Welcome back to another episode of the Adam Schaefter podcast, where in this week's episode,

I share two incredibly personal texts that I received during and after the conclusion

of week one that you will not want to miss,

which will come at the end of our interviews.

And on those interviews, we will start today with my colleague, my partner, Chris Mortensen,

who I've spent 13 years working at ESPN with, and I would not be where I am today without him.

And then we'll be joined by the Carolina Panthers free safety, the great young player,

the former second round draft pick, Jeremy Chin, as the Panthers get ready to play,

the New Orleans Saints who are dealing with a little bit of an outbreak of COVID on their own these days.

And as we look back to week one, what I could tell you is the joy that I and others

experienced from watching week one was overwhelming, palpable.

Like you could just feel it.

Watching the games all come on the screen and you're thinking, oh yeah, 20 more weeks of this.

This is how to spend a Sunday.

This is what we love to do.

Now, I happen to be in the South Street Seaport ESPN studios around my colleagues, which I didn't get to do last

year. And Chris Mortensen and I are going to have some comments in that area. But to watch all these

games unfold, it was sensory overload and it was lovely and it was missed. Now, the other part

that was troubling about week one, and I think this was the case for a lot of different people.

You sit down, you love watching the games, you're tracking your fantasy results. It's just tremendous.

You want to see your guys. The problem was, it was hard to track some of these guys with the new NFL rule changing numbers.

All of a sudden, you're watching Sterling Shepard, who is number three when he used to be

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