00:00The Patriots schedule release was yesterday, and one of the things I noticed, and Curtis
00:03had pointed this out with the opening game, and I think it applies now for multiple games
00:08since Patriots season, is they play the Seahawks on a Wednesday night at 820, then basically
00:14get 11 days off before they have to play the Steelers.
00:17They'll play the Bears on a Thursday night and get 10 days off before they have to play
00:22the Dolphins in a late afternoon game in November.
00:24They have to go to Germany, but then they get the bye week immediately following that
00:29leading into a Sunday night game against the Chargers, and they play the Vikings on a Thursday
00:34night and then get 12 days off before they have to face the Kansas City Chiefs on Monday
00:39Night Football.
00:40I think the schedule is definitely more difficult, as in the teams you're playing this year are
00:44more difficult, but I think the mini-bys that they're going to get multiple times throughout
00:49the season, Curtis mentioned the placement of that Week 11 bye week, I think is going
00:55to really benefit the Patriots this year.
00:56You're going to have a couple short weeks, but it's coming off like a game against the
01:00Jets into the Bears, right?
01:02And a game coming off the Bills game into a short week against the Vikings may be probably
01:06a little bit tough, but if you can kind of weather the storm in the first four weeks,
01:10I think the amount of time off you're going to get in between some of these games is really
01:15going to benefit the health of this team and keep them ready to go throughout the entire
01:19season.
01:19I find it so hard to make any determination about it because of the incessant drumbeat
01:27about AJ Brown and the automatic assumption that he's coming here.
01:31So every time I look at it, I go, you know, you look, you're, you're, when we were talking
01:35about it yesterday, talking about starting on the road against the defending Super Bowl
01:40champs, you're like, oh, that's going to be a tough game to win.
01:42But in your mind, it all changes in two weeks.
01:46If you get, if you get AJ Brown and Greg to like when they were doing the schedule release
01:52on ESPN last night, I kind of just had it on in the background.
01:55I look up and their chef are talking about AJ Brown, probably going to the Patriots on
02:00June 1st.
02:00Like it is, it feels like the worst kept secret in football.
02:04So you may even have higher expectations once it comes through in, you know, just two weeks
02:09now.
02:10So, yeah, I mean, it seems like he's definitely going somewhere.
02:12Like I saw in Philly, the, the fans were bummed because they had, there was a AJ Brown banner
02:20up on the stadium and they took that down yesterday or something.
02:22I mean, so he's definitely going somewhere.
02:25I mean, I, and it, I mean, he's coming to the Patriots.
02:28Yeah.
02:28Okay.
02:28So you're, you're just firmly convinced it's a done deal and no, no question in your mind
02:33because Schefter and everybody else has been told it.
02:36Think about how much the ESPN and Fox and all these networks and radio shows do to drum
02:41up false interest on stories that are based on nothing but a whim and how empty this period
02:47usually is.
02:48AJ Brown is a top receiver.
02:51Everybody that watches ESPN thinks he could help their team.
02:54So if there was any legitimacy to any potential that this grade could not actually happen
02:59with the Patriots getting the player, they would be going out of their way to talk.
03:02There'd be some pushback.
03:03Somebody else would say, Oh, actually the bears are in on him or something like that.
03:07Like there's another competitor who emerges.
03:09Cause it doesn't really benefit anyone to trot out every week and say, we think he's still
03:14going to the Patriots.
03:15That's not a new story.
03:17And even the Rams who were mentioned to be in on him were the ones that were like, don't
03:21talk about us.
03:22We're fine.
03:23Like we're good.
03:23Yeah.
03:24How many wins when you, when you look at that schedule, shine, where, where are you at?
03:28Right.
03:28So I think the over under, uh, by Vegas is right.
03:31I 10 and a half is the right number.
03:33I'm going to go with 11.
03:34I think the Patriots get to 11, barely get over that 10 and a half number.
03:38Okay.
03:39How do we feel about 11 wins?
03:40So a little bit of trepidation.
03:44I mean, yeah, a little trepidation there.
03:46I think that's aggressive, but I like it.
03:49I think there's a lot of people that are waiting to see with how the, well, how the coach is,
03:52how the team looks.
