Speaker 1: And now move the Sticks with Daniel Jeremiah and Bucky Brooks.
Speaker 2: What's up about the world. It has moved the sticks.
Speaker 2: I am Bucket Brooks.
Speaker 3: I'm joined here by my man Rhett Lewis and Rhett
Speaker 3: we are going to talk all things ball as we
Speaker 3: were coming off the heels of the schedule release and
Speaker 3: all of that. But before we get to that, like, HTT,
Speaker 3: I kind of want to talk about your favorite guy
Speaker 3: because I felt like your favorite play in the draft
Speaker 3: was Tyler Shutt from the New Orleans Saints. And since
Speaker 3: the last time we talked about the New Orleans Saints,
Speaker 3: their quarterback one, they QB one retired and so we'll
Speaker 3: talk about it. It's time for the Hot or Not
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Speaker 3: What we're gonna talk about is we're gonna talk about
Speaker 3: Tyler Shutt, his chances of starting, and what's some of
Speaker 3: the other rookie quarterbacks and looking, let's start with your
Speaker 3: man in New Orleans.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what are your thoughts?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Look, I think you know, just overall, I think
Speaker 4: when they made this selection, like we had already kind
Speaker 4: of we'd already kind of known that they Derek Carr
Speaker 4: could miss this season, retirement was a possibility. So like
Speaker 4: I looked at that, like, they get him fortieth overall
Speaker 4: third quarterback off the board right there, you know, top
Speaker 4: half of the second round. I'm like, this is your
Speaker 4: Week one starter right here. Yeah, for the dates. That's
Speaker 4: what it felt like to me at the time. I mean,
Speaker 4: this is not a twenty one year old quarterback with
Speaker 4: twelve starts, you know under his belt. This is a
Speaker 4: twenty five year old. It's been in college football for
Speaker 4: seven years. He's been through five different offenses, have seen
Speaker 4: pretty much everything that college football has to offer, both
Speaker 4: offensively and defensively. Like if there was a dude in
Speaker 4: this class that's ready to start, it's him now ready
Speaker 4: to start, and you know, being productive, I think are
Speaker 4: two different things. Like he still has all the talent too, right,
Speaker 4: you know, big arm, big frame, athletic. He's got a
Speaker 4: really mature head on his shoulders too. So when I
Speaker 4: see this, you know for the Saints, and I see
Speaker 4: you know that their first game is going to be
Speaker 4: at home against the Arizona Cardinals week once, September seventh,
Speaker 4: at a one o'clock game on CBS.
Speaker 1: Like that to me, is Tyler Shuck's debut Like that.
Speaker 4: Is like, I just don't see a world And look,
Speaker 4: we saw the Spencer Ratler experience last year. At times,
Speaker 4: maybe he gets a little bit better, you know, a
Speaker 4: full year under his belt, new system with Kellen Moore.
Speaker 4: But I don't look at this and see any other
Speaker 4: scenario other than Tyler Shucks starting for the Saints and
Speaker 4: trying to beat the Kyler Murray led Arizona Cardinals.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it's funny, Like there are a few things.
Speaker 3: Typically when you're in the front office and you're about
Speaker 3: to make this pick and you had a quarterback that
Speaker 3: is on demand or quarterback that's contemplating retirement, you begin
Speaker 3: to make plans that he's not going to be around.
Speaker 3: I believe that the Saints one knew that Derek Carr
Speaker 3: likely was not going to be around next year, and
Speaker 3: the pick that they made with Tyler ship was intentional.
Speaker 3: It was done with the intent of he is going
Speaker 3: to be the starting quarterback and we're going to put
Speaker 3: him into quarterback room with Jay Hayner and Spencer Ratley,
Speaker 3: but we expect him to win the competition, and look,
Speaker 3: I think they're scripted out and they will make it
Speaker 3: appear to be fair where everyone will get equal opportunity.
Speaker 2: But in my.
