WEBVTT - How the 2023 Jets Schedule Was Made (5/12) 0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:08.719 We were presented by win Bet Betty's a team sport, 0:00:08.800 --> 0:00:11.680 but together at win Bet, Eric Allen here at one 0:00:11.760 --> 0:00:16.079 Jets Drive, joined by the National Football Leagues Vice President 0:00:16.600 --> 0:00:18.119 of Broadcast Planning. 0:00:18.280 --> 0:00:22.080 That is the one, the only Mike North. 0:00:22.280 --> 0:00:25.799 How good does it feel to finally put the twenty 0:00:25.880 --> 0:00:29.320 twenty three NFL schedule to bed? Uh? 0:00:30.160 --> 0:00:31.240 Certainly glad it's over. 0:00:31.320 --> 0:00:33.680 It was a bit of a death march there down 0:00:33.720 --> 0:00:37.040 the stretch, but look really happy with how it came out. 0:00:37.520 --> 0:00:41.479 Still kind of bracing for reactions today and tomorrow. The 0:00:41.600 --> 0:00:44.760 teams all got their schedules on Wednesday. The network partners 0:00:44.760 --> 0:00:49.800 got them Thursday morning. Most of the reaction was as expected, 0:00:49.920 --> 0:00:52.879 mostly positive. But look, the only reactions the matter of 0:00:52.880 --> 0:00:55.080 the fans. So let's see what happens on Thursday night 0:00:55.120 --> 0:00:57.720 when everybody gets their schedules and gets a chance to look. 0:00:57.560 --> 0:00:59.760 At them on a daylight. Today, you know, you only 0:00:59.760 --> 0:01:01.080 see your own schedule. 0:01:01.840 --> 0:01:04.920 Then tomorrow you see everybody else's and that's when, hey, 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:06.680 wait a minute, I thought I was good, but now 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:08.160 I'm not as good as I thought I was. 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:10.000 That's when the phone starts ringing. 0:01:10.040 --> 0:01:13.240 So still bracing for some feedback for the next twenty 0:01:13.240 --> 0:01:13.959 four hours or so. 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:18.080 Mike, at this point last year we talked about it 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:21.520 and you said, you have to earn your way into 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:24.360 prime time. How did the New York Jets earn their 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:28.280 way into primetime in twenty twenty three? Five primetime games 0:01:28.600 --> 0:01:32.160 plus the NFL's first ever black Frida again. 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:34.800 Yeah, Look, that was a good football team last year. 0:01:34.880 --> 0:01:38.840 I know the maybe quarterback play was disappointing, but what 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:42.319 rookie of the year. I mean, it's a good football team. 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:46.160 You certainly were going to find yourselves on national television 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:48.040 quite a bit anyway. You just think about the schedule 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:50.240 that you had, whether it was Philadelphia or Kansas City 0:01:50.360 --> 0:01:54.880 or any of the division opponents. Trading for a four 0:01:55.000 --> 0:01:57.720 time NFL MVP, future first ballot Hall of Famer, that's 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:00.880 another way to find yourself on the national television schedule. So, look, 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:04.640 the Jets, we're gonna be well represented in national windows. Obviously, 0:02:04.720 --> 0:02:07.440 signing Rogers kind of up the any a little bit 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:10.520 and maybe went from let's say two or three to 0:02:11.040 --> 0:02:12.960 closer to five or six. And then you throw in 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:15.399 some four to twenty five double header games on Sunday afternoon, 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:17.120 and yeah, there's gonna be a lot of Jets on 0:02:17.200 --> 0:02:18.160 national television. 0:02:18.560 --> 0:02:19.639 Please please be good. 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:24.920 So what was the Jets watch specifically like for you 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:29.360 a man in your position as far as they're tracking 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:33.519 Aaron Rodgers throughout the offseason, as I'm sure you guys were, 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:36.440 because you have to put that schedule together. And on 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:41.120 March fifteenth, what clicks maybe as far as the communications 0:02:41.160 --> 0:02:43.880 internally for you guys when he gets on the Pat 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:47.480 McAfee's show and says, my attention is to play in 0:02:47.520 --> 0:02:49.880 the National Football League in twenty twenty three, and it's 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:50.880 to play with the Jets. 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:54.600 Yeah, that day was, Hey, why don't we stop the 0:02:54.600 --> 0:02:56.520 computers for just a couple of minutes and I'll talk 0:02:56.560 --> 0:02:59.040 to each other. Like we said, some of these two 0:02:59.120 --> 0:03:02.840 hundred and seventy two assets were worth you know, this much, 0:03:02.880 --> 0:03:05.400 and if Aaron Rodgers is your quarterback, those assets might 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:07.480 be worth this much. And certainly if you're going to 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:09.600 play against Kansas City and we were lucky enough to 0:03:09.600 --> 0:03:12.720 get ourselves, you know, another Mahomes Rogers games, since we 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:15.280 lost it right when he had COVID last year or 0:03:15.280 --> 0:03:20.119 two years ago. It's it's good to it was good 0:03:20.160 --> 0:03:23.400 for us to be able to take a moment stop, reevaluate. 