It's a Thursday.

It's August 13, four weeks away from the start of the regular season, and it's football players in helmets in fairly close proximity, doing football player things.

Now, granted, it looks a lot like phase two of the

offseason program in the middle of August. But at least we see helmets. Yes, they will be

wearing helmets this year because for the first time, they are. And they're getting closer and

closer to fully padded practices, which start in the next few days.

Wait, you mean there's no games tonight? I thought, I thought Eagles Colts kicked off at

seven o'clock tonight. I was all excited for that. Chris, it is so jarring. I may have mentioned

this the other day off the air, possibly on the air, who the hell knows at this point.

You pull up the schedule of a team and you see canceled, canceled, canceled, canceled for the

month of August.

I mean, we knew that.

We've known it.

But there's something stark about seeing it put in those terms.

But yes, tonight's preseason games that would have been

canceled. Tomorrow's canceled. Saturday. Canceled. See, those first two weeks of the preseason

were awesome because we got what you and I would love to have every week. Football, Thursday,

Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday.

Yep. So we can actually focus on individual games instead of that cluster at 1 p.m. Eastern

on Sunday when you've got nine games going on at once and you can't focus on any of them.

No, I agreed. The preseason is a great time to get to know your football team

or all the football teams, whatever you want to do, whatever that is. But yeah, it's not about the

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