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Hello, good, everybody. And welcome to the Mike Francesa podcast, part of the BetRivers Network. And we'll do some emails for you today on what is a little warmer day than we've had. We might actually get above the freezing mark for the first time in about three weeks. So that'd be a nice. Maybe some of this snow will melt.

It's been obviously a long winter in the northeast and anywhere where it's cold. So spring will be

a welcome site once it gets here, but it doesn't usually get here until about May 1st.

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And remember, it's absolutely free. All right, As we make that transition, you know, the NFL

shuts down now to March. I mean, it doesn't take a lot of time. It basically is in the news all year,

because there's even going to be speculation in the next couple of weeks. It's already February

the 10th. The season opens in a month with free agency.

And you know free agency is fast and furious in the NFL. So we're a month away from that.

Now, Paul starts us off, given that the Giants' road opponents combined for a daunting record,

it is clear that a last place finish doesn't guarantee an easy path. Should the NFL revise that? No, listen, there's going to be a couple

of games that favor your record. Whether your record's good, you get X, your record's bad,

you get Y. But for the most part, you're talking about, with a couple of exceptions,

you're talking about the same record for the division teams,

which is the same schedule for the division teams,

which is what you're looking for.

The idea in the NFL is to win your division.

That's the goal.

That's the key to the promise land.

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