9th Annual Schedule Release Extravaganza!

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Speaker 1: Be Around with the NFL podcast. Maybe this year will be better than the last. Welcome to another edition of the Around the NFL Podcast. I'm Greg Rosenthal, sitting in for Dan Hansas in the host chair, surrounded by a room over stuffed with heroes, Mark Sessler, Rachel Bonetta, who, Connie Fox hit the music? Maybe we have to have the the intro music. If we must, we are here. I just find it interesting that you know, I'm sitting in this chair and Dan's nowhere to be found. I just find it, really find it interesting that you're talking over Colleen's intro. That's the way we do. You do talk over it. That we're all together and it's kind of nice and I'm giddy about it. Yeah, that's that's the idea. Dan's, um, you know, on a beautiful anniversary trip. You guys invite me on this show. He's nowhere to be found. I just think I'm just inter I thought a coward. I don't know you had asked you wanted to be like in the Inner Circle on the bench with Badetta podcast. Of course everyone should check her out. If you like this podcast, you gotta love that podcast. Um, what could be more Inner Circle than being part of the ninth annual. I'm happy to be here with my gal. Let's go, let's talk about it. I mean, do we need to talk about it. It's like the it's the day where it's like it's a confection more than any other NFL day of the year. I do enjoy it though, just kind of like getting excited. But Colleen, you know, stopped us before the show and said she had some very important matters to really hit us with first. So you have the floor first of all. Last podcast, I just gotta say, Connor or Mark Sessler, you have to bring back Heat and Light Pod, Like that's it's got to come back. It was such a fun listen to have you guys together again, and I felt like Mark really was just there was a different energy about him. I felt like you were more alive talking to appreciated being along for that ride. So I would like for the Heat and Light Pod to come back. I think either Connor or was pulled from my rib if that's how that story goes, or vice versa. There is a kinship there. We did ten episodes and then we were snuffed from existence. Um for an explanation, I can't really discuss further, so the show the topics would be controversial. Let's gout that way. This just got real. Shout out to a lot of listeners who hit me up because I have now the entire compendium of the Heat and Light podcast. How did you find that? It's on the internet or you found it like in the nfl R. No, it's on the internet. Um. Twitter user at wand the Hoosier was first one to make me aware of a Reddit user whose name is Fannie Cox, which is funny. Watch your mouth got a problem here? Has them all uploaded to YouTube under a channel called Heat and Light Podcast. Stand you can go find this on YouTube, but why don't you tweet it out and then pin it to your Twitter account? This is now that like you've taken this oath as our I would never ask you to do something like that. By the way, Justin right to Rachel's point, like we tacked on an addendum to the list of oaths, he has to listen to every single Heat and Light episode, which is a lot of time wasted for Justin that he was out of because these did not exist. They now back in existence. Have a nice week, Otherwise you wouldn't understand, like, are all of our like, there's a chance we make an inside joke eighteen months from now, and we want you to be prepared for it. Graver is just drowning in work now from tasks that you guys are that that was all you had to bring up. That was the pressge that just say it sounded important slightly. We something. We have a schedule that needs to be released. I have one pressing thing before we get started. I know that this is an audio medium, but I feel like Mark's giving me Jeff, Jeff probes don't Survivor today. Yeah, the shirt, the attitude shirt matches our at Oh, you're just giving a little Jeff. I don't know quite know what that means because I haven't watched Survivor since about two thousand and three, so I missed taking that wasn't kicked off because he had come back. He's come back. Okay, I might be mixing up. You're definitely mixing up. Jeff. Shirts are always yeah wait, no, that was her bachelor. Jeff's like an actual good guy, right, Jeff's a great guy. I don't think he's been canceled. No, definitely not. Mark, on the other hand, did you have another down that. I look at my list of pressing matters and my notes just say passenger landed a plane in Florida with no flying experience whatsoever, and then something about tattoo talk. Okay, but you can also mix these things in during the show too. That's like another go like, I like that. I like that. There's no rules when Dan's here, it does feel like the kids are just playing. There's no organization. If you're listening to this, that means the schedule is out. We are taping this before the show, before the actual schedule um was released. Because we're very special people. We got early copies of the schedule like every season, and this is the ninth annual edition. Justin tells me he went back and counted them up. Um. They always make the producers turn off all the cameras, so that's not going throughout the building. They warn us if they can trace any leaks of the schedule, uh to us, like if Canadians start tweeting it out. But now we're get in big trouble. But if you're listening to this, that means it was just released. So let's dive into it. Let's dive into week one. I feel like week one is always the the right place to start, because, um, I'm like a small child that can't focus on too many things at once. We're gonna be talking about week one for the next four or five months, and beyond that, it's like it's too far in the future. Mark, why don't you get us started? Like something that excites you about week one? Well, I think the start at the very first game, because I think some of the kickoff games have slightly been underwhelming depending on you know, like they've just not always been the greatest matchup of all time, depending on like the visiting team. The Bills at the Rams is pretty much the best thing you could have asked for. Ye that's fun. There's a chance we're eople fist bumping in the in the control people. Not like there's no weak point here. It was literally like not paying attention to market and podcast the other day, like whatsoever they were they were had other things going on mentally. But this is a different show. It's about different things. Bills at Rams. I mean, it's it's the Super Bowl winner against the team that everyone shood. Many thoughts should have gone from the a f C and will go this year so you go. I like that one. That's a great one. You have Matthew Stafford hasn't played the Bills as a RAM yet. You have the Von Miller aspect, which really doesn't matter that much. It's not like a huge revenge game. He was only there for not even a full season. They feel like cashed in because of that. However, when I look at Week one Broncos at Seahawks, I'm I'm losing my voice. Uh, Broncos at Seahawks. They went for it Week one, Russell Wilson right off the back, going back to town. I love that. It feels like we're getting spoiled with that one. Like I feel like we should, we should be forced to wait for that one a little bit, but they're giving it to us right away. The one that I'm excited about. Mark, I don't know if you're feeling the same way, but I want to see what these Browns look like week one. I feel like I dated somebody hot and heavy in high school and now it's like the tenure and the whole thing is you're looking for a new team. Listen. I just want to see if they did they get you? Still? You know, did they get most botox in their face, you know, as that's what I want to see. I want to see them flailing. They buried Cleveland in terms of national exposure. On this schedule. They have two primetime games and a bunch of hidden away contests. And I think we know why, but I love this idea. Let's say something