1 00:00:06,280 --> 00:00:08,719 Speaker 1: We were presented by win Bet Betty's a team sport, 2 00:00:08,800 --> 00:00:11,680 Speaker 1: but together at win Bet, Eric Allen here at one 3 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:16,079 Speaker 1: Jets Drive, joined by the National Football Leagues Vice President 4 00:00:16,600 --> 00:00:18,119 Speaker 1: of Broadcast Planning. 5 00:00:18,280 --> 00:00:22,080 Speaker 2: That is the one, the only Mike North. 6 00:00:22,280 --> 00:00:25,799 Speaker 1: How good does it feel to finally put the twenty 7 00:00:25,880 --> 00:00:29,320 Speaker 1: twenty three NFL schedule to bed? Uh? 8 00:00:30,160 --> 00:00:31,240 Speaker 3: Certainly glad it's over. 9 00:00:31,320 --> 00:00:33,680 Speaker 4: It was a bit of a death march there down 10 00:00:33,720 --> 00:00:37,040 Speaker 4: the stretch, but look really happy with how it came out. 11 00:00:37,520 --> 00:00:41,479 Speaker 4: Still kind of bracing for reactions today and tomorrow. The 12 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:44,760 Speaker 4: teams all got their schedules on Wednesday. The network partners 13 00:00:44,760 --> 00:00:49,800 Speaker 4: got them Thursday morning. Most of the reaction was as expected, 14 00:00:49,920 --> 00:00:52,879 Speaker 4: mostly positive. But look, the only reactions the matter of 15 00:00:52,880 --> 00:00:55,080 Speaker 4: the fans. So let's see what happens on Thursday night 16 00:00:55,120 --> 00:00:57,720 Speaker 4: when everybody gets their schedules and gets a chance to look. 17 00:00:57,560 --> 00:00:59,760 Speaker 3: At them on a daylight. Today, you know, you only 18 00:00:59,760 --> 00:01:01,080 Speaker 3: see your own schedule. 19 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:04,920 Speaker 4: Then tomorrow you see everybody else's and that's when, hey, 20 00:01:04,920 --> 00:01:06,680 Speaker 4: wait a minute, I thought I was good, but now 21 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:08,160 Speaker 4: I'm not as good as I thought I was. 22 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:10,000 Speaker 3: That's when the phone starts ringing. 23 00:01:10,040 --> 00:01:13,240 Speaker 4: So still bracing for some feedback for the next twenty 24 00:01:13,240 --> 00:01:13,959 Speaker 4: four hours or so. 25 00:01:14,760 --> 00:01:18,080 Speaker 1: Mike, at this point last year we talked about it 26 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:21,520 Speaker 1: and you said, you have to earn your way into 27 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:24,360 Speaker 1: prime time. How did the New York Jets earn their 28 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:28,280 Speaker 1: way into primetime in twenty twenty three? Five primetime games 29 00:01:28,600 --> 00:01:32,160 Speaker 1: plus the NFL's first ever black Frida again. 30 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:34,800 Speaker 4: Yeah, Look, that was a good football team last year. 31 00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:38,840 Speaker 4: I know the maybe quarterback play was disappointing, but what 32 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:42,319 Speaker 4: rookie of the year. I mean, it's a good football team. 33 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:46,160 Speaker 4: You certainly were going to find yourselves on national television 34 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:48,040 Speaker 4: quite a bit anyway. You just think about the schedule 35 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:50,240 Speaker 4: that you had, whether it was Philadelphia or Kansas City 36 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:54,880 Speaker 4: or any of the division opponents. Trading for a four 37 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:57,720 Speaker 4: time NFL MVP, future first ballot Hall of Famer, that's 38 00:01:57,720 --> 00:02:00,880 Speaker 4: another way to find yourself on the national television schedule. So, look, 39 00:02:00,920 --> 00:02:04,640 Speaker 4: the Jets, we're gonna be well represented in national windows. Obviously, 40 00:02:04,720 --> 00:02:07,440 Speaker 4: signing Rogers kind of up the any a little bit 41 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:10,520 Speaker 4: and maybe went from let's say two or three to 42 00:02:11,040 --> 00:02:12,960 Speaker 4: closer to five or six. And then you throw in 43 00:02:12,960 --> 00:02:15,399 Speaker 4: some four to twenty five double header games on Sunday afternoon, 44 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:17,120 Speaker 4: and yeah, there's gonna be a lot of Jets on 45 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:18,160 Speaker 4: national television. 46 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:19,639 Speaker 3: Please please be good. 47 00:02:21,160 --> 00:02:24,920 Speaker 1: So what was the Jets watch specifically like for you 48 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:29,360 Speaker 1: a man in your position as far as they're tracking 49 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:33,519 Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers throughout the offseason, as I'm sure you guys were, 50 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:36,440 Speaker 1: because you have to put that schedule together. And on 51 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:41,120 Speaker 1: March fifteenth, what clicks maybe as far as the communications 52 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:43,880 Speaker 1: internally for you guys when he gets on the Pat 53 00:02:43,960 --> 00:02:47,480 Speaker 1: McAfee's show and says, my attention is to play in 54 00:02:47,520 --> 00:02:49,880 Speaker 1: the National Football League in twenty twenty three, and it's 55 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:50,880 Speaker 1: to play with the Jets. 56 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:54,600 Speaker 4: Yeah, that day was, Hey, why don't we stop the 57 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:56,520 Speaker 4: computers for just a couple of minutes and I'll talk 58 00:02:56,560 --> 00:02:59,040 Speaker 4: to each other. Like we said, some of these two 59 00:02:59,120 --> 00:03:02,840 Speaker 4: hundred and seventy two assets were worth you know, this much, 60 00:03:02,880 --> 00:03:05,400 Speaker 4: and if Aaron Rodgers is your quarterback, those assets might 61 00:03:05,440 --> 00:03:07,480 Speaker 4: be worth this much. And certainly if you're going to 62 00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:09,600 Speaker 4: play against Kansas City and we were lucky enough to 63 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:12,720 Speaker 4: get ourselves, you know, another Mahomes Rogers games, since we 64 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:15,280 Speaker 4: lost it right when he had COVID last year or 65 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:20,119 Speaker 4: two years ago. It's it's good to it was good 66 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:23,400 Speaker 4: for us to be able to take a moment stop, reevaluate. 67 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:26,200 Speaker 4: Part of this, you know, we talked about it last year. 68 00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:28,280 Speaker 4: It's part art and part science. You know, the gut, 69 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:30,160 Speaker 4: the feel, the instincts, what game would I. 70 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:30,640 Speaker 3: Want to watch? 71 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:33,440 Speaker 4: What sounds like a football game? But there's some science 72 00:03:33,480 --> 00:03:35,440 Speaker 4: to it too, and we're trying to do some predictive analytics. 73 00:03:35,480 --> 00:03:36,800 Speaker 4: Who's going to be good, who's going to be in 74 00:03:36,840 --> 00:03:39,960 Speaker 4: a playoff chase, which of these matchups tend to produce 75 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:42,640 Speaker 4: good games? And obviously which of these games do we 76 00:03:42,640 --> 00:03:45,760 Speaker 4: think are going to generate the higher viewership for our fans. 77 00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:49,320 Speaker 4: So the predictive analytics had to shift a little bit 78 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:52,400 Speaker 4: as the social media buzz as everybody started talking about 79 00:03:52,440 --> 00:03:55,200 Speaker 4: Rogers to the Jets, Rogers to the Jets, everybody was 80 00:03:55,360 --> 00:03:56,960 Speaker 4: just a little bit more interested in some of those 81 00:03:57,040 --> 00:04:00,240 Speaker 4: Jets games. So sort of a one day stop and 82 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:02,360 Speaker 4: restart and reevaluate and if he is going to be 83 00:04:02,360 --> 00:04:03,800 Speaker 4: a Jet, wouldn't it be great if we did this 84 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:05,680 Speaker 4: or that, or we can't do this now, and we 85 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:07,480 Speaker 4: got to make sure we do something like that later. 86 00:04:08,480 --> 00:04:10,760 Speaker 4: And then it kind of dragged on a bit, didn't it. 87 00:04:10,840 --> 00:04:11,040 Speaker 3: Really. 88 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:15,040 Speaker 4: At some point we started to wonder, hey, if we 89 00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:19,560 Speaker 4: get through draft and a deal doesn't get done, is 90 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:22,760 Speaker 4: there a chance this doesn't happen? And if it doesn't happen, 91 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:25,680 Speaker 4: should we maybe rethink some of the decisions that we'd 92 00:04:25,720 --> 00:04:28,640 Speaker 4: already kind of committed to. So there was a call 93 00:04:28,680 --> 00:04:31,559 Speaker 4: it a hedge your bet plan if he hadn't gotten 94 00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:33,400 Speaker 4: the deal done and then the teams hadn't worked out 95 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:36,400 Speaker 4: the trade compensation. But grateful that they did and we 96 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:39,000 Speaker 4: were able to stay on track and maybe even push 97 00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:41,080 Speaker 4: it just a little bit further. When you think about, 98 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:43,479 Speaker 4: you know, the Monday night game in week one, or 99 00:04:43,520 --> 00:04:46,640 Speaker 4: Black Friday like we talked about, or the two Sundays 100 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:49,520 Speaker 4: or the two Espens, there's there's an awful lot of 101 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:52,040 Speaker 4: really good Jets games, and if he stays healthy and 102 00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:53,760 Speaker 4: the Jets stay relevant, I think it's going to be 103 00:04:53,760 --> 00:04:54,760 Speaker 4: really good for our fans. 104 00:04:55,360 --> 00:04:58,839 Speaker 1: What was your reaction Monday afternoon, three days prior to 105 00:04:58,880 --> 00:05:02,839 Speaker 1: the draft, when Adams after took to social media and said, Hey, 106 00:05:03,360 --> 00:05:06,800 Speaker 1: the trade is done. The Jets and the Packers have 107 00:05:06,880 --> 00:05:10,400 Speaker 1: agreed to terms. The trade actually becomes official the next day, 108 00:05:10,520 --> 00:05:12,080 Speaker 1: two days prior to the draft. 