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Today on the Zavecast, as we move into a 17 game NFL world, what will happen to one of the most iconic phrases to describe a pointless season? Mr. X is back and ready for spring training. He's got thoughts on quitting versus opting out and the payroll disparity and major league baseball.

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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2021. Thank you for downloading. So it has been said that some coaches derisively call the NFL and eight Nate league, which is to say, hey, every year, every team is right on that eight

Nate line. You win a couple more than you lose from the eight Nate and suddenly are 11 and five and you're a genius. You've had a great season. If two or three go the other way, you're six and 10 and you're probably fired or something like that.

In fact, somebody said Bill O'Brien, handsome fella. His hallmark saying was the NFL is an eight Nate league, this according to a treat from Seth Paine.

So now as we move to a 17 game NFL format next year, what are they going to say about a mediocre worthless, even Steven season.

And Sean Penner gasped his fellow host on that station said, well, I just call it an eight eight and one league. Yes, an eight eight and one league. You know, it's an eight eight and one league.

And with ties being a little bit more prevalent now because of the overtime rules, that makes sense.

You know this, no season is worth writing home about, as I like to say, unless you win 11, 10 and six. All right. Nice year. You got two games above the eight and eight Bill O'Brien, even Steven threshold that went your way by hooker by crook, by bad caller review, by weird bounce or whatever or injury to a key player like the other team's quarterback.

10 and six, 11 wins. Okay, you can sit down and write my dear mom. What a season we just had 11 wins. Of course, the redskins have not had 11 wins since 1991.

So we're coming up on 30 years of absolute futility, longest such stretch without 11 wins in the NFL. I'm pretty sure about that. Don't quote me.

Somebody, the Lions have had 11 win season in that span. I think the Browns did once, maybe not. Let's just see if Google is open at this hour, longest streak of less than 11 wins NFL and go.

Longest winning streaks, consecutive playoffs. I can't find it. Anyway, if you know the answer, get back to me. 11 and five is a really nice season right home to mom. Tell her how proud you are. 12 and four is a bona fide. We're a contender kind of season.

13 and three is a screamer of a good year in which you are just joy writing around the rest of the league. 14 and two is, you know, we probably could have won 15 or maybe all of them, but we just didn't try very hard.

And if you're 15 and one, you're like, well, shit, we had one bad day. We met one good opponent. They got us. And of course 16 and no is only been done once by the Patriots. And we know how that ended in the post season on the downside of things. I wonder now, okay, so what eight and nine, I sort of like the evenness of 16 games. Am I going to complain about an extra week of course not.

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