goes wrong, something goes wrong with the Panther's quarterback situation, which is not hard to between now and then an injury that could go right. But because because they're not aiming for Baker Mayfield in theory at this point. But if they lost Sam Donaldson, let's say they signed Baker Mayfield and you get your ten year high school reunion Cleveland Brown's version going up against Baker Mayfield. It would be like the third guy in that love Trying picture, you know, that Elmo Gift when he's like in fire like that mark, And I like, if Baker Mayfield beats the Browns in Week one as a member of that could maybe I would be so happy. You can't roll out Sam donald to play football again in twenty two, Just do it. We know that they were interested, they were talking trade during the draft. They weren't willing to um take on all of his salary, and the Browns weren't willing to pay like half of it whatever the Panthers asked for. But that means they would like change. That means they would accept him. At some point. The Browns are at the point where they just got to give up the Ghosts. They lost this Like you're a big loser this offseason for everything that you've done, Browns, and you're gonna get your wins in the future, at least you believe so, like with the Shawn Watson, but the whole Mayfield things over, like it's such a distraction. He should show up to work and just like be a pain in the ask so that they have to get rid of him and so that he ends up on the Panthers Week one. That's a good one. I also really like Patriots at Dolphins. I hate that grand entrance Mike pick Daniel versus Belichick in his first ever Gamely Patriots like always crappy when they play the Dolphins, Like don't that's true. That's true, but it's also the third straight year that this has been the Week one game. It's just an annoying, weird subplot to me, as like a Patriots fan that they keep doing the same matchup every year. I mean it's been like different quarterback matchups depending on the year, Like these Dolphins different though, Mike Daniel. The Dolphins in general are interesting. I just don't like that big of a division game in Miami where they always was like right off and it's the same, It's the same thing year after year. I'm with you though, on the Russ versus Pete Carroll thing week one, maybe they were kind of thinking, how I thought, like, we're small children. We can't like it, can't like hold our attention in terms of this revenge rivalry. Why wait till Week nine? Maybe the Seahawks aren't gonna be good by then either. So it's got every like ounce of juice that you can possibly have. But I love it because Russell Wilson's on the Broncos, because ultimately Pete Carroll didn't really believe Russell Wilson is as good as Russell Wilson and thinks he is. And and he's also on the Broncos because Russell Wilson doesn't think Pete Carroll's as good a coach as he thinks he And it's it's just true like like they did not think Russell Wilson is a top five type of quarterback anymore, and so they were willing to do this, and he gets to like prove him wrong in Seattle. And I do think that when they meet and like hugging stuff like that, it's going to be boring, like they're both so you'll be nice. Like you know, when like Belichick faced off against Brady last year, we were all like, oh my god, are they gonna hug? Are they gonna kiss on their cheek? What are they gonna do? And it's like the most excused the forehead what I wanted to say, And I came out the next four months too. For Seahawks fans, like knowing that this is first and it's home, you can already see Seahawks fans. I've I've noticed some that are rooting against Russell Wilson a little more than they expected. Like they of course they loved everything that he did for him, but now that they're seeing him, like have the cheesy videos with cr where he doesn't know whether his dog is male or female, and that's not a great dog. Actually, I think if you're going to pick a stop dancing, I feel like a lot of dancing happening, and that was making fans are like, great, that's not our problem. Again, if we win week one with Gino Smith against Russell Wilson, everything greg One. Seahawks fans right now are completely in space because I tweeted out that they had a quarterback scenario that was a problematic thing. You got Drew Lock or Gino. I know you love Geno so much, but all these all times, like you don't understand the Seahawks have a plan. It's a trench in plan. You're you're like, you're blind to what they're doing. And like, talk to me in week five when they're one in four and they're trying to still sell Drew Lock to us as an actual entity. If that happens, does Pete Carroll? I feel like it's so weird to see the Seahawks without Pete Carroll. Obviously he's getting older, he's gonna have to retire at some point, but like, if the Seahawks are really bad this year, is he still there? They gave him the power to go through whatever this rebuild. I mean, at this stage, there's there's word like the the Allan's Um, you know, Paul Allen died, their former owner, and they're supposedly going to sell the Trailblazers. Are the Seahawks potentially next. I think that's partly why peakarel is still there, is like they just didn't want to deal with I think the Seahawks think that they're going to be good. Yes I did too, and I kind of think they'll find some way to win eight or nine games, which is about what they did last year, and everyone will like raise it up as like, oh, it's you know, a great job by Peak Carroll weak Ones a lot of fun. You also have Justin Fields and Trey Lance going up against each other from the draft for like a relatively low octane game. I think that's kind of a Eagles Lions. I think it's gonna be knock to the first game of the season teams. You have both Lions. You said it's going to be come on, I think the Lions are really I think the Lions have already thrown it out there. I want to be the schedule makers, don't think so. The team of around the NFL, right, it's a one pm game time games. They all their schedules like almost every single week is just a one o'clock game. The only team with no prime time I feel like that was the Lions, rewarding because they were fun down the stretch last year, Like that Week one game is absolutely fun. It was not a fun matchup when they played last year though. They're also just a fun team to root for, whether they're fun on the field, Like they've just got such characters and we're going to get to know all of those people way better. Oh, that's true because a Hard Knocks That's what I'm saying, Like the first game of a Hard Knocks teams like the NFL saying HBO were bigger than you two. I know that that is surprising because I think they're gonna be fun, and I think the Eagles are going to get overrated by a lot of people like me who already see them as like a top eight team in the end. Really, I'm very into the Eagles. Bucks and Cowboys, by the way, are the Sunday night game there, so they are definitely swinging for the fence. Is just like going for monster ratings right away. Let's go to Thanksgiving. We always kind of the real quick Raiders Chargers. Did we mention that one? Oh, that one's gonna be really one. They ended their season together full circle. They end where they begin, where they ended. I also love Steelers at Bengals because for twenty years that's been the Week one or Week two thing where Pittsburgh goes in and just wins forty seven to get going. Now they're in space on some level and everyone is starting to know the Bengals Actually last year was a magic ride that won't translate to this season. I don't agree with that. I'm I could talk Week one the whole time. It's the best week of the year. I think it's always the best week on the football calendar. You've got the most football to go. Everyone is so like fresh and new. Nothing's been ruined, hopefully people are injured like sensory overload. Though it's a little much. It's a little much when these games, and that is maybe the best prime time slate possible. Bill's