03:53Okay.
03:54This is a personal plea to the NFL because the schedules came out last night and it wasn't
03:59just about the Patriots.
04:01Although that's how it feels around here.
04:03Please, for the love of God, I'm talking to you, Roger Goodell and every TV network and
04:09streamer, can we stop pretending that the Cowboys still matter?
04:14God, thank you.
04:15Why do we have the Cowboys in Sunday night football for the first Sunday night football
04:20game against the Giants again?
04:22Awful.
04:23Like this is horrible.
04:24They have six prime time games.
04:26This is a team who has not won a Superbowl in 30 years.
04:30And on top of that, in the last 25 years, okay.
04:33So the last 25 years, you have the Patriots win six Superbowls.
04:37They missed the playoffs for two years after 2021.
04:40And they're like relegated to these 1 PM spots every single week.
04:45We call that the Mayo schedule.
04:471 PM on Sundays.
04:48The Cowboys haven't made the playoffs.
04:50Stay for the Gatorade now.
04:51The Cowboys haven't made the playoffs in two years and they have six prime time games.
04:56Like make it make sense.
04:58How is this brand considered so strong at this point?
05:01But it has to do, the games have to do well ratings wise.
05:05They do.
05:05They're not dumb, but I, I understand.
05:08I, I, I know the companies that are doing this are paying tens of billions of dollars
05:13for these rights and they're not going to just light it on fire.
05:15I just, I usually get it.
05:18Like I may not be into something, but I get why somebody is the Giants and the Cowboys
05:23playing is an immediate Netflix.
05:26Like I don't care, but that's probably the, the Harbaugh thing.
05:30I would assume.
05:31No, but I mean, no, but like literally whether it's Coughlin Harbaugh, the, the, the, uh,
05:37porn stash McAdoo, like whoever the coach of the Giants is, they're playing the Cowboys
05:42on Sunday night that there's literally one highlight.
05:44It was a one-handed catch by Odell Beckham Jr.
05:47And that was in a Cowboys Giants game.
05:49Name me another moment.
05:50That's memorable.
05:51And, and to me, I just, I feel like if they allowed it to be better teams, I don't think
05:57the ratings would suffer.
05:59Yeah.
05:59And it's a self-fulfilling thing.
06:00Cause you're like, well, they're America's team.
06:02Well, you push them down our throat.
06:03I just, I don't understand it.
06:06Like, I don't understand how it, how it continues year after year.
06:10And it's the first segment of every national show is like, Oh, okay.
06:15We're going to Cowboys training camp.
06:17It's like, well, who cares?
06:18Like they don't do anything ever.
06:20And it's, it's like, I can't even compare.
06:22I can't think of another franchise in any other league that gets treated this way.
06:27Like not even the Lakers.
06:29I mean, people try to pretend like the Lakers matter when they have the one bubble championship
06:33recently, but since Kobe, they really haven't, at least they have the Kobe era recently.
06:37We're talking about 1996 for the Dallas Cowboys.
06:41I would say the only comparison and they don't have even the success would be Knicks, like
06:45in terms of coverage, but it still doesn't scratch the surface of the Cowboys.
06:49Mago, thank you.
06:50How about that?
06:51How about that lead from Mago?
06:52It's a personal vendetta.
06:54This is Art from Walpole.
06:56Art, good morning.
06:58Good morning, everybody.
07:00I would like to say that if Drake May is indeed the real deal that we think he is, there
07:07is
07:07no way the Patriots win less than 12 games with that schedule.
07:12I see an easy 12, an easy, if this team is loaded, assuming they get A.J.
07:18Brown, this team is loaded to the gill.
07:22And I see at least 12 wins this year, at least.
07:26Okay.
07:27Assume that Drake progresses like we think.
07:30Yeah.
07:32Listen, I love your optimism.
07:34Three of the first four are on the road against playoff teams, so I don't know that I can be
07:40that optimistic.
07:41Can we really talk about Pittsburgh as a playoff team?
07:44We don't even know who the quarterback is going to be.
07:47They stink.
07:47They have to win that game at home.
07:50Yeah.
07:50Yeah.
07:50I mean, I...
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