109 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:17,120 Speaker 4: Yeah, it was a definite sense of relief, and strangely enough, 110 00:05:17,120 --> 00:05:21,240 Speaker 4: happened to coincide really quickly, right with Lamar Jackson signings 111 00:05:21,320 --> 00:05:23,719 Speaker 4: to you in Baltimore. So you talk about two of 112 00:05:23,760 --> 00:05:27,280 Speaker 4: the kind of open issues that we had, they got 113 00:05:27,279 --> 00:05:29,479 Speaker 4: wrapped up for us, I think within twenty four hours 114 00:05:29,520 --> 00:05:31,279 Speaker 4: of each other, and that was great for us to 115 00:05:31,279 --> 00:05:34,560 Speaker 4: be able to kind of take that trepidation away. Don't 116 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:36,599 Speaker 4: have to worry so much anymore. Now we can just 117 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:39,000 Speaker 4: really grind forward and continue on the path that we 118 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:41,760 Speaker 4: were on and try to land this plane from May eleven. 119 00:05:42,880 --> 00:05:46,640 Speaker 1: Why Jets Bills in week one? And also, can you 120 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:49,640 Speaker 1: talk about the significance of having a New York team 121 00:05:50,320 --> 00:05:53,760 Speaker 1: host the game twenty two years after nine to eleven. 122 00:05:54,240 --> 00:05:56,320 Speaker 4: Yeah, Look, obviously we knew the date on the calendar, 123 00:05:56,360 --> 00:06:00,600 Speaker 4: and we certainly thought it appropriate. At least one of 124 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:02,279 Speaker 4: the New York teams was playing on Monday night. We 125 00:06:02,320 --> 00:06:05,000 Speaker 4: actually talked about having both of them play. I reached 126 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:08,200 Speaker 4: out to the Jets and to the Giants, knowing that 127 00:06:08,240 --> 00:06:11,159 Speaker 4: they're playing each other in week three of the preseason, 128 00:06:11,640 --> 00:06:14,360 Speaker 4: would they be comfortable from a football standpoint turning around 129 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:17,040 Speaker 4: and playing each other again just a couple of weeks 130 00:06:17,080 --> 00:06:21,240 Speaker 4: later when accounts and to their credit, both teams said, yep, absolutely, 131 00:06:21,279 --> 00:06:22,880 Speaker 4: if that's the right thing for the league, we will 132 00:06:22,920 --> 00:06:26,280 Speaker 4: do it. So we absolutely considered some schedules that had 133 00:06:26,360 --> 00:06:28,279 Speaker 4: Jets Giants as the Monday night or a Week one. 134 00:06:29,240 --> 00:06:32,120 Speaker 4: This is probably more than you're asking, but as we 135 00:06:32,279 --> 00:06:35,480 Speaker 4: tried to solve the Week one puzzle, you know, obviously 136 00:06:35,560 --> 00:06:37,880 Speaker 4: Kansas City was going to play on kickoff, and any 137 00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:40,800 Speaker 4: Kansas City game would have been great television. There was 138 00:06:40,839 --> 00:06:44,760 Speaker 4: a must c TV right now. The next two probably 139 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:50,960 Speaker 4: most interesting, you know, most likely to generate significant viewership opportunities, 140 00:06:51,080 --> 00:06:54,240 Speaker 4: was going to be any Dallas Cowboys game and Aaron 141 00:06:54,279 --> 00:06:56,920 Speaker 4: Rodgers first game is a Jet. And what we have 142 00:06:57,040 --> 00:06:59,320 Speaker 4: in Week one, as you know, is the double doubleheader 143 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:01,640 Speaker 4: for CBS and Fox, So they both have four to 144 00:07:01,680 --> 00:07:04,520 Speaker 4: twenty five Eastern Time double header games. That means every 145 00:07:04,520 --> 00:07:07,120 Speaker 4: fan in the country gets four games on the opening 146 00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:10,760 Speaker 4: Sunday of the season. What we try to do is 147 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:13,440 Speaker 4: balance the for CBS and Fox. You don't want anybody 148 00:07:13,480 --> 00:07:15,080 Speaker 4: to be too high or too low. You want CBS 149 00:07:15,080 --> 00:07:16,960 Speaker 4: and Fox to sort of split the baby in Week one. 150 00:07:17,560 --> 00:07:19,800 Speaker 4: If one of them was gonna get Dallas, then the 151 00:07:19,840 --> 00:07:21,680 Speaker 4: other one was probably gonna have a tough time keeping up. 152 00:07:21,680 --> 00:07:23,080 Speaker 4: And if one of them was gonna get the Jets, 153 00:07:23,200 --> 00:07:24,600 Speaker 4: then the other one was probably gonna have a tough 154 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:27,040 Speaker 4: time keeping up. So it stood the reason for us 155 00:07:27,080 --> 00:07:29,920 Speaker 4: that once you got Kansas City on kickoff, have about 156 00:07:29,960 --> 00:07:33,600 Speaker 4: Dallas in one primetime window and the Jets in the 157 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:36,640 Speaker 4: other primetime window. And what we came around was talking 158 00:07:36,680 --> 00:07:39,040 Speaker 4: with our friends at NBC and ESPN. You know, Dallas 159 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:41,920 Speaker 4: Giants Sunday night at week one seems to be a staple. 160 00:07:41,960 --> 00:07:45,240 Speaker 4: We've definitely done that before. And then with the Jets, 161 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:47,760 Speaker 4: you know, you can do Aaron Rodgers first game on 162 00:07:47,880 --> 00:07:49,960 Speaker 4: Monday night. He's got the whole day to himself, so 163 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:52,679 Speaker 4: you get the kind of the ESPN hype machine starting 164 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:54,320 Speaker 4: in the morning with the talk shows, all throughout the 165 00:07:54,400 --> 00:07:57,120 Speaker 4: day with the radio and the podcast and the website 166 00:07:57,160 --> 00:07:59,640 Speaker 4: and everything else, just kind of pointing towards you know, 167 00:07:59,720 --> 00:08:02,400 Speaker 4: Aaron first game as a Jet. Love the idea of 168 00:08:02,440 --> 00:08:04,520 Speaker 4: like the whole country focused on that one. You do 169 00:08:04,520 --> 00:08:06,720 Speaker 4: it on Sunday night, and you've got eight or seven 170 00:08:06,920 --> 00:08:08,600 Speaker 4: games earlier in the day, and you're just kind of 171 00:08:08,640 --> 00:08:10,720 Speaker 4: squeezing in at the back end this one, you kind 172 00:08:10,720 --> 00:08:12,520 Speaker 4: of get that whole day kind of focused on his 173 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:14,800 Speaker 4: first game. What did he look like in the preseason? 174 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:18,000 Speaker 4: Did he even play in the preseason? You know, I 175 00:08:18,160 --> 00:08:20,800 Speaker 4: love the idea of having a New York home game 176 00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:24,080 Speaker 4: and Aaron's first game, and of course playing Josh Allen 177 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:26,200 Speaker 4: and the Bills. I mean, every division game in the 178 00:08:26,240 --> 00:08:28,960 Speaker 4: AFC East now means just a little bit more, and 179 00:08:29,040 --> 00:08:30,520 Speaker 4: so having one of those Week one is great, and 180 00:08:30,520 --> 00:08:32,640 Speaker 4: you come back with the other Bills Jets game, you know, 181 00:08:32,679 --> 00:08:34,640 Speaker 4: a couple of months later, also in a national window 182 00:08:34,679 --> 00:08:35,520 Speaker 4: at four to twenty five. 183 00:08:36,240 --> 00:08:39,319 Speaker 1: Yeah, as a guy who works there in the city 184 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:42,040 Speaker 1: and lives around here, what do you think the environment's 185 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:44,800 Speaker 1: going to be like at MetLife And how big of. 186 00:08:44,720 --> 00:08:49,439 Speaker 2: A stage is that the Jets And what does it say. 187 00:08:49,280 --> 00:08:52,160 Speaker 1: About how far they've come that they will be playing 188 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:55,480 Speaker 1: Monday night football standalone game against the Bills in Week one. 189 00:08:56,040 --> 00:09:03,480 Speaker 4: Look, every city in the country just feels bigger, feels buzzier. 190 00:09:03,640 --> 00:09:07,840 Speaker 4: People are happier when the football team's good. So certainly 191 00:09:07,840 --> 00:09:09,720 Speaker 4: here in New York we got two football teams, and 192 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:12,360 Speaker 4: there was that stretch there through what about October mid 193 00:09:12,400 --> 00:09:15,280 Speaker 4: November where they were both good last year and everybody 194 00:09:15,280 --> 00:09:17,560 Speaker 4: started getting sighted. Reminded me of the days whatever it 195 00:09:17,679 --> 00:09:20,400 Speaker 4: was fifteen twenty years ago, when we got into December 196 00:09:20,440 --> 00:09:21,839 Speaker 4: and it was pretty obvious they were both going to 197 00:09:21,880 --> 00:09:23,880 Speaker 4: make the playoffs, and we started talking about, Hey, what 198 00:09:23,920 --> 00:09:27,400 Speaker 4: happens if they're both both hosting championship games? Right like 199 00:09:27,840 --> 00:09:30,320 Speaker 4: he was on Saturday, one Sunday, one Sunday, one Monday. 