The NFL opens on a Wednesday. Host Jim Rand breaks down why Patriots at Seahawks on September 9 is not a scheduling stunt. It is a Super Bowl LX rematch at Lumen Field, the first midweek opener since 2012, and the first look at A.J. Brown in New England after the Eagles sent him to Drake Maye and Mike Vrabel for a 2028 first-round pick. Thursday the Forty-Niners and Rams play the league’s first regular-season game in Australia, at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Netflix. The calendar bent so the product could travel. Four teams posted fifty-three-man rosters with four quarterbacks: Atlanta, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and Minnesota. Cleveland hid a fourth on injured reserve. A roster spot is a vote, not a compliment. In the SEC, Lane Kiffin is adding players cut from NFL camps and calling it the real world. Steve Sarkisian called it morally wrong.  ...