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One of the things that kind of jumped out at me about

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Yeah, it's it's a good thing. I think

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this is a true.

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Dar No, no question it is

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brown. At any

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gang, and as I am sure you've

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on the East Coast here in the United States

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of America, where sixteen of the seventeen

2:02

games will be played, you

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now know that Carolina Panthers are

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in fact playing the people they were already

2:09

going to be playing in a specific order.

2:11

So right, we already knew who they were playing

2:13

and where.

2:14

Yeah, now we.

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Just know when.

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Now we just know when. And it really

2:17

does I make fun of it sometimes

2:20

because I do think the marketing of

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it and the you know, over the topness

2:24

of the whole thing is altogether

2:27

Yeah, when we released the release release

2:30

the other day, that was one of my favorite moments.

2:33

But no, it provides a framework and

2:35

it makes some of this stuff real. I mean, all

2:37

of this stuff has been an abstract concept

2:40

so far this season. And now

2:42

that you know that on September

2:45

the eighth, Carolina Panthers are

2:47

going to go to New Orleans and see their old friends,

2:49

the Saints and get this thing started, that's

2:51

when it becomes a little more real. That's when it

2:53

becomes hey, Okay, here's here's

2:55

where we're at. And again, if you

2:58

haven't looked at this schedule, we're gonna be talking

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about it in thirty thousand foot kind

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of views. Again, I encourage you visit, spend

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some time on Panthers dot com, enjoy

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the videos, enjoy the schedule

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itself, and buy tickets for the

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home games. That's the thing we're trying to get you

3:14

to do here, folks.

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That's really what we're here for, and you

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can.

3:17

See it all yourself, but we're going to just kind of

3:19

talk about it in general terms. I

3:22

think for me, one of the things that jumped

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off the page first is all

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of them games are on Sunday, which

3:29

means no Thursday night football,

3:32

no Monday night football, no short

3:34

weeks. And that's the football

3:36

takeaway from me. I mean, I know people

3:39

feel some sort of way about primetime games

3:41

and is it a sign of disrespect? Hey, the team

3:43

is doing fifteen last year. I think expecting

3:45

a lot of primetime appearances was probably

3:48

unrealistic if you thought that was going to be the case.

3:51

But listen, from a strictly football

3:53

standpoint, being able to

3:55

stay on the same routine and

3:57

to have regular rest before ever

4:00

every game is huge

4:02

for the football people. And that's

4:04

the thing. I mean, we can look at this thing for us

4:07

and what we think about it is one thing,

4:09

But for the football people, that regular rest

4:11

is a big, big, big deal.

4:13

Even there are games

4:15

in the four o'clock hour, two of them

4:17

are out West, so those will be like one o'clock local

4:19

time. And then Darren

4:22

remind our listeners and me, is

4:24

it the first eight weeks or the last eight weeks

4:27

that can be flexed.

4:28

For prime time?

4:29

Yeah, there's a stretch late

4:31

in the year that can be flexed. I think it's

4:34

from like week ten to ten

4:36

to seventeen minus week. You know, the

4:39

week of Christmas basically is the thing

4:41

they're not gonna monkey around with, but there

4:44

is some opportunity. If the season

4:46

goes really well, they've become a lot more interesting

4:48

than the network's anticipated them being at

4:51

this point, then you know, hey, they're

4:53

gonna get their opportunities to be

4:55

seen. But I think for right now, you

4:57

know, as I look at this schedule,

5:00

one of the things that I kind of like

5:02

about it from their standpoint is all

5:05

the heavies are in the back end. Dave

5:08

Canalis gets a chance to get his feet

5:10

wet as an NFL head coach with a brand

5:12

new team against the favorable

5:15

half of the schedule in the first two games

5:18

in the first two months of the year. And again, if

5:20

you haven't refreshed Panthers dot

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Com already, we're talking about starting

5:24

the season at New Orleans Chargers

5:27

here for the September fifteenth home opener.