Speaker 3: Mind, they are He's on the inside track to be
Speaker 3: the start quarterback when they kick off, because we've already
Speaker 3: seen the other guys play, even though they played not
Speaker 3: for killing more, we've seen them start games for the Saints,
Speaker 3: and yet a coaching staff is changed, but the front
Speaker 3: office hasn't, and they elected to take a quarterback. To me,
Speaker 3: it means that Tylers Shutt is the guy to expect
Speaker 3: to be the quarterback when they kick it off.
Speaker 4: So look, let's look at this thing from the Saints'
Speaker 4: schedule perspective here right now that that is fresh and
Speaker 4: hot off the presses after the NFL Network schedule release
Speaker 4: show last night. Cardinals are the opener. They get another
Speaker 4: home game in week two against the forty nine ers.
Speaker 4: That'll be a brand new look defense, right, a lot
Speaker 4: of new names on that.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 4: Sure there's still some of the stalwarts, right, You still
Speaker 4: got Fred Warner, still got Nick Bosa. But they went
Speaker 4: heavy rookies, excuse me, heavy in the draft on defense,
Speaker 4: so we'll see you could see a lot of those guys.
Speaker 4: So you get two home games to start, that feels
Speaker 4: pretty good. And then you've got two big road trips
Speaker 4: up to see the twelves in Seattle to take on
Speaker 4: the Seahawks and Mike McDonald's pretty advanced and difficult to
Speaker 4: deal with type of defense. And then you go up
Speaker 4: and you deal with the Buffalo Bills right in Buffalo.
Speaker 4: So at Seattle in Buffalo, two of the toughest places
Speaker 4: to play in the league are your first two road
Speaker 4: environments before you come back home for another two against
Speaker 4: the Giants and the Patriots, which maybe feels like a
Speaker 4: little bit of a reset, and not to say a breather,
Speaker 4: but a breath right at that point after really, I
Speaker 4: mean like, look, you've got the Cardinals and Niners. Cardinals
Speaker 4: are on are trending upwards. You got those teams are
Speaker 4: going to be battling, you know, to deal with the
Speaker 4: Rams in the NFC West, same with the Seahawks. So
Speaker 4: back to back to back out of the NFC West,
Speaker 4: and then you go to the Buffalo Bills or a
Speaker 4: Super Bowl contender like there is. This is not We're
Speaker 4: not easing into this thing by any means for shucking
Speaker 4: the Saints.
Speaker 3: No, And that's why, given the situation where Look, you
Speaker 3: don't have a veteran quarterback that is someone that can
Speaker 3: take those early losses while he kind of acclimates to
Speaker 3: the pro game, I think you just drop him right
Speaker 3: in the deep end because if you're killing more. Look,
Speaker 3: I'm not trying to start this process with starting a
Speaker 3: quarterback who's not gonna be my long term solution. Take
Speaker 3: a couple l's and then put my guy in. I
Speaker 3: might as well have him work through whatever issues he's
Speaker 3: going to face while we're trying to put this all together.
Speaker 3: And the year to do it is now, because the
Speaker 3: first year of Killing Moore's tenure. He's a rookie, but
Speaker 3: he's an older, more mature rookie. Why not just start
Speaker 3: the situation? And considering the preseason is only three preseason games,
Speaker 3: so he may not get a ton of work. He
Speaker 3: is going to have to use the first part of
Speaker 3: the regular season to get ready to play in the NFL,
Speaker 3: So why.
Speaker 4: Not just make it up and then look that first
Speaker 4: half of the season, you're going to see the majority
Speaker 4: of your most difficult opponents, right we talked about the
Speaker 4: first four and then you have you know at Chicago,
Speaker 4: it's going to be a better team with Ben Johnson.
Speaker 4: That's kind of an interesting one to look at too.
