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Today, we taped a bit about the Eastern Conference Finals WAY too early, there’s debate on how we pull off the 4th annual Beer Bowl, Travis breaks down the Chiefs 2026 schedule, we try and settle the debate if we’ve hit “too much football,” and we answer some not dumb questions about the NFL schedule, mascot fights, and small segue into lake physics.
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0:00 Speaker 00 To realize the future America needs, we understand what's needed from us to face each threat head on. We've earned our place in the fight for our nation's future. We are Marines. We were made for this.
0:14 Travis Kelce? Thank you to our sponsor, Colgate Total.
0:17 Speaker 02 On offense, it's important to prevent problems from the moment the ball is snapped.
0:22 Travis Kelce? That's true. Otherwise, you're just out there running cardio. Can't get open for a big play.
0:28 Speaker 02 But it's not just football. There's a lot of things you need to prevent before they start.
0:32 Travis Kelce? Yeah, like in your mouth.
0:34 Speaker 02 My mouth specifically?
0:36 Travis Kelce? I mean, probably yours too, but I'm talking everybody's mouth. There's bacteria in there that can lead to oral health problems like cavities, gingivitis.
0:48 Speaker 02 Right. Yeah. All the nasty stuff. But the good news is you can prevent these problems before they start with Colgate Total Active Prevention. It's like having a good offensive line for your mouth.
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1:06 Speaker 02 And it's not just one contributing player either. It's a whole system. Toothpaste, mouthwash, and a special toothbrush.
1:14 Travis Kelce? Now that's the squad you want fighting for your mouth.
1:16 Speaker 02 Colgate Total is like having a full playbook in your bathroom, working to help prevent oral health problems before they start.
1:24 Travis Kelce? Get Colgate Total on Amazon today. You played golf today. How'd you play?
1:29 Speaker 02 My approach game, my short game is getting a lot better. And then I go tonight to Jerome Bettis' golf outing, which I think is at Sabonic up in the Hamptons.
1:38 Travis Kelce? Hell yeah, man. The bus.
1:41 Speaker 02 Go see the bus. My favorite player, all time. Can't wait.
1:45 Travis Kelce? That's so fucking cool, man. And he is just the fucking best dude ever. I ran into him. I think he was actually down in Florida doing a foundation event. I got to run into him at dinner and I was like, I was like telling Tabe about him. Like that dude was a fucking beast.
2:00 Speaker 02 Yeah, yes.
2:01 Travis Kelce? It's like he was fucking running dudes over. And then I showed her a Jerome Bettis highlight tape and she was like, why does he look like an offensive lineman running with the football? Just like because he was the bus. Oh, man. This is epic.
2:20 Travis Kelce? Welcome back to New Heights, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls of Wondery Show, brought to you by Adobe Acrobat. We're your hosts, I'm Travis Kelce, this is my big brother, Jason Kelce, out of Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Shout out to the Heights, shout out to the Bearcats, shout out to Cincinnati baseball.
2:36 Speaker 02 Shout out to you!
2:37 Travis Kelce? Getting in the top 25.
2:40 Travis Kelce? Let's fucking go, man. Shout out to the boys. Subscribe on YouTube, wherever you get your podcasts, and follow the show on all social media, at New Heights Show, with one S for fun clips. Throughout the week, we got a fantastic episode, and Jason's about to tell you just how fantastic it is.
2:53 Speaker 02 Well, 92%, we got another great episode geared up for you guys right now. We're gonna break down the 2026 NFL schedule release, answer some of your no dumb questions, and talk a little NBA playoffs.
3:04 Travis Kelce? Yeehee!
3:05 Speaker 02 And the guest this week is just us.
3:09 Travis Kelce? The just us.
3:10 Speaker 02 You're stuck with just the Kelsey brothers, a bunch of tomfoolery and shenanigans.
3:15 Travis Kelce? Let's get it going.
3:16 Speaker 02 Let's get into it right now. All right, and new news, new news is brought to you by American Express. First of all, fuck you Jake!
3:26 Travis Kelce? That's right, baby. The Cavs heading back to the Eastern Conference Finals to face the Knicks.
3:32 Speaker 02 The Knicks already knocked off Philadelphia and took over our entire arena, which was unfortunate. The Cavs are heading back to the Eastern Conference Finals to face the Knicks. Game seven was a blowout against the Pistons. You see good old Dan Gilbert, said 25 buses of fans to Detroit for the game?
3:51 Travis Kelce? I did see that, yeah. It started off, I think, and I'm not sure if it started off in the beginning of the series, but I know game five, we sent a few buses up there, and then I think that damn near doubled, or tripled, or quadrupled. I'm not sure what it was, but I know, I know 25 buses went up there, full of fucking Cavs fans, and that shit is absolutely electric. Dan Gilbert, the owner of the Cavs, for those that don't know, and I'm pretty sure he's a Detroit native, so he wanted the Cavs loud and proud in his hometown.
4:20 Speaker 02 Yeah, I mean, listen, I'd like when, like, there's a proactive effort to take over opposing arenas. It did happen, Philadelphia, the Knicks got us at home. Obviously, the Sixers, I think, are a little, it's... It's like, it's one of those where I think there's a lot of, everybody was supporting them, but also there's still some frustration with the organization and the Knicks right now are very much full of themselves. They are, they're feeling it. They're feeling good and they should. Jalen Brunson is the freaking man. Philadelphia's finest. We will take credit for that at least. Little trivia for you. This will be the Cavaliers' first Eastern Conference Finals appearance without LeBron James since, well, I'm guessing it's the last time they went to, when we were at the steakhouse together. What year was that? 20?
5:05 Travis Kelce? What?
5:06 Speaker 02 Oh, the first without LeBron James. Okay. So it's before LeBron James. Dude, that's a long time ago.
5:12 Travis Kelce? That's not that far ago. It's probably right, right around when I was born, around like 1989, 90, when Michael Jordan hit the shot.
5:18 Speaker 02 That's a long time ago, Travis.
5:20 Travis Kelce? I actually don't know. I actually don't know if that was the finals.
5:24 Speaker 02 That was the finals. Yeah. I think it might've been, I think it was. Well, let's guess. You're gonna go 80?
5:32 Travis Kelce? I'm gonna go 89, 89, 90.
5:34 Speaker 02 Let's see. Let's see what the reveal is. I have no fucking idea. That's about as good of a guess as I could hear. Travis, our resident, 1992. I think that is the game you're thinking of though, right?
5:43 Travis Kelce? No, it's not. 1992, the price is right, baby. God.
5:48 Speaker 02 I mean, that is, that's still a long time ago, Travis. That's over 30 years ago.
5:51 Travis Kelce? Yeah. I mean, it's.
5:53 Speaker 02 It's, it's been a while.
5:54 Travis Kelce? I forget how old we are. Um, pretty fucking crazy.
5:59 Speaker 02 Well, it's really, I mean, we did have LeBron James for a large portion of the time in between there. So are we going to a game in Cleveland or New York? Probably not, to be honest with you, but I am going to watch on TV. I can't wait to watch the series.
6:11 Travis Kelce? Man, I want to get to a game so fucking bad.
6:13 Speaker 02 You know, gosh, going to Cleveland.
6:14 Travis Kelce? MSG. I've always wanted to go to MSG when the fucking Knicks are good and the stadium's rocking and this is it. And I, I just don't know if I'm gonna be able to get to a game.
