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00:02 - We were talking about the NFL schedule,
00:08 Marenzi and I just a few minutes ago,
00:10 and we were talking about, frankly,
00:13 you know, I looked at the schedule today.
00:15 I did a piece for the show today
00:18 on how all the best teams, like frankly,
00:23 that we're accustomed to, that we watch,
00:25 and that are always going, frankly,
00:27 for the playoffs, et cetera, and division titles,
00:29 and Super Bowls, they all have,
00:32 every one of them, to a man has like five brutal weeks
00:36 of their schedule at one point or another.
00:38 They have made it very difficult, I think, for everyone.
00:43 When I looked at it, I like studied it
00:47 and talked about each team's biggest problems.
00:49 And I mean, to tell you, I had more problems
00:52 on this thing than a lawyer.
00:53 I mean, honestly, teams have major issues
00:57 with travel, playing brutal teams, playoff teams,
01:01 not having a home game for a month.
01:03 It's insane, that schedule.
01:05 But you wrote about that Roger and company
01:07 are trying to just do too much.
01:10 - Yeah, the push that he brought up
01:13 without anybody really advocating for it,
01:16 this is not meeting consumer demand,
01:20 but he brought up during draft weekend
01:22 about the idea of extending the schedule to 18 games.
01:27 And we know that this is something
01:28 that they've pushed for for a while,
01:30 but he brought it up and kind of tried to tie in the idea
01:34 that it would allow Super Bowl weekend
01:36 to be played on a holiday weekend,
01:38 the President's Day weekend, if they pushed the schedule back
01:41 and how great that would be for everybody
01:44 if they didn't have to wake up for work on Monday morning.
01:47 I found that defense to be nonsensical.
01:51 And I'm really more worried about how the players feel
01:53 when they wake up on the morning after Super Bowl Sunday,
01:57 as well as all the previous Sundays.
02:00 I just, there's no demand for this.
02:03 If they put it together, as I said in my column,
02:06 no one's gonna say, well, that's the week
02:08 I'm not watching to protest the fact
02:10 that they've extended it to 18 games
02:12 when we didn't really want that.
02:14 No one's gonna do that.
02:15 They're gonna watch the games and they know that,
02:17 but the players have to take a stand here somewhere.
02:20 Their players association has to say,
02:23 this is not good for us.
02:25 We already play enough games.
02:27 There's already enough money in the league.
02:30 As I pointed out, if you were wealthy enough
02:33 to have bought the Dallas Cowboys,
02:35 then when you held them in the year 2002,
02:40 they went from, they improved their valuation so much.
02:46 It was over a thousand percent valuation
02:49 up to $9 billion now.
02:51 The S&P 500, if you put the same amount of money
02:54 in the S&P 500, and the American economy's done fine
02:56 in that period, it went up like 558% or something like that.
03:01 It wasn't even quite 600%.
03:03 So they got more than double the S&P 500
03:06 by owning an NFL team.
03:07 And that's not enough.
03:08 I mean, at some point you have to do what's best
03:11 for the competition, for the athletes
03:14 who comprise the competition,
03:17 as well as making sure that the product
03:20 is the best that it can be.
03:21 And when a third, I think, maybe that's a lot,
03:25 I can't remember the exact number,
03:26 but a significant number of the quarterbacks
03:29 who opened last season as starters
03:32 were lost to season-ending injuries.
03:34 But you're not putting the best possible product
03:37 on the field.
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