The Kevin Sheehan Show - Washington '25 Mock Schedule

Episode Date: May 10, 2025

Kevin today with his Annual Washington "Mock Schedule". He's got the whys, wheres, and whens of Washington's 2025 slate which promises to be the most high-profile schedule the team has had in years.  Go to zbiotics.com/SHEEHAN and use SHEEHAN at checkout for 15% off any first time orders of ZBiotics probiotics.Go To WindowNation.com. Buy 4 windows, get 4 free!Betting on sports? Go to mybookie.ag. Use code KEVINDC for a bonus!   Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

You don't want it. You don't need it. But you're going to get it anyway. The Kevin Cheehan Show. Here's Kevin. This from Chris in Baltimore to open up the show. Chris writes Kevin, Redskin fan up here in Towson. I love your show, but seriously, the fake schedule thing would be a good bit if you actually got it right on occasion.

I respect the work you put into it, but it seems to be a losing cause for you. your sources never seem to give you good information. Thank you, Chris, for that. Then this from my guy, Seth in Potomac. Seth writes, Kevin, the mock schedule is a right of spring. For me and I imagine, I'm not alone. You're an innovator. The louder the shouting gets to shut it down

should be the number one reason you increase the volume. I love that you've dedicated an entire show to it. anybody that demands accuracy misses the point entirely. I can't wait for tomorrow. Well, Seth, tomorrow is today. Thanks to Window Nation for being the presenting sponsor of this podcast. Call them at 86690 Nation or head towindonation.com if you need new windows. Yeah, today the first time I think I've done it this way,

a special episode of the podcast, my annual Washington, mock schedule. I've given out three games already. I did it on yesterday's show. If you missed yesterday's show, it's still worth a listen, especially the segment in which I revisit my interview with Mike North from about a month ago.

Mike's one of the key people on the NFL schedule-making team. There was some really good information from Mike about the process and information specific to how they might. view Washington this year. They view Washington completely different than they have in the previous 20 to 25 years because of how good they are and how good they're expected to be and the superstar nature of their starting quarterback. Washington's going to be highly profiled on this year's NFL schedule. But if you haven't listened to yesterday's show, I would suggest the 20 or so minutes. The second segment of the show is where you would want to go to, and it starts at the 25-minute

mark of the show. But he was great, Mike North was when we had him on back in mid-April, and I carved out, I thought, the most appropriate parts of that interview. I'm going to try to have him on after the schedule comes out, either late this coming week or maybe the following week, because I I think finding out from Mike after the schedule is out how they arrived on certain decisions. I think that stuff will be interesting. So anyway, Seth and Potomac, I appreciate the kind words, and you obviously kind of get the gig here. It's never been about the actual hit rate how many games I get right. Mike North mentioned, you know, in the interview that I had with him, and I think I played some of this back yesterday, mentioned that

getting one right would be hard for almost anybody. Although, to be completely honest and fair, I'm trying to get it right. It's not just throwing a bunch of games onto a calendar. I'm trying to think like an NFL schedule maker, you know, taking into consideration, you know, everything. The rules, you know, on primetime games, the rules that allow kind of two high volume networks, CBS and Fox, to protect. certain games. That's why you won't see me putting, you know, Philadelphia and Washington

twice into prime time or even Washington and Dallas twice into prime time on non-Fox games. I'm trying to think, you know, like the league would in terms of what fits on TV, when, and where. There are ratings sweeps periods like November in television, which sometimes gets the focus of schedule makers for some of the truly high-profile matchups of the season. So I take that into consideration. I take stadium conflicts into consideration like last year FedEx hosted Army Navy, and so I knew there wouldn't be a home game on the Sunday following Army Navy in Landover. Things like that I do consider.

And the goal is to try and think it out like a schedule maker would and have it make sense. But I don't have access to much of the information that, you know, the schedule makers have. They get requests from the teams. You know, they accept, you know, before this schedule process begins, the requests from teams to say, hey, this is a bad weekend for us to host a game. You know, we'd prefer not to be on Thanksgiving or we'd prefer not to be on Christmas. It's not good for our fan base. You know, there are a lot of accommodations that are made, and many,

that aren't that are requested by the team. And I don't have any idea what Washington has requested. But make no mistake. I'm approaching this trying to make it make sense. But of course, the hit rate is going to be super low. And it's not, you know, the payoff of the segment each year. The payoff is not, you know, how many did I get right? It's something else.

