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An NFC East theme to the show today. We'll get started with that in a few minutes.

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one-sentence review about how much you like the show, that helps us as well. I noticed something

this morning when I was getting ready for the podcast today that I had not noticed, and maybe many of you hadn't noticed either.

It's not a huge thing, but just something new to get used to as it relates to the NFL's new

schedule format. With the league moving to the 17-game regular season and three pre-season games,

the season which used to open up the following

week, following the final preseason game, will now open up two weeks after the final

preseason game. Actually, in most cases, more than two weeks after the preseason finale. Washington

is scheduled to play the Ravens at FedEx Field

on August 28th. Their opener is 15 days later against the LA Chargers. I didn't notice this before,

and don't ask me how I got to it this morning. I was just looking at their schedule and looking at

dates at the end of the summer as it related to the preseason games, and I noticed it for the first time. And the reason

it was interesting to me, and maybe not to you, but the reason I bring it up is I think it's

going to change the way teams treat the preseason. Remember, the final preseason game in the past, the fourth

preseason game, was always treated as barely a game by most teams. You know, starters sat,

backups, mostly players on the verge of being cut, played in the game. And that fourth preseason

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