Start Fast with the Perfect Week 1 Lineup

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Colm Kelly (0:43)

NFL Week 1 is here. It's hard to believe, but we are ready to set those lineups and try and start the season fast. Get the Week 1W to get off to a positive start. Shawn, it always feels good to start off 1 and rather than chasing your tail from the very, very start. Do want to mention off the start here, we are doing a little bit of an experimental thing to start this season, this being the first of them, where we're going to record our shows as we normally do myself and Shawn like we're doing now. We're going to record them also as members, live streams over on the YouTube side. If people want to jump in each Tuesday at 11 a.m. Eastern, rather, that'd be 4 p.m. my time over this side of the pond. And we're going to try and record our shows and put them kind of there for people to see. So Shawn, we're going to try and make them nice and clean, not have to edit too much out, try not to cut too much out. It'll be a lot of fun, but I'm really looking forward to trying it out.

Everything else will remain the exact same. We record like this anyway, and then the shows get posted pretty short on the audio side after any editing or that that has to be done, but nothing will change on the audio podcast side. It's just kind of an additional opportunity to go in and watch the shows live. Maybe if you have some questions that you want to answer or ask in the chat, we might even get to those, but it's going to be a case that Tuesday morning, 11 a.m. Eastern, will record these. I believe Shawn and Ben are going to do some recaps of the weeks, especially the early weeks of the season. If I'm not correct, Shawn, you can correct me on that, but that will post on Monday morning's Eastern Standard Time. But Shawn, the season is here. It feels like we're always waiting for it to come, but the last week and a half has really, really flown by there as we try and get into some last-minute drafts.

Shawn Siegele (2:30)

Yeah, it seems like we are. If my math is correct, a little more than a day from the first game and kicking off. Colm, when you pitched this, you didn't say anything about recording them clean.

Colm Kelly (2:42)

I didn't do that, but I also thought that-

Yeah, so maybe we'll intentionally, if there's any mistakes made, Shawn, they are intentional. That's what we'll say, intentional mistakes. Sometimes we get through these exceptionally clean, sometimes we get a little- myself and certainly on some of the intros, get a little bit tongue-tied as I talk along. But looking forward to this and Shawn, you mentioned just we're looking and we're going to set some foundations to how to set the perfect week one lineup on today's show. One of the things this year in particular is there's a game on Wednesday. Don't be waiting to set those lineups on Thursdays. That will be the first key step, Shawn. If you're playing on the FFPC, for example, you can get that first peak and it doesn't really matter, you can still set those lineups on Sunday. If you're playing in your standard home league, you need to make sure you get those Patriots, get those Seahawks into the lineups, and then you obviously get a game. Shawn, I'm excited to see what happens. The 49ers are playing the Los Angeles Rams out in Melbourne. For long-time listeners of the show, they might be from either I lived in Melbourne for about a year. That's actually exactly around 10 years ago because as we record this, Shawn, it's two days before my 10-year wedding anniversary, and we were in Australia just shortly before that. Time's flying by here at the moment, but it's in the Melbourne Cricket Ground, which is a big stadium in Melbourne. That should be a pretty unique view and experience. Some of the stadiums that have been implemented in recent years for these NFL games that are not in the US have been more unique rather than, I think that some of the ones like Wembley, for example, in London or Tottenham's Ground in London are more towards your traditional NFL kind of setting. So two games early this week, then we get into the Sunday slate as well. So Shawn, as we look at this week, there's actually a lot to decipher.