Hey, what's happening, everybody.

We got the Patriot Talk podcast schedule, release, special.

Tom Tiles, Phil Perry, Bert Breyer has broken something already. buddy we got the patrius talk podcast schedule release special we're already off the

dials phil perry burprier has broken something already that is i don't know if i broke it or found

it broken we can that's okay i think i got it back uh we can determine that later meanwhile we've got

the full 17 game schedule just came out that you know about a half hour ago, every team tweeting it out, putting it out there.

So the Patriots putting it out there.

They have five primetime games.

Also a standalone game in Germany against the Lions, which we knew.

But they will kick off the season with the Seahawks on a Wednesday night to open the NFL season,

followed by the Steelers at home, then at Jacksonville

and at Buffalo. So pretty tricky first four weeks of the year. Phil, start off with you,

your initial thoughts on seeing the full 17. Yeah, so this is, to me, a daunting schedule in some ways, right?

Especially when you talk about that start, and I think we'll get into it a little bit more, a little bit later.

There's another difficult stretch right after they're by, but the first thing I go to usually when I see the schedule is where is the buy?

And I think it's kind of nice for the Patriots this year where it's at week 11 and not as late as it could possibly be, which it's been in years past, in recent years past.

So there's opportunity here with this schedule.

I think people understand that this is a much tougher schedule than last year, and I think it is.

But, Bert, I also look at this schedule, and I see the chance for the Patriots to not get all the way back to 14 wins, but still, in my opinion, it's very realistic that this is a double-digit win kind of team and a playoff team in 2026.

Yeah, I mean, I think, you know, one of the things that caught my eye, and obviously, obviously like we all have known who the opponents are

going to be since January like it's difficult but I don't see like this killer four or five

game stretch where it's like oh my god how are they going to make it through that um you don't think

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