6:24 Speaker 02 Yeah. That's the squares. An awesome place to go watch a basketball game or really do watch anything to be honest.
6:29 Travis Kelce? Anything, man. I want to go there, watch the Raiders. I just want to go when the teams are good and New York's fucking cooking. And sure enough, this is the perfect time to go. So. Have to play hooky.
6:40 Speaker 02 Go back to the good old Gund Arena, even though they like to call it something else now.
6:44 Travis Kelce? That's Rocket Mortgage, but, or actually quicker.
6:47 Speaker 02 Shout out, shout out to Dan.
6:48 Travis Kelce? Shout out to Dan, doing it, doing it right. He's doing it right. Man, it would be fucking electric to see the Cavs, but, uh, we need you guys to hold it down, baby. Take care of the fucking Knicks, man. I'm saying Cavs in seven. Let's fucking go.
7:00 Speaker 02 All right.
7:03 Travis Kelce? We have an official date for the fourth annual Beer Bowl. That's right. The festivities down at the shore, it will be held on Thursday, June 25th at Sea Isle Yacht Club.
7:14 Speaker 02 That's right. It's been there for the last two years, heading on year three at the yacht club. Very excited about it. If you want to participate, tag us in a video with hashtag Beer Bowl.
7:29 Speaker 02 Have a team name and theme, demonstrate drinking prowess, as well as why you should be included in this year's Beer Bowl. The format will be slightly different. It says that we're still figuring out. We are, but one thing that we do know, taking notes from every time we've done this, in previous years, we've screwed up by only having one event happen at a time. That leads a lot to like, you have to have a really good viewpoint of the game happening and a lot of standing around. We're going to try and have multiple events happening throughout the venue so that no matter where you're at, you got action happening. There's going to be stuff out in the bay, on the water. There'll be games happening inside of tables and there'll be a whole round in the first round that is going to have multiple games and point acclamations to see if you get in to the next round.
8:14 Speaker 02 So this is a long story of like, there's been teams before where they've done all this work to get there and they've only participated in one event and then they're eliminated on that first event. And then it's like, hey, I came all this way and got to do one thing. We're going to make it so that every team gets to participate in multiple different things. Then there'll be a, an elimination round after that of the teams that are good enough to get into the elimination round.
8:35 Travis Kelce? Yeah.
8:36 Speaker 02 Still, I think a $50,000, uh, grand prize.
8:41 Travis Kelce? Baby.
8:42 Speaker 02 We also have some other things being announced at the OD event. There will be a beer aquarium. I have just gotten word of this from Garage Beer.
8:50 Travis Kelce? Holy shit.
8:51 Speaker 02 It's, it's a 500 gallon aquarium, Travis, that, that's apparently 3,000 beers. Somebody did the math on that. And if the aquarium gets drank, we will be donating a hundred thousand dollars to Eagles Autism. So drink for a cause and come down to the Ocean Drive.
9:08 Travis Kelce? Everyone's gonna be hammered.
9:11 Speaker 02 Not necessarily. So of all the people that came last year, the OD event, there were 3,000 people apparently that made their way through the bars during the time.
9:19 Travis Kelce? Nice. That's fucking epic.
9:21 Speaker 02 So as long as, as long as you come down to get a beer from the beer aquarium, we should.
9:26 Travis Kelce? Everybody just gets one beer.
9:27 Speaker 02 Just one beer to help families, awareness, research towards the autism cause. And of course you just have fun with your fellow man and woman. And, uh, yeah, I just, I don't know. It just sounded like a great idea. We're gonna have like little fishies swimming in it.
9:43 Travis Kelce? So epic. The fishies.
9:46 Speaker 02 Apparently they got like a whole keg system underneath the aquarium that so it like funnels down into that. So then it gets served cold, but yeah.
9:55 Travis Kelce? Doesn't surprise me, man. Gras beers on top of it as they always are.
9:59 Speaker 02 So yeah, we got a lot of between the Wednesday event at the OD and the beer bowl. We're gonna have a lot of fun this year. We're trying to figure out a way to have the beer bowl broadcast live on New Heights. Um, I feel like I'm probably getting out of my realm of ability. There's a lot of production that's involved. Brandon, come on in here. What are the chances we do a live, uh, cast of a beer bowl?
10:20 Speaker 03 Fuck it. Sure. Yeah. You can do it. If we, if we say, if we say we can do it, it will just happen. This is a, the whole show is about manifesting.
10:30 Speaker 02 Speaking into existence.
10:31 Speaker 03 Somebody behind the scenes is panicking. This is even more preposterous than we can pull this off. Uh, no, somebody other than me is probably panicking right now, but I'm gonna keep very cool about that. Yeah, sure. It seems great. I'm chill.
10:43 Travis Kelce? Everybody be cool. Be cool. Everybody be cool.
10:46 Speaker 03 Heart rate is not going up at all. It's gonna be live broadcast.
10:49 Speaker 02 Carly's shaking her head.
10:51 Speaker 03 That's what Carly does. She just shakes her head and it happens. It's fine. You need, you, everybody needs a contrarian. You need a contrarian. And that's what we have in Carly.
10:59 Speaker 02 We did just meet with Jim down at the Seattle yacht club this past weekend in, uh, in Seattle. And, uh, we were getting the lay of the land of what's doable. The grease pole will not be back, but we will be making usage of the, uh, the docking system. Brandon, we, we still gotta figure out the game. Travis, I know you can't, I know you can't attend Travis, but we would like, if you can help us figure out some drinking games.
11:23 Travis Kelce? Okay. All right.
11:24 Speaker 03 We need like a Travis Kelce event, but I don't know what that is yet.
11:26 Speaker 02 We did think of, uh, jousting with a, um.
11:31 Speaker 03 Paddleboard joust.
11:32 Speaker 02 Paddleboard jousting, right?
11:34 Travis Kelce? Okay.
11:34 Speaker 03 Yeah.
11:35 Speaker 02 And maybe, but I don't know the drinking aspect of that. Maybe you just have to be drinking the beer in one hand and you're jousting with the other, or you have to chug your beer and you can't start drinking, you can't start jousting until your beer's done.
11:45 Speaker 03 I like that. You can't start until the beer's empty. I like that.
11:48 Travis Kelce? I think somebody's gonna lose a tooth.
11:50 Speaker 02 No, but we're not hitting.
11:52 Speaker 03 There's a lot of waivers, lot of waivers being signed. Don't worry about that. We got lawyers.
11:55 Travis Kelce? Jousting's hilarious.
11:57 Speaker 03 I had one that I pitched to Jake that he really liked. There was, um, you know, there's like reaction machines where you gotta like grab the little sticks that are falling?
12:03 Speaker 02 Oh, beers?
12:05 Speaker 03 Do those with beers. Do those with beers.
12:07 Speaker 02 Yes, I like that. I like.
12:08 Speaker 03 Do those with beers. Okay, there's one.
12:10 Speaker 02 But we can also do the regular ones. The beers be the flip cup. We'll have the regular games incorporated as well. So that there's still drinking aspects, but there's also a physicality. How bad do you want it? How bad do you want the championship?
12:22 Travis Kelce? Do a little three, uh, three inning, uh, baseball game.
12:25 Speaker 02 We gotta, it's gonna be faster than that unfortunately.
12:27 Travis Kelce? And do one inning of baseball game.
12:28 Speaker 03 One inning, one at bat, one inning at bat. Could we do that?
