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Speaker 1: Welcome to the official Jets podcast. Ericaum here at One

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Speaker 1: Jets Drive, joined by Mike North, the vice president of

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Speaker 1: broadcast Planning for the National Football League. Mike, thanks so

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Speaker 1: much for joining us today. You are a busy man.

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Speaker 1: I gotta imagine you're feeling quite good now that the

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Speaker 1: grind is done.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's interesting, Eric, I think I said this

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Speaker 2: to you guys last year. It's both kind of the

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Speaker 2: best and worst day of the year. It's almost like

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Speaker 2: that line in City Slickers where they were asking him,

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Speaker 2: you know, his favorite day and his worst day. Look,

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Speaker 2: it's obviously culmination of a long process and a lot

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Speaker 2: of sleepless nights, a lot of panic and anxiety, a

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Speaker 2: lot of mountain dew and jelly beans. Obviously really happy

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Speaker 2: to have the project you know, finished and out to

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Speaker 2: the fans. But also, you know, you always worry on

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Speaker 2: a day like today, you know, what did we miss?

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Speaker 2: What is somebody going to point to that maybe we

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Speaker 2: weren't prepared for. We talked to the teams yesterday, the

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Speaker 2: network partners today, and you know, everybody gets something, nobody

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Speaker 2: gets everything, so always just trying to learn and see

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Speaker 2: what was you know, the hot button issues for both

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Speaker 2: the teams and the partners, and trying to figure out

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Speaker 2: what was really important that we might have missed or

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Speaker 2: maybe what we did well or maybe over delivered, and

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Speaker 2: how to adjust this process moving forward.

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Speaker 1: Let's get into it right here. I'm going to get

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Speaker 1: into a bunch of specifics with you, but bottom line,

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Speaker 1: the National Football League all in on the New York

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Speaker 1: Jets this year. Six prime time games, seven stand alone contests.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Look, this time last year they were the story

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Speaker 2: of the offseason. You can make a case, and you

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Speaker 2: know what's really changed. I know, the quarterbacks a year

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Speaker 2: older and coming off a major injury, but certainly well rested,

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Speaker 2: and it seems to us like the team only got better.

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Speaker 2: So if we were all in last year, I think

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Speaker 2: it's the fans. What do the fans care about? What

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Speaker 2: to our media partners, you know, one of the key

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Speaker 2: storylines of the year clearly is, you know, the Aaron

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Speaker 2: nobody saw, you know, only four plays coming from last season,

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Speaker 2: So I feel like we're, you know, just kind of

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Speaker 2: running back twelve months ago. We were all in. I'm

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Speaker 2: not sure really what's changed, so to the extent that,

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Speaker 2: you know, the Jets think they're going to be good.

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Speaker 2: The last time we saw this guy play quarterback, he

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Speaker 2: safe to say we are bullish, you know, if not

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Speaker 2: on the Jets playoff chances, certainly on the fan interest

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Speaker 2: in you know, Aaron Rodgers, certainly through the first let's

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Speaker 2: call it eight or nine weeks of the season, and

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Speaker 2: then from that point on, you know, once you get

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Speaker 2: Second half of the season's really just about playoff implications.

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Speaker 2: So the stories early and then really let the standings

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Speaker 1: Mike bottom line, I think this is historic because you're

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Speaker 1: talking about the Jets six primetime games within eleven weeks

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Speaker 2: Yeah, look, some of it comes with the addition of

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Speaker 2: You know, those are becoming more prevalent. There's probably gonna

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Speaker 1: Let's start at week one. Why were the Jets in

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Speaker 2: Look, there was a lot of schedules that we looked

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Speaker 2: one storyline like that the game will be simulcast on

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Speaker 2: it could have been Jets Dolphins, It could have been

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Speaker 2: but Jets Niners sounds like a pretty awesome Week one

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Speaker 1: Is that something that computers spit out on their own

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Speaker 1: an attractive matchup. The forty nine Ers just appeared in

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Speaker 2: Yeah, look, the answer to your question is the way

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Speaker 2: two of these matchups have value clearly, and which ones

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Speaker 2: So did we tell the computer put it in week

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Speaker 2: And as you kind of build out this historic opening

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Speaker 1: We all know it's a change landscape, and you just

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is this is common frankly at this point

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Speaker 2: well received.

