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You know, we've talked about the schedule release for a couple days.

We have full details on Thursday.

The international games right here on GMF the year going to be announced.

What's wild, I got a little bit of a bone to pick with you guys.

And I didn't even, I didn't even catch it, which is maybe part of the problem. Last hour of the show, Kyle made reference. We did our, the teams that we want to see, the top five teams. And no one had Seattle. We've been doing the schedule release thing on all of our shows for years and years and years. Can someone please explain to me?

I would, we don't bet, but if I was a betting man, I would say that has never happened on any of these shows when we've looked ahead to the upcoming season and said, hey, we're not excited to see. They're not even going to be in their top five, the Super Bowl champs. What am I missing here? There's still a dominant squad. We're not saying that they're not a dominant squad, yammers. But do you watch M.M.M.A. Do you know who Habib Nirmagummanov is? I know he's a lot better. So he's one of the greatest MMA fighters of all time, but he's a grappler, right? That doesn't take away from his dominance. This guy's one of the greatest fighters of all time. However, maybe the excitement of that type of fight, people want to see certain knockouts, people want to see certain swings, haymakers. They don't want to see people grappling for 30 minutes. And so maybe to a certain point, guys just, we know what Seattle does. They play great defense. I love watching Seattle's defense. The way that they play, I don't think a lot of people may want to see at primetime television. I don't know what you think, K.B.

When we're talking about watchability, right? And someone might say, well, they were in the Super Bowl. Did you watch that Super Bowl? I mean, did you watch this the fourth quarter?

I barely did.

I mean, it was a credit to them.

They were so good and so dominant that it's also like, we have a lot of teams on here that we haven't seen in a while. The Seahawks are the most recent team that we've seen. Like I have the Patriots. Of course, they played in that game, but I got the Browns on my list. Here was my list of the top five teams I want to see. Browns, because it just might be weird. Steelers. I like Rogers, Pats, because all kinds of

reasons on and off the field. Bills, I like Josh

Allen, and the Bears are really excited. The Seahawks, I saw it, I get it. They were incredible. It was one of the worst Super Bowls that's been played in the last 10 years to their credit. And I want to have some of the other ice cream flavors at the parlor, Willie.

Yeah, and we like drama. That's what it is.

When you want to see a team, like, as you mentioned the Pats,

as you mentioned the bills,

like if you look like Josh Allen, man, when is he ever going to do it, right? We know he's great. We know he's capable of doing heroic things, but we want to see him win a Super Bowl. There's, there's an element of drama that we're playing on. Mike, you know what? The real beef would be had is if we ranked our just top five teams going into this year and none of them had Seattle. That would be crazy and I would not do that. This is the teams we're just interested to see. And some of these friends we haven't seen in a while, that's all it is. That's fair. That's fair. Like I said, I said this in the last hour. I think there's some fans in the Pacific Northwest.

We love Seattle. Ready to like throw something at the television. Give us more love. There's been a whole lot of love. And you obviously won a Super Bowl. So that's definitely the good thing. Someone made reference to the drama and the storylines. Early announcements have already been a part of the process when it comes to the NFL schedule release.

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