I'm not sure exactly what it is. I guess it's just the idea of, hey, you know, we're interested in the schedule two. And this is a way to satisfy some of that interest before the schedule actually comes out. You know, it's not really a mock draft. It's more of a spoof of a mock draft. I mean, that was the original idea that I had like 20 years ago. It was to do it on air as kind of a spoof of the mock drafts and to do a mock schedule. You know, I didn't know of anybody that had ever done that at that time. And I was just like, oh, let's try that.

I was doing it anyway on my own, like just, you know, noodling it out on a piece of paper, so why not bring it to the show? And I've been doing it ever since. But Chris and Towson, I don't have sources for this. This isn't reporting. You know, the closest thing that I ever got to knowing that I was on to something before the actual schedule came out, two years ago, you know, the first year of the Josh Harris ownership group, the season opener in 2023, I put a lot of

thought into that because I thought it was going to be an opportunity for kind of a celebration and what would be the best game for that. You know, I mentioned months in advance of my mock schedule in 2023 that I was going to have Arizona as my season opener, and it would be a home opener. It It made sense because after 24 years of the Dan Snyder reign of terror, that game was going to be a celebration. So it needed to be at home, and it needed to be against a team that wouldn't come in and take over FedEx Field, which was the common practice at that point. You know, whether it was Dallas fans or Philly fans or Giant fans. They had Chicago on the schedule that year at home. They had San Francisco on the schedule.

scheduled at home that year. So I knew, I thought it made sense for the league to consider, hey, this is going to be a celebratory event, the first game in, you know, 24 years without Dan Snyder. Let's give Washington a home game and let's give them a team that isn't going to bring in a bunch of fans because this should be a game that sells out without needing opponents' fans. So that's the thought process that went into that one. And I actually, weeks before the schedule came out, I did hear from somebody that, you know, I considered to be in the loop that said I was on to something and that there was a good chance that Arizona would be the home opener. And but, you know, it's not like then I added it into my mock. I had been talking about

having Arizona and my mock is the season opener for months in advance. But anyway, Chris, the goal is actually the opposite of using reporting or sources to try to increase the possibility of being right or accurate. This is my own work. Not utilizing any known source on this is what I'm trying to do. I don't want any real information. Now, you might see others report games the next few days, not. just the schedule leak, you know, Twitter sphere, which I mentioned yesterday, Mike North from

the league in my conversation back in April, said, you know, pretty much anything you're reading right now, there's a pretty good chance it's fake news until next week, because they don't even finalize everything until probably Sunday night or Monday. But they're going to probably have it finalized in advance, because they've already announced that they are going to start releasing games Monday morning to some of their television partner. networks, which is why I want to get it out today. I don't want to put it out on Monday afternoon or Tuesday after two or three games have already been announced. I mean, I could call a few people between today and Wednesday and find out a few things, but I always want this to be kind of my

own work, unsourced without help from anybody that might know something. And by the way, that list is very short anyway in terms of people who really know. anything at this point. But anyway, with that said, I do have to emphasize one thing before I give you the mock schedule in its entirety. The Miami in Madrid leak might be right. But as I said on yesterday's show, when I gave it out as one of the three games that I divulged yesterday on the mock, Washington at Miami, November 16th in Madrid, I finished my mock draft before that info came out. I had Washington in Madrid against the Dolphins. And even if I had seen that before, I would have not considered it to have been 100% true

because in recent years, most of the stuff that comes out four to five days in advance from schedule leak sites, you know, from some of these Twitter accounts that leak scheduled games, most of it's been wrong. Now, this might be right. And, you know, it's one of the, by the way, Tommy and I have talked about Madrid and Miami as an opponent for a while. and I've leaned in that direction for a while, but I swear on my children

that Washington to Miami was in my mock draft and my final version of my mock draft before, if this is even true, somebody leaked it on Thursday night. Anyway, and if somebody requires proof, not that I really want to, you know, satisfy that request or desire,

but I do have somebody that would step forward and say, yeah, he told me about this before Thursday afternoon. I think I mentioned yesterday. That would be my good friend Scott Van Pelt. Scott would come on and say, I called him, I asked him, when are you going to do this dumb mock draft thing that you do every year, which is exactly what he said. And I said, interestingly, I just finished it. And then I told them some of the key games, and I said, I've got them in Madrid playing the dolphins. All right, with that, let's get to it. The first half of my mock schedule when we come back after these words from a few of our sponsors. All right, guys, a good Mother's Day gift idea for you.