5:30

Then you go to Las Vegas in

5:32

week three. Week four brings

5:34

Cincinnati, Joe Burrow comes into Bank

5:36

of America stadiums one everybody's gonna

5:38

want to see. And then in week five you

5:41

go to Chicago before Atlanta

5:43

comes here, and then

5:45

at Washington at Denver gets

5:47

you through October, and as

5:50

you look at those teams, you might

5:52

say to yourself, hey, none

5:54

of those teams went to the playoffs last

5:57

year, and you would be correct. And again,

5:59

when you're two and fifteen, all of this stuff

6:01

is kind of relative because they're looking at you the same

6:04

way. But on the

6:06

whole, would you rather have all

6:08

your playoff teams? Would you rather

6:10

be playing k C right out of the shoot? Would

6:12

you rather be, you know, looking at

6:14

the Cowboys and the Bucks and the Eagles

6:17

in the early stages of a new project.

6:20

No, you would not. You'd rather ease into this thing.

6:22

And we don't know what any of these teams

6:24

are gonna look like by this time either.

6:27

And this goes into the point of like it's once

6:29

you know, when you're playing these teams, you can

6:31

kind of start to figure out what the season might look like.

6:34

I mean, I hesitate

6:37

to put a number on anything because it can always

6:39

come back to bite you. But you could feasibly go

6:41

and be going into the by at five hundred.

6:43

Yeah, I mean, there's possibilities there.

6:46

One of the things that kind of jumped out at me about

6:48

the schedule is, you know, again,

6:51

you got the Saints in Week one and

6:53

you kind of know what you're getting when you're going to New

6:55

Orleans. They bring in

6:57

Chase Young this offseason, and that's gonna

7:00

change the way they look defensively. But it's

7:02

the Saint, so you kind of know what you're gonna

7:04

expect. And then in terms

7:06

of expectations, we

7:09

think we know that Chargers are gonna

7:11

be a certain way based on Jim Harbaugh and Justin

7:13

Herbert. But that's a whole new team. I

7:15

mean, it's Chargers minus Keenan

7:17

All and minus Mike Williams. So what are

7:19

they gonna be? Like, we have no idea right

7:22

now. And then you get either Gardner

7:24

Minshew and Aiden O'Connell and the Raiders

7:26

in Week three.

7:28

I mean, of those first ten teams, Darren, I

7:30

would honestly say, the Bengals

7:32

are the only ones you're facing before the bye

7:34

that already have an established quarterback,

7:36

wide receiver duo and an established defense.

7:39

Other than that, I mean, you get you're gonna have to

7:41

face Kleb Williams. That's the last two number

7:44

ones facing off. Even though that's

7:46

a one o'clock game, I think people are gonna have their eyes

7:48

on that to see if you know it's gonna be Bryce versus

7:50

Caleb. That's exactly what it's gonna be. But

7:52

you're getting them in week five.

7:55

I mean, I think it usually takes and you can probably

7:58

speak to this better than I can, it usually takes a quarterback,

8:00

wide receiver, new offense, a rookie quarterback,

8:04

a good first half of the season.

8:06

And that's that's pretty

8:08

liberally, I would say conservatively, it takes a

8:10

good three fourths of his first season to really get

8:12

comfortable and so you catch them

8:15

early, which which kind

8:17

of bodes well when you do have a

8:19

returning quarterback. Yes, it's albeit a two

8:21

and fifteen team, but a returning quarterback he's

8:23

going to have Adam Thlan, who

8:25

he's already comfortable with. You've got some consistency

8:28

there that these other teams other

8:30

than the Bengals won't really have already.

8:32

Yeah, And as I looked those last two

8:35

games in October, I mean, you

8:37

you've got, you know, at Jaden

8:39

Daniels and the what the artist formerly

8:42

known as the Washington football team, and

8:44

then your guess is as good as

8:46

mine at quarterback for the Broncos in Week

8:48

eight, I mean, that's is that Bo Nicks,

8:50

Is that Jared'stidham is it Zach Wilson.

8:52

Could be playing quarterback for the I have no

8:55

idea.

