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Speaker 1: They are around the NFL podcast. What the hell's going

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Speaker 1: on out here?

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Speaker 2: Seriously?

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Speaker 3: What time?

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Speaker 2: From the Chris Westling podcast studio, It's around the NFL.

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Speaker 2: I am Dan hansis heroes here, Greg Rosenthal, Mark Sessler. Yes,

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Speaker 2: we are back kind of and we plan to do

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Speaker 2: two shows this week, but things changed. It's been a

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Speaker 2: tough week. Not at total liberty to get into all

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Speaker 2: more on what has been a very tough week for

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Speaker 2: the podcast. And you know, the show is no stranger

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Speaker 2: to adversity, and we will regroup and march on. We

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Speaker 2: we figure things out. And other than that, at Mark,

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Speaker 2: how was the play? The play?

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Speaker 1: Which play Little Lincoln ref? Come on, Little Lincoln ref?

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Speaker 1: Come on a Little Lincoln raf. Well, you're dressed for

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Speaker 1: like a Lincoln play in the eighteen.

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Speaker 2: It is the off season, Mark, We do not need

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Speaker 2: the suit jacket at this judge.

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Speaker 3: You know, if we want to reference on first of all,

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Speaker 3: the play was great, memorable. If we want to reference

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Speaker 3: the stylings of our friend Chris Westling, that a lot

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Speaker 3: of times when you dress up, it's because there's a

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Speaker 1: Buying that you wear that. You always wear the jacket

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Speaker 3: You yeah, but because it's it's it's stationed and it

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Speaker 2: Here's the difference in Chris Westling, I'm gonna hear from

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Speaker 2: Wes in a second. When Wes said it, it was

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Speaker 2: very much true because Wes would, you know, five out

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Speaker 3: I buy your So you're saying my laundry, you're you

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Speaker 3: are estimating that my laundry situation is untrue. Come, how

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Speaker 3: come investigate my laundry firsthand, and you'll see that there

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Speaker 3: are truisms attached to what I've.

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Speaker 1: Said as a longtime critic of men's fashion. I think

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Speaker 2: Yes, so, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Weird week,

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Speaker 2: but the NFL schedule marches on. The NFL schedule literally

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Speaker 2: to holiday games to international games. Highlight, Greg, ye, some

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Speaker 2: who always hated this time of the year. It is

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Speaker 4: You want to race to this schedule and find out

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Speaker 2: Which is a nice seg Greggie to Thursday, September seventh,

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Speaker 2: That's Thursday night football. Pretty saucy. I gotta say, Greg,

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Speaker 2: It's too the top five offenses by many metrics in

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Speaker 2: So that stars. And by the way, I think the

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Speaker 2: power of hard knocks, as much as people sometimes denigrated

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Speaker 5: Winning, man, there is nothing like winning. And I'm telling

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Speaker 5: Winning is winning and it feels good.

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Speaker 1: And to some degree he does not know what Boo

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Speaker 3: But I'm here, I don't think he's alone in that.

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Speaker 1: Twice a year and very often in this kickoff spot.

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Speaker 1: I also like that they don't do the doubleheader week one,

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Speaker 2: You got to be a modern man in a world

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Speaker 1: I'll need that, Trank Dart, Is that like an experiment

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Speaker 1: That's damn right. I'm gonna take Dolphins Chargers. I don't

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Speaker 1: The top two to me were at the same time.

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Speaker 1: That was a tough choice.

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Speaker 2: The Yes, I was the silver medalist, you know it.

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Speaker 1: They take it back.

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Speaker 3: I love this. How about this the defending NFC champion

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Speaker 2: Check out how Bill O'Brien reinvents the Patriots offense.

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Speaker 1: I pitch me, so I think it. It just it

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Speaker 2: All right, So let's move on. That's good.

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Speaker 1: That's it. That's the top.

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Speaker 2: that's fine. Is there another throw out? One more game

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Speaker 1: I want to see the start of the Anthony Richardson era,

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Speaker 3: I like this Niner Steelers. I want to see who's

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Speaker 2: It weird, Mark that you're the coach that you love

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Speaker 3: I saw you tweeting about that, and I think it

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Speaker 2: Fully let it.

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Speaker 3: It's May is the best time of year for Sam Donald.

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Speaker 2: Primetime games four teams have six primetime games Kansas City, Buffalo,

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Speaker 2: The Packers, Raiders, Giants, Jets, Eagles, Vikings, and Niners all

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Speaker 1: But that doesn't even count like that Black Friday game

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Speaker 2: That the Bills and Patriots will play each play. This

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Speaker 1: In it's weeks fourteen through sixteen, and you can flex

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Speaker 3: You know what is offensive about this, like the primetime alone.

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Speaker 3: Bengals aren't even on this list. They have four. That's

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Speaker 3: But I would also argue that that's, hey, we've just

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Speaker 2: That's part of it.

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Speaker 1: So they're not using out how good your team is.

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Speaker 2: See, this is some of the stuff that's more interesting

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Speaker 3: dealt with injuries year after year. They're getting a Week

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Speaker 3: five by.

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Speaker 2: That stinks. All Right, let's take a quick break and

440
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Speaker 2: we will continue to dig in upon our return. All Right,

441
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Speaker 2: we're back, mark. Uh. Something that jumps out to you

442
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Speaker 2: upon the release of the twenty twenty three NFLS well.

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Speaker 3: Greg mentioned it that the AFC East has the NFC East,

444
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Speaker 3: and it's just like, you know, we're a year removed,

445
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Speaker 3: and I mean I think months removed. If you haven't

446
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Speaker 3: really been following, paying attention to what's happening to the Jets,

447
00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:53,760
Speaker 3: the Dolphins, and even to some degree the Patriots, Like

448
00:20:54,040 --> 00:20:56,119
Speaker 3: it's easy just to look at the Buffalo Bills, is, well,

449
00:20:56,119 --> 00:20:58,240
Speaker 3: they're gonna win thirteen games, and we're gonna see them

450
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Speaker 3: fourteen times. They have. We have ten games this year

451
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Speaker 3: against last year's playoff teams, including both Super Bowl teams.

452
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Speaker 3: One of their home games is a Jaguars game in London.

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Speaker 3: They play four of their final six on the road

454
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Speaker 3: to end the season, and three of the road games

455
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Speaker 3: are against the Jets. That's gonna be thorny. Obviously, they

456
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Speaker 3: play one game against the Jets on the road, but

457
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Speaker 3: they get the Bengals on the road and the Chiefs

458
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Speaker 3: on the road. And if I just look at last

459
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Speaker 3: year's Bills team, I mean, they went through so much

460
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Speaker 3: adversity and you found out that Josh Allen was this

461
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Speaker 3: absolutely wonderful leader, and the whole team to me is

462
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Speaker 3: really they're a true team. But I mean, they're gonna

463
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Speaker 3: be put right through the crucible all over again. And

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Speaker 3: I think their schedule speaks to me as a team

465
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Speaker 3: that's gonna fall off a little bit in terms of

466
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Speaker 3: where they'll be in the seeding in the end. In

467
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Speaker 3: the AFC, it's about as tough as a slate as

468
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Speaker 3: Sean McDermot could have dreamt up.

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Speaker 1: Wait, so that Tottenham game is a Bills home game. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's interesting.

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Speaker 3: Because they're not making the Jaguars take two home games for.

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Speaker 1: That right, and we haven't taped since they announced the

473
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Speaker 1: international You want to go through those game?

