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The schedule is out and it looks daunting.

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How many primetime games? That's what we know. So let's get two. I got five thoughts on the commander's schedule because it's clearly a big deal here. And it is a pretty rough start potentially. So I'm going to start there. I'm going to start with the start. And there's two ways to look at it. The first way is this, that it's a really tough start.

They're starting with two NFC East

games for the first time since the 1999 season, and they have at this time they have

at Philadelphia and at Dallas. So two road games in the NFC East against a two, obviously

very tough place to play, especially Philly,

and Dallas, who knows? But then they come home to Seattle. Then they travel overseas to London

to play Indianapolis. Now, the Colts collapsed last year. Part of it was injuries to the

quarterback, but they just collapsed. Who knows what they're going to do? The Giants are next.

There's no by week after London.

I believe that is by the commander's request. They can get a buy week out in a couple weeks later. But when they come back from London, they'll have a home game against the Giants. Who knows what they're going to look like. But then you play the Niners. And then after that, after the by-week, you have the Eagles and the Rams.

That's a tough eight-game stretch to open the air. On paper, and I say on paper, because we don't know how it's going to unfold. The key with the schedule is not so much what looks like now because things change. We really don't know how good any of these teams are. Historically, the Eagles are very good.

And so we can kind of deduce by that. The Niners depends on the injuries. And last year, they had a lot and they were still good. A couple years ago, they're a lot of injuries, and they weren't good. So it depends on who is hurt. and so there's Seattle, a Super Bowl champion,

they've been good two years in a row.

You can anticipate they're probably going to be pretty good.

So with Dallas, there's, you know, Seattle, a Super Bowl champion, they've been good two years in a row. You can anticipate they're probably going to be pretty good.

So, you know, with Dallas, who the heck knows?

But a lot of it really comes down to when you play them and how, what the health of your

team is when you play them.

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