Yeah, that's 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:19.240 exactly what it is. I mean, it's been art for 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:22.520 so so long. Um. You know, those of us who 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:24.959 have been doing this for five years, we go back 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:29.080 to the days of Vow Pinchback, the father of NFL scheduling. 0:02:29.120 --> 0:02:31.720 He used to build the schedule by hand, one game 0:02:31.760 --> 0:02:34.880 at a time, one decision at a time, making the 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:38.119 best decision in the moment, but really not having any 0:02:38.120 --> 0:02:41.760 indication of what corners you painted ourselves into, what rabbit 0:02:41.800 --> 0:02:44.519 hole you're now going down, or what branches of the 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:47.280 search tree you now completely have lopped off by making 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:49.280 a decision that felt like the right decision in week 0:02:49.320 --> 0:02:52.440 two or week three, or for ESPN in week six. Um. 0:02:52.840 --> 0:02:57.079 So uh, we're all still kind of doing it the 0:02:57.120 --> 0:03:01.000 way val always did it, but obviously taking advantage of 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:03.840 the software and the hardware. Instead of building one schedule 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:07.600 and going down one path, we can go down dozens 0:03:07.600 --> 0:03:10.320 of night hundreds over the course of a couple of weeks. 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:13.520 Thousands by the time we're done. Uh, we ended up 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:17.520 literally completing over a hundred thousand legal, playable, feasible NFL 0:03:17.560 --> 0:03:20.800 schedules this year. So the math and the science and 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:22.760 the search and the heuristic and the algorithm and the 0:03:22.760 --> 0:03:26.040 optimization they can create a lot more options for you. Now, 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:28.400 the question is are they better right? Which ones are 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:31.400 are good, which ones aren't quite checking the boxes that 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:34.200 Howard Kats, who runs the scheduling process, has in mind. 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:36.720 You know, we sit down February eight or whatever it is, 0:03:36.760 --> 0:03:39.080 the day after the Super Bowl, and Howard's kind of 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:40.960 got a vision in his mind. Here's what the primetime 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:42.960 schedules should look like. Here's what we're gonna do for 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:46.040 Amazon or his streaming partner. Let's not forget Team X 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:48.800 or Team why maybe got the short star last year. 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:51.680 Let's make sure we don't doubleding him again. So he's 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:53.320 always got a picture in his mind, and it's our 0:03:53.400 --> 0:03:55.520 job to kind of get into his mind, maybe sometimes 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:58.160 even read his mind, and kind of teach the computers 0:03:58.200 --> 0:04:01.080 what it is Howard's thinking about. And then Hans Schroeder, 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:05.280 Brian Rolapp, Roger Goodell, the guys that run NFL Media. Um, 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:07.480 you know, manage all our media partnerships. They've all got 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:10.680 conversations with our network partners trying to figure out, you know, 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:12.880 the right buttons to push, the right levers to pull. 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:14.960 And like we said, in a way, you know you're 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:17.640 not gonna make everybody happy, but hopefully you can give 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:20.440 everybody a little something. Nobody gets everything, but everybody gets 0:04:20.440 --> 0:04:22.440 something sort of the way we think about it. And 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:25.160 instead of building one schedule by hand, we can build 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:28.239 a hundred thousand with the computers. I assume we're better 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:29.880 than we would have been if we had just build 0:04:29.880 --> 0:04:33.080 one by hand. Mike, how quickly is that process? Add 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:39.320 twenty thousand schedules are generated? And you guys, is it instantaneously? 