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Oh, it's the athletic football show.

I'm Robert Mays.

Joining me tonight.

It's my good friend Nate Tyson.

How you doing, buddy?

I'm doing well.

That was a game.

That was a game. You stole my joke. I was going to say, I was going to say, of all the games that have happened this year, that was one of them. It certainly was one of them. That was a capper. That felt like the capper. we started out the first live stream of the season was Lions and Chiefs

and a bit of a barn burner.

This little bit of different. Yeah, a little bit of difference here. But we did see a playoff team tonight. We did see a playoff team. That was the Cleveland Browns led by finishing with some flacco chance. Wow. That's 2023.

Start with a lines win at Arrowhead.

And here we are in the last Thursday stream of the season,

with some flacco chance to finish the finish off the summer until we descent to this nightcap.

The Browns have had four starting quarterbacks this year.

They clinched a playoff spot, week 17.

That is the story of the Cleveland Brown season. They deserve a lot of credit. They deserve a lot of credit for how they've handled this season, how they approach the offseason. We'll dig into some of it. But I think Kevin Sophansky deserves to be in the conversation for Coach of the Year. We'll have that discussion over the next couple weeks. One of the reasons I think he definitely deserves it is I was thinking

about this during the game. These teams are the same. If you look at the broad strokes of where

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