Ben Solak Previews the NFL Divisional Round Matchups

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🗓️ 17 January 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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For many people, the NFL’s divisional round is the most exciting weekend of football on the calendar all year long. Eight teams, four games, with trips to the conference championships on the line. And this year’s matchups are bangers. Whether it’s an MVP showdown between Lamar Jackson and Josh Allen, or the dynamic Jayden Daniels vying for an upset of the Lions in Motor City, or Saquon Barkley continuing his push for a ring in year one outside of the Meadowlands, these games figure to deliver the goods. So Ben Solak joins the program to give Michele Steele a preview of all the action, and to explain why it’s just plain unfair that the Chiefs are rounding into their ultimate form at the season’s most crucial point. And don’t forget the playlist, featuring our favorite stories of 2024. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Benjamin Seleck, here we are pound for pound, the most exciting weekend in the NFL schedule, the division round.
0:07.2	What are your feelings about this weekend?
0:09.5	Everyone's so big on the division round.
0:11.3	I don't know.
0:11.8	I love a conference championship weekend.
0:16.3	I love Super Bowl's the immediate stakes.
0:18.7	The winner of these games gets hats and T-shirts.
0:20.9	I don't mind having just the two games. You focus in on them. I think division round's the immediate stakes. The winner of these games gets hats and T-shirts. I don't mind having just the two games.
0:22.3	You focus in on them.
0:23.5	I think Division Round is usually overhyped.
0:25.2	And then this year it's a very odd one, right?
0:27.0	We have a six-seat in the commanders.
0:29.1	We have a four-seat in the Texans and the Rams,
0:31.0	both who kind of did not seem like they won strong divisions. Like much different matchups than expected in this division round. Yeah. I think Wild Card Weekend is a lot of fun too.
0:38.9	I think this year we didn't get necessarily competitive games, super competitive games to lead
0:44.6	to this point.
0:45.3	But we certainly have interesting matchups to talk about in this podcast.
0:48.6	But on the AFC side, at least the matchups are going to be a little bit different from last year.
0:53.6	But the teams are
0:54.4	exactly the same. Chiefs Bill's Ravens, Texans. Does that surprise you on any level?
0:59.7	I think Chiefs Bill's Ravens was about as chalk as chalk gets, right?
1:03.2	Given those quarterbacks. Everyone was expecting that. The Texans, you know, they made the
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