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Locked On Podcast Network on all of your favorite podcast apps. We will get to those tweets. We have a

bunch of good ones and a lot of good topics to get into Matt on this Thursday episode. I want to

start with a little, and this is Thursday evening when we're recording this because of timing.

We couldn't get it done on a Thursday morning.

So Wednesday evening, a nice little nugget for us here from Adam Schaefter, who said the NFL playoff structure is about to be changed.

Under the current CBA proposal, seven teams from each conference will make the playoffs with the only buy per

conference, with only one buy per conference, sources tell ESPN it would go into effect this

upcoming season.

And he says under the current transformational proposal of the collective bargaining agreement

that NFL owners are pushing for, there would be more drama at the end of

the regular season and six games on wildcard weekend. So that is a big shakeup to the

playoff structure and Schaefter makes it sound like it's going to be changed. It's more than just

a proposal. And I guess the owners do have that much power. They're like, well, this is the

proposal. So that means this is going to happen. They're like, well, this is the proposal.

So that means this is going to happen, but what do they have to give up?

Yeah, and I kind of saw this coming.

And I didn't originally like it, but I was kind of told when I was up at Steelers training camp that this is get pretty used to this idea.

And I like that only one team gets a buy.

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