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Speaker 2: Sure, all right, let's go through the international slate. By

475
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Speaker 2: the way, shout out. I was actually did a little

476
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Speaker 2: FaceTime because phone calls with Henry Hotchin on nough to

477
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Speaker 2: see that beautiful the folks broad man. Yeah, and HD

478
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Speaker 2: is what it's all about. We're catching up and he

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Speaker 2: is now the general Maan and longtime listeners know Henry Hodgson,

480
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Speaker 2: that's hands of Hank from the Check days, many many

481
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Speaker 2: appearances on our show. Now is the general manager of

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Speaker 2: the uk NFL experience and he was all over television

483
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Speaker 2: radio in England for the schedule release, which is nice.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they don't mess around. I saw the clip

485
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Speaker 1: on Sky Sports where they got the whole Tottenham you know,

486
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Speaker 1: Hotspur stadiums empty and they put it up on the

487
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Speaker 1: big screen. They got Henry there and then they do

488
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Speaker 1: a roulette wheel to reveal the Tames though, like if.

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Speaker 3: You're like men would enjoy watching Henry or eight like

490
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Speaker 3: women would enjoy watching Henry speak about anything. He's a

491
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Speaker 3: full audience, full crowd, adult pleaser, broad broad appeal, no

492
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Speaker 3: physically broad, A lot on his shoulders. He fills out

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Speaker 3: the telephon physically and professionally.

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Speaker 2: Anyway. International games, the NFL will host five regular season

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Speaker 2: games outside the US, three in London, two in Germany.

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Speaker 2: I guess the Stadio Azteca and Mexico is still undergoing construction.

497
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Speaker 2: I would guess because that's a great scene and ready

498
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Speaker 2: for the year. That won't be involved, but I'm sure

499
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Speaker 2: it will be down the line. So Week four and

500
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Speaker 2: a big headline coming out of this. The Jags, who

501
00:23:36,480 --> 00:23:40,680
Speaker 2: have forever been connected to London. Ownership is very They

502
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Speaker 2: have a very vision that has been unshakable to make

503
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Speaker 2: the Jaguars. I think the dream, I don't even think think.

504
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Speaker 2: Uh Shad Khan wants the Jaguars to be the home

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Speaker 2: team of England.

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Speaker 1: Well that's his goal.

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Speaker 3: There is this little side thing. I don't think it's

508
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Speaker 3: gonna morph into more, but they may not be able

509
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Speaker 3: to play in their actual stadium down the road. A

510
00:24:02,359 --> 00:24:05,520
Speaker 3: bit because of repairs for a stretch almost two seasons.

511
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Speaker 1: So he owns Wembley right at this well, they're.

512
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Speaker 2: Jacksonville Stadium, so right is there issues with the chlorine

513
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Speaker 2: tank there the I will report back are So the

514
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Speaker 2: Jags this year have taken it to the next level.

515
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Speaker 2: Are now playing two games in England. Won a home game,

516
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Speaker 2: one designated a road game Falcons versus Jaguars kicks off

517
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Speaker 2: the International Games in week four from Wembley and then

518
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Speaker 2: in week five, so the Jags just stick around. Atlanta

519
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Speaker 2: gets on the plane. We saw Atlanta play the Jets

520
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Speaker 2: a couple of years ago, so the Falcons obviously like this

521
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Speaker 2: scene as well. The Falcons go home, the Jags stick

522
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Speaker 2: around in London and then play the Bills at Tottenham

523
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Speaker 2: Hotspur Stadium, the big Top, Big Totti.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so Wembley one week, Toddy the next.

525
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Speaker 2: So you got Jags back to back and you get

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Speaker 2: Josh Allen in England, which is very nice. Shout out

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Speaker 2: by the way to our overseas listeners in the UK

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Speaker 2: and Ireland. In Scotland, Scotland is part of the UK. Correct.

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Speaker 3: He's looking at Greg for that answer. I think it's

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Speaker 3: it is it is. I don't I'm not answering.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and only part Many, only pirate part of Ireland.

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Speaker 1: But you know it's more than you know. We we

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Speaker 1: love all of our listeners overseas Australia. How about you

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Speaker 1: shout out.

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Speaker 3: To Australia icelmony Scotland. By the way, the firm that

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Speaker 3: Scotland is part of the Kingdom.

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Speaker 2: And Ireland very much not part, but northern Ireland is anyway,

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Speaker 2: we know sort of except for Scotland. We didn't we

540
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Speaker 2: were to learn about that anyway.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 2: Let's see Ravens versus Titans week six from the Hot

543
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Speaker 2: Toddy uh and then week nine we head to Germany

544
00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:51,520
Speaker 2: Dolphins versus Chiefs, Ham and Ham and Ham and a

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Speaker 2: week nine from Frankfurt Stadium, and then Colts versus Pats

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Speaker 2: week ten, also from the big.

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Speaker 1: Frank Deutsche Bank Park. So it'll be a different stadium

548
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Speaker 1: than a year ago, but it'll be I suspect an

549
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Speaker 1: amazing atmosphere that used to be one of the best

550
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Speaker 1: rivalries in league. Colt Pat's not as much juice. But

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Speaker 1: to get Dolphins Chiefs in Kansas City, I mean, I

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Speaker 1: mean in Frankfurt. To me, that's one of the games

553
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Speaker 1: I'm most looking forward to this season, just because you

554
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Speaker 1: can't imagine a scenario with Tyreek Hill going against his

555
00:26:26,119 --> 00:26:27,800
Speaker 1: former team. And it's almost a shame that it's not

556
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Speaker 1: happening in Kansas City, but you can't imagine a scenario

557
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Speaker 1: where that thing is not in the thirties or the

558
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Speaker 1: forties and not like a really important entertaining game so

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Speaker 1: that they're not messing around. Those are NFL Network games.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think the in general, if you look back

561
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Speaker 3: to half a decade ago and Frankly, like you know,

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Speaker 3: Handsome Hank has something to do with this. The games,

563
00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:51,960
Speaker 3: the teams have gotten better, Like you've got star quarterbacks,

564
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Speaker 3: You've got Patrick Mahomes, you've got Josh Allen, the Ravens

565
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Speaker 3: with Lamar Jackson, and Frankly, it really just helps at

566
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Speaker 3: the Jacksonville are intriguing and I I you know, this

567
00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:04,800
Speaker 3: is the first time in history where a team stayed

568
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Speaker 3: there two weeks in a row. I want I just

569
00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:09,399
Speaker 3: want to hear I want to see a think piece

570
00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:12,240
Speaker 3: about what's it like for I think coaches in general

571
00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:15,600
Speaker 3: don't love the concept of having to pick up camp

572
00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:17,639
Speaker 3: and go somewhere else and do everything somewhere else. And

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Speaker 3: I mean the Jaguars are more practiced at that than others.

574
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Speaker 3: But Doug Peterson's you know, I've done it five times

575
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Speaker 3: in a row. So how do you prepare for the

576
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Speaker 3: bills in London in a completely different environment than your

577
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Speaker 3: home base. I just that intrigues me for some reason.

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Speaker 1: You would think it'd be an advantage, but we were,

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Speaker 1: We've been We go there for a week and you know,

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Speaker 1: obviously we work at a at a level that NFL

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Speaker 1: players can't comprehend.

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Speaker 3: But I would say, I mean, like we spend half

583
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Speaker 3: the time at like the hotel bar there.

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Speaker 1: I mean it's like, well, yeah, it's sarcasm. Yeah. They

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Speaker 1: at the end of that week, I feel like we're

586
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Speaker 1: ready to go home. Our great friend Rachel Bennetta, I

587
00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:53,119
Speaker 1: felt like she was there for two weeks. By the

588
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Speaker 1: end of that second week, you know, you might be

589
00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:58,960
Speaker 1: running out of gas. Maybe maybe it's a disadvantage for

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Speaker 1: the Jaguars.