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NBC Sports welcomes you to the following presentation of the National Football League. A thousand on their feet, biggest stadium in the National Football League, and they were warring as the kick comes down fielded at the 8-yard line and brought back to the 26-yard line as we take a look at the Dallas The voice of Al Michaels on September 12th, 2010, the last time Washington and Dallas opened up their NFL seasons against each other. It came on Sunday night football. It marked the debuts of Mike Shanahan as head coach, Donovan McNabb as the team's quarterback. The skins won the game 13 to 7. Since 2010, Washington's opened up against Philadelphia four times and against the Giants once, but not since that season opener in 2010 have they started a season against the Cowboys.

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17 regular season games over an 18-week period, one-by-week, eight home games for NFC teams this year, nine away games or potentially neutral-site games, if you play internationally against a team. But this is the year where the AFC gets the benefit of the one extra, home game. The NFC East plays, of course, against each other, six games within the division. The NFC East gets the NFC North this year, which on paper looks very tough. So every NFC East team, Washington, Dallas, the Giants and the Eagles will play the four teams from the NFC North.

They'll also play the four teams from the AFC West, a pretty tough division. And then there are always now with this 17 games. schedule, just three games that are different from the other three teams in your division. And for Washington, those three games that are different from the division games, the NFC North games this year, the AFC West games this year, they will play Seattle, Atlanta, and Miami. Two teams from the two divisions in their conference in which they're not playing the entire division, Seattle and Atlanta finished in the same spot in their divisions that Washington finished in second place.

And then they get the AFC East corresponding placement team for Washington. That's Miami. The dolphins finished second in the AFC East of Buffalo last year. So that's the, you know, the opponent, you know, how the opponents are derived. You're going to play 14 of the same teams that the other three division teams play, just three games that are different. Now, for me, in kind of thinking about the schedule, I started with this. This is a totally different, you know, mock schedule process than I've had in a long,

long time because Washington is going to be featured in a lot of high-profile spots. Now, Mike North told us that basically the rule of thumb is six primetime games. Now, you could get flexed into a seventh or even an eighth later in the season, but the most you'll see, you know, in terms of the schedule when it comes out, is six prime time games. That'll be the max. I have Washington getting six prime time games. Maybe that's heavy. Maybe it'll be five.

I can't imagine it will be less than five. But I put them in for six prime time games and then two other standalone spots. and so that gives them eight high-profile maximum exposure positions, and that doesn't include the games in which they'll play at 425 on a Sunday that could be a standalone double-header game. Now, in most cases, it's the featured game with maybe one other or two other games that are regional, but six prime time, two standalone, and they will have multiple 425 highlighted games on their schedule.

Now, in coming up with a couple of things, you know, I usually, when I do this, I'll start with thinking about the season opener and thinking about the season finale, because we know the season finale is a division game. So I got a one-and-three shot, or really a one-and-six shot, if you consider home in a way. for Washington, you know, the season finale, four out of the six season finale's last six have been on the road. So I thought to sort of lean in the direction that they would play the season finale at home. And they've closed three straight years against the Cowboys.

So I took them out and I ended up selecting from the Giants and the Eagles at home. And you'll hear that when I get to the second half of the school. schedule. For the opener, I always kind of consider, you know, have they played at home for a lot recently or away for a lot of the season openers recently? They played four straight years at home before opening on the road last year at Tampa Bay. Remember in 2020, COVID, they opened against Philly at home. Then it was the Chargers in 21. It was Jacksonville in 22. It was Arizona in 20, 23, and then they opened on the road in Tampa. So I don't know how much consideration goes into, you know, how often you open at home or on the road.

But I picked the road this year for them to open up on. What other notes do I have? You know, just mentioning it's something I mentioned before, you know, you look for any conflicts, you know, concerts, there's no concert conflicts, you know, a Saturday night or a Sunday scheduled concert. in the fall. Metallica is in town at the end of this month at Northwestfield. That should be pretty interesting. Did you see the highlights of Metallica at Lane Stadium in Blacksburg the other night? Anyway, so that's taken into consideration. I always consider, you know, is there a possibility that they're going to get multiple Thursday games? There's no rule against it.

