00:00joe there was a time where you and i were young where the nfl season opened up on sunday like
00:05that was it like the nfl season began on sunday then i'm gonna say probably 25 years ago or so
00:11it became thursday night and now it just seems like anything goes you're 100 right so i i don't
00:19know what to expect from these international games probably harder to handicap these more
00:22than anything else just because of the body clock and i saw the rams joe decided not to go out
00:27early
00:28just to keep the same body clock and just try to play the game who knows maybe that'll work i
00:32mean
00:32i guess that's part of of what you do so i i think like my old self wants to say
00:39i hate it but my new
00:40self is sort of indifferent because so many things have changed through the years and i mean joe this
00:48year they're gonna have games on wednesday night before thanksgiving yeah like it's not even
00:55thanksgiving anymore it's the night before thanksgiving it's black friday you know like
01:02it's just better to embrace it joe than to fight it anymore i just i i think the nfl is
01:07gonna do what
01:07they do and all of them will be wildly successful the only thing the nfl joe they pulled back on
01:13and i don't know really why they did this but no more dual monday night football games right like
01:18that's something they did away with this year i wonder why they they chose to do that
01:22well i mean they're trying to get more games involved right so if they can get more games on
01:28the schedule trust me you'll get two on uh on a monday night but i mean you've staggered it now
01:33the
01:33great thing about the nfl was always the ability they dangle the carrot right you didn't get it
01:40all the time right every day you didn't you had it was that part of the day right it was
01:46uh sunday
01:47you look forward to the end of the week college on saturday nfl on sunday the thursday night product
01:52is trash craig i i mean the players hate it it's not it's not good football in any way a
02:00lot of them
02:00tend to be blowouts what is a wednesday night game gonna be and again now and if i'm a fan
02:06if i'm a
02:07season ticket holder to the rams say who now on thursday night have to take on the 49ers in melbourne
02:13australia i mean that's a home game you don't get because your team is flying out now the owners
02:20don't care right because they're still getting the money one way or the other but i'm not a big fan
02:24of
02:25now nine games where home fan bases lose out on getting to see their team greg seems a little bit
02:32like you don't care about the fans like you're more about the expansion as if melbourne australia
02:39doesn't have enough of their own version of football yeah and and look it happens in london
02:45also and it happens whenever you lose home games i mean that's just the the way that it is and
02:51you're
02:51right about thursday night i know they put it on amazon prime and i would say that you know i'm
02:56just
02:57trying to think like i'm gonna say that out of the 17 weeks i probably watched four or five of
03:04those
03:05games like in full from start to finish and usually what i do is i hate to say it i
03:10sort of check my
03:10phone to see if we're like getting a good game or not throughout and you're right a lot of times
03:15it
03:15is not now to to the nfl's credit yeah yes there have been three out of 17 that have been
03:21awesome
03:21you know like that's true there definitely have been some but because of the contractual agreements
03:27with the nfl a lot of the teams that are not good get get to play on thursday night so
03:32you're gonna
03:33see you know i mean i don't know if arizona plays on thursday night or cleveland or i don't i
03:37know
03:37miami does not but you're gonna get some some games that you don't want to watch it's just the nature
03:44of the way that they do it