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Speaker 2: Else see good way to look at it, A good

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00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:06,880
Speaker 2: opposing view.

593
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Speaker 3: Does not care.

594
00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:07,800
Speaker 2: It's time to pivot.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this is the part that Wes was talking about.

596
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Speaker 1: What are we talking about?

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00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:15,680
Speaker 2: I don't care. Let's move back to the Homeland Thanksgiving games.

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00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:20,400
Speaker 2: All right, here's the slate Packers at Lions, the customary

599
00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:23,800
Speaker 2: slot for those teams. Well, it's not always the Packers

600
00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:27,080
Speaker 2: right against the Lions, but thank god, the Lions are

601
00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:30,359
Speaker 2: now a highly compelling team and hopefully will remain that way,

602
00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:33,199
Speaker 2: so you get the Jordan Love experience. The Packers are

603
00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:35,080
Speaker 2: total unknown, so we won't know what's going on, but

604
00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:37,480
Speaker 2: we have a much better idea where they're at by Thanksgiving.

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00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:42,000
Speaker 2: And remember decision doesn't start till after Thanksgiving. The Commanders

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Speaker 2: at Cowboys in the middle game, that's a big old

607
00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:46,480
Speaker 2: meh for me, But that well.

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Speaker 3: We'll see where the where the Commanders are.

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Speaker 2: I'm with you, yeah, I mean, who could be If

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Speaker 2: Sam Howell doesn't work, we're getting Jake brisket On.

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Speaker 3: You could have done a lot there with the Cowboy.

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Speaker 1: That's that's very often the two matchups Packers Lions and

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Speaker 1: Commanders Cowboys. I'll always remember RG three's rookie season sort of.

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Speaker 2: Plighting up Dallas. And then the game that is always

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Speaker 2: a different teams is forty nine Er. There's the late game,

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Speaker 2: the NBC game forty nine Ers at Seahawks and NFC

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Speaker 2: West tilt and a damn good one.

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Speaker 3: And they've done that before. That's been a matchup before.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I love that excellent And that is just

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Speaker 2: for a little background. That's the eleventh time Washington and

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Speaker 2: Dallas play Cowboys of one, eight of two, and the

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Speaker 2: Seahawks and Niners are playing on Thanksgiving for the first

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Speaker 2: time since they played each other on Thanksgiving pill in

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Speaker 2: the year. It was a nineteen to three Seahawks win.

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Speaker 2: Sounds boring, twenty fourteen got it? Wait?

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Speaker 1: Really he got it?

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Speaker 2: I bang, good job, Gregy.

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Speaker 1: That was totally random.

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Speaker 3: I went to your home, I believe during that game.

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Speaker 2: I believe probably the Teeto's was probably flown at that point.

631
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Speaker 2: So that's it's a hazy memory.

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Speaker 3: That's the only time I ever ate macaroni and cheese

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Speaker 3: because your wife at a moment.

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Speaker 1: Deffinitely a grown man who's only eating macaroni and cheese

635
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Speaker 1: once in his life.

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Speaker 2: That was the the There are three big U my

637
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Speaker 2: three favorite Mark Sessler food moments. One, I know what

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00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:19,800
Speaker 2: number one's number one, Number ones most recently the cheeseburger incident,

639
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Speaker 2: which is still incredible and shocking. Two is the mac

640
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Speaker 2: and cheese Thanksgiving incident, and three is after you and

641
00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:34,080
Speaker 2: I had a rollicking night out about ten years ago.

642
00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:36,840
Speaker 2: We were on the streets of Culver City and there

643
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Speaker 2: was a food truck outside and we got some street

644
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Speaker 2: meat burritos. I got the regular like meat brito. You

645
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Speaker 2: got the veggie but they were cooking the veggie burrito

646
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Speaker 2: like with the meat, and you got some meat. And

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Speaker 2: all of a sudden I couldn't find you, and you

648
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Speaker 2: were in the bushes and you had to let go

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Speaker 2: some of that.

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Speaker 3: I was wondering, we're gonna go with number three, But

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Speaker 3: I do remember that, and it was like seven or

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Speaker 3: eight dollars that went totally to the wrong place because

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Speaker 3: there's a big piece of steak in the middle of

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Speaker 3: it or something.

655
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Speaker 2: It banged you on a big spot. Good memories, Good memories.

656
00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:09,440
Speaker 2: Let's see what else. There's a Black Friday Game. A

657
00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:15,800
Speaker 2: Black Friday Game, so Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving.

658
00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:20,280
Speaker 2: It's a shopping thing. Amazon not anymore. It is as

659
00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:23,920
Speaker 2: a massive investment at the NFL to air Thursday night football.

660
00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:26,000
Speaker 2: But they also get the Black Friday Game, which is

661
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Speaker 2: available to everybody, and it will be the Miami Dolphins

662
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Speaker 2: and New York Jets from the Meadowlands and Mark, I

663
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Speaker 2: think you have some no opinions to share on that.

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Speaker 3: I I want to take the attitude of I get

665
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Speaker 3: what's happening here, likes sometimes your company, this is our company.

666
00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:45,520
Speaker 3: They're just gonna do what they do and you got.

667
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Speaker 2: To roll up. Oh sometimes that's what happens.

668
00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:49,600
Speaker 3: That is what happens sometimes, and they I get it.

669
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Speaker 3: We want a game on every day of the week,

670
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Speaker 3: and if there is an American holiday being celebrated, it

671
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Speaker 3: will be celebrated with, if not a trio of games,

672
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Speaker 3: at least one and on you know, in what if

673
00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:02,240
Speaker 3: I wanted to go downtown and stare at cakes and

674
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Speaker 3: a window on Black Friday, which is like you can

675
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Speaker 3: go out and be a consumer, Well, I will be

676
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Speaker 3: chained to a chair. And I'm hoping at that point

677
00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:11,000
Speaker 3: that the Jets, who are on about twenty seven Island games,

678
00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:13,440
Speaker 3: are actually a viable team at that point because if

679
00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:15,560
Speaker 3: things my one feeling about this thing in general is

680
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Speaker 3: a little jetsy and we can get into it later

681
00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:20,440
Speaker 3: if one but like if the the Browns had this

682
00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:23,120
Speaker 3: happened number times where it's like you have a positive season,

683
00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:25,640
Speaker 3: they give you six Island games and then a nuclear

684
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Speaker 3: bomb drops on the reality of your team.

685
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Speaker 1: And the Jets.

686
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Speaker 3: Schedule is a load. It is a rough situation, and so.

687
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Speaker 2: You want to so you don't really have any more

688
00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:35,480
Speaker 2: Black Friday thoughts. You want to pivot that you can

689
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Speaker 2: do that.

690
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Speaker 3: I decided to go down Company Man Avenue here because it's.

691
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Speaker 2: Like, oh, that's why you're wearing the jackets.

692
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Speaker 1: What have you been doing on this Black Friday? Anyways?

693
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Speaker 1: I don't remember you cake shopping.

694
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Speaker 2: We were so excited you told us on text yesterday

695
00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:51,760
Speaker 2: you were going to share. I was all the things

696
00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:53,880
Speaker 2: that you wouldn't be able to do on Black Friday.

697
00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:55,480
Speaker 2: Because now you have to watch a football game.

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Speaker 1: I will.

699
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Speaker 3: I'll send it out on and now you're going.

700
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Speaker 2: To get a what if the Jets sucks, We're gonna get.

701
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Speaker 1: In check my it's not too light, we want it.

702
00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:04,760
Speaker 1: The game will be over by three pm.

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Speaker 3: That gives you a check Twitter by eight pm tonight,

704
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Speaker 3: and I've anything that includes our actual real thoughts about life.

