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here we go fr Friday, schedule release Friday.

Very few things I dork out to, I geek out to, more than the schedule release.

For a day anyway, I'm in LA.

So is J-Mack, it's the herd, wherever you may be,

and however you may be watching or listening. Thanks for making us part of your day. So the NFL

made a decision over a decade ago. Do a better job at protecting the quarterback and tweak

the rules to help offense. So the offense now is the cool

side of the ball. Offensive coordinators can make more than defensive coordinators, wide receivers

now can make more than your corners, like it's the cool side of the ball. So when I looked at the

Thanksgiving and the Christmas schedules, which are the best I've ever seen.

It's taken the NFL a while to figure out the holidays and the international stuff.

What jumped out to me was Thanksgiving Eve Packers Rams, Thanksgiving, Bears, Lions, Eagles,

Cowboys, Chiefs, Bills, Black Friday, Broncos, Steelers. One of those

teams, I think about defense, Pittsburgh, and that's only because they overspend on it,

Aaron Rogers is the biggest star on the team. He's the quarterback. Then you go to the Christmas

Eve games, Texans, Eagles, Packers, Bears, Bills, Broncos, Rams, Seahawks. I'm sorry, it's a lot of star quarterbacks. Only the Texans, I would say, I think, of defense first. You could really see the change. It's star quarterbacks. It's star offensive coaches. It is, you could say, well, the Seahawks, J.S.N. and Sam Darnold are moving a lot of jerseys, not the defensive ends.

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