NFL Season Start: The Impact of Early Losses and Injuries

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00:00Anybody can beat anybody. We've already known that on any given Sunday, right? We've already

00:07known that for years. We know there are a few exceptions. Carolina obviously struggling

00:12right now, but especially early in the season to Scott teams aren't ready yet. You know,

00:18they don't play that much in the preseason. Then they pay the price for it. It's like

00:22a sacrifice. They're worried about injury in the preseason and then their teams aren't

00:26ready to go in the first couple of weeks of the season. I'll tell you what. Oh, and

00:30two used to be the kiss of death. You weren't making the playoffs. It's like, you know,

00:358% chance, 9% chance of making the playoffs. If you start the season over to now with a

00:4017 game schedule, there's a little bit more leeway, but it gets late early as Yogi Bera

00:46one state, it's got, you know, these teams, it's like baseball, right? When a team will

00:51blow a game in may or something. And it's like, wow, you know what? It's okay. Well,

00:56every bit as much as the games do on September the 18th and 19th, when you're desperate for

01:00games, the NFL, there's not a lot of room for error, right? So if you start off the

01:05season with a couple of losses, you could really bury yourselves, but the dogs have

01:08been barking so far, uh, this year. And you know what Scott Baltimore were the most in

01:15week one Cincinnati was the most popular survivor pick. How did they lose? There's no way in

01:19hell they lose to the new England Patriots. Yesterday. The most popular pick was the Baltimore

01:24Ravens over the, uh, the Raiders. And then I knew what happened. I knew coming in and

01:30what happened while they had a 10 point lead. That's what I'm saying. How many people lost

01:35in the survivor? Another 4,000 were knocked out. Another 24% that were still alive, got

01:43knocked out. Scott, it's already down like 70% of it knocked out already. And we're going

01:48into week three. We're going into week three. I survived. I had the Houston Texans last

01:55night, so I live to fight another week. Scott.