433
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Speaker 1: Yeah. I actually think it ends up three long weeks

434
00:21:31,280 --> 00:21:35,280
Speaker 1: for the Jets and then four short weeks. But after

435
00:21:35,320 --> 00:21:39,160
Speaker 1: they get back from London, you guys have them hosting

436
00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:41,439
Speaker 1: the Bills on Monday Night football, so you get that

437
00:21:41,560 --> 00:21:46,040
Speaker 1: extra day and then on the return interesting matchup Sunday

438
00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:49,000
Speaker 1: Night football, the Jets going to Pittsburgh, so another short

439
00:21:49,040 --> 00:21:49,520
Speaker 1: week there.

440
00:21:50,400 --> 00:21:52,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, and again you could argue with both sides, right,

441
00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:54,960
Speaker 2: the extra day coming back from London helps, but then

442
00:21:55,040 --> 00:21:56,600
Speaker 2: you know, short in the week as you head to

443
00:21:56,840 --> 00:22:00,800
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh for a big game. You know, it's hard to

444
00:22:00,800 --> 00:22:02,800
Speaker 2: look at it just on a one day here and there,

445
00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:05,439
Speaker 2: coming off a Monday, coming off of Saturday, whatever it is.

446
00:22:05,760 --> 00:22:07,840
Speaker 2: We tried to look at it more holistically, like where

447
00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:10,160
Speaker 2: are the breaks in the jet schedule where they can

448
00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:13,399
Speaker 2: get rested, get healthy. You know, you've got the two Thursdays,

449
00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:15,040
Speaker 2: so you get what we call the mini by where

450
00:22:15,080 --> 00:22:17,680
Speaker 2: you get kind of ten days off before the next game.

451
00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:20,120
Speaker 2: You got the extra day like you mentioned coming out

452
00:22:20,119 --> 00:22:22,159
Speaker 2: of the London game, and the bye fell all the

453
00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:24,639
Speaker 2: way down there in what we twelve. I mean for

454
00:22:25,160 --> 00:22:28,240
Speaker 2: a team that thinks they're going to be playoff relevant,

455
00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:30,719
Speaker 2: you know, you get that Week twelve by you kind

456
00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:32,359
Speaker 2: of get rested, you kind of get everybody healthy, you

457
00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:35,919
Speaker 2: kind of reset, and then you're hopefully rested and healthy

458
00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:38,200
Speaker 2: for that run to the playoffs. I always think about

459
00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:42,240
Speaker 2: that first time we did Week fourteen byes. It was

460
00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:44,320
Speaker 2: the first year we expanded the season out to eighteen

461
00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:47,960
Speaker 2: weeks and Tom Brady had moved on to Tampa. They

462
00:22:47,960 --> 00:22:51,159
Speaker 2: had one of the very first Week fourteen buyes that

463
00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:54,560
Speaker 2: this league's ever done, and I remember correctly, I think

464
00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:55,960
Speaker 2: they were kind of reeling. I think they might have

465
00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:57,840
Speaker 2: been six and six. They had just gotten beat by

466
00:22:57,840 --> 00:23:01,400
Speaker 2: maybe Cincinnati or Kansas City or something. They went into

467
00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:04,399
Speaker 2: a week fourteen by they came out healthy and rested

468
00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:07,040
Speaker 2: and ran the table for regular season, four postseason and

469
00:23:07,080 --> 00:23:09,199
Speaker 2: won a Super Bowl. So I think if I'm the

470
00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:11,080
Speaker 2: coach of the Jets, I like that Week twelve by,

471
00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:14,000
Speaker 2: your point is well taken. Just there's no real routine

472
00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:16,479
Speaker 2: in those early weeks, but hopefully there's a couple of

473
00:23:16,520 --> 00:23:18,720
Speaker 2: you know, kind of rest periods where they can catch

474
00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:20,800
Speaker 2: their breath, they can get healthy if they've had some injuries,

475
00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:23,960
Speaker 2: obviously hopefully not to their quarterback again, and then kind

476
00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:26,560
Speaker 2: of get into that routine kind of down the stretch

477
00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:29,520
Speaker 2: in December when obviously everybody's playing for playoff position.

478
00:23:29,760 --> 00:23:33,439
Speaker 1: Any consideration going back to back, having the Jets play

479
00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:36,320
Speaker 1: at San fran and then coming back and playing at

480
00:23:36,359 --> 00:23:40,920
Speaker 1: Arizona and the teams, including the Jets, reach out to

481
00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:43,400
Speaker 1: you guys and say, hey, listen, we do have interest

482
00:23:43,400 --> 00:23:46,000
Speaker 1: in doing that, because obviously you're not going to be

483
00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:51,280
Speaker 1: able to take in everybody's requests and accommodate thirty two teams.