Speaker 4: And then you got to be your home against the
Speaker 4: Bucks in your first division game, and then you got
Speaker 4: to go to La to face the Rams, gonna be
Speaker 4: a Super Bowl contender once again. But then like you
Speaker 4: go to Carolina take on the Panthers, and look, every
Speaker 4: game in the NFC South is a winnable game. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I thinka Tampa is is kind of the head of
Speaker 4: the class right now and should be. They've been, uh,
Speaker 4: you know, winning the division and all that, and the
Speaker 4: Falcons will challenge. But like I think with the way
Speaker 4: that the division is constructed, those are always going to
Speaker 4: be games that you know, obviously you want to really
Speaker 4: effort to, but I think have a possibility, you know,
Speaker 4: to compete in. So they got Panthers Falcons to Miami
Speaker 4: to battle the Dolphins, Bucks again, Panthers again, Jets, Titans, Falcons.
Speaker 4: It is a way more favorable second half of the
Speaker 4: schedule for Tyler Shuck and the Saints. So like, you know,
Speaker 4: if you're if you can come out of this thing
Speaker 4: in the first half and five hundred, like you've got
Speaker 4: an opportunity to make a real playoff push towards the end.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's the thing, and that's that'll be the
Speaker 2: challenge for Kellen Moore.
Speaker 3: Can he keep the team together the way that he
Speaker 3: goes about building the team out where we may start
Speaker 3: slow but finished fast.
Speaker 2: Can we keep everybody together and a lot of that now.
Speaker 3: I think Derek Carr did them a solid by letting
Speaker 3: them know now that he was going to be because
Speaker 3: now the entire way that they script the OTA calendar
Speaker 3: and all of that, they can begin to really get
Speaker 3: their young quarterback ready to play. And speaking of young
Speaker 3: quarterbacks getting ready to play, we have the number one
Speaker 3: overall pick cam Ward Tennessee Titans. Their schedule comes out.
Speaker 3: We are assuming that he's going to be the starter
Speaker 3: they had Will Levis last year. But look, cam Ward
Speaker 3: was drafted number one overall. There's a lot of excitement
Speaker 3: and buzz just general thoughts about what is on the
Speaker 3: horizon for cam Warden and Tennessee Titans when they open
Speaker 3: this schedule.
Speaker 1: Four of six road game four of six for their first.
Speaker 4: Six games on the road, including the opener against the
Speaker 4: Denver Broncos. Again, up and coming team, really good defense
Speaker 4: that got better too in the draft right that Jday
Speaker 4: Baron was their first round draft pick. You throw him
Speaker 4: in there with Pat Certan and with that whole crew
Speaker 4: there in Denver.
Speaker 1: That's a that's a good group. It got better.
Speaker 4: Drake Greenlaw, you know, comes over from the linebacker spot,
Speaker 4: and that's that's a that's gonna be a real test.
Speaker 4: And then you and then you're you're at home against
Speaker 4: the Rams, home against the Colts in your first divisional matchup.
Speaker 1: Then you got a trio, a trio of.
Speaker 4: Back to back to back road games Texans, Cardinals, Raiders, so.
Speaker 1: It's look again.
Speaker 4: And then you get Patriots, Colts, Chargers to kind of
Speaker 4: finish out the first half of the schedule before you
Speaker 4: get a week ten by Again, it's just there's no
Speaker 4: eason end of this thing. I don't know that there's
Speaker 4: a team that is going to ease into this thing.
Speaker 1: Really.
Speaker 4: I mean, like, I think the competitiveness of the league,
Speaker 4: even at the bottom, is so much better now based
Speaker 4: off what we've seen at least on paper. Sure a
Speaker 4: lot's going to change based off what happens in training
Speaker 4: camp and injuries and all that, but overall, I mean, again,
Speaker 4: throw them right into the fire and I don't think
Speaker 4: they drafted cam Ward number one overall to sit behind
Speaker 4: Will Levis.
Speaker 3: No, I don't think that's the case at all. Too
Speaker 3: much excitement about cam Ward down to Tennessee. They're trying
Speaker 3: to build it up, and you're right, it's a tough
Speaker 3: way to start for the first six games being on
Speaker 3: the road. You think about who the opponents are and
Speaker 3: then transitioning into the division.
Speaker 4: No primetime games, by the way, no prime time games
Speaker 4: for the Tennessee Titans, which is kind of interesting.