Rams, Bucks, Cowboys, Broncos, Seahawks. That's pretty awesome. Let's go to Thanksgiving next, just because I think of that, I think of our family. It's my it's my favorite holiday in general. And it go there. Go back to the Bills in a big spot. The Bills have five primetime games, and they're on Thanksgiving this year, which is exciting. It's Bills Lions, So that's the Lions big moment. They don't get their primetime game, but more people watch that game than any game all year, usually even the number one game of it's not been a big moment for the Lions, like twenty out of saying it's the most people watching, even when it's like who is your guy? David blow and the blowhards the other year and they watched that game. You have Giants Cowboys for the million time on national television, and then Patriots Vikings as the nightcap. Do we have any thoughts here? I'm kind of excited to see where the Cowboys are at in November. I believe this could be wrong. I believe they have one of the easier strength of schedules. We're given the Cowboys everything. Here's all of these gifts. You've got this incredible schedule. Jerry, here you go. Let's see what you do. So I feel like by Thanksgiving we will have a good indication on are they going to throw it away again? They usually do after the playoffs. Dad that this is a dan Um colonel that he likes to throw out there just like literally, they've never followed up a playoff season with another good season. They they're horrible with success. They they start feeling themselves. Uh. And I think the NFCC, like the Cowboys are listed as you know, one of the easiest drinks of schedule the entire NFC East is because a they get to play each other. So the best one to me would be the you know, the Eagles and the Cowboys because they don't have to play themselves. They get to play the rest of the division. And then out of the division. Uh, they play the a f C South, which is as easy as it gets, sorry Graver, and the NFC North, which maybe isn't the easiest NFC division. You could argue the South, but that's the easiest combination of out of division schedule. So the entire NFC East wins. I I like the idea of mac Jones and Kirk cousinsun there's anything I do too. But the one thing about the schedule, it's like, hey, let's look at a game and like early December, be like player X first player X can't wait to see that. The chances are half these teams are shattered healthwise by then and we're projecting, but it's supposed to be a day. But that's why there is an element to this right now whatever, like this is Probs the big like kind of downer. I mean, I don't know. I've completely made up story about Jeff Probbs. I don't know anything about the man. I just keep on saying, like Mark is the one who always puts in his sandwich propositions predicting the season that some horrible act is going to either be fall a player, a team, or the earth as a whole. And once you were writing, you pretty much predicted the pandemic, like you finally nailed it is Survivor after all, right, I mean I do I have no concept with the Jeff Probs thing. I'm gonna have to go do some research. I take it as sort of a slight um. I was wondering if the Patriots would get as many primetime games as they used to, and the answer is yes. They were four weeks in a row a primetime games late in the season. Is ridiculous. That is a little outrageous. I did too. I think they will be I think Mac Jones is going to be better than everyone thinks. But thirteen teams have five primetime games, which is uh a lot, and you can end up with six if you get moved into Sunday Night Football. But it's forty Niners, Bengals, Bills, Broncos, Bucks, Chargers, Chiefs, Cowboys, Eagles, Packers, Patriots, Rams, Steelers. No huge surprise. The probably the best team are the best chance for one of those teams to totally stink and ruin the primetime games. I'm gonna go Steelers. I'm really excited that the Chargers have five. I feel like they I feel like they can be something special. Well, they watched the Rams win. They have that they had so many I talked about this NonStop on our show. They had so many like one score games that they lost, Like they were so close. Your show being bent with Banetta game debut, everyone also should check out. No, I thought that's what you men, but I didn't know game debut. Uh. We have a schedule release show too, which is on all sorts of streaming platforms, and we'll just be sitting there if you want to find it on Amazon Prime or Paramount Plus or it'll just sit there. No, No, we're digital only, you know, for the most part, I think network work together or this this episode, I don't know. I think they needed something and they were like, well, we're not going to give you Rich Eysen and them, but we will give you this other show and we're going to knock it out of the people. People should check that out. Show is on NFL Network tonight. Thank you, just I didn't know that, and I think it's on Friday as well. Um. I like that Lions game early. Is there any other games though? Mark? Um? You suggested a a segment that we could do here today, just just randomly picking games that buzz your loins. You could take that to mean what it means. I mean, if you're picking, like one of us to use the word loins in the show, it would definitely be it's like I text Greg these things and then it turns around he turns around and uses it against me on the actual show. When I what I sort of mean is it just gets you going, Okay, you should be proud of your los I like that whole concept. And I would say this to Bengals at Cowboys Week two. They've got the Steelers in week one, and as I mentioned, I think people are starting just to act like the Bengals. We're maybe not for real last year. I love the uniform matchup number one. But this is gonna be late on CBS. You're gonna get Tony Romo announcing this and the steel The Bengals also closed the season against the Bengals and Ravens, so like, for me, like they've got a ton of exciting ones. But if they go in and take care of the Steelers and then take care of Dallas on a national stage, it's like, don't tell me the Bengals aren't legit. I love that the Bengals have five prime time games too, by the way, and there's so many good matchups for Joe Burrow coming up, like Burrow and Brady play for the first time. Week fifteen, Burrow and Josh Allen. Week seventeen, um, Burrow and TWA. That's fine since they're like Alice you Obama whatever. That's Week four, Um, so that's a great one. I'm so excited about Week six Bills Chiefs. That's like the best game of the year. I hope there's no way it's going to live up to what we wanted to be, but I want twenty five points in the first two minutes. So that's how they like, that's how they will it will be a completely different time. I think I feel weird like picking games at the end of the year. It makes a good point mark that we don't know what's going to happen by then Week one or two is like easier to get excited about. But I do kind of love the Chargers rams, Like I'm down. It's week seventeen, it's on New Year's Day. The entire uh slate is on New Year's Day. Uh So you can look at that anyway you want, but we we could go to that. I think we should go to that and the And one of the reasons I love it not just because it's the Super Bowl champs and they're both entertaining and it's Herbert, is they sneaky don't like each other. And I don't even think it. I don't think they. I don't think they like to like advertise it. But it's a better sneaky don't like each other because it's not really the players. The players don't care, they're they're they like each other teams, it's the organizations. It's like the team, the Ramps. It's like, hey, we built a stadium. Oh, you want to come, like join us. Like the Chargers, whether they like it or not, are forever. That's gonna be the Jets with the Giants when they were like leasing in the Giants Stadium when it was called Giants Stadium and the Jets had to play there. That is who the Chargers are. They're the little brothers. But they look pretty