8:55

It's you know, Sean

8:58

Payton might try to find a way to get through to

9:00

come back. You never know, but it

9:03

is It's definitely reasonable

9:06

when you look at that thing early

9:09

on in the season. And I think that's a positive

9:11

because, as we've discussed all off season,

9:14

it's a whole new deal. You know, we

9:16

can try to guess what we think this offense

9:18

is going to look like, what Bryce is going to be like,

9:21

what the passing game is going to be like, with a lot

9:23

of new parts but a lot of it's going to be let's

9:25

learn together. And the way this

9:28

this schedule sets up kind of gives

9:30

you that opportunity. When you looked

9:32

at this thing, what was the other stuff that

9:34

kind of jumped off the bat at you.

9:36

Well, obviously you're going to be facing the defending Super

9:38

Bowl champs. You do get

9:40

them coming off a bye which you

9:42

know could be favorable. But it's

9:45

still Kansas City.

9:46

Right And again that's

9:48

Week twelve. Kansas City here

9:51

on November twenty fourth, the week after

9:53

the bye week which they earned after

9:56

the trip to Germany to face the Giants here

9:58

did in that.

9:59

Bye week after Germany is huge. I

10:01

know it seems like a given, but I covered

10:04

a team who turned down the bye week after the international

10:06

game and it bit them in the butt like nothing you've ever

10:08

seen. And so having that bye

10:10

week there is huge. The

10:12

two games in the top half of the schedule

10:14

that could be a little bit more difficult, the Chargers

10:17

and the Bengals. You get them both at home

10:19

in September, both teams.

10:21

That mean the Chargers are going to be coming from seventy two

10:23

no humidity that I'm

10:25

not saying that these are all like a surefire

10:28

win, but there it's a favorable schedule

10:30

before that bye week, and then only

10:33

two sets of back to back road games

10:35

at Washington and at Denver. Washington

10:38

at least you're in the same time zone. You know, it's

10:40

a short flight back, so that's not going to be difficult.

10:43

Denver, you know, it's it's

10:45

a little tough, but it's not

10:47

a long stretch of bad road games

10:49

are or undoable. The other back

10:52

to back road games are at Tampa and at Atlanta.

10:54

Again, that's not a bad road trip, and

10:58

so and I think you had already into this

11:00

out no primetime games, no holiday games.

11:02

It'll be nice not playing on Christmas for a while.

11:05

I feel like it's spent three or four years in a row I've

11:07

played on Christmas.

11:08

Right, and I feel you know. And

11:10

again, we'll throw it back to last

11:13

season, just briefly, because we don't

11:15

want to think back on last season too too

11:17

long. But Cassi g Hill's

11:19

first game here with us at the Carolina Panthers

11:21

happened to be.

11:22

On Christmas Eve.

11:23

Christmas Eve. What kind of jerk hired

11:25

her to start on Christmas Eve? Oh wait,

11:28

that was me? But

11:31

yeah, that's that's what I end up. I mean,

11:33

selfishly, when I get a glimpse at this schedule,

11:36

my very first thing is, where's

11:38

this football team I cover around Thanksgiving?

11:41

Right?

11:41

Check? That would be at home. Where's

11:44

this football team I cover on Christmas?

11:47

Check? That would be at home. This is great

11:49

for Darren? Do that? Yeah, I

11:51

mean that's how I always And it's

11:53

funny. Different guys on this on the

11:56

team probably look at the same way. I mean, old

11:58

dudes with kids like Jay Jansen are probably

12:01

thinking about the holidays stuff just as well.

12:03

You know, anybody with kids is going to be looking at

12:05

it that way. But that's just kind of

12:07

how I've always My big three

12:09

things always when I look at the schedule

12:11

for Darren purposes are Thanksgiving,

12:14

Christmas, how cold am I going

12:16

to be in the second half of

12:18

the year, and really, other than at Philadelphia

12:21

in week fourteen on December eighth,

12:23

not a lot of cold weather in our future

12:25

other than that which we get here in Mayberry.

12:27

And I'm actually kind of excited about that because have you ever

12:29

been to Philly around Christmas?

12:31

I have been, Yes, I've spent some time. Yes,

12:34

it is really something.

12:36

One more selfish note was, since we're being

12:38

selfish for a second.

12:39

And I think we're in titled, I'm.

12:42

Really excited that two of the preseason games

12:44

are in the Northeast. Like, yeah, take

12:46

me to that cooler weather in August for a little bit.

