We Have a Schedule (17 Is a Prime Number!) and 'Tim Tebow: 90th Man' | NFL Deep Dive
The MMQB NFL Podcast
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3.9 • 944 Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2021
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
We have a 2021 NFL schedule in place, it's 17 games per team, and Jenny, Conor and Gary don't know what to do about it. A discussion on the optimism around more football, mourning the beautiful symmetry of 16 games, and whether or not Week 18 will bring unrivaled drama or bring a slate of games that look like the Sudfeld-fueled Eagles-WFT regular-season finale.
Plus, a probably-too-long discussion of Tim Tebow: 90th Man. Does it matter that he's going to spend the summer on the Jaguars roster? Is there a benefit to it? Is there a downside? And a mind-blowing Tebow poll result from the youth of America in 2013.
Finally, a conversation about Ja'Wuan James and the consequences of the Broncos' decision to cut ties with the veteran offensive tackle after he was injured during a workout away from the facility. And what’s the future of these minicamp gatherings anyway?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the MMQ the Monday morning NFL |
| 0:07.2 | podcast I am Gary Gramley I'm Jenny frontis I'm Connor Orr. And we are talking about some schedule release madness this week. |
| 0:16.0 | We're also going to have a little bit on the Juan James situation and maybe the tight end |
| 0:21.0 | depth chart in Jacksonville, depending on how how things go we'll see if we |
| 0:24.8 | feel it by the end of the show but we have a schedule guys and that's I think that |
| 0:30.6 | qualifies as excitement in May. |
| 0:33.0 | We know who is going to play where and when, |
| 0:37.0 | and I don't know, there's a certain sense of completion |
| 0:40.0 | when that happens, but I guess we'll start with some negativity and I'll just say flat out |
| 0:46.4 | this 17 game thing it bothers me for a lot of reasons but it especially bothers me because 16, I think I never really appreciated how, how sort of just a beautiful |
| 0:57.8 | symmetry, the number 16 being half the teams in the league. |
| 1:02.9 | It is, you know, the square root of 16 is four, |
| 1:08.2 | which is a very, for those of us who are kind of, |
| 1:11.6 | I don't know, math obsessed despite ourselves that is a very it's just a |
| 1:17.8 | very even number it just kind of all built out beautifully. So that plus the combination of having to be like, oh, I think |
| 1:26.6 | this team's in for a big season. They're going to go 12 and 5, I think. It just |
| 1:31.8 | nothing matches up. it just feels like we are jamming |
| 1:36.8 | you know the the square and the children's puzzle into the |
| 1:42.6 | triangular hole and it's just not working. |
| 1:45.6 | I could not agree more Gary. 17 is |
| 1:48.9 | just a very unsettling number. |
| 1:51.0 | Obviously there's the player safety piece of this and the fact that there's |
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