12:30 Speaker 02 I just like a swimming relay race for time. Swim, get to the dock, chug the beer.
12:36 Speaker 03 We just talked about how we weren't gonna do.
12:40 Speaker 02 What?
12:41 Speaker 03 You pulled a hamstring last year. What do you want to do this year?
12:43 Speaker 02 Swimming, swimming, you'll be fine. You'll be fine swimming.
12:46 Speaker 03 Okay.
12:47 Speaker 02 We got lifeguards. We'll be fine.
12:48 Speaker 03 We did have lifeguards and then you go down and they all look at me and I was like, do something. And they're like, he's fine.
12:53 Speaker 02 I mean, I, I made it back to the dock. I wasn't.
12:55 Speaker 03 You were fine. To be fair, you were fine. You just went down and I got very nervous. And then we were like, let's put Cooper Dejean on a grease pole. And I was like, guys, I think he's an important part of the, of the defense.
13:07 Speaker 02 We do have Ross Tucker back for his, uh, third annual beer bowl as well.
13:12 Travis Kelce? The legend Ross Tucker.
13:13 Speaker 02 Which by the way, Ross and I just completely dominated beer pong at the Super Bowl.
13:17 Travis Kelce? Did you?
13:18 Speaker 02 We won like 10 games straight. We could not be beaten in the back of the.
13:20 Travis Kelce? I didn't, I've never known you to be a good beer, beer.
13:23 Speaker 02 I don't think I am. I think Ross is, he went, him and Cooper, him and Cooper won 70. He has like a weird, like you know how I get for beer ball and certain games where I just get this look in my eye where I can't be defeated? Ross gets that way with beer pong. He's a very good beer pong player.
13:39 Travis Kelce? Yeah.
13:39 Speaker 02 He's not even that good of a shot. It's more just like an energy and an ability to get in the opposing person's head. I, it's a good that I respect a lot because I feel like he's only good because he's a, like turns into a complete Neanderthal.
13:53 Travis Kelce? Those seem to be the best any beer game players in my mind. Yeah. I've, I've yet to see one guy be. Good at a beer game and
14:03 Speaker 02 There's a good energy to Ross. Shout out to Ross Tucker. Alright, oh, do we want to watch the video of the submission, Brandon?
14:08 Travis Kelce? Yeah, I'll play it.
14:08 Speaker 02 Alrighty, got the not gonna lie, suck my ass t-shirt on. Love that, Lilly.
14:13 Speaker 04 Welcome to the vlog of my first garage beer.
14:16 Speaker 02 This is our first garage beer?
14:18 Speaker 04 I don't even know if I like beer.
14:20 Speaker 02 Whoa. New height hoodie, yeah! High garage beer IQ. Nice, nice, unreasonably confident.
14:30 Speaker 04 New heights told me to get my beer bowl submission quick. Unfortunately for me, I do not have a team. So I see a shortlist of potential teams for their consideration, and I believe each option brings really unique strengths to the beer bowl. Team Suck My Ass brings elite team chemistry, advanced tailgate capabilities, and absolutely zero tolerance for nonsense.
14:54 Travis Kelce? Hey!
15:09 Speaker 04 Team Fumble Ruski specializes in trick plays, party energy, and Hall of Fame confidence levels.
15:17 Speaker 02 Oh.
15:18 Travis Kelce? Nice.
15:19 Speaker 02 Yeah! The shotgun.
15:27 Travis Kelce? Oh, that's actually a pretty good shotgun.
15:29 Speaker 02 Whoa, the reverse words!
15:32 Speaker 04 Dangerous hungry dog energy and almost no volume control.
15:39 Speaker 04 Team Interns Gone Wild excels in workplace distraction, corporate synergy, and looking productive during complete chaos. Team The Rebuild Year specializes in emotional resilience, rational optimism, and continuing to believe.
15:59 Travis Kelce? This woman's hammered in her backyard.
16:05 Travis Kelce? She is hammered. Uh, this is great.
16:07 Speaker 02 Awesome creativity. Clearly she wants to come and she's willing to put in the energy and effort to making an awesome video. We don't know what your team name is gonna be. I regret to inform you Travis cannot attend, so he will not be there.
16:20 Travis Kelce? I'm sorry.
16:21 Speaker 02 I think unfortunately this year I'm going to be subjected to announcing beer bowl and Brandon and Jay are going to be instrumental in doing the beer bowl as well. So you still need to find a partner, but I do love where you're started and we will have a place for you Lily. Outstanding. All right. For everyone else, keep submitting those videos. We look forward to seeing your submissions. Um, I think this is going to be the best year. I really do. I think we finally are starting to iron this out. It's going to be a spectacle. You're gonna want to be there.
16:49 Travis Kelce? Oh, man.
16:49 Speaker 02 All right.
16:50 Travis Kelce? I can't wait to see how hammered everyone is. All right. Last thing, space is filling up. If you want to come to the new heights live in Los Angeles, June 15th. So check the link in the description and if you want to attend, do this ASAP. We cannot fucking wait. It's going to be fun. All of our live shows have been absolutely electric and I, like I said, I keep saying it week after week, I'm going to shoot Jason in the face with a t-shirt cannon.
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18:39 Speaker 02 It's May 92 percenters. We're still in off season mode, which means yep, you take your time.
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19:33 Travis Kelce? For almost 100 years, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups have been a fan favorite. They're so tasty, so beloved that I suspect everything we do is somehow driven by Reese's.
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19:47 Travis Kelce? Oh, like, did we start this podcast so we could hang out more? Or did we start this podcast in hopes of scoring a Reese's sponsor and samples?
19:58 Speaker 02 I don't think there's much of a debate here, Trav.
20:00 Travis Kelce? Are you saying Reese's was more of a factor in the podcast than hanging out with me?
20:06 Speaker 02 Your words, not mine.
20:08 Travis Kelce? Kind of fucked. Also, tight end U is actually happening for a Reese's this year. Everyone knows that tight ends are football's ultimate blocking catching combo. Just like Reese's is the ultimate combo of milk chocolate and tasty peanut butter.
20:23 Speaker 02 Can't wait to see what they have going on at that event. All the more reason to attend. Free Reese's and raising money for charity.
20:31 Travis Kelce? The signs are everywhere to enjoy Reese's Peanut Butter Cup.
20:34 Speaker 02 So take a look around and maybe you'll realize everything happens for Reese's.
20:39 Travis Kelce? Nice. Now let's keep this thing moving to some bold topics because football is back, ladies and gentlemen.
20:47 Speaker 02 Football's back.
20:48 Travis Kelce? Sort of. Bold topics is brought to you by Reese's, our favorite peanut butter chocolate delight. And let's talk some schedules.
20:55 Speaker 02 Let's do it. The 2026 NFL schedule was released last week. So we were unable to talk about it. We did a little preview. Travis was incorrect in thinking that the Chiefs would have an international game. But the Chiefs do have six prime time games. That's right. Prime time, including week one on Monday night.
21:17 Travis Kelce? Little Monday night football, baby.
21:20 Speaker 02 Trav, do we get to have Patrick Mahomes on the field Monday night? Is he back week one? Cause they said it at the Disney up front. So I was like, I don't know if he's back yet, but I think I like that we're advertising it this way. Is he going to be back?
21:31 Travis Kelce? That man's working his ass off. I know that.