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:26.200 Part of this, you know, we talked about it last year. 0:03:26.200 --> 0:03:28.280 It's part art and part science. You know, the gut, 0:03:28.400 --> 0:03:30.160 the feel, the instincts, what game would I. 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:30.640 Want to watch? 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:33.440 What sounds like a football game? But there's some science 0:03:33.480 --> 0:03:35.440 to it too, and we're trying to do some predictive analytics. 0:03:35.480 --> 0:03:36.800 Who's going to be good, who's going to be in 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:39.960 a playoff chase, which of these matchups tend to produce 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:42.640 good games? And obviously which of these games do we 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:45.760 think are going to generate the higher viewership for our fans. 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:49.320 So the predictive analytics had to shift a little bit 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:52.400 as the social media buzz as everybody started talking about 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:55.200 Rogers to the Jets, Rogers to the Jets, everybody was 0:03:55.360 --> 0:03:56.960 just a little bit more interested in some of those 0:03:57.040 --> 0:04:00.240 Jets games. So sort of a one day stop and 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:02.360 restart and reevaluate and if he is going to be 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:03.800 a Jet, wouldn't it be great if we did this 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:05.680 or that, or we can't do this now, and we 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:07.480 got to make sure we do something like that later. 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:10.760 And then it kind of dragged on a bit, didn't it. 0:04:10.840 --> 0:04:11.040 Really. 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:15.040 At some point we started to wonder, hey, if we 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:19.560 get through draft and a deal doesn't get done, is 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:22.760 there a chance this doesn't happen? And if it doesn't happen, 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:25.680 should we maybe rethink some of the decisions that we'd 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:28.640 already kind of committed to. So there was a call 0:04:28.680 --> 0:04:31.559 it a hedge your bet plan if he hadn't gotten 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:33.400 the deal done and then the teams hadn't worked out 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:36.400 the trade compensation. But grateful that they did and we 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:39.000 were able to stay on track and maybe even push 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:41.080 it just a little bit further. When you think about, 0:04:41.360 --> 0:04:43.479 you know, the Monday night game in week one, or 0:04:43.520 --> 0:04:46.640 Black Friday like we talked about, or the two Sundays 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:49.520 or the two Espens, there's there's an awful lot of 0:04:49.600 --> 0:04:52.040 really good Jets games, and if he stays healthy and 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:53.760 the Jets stay relevant, I think it's going to be 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:54.760 really good for our fans. 0:04:55.360 --> 0:04:58.839 What was your reaction Monday afternoon, three days prior to 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:02.839 the draft, when Adams after took to social media and said, Hey, 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:06.800 the trade is done. The Jets and the Packers have 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:10.400 agreed to terms. The trade actually becomes official the next day, 0:05:10.520 --> 0:05:12.080 two days prior to the draft. 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:17.120 Yeah, it was a definite sense of relief, and strangely enough, 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:21.240 happened to coincide really quickly, right with Lamar Jackson signings 0:05:21.320 --> 0:05:23.719 to you in Baltimore. So you talk about two of 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:27.280 the kind of open issues that we had, they got 0:05:27.279 --> 0:05:29.479 wrapped up for us, I think within twenty four hours 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:31.279 of each other, and that was great for us to 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:34.560 be able to kind of take that trepidation away. Don't 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:36.599 have to worry so much anymore. Now we can just 0:05:36.680 --> 0:05:39.000 really grind forward and continue on the path that we 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:41.760 were on and try to land this plane from May eleven. 