We welcome you into the best podcast available. It is a special edition of the best podcast available. Why the

2022 slash 23 NFL schedule and your Cleveland Brown schedule has officially been released. We are brought to you by

Cross Country Mortgage and Intergribble joins me along with the voice of the Browns. Jim Donovan to break it all down

for you. We'll go game by game through it all. The good news is we don't play on Christmas day. We don't

play on Thanksgiving and you know we have a couple of prime time games which we'll get to but

Grims I'll start with you. You're your first thought looking through this entire schedule.

Yeah I mean it's it's one that I think it's the best I've felt about a schedule at this time

in a few years. I think it just kind of works out pretty normally. I like just personally I think

it's more than more front-loaded schedules in terms of home games that we've seen in a long time

and I think that that's just good for Cleveland. It's good for fans to get to experience what we hope

is some some lovely fall weather of first-entergy stadium in the in the first couple months of the

season but on the other side of that that means you're backloaded with road games and this is a

nine-road game schedule. So the second half of the season that's going to that's going to determine

the fate of this team. I mean there's some big big games in the second half of the season and a lot

of them are on the road including the last two games in the season which we you don't see

all that often. So if the Browns are going to be playing games in January at first-entergy stadium

they've got to make the playoffs because they don't have any on this schedule. Jim your thoughts

as you take a look at this 2022-23 schedule. I think that if you were ever built to get off

to a quick start and and have very winnable games early and really get momentum going in September

there would have been so many times where you come out of September and you're one in three and

you're kind of lost and I know that wasn't the case last year but I think this schedule kind of

is built that you could get off to a really quick start which is always good and then I think

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