every team has to play at least one short turnaround, short week game. I have them with two this year. That is somewhat problematic for the team, but you'll see where I put these games here in a moment. And again, one of the reasons it was tough is all the primetime games. And then, you know, the one, I think, piece of information that Mike North supplied us with in that conversation back in mid-April, is he did imply that it was more likely than not, not guaranteed,

but it was more likely than not, that Madrid would mean no Thanksgiving. So if they play in Madrid, they wouldn't then come back in either play a game or have a buy and then be forced to go four days later to Dallas on Thanksgiving Day. So I treated it as such either picking Madrid and what I consider to be one of the two holidays. I think Washington is going to play on one of the two holidays with their team with Jaden Daniels. So I either went with is it going to be Madrid and Christmas Day or is it going to be not Madrid, not Christmas Day, but Thanksgiving Day. I went with Madrid and Christmas Day and no Thanksgiving Day. Is it possible that it's Madrid by week Thanksgiving?

Yes, but I took kind of what Mike North suggested about that as a clue that it was more of an either or. We'll see if he was actually giving us a clue or if it really wasn't when the actual schedule comes out. All right, let's get started. So opening week was tough because Philly on Thursday night for the season opener, the kickoff game, is a possibility, no doubt. I just went with there are other really good home opponents for Philadelphia that Fox is definitely going to get one of Washington, Philadelphia, of the two Washington Philadelphia games. I just can't imagine Fox is going to lose both of those games. I think Fox will have at least Washington Dallas once and Washington, Philadelphia once. And I just think that they don't need Washington and Philadelphia to get a massive audience.

Philadelphia Rams, Philadelphia, Chicago is going to get a massive audience. They can save Washington, Philadelphia prime time for another moment. So I went with, they're going to open up, not on Thursday night in Philly, but they are going to open up. in another primetime high-profile spot, and the next best opening weekend is Sunday night football. And then I had two possibilities. At Kansas City, imagine Mahomes and Jaden opening night at Arrowhead, September 7th on Sunday night football.

I think there's a chance that could happen. But I decided to go with Washington at Dallas. They haven't opened up with Dallas in 15 years. Dallas has occupied that Sunday night football spot many times over the years. So just a hunch that Dallas will be in that spot again. Washington would make a lot of sense. Because Washington's opened up at home four out of the last five years, I made that game on the road.

So there's the opener. September 7th, Washington at Dallas, Sunday night football, 820 kick on NBC. Week two, I gave this game out yesterday as well on the podcast, a Monday night home game against the Chicago Bears. I think Washington-Chicago rematch of the Hail Mary game will get some high-profile, you know, consideration. I think there will be some appeal to this game. You know, Caleb versus Jaden Daniels round two, Ben Johnson and the Bears are expected to be improved. Washington's going to play, as I said, a lot of primetime games.

I also think a lot of their prime time games will be stuffed into the first half of the schedule. Why do I say that? Because once you get to the back half of the schedule, there are flex opportunities. They could get flexed out of those spots. And you get big ratings opportunities, especially in November. So I've got two of their primetime games in November. But I've got a Monday night game. By the way, it's the first of two Monday night games on the schedule.

I've got them playing three times on Sunday night and one time on Thursday night. So I have Washington hosting Chicago Monday night football, week two, September 15th, 820 kick. It's possible that's part of a Monday night double header. We've seen the double header move to week two in recent years. but if it is part of a doubleheader, it'll be the featured game, not the 7 o'clock game, but the game that kicks at 820 on ABC. Bears at Northwest Field and Landover, week two on Monday night football. Week three, home for one of the few one o'clock games they'll have this year. Other than trying to determine week 18, the final week of the season, which is a TBD situation, I've got them with just three.

I'm sorry, four one o'clock games. And the first is Denver at home, one o'clock, September 21st. So open on the road, then two home games, and then a Thursday night game in week four, September 25th, on the road against the Minnesota Vikings. I think Washington's Thursday night game will come earlier rather than later when they are still a viable, you know, contending team. Minnesota is an appealing matchup. Washington, you know, in a travel to at least one-time zone away, would probably need to play a home game the week before that. So I've got them against Denver in week three. Then going to Minnesota in week four, Thursday night football, Amazon Prime, 820. kick. Week 5, the second of just their four one o'clock games, at Atlanta, one o'clock, Sunday,

October 5th. And then I have, for the first time, in four seasons, an early bye week, October 12th, buy week. Their by weeks have been in December recently, a stretch of December, season buy weeks. I think Washington gets an earlier buy week this year. I've got it during the weekend of October 12th. And then they come off the buy week and their fourth primetime game, their second Sunday night game, Philadelphia at home on October 19th, 820 kick on NBC. So, you know, in those first six games of their season, over seven weeks, they've got four primetime games. That may seem excessive. But I think the league's viewing Washington and in particular Jaden Daniels as a major drawing card.

