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On today's Chris Sims-on-Button, we break down the 2026 schedule release.

Which teams made me say, holy shit, Batman, with tough schedules?

Which teams have favorable starts?

And, damn, are the primetime and holiday schedules as good as they've ever been?

Chris Sims-on-button going to start right after this.

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We're live. It's Friday. It's 10 a.m. It's YouTube. It's schedule release. That's right. We got tangible stuff here to talk about and look forward to. Connor Rogers is here. What's up, Broski? How you doing? Friday live? Friday. I like it. I know. Very quiet around here, but we're ready to roll.

Definitely. And we got plenty to talk about, certainly. I do always find this an exciting day. You know, we know kind of the teams of who are going to play, but as we always know, how it's laid out, the travel, you know, night games. how many tough ones do you have in a row to be able to see that, you know,

it almost kind of feels like, okay,

we're getting close.

Like football season is just around the corner, and that's always exciting for us, guys. What's the first thing you look for when you actually see, whether it's on a team schedule or league-wide? What's the one thing where you're like, okay, I got to know how this lays out before anything else? I've always said this. I'm big in the early part of the season, right? Yeah. That's the first thing. You know, first game and then that first four games and what they look like. Because, again, we don't know what these teams are going to be like totally, but we do know some teams are going to be better than others. And you can definitely

make some assessments here. And so I'm always looking at that. Like, can this team have enough

of a favorable schedule where they're not looking at four teams in a row where on paper,

there's no doubt that the four teams are better than them, right? And they're going to have to

play some magical game to win some of them. So that's the first thing I look at. So in this aspect, when I was a player, it was, okay, now I have a real goal here in training camp and OTAs. We're playing this team. I know how they play defense. So you already start to go like, oh, we got to get ready for,

you know, a lot of cover three or quarter blitzes. And that already starts to go through your brain. And then I think as a player, the next thing you look at right off of that is going, where's the prime time games? You do. Because again, primetime games are like the gift and the curse for a football player. You love them because you're like, we're the only thing on TV.

Right.

The bright lights. Because again, prime time games are like the gift and the curse for a football player.

You love them because you're like, we're the only thing on TV. The bright lights. That's awesome. But yet you can be like sitting there if you're playing on Monday night football going, it's Sunday. Is this game ever going to get here? And then Tuesday, of course, becomes a crazy day because it's supposed to be a day off. but if you're a quarterback, you're like, I can't take the day off.

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