484
00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:53,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, like we were talking earlier about the new normal,

485
00:23:54,080 --> 00:23:56,600
Speaker 2: there's an awful lot of mouths to feed. There's an awesome,

486
00:23:57,080 --> 00:24:00,399
Speaker 2: awful lot of television and media partner obligations to work around.

487
00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:03,520
Speaker 2: We've got minimum commitments to each of our broadcast partners

488
00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:07,879
Speaker 2: on a team by team appearance basis their stadium availability issues.

489
00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:10,359
Speaker 2: You know, you think about a Jets and Giants share

490
00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:12,000
Speaker 2: in a building like that. As soon as you take

491
00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:15,639
Speaker 2: one weekend out of the mix for a concert or

492
00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:17,919
Speaker 2: whatever else is going on in that building, that just

493
00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:21,040
Speaker 2: kind of gluts up what's left, and so you end

494
00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:23,639
Speaker 2: up seeing like the Sunday Monday or the Thursday Sunday,

495
00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:26,240
Speaker 2: which I know is tough on the staff at MetLife,

496
00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:30,000
Speaker 2: but yeah, look, the Jets were open to play in

497
00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:31,920
Speaker 2: the San Fran and Arizona games and back to back

498
00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:35,920
Speaker 2: week I'm not sure weeks one and two was exactly

499
00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:37,880
Speaker 2: what they had in mind once we sort of kind

500
00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:41,040
Speaker 2: of gotten around to you know, Jet sand Fran at

501
00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:43,159
Speaker 2: week one. I think if the Jets San Fran and

502
00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:45,720
Speaker 2: Arizona games had found themselves paired up in like weeks

503
00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:48,480
Speaker 2: thirteen and fourteen, even that probably wouldn't have worked. I

504
00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:49,720
Speaker 2: don't think they would have wanted to go out and

505
00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:52,680
Speaker 2: stay over the holiday. So yeah, they were willing to pair.

506
00:24:53,280 --> 00:24:59,560
Speaker 2: Other teams raise their hand, Miami, the Chargers, Arizona, San Francisco,

507
00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:03,080
Speaker 2: Los Angeles, you know, anybody with those long trips, you know,

508
00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:05,760
Speaker 2: raise their hand, willing to pair. But I'm not sure

509
00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:07,720
Speaker 2: we're at a position where we could say, I guarantee

510
00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:10,840
Speaker 2: you we're going to pair them. The you know, interesting

511
00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:12,800
Speaker 2: thing for us is just trying to figure out which

512
00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:15,760
Speaker 2: of these, you know, requests from the teams that we

513
00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:18,560
Speaker 2: can ACQUI us to end up having an impact not

514
00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:21,040
Speaker 2: just on the overall schedule, Hey if we do that,

515
00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:24,280
Speaker 2: we can't do this, but also on the competitive inequities

516
00:25:24,359 --> 00:25:27,439
Speaker 2: like is it fair for a team to get a

517
00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:31,359
Speaker 2: cross country trip pairing like that, stay out West practice,

518
00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:35,479
Speaker 2: save themselves that extra you know, ping ponging travel. You know,

519
00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:37,120
Speaker 2: if you do it for the Jets, do you have

520
00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:39,800
Speaker 2: to also do it for the Dolphins when they go

521
00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:42,600
Speaker 2: to the rams in Seattle? Like still kind of wrestling

522
00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:45,280
Speaker 2: down whether there's a real competitive impact on that. Totally

523
00:25:45,359 --> 00:25:48,040
Speaker 2: understand you know, the Jets' willingness to do it and

524
00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:51,040
Speaker 2: did we see schedules where they're long trips prepared? Yes?

525
00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:53,399
Speaker 2: Did we see one where they were paired in weeks

526
00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:54,480
Speaker 2: one and two? No?

527
00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:58,119
Speaker 1: What do we have to know here, Mike about flexible

528
00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:01,399
Speaker 1: scheduling in two thos? I was in twenty four because

529
00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:04,639
Speaker 1: after the bye the Jets. Right now it's set up

530
00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:08,000
Speaker 1: for five one o'clock games. They host Seattle December one,

531
00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:13,120
Speaker 1: at Miami December eighth, at Jacksonville December fifteenth, and then

532
00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:16,680
Speaker 1: home to the Rams in the twenty second and then

533
00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:20,320
Speaker 1: at Buffalo on December twenty ninth. All those games scheduled

534
00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:21,520
Speaker 1: for one o'clock right now.