0:04:39.440 --> 0:04:42.160 Where you go, okay, a hundred, twenty thousand, three hundred 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:44.719 or four hundred, and then can you talk about we 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:49.080 them down from three hundred? Yeah. Like most projects, you know, 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:51.760 you start with a really wide net. You've got a 0:04:51.760 --> 0:04:54.240 lot of options and you're willing to consider an awful 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:57.200 lot of things. So those early days of scheduling, we're 0:04:57.240 --> 0:05:00.080 cranking out hundreds a day, um. And then after you 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:02.200 start to see a few things, you know, the boss 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:03.839 starts to get a little comfortable. You know what, I 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:07.200 really like when Green Bay Chicago lands in week two 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:10.120 on Sunday night, or I really like when Fox gets 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:13.159 the doubleheader in week twelve. I really hate when the 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:15.599 Jets catch a three game road trip and it includes 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:19.400 their trips to Denver, Green Bay, and Minnesota something like that. 0:05:19.560 --> 0:05:21.840 So you look at as many of these schedules as 0:05:21.839 --> 0:05:24.320 you can early in the process. They're coming in faster 0:05:24.400 --> 0:05:27.520 than we can even really kind of you know, process them. 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:30.720 So it's really more about using our scoring system, checking 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:32.719 out some hot button issues, looking at the things that 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:35.960 we know we're focused on, and so early in the process, 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:38.560 lots and lots of schedules, but most of them get 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:42.000 cast aside pretty quick. The more you cast a side schedules, 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:44.040 the more rules you write, the more constraints you add 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:46.839 to the model. Now, instead of many schedules, you start 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:49.680 to taper down, and by the end you're really only 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:53.200 seeing a couple of day. The bad news is you're 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:55.240 only seeing a couple of day. The good news is 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:58.120 they're all good, they're all checking the boxes, they're all 0:05:58.160 --> 0:06:01.120 getting pretty close to you know what, Howard Katz and 0:06:01.160 --> 0:06:03.800 Hans Schroeder and Roger Goodell have in mind when we 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:06.680 hand them this two seventy two piece puzzle. Good for 0:06:06.720 --> 0:06:08.839 this guy, bad for that guy. It is a zero 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:11.240 sum game, after all. Anything that's good for the Jets 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:14.560 is bad for the Patriots. Anything that's good for CBS 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:18.120 is probably bad for ESPN. So try to balance it out. 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:23.400 And uh yeah, the tapering of options happens smoothly, not 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:25.960 too quickly, until we get to the very very end. 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:27.760 And once you're kind of hanging that leader in the 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:30.039 clubhouse on the wall, and we know we've got one 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:33.440 that we could play. If we're gonna beat it, it's 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:37.360 probably gonna be very similar, just on the margins. Let's 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:40.960 not rethink kickoff, Let's not rethink Thanksgiving or Christmas. We 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:43.560 like that schedule that's hanging on the wall, but if 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:46.240 we could fix that Houston three game road trip or 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:48.680 that CBS one o'clock window in week eight, we should 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:51.160 at least try. So you let the computers run basically 0:06:51.240 --> 0:06:53.919 until the last minute, and you just keep throwing contenders 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:56.080 at the leader in the clubhouse, and if it survives, 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:57.880 you know you're getting pretty close to the best. You're 0:06:57.880 --> 0:07:00.480 gonna do. Alright, Mike, what do you say to the 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:03.479 Jet fan. You live in this area, so you're around 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:07.720 Jets fans to say, Mike, what about some primetime love. Yeah, 0:07:07.760 --> 0:07:09.880 we got the Thursday night game, the home game gets 0:07:09.920 --> 0:07:13.040 the Jacksonville Jaguars December twenty two, and that's nice. But 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:16.440 just the one game and the thirteen one pm starts. 