Speaker 1: I mean, no one overall. I mean, look, yeah, you
Speaker 1: earned the one overall.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I'm not I'm not necessarily surprised it didn't
Speaker 3: get a a thing.
Speaker 2: Well maybe didn't. They used to always get a Thursday night.
Speaker 4: Or yeah, Jackson, now they could get Annie Bo said
Speaker 4: they could get flexed in, right, that's part of the
Speaker 4: program down the stretch, you know as well. It could
Speaker 4: get flexed in if things start going well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but so we'll see what the Titans have to do.
Speaker 3: The one thing, man, that that that opener against the
Speaker 3: Broncos advanced Joseph and how they like the dial up
Speaker 3: pressure from everywhere. Cam Ward is going to have to
Speaker 3: be on his p's and q's because it'll be a
Speaker 3: challenging game mentally and physically based on what he's going
Speaker 3: to face. Now, the guy who's not slated to start,
Speaker 3: we don't expect Jackson Dark uh Jazz taking at the bottom.
Speaker 2: Of the first round. But look, I love this and
Speaker 2: I know, you know.
Speaker 3: Jamis and the experience Jameis Winston. I love the n
Speaker 3: L Jameis Winston and Jackson Dark hugging him, kind of
Speaker 3: taking him under his wing, Jackson Dart talking about that,
Speaker 3: like that's super cool.
Speaker 2: But now is how long before Jackson.
Speaker 3: Dark plays for the New York Jazts Because the clock
Speaker 3: is we're we're on the clock.
Speaker 4: The clock is still and let's and let's say this
Speaker 4: Like that always felt like that was going to be
Speaker 4: the relationship, right, it was gonna be Jamis and Jackson,
Speaker 4: because Russell Wilson has got to view this as his
Speaker 4: last gasp at a starting gig in the league, right,
Speaker 4: I mean, this is this is what team number four,
Speaker 4: and so like this is this is kind of going
Speaker 4: to be it, right, and so like he ain't got
Speaker 4: time to you.
Speaker 2: Know what I mean.
Speaker 4: I'm just just seriously, I don't say he's going to
Speaker 4: be a bad guy or anything.
Speaker 1: It's like he you know, like he's got to work it.
Speaker 4: So that that to me, like jamis you know that
Speaker 4: that feels like a good spot for that relationship to be.
Speaker 4: But look Week one, you know, on the road in
Speaker 4: the division against a team that was playing, you know,
Speaker 4: for a super Bowl shot in the Washington Commanders with
Speaker 4: their now second year quarterback Jaden Daniels, who was thrown
Speaker 4: right into the fire right as the number two overall
Speaker 4: pick and then second quarterback draft, and now Jackson was
Speaker 4: obviously the second first round pick for the Giants all
Speaker 4: the way down there, you know, at twenty five. Then
Speaker 4: they got to go to Dallas Week two, by the way,
Speaker 4: Dallas Cowboys way up there, primetime games. We'll get to
Speaker 4: that here in say, but period didn't make the playoffs,
Speaker 4: right and yeah, oh I get it, I get it.
Speaker 4: We're gonna see them a bunch, including in the kickoff
Speaker 4: game right as they traveled Affilly to take on the Eagles.
Speaker 4: All right, So if I'm looking at this, if I'm
Speaker 4: a Giants fan, and I'm saying, let's just say Jackson
Speaker 4: doesn't start Week one, when does he start? Like that's
Speaker 4: always a popular conversation topic. And as you look at this,
Speaker 4: I see boy Commander's Cowboys, then Chiefs and Chargers at home.
Speaker 4: You go to New Orleans to take on the Saints.
Speaker 4: Then on a short week you get the defending Super
Speaker 4: Bowl champion Eagles at home. So to me, you get
Speaker 4: a mini buy right, you get ten days after the
Speaker 4: Eagles game from October ninth to then October nineteenth, Week
Speaker 4: seven at Denver. To me feels like the landing spot.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now, I think ideally you love a home game, right, But.
