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The Dan Patrick Show
iHeartPodcasts and Dan Patrick Podcast Network
4.5 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
NFL reporter Albert Breer peels back the curtain on the NFL schedule-making process and discusses how the league's focus remains casual audience expansion. Golf analyst Scott Van Pelt paints a picture of the brutal conditions at this year's PGA Championship and emphasizes Scottie Scheffler's must-watch presence. And longtime friend Rich Eisen looks back on days at Sportscenter with Dan, explains how the NFL schedule release has transformed into a full-scale social media event, and wishes DP a very happy birthday.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.6 | You are listening to the Dan Patrick show on Fox Sports Radio. |
| 0:09.0 | Albert Breyer is the Monday morning quarterback, senior NFL reporter, and he joins us now. |
| 0:15.5 | Albert, I was curious about when the NFL is building its schedule, how long is this process and how do you start, |
| 0:23.9 | how do you finish? Well, first of all, happy 40th birthday, Dan. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. |
| 0:32.2 | It actually starts like the minute the regular season ends because at that point, of course, we know who's playing who. |
| 0:39.3 | And, you know, this has changed over the years. |
| 0:43.3 | I remember when I first started doing this story and, you know, Peter King did it at such a high level for so many years and covering all of this. |
| 0:50.3 | But it almost seemed like at first, it was like, you know know when I first started doing this it was sort of |
| 0:54.6 | like a tournament almost the way that they would narrow it and narrow it and narrow it and it's not |
| 1:00.2 | really that way anymore um they run like a hard to calculate number of combinations through their |
| 1:07.5 | computers and through you know what they do with AWS. |
| 1:16.5 | And, you know, what they wind up, what they spit out about 6,000, what they would call playable schedules, right? |
| 1:18.0 | Like, based on all the filters they have it and everything else. |
| 1:21.3 | And then, you know, from those 6,000, they narrow that down and they find what they call |
| 1:26.4 | the leader. |
| 1:27.4 | And then over the last couple of weeks |
| 1:29.4 | you know the the leader is pitted against other schedules where they actually go through it |
| 1:35.8 | like by hand and compare one to the next and can you beat the leader and the leader usually gets |
| 1:40.8 | the leader might get knocked off and then some another schedule becomes the leader |
| 1:44.6 | and now you try to beat that one until you come up with what you um what you end up with which was |
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