0:07:18.040 --> 0:07:21.040 I'll tell you that was not a conscious effort on 0:07:21.120 --> 0:07:23.920 the league offices part. We didn't set out and say, okay, 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:28.680 Jets maximum one prime go. Um. You know, the record 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:32.160 probably didn't warrant the NBC Sunday Night package, but they 0:07:32.160 --> 0:07:34.720 were absolutely in the mix. For ESPN. We looked at 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:37.400 plenty of schedules, literally right up until the very very end, 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:40.160 where you might have seen like a Jets Patriots or 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:43.160 a Jets Bills game on ESPN on Monday Night Football. 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:45.320 I don't think our friends at Disney would have complained 0:07:45.560 --> 0:07:48.640 if that's where the schedule had landed. Um, you know 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:50.400 that being said, uh, I think I said this the 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:53.560 other day. You know you, um, you play your way 0:07:53.800 --> 0:07:56.360 in the prime time. You don't necessarily draft your way 0:07:56.360 --> 0:07:58.920 into prime time. We all feel like the Jets got 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:02.200 better Uh at the draft. Nothing would be you know, 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:04.080 better for the league than to have both New York 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:08.080 teams competitive and relevant and delivering a lot of eyeballs, 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:11.920 um on a Sunday afternoon or on Monday night. So uh, 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:13.880 you know, we don't root for anybody, of course, we 0:08:14.000 --> 0:08:16.440 root for all thirty two equally, but uh, it'll be 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:19.120 good for the NFL to have the Jets and Giants, uh, 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:22.320 you know, with winning records in playoff contention, and that 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:25.960 will bring additional prime time exposure. Let's remember this conversation though, 0:08:26.000 --> 0:08:27.440 in a couple of years, because when I come back 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:30.400 on and they're on Sunday night, Sunday night twice and 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:33.240 Thursday night and a doubleheader and Christmas, you guys are 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:35.320 gonna say, hey, wait a minute, we love the days 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:37.720 of Sunday at one o'clock. It's uh, it's a good 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:40.240 price to pay for success. Hey, we're talking to the 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:42.840 fan right now. I gotta ask that question because it's 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:46.760 on their minds. There's no doubt about that. Um, So 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:51.360 let's get the record straight. There was some talk, there 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:54.599 was some consideration putting the Jets on the ESPN. It 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:57.920 just to him turn out somewhere in these hunting whatever 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:01.280 thousand schedules that we look through, including some really right 0:09:01.320 --> 0:09:03.439 down to the very end, I'll be very honest with you, 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:08.120 the ESPN Monday night doubleheader this year where we're playing 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:11.040 an ESPN and in ABC game side by side with 0:09:11.080 --> 0:09:15.120 each other. Uh, we absolutely looked at contender finalist schedules 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:17.280 where instead of Tennessee Buffalo and Week two, it was 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:20.199 Jets Buffalo and Week two. So absolutely in the mix, 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:23.480 no question, it was a possibility. Nothing anybody here would 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:26.800 have blanched at or winstad Um. It really just came 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:29.160 down to, hey, this particular schedule is a little better 0:09:29.160 --> 0:09:31.800 than that particular schedule, and this was the one that 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:34.199 happened not to have the Jets on Espen. But uh 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:37.520 there was no conscious effort by the scheduled team to 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:40.520 prevent that. Uh, it was an option. Uh, it just 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:43.000 didn't happen to land on on the final leader. Oh 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:46.520 most Jets Buffalo week two in prime time? Well, uh, 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:49.040 maybe another year. Let me ask you this. You mentioned 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:52.160 the Jets opening at home. Is that something that they 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:55.760 requested or said we'd like to do that, considering we 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:59.120 haven't had a home game home opener since nineteen and 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:03.040 also this was the twenty one anniversary at nine eleven. Yeah. Look, 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:06.040 the truth is every team in the league wants to 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:08.640 open at home. They also want to close at home. 0:10:08.960 --> 0:10:11.160 They also want to have a mid season bye week. 