00:00A lot of people get upset with this, and I don't know why, Kevin.
00:03When we went from 16 games, and Joe's going to get upset with me right now as well.
00:06We had 16 to 17 games.
00:08Like, people were complaining about that.
00:09I'm telling you right now, if we get the NFL 50 weeks out of 52 in a year,
00:13I would love the sport even more.
00:15But people are always going to complain.
00:17What do you think about an 18-game schedule in the NFL?
00:20You know, it's funny.
00:23It's awful, and I cannot believe that people keep lying to themselves.
00:27But, Donnie, you know you don't want football.
00:30Donnie, Donnie, what if your number one takes is that every XFL, UFL, YFL, TGL,
00:40that none of these things are real?
00:42Nobody needs football in March and April.
00:46Shout out to my co-host, though, Gabe Arenci,
00:48who legitimately batted leadoff the other day by breaking down the new XFL rules
00:53and then just ripping picks in the sport.
00:54You guys know that's what he does,
00:56and he does legitimately batting the games.
00:59But, no, the NFL, it's this interesting thing, right,
01:04where we talk about the NBA fighting for eyeballs
01:06and Major League Baseball fighting for eyeballs and hockey,
01:09and the NFL has this gift where less is more.
01:12They're like, yeah, what if we push it a little bit?
01:15What if more is more?
01:17What if we have a full slate on Christmas
01:20and a full slate on Thanksgiving and a full slate on Black Friday?
01:24Are the Saturdays open?
01:26Yeah, we'll run head-to-head with the college football.
01:29It's not good because the games, then, are not good.
01:33So then you have to do a show where you're like, okay,
01:36how much should we talk Alabama, Oklahoma, and Packers-Cardinals
01:42with a 12-and-a-half-point number?
01:44It's not good, and the 18 games are not good because I know you.
01:49The second you start dealing with multiple Eagle bye weeks,
01:52you're going to lose your mind.
01:57And listen, and I am not a fan.
02:01Taking away the preseason was less practice,
02:04and that means the games are even worse now heading into the first month
02:09of the season, and they're not going to improve
02:11by taking away another preseason game and giving them less practice.
02:15I would rather you take away the game, give them more practice time,
02:18and hit the ground running, Kev.
02:20I'd rather see better football than more football.
02:23Yeah, couldn't agree more.
02:27It's just, it's too much.
02:31Like, it is.
02:33I think their most jump-the-shark moment
02:37was when they tried to bully the college football playoff
02:40on those Saturdays, where it was, everyone was excited for the,
02:44and I understand the start of the college football playoff
02:46was not great football, but everyone's like,
02:48what, why are there three NFL games on right now?
02:50And they don't stop.
02:52What, the Wednesday opening day?
02:54Like, I'm supposed to be, oh, yeah, but we needed Wednesday opening day
02:57because of Australia and the high school.
03:00What?
03:02What?
03:02What are we doing here?
03:04What?
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