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Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. I'm Robert Mays. Great show for you guys today. Mitchell Schwartz is going to be joining us a little bit later like he's doing every single Wednesday. I hope you guys are excited for that. I know that I am. Before we get to that, though, I am thrilled to welcome co-host VSPN's Monday Night Football, somebody we love having on this show. Lewis, Riddick-Lus. How you doing? You're doing good, man. I'm doing good. Thanks for having me back. We've always had some great combos here. I sincerely appreciate the time. I know you're extremely busy. We're a night after your night in Green Bay doing Packers Lions, we're going to get into that.

I wanted to ask you, though, before we start actually talking about the game, which I really do want to dig into,

I'm curious what your guys' week is like on Monday night football, because one of my favorite things,

one of the reasons I kind of want to be a fly on the wall for a TV production is the meetings and the conversations because you guys get to have some pretty deep football conversations

with the coaching staffs and the players that you work with. So just lay it out for me.

Like when you're, let's say for this week, like what was the structure of your guys's

week to prepare? Who do you talk to? I'm just curious about the nuts and bolts of what it's like to do those games. Yeah, well, you know what? If I just took you through a week, like, let's just say when we get back from a game. So today, today's kind of like a, you know, it's a travel day. If you're on the West Coast, you take a red eye.

If you're not, you're getting back, you know, sometime around noon. It's kind of one of those days to just kind of recalibrate. And you really start already, Robert, shifting your mind to the very next week. Because you don't have much time. Okay, you really have to start dialing in on, okay, from a big picture what the next week is going to look like, who the teams are going to be, start maybe reading some articles about what happened to them previously, and just get your mind right, ready to go. Wednesdays, we kind of have a, from a booth

perspective between Steve Levy, Brian Greasy, myself, and then Phil Dean, the producer, and Jimmy

the director, us five get together and just

discuss the previous week's game and just, you know, have whatever we want to bring up that's

positive or negative about what happened in that game from a production standpoint, from a play

breakdown standpoint, from a play call standpoint, situations that came up, we just kind of go

through amongst ourselves before we get with the big group on Thursday

to kind of frame that coming week to just make sure we put that week to bed.

Thursday, we have another, then we have that big production meeting.

Brian and I kind of lay out what we think this game is going to look like.

Steve lays out what are important points that he wants to make during that week.

And we just kind of like set the tone for what the weekend is going to look like once we hit

the road and travel on Friday. So really that day also, we give Phil the list of the coaches,

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