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Speaker 2: Check our social media right now, Zach. Yeah, let's let's

706
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Speaker 2: check out the Jets schedule. If that's a natural transition, Uh, listen.

707
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Speaker 2: The Jets are a major storyline around the league this year.

708
00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:25,320
Speaker 2: Jets fans are like soaking that in. It's it's a

709
00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:29,320
Speaker 2: great feeling. However, we're gonna learn a lot about this

710
00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:32,840
Speaker 2: team quickly, and to Mark's point, they could be in

711
00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:34,640
Speaker 2: a lot of trouble if they don't come out of

712
00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:36,880
Speaker 2: the gates with the offense humming and the defense playing

713
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Speaker 2: at a high level, because I think they have as

714
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Speaker 2: tough a schedule as any team in the league. Out

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Speaker 2: of the gate. You got open up in primetime against

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Speaker 2: the Bills. So that's a team that they've played well

717
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Speaker 2: against overall. But that is the Bills. That's Josh Allen,

718
00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:53,760
Speaker 2: that Sean McDermott, that is a superpower. Week two, they

719
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Speaker 2: get on a plane and they go to Dallas to

720
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Speaker 2: face the Cowboys, which the NFC is weaker than the AFC,

721
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Speaker 2: no doubt, but that is enough. They're very difficult matchup

722
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Speaker 2: for the Jets. They come home and I think this

723
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Speaker 2: is like the breather game early on for them. It's

724
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Speaker 2: the Patriots, and you say, Okay, that's doable. Greg, you

725
00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:11,839
Speaker 2: knows as much as any of the Jet's never beat

726
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Speaker 2: the Patriots. On fourteen years they need to. That's just

727
00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:16,600
Speaker 2: something a beast. They're still trying to slay. Even last

728
00:34:16,640 --> 00:34:19,680
Speaker 2: year they got swept and then they welcome in the

729
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Speaker 2: Chiefs in Week four. So as a Jets fan, the

730
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Speaker 2: schedule does appear, and again we never know to soften

731
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Speaker 2: up in the back nine. But you can't sleep on

732
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Speaker 2: a potential car crash early on get out of it.

733
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Speaker 2: For me, and I have high hopes about this team,

734
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Speaker 2: as I've said, if I can get out of there

735
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Speaker 2: Greg two and two, I'm feeling really good about the season.

736
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Speaker 2: But it's tough. There's no gimmes there.

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Speaker 1: I think that's the way to look at it. You

738
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Speaker 1: got the Broncos two Week five, and then you got

739
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Speaker 1: the Eagles again, so you got six. That's I know,

740
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Speaker 1: you have one game. You know the Broncos and the

741
00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:54,680
Speaker 1: Patriots in there look easier, but they're not total patsies

742
00:34:55,080 --> 00:34:57,800
Speaker 1: and before you by get to three and three there.

743
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Speaker 1: But that's sort of the case with the entire division.

744
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Speaker 1: I really think the AFC East Division schedule is the toughest.

745
00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:07,560
Speaker 1: The NFCS isn't far behind, but the fact that out

746
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Speaker 1: of division you have to play, uh the AFC West,

747
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Speaker 1: which I think you're guaranteed that the Chiefs are gonna

748
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Speaker 1: be legit. I think the Chargers will be in the mix,

749
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Speaker 1: and the other two games are competitive. Then you have

750
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Speaker 1: to play each other, and you have to play the

751
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Speaker 1: NFC East. It's just tough. So you're gonna you're gonna

752
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Speaker 1: get buried somewhere. The Patriots are the other team I

753
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Speaker 1: think that have the toughest schedule in that division because

754
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Speaker 1: they don't get to play the Patriots, right they're the

755
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Speaker 1: only and in their start is Eagles Dolphins, both at home,

756
00:35:34,680 --> 00:35:35,960
Speaker 1: so you get the two home games to start, and

757
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Speaker 1: the way.

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Speaker 2: They do play the Patriots because the robber craft against

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Speaker 2: Bill Belichick, Yeah, Bill bellug within that building at this

760
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Speaker 2: point every week is Patriots against Patriots.

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Speaker 1: That's that's very well said. Eagles, Dolphins, Jets, Cowboys is

762
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Speaker 1: a pretty tough first four opponents, uh, the second two

763
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Speaker 1: of those on the road. All four of those teams

764
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Speaker 1: seem seem like teams that want to win double digit games.

765
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Speaker 1: But that's the thing in the A even saying that

766
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:04,360
Speaker 1: the Patriots they're over under it'll be what seven and

767
00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:06,000
Speaker 1: a half or something like that, I don't know what

768
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Speaker 1: it is. One of the Bills, Jets, and Dolphins, who

769
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Speaker 1: are all over the primetime schedules because to me they're

770
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Speaker 1: all fascinating. One of those three teams is more than

771
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Speaker 1: likely going to have quite a disappointing season, and I

772
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Speaker 1: don't have a feel. I think they're all really good.

773
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Speaker 1: I think the Jets deserve to be in the top

774
00:36:23,560 --> 00:36:25,319
Speaker 1: eight or nine of the powering and I think the

775
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Speaker 1: Dolphins do two. And just like something has to give

776
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Speaker 1: though there that Austins.

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Speaker 3: Too, because we are wanting to watch them, and I mean,

778
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Speaker 3: I just that that could get rough by December. But

779
00:36:35,239 --> 00:36:37,520
Speaker 3: it was a year ago everyone was saying like, oh,

780
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Speaker 3: the AFC West probably, if not four playoff teams, at

781
00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:42,640
Speaker 3: least three. Two of those teams didn't win more than

782
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Speaker 3: six games. So it's like someone in this division is

783
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Speaker 3: going to take an excitingly dangerous dark lotle dirt nap.

784
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Speaker 2: You look at the AFC West with the benefit of hindsight,

785
00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:55,360
Speaker 2: of course, some of that felt a little artificially inflated.

786
00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:57,360
Speaker 2: We didn't know what was gonna happen. With Russell Wilson

787
00:36:57,480 --> 00:37:00,600
Speaker 2: that made sense on paper, and the thing with the Raiders,

788
00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:02,879
Speaker 2: we saw DeVante Adams, we said, oh, now they're gonna

789
00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:05,280
Speaker 2: be good and that didn't work out with the East

790
00:37:05,280 --> 00:37:07,719
Speaker 2: AFC East. Which is so interesting is we know the

791
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Speaker 2: Jets have a top defense and now Aaron Rodgers is there,

792
00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:13,359
Speaker 2: so I feel really good about them being a competitive team.

793
00:37:13,560 --> 00:37:16,600
Speaker 2: The Dolphins, who everyone's kind of sleeping on in this division,

794
00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:19,719
Speaker 2: they as long as they the quarterback stays on the field,

795
00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:22,120
Speaker 2: and now they even have a more confident backup quarterback

796
00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:25,040
Speaker 2: and Mike White, the Dolphins I think absolutely have a

797
00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:27,080
Speaker 2: chance to win ten or eleven games.

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Speaker 3: I mean, their schedule is ugly, like just like these other.

799
00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:33,600
Speaker 2: Sures they all it's a very as correctly saying like

800
00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:36,200
Speaker 2: you're playing a lot of top teams. But the Patriots

801
00:37:36,239 --> 00:37:38,440
Speaker 2: are not going to roll over and go four and thirteen.

