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Welcome to 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. Great games. Feel oddly prepared for a Sunday night show as we go. And after only two games going through. It helps and there's only two. Only two good ones. And it's a game of inches. And it's, man, how many plays it came up today, just Game of Inches' decisions, just how much

it gets magnified in these situations?

And wow, it ever felt so true today in the NFL with these two games.

My fingers are a wreck right now.

I was just chewing them down to the bone during that second game.

I can't remember a game like that where the adrenaline has kicked in so hard as I watched the second half

because you just feel, I felt the gut-wrenching twist as the second half went along.

And you feel it for Lions fans because this is one that will never go away.

It doesn't matter if you're young and exciting.

And they are and we'll get to all of that.

And there's so much to be proud of for this team reaching this moment and even expecting to win

this sort of game after where they were a couple years ago. But it's so hard to get this close.

It's so hard to get this close. And to lose like this, to be up 17 at the half,

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