Sheil Kapadia

Because it's like, are the owners going to wait that long or is there going to be some way to get this house?

I'm surprised they didn't just take advantage of that situation.

Very unlike them.

There had to be some reason why they didn't do that that works in their favor.

Robert Kraft said he would like to see, as you mentioned, with the 18th game, a second bye week.

So now we would be talking about a 20-week season.

Whereas back in the day, it felt like you get to week 10, 11, all right, we're reaching the stretch run.

Now it would be like, all right,

You've reached the halfway point, week 10 of the NFL season.

So again, it feels like a matter of when, not if, that 18th season gets added.

In addition to that, the push for international games, Lindsay, with the 49ers going to Washington.

to open the season against the Rams.

This year, speculation about, hey, there's going to be one international game for every team, every season.

Just kind of what you were hearing or what you were observing on that front.

It's just, it's honestly shocking that more of this hasn't happened yet.

I mean, we've talked about it on this podcast for years where I'm like, for as greedy of a league as the NFL is, and even though they're doing so well, they want more.

And there's the Mark Cuban quote from several years ago.

It still is kind of shocking that if you just look at it from what their inventory is in terms of

games, which are the, you know, that's the thing that drives the league and the interest and fantasy and gambling and all that.

And just individual team fandom that they have that many, they're like the sport where you'll watch kind of any two teams.