200 00:09:30,400 --> 00:09:32,280 Speaker 4: I'd love for that to be a conversation again. That 201 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:35,400 Speaker 4: would be a fantastic problem for the NFL to have 202 00:09:35,520 --> 00:09:37,600 Speaker 4: the Jets and Giants both being good. It's good for 203 00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:40,280 Speaker 4: the NFL, It's good for our media partners, obviously the 204 00:09:40,280 --> 00:09:43,760 Speaker 4: biggest market in the country. You know, the schedule makers 205 00:09:43,760 --> 00:09:47,320 Speaker 4: look smarter when the Jets and Giants and Rams and 206 00:09:47,400 --> 00:09:50,640 Speaker 4: Chargers and Cowboys and Bears and Niners all are playing well. 207 00:09:51,160 --> 00:09:52,760 Speaker 4: That might be a little out of our hands, but 208 00:09:53,280 --> 00:09:55,000 Speaker 4: certainly hope to take advantage of it if we can. 209 00:09:55,600 --> 00:09:58,480 Speaker 1: How about the thought process going into week two, the 210 00:09:58,559 --> 00:10:02,640 Speaker 1: Jets coming off the short week, going to Dallas, where 211 00:10:02,679 --> 00:10:07,800 Speaker 1: there are a couple iterations from the computer that spit 212 00:10:07,840 --> 00:10:11,319 Speaker 1: out the Jets maybe playing prime time at some point 213 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:14,960 Speaker 1: with Dallas and why was the double header windle the 214 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:16,400 Speaker 1: way to go for you guys. 215 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:19,880 Speaker 4: Yeah, look to us, the Sunday afternoon doubleheader window on 216 00:10:19,920 --> 00:10:23,040 Speaker 4: CBS and Fox, the Sunday night games, the Monday night games, 217 00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:25,520 Speaker 4: even the Thursday night games now on Amazon, those are 218 00:10:25,520 --> 00:10:27,880 Speaker 4: all big windows for us. Those are all good landing 219 00:10:27,920 --> 00:10:31,800 Speaker 4: spots for our best games. You know, we've got the 220 00:10:31,880 --> 00:10:34,000 Speaker 4: Jewish Holidays in there in weeks two and three. So 221 00:10:34,040 --> 00:10:36,200 Speaker 4: trying to manage the Jets and Giants fans who should 222 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:38,640 Speaker 4: be home and at what time just didn't really feel 223 00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:40,400 Speaker 4: right to have the Jets come off of that big 224 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:42,439 Speaker 4: Monday night game and then turn around and play a 225 00:10:42,520 --> 00:10:45,600 Speaker 4: one o'clock Sunday afternoon game that might only be available 226 00:10:45,600 --> 00:10:47,560 Speaker 4: in fifteen percent of the country. What if Rogers has 227 00:10:47,600 --> 00:10:49,960 Speaker 4: a monster game and throw us for four hundred yards 228 00:10:49,960 --> 00:10:52,320 Speaker 4: and four touchdowns and he's the biggest story in the league, 229 00:10:52,600 --> 00:10:54,520 Speaker 4: and then you turn around a week two and you 230 00:10:54,559 --> 00:10:56,400 Speaker 4: don't get to tell that story because there's eight other 231 00:10:56,440 --> 00:10:59,120 Speaker 4: games going on at the same time. So thinking about 232 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:02,200 Speaker 4: how to you know, manage the stadium, managed the fans, 233 00:11:02,240 --> 00:11:05,480 Speaker 4: managed the television partners, and look, certainly his first couple 234 00:11:05,559 --> 00:11:08,440 Speaker 4: of games are gonna be unbelievably interesting. You know, everybody's 235 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:10,120 Speaker 4: going to tune in for week one and then week two. 236 00:11:10,640 --> 00:11:12,920 Speaker 4: Can he keep it going? Can he rebound? Like it 237 00:11:12,960 --> 00:11:14,680 Speaker 4: all depends on what he does in week one, So 238 00:11:15,120 --> 00:11:17,800 Speaker 4: finding a national television home for that one as well. 239 00:11:18,480 --> 00:11:20,839 Speaker 4: That Jets Dallas game was at the top of our 240 00:11:20,880 --> 00:11:23,760 Speaker 4: friends at CBS's wish list, and they were really happy 241 00:11:23,760 --> 00:11:24,120 Speaker 4: to get it. 242 00:11:24,679 --> 00:11:27,000 Speaker 1: And he thought at all as far as the Jets 243 00:11:27,160 --> 00:11:28,760 Speaker 1: on Thanksgiving. 244 00:11:28,800 --> 00:11:32,079 Speaker 4: Yeah, certainly thought about Thanksgiving. Couldn't do Black Friday relative 245 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:34,560 Speaker 4: to you know, the Cowboys always playing on Thursday, but 246 00:11:35,640 --> 00:11:38,439 Speaker 4: definitely oh that's right. Yeah, definitely looked at schedules where 247 00:11:38,480 --> 00:11:41,240 Speaker 4: the Jets were at the Cowboys on Thanksgiving. But Thanksgiving 248 00:11:41,280 --> 00:11:44,960 Speaker 4: for you know, a dozen years now has always been 249 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:49,360 Speaker 4: that Cowboys four thirty Eastern time Thanksgiving game almost universally 250 00:11:49,400 --> 00:11:51,680 Speaker 4: our most watched game of the season. It's just become 251 00:11:51,720 --> 00:11:56,040 Speaker 4: a tradition. That's what we all do. And you know, you, 252 00:11:56,120 --> 00:11:57,920 Speaker 4: me and nine friends could probably go play Dallas that 253 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:01,240 Speaker 4: day and twenty million people will watch better if somebody 254 00:12:01,400 --> 00:12:03,280 Speaker 4: other than that goes in there. And we sent the 255 00:12:03,320 --> 00:12:05,600 Speaker 4: Giants in there last year. Remember at this time last year. 256 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:08,120 Speaker 4: I'm not sure anybody was expecting much out of the Giants, 257 00:12:08,200 --> 00:12:11,120 Speaker 4: right they were off a relatively disappointing season. So having 258 00:12:11,160 --> 00:12:14,200 Speaker 4: the Giants go to Dallas last season do whatever it was, 259 00:12:14,280 --> 00:12:17,839 Speaker 4: forty two forty three million viewers kind of showed us, 260 00:12:17,880 --> 00:12:19,800 Speaker 4: you know, we always knew there was a floor that 261 00:12:19,880 --> 00:12:21,800 Speaker 4: might have showed us where the ceiling was. Like, you 262 00:12:21,800 --> 00:12:26,120 Speaker 4: could really generate a pretty significant viewership number on Thanksgiving 263 00:12:26,280 --> 00:12:29,040 Speaker 4: if you're lucky enough to get a big team with 264 00:12:29,120 --> 00:12:31,800 Speaker 4: a big national following, and they thankfully could play a 265 00:12:31,800 --> 00:12:34,200 Speaker 4: game that's decided in the final drive of the game, 266 00:12:34,280 --> 00:12:37,200 Speaker 4: Like that's that's a recipe for good viewership. So we 267 00:12:37,240 --> 00:12:40,040 Speaker 4: looked at Jets Dallas on Thanksgiving. We looked at Philly, 268 00:12:40,920 --> 00:12:42,920 Speaker 4: didn't really want to send New York back there. Again, 269 00:12:42,960 --> 00:12:44,840 Speaker 4: I'm not sure mister Marraw would have loved that. We 270 00:12:44,920 --> 00:12:47,560 Speaker 4: talked about the Rams, we talked about Seattle obviously landed 271 00:12:47,559 --> 00:12:52,079 Speaker 4: on Washington. Just felt like that Jets Dallas game could 272 00:12:52,120 --> 00:12:54,360 Speaker 4: have a home where it could generate maybe a higher 273 00:12:54,440 --> 00:12:57,640 Speaker 4: ceiling than you know, taking Thanksgiving from here to here 274 00:12:58,080 --> 00:13:00,520 Speaker 4: as opposed to taking a Sunday afternoon when from here 275 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:03,320 Speaker 4: to here. So that's sort of how we ended up 276 00:13:03,400 --> 00:13:05,520 Speaker 4: kind of deploying it that way. But we looked at 277 00:13:05,520 --> 00:13:08,960 Speaker 4: schedules where the Jets Cowboys game was Sunday night, was 278 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:12,400 Speaker 4: Monday night, was Thanksgiving? Was a Fox doubleheader, was a 279 00:13:12,400 --> 00:13:14,920 Speaker 4: CVS doubleheader. It was one of those kind of you know, 280 00:13:15,400 --> 00:13:16,840 Speaker 4: five tool utility players. 281 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:18,000 Speaker 3: It could have gone anywhere. 282 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:20,960 Speaker 1: What about Week four and that enticing matchup between the 283 00:13:21,040 --> 00:13:23,400 Speaker 1: Jets and the Kansas City Chiefs? In your mind, was 284 00:13:23,440 --> 00:13:27,280 Speaker 1: that always going to go towards the spotlight that is 285 00:13:27,320 --> 00:13:28,240 Speaker 1: Sunday Night Football. 286 00:13:29,080 --> 00:13:31,319 Speaker 4: Yeah, again, it's one of those five tool utility players. 287 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:33,640 Speaker 4: It could have gone anywhere, and was certainly considered it 288 00:13:33,640 --> 00:13:36,200 Speaker 4: in a lot of other places. But you know, that 289 00:13:36,320 --> 00:13:38,200 Speaker 4: was definitely a game that needed to find a home 290 00:13:38,320 --> 00:13:42,360 Speaker 4: somewhere on the primetime schedule and these last couple of years. Strangely, 291 00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:44,160 Speaker 4: I'm not sure it was intentional, but it's kind of 292 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:47,880 Speaker 4: like developed that way that that final Sunday in September 293 00:13:48,760 --> 00:13:51,040 Speaker 4: on NBC on Sunday Night Football. We've landed with a 294 00:13:51,040 --> 00:13:54,080 Speaker 4: couple of really big games in there, and for whatever 295 00:13:54,120 --> 00:13:56,760 Speaker 4: else NBC has going on, whether it's you know, a 296 00:13:56,800 --> 00:13:59,800 Speaker 4: college football game or a NASCAR race or I think 297 00:13:59,800 --> 00:14:02,640 Speaker 4: this they've gotten the Ryder Cup like it. Just there's 298 00:14:02,679 --> 00:14:06,880 Speaker 4: a promotional engine, a marketing opportunity around that final Sunday 299 00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:09,760 Speaker 4: in September. And a couple of years ago was Tom 300 00:14:09,760 --> 00:14:13,280 Speaker 4: Brady's return. We did Tampa Bay at New England and 301 00:14:13,320 --> 00:14:15,360 Speaker 4: they did that Adell song for the promo, which was 302 00:14:15,400 --> 00:14:18,400 Speaker 4: pretty cool. And then last year it was Mahomes again 303 00:14:18,480 --> 00:14:22,480 Speaker 4: it was Mahomes and Brady, it was Casey Tampa and 304 00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:25,320 Speaker 4: just that sort of has become almost like a high 305 00:14:25,360 --> 00:14:29,560 Speaker 4: watermark for us on opportunity that kind of fourth Sunday 306 00:14:29,560 --> 00:14:32,160 Speaker 4: in September, that that fourth Sunday of the season and 307 00:14:32,680 --> 00:14:34,880 Speaker 4: to see Kansas City Jets kind of land right in 308 00:14:34,960 --> 00:14:39,040 Speaker 4: there felt like a really good opportunity. Again, you could 309 00:14:39,080 --> 00:14:40,520 Speaker 4: have done it a little earlier, but you're getting into 310 00:14:40,560 --> 00:14:43,000 Speaker 4: the Jewish holidays. You get a little later, and who knows, 311 00:14:43,040 --> 00:14:45,360 Speaker 4: we might be up against the Yankees postseason game, which 312 00:14:45,560 --> 00:14:47,280 Speaker 4: isn't really fair to the fan in New York. So 313 00:14:47,320 --> 00:14:48,840 Speaker 4: you want to try to make sure that everybody can 314 00:14:48,880 --> 00:14:52,480 Speaker 4: see all the good games. You wait too long and 315 00:14:52,560 --> 00:14:55,600 Speaker 4: maybe you missed your moment, right, what if Heaven forbid 316 00:14:55,680 --> 00:14:57,880 Speaker 4: somebody got hurt or somebody's scuffing a little bit and 317 00:14:57,960 --> 00:15:01,680 Speaker 4: isn't having the season you wanted, So you kind of 318 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:03,840 Speaker 4: try to guess, like we all do. It's may none 319 00:15:03,840 --> 00:15:05,440 Speaker 4: of us know what the season is going to develop 320 00:15:05,480 --> 00:15:08,880 Speaker 4: in September, no less December. So that's sort of week four. 321 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:13,280 Speaker 4: Hopefully all the storylines remain. And yeah, Mahomes and Rogers 322 00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:16,920 Speaker 4: on the same field together, sounds like a football game. 323 00:15:16,960 --> 00:15:17,520 Speaker 3: I want to watch. 