The NFL Kicks Off A Season Like No Other
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🗓️ 8 September 2020
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
After months of questions, skepticism, and the NFL insisting it will start its season on time, the league is set to...start its season on time. The Athletic’s Robert Mays joins us to talk about how the NFL has navigated the treacherous waters of the pandemic, what will be unusual about this year's season on the field, and why the NFL's future is in good hands, thanks to a crop of amazingly talented young quarterbacks.
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| 0:30.0 | The NFL season kicks off on Thursday night football, Dishon Watson and the boys playing |
| 0:37.3 | visitor to the reigning champion Kansas City Chiefs. |
| 0:40.8 | After months of questions and doubts, the NFL season is set to kick off as scheduled on |
| 0:46.7 | Thursday night. |
| 0:47.7 | Today, the athletics Robert Mays on how the NFL has navigated the pandemic and what we |
| 0:53.4 | can expect to see on the field this fall. |
| 0:55.3 | The TV network is going to do everything they can to lend some sense of normalcy to the |
| 1:00.0 | procedures by the way they pump in noise and everything else. |
| 1:02.5 | But I do feel like there's going to be an acclimation period for everybody as they kind |
| 1:06.3 | of sit here and look at what it looks like on TV. |
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