NFL Schedule Release Takeaways & Travis Hunter Expectations with Ben Solak

The Domonique Foxworth Show

ESPN

Sports, Football

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Domonique Foxworth and Charlie Kravitz are joined by Ben Solak to break down the NFL's schedule release. They discuss who the winners and losers were, why rest days matter more than strength of schedule, and why the Bears' schedule is more favorable than it looks at first glance. Then, they give their expectations for Travis Hunter next season and ask whether the Steelers have a plan after their decision to re-sign Aaron Rodgers. 0:00 Intro 0:43 NFL schedule release 8:13 Bears' schedule 14:50 Commanders' schedule 16:58 More on the schedule release 22:36 The best schedule release videos 23:57 Travis Hunter expectations 43:48 Steelers' plan for Aaron Rodgers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:24.1	Off top, which NFL team is the only team with a logo that is left facing?
0:32.1	Play music.
0:32.7	This is the Dominique Foxworth Show.
0:38.2	Welcome to the Dominic Foxwood Show.
0:39.9	I'm Dominic Foxwood.
0:40.9	Charlie Kravitz looks confused as he often does when my off-tops are weird.
0:46.4	We're joined by the man with the takes Ben Solac.
0:50.0	What's up, man?
0:50.9	I know this one because a childhood team for me.
1:13.5	Nice. I look confused because we've done this off top on the show. Oh, wow. How embarrassing. Yeah. Embarrassing. How are it supposed to be embarrassed? That's not embarrassing. It's got to drive home to things so you can retain them. That's it. All right, so I think we got some schedule talk, which actually I'm kind of excited about.
1:19.4	I think if you look back at last season, you could argue that there were few things more impactful than like strength of schedule and like amount of rest.
1:23.9	Like I think the Seahawks were the team with the best rest advantage of anybody in the
1:28.3	league and there was much made of how easy the Patriots regular season was. And I guess their
1:36.4	path to the Super Bowl was also not replete with a lot of contenders. So I think it's going to be
1:44.0	something that becomes more and more important as the season goes along. So I think it's going to be something
1:44.3	that becomes more and more important
1:45.7	as the season goes along.
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