Brady vs. Brees, a test for the Dolphins’ defense and the league deals with COVID-19 in our week 9 preview
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
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🗓️ 5 November 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
COVID-19 concerns spark big questions for week 9 across the NFL. The Athletic’s Robert Mays and Lindsay Jones discuss the latest news involving the virus as well as the quiet trade deadline this season.
Plus, it’s Brady vs. Brees, round two! They preview the Bucs matchup with the Saints and discuss a big test for the Dolphins’ defense against Kyler Murray and the Cardinals.
They wrap by assessing what’s at stake for Lamar Jackson this week and a big stretch for the Colts.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the athletic football show. |
| 0:15.8 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:18.3 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:19.4 | Joining me today, it's Lindsay Jones. Lindsay, |
| 0:21.4 | how are you? I mean, that's a loaded question. It's a fraught question. I understand that. |
| 0:26.9 | Football-wise, I'm great. I'm great. Let's go. All right. So let's lay this out for the folks out there. |
| 0:33.2 | It is 425 central standard time right now. |
| 0:40.5 | Make of the last 24 hours, which you will. |
| 0:45.1 | We have no idea what's going to happen during the 45 minutes and hour we'll be recording this show. |
| 0:48.5 | But we're still going to record it because there is still football going on, |
| 0:52.6 | whether it's the news over the last couple days, what's going to happen in week nine. |
| 0:57.8 | So hopefully this can provide a small respite for you on Thursday morning, no matter what has happened in the 12 hours between when we record this and when it goes up. |
| 1:02.6 | Yeah, I mean, there's still going to be football this week. |
| 1:04.6 | There certainly is. |
| 1:05.8 | Let's go. |
| 1:06.1 | So in all of the things that have been happening over the last 24 hours, it's easy to forget that there is a national pandemic, |
| 1:13.4 | an international pandemic happening, |
| 1:15.2 | and it is affecting the NFL. |
| 1:17.1 | We've had some fairly important, fairly jarring COVID-related news |
| 1:22.2 | over the last few hours here on Wednesday afternoon, |
| 1:24.8 | whether it's the Niners, the Lions. |
| 1:26.9 | Lindsay, if you're just trying to sift through all the COVID stuff that's come out here, |
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