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:46.640 Why Jets Bills in week one? And also, can you 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:49.640 talk about the significance of having a New York team 0:05:50.320 --> 0:05:53.760 host the game twenty two years after nine to eleven. 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:56.320 Yeah, Look, obviously we knew the date on the calendar, 0:05:56.360 --> 0:06:00.600 and we certainly thought it appropriate. At least one of 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:02.279 the New York teams was playing on Monday night. We 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:05.000 actually talked about having both of them play. I reached 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:08.200 out to the Jets and to the Giants, knowing that 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:11.159 they're playing each other in week three of the preseason, 0:06:11.640 --> 0:06:14.360 would they be comfortable from a football standpoint turning around 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:17.040 and playing each other again just a couple of weeks 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:21.240 later when accounts and to their credit, both teams said, yep, absolutely, 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:22.880 if that's the right thing for the league, we will 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:26.280 do it. So we absolutely considered some schedules that had 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:28.279 Jets Giants as the Monday night or a Week one. 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:32.120 This is probably more than you're asking, but as we 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:35.480 tried to solve the Week one puzzle, you know, obviously 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:37.880 Kansas City was going to play on kickoff, and any 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:40.800 Kansas City game would have been great television. There was 0:06:40.839 --> 0:06:44.760 a must c TV right now. The next two probably 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:50.960 most interesting, you know, most likely to generate significant viewership opportunities, 0:06:51.080 --> 0:06:54.240 was going to be any Dallas Cowboys game and Aaron 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:56.920 Rodgers first game is a Jet. And what we have 0:06:57.040 --> 0:06:59.320 in Week one, as you know, is the double doubleheader 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:01.640 for CBS and Fox, So they both have four to 0:07:01.680 --> 0:07:04.520 twenty five Eastern Time double header games. That means every 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:07.120 fan in the country gets four games on the opening 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:10.760 Sunday of the season. What we try to do is 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:13.440 balance the for CBS and Fox. You don't want anybody 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:15.080 to be too high or too low. You want CBS 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:16.960 and Fox to sort of split the baby in Week one. 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:19.800 If one of them was gonna get Dallas, then the 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:21.680 other one was probably gonna have a tough time keeping up. 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:23.080 And if one of them was gonna get the Jets, 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:24.600 then the other one was probably gonna have a tough 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:27.040 time keeping up. So it stood the reason for us 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:29.920 that once you got Kansas City on kickoff, have about 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:33.600 Dallas in one primetime window and the Jets in the 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:36.640 other primetime window. And what we came around was talking 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:39.040 with our friends at NBC and ESPN. You know, Dallas 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:41.920 Giants Sunday night at week one seems to be a staple. 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:45.240 We've definitely done that before. And then with the Jets, 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:47.760 you know, you can do Aaron Rodgers first game on 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:49.960 Monday night. He's got the whole day to himself, so 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:52.679 you get the kind of the ESPN hype machine starting 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:54.320 in the morning with the talk shows, all throughout the 0:07:54.400 --> 0:07:57.120 day with the radio and the podcast and the website 0:07:57.160 --> 0:07:59.640 and everything else, just kind of pointing towards you know, 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:02.400 Aaron first game as a Jet. Love the idea of 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:04.520 like the whole country focused on that one. You do 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:06.720 it on Sunday night, and you've got eight or seven 0:08:06.920 --> 0:08:08.600 games earlier in the day, and you're just kind of 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:10.720 squeezing in at the back end this one, you kind 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:12.520 of get that whole day kind of focused on his 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:14.800 first game. What did he look like in the preseason? 