AFC & NFC playoff implications in our week 17 preview
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🗓️ 31 December 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Week 17 is finally here and there is plenty at stake in both the AFC and NFC. The Athletic’s Robert Marys and Lindsay Jones break down all of the playoff implications. First they discuss the quarterback situation in Washington and what a Sunday Night Football loss means to the Cowboys and Giants.
Then they dive into the Rams-Cardinals showdown, the absence of Jared Goff and Cooper Kupp and why the Bears are rooting for Los Angeles.
Later in the show, they discuss the latest with the Browns’ COVID-19 concerns and whether or not it could impact their game against the Steelers. Finally they examine the tight AFC Wild Card race and give their predictions for who will advance.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the athletic football show. |
| 0:15.7 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:18.1 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:19.1 | Joining me today, The Athletic Zone, Lindsay Jones. |
| 0:21.3 | Lindsay, how are you? |
| 0:22.3 | I am great. |
| 0:23.7 | I can't believe we're here. |
| 0:25.7 | Week 17, man. |
| 0:27.6 | So there are so many reasons that it doesn't feel right. |
| 0:31.2 | And one of them is, I was thinking about this yesterday, |
| 0:34.3 | it's so weird to not be on the road right now |
| 0:36.8 | or not have the prospect of being on the road lingering over us. |
| 0:41.1 | Oh, for sure. |
| 0:42.6 | In a typical year, I remember this for the last like six years I've covered the league. |
| 0:47.7 | Essentially after Christmas, like the day after Christmas, most years I would get on a plane and I would go oftentimes to a team that I thought |
| 0:57.5 | was going to get the buy or that already had the buy to report something that would run after the |
| 1:02.8 | wild card round going into the divisional round. And then I had all these different things up in the air. |
| 1:08.0 | And for several reasons, that's not happening this year. One, I have a different job and I write less. Two, no one's on the road. So I have no grasp of what's going on in the season or where we are because I have none of the benchmarks temporally that would typically indicate where we are in the season. So it's very strange. It's all over the place. It's very bizarre. It's been the longest, shortest year. |
| 1:28.4 | And I think that's probably true for a lot of reasons and a lot of things about 2020. But, you know, this, the season is just kind of ticked along. They haven't postponed. Well, we've postponed games within weeks. But we've gotten here. There's 16 games left. So what, 240 games in without a cancellation? |
| 1:49.0 | We've got one more tenuous situation that we're going to get to right now with the Browns that really bears watching throughout week 17 as we get to Sunday. |
| 1:56.5 | But we've made it here. |
| 1:58.5 | They're full steam into the playoffs. |
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