535
00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:24,720
Speaker 2: All against pretty good teams too, that we think are

536
00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:27,240
Speaker 2: going to be playoff relevant. So I think the honest

537
00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:29,359
Speaker 2: answer to your question is, you know, everything's kind of

538
00:26:29,359 --> 00:26:32,760
Speaker 2: written in pencil. You know, all those games down the stretch.

539
00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:35,639
Speaker 2: That's where flexible scheduling really kicks in, not just for

540
00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:37,800
Speaker 2: Sunday nights anymore, but for Monday nights. We did our

541
00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:41,240
Speaker 2: first Monday night flex last season with that Seattle Philly game.

542
00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:44,000
Speaker 2: Moving to a Monday night. Thursday night has a component

543
00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:45,920
Speaker 2: of flex that one's going to be a little tougher

544
00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:50,080
Speaker 2: to forecast because understanding the changes to not just the fans,

545
00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:52,480
Speaker 2: but the teams and their travel and their charter and

546
00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:54,320
Speaker 2: their hotel. You know, we're going to make a Thursday

547
00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:58,879
Speaker 2: flex decision four weeks out, a Monday flex decision two

548
00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:01,160
Speaker 2: weeks out, on a Sunday flex decision as short as

549
00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:03,440
Speaker 2: one week out. So I think the honest answer to

550
00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:05,400
Speaker 2: your question is, if if the Jets are as good

551
00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:07,480
Speaker 2: as they think they are or as they're going to be,

552
00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:10,040
Speaker 2: and the teams that they're playing down the stretch right

553
00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:12,840
Speaker 2: there are also playoff relevant, you're certainly going to have

554
00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:15,720
Speaker 2: to be nimble. You know, We're never hiding the ball here.

555
00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:18,320
Speaker 2: I think we're pretty honest, pretty transparent, you know, with

556
00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:21,159
Speaker 2: our fans and with our clubs about Hey, look that

557
00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:24,359
Speaker 2: particular weekend, the Sunday night game we all thought was

558
00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:26,520
Speaker 2: going to be great has kind of fallen apart on us.

559
00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:28,840
Speaker 2: But look at that Jets game at one o'clock. It's

560
00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:32,399
Speaker 2: a definite candidate to move into a more high profile window.

561
00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:34,040
Speaker 2: Maybe not even all the way to primetime at eight

562
00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:36,240
Speaker 2: o'clock at night on Sunday or Monday, but even the

563
00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:39,480
Speaker 2: four o'clock in the afternoon. You know on a Sunday afternoon,

564
00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:41,760
Speaker 2: just if those are the games that matter the most

565
00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:43,840
Speaker 2: to our fans, we should try to find a way

566
00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:46,840
Speaker 2: to get them into a television window that's more available

567
00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:47,960
Speaker 2: to well, put.

568
00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:51,320
Speaker 1: Those babies in pencil. As far as the sixth prime

569
00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:56,240
Speaker 1: time and the seventh standalone in London, that's definitely happened

570
00:27:56,280 --> 00:28:00,680
Speaker 1: against the Vikings. You could have more primetime games into Sumber.

571
00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:03,800
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, and it wouldn't be reckless, it wouldn't be cavalier,

572
00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:06,040
Speaker 2: wouldn't be haphazard. We got to be sensitive to where

573
00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:07,600
Speaker 2: were you the week before, where are you going to

574
00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:09,879
Speaker 2: be the week after? How many times is this for

575
00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:12,240
Speaker 2: not just your team but your fans to come out

576
00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:14,760
Speaker 2: to met Life like hopefully these kind of early season

577
00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:17,199
Speaker 2: primes when the weather's still nice and you know what

578
00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:19,080
Speaker 2: better way to spend in October day than in the

579
00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:20,720
Speaker 2: parking lot all day throwing a ball and then go

580
00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:24,440
Speaker 2: watch some primetime football. That part sounds great fully acknowledge.