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:18.000 Did he even play in the preseason? You know, I 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:20.800 love the idea of having a New York home game 0:08:20.960 --> 0:08:24.080 and Aaron's first game, and of course playing Josh Allen 0:08:24.120 --> 0:08:26.200 and the Bills. I mean, every division game in the 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:28.960 AFC East now means just a little bit more, and 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:30.520 so having one of those Week one is great, and 0:08:30.520 --> 0:08:32.640 you come back with the other Bills Jets game, you know, 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:34.640 a couple of months later, also in a national window 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:35.520 at four to twenty five. 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:39.319 Yeah, as a guy who works there in the city 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:42.040 and lives around here, what do you think the environment's 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:44.800 going to be like at MetLife And how big of. 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:49.439 A stage is that the Jets And what does it say. 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:52.160 About how far they've come that they will be playing 0:08:52.200 --> 0:08:55.480 Monday night football standalone game against the Bills in Week one. 0:08:56.040 --> 0:09:03.480 Look, every city in the country just feels bigger, feels buzzier. 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:07.840 People are happier when the football team's good. So certainly 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:09.720 here in New York we got two football teams, and 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:12.360 there was that stretch there through what about October mid 0:09:12.400 --> 0:09:15.280 November where they were both good last year and everybody 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:17.560 started getting sighted. Reminded me of the days whatever it 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:20.400 was fifteen twenty years ago, when we got into December 0:09:20.440 --> 0:09:21.839 and it was pretty obvious they were both going to 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:23.880 make the playoffs, and we started talking about, Hey, what 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:27.400 happens if they're both both hosting championship games? Right like 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:30.320 he was on Saturday, one Sunday, one Sunday, one Monday. 0:09:30.400 --> 0:09:32.280 I'd love for that to be a conversation again. That 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:35.400 would be a fantastic problem for the NFL to have 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:37.600 the Jets and Giants both being good. It's good for 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:40.280 the NFL, It's good for our media partners, obviously the 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:43.760 biggest market in the country. You know, the schedule makers 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:47.320 look smarter when the Jets and Giants and Rams and 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:50.640 Chargers and Cowboys and Bears and Niners all are playing well. 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:52.760 That might be a little out of our hands, but 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:55.000 certainly hope to take advantage of it if we can. 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:58.480 How about the thought process going into week two, the 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:02.640 Jets coming off the short week, going to Dallas, where 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:07.800 there are a couple iterations from the computer that spit 0:10:07.840 --> 0:10:11.319 out the Jets maybe playing prime time at some point 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:14.960 with Dallas and why was the double header windle the 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:16.400 way to go for you guys. 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:19.880 Yeah, look to us, the Sunday afternoon doubleheader window on 0:10:19.920 --> 0:10:23.040 CBS and Fox, the Sunday night games, the Monday night games, 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:25.520 even the Thursday night games now on Amazon, those are 0:10:25.520 --> 0:10:27.880 all big windows for us. Those are all good landing 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:31.800 spots for our best games. You know, we've got the 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:34.000 Jewish Holidays in there in weeks two and three. So 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:36.200 trying to manage the Jets and Giants fans who should 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:38.640 be home and at what time just didn't really feel 0:10:38.720 --> 0:10:40.400 right to have the Jets come off of that big 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:42.439 Monday night game and then turn around and play a 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:45.600 one o'clock Sunday afternoon game that might only be available 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:47.560 in fifteen percent of the country. What if Rogers has 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:49.960 a monster game and throw us for four hundred yards 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:52.320 and four touchdowns and he's the biggest story in the league, 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:54.520 and then you turn around a week two and you 0:10:54.559 --> 0:10:56.400 don't get to tell that story because there's eight other 0:10:56.440 --> 0:10:59.120 games going on at the same time. So thinking about 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:02.200 how to you know, manage the stadium, managed the fans, 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:05.480 managed the television partners, and look, certainly his first couple 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:08.440 of games are gonna be unbelievably interesting. You know, everybody's 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:10.120 going to tune in for week one and then week two. 