It's finally here. I repeat, it's finally here! There is going to be actual NFL football on TV tonight and I don't want to say I've been counting, but it's been 179 days since the last time there was a game.Sure, the Hall of Fame game isn't quite on the same scale as the , but it's the Super Bowl of preseason games, so we're going to treat Emmanuel Ogbah Jersey it like a Super Bowl in today's newsletter. You're going to get a preview podcast, a list of players to watch and I'm even going to make a prediction on the game. As always, here's your weekly reminder to tell all your friends to sign up for the Pick Six newsletter. To get your friends to sign up, all you have to do is with them.It's not often we spend 40 minutes previewing a on the Pick Six Podcast, but that's what we did for today's episode to celebrate the return of football. With the and set to meet in Canton, we thought it made sense to have Jared Dubin (our resident Cowboys homer) and Bryan DeArdo (our resident Steelers homer) on the show to preview the game. With most of the Cowboys offensive stars being held out tonight, Dubin is going to be watching the team's defense. After a horrid 2020 season, Dubin wants to see if they've improved and that's mainly because he thinks the only way the team can be succe sful this year is if the defense gets better."I think the Cowboys succe s in 2021 depends on whether the defense is really bad or just regular bad," Dubin said. "If they're the 20th best defense in the league, I think they'll be a pretty good team. If they're the 30th best defense in the league, then I think it's going to be difficult."On the Steelers' end, DeArdo will be watching for rookie running back , who's expected to get some playing time. Pittsburgh also has an interesting battle going on at backup QB and both players trying to win that spot -- and -- are expected to get some playing time tonight. If you plan on watching the Hall Hunter Long Jersey of Fame game tonight, you might want to make a mental note right now that the game is on Fox. The only reason I'm pointing that out is because the game is usually NBC, but they have the Olympics, so Fox will be carrying the game for the first time ever ( ). Now that you know where to watch the game, let's take a look at who you should be watching in the game, starting with the Steelers. DeArdo made a list of five players he'll be watching closely.Here are three players from that list:QB Dwayne Haskins: RB Najee Harris:C Kendrick Greene: To check out DeArdo's full list, be .As for the Cowboys, they have 16 players who won't even be traveling to Ohio, including , and . However, there will still be plenty of players to watch on the Dallas side and to make things easier, our Patrik Walker made a list of guys you should keep your eye on. QB : LB : CB : To check out Patrik's full list of Cowboys players to watch, .The Steelers are currently a 1.5 point favorite in the game and although early preseason games are notoriously tough to predict, my first NFL bet of the year is going to be on the Steelers. During the preseason, I generally go with the team with A. The better coaching Salvon Ahmed Jersey staff and B. Deeper stable of quarterbacks. Also, the Steelers have won three straight preseason openers.Prediction: Steelers 24-17 over Cowboys (And please don't get used to this, because I definitely won't be predicting every preseason game). During the 2020 NFL season, every player in the NFL was tested daily for COVID-19. However, that hasn't been the case this year and that's because any player who has been vaccinated only has to get tested once every two weeks (Unvaccinated players still get tested every day).Due to the fact that the vaccinated players can still spread COVID, the NFLPA than once every 14 days. According to center J.C. Tretter, who also happens to be the NFLPA president, the player's a sociation wants to avoid a situation where someone who's vaccinated unknowingly catches COVID and then walks around the team facility for two weeks spreading it to others."I think we're just setting ourselves up for ," Tretter told ESPN. "You can't go 13 days straight without testing people in the building with the breakthrough cases and now the ability of vaccinated people to transmit the Delta variant. You're going to start getting positives and not know where it came from because you're not testing people, and it's just not worth the risk." With the latest data showing that the Delta variant spreads faster than the earlier form of COVID, Christian Wilkins Jersey Tretter wants to see more tests done so that the NFL can make it through the entire season without canceling a game, just like the league did in 2020."Nobody wants to do the protocols, and I think that's an accurate statement countrywide," Tretter said. "No one wants to take mitigation steps. It's not fun. It's not enjoyable. But the only thing that stops us from having a season is transmi sion. So I think guys understand that we have to take the nece sary steps to stop transmi sion or else. I would rather wear a mask than not get paid six weeks of pay."There's no guarantee that players will agree to these new protocols, but the NFLPA is going to push for them anyway. For the second straight year, Jared Dubin is giving us his survivor squad. If you don't have any idea what a survivor squad is, don't worry, I didn't either until about five minutes ago. Basically, the goal is to make something similar to a Pro Bowl roster, but with one huge catch: You can only use Tua Tagovailoa T Shirts one player from each team.The might be the best team in the AFC, but you can't put both AND on the Survivor Squad because Kansas City is only allowed to have one player on the team.With that in mind, let's check out the offensive players on Dubin's survivor squad: QB: Aaron Roders, RB: , WR: D.K. Metcalf, WR: , Slot: , CowboysTE: , TE: , LT: , LG: , C: , RG: , WashingtonRT: , Flex: , If you want to see the defensive starters and the coaching staff from the survivor squad, . The one thing about the defensive starters is that none of them can come from the 13 teams listed above.Over the past eight weeks, there's been a ma s exodus from the Raiders front office and no one seems to know why they're leaving, but whatever the reason is, the team has to be at least somewhat concerned that four key executives have resigned since June. Here's at look at the resignations that have come in so far.July 19: Team president Marc Badain. Badain had been with the team since 1991 and he also spearheaded the move to Las Vegas, which is one reason why his resignation was so shocking. With the Raiders scheduled to pl