good. So it's like a fun thing to imagine. I really think that they need to kind of buy into this rivalry in Major League Soccer. There's l traffic. Oh it's the Galaxy versus l A f C. They have billboards around the city that are like crapping on each other and just you want to go and watch these games. It's like a part of l A versus another part of l A. Like people for some reason hate each other even though we're all in the same city. Like, it's it's fun buy into that. More people are gonna want to go to these games. I would definitely it's like a yeah, you're buzzing right? Sure? Is that how? I don't want to talk about my loins? I mean, it's May twelve. What else is gonna get your loins buzzing? Vacation Bucks Bengals. Is Kenning my Loins buzzing as well? It's a nineteenior age gap. I believe nice. That's good. I feel like the entire this entire schedule would be so different if Tom Brady hadn't returned, because the Buccaneers are basically in every high leverage spot that they could possibly be being. I like the TN f Lamar versus Brady Ravens Bucks. Uh what else you got, Mark? That's buzzing ear Loins. I like Chargers Niners. It's a little bit more nerdy. But I did the idea of Kyle Shanahan versus Brandon Staley, justin Herbert versus maybe Trade Lance. I just want to see what the nine owners are doing a quarterback at that point. Is that Sunday Night Football Week ten. I mean, that's gonna have a lot of meaning. I think the Niners could be a team on the brink at that point, and the Chargers that they keep winning games like this To your point, Rachel, I mean they can start hanging in there with the Rams in terms of how they are viewed. We also get Rogers Brady Week three. That's another one. We get the rematch go ahead. The Carson Wentz revenge Tour. I love that it stops in Indie week eight at Philly week ten, I cannot wait. I want to go to that one. That's going to be a Connie Fox on location special like that. That's one of those Like there. Those are truly revenge games because the Colts brass for lack of a better word, their ownership and their general manager basically made it as clear as possible how they think just getting rid of Carson Wentz is gonna save them, and he knows that and hopefully still the starter by week A. I'm not totally sure he's going to be the starter there for the entire season because it might go poorly, but I hope he lasts at least till Week eight for the Colts. In week ten, uh Eagles, I like Chiefs Bengals two weeks thirteen. I feel like that's sort of gotten slept on um as the biggest collapse since three, one of the biggest collapses in NFL history, one of the most shocking games I've ever seen since we've you know, been doing this job. I I put that right with Seahawks Packers, even as the two games to me. That just stunned me the most as I was watching them. What happened like the Chiefs just people treat Bills Chiefs as the a f C title game and it wasn't we all know that? And it's like, I'm with you that the Bengals scenario, what they did to Kansas City coming out of the second half into the second half was like a epic comeback and like essentially met like sealed. How magical the Bengals were an unstoppable cannot get out of my mind during that game at being at Lakisha's with you, Greg and Lakisha walking around the backyard burning stage at halftime, and it was the Kansas City Chiefs, like it was the winning this team in the NFL over the last five years. The team might still sort of can't get over that. Rachel, you are are so busy. You have so many things that you're doing. You're hosting game debut later, you're editing some other piece. Um, You've got the Bench with Banetta podcast. I should have mentioned at the beginning of the show that we had a special guest that's actually gonna be replacing you half way through, and is Patrick claybon I want you guys to actually be on the show together, because we're gonna be making some history here. They said it couldn't be done. Patrick, could you just stand with this headset for a couple of minutes before Rachel leaves? And I want to make history here because they said it couldn't be done. Five five headsets, five posts at once. Uh. And I don't think you guys have ever it on a program together. Rachel. We've had a really nice moment at the super Bowl where we were sitting next to each other for the very first time, and I think I just looked at you and I was like, Patrick, you're very funny. It's so funny, very funny. And I was like, Okay, this magical fifth headset, this would have happened. This is a special moment that we all got to share. And Dan's not here be the best part of all to such um. You know, Mark and I are too smart to say things. Going to stay quiet on that friend. By the way, we are trying to make up how much we miss his presence by over stuffing this show. I don't know justy've ever. Mark looked over his shoulder very quickly. I was so I thought he was in Mexico last I heard, but total fear of damn at all moments, even if he's out of the country. Rachel, it's been a pleasure. I don't know if you have any final thoughts, but we loved having you here and we'll we have you back on. I know there's been some tension. You weren't happy with the oath that Justin took as our podcast producer. Did you out yet? We tried to, and I'm so sorry I talked over your intro song. That's what I was trying to get off. I mean, I was trying to get it out right right away, and we're here. You know, life is too short to be having I will only let me make this proclamation right now. I'm only ever coming back on the show of Dan's not here, and you can tell him, and you can tell him. I thought this would be a nice way to like quickly squatch that because you know, we have enough um beefs like Daniel Jeremiah and the little show that he has just started. Like that's enough. That's enough beef in my life. I don't need anymore. Isn't that a hint to you guys though, that maybe you need to work on yourselves. If you guys have all of these beefs, I'm not worried about that. Here's your seat gonna we're gonna be more introspective as we get older, Clay, But I don't want you to sit the whole show. You should take Rachel's seat. That'll just make everyone feel uncomfortable. One thing Um I thought about with with Patrick here is that he is such a versatile co host. He always just sits in for the whole show. He's just another host, just like you, Colleen. Um. You just another host on the Around the NFL podcast. But there's never like a Clay Bond themed segment. Back in the day, there was. It was like something your tweets literally like six years ago, Golden segment. That was a great segment. But this day where I thought, hey, we got a lot of people in here, maybe Claibond. He's busy at the news desk at least I thought he was, and was only gonna pop in for fifteen minutes. I thought, we gotta do a Clay Bond theme segment. I don't even know what this segment is. He's surprising me with it, but it's some sort of list of games where Claybon prepared and I'm excited, and let's do it right after a break. That's what the host has to do. I mean, you're you're breaking me look bad and graver. You can just like me that or text me that you probably did, but I've ignored after this break. Alright, we're back you. You just fast forwarded through all those ads because you just wanted to get to this CLAYBONN break. Uh and it's CLAIBONN segment. What what? What are you treating us with here? These are games that will be incredible on the Twitter dot com. Okay, maybe not on paper, but we don't care about paper. Paper isn't real. I like that you're leaning into it because when I think of NFL games in NFL Twitter, I think Patrick Claibon very act of volume shooter, Thank you would say that it does land and I appreciate that because that is me. I will start. I guess we'll go in the order of days that because that makes sense. Chronological September eight, The Commanders take on the Lions, all right, okay, and nothing gets the juices going on the bird app like a quarterback who's not good and