The thirst for football is so great the schedule release is a three-hour, prime-time broadcast on the NFL Network.

Cooper DeJean is the toast of the town after his pick-six in the Super Bowl win, but he's taking time out to work a drive-thru shift at Checkers.

Most sports observers have learned that it's usually a bad idea to spout definitive platitudes, because we've all been proven wrong likely more than once. For instance, saying team X, franchise Y or athlete Z will never win a championship, ostensibly because they've never done so before, has historically graded out as a fool's errand.

The NFL schedule is coming out Wednesday and these two familiar rivals will be playing each other for a fifth straight season. That's a record you might not know about.

A day before the official schedule release, we already know that the Eagles will have four big-audience, standalone games.