12:48

Yeah, it's it's kind

12:50

of nice. Those preseason dates at New

12:53

England and at Buffalo are

12:55

going to be Let's just promise

12:58

that nobody kicks anything in Buffalo. Okay,

13:00

because preseason gets Buffalo, do it? We

13:02

don't even want to talk about that.

13:03

I feel like there's a story there there.

13:05

Yeah, there is, Well, we'll do that off the

13:07

air. We're just not gonna invoke that anymore

13:09

than already have. But anyway,

13:11

so there's a schedule, and now it's a little

13:13

more real. We'll, uh, you

13:15

know, we'll we'll, we'll get a chance to digest

13:18

this all a little more deeply. This thing just came

13:20

out tonight, as you folks know, so uh,

13:23

that's why we had to record this emergency

13:25

happy half hour to get it in your hands

13:27

as quickly as we possible possibly

13:30

could. But as always, there's

13:32

other stuff going on. Cassy,

13:35

you are our eyes and ears at Rookie Minnie

13:38

camp last weekend. I actually took a

13:40

couple of days to you know, oh see my daughter

13:42

graduate from college. No congratulations,

13:44

baby girl. We're all very proud of her. We love

13:46

her. She's the best.

13:48

Don't graduate as a trap, which.

13:51

Don't let her hear you say that, please.

13:54

So anyway, yeah, somebody hire a baby girl.

13:57

But you were here for Rookie Minnie camp

13:59

and and it wasn't a rookie

14:01

minting camps all these one of those things. It's it's

14:03

a mile post but not you

14:06

know, it's not terribly significant because they're not running

14:08

around in pads, you can't really tell

14:10

a whole lot, and it's such a limited cast. But

14:12

from what you saw out there this weekend, what came

14:15

what came across one.

14:17

Thing, and this is gonna sound cliche, but I promise

14:19

you is true from having what stood out there

14:21

for the two days of rookiemnting camp is Xavier

14:24

Lagette is fluid, and

14:26

that's something that you don't always use for a

14:28

guy that's, you know, over

14:30

six feet two twenty five ish.

14:33

I think there's been a little bit of discrepancy

14:35

about his height, but I'd say around six two ish.

14:37

He's a big He's big, is what

14:40

we're trying to say.

14:40

Very clearly, a big guy. And he's so

14:43

fluid. He's so smooth. He

14:45

has a speed. We already knew that, but

14:48

there were several times he was either going to the sideline

14:50

or cutting across the middle where he could just kind of

14:53

flip and either you know, catch

14:55

it over his shoulder or turn around,

14:57

and you know, if there was a defender there,

14:59

which there wasn't, but if there had been a defender there,

15:02

you would realize he would have been blocking him out. He

15:04

was just so so smooth,

15:06

and that's the word that came out that I kept thinking

15:08

of the most while watching him, right, because you expect

15:11

somebody that's that big to be a little bit more

15:13

of a bruiser with their style, but

15:16

he's not. And so it was interesting that that was noticeable.

15:19

And then he came to the podium after that first

15:21

practice.

15:22

Oh, he did not come to a podium.

15:23

He came to electric thank you very much after

15:25

that first.

15:26

Practice, and made a point

15:28

to bring that up himself and said

15:30

that that was something that he had been knocked for

15:33

during the draft process because

15:36

he felt, and you know, this is always

15:38

up to his discretion, but he felt at South Carolina

15:40

he wasn't asked to be that type of receiver. He

15:43

was asked to be a you know, somebody

15:45

that just ran go routes, deep routes, get

15:47

down there and win a fifty to fifty ball and win a contested

15:49

catch, which he can do is a bigger guy,

15:52

but he never felt like he was asked to kind

15:54

of be that everything guy

15:56

in the middle of the field. He said, so

15:58

I want, he said, that's something that was brought

16:01

up to me a lot during the draft process, to

16:03

the point that even coaches of NFL teams

16:05

were saying something to him about it, so he

16:07

worked with two different receiver schools during

16:10

the draft process to really focus

16:13

on that specifically that part of his game.

16:15

And I think it stood out right away Darren Richard,

16:17

right.