is not having a lot of success. That has been a part of conversations for a really long time. And if Carson Wentz goes to the meltdown land, like the self destruction land that he finished last season with against the Jacksonville Jaguars, it'll be bad for the Commanders. Of course, it'll be bad for Carson Wentz. It'll be great for Twitter. I think it will make tweeter tweeters fun, especially those that have the predilection that that Colleen does, right, And that's when I that's when I stopped by, Like I'm basically on Twitter strike most days, um, and then I come out and then I become a volume shooter just in like like a two hour span. Again, the sneaky story here is like when watching Wentz and maybe the Commanders not do well, and look, they haven't had a likable off season as an organization or likable last couple of decades really, so it makes sense. But it sounds like people are ready to ru against that, and that could be Lions coming off hard knocks, maybe coming off a home win against the Eagles and maybe going for a two another there. One concern is that it's buried on Fox at one PM Eastern. So I'm make sure it's a national movement, but maybe you're turning it into that. Well what you hadn't considered, though, Mark, is what Carson Wentz is planning to do when he arrives in Washington, which could get the entire nation talking. As we all know, decided to really go ahead and start to take command. But my favorite drop actually start two in Week two. Alright, gave two, All right, let's go to game two. We'll go to the Jets and the Steelers. And it's perhaps the same premise because it's early and we might still be getting Mitch at this point in a huge game at home. And remember the Thanksgiving game a few years back, where like Mitch is throwing screens and slants against the Cowboys and everybody was like, Oh, he's back, baby, this is the Mitch that was promised. I think it would be hilarious and spectacular and great and good and everything. We need to get the timeline going, well, true, whisky fun so much. You're absolutely choosing games that Claibon will be on fire about and that I don't know about the rest of America. Wait, what which game was this? A Week four Jets and uh Steelers. Yeah, I wonder the Jets Jets schedule here the Jets. I feel like people would be into the Jets if they could get interested the belief, right you hear that they believe and you know, should they don't know. There's a lot of a f C North teams and fans. I think that would be happy to see the Steelers completely collapse. Well it's time. Do you think it's gonna happen? No, because that's not really their DNA. I mean, what is a collapse like they missed the playoffs winning like five games or something. The Bengals Patriots at Brown's. Let's say they're one and two or oh and three going into that Jets game. In Clay Bonne's right, Robinsky is throwing, uh some some bad passes and they're staring at one in three, They're they're trailing a half time. I could see it. Rabinsky could vibe losing his job in week one to Kenny Pickett, though he could and it depends on the philosophy and how they go about that. But it's just the chance, just the chance that it might happen. And even though it's buried in the same with the first game. Right, if there somebody throws a left handed interception or does something like, then it's good. We're gonna see the video and people are gonna make jokes and it's just good. People are watching Red Zone anyways. All right, I will get more if if people think I'm being negative, let's get more positive. October nine, Tottenham Hotspurs stay in the Giants and the Packers um if well, I will get personal because if I'm lucky enough to do Game Day Live for another year, that's three and a half hours every single Sunday where I don't really get to live tweet games like like I don't get to go into the trance You're busy, or like on primetime games where I'm dual will being children and I have to try to get Coco Melon going right. You're you're on, are on hosting the show that melon. Consider yourself lucky that you don't know. You don't know it's in small people into a trance like state that allows you a cocktail. You give them. No, No, it's it's a YouTube thing. It's it's a video which is a cocktail in a way. But when they are asleep and along with the rest of the world, and I can sneak into the garage and really go into Twitter right and watch a game and live tweet it. That is special. And I know that there's probably a whole bunch of other parents on the West Coast that would really look forward to that opportunity. And so I think that's a great Twitter day, a nationally nationally globally televised what We'll make it the entire Milky Way sut out. We got a picture of Sagittarius a star earlier today, right, they have a photograph of the black hole, the center of our galaxy. Maybe it's the biggest game in the Alexi at that time. Right, Even though this is where you know I often say Claibon is too smart for the job he has and once again, is this still the around the NFL. I'll save it for to um, but but seriously, it's a good opportunity to take it back to like my late twenties and live tweet a football game and Claibon time. I think that sounds valuable to us and to you. I think Giants could be more watchable this year. I've thought better for a few years, and I've been wrong because I think Daniel Jones has a watchable couple of seasons in his career. In him, I think he's a relatively entertaining player if he was in the right system. And it doesn't get much more right than Brian Dable and spreading out the field and all these He's got like four slot receivers. I don't know how that's gonna work. Areas Tony Sterling, Sharp one Dale Robinson. It's like and there's no one really on the outside. There's Golladay, but I think they're just gonna throw the ball like sixty times a game. Throw it to sa Quan. It's in Tottenham, one of our favorite places to go. Maybe we'll be at this game. Mark, maybe maybe you this time. Maybe you can, maybe you can come, Maybe you can pull it off. You're usually busy, you're usually busy traveling all around the country, so you're a hard person to get. But maybe we can get you for this one. This would be a good one. These early not in a suitcase like you could just as a human being. You can put me in the overheading these these scenarios, but as a as a like a parent here because you're right the six thirty am game as I've gotten older, is like, actually, I enjoy that game. I'm happy to wake up for that game. It's quiet in the house. I'm totally with you that. At first, I was like, uh, you know, like I was, you know, it was almost like showing your professionalism by waking up for the beginning of Bengals Dolphins there. But now I'm totally into it. There's no other games that are that quiet, and like, you can just watch football. It's like Christmas morning. You get an opportunity to really to really enjoy something. Kind of cuts into my sleep schedule a little bit. I never watched the first half of a London game. That is first. It can be real about that, all right. Also on October nine, after maybe people have gotten rested up, Um, the Seahawks visiting the New Orleans Saints. It's a matchup that we don't get to see a whole lot and similar theme Drew lock in the Dome against a really good defense. Um, but what do you mean. It might be bad and it might also be funny. And it's not that I'm against these guys in any way. I want to see people who are good at football have success. I can't help that It's really funny when people at the quarterback position continue to get chances and they continue to be bad, And so all I can really do is point out that, hey, this is funny and this is also really bad and maybe yeah, and then in theory, somebody else can get the job Jameis Winston on the other side. So I mean, there's a lot of leeway for collisions and problems. Could it could be chaotic, which is always good, always great for the tomline, and this UH Saints defense could be about the hardest matchup possible. I