I think they save, you know, a Philly Washington primetime game for NBC, not for opening night when they're going to have a massive audience anyway, but for a spot like this. October, mid-October, you're into the NFL season. And by the way, beneficial for Washington coming off a bye week to play Philadelphia on Sunday night football. October 26th, a week later on the road, their third one o'clock game of four against the Giants. Their first of two against the New York Giants. And then on November, Second, okay, we are now week nine, and this will conclude the first half of the schedule,

and I'll get to the second half of their schedule after the break. November 2nd, the beginning of sweeps period, November is one of the four months out of the calendar that it is television ratings sweeps time. This is where I put Washington on Sunday night football again on the road, against Mahomes and the Chiefs at Arrowhead. November 2nd, NBC, Sunday night football, 820 kick, Washington at Kansas City. That is a week nine game. That is eight games into Washington season because they've already had the buy week.

But in that first nine weeks of the season, I've got Washington with five primetime games. I may be way off on that. That may be too much too soon, we'll see. But the high-profile teams in this league over the years, the Chiefs, the Cowboys, the Packers, they get this volume of prime time, especially in the first half of the schedule. I think Washington gets treated that way this year.

So the first half of the schedule at Dallas, September 7th, Sunday night football to open up the season. Then Chicago, week two on a Monday night at home. Denver, week three at home, one o'clock on a Sunday. Week four, they kick it off Thursday night football on the road at Minnesota. Then they come back week five at Atlanta, one o'clock game. And then week six, October 12th is a bye week. They get an early by week for the first time and a long time.

They come back and they play on October 19th, Philadelphia, at home on Sunday night football. Then on October 26th, it's at Giants 1 o'clock. And then November 2nd, the beginning of the November rating sweeps period, a Sunday night game at Arrowhead against the Kansas City Chiefs. All right, the second half of their schedule, their final nine games of my 2025 Mock Washington schedule, after these words from a few of our sponsors.

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So they come off the Sunday night game on November 2nd at Arrowhead with, I mean, this is a back-to-back part of the schedule that seems brutal. Detroit at home, November 9th. I've got that as a Fox, you know, big-time double-header 425 kick at Northwest Field in Landover. But the rematch with the Lions from the playoff game comes on November 9th. I think that, you know, to just think of all of these games, you know, Kansas City, Detroit, Philadelphia twice, you know, Denver, because of Bo Nix, maybe Minnesota, the two Dallas games, as all of them being kind of prime time, you know, Monday night, Sunday night, Thursday night, no, several of these games are going to be earmarked for Sunday afternoon 425 in a big spot either as a stand alone or, you know, with a couple of other regional games. got Detroit as one of those games Sunday, November 9th at 425. And then Sunday, November 16th, at Miami in Madrid. Again, I had this mocked before the leaks came out regarding this game. And who

knows if the leaks are even correct. But we've been talking about Madrid and Miami is a possibility. I think Washington gets Madrid to get Jaden Daniels in the Washington, you know, team in Madrid for their first ever NFL game against an opponent that's got, you know, some marquee value to them as well, the Miami Dolphins. That's a great game for that part of Europe that has not seen the NFL live yet. Washington at Miami, November 16th, 930 a.m. Eastern in Madrid. They come back not with their by week, but with an extra day because they're going to play on Monday night football, November 24th, at home against Seattle. 820, November 24th, Monday night football, home against Seattle. There's no guarantee of getting that bye week.

Mike North told us that, and you can't give everybody a buy week anymore coming off these international games because there's so many more international games. But I see the NFL giving at least Washington an extra day and playing them on Monday night football. So that is the sixth and final of my primetime games for Washington. Now, could they get flexed in to another prime time game the rest of the way? Of course. They do have one other high profile spot, which I will get to here in a moment. But I've got them with six primetime games and Madrid before we even get to December. All right, off of Seattle on Monday night, I have them home against the Raiders on

November 30th, a 1 o'clock kick against the Las Vegas Raiders. Then on December 7th, a day that will live in infamy, I've got them on the road in LA against the Chargers at 425. That could be like a big CBS doubleheader game on December 7th. And then I've got them coming home to play Dallas on December 14th, also a slated 425 second half of a big Fox doubleheader, maybe a CBS doubleheader game. I don't see both Dallas games and both Philadelphia games being off the core network.