581
00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:27,919
Speaker 2: Maybe it's a little different calculus if we're talking about

582
00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:30,800
Speaker 2: you know, a week whatever it is, sixteen seventeen, where

583
00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:32,760
Speaker 2: you know it may it might be a little chilly

584
00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:34,560
Speaker 2: for that Rams Jets game if we decide to take

585
00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:36,639
Speaker 2: that out of a one o'clock window and move it

586
00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:39,280
Speaker 2: into a primetime window. But those games are important to

587
00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:41,440
Speaker 2: CBS and Fox as well, right, we can't just take

588
00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:43,840
Speaker 2: all the best games and put them in primetime and

589
00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:47,000
Speaker 2: have Sunday afternoon just be you know, hey, whatever's left over,

590
00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:49,720
Speaker 2: Like those are important windows for us too. There's ten

591
00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:53,240
Speaker 2: eighteen million fans watching on a Sunday afternoon as well,

592
00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:55,360
Speaker 2: So having a big game at a one o'clock window,

593
00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:58,680
Speaker 2: you might actually find yourself distributed to sixty sixty five

594
00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:01,000
Speaker 2: seventy percent of the country if we don't have to

595
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:03,040
Speaker 2: move you to prime in order to get more fans

596
00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:04,920
Speaker 2: to watch the game that matters the most of that weekend.

597
00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:09,640
Speaker 1: How much did Christmas scheduling impact you guys this year?

598
00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:13,640
Speaker 1: And was there consideration of putting the AFC East in

599
00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:17,720
Speaker 1: that slot? And actually it impacts not just Christmas, right,

600
00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:21,480
Speaker 1: because those teams who are playing on Christmas are ultimately

601
00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:23,600
Speaker 1: going to end up playing that preceding Saturday.

602
00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:26,080
Speaker 2: You got it. We play Sunday to Thursday all the time.

603
00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:28,160
Speaker 2: If we're going to play on a Wednesday, which I'm

604
00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:29,440
Speaker 2: not sure we thought we were going to when we

605
00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:32,720
Speaker 2: started this process. But Saturday to Wednesday, it's akin to

606
00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:36,080
Speaker 2: Sunday to Thursday. So yeah, where the Jets in the

607
00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:39,280
Speaker 2: conversation maybe really early. I mean, the challenge here is that,

608
00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:41,560
Speaker 2: like you said, you're playing a bit of a round robin, right,

609
00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:45,280
Speaker 2: you gotta find four teams that you believe in that

610
00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:48,040
Speaker 2: are going to be playoff relevant in Week sixteen and

611
00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:51,440
Speaker 2: seventeen of the NFL season. It's may. I mean, what

612
00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:53,840
Speaker 2: do any of us know, But you gotta find four

613
00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:55,760
Speaker 2: teams that we think are going to be playoff relevant

614
00:29:55,800 --> 00:30:00,600
Speaker 2: worthy of two national television windows each and all happened

615
00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:03,840
Speaker 2: to play each other. So the division kind of made

616
00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:05,800
Speaker 2: sense if you could find a division where you thought

617
00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:08,000
Speaker 2: all four teams were going to be playoff relevant down

618
00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:11,280
Speaker 2: the stretch like that looked at maybe like an AFC

619
00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:13,480
Speaker 2: North where all four of those teams were kind of

620
00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:16,480
Speaker 2: in it all the way through down the end. Maybe

621
00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:18,400
Speaker 2: you could play two or three teams from a certain

622
00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:21,440
Speaker 2: division and see if they pair up with somebody else. Obviously,

623
00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:26,560
Speaker 2: you talk about Jets, San Francisco, Buffalo travels out. San

624
00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:29,040
Speaker 2: Francisco actually comes to Buffalo. So we thought, could there

625
00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:33,960
Speaker 2: be a Jets, Niners, Buffalo, you know, Miami, maybe round

626
00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:36,320
Speaker 2: Robin in there somewhere. That's a lot of travel though

627
00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:38,880
Speaker 2: for a short week. Not sure we should ask the

628
00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:40,920
Speaker 2: Jets to go to San fran on a short week

629
00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:43,560
Speaker 2: or San fran to come to Buffalo on a short week.

630
00:30:43,840 --> 00:30:46,840
Speaker 2: So really tried to kind of thread a really narrow

631
00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:50,440
Speaker 2: needle there where the Jets in the conversation early they were,

632
00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:53,600
Speaker 2: but where we landed on Christmas did not end up

633
00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:56,120
Speaker 2: utilizing the AFC East there. But yeah, it was a

634
00:30:56,200 --> 00:30:59,000
Speaker 2: unique challenge. And look, this problem never gets any easier.

635
00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:02,080
Speaker 2: But again, have spoken they want to see NFL games

636
00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:04,200
Speaker 2: on Christmas, So kind of had to figure out a

637
00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:06,320
Speaker 2: way to thread that Wednesday needle and I think we

638
00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:07,360
Speaker 2: did it pretty elegantly.

