This is the Athletic Football Show.

Welcome to the Athletic Football Show.

Today is Monday, September 6th.

I'm Robert Mays, and joining me today to my good friend Nate Tice. Nate, how you doing, buddy? I'm good. I know you are seeing the date that this came out. You had told me this is any day of the week. It's any day of the month. I would have believed that. I'm like, yeah. He said September 6th, even though it's not what we're recording, but it's like, yeah, that makes sense to me. Oh, when you're doing them every day, when you're doing them every day, it's important to give some context at the top of the show. We're recording this on Sunday afternoon, Sunday morning for you before Labor Day. So hopefully you guys will listen to this on Labor Day. I'm sorry if my

voice is a little bit rusty right now. I've gone to concerts for the last two nights.

We overuse the word washed sometimes, but as somebody who just turned 34, my body and my voice

is not ready for two straight days of live music i'm going to be honest

with you i i that's we put plans this entire weekend to hang out friends every night and i

even for tonight i'm like i'm like i'm tapped out like i'm great i like we have great

plans like we're seeing john milady tonight which actually would be great oh that's amazing i'm

so jealous yeah it's going to be great so Oh, that's amazing. I'm so jealous.

Yeah, it's going to be great.

So I'm fired up and it's like, man, I can't do. Back to back nights is hard at my age now. But it's like now we're doing three in a row. Like, oh, man, I feel like a baseball player. Like, you know, like in August playing a series, like a double header almost. that's what it feels like now.

I just don't have it in me to do it anymore,

but got to do it.

That's how I was.

That's how I was. That's how I was. I went to see a band on Friday, Spanish love songs that I love with my buddy. And then we went to the festival yesterday. And my John Mullaney tonight is I'm going to see Eric Pritz at the same festival. So it's a much different energy than going to sit and see John Mulaney, but still a little bit too much, like back to back to back.

It's okay, though, because I've needed a little bit of a break because we've talked a lot of football in the last week, and we're going to continue to do that today. Today is the AFC North preview, a division that I think you can make an argument for all three of the teams of the top to win it

and then obviously the amount of intrigue with the bengals is insane you know i mean there's

so many things to dig into i've tried to order these essentially in what i see as the pecking

order and hierarchy of the division i didn't know how to do it with one. I started with the Browns just because they're kind of the new kid on the block when it comes to the AFC North contenders, but I think you could make an argument for any of the other three. So it is very tempting to look at this Browns team as a contender, right? I was at Browns camp a couple times.

This is a get off the bus team, man.

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