This is the Seahawkers podcast.

I'm Brandon Schultz.

And today, to help kick off the Seahawks' 2023 NFL season, I'm joined by my good buddy, E.J. Snyder of bootleg football.

You can find him out on X.com at football E.J.

Look, look at me. I've got the lingo down and everything. How are you doing, E.J.?

I'm good. We refuse. We refuse to call it X. We still call Twitter. But I certainly am agnostic. We'll take either. I'm good. It is, it's an exciting time.

You know, hope springs eternal for all NFL fan bases right now.

Except the Cardinals.

But maybe their hope is just a little farther out in the future.

They have a different kind of hope.

They're hoping for something else.

But it is, yeah, it's building.

It's funny because there was this big surge. There's always this big surge of energy and football

is back, right? We get the Hall of Fame game. We get preseason games and there's this like now three-ish

week burst. You get all these games every week on all kinds of crazy days.

It feels, you know, almost like high school, college, whatever you got games on Thursdays and Fridays and Sundays and Sundays.

And then they're whack.

And I know the NFL does that, you know, to build anticipation and have this vacuum.

And you get hungry for it again.

And now the games are going to start counting.

And it is one of the most wonderful times of the year. They have seemed to find a good balance.

I haven't quite gotten down the idea of odd number of games within the record.

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