works. I think Fox is going to get Dallas and Washington and Philadelphia in Washington. And we have seen in recent years, Philly in particular, and Dallas play a lot late in the season on a scheduled Sunday game. So I've got December 14th Washington hosting Dallas, and then on December 21st, this would be week 16 of the NFL season leading into Christmas week. week, Washington at Philadelphia 425. I think that's a Fox waiting for a potential NFC East championship showdown game late in December to have that on a weekend heading into the holiday week that will be massive for football viewing. December 21st at Philadelphia 425.

And then I have Washington not on Thanksgiving Day, I have them playing on Christmas Day. This would be their second short turnaround. The league doesn't like to do that, but with a lot of these high-profile teams, and Washington's one of them now, I've got them traveling on Christmas Day to face the Green Bay Packers. And that game would be the middle of the triple header, the 430 kick. from Lambo. And then I've got them finishing up the season on January 4th at home. Again, four out of the last six years they have finished on the road.

Last three years, they've played the Cowboys in the season finale. So I'm guessing home against either the Giants or the Eagles. I don't see that final game being against the Eagles. The league tries, you know, sometimes they get lucky with the matchup, but they fear that matchup being the heavyweight matchup. up going in because sometimes that may be a game that doesn't mean anything by the time you get there. You know, a team's already clinched. The other teams, you know, maybe out of it or the other teams playing for a wild card. So I see Washington and Philadelphia playing their two games and

Washington and Dallas playing their two games before the final week of the season. I've got the giants at home to finish up the 2025 slate. So there it is. My mock schedule. You know, much more challenging than typical. A lot of thought went into it. I have no idea if I'll get any right. But this is, you know, my best guess. And again, the point is not to get it right. But the point is, when I go into this,

to kind of think of it as a schedule maker would. I think, you know, the number one critique of this would be, you've got them in way too many, you know, prime time and high profile spots. I mean, they're better, and Jaden Daniels is a star, but still, Philly, Detroit, Dallas, you know, the 49ers, you know, and then obviously in the AFC, the Chiefs and the Bills and the Ravens, those teams are going to get featured a lot more than Washington. You might be right. I can't imagine, honestly, a world in which we get the full schedule on Wednesday night, and Washington doesn't have at least five primetime games, with at least one other stand alone, whether it's international or whether it's Thanksgiving or Christmas. Or maybe it's a late-season Saturday possibility.

Those are never penciled in. They typically what they do for that Saturday, late-season Saturday triple header is they earmark five to six games in which they'll pick three of those five or six games. Washington's been a part of that in the past. They don't usually put the best teams in the league or the perceived best teams in the league on that list. They put some good teams on that list. Washington could be there for sure, but I think their schedule is going to be more mapped out and less TBD late in the season.

Of course, Week 18 is always TBD for everybody. So there it is. I think tomorrow after I put this out on radio, I will tweet it out. but at Dallas Sunday night to open it up on September 7th. Week 2, home on Monday night against Chicago. Week 3, Denver at home. Week 4 is a Thursday night game at Minnesota. Week 5 at Atlanta, 1 o'clock.

Week 6 is their by week. Week 7, Philly at home on Sunday night. Week 8 at the Giants 1 o'clock. Week 9 at Kansas City Sunday night football. Week 10, Detroit at home, Sunday afternoon. 425. Week 11 at Miami in Madrid, 9.30 a.m. Eastern, November 16th. Week 12, a home Monday night game against Seattle on November 24th. Week 13, Vegas at home, 1 o'clock kick on November 30th. Week 14 at the Chargers, a 425 game. Week 15, Dallas at home 425. Week 16, December 21st at Philly

425. Week 17, Christmas Day, at Lambo, 430 kick, and then week 18, the season finale, the Giants at home. One thing that I think I've mentioned, but, you know, playing Miami and Madrid and playing the chargers on the road in L.A., two scheduled road games, which would be, in effect, two worst case neutral site games, if not home crowd. advantaged games. That would really work in Washington's favor. Also, with the six primetime games, I split it up. I've got three on the road, you know, at Dallas, at Minnesota, and at Kansas City, and I've got three of them at home, Chicago, Philly, and Seattle. All right, that's it. Back on Monday.