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:12.920 Can he keep it going? Can he rebound? Like it 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:14.680 all depends on what he does in week one, So 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:17.800 finding a national television home for that one as well. 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:20.839 That Jets Dallas game was at the top of our 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:23.760 friends at CBS's wish list, and they were really happy 0:11:23.760 --> 0:11:24.120 to get it. 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:27.000 And he thought at all as far as the Jets 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:28.760 on Thanksgiving. 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:32.079 Yeah, certainly thought about Thanksgiving. Couldn't do Black Friday relative 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:34.560 to you know, the Cowboys always playing on Thursday, but 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:38.439 definitely oh that's right. Yeah, definitely looked at schedules where 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:41.240 the Jets were at the Cowboys on Thanksgiving. But Thanksgiving 0:11:41.280 --> 0:11:44.960 for you know, a dozen years now has always been 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:49.360 that Cowboys four thirty Eastern time Thanksgiving game almost universally 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:51.680 our most watched game of the season. It's just become 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:56.040 a tradition. That's what we all do. And you know, you, 0:11:56.120 --> 0:11:57.920 me and nine friends could probably go play Dallas that 0:11:58.000 --> 0:12:01.240 day and twenty million people will watch better if somebody 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:03.280 other than that goes in there. And we sent the 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:05.600 Giants in there last year. Remember at this time last year. 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:08.120 I'm not sure anybody was expecting much out of the Giants, 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:11.120 right they were off a relatively disappointing season. So having 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:14.200 the Giants go to Dallas last season do whatever it was, 0:12:14.280 --> 0:12:17.839 forty two forty three million viewers kind of showed us, 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:19.800 you know, we always knew there was a floor that 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:21.800 might have showed us where the ceiling was. Like, you 0:12:21.800 --> 0:12:26.120 could really generate a pretty significant viewership number on Thanksgiving 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:29.040 if you're lucky enough to get a big team with 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:31.800 a big national following, and they thankfully could play a 0:12:31.800 --> 0:12:34.200 game that's decided in the final drive of the game, 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:37.200 Like that's that's a recipe for good viewership. So we 0:12:37.240 --> 0:12:40.040 looked at Jets Dallas on Thanksgiving. We looked at Philly, 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:42.920 didn't really want to send New York back there. Again, 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:44.840 I'm not sure mister Marraw would have loved that. We 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:47.560 talked about the Rams, we talked about Seattle obviously landed 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:52.079 on Washington. Just felt like that Jets Dallas game could 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:54.360 have a home where it could generate maybe a higher 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:57.640 ceiling than you know, taking Thanksgiving from here to here 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:00.520 as opposed to taking a Sunday afternoon when from here 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:03.320 to here. So that's sort of how we ended up 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:05.520 kind of deploying it that way. But we looked at 0:13:05.520 --> 0:13:08.960 schedules where the Jets Cowboys game was Sunday night, was 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:12.400 Monday night, was Thanksgiving? Was a Fox doubleheader, was a 0:13:12.400 --> 0:13:14.920 CVS doubleheader. It was one of those kind of you know, 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:16.840 five tool utility players. 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:18.000 It could have gone anywhere. 