802
00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:40,200
Speaker 2: They're gonna I think the Patriots are gonna do what

803
00:37:40,239 --> 00:37:42,480
Speaker 2: they do and they're gonna hang around and be an

804
00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:44,440
Speaker 2: eight to ten win team. And then I trust the

805
00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:46,600
Speaker 2: Bills unless they take a step back, which they could

806
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:49,000
Speaker 2: because the division has caught up to them a little

807
00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:51,400
Speaker 2: bit here. So this could be a division where there

808
00:37:51,880 --> 00:37:55,240
Speaker 2: if it plays out, where no team bombs out, where

809
00:37:55,640 --> 00:37:58,759
Speaker 2: the win total could be a little deflated because of

810
00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:00,759
Speaker 2: the war that's going on in this division, and maybe

811
00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:01,879
Speaker 2: eleven and six wins it.

812
00:38:01,920 --> 00:38:03,799
Speaker 3: Or ten and seven, but you'd be you'd be a

813
00:38:03,840 --> 00:38:07,000
Speaker 3: more dangerous complete playoff team record record side.

814
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Speaker 1: And on the flip side, I think the North Division

815
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:13,359
Speaker 1: in the AFC especially benefits because they get to play

816
00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:16,360
Speaker 1: the AFC South. It's not easy. You know, in NFC

817
00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:18,480
Speaker 1: they played the NFC West and like that. That's a

818
00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:21,359
Speaker 1: media an average division, I would say, because you got

819
00:38:21,360 --> 00:38:23,520
Speaker 1: the Cardinals, but you also the forty nine ers. But

820
00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:26,279
Speaker 1: you look at like the teams like the Ravens or

821
00:38:26,280 --> 00:38:29,680
Speaker 1: the Browns or the Steelers, like there is opportunity I

822
00:38:29,719 --> 00:38:33,040
Speaker 1: think for the AFC North teams to end up racking

823
00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:35,399
Speaker 1: up surprising records. One of the reasons why we think

824
00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:37,200
Speaker 1: the Easts are so good is because they had easy

825
00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:39,759
Speaker 1: schedules last year. Like to me, the Patriots were not

826
00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:42,000
Speaker 1: an eight win team last year. Did they even win

827
00:38:42,040 --> 00:38:44,120
Speaker 1: eight or did they only get the seven? Either way,

828
00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:48,200
Speaker 1: their schedule helped. And the Jets, especially you know against

829
00:38:48,239 --> 00:38:51,360
Speaker 1: all those back and of course their schedule helped artificially

830
00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:53,520
Speaker 1: inflate that division just a bit. But I'm not worried

831
00:38:53,560 --> 00:38:55,720
Speaker 1: about the Jets being stinkers.

832
00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:57,840
Speaker 2: But there probably will between especially.

833
00:38:57,680 --> 00:38:59,960
Speaker 1: Stinkers would be like they're eight and seven going into

834
00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:02,160
Speaker 1: week seventeen for the I could.

835
00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:04,160
Speaker 3: Be in Cleveland Browns on Thursday Night football. Wouldn't that

836
00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:07,480
Speaker 3: be juicy? The Jets and Dolphins. Jets fans don't want

837
00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:10,000
Speaker 3: to say Dolphins fans don't want to say it. One

838
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:13,520
Speaker 3: of them will probably flop, probably the Dolphins.

839
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Speaker 1: And it's all like, like we said, it's really hard

840
00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:19,800
Speaker 1: to know, but early in the season that Dolphins having

841
00:39:19,840 --> 00:39:22,120
Speaker 1: at Chargers at Patriots, I hate starting on the road

842
00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:24,200
Speaker 1: for two games. First of all, you have at Bill's

843
00:39:24,239 --> 00:39:27,520
Speaker 1: week fours, at Eagles week seven, So that's four very

844
00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:31,120
Speaker 1: difficult road games, and the Chiefs and Frankfurt all before

845
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Speaker 1: you're by, Like, I'm looking at that, and there's a

846
00:39:33,520 --> 00:39:36,239
Speaker 1: couple easier games home home games to the Jet you know,

847
00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:38,840
Speaker 1: the Broncos, Giants, Panthers. It's like, if you're five and

848
00:39:38,920 --> 00:39:41,080
Speaker 1: four looking at that schedule, I'd feel fine, Like, and

849
00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:43,400
Speaker 1: that's the thing, there's such high expectations, but five and

850
00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:44,479
Speaker 1: four might not feel that great.

851
00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:50,480
Speaker 2: Let's take a break and then wrap up our schedule preview.

852
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Speaker 2: All right, welcome back. There's a portion of again, the

853
00:39:56,560 --> 00:40:01,320
Speaker 2: NFL media research team. You know, bring it on, Bristol.

854
00:40:01,960 --> 00:40:04,759
Speaker 2: Whatever your research group is, right, what was the one

855
00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:07,320
Speaker 2: that always used to get brought up for for decades?

856
00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:12,239
Speaker 2: Elias whatever? Elias Sports Bureau. I'm trias Elias because we've

857
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Speaker 2: got NFL media.

858
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Speaker 3: Are we still operating as a bureau at this point?

859
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Speaker 2: I know, I don't know. We probably swallowed them up

860
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Speaker 2: in some corporate supermerger. There you go, a lot of

861
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Speaker 2: blood spilled schedule inequities.

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Speaker 1: It's still a leader in historical research, and yeah, it's

863
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Speaker 1: his service right in the world of professional sports.

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Speaker 2: Love Elias. That's been a huge part of mine.

865
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Speaker 1: I mean they are literally the official statisticians for the

866
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Speaker 1: National Football League. Showed up the NBA and uh oh,

867
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Speaker 1: Major League Baseball never heard of it winning Olias. So

868
00:40:46,520 --> 00:40:48,080
Speaker 1: they're still doing well. Shout out to Elias.

869
00:40:48,160 --> 00:40:51,040
Speaker 2: Love you man. What they did. They had cornered the market. Now,

870
00:40:51,160 --> 00:40:55,600
Speaker 2: I don't know, Elias cornered the market for about twenty

871
00:40:55,680 --> 00:41:00,880
Speaker 2: years or anytime any historical thing was sighted they said, oh,

872
00:41:00,880 --> 00:41:03,239
Speaker 2: according to the Elias Sports Bureau I think it was called.

873
00:41:03,680 --> 00:41:06,200
Speaker 2: And since then a lot of leagues have built out

874
00:41:06,239 --> 00:41:09,759
Speaker 2: their own research groups. But as Greg is represented for

875
00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:13,440
Speaker 2: the company, points out, we still hear dog, We still.

876
00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:16,640
Speaker 1: Hear hey, Elias, love you brother.

877
00:41:17,040 --> 00:41:20,680
Speaker 2: You try to get a job. Schedule inequities is within

878
00:41:20,719 --> 00:41:24,120
Speaker 2: our research packet here, which I like. So five teams

879
00:41:24,160 --> 00:41:26,680
Speaker 2: will have three game road trips during the twenty twenty

880
00:41:26,680 --> 00:41:29,479
Speaker 2: three season. That's rough. Back to back to back road

881
00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:33,440
Speaker 2: games is rough. The Ravens four through six get Cleveland,

882
00:41:33,480 --> 00:41:38,040
Speaker 2: Pitt Tennessee. That's in Tottenham in England. The Giants weeks

883
00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:42,479
Speaker 2: nine through eleven get Vegas, Dallas Washington. The Titans nine

884
00:41:42,480 --> 00:41:45,880
Speaker 2: through eleven get Pitt, Tampa Bay Jacksonville. The Panthers twelve

885
00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:50,080
Speaker 2: through fourteen get Tennessee, Tampa Bay, New Orleans. And the

886
00:41:50,080 --> 00:41:53,680
Speaker 2: Broncos thirteen through fifteen get Houston, Chargers Detroit. I want

887
00:41:53,680 --> 00:41:57,080
Speaker 2: to point out also when those teams I just read,

888
00:41:57,160 --> 00:42:01,560
Speaker 2: you'll notice how much work goes into the schedules that

889
00:42:01,680 --> 00:42:04,160
Speaker 2: these the schedule akers will say, Okay, if we're gonna

890
00:42:04,160 --> 00:42:06,799
Speaker 2: bang these teams they get three road games, we're gonna

891
00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:09,600
Speaker 2: make sure we don't give them three monster contenders in

892
00:42:09,600 --> 00:42:11,479
Speaker 2: a row. But there's gonna be some breathing ruin there.

