Welcome back to the week 12 Thursday edition of the Adam Schaefter podcast,

joined by our friend, our colleague, the host of the Pat McAfee show,

Ty Schmidt for the weekly Thursday six-back.

Thank you, Sheffey.

Good to be with you as always.

Hey, I'll tell you what, last week, I think we thought that may have been the slate of the year thus far.

I don't know if we have as many high profile games as we did last week in terms of teams jockeying for first place in their division or first place in their conference.

But boy, we have a lot of good

games this week still and a lot of great storylines as well. So let's get right into it.

And topic number one of this Thursday's six pack, in your opinion, Shafti, as we head into

week 12 here, what is the storyline of the week slash weekend?

Ty, it happened when the Cincinnati Bengals released their injury report on Wednesday.

And they listed Joe Borough as a full participant in practice and Joe Flacco, who has been the

starter, as a limited participant in practice. And right there, that was an advertisement

that there is a real possibility that Joe Borough is going to start on Sunday against the

New England Patriots. Sooner than the couple of weeks against the Buffalo Bills that some people

like myself thought, sooner than the Thanksgiving night game against the Baltimore Ravens that other people thought,

all of a sudden, when he was listed as a full participant in practice Wednesday,

the possibility of him playing Sunday against New England became very real.

Now, let's be very clear here.

We're taping this Thursday morning.

We still do not have an

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