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Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. Today's Friday, September 17th. I'm Robert Mays.

Great show for you guys today. Shuk Padilla is going to be joining us a little bit later to do our weekly

picks column. One game that we pushed out of six last week, a terrible, epically bad performance by my two friends, and I cannot wait to do it again. Before we do that, though, I am very excited to welcome my good buddy. Nate Tice. Nate, how you doing, man? Why did I volunteer for that? It's great. It's so great. I like gambling. I like football. Let's talk about it every week. Yeah. Oh, that's right. But do you like yourself? That's the big, that's the important question. Do I like my mental health? That's a 50-50 proposition. So that I'm so glad. Only way we can go is up. I would own three. So I hopefully my takes will overcome my picks.

God, you better hope so, man. Right, right? I know. Come on, Rashad Bateman.

You're running out of utility if they don't. So every Friday, this is a new show. Obviously,

we did not have a Friday show last year. I'm super excited to have one this season to be able to really

dig into a preview. The way that we're going to format this every week, call it the Friday

5 to give us maximum flexibility. Five things. A matchup, a game, a player, five things that we're

watching, that we're excited about, that we want to dig into. So that's what we're going to be doing every single Friday during the season so let's get this started we want to kick

this off with the Steelers defense obviously a great performance last week against the bills a performance

that we dug into a little bit on Sunday night show rewatching that game I think that we hit a lot

of it on the head right not a lot of blitzing, a lot of coverage, you know, a very particular game plan against the Bills. The thing about that, though, is that we're going from a very particular type of offense in Buffalo to an offense on the exact opposite end of the spectrum with the Raiders. You wanted to talk about this.

What interests you about this Steelers Raiders matchup on that side of the ball?

It's almost like a college defense and how they have to prep, like going from like a

spread team to like a triple option team.

It's not so much that the Raiders are like that, but going from like 10 personnel, zero personnel,

which is rare in the NFL, which is five wides.

Just when I, I know some people know this, but personnel is when I say that like 12 is one,

it's the first number means how many runoffbacks are on the field.

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