893
00:42:11,520 --> 00:42:15,000
Speaker 2: Like not everything is thought through, but sometimes teams still

894
00:42:15,040 --> 00:42:18,000
Speaker 2: get banged a little bit of the way it works out,

895
00:42:18,080 --> 00:42:21,000
Speaker 2: and four teams start with back to back home games,

896
00:42:21,040 --> 00:42:26,719
Speaker 2: which is very nice. Broncos Falcon. Broncos have Raiders Commanders

897
00:42:26,760 --> 00:42:29,480
Speaker 2: Falcons who I think should be in the running for

898
00:42:29,840 --> 00:42:31,760
Speaker 2: team of Falcons.

899
00:42:32,080 --> 00:42:34,239
Speaker 3: In general, their schedule is favorable.

900
00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:37,360
Speaker 2: How about the Falcons getting out out of the gates

901
00:42:37,360 --> 00:42:41,000
Speaker 2: against the Panthers and the Packers without Aaron Rodgers interesting?

902
00:42:41,320 --> 00:42:43,719
Speaker 2: The Patriots greggy opened back to back home games, but

903
00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:49,080
Speaker 2: they ain't easy. Eagles, Dolphins, and Steelers get Niners versus Cleveland.

904
00:42:49,080 --> 00:42:53,760
Speaker 2: Back to back road games for Packers, Raiders, Dolphins, and Niners.

905
00:42:54,360 --> 00:42:57,960
Speaker 1: I think. And you mentioned the Falcons having the you

906
00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:00,560
Speaker 1: know that nice start that division to me, and I

907
00:43:00,600 --> 00:43:03,239
Speaker 1: mentioned the AFC North, but even more than the AFC North,

908
00:43:03,560 --> 00:43:06,719
Speaker 1: there will be opportunity for those NFC South teams for

909
00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:09,960
Speaker 1: one of them to win ten or eleven games even

910
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:11,840
Speaker 1: when they're not very good. I think they have the

911
00:43:11,920 --> 00:43:15,400
Speaker 1: easy like all of them combined have the easiest schedules

912
00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:17,399
Speaker 1: in the league because a they get to play each other.

913
00:43:17,840 --> 00:43:20,720
Speaker 1: That's nice. Be you get to play the AFC South,

914
00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:24,040
Speaker 1: I'll take it and then you play the NFC North,

915
00:43:24,080 --> 00:43:27,359
Speaker 1: so there are no world beaters in all that. I

916
00:43:27,400 --> 00:43:30,200
Speaker 1: feel like that entire team, I'm doing projected starters now,

917
00:43:30,280 --> 00:43:32,880
Speaker 1: that entire division. I know the Bucks are quite a

918
00:43:32,920 --> 00:43:36,120
Speaker 1: bit behind in terms of Vegas in terms of the odds,

919
00:43:36,120 --> 00:43:38,959
Speaker 1: but the other three teams are close. Like all those

920
00:43:39,000 --> 00:43:41,840
Speaker 1: teams are good enough and probably should win six to

921
00:43:41,920 --> 00:43:44,040
Speaker 1: seven games, and they're just hoping they get a few

922
00:43:44,040 --> 00:43:45,799
Speaker 1: breaks to win nine or ten. And I feel like

923
00:43:45,840 --> 00:43:49,080
Speaker 1: that describes the entire division. Someone's gonna end up like

924
00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:51,200
Speaker 1: being one of the stories of the season winning eleven

925
00:43:51,239 --> 00:43:52,359
Speaker 1: just because the schedule's too easy.

926
00:43:52,400 --> 00:43:53,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, just to drill down, like a little bit, like

927
00:43:53,920 --> 00:43:56,480
Speaker 3: the Saints, so they have seven other first eleven games

928
00:43:56,480 --> 00:44:00,319
Speaker 3: on the road, yet those games are like Carolina, Green Bay,

929
00:44:00,680 --> 00:44:04,799
Speaker 3: New England, Houston, Indianapolis, Minnesota, Atlanta. That's serviceable. And the

930
00:44:04,840 --> 00:44:07,919
Speaker 3: Panthers don't cross more than a single time zone after

931
00:44:07,960 --> 00:44:09,759
Speaker 3: Week three. So some of it is like they are

932
00:44:09,840 --> 00:44:12,080
Speaker 3: clumped together regionally in a way where like you're not.

933
00:44:12,719 --> 00:44:16,080
Speaker 3: Some of these teams are traveling insane amounts. Others barely

934
00:44:16,120 --> 00:44:16,960
Speaker 3: seem to leave home.

935
00:44:16,960 --> 00:44:19,520
Speaker 1: Though, Yeah, I always see the teams make a big

936
00:44:19,560 --> 00:44:21,520
Speaker 1: deal about the time zones and the traveling, and I

937
00:44:21,560 --> 00:44:22,400
Speaker 1: get it, but it's.

938
00:44:22,239 --> 00:44:25,000
Speaker 3: Like out of the numbers, your numbers show you're.

939
00:44:24,880 --> 00:44:27,080
Speaker 1: In a private jet. It's once a week. I guess

940
00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:29,799
Speaker 1: I'm partly thinking as a tennis fan. It's like, uh

941
00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:32,360
Speaker 1: oh Anna Callan Sky has got to play in India

942
00:44:32,360 --> 00:44:34,480
Speaker 1: on Sunday and then she's on the West coast of

943
00:44:34,480 --> 00:44:37,000
Speaker 1: America on Tuesday. No one's crying for her. She's not

944
00:44:37,040 --> 00:44:39,759
Speaker 1: in any private jet. And if these tennis players could

945
00:44:39,800 --> 00:44:43,200
Speaker 1: handle it, I'm just saying, yes, they're like going like

946
00:44:43,280 --> 00:44:46,160
Speaker 1: eleven time zones week to week and they're I'm sure

947
00:44:46,200 --> 00:44:46,640
Speaker 1: it's help.

948
00:44:46,760 --> 00:44:49,080
Speaker 3: You Look like the look at the numbers on a

949
00:44:49,120 --> 00:44:51,839
Speaker 3: West Coast team starting at once all Eastern, like it's

950
00:44:51,880 --> 00:44:52,480
Speaker 3: they're horrible.

951
00:44:54,600 --> 00:44:56,200
Speaker 2: I was going to get to the Thursday night schedule,

952
00:44:56,200 --> 00:44:58,520
Speaker 2: which is always compelling because it's a source of great

953
00:44:58,640 --> 00:45:01,799
Speaker 2: intrigue and consternation. Or did you guys have any other

954
00:45:01,800 --> 00:45:03,759
Speaker 2: teams you wanted to highlight before.

955
00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:06,200
Speaker 1: We Well, just two little things on the Super Bowl

956
00:45:06,200 --> 00:45:08,080
Speaker 1: teams from a year ago, because I think they're both

957
00:45:08,120 --> 00:45:13,359
Speaker 1: well positioned to be favorites again. I noticed how the

958
00:45:13,480 --> 00:45:18,680
Speaker 1: NFL ended the chief season with Bengals on New Year's Eve.