21:33 Speaker 02 All right. That's a very corporate answer and fine. We'll accept it. Monday, September 14th against the Denver Broncos. The Chiefs will be playing on Monday night, ESPN and ABC at 7:15 PM. I believe that's probably central time. They also will be prime time week two, Sunday night on NBC against the Indianapolis Colts. Also had an outstanding season last year, back to back prime time games. Then you're slotting in for that one o'clock against the Miami Dolphins, little Las Vegas Raiders.
22:03 Travis Kelce? Little Miami in September. Let's fucking go.
22:06 Speaker 02 Well, let's talk about this. That's, I think week five is the earliest buy you can get, right?
22:11 Travis Kelce? Yeah, we're always week five or week 11. I think we, yeah, so.
22:16 Speaker 02 I like, I like the. Late, I always like the late buys better, but uh, how do you feel about the early buy? It is what it is.
22:22 Travis Kelce? What can you do? Um, you know, and it's been a little bit different. I, I actually don't mind the, when I get the buys at this point. Obviously you, early on in my career, we didn't play as many um, primetime games. Um, but this year, if you look at later on in this schedule, like closer to late November, um, and December, we have some, some big primetime games. We have a little bit of a, of a buy after uh, Thursday, December 3rd. So there, there's, there's gonna be some opportunities to get some time off. The biggest difference of this year's schedule that is kind of blowing my mind is it kind of starts a week late. And we played two games in January, which is very different. I, I feel like I've only ever played one game in January.
23:07 Speaker 02 Usually just one game. Yeah. It's kind of the way the cookie crumbles sometimes. That is kind of rare. I agree. Usually it's only one game and then you're into the playoffs.
23:14 Travis Kelce? The Super Bowl is February 14th, which is.
23:17 Speaker 02 Valentine's Day?
23:18 Travis Kelce? Yeah, a little Valentine's Day. I don't think I could ever remember it being, I don't know, that late in February. I'm just like, in my mind, I'm like, is, what's going on? Do I, is it, is it just kind of how the, the month of September starts here? I feel like we're always like in a single digit uh, for the first game of the year in September. And now we're September 14th.
23:40 Speaker 02 I feel like I remember Valentine's Day being close to the Super Bowl again, another year on it, because I remember it being big news for men to be watching the Super Bowl on Valentine's Day. I think I remember that.
23:51 Travis Kelce? I feel like I always remember Valentine's Day being like the NBA All-Star Weekend.
23:55 Speaker 02 Yeah. I mean, the schedules changed. Now there's 17 games. There's 18 weeks. Eventually there's gonna be 18 games. This whole thing is gearing up for the Super Bowl to be on that President's Day weekend that they keep talking about, which would be the following week or two weeks after that. And if they add in a buy, I don't know, whatever. As of right now. You guys do get a little help with those Thursday games back to back later in the season. Week 12, week 13 Bills. Is that Thanksgiving, November 26?
24:22 Travis Kelce? Yes, Bills is Thanksgiving night up there in Buffalo in that beautiful new stadium they got.
24:27 Speaker 02 Nice, nice.
24:28 Travis Kelce? So that'll be electric. Obviously, Pat Mahomes and Josh Allen is always an instant classic band. So that'll be a fun one on NBC and then we follow up with the, our Thursday night game on Amazon out there in Los Angeles.
24:41 Speaker 02 How about that?
24:42 Travis Kelce? That'll be a fun one. Play Matty Stafford and the, and the Rams.
24:46 Speaker 02 Go from New York to LA.
24:48 Travis Kelce? Yep.
24:49 Speaker 02 And then get a nice little mini buys, what they call that after the Thursday game and take on your long rivals at this point, the Cincinnati Bengals, Joe Burrow, hopefully will be back in full effect.
24:59 Travis Kelce? Those four games right there, I'm really five, six, seven, damn, we got a nice little stretch in, in November to, to finish off the season and I'm playing a lot of big time games, man. I can see all those games being meaningful.
25:14 Speaker 02 No Christmas Day game this year. You will have Christmas to be able to celebrate with family.
25:19 Travis Kelce? Yeah, after, after we go out and practice, have a nice Friday practice.
25:24 Speaker 02 It'll be Friday. It'll be fast Friday practice. All righty, well, how do you feel about the six Pride Time games? Lot of being made of the schedule, the streaming services. A lot of people with the Eagles fan base is upset about
25:41 Speaker 02 the net rest days. Have you heard about this net rest days? Am I saying this right, Brandon?
25:45 Speaker 03 Yeah, net rest days. It's the like difference between you and your opponent in terms of average rest day. So some teams on average will be more rested than who they play. Some teams, go ahead. That's it.
25:58 Travis Kelce? Give a fuck about how much rest anybody gets.
26:00 Speaker 03 Figured that was the answer.
26:01 Speaker 02 There we go. Well, I mean, apparently it's, it is a big deal though. Facing teams that have more rest than you do. I mean, it's been shown.
26:09 Travis Kelce? Analytics have been shown that that's.
26:11 Speaker 02 They've proven, they've been proving it through numbers and stuff.
26:14 Travis Kelce? Nice. There you go. Everyone gets a Thursday night game and I believe. Not everyone gets a Monday or Sunday night, but the Thursday games, everyone gets one of those, which means you have a short week and you have a longer week after that. I think that's fair. I don't, I don't really buy into, you know, the net rest and all that, man. The schedule's there. Obviously, the, the, you know, you have to be fortunate in the NFL to, to stay as healthy as possible. It is what it is. That's half of the battle. And the fortune that comes in with the NFL season is being able to stay healthy, or if you do get banged up, get healthy by the next week. And I think it's, uh, it's just
26:55 Travis Kelce? a part of the fucking NFL, you know, madness, uh, is in, and I don't think anybody's at a disadvantage.
27:02 Speaker 02 That's what I thought too, until I saw this net rest. What was the net, what was the number one team that was disadvantaged by this, Brandon? It was shocking how many more days their opponents get than they did for rest. So the Chicago Bears, their opponents are, they're going to be facing opponents this year and have in a plus 15 day rest differential, meaning their opponents throughout the season will have 15 more days of rest than they will. I feel like that number feels high. You know what I mean?
27:30 Speaker 03 Other way around. They'll have, the Bears will be statistically more rested.
27:34 Speaker 02 Yeah, go to the minus.
27:35 Speaker 03 The minus is the Chargers.
27:36 Speaker 02 That was the one minus, because I was about to say the Eagles are high in this category as well. They're minus 15.
27:41 Speaker 03 Eagles are right there. Yeah.
27:42 Speaker 02 That's where I feel like, once you start getting, like, to a certain point, it feels like that's probably a little bit much. But, and then the other thing Eagles fans are upset about is the Christmas Eve game. But like you just said, that's a Thursday game.
27:53 Travis Kelce? And it's Christmas.
27:54 Speaker 02 Yeah, the Christmas Eve game, everybody's upset about in Philly. It's just the way the Thursday game fell this year, right?
27:59 Travis Kelce? Why are they upset about a Christmas Eve game?
28:02 Speaker 02 Because it's Christmas Eve. You're supposed to be with a family. People don't want to like spend time thinking about the football on Christmas Eve.
28:11 Speaker 02 I get it. I do. But at the same time, this is the way.
28:14 Travis Kelce? I mean, first of all, I don't know why I'm hard pressed to believe that that's not the majority.
