Does Strength of Schedule Really Matter?
The MMQB NFL Podcast
SI NFL
3.9 • 944 Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Conor Orr and Albert Breer break down why the Cowboys and Giants play in prime time so often before getting into whether the NFL’s strength of schedule really matters and if the Lions and Browns will benefit from it next season.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to the MNQB NFL podcast. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm Connor back from vacation in New Jersey. |
| 0:12.0 | There's Albert Brean, Massachusetts. |
| 0:13.5 | And I told Albert, when I was gone, I said, hey, if you're going to do a show without me, |
| 0:18.3 | just make sure that I'm not Wally Pipped. |
| 0:21.3 | And, you know, you just don't go out and get some super hot former NFL and college star |
| 0:27.9 | player to fill in for me. |
| 0:29.6 | And then I turn around on social media. |
| 0:31.4 | I see I'm tagged in this post that says, oh, Brady Quinn sat in for Connor or so my |
| 0:36.2 | wife and are out to eat. We were out in vacation in Texas and I'm like, what the hell? Like, and she's like, what do you still worked up about? And I was like, he literally placed me with like the hottest guy on planet Earth. And then she's like, she's like, no. She's like, well, who's Brady Quinn? Show me like a picture. And then she looked it up and she's like, okay, I get it. |
| 0:55.6 | Right. |
| 0:56.1 | Like, you know, I get it. |
| 0:57.7 | Like, this is, uh, this is not what you want, you know. But I'm back for now. Yeah. I mean, to be fair, Brady is, Brady's a good buddy of mine. and he did he did say that he'd be happy to come on with the two of us because okay i did tell |
| 1:13.4 | him like how big a notre dame guy you are and uh he did he did agree to come on with the two of us so |
| 1:19.5 | all right good um i will wear so uh brady quinn uh i got like so he was like, it was like nine people removed, right? |
| 1:29.9 | But when I was peak Notre Dame fandom in high school is when Brady Quinn was a quarterback. |
| 1:34.9 | And so it was like, this guy knew this guy. |
| 1:37.8 | We can get the jersey to him, right? |
| 1:40.0 | You know, so I got the jersey for Christmas, the number 10 jersey. |
| 1:42.8 | We can get it to him and he can sign it for you. |
| 1:45.5 | And then I remember like the anticipation building and building and building. And then it came back to me and it said to Matt, uh, your, uh, like your friend Brady Quinn. And I was like, it's still hanging in my. So I might wear it. I'd be like, you know, I'm Matt. you know, for all intents and purposes, I'm at. |
| 2:01.9 | We're going to... |
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