959
00:45:18,960 --> 00:45:21,239
Speaker 1: To me, that's like the number one rivalry and the

960
00:45:21,320 --> 00:45:23,799
Speaker 1: number one most important game if I had to pick

961
00:45:23,920 --> 00:45:27,200
Speaker 1: one in the entire schedule, just because look, they've been

962
00:45:27,239 --> 00:45:29,839
Speaker 1: the last two AFC Championship games. We know the quarterbacks,

963
00:45:30,080 --> 00:45:33,279
Speaker 1: they've played these great games. That's Week seventeen. And then

964
00:45:33,280 --> 00:45:36,160
Speaker 1: the Chiefs go from Bengals Week seven team to at

965
00:45:36,280 --> 00:45:39,840
Speaker 1: Chargers Week eighteen. That's just like a spicy finish. I

966
00:45:39,840 --> 00:45:42,560
Speaker 1: feel like it's the Chargers number one goal here to

967
00:45:42,640 --> 00:45:45,520
Speaker 1: make that game matter and still be in it. And

968
00:45:45,560 --> 00:45:47,759
Speaker 1: then I noticed with the Eagles, who on paper in

969
00:45:47,840 --> 00:45:50,520
Speaker 1: terms of strength to schedule just opponents winning percentage, have

970
00:45:50,520 --> 00:45:54,600
Speaker 1: the toughest schedule and it's brutal after theirby It starts

971
00:45:55,680 --> 00:45:57,680
Speaker 1: pretty cake for them to start out with a nice

972
00:45:57,680 --> 00:46:00,840
Speaker 1: schedule at New England, then Minnesota at Tea, but Washington

973
00:46:01,120 --> 00:46:03,640
Speaker 1: at Rams, so I feel like like a soft start

974
00:46:03,680 --> 00:46:06,320
Speaker 1: for them, and then maybe the toughest stretch of anyone's

975
00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:09,920
Speaker 1: season on paper in the middle of the season Cowboys

976
00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:14,560
Speaker 1: Chiefs Bills forty nine, Ers at Cowboys at Seahawks. If

977
00:46:14,560 --> 00:46:16,520
Speaker 1: you want to throw that into that, that is crazy.

978
00:46:16,560 --> 00:46:18,960
Speaker 1: So the Eagles got to eat early to set up

979
00:46:18,960 --> 00:46:19,200
Speaker 1: for that.

980
00:46:19,239 --> 00:46:20,680
Speaker 3: I got one for you because I think we think

981
00:46:20,680 --> 00:46:23,320
Speaker 3: the Falcons can make a leap based on their schedule.

982
00:46:23,800 --> 00:46:26,239
Speaker 3: The Bears, it's hard not to make a leap. They

983
00:46:26,440 --> 00:46:28,600
Speaker 3: had the fewest amount of wins in the league last year,

984
00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:31,520
Speaker 3: but they play only four playoff teams, and for all

985
00:46:31,520 --> 00:46:33,640
Speaker 3: these how many playoff teams, one of them is the Bucks.

986
00:46:33,640 --> 00:46:36,400
Speaker 3: With that minus Tom Brady, different situation. They get Jordan

987
00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:40,480
Speaker 3: Love in his second career start. They get either Baker

988
00:46:40,520 --> 00:46:43,480
Speaker 3: Mayfield Kyle Trask in week two, week five, it's gonna

989
00:46:43,480 --> 00:46:45,480
Speaker 3: be Sam Howell or Jacoby Brissett. So I think it's

990
00:46:45,520 --> 00:46:48,280
Speaker 3: a nice It's a good situation for Chicago their schedule.

991
00:46:48,320 --> 00:46:50,279
Speaker 3: I think the North is manageable. You could look at

992
00:46:50,280 --> 00:46:53,360
Speaker 3: the Lions or the Bears as teams that could compete.

993
00:46:53,440 --> 00:46:55,359
Speaker 3: I think the Packers have a chance. Anyone could win

994
00:46:55,400 --> 00:46:57,520
Speaker 3: that division. I mean it's sort of a wide open deal.

995
00:46:57,840 --> 00:47:00,240
Speaker 3: And the Bears with you know, if you get it

996
00:47:00,280 --> 00:47:02,480
Speaker 3: from Justin Fields, who has a if you went and

997
00:47:02,520 --> 00:47:04,160
Speaker 3: had one of those big leaps, which I think is

998
00:47:04,200 --> 00:47:07,200
Speaker 3: very possible, They're a team that could like go from

999
00:47:07,360 --> 00:47:07,960
Speaker 3: worse to first.

1000
00:47:08,239 --> 00:47:11,840
Speaker 2: Are the Jaguars of this year. If their young quarterback

1001
00:47:11,920 --> 00:47:14,799
Speaker 2: can take that step up and everything's lined up for them,

1002
00:47:15,080 --> 00:47:17,759
Speaker 2: whe were they three and fourteen last year? They could

1003
00:47:17,760 --> 00:47:19,279
Speaker 2: be a team that all of a sudden they're in

1004
00:47:19,320 --> 00:47:22,600
Speaker 2: playoff contention in the middle of December. And it helps

1005
00:47:22,600 --> 00:47:25,920
Speaker 2: at the conference, is what it is. It helps.

1006
00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:29,040
Speaker 1: They're actually favored right now to compared to the Packers.

1007
00:47:29,040 --> 00:47:31,320
Speaker 1: They're the third favorites in the division. It's the division

1008
00:47:31,360 --> 00:47:36,840
Speaker 1: that's closely most closely bunched. Lions are favorites, Vikings next, Bears,

1009
00:47:36,920 --> 00:47:39,200
Speaker 1: next in Packers not too far behind. But they're all

1010
00:47:39,200 --> 00:47:42,200
Speaker 1: pretty Bikings fans. I'm a little surprised that the Packers are.

1011
00:47:42,400 --> 00:47:44,280
Speaker 1: I would not put them forth and put them second.

1012
00:47:44,440 --> 00:47:46,200
Speaker 2: I mean the Lions fans. It must be a little

1013
00:47:46,200 --> 00:47:49,520
Speaker 2: bit uncomfortable for people just bustling them in to be like, oh,

1014
00:47:49,560 --> 00:47:52,520
Speaker 2: this feels like the favorite that feels ominous for whatever reason,

1015
00:47:53,120 --> 00:47:55,160
Speaker 2: And it might feel especially ominous after you have to

1016
00:47:55,200 --> 00:47:58,040
Speaker 2: go to Arrowhead In week one, Friday Morning hot Takes

1017
00:47:58,040 --> 00:47:59,920
Speaker 2: could be spewing a bit of a wake up call

1018
00:48:00,920 --> 00:48:05,640
Speaker 2: Thursday night football and Al Michael's legend that he is

1019
00:48:06,120 --> 00:48:08,440
Speaker 2: is back for another season. He said in an interview

1020
00:48:08,480 --> 00:48:10,399
Speaker 2: last year, and I talked about it when he when

1021
00:48:10,400 --> 00:48:13,239
Speaker 2: he did it, that the Thursday night football schedule was

1022
00:48:13,320 --> 00:48:19,560
Speaker 2: quote a little leaky. And this is a major partnership

1023
00:48:19,560 --> 00:48:24,399
Speaker 2: between the NFL and Amazon and UH for instance. Uh, Mark,

1024
00:48:24,440 --> 00:48:27,120
Speaker 2: and we're still excited to hear about your Black Friday plans.

1025
00:48:27,120 --> 00:48:29,640
Speaker 3: By the way, I don't have any now.

