Ben Solak

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The Herd with Colin Cowherd · Sharp or Square - NFL TRAINING CAMP QUESTIONS with Ben Solak of ESPN · 21 Jul 2026 podcast

I have a Patriot schedule take that I've been looking for a place to debut.

And I feel like this is a good pod for it, which is that I think Drake may wins the MVP last year of sports gambling is never legalized in the United States because, and like you guys probably talked, like I talked to like probably a wider range of people.

You guys probably talked to a lot more like people who are in, in sports gambling and,

Six years ago, you never heard anybody talk about strength of schedule, except for people who were betting on season long wind totals, right?

We were the only people who were engaging with, okay, Vegas strength of schedule, right?

Up until like two years ago, we were still doing strength of schedule based off last year's wind totals, right?

In terms of like modern, you know, mainstream discourse, right?

Last year, I'm getting texts from my mom about the Patriots' strength of schedule, right?

She's a Jets fan, and so she hates the Patriots.

And so, you know, she's telling them that Patriots are this, paper tying here, you know, Drake may whatever.

May missed MVP by one first place vote to Stafford last year.

And I firmly believe that.

believe it's because there's 4 billion accounts now tweeting out strength of schedule stuff off of Vegas win totals, because that's how, you know, the average fan is consuming football right now, relative to six years ago, you would not have heard Jack about the Patriots defensive DVOA schedule faced.

And Drake may probably just would have wanted me to be over Matthew Stafford.

So it kills me how it feels like a lot of people are really interfacing with

a week strength of season long strength of schedule for like the first time in their football watching careers with this 2025 Patriots team.

I think a lot of people don't know how to like calibrate to it.

And I think we saw that a little bit in the May MVP voting last year.

I like, I'm not sure I believe it.

It feels very Bill Simmons-y to me, but I like it.

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