Speaker 3: In a perfect world, man, you know us to take
Speaker 3: some of these hits early. You wing Jackson to learn
Speaker 3: as much as he can for as long as he can.
Speaker 3: The thing that is different about this situation and some
Speaker 3: I mean, you have a coach and a gentle manager
Speaker 3: that's on the hot seat, like people will say squarely
Speaker 3: all the time, pious. So they have to get this
Speaker 3: going one way or the other. Either they have to
Speaker 3: get the team up and going, or they got to
Speaker 3: get the young quarterback up and going. I think this
Speaker 3: is almost like a quarterly evaluation. Let's get to the
Speaker 3: first four games. Let's see where we're at. If it
Speaker 3: doesn't look great, Jackson get ready, because you may not
Speaker 3: have time to wait until like mid season to be
Speaker 3: able to put Jackson Dart into the starting quarterback.
Speaker 4: No, and look at it, but from all that we've
Speaker 4: seen that the Giants have released from his thirty visit
Speaker 4: and from the time that they've spent with him, and
Speaker 4: the way that Joe Shane said on the phone, Hey,
Speaker 4: you dominated the process for us and.
Speaker 1: It was rigorous. Right, they won't put him through it. Right.
Speaker 4: He does seem like the type of player with the
Speaker 4: mental acuity to deal with the short week. I just
Speaker 4: don't know that you want him to have to do that,
Speaker 4: especially with the with the defending champs on the other
Speaker 4: side of it.
Speaker 1: In that, Yeah, and.
Speaker 2: Maybe you wait. Maybe you wait because that's the mini buys.
Speaker 3: So maybe you wait until Yeah, after that, then you
Speaker 3: get a full extended week to be able to go
Speaker 3: to work and get some of that stuff done.
Speaker 4: Yeah, But then you get the Broncos at Denver and
Speaker 4: then at So you're gonna play the Eagles twice in
Speaker 4: three weeks the Thursday night or excuse me, twice in
Speaker 4: seventeen days.
Speaker 2: Well, you can't have them. You gotta plays levels.
Speaker 3: So we got to pick out for Jackson, what's the
Speaker 3: best place to kind of drop him in the pool
Speaker 3: and let him get to swimming without the floaties.
Speaker 1: Because they don't have to buy week until week fourteen.
Speaker 1: But so he ain't waiting that long.
Speaker 2: If we got to happen, he's got he's got a game.
Speaker 3: So maybe that Thursday night game represents, Hey, we need
Speaker 3: to know if the if the ship is.
Speaker 2: Sinking, he's the life. We got to throw it out
Speaker 2: after that game. Right, that's crazy. That was this week's
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Speaker 2: what else from the schedule release stood out to you?
Speaker 2: What else popped up?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Look, I think you know, we had kind of known
Speaker 4: about a lot of the international games that was all
Speaker 4: released ahead of time GMFBT. I think the fact that
Speaker 4: we are playing seven games overseas in a bunch of
Speaker 4: different countries. Right, We're gonna have three in London, We're
Speaker 4: gonna have one in Madrid, we have one in Berlin,
Speaker 4: we're gonna have one in Ireland. We're gonna have the
Speaker 4: Vikings playing back to back games overseas in two different countries.
Speaker 4: First against the Steelers I believe that's Week four for
Speaker 4: Minnesota against in Dublin, and then they're gonna be at
Speaker 4: Tottenham Hotspur Stadium Week five against the Cleveland Browns. Both
Speaker 4: those games will be with US on NFL Network, which
Speaker 4: is super cool. So I think I like the international
Speaker 4: you know, kind of details are always pretty interesting to me. Again,
Speaker 4: those had kind of come out ahead of the full
Speaker 4: schedule release, but then looking at some of the other
Speaker 4: games that come out as part of this, like the
Speaker 4: Christmas Day slate, which I think is super super cool,
Speaker 4: and you know with that, we're going to be talking
Speaker 4: about two Division games there in the Christmas Day games,
Speaker 4: you pull.
