Matt & Tucker are an amazing 1-2 punch with real football knowledge, sprinkling in a lot of wit, humor, over-exaggeration, fandom, and interesting content on both the Chiefs and the whole league. I’m a huge fan and a long-time listener. I haven’t missed a podcast in a year and a half.
There’s nothing better than a TFS Monday episode after a regular season game, win or lose.
My favorite league calendar event that they cover for like, 3-4 shows, is the schedule release. It’s absolutely hilarious, mostly very accurate, and is a good way to get to thinking about the season. It’ll sound something like this in May:
Tucker: So, the NFL released the date of the 2026 regular season schedule release.
Matt: Man. The NFL is king. They released the date of when they release all the dates? Of course. And we’ll watch a full night of TV for it like bozos.
Tucker: Correct. And broadcast partners and teams will be releasing games early in the days leading up to the release. Including international games.
Matt: Oh, thank goodness! I get to know when the Browns play the Saints on Week 11 on a November Sunday morning, live from Paris! Roll the ball out! Here ya go! That’s a Chernobyl-level disaster of a game.
Tucker: Gross… should we go live for that? Shedeur vs. Tyler Shough? Maybe Deshaun Watson vs an un-retired Derek Carr?
Matt: If you’re up at 8am to watch that game, you should be charged with war crimes. I’m talking potential full lobotomy. You aren’t well. Seek help.
Tucker: With both teams already like…2-8. Anyway. We’ll know the order of the games, and the dates and times of the Chiefs schedule here in a few weeks. Always good to see how many late night, random holiday, and non-Sunday games they hand the Chiefs.
Matt: Especially with Kelce coming back, you get another year of the gravity of Taylor Swift… and if Mahomes is ready week 1, they’ll abuse the prime time slots those first 4 weeks. If he’s not ready, get ready for Chiefs-Raiders or Chiefs-Jets at noon buried in a good slate of games. But with him, they’re still a premiere watch.
Tucker: Without Mahomes, are the Chiefs still 14-point favorites, adjusted-for-Jets, against the Jets? And you know they’ll put the Chiefs on Thanksgiving or Christmas Day again. They do have 9 away games in 2026, so the NFL will send the Chiefs internationally too, for an away game. Right? They’ll have to?
Matt: Oh of course! Of course! Here’s Chiefs at Niners in Fiji on a Tuesday at midnight! The Niners are in Australia, maybe they can meet somewhere in the Pacific Ocean and get all their fans to watch Tuesday Night Island Football!
Tucker: …Skyy Moore revenge game?
Matt: Skyy Moore will go like, 9 for 140 and TD, and Brett Veach will think, “oh wow! I gotta trade a 2027 5th to get Skyy Moore back on this roster! He’ll fix the WR room!”
Tucker: Andddddd in his first game back at Arrowhead he’s goes full Skyy Moore stat line: 2 targets, 0 catches.
Matt: In any event, you’re right. We’ll see them play the hits - at Buffalo later in the season, Raiders/Chargers/Broncos week 18 and a division Thursday Night game. And before the Fiji trip, they’ll probably send them to Dubai or Siberia on a Wednesday in July. “Here ya go! Minshew vs. Herbert, live from Siberia!”
Tucker: And somehow, the state of Kansas will fund the whole thing. Clark Hunt made sure of it. All the travel. The plane. The hotel. Everything.
Matt: Oh, absolutely. They’ve got the new stadium drawn up for KCK, but how about Azerbaijan? Better yet, can we put the stadium on the moon? Kansas tax payers paying for that too?
Tucker: Right! Anyway, we’ll get into the full schedule on Friday’s edition of That Football Show following the schedule release. I’ll need some Ben Holladay Bottled-in-Bond Bourbon for that one. Or a whole bottle.