It's finally here. I repeat, it's finally here! There is going to be actual NFL football on TV tonight and I don't want to say I've been counting, but it's been 179 days since the last time there was a game.Sure, the Hall of Fame game isn't quite on the same scale as the , but it's the Super Bowl of preseason games, so we're going to treat Emmanuel Ogbah Jersey it like a Super Bowl in today's newsletter. You're going to get a preview podcast, a list of players to watch and I'm even going to make a prediction on the game. As always, here's your weekly reminder to tell all your friends to sign up for the Pick Six newsletter. To get your friends to sign up, all you have to do is with them.It's not often we spend 40 minutes previewing a on the Pick Six Podcast, but that's what we did for today's episode to celebrate the return of football. With the and set to meet in Canton, we thought it made sense to have Jared Dubin (our resident Cowboys homer) and Bryan DeArdo (our resident Steelers homer) on the show to preview the game. With most of the Cowboys offensive stars being held out tonight, Dubin is going to be watching the team's defense. After a horrid 2020 season, Dubin wants to see if they've improved and that's mainly because he thinks the only way the team can be succe sful this year is if the defense gets better."I think the Cowboys succe s in 2021 depends on whether the defense is really bad or just regular bad," Dubin said. "If they're the 20th best defense in the league, I think they'll be a pretty good team. If they're the 30th best defense in the league, then I think it's going to be difficult."On the Steelers' end, DeArdo will be watching for rookie running back , who's expected to get some playing time. Pittsburgh also has an interesting battle going on at backup QB and both players trying to win that spot -- and -- are expected to get some playing time tonight. If you plan on watching the Hall Hunter Long Jersey of Fame game tonight, you might want to make a mental note right now that the game is on Fox. The only reason I'm pointing that out is because the game is usually NBC, but they have the Olympics, so Fox will be carrying the game for the first time ever ( ). Now that you know where to watch the game, let's take a look at who you should be watching in the game, starting with the Steelers. DeArdo made a list of five players he'll be watching closely.Here are three players from that list:QB Dwayne Haskins: RB Najee Harris:C Kendrick Greene: To check out DeArdo's full list, be .As for the Cowboys, they have 16 players who won't even be traveling to Ohio, including , and . However, there will still be plenty of players to watch on the Dallas side and to make things easier, our Patrik Walker made a list of guys you should keep your eye on. QB : LB : CB : To check out Patrik's full list of Cowboys players to watch, .The Steelers are currently a 1.5 point favorite in the game and although early preseason games are notoriously tough to predict, my first NFL bet of the year is going to be on the Steelers. During the preseason, I generally go with the team with A. The better coaching Salvon Ahmed Jersey staff and B. Deeper stable of quarterbacks. Also, the Steelers have won three straight preseason openers.Prediction: Steelers 24-17 over Cowboys (And please don't get used to this, because I definitely won't be predicting every preseason game). During the 2020 NFL season, every player in the NFL was tested daily for COVID-19. However, that hasn't been the case this year and that's because any player who has been vaccinated only has to get tested once every two weeks (Unvaccinated players still get tested every day).Due to the fact that the vaccinated players can still spread COVID, the NFLPA than once every 14 days. According to center J.C. Tretter, who also happens to be the NFLPA president, the player's a sociation wants to avoid a situation where someone who's vaccinated unknowingly catches COVID and then walks around the team facility for two weeks spreading it to others."I think we're just setting ourselves up for ," Tretter told ESPN. "You can't go 13 days straight without testing people in the building with the breakthrough cases and now the ability of vaccinated people to transmit the Delta variant. You're going to start getting positives and not know where it came from because you're not testing people, and it's just not worth the risk." With the latest data showing that the Delta variant spreads faster than the earlier form of COVID, Christian Wilkins Jersey Tretter wants to see more tests done so that the NFL can make it through the entire season without canceling a game, just like the league did in 2020."Nobody wants to do the protocols, and I think that's an accurate statement countrywide," Tretter said. "No one wants to take mitigation steps. It's not fun. It's not enjoyable. But the only thing that stops us from having a season is transmi sion. So I think guys understand that we have to take the nece sary steps to stop transmi sion or else. I would rather wear a mask than not get paid six weeks of pay."There's no guarantee that players will agree to these new protocols, but the NFLPA is going to push for them anyway. For the second straight year, Jared Dubin is giving us his survivor squad. If you don't have any idea what a survivor squad is, don't worry, I didn't either until about five minutes ago. Basically, the goal is to make something similar to a Pro Bowl roster, but with one huge catch: You can only use Tua Tagovailoa T Shirts one player from each team.The might be the best team in the AFC, but you can't put both AND on the Survivor Squad because Kansas City is only allowed to have one player on the team.With that in mind, let's check out the offensive players on Dubin's survivor squad: QB: Aaron Roders, RB: , WR: D.K. Metcalf, WR: , Slot: , CowboysTE: , TE: , LT: , LG: , C: , RG: , WashingtonRT: , Flex: , If you want to see the defensive starters and the coaching staff from the survivor squad, . The one thing about the defensive starters is that none of them can come from the 13 teams listed above.Over the past eight weeks, there's been a ma s exodus from the Raiders front office and no one seems to know why they're leaving, but whatever the reason is, the team has to be at least somewhat concerned that four key executives have resigned since June. Here's at look at the resignations that have come in so far.July 19: Team president Marc Badain. Badain had been with the team since 1991 and he also spearheaded the move to Las Vegas, which is one reason why his resignation was so shocking. With the Raiders scheduled to pl