think people people just think they're going to be mediocre this year for some reason, even though their defense is loaded. They start off with Mariota by the way, in Week one, like that's a tough Week one, Uh, then you get the Tom Brady game where it's the only team that stops Tom Brady. Then you get Sam Donald potentially in week three, this Saints UH team and defense could be Then they then they go to Tottenham and yeah, that Shaks game, by the way, a rematch of some good playoff matchups and heartbreak really for for the New Orleans Saints. Revenge the Beast Quake game, and that was tough one all right, and then finally, finally we have Thanksgiving date the Patriots visiting the Minnesota Vikings, and this one is circumstantial as well. By the third game on Thanksgiving, everyone is lathered up, people have had their nap, presumably, people have eaten, They've probably imbibed some substances. The phone batteries have died and been recharged. People are at their best for that final game on Thanksgiving. And I feel like we've gotten some duds. They look good on paper, but they've been blowouts. The Saints game last year was terrible. We need the last game not necessarily be the best game. Probably the middle game is it's a game we want to hold our attention because it's competing with so many things. But that last game, let's relax, Let's let's talk about random stuff and also football at the same time and kind of appreciate the spectacle that dominates our likes. You don't need the third one, right, You don't need to be overly complex though, No, No, you just need remember the Steelers Ravens game where it was like I was covering that and it was like the one, Hey I'm Mike Tom, I'm gonna run out on the field and like there's gonna be on Bella get like a dangerous concussion at the end, was like they're eighteen spinoff stories. We don't need that Thanksgiving nights. So this is actually the ninth annual Spectacular. But another anniversary is this is actually the nine straight schedule release extravaganza that Mark has mentioned that game and I know that. I know that for a fact because on the way to work this morning, I decided to crank up are. I think it was our first ever extravaganda. It was back in UH and you did bring up that game on that EXTRAVAGANZEMA has been the previous Thanksgiving and you've you've brought it up ever since. There was also a great moment. I'm just gonna play it now. I was thinking of playing it after the show, but I want to hear it now where the name of this very show where we are talking UH first came into being and was first decided just a little piece of around the NFL history. Let's listen to it. This is a very special, very special Round League podcast. It is the let's see what we're gonna call it is a scheduled release special bonanza. Sounds good. It's extravaganza. What do we like? Bonanza extravaganza, extravaganza, extrava bonanza. It is the schedule release extrava bonanza. The same thing, the schedule release extravaganza. So they you know that that's live work shopping, that's podcasting at its best. That it's always now, it's always, it's always great. In the Chris Wesleyan podcast studio to uh, to hear his voice, I was looking for like a clip where West just ranted about how much he hated the schedule release show, and at one point I almost prompted him to it, saying how much he hated writing about the schedule release, and instead he just went on a rant about how bad the recent Superman was. Uh, and Uh totally didn't answer it. So, which is which was very West, very nice. I recommend it if if some reason you're a big fan of the show, go back. That was a fun one, gold standard producer. I will say in West's honor that doing these shows for schedule release is the most annoying thing of the entire year because we can't get our hands on the information until like basically right before we do the show, and we have to beg people and sometimes like side text people and promise them that we won't tell anyone that we got the schedule, but we need the schedule to actually do a show talking about the schedule, and that person who you're requesting that from is under fire from the employer, our company that if you do share, you're essentially fired, so you're putting them in a tight spot. But you're a preparation person, so you're I feel like though it's it's a sign of um where we are, like we our jobs are easier, frankly than they were nine years ago. We were having to make a content plan and write all this stuff and do all this stuff. And you're right, we a begging and borrowing and stealing. Now I know the person to go to. I'm not gonna say it out. I just you know, just walk up. You ask a few days before and and we had to us no problem areas here. I don't know why, because people you get, you get with us and you uh and you get it, and which is more of a statement on your acuity. That's what I'm saying. To manage the system as opposed to like when it's Colleen's actual job to release the schedule, but they don't release. There were a couple of years, like years ago, where I would be like frantic and I would be basing my notes off of leaks on Twitter and and I'm like, the show is in like two hours and I still don't have the schedule, Like how am I going to do a show that that is slightly hostile on the part of the producers for you, Yeah, that that is absolutely ridiculous. We've done this so long though, that I've heard every schedule release take that there there have been, and I've actually had every schedule release take that they've been, Like you go through are the cycle of it. It's like at first you think you're clever for being like, hey, they're not even announcing the games. You already know the schedule. They're just announcing the order of it. Like okay, everyone's already said that, we know that. Then there's then there's the response, which is like, well, fans schedule, they're planning around it, they do travel, and so it's very exciting. And I agree with that too. Now I just I just accept it. I accept the fact that the NFL is so powerful that this is even a thing, and that's ultimately going to pay for my kids to go to college. Yeah, they're they're they're prestige on the tower of the NFL. This day proves it. There's it is largely meaningless, but I do think probably there are hotels all over the place where the phone lines are blowing up when you find out what Green Bay's schedule is. Kids are so into it. That's how I know when I was, I don't think it was it wasn't nearly the same thing, but whenever it was like you probably got it in the newspaper the next But yeah, that was extremely exciting. But yeah, my kids want to like write down everything they were. They were looking for leaks from me. I gave them like a couple This morning, I was like, don't tell the kids at school that it's Bill's RAMS week. One. If there's a if there's a bubbling up in the Santa Monica school system of what we know what's going on with the RAMS schedule? We know about right rogers like looking at a Twitter account of some nine year old in Santa Monica that breaks this news. I'm in trouble. All of us just silent there. We didn't tell our kids tell them one game, and I made them promise, Well, one game is no different than fifty, like you broke the seal, and Ellis is super smart, so she could take that one game and extol She's leaked it to the time. Um, do we have any other things we want to go over here? Maybe like the revenge games we hit? We hit some Carson Wentz. I I saw the Matt Patricia versus the Lions game week five. There's no one that Lions fans hate more than Matt Patricia. So I would if I was a Lions fan, I would find it very annoying if Matt Patricia is getting a lot of love by then as some offensive genius that is helping Mac Jones get to another level. I don't think that's a likely scenario, but that's one of many possible scenarios, especially when you consider that the winning ist coach and the franchises last forty years was fired specifically because Matt Patricia was going to come