Teams traveling internationally should be allowed to arrive early if they believe it is the best strategy for their performance.

“I know if a team wants to go over on Monday and treat it like a bowl game, you're already sending them to a different country. They should be allowed to be able to go ahead and do that.”

The Pittsburgh Steelers are expected to perform well because they own the Irish crowd.

“There's no reason to put him out there against Pittsburgh, which is going to be a Pittsburgh home game. That's going to be a Pittsburgh crowd. The Steelers own Ireland. That is a fact.”

Playing football in hot and humid conditions near the equator would be a miserable experience.

“There's just something about getting closer to the equator that I I don't want to put on football uniform doing that, especially in September. I've been in Jacksonville in September and that's [ __ ] miserable.”