1026
00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:32,160
Speaker 2: I think a big part of that game showing up

1027
00:48:32,400 --> 00:48:35,040
Speaker 2: even first of all, it makes sense logically as a

1028
00:48:35,040 --> 00:48:38,600
Speaker 2: football fan, not even factoring the Jets a noon start

1029
00:48:38,640 --> 00:48:42,040
Speaker 2: on the West Coast on the Friday after Thanksgiving. Nice

1030
00:48:42,080 --> 00:48:45,959
Speaker 2: division battle penciled me in. It also gave Amazon another

1031
00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:46,720
Speaker 2: bite at the Apple.

1032
00:48:46,880 --> 00:48:49,120
Speaker 1: That's also maybe their best, one of the best games

1033
00:48:49,120 --> 00:48:49,760
Speaker 1: on their schedule.

1034
00:48:49,800 --> 00:48:50,000
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1035
00:48:50,040 --> 00:48:52,840
Speaker 1: And and it wouldn't surprise me if that's the most

1036
00:48:52,960 --> 00:48:55,399
Speaker 1: you know, streamed game of all time, just because that's

1037
00:48:55,480 --> 00:48:57,399
Speaker 1: essentially gonna be a holiday right in the middle.

1038
00:48:57,600 --> 00:48:59,279
Speaker 3: Let's see where we are with those teams there were Well,

1039
00:49:00,040 --> 00:49:01,160
Speaker 3: I love saying it now.

1040
00:49:01,600 --> 00:49:03,840
Speaker 2: I think you do love saying it, Mark, But I'm.

1041
00:49:03,719 --> 00:49:05,960
Speaker 1: Saying, like the Lions playing the worst team in the

1042
00:49:06,040 --> 00:49:06,360
Speaker 1: league is.

1043
00:49:08,440 --> 00:49:10,480
Speaker 2: The watch saying it. I know the Jets could be

1044
00:49:10,520 --> 00:49:12,600
Speaker 2: bad Mark. It's certainly I am, I am. You have

1045
00:49:12,640 --> 00:49:16,160
Speaker 2: stayed repeated that's to be successful. I know you are,

1046
00:49:16,480 --> 00:49:19,719
Speaker 2: I know you are. I love it clearly. Thursday Night

1047
00:49:19,719 --> 00:49:26,680
Speaker 2: Football Week two, the Vikings Eagles start things off. Uh.

1048
00:49:26,840 --> 00:49:29,480
Speaker 2: Week three, Giants, Niners. I'm just gonna go for it,

1049
00:49:29,600 --> 00:49:34,000
Speaker 2: go through it, Lions, Packers, Week four, Bears, Commanders five, Broncos,

1050
00:49:34,080 --> 00:49:42,360
Speaker 2: Chief six, Jags, Saints seven, Bucks, Bills, Titans, Steelers, Panthers, Bears, Bengals, Ravens, Dolphins, Jets,

1051
00:49:42,400 --> 00:49:49,360
Speaker 2: Black Friday, Seahawks, Cowboys, Patriots, Steelers, Chargers, Raiders, Saints, Rams, Jets, Browns.

1052
00:49:51,680 --> 00:49:56,800
Speaker 1: It's good, it's it's still though, including teams that aren't

1053
00:49:56,800 --> 00:49:59,640
Speaker 1: getting much primetime elsewhere. Just put it down still serving

1054
00:49:59,640 --> 00:50:03,160
Speaker 1: as that, Yes, Saints are there twice. Do they have

1055
00:50:03,440 --> 00:50:06,239
Speaker 1: any other primetime games? You know, the Broncos have been

1056
00:50:06,280 --> 00:50:09,839
Speaker 1: down shifted quite a bit in terms of their primetime appearances.

1057
00:50:09,880 --> 00:50:13,120
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure that's got to be the Bucks's only spot.

1058
00:50:13,280 --> 00:50:16,719
Speaker 1: But the good thing about this schedule is they didn't

1059
00:50:16,719 --> 00:50:21,520
Speaker 1: have to force primetime games this year as much. The Cardinals,

1060
00:50:21,520 --> 00:50:23,919
Speaker 1: for instance, are not in primetime at all. I would

1061
00:50:23,920 --> 00:50:27,400
Speaker 1: be curious to see the Colts and Texans in primetime

1062
00:50:27,440 --> 00:50:30,680
Speaker 1: because of their rookie quarterbacks. Because I'm a dork, but

1063
00:50:30,760 --> 00:50:34,120
Speaker 1: those teams aren't really getting primetime love. The Colts get

1064
00:50:34,120 --> 00:50:37,320
Speaker 1: it zero for Anthony Richardson. Same thing with the Texans,

1065
00:50:37,360 --> 00:50:39,400
Speaker 1: and so normally that might have been put into this

1066
00:50:39,400 --> 00:50:42,359
Speaker 1: TNF schedule and they're not there, And so overall it's better.

1067
00:50:42,480 --> 00:50:42,680
Speaker 1: I think.

1068
00:50:42,719 --> 00:50:44,799
Speaker 3: The thing that worries me about it a little bit

1069
00:50:44,800 --> 00:50:46,239
Speaker 3: because there are some good matchups in here.

1070
00:50:46,280 --> 00:50:50,200
Speaker 1: I Seahawks Cowboys is really good. Jets Dolphins.

1071
00:50:50,239 --> 00:50:54,200
Speaker 3: Obviously you got the Rams in week sixteen. Why, like,

1072
00:50:54,239 --> 00:50:56,040
Speaker 3: from what we know, get ready to a game. What

1073
00:50:56,120 --> 00:50:58,160
Speaker 3: did we talk about.

1074
00:50:57,400 --> 00:51:01,400
Speaker 1: Beyond your there If you're listening to me and you

1075
00:51:01,440 --> 00:51:02,760
Speaker 1: work for the Rams.

1076
00:51:02,880 --> 00:51:05,160
Speaker 2: You say self interest or selfish interests.

1077
00:51:05,360 --> 00:51:08,520
Speaker 3: It has nothing to do with the larger population. Just simply, Greg, you.

1078
00:51:08,480 --> 00:51:12,560
Speaker 1: Gotta give it twenty twenty one champions one primetime game, Come.

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Speaker 3: On Tennessee Titans Week nine. I mean, we'll see. It's

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Speaker 3: just that some many are fine now, but like they

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Speaker 3: could be a odorous problem.

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Speaker 1: But you know what they could wait, they can't. They

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Speaker 1: can't flex the TNF. They wanted to flex late season

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Speaker 1: TNF but that's not happening, at least not at this point.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I get that's it. That's okay. I can't anymore.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's enough, schedule talk anything left.

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Speaker 2: We took it to we took it to the max.

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Speaker 1: We did it. We did it for the listeners. I

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Speaker 1: did miss this week, and as you mentioned at the top,

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Speaker 1: yeah you can. You can check our socials. You do

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Speaker 1: miss connecting with the listeners about football. We just love

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Speaker 1: we love our connection with it, and it doesn't feel

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Speaker 1: right when that's ruptured. But that's that's why we do it.

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Speaker 1: We do it for each other, we do it for

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Speaker 1: the listeners. So it's good to be back, even if

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Speaker 1: it's one of the sillier shows of the season.

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Speaker 3: I thought it was very serious and taken very seriously.

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Speaker 2: Greg.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's just it's all football, so I guess

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Speaker 1: it's never too serious.

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Speaker 2: Yes, a very tough week. We are not strangers to adversity,

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Speaker 2: not of our own invention, and we always carry on

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Speaker 2: this podcast. There are no reverse gears in this tank.

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Speaker 2: You guys know that. I'll just add again and give

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Speaker 2: us time to get things wrong.

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Speaker 1: Now, we just got to come up with what we're

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Speaker 1: talking ouver the next two or three months.

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Speaker 3: Oh that, I'm sure we will.

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Speaker 2: All right, body, have a nice weekend with back next week.

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Speaker 2: He the call