Chad Millman

Yet they are only playing a team, playing teams in 2025, had only four teams that are playing had a winning record.

The Texans, the Jags, and then they play the Steelers twice.

We don't know what the Steelers are going to be.

We've talked about them on the show.

We don't have that much enthusiasm for their prospects.

The Bengals have, in theory, improved their defense.

If Joe Burrow was healthy, is this a team all of a sudden that a rest advantage could help them in a way that we might not have seen otherwise?

Simon, I know we've ripped the Bengals forever, but do we feel like there's anything we've seen now that the schedule is fully out that makes us reconsider the Bengals?

You know what?

Let me interrupt you for one second.

Because I actually feel like there is rhyme and reason.

And the rhyme and reason is...

biggest games, biggest teams, most prime time situations, and everything else goes to shit.

So it used to be these would be balanced out for health reasons or competition reasons.

Now it's just about what's the best game we can put on television at any particular time with the highest profile people.

And that's how that impacts the opportunity to play against teams coming off a bye.

Because some teams might never factor into that equation in terms of being on prime time.

And some teams are only going to factor into the equation in being prime time.

It goes back to what we talked about at the beginning.

Like, it's so clear what the league is doing.