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:20.960 What about Week four and that enticing matchup between the 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:23.400 Jets and the Kansas City Chiefs? In your mind, was 0:13:23.440 --> 0:13:27.280 that always going to go towards the spotlight that is 0:13:27.320 --> 0:13:28.240 Sunday Night Football. 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:31.319 Yeah, again, it's one of those five tool utility players. 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:33.640 It could have gone anywhere, and was certainly considered it 0:13:33.640 --> 0:13:36.200 in a lot of other places. But you know, that 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:38.200 was definitely a game that needed to find a home 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:42.360 somewhere on the primetime schedule and these last couple of years. Strangely, 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:44.160 I'm not sure it was intentional, but it's kind of 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:47.880 like developed that way that that final Sunday in September 0:13:48.760 --> 0:13:51.040 on NBC on Sunday Night Football. We've landed with a 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:54.080 couple of really big games in there, and for whatever 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:56.760 else NBC has going on, whether it's you know, a 0:13:56.800 --> 0:13:59.800 college football game or a NASCAR race or I think 0:13:59.800 --> 0:14:02.640 this they've gotten the Ryder Cup like it. Just there's 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:06.880 a promotional engine, a marketing opportunity around that final Sunday 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:09.760 in September. And a couple of years ago was Tom 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:13.280 Brady's return. We did Tampa Bay at New England and 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:15.360 they did that Adell song for the promo, which was 0:14:15.400 --> 0:14:18.400 pretty cool. And then last year it was Mahomes again 0:14:18.480 --> 0:14:22.480 it was Mahomes and Brady, it was Casey Tampa and 0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:25.320 just that sort of has become almost like a high 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:29.560 watermark for us on opportunity that kind of fourth Sunday 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:32.160 in September, that that fourth Sunday of the season and 0:14:32.680 --> 0:14:34.880 to see Kansas City Jets kind of land right in 0:14:34.960 --> 0:14:39.040 there felt like a really good opportunity. Again, you could 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:40.520 have done it a little earlier, but you're getting into 0:14:40.560 --> 0:14:43.000 the Jewish holidays. You get a little later, and who knows, 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:45.360 we might be up against the Yankees postseason game, which 0:14:45.560 --> 0:14:47.280 isn't really fair to the fan in New York. So 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:48.840 you want to try to make sure that everybody can 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:52.480 see all the good games. You wait too long and 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:55.600 maybe you missed your moment, right, what if Heaven forbid 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:57.880 somebody got hurt or somebody's scuffing a little bit and 0:14:57.960 --> 0:15:01.680 isn't having the season you wanted, So you kind of 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:03.840 try to guess, like we all do. It's may none 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:05.440 of us know what the season is going to develop 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:08.880 in September, no less December. So that's sort of week four. 0:15:09.600 --> 0:15:13.280 Hopefully all the storylines remain. And yeah, Mahomes and Rogers 0:15:13.320 --> 0:15:16.920 on the same field together, sounds like a football game. 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:17.520 I want to watch. 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:22.640 The Jets twenty twenty three schedule is out now see 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:25.000 Aaron Rodgers and the Jets host some of the best 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:29.080 in the National Football League, including Patrick Mahomes, Jalen Hurts, 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:33.640 Josh Allen Moore. Locking your tickets at yjets dot com 0:15:33.760 --> 0:15:39.600 slash tickets. So those guys have combined for six NFL MVPs, 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:45.240 three Super Bowl MVPs, and three championships, and they both 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:48.480 figure to be in the running for another ring this year. 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:51.480 That one is going to be a must see. What 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:54.240 about the back to back prime times for the Jets 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:59.040 after the bye you got La Chargers, Justin Herbert coming 0:15:59.080 --> 0:16:02.840 to My Life night Special, and then the short week 0:16:02.920 --> 0:16:05.600 to turn around and you have a Sunday night game 0:16:05.640 --> 0:16:06.440 in the Sin City. 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:08.320 The Jets going to Vegas for the first time. 