16:18

And I thought that was cool reading your stuff coming

16:20

out of the weekend. I mean, when a guy walks in the

16:22

door, you know, as a first

16:24

round pick, there's obviously expectations

16:26

that go with that, But when you walk in the door aware

16:29

of what you need to work on, and

16:31

you begin with here's what I'm trying to

16:33

get better at, that's always a good

16:35

place. I mean, for all the other stuff that's

16:37

going to happen. You want guys to

16:39

come in with something

16:42

to prove, not necessarily a chip on their shoulder

16:44

type of thing, but here's what I've got to get better

16:46

at. Here's what I want them to coach me up

16:48

on and improve on. And if he can

16:50

do that, then

16:53

I think they've got an opportunity to make

16:55

some strides on offense, because again, look

16:57

at what they've done all off season. They go get

17:00

t Johnson, who what does he do? He

17:02

gets open and makes place, So

17:05

you go get a big go get it guy,

17:07

and when he walks in the door working on

17:10

you know, his ability to get open, his ability

17:12

to get it out of breaks. You kind of like the possibilities

17:15

that creates for Bryce showing in the offense.

17:17

Especially because when you looked at this

17:20

receiving corps before the draft and you say, Okay,

17:22

what do they need. They need a guy that can go deep,

17:24

and that felt like that's what they got with Xavier rel Get.

17:27

But now if he can do some of this other

17:30

stuff as well, so to speak, that

17:32

just allows Dave Canalis bride ends it

17:34

to kind of interchange these

17:36

receivers and you're never going to know what one specific

17:39

guy is going to do. And so if

17:41

that's what Leaguett is focusing on

17:43

this offseason, that's going to pay dividends in

17:45

the season because now they can line all three of them

17:47

up anywhere.

17:49

Yeah, no doubt. And in Jonathan

17:51

Brook's second round pick, not doing a lot. Obviously,

17:53

he's still coming back off that ACL He's

17:56

gonna be doing a lot of watching and rehabit on the

17:58

side for a little bit, but all signs

18:00

are positive with him. The other one that

18:02

I was going to ask you about is Jitavian

18:05

Sam Sanders. Yes, JT walked

18:07

in the door, sit in the bar high for himself.

18:09

Yes he did.

18:10

And I like that.

18:11

I know he's got a little he's got a little something

18:13

something to him. He's got a little umph

18:16

and it's just hard not to like the kid.

18:18

He's uh, tell people to stop trying to FaceTime

18:21

me. The schedules already out.

18:22

People, you don't they're extrained to

18:24

reach you about your extended car warned.

18:26

Yeah, something like that. Either that or I don't know how

18:28

to turn the sound off on my computer.

18:31

Grandma baron over here. Yeah,

18:34

we'll show you.

18:34

So the thing about j T is

18:36

is he's so like

18:39

sure of himself, but in a not

18:42

in a cocky way, and

18:44

you just can't help. But like a kid like that, he knows what

18:46

he does, and he knows what he does well and

18:49

how to make that work on a football field. I

18:52

thought the most interesting thing that kind of came

18:54

out of his press conference, and we didn't write

18:56

about it on Panther's dot comya because we want to

18:58

talk to other rookies, is that he has

19:00

started leading a study group for

19:02

any and all that want to come, you

19:05

know, sort of informal. They look at the playbook,

19:08

they look at film, but he's just kind of

19:10

taking that extra step to pull guys together

19:12

outside of their scheduled

19:15

time together and kind of say, hey, let's look

19:17

over this again so that we can all be on

19:19

the same page when we're coming back in here, right,

19:21

And you know, coaches probably going to love that.

19:23

Yeah, these rookies come in I mean in

19:25

every year, a rookie class comes in behind,

19:28

obviously because their veteran teammates have been

19:30

here, you know, going through off season workouts

19:33

and that kind of stuff for weeks and weeks. They're

19:35

walking in behind immediately. But this year

19:37

it's a little bit less because it is a brand

19:39

new staff. So while the Adam Thielens

19:42

of the world have been working through this offense

19:44

with Bryce for weeks, it's still new.

19:47

You know, they're still you know, four weeks

19:49

into this process, so it's not

19:51

as much of a head start as it is, you

19:53

know, in a normal situation where a coach is

19:55

coming off of you know, an off

19:58

season and building into the second and third year

20:00

of a plan.