Speaker 1: Those up right here. Let's see.
Speaker 4: Oh, by the way, the Chiefs again playing on Thanksgiving
Speaker 4: and on Christmas Holliday stup when they're going to visit
Speaker 4: the Cowboys. Chiefs and Cowboys. It would be the four
Speaker 4: thirty game on Thanksgiving Day.
Speaker 2: You know, it would be great.
Speaker 3: It would be great for Taylor Swift to drop Dead
Speaker 3: Christmas album all right on Thanksgiving Thanksgiving weekend. That would
Speaker 3: be a perfect time for that to happen, Like let's
Speaker 3: take full advantage of being able to get all the
Speaker 3: clicks and all eyeballs on.
Speaker 2: You can't see the Chiefs.
Speaker 4: Yeah, let's see here again taking a look at this.
Speaker 2: Prime time games.
Speaker 4: So the Chiefs ended up with the most primetime games.
Speaker 4: No surprise really there. I mean I think you could
Speaker 4: have made the argument it should it should have been
Speaker 4: the Eagles, the super Bowl champs, but no problems with that. Again,
Speaker 4: the Cowboys with six second most, you know, coming off
Speaker 4: a season that was less than in terms of expectation.
Speaker 1: You got a first year head coach.
Speaker 4: Though, I think there's some intrigue there, and you know,
Speaker 4: now some of the moves that they have made.
Speaker 1: I think the one thing I'm.
Speaker 4: Always curious about is, you know, how much of the
Speaker 4: schedule gets taken into account post draft, you know, right,
Speaker 4: because that's two weeks ago now, and so how much
Speaker 4: of that gets put in you know, where you're trying
Speaker 4: to see rookie rookies and and identifying places where you're
Speaker 4: gonna see the rookie quarterbacks and that old thing.
Speaker 1: I think that part's always pretty pretty intriguing to me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that bore It is really intriguing because
Speaker 3: you want to see some of those matchups. You want
Speaker 3: to see some of the market names, serious and fascination
Speaker 3: with Travis on So he gets a primetime game. The
Speaker 3: Kancity Chiefs come to Jackson. We all take on the
Speaker 3: Jaguars on a Monday night, so the world to get
Speaker 3: a chance to see the two way player, see if
Speaker 3: he actually does it two ways while going against the
Speaker 3: perennial title contenders in the kan City Chiefs.
Speaker 2: But I'm also not surprised.
Speaker 3: But I will say, like the the love that you
Speaker 3: mentioned the Cowboys are getting, why are the Cowboys getting love?
Speaker 3: We know they're a big brand and we know all
Speaker 3: of that, but typically we're looking for those twos we
Speaker 3: feel like that are gonna pop.
Speaker 1: George.
Speaker 4: Did the George Pickens move really move the needle for
Speaker 4: for a ws and and the schedule mechanism.
Speaker 3: It seems like maybe there's like a little bonus points
Speaker 3: section for George Pickens because they got a lot of love,
Speaker 3: a lot of.
Speaker 4: Mark one of those big time games, as I mentioned
Speaker 4: briefly and was trying to find the exact details, but
Speaker 4: now got them. The Christmas Day schedule on Netflix starts
Speaker 4: with Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be
Speaker 4: Cowboys in Washington. Commanders hosting the Cowboys in a division
Speaker 4: game the first game on a Christmas Day doubleheader on
Speaker 4: Netflix will be super compelling. It's a week seventeen game, right,
Speaker 4: so one week before we close out the regular season.
Speaker 4: It could be playoffs on the line for the Cowboys Commanders.
Speaker 4: You know, if they go as well as things were
Speaker 4: going a year ago. You know, if they continue to
Speaker 4: build off that, you could be fighting for seeding. You know,
Speaker 4: there shoot could be talking about a buy, you know
Speaker 4: at that point for the Commanders, the way things went
Speaker 4: so well from a year ago, and then you finish
Speaker 4: it off with the way we actually finished off the
Speaker 4: regular season in the final regular season game a year ago,
Speaker 4: remember it was the Lions and Vikings, and it was
Speaker 4: you're either the one seed or you're on the road
Speaker 4: to begin the playoffs as a five seed like that.