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:13.280 They also don't want to go to Florida in September 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:14.760 when it's a hundred degrees. They don't want to go 0:10:14.840 --> 0:10:17.640 to Lambo in January when it's negative ten degrees. They 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:20.320 don't want to play the Kansas City Chiefs coming off 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:22.319 their bye week because Andy Reid never loses off his 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:25.080 bye week. I mean, everybody's got the same wish list. 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:27.720 You could probably submit the wish list for the Jets 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:30.920 um but yeah, i mean, look, everybody focuses obviously when 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:33.439 the schedule comes out on week number one. We've got 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:35.920 four months ahead of us to get ready for the opener. 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:39.280 It's hard to start, you know, gearing up in May 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:41.840 for a week three or week six or week nine. 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:44.840 You know, so everybody's looking at week one. I'm sure 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:47.040 every team in the league would prefer a home opener. 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:49.120 What we try to do is balance it. You know, 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:51.079 you can't have a home opener every year, but if 0:10:51.080 --> 0:10:53.920 you've had a you know, lengthy stretch of road games 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:56.400 in week one, it's probably something the scheduling team auto 0:10:56.440 --> 0:10:58.800 work to address and at some point kind of pay 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:01.280 what we owe. Uh, you know, sometimes it's a little 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:03.480 out of our hands. The stadium might be blocked, there 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:06.120 might be a conflict, there might be you know, a 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:09.640 baseball game across the street. Uh, you never know, But 0:11:09.880 --> 0:11:12.240 as best we can, we sort of track all these 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:14.760 things and all these rules and all these constraints. Plus 0:11:14.800 --> 0:11:16.680 the clubs remind us, you know, they're not shy, and 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:19.520 they have very long memories, and if they feel like, hey, 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:22.200 we're owed one here, they'll tell us and we'll do 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:24.880 what we can to sort of make it right. The 0:11:25.000 --> 0:11:28.600 Jets have eight fewer rust days than their opponents, tied 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:32.360 for the fourth worst rust rust differential in the National 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:35.640 Football League. I feel like that's something new that people 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:38.480 are talking about. Ten fifteen years ago. You didn't hear 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:41.320 too much about that, did you. No, No, And look, 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:43.959 the truth of the matter is it's a story on 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:48.640 release day, no doubt, and obviously we pay attention to it. 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:53.079 Eight nine, ten, twelve, fourteen days total up, ard down, 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:56.680 good or bad. That's probably within you know, hailing distance 0:11:56.679 --> 0:11:58.640 of everybody else in the league. If you see a 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:02.280 schedule or somebody's you know, plus twenty seven or minus 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:06.240 thirty two, that's probably not our best schedule. So you know, 0:12:06.320 --> 0:12:09.160 to say that minus eight, minus ten, minus twelve is 0:12:09.200 --> 0:12:12.400 fair or unfair, I think it's relative to the rest 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:14.880 of the league. And plus our data guys have spent 0:12:14.920 --> 0:12:17.920 a lot of time kind of analyzing this. Um. You know, 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:20.840 we have yet to find a situation where it really 0:12:20.880 --> 0:12:24.400 jumps off the page as this is truly unfair. There 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:26.839 was a stretch maybe five or ten years ago where 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:30.000 playing a team coming off there by week, especially if 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:32.000 you were on the road. You go on the road 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:36.480 to a team who's rested something like you know, impact 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:39.880 and expected win percentage, that's pretty significant. You can't avoid 