Go Inside the Huddler with Sky Sports, Neil Reynolds and Jeff Rynbole.

Hello and welcome to Inside the Huddle, the audio version of our podcast.

I'm joined as ever by Jeff Reimbold. I'm your host, Neil Reynolds.

Almost forgot my own name there, Jeff. Didn't give myself the year. It was that kind of weekend,

you know. It was that kind of weekend. I've got you. Yeah. I've got you loud and clear.

It's been that kind of season, Jeff. I was just looking at the standings and the playoff race.

So there are 12 teams in the

AFC within one game of the playoff spots. And in the NFC, Carolina are in the last spot

at 5 and 5. So if you take 5 losses as the kind of benchmark there, there are 15 teams out of the 16

in the NFC that have either five or six losses or

fewer than that.

So the 15 of the 16 are alive in the NFC and 12 of the 16 are alive in the AFC.

It's bonkers.

Well, try and pick, even out of that, try and pick a clear favorite, you know, because we were just about ready to anoint Tampa Bay as, you know, the clear favorite.

And then they go out and lay an egg last week.

How do you figure?

It's crazy.

Actually, you must be reading my notes, Jeff, because we don't have a script.

But the first thing I've got at the top is a Bruce Ariens quote saying that we are a dumb football team. And he said he can't believe

how they practice, how flat they are. I mean, this is a veteran football team as well. I was

shocked by those statements, not a shock that BA made them because he's, he's as open and as honest as

they come, but that's an alarm bell. Obviously, it's worrying if you lose 2919 to Washington,

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