in and take the next step and they had to start over from scratch with the tight ends coach. How about this one? Like this got on my radar Yank and gok Way who was now with the Cults, and like you think, oh, well, you know what, he's he got traded away, like he's for the Raiders. He's with his old defensive coordinators. Should be happy. Um no. He His quote was, they'll see how I feel when we play them, we go to their house, They'll see why they up. They'll pay WHOA. That's a revenge game. A lot of these revenge games are nonsense. But how about Doug Peterson also going to Philadelphia? What about Mike McCarthy going to Green Bay for the When is that could be under fire at that point? We ten that is? That is a great one because it I know that I do have Doug Peterson. You can play that I'm what does he say? What is his little clip? Who? I'm annoyed? Now? Like I would play that on on Loop at in Philadelphia over and over while he's trying to do his job. I I love that in Gockway thing too, because it's kind of like you traded me for Rocky in bro. Yeah, genuinely, he seems highly annoyed. We've got Bobby Wagner against the Seahawks. A couple of different times he mentioned specifically he was gonna be ready for that game more excited for that week. What else have we got? How about I don't want this revenge, but I'd just like to see how it goes down. Josh McDaniels first Bill Belichick, Week fifteen, Sunday Night Football, Raiders page. McDaniels already has a win as a head coach over Belichick. It is pumping his little fist on the running across. I remember that that was the pretty much the high point of the McDaniels era. It is wild as you meant, and uh, mark that the Patriots have four primetime games in a row. It's that Thanksgiving game we should have mentioned. They get the Bills the next week in prime time. They always do that thing where uh, two teams that played on Thanksgiving then get the Thursday night game the next week. It's usually the Cowboys. It's usually in a big spot. It's like December one, it's week thirteen. It's like right at the height of the season. This time it's gonna be Bills Pats. That's pretty good. Then it's at Arizona on Monday Night Football. And then yeah, the Raiders that you mentioned. I did notice in general, and I don't want to get us in trouble here. But I thought the Thursday night prime video schedule was not as not as um juicy as the Fox Thursday night schedule was. And that's why you need to embrace alternate means of enjoying the football game. If the things get bad, things get a little sideways. Um, don't don't be that guy that's like, oh, there's a night football again, like you're not watching anything else, like where you like law and there's that's why there's I think that's why there's thirteen teams with five prime time games. That's more than ever. It ties for the most ever. Like last year there was said it's spread out. I actually like that better because the more it's spread out, the more you have some teams that are popping up that you haven't seen a ton of. And and hopefully you don't have like the Bears who are like in prime time. So hopefully the Bears are only in three times. I'll take it three times in six weeks though. And it's like to me that that stood out as a little bit obscene, justin fields could make them. If you have a good quarterback or an interesting quarterback, you could be interested. So I'm people also have the most home prime time games they have four, so I'm not piste off about that, Angelo um. And then also a couple of other things that I looked at. Weeks nine and fourteen are going to kill fantasy teams. Uh, each of those weeks six teams are on buy. And then this was interesting that the Packers, Steelers, Texans, and Titans each face two teams on their schedule that are coming off buys, and the Packers, Titans, and Steelers like they aren't easy teams. I think the Packers probably have it the worst because they face the Bills and the Cowboys, who both will be coming off buys. The Titans have the Chiefs and the Broncos off buys. Um. So those Steelers have the Eagles and Bengals. I mean, that's tough with the Bengals, but that's not that's not easy. Those those teams kind of got screwed. I never I never like that. You never liked the team that gets stuck on the road the first couple of weeks. I hate that. Or if you have any three game road trips, that's bad. I didn't I looked and I did not see any. Uh. We didn't mention the Christmas Day games by the way we have a triple header on Christmas. Packers Dolphins is the first one, then the Broncos Rams, which we had talked about Russell Wilson here. I've gotten word back from my kids. They don't want to go to the football on Christmas, so they do not know, but they could, like they could go on New Year's Day though. I was like that. I brought it up. I thought it'd be cool. They had they had so much fun going Christmas Week last year to ram Seahawks, but they both were like, no, we want to stay home the whole day and play with their toys like and I was like, okay, that totally too. I just thought to be like a one time thing, and it's like it'd be unique, like you're only gonna go to one Christmas Day game probably ever if you're here, Like I just thought, No, they're not a New Year's Day though, that's perfect. And then Bucks Cardinals is the NBC game. They're doing a Sunday night football game on Christmas. They're really trying to ruin our families. Speaking of the Cardinals, they buried them and it has had to be DeAndre Hopkins centric, but they bury them. I think six seven weeks in a row at one pm out of the gate, and then they play. They have a tough finish. They have a bunch of like backed up primetime games into the year, but their final five games and we know what they do at the end of the season under Cliff Kingsbury historically include the Patriots, Broncos, Bucks, and Forts. I still love that for them. I mean, I like they're gonna have to reverse field and like finish as strong as possible. I think when you're trying to do like hardest schedules easy schedules, it's really this is the part that West hated was it's it's impossible ahead of time. I think the best way to do it, though, is is probably just look at which divisions play which divisions. You could kind of look at like the Vegas over unders. That makes more sense than the strength of schedule we usually put out on NFL Network. But to me, all the there's a commonality of all the hard schedules. If you're in the a f C East, you've got a very tough out of division schedule in general. So if you're trying to be an up and coming team like the Jets are, Dolphins, like, I think it's a little tougher than it would have been. And then I think the two Western divisions are very difficult just because they're playing each other, and outside of the division it's a pretty tough schedule too. So I feel like the a f C East, a f C West, and NFC West, if you're any of those teams, to me, it seems West has like nineteen primetime games too, which is the most in the Super Bowl era for any divisions. And the Dolphins, to your point, you're Mike McDaniel, you're a different Dolphins team. Out of the gate. You have the Patriot, It's Ravens, Bills, Bengals. And then it late in the year, between Week thirteen and fifteen, three straight road games against the forty Niners, Chargers, and Bills. That feels like an arrow to the forehead. All people really want to see is is some sort of progress. I mean, of course, wins and losses ultimately matter, but if you have a tough schedule in your competitive hopefully franchises don't bail on new coaches. I think that happens all the time, that people end up getting fired or hired based on like if they got a little lucky from the schedule. On the flip side, do you guys have any easy schedules that stand out to you anything. I think the a f C South in general pretty easy because they again they get to play each other like you'd rather be the culture of the Tech Titans because then you get four games against the Jaguars and they're out