324 00:15:18,760 --> 00:15:22,640 Speaker 1: The Jets twenty twenty three schedule is out now see 325 00:15:22,640 --> 00:15:25,000 Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers and the Jets host some of the best 326 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:29,080 Speaker 1: in the National Football League, including Patrick Mahomes, Jalen Hurts, 327 00:15:29,280 --> 00:15:33,640 Speaker 1: Josh Allen Moore. Locking your tickets at yjets dot com 328 00:15:33,760 --> 00:15:39,600 Speaker 1: slash tickets. So those guys have combined for six NFL MVPs, 329 00:15:40,080 --> 00:15:45,240 Speaker 1: three Super Bowl MVPs, and three championships, and they both 330 00:15:45,400 --> 00:15:48,480 Speaker 1: figure to be in the running for another ring this year. 331 00:15:49,040 --> 00:15:51,480 Speaker 1: That one is going to be a must see. What 332 00:15:51,560 --> 00:15:54,240 Speaker 1: about the back to back prime times for the Jets 333 00:15:54,280 --> 00:15:59,040 Speaker 1: after the bye you got La Chargers, Justin Herbert coming 334 00:15:59,080 --> 00:16:02,840 Speaker 1: to My Life night Special, and then the short week 335 00:16:02,920 --> 00:16:05,600 Speaker 1: to turn around and you have a Sunday night game 336 00:16:05,640 --> 00:16:06,440 Speaker 1: in the Sin City. 337 00:16:06,520 --> 00:16:08,320 Speaker 2: The Jets going to Vegas for the first time. 338 00:16:09,080 --> 00:16:12,680 Speaker 4: Yeah, I can't tell you how many people have asked me, Hey, 339 00:16:12,680 --> 00:16:14,440 Speaker 4: can you tell me when that Chess Raiders game is that? 340 00:16:14,640 --> 00:16:17,560 Speaker 4: That's the one everybody's kind of got circled on their calendars, 341 00:16:17,600 --> 00:16:19,320 Speaker 4: and you know the fact that it falls in a 342 00:16:19,360 --> 00:16:21,680 Speaker 4: primetime slide. Man, let's make a weekend out of it. 343 00:16:21,720 --> 00:16:25,760 Speaker 4: Maybe stay till Monday calling sick. I love that idea. Look, 344 00:16:25,920 --> 00:16:29,960 Speaker 4: those late games are an interesting challenge for us. As 345 00:16:29,960 --> 00:16:31,760 Speaker 4: you know, we play the bulk of our game Sunday 346 00:16:31,760 --> 00:16:34,800 Speaker 4: at one o'clock, and you've got some of those late games, 347 00:16:34,840 --> 00:16:37,640 Speaker 4: and if they're not the four to twenty five double 348 00:16:37,680 --> 00:16:40,640 Speaker 4: header game on CBS or Fox, then they're either in 349 00:16:40,680 --> 00:16:43,680 Speaker 4: a window with another double header game. So you might have, 350 00:16:44,640 --> 00:16:46,800 Speaker 4: you know, Jets Vegas at four to twenty five with 351 00:16:47,520 --> 00:16:50,680 Speaker 4: making it up Cincinnati Kansas City, right then the Jets 352 00:16:50,760 --> 00:16:53,440 Speaker 4: fans don't get to see that Bengals Chiefs game. On 353 00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:55,720 Speaker 4: the alternative side, if you don't land at four twenty five, 354 00:16:55,760 --> 00:16:58,160 Speaker 4: you're gonna land at four five, and then you're on 355 00:16:58,200 --> 00:17:00,320 Speaker 4: the single header network. And then in New York, yes, 356 00:17:00,360 --> 00:17:03,120 Speaker 4: you could see both, but you're competing with each other 357 00:17:03,160 --> 00:17:05,600 Speaker 4: and that's probably not good for either partner either, So 358 00:17:06,040 --> 00:17:08,240 Speaker 4: trying to find that right landing spot for some of 359 00:17:08,240 --> 00:17:11,600 Speaker 4: those Western games. Now that those Western teams are so good, 360 00:17:11,680 --> 00:17:15,560 Speaker 4: right the Chargers, the Raiders, the Seahawks, the Niners, any 361 00:17:15,600 --> 00:17:17,680 Speaker 4: of the New York teams. Right, New York's going out 362 00:17:17,680 --> 00:17:19,760 Speaker 4: to San the Giants are going out to San Francisco, 363 00:17:20,160 --> 00:17:21,960 Speaker 4: the Jets are going out to the Raiders. I mean, 364 00:17:22,440 --> 00:17:25,120 Speaker 4: need to find good homes for those and primetime does 365 00:17:25,160 --> 00:17:26,000 Speaker 4: make a lot of sense. 366 00:17:26,400 --> 00:17:29,760 Speaker 1: Is that huge for you guys from a league perspective, 367 00:17:29,880 --> 00:17:32,680 Speaker 1: Like you're talking about the coast to coast, I mean, 368 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:37,840 Speaker 1: you got La market, New York market, and obviously there's 369 00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:41,480 Speaker 1: our national brands, especially the Jets with Aaron Rodgers now 370 00:17:41,720 --> 00:17:44,600 Speaker 1: at this point, and then the following week Raiders, the 371 00:17:44,800 --> 00:17:48,879 Speaker 1: historic franchise paired up with the Jets and their future 372 00:17:48,920 --> 00:17:51,280 Speaker 1: Hall of Fame quarterback and a team that's on the 373 00:17:51,359 --> 00:17:54,560 Speaker 1: rise you mentioned before, a lot of young talent here 374 00:17:54,600 --> 00:17:57,119 Speaker 1: and Robert Salad doing very good things here in his 375 00:17:57,200 --> 00:17:57,640 Speaker 1: third year. 376 00:17:58,400 --> 00:17:59,920 Speaker 3: Yep, love it, love it. I mean look at it. 377 00:18:00,119 --> 00:18:02,399 Speaker 4: Like I said, it makes the schedule makers look smart 378 00:18:02,800 --> 00:18:06,920 Speaker 4: when you know teams with national followings from major media markets, 379 00:18:06,960 --> 00:18:11,080 Speaker 4: really big cities are playing well and playing interesting and compelling, 380 00:18:11,119 --> 00:18:13,719 Speaker 4: and you know, games of playoff implications down the stretch. 381 00:18:14,200 --> 00:18:15,800 Speaker 4: We'll take all that we can. We root for all 382 00:18:15,800 --> 00:18:18,439 Speaker 4: thirty two equally, of course here in the big you know, 383 00:18:18,560 --> 00:18:21,560 Speaker 4: palette halls. But yeah, having the two New York teams 384 00:18:21,600 --> 00:18:23,560 Speaker 4: competitive helps in a lot of way. It's not just 385 00:18:23,600 --> 00:18:26,320 Speaker 4: our national television partnerships, but also here in New York 386 00:18:26,359 --> 00:18:29,280 Speaker 4: you guys know, you know, most weeks, if we're not 387 00:18:29,520 --> 00:18:31,760 Speaker 4: as competitive as we hoped, you're going to see Jets 388 00:18:31,800 --> 00:18:33,720 Speaker 4: and Giants games both at one o'clock, so that we 389 00:18:33,720 --> 00:18:36,720 Speaker 4: can get that big Cincinnati Kansas City or Philly Dallas 390 00:18:36,760 --> 00:18:38,920 Speaker 4: game or whatever it is into the market at four 391 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:41,680 Speaker 4: twenty five. Having more of those Giants and Jets games 392 00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:45,080 Speaker 4: deployed across four twenty five Thursday night, Sunday nights, Monday 393 00:18:45,119 --> 00:18:48,240 Speaker 4: nights should alleviate some of that one o'clock you know, 394 00:18:48,359 --> 00:18:51,080 Speaker 4: conflict between Jets and Giants games, so the fans in 395 00:18:51,080 --> 00:18:53,199 Speaker 4: New York should be able to watch both teams every weekend. 396 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:56,560 Speaker 2: Why Black Friday for the NFL? Why was that a 397 00:18:56,640 --> 00:18:57,800 Speaker 2: big step for the league? 398 00:18:57,840 --> 00:19:02,280 Speaker 1: And also can you talk about you guys selecting the 399 00:19:02,359 --> 00:19:06,000 Speaker 1: Jets and the Dolphins, the two longtime division rivals to 400 00:19:06,040 --> 00:19:06,800 Speaker 1: go head to head. 401 00:19:07,960 --> 00:19:08,160 Speaker 3: Yeah. 402 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:10,080 Speaker 4: Look, Black Friday is gonna be a first for us. 403 00:19:10,119 --> 00:19:13,679 Speaker 4: Haven't done that before. Our friends at Amazon were really eager. 404 00:19:14,520 --> 00:19:16,800 Speaker 4: You know, obviously it's a big retail day and they 405 00:19:16,800 --> 00:19:19,840 Speaker 4: are certainly a big retail partner, so that's sort of 406 00:19:19,840 --> 00:19:20,680 Speaker 4: their super Bowl. 407 00:19:20,720 --> 00:19:21,760 Speaker 3: And if you think. 408 00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:24,360 Speaker 4: About everybody going to Amazon that day and you put 409 00:19:24,359 --> 00:19:26,840 Speaker 4: a little button right next to the checkout button and like, hey, 410 00:19:26,880 --> 00:19:29,480 Speaker 4: before you check out, click here, They're gonna move that 411 00:19:29,560 --> 00:19:30,760 Speaker 4: game in front of the paywall. 412 00:19:30,840 --> 00:19:32,920 Speaker 3: So you don't need Amazon Prime. 