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:12.680 Yeah, I can't tell you how many people have asked me, Hey, 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:14.440 can you tell me when that Chess Raiders game is that? 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:17.560 That's the one everybody's kind of got circled on their calendars, 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:19.320 and you know the fact that it falls in a 0:16:19.360 --> 0:16:21.680 primetime slide. Man, let's make a weekend out of it. 0:16:21.720 --> 0:16:25.760 Maybe stay till Monday calling sick. I love that idea. Look, 0:16:25.920 --> 0:16:29.960 those late games are an interesting challenge for us. As 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:31.760 you know, we play the bulk of our game Sunday 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:34.800 at one o'clock, and you've got some of those late games, 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:37.640 and if they're not the four to twenty five double 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:40.640 header game on CBS or Fox, then they're either in 0:16:40.680 --> 0:16:43.680 a window with another double header game. So you might have, 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:46.800 you know, Jets Vegas at four to twenty five with 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:50.680 making it up Cincinnati Kansas City, right then the Jets 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:53.440 fans don't get to see that Bengals Chiefs game. On 0:16:53.480 --> 0:16:55.720 the alternative side, if you don't land at four twenty five, 0:16:55.760 --> 0:16:58.160 you're gonna land at four five, and then you're on 0:16:58.200 --> 0:17:00.320 the single header network. And then in New York, yes, 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:03.120 you could see both, but you're competing with each other 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:05.600 and that's probably not good for either partner either, So 0:17:06.040 --> 0:17:08.240 trying to find that right landing spot for some of 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:11.600 those Western games. Now that those Western teams are so good, 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:15.560 right the Chargers, the Raiders, the Seahawks, the Niners, any 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:17.680 of the New York teams. Right, New York's going out 0:17:17.680 --> 0:17:19.760 to San the Giants are going out to San Francisco, 0:17:20.160 --> 0:17:21.960 the Jets are going out to the Raiders. I mean, 0:17:22.440 --> 0:17:25.120 need to find good homes for those and primetime does 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:26.000 make a lot of sense. 0:17:26.400 --> 0:17:29.760 Is that huge for you guys from a league perspective, 0:17:29.880 --> 0:17:32.680 Like you're talking about the coast to coast, I mean, 0:17:33.160 --> 0:17:37.840 you got La market, New York market, and obviously there's 0:17:38.040 --> 0:17:41.480 our national brands, especially the Jets with Aaron Rodgers now 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:44.600 at this point, and then the following week Raiders, the 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:48.879 historic franchise paired up with the Jets and their future 0:17:48.920 --> 0:17:51.280 Hall of Fame quarterback and a team that's on the 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:54.560 rise you mentioned before, a lot of young talent here 0:17:54.600 --> 0:17:57.119 and Robert Salad doing very good things here in his 0:17:57.200 --> 0:17:57.640 third year. 0:17:58.400 --> 0:17:59.920 Yep, love it, love it. I mean look at it. 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:02.399 Like I said, it makes the schedule makers look smart 0:18:02.800 --> 0:18:06.920 when you know teams with national followings from major media markets, 0:18:06.960 --> 0:18:11.080 really big cities are playing well and playing interesting and compelling, 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:13.719 and you know, games of playoff implications down the stretch. 0:18:14.200 --> 0:18:15.800 We'll take all that we can. We root for all 0:18:15.800 --> 0:18:18.439 thirty two equally, of course here in the big you know, 0:18:18.560 --> 0:18:21.560 palette halls. But yeah, having the two New York teams 0:18:21.600 --> 0:18:23.560 competitive helps in a lot of way. It's not just 0:18:23.600 --> 0:18:26.320 our national television partnerships, but also here in New York 0:18:26.359 --> 0:18:29.280 you guys know, you know, most weeks, if we're not 0:18:29.520 --> 0:18:31.760 as competitive as we hoped, you're going to see Jets 0:18:31.800 --> 0:18:33.720 and Giants games both at one o'clock, so that we 0:18:33.720 --> 0:18:36.720 can get that big Cincinnati Kansas City or Philly Dallas 0:18:36.760 --> 0:18:38.920 game or whatever it is into the market at four 0:18:39.000 --> 0:18:41.680 twenty five. Having more of those Giants and Jets games 0:18:41.680 --> 0:18:45.080 deployed across four twenty five Thursday night, Sunday nights, Monday 0:18:45.119 --> 0:18:48.240 nights should alleviate some of that one o'clock you know, 0:18:48.359 --> 0:18:51.080 conflict between Jets and Giants games, so the fans in 0:18:51.080 --> 0:18:53.199 New York should be able to watch both teams every weekend. 0:18:54.000 --> 0:18:56.560 Why Black Friday for the NFL? Why was that a 0:18:56.640 --> 0:18:57.800 big step for the league? 0:18:57.840 --> 0:19:02.280 And also can you talk about you guys selecting the 0:19:02.359 --> 0:19:06.000 Jets and the Dolphins, the two longtime division rivals to 0:19:06.040 --> 0:19:06.800 go head to head. 0:19:07.960 --> 0:19:08.160