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What is going on, everybody? John Middellcoff, 3-and-out podcast. Appreciate everyone listening.

Record this a little later than I typically do on a Thursday because we had this little

thing called schedule release. We know who everyone's playing and I realize I got a lot of

respect now for the national guys. They kind of have to talk about everyone and let's face a lot

of them. We'll just talk about the Patriots and the Cowboys. But there's a lot going on with the

schedule release. I haven't done the math, but 16 times whatever. There's a lot of games.

Lot of games, a lot going on. I'll try to give a big overview of just several things that jumped out

to me. There is one specific game that stood out to me like a sore thumb that is just like wow.

This is a transcendent potentially moment for the NFL to kind of put a stake in the back of the

NBA. Playing on Christmas Day, we'll dive deep into that. Earl Thomas has just that crazy story.

Brett Farve, Fraud. I'll dive into those two stories that were just like what the hell is going on.

Then of course the middle-coff mailbag at John Middellcoff is my Instagram handle. The direct messages

are wide open. You slide up in there and ask any question you want over the weekend in the next

several days. I'm not going to go team by team here. So you got specific questions. Feel free,

slide up in those DMs about specific games, teams, how you think the schedule, and then I can answer

it. It's just it's too difficult to go team by team right. It just take too long. It honestly,

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