413 00:19:32,960 --> 00:19:35,160 Speaker 4: All you need is an Internet connection and everybody's gonna 414 00:19:35,160 --> 00:19:36,960 Speaker 4: be able to watch that game. It's a you know, 415 00:19:36,960 --> 00:19:39,080 Speaker 4: there's not a lot of windows where you know, you 416 00:19:39,080 --> 00:19:41,520 Speaker 4: could put an NFL game that we haven't already, so. 417 00:19:41,920 --> 00:19:42,720 Speaker 3: That was one of them. 418 00:19:42,760 --> 00:19:46,000 Speaker 4: And you know that weekend is such a big sports weekend, right, 419 00:19:46,040 --> 00:19:48,600 Speaker 4: we have such a big day on Thursday with three 420 00:19:48,600 --> 00:19:51,199 Speaker 4: games on Thanksgiving. We always come back with what we 421 00:19:51,280 --> 00:19:53,439 Speaker 4: hope is a really good doubleheader, a good Sunday night 422 00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:55,640 Speaker 4: or a good Monday night. There's usually some really good 423 00:19:55,640 --> 00:19:58,600 Speaker 4: college football on Saturday that weekend, So you know, that 424 00:19:58,720 --> 00:20:01,600 Speaker 4: Friday afternoon sort of felt like maybe an itch we 425 00:20:01,680 --> 00:20:04,440 Speaker 4: could scratch something for our fans to have a little 426 00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:07,320 Speaker 4: opportunity to go watch another big game. And again, it's 427 00:20:07,320 --> 00:20:09,240 Speaker 4: a game that otherwise would have been deployed on a 428 00:20:09,280 --> 00:20:12,240 Speaker 4: Sunday afternoon. And you think about a Jets Dolphins game, 429 00:20:12,280 --> 00:20:15,159 Speaker 4: the historic rivalry and now with Rogers and Tua, you know, 430 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:17,240 Speaker 4: that's a game it feels like more people should be 431 00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:19,320 Speaker 4: able to see, as opposed to win a one o'clock 432 00:20:19,359 --> 00:20:22,160 Speaker 4: window and kind of landlocked if there's a Patriots game 433 00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:24,520 Speaker 4: with it, or an Eagles game with it, or a 434 00:20:24,560 --> 00:20:26,840 Speaker 4: Browns game with it. So getting that game into a 435 00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:29,120 Speaker 4: national window Black Friday is going to be really fun. 436 00:20:29,119 --> 00:20:31,800 Speaker 4: I know Amazon's really excited about it and wanted to 437 00:20:31,880 --> 00:20:35,919 Speaker 4: kind of find that right sort of divisional game maybe 438 00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:38,880 Speaker 4: in year one. Those games always matter no matter when 439 00:20:38,920 --> 00:20:41,160 Speaker 4: we play them. We happen to have three divisional games 440 00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:43,919 Speaker 4: on Thanksgiving Thursday this year, so come back with a 441 00:20:43,960 --> 00:20:46,919 Speaker 4: fourth divisional game on Black Friday should make for a 442 00:20:46,920 --> 00:20:48,240 Speaker 4: really fun couple of days. 443 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:51,520 Speaker 1: What about the Jets' final prime time game against the 444 00:20:51,560 --> 00:20:54,840 Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns that Thursday Night affair. I wanted to ask 445 00:20:54,880 --> 00:20:59,480 Speaker 1: you about four short weeks for the Jets. I think 446 00:20:59,520 --> 00:21:01,479 Speaker 1: that would make you smile at this point because I'm 447 00:21:01,520 --> 00:21:04,439 Speaker 1: sure you've been dealing with this question from teams like 448 00:21:04,920 --> 00:21:07,800 Speaker 1: Kansas City or the Packers for years. That's that's the 449 00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:11,439 Speaker 1: price of being good now, right, the expectations Now you 450 00:21:11,480 --> 00:21:12,800 Speaker 1: are gonna have short weeks. 451 00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:14,879 Speaker 4: Yeah, you're gonna have short weeks. You're gonna play in 452 00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:18,560 Speaker 4: non traditional windows. You're you're not gonna play Sunday afternoon 453 00:21:18,560 --> 00:21:20,800 Speaker 4: at one o'clock year after year. And I don't think 454 00:21:20,800 --> 00:21:23,560 Speaker 4: there's any Jets fans, certainly no Jets player or coach 455 00:21:23,720 --> 00:21:26,840 Speaker 4: or or an owner who's gonna want to go back 456 00:21:26,880 --> 00:21:30,199 Speaker 4: to that, because you know, generally that's indicative of, you know, 457 00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:33,680 Speaker 4: the success still to come. So the fact that you 458 00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:36,560 Speaker 4: know the Jets were coming, they were getting better, they 459 00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:38,800 Speaker 4: were right there last year. They're a good football team 460 00:21:38,800 --> 00:21:41,520 Speaker 4: with a lot of good pieces. You had a four 461 00:21:41,560 --> 00:21:44,399 Speaker 4: time MVP. You you certainly are gonna find yourself in 462 00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:48,160 Speaker 4: more national television windows. The short week from Monday to Sunday. 463 00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:50,679 Speaker 4: That happens all the time. Right, we played Monday, We've 464 00:21:50,680 --> 00:21:52,879 Speaker 4: been playing Monday night football for fifty years. You know, 465 00:21:53,240 --> 00:21:55,159 Speaker 4: Monday to Sunday is a thing in this league. And 466 00:21:55,560 --> 00:21:59,760 Speaker 4: generally speaking, the data, the analytics don't really show that 467 00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:02,560 Speaker 4: they're that much of an advantage for a one day 468 00:22:02,600 --> 00:22:05,520 Speaker 4: rest disparity. The short weeks on Thursday. You know, it's 469 00:22:05,520 --> 00:22:07,280 Speaker 4: only been a few years that we've had this full 470 00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:10,560 Speaker 4: season of Thursday, so we're all still kind of learning. 471 00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:12,560 Speaker 4: It's a limited data set, but we're keeping an eye 472 00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:15,600 Speaker 4: on it. But when ownership voted last month to allow 473 00:22:15,640 --> 00:22:19,040 Speaker 4: teams to play multiple short weeks like this, multiple games 474 00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:21,640 Speaker 4: on a Thursday, this gives us the opportunity to put 475 00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:24,200 Speaker 4: a team like the Jets, a team like the Steelers, 476 00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:28,399 Speaker 4: a team like the Bears on two short weeks, you know, 477 00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:30,560 Speaker 4: still cognizant about where they are. They shouldn't be too 478 00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:32,840 Speaker 4: close together, and we should spread them out. We should 479 00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:34,680 Speaker 4: have the bye week in there somewhere. They should get, 480 00:22:34,840 --> 00:22:37,280 Speaker 4: you know, the mini bye after both Thursdays, plus the 481 00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:40,439 Speaker 4: full bye week, and hopefully those have been staggered, you know, 482 00:22:40,520 --> 00:22:43,040 Speaker 4: in enough of a way that you know, guys can 483 00:22:43,040 --> 00:22:47,400 Speaker 4: get their rest, guys can recover, and yeah, we met 484 00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:49,439 Speaker 4: with our friends at Amazon this morning, and you know, 485 00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:51,320 Speaker 4: one of the highlights of their schedule is seeing two 486 00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:54,479 Speaker 4: Jets games on Amazon. That sends a pretty good message 487 00:22:54,520 --> 00:22:57,400 Speaker 4: to their partners and to their advertisers. 488 00:22:57,960 --> 00:23:00,960 Speaker 1: I'm not trying to stop you here, Mike, but the 489 00:23:01,080 --> 00:23:07,040 Speaker 1: Jets play ten of their first fifteen games at Mettlife Stadium. 490 00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:11,359 Speaker 1: That's sixty seven percent of games. Do you think that's 491 00:23:11,359 --> 00:23:16,919 Speaker 1: ever happened before? Because you got the nine home you 492 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:19,639 Speaker 1: got the nine home games, and then you have the 493 00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:24,120 Speaker 1: Giants game where technically the Jets are the visitor. 494 00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:26,800 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, can't think of another time. 495 00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:28,560 Speaker 4: I mean maybe the last time the Jets and Giants 496 00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:30,879 Speaker 4: played each other, and it went that way for the 497 00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:35,160 Speaker 4: Giants four years ago. But no, that's a look, that's 498 00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:38,400 Speaker 4: one of those quirks where, you know, people always talk 499 00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:42,520 Speaker 4: about it's a rotational based schedule. So you know, right now, 500 00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:47,639 Speaker 4: fourteen of your seventeen games for the next you know, 501 00:23:47,760 --> 00:23:50,879 Speaker 4: twenty four years until we change something, so you know 502 00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:53,399 Speaker 4: most of your games already, and it just so happens that, 503 00:23:53,760 --> 00:23:56,199 Speaker 4: you know, we saw it last year where you know, well, 504 00:23:56,240 --> 00:23:58,119 Speaker 4: I think it's the NFC East, like you end up 505 00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:00,480 Speaker 4: pairing up with divisions that maybe you might be a 506 00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:03,439 Speaker 4: little down, and not that anybody fattens up on anybody 507 00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:07,240 Speaker 4: in this league, but you know, you know the rotation. Now, 508 00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:10,159 Speaker 4: you might be running into this division when they're all 509 00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:12,440 Speaker 4: really good and everybody's five hundred or better. You might 510 00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:14,600 Speaker 4: also be running into a division where everybody's kind of 511 00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:19,080 Speaker 4: resetting and rebuilding. And you know, the good news at 512 00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:21,280 Speaker 4: least is that it's gonna be the same for everybody 513 00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:23,399 Speaker 4: in the division. So to the extent that the Jets 514 00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:25,879 Speaker 4: are playing, you know this division or that division, so 515 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:27,880 Speaker 4: are the Dolphins, so are the Patriots, so are the Bills. 