Speaker 4: That's really compelling to be Lions and Vikings for the
Speaker 4: nightcap or evening game there on Netflix.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So there's so many different things about the schedule that
Speaker 3: I'm fascinated by. It's not only the primetime games. How
Speaker 3: the schedule makers elected to finish the season when they
Speaker 3: were building it out the international games and the fun
Speaker 3: that comes with that, and how they were kind of
Speaker 3: dropping the clues late right before we had the official
Speaker 3: schedule release and everyone playing everywhere. I love all of that,
Speaker 3: But the thing that I love most about the schedule
Speaker 3: release is I feel like everyone has stepped up the
Speaker 3: game when it comes to making a video to release
Speaker 3: their team's own schedule. So the Buffalo Bills decided to
Speaker 3: use AI, and so most of us would associate AI
Speaker 3: with artificial intelligence, but no, they utilized Alan Iverson to
Speaker 3: drop their.
Speaker 1: Schedule and that was kind of funny.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was funny. We got other guys doing it.
Speaker 2: We got social media stores being used in Jacksonville.
Speaker 1: Like, know, did you get an autograph?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 1: Did you you get a photo with him? You do
Speaker 1: that the face ice plunge?
Speaker 3: No, No, I didn't. I needed to put his clothes
Speaker 3: on like that. That didn't appeal to me. But like
Speaker 3: someone who has a daughter, like an appeal didn't It
Speaker 3: wasn't really my jam, But I get it. But but
Speaker 3: I understand, and I feel like, look, man, the social
Speaker 3: media managers are also very competitive in the schedule releases,
Speaker 3: kind of like there is a little bit like they're
Speaker 3: Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Oh it is a little bit. It is.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's big, and there's some that you know, and
Speaker 4: took it a step too far if everyone's already yeah
Speaker 4: yeah yeah, like like bolts and all that, and they've
Speaker 4: had to take theirs down.
Speaker 1: But I think for the for the most part, it's
Speaker 1: a really.
Speaker 4: Cool way to engage the fans. And I think again,
Speaker 4: for the most part, all those those accounts and the
Speaker 4: admins for those accounts put a great deal of effort
Speaker 4: and all that, and it ends up being really really neat.
Speaker 4: I think my favorite one will still and will always
Speaker 4: be the Titans interviewing random people on Broadway down there and.
Speaker 1: Like getting the brand of names for the teams. That was,
Speaker 1: without question the best.
Speaker 2: I love it. I love yeah, I love it. I
Speaker 2: love you.
Speaker 4: Got other scheduling quirks, Let's just let's just look because
Speaker 4: Week one has become like a five day event, right.
Speaker 4: It starts on Thursday. We get a Friday game, we
Speaker 4: got Sunday games, we get that. Then the first Monday
Speaker 4: night football game so on the season opening game is
Speaker 4: obviously Thursday, September fourth, that's in Philly, uh and that
Speaker 4: will be uh a divisional battle, right Cowboys visiting the
Speaker 4: Philadelphia Eagles. We then get on Friday, September fifth, that's
Speaker 4: a game that's on YouTube and YouTube TV, the Kansas
Speaker 4: City Chiefs and the Los Angeles Chargers. So two straight
Speaker 4: divisional games, the first two games right out of the gates.
Speaker 4: And that one, of course is going to be a
Speaker 4: Corinthians Arena in sal Polo, Brazil. Second time we've done
Speaker 4: that on a Friday night. That one's super cool. And
Speaker 4: then it continues with the full slate of games. We
Speaker 4: get three division games in the one PM window. We
Speaker 4: then get six of the eight teams participating in the
Speaker 4: late window on Kickoff Weekend presented by YouTube TV that
Speaker 4: won at least ten games last season, highly compelling matchups.