28:20 Speaker 02 I think Chris, for some reason, Christmas Eve night.
28:23 Travis Kelce? Birds fans and Phil- Philadelphians are gonna get excited for a game like that. I don't know. I don't know why I'm like, maybe I'm catching that wrong.
28:35 Speaker 02 I think Christmas Eve, for some reason, at night feels like that is like prime time where you're with the family. You're getting everything ready. The presents are getting ready to be put under the tree by Santa. So I, I think it's a big.
28:50 Travis Kelce? You're at the house watching the game.
28:52 Speaker 02 But there's, the Thursdays are sold from Amazon. So it's not like they can move. Somebody's gonna be on that Thursday. Cause Amazon's about to write the Thursday. And this is where as players, you get used to playing on holidays. You just realize that that's part of the gig.
29:05 Travis Kelce? Yeah, I don't know why I'm like, that's, you're gonna be at home getting ready for Christmas the next day, watching the Birds play football. I feel like that's like a bonding family experience.
29:16 Speaker 02 I like the holiday games. We've been on record as that.
29:19 Travis Kelce? I love the holiday games.
29:20 Speaker 02 I like watching Christmas with the family. You get to watch some football. Thanksgiving, you get to watch the football. All of this is just, people are getting frustrated with the league in general. There's more streaming platforms that are, um, that are costing fans money to watch the games. Uh, it's harder to watch their, every game you want of your team than it's been in a long time or ever. You know, I think, uh, there's more international games. We had J.J. Watt talking about, he had this tweet. International game slate is nearing the realm of traveling circus as opposed to occasional showcase. I mean, I get what he's saying. It is the one area still trying to grow the game internationally. I like the international games. And I've always liked playing in them.
30:02 Travis Kelce? I love the international games.
30:03 Speaker 02 But as a fan, it, it's gonna take a home game away from somebody.
30:07 Travis Kelce? Well, that it's taken, now it's taking away the home game for the 18.
30:12 Speaker 02 The added eighth game.
30:13 Travis Kelce? Yeah, the ninth.
30:14 Speaker 02 Yeah. Yes, thank you. Nice. Thank you.
30:18 Travis Kelce? Either way, I think the international games are a blast. I think you the NFL is smart by, you know, visiting new, new countries, new cities.
30:28 Speaker 02 Well, and building countries that are fans of the game. Like there's, at this point, there's a bunch of games in London. And they have a, a big hunger to see the game of football played, right? American football, I guess, as they would call it.
30:42 Travis Kelce? Yeah.
30:43 Speaker 02 I was over in Dublin last year for the game in Ireland. Awesome experience. Ireland was
30:50 Speaker 02 fucking loving the game and it was at an awesome park. Oh my gosh. It's like a historic stadium that's in Dublin. Yeah, I'm not going to do it any justice. Anyways, and we have a bunch more. We obviously, the first game in Australia is happening in Melbourne. Another game in Rio de Janeiro, Paris. Kylie and I love Paris. Oh my gosh. Madrid, Munich, who doesn't love going to Germany? I've never been. You didn't, that was one you actually said you didn't like as much. Is that fair to say? Should we not say that?
31:22 Travis Kelce? I didn't say that.
31:24 Speaker 02 You said you didn't like the food. It was too many tubular meats.
31:27 Travis Kelce? Time out. That's, I just don't like sausages. I never said I didn't like the schnitzels. The schnitzels were delicious.
31:33 Speaker 02 Schnitzels are good.
31:34 Travis Kelce? Yeah, I've had, I've had a bunch of fun out there in Germany.
31:36 Speaker 02 Alright, fair enough.
31:38 Travis Kelce? And I'll, I'll say they have, their pilsners are very smooth.
31:41 Speaker 02 I do think, this is the one thing that I feel like the NFL needs to hold on to that I feel like we're starting to drift away from.
31:48 Travis Kelce? What's that?
31:49 Speaker 02 I don't think we're there yet. Sunday is the day of football, right? Outside of going to church in the morning, if you're still religious and you do that. Sunday is like where so many games happen and that's what you grow up in. You gear your entire week around watching football on Sunday.
32:08 Travis Kelce? Yeah.
32:08 Speaker 02 It's an institution at this point, the NFL playing games on Sunday. With every day that we keep adding in there, we're getting away from that just a little bit. And I worry that, I think the game got big. One of the reasons it got so popular and big was because all of the game, it was an event. Sunday is the NFL and everybody set their week apart to tune into their games that were happening on Sunday and you're watching kind of all of them now take place across, I mean, Sunday ticket, right? I worry that we're getting away from that just a little bit by, by building too many of this.
32:43 Travis Kelce? Well, all the, all the international games are on Sunday, except for the first one.
32:50 Speaker 02 Right. Correct. I'm not, this isn't international thing. I'm more talking about the Christmases, the Christmas Eve game now, the, the, uh, the Thanksgiving Eve. There's a Wednesday game now before Thanksgiving.
33:01 Travis Kelce? Everybody's sitting around. What do?
33:03 Speaker 02 I get it. I'm just saying, I'm just saying.
33:06 Travis Kelce? I don't think that'll, that'll ever change. I hear, I hear what you're saying, but I think they're very, they're very few, far in between outside of the holidays. That is, there's not just like a random Wednesday game in September. I'm, I just looked at our schedule. We got four games that aren't on Sunday. And we probably have the, the higher end of that not playing on Sunday.
33:30 Speaker 02 For sure. Yeah. It's, it's not there yet, but it's close. And to some people, it probably is there.
33:35 Travis Kelce? I think it's awesome, man. I, I honestly do. As somebody who's played on Christmas, who's played on Christmas Eve, was or played on Thanksgiving Eve, Thanksgivings, played, you know, in a, in a lot of like awkward, short week moments. I think it's fun, man. And I, I don't think it's, you know, as taxing as it may seem. Because it's the NFL, man. You're living out your dream. You're going to get, if there's a chance to play on a fucking primetime game, which all these one-off games are that, that aren't on Sunday. I'm fucking getting so excited for those opportunities, man, because that's the, those are the opportunities you really get to show yourself.
34:15 Speaker 02 The schedule is appearing to go in that, continue to go in that direction, right? NFL owners are voting Tuesday. It's a day before you guys seeing this on whether to increase the international slate from eight to 10 games per year. Again, I like the international games. It is, as somebody who likes to travel, it's fun to go see the games in another country. You tie it in as a full trip. I get that everybody can't do that. I get it takes away a home game, but I like it. And I liked it as a player, but I get it's not for everybody. The primetime games are continuing to get up. Five teams have zero primetime games. Have you looked at this? Don't look, don't look, don't look. Can you guess?
34:50 Travis Kelce? No.
34:50 Speaker 02 All right. I won't look. Can I guess?
34:52 Travis Kelce? You look.
34:52 Speaker 02 Jets, Arizona.
34:54 Travis Kelce? Jets, Arizona.
34:56 Speaker 02 I knew the Jets were on it. Um, I mean, I would say Cleveland, uh, but I don't think that's right.
35:02 Travis Kelce? No, it's not.
35:02 Speaker 02 Oh my gosh. Who else do I not think? Jets. Dolphins?
35:12 Travis Kelce? Top five picks this year.
35:14 Speaker 02 Yeah, Dolphin. That's right. That's pretty much what it comes down. Jets, Dolphins, Raiders,
35:22 Speaker 02 Arizona.