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:41.880 them all. You're gonna have them, but you probably shouldn't 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:44.320 have two or three land on the same team. UM. 0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:46.480 Now it's sort of shifted. You know, if you look 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:50.080 at the data, it kind of shows that rest is 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:52.720 just like everything else. It could be whether it could 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:57.000 be quarterback play, it could be uh salary cap devoted 0:12:57.000 --> 0:13:01.440 to certain position groups. Good team has overcome challenges. Bad 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:05.320 teams will you know, struggle no matter what obstacles are 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:08.240 in their way. Um, but you you hardly ever hear 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:11.319 a team or a coach uh say to us, hey, 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:13.240 you know, we can't compete as a result of this, 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:16.560 you know, negative rest discrepancy. They'll show up, they'll play, 0:13:16.600 --> 0:13:19.160 And there's times every year when the team that's you know, 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:22.280 minus seven in rest gets a W and there's times 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:24.640 when the team there's plus three or four gets beat. 0:13:25.000 --> 0:13:27.880 So we watch it, we monitor it. You know, our 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:30.000 data and analytics folks are always kind of bringing our 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:33.520 attention those things which start to be you know, trending 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:36.080 towards Hey, we ought to avoid this. Uh, we're not 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:39.240 quite there yet. On rest discrepancy. Anything in the you 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:43.720 know eight, ten, twelve, up or down is probably standard. 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:46.760 And if it happens to the same team, you know, down, ten, down, 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:50.040 fourteen year after year after year, then yeah, probably at 0:13:50.040 --> 0:13:51.800 some point we ought to flip it around. But a 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:53.840 man that had this exactly right. But I think the 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:57.160 Packers were one of the teams with the worst rest 0:13:57.640 --> 0:14:00.440 discrepancy last year. I think they had five game with 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:05.160 negative rest. They want them all. Hey, speaking of the 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:08.320 Packers great transition, you must be looking at my notes here. 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:11.400 Interesting dynamic for the Jets. They go out there in 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:15.720 week six and face Aaron Rodgers and company the Packers 0:14:15.760 --> 0:14:19.400 the week before, playing across town Giants, not across the town, though, 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:25.240 across the pond over in London. They declined to buy afterwards, right, yep, yeah, 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:26.800 most of the teams did. I mean, you know, the 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:29.720 Jets have been over there. It's uh, it's the kind 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:32.280 of thing where maybe eight or ten years ago was 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:34.880 still you know, so new, and everybody's still kind of 0:14:34.880 --> 0:14:37.160 adjusting to the concept. You know. They used to go 0:14:37.240 --> 0:14:41.040 over Monday Tuesday, spend the whole week there, get their 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:44.760 body clocks acclimated, uh, and then fly back and take 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:47.320 the bye week, and everybody's sort of decompressed and reset 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:50.560 and go from there. Lately, it's become you know, I 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:52.160 don't want to call it routine, because it's not, but 0:14:52.200 --> 0:14:55.120 it's getting pretty close to just another road game for 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:58.240 these guys. They get over there Friday, maybe even Saturday. 0:14:58.360 --> 0:15:01.240 Sometimes the vast major are the games lately, and certainly 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:02.680 all of them this year are being played in the 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:05.880 afternoon over there, So nine thirty in the morning Eastern 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:08.440 time over here in the States. 