of division. Schedule doesn't look too tough to me. NFC North gets too. I don't think that's that tough of division in general, and you get to play the a f C South out of division, So I like that. In the NFC East in general, I think those are the easier ones. Yeah. I think Tampa and New Orleans may it out with a very successful year with what's going on in Carolina and Atlanta and then being good teams as well. Of course that means I have to deal with each other, but you get too on the other side, and I think that things and with the Saints, Uh, the one thing that kind of stood out to me was Week seven, they played the Cardinals, and I think a prime time game or it's a third it's a Thursday night game, and that should be the first game that d Hop is back off suspension, so that has a little a little bad luck there. So one of the first things I did, while we're talking suspension looking at the schedule, is like, Okay, what do they do with the Browns because I was just curious if they were going to strategize around Watson's potential suspension. But I didn't really have that takeaway. My bigger takeaway just from a football angle, was their schedule is loaded up with their easiest games on paper early and that is extremely that could be advantageous to the Browns. I don't know if that was intentional, but they opened at Panthers home for Jets. Then you do have a primetime game. So if you are a conspiracy theorist, they're not hiding the Browns there in Week three while Watson could be suspended, that might be Jocoby Brisset. Well, that's where you'd want them to play. You don't want to have to talk about Deshaun Watson. So I think if anything, they that's when you want the primetime game. That that's a good point, and then they're at Atlanta after that. Their schedule, like the rest of the division, I think, is extremely challenging, but that is about it. That is the easiest four game stretch of the year uh for the Browns, and it might line up exactly with Deshaun Watson suspension, but we have no idea. I do find it like the NFL. The longer this goes, the more I'm concerned the NFL is not going to do anything about right. I Like, I find it confusing that the league would cater to the Cleveland Browns because they went they were the team that went and got to Shaun Watson and trying to give them cupcakes while he's suspended. Yeah, I think there's so many possible permutations of the schedule that we could we could draw any kind of conclusion right based on how we want to view it. Why do you have the cord uh wrapped around you? Act of the headset? He does this on a frequent basis, so if it were to fall off, it wouldn't fall far or well when you're talking on the cord, well, the thing is the West clip made me think of of how much Chris hated the whole pin the thing behind your head. Yes, so it just makes me think like, let's make this as ridiculous as possible. Let's drap big Claybon fans. It's it's Disturbuted, you're right that we probably shouldn't read too much into it, but I think you can absolutely read into that they only have two prime time games. What's what I'm saying. In a world, in a world where Deshaun Watson just got traded there and he had never um been accused of all of his sexual assault and misconduct, the Browns would be in primetime five times. Absolutely, it would be a premier team. So the other prime time game is in week eight. We don't know if Watson will be back by then. Necessarily either that's against the Bengals. But yeah, that was really surprising. They are at one p m. Four or fifteen times this schedule, war than any team and looks like Cleveland schedule during the eighteen years that they'd win about four games this season and hopefully right uh, there was no decision made by anybody that would try to hide from facilitating a conversation around sexual part and I think that's absolutely because, I mean, we should do that anyway. We should do that regardless of whether Deshaun Watson is playing football. But hopefully it's just you know, there's so many scheduled permutations. And if this was Baker Mayfield and he would be like, Ah, this is a personal offense. They don't want us, that nobody believes in us. I'm Baker Mayfield. Yeah, but like instead, you know this, maybe he'll get traded. Wow. So we so we get a Baker. Baker is going to join the Panthers. He's gonna beat the Browns in week one. Then we're gonna have the Sessler handsas Bawl and Zac Wilson's gonna beat the Browns in week two. Sam for the fact Greg that I'm not a Browns family, I'm not. Now you're gonna actually I don't know if you'll enjoy it, but it's not gonna bother you like it normally would. And then they would be oh and two heading to the Steelers on Thursday night. We three. That would be a tough situation and the football gods maybe they would be speaking there. But that's that that that's too much of a downer to go out on. Let's go out on something positive. Landing the plane that had no experience, how about that guy was incredible. It was a single engine Cessna flying from the Bahamas to Florida, and this guy gets on the air traffic control radio and it's like, we have a serious problem here. Are pilot is incapacitated. And the air traffic controller was like, Roger, what's your position? And the guy was like, I have no idea. I don't know how to fly a plane. I don't know any of this. And they ended up The guy who was controlling the traffic was also a flight instructor, and he literally talked him through landing the plane and he landed it, like beautifully. When did this happen? This happened yesterday. You were breaking the news. To me, that is an exciting story, and you you have been a pilot before. People don't know a student pilot. So, and my dad's a flight instructor and an air traffic controller. So this uh took about a half hour away of my morning where I was supposed to be looking over the schedule. But I was like, what he did? What? I need to hear the audio, I need to see the video. Who is this guy? That's amazing? Like yeah, of course, my brain is so ruined. The first thing I thought was, oh, well they were ferrying some sort of illegal material and the deal got bad in mid air, this person knocks the other person out and then feign's ignorance to the entire experience of flying in order to escape the authority. That's so highly possible. Everything you just said like it just is mark any any final thoughts. The only thing that I would like to see outside of football, I mean, if that's what we're going, is what if we too, like a schedule release on Earth where like you find out on like January one, for like holy like Halloween's on June six this year, or like Christmas is on Mar nine, like we not every year, but like one year where we are like that. That's the only thing that could be bigger than what the NFL has created. If it went down and suspect of changing my birthday this year or so people their never let them know where you're going. I that was so beautiful that we need to make that an episode. I at least do a schedule release of like our podcast and maybe our world, we could release some dates for what's coming up. I think that is a million dollar idea. We're not gonna talk we get a sponsor for that. I think we should go out on that. Um Graver, your Titans are are not in prime time five time, it's maximum, So that gives your team another thing to complain about. The Titans Twitter verse will be on fire, no doubt. Um. But they're they're they're, they're in there plenty um. This has been a thin slice of heaven. GHO Celtics Friday Night. Thank you Patrick for coming in, for tagging in. Thank you to Rachel Vanetta, Colleen wolf Marks Slayer. We'll see you next week, head the cop All of this makes sense. I am on board with it. Look, you want, you want to race to the schedule and find out your road trips, plan all that, put a W and L next to every team on your schedule. I get all of that. Just don't ask me to analyze it five months. There's no analysis necessary. Just enjoy the schedule being released, all right, all right,