639
00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:11,080
Speaker 1: What made this process unique twenty twenty four as far

640
00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:14,440
Speaker 1: as this schedule, yeah.

641
00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:17,160
Speaker 2: I mean I would tell you what probably made it

642
00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:21,200
Speaker 2: most unique for us was, you know, it's sports, right,

643
00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:24,160
Speaker 2: none of us know anything. It's May who knows which

644
00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:26,280
Speaker 2: these games are going to be playoff relevant. I still

645
00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:28,720
Speaker 2: think back to this time last year. We were all

646
00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:32,320
Speaker 2: in on the New York Jets and we were all

647
00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:36,600
Speaker 2: out on the Houston Texans. Yeah, the Texans didn't have

648
00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:40,320
Speaker 2: a single national game at all last year, so maybe

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Speaker 2: a little hedge this year. Every team's got at least

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Speaker 2: one national window where, hey, if you do surprise us,

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00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:47,280
Speaker 2: you know, at least there's a chance for the fans

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Speaker 2: to see you. And then again you work your way

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Speaker 2: towards the back end of the season. That's where flexible

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00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:54,640
Speaker 2: scheduling kind of kicks in. And for the teams that

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Speaker 2: have you know, surprised us, or played their way into

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Speaker 2: primetime or played their way into more you know, national

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00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:03,240
Speaker 2: television windows, that's where we'll pull some levers. But exacerbated

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Speaker 2: challenged a little bit by the fact that you know,

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Speaker 2: you do have these two Saturday games now leading into

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Speaker 2: the Christmas round robin. You do have these three games

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Speaker 2: on Saturday in week seventeen. You do have the side

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Speaker 2: by side Monday night games. You do have all these

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Speaker 2: extra international games. Like we're thinning out the pool pretty

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Speaker 2: quick and still trying to feed an awful lot of mouth.

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Speaker 2: So process never gets any easier, But relish the challenge

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Speaker 2: and honored to be a part of it.

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Speaker 1: I like the way it shapes up from a Jets perspective,

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Speaker 1: with the Rogers and these prime time games. Because you

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Speaker 1: mentioned CJ. Stroud and the Texans before. They weren't quite

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00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:41,200
Speaker 1: on your radar last year, but they win the AFC

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Speaker 1: selth so now you have them coming to met Life.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of like the old guard versus these new

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Speaker 1: young arms. And then how about Anthony Richardson as well,

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Speaker 1: So that can you talk about how you guys take

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Speaker 1: that all in and think about the changing storylines.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you think about a team like Houston that we

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Speaker 2: didn't see coming. You think about a team like Indianapolis

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00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:05,200
Speaker 2: lost Richardson and we're still playoff relevant all the way.

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Speaker 2: I believe to Week eight team last year right with

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Speaker 2: Gardner under center. So you know, you've got young quarterbacks

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Speaker 2: and you've sort of seen a pattern in this league

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Speaker 2: year two, year three when they start to get it

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Speaker 2: and everything kind of slows down for them. And we

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Speaker 2: can still tell some of the stories of some of

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Speaker 2: the young quarterbacks that just got drafted, whether it's in

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Speaker 2: Washington or New England or obviously in Chicago. So you know,

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Speaker 2: like we said, storylines kind of early in the season,

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Speaker 2: playoff implications late in the season, and I think you

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Speaker 2: hit it right on the head. There's storylines really with

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Speaker 2: every Jets game, assuming Aaron's under center, and we are

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Speaker 2: sure hoping he is. There's storylines with every Jets game,

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Speaker 2: and really looking forward to seeing how it plays out,

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Speaker 2: and hope the fans are excited to see it.

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Speaker 1: To night A busy man. We appreciate your time. You

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Speaker 1: got any golf on the horizon.

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Speaker 2: I don't know what you're talking about, but thank you

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Speaker 2: for having me on pleasure. Always happy to talk to

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Speaker 2: you guys. And you know what, maybe let's connect again

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Speaker 2: kind of mid season. Let's see we'll get through.

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Speaker 1: We will do that. Well, let's see how.

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Speaker 2: We get through the first eight week gauntlet, and let's

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Speaker 2: see what we are maybe during the bye week and

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Speaker 2: talk again and see if we can do some am

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Speaker 2: high steering about which of those games in December might

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Speaker 2: be candidates for a flex scheduling.

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Speaker 1: Much like you in December. We're gonna pencil you in.

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Speaker 2: Everything's in pencil, my man. Good to see Eric. Take

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Speaker 2: care