516 00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:30,480 Speaker 4: So you don't get that wild fluctuation. There's only three 517 00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:33,320 Speaker 4: games now that are standings based, and even that kind 518 00:24:33,359 --> 00:24:36,760 Speaker 4: of changes. Right, Sometimes you run into a standings based 519 00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:39,480 Speaker 4: game that you say, hey, that team was much better 520 00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:42,520 Speaker 4: than their standings last year. And other times you catch 521 00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:44,879 Speaker 4: a fourth place guy and you're like, they got really 522 00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:47,840 Speaker 4: good or they traded for a you know, four time 523 00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:51,359 Speaker 4: MVP quarterback. So there's only a couple of games that 524 00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:54,240 Speaker 4: are impacted by the standings now, those ones versus ones, 525 00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:55,119 Speaker 4: and the rest. 526 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:57,760 Speaker 3: Of them are known, you know, years and years in advance. 527 00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:00,159 Speaker 4: Just so happened that this one happened to coincide the 528 00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:03,200 Speaker 4: Jets with a road game met life against the Giants. 529 00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:05,440 Speaker 4: You'd hope they take advantage of it. 530 00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:08,840 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's fascinating because you got the nine home games 531 00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:13,240 Speaker 1: and you're done with your home games after week fifteen 532 00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:17,440 Speaker 1: or week sixteen this year, I should say, because obviously 533 00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:21,080 Speaker 1: you finish up with Cleveland and then New England. How 534 00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:24,240 Speaker 1: about we talked about the Jets playing primetime and being 535 00:25:25,040 --> 00:25:28,760 Speaker 1: in that doubleheader window this year. I mean, I believe 536 00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:32,280 Speaker 1: the Jets are in the four o'clock hour six times. 537 00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:36,520 Speaker 1: And then the interesting thing about the way they close, Mike, 538 00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:40,439 Speaker 1: you have in December for those people who do like 539 00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:44,560 Speaker 1: the one o'clock starts, it's Atlanta one o'clock, Houston one o'clock, 540 00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:48,480 Speaker 1: at Miami one o'clock, Washington at home one o'clock, and 541 00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:53,240 Speaker 1: then at Cleveland at New England. So fans who are 542 00:25:53,280 --> 00:25:55,600 Speaker 1: into the one o'clock start and want to bring their 543 00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:58,679 Speaker 1: families out, you're gonna be able to partake in that 544 00:25:58,920 --> 00:26:00,080 Speaker 1: in December. 545 00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:05,679 Speaker 3: Here with an asterisk, right, that's what too with an ask. 546 00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:08,080 Speaker 4: So you know, we have certainly put an awful lot 547 00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:10,760 Speaker 4: of Jets games on national television and in primetime, but 548 00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:12,280 Speaker 4: there's there's still room. 549 00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:12,800 Speaker 3: For one more. 550 00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:16,399 Speaker 4: So you know, if you find yourself where Houston or 551 00:26:16,600 --> 00:26:20,080 Speaker 4: Atlanta or Washington is maybe a little bit better than 552 00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:23,520 Speaker 4: folks are projecting right now, and you get to December 553 00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:26,040 Speaker 4: and like we said, Aaron Rodgers is throwing for four 554 00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:28,760 Speaker 4: thousand yards and fifty touchdowns, and you know, the Jets 555 00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:31,000 Speaker 4: are in the mix for the division and a one seed. 556 00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:33,120 Speaker 3: You know, finding one. 557 00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:37,240 Speaker 4: More national television game for the Jets wouldn't be uh, 558 00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:41,440 Speaker 4: you know, outside the box wouldn't be ye much the question. 559 00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:42,720 Speaker 2: No doubt. 560 00:26:43,359 --> 00:26:47,000 Speaker 1: But as we stand here today, only one of their 561 00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:49,879 Speaker 1: games could be flexed, well, one of their games can 562 00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:53,240 Speaker 1: be flexed because they've already reached the maximum on the 563 00:26:53,359 --> 00:26:54,359 Speaker 1: Thursday nights. 564 00:26:54,720 --> 00:26:58,360 Speaker 4: So you don't even we don't even have flexible scheduling 565 00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:01,439 Speaker 4: yet for Thursday nights. You know, owner discussed it, I 566 00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:03,639 Speaker 4: should say, a month ago, and they may discuss it 567 00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:06,840 Speaker 4: again in Minneapolis in a couple of weeks. So there's 568 00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:09,000 Speaker 4: there's no flex yet for Thursday. If there were to 569 00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:13,880 Speaker 4: become flexible scheduling for Thursday, the Jets wouldn't be eligible 570 00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:15,800 Speaker 4: to move to another Thursday they've already got there two 571 00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:18,600 Speaker 4: short weeks, but there's still room for another Jets game 572 00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:21,159 Speaker 4: to move to a Sunday night. We've got flexible scheduling 573 00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:23,680 Speaker 4: now for the first time for Monday night. But as 574 00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:25,600 Speaker 4: you look at the schedule, I don't think the league 575 00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:29,800 Speaker 4: was you know, reckless or you know, too risky with 576 00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:32,360 Speaker 4: some of those Sunday night and Monday night games late 577 00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:35,080 Speaker 4: in the year. We're not looking to flex with any 578 00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:38,600 Speaker 4: you know, good fortune. The crystal ball was clear, and 579 00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:41,399 Speaker 4: the games that we chose for those primetime windows in 580 00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:44,000 Speaker 4: December are going to have playoff implications and we're going 581 00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:46,119 Speaker 4: to keep them right where we scheduled them. But you know, 582 00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:47,879 Speaker 4: you never know. That's the way this league works. And 583 00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:51,520 Speaker 4: if you find yourself with a game in primetime between 584 00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:53,719 Speaker 4: two teams that just aren't having the season that they 585 00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:56,719 Speaker 4: had hoped to, we're not doing them any favors by 586 00:27:56,800 --> 00:27:58,560 Speaker 4: leaving them in a national window. We're not doing their 587 00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:00,439 Speaker 4: fans any favors asking them to come out at night, 588 00:28:00,800 --> 00:28:02,440 Speaker 4: and we're not doing you know, the rest of the 589 00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:05,560 Speaker 4: country any favors having this be our primetime game, especially 590 00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:08,040 Speaker 4: if there's a good game sitting there. You know, at 591 00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:10,399 Speaker 4: one o'clock or four o'clock on a Sunday with a 592 00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:12,560 Speaker 4: bunch of other games around it that you might not 593 00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:14,879 Speaker 4: be able to see it otherwise. So let's take that 594 00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:17,200 Speaker 4: game out a Sunday afternoon, move it in on a 595 00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:20,360 Speaker 4: national window. Those teams have played their way into additional 596 00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:22,800 Speaker 4: primetime exposure, and we'll take the two teams who were 597 00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:25,000 Speaker 4: originally scheduled for the night time and we're moving back 598 00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:25,840 Speaker 4: to Sunday afternoon. 599 00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:27,240 Speaker 3: Better for them, better for their fans. 600 00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:30,320 Speaker 1: All right, we were putting it in pencil. Five primetime games, 601 00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:36,480 Speaker 1: definitely the Friday Black Friday Special against the Miami Dolphins, 602 00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:39,520 Speaker 1: the Jets hosting the Miami Dolphins at Mount Leaf Stadium. 603 00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:43,120 Speaker 1: How many computer iterations this year? You told me last year? 604 00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:44,959 Speaker 1: Is one hundred more than one hundred thousand? 605 00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:46,040 Speaker 3: Yeah, it was. 606 00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:47,960 Speaker 4: It was similar. It's a little different this year. This 607 00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:50,360 Speaker 4: is probably more than you care to know. But you know, 608 00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:54,040 Speaker 4: with the added flexibility now where the AFC is the 609 00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:57,560 Speaker 4: road team no longer is a by definition a CBS game, 610 00:28:57,600 --> 00:28:59,920 Speaker 4: and the NFC is a road team no longer a fox. 611 00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:02,360 Speaker 4: You know, for decades that's the way it worked, and 612 00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:03,960 Speaker 4: so if the league wanted to take a game and 613 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:06,840 Speaker 4: move it to primetime Sunday night, Monday night, Thursday night. 