Matt Chatham

So the next couple times, first in Houston and then in Jacksonville,

you kind of got a greater appreciation for why you need that extra time, quite frankly.

There's no debating with family members, extended family members, friends, people from wedding parties, all that kind of stuff about who's getting tickets and where they got to go and all the other little things that alumni associations are having and sort of team PR and media relations and things like that.

So you do a lot of the coordinating stuff and use that extra time to get it out of the way.

I like that feeling in the last two of just sort of being able to, once you hit really north of Tuesday, you're into a regular game week on Wednesday.

And much like when you're at home, you don't see family, right?

So it's sort of lockdown mode.

So you get your Monday, Tuesday right now.

to kind of take it all in, but it's pretty easy to sort of shut the rest of the world out.

You're in a pretty insulated place there in the hotel and then back and forth from the venue site, and that's about it.

So it just kind of feels like a normal road game, but it is helpful to have a lot of experienced guys around to make it that way for you.

Yeah, it's really today.

Today and tomorrow are sort of your screw-around days.

That's also the big media day over at usually a basketball arena or wherever they have it in San Fran this year, I'm not sure.

But, you know, again, using sort of the three examples, the Bourbon Street night for us was, I believe, that Monday night when we first got there.

And it basically gives you a Tuesday to roll out of bed real late and, you know, have a great night the night before.

But

You know, we were able to go out to a big dinner, roll down Bourbon Street.

Even the Rams players in that particular year, we ended up in a lot of the same bars.

So, you know, it was just a blast.