I would love to get the weekly IDP podcast sometime on Wednesday if possible. I understand the offensive guys get the priority, I'm just sayin'.
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It's not that the offensive guys get the priority. It's just proven impossible for John and I both to be ready by Tuesday night with our day job responsibilities and the priority to get projections and content out to our subscribers. We discussed recording the podcast earlier every offseason and it's just not been feasible for us.
It generally takes me 6-8 hours every week, and more in the first two weeks, to watch what I can critically, examine snap count data and trends, followup on tweets and beat writer work and write the RTD.
I know it takes John longer than that to do his early week work and he's got less time in his weekly schedule than I do. I can generally get the RTD done by Tuesday night. It's usually a struggle for John to be ready to record by Wednesday evening.
Hopefully, that work shows through in the podcast. When I set the agenda, I choose what I think are the most important news pieces of the week and we don't hold anything back from our subscriber content. We won't get to everything we've written and projected, but what we do cover in the show isn't watered down.
I know it's not practical for some to subscribe to the Insider service. But if you like the podcast content, there's much more of it in our written features and databases -- and it's all ready by sometime Wednesday evening. Rudnicki's waiver stuff is awesome on Monday afternoon and Thomas' database is up by Tuesday evening. If you've got waivers due by Tuesday night -- which I frankly just don't get, NFL coaching staffs often doesn't know what's going on for the week by then -- those are strong early week reads. I've adjusted my schedule to make sure the RTD is up by Wednesday at noon (and usually before I shut the PC down on Tuesday night). John's projections are up by Wednesday with the Guru up sometime Wednesday evening.