35:24 Travis Kelce? Yep. And one more.
35:25 Speaker 02 One more?
35:26 Travis Kelce? Yep.
35:26 Speaker 02 I can't think. Who is it?
35:27 Travis Kelce? Titans.
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39:17 Speaker 02 Let's blind rank the top 10 games we're looking forward to this year.
39:20 Travis Kelce? Uh, Monday night games?
39:22 Speaker 03 Nope, just in general. Just a little hodgepodge, little hodgepodge of games.
39:26 Speaker 02 All the hot spots games.
39:27 Speaker 03 Little hodgepodge of games.
39:29 Travis Kelce? Okay, looks like we're gonna blind rank just random NFL games on our excitement towards those games. Let's uh, let's get it going, Brandon. Let's see what we got.
39:39 Speaker 03 First game.
39:42 Speaker 03 Rank them one through 10 as they come up.
39:44 Speaker 02 Kep.
39:44 Speaker 03 Falcons at Saints, week four, Monday Night Football. A lot of people speculating this will be the 20-year dome coming anniversary game. That'd be the 20 years when the Saints came back to the Superdome after Katrina.
39:56 Speaker 02 I'll let Trav rank this one because I feel like I have too much, uh, I'm a, what, what is it? When you recuse yourself because you have a...
40:05 Speaker 03 Come on. This is gonna be electric.
40:08 Travis Kelce? Is it?
40:08 Speaker 03 This is, yeah. Well, no, I think, I think for rivalry purposes, this will be an electric game. Yes. I think it'll be an incredible atmosphere if this is what this is.
40:16 Travis Kelce? I'm not, I'm not gonna lie.
40:18 Speaker 03 You were gonna put it down for football reasons, which is fine. This is why we play the game.
40:21 Travis Kelce? Yeah, I was gonna say, in terms of excitement for football, um, I'm not a big fan of like...
40:30 Speaker 02 The Saints ended the year pretty hot. I'm, I'm like, I think there's some excitement to this game, but knowing what's coming later, I don't know.
40:38 Travis Kelce? Probably gonna put this at 10.
40:39 Speaker 02 I was about to say nine or 10. Like, I was gonna go maybe nine, just because maybe there's some, a game worse than this that you have on this.
40:45 Travis Kelce? You're probably gonna have to give me like, and I understand it's Monday Night Football.
40:50 Speaker 03 Well, I think it might be electric. But that's all right. It's why I play the game.
40:52 Speaker 02 Saints ended the season hot, hot last year. I actually am looking forward to seeing how they progress in Kalamore's second year. Falcons, I mean, they still have Bijon, so it'll be, I mean, that guy's always fun to watch play.
41:02 Travis Kelce? I just don't, I don't know if I've ever been so distant from a rival, rivalry in the NFL. Like, I've never, I can't remember getting excited for a Saints Falcons game.
41:14 Speaker 03 There's real hatred here.
41:16 Speaker 02 All right, well, I say we go nine. Let's go nine.
41:17 Speaker 03 Put it, what? No, go nine? Go nine? Okay. Next game, Packers at Bears, Christmas.
41:25 Speaker 02 Christmas? I mean, Jesus, I freaking...
41:27 Travis Kelce? I'm gonna get pretty fucking pumped for this one.
41:29 Speaker 02 I just, there's actual hatred. There's like Ben Johnson and LaFleur hate each other. What goes better, like, as a backdrop for the most joyous holiday of all time than with pure hatred? I'm gonna go, I, I mean, listen, it's hard for me to not go with an Eagles game as number one, um, or a Chiefs game as number one. I'm very much looking forward to this game.
41:54 Travis Kelce? I'm fucking pumped on this. Let's go three. Let's go three. Just say that.
41:58 Speaker 03 Three. Interesting. Okay. Bears at Lions. Thanksgiving.
42:02 Speaker 02 I mean, it's another good one. Obviously you got the Ben Johnson, Dan Campbell. I mean, the NFC North has got some frigging bangers.
42:08 Travis Kelce? They're gonna have a bunch of those. Yeah. I'll say Thanksgiving.
42:11 Speaker 02 I'm gonna put it below. I'm more excited for the Packers game, but I am very excited for this game.
42:17 Travis Kelce? I'll give it a six. I'll give it a six.
42:19 Speaker 02 Six? Oh, I was looking forward more to that. Alright.
42:21 Speaker 03 Lions at Bills, week two. This will be the Bills' new stadium opening day. It'll be big, poppin' circumstance, but I don't know about the football.
42:28 Speaker 02 So timeout. The last one, do we go six or do we go five or four? What do we do for that one?
42:34 Travis Kelce? Sounds like you want to go five, so we can go.
42:36 Speaker 02 No, no, no. I'm genuinely asking what Brandon put, because if you said it, put it down for six, I'll put this one at five.
42:42 Travis Kelce? You think this one's, this one's more exciting? Alright.
42:44 Speaker 02 I'm excited about the new stadium and I'm happy that the Bills kept the stadium outdoor, so I actually am very much looking forward to it.
42:50 Travis Kelce? Definitely pumped on the new stadium.
42:52 Speaker 03 That's where we're at right now. We have Packers, Bears, Christmas at three, Bears at Lions, Thanksgiving at six, Falcons, Saints at nine. Okay, we'll go back.
43:00 Speaker 02 You could have just said we put the game at six and we would be further.
43:02 Speaker 03 I was finding out myself. Lions at Bills, week two.
43:06 Speaker 02 Five, we just said, right?
43:07 Travis Kelce? Okay.
43:08 Speaker 03 Patriots at Seahawks, week one.
43:10 Speaker 02 I mean, I know it's a Super Bowl rematch.
43:12 Travis Kelce? They're doing that week one?
43:14 Speaker 02 They've done this before where week one is a Super Bowl rematch. I don't know why I'm not, I, I mean, I'm not as excited about this game, even though it's a Super Bowl rematch.
43:23 Travis Kelce? Yeah, I feel like Seahawks lost a lot of key pieces. The Pats, I don't know why they, they're obviously a fucking great team, but it's not like exciting.
43:36 Speaker 02 I don't feel like the Patriots and Seahawks are like a huge rivalry. That's what it comes down to. Like, I don't, and I guess the Lions-Bills isn't either, but the Lions-Bills, at least there's like a stadium happening. This is a Super Bowl rematch, but like, I mean, the Seahawks dominated the game. It's not like we're seeing like some like barn burner, like redone. This is like Mike Tyson knocking somebody out in the first round and we're gonna see that run back again. I mean, I don't know.
44:00 Travis Kelce? Yeah. I mean, I can see the Pats winning it. I'm probably, do you want to go eight?
44:05 Speaker 02 I feel like it's a Super Bowl rematch. This feels a little disrespectful to Pats and Seahawks fans. I'm just not that geared up about it. I don't know. You want to go eight?
44:13 Travis Kelce? Yeah.
44:14 Speaker 02 I don't want to go 10.
44:15 Travis Kelce? It sounds good.
44:16 Speaker 03 Chiefs at Bills Thanksgiving.
44:19 Travis Kelce? Come home, baby. New stadium.
44:23 Speaker 02 This is one or two for me.
44:24 Travis Kelce? All right, nah.
44:26 Speaker 03 The nightcap on a what triple header Thanksgiving?
44:28 Travis Kelce? I don't know Philly's schedule, but I'm going to say this is probably this is number one for me, baby.