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Yeah, look, I'm I wouldn't bet 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:15.720 that it's unprecedented to open up those first four weeks 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:18.200 without a division opponent. I would not be surprised if 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:20.240 that's the first time it's happened like that, where you 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:24.320 play everybody from um, you know, another division like that 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:26.600 all in a row. We pay a lot of attention, 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:30.720 obviously to how we spread the division games around within 0:16:30.760 --> 0:16:32.600 a season. I don't think we're at our best if 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:34.840 you know, the Jets or anybody else played four or 0:16:34.880 --> 0:16:38.280 five of their first six games against division opponents, or 0:16:38.560 --> 0:16:41.360 maybe even four or five of their last six games 0:16:42.040 --> 0:16:44.480 against division opponents. We had that last year in the 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:48.040 schedule that we played uh in the NFC East. Uh, 0:16:48.120 --> 0:16:51.080 just an awful lot of NFC East matchups in December 0:16:51.080 --> 0:16:54.280 and January, hopeful that that division was gonna come right 0:16:54.320 --> 0:16:56.040 down to the wire and all those games were gonna matter. 0:16:56.120 --> 0:16:59.320 Didn't quite pan out that way. UM So again, not 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:01.640 on precedent in it it's really more about spreading those 0:17:01.680 --> 0:17:04.240 division games throughout the season, kind of have a balance, 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:06.440 you know, some of the first third, some in the middle, 0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:09.399 and of course saving some for the end. Um. I 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:12.480 would not be surprised if this is the first time 0:17:12.520 --> 0:17:15.480 that the Jets played four teams right in a row 0:17:15.520 --> 0:17:19.200 to start their season from a division that wasn't their own. Yeah, 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:21.960 going back to nineteen seventy, we believe it's actually the 0:17:22.000 --> 0:17:24.920 first time. And then I know you've taken a lot 0:17:24.920 --> 0:17:28.000 of questions on this already. Deshaun Watson. Does that go 0:17:28.200 --> 0:17:32.400 into consideration in terms of we don't know right now? 0:17:32.400 --> 0:17:35.199 Obviously he's on the Cleveland Browns roster. A lot of 0:17:35.240 --> 0:17:40.040 people are expecting a suspension at some time. Yeah, we 0:17:40.119 --> 0:17:45.960 don't know, honestly, any more than you do or Adam Schefter. Um, 0:17:46.000 --> 0:17:49.119 you know, I heard that this was the first uh 0:17:49.320 --> 0:17:52.840 disciplined case with the new cb A, So I'm not 0:17:52.920 --> 0:17:56.879 even sure the decision rests solely with the commissioner anymore. Uh, 0:17:56.960 --> 0:17:59.480 we don't know. It could be tomorrow, it could be 0:17:59.520 --> 0:18:02.280 a year, it could be two years. There could be 0:18:02.320 --> 0:18:05.320 a suspension, there could be no suspension. Uh, none of 0:18:05.400 --> 0:18:07.439 us know. And as such, we really didn't take that 0:18:07.480 --> 0:18:11.080 into account. Um, just kind of you know, let the 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:12.840 chips fall where they may. As it turned out, I 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:16.440 think the Browns ended up with two national games. Chance 0:18:16.480 --> 0:18:18.160 for a third. I think they're in the Saturday pulled 0:18:18.160 --> 0:18:20.560 down there in December, so one of the first third, 0:18:20.560 --> 0:18:23.880 one in the middle third, one in the back third. Um, look, 0:18:23.920 --> 0:18:28.560 if if Deshaun's playing and he's healthy, Um, you know, 0:18:28.720 --> 0:18:30.240 he's one of the best players in the league, or 0:18:30.280 --> 0:18:31.880 he was last time he was on a football field, 0:18:31.920 --> 0:18:33.320 and last time we all got to see him. So 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:36.920 I'm sure if he plays this year and we all 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:40.280 see if he is who we all thought he was. Um, 0:18:40.320 --> 0:18:43.040 you know, the Browns record in their national appearances will 0:18:43.080 --> 0:18:47.600 reflect that. In schedule this year, we didn't factor in 0:18:47.680 --> 0:18:52.160 anything because frankly, we don't know anything. Yeah, obviously Judd's Browns. 0:18:52.200 --> 0:18:54.480 We two in Cleveland. I wanted to go back to 0:18:54.560 --> 0:18:59.520 the division here. FC East sets up interestingly for the 0:18:59.600 --> 0:19:02.679 Jets because prior to their Week ten by they have 0:19:03.000 --> 0:19:07.240 three divisional games all at home, whereas another side of 0:19:07.240 --> 0:19:11.800 the spectrum, all the divisional games the back end are 0:19:11.880 --> 0:19:14.760 on the road. Is that something you all typically try 0:19:14.800 --> 0:19:18.199 to avoid you know what for a team like the Jets. 0:19:18.280 --> 0:19:20.879 You know, you think about the Jets, the Bills, the Patriots, 0:19:20.920 --> 0:19:25.840 those are all cold weather outdoor stadiums. It's gonna be 0:19:25.880 --> 0:19:27.679 cold whether you play the game at home or on 0:19:27.720 --> 0:19:30.239 the road. Um, you know, it might be the kind 0:19:30.280 --> 0:19:33.439 of thing where we look at trying to think of 0:19:33.440 --> 0:19:37.280 a good example. Maybe Minnesota, Detroit, you know, having to 0:19:37.320 --> 0:19:41.080 go on the road to Green Bay and Chicago, asking 0:19:41.080 --> 0:19:42.879 a dome team, or even in the a S East right, 0:19:42.920 --> 0:19:46.360 asking the Dolphins as a warm weather team to go 0:19:46.520 --> 0:19:49.920