Best Teams Draft & We Wouldn't Be Surprised If...
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
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🗓️ 4 September 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Robert Mays and Nate Tice put some skin in the game as they draft who they think will end up with the best records at the end of the 2023 regular season. Whoever has the most wins, is our winner! And the loser has to pay off a bet in person at the Super Bowl. Who ya got?! Plus, we go through a little round of "We Wouldn't Be Surprised If..." with some bold predictions for the 2023 season.
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| 0:32.5 | This is the athletic football show. |
| 0:48.6 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:51.3 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:51.8 | I'm joining me today. |
| 0:52.7 | It's my good friend Nate Tyson. |
| 0:53.7 | How you doing, buddy? I'm doing extremely, extremely well. I'm Robert Mays. Joining me today. It's my good friend Nate Tyson. How you doing, buddy? |
| 0:54.8 | I'm doing extremely, extremely well. I feel like once we finished the NFC East preview pod, it was almost like a season is starting. That's it. No more previews. We're about to start Labor Day weekend. You got any fun plans this weekend? You do anything on your last free weekend? Nothing. Nothing. |
| 1:11.3 | Watching football all the weekend. That's really it. My wife does photography and so like professionally. |
| 1:17.9 | And so she has some shoots on Sunday. And so I'm being a very good dad on Sunday. And I can do that. |
| 1:24.5 | That's the last Sunday I'm available for 22 weeks. So might as well get it in now. I'm getting my good dad ship right now. That's good. I'm sure you'll enjoy that. Nice little quiet weekend. So we have already done all the previews. If you have not listened to all of our division previews, they're available in your podcast feed. We have individual videos on all 32 teams on our YouTube channel. So if you just want to watch your team, that is readily available on the Athletic Football Show YouTube channel. Today, we're going to do our first of two kind of preview-y predictions short of shows that we're going to throw out here the week of the season. We're recording this on Friday, just a disclaimer, so we don't have to record over the holiday weekend. This would be in your feeds on Monday. |
| 2:01.9 | So if anything changes between now and then, just keep that in mind. |
| 2:04.7 | And then Thursday of this week, we're going to have our typical awards predictions short of show. |
| 2:10.1 | But we wanted to do something a little bit different this year. |
| 2:13.2 | So on the second half of this show, we're going to trot out some mildly spicy thoughts about |
| 2:18.7 | the NFL season. |
| 2:19.7 | The way that we're couching this is I wouldn't be surprised if blank. |
| 2:23.7 | So this isn't something you necessarily believe will happen, but you think that there |
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