614 00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:10,080 Speaker 4: You were literally taking it away for CBS and FOTS. 615 00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:12,680 Speaker 4: And that was actually a term a takeaway. It was 616 00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:16,200 Speaker 4: in the network television contracts. It was in our ownership resolutions, 617 00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:18,080 Speaker 4: like there was a limit to the number of times 618 00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:21,440 Speaker 4: you could take away a game. That game belonged to CBS, 619 00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:23,680 Speaker 4: and if you wanted to take it away, you couldn't 620 00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:25,800 Speaker 4: then take away that one or any more than this many. 621 00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:28,640 Speaker 4: That's all gone. Now every game is a jump ball, 622 00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:30,640 Speaker 4: every game is a toss up. So we had a 623 00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:32,840 Speaker 4: lot more options, and like we were talking about before, 624 00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:35,479 Speaker 4: with some of these you know, five tool utility games, 625 00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:38,640 Speaker 4: you know, to be able to consider the same game 626 00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:42,960 Speaker 4: for Sunday night football, Monday night football, Thursday night football, 627 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:46,600 Speaker 4: Fox doubleheader, CBS doubleheader, that's a lot of extra grinding 628 00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:49,200 Speaker 4: for the computer. That's a lot of extra nodes in 629 00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:52,160 Speaker 4: the search tree. So it took a little longer for 630 00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:55,560 Speaker 4: the computers to run. So the good news is the 631 00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:59,160 Speaker 4: schedules that they found were better. The challenge was having 632 00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:01,400 Speaker 4: to be pai and wait for them, and that's just 633 00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:04,240 Speaker 4: not the way we work so it was it was 634 00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:06,960 Speaker 4: a challenge for the humans to kind of like wait 635 00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:08,680 Speaker 4: for the computers and you never know, Oh, is this 636 00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:09,360 Speaker 4: as good as I could do? 637 00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:10,840 Speaker 3: Should I turn it on? No? Let me wait ten 638 00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:12,320 Speaker 3: more minutes, Let me wait, let me wait. 639 00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:14,440 Speaker 4: Ten more hours. Oh jeez, I could let them run 640 00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:16,920 Speaker 4: another month. And who knows, is there a better schedule 641 00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:20,840 Speaker 4: out there? Probably, you know, define better. You know, take 642 00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:22,560 Speaker 4: this three game road trip from this team and give 643 00:30:22,560 --> 00:30:24,840 Speaker 4: it to that team, or take this short week for 644 00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:26,760 Speaker 4: that team and put it on that team. You know, 645 00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:29,600 Speaker 4: whatever it is that somebody likes or hates about this schedule, 646 00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:31,480 Speaker 4: there's going to be something that they like or hate 647 00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:34,360 Speaker 4: about the next iteration. So we could have gone another month. 648 00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:37,840 Speaker 4: We could have kept grinding, We could have kept looking. Commissioner, 649 00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:40,600 Speaker 4: to his credit, always challenging us. You never know when 650 00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:42,200 Speaker 4: you're done. You never know if this is the best 651 00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:44,080 Speaker 4: you could do. Hard for me to look them in 652 00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:46,120 Speaker 4: the eye and tell them, you know, with absolute certainty, 653 00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:49,600 Speaker 4: this was the optimal schedule. But I know it was closed. 654 00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:50,280 Speaker 3: I know that. 655 00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:52,120 Speaker 4: You know, we hung it on the wall. We know 656 00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:54,840 Speaker 4: it was the leader in the clubhouse. We threw really good, 657 00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:58,160 Speaker 4: high quality contender schedules at it. The difference this year 658 00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:00,400 Speaker 4: is that those schedules looked really different. You know, most 659 00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:02,200 Speaker 4: years you put a leader on the club, on the 660 00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:05,280 Speaker 4: leader on the wall. Here's a contender. It's got all 661 00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:07,280 Speaker 4: the same Sunday nights, all the same Monday nights. Just 662 00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:09,320 Speaker 4: moved a couple of Sunday afternoons in this three game 663 00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:12,360 Speaker 4: road trip or that. By this year, those finalists, as 664 00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:14,360 Speaker 4: we got down near the end, they looked wildly different. 665 00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:17,440 Speaker 4: We had different kickoff games, we had different banks giving games, 666 00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:20,680 Speaker 4: we had different Christmas games. It's really hard to compare 667 00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:24,200 Speaker 4: two finalists when they looked so very different. And at 668 00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:26,360 Speaker 4: that point it was really hard to say better or worse. 669 00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:29,719 Speaker 4: It was really more like different flavors, chocolate or vanilla. 670 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:31,680 Speaker 4: You're gonna like one, I'm gonna like one. At the 671 00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:34,200 Speaker 4: end of the day, only one vote matters, and that 672 00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:36,320 Speaker 4: guy picked this one. And I think we made a 673 00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:37,200 Speaker 4: real good choice. 674 00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:38,320 Speaker 2: I did too. 675 00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:41,160 Speaker 1: Most of the ice creams that went against the wall, 676 00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:44,240 Speaker 1: that were thrown against the wall, did they have the 677 00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:47,120 Speaker 1: jets in week one no matter what was going on 678 00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:47,920 Speaker 1: the wall? 679 00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:49,080 Speaker 3: Yeah? They did. 680 00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:52,040 Speaker 4: I Mean, like we said, it was going to be 681 00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:56,080 Speaker 4: hard to balance the Sunday afternoons between CBS and Fox 682 00:31:56,120 --> 00:31:58,840 Speaker 4: and the double doubleheader if one of them had the Jets, 683 00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:01,240 Speaker 4: because then the other guy can't compete with Aaron Rodgers 684 00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:03,160 Speaker 4: first game, or if one of them had Dallas, the 685 00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:05,280 Speaker 4: other guy can't compete with that. And to put the 686 00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:07,480 Speaker 4: Dallas game and the Jets game both in the four 687 00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:10,040 Speaker 4: to twenty five window meant we as fans couldn't watch 688 00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:12,280 Speaker 4: them both. You could put back and forth, which is. 689 00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:13,520 Speaker 3: Fun but different. 690 00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:17,120 Speaker 4: So we got real comfortable, real quick Kansas City for 691 00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:20,959 Speaker 4: kickoff Jets and Dallas Sunday night and Monday night, and 692 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:23,160 Speaker 4: then kind of looked at a bunch of different options 693 00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:26,640 Speaker 4: in terms of which opponents, you know, Sunday or Monday. 