Speaker 4: On the first Sunday of the season, which we then finish,
Speaker 4: we get Sunday Night Football Josh Allen and the Bills
Speaker 4: and the Ravens rematch of the AFC Divisional rounde. That's
Speaker 4: going to be awesome. And then Monday we get the
Speaker 4: Vikings and the Bears. So you get Ben Johnson's debut
Speaker 4: as the head coach, you get JJ McCarthy's debut is
Speaker 4: QB one in Minnesota. It is like, there is not
Speaker 4: a matchup that is not there is there is not
Speaker 4: one matchup that does not register to me.
Speaker 1: As Musty TV on week.
Speaker 3: One, they do a fascinating job of building interest in
Speaker 3: entry in the program. And you think about week one,
Speaker 3: do you think about how all of a sudden the
Speaker 3: league decided that, look, we used to own Thanksgiven, but hey,
Speaker 3: we're going Christmas too.
Speaker 2: It makes it at Christmas becomes that day like we
Speaker 2: can do it. We're gonna we gonna.
Speaker 1: Football playoff be damn.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, might as well watch us. If you're
Speaker 3: gonna watch football, I might as well watch the best
Speaker 3: show in town. Yeah, you have, you have all of
Speaker 3: that stuff going. You have the exclusive streaming games. YouTube
Speaker 3: is now in the game. Like, there's just so much
Speaker 3: stuff that the league has kind of tapped into. And
Speaker 3: the one thing that we know, man, more football is
Speaker 3: always better for us because we'll watch it whenever you
Speaker 3: put it, whatever day you put it on, wherever you
Speaker 3: put it out, We're gonna check it out.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and then lastly, the thing I'll say that continues
Speaker 4: to be a cool piece of this that does kind
Speaker 4: of get lost. You know, sometimes in the frustration of
Speaker 4: the streamers joining the party when you don't have subscriptions
Speaker 4: to those uh, those particular platforms. Every regular season game
Speaker 4: and every postseason game is still for free on over
Speaker 4: the air television in the local markets of the game
Speaker 4: of the teams that are playing, despite what streaming platform
Speaker 4: they may be on, so that local fan base is
Speaker 4: not going to miss a game, which I think is
Speaker 4: it is a great way to continue bringing more people
Speaker 4: into the party in terms of rights holders and in
Speaker 4: terms of you know, viewing platforms, but also keeping the
Speaker 4: fans frontline.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the fans continue to benefit. They can even win.
Speaker 3: And even though it's tougher to kind of find and
Speaker 3: navigate and find some of these things. More opportunities for
Speaker 3: teams to play marquee games for different games, special venues,
Speaker 3: special events.
Speaker 2: I love it. And then the red I get to
Speaker 2: as you know, as a travel buff, I get to
Speaker 2: make another check.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's we go across from wimble Baby Home away
Speaker 1: from Home.
Speaker 2: Home away from Home. We get a chance to see
Speaker 2: my people over there. That's it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you'll see m j D over there too, because
Speaker 4: the Rams will be there taking on the Jags, all right.
Speaker 3: I know, we may have to put a little friendly
Speaker 3: wage on on it with MD and he has to
Speaker 3: make sure his lawyer his allegiances are defined.
Speaker 4: Oh, that's a tough one. That's a tough one. Now
Speaker 4: is he gonna do a RAMS event or a JAGS event?
Speaker 2: I don't know how am I going?
Speaker 3: How am I going to advocate for him to wing
Speaker 3: to the ring of honor if he doesn't, If he
Speaker 3: doesn't go, hey, you can't go into the Pride.
Speaker 4: If he doesn't be wearing that, can't be wearing that
Speaker 4: that that RAMS ring.
Speaker 3: You can't be talking about Ramilly and all the other
Speaker 3: silly stuff that he does. Like we're gonna test We're
Speaker 3: gonna test.
Speaker 2: Those with the press.
Speaker 3: That's all I got, butul reappreciate you jumping in for djuh.
Speaker 2: Guys, that was with the sticks. We'll be back next
Speaker 2: week for more episodes. Until then, have fun.