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Hey, everybody, what's up?

Welcome in to The Athletic Football Show.

It is our championship round gambling edition of TAFS.

Michael Beller and Austin Mock here with you.

We are going to talk through both games that are coming our way on Sunday.

NFC championship game, Eagles and 49ers, AFC championship game,

Bengals and Chiefs.

We'll talk about both of them.

Might not necessarily have plays for both, but hey, there's only two games on the schedule.

So I think we can find our way to talking about both these games as we get ready for

championship weekend and the Super Bowl coming on its heels.

Austin, what's going on, man?

How are you doing?

Doing good.

Excited for these games. I mentioned before the show, going into Sunday,

we had six teams that were basically better than everybody all year. Those were the six teams

remaining going into Sunday. And then I would argue that the teams remaining were the ones playing

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