44:32 Speaker 02 Because you're still playing in the actual game, Travis, I will defer to you and we can put this as one.
44:37 Travis Kelce? All right, put it as one.
44:38 Speaker 03 Ooh, our number one Cowboys at Eagles Thanksgiving.
44:42 Speaker 02 Now I feel like can we revert, can I have takes backsies? Can I have takesy backsies?
44:46 Travis Kelce? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
44:47 Speaker 02 I mean, listen, I'm really geared up about this. I think the Cowboys are unfortunately a very good team. They've made a lot of adjustments. Offensively, they're really good. Defensively, they're getting better.
44:56 Speaker 03 This is such a funny phrase. You're unfortunately a good team.
45:01 Speaker 02 So I'll go, I'll go two, I'll go two.
45:04 Travis Kelce? Yeah, I mean, yeah, one, two.
45:06 Speaker 02 One of the biggest rivalries, the biggest rivalry.
45:08 Speaker 03 So good.
45:09 Speaker 02 I, yeah.
45:10 Speaker 03 NFL did such a great job with Thanksgiving this year. Um, all right.
45:15 Speaker 03 Rams at Seahawks, week 16, Christmas.
45:17 Speaker 02 See, this is what's weird. I'm more excited about this game than I am for the Patriots Seahawks game, right?
45:22 Travis Kelce? Yeah, I'm with you.
45:23 Speaker 02 Like, these games were so close last year. Either of these teams could have won in the NFC Championship, and I think they probably.
45:29 Travis Kelce? And it's Christmas.
45:30 Speaker 02 Don't forget about Christmas. Um, I, I kind of want to go four.
45:35 Speaker 02 Too high, too soon?
45:37 Travis Kelce? I, I mean, it's our only.
45:38 Speaker 02 It's either seven or four, seven, four, we have four, seven and 10.
45:42 Travis Kelce? I know.
45:43 Speaker 02 Seven would still put it above the, the Super Bowl rematch. Do you want to go seven?
45:46 Travis Kelce? Yeah, I think seven's nice.
45:48 Speaker 02 All right, seven.
45:49 Speaker 03 Back to Seahawks at Rams, week 18. Little trick, little trick.
45:54 Speaker 02 I do like.
45:55 Speaker 03 Come on, come on.
45:57 Speaker 02 I do, I do like, I do like that we.
46:00 Speaker 03 Shit last week.
46:01 Speaker 02 I do like that we put the Rams at Seahawks at seven so that we can put the Seahawks at Rams at 10 because the better game is definitely in Seattle, so.
46:12 Travis Kelce? And on Christmas. All right, cool.
46:13 Speaker 03 I don't know, but we, but week 18 could be a massive playoff pro. I, I, I think they did this on purpose and I think week 18, this could settle one division and maybe like conference. I, I.
46:25 Speaker 02 I agree, I agree, but I'm not putting it at four.
46:27 Travis Kelce? It's always going to be a divisional game, so they made it, they made it worth our while for sure.
46:31 Speaker 03 I love that they did this to him, too.
46:33 Speaker 02 You might've just talked me into, do we go four?
46:35 Travis Kelce? Stop.
46:36 Speaker 03 Ravens at Steelers, week 15. First meeting since the Ravens missed a field goal to give the Pitt the North title.
46:45 Travis Kelce? I don't know, man. NFC, AFC North, man, I fucking like this. It's Steelers, Steelers, Steelers, Ravens are up there with fucking Eagles and.
46:53 Speaker 02 First of all, I don't know about that. The Ravens haven't been a team long enough to declare that, but they are a big rivalry. The AFC North, I love AFC North football.
47:02 Speaker 03 Week 15, late in the season, playoff implications will be there.
47:05 Speaker 02 I mean, it's, there's only one more spot. They have to be four, right?
47:08 Travis Kelce? Yeah, they're four, and I like this. I like this a lot.
47:11 Speaker 02 I wish we went lower.
47:13 Speaker 03 Did we get 10? Did I fuck up and not put 10 on here?
47:15 Speaker 02 No, we got 10.
47:16 Travis Kelce? No, it was 100%.
47:18 Speaker 03 Okay, there we go. This is our final rankings.
47:24 Speaker 03 How do we feel looking at it?
47:25 Travis Kelce? I love it.
47:26 Speaker 02 I think, listen, I think Ravens Steelers is too high. I think it's neither of those teams.
47:30 Speaker 03 Week 18 at 10 is so bad.
47:31 Speaker 02 That's what I'm saying.
47:32 Travis Kelce? Neither of those teams what?
47:35 Speaker 02 Neither of those teams were that competitive last year. So like, yeah, I like watching those two teams play. The Ravens and Seahawks were not, the Ravens and Steelers, like, I like them. I love the fanbases. I love all that, but to say that's number four, until they prove that they can get like Lamar back, they, I like Jesse Minner, like, I'm excited to watch the game, but to say it's the fourth game I'm excited about, I don't love that. I would have, I'm much more truthfully excited about the Seahawks and Rams games.
48:08 Travis Kelce? The AFC northerner in, in me is, is saying I'm more excited for that rivalry. I don't know why.
48:16 Speaker 02 I, I know, well, I get it. We grew up AFC North.
48:18 Travis Kelce? Yeah.
48:19 Speaker 02 I also think Bears and Lions should be above it.
48:22 Speaker 03 This is blind ranking. This is why we blind rank. It makes it fun.
48:25 Speaker 02 Us having the 10th game of Seattle against the Rams, week 18, and this blind ranking is gonna come.
48:29 Speaker 03 People are gonna give us some shit about, we're gonna get some comments.
48:31 Speaker 02 We're gonna get a week 18, big matchup there, and it's gonna be, yeah, turns out this is the game of the fucking year with all the balls.
48:37 Speaker 03 People are gonna remember this list and come back to it.
48:40 Travis Kelce? All right, we'll stamp it. Let's stamp it and see how we end up doing at the end of the year.
48:43 Speaker 03 Stamp it, we'll get stamped.
48:45 Travis Kelce? And that does it for Bold Topics, brought to you by Reese's. You gotta love those peanut butter cups, chocolate peanut butter cups.
48:52 Speaker 02 All right, it's time for notice. No dumb questions. No dumb questions is brought to you by Sleep Number.
48:58 Travis Kelce? See what David Pittner has to say over on X. Despite NFL efforts to avoid it, teams occasionally play a regular season opponent in preseason. This year, the Chiefs play the Rams and the Seahawks, two marquee matchups preseason and regular season. How does this affect preseason game planning and play? I'll tell you what, I've never had this happen and this kind of ironic that it happened. I, not that I can remember, maybe once we played like Green Bay, I think in the play, in the preseason. But to have two games like this is blowing my mind right now. So, um, but we played both of them in the preseason and these are like two of the best teams in the league.
49:40 Travis Kelce? And I like to think that the Chiefs is one of the best teams in the league. So I think these are like essentially four games where we're going to see these guys. So I always thought the preseason games were kind of one offs games that you don't really see the other opponent during the season.
49:56 Speaker 02 Definitely the way it usually is for sure.
49:58 Travis Kelce? Um, and I don't know why this year I get two of the best teams in the league in preseason. I would assume that it will kind of change the game planning, but more so the, the guys won't play in every single game.
