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You know, I actually love the analogy that Kyle just used regarding Christmas.

In fact, they give us these promos to talk about Thursday.

When we get the full schedule release, they're like, hey, it's Christmas in May.

Kyle, as soon as you went there, I immediately started thinking to myself, were you the dude, like, as a kid when you realized that there was, I don't want to spoil it for anyone. Were you looking for, were you at home, like, looking for your Christmas gifts? Yeah, of course. You peel back a little piece of the paper even. Oh, look, micro machines. Yes. and then you put it right back up and you put it towards the trees so they don't see it. I wish we could do that for the games.

I mean, I wish we knew how they were going to go. But we are finding out, Mike M. as you know, very rapidly what they're going to be, including some breaking news this morning, I think. Yeah, well, I'm glad you bring up some of that breaking news because our good

buddy, Joe Buck, was on Good Morning America and give us another matchup, the 2026 schedule release

just two days away. Let's go. Broncos and Chiefs, it's Monday night football. By the way,

the schedule yet to be determined just yet. So as soon as that

becomes official, of course, we will have to cover. But look, I think we speculated on what this

matchup could be. We finally have the answer. And Sean Payton yesterday, we ran some of that sound.

Bow Nix trending in a good direction. I know we've talked about the health of Patrick Mahomes from

the Kansas City Chief's perspective, but this is what we know that Monday night matchup is a lot. That game better be in Denver. It better be in Denver, Mike, yeah. Denver beat Chiefs twice last year. Denver is the champs. I love the pageantry of Arrowhead and the Sea of Britain. We've done that for years. This game better be in Denver.

They have not announced where it's going to be. It should be in the Denver Broncos Stadium. They deserve it. With you on that front. Hopefully that is going to be the case. Meanwhile, the first Sunday night football game will kick off with, yeah. How about this? Oh, let's go. Yeah, let's go. Thursday, week number one. It's San Francisco. It's the Rams.

We talked about the Australia game. Netflix. Let's go. By the way, there's a little,

little trash talk between some of the coaches. A little bit, a little bit. We'll get into that

a little bit later in this show, a little bit later in this segment. Back in Australia,

I mean, back in March at the owner's meeting,

Kyle Shannon had some words as to why this was played, why the Rams chose to play the

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