The NFL's UNBELIEVABLE Thanksgiving Weekend Schedule 👀 🦃

The Adam Schefter Podcast

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🗓️ 25 November 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Adam and Ty Schmit of The Pat McAfee Show look ahead to a loaded Thanksgiving schedule, discuss the suddenly can't miss Browns, the state of the Colts, some coordinator changes, and unveil their weekly power rankings. 0:00 Welcome 3:19 The script writers couldn't do better than Chiefs-Cowboys on Thanksgiving 7:09 The full Thanksgiving slate is must-watch 16:55 Shedeur to start and Myles Garrett chasing history 21:46 Should we be worried about the Colts? 26:48 Coaching changes 34:15 Week 12 Power Rankings Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:34.1	Welcome back to the Adam Schaefter podcast, one of my favorite weeks of the year, the official start of the holiday season that kicks off on Thursday, Thanksgiving, three football games, Thanksgiving, Christmas is ahead, New Year's is ahead, football's ahead, holiday spirit is ahead.
0:54.8	It is, to me, one of the great times of the year, and it starts really this week,
0:59.8	but on Thursday officially, with Thanksgiving.
1:02.5	And to get us ready for week 13 to the best time of the year, we bring in the coast to the Pat
1:08.9	McAfee Show, my friend, my colleague,
1:14.3	the great Ty Schmidt for this week's six-back.
1:21.3	Thank you very much, Shepty. Early, happy Thanksgiving to you and everyone else out there.
1:26.5	You mentioned it. It's weird how we go from Sunday where it kind of just feels like another normal weekend and then boom, come Tuesday.
1:29.6	It's our, you know, the holiday spirit, you can kind of start to feel it.
1:32.9	It feels like the games mean more.
1:35.7	And, you know, this year especially, every, you know, every single game that we have on the Thanksgiving slate, it does mean more.
1:43.7	It means a lot. So I'm right there
1:45.6	with you. I am so excited for Thursday. And I would say this, Ty, in my experience covering the
1:50.9	NFL for over 35 years, I have always found that once you get to Thanksgiving, we talk all
1:57.4	the time, you note how quickly this has gone. Oh, I can't believe it's week
2:01.5	eight. I can't believe it's week 10. I can't believe it's week 12. From Thanksgiving on,
2:07.0	that's when the season takes off and goes into overdrive and things move so fast. And right now,
2:15.4	like I said, we're going into week 13. Snap our finger. It's going to be
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