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The Adam Schefter Podcast

Brady's Impact on Raiders' Future + Connecting Dots on HC Openings

The Adam Schefter Podcast

ESPN

Sports

4.2802 Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Adam Schefter and Ty Schmit of The Pat McAfee Show discuss the changes in Las Vegas, Atlanta, Arizona, and Cleveland. Plus, they reveal their Playoff Power Rankings. 0:00 Welcome 3:41 Tom Brady's influence 10:25 Predicting the Falcons' future 14:53 Changes with the Cardinals 18:23 How Schefty would navigate the Browns 26:04 Why the Giants kept GM Joe Schoen 30:14 Playoff Power Rankings Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:34.3

Welcome back to the Adam Schaefter podcast.

0:36.5

Happy New Year to everybody.

0:38.4

I'm not sure I'm allowed to say that according to Larry David, but I'm going to do it anyway. Happy New Year to everybody being that we didn't have a

0:43.5

chance to send our regards when the new year rolled in. And with the new year, we have lots of

0:50.7

coaching news as we get ready for Wild Card weekend.

0:54.6

And to help us do that, we bring it my friend, my colleague, the coach of the Pat Mackey show, Ty Schmidt for the weekly six-pack.

1:02.2

Thank you very much, Chefty.

1:03.8

Happy New Year to you as well and to all the listeners.

1:07.0

Listen, I think you can say Happy New Year as long as you want.

1:09.4

I know Larry David has his thing. If I see you in July and I haven't seen you yet that year, I might tell you happy New Year. So that's kind of to teach their own. But you mentioned it. I think this is my favorite week of the entire NFL calendar. Yours. Not mine. Yeah, definitely not yours. I know how much, you know, you've been on

1:29.3

your phone, but previewing wild card weekend coming up, not that coaches being fired is something

1:36.5

fun, but again, it's just movement is always kind of, you know, you kind of, hey, this guy

1:41.3

would be great here. This guy would be great here. I've always enjoyed doing that. And then not to mention, you know, all the NFL stuff,

1:47.6

we also have the college football playoff in full swing. So if you're a football fan,

1:51.5

this is arguably the best week of the football calendar, I would say.

1:57.1

Listen, I always find this to be a very difficult week. To me, personally, professionally speaking, it's the second most challenging time on the NFL calendar. I think the first is the month of March. And I say the entire month of March when the new league year begins, free agency starts, trades happen, signings, players coming, players going, happens all around the clock. March is easily the most

2:18.6

challenging and difficult and stressful time of the year. But this is a close second ahead of the

2:24.3

NFL draft because you have humans that are impacted. You have coaches whose time in a city

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