NFL scheduling secrets exposed! Was the NHL lottery rigged? Pulitzer Prize winner Pablo Torres joins! (Episode 1451 Hour 2)

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Dan Le Batard

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🗓️ 6 May 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

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The NFL schedule is being planned. There are a lot of different discussions that go into this planning. Let’s look at what the league said and if it makes sense for each team. (10:25) The Toronto Maple Leafs won the draft lottery. I mean… come on! (17:10) Pablo Torre joins the show! (47:00) More on LIV Golf. Our favorite! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm I'm Welcome back to Nothing Personal. It's David Sampson and we're live. Thank you for being a subscriber to the Nothing Personal with David Samson YouTube channel. Thank you for watching us on Draft Kings Network. And if you're listening to us, we love you too. I want to start with something. It is a generally so you want to talk to Samson Wednesday, but it's a pretty special Wednesday. We've got Pablo Tori as a guest coming off the Pulitzer Prize win that we had the other day, coming off an episode that dropped on PTFO just yesterday and so many other things that I wanted to get Pablo on the show.
1:13.7	And hopefully that will happen here shortly.
1:16.6	But the other story that I want to make sure that you are aware of as you head into your
1:22.2	Wednesday is something happened with the NFL that is not getting any attention and to me it ought to be
1:30.6	the number one thing you're talking about you may not know the name mike north but you're
1:36.9	about to mike north is NFL's vice president of broadcast planning.
1:53.5	Mike North is the person who is in charge, if you will, of figuring out which game is when,
1:54.9	where, and how.
2:03.7	When you are thinking to yourself, am I seen it on CBS or NBC, or is this the ESPN? Are we on Monday night? Sunday night? Is this an international game in the morning? What network? How? Who's playing? God,
2:09.3	it always seems like it's the Yankees and Red Sox. Mike North, his name is behind it.
2:18.3	The NFL has a rule, and it's a pretty simple rule.
2:21.1	They want to crush MLB and the NBA.
2:25.4	They view the NHL as a NAT.
2:28.6	They view MLB and the NBA as a flee.
2:33.6	But they want to crush it it and the way they do it
2:37.2	is with the numbers they get for even the silliest of games.
2:44.6	But when they've got a good game
2:47.2	and they can get 35 million people to watch a particular game.
2:53.6	That's of great interest to them as they try to justify the billions and billions of dollars per year that they get to broadcast their games.
3:01.8	These are things that we knew.
3:05.2	These are things that we live with.
3:14.0	But when we heard North talk yesterday in an interview, I fell off my chair. He was talking about Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs.
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