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Hey everybody it's Warren sharp I am joined by Joe House we're live on the ringer NFL show talking all things NFL and we're getting ready for the post season Joe and and before that though we're coming to you we're still on the holiday schedule here we had Christmas last week we got New Year's this week.

So the schedule is off a little bit we're coming to you couple days earlier than you may normally be accustomed to us in a ringer NFL feed but you got a special announcement that we want to get out there at the top about the schedule for the upcoming post season games.

Yes podcast pals I am very pleased to announce that you can't stop us you won't stop us this ringer NFL show will be continuing on into the playoffs sharpie and I will be getting together midweek for both the wild card game and games plural all those wild card games and the divisional games as well the shows for those weeks will be up Thursday morning so each of the wild

wild card week and the divisional week this feed will have all of the insights you want from Warren sharp and all of my square action on those insights right on into the playoffs we cannot wait.

And it's always fun to break down games that are in the post season house because there are many factors that go into handicapping these games and the lines are typically set very tight from like what the value should be the odds makers rarely get these games completely mislined but that's not to say that there isn't value in some under utilized factors that the odds makers typically don't build into what they are utilizing to come up with the spreads so there's definitely

opportunities for value in the post season is always fun breaking down those matchups when there are only a handful although this week you know next week rather we're going to get six games instead of for for wild card round but that's for next week show

talk to me a little bit about what you're looking forward to for this week and maybe like a little bit of recap of last week obviously you know there are some teams that could have locked up things for the post season but weren't able to last week that just makes the games this weekend that much more meaningful and the one thing that I will say before I kick it to you as I really have felt this way all along we've mentioned it many times on the show this post season will be the most incredible post season and recessed.

And we're going to be able to see these in recent memory because there are seven teams that get in so we have an extra team here and we're still getting teams left out that maybe have good records but we've got a lot of good teams that are getting in and I really think it's going to be a very matchup based post season we're going to have a lot of great things to discuss this playups I think it's going to be one of the best ones we've seen but talk to me a little bit about last week.

Let's us up for an insane week 17 sharp because last week we had five teams that could have clinched their playoff births and they went oh and five and we had another week where both the New York Jets and the Cincinnati Bengals won out right as gigantic underdogs and you know this whole season has been a season of unexpected outcomes you know we've had at the top of the season.

We've had at the top of each conference in the form of the green Bay Packers in the NFC and the Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC those two have separated themselves a little bit the Chiefs maybe more so than the Packers but once you get past that that tippy top tier everybody can beat everybody and it happens with you know some some frequency and you know we we have at least from my perspective.

And a gambling perspective had a really hard time getting a read on who's playing great at any given moment with the exception of the Buffalo bills and we are taping this on the Tuesday after the Buffalo bills absolutely laid the wood on the New England Patriots serve notice that the bills are here to stay and the bills have an interesting game coming up.

This week 17 because they are home against the Miami dolphins and for the bills there are some incentive for the bills to go out and handle their business they would clinch the two seed if they win and Pittsburgh loses.

The dolphins are playing for their playoff life so we have a really great rundown of a whole bunch of teams that are playing for their playoff lives and some of these lines are kind of crazy and I want to just you know give give a quick shout out we've been talking about your boy T.A. Cleveland all season long we've been looking at the Cleveland Coral area been looking for some opportunities with some trends and some things that he's captured one of the things that he mentioned in one of his recent ride ups is.

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