NFL Expands to Fridays: Packers vs Eagles in Brazil

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00:00And then we go from Thursday night to Friday night, and they're going to play an NFL game on a Friday night in Brazil.

00:10I'm sort of partial to high school football. I can't believe the NFL is opening up on a Friday night against high school football teams.

00:17So a lot of the kids are not going to be able to watch this game. Never thought that day would come.

00:21Packers, Eagles. This is another really good showdown, I think, George, but I guess we'll see.

00:27Packers coming off a great run. The story is very easy. The narrative is very easy for this game.

00:34Although I don't know what Brazil is going to be like. The air, the weather, the field, I have no clue.

00:38But one team on fire at the end of the season, going in one direction.

00:42One team completely falling apart, going in the other direction. And they'll face each other on Friday.

00:47Yeah, they will. And by the way, speaking of the Friday game, I wanted this at the beginning.

00:53You know, the NFL is always looking for more money, right? Next revenue stream.

00:57They've had games on Friday in the past, mainly on holidays when, you know, the Christmas holiday was full.

01:02There was Christmas Eve or whatever, New Year's. So they would have games there.

01:05But I wanted this at the beginning here, when next year we're going to see a few more on Friday.

01:09You know, the ratings are high. I think it's going to be the beginning of the NFL taking over Fridays as well.

01:14Money, money, money, money, money. So the NFL cares. As for this game.

01:17I mean, there's question marks or things you want to see for both teams, right?

01:21Philadelphia did implode last year. Ten at one, it just fell apart here. They got rid of both coordinators.

01:26So we're going to see how that offense works. No Jason Kelsey. Is the Tush push still going to be as effective?

01:31I think it will be. You know, does that take away touchdowns with Saquon Barkley? We'll see.

01:35You know, Green Bay. All right. Love got paid. He had eight good games and the playoffs.

01:40You know, is he worth that money? Can he make that offense go with all those different receivers there?

01:44How is Josh Jacobs going to play there? You know, is he back?

01:48He was, you know, I guess the first half of the season with their other ratings of the one of the second half.

01:52We didn't really do all that much here. It's a lot to look at here.

01:55And these are two of the best teams in the NFC, right? As much as we like the Kansas City Baltimore game,

02:00because two bad best kids in the AFC, the NFL has done us a favor.

02:03Two of the best games in the NFC should be a great game. We'll see how it works out here.

02:07As for who's starting here. I mean, you're starting love. You're starting hurts, right?

02:11Usually both quarterbacks there. You're starting Jacobs. You're starting Barkley.

02:15You're starting, you're going to start Brown. You're going to start Devonta Smith.

02:20You're going to start Dallas. Got it. More than likely. A little tightening could be interesting.

02:23The wide receivers for Green Bay is where it gets interesting.

02:27Watson, Dobbs, Reed, Wicks. Pick your poison here.

02:31I'm going to start Watson while he's healthy and I'm probably starting Dobbs.

02:34After that, I'll probably take off.

02:36Yeah. And look, I think for, you know, we'll, we'll go back to the Packers and let's go to the Eagles here.

02:42You know, for the Packers, Andrews Carlson will not be kicking.

02:45That's the one thing we learned from the show.

02:47But, but Emmanuel Wilson is a name that I believe he made the team.

02:52I hope I'm not wrong about that. He will be the backup running back to Josh Jacobs.

02:57So again, that's an interesting note for the Philadelphia Eagles.

03:00I think that you said it best, George.

03:02I mean, you're looking at a lot of different options and you wonder how the Eagles are going to use those running backs,

03:07especially on the first night.

03:09Saquon Barkley, naturally you would think with the amount of money that they paid him to join the Eagles that he would be that guy.

03:16But the Eagles have used a lot of quarterbacks through the years.

03:19You're just not going to know which direction Sirianni is going to go with those running backs.

03:24I think until about halfway through the season.

03:26Remember last year, George, and even the years past, a lot of different running backs carry the ball for them.

03:33Yeah, but they've never had one, somebody like Barkley, right?

03:36They've never had this guy.

03:38So that's also the curiosity factor because you're right.

03:40They've always split it around two, three guys here.

03:42Now they have a guy, right?

03:44So we'll see how they use that.

03:46I think they'll use Barkley.

03:47My question is going to be inside, you know, the 5'3 yard line.

03:51Are we still doing the brotherly shove and risking Hurts?

03:56Because I think what happened, I think Hurts got hurt last year.

03:58One of those shoves, I think he got hurt.

04:00I think that's what really hurt him in the second half of the season.

04:02Well, they're like, you know what?

04:03It's not worth it.

04:04We've got a real guy in Barkley, right?

04:05He can score touchdowns here.

04:07I just wonder if they will go in that direction.

04:09I think it's very curious to look at.

04:10Because if you told me right now that Barkley is going to be the guy,

04:13they're not going to do a touchdown anymore,

04:15we're not drafting him early enough.

04:17We're just not.

04:18That offense is going to cook here.

04:19It'd just be a matter of can Barkley stay healthy,

04:21something that's been a problem throughout his career.

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