50:14 Speaker 02 I feel like when we did this before, I think we did this with the Steelers one year, maybe the Jets another year. Cause the Steelers and Jets were like just two teams we always played in the preseason. We always played like our last preseason game almost every time against the Jets. And then we would always have a Steelers game usually. And a couple of times we did play them in the regular season and you just end up, I mean, you're not showing anything in these preseason games anyways. Like you're doing a very rundown vanilla offense. You're not doing specific plays that you would try to run against these guys in the regular season. You're just kind of doing generic things.
50:47 Travis Kelce? Yeah. You don't get me wrong. You're still trying to win the game, but more so you're still, you're just trying to get your fundamentals in, you're trying to. You know, get lined up, see what, see how the other team's presenting itself and getting in sync with the guys in a live situation.
51:02 Speaker 02 It does seem like teams are doing more in pre like defensive coordinators. I see running like zero blitz in preseason games now. And I see like them doing more chaotic stuff, which you used to like.
51:12 Travis Kelce? Towards the end of the game.
51:14 Speaker 02 Like I'm, I remember Marty Morning wanting to fight a defensive coordinator one time in the preseason because he did a blitz zero. It's like an unspoken rule that you aren't going to do a lot of that stuff, Paul.
51:23 Travis Kelce? I've never heard of that rule. I think.
51:25 Speaker 02 It's not a rule anymore.
51:26 Travis Kelce? I feel like I've seen it more so towards the end of games. If the game mean is it like the game is coming down to the wire with the young guys in there. Cause you, you sense, I want to see how a quarterback reacts. I want to see how players go up and make plays in that situation. To get them ready for a live, you know, in season moment when the bullets are really flying. So in terms of planning and play, I just think it's a, it's obviously going to be different just because it's the preseason.
51:55 Speaker 02 The other thing is if you have a joint practice, usually you won't do a joint practice with the team that you're playing like I've almost, I don't think I've ever seen that. Maybe I'm wrong.
52:04 Travis Kelce? I thought that's what you do. You go, oh, you're talking about joint practice with somebody you played during the season.
52:10 Speaker 02 Correct.
52:11 Travis Kelce? Nice.
52:12 Speaker 02 That's one that I feel like is, cause you are showing, usually that's why the coaches like the joint practices is they feel a little bit more willing to do some of the things that they've been working on and you're gonna, you're gonna show a little bit more because it's not nationally broadcast in the practice. Although coaches do talk, they do be talking. I do think. I feel like that would be something I would avoid for sure. If I was, if I was playing the team in the regular season. Um, all right. Do we want to do one more?
52:43 Travis Kelce? Yeah, let's do it.
52:44 Speaker 02 All right. This one is what are your top three favorite schedule release vids? I'm not going to lie. I, I do not watch schedule release videos.
52:50 Travis Kelce? I don't watch them either. Did hear their mom was a part of Kansas City. So shout out mom.
52:54 Speaker 02 Oh, shut up mom. Mascots. Which NFL team's mascot would survive the longest?
53:01 Speaker 02 Wait, if mascots had to play one down of real football, which NFL team's mascot would survive the, what does that fucking mean? And which one would instantly regret its life choices? So which one would dominate the most and which one would get killed?
53:16 Travis Kelce? That's what I'm taking away. Shout out to Tyler Garmin for the tweet. Right off the bat, the one that's the most reckless with like the, the Pee Wee games is the Colts.
53:28 Speaker 02 Oh dude, I'm all in on Big Blue.
53:31 Travis Kelce? I think him, uh, doesn't the Jaguars guy like zip line in? He does some gnarly shit.
53:38 Speaker 02 The Jaguars mascot does do some very cool stuff.
53:41 Travis Kelce? Casey Wolf is a goofball and I fucking love him. I'll throw, I'll throw him up there. I don't know.
53:46 Speaker 02 Not necessarily intimidating, but definitely not. He's not gonna be a little bitch. Same with Swoop. I'll go Swoop on that as well. You know who I think's gonna get just, I don't know. Part of this just is like the animal that it represents. I feel like the Cardinals just gonna get absolutely obliterated. I mean, this thing is like.
54:04 Travis Kelce? I don't know, man.
54:05 Speaker 02 It's a little baby bird.
54:07 Travis Kelce? The one that's gonna last the longest is Big Blue. He's shown the most recklessness of all the mascots.
54:14 Speaker 02 There we go. Oh yeah. Look at this highlight.
54:19 Travis Kelce? Just really, that's a hell of a, oh, roll the flag. This kid's just, oh, nice. Get him, get him. Team fight, team fight.
54:31 Speaker 02 Look at the Viking coming in and stuff.
54:33 Travis Kelce? I would have had so much fun if this was a real thing and.
54:40 Travis Kelce? He's gotta get his jersey back.
54:41 Speaker 02 Did he take his jersey off? Where's his jersey?
54:43 Travis Kelce? I think one of the little kids might've ripped it off.
54:45 Speaker 02 Ripped it off?
54:47 Travis Kelce? Or did he take it off?
54:49 Speaker 02 Oh, he got ripped off.
54:50 Travis Kelce? Nice. That's a good move. That's a good move by two.
54:53 Speaker 02 That does it for No Dumb Questions brought to you by Sleep Number. Reminder, you can preorder our No Dumb Questions book on Kelsey Clubhouse right now.
55:02 Travis Kelce? Right now.
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55:48 Speaker 02 Alrighty, let's move on. That's enough schedule talk.
55:52 Speaker 03 Well, we've, okay, sorry to be a dick here, but we kind of covered a lot of these. Um, yeah, fuck, we already kind of answered all of these questions.
56:01 Speaker 03 Well, I mean, it is what it is.
56:03 Speaker 02 That's because you're looking at two dumb asses, Brandon.
56:07 Speaker 02 We think of the dumb questions.
56:11 Speaker 03 Well, to be fair, the questions weren't like that wild. Um.
56:15 Speaker 02 Let's ask AI a dumb question.
56:17 Speaker 03 No.
56:20 Speaker 02 Why isn't the number 11 pronounced 1D1?
56:25 Speaker 03 What?
56:27 Speaker 02 Why isn't the number 11 pronounced 1D1?
56:31 Travis Kelce? 22, 33. Brandon, are you understanding what he's saying?
56:35 Speaker 03 Oh, god damn it. I get it now. Yeah, I took that. Did not connect. That fucking boomeranged around the room for a minute. Jesus, I got it.
56:44 Speaker 02 If you're in a boat in the middle of a lake and you throw an anchor overboard, does the lake get deeper?
56:57 Speaker 03 Yeah. It's got, right? No. Well, I mean, yeah, but like by
57:02 Speaker 02 fractionally.
57:03 Speaker 03 imperceptible amount. Yeah, it's gotta go up like you're adding something to the volume of the lake.
57:10 Speaker 02 Wait, but no, it doesn't because the anchor is already factored into the buoyancy in the boat, right? That weight is already in the boat.
57:18 Speaker 02 So it's already displaced.
57:20 Speaker 03 So the boat's already pushing down on the top of the water, moving the water out.
57:24 Speaker 02 And the anchor was in the boat.
57:26 Speaker 03 And when you move the anchor from the boat in, it just kind of nets out.
57:30 Speaker 02 Right?
57:33 Speaker 02 I think that's how that works.
57:35 Speaker 03 I wish I wasn't stupid.
57:38 Speaker 02 That's actually a pretty good one.
57:41 Speaker 03 It's pretty good.
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