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Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. I'm Robert Mays. Today is Friday, October 8th.

Fun show for you guys today, as always on Fridays, Shil Kapati is going to be joining us a little bit later to do our pick segment.

This one was fun because Shiel got his lukewarm lock of the week wrong last week. So he had to wave a terrible towel above his head for 20 straight minutes. We have it on video. He hit himself in the face at one point. Made my week. There's nothing else that can happen that can top this. But we're going to try because I'm so happy to welcome my good buddy Nate Tice. Nate,

how you doing, man? Doing great. Another Friday, apparently, did you check your phone what the date is when we start the show? Is that what that was?

That's what I always do. I thought so. I'm sorry to pick up on that. That's what you're doing right at the start of every show.

Because I always forget that I say the date now because we do them every day. So I want to mark her when people are listening. I know how hard time zones are. I can imagine dates and. Oh, my God. It's record the show the day before it runs. So it's not today. It's tomorrow. Listen, I've never been able to understand podcast time.

Great Rams.

Hey, it was a great Rams Seahawks game last night.

Woo, can you believe that?

That kicks off in two hours.

As we always do on Fridays, we're doing the Friday 5 today.

We do five things, a matchup, a player, a concept and idea heading into the weekend

that we're excited about. We wanted to focus today on some stuff that we haven't really discussed

on the show so far. You know, there's been a lot of Rams talk, a lot of Chargers talk, a lot of

Cardinals talk because those have been the best teams in the NFL so far, teams that are winning,

teams we find compelling. We wanted to dig into some stuff that hasn't gotten a lot of Cardinals talk because those have been the best teams in the NFL so far, teams that are winning, teams we find compelling.

We wanted to dig into some stuff that hasn't gotten a lot of attention so far because they haven't played a lot of good opponents, because we've been waiting a little bit to see how real it is.

Whatever the reason, we're digging into some stuff that hasn't gotten a lot of oxygen up to this point on the athletic football show. And we're going to start with the Bill's defense because they have

a monster game on top against the Chiefs on Sunday night football. It does not get any better

than this. I cannot wait to settle into this one on Sunday night. And this bill's defense has been the best defense in the NFL, statistically,

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