Welcome back to another episode of the Adam Schaefter podcast, the regular season opening podcast.

In today's episode, we will be joined by the co-CEO of the Washington football team, Tanya Snyder, as she sits down,

I believe, and gives her first in-depth podcast interview on the state of affairs with the

Washington football team. And then we'll be joined by the ESPN analytics guru, Evan Kaplan,

as he breaks down this week's big

matchups between Mack Jones and Tua Turingo Tungle by Loa, Patrick Mahomes and Baker Mayfield,

and all the other notable action from week one. And it's hard to imagine that we are here,

but we are. That offseason goes very quickly. And on Sunday morning, this past

Sunday morning when I woke up about 6 a.m. 6.15, I was laying in bed and realizing I didn't have to

check on the status of a particular player that morning, didn't have to worry about getting up for

the sports center, didn't have to get up to up for the sports center, didn't have to get up to

shave for Sunday NFL countdown, could take my time on a leisurely Sunday morning on Labor

Day weekend. And then as I laid there, the thought occurred to me that this will be the last time

that I can do this on a Sunday until February 20th, 2002. And people say, are you excited about

the season? Of course, we're always excited about football season. There's no other way to

be. But it's a little like asking, are you excited to go run a marathon, 26.2 miles? Well, yes, you're excited. You've trained. You're

ready. You've thought about it. But the idea of the 26.2 miles that lay in front of you are daunting.

And we are about to embark all of us on this marathon that is the NFL season, a marathon that

will have twists and turns and take us in directions

that we weren't planning. The NFL managed to get through last season, the COVID season,

without any cancellations of any games. But this year, the league is going to be challenged the way

that society is challenged with the spread of the Delta variant.

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