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What's up, everybody? Welcome to the season with Peter Schroger.

We're about at the midway point of the 2024 NFL season.

I'm Peter Schroger.

I host Good Morning Football on NFL Network.

I also am one of the analysts on Fox NFL kickoff on Sundays. And at the midway point of the season, I always like to take a second to look around, see who's doing what, who's been a surprise, who's been a disappointment.

And also what the story of the week is.

And this week, we go to Indianapolis, a place where Pat McAfee usually is the voice of reason and where we have

such luminaries as Bob Cravitz over the years and Stephen Holder. And I like to parachute in

once in a while to give my two cents on a situation. And this Anthony Richardson deal is worthy of a

monologue, I think, because I sit in a role as a national

follower slash insiders slash analysts of the sport. As a morning show host, I do this five days a week,

three hours a day, and as a Sunday insider, I am trying to text everyone I can within every

organization to get some

new piece of news. I've never, never in my life in football, seen a quarterback tap out of a play

and walk off the field. And then in the post game, as Anthony Richardson did, say, I was just

exhausted. I needed a playoff. The response from ex-players

is what's so fascinating. Because I like to think I've got a pulse of the league, a pulse of

the game, and a pulse of how people would react. And I think a lot of people afterwards were

like, that is an atrocity. And that is something that can't be done. And I think a lot of people afterwards were like, that is an atrocity. And that is

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