20:01

And then the thing you said about him setting a high

20:03

bar for himself just gonna touch on that he

20:05

did it's that high bar for himself. He said, I

20:07

want to be the next Greg Olsen. I want to be the next

20:09

face of this offense. And

20:11

I did the age math and

20:13

Olsen is someone that senders would have watched

20:16

a lot growing up.

20:17

And he did say he did watch him.

20:19

You know, they always probably say that, but he

20:21

did mention watching him a lot growing up, and he

20:23

said he was kind of the first wave of this new

20:25

tight end. And that's exactly what

20:27

Sanders is as well. He's an incredible

20:30

pass catcher. He called over six hundred

20:32

balls at Texas the last two years apiece.

20:35

It's over twelve hundred in his last two years

20:37

total. And so I'm

20:40

sorry, six hundred yards.

20:41

Yeah, if he caught six hundred passes

20:44

at Texas, he would have probably been a first round

20:46

pick.

20:46

Six hundred yards each year.

20:48

Yeah, And again, good production

20:51

out of that position is something that they

20:53

haven't necessarily had. I mean nothing against any

20:55

of the existing guys. Tommy Tremble, I think

20:57

is still kind of turning into

21:00

something new in front of us every year. He's added

21:02

a little something to his game every off season,

21:05

and I think he's continued to grow into a player.

21:07

But having that kind of thread at that position

21:10

is something they haven't had. So I'm

21:12

looking forward to getting the training camp and kind

21:14

of seeing what that looks like in real life,

21:17

because there is so much new being

21:19

thrown together, and there is so much that

21:23

we're gonna kind of learn together as we watch

21:25

this thing. But definitely

21:28

getting that first glimpse of them seeing some of those

21:30

highlights, you know, seeing big o'xl

21:33

you know, up there twisting and making catches

21:35

and doing things in rookie mini

21:37

camp, It's like, okay, that's a thing.

21:40

And then even in some of the video from this week

21:43

during a you know, off season workouts

21:45

here now that the veterans and rookies are together,

21:47

and you see Bryce throwing to him,

21:49

you see Bryce working with some of these new

21:51

targets like okay, all right,

21:54

I see what they were thinking. So anyway,

21:56

that.

21:56

Is a one small qualifier before we

21:58

finished just what in terms

22:01

of the schedule, yep, you know, we keep looking

22:03

at Okay, you know the first half of these games there

22:05

there's a lot of winnable games in there. They're

22:08

facing rookie quarterbacks. I think they face like four

22:10

rookie quarterbacks or something like that. Potentially

22:13

depending on who's lining up for some of these teams,

22:15

but this is still Yes, you

22:18

have a coaching staff on defense

22:20

that returned, a coaching staff on offense that have worked

22:22

together, and a quarterback

22:24

who's more familiar with his receivers this year, but

22:26

this is still a new staff, a first time head coach,

22:29

and the staff coming in and implementing a new offense.

22:31

So there's gonna be some growing pains on both

22:33

sides. So just remember that when you're looking

22:35

at the schedule.

22:36

Yeah, and again, as we mentioned,

22:38

no playoff teams from last year

22:40

in the first half of that schedule, you don't

22:43

see a playoff team from twenty twenty three until

22:46

post by.

22:48

And then you see nothing but penal and then.

22:50

You see five out of your next six opponents

22:52

where teams who were involved in the playoffs last

22:54

year. So it's obviously

22:56

you never know when that stuff's going to carry over from

22:58

year to year. We don't know you know

23:01

how things are going to change between now and November

23:03

December, but at

23:05

least now we know the who's and the winds

23:08

and the where So it's

23:10

always a it's always a mile

23:12

post during an off season. Now it's real,

23:15

and now you can start making plans. Now you can buy

23:17

your plane tickets, figure out where you want to go on

23:19

the road. We'll see in Las Vegas

23:21

in September. We'll see in Germany

23:23

in November. It's

23:26

gonna be cool. It's

23:28

a season. Now, it's a schedule. It's

23:30

real, it's tangible, and we can

23:32

put our hands on it and print it out and start

23:35

thinking about what the next six months

23:37

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