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The MMQB NFL Podcast

A Schedule Surprise? | Weak Side Podcast

The MMQB NFL Podcast

SI NFL

Sports, Football

3.9944 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode of the Weak Side Podcast, Jenny and Conor dive into the NFL's surprising schedule release strategy, and talk about which teams benefitted (and got screwed). 

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0:00.0

Hello Weekside Podcast Podcast listeners I'm Jenny Rentis I'm here with Connor Orr and

0:07.8

we're going to chat a little bit about last week's much anticipated 2020 schedule release which this year I will say

0:15.6

that there seemed to be a concerted effort league wide to really button up and

0:22.2

prevent the usual leaks that we see Connor. Every year

0:26.0

there's a game who can get a couple games here and there who can get a full

0:29.6

schedule leak. There were a few leaks, there was a couple trickles, but I would say on the

0:36.8

whole this year it seemed like there was a concerted effort to prevent as many

0:41.2

leaks as possible.

0:43.2

Very frustrating on our end.

0:46.2

Because, you know, as much as,

0:48.1

I don't know why, but as much as I've grown like

0:51.0

tired of some of the processes, two things that I still enjoy the most in

0:56.7

terms of like reporting NFL minutia are trying to find out schedule games before

1:01.9

they're released and

1:02.7

undrafted free agents. I don't know why after the draft. Those are my two

1:06.0

things that like still in some way shape or form like get me fired up to dig up

1:11.2

like information like I'm gonna in terms of little

1:14.9

meaningless minutia but yeah it was very hard to get this year it seems like that's

1:19.4

left over from the days of being a beat writer where every nugget on a beat is so valuable.

1:24.3

So if you can get three or five free agent names, if you can get one or two games on the schedule

1:30.3

before it's announced, it feels like a big win but I actually talked to two people on

1:34.9

teams who said they made concerted efforts to share it with a few number of

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