694 00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:28,680 Speaker 4: And then as it trickled down through the rest of 695 00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:30,800 Speaker 4: the schedule, if you use one of your Sunday nights here, 696 00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:33,280 Speaker 4: you only get more one more Sunday night. So if 697 00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:34,960 Speaker 4: you're the Jets and you want to play that casey 698 00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:37,520 Speaker 4: Jets game in week four, should NBC be out of 699 00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:40,280 Speaker 4: both of their Jets by the end of September. What 700 00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:42,360 Speaker 4: if Rogers is a great, big story and the Jets 701 00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:44,920 Speaker 4: are eaten too, NBC would love another shot at that, 702 00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:49,640 Speaker 4: So trying to satisfy you know, our own personal preferences 703 00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:52,320 Speaker 4: in terms of the flavor and the network partner's needs 704 00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:56,040 Speaker 4: across all seventeen weeks, and again, more than anything competitive fairness. 705 00:32:56,040 --> 00:32:59,000 Speaker 4: All those schedules that went up against the contender, the 706 00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:02,960 Speaker 4: vast majority of them died for competitive issues. Whether it's 707 00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:05,160 Speaker 4: just that three game road trip is too onerous, or 708 00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:08,800 Speaker 4: that's a Monday, Sunday Thursday sequence for this team, or 709 00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:11,160 Speaker 4: they've got to play a three game road trip that happens, 710 00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:13,240 Speaker 4: but that three game road trip happens to include a 711 00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:15,400 Speaker 4: cross country trip in it, maybe that's not the way 712 00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:17,680 Speaker 4: to do it. So most of the schedules, when they 713 00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:20,920 Speaker 4: have to die, they die for team issues as opposed 714 00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:21,840 Speaker 4: for TV issues. 715 00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:27,880 Speaker 1: You have strong relationships throughout the league. 716 00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:28,720 Speaker 3: Ben, I'll let you know tomorrow. 717 00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:30,080 Speaker 2: Inside this building. 718 00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:33,240 Speaker 1: What was the reaction when you made the call here 719 00:33:33,320 --> 00:33:34,680 Speaker 1: this week and you told. 720 00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:37,200 Speaker 2: The Jet staffers of the schedule. What was the reaction? 721 00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:40,320 Speaker 4: Yeah, the the Jets call was one of those good ones. 722 00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:44,200 Speaker 4: I tend to try to take the ones where I 723 00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:46,600 Speaker 4: know somebody might be a little disappointed. I don't want 724 00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:48,720 Speaker 4: anybody else on the team to get screamed at if 725 00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:49,880 Speaker 4: if you know, at the end of the day, I'm 726 00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:52,480 Speaker 4: the guy pushed on the button. So I'll take most 727 00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:55,719 Speaker 4: of the calls where I'm bracing for somebody's negative reaction. 728 00:33:56,200 --> 00:33:57,680 Speaker 4: Every now and then I like to take one where 729 00:33:57,680 --> 00:34:00,400 Speaker 4: I know somebody's going to be happy. So really excited 730 00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:03,760 Speaker 4: to call Jimei and Brian Mulligan set it all up, 731 00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:05,920 Speaker 4: and you know, they knew a couple of things already. 732 00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:08,560 Speaker 4: We started this breadcrumb approach, so they knew the Black 733 00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:11,319 Speaker 4: Friday game. The internet might have gotten a hold of 734 00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:14,000 Speaker 4: maybe one or two of their other games. But to 735 00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:16,080 Speaker 4: be able to give them a call and give them 736 00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:20,000 Speaker 4: really what amounts to such good news, right everybody? You know, 737 00:34:20,080 --> 00:34:22,840 Speaker 4: those guys they live and breathe, you know, every Sunday. 738 00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:25,560 Speaker 4: They live and die every Sunday. And it's it's hard, 739 00:34:25,680 --> 00:34:28,880 Speaker 4: you know, year after year, you know, to be chasing 740 00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:30,759 Speaker 4: and chasing and chasing and not quite getting there, and 741 00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:33,200 Speaker 4: to feel like you're that close, to feel like you 742 00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:35,680 Speaker 4: made a move that was really going to be a 743 00:34:35,680 --> 00:34:38,440 Speaker 4: difference maker, and then to see the League office react 744 00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:42,239 Speaker 4: to it accordingly and reward you know, not just that move, 745 00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:43,920 Speaker 4: but your success from last year and some of the 746 00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:46,879 Speaker 4: other roster building that you've done. I think they were 747 00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:49,719 Speaker 4: really excited. I think we're pretty excited and look out 748 00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:51,720 Speaker 4: of our hands. We'll see what happens once the season starts. 749 00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:54,120 Speaker 4: But as we sit here on May eleventh, feel really 750 00:34:54,120 --> 00:34:56,960 Speaker 4: good about this schedule and feel really good about the Jets' 751 00:34:57,840 --> 00:34:59,160 Speaker 4: contributions to this schedule. 752 00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:01,960 Speaker 2: Well said well, Mike North. 753 00:35:02,239 --> 00:35:06,319 Speaker 1: The Jets were only a matinee show last year, but 754 00:35:07,320 --> 00:35:10,080 Speaker 1: they will be a prime time act five times in 755 00:35:10,080 --> 00:35:14,720 Speaker 1: twenty twenty three and a Black Friday special as well. 756 00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:18,120 Speaker 2: We enjoyed it. We always like catching up with you. 757 00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:21,160 Speaker 1: Make sure you get some sleep and some rest this weekend, 758 00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:23,080 Speaker 1: you know, medicine. 759 00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:26,640 Speaker 2: I know it's been a stressful time, but it's always. 760 00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:28,719 Speaker 4: Thrilled to be a part of it, you know, unbelievably 761 00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:31,440 Speaker 4: grateful that you know they still let me in the building. No, 762 00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:33,399 Speaker 4: let's get to you know, play a role in such 763 00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:36,560 Speaker 4: an important project that you know everybody's so excited about. 764 00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:37,960 Speaker 4: I mean, you and I have been doing this long 765 00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:40,040 Speaker 4: enough to know. Schedule used to come out kind of 766 00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:42,520 Speaker 4: middle of April with no pomp and circumstances. You can 767 00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:45,880 Speaker 4: call on Wednesday, like hey, it's coming out tomorrow, and like, okay, 768 00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:48,200 Speaker 4: you take the schedule and away you go. Now you 769 00:35:48,239 --> 00:35:50,680 Speaker 4: see kind of the social media arms race where everybody's 770 00:35:50,719 --> 00:35:53,640 Speaker 4: doing something and everybody's got their you know, team parties, 771 00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:55,759 Speaker 4: and you could really make an event out of it, 772 00:35:55,800 --> 00:35:56,480 Speaker 4: which is awesome. 773 00:35:56,520 --> 00:35:57,960 Speaker 3: And I love that people care. 774 00:35:58,680 --> 00:36:01,680 Speaker 4: I love that they're so interested and unbelievably grateful for 775 00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:04,600 Speaker 4: the team that we have here. Annie Bo's, Blake Jones, 776 00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:08,960 Speaker 4: Charlotte Carey, Lucy Popko, working with Howard Katz, Hans Schroeder, 777 00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:11,400 Speaker 4: Brian Rollapp. I mean, these people have been living and 778 00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:15,920 Speaker 4: breathing this process for fourteen weeks and really really challenging 779 00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:21,839 Speaker 4: each other to find that magical, mythical perfect schedule. I'm 780 00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:24,120 Speaker 4: not sure we did, but I hope we're close. And 781 00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:26,200 Speaker 4: now it's kind of up to the guys on the field, 782 00:36:26,239 --> 00:36:29,600 Speaker 4: and I hope everybody stays healthy, and I hope everybody's 783 00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:32,160 Speaker 4: eight and eight going into week eighteen and still in 784 00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:32,600 Speaker 4: a playoff. 785 00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:35,920 Speaker 1: Chase Well, we hope to see a Week one at 786 00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:36,520 Speaker 1: Matt Weist. 787 00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:39,680 Speaker 2: I mean there Jets, Bill's Monday Night Football. 788 00:36:39,719 --> 00:36:44,080 Speaker 1: Mike North, vice president of broadcast Planning for the National 789 00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:46,080 Speaker 1: Football League have a good one. 790 00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:47,239 Speaker 3: Thank you, appreciate it.